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> Better yet just spam folks with AirDrop to show how merely having an image on device doesn't mean squat

Been a long time since I've had an AirDrop from a device that wasn't mine - don't you have to confirm acceptance?

According to [1], yes, unless it's from your Apple ID, you get a preview and have to explicitly accept/reject.

"When someone shares something with you using AirDrop, you see an alert with a preview. You can tap Accept or Decline."

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204144

Are you saying that if you hit "Decline", it still saves the photo to Photos?
And the fact that it was done successfully doesn't mean it was done quickly. Heads off to the Russian dead letter office, someone eventually picks it up for a manual review and thinks "this gibberish is too hard for right before lunch" and puts it back. Next day someone else picks it up and thinks "oh, old Yuri knows what to do with this". Or maybe not, maybe it's done quickly. Who knows.
> There's no point in getting mad

This has never stopped people getting angry.
AFAIK banks are legally required to open checking accounts on demand of any resident in Germany, no matter their background. But I am not sure, just a rumor.
I made a crypto trading bot that detects new Binance coin listings in 5 seconds
I imagine they do the disassembly and packaging in a clean room. (At least for now the technicians require air :D) Then the packages are vacuum pumped, sealed, then shipped. Then at the destination fab they are assembled again in a clean room.

Yeah, I remember the articles about how insane the requirements are to protect masks: https://semiengineering.com/euv-pellicles-finally-ready/
No. European "companies" look to the US and see that you can lose billions of unlimited investor money for years with no repercussions and no negative consequences for the founders.

Now "successful" European startups want in on the money.

YC's "most successful startups" routinely lose hundreds of millions of dollars every year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27485360
You can form this hologram trivially by considering each pixel as a source of rays in a variety of directions. You might then expect a series of hemispherical shapes on the surface, with areas of the dome missing where rays should not be fired. In this case you hit the age old problem of holograms - the sheer volume of information that needs to be encoded onto the surface for a hologram of reasonable resolution to be formed. Whether there is some more subtle surface that reproduces the light field but exploits its compressibility to reduce the surface complexity, I don’t know. Would be fun to try to optimise for it, but alas I have too many things to do already. How does one get grad students?
Even if so, considering the length of incubation and allowing for a decent Ro, there were very very few cases of COVID-19 in the US in Dec-early Jan. If someone claims they had it at the time based on respiratory virus symptoms, the overwhelming odds are still on they having been one of the hundreds of thousands of symptomatic flu or similar cases, not one of the handful of COVID cases.
Oh, I've heard this so many times before! Too slow, to old, too unIDE, too non-javascript, too Lisp, too this, too that.

And yet, Visual Studio is fading away, Eclipse is gone, Netbeans (of "just stop using Emacs for Java" fame ) is on life support.

Emacs is here to stay.
Even for Latin-script-based languages pre-unicode times were hard. Polish had about a dozen encodings: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodowanie_polskich_znak%C3%B3w

With the first 5 (except Mac) still in common use in 90s and the first 3 still used when unicode appeared.

Most programmers in Poland in 90s remembered how encoding errors looked like between the most popular encoding pairs because it was a constant struggle.
With the G502 your thumb rests below the side buttons on a small rest - to click you move your thumb up a little and then squeeze. The force required to click is still small enough that very light pressure from the other side of your hand is enough not to move the mouse.
That’s easier. Just measure weight. When the weight goes up, and then comes down again, a cat has gotten into the litter box and probably done some business. Then you can activate automated systems to remove whatever has been deposited. This method also lets you track the weight of the cat, effectively for free. If you have multiple cats, then you need an RFID reader that either reads the chip you had inserted into their body, or an RFID chip that you put onto a tag on their collar.

If you’re more concerned about being told when it’s time to change the litter box because it’s too stinky, then you’re going to need to measure the stink.

Power from urine could work, but you’d need to capture that before it gets absorbed by the litter, otherwise you couldn’t measure it or generate power from it.
Also known as typosquatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting
TL;DR: Synesthesia
Very nice. I have somewhere the book Airship Technology, which I bought when I was curious about the possibility of blimp drones (I was an aerospace engineer some time ago).

I'm glad you are considering smaller blimps, I think previous projects have been too ambitious. Since I have worked on drone navigation I'm curious about your approach in that regard and how you are going to attain autonomy and get it certified. If you manage to get it a completely autonomous and certified that alone will be an asset even if you pivot away from blimps! Are you going to use alternatives to GPS? GPS is very precise when it works but I doubt you can get certification based on that alone.
> Since Go makes errors a return value you have to actively discard the result (by replacing it with a underscore, e.g. `res, _ := getResults()`) or take the time to handle the error.

LoadData(&data)

Does this function return nothing or an error ?
The address there is

Russia, Moscow, (postcode), (maybe a street name), (some number), (untranslated) Svetlane

So it seems to be backwards: The personal name is last, and the country/city is first. Does someone here perhaps know if that is the customary order of address in Russia, or if it was reversed too?
We're on a 4th wave, that's currently completely out of control. The hospitals are overwhelmed, and most Covid patients aren't being accepted by the hospitals.

Not sure why you'd say nothing.
I responded elsewhere in more detail to your incorrect claim that the fixed wing pilots would be in violation if they reported at 499’AGL instead of 500’: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28286331
Discover events on the French Riviera to round out 2021
I always wanted something like https://www.carbonfact.co/ - hope it takes off and they expand the list of products.
The only left task is to get rid [1] of UTF-16 usage.

[1] http://utf8everywhere.org/
I think it’s a sign of the times: the pandemic, the “everything is remote”… and of course the weak European ecosystem compared to the Americans’.
Really happy for all the European founders that made it.
The note about IRC reminds me of troubles that faced Finnish IRC users when UTF-8 got more popular. Since IRC networks generally didn't (and don't) have actual support for different encodings and mostly just deal with byte streams, this brought a lot of issues with Ä, Ö, Å, €, and some other more esoteric characters. Naturally a lot of Ã¤ and � abounded.

An interesting consequence was that channels that had non-ASCII characters in their names were split into two, since to the network they were different characters. I remember taking over a couple of channels by creating the UTF-8 versions of them and waiting for people to slowly migrate over.

Getting all of this to work correctly was quite difficult. With Irssi and similar terminal clients, you'd have to correctly configure not just the client but also screen, $TERM, locale, and your terminal. Even if you had a correctly configured UTF-8 client, you could still have problems. Since you can't tell 8-bit single-byte encodings apart other than by heuristics, typically you would have your client attempt to treat a message as UTF-8 and if it's invalid, use a fallback option like ISO-8859-15 (latin-9). But here's the fun thing about that: since IRC networks only deal with byte streams, they may truncate an UTF-8 message in the middle of a multibyte character. This would fail to be detected as valid UTF-8 and would use the fallback option, leading to mojibake for seemingly no reason.

All of this lead to quite some resistance to UTF-8 on the channels I was on. It was deemed the problems were bigger than the new possibilities. I mean, we could speak Finnish/English just fine and there was usually no need for any other languages. Eventually UTF-8 won, especially when mIRC released a version without an option to change the encoding.
That really varies a lot by geographic location. Oxford, Cambridge (and to a lesser extent, London!) are very cycling intense places and the infrastructure is reasonable. Nothing compared to Denmark, Germany or Holland, but reasonable nevertheless.
This is incredibly awesome!
> You wouldn't even be able to open a checking account, never mention any credit again.

Is this just hearsay? It seems extreme, even for French levels of bureaucracy.
The slovenian and slovakian embassies meet each month to exchange wrongly addressed mail.

A package sent to me, living in austria, europe, got sent through australia, australia.

Mail errors are common.
> The car is king.

This seems a very strange observation to make about London. It actually has the lowest rate of car ownership of the cities in the UK.

In my experience the primary mode of travel is public transport (or it was before Covid-19 at any rate), with people occasionally using their cars for trips outside London and perhaps larger shopping trips. Though this clearly varies by Burrough, with those on the outskirts of Greater London being more car focused than those near the centre.
Dealing with multiple code pages was terrible, ugly, impossible, and simply awful.

Unicode was a great salvation. Until the Unicode spec wandered off into nutburgerland:

1. embedding invisible semantic information into the encodings

2. multiple encodings that mean the same thing

3. moved beyond standardizing existing alphabets, and wandered into a never-ending stream of people inventing all sorts of glyphs and campaigning to get them into Unicode

4. set language back 2000 years by deciding that hieroglyphs were better than phonetics

5. conflating 𝖋𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖘 with alphabets

6. the crazy concept of "levels" of Unicode compatibility

all resulting in it simply being impossible to correctly support Unicode in your programs, or design a font to display Unicode.
Heh, "business" dumping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
> it has the potential to obliterate predatory payday lending

Say you earn about $200 over expenses in a given month. Your car suffers a problem that requires $1000 to repair. This is 5 months of income, but you probably want to repair the car at the beginning of the 5 month period rather than the end.

How much of a difference will it make if your paycheck arrives daily rather than semimonthly?
I don’t quite understand the benefit. Surely, if you have to take loans to get over the month, this won’t change anything as your overall income is still the same. I guess for unexpected expenses, you can bridge the gap one-time by borrowing from future-you.

What am I missing?
If you go on big rides in the middle of nowhere then you can't really afford to have components fail on you. I always take a few tools, small parts etc. but if something like a pedal or stem fails I'm walking a long way home. Quality components are made of different materials (e.g. higher grades of Alu) and manufactured using better processes (e.g. cold forging, not stamped) so they are stronger and lighter. I also don't pick the very lightest components since I need durability.

Aside from that, the joy of riding is what gets me out. Many cyclists choose tough hill climbs for added fitness gains and challenge. There is a good kind of difficulty (steep grade somewhere picturesque) and a bad kind (unresponsive bike that doesn't roll well)
Exactly. If you live in a safe and secured society why would you want to do something risky like creating a startup. One of the biggest success for the EU startup scene was just copying what is done in California, avoiding the risk of trying out new ideas.

On the top of that, regulation in the EU is much worse than in the US. This does not help either.
I wouldn't be surprised. Daniel Dines started UiPath in Romania but for it to become truly global, he had to move to NY and even incorporate the company there.
That's the modern way to do business, rent out hotel rooms without a license, start a cab business without a license. Pay less than minimum wage. Lie to your customers. The fact that you're undermining the fabric of society is just a negative externality, it doesn't go on the balance sheet.
Cuckdowncels with ass on fire.
Payday lending is usually considered to be for amounts that are less than one month's income.
The weekly video sessions that StartupSchool offers are great. I participated in them during the first batch when they were led by YC alumns (I think now they're just self-organized), they basically just consist of people taking turns telling the group what they did last week and what they plan to do this week. In retrospect it was really great thing and helped me enormously to focus and make progress. Especially as a solo founder it's hard to keep focused as there's no one to "yell" at you if you're getting distracted, so having a group of peers that are in the same situation and that provide a bit of social pressure and encouragement was really great. Also, people would sometimes share stuff they struggle with, which also helped a lot to put things in perspective as startup life can get pretty grim, so it helps to laugh about failures with other people.

Really sad they
"If you live in a safe and secured society why would you want to do something risky like creating a startup."

Isn't that just another way of saying "quality of life"?
> you are deliberately trying to inflict harm upon the pilot

I suspect most people who shine lasers at aircraft are just being stupid and don’t intend to inflict harm on the pilot.

I’ve been hit by a green laser in a high-wing. At 3000’, the beam is wide enough that it lights up a substantial fraction of a wing, (quite brightly at night). I suspect that looks pretty entertaining to the laser wielder on the ground. I turned off my position lights, reported their location to ATC, and hope they’re caught, but I think it’s way more likely that they were being a bored butthead (probably a group thereof) than them actually trying to hurt me.
Tauri feature freeze and security audit
Can't you do an emacs server, ssh into the box and have a local emacs attach to it?
I don't really assume malicious intent here - this is presumably "caching" the current unsaved changes on the cloud in case your application crashes or something. But the fact that it's not obvious at all is a major problem. There's also no way to selectively disable this behavior - if you want to use iCloud Drive for some documents you need to put up with this.
As a solo european with a secret startup Ive been working on for a couple of years ( Im semi retired young ) where should I apply for an assessment for possible seed? Is enrolling onto ycombinator still the best way?
The most underused browser feature: reader mode
The Carbon Footprint Sham – A 'successful, deceptive' PR campaign
Interesting, I didn't know payday lending was a thing in Spain.

Delaying salary payments serves two purposes: first, to benefit the employer by keeping your money in their account longer; and second, at least culturally, to force you into a budget cycle "for your own good." People accept these things culturally but there's no reason they should have to.

When I moved to Germany from the US I was a little shocked to discover that I would be paid at the end of the month and not every two weeks. They took the cyclical paternalism one step further, and of course also forced me to give my employer an interest-free credit line. It would be fun to have the leverage to challenge that, but I did not.

What do you think the ideal payment frequency would be?

For wage labor it seems like you should get paid daily at least, but then why not hourly? Might it even be motivational to see your net pay (after deductions of course) dropping into your account every hour, and you get a notification in some app?

For a salaried position I think I'd be quite happy getting paid by the week, especially if my actual salary were set on a weekly basis so I always got the same amount.
Cashflow, the same as for busineses. If you don't have one months' spare cash as a "float", then you may have to resort to lending at the end of the month.
As long as the postal code is legible, they can forward it to the post office for that area and let someone local figure it out. The rough shape and numbers might be enough to tell without a decoding table.
In our hometown, a big project was just finished where most busy intersections were replaced with bike tunnels. It was an expensive project, but now that it's finished it saves a lot of time in the morning commute for both cyclists and drivers.
My point wasn't that cops have authority there, but that cops break the rules when it suits them.
It seems to me that this article is saying exactly the opposite of what you say.

The article is about how Europeans, that live in that "safe and secured society", are creating more startups than before.

>>"On the top of that, regulation in the EU is much worse than in the US. This does not help either. "

If you check those start-ups you can see that most of them are joining Y-combinator but they stay in Europe. So, also the opposite of what you are implying.
So the alleged connection is a hyperlink (or something to the same effect). And in the case of a physical object, it could be GPS coordinates. Right... therefore the only tie between the NFT and the object it's allegedly tied to is that the NFT contains directions to find the object... but these directions can also be found elsewhere for free. I think it's clear that the only way NFTs can be sold for money is by misrepresenting what NFTs are. Selling NFTs under the pretence that they're more than just directions is dishonest at the very least, if not downright fraud.
> So let’s be clear about one thing: I know plenty of junior developers who have put plenty of seniors to shame.

Agree. My comment was more about: most of the engineers out there (and yes, I do include myself) tend to rely and trust on information that is easily accessible; no matter if they juniors or seniors. I think this also applies to everyday life in general as well (e.g., we tend to read the newspapers to get "informed", but we rarely go to the source of truth to check our "facts").
That wouldn’t fix the Visa/Mastercard chokepoint, as you need fiat money to buy cryptocurrencies.
> 'How are we to reconcile this commonsense “manifest image” of the world with the quantitative “scientific image” (to borrow philosopher Wilfrid Sellars’ famous distinction)? The answer is that they cannot be reconciled.'

This was the point I lost interest. Why is that the answer? What evidence do you have that that is the answer? I think a large number of neuroscientists would consider themselves as working on reconciling these two images - so dismissing all their work as impossible or futile seems premature, if not arrogant.
I'm fairly sure you have the right to a bank account under French law, but banks have the right to refuse you as a client.

This means that if you get rejected as a client by enough banks you can go to the Banque de France and they will select a bank that is then obligated to provide you with an account.
Cuckdowncels, get cancer and die...masked.
>> Battles have rarely been massive charges from two sides of a flat battlefield, as we see in war movies.

Except e.g. WW1, which was just waves of senseless charging into machine-guns. It's hard to convince soldiers to charge into almost certain death but in war on an industrial scale (to which I would also count the napoleonic wars) it's possible. War can be unbelievable cruel, just compare the practice of decimating your army in roman times. You just kill every tenth soldier of your own army, because an army nine tenth its size that follows your orders is more useful than an army in full strength that does not.
I don't recall 'Alow notifications' ever been as widespread as it is now. What happened? It's on the vast majority of websites I visit.
Apparently neurotoxic, and not meant to be applied directly to human skin. Wouldn't hang around this product. Unless there was an actual risk of contracting malaria otherwise.
Everyone is almost now playing video games. I think it's a great pastime. Besides, it's even more interesting when you know more tricks. I just found a great website https://dmarket.com/pt/ingame-items/item-list/csgo-skins/pis... where I now buy skins at a very low price and enjoy the game even more.
We have to prevent deflation so money is cheap, and the tech sector is one of the first in line to get it. We have it good folks, cash in while the music is playing.
But again, this reduces next month’s income. So you’ll end up having the same problem every month. Unlike with companies, employed people’s income doesn’t vary between months (or maybe it does for some?).
Weekly feels about right, but as you say: what reason is there for the lower bound? We have high frequency trading, why not high frequency wages?

I'm reminded of the minimum wage machine paying out one US penny every five seconds: https://www.blakefallconroy.com/minimum-wage-machine.html

(The minimum granularity is probably that of your timesheet or timeclock, and then we get into how oppressive the surveillance involved in policing that can be, bathroom breaks, screen-watching software, etc.)
What's the point of an infix syntax that demands obvious. unnnecessary parentheses, as a matter of correctness?

"grouping level" is a cringe-inducing dumbing down of proper terminology. It suggests associativity, but associativity does not have levels. It must be referring to "precedence".

= and / are not at the same level of precedence in basic mathematics!

In elementary school you learn

y = x / 2

without requiring parentheses.

It makes sense to require parentheses when exotic, unfamiliar operators are involved for which the precedence and associativity would be hard to remember.

Not for operators drilled into your head by sixth grade.