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Climate change, caused by humans, is in fact the largest threat facing civilization at this time. And it will require human technology to mitigate it. You appear to making denialist arguments of some kind or another and changing the subject for some reason. There is currently no threat to humanity from asteroids, supernovae, supervolcanoes, or other types of existential risks. We know anthropogenic climate change is the biggest threat facing humanity at this time.
"Satan should chair your meetings"

...

She already does.
That old article isn't exactly persuasive. It's a pretty long bow to draw from saying (paraphrasing here) that European attitudes to alcohol at the time lead to fewer automobile deaths.

For starters, the number of motor vehicles per person in Europe at the time was much lower, so the roads were a lot less crowded and I would imagine most people who were three sheets to the wind wobbled their way home on a bicycle.

There are just too many people on the roads now to allow the kinds of lax road rules we used to have, and if anything the attitude towards alcohol and binge drinking has made drunk driving far more dangerous for other road users simply due to congestion.
There are too many LS grads already. Why pile on debt wo a secure job?
The title is not correct. It should be Header tags. But then on the other side, I only clicked on your post because I was curious what a font size tag is LOL
So what people do is you build the "ugly" way (usually large panels, maybe even prefab, I doubt 3d printing is working that well right now), then cut bricks into 5 slices and stick those slices on top with glue. You can't tell it's not a brick wall except when you're standing right against it.

And of course, you only do this on visible walls. It can even be done on top of wood.

https://www.diynetwork.com/how-to/skills-and-know-how/carpen...
Isn't MS doing this with every other Windows version?
I agree completely. I believe this to be an extremely bad failure at MS for product and company strategy. They basically own the PC OS market but jeapardize their own position massively. I meet devs that target Windows less and less.

That said, I might not really cry myself to sleep if people leave Windows behind.
> The harrassment though is another story, that sucks and shouldn't have happened.

100%

> extremely unprofessional and very poorly worded. I still don't blame people for taking issue with it.

Look, I like the Android browser and I think Geckoview is awesome. Back then, as soon as it hit the shelves enough people were complaining on a level where one can "light heartily" put them into the "haters" category IMHO, next to a much higher percentage of constructive feedback.
I dont know the answer, but I think people will pursue sections of the labour market which cannot (yet?) be automated. Why play video games that you're frankly sick of after a few months, if you could help someone out for both a social and comparatively large financial reward?

It would also depend on the specifics of how UBI would be implemented. Where I live I could stop working and live off welfare, providing a minimal standard of living. Yet almost nobody chooses this way of life as people strive for higher living standards, and for many work plays a part in giving meaning to life.

If more and more jobs get automated this might become a problem though, assuming no new non-automatable jobs are created.
I would have guessed this was made with Bootstrap if the title didn't mention the font tag thing. All it's missing is a hero image.
xbox Series S is such a better value
I often see the argument 'we should check because you never know' being used for supporting exotic science experiments. But I think it is too dogmatic.

Indeed, we have not tested experimentally whether launching andi999 into space will affect the muon g-2 anomalous magnetic moment. Although you might be very supportive of testing that hypothesis, I would sincerely doubt that it would lead to a discovery of new physics.

In the end this boils down to funding decisions for the sciences, which are invariably nuanced, difficult and political. Simply saying 'we should try because nobody else has' would convince only the most naive of funders.
Plumbers produce real value, i.e. the total value of the world is higher after they finish their work. This cannot be said for lawyers.
Privatizing security could lead to a situation where criminal organizations make places unsafe and hire out their goons to be ‘agents’. Just thinking about how this actually scales.

Remember, for private education to catch on, you must get it into people’s minds that public education cannot work (does not work).

Same goes for private health insurance.

Get some people to start robbing weddings, and pretty soon you’ll have to budget for security in this brave new world for your goddamn wedding, birthday party, or a night out.
Not sure if this is relevant in your case, but if you can become a chapter of an existing national nonprofit then a lot of the paperwork is already done for you.
couldn't get themselves to just close out the customer's positions.

Exactly. CS let Archegos get into a position where, if they pulled the funding plug on Archegos, Archegos would go bust. At which point everybody hates everybody.
Well not to discredit your point but a day in the life off wouldn't really bring to life any of the points we're discussing when it comes to physical injuries. Without you picking at each of my points in detail, RSI is still an injury people STILL DO get nonetheless. In the same way that the introduction of the hard hat hasn't completely stopped people having their head caved in.

My point, was that both physical/labor intensive jobs and office jobs bring their own types of workplace related problems. And just because the job may carry with it a risk of physical injury doesn't mean the job should be automated. Afterall, any type of movement the body does carries with it a risk of injury.
Look at houses now vs houses from 200 years ago. Modern house are much more advanced and complex. Automation such as a bricklaying machine would allow these 2 or 3 other guys to do something else that would support further complexity and advancement in house building, or anything else for that matter, just as automation doesn't cause loss of jobs in programming.
My reading of the article’s core argument is the following: longtermism assumes that it is possible to perform an accounting of future outcomes, and from this expected value calculations, even if just in sketch, that can be used to allocate resources in the present, so as to maximise total “good”. This process is incredibly prone to bias, and in reality appears to amount to little more than selective speculation about its proponents’ desired futures, and a corresponding proposal for the targeting of present resources.

I find this argument compelling - most methodologies for inter-temporal decision making acknowledge the large uncertainties associated with the future, and, either explicitly or implicitly, avoid making claims about the distant future, either in terms of what plans we should make for the future, or in how future states should affect our current plans.

There is no reason to believe that the proponents of longtermism have addressed this issue - indeed if they had it would be a very significant breakthrough, and we could apply their method to more immediate problems as well. What seems much more likely is that they have not addressed the issue at all, and that their purported accounting is really just a regurgitation of their prior beliefs, and thus, as the article suggests, consequently serves only to justify the existing behaviours of those who subscribe to it.
POint is we can cope with the sun directly overhead at 14:20 (as it is today in Madrid), or at 11:20 (as it is in Warsaw in November)

A drift of a minute over a lifetime makes no difference.

We should just use TAI (with timezone offsets) for general time and be done with it.

Even today UT1 is widely different to UTC (183ms), so it's not like using UTC is accurate. Why is 183ms an acceptable difference (no leap milliseconds), a couple of hours (timezone sizes), one hour (DST), but we have to correct for 40 seconds each century?
Archer materials ASX:AXE is already in the stages of patenting room temperature quantum computing device called 12CQ.
Plasteel is even better.
>> Some of the technically most unsound languages, frameworks etc. have very high adoption for these reasons

This is actually it. This is what pisses me off, and has been slowly pissing me off for about 20 years. I didn't mind closed source, bullet in a box VMs in the browser. They were good at what they did. Now we have these technically shoddy paradigms that take over, because they're easy enough for children to understand, and because they technically conform to open standards. But in fact they're a complete and gleeful obliteration of standards and practices, promoted by one FAANG or another, to try to corner the market and force technical debt on everyone else. You wrote a million lines of interface code in JSX? Good luck rewriting that. It doesn't take a genius to roll your own, and yet, for lack of talent of foresight or intellectual rigor, you have even small, experimental startups shunning building better technologies, in favor of these ridiculous backwards constructs. There is nothing about an observation pattern / MV without control / virtual DOM that is special. Why would anyone want Facebook's flavor of illegible jargon as the foundational technology for their startup's front-end? If it's because that's what newbie coders know, and that's the only way for companies to hire newbies, it would actually be building a technical moat to spend an extra few months and build a technology that wasn't reliant on a framework controlled by FB.
They enforce secure boot. Many vendors only have the MS CA implemented to check OS integrity. So you would have to get your OS certified by Microsoft...
> Everything else was a step backwards from the previous version.

You're claiming that XP was worse than ME?
"Time is a Western disease."--Mike Mulligan, typically uttered upon late arrival to meeting.
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> Nobody else has invented any other declarative language it seems.

Postgres was originally built on one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages

There’s also D/D4/Dataphor, though i’m less convinced.

Unsurprisingly that mostly died out after sql took over everything.
Sump oil
Protests, not riots. And there are protests all the time whenever a controversial decision is made, it's our national sport. Another confounding factor is the very aggressive calendar set up, where due to the span between the doses not everyone has a way to be fully vaccinated before the measure is active.
You meant "other thread" rather than "other process", right? But that doesn't take much work at all -- just a mutable data structure as a global variable.
I've always wondered, and maybe you can clear this up, why? What about static typing is "worse", so to speak?
> They'd rather just cargo cult an ugly McMansion that was produced at the lowest cost possible?

Yes, very much. That's how a lot of trends and styles move "down market." The new consumers want teh appearance of what they see as wealthy/elite/etc. But they frequently dont understand, appreciate, or recognise, what actually goes in to the goods they're trying to copy. You'll see this everywhere from houses to clothes.
What you are saying is (of course) correct. But that makes the posturing / marketing of Protonmail no less deceptive if not outright dishonest.

It can indeed be (cynically) argued that Protonmail is just a company like any other, which will just say / claim whatever it thinks it has to, to find itself a slice of the market and make a buck.

Nonetheless and even while that might actually be the case (I'm not sure), in "the good old days" (/sarcasm) citizens still had something like tar and feathers to deal with dishonest business practices. I wonder what do citizens / consumers actually have these days? Please don't respond with: "voting with our feet", because that is not how things work with deceptive marketing.
Essentially, to boil this message to its core, there are victims, but the victim mindset is counterproductive to recovery?
Paint or stucco would be a big improvement to the aesthetics of the primary exterior surfaces that house … and changing the hideous orange puke trim color.
Yeah, it would be amazing if Adobe, DS, Autodesk, and others would somehow realize they should decouple their software from the OS and make a Linux version (that could even run on Windows).

Though right now the only problem I have is Windows restarting overnight for updates. Closing half the open programs.

Even though I explicitly set it to no auto restart if user logged on. Then again, it ignores the work time, too.
I'm fairly sure, that in their minds, Microsoft cannot possibly fail.
Abstracting the persistence layer is important, but also unique to your application. ORMs come with some nice features however relying on a full ORM feature set can lead to leaky abstraction. Not to mention you have to learn another DSL to use most ORMs. Why not just use SQL. A nice custom wrapper around binding query parameters is all I need most of the time.

If you use an Onion or Clean Architecture you'll push the SQL into its own layer and you don't need an ORM.
The outrage that they release a new major version that requires new hardware is…weird.

This is exactly like someone who bought a PS4 realizing that some new games require a PS5 (change my mind)

If Microsoft had made this in the 2022 update of Win10, that would have been outrageous. And if they stopped patching Win10 that would have been bad too. But it’s neither of those. It’s entirely new software for new hardware.
Actually, that's not true. I entered a mildly critical comment on a YouTube video the other day, very spot on if I do say so. It immediately got a bunch of upvotes, then that stopped completely. My comment was on top still, but that's just how YouTube displays your own comments.

But when checking the video without logging in to YouTube, my comment was gone.

So it looks like comments can be quietly deleted without the commenter even knowing it.

THAT is censorship.
Do you have any numbers to back this up on a global level?
It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder
eating healthy is cheaper in my experience
> There are no "I had a PCR-confirmed infection" passports

Despite its name the EU COVID vaccination certificate also covers recording PCR-confirmed infections and even tests.

It is open source so even less developed countries like the US could use it if they wanted to.
I did not enjoy exchopraxia as much as blindsight, but loved the treatise on the portia spiders.
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest this is an inverse romanticization of desire (where it elevates the virtue of anti-desire, or anti-ambition).

I’ve heard this argument countless times when people say ‘money doesn’t buy happiness’. That’s always been an inversion to me. Money absolutely buys happiness.

So here in this article you have two incredibly successful men inverting their desires, and romanticizing it as some kind of epiphany.

In other words, a brazen humble brag.
> a typical SV anti-union response

if we do such low level comments then let me speculate it was not the union at fault but the developers, they used node.js and 1000 buggy and bad coded libraries.
Truly an amazing development. I hope the Steam Deck is popular enough.
It sounds like a dynamic language + optional external static analysis tool which exists in a lot of languages as third party softwares, like typescript / flow.
My friend said he installed Windows 11 preview build on an old spare computer for the evaluation.

"But how did you solve the TPM requirement?"

"I just bought a cheap TPM module from dubious Amazon market place. I cannot examine this piece of additional device so this system is less secure in my opinion."
It’s slow and cumbersome to write. Makes code verbose and harder to read.
I think you've moderated my view a little. I guess my opinions on the UK handling came from watching the graphs, sometimes on a daily basis, then comparing where we were on the graphs to where we were on policy, and often tearing my hair out over the disconnect. This deep fear and frustration, combined with my awareness of what british politics is like (The Thick of It is considered fairly realistic), and having so much skin in the game made me frankly very frustrated, scared, and angry.

I wasn't doing the same in regards to Belgium - so I didn't have the really powerful opinion-forming experiences of doing stuff like trying to convince my immuno-compromised mother to not attend a choral evensong(!) when the graphs were ascending vertically and there were 30000 new cases every day.

Learning in retrospect that Boris Johnson was saying 'I should have been the mayor from Jaws', and 'get covid, live longer', makes my blood boil - because it totally makes sense. That's the only conversation people could have been having behind the scenes that leads to the second lockdown being called so late, or COVID patients being sent directly back to care homes, or all the rest of it.

My feeling would be, instead of calling the UK normal, why not ask, what went wrong in Belgium? We know, more or less, what went wrong in Italy, for instance. I think that COVID is one of the clearest policy-to-outcomes phenomena we've seen, because specific policies ('non-pharmaceutical interventions') could be watched, on the graphs (in terms of R0, GDP, etc), in real time. Policy failures are not only visible, but also visible as quantities, and often directly comparable across nations.
Couldn't agree more. The smartphone enabled a few very unique scenarios, like car sharing, and made everything else worse. It didn't use to be the case that you had to enter a PIN code, resist distraction from half a dozen notifications and hope you had got the power management right the night before when you wanted to read the morning news, but now that's the norm, just to give one example.
A future where Windows is to Linux as Aqua is to Mach seems likely by, say, the end of the decade.
You might look at the now defunct ur/web if you haven't. An old snapshot of the web page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170429201116/http://impredicat...
Elements of Comfort to Optimize for Better Workplace Health
That Google WebSerial team needs a round of applause...what a great overall experience.
It stopped having value for me in 2011 when I realized I'd be arrested if I kept running a casino with it, unless I found a way to shed American citizenship, which would cost me more to run away from than I could reasonably hope to make from the casino in 5 years. Y'all johnny come lately shills keep shillin', I never gambled on bitcoin and I never would. Since it lost its utility as a way to transfer hard money, it's just been a pump and dump scheme backed by millions of think pieces like this one.

Y'know, Ross Ulrich actually had it right. Bitcoin's meant to be spent. But you can't do that now, so it's all just pumping "investors" with these kinds of articles.
They already disgruntled a lot of devs with their environments. .net core still lives, but anything else seems like a wasteland. There are still a lot of VS Basic and C# devs, but it at least seems their number is decreasing.

It is really a problem to get someone that knows the tech if you have to interface it for some mundane Office tasks.

Interfacing their Graph API is a horror show that I recommend to any dev about how not to do security.
Same. I used to be absolutely starry eyed about the endless possibilities of digital tech. Now anytime I see computers getting involved where they previously were not, it's just a cost savings measure resulting in a severely inferior product that is just above the threshold of being unsellable. An example that comes to mind is information and entertainment itself. Humans used to curate content for us to consume, but more and more we're being entertained by machine-curated feeds with low quality content. The endless stream-of-conscious format of infiniscrolls and recommendations and 'related' or 'relevant' content is vastly inferior to carefully human-curated hierarchies of information.
Somehow the Round Tuits needed to review the Favorites and Pocket never arrive.
I use craftcms for new sites. It’s free for a single admin and is a CMS and not an ancient blog engine hacked to act as one.

Templating is straightforward.

No 1-click install themes but also no inscrutable unchanged-able spaghetti code.

It’s just a clean predictable and reliable dev process out of the box.
The Hague startups to watch in 2021 and beyond
This also the view of Thomas Payne. Everyone should read “Common Sense”. Most topics are still relevant. Many problems you see in US politics are already foretold, and also how to get out of it.

Personal responsibility doesn’t mean taking care of yourself, and stop there, it means taking care of your world, your community and as you say, fix small things together. Insulation is the real pandemic imo.
Once a story is on the front page, it's in a completely different category than the /newest page, so we can't just "let upvotes decide". Even when there's a strictly better URL, by far the most likely outcome is that it would languish unnoticed on /newest. If it did get noticed and lead to a front page discussion, we'd then have the problem of two separate front page discussions (i.e. dupes). The upshot is that improving the URL (hopefully it's an improvement!) on an existing front page post is one of the important things that mods do here.

"Changing [the url] from under them" is standard moderation practice on HN - we do that every day. Ditto for titles. So I'm not sure it counts as "super weird"?

The paywall issue is orthogonal to this one. If there is a workaround, a paywalled URL is ok. If there is no workaround, it's not ok, no matter how "good" the URL is.
The explanation is there however, see the next comment.
You might say playing Minesweeper prepares you for law. Or vice versa. Or coding prepares you for law. It’s omnidirectional.
... about $1 extra cost...

I really don't get why electronic components are all made from the cheapest-possible (sometimes cheaper) stuff. When have all engineers been indoctrinated that skirting safety envelopes is a sign of genius design?
Yeah that's traditional subtyping, not a dynamic language thing at all.
My anecdotal opinion is that the first year it's important to show that you are productive. You cut the Jira tasks into extremely small ones and seem very productive to management because tickets get moved, but it's all smoke and mirrors (hell, you haven't seen half of the tech stack, and there is little documentation on the architecture most of the time).

A senior developer on the other hand might say they didn't do much because they think "it was just small things that I've done before". You really have to look at the commits.

Companies have been bankrupted because of the "let's just get two new ones"-mentality, not seeing that the lead time for developers to become relatively productive by knowing the ins and outs of large codebases is very, very long (for backend development, frontend is more cookie cutter).
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Vivaldi 4.1 on Android includes option to open external links in browser
But, as has been asked many times, WHY?
I went into big tech to build up a warchest, and now I have no desire to build a company since I don't want to hire anyone. I'm going to "retire" and do some solo products around board games. I've got a secret weapon: http://www.adama-lang.org/