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We're probably of very similar age, as I feel much the same.

That being said, I do think there is something special about that era of machines, even outside of our right-place/right-time nostalgia for them. I cut my early computing teeth first on a Timex 1000, later on a Commodore 128, and finally an Amiga.

The Timex was... ok. It was fun enough to pfaff about with, but so limited that it didn't really capture my attention in a special way. The Commodore? Amazing. It is responsible for my entire technical career trajectory. I loved exploring its edges. It was a powerful-enough system that Real Things™ could be done, yet still simple enough that the entire machine could live in your head, so to speak.
The Amiga? It was amazing, but it was almost too much. I couldn't hold the whole machine in my mind any more, and had to rely of greater level of abstractions to get things done. What was doable was incredible, but there was an undeniable sense of loss, too. At least for me.
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The more neutral term is directness, which is undeniably a mainstream dutch style of conversation.

Expats living in the Netherlands do sometimes express it being too blunt at times, yet quite a few more find it refreshing.

And it's easy to see why. It's simple and efficient. You don't have to decode all the misdirection, fakeness, sugar coating that comes with less direct communication. You just get the message. It's less effort to parse and no information is lost in the process.

And as you experience the delivery of this directness in real life, you can tell from body language that the messenger has zero intention to harm or upset you. Good intentions are clear.

Directness is also an asset in business. Just the other week I openly challenged a manager 3 levels above me in a large 200+ meeting. I basically told him that his plan was based on quicksand, poor research (none at all), with unclear benefits.

There's very few countries where you can do this, but here you can. And it's wonderful. In other cultures, you may simply not challenge a bad idea at all or needs tons of political massaging to get your feedback across.

The result is that real, direct, non-political feedback flows to the top, which should be a core interest for leaders, rather than having yes-men.

The dutch reject nonsense as part of their core, based on the national slogan "be normal, that's crazy enough". We don't like fluff, celebrities showing of too much, window dressing, misdirection, or any other tactic that is based on deceit.

As such, arrogance is not our style, it is the very thing we break down.
This looks on topic, but post in other languages are usually ignored or flagged unless there is no equivalent information in English. At least translate the title to something like "Unix Forever: New Series Underway on Club iGen [in French]".

Autotranslation for the lazy: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=fr&tl=en&u=htt...
> While I agree nuclear is the right way to go... it's frankly too late to put all our eggs in that basket. It takes over a decade just to turn on a new plant in the US due to all the regulations. We can work to improve that situation, but at the end of the day, solar and wind can be deployed much faster and at a lower cost.

I've heard this exact same thing said for 20 years. I expect I'll be hearing it for another 20 at least.
I live in an energy-efficient appartment, drive less than 100km/month. I rarely buy clothes. I rarely buy tech stuff (except for a new phone every 3-4 years). I don't fly. I eat no animal products. All my electricity comes from renewable sources (sweden has a lot of hydro power).

There is no way in hell I am even close to 1.6 metric tons of co2, and I really tried to bring it down. Every calculator I try put me at about 1/3 of the average swede, which would mean I am at about 2.5 metric tons.
Interesting challenge for us then--if we're pouring money into self-driving cars and constantly making strides there, why can't we do the same for fully automated self-running nuclear reactors. If there's a future where we trust cars 100% to drive every family safely around town, we should be able to trust reactors to run themselves and fail safe. I don't see why a human brain has to be in the critical loop of reactor operation, other than tradition or legal CYA.
The park services have a similar problem, but the solution is simple:

* No permanent structures.

* You need to move every X days.

* You cannot stay in the park/forest/etc for more than Y days/month.

Cities could forbid tents and count hours rather than days. Criminalizing the act of napping in a park seems like a huge overreaction to peoples' fear of tent cities. If you've never taken an afternoon siesta along a local greenway, you should try it sometime. Bring a blanket and a book, but don't forget to check for sharps before you lie down.
Because they apparently require foreign banks to report it.

Now, how do they actually enforce that supposed "obligation"? I do not know.

But it doesn’t surprise me. The US has already enforced it’s laws on foreign companies' dealing abroad merely because they had used dollars in their transactions.
You're making too much sense; someone is going to call you a conspiracy theorist.
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Right, though I think I address that in my comment.

Trying to cheat through the protocol is uninteresting. You don't destroy the system by breaking L1 rules, any such attack if successful would just get rolled back by hardfork (and nevermind the 'staked money is lost if cheating is detected' system, no one would willingly trigger it).

More ETH is automatically equal to more power, because that's exactly what money is defined to be. We trade it as power.
I just spent a week in Chicago - and the lack of a bus lane made buses our last choice. Traffic is terrible so bus travel is egregiously slow compared to the metro or trains. I'm used to Budapest where a bus is a great way to beat traffic.
They were in government at the time: https://www.history.com/news/1918-pandemic-spanish-flu-censo...
> Good luck, it's prolific throughout so many enterprises and academic institutions.

Peasy easy. Just start mounting SAML vulnerabilities attacks on all those organizations with friendly suggestions to fix their problems, on top of juicy demonstrations of dangers. After a few will be affected, a trend will appear - in all kinds of media, among other things - that one ought to move from SAML. Of course the teachings should be done remotely, from friendly jurisdictions.

/s

We have this problem with security for years, not, decades even. Vista (Microsoft OS) was universally hated - <appropriate xkcd picture with blinking Hitler inserted> - as it tried to address gaping holes in XP security; fortunately Win 7 was much more user-friendly, so security still had some wins. But not nearly "ultimate" wins, no.
Is it? Nuclear powered warships aren't as common as people think. There are only 12 nuclear powered carriers in the World and the US has 11 of them. I think if it were a no-brainer and "easy" (to install, maintain, safely operate) on container ships, it would be done by now. Or at very least you'd see more carriers operated by countries with nuclear capabilities. That the Russians don't operate a nuclear powered carrier says something (not sure what, but I think it indicts the complexity, reliability, etc).

EDIT: For those interested, here is some great reading on the history and state of marine nuclear propulsion.
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/non-power-nucl...
It's not necessarily obvious. Planetary weather is a chaotic system and even for somewhat stable phenomenon like the gulf stream it's not a question of if it will collapse but when. Humans are likely speeding up the collapse but it will eventually happen regardless.

If I had to choose between technological progress and stewardship, I'd pick technological progress because that's our only real chance at long-term survival. We should really attempt to do both and better align the hunt for that extra buck with both tech progress and stewardship (ahem carbon tax) rather than demonizing it.
> Think of it this way: If you want to hide from companies, choose Apple. If you want to hide from the US Government, choose open source.

It's not just the US government: they've been cooperating with the PRC government as well (e.g. iCloud in China runs on servers owned by a state-owned company, and apparently China rejected the HSM Apple was using elsewhere, so they designed one specifically for China). Apple has some deniability there, but I personally wouldn't be surprised if China could get any data from them that it wanted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...
They wouldn’t necessarily attack the system to destroy it. Can they modify it to make it more favourable to incumbents. Consolidate power?
It generally doesn't, but the law says you have to tell it or face prison time.

And there are some instances of information sharing via tax treaty, but I haven't seen exact details on how it works.
Thanks for the reply.

> ...we're building the components/infra/plugins we believe will save app developers time across their stack.

I ask because I have been keenly following authzed's progress, after walking away particularily impressed with their pricing (which is 1/10th of warrant's?).

> Are you asking if we specifically plan to build/hire in India in the future (we're based in the US)

I am postulating that warrant'd have a leg up on competition because I presume its founders would be more receiptable to building/hiring in India...
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> That only matters if you want to use the more interactive features of Emacs' org-mode. I only use Vim and still write everything in .org files.

I did something similar for awhile but felt like I was net negative in effort to gains.

> In the end Markdown isn't bad, but I don't like how basically every platform and tool adds their own special flavor.

Yeah I stick to a known safe subset, including legacy newline behavior, and only a few extensions to that. (highlight and checkbox off the top of my head)
I did not know Gulf stream stops being a warm stream in summer, what an interesting phenomenon.
People make rom hacks all the time. Do the changes have to be from an "official" source to count?
Northern Europe doesn't have ownership of Southern Europe, so they may not be comparable in the sense that habitability is somewhat subjective in the age of modern logistics.
It corrects the erroneous statement “The U.S. is the only country in the world that imposes global tax.”
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Not necessarily. The AMOC transports heat poleward in order to balance the net surplus of solar radiation in the tropics and net deficit radiational cooling at the poles. Lessening this pathway may mean other pathways may need to increase to compensate: like storms in the atmosphere.
I remember reading at one point that perceptual hashes used in PhotoDNA could be reversed to reconstruct the image, which is why the database is closely guarded. I assume the bloom filter implementation significantly raises the bar on reversing.
My own preferred solution would be to restore working market mechanisms - eg start by eliminating this corrupt ability of the industry to enforce post-facto arbitrary bills, and start prosecuting providers for billing fraud. But it's foolish to not also recognize that a single payer system would be better than what we have now. I have experience with Medicare from taking care of a family member, and while it had its problems it was still much better than all of the pitfalls of "private" insurance.
Is it taxed at (average?) income tax rates or VAT rates or what? Unless it's taxed at the highest marginal income tax rate, it seems like there's still at least some loophole potential.
Most likely they are talking about adding Non-Gallery Applications (Custom Applications) for SSO, the only option there is SAML

For OpenID Connect the developer has to sign up with Azure and have their app to the Gallery, you can not add a custom add yourself

Right now there are over 1100 Gallery apps using SAML, and only 500 using OpenID Connect
I don't feel like it was hard to pick up* so much as it was just not the right tool for me.

*Relative to my expectations when trying a new editor for a short period
I often go so far to not want to work with people who sugar coat it.

I prefer "your idea is pure garbage" over "it needs more work" because I want honesty above anything else as it leads to more efficient execution.

Yes, some people feelings are hurt, but when I happen to cause it, I remember that 10 years old kids can survive much more brutal expressions while adults act like they are part of the mickey mouse club.
Oh hey wait you're the freenode guy. While we're on the topic of hostile actions by a platform provider...
Thanks, from what I understand the difference I made between having a REPL and being able to do REPL-driven development is the one you make between a shell and a REPL.
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The cynical take is that Apple was never committed to privacy in and of itself, but they are commited to privacy as long as it improves their competitive advantage, whether by marketing or by making sure that only Apple can extract value from its customers' data.

Hanlon's razor does not apply to megacorporations that have enormous piles of cash and employ a large number of very smart people, who are either entirely unscrupulous or for whom scruples are worth less than their salaries. We probably aren't cynical enough.

I am not arguing that we should always assume every change is always malicious towards users. But our index of suspicion should be high.
The inability for anyone to modify the hard coded public keys makes it permissioned.
They routinely feature games utilising dark psychological patterns for money extraction (e.g. Clash of Clans).
Homo sapiens is simply not equipped to handle exponential growth when planning for the future. Luckily, it seems that the birth rate slowdown is a global phenomenon and it’s likely that the peak population will be well below three times the current population. We are not deer who have no other option but to reproduce at full capacity until the population collapses.
>While I still use google maps

You can still use Google Maps without an account and "incognito". I wish they'd allow app store usage without an account though- similar to how any Linux package manager works.
I ended up abandoning FireFox years ago because the constant breaking of addons, and hideous UI changes that went from simple & functional to bulky, cluttery, and full of features I will never ever use while the features I do use get pushed into a more complicated method of accessing.

I'd love to use FireFox again, but it's just too much garbage and hassle to deal with. Every other version change felt like it broke some quality or function for worse.

I used Pale Moon, a fork of Firefox, but it was too much to tinker with to keep it working with modern websites. Now I just use chrome based browser Vivaldi, and for the past five years of using it, they haven't done anything horrendously stupid like overhauling the entire UI. It's not a perfect browser, but it's a huge improvement from dealing with FireFoxes bullshit.
Oh gosh :/ I’ve been delaying my trip to Asia for 3 years. I can’t eat spicy food like I used to now (or even drink and party). I want to believe I’ll be doing it next year but…
1 in a trillion is not particularly impressive. Aren't there a billion iPhones? And probably 10,000 pictures on each phone on average (people take lots of selfies).
And perhaps more importantly: don't develop for their products.
> Imagine being dumb enough to believe that PR campaign. If you actually believe that the spooks don’t have iPhone back doors after the PRISM slide leaks, I don’t even know what to say…

My pet theory is that because Apple can ship personalized iOS software updates to specific iPhones - and assuming that iPhone has automatic iOS update installation enabled (which is the default now, previously it wasn't) then Apple could essentially OTA-push an intentionally compromised iOS build to someone's phone and they'd be none-the-wiser.

That hardly requires any backdoors or even any security vulnerabilities - just someone with access to Apple's iOS build signing keys.
> I was absolutely astonished at how huge the head was. They look so tiny up in the air.

A more accessible example of this effect is that your foot, heel to toe, is about the same length as your forearm, elbow to wrist.

People have real trouble believing this because your foot is always farther away than your arm is.
Similar. Ive been looking into "dumb phone" options, and moving many tasks to old school solutions. Eg desk calendars, notepads, physical books, etc.

For tech stuff I do need Id like to pick dedicated "appliance like" tools, but each of those requires some research.
> Also, if you are technical enough to frequent this web site and you think $108K is a lot of money, you are being underpaid.

Most software engineers in Europe, aside from freelancers, and probably the world, don’t make anywhere near $108k.
The original argument was:

> depending on a vaccine based on a single gene is what will (has already) lead to variants

It's the "(has already)" part that you're overly fixated on, and is not a charitable interpretation of the comment given the extraordinary amount of supporting evidence I've provided.

Listen to the feedback you're getting from others here - it doesn't seem to be getting through to you.
Among other reasons (and in line with why Google cares to keep things tied to astronomical time measurments instead of perfect-period atomic clock measurements): if a user schedules something to happen at 'noon every day', they become dissatisfied if the timing of the event begins to drift off of "sun overhead" time consistently because of leap seconds.
We can trace the history of police all the way back to vikings, neanderthals or even to single celled organisms, but all that would be of little use to deal with the today's prison system.
> You might recognize one name

Yes, it’s terrible when people are subject to all sorts of personal attacks based on snark and innuendo.
Good points.

> change that, if enough people believe in it, it will happen

I've heard that speech before somewhere...
AWS was good with video for re:Invent well before COVID. We'll see what happens in the fall. Certainly some organizations are betting that events can happen with whatever scaling back and requirements for attendees. But things can change even if people register.
I‘m not a game dev but we used it for an AR feature where I worked. We only needed 2 seats, so not a big customer. There have been some stupid interactions with Unity:

- Pestering us for weeks about urgently needing to arrange a call with us and repeatedly refusing to tell us what it is about over Email, turns out one of devs didn‘t activate his seat and another user created an account with his work email an they thought we were abusing the license.

- Back then they offered build server licenses but there was nearly nothing in the docs about it, only „call us“. So we did and we had to arrange a call with one of their partners advising us on our use use (dynamically generating assets over an API). All of this boiled down to: 5 Instance license for the price of a normal seat.

Why all of this required hours of my and my co-workers time in calls is beyond me. All if this could have been done with like 4 mails max.

It‘s not only Unity‘s issue. I can‘t even create an AWS account anymore without someone calling me to talk about my „use-cases“.
This insistence on personal calls and account managers is such a drag.
Just feature your contact points prominently on your page and explain your offer publicly. I‘d rather have someone competent answer my mails than talk to someone who is just going to schedule another 3 calls because they are only sales people.
Assumes everyone was in same office to start.
No one said home means slack/written comms.
Hours per day of ad-hocs & meetings in-person or zoom are similarly verbal.
If your company is globally / nationally distributed, you were on zooms anyway pre-pandemic, not a huge difference.

Extrovert vs introvert bias here as well.
If you are introverted & trying to get focussed work done, open floor plans full of extroverts and shoulder tapping is the reason most of your commits happen after 7pm when the office is empty or you are coding at home after-work.

Wife & I went into our offices for a partial week recently and had same experience - I got nothing done, spent hours on zoom anyway, am completely exhausted, and everyone just seemed to be there to socialize (hey lets get lunch! / hanging out by the coffee machine).

Ideas vs implementation thing here too.
Spitballing ideas is great, but actually having the time to implement them (not chopped up into 30min blocks between meetings & interruption) is another.
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Increase the salinity with desalinzation and putting the brine back into the ocean. Solve loss of water and salinity! Boom done! Simple, right?
When in doubt, always blame Congress and not the president. Newt Gingrich is a bigger player here than either Bush.
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Sci-hub is not adding new papers as part of an attempt to win a court case in India.

https://old.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/lofj0r/announcement...
Teens are also children. Apple has no business checking if they send or receive nude pics. Let alone tell their parents. This is very creepy behavior from Apple.

Edit: I'm talking about this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8DYv9hWUAksPO8?format=jpg&name=...
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Why would the AMOC be driven by atmospheric forcing? The amount of energy and heat stored in the ocean (due to specific heat capacity of water and sheer volume and mass of the ocean) dwarfs that of the atmosphere by orders of magnitude.
>And most of the time, when something does blow up, there wasn’t a clear or unambiguous difference between the thing that blew up, and all the things everyone was screaming about that did not.

History is not a linear function of progress. Conditions can and do get worse for people, sometimes for generations into the future. The stunning progress of the industrial revolution is the anomaly, not the norm.

We're in a car that's breaking down and we're hoping it will be cheaper to fix later if we ignore it now. We're seeing once-in-a-century weather events every few years. Sea level rise is currently impacting coastal communities. It's not going to go away if we ignore it and hope things get better in the future, we have to work on these things now. We've been refusing to make incremental changes for decades, so the only option left is drastic changes, and they're not going to get easier the longer we wait.
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At the limit you are trusting the sum of the people who are creating the software you use - and that includes drivers, firmware, etc. Linux is not exempt, but it may be easier to find issues in open source code.

Given this, Apple was not a bad person to trust. Yes they wanted you to pay them money, but were a) quite happy to deliver value in return, b) prepared to do lots of hard work to fight on your behalf and c) it was quite clear that you were their customer, not their product. Google is an advertising company, even if you pay them money you are always also the product.

I am seriously wondering what happened to Apple that they came up with this idea, it doesn't seem to be in their interests at all.