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When should we schedule the full, honest picture, if not now, when he's on people's minds moreso than he will ever be again?

I love the positive remembrances here. I also appreciate the full picture, like the joke about the "Sinclair digital penis" in another thread.

Sinclair did well for himself & his family. He did a lot of good in the world, from the people he introduced to tech.

Neither he nor his legacy are harmed in the slightest with an honest recounting. Instead, the memory is improved with realistic texture.
Obviously a damn lot of cells have an evolutionary reason to receive and transmit signals. Otherwise the whole body dies, and so do the cells.

Evolution on the level of multicellular organisms happens on the organism level and not on the cellular level (except in case of cancer) and so multicellular organism cells have incentives to do what is best for the organism as a whole, (and the organism's offspring) and not for the particular cell.

Hormones being passed between different parts of the body seem to be the way most communication happen inside the body, and it's definitely not in any cell's long term interest to ignore those signals. Even if the signal orders the cell to shrivel and die.

The only way for the DNA in a cell of a multicellular organism to survive long-term, is to create an entirely new organism, and there is a lot of order in the body to make sure that the vast majority of cells that don't fall in line, are killed very, very fast.
Your assumptions are wrong about me, so you may want to revise your position because it’s based on a misguided characterization of my motivations.

It’s up to Apple to improve their own user experience, or suffer the lack of sales otherwise. It’s nonsensical that the government should step in to improve the user experience for private products… especially to the benefit of a third party private company.

Framing “you can’t buy Kindle books on iOS” as Apple’s fault is spinning it because you can also say it’s Amazon’s fault for reducing their user experience by refusing to pay Apple’s platform fees.

Sure, making Apple products all free would be great for user experience, but is not only non-sustainable but non-sensical business practice.
Libertarians are not by any measure a massive segment of the population.
Just give me a credit card. I will spend money on things I want, as long as it's within reason. Such a workable system!
I would add 4) feature phones and SIM cards have extremely low SMS storage capacities, around 100 or so max.
How else do you do unit conversions? I use Google because it's far easier than any other software I've tried. Mainly because it's more forgiving of errors. It knows that "34 fset in msters" is 10.3632 meter. This search engine isn't, though, so I wouldn't waste time trying to discover its unit conversion syntax rules.
2022 - year of the Linux desktop
Thats more or less what Ive thought about. But then there was this bit about opening up FaceTime to people who dont own their hardware.
Unrelated, but that last part of your comment tingled my Litany Against Fear sense. At least I know with which mindset I should encounter Windows 11 now.
> Women are about as likely as men to feel concern about that.

I'd say they are actually even more concerned. A gun is a way to equalize the physical differences between men and women.
QEMU does have an official mirror on github (https://github.com/qemu/qemu) so I don't think it is that unreasonable
The rate of shooting in the USA was always strange to me. I'm from Ukraine, one of the poorest countries in Europe, the country that on hybrid "civil war" with Russia help for the militia.

There are many ex-militaries from volunteers who go to volunteer battalions. And many of them return with guns.
But even with a state like that, you probably won't hear any gunshots in cities in your life. The first time I heard one was where I took a trip to the USA, random "gang" shooting in NY, as I remember.

From my perspective, as someone who is culturally not so integrated with the USA, I think the roots of this are how you see guns and feel around firearms at all. In my country, people are cautious about the idea of using a firearm against other people. Even if they have one, they probably do drunk shit with a knife, not with a gun.

Anyway, I also can't understand how any gangs are still alive in the USA in our time. Even my shittiest country eliminated all of them in the 90s, so are Russia and other CIS countries. You can find many documentation films about that on youtube. There is almost nothing left except massive graveyards of dead criminals with funny grave tomb pictures like "sitting in my first Mercedes Benz with a gun, cool guy."

I may be wrong somewhere. That's just my perspective as an outsider.
I believe "deep state" here is a tendentious term that refers to the permanent, unelected parts of the executive branch. Their expert analysis said the US was just about to "turn the corner" for 20 years.

Exactly. See but the most recent controversy about Gen. Mark Milley, a complete abrogation of the principle of civilian control over the military, something that goes back to George Washington and one of the reasons we have so many places named after Cincinnatus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus
> To me Windows 11 feels like Vista

If they bring back Aero I'll be happy.
Thats more or less what Ive thought about. But then there was this bit about opening up FaceTime to people who dont own Apple hardware.
I'll guess Clive Sinclair, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554565
Same here, but it also reminds me, the first programming lesson in school (not on a Spectrum but on an IBM PC), our teacher told us "there's nothing you can do with code that will harm the computer in any way" (these computers did not have a hard drive so you could not wipe anything).

This immediately set us on a quest to find ways to prove him wrong - the basis of hacker thinking. Not that we did find anything with our limited knowledge but it was a nice thought exercise (our best bet was to create a program that constantly switches between graphics mode and text mode. The monitor would make a clicking sound when this happened, so we figured if we do this enough times we'll probably burn some circuit, but we never tried it).
Rest in peace, the “actor” behind Q in Spycat: An Interactive Expose of MI4.5.
Yup, and common advice by well known firearms experts is not to confront intruders, but to retreat to a known location, ideally upstairs and call the police.

Only if the intruders seem like they are going to come up the stairs do you announce that you have a gun and that the police are on their way.

The purpose of the gun is not to kill the intruders. It is to deter them from approaching you and your family, and make it preferable for them to leave.
Signal is a Qinetq front
Not it wouldn't, much as engineers might think it so. Sales is not purely technical, it is an emotional process. If the seller can convince the buyer to buy, they generate a lot more income than having people go through sticker shock. One of the first things they teach you in sales is to focus on the benefits of how the product will make the user's life better, and use that to anchor the price.

Also, the "contact us" pricing pages are not for regular people, they are for VPs or executives to go through. That it filters out regular people is a feature, not a bug.
One hundred years of PythOnline (1996/7)
For me it's these https://www.flickr.com/photos/nathanchantrell/6446816275

Godspeed, Sir Clive. Your projects were all bonkers in the best possible way.
I'll repeat what I wrote a few comments up ..

Couldn't the solution be a mastodon instance/server?

If people used careful tagging combined with search, it might enable all that seeking for help online, but without signing on for another forum every time they're dealing with a new topic.
We thought we were being smart when we bought a .io domain. Can't tell you how many times we told people the site was foo.io, and they would say, ok got it. "foo.io.com".
Depends. I write end-user UI apps and device control apps.

I don't know if I've ever done that. The Apple OS framework has a lot of those tools, built-in, and it wouldn't make sense to circumvent them, unless I was writing a cross-platform "engine," of some kind.

If you were interviewing as a device control engineer, then a minimum, would be understanding of things like ring buffers, thread contention, asynchronous callbacks, timing diagrams, etc.

If you were interviewing for work with Apple device development, then knowledge of Core Bluetooth, as well as basic Bluetooth, would be important. WiFi and networking might be useful. Maybe BSD sockets, USB, etc.

If it were as a UIKit app engineer (classic native), then understanding of the various widget types, delegates, data sources, etc., as well as the six gadjillion different "extra spice" features that each widget has, as well as the proper way to do things.

SwiftUI is gonna add a lot more facets, as it's built around Protocol-Oriented Programming, and a rather "reactive"/KVO model that differs substantially from the "classic" model. I have yet to do a "deep dive" into SwiftUI. I plan to tackle that, once I have the app I'm working with at a ship level.

And, of course, an intermediate-to-advanced familiarity with Swift would be expected, as well as the Foundation framework.
That's exactly why so many companies are enacting "unlimited" policies.

What they do is say "It's unlimited, but if you take more than 4 weeks it has to be approved" or something and then that way they can cap you like they did before but also not pay you out if you leave because wink wink it's "unlimited".
So... bad companies are going to be bad companies.

Unlimited PTO has nothing to do with it.
I wonder about how the .wtf TLD compares.
Homepage:

>Glass is subscription-based, which means we won’t sell your data

Privacy Policy:

>In the future, we may sell to, buy, merge with, or partner with other businesses. In such transactions, Anonymous Information and PII may be among the transferred assets.
Honestly I'm surprised that Australia didn't go with nuclear submarines earlier. As an island nation, naval strenth needs to take top priority. It has an incredibly long coastline, much of which is sparsely populated, particularly in the north where any attack would be reasonably expected to come from, with few bases in the area to support fleet operations (to my knowledge there are no naval depots between Perth and Darwin with about 2500 miles of coastline in between). All potential adversaries are a long distance away and Australia has no overseas naval bases at which to refuel. Critically, all the major chokepoints that a potential adversary would need to sail through are very far from Australia, with it's territorial waters being extremely open. It's really a perfect use case for nuclear attack subs.
Which do you think is more important? Needing to present an alibi in the case of you being wrongly accused? Or needing to conceal your actions in a world where something new has been made illegal?
"they're definitely not about to take up arms against the state, and if they think they would do that, then they're certainly LARPing and live in a fantasy world."

Didn't the Taliban prove otherwise? That would suggest an armed citizenship can be a counter to tyranny.
"[M]arginalized groups have often armed themselves when they feel the state is unwilling or unable to protect them."

An example of this is calling to reduce policing, which probably would have the biggest (and very negative) impact in high crime areas. I believe gun sales increased rapidly starting last summer.
95/98/ME were operating on a different kernel than the NT line (which 2000 fell under). The difference really being that the NT kernel was targeting pretty much exclusively businesses, while the 9x line was targeting home users and some business users. They merged (with the NT kernel winning out) in XP, which targeted both home and business users.

ME was not an upgrade path from 2000 even though it came out after 2000, it was an upgrade path for 98.
Spite is a great motivator
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/02/10/s...
Specifically, cultural homogeneity makes a nation much easier to run. Boring food, though.
That is because when you look closely at factors that led to those wars, you find people reacting on self interest in situations where going to war is has high chance of being beneficial to them.

It is easy to create slogans and such. But real history when you look at it is not as simple as dumb guys being dumb.
As if that was admissible. Easily faked by leaving your device at home.
Sure, but that’s got nothing to do with SQL and could be modelled in terraform. Or better yet, indirectly using terraform via IAC providers in languages like Typescript.

Show me a proper example of creating an actual s3 bucket that you’d use in production. KMS key, inventory configuration, resource policy, lifecycle policy, logging enabled. Created via SQL.

Now show me how you’d take this and make it a reusable module so we can have a standard template for buckets that everyone can use.
Perhaps they should target harmful coordination by themselves
Why not learn how to market yourself? You may not become the greatest marketer in the world but you almost certainly can be competent in less than a year.

Then if you grow whatever project big enough, you can then just hire someone. And you'd actually know how to manage them with insight into their job.
Poor people move. The dust bowl migration is the largest example of it. Geographic mobility has declined, but the poorest are still the most likely to move.

Men who moved to another county or state, by age group: Overall and by selected earnings quartile, various periods 1994–2016 (annual average percentages)
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v80n2/v80n2p1-chart01.gi...

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v80n2/v80n2p1.html
So if the US Confederacy held onto a small bit of land in the south, with the help of a foreign power like England, you would respect their right of sovereignty? Somehow I doubt it.

There are many reasons to maintain a presence in Taiwan or South Korea, like limiting China's sphere of influence in Asia. But that would require acknowledging that they are geo political chess piece's and dropping this veneer of moral superiority.
Yep in California PTO and vacation get paid out. They can not do use it or lose it. They can cap how much of PTO and vacation you can have at one time. Sick time does not need to be paid out. The whole scam of unlimited PTO is so they do not have to pay out when you leave. Then can not roll over your PTO or vacation at the end of year but if they do that, they have you pay you out.
In most US counties animal control responds late or not at all. Obviously you can't seriously expect farmers to just wait around while feral dogs kill their livestock.
Perhaps this is from a nosy colleague who has enabled read receipts. I learned this the hard way when I "didn't see" an email I had in fact opened.
The left (both modern and not) is much less self-defense averse than you think. There's plenty of leftist gun clubs; the Socialist Rifle Association and Redneck Revolt, formerly John Brown Gun Club, come to mind immediately.

There's also the long history of unions literally going to war against capitalists, like in the Battle of Matewan.

Also worth remembering that leftist groups like the BPP encouraging its members to legally own firearms led to significant gun control expansion in California.
This is an excellent resource that consolidates data that is largely scattered.

I wonder the motivation for those who are so anti-nuclear that they would distort the data or even lie in many cases.

Surely, the fourth largest earthquake, plus a huge tsunami leaving so many dead, yet causing so little provable danger from the nuclear facility would, in most other domains, be generally seen as a resounding endorsement of its safety.

Nuclear is like terrorism in that the fear and reality of effect are so far apart. In both cases it’s far more dangerous to ride in a car.
Yup. I've been running EOS (https://elementary.io/).

It's almost as pretty as my MBP, and vastly more usable than Windows. And I have everything I really need (with first class Linux support):

* Gaming - Steam + Proton

* Digital Audio Workstation - Bitwig

* Video Editing - DaVinci Resolve

* 3d Modeling - Blender

* 2d Image - Gimp (this one could be a lot better)

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The only thing I can imagine dual booting into Windows for is Oculus Link. But I don't really think it's worth it.
The situation around guns itself is a clear example: as I understand it, a majority of US people is in favor of more limitations to gun rights (banning automatic weapons, screening psychiatric patients and criminals) but politicians are only expanding gun rights (open carry etc).

Strange, isn't it, how polling organizations don't quite seem to capture what the people actually want and vote for.

Actually, your list of "banning automatic weapons, screening psychiatric patients and criminals" is already in place, although the first is limited to a few hundred thousand in civilian hands. Two last time I checked had been used in crimes, the first incident a murder by a policeman.
Roads (in the US) are largely paid for out of gasoline taxes. How are you going to have a system where the more you drive, the more you contribute, with an electric fleet where many charge at home?

For those with an Ez Pass or similar, there will be little to do besides pay a bigger monthly bill.
Alright, any companies that are likely to go public and make some money?
Chess in 1K. INCLUDING THE VIDEO BUFFER. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess
That’s fine that you think that. Your source was a general quote from a book not relevant to that kind of sarcastic whiteboard comment or ticket.
Sure, but if I had to choose between a hunting rifle and a knife I would still take the hunting rifle.
Is guns per capita how you measure gun control?

- do you factor in urban vs rural gun ownership?

- do you factor type of gun?

- do you factor whether ammunition is available for those guns?

My earlier statement still holds true.
I have been using Windows 11 as a daily driver and don't really understand people's hostility towards it. It is definitely an upgrade over Windows 10. Comparing it to Vista is nonsensical. I don't agree with a few decisions (like making centering the menu a default?) but most are easily fixed. I would like to see them delay it to fix some problems, but it's possible those will already be fleshed out by launch.
I think Material UI (and the whole ecosystem of Javascript libraries of which it's a part) are drastically underestimating the costs that churn imposes on their users. I say this as a developer of a codebase currently on material-UI v3, looking at v4 and v5, having bounced off the task of upgrading a few times and currently thinking it's probably not worth it.

Material-UI v3 had an issue (which I think v4 and v5 probably still have?) where CSS-in-JS winds up retranslating Javascript blocks into CSS and adding them to every SSR, and then retranslating them again on the client as part of the pageload, which wasn't performant enough for us. So we set up a system where we would pregenerate a static stylesheet with deterministic names, and serve that as a cacheable resource. Then v4 comes along and all of the CSS-in-JS related wiring is different, so our static stylesheet thing would have to be rewritten, and then v5 comes along and it's been redone again, and it doesn't look like I want to touch this without some signal that it's stabilized.
I'm curious -- OTC antibiotic ointments are easy to get access to and downright obvious to use when there's a skin injury. Did you not try that before going to the doctor?

If I'm the doctor, the risk/reward for me is to overdo antibiotics and make sure to kill infections with them, if the parent has come so far as to come see me. It's risky to say "use an ointment" if there's even a slim chance it doesn't work.
Metro was fucked up on many levels, but Steve Sinofsky had a really good vision for Windows that I just don't think he had enough time to see executed.
Honestly, the Linux desktop experience has come so far in the past 10 years. Sure I don't think it's perfect, but it's nowhere near as bad as it was in 2008 where Windows was still king and Linux had bugs everywhere in every distro and every desktop environment. I think people should seriously consider Linux now if they can't take anymore of Microsoft's shit
An interesting web-based IRC client I've been looking at was The Lounge. You might like it.

https://thelounge.chat/

Also, at my company we've really enjoyed Mattermost over the years. The main chat platform is open source, they make money by selling a paid enterprise plguin suite. All your messages are in a database you control, you can translate them to whatever you want.
10 of these 12 months are on statutory parental leave, which is something like 140£ per week. If you have a decent job, it’s almost equivalent to unpaid leave.

Recently companies started offering enhanced parental leave, usually 5-6 months of full pay, but it’s not even close to being the norm.
i just tried to point out this data should be useless for prosecution. this could easily be faked to make up an alibi when you are correctly accused of something.
From what I see it's the kind of library for people preferring usability over good looking appearance. Of course you can make it "look like anything", but sane defaults are also important for rapid software development and this definitely lack them
Ask HN: How much do you spend on GitHub Actions?
I'm curious how far the free 2k/3k build minutes per month is getting people.
Sun Tsu would agree with you.
Good question, I am not sure. I think my starting point would be to tax the charging stations electricity usage. If people charge at charging stations that use solar, then that would be tax free thus incentivizing the greater adoption of solar.
Seriously. Windows Classic was perfect. Fast, functional, and extremely easy to learn.
I'm not sure it works like that. You may get away with it, assuming the lawyer never reveals your intent, but this sounds a lot like the "security" extortion rackets of the mob:

"Hey thought you should know, my 'security' company is currently for hire for businesses around town. We heard through the underground grapevine that a lot of folks may lose some product in their bodegas next month. Anyway, nice to introduce you to my 'security' business -- have a great month!"

If you revealed that your true intent was blackmail, and that's what this is, to your lawyer or anyone else then I imagine the intent in combination with the act is enough to nail you.
These newfangled beamforming systems can alter the direction of transmission to optimize signal quality for your phone. How can they do that if the system cannot locate a handset with great accuracy?
AFAIK, variants are not "resistant" to vaccines, they are just different, so a vaccine targeting the previous strand will be less effective because it doesn't match perfectly.

There is no better vaccine than the one for the current dominant variants. You can't really target future mutations because you don't know what the future mutations will be. You can imagine restricting the best, most current vaccine to the rich to limit escape mutations but besides the obvious ethical concerns, the virus will mutate anyways. Better vaccinate everyone with the best, because the less people infected, the less chances you give the virus to mutate.
I really don't see the point of existing unless we try to make the world a better place. Props to OP for posting this.
The problem is mac OS now uses M series chips. You'd be developing legacy code.
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Sure that can't be free - maybe allow free accounts with restricted uploads in size/number? Or even a free trail without the subscription signup that locks the account instead. I'm pretty leery of trails that autoconvert to subscriptions, though using an iPhone makes this less awful.