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The UX of just being able to naturally sit idling in a voice chat and have friends drop in at will is the point of discord and it's done very well. This user interaction being a first-class citizen is a big deal.

Maybe alien to some people, but I've spend the last 17 years of my life hanging out in Xfire/Teamspeak/Vent/Mumble/Discord and I think it's one of the absolute best things that tech has been able to give us, just constantly being in a room with all your friends.
Every part of the law and order wing of conservativism is a conflict vs its libertarian wing. The only reason they're even in the same party is that they both agree on economic freedom and the US first past the post voting creates a two party system.
You are basically saying because some of you believe in God you have the right to force your beliefs on everyone else which is the biggest issue I have with so called pro-lifers. Pushing their religion and worse yet mixing that into policy making.
the crowd around you will hold all possible interpretation of your behavior depending on their own bias

you'll be an entitled douche, a snub, a weirdo, a shy, a geek, but maybe a 'independant mind', a mysterious person, someone who doesnt brag, etc

who know what someone is when you run into it for a minute
> And nobody blinks an eyelid.

But maybe they should?

Like, I agree that if your web page loads a full MB of Javascript, eliminating JQuery should be the least of your concerns; it's a drop in the bucket, so optimize elsewhere. But web pages really shouldn't be loading 1 MB of Javascript in the first place.

It's so nice when I come across a website that's actually slim, I can really feel the difference...
> I started with 3mg, got knocked out way too fast.

Yeah, you see that doesn't happen with me with 5 mg.

I take it at least an hour before my planned time to go to sleep and it takes at least that long to kick in for me.

People responding to me still don't understand that there's significant interpersonal variation.

I literally don't understand this concept of melatonin "knocking me out". It doesn't do that to me at all. If I really wanted to just plug myself into a computer game or something I could easily power through the 5mg of melatonin and stay up until >3am.
GREAT work!

I can understand why big companies use LC type of questions to assess coding skills of those who graduated recently or didn't enough experience to show their work, but I struggle to understand why many Startups adopted such way of evaluating engineers. I see many startups nowadays asking to candidates to reverse a tree, a task that doesn't reflect the daily work in a startup (where people change gears frequently). I understand that people interview to join the big company, pass a certain bar and then get matched to a team, the startup is too small to not have clarity on what skillset they are looking for.
Unfortunately, that's not enough, since old drivers and firmware remain as security risks even if the OS is updated. This is why GrapheneOS refuses to support hardware after the manufacturer drops support.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#legacy-devices
For any open source project, you are marketing as much towards potential developers as you are end-users. Note that their home page doesn't say "Rust" at all. However, on Hacker News, there are potential contributors, and so giving them a bit of information about the project can be useful.
Ha ha. For years HN was almost fanatic about ProtonMail. It is funny to see how things change 180 in a day. Same thing happened to Apple with CSAM.

Seriously I thought I was the uncool kid for not using ProtonMail and some other HN favorites. In the end, they are all someone's server with unknown connections. Do not trust other companies no matter what. Period.
The naive way would just be to send a transaction to the recipient’s wallet address (or more practically, their ENS name) where the transaction payload is an encrypted text message.

As you point out, that requires both parties be on the blockchain. If you want to send/receive off-chain, you would probably just set up a trusted relay. e.g. send an ethereum tx to emailrelay.eth and it would forward it over the SMTP system. Send an email from a SMTP client to recipientaddr.eth@emailrelay.eth.link and it’ll do the reverse. This implementation would have the relay see all your plaintext messages. Not much different from how centralized email services like gmail operate, in practice.

There’s nothing that makes any of this technically infeasible to a knowledgeable dev today — maybe it even already exists (ethmail.cc shows there’s at least interest in it). Transaction fees kill this from a practicality point of view. Probably you want to roll this out on a layer 2 network, and those are still pretty new things.
My current company tried Monday. The engineers begged for Jira after that.
>riseup.net

They are based in the US and only provide their services to radical leftist activists.

That combination seriously smells like FBI honeypot.
The counterpoint is that it would take 350 million of those investigations to net the same amount as one Madoff.

People tend to worry about small scale corruption because they can see/understand it, but we are in an era when the real financial crime is concentrated at the top, and to your point, we have somewhat decent consumer protections for the small-scale stuff anyway.
> Also, you can do toggle mute via hotkey (which we have a draft for at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/2280), but this is surely a bonus feature.

Proper Push-To-Talk with global hotkey is one of those features that doesn't seem important but when you need it (organizing Raids in games, big meetings, etc) it makes a world of difference. That and lack of click to join voice rooms is definitely making it harder to move gaming groups over.
> thinking about it now in retrospect, do you think that really could have been a possibility?

The only thing I am saying is that if real privacy is not a possibility (and it may very well not be), they shouldn't pretend they are selling real privacy. I am not saying they should find a way to do the impossible and legally avoid laws. I am saying they should not pretend their service is any more private than it actually is.

Think of it this way: imagine someone starts advertising a magic potion that stops aging. People buy it, but they predictably continue to age and die. If someone starts protesting, we shouldn't say "what are you complaining about? what do you want the seller to do? break the laws of nature? that's ridiculous." We should say, "we really should stop that guy from making baseless promises about his potions".
Wild life would totally benefit from nuclear power. This is often overlooked by environmentalists. Look at Tschernobyl. It's like hitting the reset button and removing humans (a bug, not a feature) from the equation.
Rolling release is kind of hard. We want to make sure that we keep our promises that we've set forth in `:help api-contract` and other expectations about semver. We think this is very beneficial for the plugin writing community. It's also hard because sometimes we merge something into master, before a release, and then recognize that a change to an API, an extension, etc. may be necessary for a feature to truly be great. Rolling release can make some of these things very hard.

However, we're hoping to release more often now to prevent this kind of situation.

I'm not 100% the person to talk to about releases, I primarily just try and write code to make Lua more fun to use :)

Side Note: You can install the HEAD of neovim easily with brew. `brew install neovim --HEAD` I think will do that for you. I'm not sure if that's what you mean by source/HEAD packages or not (I have no idea anything about Mac).
I think a "server" on discord is more like a "organisation" on slack than an actual server. i.e. it's a tenant partition on a multi-tenant centrally hosted system.
It’s not hard, Quake did it right many years ago. It just requires you to limit yourself in ways that aren’t acceptable these days.
Nuclear has two problems: high cost due to lack of scale, and bad publicity. The crazy people which produced the Chernobyl disaster not only directly killed hundreds of people and displaced hundreds of thousands, they turned the whole idea of nuclear power generation into a hobgoblin.

The "nuclear waste" is still mostly fuel, it can be processed and burned further. But this involves, among other things, producing and extracting plutonium (which itself is a fine nuclear fuel), and thus some suspicion of producing more nuclear weapons.
I've wondered the same things, I figured there was some person scanning submissions, hopefully not the much loved and overworked DanG.
"Security updates. No feature updates are required (Which is sensible in my opinion.)"

The lines get blurry.
Is a modern browser a feature upgrade or security?

Well, both. But if the vendors really would just sort of fix their old mobile browser, you would still be stuck with a old browser unable to interact with the modern web.

Is it a feature update, that you want to install newer apps? (like another browser)

For this to make sense, it should enable you to update your whole OS of the devicey that it can at least install and update common apps. Otherwise its benefit is very limited.
Exactly, the people who argue for online courses as if they are entitled to them are quick to jump to the defence of them, yet they are totally unpractical for swaths of fields.
I look up to Atlassian. Somehow they continue to easily sell even though so many hates it. I don't know what the secret sauce is... but I want it.
It doesn't really matter if you talk or don't talk. If they don't like you, they will find a reason to arrest you and hold you. If you do not put yourself in the stress position required to cuff you, they will charge you with "Resisting arrest without violence." If you are out of town, you won't be able to make bail, and you'll wait in jail for a few weeks before your first hearing.

The notion of "innocent until proven guilty" and "you won't be punished before being found guilty" is long, long gone in the USA.

Not talking to the police will not protect you - what will protect you is not being there when the police arrive. Don't answer the door if the police knock. If anyone has called the police for any reason, including those not involving you, leave immediately.

If you have to interact with the police, behave in a respectful-to-the-point-of-obsequious; be warm, friendly and cooperative. Maybe they'll ignore you. But if you stubbornly insist on your rights, and refuse to talk, they will see that as disrespect and aggression and they will hurt you.
It's possible they told him but given that he admits he didn't know what a binary tree is it seems unlikely he did well at a Google coding interview, where I assume 90% of people know.

> But ultimately, should Google have hired me? Yes, absolutely yes. I am often a dick, I am often difficult, I often don’t know computer science, but. BUT. I make really good things, maybe they aren't perfect, but people really like them. Surely, surely Google could have used that.

Hmm so he fully admits that he made a bad package manager and is often a difficult dick. He sounds pretty arrogant too. I wouldn't have hired him.

And yes it is bad (try installing an old version of something). Just because it is popular doesn't mean it is good. It only ever had one competitor (ports) and that wasn't really Mac focused.

It's of no interest to Google that something bad you made happened to become popular. It's not like you can repeat that on demand.

Would you hire the person that wrote Bash? Or YAML?
Name an atrocity by a non-government actor that rivals what the USSR did.
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Another possible mitigation is SecureBookmarks[0] which uses SRI integrity hashes and Data URLs to ensure that you always get the same web app.

At worst, this means the security level fits the TOFU model (Trust On First Use), which is better than the default BEEF model, which stands for "Beware Each and Every Fetch".

[0] https://coins.github.io/secure-bookmark/
this, the entire article is misleading as well anyways.
I know we're not supposed to mention downvotes here but I really am genuinely interested in how someone could disagree with this argument. I genuinely want to hear what you have to say, downvoter. Please tell me which part of this you disagree with.
Everyone seems to expect Protonmail to take the fall for them.
The problem is "affordable housing" isnt actually affordable for many. I qualify for it in the city I live in, and despite working full time for significantly above minimum wage, the rent on a 1bd apartment through this program would be about 75% of my take-home income.
Simplest scheme to test 6502 CPU
Digitizing Machine
See USA vs. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. People who ran a charity which gave money to another charity which helped orphans, some of whom allegedly (according to an anonymous tipster) happened to be orphaned because their parents had committed terrorist attacks, were sentenced to 65 years in prison.
That doesn’t refute my “aberration” claim. If you can demonstrate that even 1% of citizens or tourists have been subjected to civil forfeiture then I’ll withdraw my claim. But I’m pretty sure CF is on the order of “struck by lightning”.

Of course, the reading comprehension of people in this thread has been aggressively low, so I will repeat that none of this vindicates CF.
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OpenCV AI Competition 2021 Regional Prize Winners Announced
one thing that my last decade taught me (with examples from .. trading) related to his mention of acting and compounding, with a bit of dusty spiritualishness

if you find yourself in total chaos, try many small things, and don't bother with negatives and failures, just take what's nice, drop what's bad, repeat. it requires a very strange mindset.. feels almost like religious faith, but fear and self imposed negativity can be such killers .. being a tiny bit blind and hopeful is often great (hence the small things, don't hope to become usain bolt tomorrow and smile while waiting).
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, since I'm not that well educated about this. Why can't they sue the police department or some similar body instead of the individuals? My understanding is that QI protects the individuals, but not the government itself from being sued; however, I don't see any discussion of that route when this defense is brought up.
I am...familiar with falling down rabbit holes.

I cut a patch to fix sparc64 building with the new zstd feature. I then discovered the new zstd feature was broken for endian portability because lol bitfields.
can you explain me how spacex/tesla are carbone neutral?

i agree they had plans to develop solar panels, but AFAIK, the company just collapsed and musk is being presently trialed for bailing out solarcity in an illegal way.

silly morality? can you further explain the morality of sending rich tourists in orbit when people are dying now out of climate change?
From their website, regarding Onion:

"...we are one of the only email providers that supports this). "

What now?
> Approximately 500,000 people around the world are killed by guns each year.

Huh... That's much lower than I expected. So all these decades of heated argumentation over this while car accidents kill 3x the number of people.

Also keep in mind that removing guns doesn't remove the intent to kill. Many of the people who intend to kill somebody will find a way without a gun.
I’m a developer and I often see the opposite: a manager has a good mental map of everything, and developers develop separate chunks of functionality. Unless you’re a software architect or a very senior dev, like a team lead, you won’t see the big picture.
Upvoted, but it's got little to do with race. What you describe happens to everyone, regardless of gender or race. You're more likely to get this treatment if you're black, but it's probably like a 30% margin.
A meditation on three dead side projects
It’s not about turning a profit.
https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/energy...

California already has 4500 GWh of storage. They don't have those peak power levels (currently, 4.5GW) but that's a matter of capital investment into pumps and generators.

Not that that is even needed. California has a very large coastline with extremely reliable wind power. For example, there isn't a single spot anywhere along the coast of California that is forecast to have <8kts of wind for more than a day this month. Overprovisioning of wind power is a much bigger part of the solution to the duck curve than storage is.
Sure, of course. I guess I assumed wrong that when you said “existence” you were talking about biology and not lifestyle or consumer choices. I actually thought someone mentioned breathing and now I don’t see it, so my bad for going off on a tangent… ;)
This is sadly a general trend. Take some numbers out of context. The numbers appear large because they are a small fraction of really really large population. Publish on social media and induce outrage. Clicks and clout follow. For example: covid deaths, which are 1-3% of total deaths from all causes for young people and up to 10-15% for older generations.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
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>Agile is a way for non-technical managers to exercise arbitrary power over engineers

Agile was explicitly invented by engineers for engineers, just look at the history of the original manifesto.

One big problem is that it was built for self-managing teams composed only of engineers and established businesses are not built like that at all. There are non-technical people which are necessary and have legitimate business needs. Some of these are managers with power, so of course they're going to (ab)use the process to get what they need.

You can either change the structure of the business itself to be more Agile-like (good luck with that in an established company, especially a non-tech one), or adopt a more realistic posture which invariably involve concessions and deviations from the Agile model, but ends up better for all involved.
However, this whole situation could be solved with different standards (dots, dashes, and less colors) along with laws against discrimination.

If another scheme were to be implemented, men could have the same success rate as women when applying for this job.
It's always Shut The Fuck Up Friday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgWHrkDX35o
All seized funds should be held until released or destroyed (by the treasury).

If it goes into the government's hands, they get the benefit. If its destroyed everyone gets a small benefit.

For cases of real property, auction it off then destroy the cash.
We can't know, but

> I am often a dick, I am often difficult

If that came out during interview, it could easily have sunk their packet
It seems to me most of their challenges could be solved by replacing gke with self-managed k8s cluster specifically tuned for the use case. But then it sounded they had pretty barebones stack if they managed to pull off migration in a month
How would you ban influencers? They are just content creators. Anyone can sponsor their work.

I can sponsor an open source project whose work I like. Likewise I can (and have) sponsored musicians.

Why couldn’t a corporation sponsor someone who for example makes youtube videos about fashion, or a tech blogger for that matter?
That’s false: Confluence went from Wikimarkup in 2008 to wysiwyg in 2010 (to big uproars); and they are uniformizing all their cloud products under the new ADF editor.
Because it is the phone manufacturers' suppliers, specifically the SoC manufacturers, who have created this mess for all the reasons previously stated upthread. Bright line regulations like those proposed (with some of the suggestions made here) would change that for the better.
You check all of that __before__ the deploy. You don't let that stuff in. And once you have something up it stays up. Otherwise a single idiot can bring down the whole system.
> It doesn't do anything

It does in countries like the UK that legally mandate ISPs to block sites at the DNS level.
That beats the purpose of sci-hub… People should be able to access this information on the internet; not have to google, “how to use the darknet?” First
Can't speak for the poster, but I have seen the argument that if solar and wind can both be over-provisioned by a factor of 3, then storage will not be much of an issue.

Fits with a "solar and wind will be too cheap to meter [the amount of cost and materials going into manufacture]" paradigm.
Ah but I'm not talking about getting around the actual DNS part (even though that is indeed trivial).

I'm talking about obtaining the content. Sooner or later they'll just ask a techie friend where they can still get their sweet torrents and they're back in business.

They've blocked the pirate bay in the Netherlands for a long time and it was hardly effective at all. In fact it did the opposite: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2047227/downloading-increase...

And finally, don't forget: The people who are using Quad 9 are people who do know what they're doing. Otherwise they'd be simply using their provider DNS.
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They also use multiple TLDs to stay one step ahead of US authorities who apply pressure to the domain registrars.

.se has worked for a long time now, but .tw no longer does, and I guess she's on .ru now, going by the headline.
Agile is a jobs program for managers.
The language? No. Starving academics of the humanities, desperately trying to come up with "catchy" concepts? Absolutely.
It would make no sense since contrary to popular belief you can be easily tracked through the use of the blockchain. And you also can't erase evidence.
Support letters: mostly ghost-written, always glowing. What’s the point?
You... are happy and find it funny that a service that was deemed trustworthy is not as much as previously thought?
Yep, that one is informative as well. My bad!
Rust is such a niche language still that I'd consider it a red flag if I was an investor.
But I'm not going to take a few weeks of prep time to prepare for a high-school trig test, either. I have no reason to waste my time in that way.

And I have no reason to waste my time spending a few weeks prepping for a code interview, either. I am who I am. Either you want that, or you don't. I'm not going to try to spend weeks studying so I can pretend to be different than I am.

(Disclaimer: I'm not looking, and I haven't been for a very long time. I've never been desperate while looking. I haven't even been unemployed while looking in over 30 years. If I were unemployed and watching the bills pile up, I might feel a whole lot less smug...)
Similar to that tool but more than a simulation, you can use `act` to run GitHub Actions locally. Great for testing before deploying.

https://github.com/nektos/act
That sounds like an instance of the old saying, "Got a problem? Call the police. Now you have two problems."
That's a fun list. I wish you all the luck in your quest to become a person good enough that Zendaya would want to marry.
I tried it twice and both times the first two verses seemed to be slightly changed versions of a real verse, and the rest were gibberish
Gen X + Millenials have nominal debugging skills.

"Why can't my computer see my printer?", etc.

Gen Zers, roughly speaking, throw their hands up at the first sign of difficulty. If its not connected to bluetooth and working in minutes, its not working.
And ladders. ;-)
No single tech is gonna be the solution here. It’s going to a mix of lowered consumption, more efficient tech, time shifting of demand (EVs selectively charging based on the sun), and a wide variety of energy storage tech.

Carbon capture is attractive because it can be used in places where energy density is a critical factor.