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Why I moved away from Apple notes: export options require AppleScript, or paid Mac app (lost some images). no Linux client (there’s a web client) Code has no syntax highlighting. Linking between notes wasn't possible, this might have changed since.
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Patient in hospital. In bed. On back. Phone sits of chest while they sleep. Device stops. Alarms. Flashing lights. Nurses running. This is a necessary PSA.
>Cause I thought we wanted less laws, in order to allow for greater freedom.

Needless strawman. No one calling for more privacy is calling for smaller government.
As I remember, Go was "invented" to allow writing SMALL projects, where people previously used Bash/C/Perl. Like all these small command-line utilities and scripts to solve Site-Reliability-Engineer-tasks or DevOps-tasks. Using Go in projects larger than "multithreaded custom-binary-format to CSV converter" or "daemon watching sensors and inserting ROWS to some DB" is not very good. Big thing about GO is lots of libs available for everything (but in that view Python is better).
What means each color, and each column? It should have a caption
I totally get the geeky appeal of such a web development stack (a few years ago I could have chosen that for my personal web page, for fun). But in practice I doubt that it ends up a win in terms of security, maintainability, and development time.
I turned on CSP and all I got was this crappy lawsuit
Well sticking the skin on your wall is just tacky. I normally just wait until people ask about the clawmarks and then feign reluctance as I explain.
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I (with the rest of the interested) will try to think more detailed examples, but I can already note that you seem to have much more faith than I have in your protection from the insurance, from the service providers and from the system.

I am very concerned with security holes opened by legislation such as the PSD2 in Europe - they should not exist in the first place, I want to sleep well in the notion that the project is solid -, and banks far from necessarily assume that you are the victim: very uncomfortable demands of proof may exist (up to, in a slightly different context, frequently heard absurdities such as "prove that your handheld was secure" [it is not, the service provider is the one that should provide security, not the user!!] or "prove that you did not write your PIN number somewhere in the stolen wallet containing your ATM card" [and then prove what, that one does not think of Spencer Tracy!?]).

But the matter is not (for clarity) just with the example of theft. That personal data is collected inappropriately is not just a reason for moral outrage, there may be also basic real consequences. Your personal messages, under "bad" practices, for example, may leak to more repositories: if one of them is compromised, your privacy may be exposed in ways difficult to compensate. These should not be forgotten, while keeping in mind other, very practical but not immediate for some, situations like "Ah, Mr. Jones, so we came to know you are a dissident", and the general disconcert.

And by the way, when I was re-reading the imperfect 'disconcert', the term 'discomfort' came to mind. Which makes other situations come to mind. In Europe some legislation mandates to have microphones (plus GPS and radio) in the new batches of cars (post 2018, to be used in case of car crash): some may never want to enter any such trap. If I felt uncomfortable with having my phone on I would just remove the battery, but not feeling comfortable even when one is in one's own car, that is way, way, way, way_times_by_1000 too much. Back to the article, it may not take much to have an entity decide, "let us record it". And then, for some reason (subcontractors, public-private partnerships etc.), have copies around. And then, owing to holes, having one's privacy exposed...

Which brings me back to my original point: what if not just the big-s-state or its contractors, or partners (already here we are at mind-boggling reality from a moral and good-sensical point of view), could access those intrusion devices, but just Mr. Random, owing to security holes? I do not forget that my privacy is also against Mr. Random, together with Society, Enterprise and State.
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There is very much something wrong with it or it wouldn’t be an existential risk.
In reality, 99.9% of all people who don't understand this issue don't care at all about Apple doing this.

It's similar to pointing out that 99.9% of all people don't care about enabling robust, non-SMS-based 2FA on their bank account.

This speaks of a lack of knowledge about an important issue. It does not degrade the importance of the issue.
> Place phone in pants pocket not shirt pocket.

I keep my phone in my pocket but I think some people may be hesitant to keep their phone in the pocket for concerns about radiation from the phone in proximity to their testicles.

And there may be something to it. In particular if you keep your phone in your pocket while using hands free and having conversations on the phone. https://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/news/2008...
You can get the same performance boost without the footgun of C if you use e.g. Go, I've done so for a while now and I'm quite enamoured by it. Possible downside is that it ships with a runtime, so binaries are at least 10MB (before optimizing for size).

That said, you mention PHP, I wonder how PHP running in HHVM compares to a more bare metal solution (or regular interpreted PHP).
One issue with crypto is that it doesn't produce any value (it consumes value) and it has no intrinsic value. So as an investment it doesn't make any sense.
> The approach I adopted is mechanically as simple as you can get. It uses an "outrunner" motor designed for electric skateboards. With such outrunners, the case of the motor rotates. Driving the bike with it merely requires mounting it to the frame in such a way that the case is in contact with the rear wheel.

I haven't crunched the numbers, but this[0] Low Tech Magazine article from 2011 about the reverse process (generating electricity with stationary bikes) gives me the impression this adds quite a bit of inefficiency to this set-up:

> One reason [for inefficiencies] is the use of a so-called friction drive - the rear bicycle wheel acts upon the small roller of the motor/generator. While chain and belt drives (used in late 19th century pedal powered machines) have an efficiency of up to 98 percent, a friction drive is only 80 to 90 percent efficient (and wears much faster).

Whether or not you think that this is important is a different discussion of course, but I think 10-20% less range is quite significant.

[0] https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/bike-powered-electri...
Id second this recommendation preference. Finding good designers is hard. Id say generally;

1) Don't go by a persons confidence to do the job. I've often found confidence in ability and quality are inversely related when it comes to designers.

2) Try to find someone that understands the business need and not an artist. Not that art is bad but I find the artist type risks getting too involved in their work. You want someone that isn't too emotionally invested in the work where they cant take genuine feedback or scrap it and genuinely try again with fresh take. There's a reason agencies put account managers between creatives and client.

3) Good design takes time. It can seem like a long time to get to something simple but its usually needed.

4) Don't committee things. You can polish the diamond but when you've got a bunch of people expressing design ideas to be merged together it tends not to work. Also if there are multiple people commenting, have someone on your side take that commentary and centralise it to the designer, dont drip feed them comments or let a bunch of people all send their own thoughts.

5) If its not working dont try to make it work. Some designers are really good but just dont work well with the vision you want. Its not their style. If its not working it probably wont.

6) Be specific in your instruction. Don't give them the 'I want it to look like example A but with touches of example B' type deal. When people look at the same thing the see different elements as what makes that example that example. Figure out why you like something, make sure that is the reason on example 2. Really consider the language you use when writing any design requests if you have something in mind.

.... a bit off the cuff but hopefully that useful. Good luck.
No, but clearly society has accepted the risks with cars, right? They could change city design be safer, or change the drivers test to be less of a joke. After all people do still die when hit with smaller vehicles.

And looking at the study, you cloud just limit speed. Pedestrian outcomes are the same for cars and SUVs under 20 mph.
USDT is a fascinating story that I can't do justice in a quick post. The overwhelming majority of crypto trading isn't carried out against fiat currency but against a Stablecoin called Tether [1]. They settled recently with the NYAG, and lost access to doing business in New York at all a few months ago. The AG says:

> “Tether’s claims that its virtual currency was fully backed by U.S. dollars at all times was a lie. These companies obscured the true risk investors faced and were operated by unlicensed and unregulated individuals and entities dealing in the darkest corners of the financial system."

The PDF is worth a read, pretty riveting stuff [3]. At various times they were completely unbacked by anything.

All their executives aparently received target letters from the DOJ as the subjects of a grand jury investigation re: bank fraud, and since printed up another $3B USDT. Rumor has it they only have 2 actual customers: Cumberland/DRW and Alameda/FTX.

As for the ETF connection, an ETF hoping to list disclosed that 95% of all crypto trading volume was fictional in 2019 [4].

More about USDT here: [older, 5, newer, 6]. Including a great episode of This Week in Startups by Calacanis. [7]

[1] tether.to

[2] https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...

[3] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...

[4] https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/03/26/1206/nearly-all-...

[5] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/

[6] https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/06/21/a-non-exhaustive-list-...

[7] https://thisweekinstartups.com/biden-targets-big-corporation...
Nice idea! I have this on my social site, people have two passwords, their regular one and an 'under duress' one that wipes their profile/locks it down.

I always wondered why more services don't offer it.

The reason we have it is it's a fairly political place (not by design, but when you offer 'free speech' you get everyone booted from every other place) and we've had a fair few members arrested, and I'd hate to think my site contributes to that so easy wipe.
Can you paste images from clipboard into simple note yet?
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Lol what. You don't know what racism is.
Sure… so OP biases his attention to cars/people/any unexpected changes to the route…
> As I remember, Go was "invented" to allow writing SMALL projects

On the contrary, one of the motivators for building Go was for large (millions of LOC) codebases; build speed and how fast a developer is comfortable in the codebase were big motivators for its build pipeline and code style.
And an F# like language, Power Query.
Oh, yes. I've had that tab open in my browser for days and not noticed.

Sorry.
> Losing your cloud account can cost you decades of your family photos. Losing access to your media account can cost you access to thousands of dollars’ worth of music, movies, audiobooks and ebooks. Losing your IoT account can render your whole home uninhabitable, freezing the door locks while bricking your thermostat, burglar alarm and security cameras.

I keep all my personal data on my local machine, which I periodically back up to an external hard drive. My music library is a collection of raw audio files in my "Music" folder, which I play with Windows Media Player or VLC Media Player when WMP can't handle the format. I don't rely on a third party. Same with everything else. I don't use any Internet of Things device, and never intend to.

I also don't use any Facebook or Apple product or service. If the major tech companies failed overnight, I would lose the ability to discover new music through YouTube, but my life wouldn't be affected otherwise.

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Not really, if you look at their goals which are to maintain managerial control, David Graeber wrote a book about the phenomenon called Bullshit Jobs.
There is no such thing as pro-coal. There is pro-money.

The more militant arm of the renewable lobby has been lying for decades, claiming that they are cheaper than fossil fuels. There is still a bit of confusion because now it might actually be true and a lot of people are reorienting.

Nothing in particular stands between Australian businesses from going the most profitable (ie, cheapest to produce in a total cost sense) form of power. The Liberals just aren't going to subsidise it.
I'm sure performance can be comparable (in terms of requests / second) with enough tweaking and sane design choices, but Java has much longer startup times (especially if you use a framework like Spring) and much higher memory usage, so those are things to keep in mind.

Go is / feels a lot more minimalistic, much less drama and more direct code. Less opportunities to be clever.
> Is it deflationary? Yes

No, it isn't. A deflationary currency doesn't lose 50% of its value in one evening, as Bitcoin did recently.
Covid has an estimated IFR of between 0.14% and 0.2%, with older age groups (with many comorbidities) heavily dominating the death rates.

I would target preventative measures at high-risk groups. I would not implement lockdowns and I would not allow vaccination of healthy, younger age groups.

Sweden almost got it right. Their relatively higher death rate is mostly explainable by the failure early on to protect care homes.

Also I would redstribute resources from ridiculous military adventures in foreign lands to the health sector, so next time it happens the hospitals don't get swamped.
I like the idea of sonic-pi and think its very well designed.

What I would like to see is a "multi-player" mode, where I can collaboratively code on the same session.

Is there anything that would enable this with sonic-pi?
Space and atmospheric flight game with realistic physics
It seems this sci-fi flight sim game will fill a gap. Always looked for a sci-fi newtonian physics game having aerodynamics and full scaled planets!
They are great for detecting whether you hit some code or not without having to use breakpoints and such.
That is great, good work you guys!
Yeah, we're talking Europe in this thread though. Nobody ever gets shot while jogging, even less so by another civilian. Gun homicide and killed by cop deaths are orders of magnitude lower.

But yeah I should have gauged my comment towards a mostly US-centric readership.
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>I demand the right to harass you

You have to be pretty creative with redefinitions to equate "someone not using the preferred pronouns of someone" with harassment.

Also, it's the people who has preferred pronouns who are demanding these preferences be codified into law, Peterson isn't demanding anything, just refusing the demands of those who are suspiciously interested in controlling how others use language.
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What worked years ago May no longer be as effective now. Just like banner ads were Wow in the early days, but now users tune them out
Now I see why postgresql syntax errors are so unhelpful
It doesn’t work for large images due to some library limitation so any scans and photos taken within notes might not export correctly
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Idk, with my life on the line I wouldn’t buy an iPhone 12 at all. Sure, I don’t usually keep my phone in my shirt pocket, but it’s a fairly natural thing to do in some circumstances, what if I forget?
In Poland, there is a trend (referred to as "betonoza") to replace city squares which had trees with concrete squares devoid of any vegetation. There are several reasons for that. Main reason seems that it's easier to get government/EU money for such 'renovation'. Second reason is that it's considered more prestigious to have a concrete square, because that's what other famous cities have.
Makes me wonder what my stack would be abbreviated to. LAGS? (linux, apache, go, sqlite? Apache is optional. As is Linux.)
Can we have twitter banned from being posted here? On all UI clicks, a nagging window comes up. You can click it away, but it *reverts your click*, so any kind of navigation becomes really cumbersome.
I expect GP to have thought along the lines of "established journals, academic titles, and prestigious universities", aka "the institutions of organized academia". And other signals that one belongs to these groups, like the aforementioned "scientific language".

Which is what most people use as the actual heuristics of competence, including journalists and politicians. GP seems to believe that this heuristic will cease to be accepted if things continue, just like "being a religious authority" ceased to be an accepted heuristic for moral authority in many communities.

I agree that this is a problem, since going back to the substrate of hypothesis and experiment is just not very efficient. We need institutions like those.
One of the reasons this is happening in Australia is because the price of electricity has been rising quite sharply for over a decade now and that makes solar more attractive.

It turns out one of the main reasons for these price rises has price gouging by the newly privatized energy companies.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/accc-overspending-on-pole...

Basically these energy companies have been screwing their customers for decades and successive governments have been letting them get away with it.
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A few days ago I got an inquiry from someone in another state that was looking for a developer to implement an automation for their business. A one-off implementation that would solely serve their business.

The inputs and steps required to produce the automation are not proprietary nor are they unique to the inquirer's business. It's just an obscure automation for a fringe industry that I would have never come across if it weren't for the inquiry.

As I started exploring the feasibility of the automation, I recognized the opportunity to create a platform that offers this automation to other businesses as a SaaS. I hacked together a prototype over the weekend.

Have I violated a spoken or unspoken code of conduct or have I infringed on the inquirer's IP?
>it takes a long time to undo the damage such profound discrimination causes

yes and for many, the damage is irreversible. Denied access to education is also a big factor Blacks face. If you are unable to study and get a good education, you can't work a decent job. It's then harder for you to let your children study to tertiary level as you might need them to step out to work earlier to contribute to the house, and they are then stuck in lower paying jobs. The cycle then continues when they have kids and when their kids have kids and it goes on for many generations.
> As I remember, Go was "invented" to allow writing SMALL projects

Absolutely not. It is an opinionated language that is designed to make it easier to build large projects.

Go is used for tons of large-scale web backends. It's a far better choice for writing network-connected services than C++, let alone C!

> Big thing about GO is lots of libs available for everything (but in that view Python is better).

Except that Go runs circles around Python, just like most compiled languages.

Based on what you've written, I don't believe you have any experience with Go, so why are you writing large comments about it?
Here's a workaround: once the nag window comes up, refresh the page, and then you get to look at what you clicked on.
Large amount of work, it gives me a nice insight about Image2Voxel, which I never test out before. What will be worth to add is an real case scenario or some actual benefit that it'll produce in your opinion.
It depends on the hand motion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZk5rAVuNsc&t=15s
.... I don't even know what point you're trying to make. You're trying to compare the risks of COVID which spreads via airborne transmission, with the risk of HIV from an accidental needle in a very specific workplace.

Oh the numbers aren't impressive because you don't know anyone who has died from it?

I don't know anyone who's died from HIV or Cancer but I can still recognise they're things I don't want.

> Main issue with hospitals is not lack of buildings.

No, it's the lack of beds. Guess where the beds usually go? In a fucking building.
It seems perfectly reasonable to care more about symptomatic cases and a lot more about cases requiring hospitalization.

Sure, let’s do the research to learn more about the disease including asymptotic cases, but I’m going to be honest: if anyone in my family had an asymptotic case, I’d be happy about rather than upset at this point.
With your anti-intellectual mindset, Linux and BSD would never had made any progress. Linux now runs on countless platforms and all of it has been reverse engineered and hacked from the beginning. Getting Linux working on the M1 is a worthwhile challenge for the most talented hackers, which you are definitely not one of.
> And the beauty of non commercial software is that we don't actually have to care about that.

If that's really true, then why are so many so intent on increasing Linux Desktop adoption? Popularity means more people working on it, more people making software for it, more hardware having drivers, etc.
> Crypto has no practical use ignores $150 billion in decentralized finance applications today

Where do you get this number from?

> are processing tens of billions in transactions today with essentially zero costs.

Source please?
I am really not sure what your problem is. You are bitter because, what, they're actually managing it this time? This entire project so far has been an absolutely incredible exercise in reverse engineering, with excellent results, from a whole range of people. It should be applauded.
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And people said the LNP were fighting against renewable energy!
> and noticed first-hand how needlessly complex and expensive existing services are

Can you give some examples?

Out of everything I would consider 'complex', handling media wouldn't even make the top 1,000 and services like AWS mean you can store petabytes for pennies.
Not rare at all. Most direct drive motors, which is almost all over 750w, can do it, and their associated controllers generally have a setting for that.
Why is it newsworthy if a programer gets a program running on a general purpose computer? I mean 89 comments seems to be a lot for this.
The heart itself is kind of an electromagnetic device - are there any studies on the health implications in healthy people of having powerful magnets placed next to it?
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