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People keep telling me that docker for desktop is more than a gui. So either it is or it isn’t and that’s not really for me to say.

But perforce is a (mainly) gui thing and was not “safe” from reimplementation.

A deciding factor may have been that perforce is licensed software; but it could have just of easily been because google wanted better integrations. Both are true for Docker for Desktop
To be honest, considering currency exchange rates, 140k for a nurse is a GINORMOUS salary in atleast 80% of countries other than the USA. I have tremendous respect for medical professionals , but surely , a nursing degree is easier to obtain than one in IT ?
Upon opening this article I was surprised but also not surprised to read that it was published April 14, 2021. Long before the wildfires of this summer started.
Here in NZ we're required to be registered to vote, but not required to vote
You have to read that “more intriguing still” paragraph as being in the same scope as the preceding one, which says

> we can compute just 64 extra bits, and have a probability of 1 - 2⁻⁶⁴ of terminating. This is so close to certainty that we can simply stop unconditionally without introducing any measurable bias (detecting any difference would require about 2¹²⁸ samples, which is prohibitive)

So, it’s about a variation on the unbiased algorithm that is slightly biased, but gains some other desirable properties.
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The ootb linter setups I've seen offer little useful checks, just everybodies feelings about your code, so personally don't find them useful. This article is a prrfect example of that, but kudos to the author for being honest about it.
well we already did - our current outbreak came from Sydney
If the second factor were enough security why even have the password?

And how do you know the attacker is one client? He can just be 1000000 clients each only trying once. And if you block them you also block the user.
"Soros" figuratively speaking, although I would not be surprised - good ol' George tends to have his fingers in a lot of pies worldwide, and this is a tasty one. Navalny had to declare himself and his fund as "foreign agent" because he took funding from abroad. Which is OK under Russian law, as long as you always state you're a foreign agent (this is required by law if someone writes about you in the news for example).

It'd be strange, I think you'll agree, to run for the top political office in the country after doing that. But even if he did run, he would not get anything above single digit percentage of support, basically some particularly liberal part of liberal elite in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

I think a lot of people (myself included) sympathise with his anti-corruption work, even though it has zero effect. But even the sympathizers know that politically he has zero prospects in any high level election there even if everything was fair and square (which it is not). The West, on the other hand, is gaslit into believing that he's Putin's arch-nemesis or something, and Putin is losing any sleep over his existence or activity. As they say in Russia: as a dog barks, the caravan goes on.

Here's another thing people in the West don't know about him: he's a nationalist and a xenophobe (he shares that with most Russian people, but he's considerably more extreme in his views), but I wonder if his curators from USAID know that. Here he is in 2011 speaking from the stage at a nationalist Russian March: https://youtu.be/BYMbYwL8sQA?t=511. To US folks, this is like Charlottesville, but without the opposing side. "Jews will not replace us" and everything. Plenty of "skinheads" in the crowd. You only don't see swastikas there because they're illegal to show in Russia.

So TL;DR: Navalny is a complicated man at best. And he's not, and will never be Putin's "rival".
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To be fair, although the US has a larger percentage of its population imprisoned than China, its government is much less intrusive and permits a great deal more political dissent, for now.
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Agreed - relatedly, I really dislike one-liners in code because more often than not, it's done for the sake of being "clever" rather than having readable code for the next person to quickly skim and understand.

I get that it's a "flex" or some sort, but honestly in production code my experience is that it reduces productivity. Programmers need a little more squinting to truly understand what that piece of code is doing.

I find it similar to run-on sentences in books - we don't like that, and in Business Writing courses they explicitly say to not do that. Code should be similarly readable.
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That's not really what's happening here. Tax obligations under the law are not clear cut. There's ambiguity. The law is often general in nature and old. It may not be clear how the law applies to a specific business.

A large business could seek out the opinion of ten different tax professionals and get a range of answers of how much tax the law requires them to pay. Even the IRS may not be certain. It's not unusual or unexpected that a business may have a disagreement with the IRS on how to interpret the law. If the taxpayer and the IRS can't come to an agreement, then the only way to resolve it is to take it to court and force a judge to make a call - the ruling then at least provides certainty to other businesses in the same situation.

For most people, their experience of paying tax as an individual has little relevance to the tax affairs of large businesses. Since there are millions of individuals, for any area of the law that's ambiguous, someone has already challenged the IRS and had the matter resolved in court, providing clarity for other individuals. This is not true for some businesses as there may only be a handful of other businesses (or even none at all) in a similar situation.
Amazon hosts websites for the US government, which no doubt the Iranian government considers a terrorist group. Probably a lot of people in Yemen and Afghanistan whose family members have been killed by drone strikes would agree. You may be too young to remember when the CIA illegally funded terrorist death squads in Nicaragua by selling arms to Iran and crack to the US, but a lot of Nicaraguans would agree, too.

Maybe we should stop trying to silence people we disagree with.
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A large part of it is thinking what else the investment could do, like asking every medical scientist that isn't trying to cure cancer/AIDS/C19/... why they are wasting time on whatever else they are doing. Another chunk is probably common or garden variety jealousy flavoured with the source of a little us-v-them!

With Tricky Dicky (sorry, sir Tricky Dicky) particularly there is the matter that he was asking for government (and thereby tax payer) handouts to help his bits of the air industry only last year.

There are similar complains for others wringing the pennies out of the 99.9% to fund their plaything projects, by pushing their workers to the point of not having decent toilet breaks and provision for other essentials for instance.
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Unfortunately this blog is hardly a shining example of web typography. 16px Cormorant used throughout has a very small x-height and very thin strokes, making for terrible legibility. I looked at this on both macOS and Windows on a high DPI screen as well as an iPad, the experience is universally poor; I suppose it would only be worse on a low DPI screen. Any user agent stylesheet is way more legible than this design. And this complaint is coming from a young person with good eyesight who routinely trade font size for more content on screen.
There's been pretty extensive study in macroeconomics, over the last 2 centuries, of which taxes are worst for the economy. The tl;dr is that the worst taxes are those that change consumer behavior the most (unless the change in consumer behavior is the goal, as with sin and externality taxes), while the best change consumer behavior the least. This is because of deadweight losses: when consumer behavior changes to avoid the tax, that a.) directly reduces mutually beneficial transactions and b.) means that the tax rate needs to be higher to collect an equivalent amount of tax dollars, because consumers change their behavior to avoid it, and the higher rate itself further distorts the market.

So land taxes, VAT, and income taxes are good; capital gains taxes are middling; sales taxes and luxury taxes and tariffs are bad. Tariffs are among the worst in this hierarchy because their incidence is - to an economist - arbitrary. In classical economics, specialization is good, and industries should go to whichever country is most efficient at providing them. Any sort of national tariff interferes with that: to the extent that the tariff succeeds at collecting revenue, it does it by making consumers choose an inferior product (in the sense that without the tariff, they would've chosen differently).

I'd expect the political rebuttal to that is "But national security - we want to make sure all our homegrown industries are competitive and we can make complete supply chains within our borders." I suspect there's an element of Lake Wobegone self-deception in there though: people think that they're better at everything than they really are. When nations cut themself off from the global economy, they often think that they've made themselves self-sufficient right up until a foreign power that's been trading the whole time shows up in your capital city with a fleet of gunboats to forcibly open your country to world markets.
Yes, if Amazon has an invalid patent on it. I think you actually know people personally that this has happened to.
> civil disobedience

'Citation needed.'

Do the TikTokkers have 'the right' to co-ordinate a joint effort to deliberately flood and take down someone's website?

So you are saying it's fine for others to flood, DDoS and take down other websites they don't like, because they disagree with the content that is on there?

The intention is obviously malicious and it is equivalent to similar web attacks such as this one which involved the authorities. [0]

The fact that my questions haven't even been answered not only proves that no-one can defend it with a logical argument that justifies this act on someone's website, but it seems that some here are even defending script-kiddies now.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37439513
This reminded me of the very first _big program_ I wrote in C. My cousin showed me steps to solve a magic square [0] and asked me to write the program.

I did not have a computer at the time. So I wrote actual program on paper, ran it, debugged it mentally. When I was satisfied, next day I went to my father's office which had a computer luckily with C compiler. I typed the whole program from the paper and ran it. There was no compiler errors or anything, but it didn't print anything on screen, absolutely nothing. I was surprised because I knew it can't fail. After spending hours of checking program and reading books (internet was still a long away), I realized I had put semicolons after every single statement including `if`s and `for`s conditions, essentially short circuiting everything. Once I got rid of those extra semicolons, it ran perfectly. What a nostalgia!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square
> Just because it’s used by very beginners it doesn’t mean it’s good. That’s, like, the opposite of the truth.

I don't remember saying anywhere that this guessing game was good. You're putting words into my mouth (keyboard?) here. What I meant to say was that saying that the Beeping Busy Beaver only needs one loop doesn't add anything to the discussion, since a simple guessing game also needs one loop. Quoting the article:

> If you have a while loop and you are not working on something that requires unbounded computation, chances are that it can be rewritten more clearly as a for loop. I ran this check against the Pylint codebase itself, and I was shocked by the hideousness of some of the while’s that turned up. They couldn’t all be rewritten, but many could.

> Even the recently-discovered Beeping Busy Beaver champion program only uses one unbounded while loop, and that’s as a kind of toplevel program driver.

Here's how I would put it, in a kinder and more humble way:

"Most of the code I write only needs one main loop, and usually I'm not the one writing it. When I'm using something like Django, I have no need for a while loop, as it's already handled by the framework. In that case, I want the linter to highlight these loops. They are a potential danger, and something I want to pay special attention to. Even when I have to write myself that loop, I want to clearly separate the main loop from what runs into it. In my experience, this leads to code that is more readable, more maintanable, and that has less bugs. Thus, this is a good linter rule."

> Beginners also clutter their code with endless “else if” sequences.

Well, it's not like they can use a switch, considering it's Python. Or are you referring to pattern matching? Or you think using a dictionnary would be more idiomatic? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

The part about the Bible and bold text was a parody of the article to quickly highlight what's wrong with it. I personally dislike bold text. I think people shouldn't use it most of the time. Thus I did the same thing as in the article: I used an appeal to authority (the Bible, equivalent to the Beeping Busy Beaver) to say that everything smaller than the Bible shouldn't even use bold text, as the Bible doesn't need any.
For a blog about typography the text sure is difficult to read, on my monitor at least.
As I understand, Mochi is one of so many "Pretty Anki"s. Maybe it's better than Anki because it's Prettier. But, of course, compared to Note Garden, it's sloppy. It is very outdated in that you have to create cards one by one. The cards that are made even after doing the labor are just messed up cards that are not connected to each other.
> Amazon made headlines in the Washington Post last week for shutting down a website hosted on AWS that featured propaganda from Islamic State that celebrated the suicide bombing that killed an estimated 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops in Kabul last Thursday. They did so after the news organization contacted Amazon, according to the Post.

I'll preface this with the fact that I served in the war on terror. I don't think AWS should. The government is the arbiter of what is legal and not legal. This whole concept that people have built on over decades that "free speech means you won't be oppressed by the government but not that you won't face 'consequences'" is an absolute farce. If our "values" were ever equally enforced then the day Trump was thrown off of Twitter for his amping of radical right wingers that caused an insurrection then Malang Khostay would've been thrown off as well for being the actual spokesperson of the Taliban.

It is the government's job to determine minimally viable standards and attempt to compel enforcement, as soon as you make "values" the arbiter people stop baking cakes for gay people and think it's okay.
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By the Fed's definition, yes, that is exactly what they mean by "transitory".
I'm sorry that wasn't clear enough. Our current working definition can be described as:

We define a view as a click by a registered user on a submission, so the user sees the submitted content. For Ask HN, the content would be the comments page.

I'm adding it to the article right now.
Yes, so you get the top 10'000 using e.g. an IVF+PQ index, then from those get the top 10 using brute-force.
Genuinely curious how this was your takeaway from khazhoux’s comment. OP recognized a vocal trait they thought was holding someone back, helped them to remedy it in a non-confrontational or aggressive way, and the person grew from it professionally. The person was female and OP noted
this in the context of the Apple case to highlight how they would have felt had they been accused of sexism for specifying the vocal trait in feedback to their employee. Where is the sexism (prejudice or discrimination) in OP’s words or actions?
> free speech means you won't be oppressed by the government but not that you won't face 'consequences'" is an absolute farce.

By that definition there is free speech in North Korea.
> Somehow things got wrong somewhere.

The hardware folks gave us magical exponential growth for a straight 30-50 (depending how you count it) run.

That lead to a "we can add more features or we can make it fast" pick one and the business always picks more features. (note: business here just means "non-devs" and can include some devs).

We used that amazing hardware to optimise towards delivery speed over everything else (and while we did/do some horrible things - there is no doubt that a modern dev in 2021 commands processing power and vast libraries that would have been a dream to kid me in the 80's) and when every layer of your stack leaves performance on the table that adds up cumulatively.

Throw in that on the time scales of computers humans are laughably slow and you can get away with a lot of inefficiency.

It's an interesting trade-off - I figure at some point we'll reach the limits of what we actually can do and efficiency will shoot back up the importance chart (in some ways for the hyperscale folks it has for a while, 5% improvement over millions of boxes adds up).

Saying it's "lazy devs not optimising" isn't fair though, they are optimising but in other directions.
Because typing on a capacitive tablet would be tiring. You can't rest your fingers anywhere without registering a touch, so you lose all the benefits of a home row. You need to be able to distinguish between resting contact and a positive press, and capacitives would make that hard. Not impossible, but not easy either, and tablets today don't do it.
"It's better to do this by hand than on a computer" was a common saying before software was sufficiently advanced. That word has always changed. And now is the time. The moment when the utility of doing digitally exceeds the utility of doing it manually.
My opinion, by default voice assistants should be push-to-talk and allow the user to opt in for voice activation. Secure and private by default.
I’m ~intermediate at python and understand the arguments in this article, but the comments are so negative and varied that i don’t know how to make sense of the contrary. Could somebody please share some more advanced resources about while loops/for loops/iterables, or point me in the right direction?
I could be wrong, but I think that "untouched" forest is not really going to be so nice unless you let natural wildfires come by every decade and clear out the undergrowth, or you have a lot of big animals naturally making trails, or you have forestry employees keeping up the forest.

So, if you have a few acres of forest yourself, none of the above things are going to be happening, you actually have to build trails through it and then maintain them. And, you will constantly have fallen branches and fallen trees that need to be cleared. It's a lot of work. I have a few acres of forest in the PNW.
Is it if the trait is only learned as a defense mechanism, i.e. is a symptom and not natural?
An option here would be to have a new item in the top left menu (by default, your theme may move or even remove this) on the window: Untheme

App looks like crap? Untheme it and file a bug if it still looks like crap.

Icons don't make sense? Untheme. Looks more sensible now?

A one off patch to GTK (other toolkits are available) and this problem has a solution.
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I hope it would have just been your contract that would have been terminated? ;-)
A little different I'd argue. People are talking about private citizens and companies enforcing extra-legal standards on you.
What's the deal with Australia and these authoritharian laws? Last time they passed a law forcing companies to ship malware to their customers on behalf of law enforcement. Now this.
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That’s fine—hopefully you understand what he meant by it now.
In my first 'real' job when I was 18, I was hired as a programmer to work on an accountancy package for DOS. It was quite radical at the time - the concept was to present double entry bookkeeping on the screen in the same layout as it would be in a paper book. A bit like Lotus 1-2-3 but with all the accountancy stuff already built in.

Anyway, the firm I was working at only had 2 proper DOS machines, and one of those was reserved for the boss, but there were up to 3 programmers working on the software.

If the DOS machine was in-use (which was most of the time) I had to spend the day 'writing' my code on another machine (an ACT Apricot PC). This machine, although it booted into DOS, was NOT IBM compatible, so the IDE software wouldn't run. All I had was the provided Word Processor app, so I wrote in that, sometimes for days, hoping that what I was typing was working code.

I'd only know if I'd written working code once I'd transferred it via floppy disk and compiled it on the real DOS machine every few days.

Not quite the same as coding on paper, but this thread reminded me of this part of my career.