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I love the Kipling poem. A (lesser) companion for it is Wintle[1]

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1033193-if-you-think-you-ar...
$720.00 per year including the hardware and availability everywhere there is an internet connection. It's $2,160.00 in 3 years, a professional level laptop. The local device could be very cheap and light.

I wonder what are the hardware and bandwidth requirements.
The biggest component that VR doesn't have is a way of simulating focal distances. Current VR headsets focus at a fixed distance of about 2 meters, which makes reading and examining close objects difficult and causes distant ones to appear flat and unreal. The world lacks part of what lets us see depth. Facebook has very impressive prototypes that solve this [0], but so far they've been unwilling or unable to manufacture them at scale.

VR headsets are also severely lacking in brightness and color depth compared to reality or even modern TVs, and they could always use more angular resolution, wider viewing angles, and higher refresh rates.

[0] https://uploadvr.com/half-dome-3-prime-time/
My home network includes a router and several WiFi access points. They are managed through a browser, which means they have a built-in web server. I have them configured so they are only visible from the internal IP addresses and changed usernames and passwords from the built-in defaults, but there's no way to install a certificate in them, let alone force them to use https. So whenever I use Chrome to reconfigure one of these devices I get warnings of impending doom. A big PITA.
You're right the tos should be equally applied across the board. However, they're not. Twitter and other social media sites do not apply tos fairly.
I find 'everyone' to be a pretty dubious source. But I am sincerely curious: is there a publication you consider to be a "paper of record"?
I think that there should be some maintained white-list of important websites. I know that many people won't like this idea, but I think that for most users it would be better if Google domains, Facebook domains, etc were displayed differently, for example with green background, because that's what overwhelming majority of users are visiting every day and that's what most scams are targeting. Something like top-1000 websites in every region should qualify for that treatment.

Also I would include government websites to this list.
> This is why consuming video content, specifically streaming services with all-you-can-stream crap is so damaging. People no longer have time for shared dinners, clubs, or adult sports leagues because they'd rather binge watch a new series every week.

In my experience it’s not that people would rather watch videos than see their friends or do their hobbies, it’s that they’re working jobs which consume their lives to the point that watching Netflix is pretty much all they have the energy for. And before you know it, you don’t have any hobbies anymore so you watch more Netflix and the circle continues.
Is this just Active Directory over the internet, or am I misreading the post?
Sure he was "sitting president" but he was actually stoking flames of violence the day he got banned.

In general Twitter was a terrible enabler for Trump, he's such a coward that he didn't dare firing people face to face, he fired people with tweets. And it made him a keyboard hero conveniently attacking people using it, if he had to go in front of the press to spout his bullshit he surely would've been more reserved, because there'd be direct pushback for everything he said.
> a cross platform

Not a cross-platform, but JavaScript-extension with cross-platform Chromium browser bundled.
The United States was basically created because of religious splits in Europe and an unwillingness to agree. Constitutional freedom of religion, something baked into the founding tenants of the country, exists solely because religious people clearly can't get along.

To see a Catholic espouse church and faith as a social solution in the US is some next level irony.
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This was obvious from the start. The new design was beautiful but it was an accessibility nightmare.

This change looks pretty awful so I hope they just reach the Chrome v1 style and be done with it. Let's be honest, Chrome v1 was the peak of browser design and browsers are still trying and failing to improve it.
Well at least the government isn't mandating that all "harmful" content be taken off the web...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/15/online-ha...

(For what it's worth, the proposed law now refers to "safety" rather than "harms").
I back up about 15tb of photos with Arq to Wasabi cloud storage.

It has been running with zero maintenance (other than occasional partial restores) since late 2018.

I transitioned off of AWS cloud storage when they raised the prices.

I’m not sure if Wasabi is still the cheapest and fastest, but they have been great to deal with. And Arq is an excellent set-it-and-forget-it encrypted cloud backup app.

I also run a server with a 16tb RAID 1 array and a set of local backup drives. Sadly it is almost full, and the volume of data makes it a hassle to upgrade (not to mention the cost).

I’ve found standard 1Gig Ethernet to be just barely fast enough for editing photos over the local network. However, for my own sanity, I usually do the initial editing on a local drive before sending the files to the server (and from there to the cloud backup).
And Dropbox is just rsync, right?
Maybe I'd be in the target group (rarely say anything), but I didn't know that it existed.
> bringing a child into a dying world might be the ultimate selfish act.

That's a pretty bleak outlook on the future of our world.
Do you really think getting born today is significantly worse than being born at a random time in human history?
A key thing to avoid tendonitis / carpal tunnel syndrome / repetitive stress is to make sure that while typing, your wrists are not bent. I would get a couple of wrist supports, the kind that ensure you can't bend your wrist, and wear them 24/7 until your tendonitis calms down. You may have to cut down on work to let it calm down. Another tip: do not stretch out your hands while moving fingers; this causes stress. Move your hand instead.

As others have said, ergonomics are a big deal. Check out some videos on correct piano posture; it's similar to the typing problem. Basically you want everything at near right angles. For me (mainly neck issues, not wrist), I put my Macbook on the desk, adjusted the chair height so my forearms were horizontal, and put an external monitor on a tall pedestal so that I could look straight out instead of having to bend my neck down all the time to look at the laptop screen. I don't use the laptop screen at all (it's blanked out).
I don't have much to say about the tools described in the article, but what I do find interesting is that folks closely associated with Blenders development actually make movies.

I wish the folks that made Unity actually shipped a videogame every year.
> I was of the "first to market / build a unicorn" mindset

I'm not dissing that mindset at all, but it is essentially gambling. Over the decades, I've warmed to "the pioneers get all the arrows" mindset: that from a business perspective, it's better to be the second or third in a new area, because you can learn from the pioneer's mistakes. It's rare that the entity that invented a thing is the entity that makes the most profit from it.
This is what we were telling Adobe when they first announced CC.
We call it arbitrary detention, but the reason they detain US citizens is frankly because the US is constantly assassinating Iranians (remember the scientist who was killed by a drone recently?) and they have no way of knowing who is a legit tourist and who has been sent by the US to spy on them and kill another of their citizens.
Terms and conditions are invalid in Germany (and probably much of Europe) if they run counter to established civil or criminal law. They are regularly thrown out in court.

For consumers, it is even better not to read the terms, because then they can say that they have been taken advantage of (it is harder to do that if you change a passage manually in a written contract).
Only if developers want to build and distribute native apps. I don't see why they would change their attitude. Web apps are basically multiplatform and updated on the server.
It is empirically true. It is, of course, possible for things to be both true and racist, for some definition of racist.
Context: I'm the other co-founder of Typesense, mentioned in the article you linked.

Kishore and I have worked together on about 12 different side projects over the course of 13 years, and we've tried to adopt this mindset of consistency, persistence and long timeframes for each.

A few of these projects got good traction, but most of them didn't do well (at least revenue-wise). But here's the thing: working on all these projects consistently over the years, has also helped us learn about things like how to pick a market, how to validate our hypotheses, how to choose technologies when building products, how to maintain codebases over a decade, how to stay nimble, etc.

I would say that the sum total of our collective learnings through all these projects, have helped us significantly in our Typesense journey.

So I would say, showing up everyday is not a magic bullet to making a project successful. Instead, it's a magic bullet to continuous learning and building up a wealth of experience, that might just come in handy when you're working on your next project, which then increases your odds of success.
I know, mate. But no VoLTE. You still need 3g for voice.
I think that's a very smart way to explore the world, but I think with the premise of "living through your kids", you're forgetting to live yourself.
Law overwrites contracts
My mother never once hugged me. She told me she loved me once, when I was in hospital after a road accident almost tore my left leg off.

She used to explode with fury at seemingly random things, screaming and lashing out with a stick. My childhood was often spent just staying out of her way. Yes, I'm a very touch-averse and anxious person.

She denies these things ever happened. She wonders why I moved to the other side of the world and never visit. Nor do I stay in contact more than an email once a month.

I won't miss her when she's gone.

Parents often don't maintain a basic level of decency towards their children. The sooner we move away from the idea of children owing their parents something, the better.
All the alternatives are far-far-right as far as "trusted sources" are concerned. What is anyone supposed to do if even LBRY is considered a tool of radical right wing extremists? If you cant get your family and friends on it then its near worthless.
> unusable on a tablet in portrait mode

I thought this was just me and my settings! I have a bunch of accessibility things set and thought somehow that was fucking with it. It’s like a dance of flipping just to push that x. Crappy design.
No one has ever articulated the details of what they mean by these runtimes having different GC requirements. JavaScript garbage collection has no "semantics"--it is entirely invisible to applications. Even WeakMap and WeakSet do not expose garbage collection details because they are not iterable.

The memory profile of JavaScript applications tends to look a lot like the memory profile of typical Java applications. It tends to be a law of large numbers.

Now if you want to talk about details of how we implement runtimes that do have observable GC details, like weak callbacks, Java's zoo of reference types, etc, then let's do that, because Wasm GC will eventually need to have low-level mechanisms to support those.

But if we're talking about a Wasm engine GC's ability to allocate, trace, move (or not!) little blocks of memory around, then I don't see any fundamental stumbling blocks to making that mechanism efficient and universal.
Adversity might not create strength but it certainly filters out weakness.
And Skype for Business.
That would be super attractive to me if my ISP didn't have data caps. My personal archive is ~40TB of drives in my primary desktop. Even disregarding empty space and duplicates, it would take four years or more to upload it onto a cloud service without running over my data cap.
In the responses I read through on twitter, no one accused him of racism. People were upset that in the wake of a tragedy he seemed to only care about getting blue votes, which is pretty insensitive. Also, just like you said, he's doing fine now.

The claim that tweets are ruining lives gets repeated over and over again, but it's a complete myth. It's a conflation of actual actual racists and nazis getting outed and ostracized, and people getting mildly called out for doing something dumb, but those are never the same people.
No this has nothing to do with AD. Off-prem cloud AD is already being done via Azure.
State gaming boards really need to investigate arcades in general. They are much worse than the casino with the same kinds of games, but a much worse payout. I once calculated it out when I was on a bus trip I would get back 70% of what I put in (n=$100). At the arcade you're lucky to get 5 cents back, and most of the time the games are not even fun.

We need to put together a team of experts to audit all of these machines.
Let me help, you are suppose to say the torrents of water are made up out of many single drops on their journey around the world.
> one of the biggest sources of homeless youths in the US

What is your source of information on this claim?

I am reading this and don't see anything.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/homeless-and-ru...
I mean, I could just as well say "Log out of your account then". That will negate the effect of the block.
...and it gets increasingly hard to coordinate with your friends because they're also all watching Netflix and can't be bothered to make time.
Hmm, I have a hard time relating precisely with this.

For example, if my parents someday needed a place to stay (maybe they can't take care of themselves). I'd feel responsible for them. I definitely feel like I'd owe them that and would feel responsible for their well being.

Though, that wouldn't be unconditional. I can certainly envision a bunch of situations that would change that.

I guess what I'm saying is it's complicated to me.
The takeaway from those articles seems to be that even the most integrated churches are still trailing average neighborhood integration numbers (which are broadly considered problematic). There has been progress, but there is still a ways to go:

> Despite progress in church integration, congregations remain far more segregated than the society in general. Dr. Dougherty, an associate professor of sociology at Baylor University, states that “congregations are looking more like their neighborhoods racially and ethnically, but they still lag behind. The average congregation was eight times less diverse racially than its neighborhood in 1998 and four times less diverse in 2012.”

The context here is whether churches are a good way for people of diverse backgrounds to engage and interact. I contend that they have unnecessary elements that make them worse than a non-religious community event (supernatural beliefs, explicit conformity of dress and thought, protecting predators, etc.)
Each generation doesn't have to be bigger than the last. Two people create two children, those two children create two children, the grandparents die, the grandchildren create two children, etc.

That stabilizes the population (technically population goes down due to accidental deaths, diseases, etc. but you get the idea).
lol, have you overseen a Citrix deployment?!
Did you first SaaS project work out? Are doing your own thing now?
Congratulations, you have eliminated a middleman.
The notion that "I can do what I want" as long as it takes place in the private sphere is absurd.

So what's your take on Lawrence v. Texas?
Many people cry, shout or even try to manipulate you when you tell them their behavior (based on excessive attachment or dependency of some kind) is an issue for you. Many of the same people's loved ones realize that and are in a clinch: do I distance myself, hurting them? do I not distance myself, hurting self? It's not something you can just ask about: "I'm not as attached to you as you are to me, what do we do?"
it's much easier to secure physical wires than radio signals

But is it really? Wi-Fi has WPA Enterprise but have you ever tried to use 802.1x on a wired network? Anyone posing as a janitor could just plug into a switch.
One can have social anxiety and a rock-solid self-image as a scientist at the same time. The latter requires no social or synchronous communication skills.
You could have made the best software in the world, but as someone who now works as an in-house developer for a medical research university, there's almost no way for individual researchers to have significant influence on IT budgets. Sure, there are always a few rock stars who pull in huge grants and thus have some control over institutional spend, but in general the operations side of academia has little influence on what software is bought/used. Because of this, I've found there's quite a bit of (understandable) apathy among researchers with regards to anything related to IT - you have no control over it, it's a miserable necessity for your real job.
In that case, use that. ZFS seems to be a somewhat touchy subject with some people using it as widely as possible while others - myself included - prefer more modular storage systems where the tasks of volume manager, striping/slicing/raid management, encryption layers and file systems are performed by discrete software layers. Both systems work, both have their pros and cons, in the end it comes down what you value the most.
Don't firefighters carry some kind of foam by default? After all there's a lot of grease fires(cars, kitchens) out there.
I'm pretty sure millennials don't want kids because children are expensive. I think this has more to do with the phasing out of the middle class than anything. You can't buy a house on a blue collar paycheck anymore.

Also, for many women, its very hard to juggle motherhood and a career----if they chose to go that route.

There is also a choice now. Women can use a plethora of contraceptives that weren't as common in my parent generation.

Honestly, this whole "antinatalism" thing is all smoke and no fire.

>When the millenial zeitgeist has drifted in a direction where this is a common opinion, I take it to indicate that our socialization has taught some of us that humans have little inherent moral worth as individuals, the values of a family are subservient to the values of globalism, and all is nihilistic considering that we have a poor shot at solving the worst of our problems.

Uhhhh, What?
I'm fundamentally introverted, but one day I realized something that made it much easier to talk with strangers: they're strangers! So what they think about me is (usually) of no actual importance. If I make a fool of myself, no harm done!
How about cities by the coast?
> Without any common values, it'll be hard to get a diverse set of people.

The fundamental premise of the United States is that a body of people can have shared values without shared religion.

A supernatural deity is not required to believe that all people are created equal and deserve the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Yes it is. Having worked in both embedded system and computer graphics there's a lot of python flying around.
This could have been OmniGraffle's April Fools'.
Spain’s top court rules pandemic lockdown ‘unconstitutional’
Same in Sweden. That can and flavor has been around for a few months.

Yet the dates on that official coke Twitter indicates they did launch it now?

What’s going on? Did they launch it in Europe without a campaign a few months early?

As for the taste I’d describe the difference as “hardly noticable” but I do prefer the old recipe.
i dont tweet, despite having an account registered in '08 because quite frankly its a very toxic and argumentative environment, with a lot of noise, nonsense and bots galore.

adding features without cleaning house isnt going to bring new tweeters into the fold, we left and dont participate because of the culture on that platform.

same reason FB is having issues growing, i would imagine.
It's a feature like Gmail Undo Send. The tweet remains unposted until the edit window has been exited.
> The same way a store can't kick someone out who's running around saying racial slurs to everyone?

They can but not because the store has negative opinion about this behavior but because that behaving disorderly in public place is against the law. Actually they should just call the cops.
I've noticed this in product design a lot; designers/programmers assume way more attention from the user than is typical.

Most of the time, I don't read instructions, I just do what's "intuitive". Designing with the assumption of minimal attention / laziness is so important.
A country isn’t really like your house though, is it?

Germany could probably tell Google not to host any videos from the opposition political party under penalty of fine or expulsion. Hopefully we agree that that would be bad?
> To anybody with a cynical, narrow-minded view of Iran and its people I highly recommend ...

Do you expect any reader of this comment to say to themselves "Ah, that's me!"?
In typical Twitter fashion, all of the horror you describe its users would call "accountability".

But yes, when people are afraid to use their own name, auto-delete tweets, and do all of this for not getting in trouble for middle-of-the-road views, you know you're in an extreme place.
Trains and clocks, mostly!
There's nothing unusual about it. For example, in some places, if you want to open a store, you have to have X amount of parking spots available depending on the store size. It doesn't matter than you don't want to rent extra space to create a parking lot. You have to!

There are millions of other ways this is done. It's not unusual to have to host some files.
What Billionaire Justice Looks Like
To point a change I hate, Chrome on mobile now displays tabs as thumbnails instead of stacked like index cards: https://9to5google.com/2019/09/19/chrome-android-tab-grid/ , a change I really dislike.

I really wonder how that's adapting to evolving user behavior...
Doesn’t help if the mail client detects URLs and presents them as links, like a majority of mail apps do. Seeing the link won’t stop end users from clicking it if it’s blue and underlined, and the slightly cleverer copy and paste.

The best bet it to rewrite links and parse the through a proxy that scans them on click. It’s a shame free mail services don’t do this. The only one I think offers this is Outlook.
Sure, but the OP is not talking about backup, they’re talking about primary storage.
Ha ha where in the world are you skiing that it's that much fun? I love skiing too I just love mtb more. I'm just trying to say sitting around for more than half the year so you don't get hurt for ski season seems like a giant unecessary waste.

fwiw I've never gotten injured enough from mtb to miss a ski season. You can definitely tone down your mtb'ing to x-country or something less extreme.

If not at least take up something like hiking or running in the warmer months. It'll make your ski season much more enjoyable if you're in shape when it starts.
You can, but then one day, the jackboots will come.