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> I think a computer should be able to solve dependencies, search for include dirs, and figure out how to run an arbitrary piece of software by now.

Again, I would assert that Ansible is not the tool for you. You want a comprehensive, dependency-mapping, auto everything detection, autoremediation tool. That doesn't exist right now, for various reasons. I don't disagree with your general direction in the least bit, in fact I appreciate your enthusiasm. However, expecting a cow when you don't see a salt lick is a tad foolhardy. I'll explain below.

> Yes, or zero-button

As someone who has been doing this shit a long, long time, I have to say when I hear someone complaining about something not being in apt I immediately note that this person has not once even dipped their toe in isolated package dependencies and versioning. Even with "teraflops of compute" at their disposal.

> Hell, when I had my first computer in the mid 1990s I had single button installs other than having to swap floppies

MS Word is not a configuration management framework.

> We're trying to build level 5 autonomus cars, which I don't think we'll get to (we'll get to level 4), but I think a computer should be able to solve dependencies, search for include dirs, and figure out how to run an arbitrary piece of software by now.

Software exists that can do this, and you most certainly could in Ansible with some fancy lookups and dynamic group_vars, but you would not know how accomplish this without reading the manual, nor do I believe that you should be able to. I believe that understanding the systems you are configuring and dictating precisely how they should be configured, in code, and automating the regular application of those configurations is exactly the best of what's available right now. That goes for Terraform + Ansible, Docker, k8s, whatever.

But while we're on the topic of autonomy, I take extreme umbrage with your analogy of cars to you, as a systems operator, wanting to consume Ansible as a configuration manager. Ansible isn't the car and you're not the driver here. Maybe somewhere between operator and driver. But the notion that you should be able to simply install this and expect it to magically detect everything that you want it to do is a gross misunderstanding of what this tool is and what exactly it does.

Again, something you would have understood if you had read just a little.
This has been happening for years. Just try sending a message containing the string `joebiden.info` and see what happens.

We’re way past the rubicon. Get your information as best you can and just hope you’re somewhat aligned with the mainstream.
I've tried fresh beans. Roasted and fast couriered to door to be consumed within the week. I'm not sure I care that much about the difference in taste. If you enjoy this sort of thing great, but I'm pretty happy with my stale beans and cheap espresso machine.
Ages ago, the Santa Cruz variant of SCO ran some key components of the State Department's sensitive communication system. The rigs were good, solid and did their job. It was sad when they morphed into the bad SCO.
>In light of the biological evidence supporting the theory that SV40-contamination

That's not a standard "further research needed" statement.

>the mere abstract possibility that any given vaccine might contain contaminants

Because other medicine isn't mandated, isn't developed in under a year, and isn't given statutory waivers of liability.
Is that where if the pot gets cold they pour the coffee back into the tank and brew it over? Because I can tell you they do that in the US Coast Guard.
I’ll buy it if it runs Temple OS.
I had Windows NT 4.0 with SQL Server 7.0 running for 6 years... never restarted (or patched)... This was our dev/qa server. Uptime from 1999 till October 2005.... then some fool shutdown the power to the whole dev cage....

Still remember the credentials too... sa and password Nimda

No issues ever... HP hardware....
It's e2e but we can your messages before you send them. Original

Edit : it appears that it is not e2e by default
The headsets need to get a lot more balanced and lighter for extended use. I don't want a buff neck.
Whenever someone loses their account the first thing they do is run to the vendor and flip their shit when the vendor is unable to do anything.

They certainly turn to Apple for help, but I think it's sometimes simply despair and not flipping their shit.

E.g. I was once in an Apple store and the Genius was trying to help someone who, for some inexplicable reason, did everything in the Guest account of her laptop.

The laptop rebooted for some reason (maybe she said OK to install updates?), and she lost the contents of Guest. Which means she lost everything.

Vendors like Apple need to be prepared for all sorts of data loss scenarios. Ordinary users simply don't think about computers the same way as engineers do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QurtwJdb5Ew&t=229
That's what I thought first too. Rather, it doesn't have to be an old system but it can be spotted as an active missile launcher site by visual survillance.
Firmly disagree.

KSP, Space Engineers, Astroneer, Stationeers are/were all indie space games that look far, far better than this. From the unaliased (0,255,0) green text to the photographic planet textures that look horribly out of place to the bizarre cartoon drawings of NPCs to the stretched out text in the UI bars ('capacitor' etc) I can easily say that graphics are absolutely not a selling point of this game.

The graphics look comparable to Freespace 2, which is from 1999.
I thought that distilled water is bad because there are no more micro elements?
Don't worry, it's another 'accident' by the automated moderation systems; brought to you by Facebook. /s

Do you really think that these companies are on your side or are your friends?
I was the same for years until I had a pourover at a coffee shop in NYC that knocked my socks off. I still enjoy bad coffee but the pleasure I’ve gotten from making better coffee over the years has been worth it IMO.

Incidentally, it’s entirely possible to enjoy good coffee without becoming a total snob, just like it’s possible to use vim without being a dick about it :)
As someone else pointed out, this definitely gets points for using sh/awk.

Just wanted to mention that gnuplot also has a "dumb" output option that will generate ascii plots in the terminal. Thay is usually my go-to for this use case.
"Good Old Neon" reads entirely different in the context of his suicide. It's almost a different story when you put it in that space.
IMO beans make the biggest difference

If you just get some fresh locally roasted beans and make French press you’re already mostly there

It’s diminishing returns after that point

Highly doubt anyone’s going to notice a difference with tap water
And then there's the experience of using Jupyter's terminals, where you reflexively C-w to delete the last word, but the tab closes. You then reopen the terminal, which has helpfully retained its state--including the word you just tried to delete.

Alas.
Drink the coffee the way you like it.

If you like to experiment, try different methods of brewing - French Press or pour over are easiest. You can try single origin beans, or blends, ground or whole bean that you grind with a propeller grinder gasp.

I consider myself a coffee snob and even I buy pre ground beans sometimes because I'm a lazy old codger. Frankly I sometimes don't want to go through my coffee ritual in the morning and just want a simple, quiet, pour over to get me going.

Absolutely nobody should be knocking the way you take your coffee.
The flip side is that it's as easy to blow someone off by sneering at "just asking questions" when they either honestly don't know, or where they disagree with you but honestly think you can't answer the questions.

And sometimes people ask questions because they know very well what someone is insinuating, but are trying to force them to actually say it outright.
The Oculus Quest 2 and Half Life Alyx beg to differ
> they invest far more effort in keeping your data private than every other OEM.

Especially in China...
Apple's privacy claim sounds silly, knowing that they gave up on protecting users data where it truly matters - against the government abuse and focus mostly on the least dangerous threat (if threat at all) - online advertising.
The video doesn't make that assumption. It has relatively straightforward calculations about the size of the market, the existing competitors, the number of satellites needed to support a customer base of whatever size given SpaceX's own numbers. And the economics don't make much if any sense. The only objection I had is that low latency internet is more useful than just to gamers. E.g. voip and video calls, even ordinary browsing are unbearable with high latency connections.
What can they do about old versions? Yes clearly it is an exploit but patching only fixes it in new versions. If someone insists on using an old version with that bug, they are on their own.
It’s an enjoyable part of the day and a fun skill to practice.

Snobbery exists, but I think most people are just excited about the subject and perhaps overly eager to share their learnings. To some it seems snobbish, but from the coffee lover’s point of view each thing they’ve learned has made a big difference in their experience and they’d like to share that with others.

Just like any skill, there will be gatekeepers and elitists who think they are better than others. They’re the vocal minority.
Probably before 2022 right?
>I'm glad someone took time to disprove it

What do you think "disprove" means in this context though?

E.g. do you think they really settled anything, the way we can prove a math theorem or verify some physical theory to hold (as a predictive model) to the nth degree of precision?

>When I read the description, I understand "determines" as in, your thoughts internally work in terms of language processing, so their complexity is limited to the complexity of the language(s) you know.

That would mean that developing further language is impossible or even that developing the first languages would be impossible - as those nearly language-less peoples have no means to develop those more complex later concepts.

It's not like e.g. Europeans (let's take them as a model of "advanced" language) emerged in nature in fully formed ancient Greek, Latin, English, French, etc.

They started with the same or even more "constrained" languages (verbally and conceptually) as any primitive people, and - going back to our forefathers - even language-less.
I don’t know, weighing my coffee three times a day doesn’t seem too appealing. Using scoopes is fine as long you tune in your taste with the scoop, but you have to try to scoop consistently.
Seems to me we are weighting the reaction to the reaction to them too highly.
It's better in the sense that if it starts pulling shit that goes one step too far for you, throwing a FireTV stick away is less of a sacrifice than junking the entire TV. That's my main reason for wanting to keep things separate.
Imagine having this in your CI build process:

curl http://somescriptthisdudehasnocontrolof.sh | bash

I just can't.
Totally agree. My default assumption is that even if she was a fellow traveler with the anti-SCO camp, she wasn't funded although that could be naive of me.

But, yes, in general there were fellow travelers with various camps behind the scenes and money flowed in deniable ways.

I suspect it was a pseudonym given her concern about privacy and that being a common name, although not obviously such.
Facebook has been suppressing links and profiles that don't make them money for years.
Not sure if you're referring to iCloud [device] backup or all iCloud services.

If it's the latter then yes, you can (almost) always choose not to use a service or website. That's a poor argument to defend bad privacy practices.

If it's the former then just disabling iCloud backup does not result in E2E storage of other iCloud data. iCloud photos, drive, etc. are still not E2E.
No. Your employer can't MITM your personal email session if you don't trust their MITM proxy's CA.
Abolish prisons. Let all the paedos out
As a coffee enthusiast, I can wholeheartedly vouch each and every one of the points raised in the article, except maybe the tap water and temperature.

The biggest upgrade you can do on your setup is getting a proper coffee grinder with burrs and not blades. There's little sense in buying any fancier beans if you're grinding them in store and drinking it over a period of several weeks. In a matter of hours after grinding, the coffee will be almost as stale as it'll be in two weeks' time.

Hand grinders like Hario Skerton go for like 50 USD and something like Wilfa Svart Aroma for around 100. If you don't need espresso-level fine, then it's more than great.

Great coffee doesn't have to be expensive. If you have a local roaster and they offer single origin coffee at a sane price point, you'll make your money back in a few months time if you're an avid fan of take out coffee.

An Aeropress and electric mill will cost about 140 dollars and for example approx 20 cups of Intelligentsia coffee will cost roughly a dollar per cup. That's top shelf coffee, compared with mediocre Starbucks black coffee which will cost you double that.

I'd much rather pay for some 15 year old single malt whiskey and pay less per portion than buying Jack Daniel's from the local drinkhole.

Source: I'm a hobbyist reviewer of coffee, done some roasting and working on the judgment panel selecting Findland's best coffees.
Seems this is a very common query considering the search results on google. At least for macs they require an admin account to be setup they can use.
For ios apple support seems to only mention the following.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201557
> Have your Apple ID password ready. For some repairs, you'll need your Apple ID password to erase your device and turn off Find My iPhone.*

> * If you're unable to turn off Find My iPhone, Apple might not be able to service your device. This policy is in force to prevent unauthorized persons from servicing your device without your knowledge. If you don't remember your Apple ID and Password, please go to iForgot.

If the screen was working I think the right thing to have done was just wipe the phone and give it to them. If it was not working that’s a tough spot.
"Oh we are so sorry, please feel free to fine us $1 million. This was a rogue programmer!"
There was no interest to keep the data, only the hardware, which Apple initially refused to unlock. I wanted my parents to be able to do this via Apple support, and not by themselves.
Ask HN: How to Become a Technical Writer?
I have come to understand that I really enjoy reading about difficult concepts and then meticulously explaining them to others in a clear manner. I have started blogging about Lisp and it’s proven to reasonably well received (link below). I would love to consider a career shift and become a technical writer, does anybody have any tips on how to do so? I am approaching my mid 30s so not sure if it’s possible to make the switch into the profession (and whether it will be stable enough for all the usual expenses one accrues by this age).

I am also happy to volunteer for any of your projects, if it helps me get experience and references.

Link to blog: https://ashok-khanna.medium.com/

Link to a couple of posts I did that did reasonably well on HN before:

https://ashok-khanna.github.io/pdf/

https://ashok-khanna.medium.com/lisp-the-web-4c00c88d11f9
This wouldn't have been possible with a judge that ignorant.
"[..] Austin Wilde held up the source of power that had enabled a Disinto to chew up a mountain in half a second - two flashlight batteries!"

It's amazing how well Asimov's robot stories have aged in these A.I. times.
Re: 2nd sentence : How do you come to this conclusion?
I had great success maintaining views (and tests on top of them) for the business people by using dbt. Everything is in git and gets deployed along side our fivetran sync.
The guardian is absolute trash. No serious person ever reads it
I don't know, I love VR and I don't think it's dead but shared video watching is not something I'd be remotely interested in.

Meeting people in VR would be nice but I think it's nicer to do something more interactive than watching video. The same way I'd never want to go on a date to the cinema. It's not really a social experience.

But of course interests vary. Maybe it's a big thing, I'm all for it if it can drive VR more mainstream:)
The birds that come to our feeder only care for the seeds when it's called. They bare come around during the summer. I guess insects are much tastier
thats a cool game engine!
Yeah. I skip coffee altogether most of the time, and drink large amounts of black tea from yunnan instead. I get awake, but don't get an elevated pulse and tense stomach like I get from coffee.

Chinese tea is, imo, much better than Indian. So much less bitter and more fragrant.
There's quite a large difference between different teas, also from the same region, so try a few different ones.
I live in Copenhagen but go to a specific tea store in malmö for my tea.
Now I feel guilty about my role in several migrations to pure IP/MPLS. If it helps at all a couple were off of Cisco Lightstream equipment.
I'm orders of magnitude less aggressive than Brendan Eich was in his successful attempt to destroy thousands of other people's marriages. I haven't destroyed anyone's family, but Brendan has destroyed many, on purpose.

Do you agree with Brendan that gay and lesbian people don't deserve the same rights as straight people do, and that their marriages should be canceled and prohibited, and do you believe that was not at all "aggressive" of him to have done that, so you give him a pass on his hostile behavior?

Of course you're pushing a baseless conspiracy theory that Brendan Eich conspired with the board of Mozilla to lie about the reason that he left. He says he was not fired. They say he was not fired. Apparently you believe and want other people to believe they are all liars, and you are claiming they conspired to publicly agree to official language that was not true. Yet you have absolutely no proof of that. And why are you supporting someone you believe is a liar? Pretty inconsistent of you.

You ARE a conspiracy theorist, no matter how much (and because) you believe those baseless lies for which you have zero evidence, yet you try to spread. The view that you want to force on others is nowhere near half true, it's completely false and unsupported by the facts, and internally inconsistent, and aggressively homophobic.

The best rationalization you can come up with is your wild guess that Brendan was not able to tolerate the hostile work environment at Mozilla, which is unmitigated bullshit, and you know it. But as I already pointed out: it was BRENDAN who was deeply hostile towards his co-workers and users, not just by his words, but by his ACTIONS. That's a well documented undisputed fact.

Do you have any shred of evidence that any of his co-workers tried (or even succeeded) to destroy Brendan's marriage, the way that Brendan successfully tried to destroy their marriages, and the marriages of thousands of other same sex married Californian families?

Do you have any proof that Brendan was not able to do his work because of hostility in the work environment that was in any way comparable to his own aggressively homophobic anti-gay hostility, and his intentional actions (not just his words) of canceling many gay marriages?

Why are you trying to cast him as a martyr, by parroting tired old Alt-Right Incel GamerGate lies? Is that the kind of person you are? Do you disagree with the Supreme Court but agree with Brendan Eich that gay and lesbian people deserve fewer human rights than straight people because they are wrong to be who they are and love who they love, and do you also believe that his hostility towards gays and lesbians was completely and morally justified and excusable, and should be applauded and defended, as you're trying to do?

Why are you so aggressively against cancel culture, unless it is directed at gay families? And why are you so tolerant of hostility towards gays and lesbians, while so intolerant of anger towards homophobes who actually cancel marriages, that you spread baseless conspiracy theories to justify Brendan's hostility and aggressive acts of cancelation?
That's a statement about the chance of dying from the vaccine to the chance of dying from Covid.

Fair point. The risk from the vaccine itself is de minimus.

I've updated my comment to clarify.
When we use a system built around programming model X to implement programming model Y, and then write our program Z using model Y on top of model X, we are deliberately implementing the “Inner Platform Effect.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
Current drafts have a much too wide definition of AI (basically any predictive function) but a fairly narrow scope of what high risk applications are (listed in an annex). For those applications in scope, the birder seems extraordinarily high. E.g. that data sets should be “free of errors”

I think things will improve before the final act. I have contributed to some of the commentary towards the regulator on this, and a lot of the flaws mentioned are now well recognized.

Disclaimer: opinions above are my own.
I don't know for sure, but off the top of my head I can come up with two reasons:

1. Bacteria can be dangerous (for the animals, for us)

2. Birds are beautiful and squirrels are adorable (esp. with their their fuzzy tails). A pool of sludge is repulsive. So, uhm, I like animal growth better for personal, subjective reasons :)
I'm a novice coffee enthusiast, and I was blown away by the difference appropriate water made to the coffee. I am now "making" my own water by adding optimal mineral mixture to distilled water. The results are superior to those with tap water ("raw" and filtered) or pretty much any bottled water brand that I've tested.
PG's arguments are not forcing you to pretend (or ignore) anything.

I think it's possible you are falling prey to the either/or fallacy.
Crawford addresses what you're saying in this paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11237
NY is interesting because, in a similar way that there was literally not one single edible vegetable in Manhattan before Whole Foods came to Chelsea, there wasn't a drop of decent coffee anywhere in a city of 8 million people before Zibetto opened about 15 years ago, and then Stumptown opened in the Ace Hotel, and after that it was like a revolution all over the city. But definitely late to the good coffee scene.
She started dating an odd guy who was wealthy and way older at the age of 20, which is really young.

While I have no doubt of her culpability in some matters, I also have no doubt that this guy was a major manipulator behind the scenes, it looked like a cultish situation from the start.

I think most everything came from him, she was a partial puppet - the fake voice, the clothing, the presentation - no 20 year old is able to figure all of that out.

When the story started to come out, I found her relationship with that much older creepy guy to be the most interesting part by far.

Legally, it's hard to say, but from a practical perspective, he's a very material part of the situation.

Also I don't doubt the things she's claiming, but again I'm not sure what it really means or implies.
Here's what I could write in C that I couldn't in (most) other languages:

unsigned short *reg = (unsigned short*)0xFFFF1014;
*reg = 0x1027;

If you have memory-mapped I/O (like the 68000-style architectures did), this lets you take a hardware register at a known address, and write any bit pattern you wanted to it. For embedded hardware, this meant that the hardware was right there, ready to work with.

Sure, you can crash your program if there isn't the hardware you expect at 0xFFFF1014. Sure, you can use this exact approach to trash memory anywhere in your program image. But it lets you easily do things that are not easily done in most other languages.