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Upvoted your for good points. However...

I think it's a false goal if it comes before correctness. Auditability is great, but it's kinda useless to say, "Yep, I know your code is wrong."

Unfortunately, it seems to be Rob's number one goal over even correctness. (Busybox is even worse about binary size.) And with the way Rob asked for me to change things, it actually made things less readable, which is an important part of auditability. So he and I have a fundamental disagreement over it.
This hasn't been my experience in the UK. I can't speak about the reviews but their deliveries are pretty good - very reliable next day delivery with Prime.
I would warmly recommend the last chapter(s) of 'The Selfish Gene'. Now an aged book but still largely up to date. In those last chapter(s) Dawkins invented the word meme as analogy to gene: a meme is a self-replicating piece of information. Like genes that are successful (in the environment they are in) propagate so do memes that are successful. Religion is the ultimate meme complex, it is a set of ideas that lives 'on top of' us and as long as it doesn't kill its host it may spread further.

In that sense, while I would guess at minimum religion can't kill its host, it does from this logic not necessarily benefit the host. An aggressively missionising or crusading religion might outcompete one that is peaceful and better for its host. And even a peaceful variant (see original Buddhism or zen Buddhism) might evolve into an aggressive, exclusive and murderous ones (see Buddhist monks in Myanmar firing up and demanding the genocide of the mostly muslim rohingya ethnic group).
Thank you for your honesty. Why do you feel other women pursue roles of empowerment? Do you feel this goal actually makes them more happy?
I have wondered if robots can own assets for example if there's a robot that walks around picking up aluminum cans and then taking them to a recycling center and getting paid for them, can it deposit that money in a bank account and be said to be the owner of the assets.
>I wonder if the author realizes that the biggest threat to Linux on the desktop is the possibility that all of the mainstream browsers will drop support for it.

This seems unlikely since most Google employees use Linux workstations.
> That's a feature I appreciate.

do you work for google?
The sad or horrific reality of many necessary aspects of life like health care, child care and education is that they are simply inefficient. And there really aren't solutions for them. You always need certain number of people to manage small number of patients, kids or pupils.

And there won't be any huge productivity boosts unless we somehow reach full automation, which I doubt won't happen at all...

In the end even with government subsidies these sectors really can't be high paying outside small number of specialist. And governments probably must subsidise them to improve productivity elsewhere.
Consider the calming power of slow rhythmic breathing; meditative practices are found in every religion.
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> And you can't buy it outside of Steam, but I can't help it if the developer doesn't want my money directly.

The game also seems to be available on GOG.com, although at least one review says the Linux version there is much older than what's available on Steam, so perhaps the publisher doesn't care about non-Steam sales that much. And of course it still isn't direct.

I haven't played Transport Fever 2, partially because my laptop's a potato and partially because I already have the original Transport Fever. Many reviews seem to say the sequel doesn't offer that much new in terms of gameplay.

I've played the original quite a bit, and it's fun up to a point. There's something satisfying about getting a somewhat complex system of cargo transport working. The lack of goals (apart from the somewhat lukewarm campaigns) or of any real competition makes it more of a sandbox building game than anything else, though.

The original is playable even on integrated graphics on lower settings, although I don't think that's officially supported.
I had the same initial reaction, but it makes sense for the laws to be written based on current reality and not some hypothetical future.

AIs are not conscious (now), nor do they elicit anything resembling consciousness.

If that changes, the law can (should) change with it.
`git depgraph` is really interesting, but it's based on Madge[1], which looks JS-specific. Does anyone know of something like Madge which is cross-language, that is, resolves references between files in Nix, Python, Java, JS, Ruby, Rust, Bash, etc?

`git heatmap`[2] is also cool. It should be easy to implement as an alias; this is 80% of the way there:

git log --name-status --pretty=format: | sed '/^$/d' | cut --fields=2- | sort | uniq --count | sort --numeric-sort --reverse | head

[1] https://github.com/jez/git-madge

[2] https://github.com/jez/git-heatmap
We reached max depth. But with respect to food and water, no one in any market economy dies down f hunger or thirst. During the last century every famine was in a war zone or command economy. We produce so much food now that we’re making ourselves sick from eating too much.

There are certainly issues in places with access to fresh food and we need to better maintain plumbing in some cities. Those are more complicated issues though and involve culture and government.
You seem to be trivializing this experience in a well meaning fashion. An abrasion can be trivial or life threatening as a matter of degree right? But you wouldn't treat both kinds the same, or even really talk about them the same. I'm not going to try and convince you further on this point in part because it would involve getting into a discussion on mental health diagnosis and seriously fuck that, but thank you for citing and quoting sources. I'm already familiar with this but it makes it a lot easier to respond when some one is willing to be specific in what they think and why. If it is pedantic then let there be more pedantry.

>not any blood test or neurotransmitter assay. "Depressed mood" is not described in any further detail, by the way. (Which, to me anyway, was always surprising in itself. You'd think there'd be more precision.)

This is actually really interesting! So, part of the reason that you don't get the precision that you're used to is that the brain is wicked complicated and the other part is it is very difficult to observe. Individual neurons are difficult to isolate and measure (Hodgkin and Huxley won the 1963 Nobel Prize for probing the 'squid giant axon') and thats just for measuring 'action potential', which is the gross exchange of ions across the neuron (typically what is meant when people say your brain runs on electricity). The actual signaling occurs by chemical transmission that occurs in yet smaller synaptic clefts! Those chemicals typically get reused or recycled by the brains support system, so it would be difficult to see anything occur in the blood, and a lot of those chemicals also perform other tasks or reactions in the body. These chemicals are called neurotransmitters when we observe them performing this specific kind of signaling. Some neurotransmitters are associated with certain parts of the brain, or subsystems, or feelings, but for all we know we could be aliens figuring out a car by slicing it into thin pieces and making a big deal out of the different kinds of motor oil.

We've got a good idea of how different parts are connected, and some models for how some of the pieces might work that are almost certainly wrong (but instructively so), but we aren't really 'there' yet with respect to being able to understand mental health in the same way that we understand, say, diabetes.
That's a very good sign!

Do they mostly use Chrome (as opposed to something based on Chromium)?
There used to be a demo in Epcot (‘The Body’?) which had two coils, one cold and one heated.. they were separate at the ends, so you could feel the difference. In the middle, they were interleaved, and if you put your hand on it, it would feel simultaneously hot and cold. Cool demo.
This doesn't seem like a new problem. If mycoolfacebook.example is a new frontend for Facebook, it must only talk to Facebook's backend, this is reasonably easy to verify. If it has its own backend, we'll have the same concerns we already have about Facebook.
Maybe they need to vary prices based on the "n"?

Obviously n cannot be too large, but there is likely some still reasonable upper range that would significantly reduce costs without harming kids. Then parents who have enough money could pay more for better care. But surely even a large n is better than no child care.

I realize that there are likely regulations against that today, but that's really one of the underlying problems that could be fixed.
I share your frustration, the people who you were talking to likely also had a misconception of what evolution and scientific theories in general are, or were stating it poorly. It's not accurate to describe it as a "belief" it's more like "best current guess that we have but we'll change our mind if a new guess comes up that is better able to explain things".
You know, if not adhering to your interpretation of the guidelines results in rate-limiting and threats to ban, then they're not actually guidelines, they are rules. It would be nice if you were honest about that.

And no, there is absolutely no way that my second comment was flagged by multiple users within minutes. This thread was long dead by then, and this is on the second page. What you say about the first comment is highly doubtful too, considering it was flagged within one single minute, with one single downvote - and was already also on the second page.

If repeatedly removing the story of an infamous torturer who destroyed congressional evidence taking one of the most powerful technical positions in the country - against loud and polite protestations - is really not remembered by you then you have two big problems. 1, your humanity, and 2, you need more moderators here because clearly you are being stretched too thin. Ask PG for a bit more budget, for the sake of your soul and the people here creating this content.
VSCode has excellent work preservation. I’ve had multiple Windows in VSCode open for months, with many “unsaved” documents open, and it always reloads everything after reboots and shutdowns.
Does Amazon actually have a problem? I have certainly encountered (and been paid to write as I answered one of the cards) fake reviews, but the products have always been ok. Not great, but for the $10 I spent, acceptable.

This seems mostly to be a technical complaint, in the way that people complain about Electron wasting RAM.
What I'm saying is that modern self-help doesn't resemble Mill's Self-Help. And that it's a comparatively far more recent development.
I’m very grateful for rulings like this. I think it’s important that we all remember that progress isn’t the goal. Humans flourishing is the goal. AI shouldn’t be personified and add even more actors with legitimate ability to compete for resources.
> without the government subsidizing child care costs

Why not though?

They'll be tax payers soon and I'm sure we'd get more of them if we made it easier to rear them.

There's probably a lot of subsidies that are currently in place that make less sense.
It's interesting that you are not including in your list one of the most prominent contribution of religion which is morals. A lot of moral codes that we take as given were introduced and hammered into people minds by the religions. Religion is not mostly about "spiritually", it is about living life according to some code of rules which is in some religions much more important than spirituality per se.
I have considered that issues is not money going somewhere. It is that it doesn't come from anywhere. Service economy works when you can extract money from somewhere. But service economy itself doesn't produce much of net goods. Food, housing, cloths, medicine, goods in general need to be made somewhere. You can't just live on cooking and serving food or financial services of moving money around, if someone somewhere doesn't do something actually productive.
This is fantastic! The actual image in the post looks almost like <hr> so linking it here: https://i.stack.imgur.com/hPcJr.png (it also gzip -9's to just 253 bytes and to 241 bytes with bzip2 -9)
Remove “AI” and it makes sense.

If you invent something and someone else patents it, you show prior art to invalidate the patent.

Whether you used software or a lathe or a lawnmower or excel to make the thing doesn’t matter.
Robots are always owned by some human entity though, including their bank account. It could just be another legal "virtual person" like a corporation.
If you don't assign value to posts written by those without 50k followers, why are you reading these comments?
In Australia we can tightly control our population growth via immigration so we don't need to encourage people to have kids. Kids are essentially considered a lifestyle choice and it's expected that their parents fund that lifestyle.
Quite a lot of webdevs use linux, which is a huge reason for browsers to maintain compatibility. Quite a few of the people building the browsers daily-drive linux too, which helps.

If you use a browser with experimental flags don't you expect some bugs? Just the fact that "supporting linux" means dozens of distros, DEs, WMs and two display server protocols (three if you include android and four if you also include some older ubuntu variants) means that the number of bugs is probably expected to be higher.

In short: I expect browsers to be buggier on linux, and I do not think there is a large risk they will stop supporting linux.
Twice now you came at me with ad hominem and nothing substantive, but I'm the edgelord.

Refute a point or move along.
> First, without support from Apple and Google, any fight with a local regulator is lost before it starts ... Our website that hosts Telegram Web and the standalone Telegram app for Android would be blocked by local telecoms in a matter of minutes. Even existing users would lose access to Telegram once Apple and Google turn off notifications for the app (which are used not only to deliver messages to users, but also to distribute unblocked IP addresses and dodge censorship).

> Some users wish Telegram was 100% independent from everyone and could ignore Apple, Google and national laws of all countries. I also wish it was possible. But the reality we live in is different. I have warned the public many times of the danger that the Apple/Google duopoly poses for freedom of speech. And, as I wrote in August, the world is becoming more pro-censorship in general, with even democratic countries changing their definitions of free speech due to concerns of election interference from geopolitical rivals.

This is the main issue - BigTech have grown too big and have too much influence now on politics since the US decided to sub-contract intelligence gathering and surveillance to them (as Snowden revealed). The author is right that democratic countries are now increasingly becoming pro-censorship and have an anti-privacy attitude.
Latency is what makes Optane impressive.

Queue depth 1 is where you still feel latency. When you read a file… that points to other files to read… that points to other files to read… and so on.

The really staggering comparative example of this is launching something like 20 beefy desktop applications at the same time. Even though it’s sequential throughput is only 40% at best of other competitors, it’s where Optane blows the absolute doors off everything else.

When SSDs get to sub-10us latency, that’s when it’s really party time.
IANAL but presumably any prior art involving a computer or other type of machinery you created is effectively your prior art. The fact there were tools evolved wouldn’t generally matter.
Seeing reports that the issue has been resolved, but not reflected on their status page just yet.
I can see why you might think that but no, I’m not. I don’t think unnecessary housing should be built because it damages the environment and wastes usable space for no gain. Likewise, I don’t like cryptocurrency mining much for the same reason. I find it silly to build more housing simply for rent-seekers to line their pockets at the cost of the environment.

Mine’s an environmental concern. NIMBYs are just trying to protect their housing investments.
This is why apps suck.

Steve Jobs got us into this mess by trying to monopolize the iPhone processor (and only allowed the web to bootstrap his platform). Complete control can be strong armed by dictators, and our spineless capitalists will bend to their will.

The W3C needs to develop a standard for non-DOM, immediate mode painted, fully WASM apps that can access all of a device's hardware. Storage, cameras, network, GPS, multithreading, gyros, all of it. Native apps over web.

We need a web-based drive by app that we can run sandboxed and install without the Apple/Google duopoly, and the US, EU, and Asia need to mandate support.

Edit: downvoters, seriously, we need to talk. You're walking the evil line.
Second, this particular demand of the Russian authorities wasn't obviously unconstitutional, as they referred to a law that restricts campaigning after people start casting their votes.

The problem is that according to the recent federal law - campaigning ban does not apply in case when voting lasts for several days.
They have this at the Exploratorium, too!
100% this. People sitting in their WhatsApps and Facebook messangers, not understanding why someone would like to use a better chat client because it's actually better, and also because your data doesn't end up at Google or Facebook.

Probably ends up at the nsa though. But I care more about not being a product of Google.
Which is a fair assessment. I guess what I'm getting at is that at least with a public blockchain such collaboration is actually possible (without every agency needing to trust some centralized provider - which might very well be technically and politically impossible when dealing with international agencies).
out of interest are Google employees still on their own version of Debian? I remember them switching from Ubuntu a while ago.
Maybe for an initial look through but most of my code reviews involve a conversation with everyone involved. It would be difficult to keep track of the that locally IMO. (Small exception: IDEs like IntelliJ let you sync comments so you can have the whole thread within your IDE)
On a basic level, you don't know what someone's material circumstance is when they A) decided to have kids vs B) any future time when they might need childcare. Life situations change and it's very much in society's best interest that we care for most vulnerable, like kids, no matter how rich or poor their parents are.
I don't want to sound hypocritical, but I prefer good old linux distribution, without flatpaks, without strange immutability stuff. I almost like Fedora, I don't like specifically Workstation flavour, but I was able to build my Linux from Fedora Minimal by adding stuff that I need and it was pretty usable in the end. If they'll spend more time at flatpaks at expense of ordinary packages, I guess it's better to just switch to Arch.
I don't know about that, code golf often produces spaghetti.
The whole build gets quite complex. Numba is interesting but also still a bit limited in what it supports. There are no silver bullets and sometimes you can find a good fit, but IMO the JVM or C#/.net overall have a better story when it comes to write performance critical applications (but don’t need to get the last 20% such as HFT or HPC sims), as you can also find people on the market who understand how to do and maintain that more easily. There are tons of python devs but in my experience at least on European market their understanding of underlying systems tends to be limited.
There's also a question of what we're really trying to validate, IMHO. All of these regex patterns will tell you that a string looks like a URL, but they won't actually tell you if: There's any web server listening at that particular URL; Whether that server has the resource in that location; If that server is reachable from where you want to fetch it; etc.
Yes, and the tz database handles this. (In fact the most immediate trigger for the 2021b release is that Samoa decided to get rid of daylight savings, but obviously did not retroactively change any times in the past... which points to an obvious constraint on that definition, you can specify the starting time where the definition is valid, but you cannot specify the ending time unless you can predict the future behavior of all governments worldwide. There have been tzdata releases with about a day to spare.)

In the past, most cities set their noon to actual solar noon, and when rail travel and communications made them pick a time relative to GMT, for a time they specified solar noon in GMT. For instance, America/New_York in the late 1800s gets you GMT-4:56, because that's what was actually used.

The rule for the tz database is that if two legislative time zones have the same definition from 1970 onwards, they might only represent them as a single time zone in the database. For instance, there's no America/Miami distinct from America/New_York, even though solar noon is a couple minutes different.

As it happens, Oslo and Berlin are the same from 1970 onwards, but the tz database currently has distinct Europe/Oslo and Europe/Berlin definitions. The proposal is to get rid of that distinction.

What if Oslo or Berlin vote to change their time zones, though? What if Norway pulls out of the EU in a "Nexit" referendum and then changes their DST to suit their economy? Wouldn't it be worth keeping the distinct Oslo and Berlin time zones?

Well, the same thing could happen to Miami, and there's no America/Miami at all right now. There's no sense defining every possible location in the world as a time zone to future-proof against that. It would have to be defined in a future version of the database.
I just got a 502 Bad Gateway trying to look at their homepage to find out what it is they do.
I'll try to find a source, but it's true. The import of this wasn't apparent to them, though.
What will programming look like in 2020? (2012)
That’s not what people mean when they say “spaghetti code”. When people are complaining about spaghetti code, they're complaining that the code is difficult to follow. Perhaps the control flow goes all over the place, for example.

That’s how the spaghetti code conjecture got its name. It’s a conjecture about the control flow structure of busy beaver machines. In this conjecture, you’re comparing different programs with the same size (if we think of size as number of states), but where the control structure is connected in different ways.
That's not true as a generalization. The newly mandated HL7 FHIR standards are a huge step forward in interop [1], and we've seen varying but progressively improving levels of support from all leading EHR vendors. The immediate deadline mandates patient information to be made available via FHIR, with more data segments to follow.

Prior to this each vendor had a custom API, and getting integrations working was an enormous effort. There are a bunch of companies who offer a standardized API around various EHRs, such as Redox https://www.redoxengine.com/. Now most of them have started supporting FHIR, as a way to ingest and expose data. FHIR isn't comprehensive yet, but it'll get there at its own pace.

1: https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Guidance/Intero...
Less wars!= less killing. We have mass shootings, military coups, genocides, we fight over resources already. Murder rates in the use rose what 20% in 2020?

Need I go on? I'd ask instead what good do you think we humans are doing, and further if you believe it outweighs the bad?
Their main site is loading without CSS, it seems, and everything's laid out horribly (full screen search icon to kick things off), but that cookie consent popup still loads and looks fine.