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I point out the observation of current state, absolutely. I also believe in and contribute to progressive policies and candidates (respectively) who will hopefully improve the situation through policy. Please don’t interpret my analysis and understanding of a system as an endorsement of it. What is the point of property and capital if the outcome is dystopian and feudal?

Both people and systems are complex and not boiled down to binaries. Thanks for getting to know me a bit more!
I just recently expressed this pain for the first time, so excited to see your service. Some pain points:

1) Scheduling required filling in the same qualification form multiple times, and texting/calling with a rather disorganized office. The better reputed the service company, the bigger mess their schedule is. You're solving this.

2) I didn't have a quote until the people came out to visit. You're solving this.

3) Once the service pros gave quotes, I had to share them with my landlord, have them approve the work, have the service pro complete it, confirm that the issue was fixed, and have the landlord complete payment. Coordinating parties was a major PITA, I hope you solve this in the future.

4) When the service pro diagnosed the issue and gave me a quote, I didn't know whether the diagnosis was truthful, and the quote was reasonable. After the fix, the symptom went away for a bit, and then came back, and the service person tried other fixes. This back and forth was a major pain. I don't know how you'll fix this, maybe a warranty on your service, or an annual insurance plan/maintenance subscription instead? Similar to Forward's model for healthcare - don't make money when you have to fix problems, make money when I don't have problems.

5) Thumbtack had a fixed price service, but it was too large a premium over the more ad hoc services. I hope you keep prices reasonable when you start swallowing more unexpectedly large scoped problems.
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Sounds like he did due-diligence on reviews.
Cuomo pushes employers to force their employees to 
return to
 flee from NYC-based companies

FTFY
Golly. Of course the courts and the state are in collusion.

The interests of the state and those of the courts almost completely align. Class interests in the UK really matter and the rulers (not the members of parliament, the actual rulers) and the judges all went to the same schools, they are all cousins essentially.

There is no need for explicit corruption and collusion but there is plenty of that too.
Here’s the quote from the document you linked:

> You should familiarize yourself with Google’s Insider Trading Policy. It describes company-wide policies that address the risks of insider trading, such as a prohibition on any Google employee hedging Google stock; and periodic blackout windows when no Google employee may trade Google stock.

The quotes gives hedging as an example of prohibited conduct and recommends reading the internal policy. The parent comment is from someone who read the internal policy. What more do you want, the internal policy to be leaked in full?

Employees of tech companies with a somewhat open culture can often make inferences about the company’s performance before financials are released. The SEC investigates when people make suspicious gains from options trades. Companies don’t want that kind of attention. Rather than try to define the exact parameters of what kind of trade is risky, it’s easier to just ban them as a rule. This may seem unreasonable to some, but it appears to be a common practice.
I think the argument was that they could send Sophons faster than we can build particle accelerators.
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> they killed off all other options

Is it that difficult to imagine the amount of value it created for those communities, too?
Predicting recessions is easy. Economists have predicted 18 of the last 4 recessions.
"being a temp for future robots"

While everyone was predicting that the dirty jobs would get automated, instead its a lot of midlevel jobs are getting automated, but we still don't have a robot that can take out the trash.

I am willing to bet my house thay we can automate away the CEO but not the janitor, and it will be hilarious.

Management is just analysis of data, we can do that. But the physical works requires dexterity and robotics that still escapes us.
great work!

> reading brightness, contrast or volume from the monitor fails about 30% of the time

I2C over long lengths of wire isn't the sturdiest physical layer... I would expect the low level I2C handlers to retry a few times on no ACK received, but a retry_count of 5 might resolve most of the issues around a bit flipping on its way through the wire :)
I’m sure the (widely considered, not universally) most innovative and maybe most profitable company in the world could figure out something to do with that office space.

Perhaps make it a hub for more teams, and close down rental spaces all over the bay. Make the gym and cafeteria way bigger.

Obviously this is arm chair thinking on my part, but I find it hard to believe that given enough thought they couldn’t make the numbers work out.
Not sure if that’s a good comparison: 1) the lab leak theory is only incidentally political since the two sides decided to make it into yet another hot button issue; 2) the media did cover the emails story extensively and it was never prematurely “fact checked” as false.
Twitter blocks Alex Berenson again, for a week this time
Agree, I've only seen a handful of recruiter spam that don't explicitly call out 100% remote work. Smaller companies are definitely using this as a lever to siphon off talent from larger, more traditional workplaces.
They go hand in hand, because values can still implement protocols.
What book is being referenced?
Antonio Salieri should also get one of those. He was a pretty good composer in the scheme of things, and there is no evidence that he ever had anything against Mozart, much less did anything bad to him.
"Remember, we have to get people back and we have to get people back in volume. If you were to see a 15% decline of people coming back to New York City, that would have a devastating impact on the commercial market," Cuomo said.

He means the commercial real estate market.

Remote work is terrifying to NYC commercial landlords. Right now, about 17% of NYC commercial real estate is on the market as vacant. A lot more is probably leased but unused. Are all those skyscrapers really necessary?

If SF had a 15% decline in people coming back to the office, that would probably be a win.
Management's sensitivity to risk varies.

Staff doing their work from another location: Nope.

Centralising their supply chain in a volatile, genocidal dictatorship: Yep.

Big play.
This is exactly what turned me off Yarn 2. I think it was a language server issue, but if it's broken, it's broken. It sent me back to NPM, and I rarely use Yarn these days at all.
williamvds's point is that the first argument to printf is still itself a null-terminated string, so it's basically turtles all the way down if you're using the C standard library.
NYC has a budget of 100 billion, NY state a budget of 215 billion.

Has to get funded somehow!
That's pretty clearly not true - there have always been politically motivated prosecutions, witchhunts, and shady dealings of various flavors in every government I've been able to find decent records for.

Recently here in the US, it's been everything from 'The Red Scare' and McCarthyism to Hoover era FBI attacking and undermining every 'revolutionary' group that wasn't upholding the status quo in the 60's-70's - and many more. That includes everything from attempted blackmail on Martin Luther King to COINTELPRO (documented, not a conspiracy theory). And that's what has leaked - there is almost certainly more that never had a solid paper trail.
It's too bad people keep trying to use the M1 for power user tasks. The hardware shortcuts and proprietary implementations make using the machine in anything but factory use cases tedious if not infeasible. Being able to change the backlight intensity shouldn't have to be a major accomplishment with unfixable sporadic hardware bugs.
So he basically just suggested that employers should encourage employee to come back to the office? Given the audience, and what the city stand to lose, his comments seem appropriate to me.

It's not like he's mandating offices force people back in or face penalties
Welcome to Hell World.
I honestly think "Pandora's Box" is being shoved right back closed. The big banks have already going back to work and a lot of the big tech companies are forcing everyone back very soon this remote future isn't happening this year.
If by "invaded it" you mean "dropped two nuclear weapons on its enemies, saving it from utter destruction, and then mostly let it do its thing and even helped them grow economically," then sure.

China is not the victim here.
All you can do is do your best to not contribute to the problems you've identified.

No one wants to be the bad guy in their own story. That's why excuses exist.

Good luck. I understand where you're coming from.
Freenode Is Dead. (Again.)
This articulates exactly what I've been thinking about technological progress for a long time. When Discord stopped marketing itself as a chat service "for gamers," suddenly huge swathes of chat groups from high schools to electrical engineering projects moved their discussions there. It was giving me a strange feeling, maybe because Discord was a product instead of a protocol, and also because it means that all the domain-specific knowledge produced in those chat rooms becomes siloed inside the servers of a single proprietary company, unable to be indexed publicly. But that was a point in time where a company improving the quality of its product and its market reach gave me hesitation for some reason. Improving your service and having more people talking about it and using it is supposed to be a good thing, right?

The notion of a baseline of satisfaction required for consentual opting-in to monopolies seems to have produced this perpetual equilibrium where even if people don't like a service they still throw up their hands and use it because everyone else happens to use it since it is the one and only place that this one crucial discussion about X or Y is taking place in the entire world, and the subject matter has nothing to do with the platform itself, but that platform was the one that happened to win out, because it was superior.

It's caused me to think that just because you are fixing bugs or legitimately making improvements to a product, or have big dreams and an idea that actually does change the world, it doesn't mean that you are necessarily mean that you are doing the world a favor overall. The people in control or the incentives could rule what actually happens.

And the scariest thing is, people don't want to outlaw or regulate innovation or growth. People are fine with Amazon improving its marketplace to the point where there are no other marketplaces left offering a comparable set of products. A lot of people seem to be fine with letting social media grow to dominate our lives if it's reframed as "making it easier to keep in touch with your distant relatives."

Now it really is easier to keep in touch with your relatives than ever. And now, social media is also starting to dominate our lives.
I have seen this a lot, am I the only one who thinks that this is ugly?

Crafting a protocol after the fact to match some class' interface (and then put an empty extension) seems just wrong.

I very much prefer to pass simple types around. (like two closures in this case) You don't need to remember any protocol name and don't need to define a ton of mock objects.
Here's the thing, if you are in a big company and you work with people all over the country, you can still collaborate with them via video and text chat. It would be the same experience whether you are in the office or at home. In those circumstances, those tasks can be done due to the means of collaboration still being equally effective.
No one wants to go back to the dysfunctional way things were.
Herd mentality. Where the herd animal is a Lemming.
Because things can change. If it weren't for these talks and changes, we would still be working in horrible conditions because "that's what it was when I was hired and it was very clear this is the way to do it and I have agreed to this".
Honestly, I was pointing out these "conspiracy theories" back in 2020 and nobody cared then and frankly nobody cares now. Complacency and apathy of The People -- that's how he's not impeached. The same goes for many other representatives.
I wasn't making a judgement on whether EME was good or bad†. I was saying Mozilla didn't want to implement it, and was forced to, whereas Apple has more ability to push back against browser features they dislike.

As it so happens, Apple has no issues with DRM; their products are full of it.

† I do think EME is bad, but that's beside the point.
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...of the NPD.
"They're saying Boo-urns"
I've went through the whole page (well, it's not long) and actually... none of the methods can compare with writing with the right hand. So maybe we have to be honest: Our alphabet/longform (and reading from left to right) isn't made for lefties.

I broke my thumb (right hand) once and had to do with my left hand for three months and noticed myself how stupid writing with the left hand is - not because I'm right-handed but because the written language is not designed for it. Honestly, I now understand why it was not unusual to tell lefties to write with their right hand.
"Or just believe the women in the face of credible evidence."

? But we just found that we can't do that.

The top commenter has basically turned the story upside down, with the fairly relevant information (i.e. evidence) that Ms. Mitchell was wearing a t-shirt with overtly sexual language - to which the Blizzard dorks merely responded directly to.

Blizzard guys met her at her level, with equal levels of dubious professionalism.

This information was not fully reported in the story and it materially changes the situation.

The story was presented as: "Woman Faced Sexual Harassment"

... but really it's something much more nuanced: "Woman Extolling Sexual Language, Is Responded To In Those Same Terms, Interprets Actions as Harassing"

The statements on her t-shirt, if correct (i.e. both sides) are clearly 'sexually charged language' that, if worn in any professional context, especially by a man, would have them immediately sidelined. Shamed, at minimum.

So in this case, it's a good thing that we 'didn't believe the story' because it turned out to be something more complicated.

I'm always immediately sympathetic to people in these scenarios ... but invariably I learn more, and that there is always considerably more nuance than reported, to the point wherein the authors of the story are effectively misrepresenting reality, and I become much less likely to accept anything reported just 'at face value' - which is frankly not good for 'the movement'.

I think the 'large central mass' of regular people are really, really open to change and looking at things differently, and in hearing legit stories, but as soon as they're misrepresented, the window of general empathy closes.
Thanks! And I hear you, and recurrent & the secondary infections and the cyclic nature of it all are terrifying, to say the least, and the truth is also that in many cases, the recurrence is due to resistant bugs, that are just not eliminated by current care of Abx. Not to mention, some Abx when systemically administered, lead to major alterations in the gut microbiome as well. All in all, its not a good situation. I'm sorry to hear about your and your wife's infections, and hope we can contribute to reducing that burden somewhat for so many people.
Best troubleshooting and discussions I’ve had was getting several people to a white board and going over things. Never been able to replicate remote
These are just simple API design issues in the standard library, nothing to do with the language itself.
Random discussion can happen anywhere, anytime. That's the neat thing about random.
I'm not really sure how to respond to this. The phrase "equality of outcome" only means "everyone must have exactly the same success/income/wealth/accolades/etc" when taken to an untenable extreme, and very few people are making this argument. Most policy people are careful not to take "naive and coarse metric-driven approaches" to the problem, though of course there are plenty of examples of e.g., companies mandating diversity targets etc. that can be seen as naive and treating a symptom rather than a problem.

All that said, the person you originally responded to gave the example of being able to go to a restaurant in a wheelchair, which is exactly what the ADA covers, and it requires taking into account outcomes: asking "can we make reasonable accommodations so that all who would like to eat a restaurant can reasonably do so?" means looking at the outcome of whether a paraplegic (as in the original post) can access the restaurant. You can think of this as opportunity instead of outcome if you like, but it's the example in the original post that you responded to, so I'm not sure your accusation that I "lost the context a bit" is fair. (If anything, it seems that you took "equality of outcome" out of context from the post you are responding to.)

Now, the rest of your post makes it super clear that you are not arguing the same thing as I am.

When I, and I think most people (maybe not Marx?) say "equality of outcome," I mean things like people are equally listened to in meetings, considered for promotions, able to enter the fields they want to enter, able to rent accommodations, etc. and crucially that these things are irrespective of irrelevant attributes like race, gender, sexual orientation, etc., the issues that you note. But very few people are really arguing for ignoring relevant attributes, fewer still are arguing for entirely equal incomes, and basically no one is arguing that everyone "should be able to be a mathematician" despite having no aptitude for math.

I'm going to say it one more time, because you keep not responding to my point: as a society, we can favor equality of outcomes as in the examples above without also "purging dissenters", "neutralizing political opponents", or doing so "to various degrees of brutality".

Murderous authoritarianism simply does not inevitably follow from considering equality of outcomes. Mao, Lenin, Stalin, and the Khmer Rouge are not the inevitable result of considering equality of outcomes, and the argument that "equality of outcomes" is a bad metric because it's fundamentally impossible to improve it without turning into a murderous dictatorship is false, and you've provided zero evidence for it.
Spoilers.

There are a few parts of the book, according to the translator, that are done in the manner of a Chinese folktale, which he tried to translate to a different style in English. I'm no expert, but I got the impression the sophont chapter was in this category. It has this otherworldly silliness with the multiple attempts to create a sophont going wrong in different dimensions, calculated to fit the repetitive pattern of a fairy tale.

I think the thrust, which might be hard to read in translation, is this: we can't imagine the technology a superior alien species would come up with, so it's related as a fairy tale beyond technological realism.

Anyway, I doubt it was meant to be hard sci-fi.
My pops did a consulting gig in the 90s for Rockwell, and he described it as being the sheriff dressed in black.

Always thought that was funny, and probably pretty accurate.
They are free to mandate it, but if my employer ever said you cannot think or talk about non-work stuff with collegues for 8 hours a day then I'd be out the door immediately.
> That kind of convenience is terribly addicting.

Cigarettes are terrible addicting too and people quit them all the time.

As far as I can see, the low cost of the American lifestyle is largely subsidized by shifting the price onto others. Whether that's Amazon keeping prices low by exploiting labor in the west or Chinese manufacturers keeping prices low by exploiting labor in China or meat manufacturers keeping prices low by running factory farms, at the end of the day, the ethical choice is always going to have a higher price attached because you're eating the cost so others don't have to. The only solution is to put your money where your mouth is.

Others say legislation, but that's a transient solution at best. If the lobbyists don't get to twist the legislation in the first place, they'll just keep lobbying until they get their way. They have the money and organization to make it happen.
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snprintf is underlying most logging modules I've done (logging to memory / file / network / console...) - I've been thinking about doing custom formatting routines but there's surprisingly little need for them.

You probably know this, but sizeof is not a function. I prefer the easier to type

snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, ...);
> unless the aliens started out right next door (like in Alpha Centauri)

This is where the aliens are (a trinary system). It still takes them 400 years to get to Earth and so they are trying to stifle Earth's technological advancements because 1) we know they are coming 2) our technological growth is faster than them (this is partially explained due to different biological and environmental factors. The aliens can't lie to one another and have environmental factors that frequently wipe out or pause their technological advancements). The aliens in question are supposed to be only a few hundred years (max) ahead of us technologically (or smaller than the difference in time that it takes them to get here)
I think employee demand is going to make a difference. If enough people demand it, these companies will need to bend.
Apple could light 10 billion dollars on fire and I'm not sure it would affect their stock price.
I have never spent any of my time looking at FB terms and conditions. I have spent time setting up Firefox's "Facebook Container" so they can't track every site I visit.

I really don't recall if there were any other options than giving my age, they may have required it. I just wanted to block the ad.

> This was basically the OP shooting themselves in the foot.

That really couldn't be more obvious after the fact.

It is interesting that you didn't comment on what I was actually doing though, which was simply trying to block an add. Or what and why FB would even ask for my age in order for me to do that. Or even what the ad contained that prompted me to not want to see it again.

You focused entirely on the "rule" I broke.
netsplit.de has classed Freenode as historic.

Freenode's own Webchat client blocks all users, you're unable to use SASL authentication within the webclient: Closing link: [You must use TLS/SSL and authenticate via SASL to connect to freenode please visit https://irc.com/login/sso in order to create an account. SASL Configuration: https://freenode.net/kb/answer/sasl - Webchat: https://webchat.freenode.net/]

Effectively, Freenode is accountwalled.

This is the second time that Freenode has appeared shut down to netsplit.de, coincidentally, right as Freenode's user counts were about to dip below the next highest 'competing' network. (First Libera, with the ircd switchover, then OFTC with auth requirements.)
netscape.really-bad-attitude recycled.
Wait a minute - circa 1930, "China" included both the mainland and the island of Formosa. Then there was a civil war in which the Communists forcibly took over the mainland portion but weren't able to wrest control of Formosa.

So as far as I can tell, the mainland is now the "rogue province" that isn't honoring the legit government that still remains over there in Taiwan. And thus we should be thinking of the PRC as "West Taiwan".