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It very much resembles early TWM / Solaris / Athena based GUIs. They still exist! You can install TWM. I've used MWM since the late 80's* (mostly on AIX for about a decade), and am glad it is still easily installable on Ubuntu 20.04

That's the cool thing about Linux, you don't NEED your GUI to be a noisy nightmare (looking at you KDE). All my menus are context mouse menus. I don't do start menus, 1 level deep, with fewer than ~8 items, otherwise i'm using CLI or launching it via Xterm. Of course, apps are still at liberty to look like crap!
Not to mention, this neural hashing can't be a cheap operation. Better to use the processors paid for by your customers than ones you have to pay for in the cloud!
Also on the roadmap: scanning for images of illegal firearms.
If the west would commit to occupying every inch of territory the "geurillas" threatened to take hold, I think it would go differently, but nobody seems to want to make such a full commitment. Maybe that's just intractable.
> If you want the average person to do well, you should support a flat tax.

Regressive taxation has never not increased wealth gaps. Say you bothered with a flat tax of 9%, which would raise taxes significantly on most Americans. We already have this problem with payroll taxes that are essentially flat, which is why tax relief for the poor has always come in payroll tax decreases rather than income tax decreases.
CelebrityGig gets a piece of their own medicine for ripping off content
Show HN: 23Tales – The works of Beatrix Potter on the web
So what’s in it for McDonalds? I didn’t think of your point because I wedded Taylor to McDonalds. If I were the CEO of McDonalds I would be rather angry at rolling McFlurry Blackouts. Curious why they haven’t brought the process in house, and simplified it.
There is enough uranium dissolved in the oceans to power humanity for a million years. That really isn't the issue.
I may consider getting a stand alone camera now.
It isn't over though. People want it to be over, people are acting like it's over, and cases are rising rapidly. Wanting something to be true doesn't make it true.
Jupyterlab-Lsp: Coding Assistance for JupyterLab Using Language Server Protocol
I agree that psionics really only felt like they belonged in Dark Sun. The whole setting is more of a total conversion than any other setting.

I was looking through my old books recently. The player rules for Planescape, another massively different campaign setting, was ~30 pages. Some of that was full page art, and they dedicated one page to each of the 16 factions (including non-factioned, IIRC). With all the jargon, lingo, and weirdness in Planescape, it was almost all lore changes. Under the hood, it was still the same old AD&D.

In the first Dark Sun Campaign Setting box set, you get two main books: one book of lore and one book of mechanical changes. Each book is ~120 pages. There are rules for new races, new classes, new weapons, new armor, new spells, new environmental hazards, etc. The setting was 50% new lore and 50% new and changed mechanics. And DSCS didn't even have rules for psionics in it! They had a couple pages detailing the new psionic character creation rules, but it literally tells you to use the Complete Psionics Handbook! (The second Dark Sun Campaign Setting included a ~90 page psionics book that includes most of that content.)
People want clearer metrics for when to return to (almost) normal life. Most agree we shouldn't go on like this forever. Humans are social beings who don't like being cooped up and mumbling behind masks. The best metric is hospital usage. If Covid patient levels drop below a threshold, then mandates should be relaxed. A tiered system can also be used so that stronger mandates kick in at different levels
He did study Physics but his main field is science education, I think it's fair to assume a physics professor would know a bit more. I also think it's a bit of your own preconceived notion at play here assuming that calling someone a "Youtuber" is meant as a negative. This is equivalent to saying "Science communicator vs physics professor", which is a fair portrayal.
Subscribers do so for a reason. In this case not insignificantly because of expert training.

I'd suggest that very few YouTubers are popular because they are popular, in fact I think this is fairly rare in general. I think it's more likely that they provide some value to their audiences. I think looking down on "celebrity culture" often fails to account for the types of value that one doesn't value themselves.
Wouldn't the rich figure out a way to try and avoid a flat tax as well?
> catholic puritan morality

Might want to check your terms here.
> Minecarts get to be more useful when you want to travel long distances without having to touch the controls.

This and you can (and should) build roller coasters.
If the baseband and associate chipsets are isolated on the other side of a USB connection, why not use (any old dongle) and isolate it with some kind of USB "condom" with configurable "firewalling" ?

In fact, I believe I have seen such devices for USB development - a configurable passthrough USB interface that would allow you to control what gets sent over the interface.

That kind of a setup would be much, much easier to develop and safeguard than developing a modem/baseband from the ground up ...
E.g. by overwhelming a local community with edits from a swarm of outsourced contractors from a wholly different country. Good luck keeping up with verification of their work.

Or making mass edits / imports without discussing with local community beforehand.

Or as in the first point, but with "AI" as FB did.
This is just a side-step away from complying with regimes that will want to use this capabilty to attack political speech or outlawed literature.
Acquittal of villagers protesting pollution marks rare win against SLAPP
Oh man. Dark Sun had so much new material. Psionics, half this and half that races, the endurance thing. It was just too much all at once.
CDC Admits There Is No Way to Test for Delta Variant
Then why all the fuss if it is clear that they don't even know if someone has delta or not?
A better way of looking at this is to not think of 'the propeller' as being in one plane for the wind to 'push'. Since the prop is rotating, consider the 'airspeed' of the surface of a blade. You can have zero airspeed when the vehicle is moving forward faster than the wind. Similarly the airspeed of the blade is slower (actually negative) than the vehicle's airspeed which allows the wind to push the blade surface when the vehicle is moving faster than the wind.

If you think of a longitudinal vertical plane you can calculate the speed of a point on the cross-section of the blade moving backward relative to the vehicle as a function of the rotation speed. As the vehicle goes faster, so too does the prop surface 'move' backward.
I was actually. I rhought the parent I originally replied to was saying that solar sails aren't useful for large payloads in space.
> It's more about claiming moral victory over western countries

In my experience it's more about justifying the continued unfettered use of fossil fuels to drive progress in developing nations. Sure, it sounds like 1st world blaming, but I think it's more about defending the right of poorer peoples to advance their standard of living in the near term.

I'm not agreeing with it or defending it, but when I've encountered it in real life that is how it came across.
Even assuming your take is right and humanity deserves the fate we're actively constructing, it's not just our fate. We're a hardy and clever species - by the time we are extinct from climate change, it'll be a hard environment for mammals in general. Even if you believe we deserve to go, it's still worth trying to fix things for those who can't.
The problem with this explanation, at least to me, is that it doesn't require any wind at all. Why not just give it a push in still air and have to take off into the distance forever?

EDIT: I think it's clicking. It's because the air and the ground are moving relative to the craft at different speeds. So if the ground and air were still, there would be no speed difference to draw energy from.
If you wanna screw someone over and you know they have an iPhone with icloud backup set up, you can whatsapp them a pic that matches CP signature.
90% of the voters are too stupid or probably don't even know what encryption is. Many are also going to stick to party lines. It just matters whether the 10% swing voters will care about this issue *more than* the other awful things the leadership is doing.
Exactly. It is rephrasing the definition and re-defining what 'they really mean' of their intentions.

Hence, Apple Inc. has a very strange definition of what they think 'privacy' means.

Always with privacy in mind.™ /s
There is a human review (ugh.) as well.

But still, your example is very concerning.
If one is okay with less-open hardware, the F(x)tec Pro 1 X seems to be a good higher-end smartphone that has a decent camera sensor, slide-out keyboard, AMOLED display, and can be ordered with either Ubuntu Touch or Lineage preinstalled.

It's at the top of my if-I-ever-jump-ship-from-Apple list of phones.
It’s political - that’s why. The people opposing masks, vaccines, and lockdowns (to the point of non-compliance) are mostly folks who are listening to conservative talking points. And it’s nothing new to know that most of those folks who listen to such talking points typically aren’t wealthy.
What are you talking about? World records are broken all the time.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/07/29/olympic-...
Belarus Police and Interior Ministry hacked by “cyber partisans”
> Taxes are unnecessary in any country with fiat currency.

No, taxes don’t pay for services in the simple way suggested by the metaphor of the fisc (a finite public purse filled by revenue and emptied by spending) in such a country.

That doesn't mean they aren't needed; they function as a tool managing and distributing monetary impacts of spending and for Pigovian internalization of social costs.
Here's the basket - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/02/fruit-basket...

It sounds that only grape seeds and doum nuts were what remained of the fruit.
I would like to see tests wrt this before I assume it--Apple puts a pretty hefty premium on battery life for customer devices, and while that would probably not win out when placed against this kind of liability minimization, they've got a lot of sharp folks there who crunch this stuff in their sleep.
> These efforts will evolve and expand over time.

I have no doubt they will. Pandora’s box has been opened, and okay, today the scanning is only for images uploaded to iCloud, and only for CSAM. But that is not auditable and subject to change at any time without notice.

And today it is only looking at known hashes but the devices already have a capability to analyse images and even run OCR on them, this is not a matter of of these things will be weaponised but when.

Can’t believe this is the same Apple that publicly defended the right to privacy for known terrorists by using the slippery slope argument themselves. The mind boggles.
It is interesting how quickly people jump to the worse case scenario. Obviously, it is possible this power could be abused and someone like Trump would have no problem using to steal an election, but it is also possible Apple is going to put tight controls in place and only use it for the states purpose. Keep an open mind please.
Split them hairs, man.
Yeah but at the same time if you mint a few beautifully patterned - 300 hours-of-work each - wood coins and trade them; it’s not finance and it’s unregulated.
Do you have references for this? I must have missed this part.
I think one of the biggest issues is confusing knowledge with intelligence.

Haig may have known everything about the previous generation of warfare, that doesn't necessarily make him intelligent. It makes him knowledgeable.

Now, he was also likely intelligent enough to apply his knowledge of then conventional warfare to various then conventional situations. And this likely made him excellent at his position. In so much that he was appointed a leader of his nation's army during WWI.

But he lacked the intelligence to achieve anything novel. He lacked the speed of thought to see where the current situations couldn't apply to his breadth of knowledge. He lacked the ability to deduce where his knowledge could be adapted to this new situation.

That's why "smart" people seem "stupid". Because they're likely knowledgeable, not intelligent. Every single person I've considered intelligent, it wasn't because they knew a lot of facts. It's because they're always a couple thoughts ahead of most people. They're able to see what others are getting to, sometimes before the others even know they're about to get there.

Intelligence is a multiplier. It's not a thing on its own. That's why most decent intelligence tests test abstract reasoning.

We also make the mistake of confusing success for intelligence. That if someone is successful, they must be intelligent. That's not the case. Success is multi-faceted and there is no one thing that will make you successful.
Animals Can Count and Use Zero. How Far Does Their Number Sense Go?
A friend of mine has a Henney Kilowatt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henney_Kilowatt. Its neat, but that thing is a death trap. Early electric cars just had to compromise too much to even work.
> I'll admit I didn't play until AD&D in about '84 - was the original edition really that different in focus?

The original edition or white box D&D was about as deep as Diablo 1. You rolled up a PC, the DM designed a dungeon -- not a campaign, they just built a dungeon -- and then the PCs tried to survive it. That's all it was about.
> “Nonsense layered on nonsense layered on nonsense enables people to trade goods and services!”

We traded before the invention of currency, too, but not very much because it wasn't very efficient.

We started companies before the invention of financing, too, but not as many because it was hard to fund a company unless you were rich.

So no, fictitious legal frameworks for economics are not nonsense, they are innovations, and allow for more economic growth and prosperity. They are "financial technology" in a very real sense.
28 plugs/unplugs 10 seconds each (which I find highly dubious, most meaningful actions take about 30 seconds) is already almost exactly 5 minutes.
And the Netherlands and Albania.

Truly an odd selection.
The consequences of pursuing fossil fuel elimination policies around the world
Jackson and Owyang,

Please respond here if Biden Administration puts pressure on you to not publish findings like this in the future. No, I'm not into conspiracy theories, but this finding does impress me as something the Democratic party would like to suppress.
It is and I'm sure they are aware of the problem but this goes way beyond it. The original product has all the certifications needed, this was a counterfeit and selling it was a crime.

I gave all the evidences to the multinational company and possibly the guy that sold me it got fucked. But still he was only a small fish on a sea of counterfeit. Government is inefficient and outstretched and I think it's just not cost-benefit for companies to go after these guys as lawyers are expensive and it's not difficult for the mafia to find people willing to sell their counterfeit products online. They might even be ignorant to the point they believe they are selling original products and not going against the law.

Counterfeit goods is a big industry on Brazil. Products like cigars are mass manufactured at Paraguay and then smuggled to Brazil. They might even be decent products sold at a quarter of the price and in some cases even original products as they avoid import taxes and the premium of the internal market.

In this case the counterfeit is easy to detect and avoid as it will never come with a box. Boxes takes a lot of space and make smuggling prohibitive. So instead of putting the salesman against a wall I can just ask him: "Does it come with the box?" and I will receive an excuse as an answer and will know that it is a counterfeit.
Thanks, we also try to avoid using AI as much as possible :)
There is no huge secret about the no laundry on sunday rule, I didn't just make this up:

* https://cowbellsandchocolate.com/sundays-and-quiet-rules/

* https://www.reddit.com/r/askswitzerland/comments/asqw9o/law_...

* https://www.englishforum.ch/other-general/22277-really-forbi...

* https://www.newlyswissed.com/sydney-international-food-festi...

Now, almost every rule/law in Switzerland is local, so it is definitely possible that you lived in a canton or commune without such rules on the book. I most definitely lived in places where that was the rule.
You might as well tell people to make other people stop being corrupt. Humans are corruptible full stop. For a funny recent example see Russel Brand's last YouTube video on the US Congress's insider trading clown shows, and then ask yourself if there's any way possible to get this legislative body to "stop letting a few rich people and their rich friends make all the rules to favor that small cadre."

The only decent solution would be a vastly simpler system with enough transparency and accountability the average person could make sense of it.
Previous on M1 is setting new records in NXBench.

Rob Blessin at Blackhole can probably help you with black hardware if you're into that. (NeXT non-ADB keyboards are a pleasure to use for a while).

There are also some of us who are still building and running native X86 boxes to run Openstep natively.
There are numerous valuable child protection laws and services against which your knee-jerk would be unwarranted. It just happens to be warranted this time around.
There is absolutely no way in this world that any politician can get elected on the promise to increase gas prices and electricity costs.

If only we actually properly taxed the parasites who hoard wealth at the expense of our very existence..
I want to add that they are scanning your property without your permission. The crazy part is that the government can't do this with a warrant or probable cause, but Apple decided that it can and will.

Amazing that Apple destroyed their image about "Privacy" in minutes.
Brilliant guerrilla marketing move, really: anyone who chooses Android over iPhone now implicitly has some very unsavoury reasons for doing so. And if it was really a broader surveillance initiative pushed by the government, the same implication neutralises any protest.
For anyone curious, they mention “appendix n.” In one of the very old books (adnd 1e dmg I think), there was a section with that name that had a list of inspirations. In the old school dnd community, this list has a slight mythic status and some people like to come up with their own appendix n. I can’t find my copy… but this might list its contents

https://goodman-games.com/blog/2018/03/26/what-is-appendix-n...
Where is this supported? Seems only a few selected areas?
Singaporean telco StarHub discloses data leak affecting 57,000 customers
Payroll taxes are not flat, they are in fact regressive (unlike a flat tax, which is by definition neither progressive nor regressive). Since social security tax is capped, the more you beyond the social security tax limit, the lower your effective payroll tax rate becomes.
Considering the context is retail, POS almost certainly is Point of Sale, a common retail acronym.
The problem is - mask mandates are not just in big box stores. If that was the case, most of us wouldn’t give a shit. It’s just that it’s everywhere.

And to make it worse - these mask mandates are preventing a lot of social venues from happening because very few people want to go to some of these social venues with a mask on.

It’ll likely be two years since I’ve been able to go to a social dance by the time we are getting back to “normal”. Tons of events people were planning for September are now back to cancelled indefinitely. People aren’t able to commit to big events anymore because now the government is acting unpredictably and causing a lot of panic among people.

Dancing is a super high risk venue. And btw - people are cancelling these events when they required all attendees to be vaccinated. So, it’s fucking over people who are 100% vaccinated and take plenty of precautions.
The basic D&D book (before AD&D) was similar to AD&D, but simpler rules and fewer tables.
Apple apparently has the ability to look at pix stored in iCloud. I wonder who's pix they will start looking at first?

The Fappening Part II By Apple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud_leaks_of_celebrity_phot...

That which CAN happen WILL happen.
Not that it really matters in my argument, but while SSI is regressive, medicare is not.
We have a whole generation of people right now who grew up in an environment where the USA was number one in everything, and could push around any other country, had the best technology and the biggest economy and all the smartest people, and that’s an assumption so deeply embedded in the national consciousness that’s it’s impossible to jettison. That’s why we’re facing such a tidal wave of stupid right now. That historical period is over now, but to acknowledge that is so unthinkable that people will seek an answer that makes it still true. Hence you get wacky conspiracy theories and disastrous military adventurism.
If you're using minecarts to move yourself around in Minecraft, it's certainly a terrible investment. However, when used as a tool, they are incredibly useful and an excellent investment. Minecarts can do two things that no other setup can: transport items between inventories consistently without the player's involvement, and move entities like villagers around the map. This makes minecarts a really useful tool in the later stages of the game, when you might want to use them to distribute items across an array of furnaces to be smelted or to move villagers to a central location to make trading easier.

TNT is sometimes worth the time it takes to make. Every block in Minecraft has a blast resistance, so if you're using TNT underground, you're running into stone blocks that will shrink your blast radius. On the other hand, TNT can be used on the surface of the desert to get sand quickly and profitably. It can also be used at the lower levels of the nether to blow up a bunch of blocks in the search for netherite scrap.
Dental floss has only been around for about 200 years. I wonder if the texture of fruit has changed such that 2400 years ago it was easier to extract from between your teeth than it is today.
NCMEC is a private nonprofit. No government oversight. How are they allowed this much power over every photo on everyone's devices?
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/, at the bottom lists macOS as target platform.
As a hack, you can use an array of u0 to make simple loops:

for ([1]u0{0} ** 10) |_, i| {
std.debug.print("{d}", .{i});
}
This is not a great analogy, because you don't accumulate susceptibility to disease by avoiding it. Your immune system will work either way. And as long as we continue social distancing and masking, these other viruses will have their R0 reduced at the same time.

If anything, this is a better argument for continuing the mitigations and slowly removing them over time rather than going all in on removing all restrictions like some jurisdictions are doing.
There is little difference between Apple's proposal and a continuously running AI snitch examining your display output for forbidden thoughts and images.