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Not sure why this is downvoted, it is a documented fact that monsanto was paying people to engage on social media forums while pretending to have no affiliation. [1]

You can read the court testimony here [scroll down about half-way]: https://usrtk.org/tag/let-nothing-go/
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Ideally, people would. But for most, a browser breaking such a basic feature is just not on the radar. I would imagine there is a good number of extremely simple sites (or parts of sites that you'd easily assume wouldn't ever need maintaining) that this breaks. IMO, breaking a feature requires it to either be pretty much never used, have a very good reason, or be heavily publicized. This change has none.
I now read his column most days despite starting with zero interest in finance. Mostly because he's funny as hell
> When I finally did user interviews, I uncovered that an unusually high amount of people have “travel funds”: separate bank accounts they use for travel. I ran a statistically significant survey for the United States. I found that more than 25 million adults in the U.S. use a separate bank account for travel, but almost no one I talked to had automated and optimized their process for transferring money into and out of their travel fund.

That's surprising. I would have suspected that more than 75% pay for their travel on a credit card. They decide to travel first, then pay for whatever piles up later. Or maybe they just let the balance accrue.

How did you conduct a "statistically significant survey" on this for the US? Maybe there's a startup idea there.
They had a contract for static margin and wanted to change to dynamic margin. If your broker changes their terms of service, they likely won't immediately liquidate you pending approval.
Yeah, I'm very aware. He made so few mistakes that each one is fairly well documented and this is the biggie.

He accidentally got his girlfriend pregnant at age 23, freaked out about her keeping the baby, acted like a petulant child about it, and then shortly afterwards realized his mistake and took responsibility in every way possible. His daughter became an intimate part of his new family, for decades, and was there when he died.

As far as we know, this is the worst thing he ever did in his entire life. He made this mistake at 23 years old and spent the rest of his life trying his best to make up for it. What more could anyone ask?
Can probably set it to a random address in a no tax state e.g. OR/NH/DE.

Paying sales tax online for digital goods sucks. This is for the accountants to say they are compliant.
At the end of the day "this" (economic growth) is powered by using energy to multiply the impact of human labor. The Industrial Revolution kicked off because we learned how to harness steam powered by wood and coal, and how long "this can go on" is going to depend on how well we can manage the transition off fossil fuels into renewables, not just on a 1:1 replacement basis, but catering to increased future demand.
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Not worth getting angry over internet comments, stranger. It's all good. I wish you all the best!
Eh, but despite Slack and Discord, IRC still exists.

I wish more people would join us outside the walled gardens, but I also don't think these tools will die so long as there's people like us that are passionate about staying outside the walled gardens.
I'll add onto this, putting an announcement out needs to be followed up by checking to see if the announcement has gained any traction.

Announcing breaking changes is not a checklist that can be filled out and then ignored. Put out an announcement, see if any other sites or prominent developers pick up on it, if they haven't picked up on it then the job isn't done and the change needs to be advertised more.

Maybe for some things posting it to the blog might be enough, and the major stakeholders that need to know will pick it up. Then you can move on to the next steps. But if they don't see it, and you don't see any reaction to the blog posts, then don't just move onto stage 2 because "they had their chance, if it breaks now it's their fault." :)

Have some standards of what level of conversation and preparation you expect to see from web developers before you consider the community adequately informed.
Sitting in an office chair you can do despite numerous problems. But crawling through attics, lifting heavy items - once your injured that's it, you won't be doing anymore, potentially permanently.
LinkedIn decides to allow employees to work remotely for good
You've got enough replies at this point, but I guess I really am curious who you're talking about? You seem to have a chip on your shoulder so it sounds personal or nearly so. If I had to guess, most attempts to automate things, whether they go poorly or not, are begun by people who have that expertise or skill which you're claiming "computer people" scorn so much (which I also don't think is a very common opinion).
Huh, that's a new one. I worked in the space and Erickson and Maksimovic - Fundamentals Of Power Electronics (along with the courses taught at UC Boulder) was one many centered around. In many cases most of the power engineers I worked with just sorta had a feel for things and relied on simulation tools (LTSpice / SwitcherCAD).
Smallstep attempts this, but I agree with everything you have said.
Is there any truth to this? I have noticed battery life vary from 100% depending on if I use a different charger. But it only really happens when I travel, so I chalked it up to different usage patterns or climates.
Try this link instead:

https://workflowy.com/demo/embed/

It's a live demo with brief instructions that shows you how it works right away. Workflowy lets you zoom in to a sub list to focus on one thing, then zoom back out again.
Yes, that was it. Thanks! I recall reading about it on an economics blog, which mentioned Bangladesh also. That (Bangladesh) must have been a different study.
Falsehoods that computer programmers believe about bricklaying:

\ bricks are all the same shape and density

\ bricks have flat sides

\ mortar batches are mixed to the same consistency

\ a batch of mortar has the same consistency over time

\ bricks are laid in a climate controlled environment without changes in sunlight, precipitation, or humidity

\ mortar solidifies immediately and bricks do not move once laid

…I’m stretching* it a bit, but you get the point. The linked article gets to these points* towards the end, too.

We don’t have robot brickies for the same reason we don’t have robot chefs. Kitchens are all different and a general purpose cooking robot can’t adapt the same way a human can to either a dynamic environment or dynamic raw materials. Robots win when you change the playing field: cake factories producing one thing in bulk in an environment designed from the ground up for machines. Robobricky will happily churn out 6x4 prefab panels in a factory, but it’s much harder to make that process portable enough to bring to a building site.

*Puns not intended: stretchers are lengthways bricks and pointing is the process of smoothing the mortar in rhe gaps.
I didn't see any of them, page loaded instantly.

Browser is Samsung Internet on my mobile, which has a built in section for ad blocking. I've enabled Adblock for Samsung Internet and Adblock Plus, can't quite remember why I enabled both, but there's a few more too. (Sadly no Ublock Origin, which I run on my desktops).

I am actually quite happy with this, it's very impressive out of the box.
If your main goal is "very very free," you can't do better than self-hosted open source stuff, and there's lots of competition there. You could also just run a local app that isn't even a website.

I've personally just been using Feedly's free tier, and it works fine. Every now and then they find a new way to say "hey, what if you paid for Feedly," but it hasn't bothered me too much.
So how they did in one job interview says more about their intelligence, to you, than GP's witness from knowing them for possibly years?

I think your weights are way off.
"If I had a nickle for every time..."

The closest a product that ever did this was Excel.
"Large" meaning salary-sized. In Greece it's E500.

> “As things stand all these businesses are subject to supervision at national level to ensure that they apply anti-money laundering requirements.

They might as well close down and apply for government handouts.

What a hellhole...
Yes, the Jewish Zionist leaders were racist in the sense that they wanted as many of one race - white Jews - in their state, while they wanted as few of any other race. The British had promised them a "national home" in Palestine in 1917 and subsequently they drew up plans for dealing with the Arab population. The number of Jews wishing to immigrate to Palestine ("return" in Zionist parlance) was far fewer than what they had expected so to build a Jewish majority they decided that the territory of the Jewish state had to be cleansed of Arabs. The Zionists in Palestine's leader, David Ben-Gurion, on countless occasions expressed his support for ethnic cleansing. For example, in 1937 he wrote to his son: "We must expel the Arabs and take their places."

Even after the war Israeli leaders attempted to cleanse the land of its remaining Arab population. JNF chairman Yosef Weitz in 1951 proposed that the Christian Arabs from the upper Galilee should be transferred to Argentina. Both Ben-Gurion and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett gave the plan its blessing.

None of the Zionist leaders ever suggested that the need to ethnically cleanse the land of non-Jews was due to Arab belligerency. On the contrary, they were quite clear on that Arab belligerency was not an issue. While there were many more Arabs than Jews in Palestine, they were poorly organized, poorly trained, and lacked access to military equipment.

Yes, it is correct that the Palestinians wanted to keep Palestine as one territorial unit. Dividing it would have meant that hundreds of thousands of Arab from the Jewish part would have been transferred out of their homeland and their property would have been confiscated. Instead, they wanted to create an all-encompassing Palestinian state with a parliament in which all ethnic groups were represented. This idea was a complete non-starter for the Zionists who wanted a Jewish-majority state.
Corvids are totally playing. There's a video of a young crow which has discovered that it can stand on a small object and "snowboard" down a snow-covered roof. Fun! Gets to the bottom, picks the object up, flies to the top, goes again. That's almost exactly what a human child would do. And it's exactly as much "part of the logical business of survival" ie none.
That's so deliberately obtuse. There's a vast distinction between protesting a repressive government and protesting against democracy in favor of repression. I don't know anything about Taiwanese law but it seems the other distinction is that he was addressing soldiers in uniform which makes it more of an official act than just a statement of opinion.
There's also machining a piece of metal in an incredibly complex way, but with the right automation can be turned into a comparatively simple process. If you showed someone 100 years ago what we could do with a block of metal and a 5-axis CNC machine it would blow their mind. That's the type of area where automation can do great things. Look for places where "simple for a machine" and "simple for a human" diverge.

I could do the job of every logic gate in my computer, but I wouldn't want to try and boot a copy of Windows with a pad of paper and a pencil.

As an example, not something you'd want to make on a hand operated milling machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnIvhlKT7SY

But to look at something that's easy to do for people and think "That's easy, a machine could do it!" It's always going to depend on why it's easy. Handling situations that differ from one job to the next is a pretty strong point for humans, especially when those differences are handled by grabbing and moving things.

But then, five years ago we would've put "playing Go" on there with grabbing and moving things, so you never know.
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Keeping the humans honest is generally the biggest problem with automation. Left unsupervised, people will trash everything. Add one overseer and that goes down a lot.
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My 2 cents - if some stagnate, it’s still worth working hard to retain the ones with upwards trajectory. And he kind on the way out for the others. There is a benefit to institutional knowledge.

By your reasoning do you agree with Amazon’s explicit 4 years and out model?
I feel like generally there's a lot of bigcorp influences across a wire scale of my northerly neighbors government & it really feels good seeing a feel-good public access public rights story emerge. the world at large needs this alternative vibe. thanks Canada.
… I’m not sure why this is news anymore? People want to be able to work from home. Some people don’t, but some do, and consider it a prime benefit.

Giving up voting to work from home is really the weirdest part of the poll; that upwards of 40% of Gen-Z surveyed would be willing to give up voting to work from home is a hell of a thing. Boomers were the most reluctant at _27%_.

I’m hoping more companies realize they need to offer WFM to be competitive, and as a result more company culture gets better at hybrid communication, and moves to a sync.
Testing base, stable (from my perspective) infrastructure? Should I have tests that validate that JPGs still render? How about when used as a CSS background image? Does Chrome test the register reads assembly code produced by the C++ compiler in case there's a breaking change that gets missed?
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Behind the Founders
Thought you meant he was wrong to claim "for 50 years".
I'm on Debian Buster.
OSS got that ability decades ago, yet we still have ALSA and then the others :(
It also doesn't follow that we should impose onerous restrictions on everything related to a technology just because some people misuse it. eg we don't require documentation of the source of footage from websites who show videos made by hobbyists who fly drones, even though 99% of global drone sales by the dollar are used by governments or terrorist groups to kill people. And we don't punish the hobbyist or the website that shows their videos, or the website that links to that. Down that road lies total information control and state terror.
hi we rock please please come join the ass kicking team, damnit, the software is hard, help make us rock steady

there have been some truly exceptional contract &c hires to make things better. keithp (of everything), Simon ser of sway/wlroots... but damn Intel's open source development front has been a huge huge huge huge huge giant in their favor. amd is doing great, many wins, hardware and software sides, but a bigger software presence is what it's going to take to take these great hardware wins into real victories. keep hiring amd.
Audiophiles swear by Apple chargers as a power source. It's a needlessly clean power source. I was having extreme issues with noise from my DAC, to the degree of clearly audible at normal listening levels. Apple sorted that right out.

The charger is the only product I will buy from Apple. It's complete and utter overkill, you'll never have problems for a very minor premium (absolutely speaking, not relatively).
Not that anything in these incidents sounds that bad, and not that's there's anything wrong with a bit of partying, but it's funny the double standard: if you get up to these antics as an Aussie traveler, you're despicable "white" trash, but if it's part of a sporting tour, it's spirited celebrations. I guess without our extreme focus on sport we couldn't punch above our weight in the medal tally.
> I do worry it's a bad sign for union organizing if these are the types of issues they are focused on.

I read an article a year or so ago which talked about how the south is one of the hardest areas to organize. I was super perplexed at first on why the union was so set on organizing this particular warehouse in a somewhat union hostile region rather than one in any of the states with populations that would by default be more open to the idea. It dawned on me that maybe the union expects to lose. They may have chosen one of the more difficult areas to organize as a practical experience exercise for knowledge gain to share with the workers who will be organizing in the areas with a higher union participation rates.

I really wish I could find the article again, it was long-form comparing the mean quality of life in states with higher union participation vs those with lower and it delved pretty deeply into the wider ripple effects of unions and the impacts on quality of life in wider society.

If anyone either remembers this article or if their googlefu is better than mine, please share, the content of it is incredibly relevant today and I suspect it will be even more so over the next few years.
They tried to sell my dad some machines. He was in the oil industry. The sale didn't work out. My dad later had a job interview with them. That didn't work out either. Both were probably for the best, but what a different life I would have had if either had gone the other way.
Have you looked into s3 select api, you can do sql against a flat file and return just the result all from s3, not too shabby to build a poor mans serverless database.
It’s clearly obvious you have some bias. Glysophate has been established to be extremely toxic and carcinogenic. Furthermore, the alternatives to glysophate such as insects, special flowers and etc are FAR MORE effective and safer! The other disastrous outcome of these pesticides has been the destruction of water supply, insect population, flowers and plenty of other eco systems. Face the facts, Glysophate and other pesticides are DANGEROUS both to us and the eco system around you.
Insane: https://www.wsj.com/articles/law-school-student-debt-low-sal...
The html <title> attribute seems fine:

<title>Actually Portable Executable</title>

The <h1> does have that weird text, but has a normal title and aria-label:

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Seems like the page author tried to make it somewhat screen-reader friendly.
Do we ban foreign flights too?

I'm vaccinated, but I don't understand this easy acceptance of banning people from services because of vaccination status. Do we ban ex-felons from flights?

Yes, people who aren't immunized pose a risk. But the risk is toward unvaccinated people. Much much less toward people immunized --we can also wear a mask if we feel uncomfortable.

What makes me more uncomfortable is not private individuals clamoring for these no-fly lists (we don't have ideals to uphold liberty) but journalists, who should be familiar with defending liberty and the risk this proposition poses to individual liberty, so freely advocating dictatorial despotic measures is concerning and disappointing.

It'd be like Snowden saying, you know what, yeah, droning a few innocents is bad, but you know what, we'll get rid of the baddies, it's worth it. Drone 'em Hillary. FFS! I hate being crass, but have we all become P*ies?

Freedom is more important than health. Navalniy knows this. Every dissident in jail or prison knows this. Whatever happened to journalists, seriously?
It's something to see the woke crowd go unabashedly totalitarian against those that disagree with them. Invoking a concept (no fly list) they would undoubtedly have argued in wrong for it's original recipients (and I agree) to target their now enemies. Populism is a horrible disease, and just because you agree with its aims in a particular instance does not make it justifiable.

My argument for why we should strongly support e.g. gay rights has always been that it's not acceptable to wait until the government opposes something I want to do. The same applied here. Whether you want a vaccine (and I have mine) or not, embracing authoritarianism towards those that disagree with you is incompatible with basically everything from the enlightenment forward, and should be opposed.
I agree, and I'm not even clear on what "grow" means. Like, literally increase global GDP? Increase some measure of productivity? Because already there's all sorts of contradictions in our society's "advancement."

Productivity is increasing, but wages are decreasing.

Country net worth is increasing, but happiness is decreasing.

Etc.

When I read these kinds of posts, I think about "stagnate." It feels like an inherently negative word. I know that most people value a constantly improving technology, but as my OP says, technology can "improve" while, say, net worth or GDP "stagnates." Even leaving that to the side, I don't feel like "stagnated" technological advancement is inherently bad. It's just a value many of us hold.

Not to get primitivist, but, humans really were just eating berries and vibing for a really long time. I don't think we should "return to monkey," but if we get to the point where we figure out that we can't really defeat death, it might then become time for society to instead start thinking about living the way a cancer patient with a deadline does: how can we find meaning, knowing the end is inevitable? Sure yeah meaning could be still trying to advance, but given that current modes of technological advancement often involve capitalist exploitation and general misery (which isn't REQUIRED but we seem to be really big fans of it cause we keep doing it), perhaps we could decide to let go and just live happily with "technological stagnation."
Here's an example of a major bank website with some user visible non-breaking issue I saw recently: https://youtu.be/GFvaRgFf4LU?t=482 . It seems that it's been visible for a while, yet is not fixed. It's actually quite common to see errors unfixed in software as you may know.

No matter what you do, some websites will only be fixed a long time after very obvious warnings are displayed. Some will never be fixed until they actually stops working. Some will just never be updated at all.

Maybe you're one of the people who take their car to the repair shop when the engine light is on, but there are also many others who will just ignore it as the car still drives "fine" (for now at least).

Regarding your suggestion of using Reddit, HN, Twitter, news, it's not always possible or relevant. I've seen a lot of very interesting publications just not getting any traction on those are they're boring in nature or cater to experts mainly. They're also read only by a fraction of users.

Unfortunately, if you're hit by any issue, you shouldn't be only asking what others should do for you, but also what you can do to catch those issues in the future yourself. All sides can maybe do better at broadcasting information about some changes, or voice their opinion better and sooner, but it's not an easy problem with an easy solution.
Because Apple "owns" both CUPS and iPhones, you can print from an iPhone directly to a printer shared on a Linux machine if they are on the same network.

My wife (not technical) figured this out one day and I didn't believe her at first that this would all "just work".
I wonder how precise the measurement of those trajectories would need to be, to detect deviations due to special/general relativity.
Right. A working automated bricklaying machine would be like a C compiler for brickmasons.
Many cheap wireless "Qi" chargers are limited to 5 watts.
> four(?) editors (Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Apple) not liking it. [...] a small number of people control web technologies

Isn’t this expected? The other people can say whatever, but the final decisions will be made by people committing the code into major browsers. If they say “no, we won’t implement this”, what can others do?
Who uses alert for debugging anymore?