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I wondered about those lately. Do you happen to know if they are really in a state to make them flightworthy again if push came to shove?

I would have expected them to have deteriorated to a point where restoring them becomes a bigger effort than building new planes.
And maybe do not forget the >360 000 dead civilians the war on terror has cost so far. Innocent bystanders, whose relatives now might feel a urge to join the real terrorists as the only means for them to get revenge, too. Endless cycle.

"War on terror" is just a ugly concept and not one that seem to work.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/911-civili...

Oh and something that does not get too much attention, either:

the taliban back then only refused to hand over Bin Laden without evidence presented, that he indeed was responsible, which at that time was not at all clear. And even till date, there never was a proper criminal investigation and court ruling about it all. Probably because of the Saudi connections.
Covid is just a convenient excuse that people somehow still keep swallowing. If 2 years on covid is still a problem for you, that's less the fault of covid and more that you are incompetent at running your business.

Surprisingly enough I've had more "our response to covid-19" and similar crap from tech companies that would be near-immune to it than from companies that would legitimately be impacted by it (those whose business requires on-site staff, etc).
Why wait for the compiler? You’re basically saying linting is useless versus compiler errors…
I know someone who works in content moderation at Google and they said the company requires them to come in to the office for data security reasons. They even have to put their phone in a locker while they are actually reviewing content. I think it makes sense considering the kind of content they review (including CSAM).
Not sure if that is a problem with Amazons search or the product listings themselves. Last time I was looking for a motherboard on Amazon it seemed as if half couldn't decide whether they had an AMD or Intel CPU socket. The descriptions, technical details and serial numbers where all over the place. Apparently the process of putting up thousands of products on Amazon is fairly automated and there are exactly zero humans checking if the result makes any sense.
I used Marketplace for a minute before becoming permanently banned beyond appeal for selling a computer and making a Bitcoin joke in the listing. So I’m done there.
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This article is very interesting. I recommend everyone who reads this to try and dissect what makes a wrong argument sound convincing.

A ton of terrible arguments are made here: X is important so Y is not important. ABC is a sacred rule that must be followed without question and doing XYZ does not follow the sacred rule. Wrong thing is done to help dumb people so smart people shouldn't do wrong thing.
I chose random blog post on Medium and tried to copy a sentence out of it. It offers to let me "create an account to highlight a passage", or tweet it out via Twitter, but I can't just copy it and paste it into my notes elsewhere.

Whose idea was it to assert this level of control over written material, especially user-generated material? It's a very unpleasant experience.

EDIT: Dialing down my tone a bit here, I should have taken a minute between trying the frustrating thing and posting about it.
> Smartphones, like phones, are primarily communication devices and communication is an active process.

Yeah… no. Maybe for some people, but I primarily use it as a consumption device. But then, I don’t use social media, I don’t answer my phone (I listen to voicemails once a day and choose whether I want to respond or not). I don’t use any work apps on my phone, like slack.
Looks like it may just be you. No issues on a cheap $300 no name Android device. Renders and scrolls fine.
I think that’s “Der Alte”. https://www.fernsehserien.de/der-alte/episodenguide. Available on Amazon, iTunes, and magenta tv.de (all possibly only in Germany and/or Austria)
A statistic from the article:

"The Watson Institute at Brown University calculates that 184,382 to 207,156 Iraqi civilians were directly killed in war-related violence between the start of the American invasion in March 2003 through October 2019. But the researchers suggest the real figure may well be several times higher."
>I found the article really hard to read, the author took a long and convoluted path to expose his ideas.

aka "the substack style"
> Thatcher loved because it suited her ideology

She liked it because she could laugh at herself. It might have given a voice to her ideology sometimes, and rightly so because it was prominent at the time, but none of the characters giving voice to anything are sympathetic. They’re portrayed as tragically ridiculous players vying for power and positive public image who’ll drop their “principles” at the drop of a hat if it suits them. If pundits are worried about this or that argument given by a character on the show they’re just revealing their own insecurities about their political opinions.
> Can someone paste the article here?

You can paste the title of the article in Google in a private window and you will be able to read it because FT.com wants the traffic from Google.

As for your concerns: my advice is to stay far away from "crypto". It's literally just a huge multi-level marketing scam and 100% risk. There is no intrinsic value in "crypto"—unlike a house or a piece of land or any other thing actually produced in the real world. You may as well just go follow stock advice on Reddit's Wall Street Bets. Hey, you have a 50/50 chance of getting rich and going broke!

If you're under thirty years old, let's say, you can play with some riskier investment options because you have time to earn that money back, but if you're getting older you should try to find some low-expense ratio index funds to invest in and hold for a decade or two (try on Vanguard or Schwab).

Here are some very technically savvy people calling bullshit on "crypto" recently, with salient arguments and inside experience: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1399058952336277505, https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/06/26/Shorting-..., https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1415353984617914370
I have been wondering how I'd feel if someone cleaned out our recycle bins, before the truck picks them up. Our house alone goes thru a lot of aluminum.
> No, and again, I never said that. I very clearly said that once attribution is given properly and mashups/variations are clearly identified there is no problem.

I'm asking for the third time: What would be appropriate attribution for Yoga?

> At this point I can't imagine that the attempts at arguing I'm reading are written in good faith and without an agenda.

And what agenda would that be?
Here is a relevant article

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=IBM-POWE...
>I either have no idea how the world works or I want you to have no idea how the world works
> Containers don’t get you more host machines racked or more disk shelves added to the SAN.

That's immaterial to the discussion, and reads like a non-sequitur. You want a service. You deploy the service in your infrastructure. If necessary, you scale your infrastructure to meet demand. That's it. If you want to spin up a database instance, just do it. With containerization that takes between minutes and seconds.

And to drive the point home, in case you're not aware, AWS is not the only cloud provider that offers horizontal autoscaling. Some small providers even sell it out of the box, both through their Kubernetes offerings and/or through their own APIs.

Also, the sales brochure for managed services mentions scalability and reliability, and in the case of AWS also global deployments, but the truth of the matter is that it costs a hefty premium and in most cases it's totally irrelevant.

So, pointing out databases in practical terms means close to nothing.

> I literally can’t afford to invest to the level that AWS can to run operations.

And that's perfectly fine because a) AWS really is not full proof (see the latest outage of AWS's US-WEST-2 region which might have single-handedly dropped AWS's reliability to only 99.5 this year), b) operating your own infra already gets you plenty of 9s easily, c) the theoretical difference in the 9s you get and the 9s that are advertised by AWS is more often than not totally irrelevant to the usecases you need to meet.

To sum it up, you may argue all you want about how AWS's Rolls Royce is far superior than any car in the market, but the truth of the matter is that the vast majority has all their needs decisively met and even surpassed by running any other cloud provider's Ford hatchback.
Archlinux steam user here: Steam auto-updates and Steam's default Proton install is pulled down by Steam and stored within it's paths.

Mostly this would affect anything that needs an unsupported build of Proton to work properly. Which is mostly lots of games that use the insane plethora of media presentation layers every big company has added to Windows over the decades.

From what I've seen of games on Twitch, EAC style games tend to not rely on FMV and are generally 'all live' so there shouldn't be many problems.
I was in college. I told a professor I would put a sign on their 8am classes door that class was canceled. It was Greek studies.

So I made a goofy picture of Honer Simpson with a donut for a head eating himself saying “Mmm I’m delicious”. Underneath it said “Professor so-and-sos 8 am Greek studies class on Sept 11 is cancelled”.

I woke up early, walked across campus, put the sign up, came back and went back to bed.

I woke back up between 10-11, turns on the TV and they were focused on the first plane then the second plane… And of course we know the rest :(
Fair, 2001 was a pivot point for Apple's history too.
The ACLU is a non-profit organization. They aren't responsible for your "freedom". Go put mask on and take a civics course.
You can pack binaries yourself, but can't use PG as a library like with Sqlite or Firebird.
The code won't compile on modern C compilers due to some antiquated syntax. https://github.com/tangentstorm/j-incunabulum has a translation that should work on modern compilers.

The original code is worth investigating if you're into CS archeology. J is as interesting of a language as Lisp and I was amazed by the tiny implementation. However, the original code is buggy and will crash on slightly malformed input.
> I finally came to a conclusion that choosing Flask at the very beginning of my career would be a much more beneficial decision in the long run.

At the beginning of your career, you should focus on "getting things done".

Flask will teach you more, true. But all that information can be overwhelming as a beginner, which is why the author had trouble learning Flask at first.

By starting with Django for a few months/years, the author gained knowledge about what they would need to do on their own, which helped them learn Flask later.
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On the plus side beef is an original superfood not only a complete protein with a full set of amino acids but also a highly compact dense efficiently transportable protein. Plus a byproduct is ice cream! Moderation required certainly. But for the good of my health and food transport carbon emissions I for one am prepared to fall on the occasional steak...
25% of the mass might be 90% of the calories.
Methane is CH4. It doesn't degrade to CO2 so much as the relative ability to trap infrared radiation is given in proportion to what an equal number of CO2 molecules would absorb/trap. Similarly, other gasses like refrigerants are rated in Global Warming Potential (GWP) units based on 20 years of absorption of infrared.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential
I now use one-off email addresses for every service I sign up for. e.g. <random>@mydomain.com

It’s great to detect security leaks, but I can also just delete the address and then any email to it will bounce. This usually gets you off their list anyway after a hard bounce.
> Anyone can make an app too.

On iOS, this is only true if they're in good standing with Apple and have their approval, while also paying the yearly $100 Apple tax.
I had no idea these were so cheap. One of these followed by a cool shower sounds amazing. Thanks for linking.
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NSA cares about laws?
UCSD Pascal in 1977, Concurrent Pascal in 1974, DEC Pascal in 1981, and you can follow up in another dates here,

http://pascal.hansotten.com/

And then there is the detail that Modula-2 was released in 1978, exactly with the goal to fix all original Pascal issues for systems programming.
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Yeah, I don’t think 3 can be overstated.

Prior to 911, hijacked planes were not an unknown thing. I don’t know numbers, but remember periodic events in the news of x plane that was hijacked landing at y airport with local officials needing to meet hijacker demands for it to return to its flight.

Was weird when it happened, but we also didn’t have the hour of processing through security we do now.
The biggest unreported scandal in big tech is the 100s of 1000s of contractors that work exclusively for these companies. Accenture provides thousands of content moderators to FB, none of whom have any recourse to FB HR or rights to pursue union status at FB.
Google is the same.
Interesting how "because COVID" has become the thinly veiled excuse here. A similar manifestation of the "think of the children" trope that can be used to manipulate emotions and shut down dissent.
Perhaps tech companies care about their employees more than say food processors.
The plane isn’t perfectly rigid, so it would only be able to impart as much energy to the structure as contained in the part of the plane that gets sheared off while colliding with the containment building.
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> Whose idea was it to assert this level of control over written material, especially user-generated material? It's not just user-hostile, it's sadistic.

It's optimized for public sharing of user generated content to social network platforms. Web 2.0 in a nutshell but optimized for outreach, not personal log.
In terms of PCIe 3 lanes, the max on thunderbolt 3 is 2.75x, and the max on thunderbolt 4 is 4x. Out of a roughly-5x total bandwidth.

Why was 3 capped? Nobody seems to know.
Yes. I remember very well President Bush saying these attacks will not change America. I wish I could find a quote.

One of the things it changed dramatically was air travel. Remember meeting family/friends at their arrival gate as they walked off the plane? Remember getting through "security" in a few minutes because the lines moved so fast?

In the 1980s and early 1990s, my father routinely disassembled pistols and put them in his checked luggage so he could target shoot at his destinations. Imagine doing that today.
It's not just Apple. I can confirm that a Samsung Galaxy Note S4 will not run from its original charger on its own. A Battery is required during boot (whether to act as supply for current peaks, compensate for losses on the thin cable during such current peaks or whether the system expects to talk to the controller built into the battery, I cannot say).
> AFAIK, it is kind of cycle.

For folks who need meds, getting them to stay on them can be hugely difficult. It's even harder when that person lacks shelter and support.
I've never taken the time to really dig into the heuristics around fail-fast vs graceful degradation. The two strategies seem to contradict each other, and I'd love to read some analysis of how to navigate the options.
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Related to what’s likely going on with COVID today:

Operation Mockingbird was a bit of a two-pronged approach to dealing with the media: on the one hand, journalists were routinely employed by the CIA to develop intelligence and gather information, or to report on certain events in a way that portrayed the US favorably. On the other, there were actual plants within the media—paid off with bribes or even directly employed by the CIA—to feed propaganda to the American public
The biggest issue is that because Free Pascal didn't support the functionality needed for dynamic packages until the latest version (or trunk, not sure as i haven't checked exactly) you need to recompile the IDE whenever you install/uninstall a component since they are linked statically. In practice this isn't a big concern since a full recompile of the IDE takes less than a minute and subsequent compiles are done in a few seconds.

However one thing that is impossible now and i hope that will become possible in the future is project-specific components (ie. having some components that are exported and installed by a project instead of being available for everything) as it'd allow even more visual design. Right now you can sort-of do this using frames but that is only for compound visual components and frames cannot expose custom properties, which is half of the reason to use the visual designer (and the entire reason for non-visual components). Dynamic packages could make that possible.

(note that this is just a feature i wanted in Lazarus, i have no idea if that even exists in Delphi as the only Delphi i used for a length of time is Delphi 2 and the most "recent" i used was Delphi 7 Personal that i got from a magazine cover disk back in early 2000s - i have also checked the demo/free versions of later delphis but never in detail)
This is not unlike comparisons of 9/11 to the pandemic. The buildings (and NYC skyline) aren't as important as the lives that were lost, but it causes a different and more prolonged response. And it isn't just "look what those terrorists did", it's "I can't believe those buildings are gone".

Saying they're gone reminds me of Mark Pilgrim's 410 Gone incident. It's analogous to me.
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It looks like we're going to get a massive test of largely misinformation (US) vs. largely censorship (China) writ large in the coming decades. Place your bets on the outcome.
I hitchhiked and walked to New York 20 years ago today.

I had my firefighter and medic credentials faxed to FEMA and then went into ground zero for ~24 hours to dig.

I wrote about all of this, later, in what became cDc t-file #396.[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20041208005336/http://www.cultde...
I tend to agree with this. AWS etc is nice if your scale is big enough that you need to run a big cloud of dozens of servers with complex interconnections for security etc. If a single plain old server with database etc on it will do the job fine, much better to stick with that.
IMO, it depends on the downside of the measure. I can pretty clearly state the problems with banning alcohol; I'm having a lot of trouble seeing how our society would be worse-off if in-person jobs required employees to be vaccinated. Particularly as e.g. schools have required vaccines for a very long time.
The default is to hide dead content... i.e.: showdead: NO... you must have changed the settings along the way
This has happened to me lots of times, for innocuous posts. Like, for example, copying a screenshot of a graph from the CDC, along-side with a link pointing to the CDC website I obtained it from. Or copying a inflation graph from a blog, and then linking to that blog in the same comment or post.

Not some conspiracy, just incompetence on FB's part. Of course some people would prefer to believe something nefarious.
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That's a sound proposition.
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That's a valid point as well.
I did this before in the past with a key off of eBay (no indication made by the seller that the key was not legit other than the suspiciously low price) and everything was fine until it came time to reformat and start fresh roughly a year later - at that point the key no longer worked and the seller vanished from eBay!
That means "I'm going to park in the car park.", not just "I'm going to park".
Yes, I get a cut of every sale and rental, thought I don't recall exactly how much. It's a very small income stream and I don't really need the money. So much as I appreciate the gesture, you should feel free to rent. Frankly, a good review is worth much more to me than a sale.
Once you hit that point, AWS will almost always cut you some specific pricing deals to ensure that your pain point is competitively priced, since they want you in the ecosystem anyways.
Or maybe, OP wanted a whole bunch of people here to post joinmastadon.org to their FB pages. I bet it worked too.
Medium seems to be old news, Substack is apparently the new hotness. Seeing more interesting content showing up at the latter. Not sure substack doesn't have a lot of the same issues Medium has, though.

As an aside: I don't understand why Google hasn't updated Blogger to compete with Medium (and now Substack). Seems like some Google employees could get a good review/promotion by doing that. With all the stuff Google changes (often for no good reason), Blogger seems to just remain stuck in the amber of ~2005.
There are ways to address that conflict. I'm not trying to join the trope of criticizing the contemporary ACLU, but rather pointing out that rights aren't purely relative constructions. Negative liberty (prohibitions on government infringing rights) and tradition (eg property rights) are two ways of non-relatively reasoning about rights. And of course when rights are in balanced tension on a topic, it's possible to simply not advocate.

For example on the topic of employment discrimination, one could stay silent and thus not be advocating against the right to earn a living nor the right of free association. Furthermore, one can advocate for freedom from the employment treadmill that makes most everyone need continuous centralized-flow employment in the first place (this would be necessary for the negative rights construction to have good results).
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>VB wasn't really for xBase/FoxPro/Clipper etc users, Access and Visual FoxPro were for those

I understand that perspective especially since that's what Microsoft's "official" positioning of those products were.

But the reality on the ground was 4GL programmers in DOS text gui that transitioned to the "new Windows platform" usually ignored MS Access and Foxpro and instead used Visual Basic. In 1992/1993, all the corporate programmers I knew used VB3. My memory is hazy but I think one of the big drivers for VB instead of Access was the 3rd party VBX controls. I don't think you could use VBX in the crippled "Visual Basic" language in MS Access.

Visual Basic had early database access with DAO (Jet engine?), then RDO.

Delphi with syntax for pointers to memory (like C/C++) is a more "powerful" language than VB but I never saw Delphi adopted for corporate LOB/CRUD like VB. Most internal business apps didn't need a language with pointers. Delphi really attracted the programmers that wanted similar C/C++ power but with a rapid-iteration IDE and GUI toolkit.

>Microsoft's name behind it (which was a big plus) it was used for internal corporate apps a lot, but that was a byproduct of VB being used a lot in general - during the turn of the century it was one of the most popular programming languages by far.

But even with all of Microsoft's marketing weight, Visual Basic never got adopted with commercial software developers like this list for Delphi: https://jonlennartaasenden.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/famous-s...

VB didn't compile to native exes. Delphi did -- and that attracts the C/C++ type of programmers who want to release commercial software.

From the very beginning, VB vs Delphi attracted very different profiles of developers -- regardless of the marketing that tried to position Delphi for internal corporate LOB/CRUD apps.