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The replies to all these Covid articles about non-US (and non-european) countries are just surreally out of touch. Some corrections for the common incorrect or silly comments:

> lockdown for only a few hundred cases???

Australia essentially eliminated covid, and never had a widespread pandemic, so there's both a desire and ability to eliminate it again and no immunity at all in the community.

> the army???

Australia is a poorly governed country and the Army gets called out to assist with government logistical failures (fire, flood) fairly often and it's sometimes just done so it looks like the government is Taking It Seriously. also, there's insufficient financial support from governments who are asking people to lock down, and insufficient seriousness from the government about it in general via inconsistent rules and application of them. there also appears to be a concerted foreign disinformation campaign (as well as the usual domestic disinformers) that culminated in a massive protest about...lockdown during lockdown.

> why don't they focus on vaccinations????

the Australian federal government deeply fucked vaccines up. they bet too hard on a domestically developed one that got cancelled, then didn't secure sufficient supplies from overseas (ie did not order enough Pfizer and Moderna for the population in May last year), then let old people *choose* what vaccine they got, then sowed fear about AZ, then fucked up logistics - until *this week* you needed approval from your GP (via an appointment) to get AZ if you were under 40, and it's only very very recently become possible to easily access it.

the government keeps cancelling it's own vaccine forecasts due to the absolute shambles they'ver created, but it's unlikely there will be 80%+ fully vaccinated before the end of the year.

tl;dr there aren't enough vaccines or capacity to inject them in the next few months

> but what about deaths from suicide etc from lockdown???

there's no evidence this happened in Australia, presumably due to social and cultural and welfare reasons. not everywhere is the USA, folks!

> why aren't people rising up against this huge injustice!?!?!

it's not an injustice, it's concerted community effort to achieve a goal for society. not everyone is happy about it but almost no one considered it to be some huge crime against human rights, and it's...week five of a not particulary strict lockdown. again, not everywhere is North Dakota or whatever.
That's not what rent seeking means
>What's the appeal of (...) an NFT?

I genuinely don't get it to this day. I can understand clothing because it's a status symbol and a very visible one usually. I can understand a collectible because its a physical object that atleast looks interesting.

An NFT (to me) is a fundamentally flawed concept because it's trying to introduce the concept of ownership into a space that doesn't work like the physical world.

Maybe I'm just overthinking and it's yet another money laundering scheme that has some media hype around it.
Yes, that's the one. I totally forgot that there were other options too.

It's sad that such cultural artifacts are more ephemeral than a mesopotamian clay tablet. Humans four thousand years from now may wonder what happened that made us culturally unproductive, unaware that almost everything we made didn't even exist.
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Looks horribly contained

https://static-ffx-io.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/AW/s/static.ffx....

A fire I get but the lack of containment / control seems crazy
Where I live there are empty houses. Very few locals can buy $1m+ homes and be so lazy to even bother renting them out.
I looked up ownership of some I noticed empty for a long long time and the owners appear to be a string of shell companies.
Always loved the Flying Toasters... the XScreensaver version of it stinks in comparison.

I seem to remember there being a city skyline screensaver as well, was there an After Dark 2?
the problem with non relational non tabular data, is that if there's no way to enforce strict schemas you end up with a lot of headaches.

the advantage of normalized data it that you can easily join it and transform into whatever format you want.

using objects/documents to store you data you can end up with the really annoying problems I've had in the past year at work, sub-sub-object has field/properties X/Y/Z it is assumed all objects would have it except some don't have it and some have it but it was used for something else that it remotely related but not the same.

now you who was not part of making this decision have to go hunt for patterns of correlation between subobjects, find out the illegal states of the global object, and decide wether the patterns you found were the results of an unnoticed bug, a valid edge case or just the result of poor design.
keeping in mind that the some patterns are just way more popular than others and you cant just query the db "give me all the ways your objects and sub-objects varies depending on other fields".

another problematic things I saw:
period 20xx/xx/xx to 20yy/yy/yy the informal schema was A, then it was changed to B, then after that to C.
of course old data was not migrated to the new design each time, giving that the system work mostly in an online fashion that was not much of problem. expect the requirements changed or you found out something it not right and you need to recacultate a result that depdent of the date from the beggining up to now. now querying this data is a nightmare.

these are not problem of the document model itself but the people using it, but from my experience once you give it to people they slowly throw away all common sense on database design.

now if you want to enforce to quality into your stored data you'll find yourself hand writing part of the tools that you threw away when moving from more traditional databases.

At the end you have to ask you self was this worth it ?
The politics of it all notwithstanding, on a purely technical level, yes it can.
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That's totally nuts and it's not the Dutch system.
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs
There's a time to parse mathematical expressions, a time to leave refrain from parsing altogether.
Yes, I've had both a coworker and a housemate lecture me about how they are vegan so they won't consume or use anything that involves dead insects.
> Goodbye, Itanic. You were a strange, unloved little detour, better known for the good designs you killed than for any successes of your own. Few will miss you.

It does, albeit indirectly, and not by name. Poor Alpha and PA-RISC...
Lets say I'm in NY, now I go to ask to join a cooking course, they say me: "we will let you know if you're accepted or not".

Then I take a plane to the other side of the planet, Japan.

We have some pending information, a link between the cooking course acceptation and me. The link will keep existing even if I take a trip to Mars.

Then I got accepted in the cooking course, the information about the acceptance changes instantaneously in the whole universe, including in my head (currently in Japan, thousands of miles away from the place when the cooking course decision to accept me occurs).

Is this quantum entanglement somehow?

It seems to check all the boxes, including that the information changes instantaneously in both sides (I got accepted! even if now I'm in Japan), but I wouldn't know about it till they send me the news using a standard non-quantum channel. FTL comms aren't possible at all here, etc.

Then I ask,

entanglement occurs continously at levels in universe, when two entities somehow get to share a question, a pending information?

Of course I think I'm missing something (a degree or PhD in physics for starters), that's why I'm asking.

Thanks in advance.
If Facebook wants to own the public forum they have to manage it as well.

Their power comes with responsibilities to keep it lawsful for all participants. That means removing unlawful speech while at the same time allowing lawful speech.

It's only logical that conflicts needs to be settled in a similar fashion as they are in other similar situations in the offline world.

For western democracies that usually means some sort of due process and unbiased weighing of facts with a decision that adheres to the existing standards in that society.

Facebook would like to do everything automatically of course but with great power comes great responsibility.

I predict that sooner or later the regular court system will be responsible for those cases and Facebook will be happy to make money by providing the tech platform.
So, APL?
This took half an hour to read so I don't know how the author expected it to be a half an hour talk! Thanks for sharing.
You could refine them, group the points and put up a blog post (or a GitHub page) and share that here (as its own submission). If it’s with visual examples, all the more better. I’m sure somebody will find it useful.
So that's what the slightly crunchy bits are in a Fig Newton.
> When more users come more funding will come and you can hire someone who can repay the technical de[b]t chosen before.

The problem is rather that the technical debt is often not repaid.
I mainly agree with your feelings but it is how it is. People look at what they can “afford” per month and bid houses up to that point. Many people don’t consider what they’ll have left to save/invest, etc and they stretch themselves to be the one who gets the house.

I don’t think this is a recent phenomenon though. I’ve heard stories from my parents from 40 years ago and it’s similar. One that sticks out is when rates fell to 12% they were assured they’d never see rates like that again - time to lock in. And of course the banker was right as rates just slowly made their way down over the following 30 years.

So anyone that says “rates can’t stay this low” are just joining the chorus from way back when.
The same goes for mesopotamia. We know a bit from the clay tablets, but we don't know anything about the ephemoral memes of the time.
I have a standing desk, in the corner of my living room. I've tried other locations, and that hasn't worked. Being here, I don't get the feeling of being "disconnected" from the household.

Most importantly, of course, is that it increases my availability to my cats. They are quite efficient at expressing their needs, and I have to be ready to drop everything, in order to attend to said needs.

I have a nice chair (a Herman-Miller Embody -overrated). I never sit in it. I stand at my desk whenever I work.

I have a desk that can go up or down, and have it set up, so that I can lower it, quite easily. I never do. It stays at one level (42.5").

I have a monster LG[0] that stretches across the entire desk. It is exactly as wide as the desk. I have another 4K monitor, above it (wall-mounted), for the AppleTV, or if I am giving a Zoom class (screen share).

I have a laptop (a 2019 15-inch MBP), but it stays plugged in. I insist on a laptop, so I can take it on the road, if necessary, but the LG has spoiled me rotten. Using the laptop screen is painful. My next laptop will be the smaller pro version M2 that comes out, later this year.

When I work, I generally "dress for work" (button-down shirt and jeans), but a lot more casually than I did, for over 30 years in the office. I feel as if it is important to have that silly little bit of self-discipline. On weekends, I allow myself shorts, and, occasionally, a T-shirt.

My hours are whatever I want, whenever I want. I tend to get started early (I wake up at 5AM), and often code, right up to bed time. I sometimes stay up, in bed, testing my work on my iPad and/or iPhone.

I take breaks whenever I want, and they can be long breaks, but I don't let myself have more than about 3-4 during a day.

I tend to work 7 days a week; sometimes, I allow myself a "half day" (maybe 6 hours). My GH Activity Graph is solid green.

I personally feel as if my productivity knocks anything I ever did in the office, into a cocked hat.

I also don't make a dime at it.

I've never been happier.

[0] https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-49WL95C-W-ultrawide-monito...
I came to say this albeit in a less coherent & eloquent fashion. Context matters. Creating a simple program in Scratch? Yeah, most people can write something that runs in the language. Heck, take any "Hello, World" example and you can conclude that programming is easy. Writing good, real-world code is an acquired skill that takes many hours of practice & study and, from my perspective, even natural talent. What happens when you have barriers preventing you from achieving proficiency such as a learning disability or mental health issues? Too many factors, in my opinion, to conclude it ISN'T difficult.
I've done this for decades[0], sitting on cushions on the floor, used to have keyboard + monitor on coffee table, but now it's lower, keyboard + mouse on a large square cushion from a sofa, monitor on a small woofer speaker. Working on Mac minis the last 10 years. I don't know, I just like being low down, it feels grounded or something. I find it very comfortable.

[0] Well, no idea what a zafu or zabuton are. My setup cost $0.
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> but in my view the meat industry is a dystopian nightmare

100% agreement there. I worked in an abbatoir (pigs) for 10 years. It's a horror show for the animals AND the workers.

I am not vegetarian, but I only buy organic and/or free range meat now. I won't touch anything that goes through the industrial killing machine.
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My guess is the noise. Last thing id want is the noise of a loud servo when i'm playing.
The ball exercises your lower back muscles for sure, but you can still have bad posture on it. I used to sit on one cross legged with bad upper back posture.
False comparison.

Eminent domain requires compensation.

In some of these countries your asset will be take from you and you have no remedies.
I was talking mostly about none-HDB properties like condominiums and landed though. (The cheapest starts at ~$700k.)

HDB certainly helps to lower the barrier to entry in home ownership. But I don't think most forms of HDB purchases are investment-orientated. ROI for second-hand HDB is not high and buying a good first-hand one is like winning a lucky draw.

I would say HDB is more of the gov's mean to stabilize the housing market and it functions as more like the backbone of the economy. (Or you end up with runaway prices like in Hong Kong.)
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That's the biggest red flag I've seen in a long time.
Did not expect to find someone who does the same thing as me. I am actually kind of embarrassed I’ve taken sick days just to work without interruption or to investigate some tech I wouldn’t get company time to research (“we need you pumping out code, whats learning? You already know everything you’ll ever need!”)
In general I agree, but lets do some napkin math:

UK 9.34 million hectares agriculture area. [1]
6,470 l/ha ethanol in Brazil [2]

60,4 billion liter ethanol for all agricultural land in the UK. (Surely a big share of the land is not good for this usage but what ever.)

About 45 billion liter of gasoline and diesel used in UK per year.[3]

I mean, it is not totally off by orders of magnitude to be practical for a significant share of driving.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_the_United_King...
[2] http://www.globalbioenergy.org/uploads/media/0907_Goldemberg...
[3] https://www.racfoundation.org/data/volume-petrol-diesel-cons...
> Users can't make an informed choice about what browser engine they use. They don't understand what a browser engine is, and what impact it has on their security, battery performance and so on.

> So no, you can't choose. When we say "you can choose" we need to realize that this is only good when you can make an educated, informed choice. If you can't, you need to be protected. And that's Apple's role.

I'm getting strong deja vu to arguments over authoritarian nanny states in this.

Even if I accept the contentious value judgment that people need to be guided and protected by an entity that has strongly conflicting interests to them, I still don't think this is a strong argument as the default browser would still be Safari. People with little to no understanding of what a browser is are hardly going to download some outdated fork of Netscape.
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None of them would adopt Windows laptops running on POWER, just as one possible scenario.
I use YJS webrtc with Svelte for my p2p collaborative IDE and it’s awesome. Do you guys do any p2p stuff like that? Also, maybe reach out to Spline founder, he just launched the web version of his “Figma but 3D” app that wraps ThreeJS in a GUI tool and has been gaining traction fast.
That's not the constitution but the penal code.
they are many things but beautiful they are not. They may be shy but they're also very blustery as well. Thse WB animators probably never saw one but they got a lot right.
> I still believe we'll see a return to its ideas once the computing world finally moves on from C.

If only for the reason that Itanium was one of the few architectures not affected by Spectre-family attacks.
“Wannoo” instead of “wanna” as casual pronunciation of English “want to”
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Not only that but it is easy to have people who front the purchases on behalf of foreigners. Only have to look at some of the recent OIO cases and news to see that this is exactly what is happening. Govt is a decade behind the ball and not sure they'll ever want to fix it (no matter who you vote for).
I don’t think it validated anyone: they didn’t contribute any new facts about the groups, reasons, or methods. The fact that there was a government spy agency spying doesn’t mean any of those details were less wrong or that the conspiracy theorists are trustworthy sources of information about anything in the future.

Part of what makes conspiracy theories spread well is mixing in real details to make the invented parts sound reasonable. Five Eyes and ECHELON weren’t secret so they were great for making it sound more like you knew what you were talking about, things like PRISM, MUSCULAR, and XKeyscore were but none of the conspiracists had detailed anything like that.

This is the same dynamic we’re seeing now with antivax and QAnon types digging through things like CDC bulletins. They can use details to sound like they’re more informed and find odd phrasing or terms of art which can be confusing to normal people in a way which supports their narrative. Imagine how it’d sound if someone started writing stories about a dark cannibal-murder conspiracy among Linux admins forking and killing children, based on someone’s mailing list posts about troubleshooting some C code. If they correctly identified fork(2) and you knew that Reiser had actually killed someone, would that make you trust them about anything because a few details could be stretched to cover something real?
Calling someone delusional on a completely subjective issue, for voicing an opinion definitely qualifies as an ad hominem.
No one builds a RFID system because one guy really needed water that one time, can we at least be serious here?

No one is discussing some hypothetical situation where someone knocks on your home, either.

We're talking about a problem that's systematic, at volume, and persistent over time, and therefore qualitative change for McDonald's and the environment they offer to customers.

McDonald's wanted to offer finite refills to paying customers. Their current system had a loophole with unintended consequences, so they closed that loophole.

If you want to help homeless people I guess go work at McDonald's and give homeless people water when they ask, and everything will be perfect. But let's see if your ideals stay intact after 10 cups of water. 100 cups of water. 1000 cups of water. A million cups of water.

It's very easy to say "oh I gave water to a dude once". I also gave water to a dude once, doesn't matter for McDonald's and people habitually coming back to leech a resource they provide that's not intended to be free in the first place.
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Why a bot? Normal notification or email would suffice.
Also everyone complaining about mobile Safari is leaving out the parts where it excels — speed and battery life. Safari is the best browser looking at actual websites.

Safari is the reason I bought an iPhone because using Chrome on a flagship Android phone compared to Safari was night and day. Pages would load in milliseconds not seconds and scrolling and zooming didn’t stutter.

I really don’t want Apple to lose this fight and live in a world where you can’t use non-chrome browsers without dealing with broken websites.
Yep, plus I’ve already learned that (for me) doing work or study in bed means I’ll be either asleep or uncomfortable soon.
Yeah so less of this kind of content if you could please.
WFH != unscheduled and sedentary.

You can set up timers e.g. pomodoro and do quick chores frequently.

[edit: care to explain the downvotes?]
The Star Trek TOS and TNG After Dark Screensavers took things to another level. Tribbles filling your screen. Worf phasering away your desktop.
I was expecting this to show me a pretty timeline of diffs but instead it emails you the diff (I presume) when a change occurs. Kind of useful I guess, but I don't really fancy signing up to it.
It is not possible for housing to simultaneously be affordable and a good investment.

Given it's a basic human right, I feel we shouldn't allow housing to be an investment.
There were two competing schools of thought in the late '70s and early '80s.

One said that computer hardware should have hardware support for high level languages. That school led to the VAX, iAPX432, and 80X86.
The other school said that computer hardware should be simple so that it could go faster, and that the compiler should be smart enough to map high level languages to simple hardware.

Intel was firmly in the first camp. It flirted with the second repeatedly: see the late '80s i860/i960. Itanium was the biggest bet placed: it was a RISC-like architecture with the added complexity of multiple dispatch encoded in it's Very Long Instruction Word architecture. The compiler could rearrange instruction order to keep hardware busy, AND (to some extent) instruction contents.

Itanium seemed like a reasonable bet, and Intel (and HP) had the clout to convince others. It was a factor in the decline of the Alpha and MIPS server market, and even Sun hedged its bets by porting Solaris.
To see how expectations were gradually reset, see this chart which also appears on the Wikipedia page for itanium.
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Are you also arguing that Apple and Microsoft should restrict you to safari and edge on your desktop to protect clueless users?
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If you look at the monthly reports from a decade ago you see they were given donations ranging from 2000 to 6000 dollars a month even then.

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Red Dwarf covered this as an (IMO very funny) side-plot (in the episode where they accidentally interfered with JFK's assassination).
I imagine then there will be a great resurgence of interest after Moore’s Law hits the atomic scale wall.