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Yeah did not add UK because Brexit but I agree that UK and especially London is best location to start startup in Europe.
>setting a CSS "opacity: 0;" on the page, then removing it with JS, even when JS is not required to load the page

Reader mode (ctrl+alt+r) instantly gets rid of this kind of crap.
Apple’s crackdown on multicast
> still our is the most beautiful job in the world

Well..Have you tried other fields? Maybe there's other things you love too. There's a whole world out there. Good luck!
disclaimer - didn't read the article.

but here's the thing - exit seats used to be free (i used to check-in early at the airport and ask politely, i always got them), but:

1) they're often narrower due to trays/screens in armrests (this was a problem when i was heavier)

2) all the low-budget online check in crap combined with the fact that I now have to pay for the extra legroom is basically discrimination. Most people can choose to lose weight (i did) but can't choose to be shorter (I'm 196 cm).

The most infuriating thing is when they eventually do random assignment to the exit seats because nobody paid for them.

IMO, there should be a "I am tall" verification system that overrides paying for exit seats and prioritizes them.
BTC is not recognized as a legal currency in Sweden so the prosecutor acted correctly.
It's happens more often than you think. In single payer system, those therapies aren't even discussed with the patient since the physician knows if it's not paid for by the gov't it's effectively out of reach.

Sure, the US system isn't perfect by any means, but one reason why it's so expensive is they throw everything plus the kitchen sink at patients. And this is even for Medicaid which covers the poorest Americans.

Having lived in 4 different country with 4 different healthcare systems, if I got diagnosed with a serious cancer you can damn well be sure I'll get treated in the US. I have a friend who got diagnosed with breast cancer who did the same, moved back to the US and with ACA subsidies was getting the latest therapies with a monthly premium of $200. And the drugs she received weren't even paid for in her home country.
I carry a Beurer BR 60. It uses a small ceramic plate that heats up. It's a short burning sensation but the itching is gone for most bites after that.
Yeah, that really happened (well, similar in nature if not exactly the same).

These are the kind of questions I do not know the answer to because no sane person ever does that.

I tried explaining as such, but I think the interview was on a downward trend after that.

I think we were supposed to discuss their take home assignment, which I thought was actually great fun, but the interview was a JS pop quiz instead because they probably didn’t inform their interviewer correctly.
> meeting a need to express more complex ideas

Still not necessary to have special Unicode code points for them.

:poop:

should do just fine. No need for more than that.
OnlyFans shows that Visa and MasterCard are chokepoints of (particularly, but not exclusively, online) B2C commerce.

While that overlaps with speech, it is not the same thing.
On the fragile assumption that this isn’t a lazy troll, the words naïve, façade, fiancée, and coöperative are all in English. And that’s ignoring extremely common English symbols like £ and — that aren’t part of ASCII, and come to think of it the “’” in “aren’t”.

And, hell, I guess that even after English becomes the world language, you’ll still want to spell people and place names correctly?
But 'j' in Spanish sounds completely different from 'j' in English. Which of these languages should give up their j and add a new letter to their alphabet?
At least in Spanish letters are usually pronounced the same, so presumably Spanish is closer to your ideal. Contrary to English, which seems to be designed specifically to torment its speakers.

Here's a famous poem: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html Perhaps you could give an indication how this poem would be written in English in a hypothetical phonetic spelling? Or would all the languages just convert to the International Phonetic Alphabet, and we'd forbid all the existing alphabets? :)
Another happy user of a left-handed classic trackball here!

It feels perfectly right in my hand, the 3d printed texture is fantastic and the qmk firmware allows a level of customization you will never see on more consumer-oriented products.

Some drawbacks I can think of are the mouse wheel placement and feeling, the USB type B connector and the included ball that is not perfectly round (there is some sort of tiny nub on top of it that can interfere with the bearings).
In practice they don't. The comment to which you reply is 100% correct.
> “European culture is slightly different: most people consider a startup failure as something bad that you drag along for the rest of your career.”

I hear this over and over, but in my 20 years of living in Europe, I haven’t found this to be the case.

Perhaps it is only in some European countries or cultures?
Por que? Ne comprends pas. Sprache ist überall. Yīngyǔ jīhū méiyǒu zhǔdǎo.
> That assumes that those startups get investment from outside YC

Yes, they do. And that's the main difference between the EU and the US. Especially with YC startups expect to get significant investments after the incubator.

> Also, the EU just approved a giant stimulus package which will be used to support a lot of failing companies

You do realize there have been two years of pandemic?

> But that doesnt change the fact europe is repelling entrepreneurs.

What's your definition of entrepreneurs? A company that always loses money "in the hopes that something good will come out of them"?

The EU is a complex multi-lingual multi-cultural market unlike the uniform US market flooded with unlimited investor money. All of the "successful" incubators, investors, startups would fail miserably here, outside their near-ideal conditions.
Is this still the case? I checked few registrars and they seem to go around $10 nowadays but maybe I missed places with better deals.

I get the reason why that would attract spammers. Bummer for people who would like to use it for legitimate reasons.
Libraries can almost never handle errors - they can only signal them. And Go libraries are particularly bad at this, because they almost always return error strings, instead of meaningful error types, which means you can't easily handle a subset of errors. Even if you did, Go's errors suffer from the same problems as exceptions in many languages: there is no way to document what errors your function can actually return, just that it returns some error.

What language are you thinking of when saying Go libraries do better at error handling?
> If you drunk 500 bottles of 0.5% a/v beer in 10 minutes it would likely have some effect

No, the alcohol wouldn't. Unless you distilled all that beer and ingested the alcohol alone. The massive liquid intake would kill you though.

The liver doesn't store alcohol, so how many grams you ingest in total doesn't matter, only in what concentration. Keep in mind that alcohol is perfectly soluble in water too.
> I don't know what the wash icons on my clothes mean without going to google and looking them up.

But odds are these icons have been there (unchanged) since before the invention of unicode, so that's hardly an example of the "iconitis" you mention, right?
> If you speak the right incantations at the counter, invoking the relevant legal reference

What are these?

> There's also nothing stopping them from making that bank account the least attractive bank account you've ever heard of

Why would they want to? What do they actually risk?

> restricting you to just a few machines in a restricted geographical area.

Officially area-specific or just through the specific kind of machines accepting specific kind of cards being absent outside of it? I've heard of the unreasonably complicated system of types of cards in Germany: normal debit, "electronic cash" etc.
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I know it might sound not so logical for you, but it's not how pricing works.
If you take it to mean "new small business" then there is no lack of startups in Europe, or Bangladesh for that matter.

I'm using the word in the Paul Graham sense, new companies that aim for really fast growth.

And yeah, that also sort of existed before SV but I think you actually know what I mean.
Keep in mind a unified "European" VC and startup market doesn't really exists, it's dozens of smaller ones instead. Only a handful are large enough to support a world-class ecosystem (France, Germany, and the UK) and out of those only the UK is really culturally friendly towards startups.
Because the call stack does not include the value of function call arguments. A good error message does include the call arguments values relevant to the error AND those of the relevant variables. But I agree it takes upfront effort and often also need adjustments when debugging an issue later (i.e. adding more info to the error message and rerun).
The root of the problem is that the EU funding system is just a bad way of going about funding innovation. The US private VC model is superior in every way.
Meai and Neymar in PSG
Not only is it not just hearsay: In some European countries it's even enshrined in law. For example in Austria, the leader of a company ("gewerberechtlicher Geschäftsführer"), including sole traderships, partnerships, and legal entities, cannot be a person who, within the past X years (can't remember what X is) has been in bankruptcy in any country in the world. The authorities check the relevant Austrian register before giving you a business permit. For a person who has not lived in Austria for that stretch of time, you have to bring proof from the countries you've lived in, that you're not in bankruptcy there either. For some countries, this can be pretty hard to prove, as the relevant registers may simply not exist there. I remember it being a major bureaucratic hurdle when I moved from the U.K. to Austria (being an Austrian native) to start a business there.
Do start-ups actually use bank loans? I thought they mostly are funded by private investors who take risks more practically.
Can someone tell me why VAERS reports are not strictly mandated for all observed AEFIs?

Anyone who says vaccines are safe, when there is no method to strictly monitor observed AEFIs, is perpetuating a blatent lie.

Without people having an option to reject a vaccine, and without an option to claim liability, and without an efficient AEFI monitoring in place, there is absolutely little incentive for the vaccine producers to ensure the quality. The is economics 101. It is sad that such blatant deceptions are possible in todays world...

And people who are refusing to bend down is fighting against this eventuality...shame on the shills who are making propoganda where they are cutting the branch they are sitting on...
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I'm confident OCR fails on a regular basis, which is why they still have humans in place to interpret addresses.
Is there definitely no way to turn off those lights via a key-combo? I know that's the case for my Vortex POK3R rgb, though admittedly it took me a while to look it up in the manual because I don't use this functionality often. The driver software requiring a login really sucks, but I feel like this was more performative than anything.
Behind the Scenes at Atari
Oh really? But extensions are separate from the rendering, right? So is that a separate limitation then?
Chipset Shortage Now Affects 'Everybody but Apple'
The proposal for better error handling was rejected, as far as I'm aware. Generics needlessly repeated the mistakes of Java and C# in coming out years too late.
IMHO the main issue in Europe is the lack of a common market. So many different languages, cultures, and local regulations creates A LOT of fragmentation. If you’re in the US or China you have access to a massive pool of potential customers as soon as you release your product. In Europe that’s not the case, all your branding, marketing, or other content will have to be adapted to a specific language or culture. So instead of the EU dream of a EU market you have to take in account lot of small markets with their own specificities.
I go into roundabouts while occupying a full lane, unless I use the first exit/turn left.
> Exception error handling is implicit because we don't know which line inside a try block can throw an exception

You just need to have some thought when writing your code:

let a;
try {
a = someFailingFunc();
} catch (e) {
// handle
}

// use a
// do work
In most languages there's no immediate, bijective mapping between graphemes and phonemes.

Some Indo-European languages such as French, Spanish, Italian, or Dutch come quite close in that there is a one-to-one (in some cases context-sensitive) mapping between graphemes or grapheme clusters and the sounds they signify.

For English, famously, there's no such one-to-one mapping and for many cases pronunciation has to be memorised: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
I came to a new company and their laptop budget wasn't enough for a Macbook, which is the OS I'm used to. I mean I get that I may be coming across as a prima donna, but the provided hardware just wasn't good enough - and I'm not hardcore enough to spend my days working in vim over SSH to their development VMs, which also aren't fast enough.

Anyway, I could work with my old macbook, but it's giving the ghost, the screen is fooked and getting that fixed is too expensive.
Some more lightweight old-fashioned internet portals other than the ones mentioned before:

https://marijnflorence.neocities.org/linkroll/

https://neonaut.neocities.org/directory/

https://webring.xxiivv.com/

https://dreamwiki.sixey.es/welcome.dream/

https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html

https://www.cameronsworld.net/
> The manual.

Right, while hurtling down the freeway I can always dig the 500 page manual out and dig through it. Note that I can't use the index to find those icons, because icons have no alphabetic order. Like I said, going backwards 2000 years.

> airflugencoldensteiner

So just use AC. You can even look it up in the index.

> It doesn’t scale and

Yah, show it to an illiterate desert dweller, and ask them what they make of it.

> it can’t be sold across borders without looking out of place.

Of course it can be. Whatcha gonna do, translate that entire 500 page manual into hieroglyphs?

Isn't it hilarious that now an entire generation of adults has never used a phone that looks like the typical phone icon? The phone icon on my iphone looks like a phone from the 1960's. However, "PHONE" has remained constant.
And at no point did the sender stop and think "this doesn't look like Russian". I mean, it's relatively easy for me, who speaks none of the following languages, to tell appart Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

I guess this is consolating for Americans who get blamed for assuming the rest of the world is like their country (postal codes, address formats, date formats, person naming conventions, business customs).
> Bear with me.

I see what you did there
Both are problematic. Boilerplate does wonders for mistakes hidden in plain sight - especially when you have that one rare piece of code that actually does something with an error, and it completely slips by code review because anyone who works with Go has long learned to glaze over anything that begins with if err!=nil
What a gentle cat ...
I know cats that would have immediately dismantled the things for research purposes.
Glad I got out of mobile app development

Looks like its gotten worse the second half of the decade and even wages for it have stagnated (except for the FAANGs that pay everyone indiscriminately)
I mean for 3, it's called 'vandalism' but it should be considered assault, attempted murder or even domestic terrorism. I'd put a security system on there (using e.g. high speed cameras) so that hopefully you can pin down where the shots come from, then sick the authorities on them. I have no tolerance for people using guns irresponsibly.
It’s not that the vaccinated can’t still spread COVID, but they do so at a much lower rate which gives the virus less chance to mutate. Anything that reduces transmission helps curb the development of new variants and vaccinations are one important piece of achieving that. Here’s a resource by the WHO which describes this.

https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-eff...
Unless you live outside the EU, like in the UK, Norway, or Switzerland. Or in a non-Euro country, like Sweden or Poland.
Sarha: first content-creating camel
I don't know much about Smalltalk. Is a GUI designer supposed to be a mandatory piece of an implementation?
> Which of these languages should give up their j and add a new letter to their alphabet?

Neither. They both use 'j'. Problem solved. No, I'm not being facetious. Spanish books are written in Spanish, and English books are written in English. Both use 'j'. Somehow, it works. No need to invent problems.
> you have to explain yourself to humans at Apple

This is such an honor. I was starting to suspect no actual humans other than the developers and the managers work at FFANG at all given how hard it is to contact them. Perhaps in this case it is not a human either but a neural network of a sort.

Anyway, I believe everything should be done this way, through communicating with humans. Humans should study every ad and every app before it gets published (but I support side-loading for users willing to opt-out), humans should review every video before it gets de-monetized or removed, humans should communicate on every appeal. I would vote for a law mandating this.

PS: The more news of this kind the more I feel like buying an iPhone perhaps. I don't like how they restrict the users but I bloody adore how they restrict the apps (with exception of some cases like iDOS, terminal apps, alternative-engine web browsers etc - I certainly don't like Apple banning them).
Probably smart; anything you put on Amazon nowadays that gets reasonably successful will get competed out of the market by either other sellers or Amazon itself.

The main challenge is discoverability; for a lot of people, websites like Amazon is the first port of call, and people are willing to pay the convenience fee just so they don't have to scour the internet for an alternative.

That said, they now have to scour Amazon to find a decent product instead of 'knockoffs' / race-to-the-bottom competitors.
its made for tailwind, the style is just an example, you can make it look however you like.
I'm honestly curious why this specific thing got trapped behind manual review. Did a bunch of apps specifically abuse multicast networking?
> The stated goal is to reduce criminal behavior, but obviously, the main goal is for MasterCard to protect its brand image

No, the main goal is protect their bottom line against legal liability. Visa and MC have been proactive in anti-trafficking measures because they have been sued for facilitating online trafficking, because they are very deep pockets defendants that tend to have a nexus to sites involved in commercially distributing trafficking-derived content. So, if there's any whiff of information that they have regarding even the potential of trafficking, they are going to take action to minimize the potential for legal action accusing them of knowingly facilitating trafficking, which has already occurred in previous cases.

> Folks are unsure how much actual impact this kind of policy will have against the very real and terrible problem of sex exploitation and trafficking. Which leads people to wonder if the policy is more about being prude and less about preventing exploitation.

The goal is not primarily to reduce trafficking but to reduce the card companies’ legal exposure relating to trafficking. Its not about being prudish; Visa/MC don’t care about that as long as they are making money without unnecessary risk exposure.
Yes, I moved from France to Japan in 2001 and at the time it was almost impossible to have French accents and Japanese characters on the same OS. The web was where it was working best (because web browsers know to switch encoding for pages) but desktop apps that were still the norm were a shitshow.

Even on Linux, to have support for Japanese language you had to install a Japanese distribution (TurboLinux or RedHat Japanese version for example) and it was a real pain to get accents to work.

Worse, Japanese language had 3 encodings!! One for Windows (SJIS), one for Unix/Linux (EucJP) and ISO-2022-JP. And of course, Japan being Japan, Japanese companies were really lagging to switch to Unicode and stuck with their shitty encodings for a long time.
hmm, would not it be better to paint roofs with white paint?
I made a prompt generator that creates descriptions like 'A biological illustration of an alien plant near sand, watercolor'. A model called CLIP gives a way to compare an image with a text prompt and then I can optimise the image to match the prompt
Spread it to ticks' normal prey, deer and what ever else they normally feed on.
Awesome. Could you also do fruits?

PS: thanks for not calling it „this plant does not exist“
SBCL: The assembly code breadboard (2014)
Or it turns out you are officially dead.

BBC News - India's living dead: 'They stared at me like I was a ghost'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-58259497
For the Netherlands. There is the concept of the 'basic bank account'. This is an agreement that safeguards that everyone can have at least 1 bank account. [1]

You can't open an account like this if you already have an account. You can't pick the bank either. You're obliged to go to your last bank for this type of account. The price is fixed at the same level as the normal accounts. You can even have this account if you're homeless and don't have an address. Typical requests are done via support organisations rather than yourself, but it is is possible to do it yourself as well.

At least in the Dutch situation I don't see them introducing deliberately unattractive pricing or conditions once you have the bank account. There is a burden to open one though.

That said, I don't think bankruptcy would usually result in being account-less. More likely, you can't get a credit card, mortgage or other consumer loans, which can be inconvenient. Personal bankruptcy (as opposed to an LLC imploding) also likely means a few years of handing over all your income above minimum wage to the government in exchange for nullifying your outstanding debt. (Note that the Netherlands mostly runs on debit cards, and that most people don't have a credit card).

[1]: https://www.basisbankrekening.nl
Here's how I grip: https://i.imgur.com/QQcMrSR.jpeg

I don't touch the side buttons when gripping or rebasing the mouse. That's not a G502 but every mouse I've tried so far (except for the G600) has been grippable without touching any buttons.
Fully statically typed ASP.NET Core views with Object Pages
Yeah kinda random. Doesn't something similar exist if you want to download content from a domain without TLS from within an iOS app?

I vaguely remember needing to fill something out to explain why I needed users to be able to load content from http (user generated content in an app). But it makes a bit more sense in that case.
Europe has now created more $1bn ‘unicorn’ companies than China
I believe there must be more to this story.

Maybe it is possible to abuse multicast for tracking/fingerprinting in some way and that's why Apple is locking it down to approved apps.

It would have been unfeasible to show a permission dialog. How would you even begin to explain multicast to the average user in 1-2 sentences?