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> Your warcrimes comment is not fact based; so I feel nothing about that

Not fact based? I don't know how anyone can possibly deny what Israel is doing is literally war crimes par excellence.

Illegally occupying and settling foreign land? Bombing civilians? Open air prison? Multiple armed attacks in foreign countries like Iran and Iraq?

The UN, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, among the authorities on human rights and war crimes agree with that.
The Wikipedia is a case of whataboutism. And a complaint of how difficult it is to influence HRW by government, leaders and special interest groups.

The fact that you linked to a jpost article and shined light on the little israel does to “save” lives after literally bombarding them tells me where you stand in relation to the conflict.
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The wind was really taken out of my self-driving sails when Musk pointed out there's no reason for a company with true self-driving cars to actually sell them to consumers instead of adding them to a massive and profitable taxi fleet. The best thing for consumers is an almost-self-driving car that's virtually uncrashable.
> My dock blew up to ~200% in size, all my icons increased in size and I can no longer enter the settings for dash to dock. It just opens up an error that is very long and I'm not willing to resolve.

Because you personally don't know how to use it, the Linux desktop will never be taken seriously?

Imagine if a tech-illiterate person was using Windows, and then they accidentally enabled the option to hide the taskbar. If they were to throw their hands up and complain about how this shit doesn't work, you would probably think they were overreacting.

And if you send them some instructions on how to restore the task bar, and they reply with "instructions too long; I'm not willing to read all that, I'll just reinstall the operating system", you would probably think they were being ignorant and lazy.

I think the problem is that not everyone reacts differently to being made to feel stupid (which software frequently does to us): some people approach the situation with humility, other people get defensive and angry.

I see this a lot with programmers, where someone inherits another person's code and rather than attempt to understand it, they proclaim that it's shit and decide to rewrite it.

That's the only explanation I have for why so many tech literate people (incl' engineers) seem to completely shutdown when confronted with seemingly trivial issues. It has to be something emotional like that, because doesn't take much time or effort to look up how to fix whatever problem you're having. Sure, you might not need to "look up" how to do something on Windows, but you've also (probably) been using Windows for a very long time.

And with all that said, I would recommend you use KDE Plasma instead of Gnome, and a mainstream distro like Ubuntu (or Kubuntu, which comes preinstalled with KDE instead of Gnome).

Aside: Idk why people keep recommending Gnome to Linux newcomers. Gnome is basically a hyper-opinionated attempt to copy the worst parts of Windows/macOS/Android/iOS, and a half-assed attempt at that. KDE Plasma is an actually usable and mature desktop, and it should be much more familiar to people coming from Windows (which is probably the vast majority of people). I've been using it without issues for the past 6~7 years (never had to fix a broken thing, never had to copy and paste a magic command, and certainly never had to reinstall the operating system)
Yes. I haven't used it so I can't tell how complete it is. But it exists. https://matrix.org/blog/2018/02/05/3-d-video-calling-with-ma...
Microsoft Teams Gets ‘Safe Links’ Feature to Spot and Block Phishing URLs
I recall having an orange iMac on my desk specifically for testing because IE5.5 on the Mac was the most standards compliant browser on the market. Cant remember the exact year, but it was pre-millenium I think.
I pay for some subscriptions on Substack. I get access to writing I will not find elsewhere. I think the article is missing one important point. Specifically, all journalists read and reprint each other. Strong independent authors on Substack influence rest of media. Kind of surprising that the author(an insider) fails to see this
If you're displaying username (like on NewsHacker)
then maybe you don't want to allow people to use fancy weird characters that are untypable
The ones you mentioned don't typically generate much revenue if any, so this is not about app store profits.
You can still use jQuery or plain vanilla HTML+CSS+JavaScript, and you still have access to any web technology out there. Websites written in 1999 will continue to render perfectly. Nobody will deprecate WebGL for example. Nobody forces you to learn a new framework, although the documentation for most of those is actually good unlike Apple’s.

Meanwhile for example you can’t use the latest iOS 15 API (SharePlay) without using Swift, and you need to learn a new half-baked declarative UI API called SwiftUI to write your own widgets. And let’s not talk about trying to run a 1999 executable today.

They all arrange pixels on the screen but it’s a different framework each month.
I was about to downvote at the mention of name collision, but this one is actually serious. It's not really our business, but no way he'll be continue operating a business with that name in the long term.
I'm not arguing that.. What I was saying is, the definition of self-driving.

An experienced driver and an amateur driver are both driver. But you will trust the experienced one more.
We'll see when the climate-controlled domes are removed. I'm no expert and so a little surprised that building the base of a windmill requires such dome.
Once the tapes have been digitized, the excellent and open source DV Analyzer tool [1] can be used to inspect the digitized file and produce a report indicating sections where there may be issues with the video and / or audio of the tape.

I digitized a large number of family MiniDV tapes a few years ago, since the quality of the footage on the original tapes is better than the DVD recordings made at the time (due to both the DVD MPEG2 recording scheme and the fact that the camera was connected to the DVD recorder over composite video). But some sections of a few of the tapes had suffered serious deterioration, rendering the resulting footage unwatchable.

Using DV Analyser was a great and quick way to identify the clips with a higher than expected number of errors, so I could try to re-grab those tapes, and (if that failed) go back to the DVD recordings. Much quicker than watching every video through in real-time!

There's also the DV Rescue tool [2] (also open source), which seems to actively assist in fixing detected errors, but I haven't got any experience with that.

[1] https://mediaarea.net/DVAnalyzer

[2] https://mediaarea.net/DVRescue
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I think it's more nuanced - I agree there's no clear road to AGI like some would like you to believe, on the other hand there are new and useful techniques that are real.

Those PhDs may not have the stellar careers the they might currently expect, but they'll find plenty of work building automation and assistance systems for "boring" existing workflows.

Things like making your IDE a bit better, making some data entry jobs redundant, automating quality checks in increasingly complex cases, assisting in biomedical image interpretation ...

These things provide essentially a lower bound for how bad the "winter" might be.
I was fully prepared to berate this article for encouraging manual copy-pasting, which makes people far more prone to phishing attacks. However, it makes this important clarification:

> Autofill can be 2 types: automatic autofill (autofilling a password without user interaction) and manual autofill (autofilling a password after some user interaction - clicking in the password manager's UI). In the following article, the term autofill always means automatic autofill.
Right. This kind of thing is only going to work on very common plants that are easy to ID. I am very into carnivorous plants and even us experts sometimes have trouble identifying plants, often you need very specific morphological details to ID species that a phone picture will never be able to catch.

IMO this will just lead people to wrongly ID their plants more often than not, and that's a really bad thing.
What if some humans have different temperature preferences? Do they get a different temperature scale to suit them?
I don't know about "rare", since 1999 the broadest "accident" statistic fluctuates around 6 per 100,000h

Notice that "accident" definition conveniently excludes tons of partial failures! (see the legalese of 49 CFR § 830.2 - Definitions.)

To make parallel with broader discussion, the security failing of software could be considered "partial failures"...
It does now :) Paragraph in the section “popular culture”.
The real test of a self driving car is whether the manufacturer is prepared to back it by up-front accepting 100% liability for it. Anything less than that and they are passing risk onto the customer.
I don't buy the logic trail with that one. Fan boys /promoters would pay asuoer healthy premium. Think 50-150k profit a car. Unless Tesla was actually afraid to turn a profit not using tax credits, there's no reason not to sell the cars
I feel strongly about this subject as I actually travelled to liechtenstein to do the same , I failed, which I am at peace with.

My problem with is, a margin of error of 25 meters for a run of less than a km isnt what I would call platinum, my gripe here is with geowizard. I feel the error margin should increase for each km, for example by one meter. So a straight line across a continent allows for a larger margin of error, but 1km , well you better stick to the line.

I know noone will read this but I had to let it out.

Its not coming form a bad place I just want better rules!
The short-ish lived Veronica Mars was quite good a having both a season long story arc, but having self-contained mysteries as well. Some episodes leaning more one way or another, but there was usually some mix of both.
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Ludus is finally out of beta with the biggest update to their presentation tool for creatives. I'm using it personally at my agency (madewithlove) for a long while now. It's really great and it deserves to be more famous.
Trademark law is less about these sorts of technicalities and more about the general impression in the mind of the consumer. Would someone confuse the two logos?

When seeing just the "A" as used in Apse.io's favicon, I wouldnt be able to tell if it was Ansible or Apse without double checking which way round each was, and which font each was.

Most of the "Kelvin Clein" fakes that you see are not actually skirting around the trademark, and rely on never actually being tested in court. At most it pushes enforcement from the front lines of "this is a fake" to the courts with "prove this is a fake".

For instance, in the UK, an off brand clone of Hendricks Gin has been sued for trademark infringement and this article gives a good breakdown of the legal issues[0]. Examples of the different designs here[1].

Its not a given that Apse is infringing, or that Red Hat would sue over it. But given how much easier it is to change these things when the project is young, I'd suggest the author change the logo. Apart from anything else, the similarity to Ansible works against Apse's own notability.

[0] https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=dcae4558-12e3...
[1] https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/1580C/productio...
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Lots of big cities outside Europe (even in America) have good public transit. I live in the Washington, DC area and don't drive but use the Metro, buses, and regional trains. However, I wouldn't recommend sleeping on them in America or elsewhere unless you don't mind your valuables going missing.
Nice! Now please:

1) Kill the electron crap. Just look how awesome, fast, funcional, beautiful and feature-rich telegram is

2) Kill synapse. Is close to impossible to run a home server with all that python shit going on. Dendrite is the way I guess, but it is super resource-consuming to have a small home server (and slow)

3) Make it accessible and interesting for the casual john doe: FluffyChat is one possible route
I wrote a little blog post about this in 2016: https://medium.com/@stabbles/why-you-should-disable-autofill...
It does sound dismissive (and flippant). lol
Well, Japan has deflation/extremely low inflation which encourages bullshit jobs as people are desperate to work anywhere.
I made that comment. Again, while I might agree with the conjecture, there are warning signs of botched data extraction, so it is a case of GIGO.
The standard NYC lot is 20x100 (some a little bigger, some a little smaller). The prewar walkup rowhouses that blanket the city fill the lot basically entirely, and can easily fit 20 units (one-bedrooms or studios) in dense/expensive areas. I lived in one up until recently -- 5 stories, 4 one-bedroom apartments per floor. The rowhouse schema is very flexible: in outer boroughs they can be single family, while in Manhattan they are endlessly subdivided. For examples of the type see:

https://urbanomnibus.net/2016/04/201604typecast-the-row-hous...
The best thing for consumers is a self-driving car that lasts forever, obeys the user unconditionally, can recharge itself via solar power and doesn't fuel some billionaire's eternal rent seeking.
I'd be very wary of installing an app that took screenshots randomly
Push notifications allow me to spend less time on my phone/PC.

Without them, I would have to regularly check the app of interest for any important updates, losing both time and mental space with another thing to keep in the back of my mind.

Thanks to push notifications, I can defer interacting with the app to when it's actually relevant.

Also as I argued in another comment [1], web notifications are simply better than native app ones. Push notifications are here to stay, the choice is in the implementation, not whether they'll become culturally accepted or not (they already are, iOS users simple are nagged to install native apps to have them).
I don't work at Candide any more but I was CTO there when this was written. I can assure you you're reading too much into it!

Candide is very well set up to protect users' private data, and has a great set of engineers and engineering practices in place ensuring this, as well as, you know, not ever selling data to a third party!
During almost 2 years of Covid 4.2 million people died (2m per year) and people are terrified across world, but I have a filling that mentioning 0.1% you are trying to say that 5.7 million death due starvation (roughly population of Ireland each year) is not much?

Yes, I know stats, about waste, and also how half of planet undernourished, and half of planet is obese. Yes, if this is perfect world we would not have global warming, inequality, wars, we would not have extinction of animal and plant species, destruction of ecosystem... wealth would be distributed more fairly and we would already live in multiple planets. So, we do not live in that world, we live in world where people turn head on the other side when see someone on the street ask them for just a bit of food ...
Hopefully! It would be nice to escape Android's "anything older than a month is dead to us and will never get bugfixes" mindset:)
I concur. I was just thinking about XMLHttpRequest [0] which was developed to support Outlook Web Access (years before Gmail). As developers discovered and played with it, it became the X in AJAX and eventually became a standard. That standardization happened after it had proved its usefulness and been applied in many different contexts by many different people.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)
I hate Columbo because in the Double Exposure episode they explain the cue marks that appeared during movies to indicate to the projectionist they need to switch reels, and after that I couldn't not notice those cue marks (Fight Club did the same reveal, much later).

But really, I love Columbo. RIP Peter Falk. 10 years already.
Good points about JS and Tor, thank you!

>That's apparently become such a technological challenge

I suppose it's more of an organizational challenge. Various factors like the difficulty of quantifying product- or service-manager productivity, or mistaking casual mass audience for core, engaged audience, etc.

Our culture still perceives interactive services and electronic content way too heavily through the lens of factory-like production of more countable widgtes, rather than of culture-and-religion like managing by making opinionated decisions, integrating things into cohesive, fractal form, and building lasting epic stories.

>There's no reason i should subsidize evil capitalist shareholders with the little money i have to live

Since I disagree with your stance :-) I'll propose a middle ground: try to compare various available payment/contribution channels with regards to: how large % they forward to the creator vs the cut taken, and how small is the channel's undue influence on the host socio-political system and the creators. Notably the (traditional) banking system, including some "bridge" companies like PayPal, fail the later part very much; they extend undue influence both broad socio-political, and also over the creators. Conversely, a specialized "patronize your favorite creator" services like SubscribeStar seems to be quite neutral. Of course nothing beats a direct payment :-)
It looks like YouTube has started blocking requests today. I will see what I can do about that. If you use the RSS feed URL it works: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCV0qA-e...
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Sean Carrol has a great podcast interview with Avi Loeb. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/01/25/131-...

The recent UFO hype (in the atmosphere) is annoying, but Avi Loeb is not one of those guys.

I think Loeb is correct in his opinion that astrophysicists have a prejudice against looking for techno-signatures. This might lead to missing some technosignatures if they exist. Paying some attention towards anomalies might be a discovery.

Avi Loeb points out that after Pan-STARRS survey increased the number of observations, the first interstellar object in the solar system was discovered very soon afterwards. It's very unlikely that weird object Oumuamua just happened to be there on that time. Other objects like Oumuamua are probably detected soon (within a decade or so) and what it really is can be cleared out. It will not stay as a mystery forever.
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'All three statements using "because" are counterfactual.'

No - the definition the article refers to is this: adjective - relating to or expressing what has not happened or is not the case.

I used "because" to illustrate the "looking for root cause" use case, like what the article was referring to. Regardless, that doesn't make it counterfactual per the definition the author is using.

To me the part that makes the counterfactual less useful when determining root causes is the human element the author mentions - looking for root cause tends to stop once they're brought up (they're the end of the causal chain in discussion), and blame starts to get assigned. I've seen that happen, and it hasn't helped resolve the issue, so avoiding that seems useful. I don't see a problem with using a counterfactual statement if it really is the root cause and I'm blaming myself for something.
Oh my god, Discovery...

Discovery is just written by toddlers or something.

Like, I was willing to blame it on continuity baggage for the first 2 seasons, plus the first season of every Star Trek is lackluster so whatever. But in season 3 it looked like they'd finally hired a competent writer for a few episodes, Osyraa was suddenly a more nuanced character, the Federation was offered a path to its goals that meant they'd have to compromise their ideals, Burnam was becoming Han Solo [0], Tilly was being slotted into the leadership role her character is actually good at, etc. Then at the last second the toddlers took over again, Deus-ex Burnam'd[1] the ethical decisions, shoved Tilly back into a science role, put Suru on a bus, and put Han Solo in charge of a starship for some reason. What the hell!?

[0] Which is what her character should be, clearly. She doesn't follow rules, she doesn't work well with others, can't lead worth a damn, and she readily compromises her ethics to achieve her goals. She's a terrible Star Fleet captain but she'd be a great chaotic-good rogue.

[1] What the fuck is with Marry-Sue God-Queen Burnam anyway? She has like 95% of the screen time or something and her Picard speeches inspire nothing but contempt for the writers. Like, answer me this: There are regular characters on the bridge other than Tilly, Burnam, and Suru. What are their names? There's Detmer, who we kinda know about because she had that PTSD episode on screen, and I guess that one woman is a cliff diver or something, but I don't know her name. And dude in the back who got horribly murdered by Mud that one time? These aren't red shirts, why aren't we getting any character development for them?

Alright, sorry, I went on a bit of a rant there.

P.S. I'm hesitant to blame the actors for bad performances. I feel like there's a lot of bad direction and obviously terrible material to work with.

P.P.S. I actually think the hack writers are are a pretty good fit for the mirror-universe stuff. It's still garbage writing, but it just sorta fits that place.
Interesting! Didn't think of that!
Most daemons are sandboxed by Debian (or upstream) already.

For applications, Debian ships firejail.
Looking at the rate of progress of robotics, I wouldn't be too worried. Even if we are making good progress on creating an artificial mind, we are making extremely slow progress on creating an artificial body. So most jobs requiring dexterity and ambulation are safe for the foreseeable future.

At this rate an artificial body may not be solved until the singularity, but that is probably an extinction-level event so there's no need to worry.
Thank you! Unfortunately we won't be doing any choose-your-own maps, we really do spend a bunch of time on each one. I don't think we could maintain nearly the level of quality that we like.

I'd love to map Sydney. We're doing a city push right now but starting with US cities, as selling internationally adds some business complexity that we've been trying to avoid so far. As the business grows, we certainly do hope to have more maps outside of the US, and to be able to sell there as well!
Queue the smarmy communists to discuss the holy religion of bully state solutions.
I would be extremely reluctant to visit China or Russia at this point in my life. I felt differently in my 20's. And I am modestly well-travelled.
I was always disappointed that Apple never got Peter Falk to appear on stage at WWDC and say "Oh, there's one more thing Mr. Jobs…".
This (liability) is beginning to change with L3 systems. Mercedes will take over liability while drive pilot is engaged in highway stop and go traffic.
You might like XMPP then - IETF Internet standard, always had decentralization and e2e encryption. I still don't understand why so much energy was invested in building a seperate ecosystem. Matrix claims to be fundamentally different, but all their major selling points (dencentralization, e2ee, open protocol) were already there. And since the Matrix encryption protocol is incompatible with all the other ones there's currently no way to securely communicate with someone outside their network.
On Linux (and Windows too IIRC), you hit AltGr + accent key (number row on my layout) -> ÃǍÂĂÅÀĄÀȦÁÄ.