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The salient point is that certain class of people are likelier take risks because failing will not leave their children hungry. Obviously, poor people can also take risks, but the ones that fail do not get to try again and you do not hear about them again.

Bezos is a ridiculous example to use anyway, as he obviously made bank working in finance before he took risks on Amazon such that he was never risking being homeless.

Just the simple fact that your parents own a home where you are welcome to live can be enough for you to be able to take risks. And Zuckerberg and Gates and others were not middle class, they were at least upper middle and I would bet their parents (dentists and prominent lawyers) were already above 90th percentile in wealth.

I love when people tell me examples of extremely poor people taking risks and hitting it big, and at the same time lament how people irresponsibly have children and debt they could not handle. Celebrate them when the gamble pays off, but shit on them when it does not.
I like Openhab. I hope the userbase and the community keeps growing.
firefighters are tough people, they had procedures for gasoline fires, now they have them for electric fires. not a big deal.
I think the reading that you should have is, dump in in a treatment tank, cycle the water and scoop out the algae before the majority of the bloom decomposes, and you avoid hypoxic water post-treatment.
> doesn't it seem similar to past "moral panics"?

No I don't think so.

I've played lots of first person shooters and it's harmless.

But social media causing damaging self worth worries, I slightly experience myself, sometimes. It's a real problem, in my eyes.

(Loot boxes, and computer gaming addiction, are real problems with the games though.)
Adas problem was that an open source version with a gpl linker exception came out too late.
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This talk is far too long and completely unengaging. I'm about halfway through and I would have fallen asleep if my frustration at how irrelevant the points made sofar wasn't keeping me awake.

I've nothing against long talks (this one isn't even very long) but it is too long for two reasons:

1. He's continuously saying with 10 words what he could easily say with 3. It's very artificially drawn out.

2. Most of the points (sofar) aren't relevant, which weakens the overall argument: making less points would make the each of them more focused and compelling.

On the (ir)relevance of the points made sofar:

- He spends an enormous amount of intro time talking up his apparent qualifications and how he's the only human on the planet qualified to talk about this. I don't care. Allow your arguments to stand on their own merit.

- Linux is apparently dying because "they" (the illuminati???) are trying to force Torvalds out of the foundation. What.

- Linux is dying because SUSE (a company he used to work for) is being sold. I've been running Linux for over 20 years and SUSE had already fallen out of relevancy when I started. I remember getting a copy of SUSE on a magazine CD, wondering why I hadn't heard of this distro, searching internet reviews and concluding it probably wasn't the future of Linux. It's 2021 and this guy is applying things he learned decades ago in his career as if they've retained relevancy. In his discussion of companies responsible for Linux health, Canonical isn't mentioned, and the general assumption is an ironically "Windows-ish" take that old corporate sponsors are the lifeblood of the Linux community.

- In person events are cancelled. Somehow the proposition here is that the worldwide pandemic is targeting Linux and Linux alone. What.

Linux may be dying out, and the second half of the talk may have some better arguments but sofar this guy has given me a lot of reasons to completely ignore anything that comes out of his mouth.
I don’t have extensive DIY experience and this joke is sadly lost on me. Why does the slab not work as a reference?
I think one reason C (and to a lesser extent Go) is so popular is that it is small and easy for programmers to hold in their heads.
I've seen a handful of sideloadable apps for iOS/tvOS which depend on alt-store. I'd like to try them out but it's a shame you need a Mac or Windows PC in order to run the server.

I have a MacBook but it's a work machine so probably best to avoid running alt-server there.

The only other computers I have for personal use are a Linux laptop and a Raspberry Pi.

I understand why (iTunes is a requirement and not available on Linux), but it's a shame. Maybe I could run Windows in a VM and run it there, but my gut-feeling is that it won't be that straightforward. Plus, I'd need to start the VM once a week or whatever to re-sign the certificates which would get annoying.

While I am mostly comfortable with the convenience of the App Store, it would be nice to be able to sideload on apple operating systems other than macOS.
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I love how little I desire to use my Alexa Dot simply because of how much she babbles on and on. I flipped on “brief response” mode and still it will be “hey Alexa play this song” and she’ll play it then go “did you know with Amazon you can blah blah blah spend more money with us…”

A longer Alexa sentence != longer engagement time, which I don’t think they’ve figured out yet.
So your answers are children organizing protests and children not being targeted by advertisers. Personally unconvinced by these since neither is actually guaranteed by E2EE nor is E2EE required for either. A functioning society can (and should) protect both of those things, and a non-functioning one doesn’t need to ban E2EE to attack them.

I appreciate the response in any case.
Here's a few tips to combat this addiction:

- turn off Youtube history, there will be no more suggestions based on your recent viewing activity to keep you engaged. Also, searching for a sink review will not result in Youtube suggesting sink-related videos for the rest of eternity.

- install browser extensions: Clickbait Remover for Youtube (sanitizes video previews to remove clickbaity look from them) and DF Youtube (allows you to disable comments, related and other sections on the page, leaving only the video itself to focus on).

Now you should be able to deal with this addiction in no time.
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So far I prefer this approach to any other. I know this type of discussion happens under any go submission, but still - need in generics is overrated, there a ton of code written for all sorts and purposes and scales and it works just fine. And all that without a gigantic marketing push which means that developers simply like it that way it is.

Go is about compatibility, being able to control your code base and being confident about results and I'd really prefer them to take their time thinking through a non-critical feature rather then rushing it and exploring all sorts of unexpected side effects down the road.
>We have the biggest concentration camps in the world for primarily people of color.

Hyperbole much.

You should worry more about how such a small portion of the population can commit so much crime per capita, much more than any other demographic, even accounting for some bias of law enforcement.
Money is “cheap” and people think in terms of monthly payments only. Done larger builders are pitching things in terms of monthly costs only; they don’t even publish prices, just payment estimates.
It's the result of our response to Covid. Shutting down the entire global supply chain for months was certain to have dramatic effects, I'm just suprised it took this long.

I'm sure interested parties are also making full use of the chaos to futher their own ends.
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The key is that Palantir isn't competent. The software is a joke. The company lacks expertise outside of marketing that Palantir is scary, and all knowing. Thiel's influence is getting them contracts they normally would be laughed out of.
> the easiest ones to miss. So I think describing it as “next level negligence” is rather uncharitable

On the contrary, mitigating amplification attacks is security 101.

And the middleboxes are sold as security products.
Because the customers are the ones quitting, they forfeit the deposit by their contract.

The developers aren't held to a timeline in the contract. They just stall forever, working on the ones willing to pay the most. If they ever ran out of better customers, they would eventually get around to the cheaper customers.

They've done something unethical, but they haven't broken the contract.
I like: fact is to factoid, what human is humanoid.

I kinda looks like a fact but isn’t.
I couldn't take more than a minute or so. I think people who believe they have something interesting to say should just fucking say it, if they want people to listen to them. That was awful.
> In 2019 the European Union voted to abolish daylight saving in 2021, similarly the “Sunshine Protection Act of 2021” is gaining traction in the US. Over the next decade I feel quite sure that most of the globe will reject daylight saving entirely.

To be clear, the Sunshine Protection Act seeks to do the opposite and permanently adopt Daylight Saving.

It says, "to hell with noon being the highest the sun reaches", and instead makes more daylight hours in the after-work, after-school hours.

It prefers a later sunset, basically. So people can enjoy the evening more. Have more time outside. Spend more money.

This is a way better approach than caring about the position of the sun at noon. Or shifting everyone's schedules around.
The commenter you're replying to is simply showing how logging and context and other things can be done in conjunction with the question mark syntax sugar. If you don't want to use the question mark at all, you're still free to explicitly pattern match on the Result object and do whatever complex thing you want with the error object before returning it.
The prevalence of the word "sideload" to mean using software of your choice on hardware you own is a little bit mad. Thanks apple!
I could see it work out when I was in the DFW area how one group treated another group and how several managers treated me
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I think it is some kind of manslaughter or willful negligence.

If a local government enacted a law for factories that they should all have fire sprinklers installed, to save x number of lives per year.

Then the a factory operator decides to pretend they installed sprinklers, but did not.

Shouldn't they be culpable for excess death?

I think it's similar here - the EU mandated a safety measure (a certain limit on NOx and particles), the car companies merely pretended to comply.
Jesus christ! I didn't need another reason to never buy an Amazon device, but you sure gave me one!
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I see you haven't lived in a mega-city like Karachi. When I lived there (some years ago, admittedly, but I don't believe things have improved much) we were lucky to get mains water for a few hours a couple of times a week at some seasons.
Indeed, only Google paychecks, and two historical figures of UNIX and Plan 9 history, no marketing at all.
> How is this not a big deal?

First of all sorry for my English, I sometimes fail to find the right words, so it's sometimes hard to explain what I mean.

It's not a big deal in the sense that you'll call the control/dispatch center and tell them that you'll need a tub for an EV. They'll then take care of getting it to you and that's what firefighters worry about.

How the car leaves the place? None of the firefighters' business, at least here in Germany.

Of course there are lots of things in the aftermath like how to recycle the water from that tub as it might be contaminated and needs special treatment, but that's a problem for someone else and possibly already solved somehow.

> but a parking lot caching fire

Yeah, that would be shit, but it could also happen today with gas-powered cars. I've experienced something similar myself once with a used car sales lot. It was somewhat frightening as the fire spread to multiple cars very fast because of the large amounts of heat.

In the end we concentrated on cooling the unburnt cars at first, and only as a second measure slowly fighting and extinguishing the ones that already caught fire when reinforcements (lots of!) had arrived.

Would you handle it differently with EVs? Yes, probably, you'd also need lots of tubs.

Would it be completely differently? No. Cars are, once burning, very nasty to extinguish, no matter how they are powered.

I wouldn't fear an EV more than a gas-powered car if I would get called right now.
You say "only the idiots", but people who have fallen on hard times (perhaps because of that same housing market crash) could be forced to sell their houses, too, essentially hurting them twice.
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Then dont use offshore.
Essentially, Nix is a build tool and/or package manager that provides a lot of baseline guarantees about determinism and dependency (not runtime!) isolation and rollbacks and so on.

NixOS is a distro/OS built on top of Nix, which extends this model to not only packages, but the entire system configuration, bootloader, local container management, and so on.
This is a joke, right?

For context: “whopper” can mean “a big lie” and the malignant malfunctioning computer in War Games was called W.O.P.R., for “war operations plan response.”
> Legislate what, specifically?

I got some suggestios
- No company w/more than 1 million MAU and deriving any income from online advertising may not combine any online information about a user with any physical real-world data; they may not sell data to another 3rd party that will combine online and physical;

- Ban the algo: Any user deriving more than $250 in value from an online service may not be banned by an algorithm. They must be given 60 days notice and an opportunity to remove their data from the service

- No company may own more than 1 domain in the top 5,000 (as measured by monthly traffic). All domains must be consolidated to 1

- No more hiding behind scale, expand the carve outs for 230 form beyond child porn to definitely include any threats of violence - but especially death threats

Thats just a start...
There is also another problem with Italian trade unions. The workers who are unionised are generally privileged compared to the general population. Meanwhile many disadvantaged workers - who are employed with short-term contracts[1] or very often without contract[2], (which is wide spread even though that is technically illegal) are not unionised.

At the same time you will see categories of privileged workers such as Alitalia pilots or hospital doctors where the vast majority of workers are unionised.

So Italian unions are halfway between what unions are really supposed to be, and a nation-wide country club.

At least, this was the situation 10 years ago when I left the country. From what I hear, it doesn't seem this has changed.

[1] these are known in Italy as "precari" i.e. people who are in a precarious position.

[2] illegal labour is very common especially in central and southern regions, it is known in Italy as "lavoro nero" - nero is the colour black in Italian but in this case it actually means "submerged".
I'm curious of what was the original reasoning behind banning virtual hugs in the first place. It sounds too specific to have been done arbitrarily. I wonder if a specific incident somewhat related to hugs happened on an old thread that caused the whole thing to get banned.
I see this happening with Go, a language with a specific design goal of remaining simple.

Generics getting added is OK. I mean, almost every veteran Gopher I've talked to agrees that there's been a couple of times, maybe, that they've needed generics and not had them, and that interfaces work fine for 99% of cases. Everyone outside the language insists that it needs generics. But sure, let's add generics for those few times we need it [0].

But then "error handling is too onerous", "there's too much boiler plate", "why can't I code in Go using a functional style?", "Go needs to look more like Ruby", etc, etc.

I really hope they keep Go simple and don't cave in to demands to add stuff to it. It doesn't need more syntax. It needs smaller runtimes, a method of determining whether two slices are using the same backing array, and a few other gotchas.

I can see a future where there's a "Go classic" forked from 1.17 (or possibly 1.18) that never moves forward, while the main Go gets ever more complex and Java-fied.

[0] Except, of course, that as soon as we have generics then every new gopher will insist on using them for everything, and not learn how to use interfaces well instead.
The capitalization of the first character for a symbol to denote public is a truly a weird design choice.

If the makers of golang wanted to avoid the complexity of public, protected and private, especially if you consider C++ where you can change those access modifiers depending how you inherit, it is an understandable decision, but then I would have rather just ignored access modifiers all together and kept everything as public regardless, like many languages do. That would avoided the atrocious json hack completely.

I think this goes back to what this critical article about go concluded, that Simple is a lie.

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...

"when you make something simple, you move complexity elsewhere."

If I were a golanger another thing I would have disliked is definitely the internal folder for packages, having folders to have magic capabilities is something I truly dislike. First you need be aware when reading the source file where it is located, second when creating such folder you have to be sure to create it with the correct name, these things has tendency to be hard to detect during code review.

MVC frameworks likes to do this, put the controller in the correct folder and give it a correct name and name your method with get, hard to debug if you misspell any of it. Or database migrations, put them in a folder in a consecutive order, so to detect if new migrations have slipped in between the one you are working on you need to diff on folder sorting. Just horrible.
I find infuriating that, globally, most of the fines will be paid to customers (who were misled in their purchase) instead of the actual victims (the public and, a fortiori, the people who got and will get sick).

How did we turn this health issue into a business one?
Caste system, at least where I live (which I believe to be fairly progressive part of country, as my travels have revealed there are worse places) is like a strong undercurrent to the social psychosis. It is not obvious to the newcomer, and we appear a very amalgamated bunch, all working in same company, going to same school and so on. But then you live here for a while, go sufficiently wide and deep, and then you feel it, and realise it is too strong to change in 3 generations.

I didn't realise for a long time, but I looks back and see that somehow, upper caste kids always stuck together. There parents always had social events together, and even though we shared same society, other families weren't invited. Every 'class' has to have their own very public, very loud 'holidays'. Caste based marriages are pretty obvious, though that is changing slowly. People have biases in simple places, like simply knowing someone's surname means you can put them in a caste/category and then first impression is already made.

Things are changing, definitely, but slowly and not always in right direction. The 'reservation' or quotas in college admissions, government jobs and so on, created to make a level playing field is creating a new privileged class that is 'lower caste' in name only. This is creating new divide and I'm not sure thatcan be changed because suggesting otherwise is political suicide.
I don't get it either, and I'm a hedge fund manager. To my mind nothing seems like it's a sensible price in any of the cities I look at. I mean I get that there's a fair few people making good money who can buy a £2M home, but it doesn't make any sense that there are entire swathes of London where every home is like that.

A quick google suggests that a £100K income is in the top 3% in this country, and top 1% is about £176K.

Sure, there's a few hundred football players averaging maybe £3M a year who can thus buy maybe a £15M palace, but if you go on a property site they could each buy one and still have pages and pages of places left on the market.

Similarly there's a bunch of finance/media/law people who've climbed to the top of the greasy pole and could afford a £3M house. But how many can we really be talking about? A few thousand? Ten thousand? Are there really that many MDs and law partners in London?

Average income is still well under 6 figures in this country, and I know a load of doctors who are only just scraping into that category in their 30s. So if you're just scraping into 6 figs as a highly trained and rare specialist, how can there be so many houses that cost 7 figures?

Even if you add parental help, how many people who are splitting inheritance between 2/3 kids is it actually going to help?

I suspect a lot of people have actually drawn on all reserves: found a high income partner, got help from the parents, got a max leveraged mortgage, and possibly some have lied about their income.

I get the feeling it will end badly.
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> all of these things were substantially worse before technology got involved

I'm not really sure that they were. Between the late 60s and the early 2000s they seemed to go way down in western society. In the 2010's they started to pick up again with the rise of smartphones and social media.
I want to like Discourse, but as a user there’s something that bothers me about the design, compared to Xenforo or even phpBB or SMF. I’m legitimately not sure what it is, I just find Discourse forums harder to read.
> Legislate what, specifically?

Advertisement targeted at children and using children.

If your advert features children or offers a product a child might be interested in, purchase it themselves or influence purchasing decision of the parent, is associated with a product children use or service children frequent then it's illegal. As simple as that.

You wouldn't believe how much such ban would clear up media sphere and improve children's health in all aspects.
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Not to mention that since systems are deterministically built, you can usually reliably reproduce the failure mode on a separate system and investigate it there.

"Hey, what's the store hash of the thing that's failing, so I can grab it and reproduce it locally" is a thing you can just do with Nix.
There's about ten games that require a SMS controller to work.
> people will be clamoring for HELOCs as they won't be able to sell these $700k houses they're buying

Why would you want a HELOC just because you can't sell your house for a profit?