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>easily deactivable

Each time I install Firefox, I end up wasting a non-trivial amount of time carefully working my way through the settings in order to disable the pile of defaults that are as 'easy' to deactivate as they are infuriating. When updating the browser, some of these changes get rolled back, and some of them become more difficult to adjust, either by being removed from the options menu, or by being obscured in about:config - maybe the name has changed for no reason, or maybe the behaviour now depends on an entirely different configuration value.

A particularly obscene case is the auto-updater, which has gotten so bad that I have literally given up on figuring out how to disable it. (At least on Windows; firefox-esr on debian is, so far, free of this insanity) (Ever noticed how forced automatic updates in software get pushed by security fanaticism, but mostly exist to steal your data and ruin your day while they're at it?)

You, apparently, see an easily-deactivable feature in a clear and extensive settings menu. I see an ever-growing eldritch labyrinth, built solely to prevent me from having a straightforward internet browsing experience, all the while the browser's performance is slowly but surely - and noticeably - worsening in the new versions.

Anyway, screw you, Mozilla. At this point I'm only using firefox because I don't see much of a choice either.
Ireland will play a blinder if they manage to attract UK companies and employees who rely on access to the EU. The Common Travel Area means they can just pack up and go.
Surprised By Brains (2008)
short and simple, how long did it take you to do this?
The platform looks slick. Great job!

- It would be nice to have a sample book or two featured on the homepage.

- About print-on-demand, where is it printed and shipped from? Perhaps an FAQ page can answer some of these questions.
Going from $110k to $24k for more skin in the game
>Isn't it also possible that some remainers, a few years older, would have changed their mind?

Maybe if they've suffered a head injury. Brexit is going badly by any metric.
It is an interesting read and I want to go back and read it a bit more carefully (now that the server is finally back up) but one factor in a ponzi scheme is that there is ultimately a limit on suggestible investors. This isn't part of the definition of a scheme but seems to be an obvious limitation of them. Seems the smart operator plans for that drop in ability to pay out. Most long-term MLMs work out this revenue drop as well.

There is an upper cap to the ability to generate bitcoins [1] which acts as a similar cap on the long-term viability of the system.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28780925
There’s gotta be a better way to approach this than by showing an interstitial before showing a profile. It gives people an easy reason to not engage with your site.
Are there any legitimate stable coins?
Pfizer Asks FDA to Authorize Its Covid-19 Vaccine for Children Aged 5 to 11
That's because life is not solely a series of numeric optimization problems; objectivity is a useful tool, but people's desires are by definition subjective.
We're going to have to agree to disagree, if you are arguing against mandatory code reviews in software projects.

Beyond the obvious sanity checks, they exist for establishing collective consent, and knowledge sharing - these are responsibilities that increase with seniority, not decrease.

Junior people should never be permitted to sidestep the process, and senior people must be leaders and set an example.

But it's a big world, so do your thing.
the fact that my first instinct was to mock you with "ummm ahhhctuallly" is telling that maybe your comment wasn't really needed.

We understand the intent and thought behind the use of iff in the original comment, regardless of what it may be interpreted to mean outside of a _very informal_ setting.
What is a good TTL for DNS?
I did not use the mobile version until after they redid the design.

I dont really have a lot of complaints about it. I like the dark mode and the address bar at the bottom it has ad blocker.

What all changed between those versions ?
In our codebase, we used inline asm twice; for 'pause' and 'rdtscp'. Even then we replaced that with intrinsics later.

'Regular applications' that use inline asm should really be raising eyebrows.
I remember asking in school if you charge more for what something was originally worth, how do you not end up with debt as a net outcome (bucket of money analogy).
> ACM has not levied a fine against Apple, but demanded changes to the in-app payment system, the people said. The decision has not been seen by Reuters.

What did they demand specifically?
Yeah except that's not what he said. He proposed space mirrors with the photovoltaics on earth. Doing the inefficient part in space is fine.
I've found it challenging to pin down someone about whether they see stuff internally or not. It's as if people who do aren't quite aware of what they are doing is happening, but if they think about it (like breathing) then they are like "oh yeah, I see it!"

Anything "built up" from a mental concept, and seen as an image, would be exactly what I don't do.
You say that there's no "non-hacky" way, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ5ppf0po3k

He made a filter that did analysis of the pronunciation of the messages that were being sent. His breakdown of it starts at around 13:30
> They included a complaint from Match Group, owner of the popular dating service Tinder, which said Apple's rules were hindering it from direct communications with its customers about payments.

As the Alien vs. Predator tagline said: whoever wins, we lose.
Apple Plan for Cars Uses iPhone to Control a/C, Seats, Radio
SNOBOL4 was earlier than AWK with associative arrays by a little under ten years. However, from the standpoint of manipulating strings with regular expressions, AWK introduced the concept as far as I know.
The federal government should have shut down Tether years ago. At this point, Tether growing its tendrils into the real economy and becoming a systemic risk almost feels like an inevitability. Madoff 2.0, but even more obviously fraudulent.
But, You're Not Facebook
It would probably still be written "10x", just in base-twelve!
I'm a very happy Starry customer. It's been great having fast, symmetric speeds (200Mbs) and a reasonable monthly fee ($50) that doesn't constantly increase without notice. Hope this doesn't change them.
I just see a strong correlation between mental instability and career success. I'm only speaking from personal experience. Sometimes it feels like it's the instability itself, not any specific action which leads to success because unstable people seem to recognise each other and help each other. Even among those who are psychopathic.
Penetration Testing Your AWS Environment
> the woman was to be not only a homemaker but also to show a level of adoration for her salaryman husband as reward for his bringing in the money she used to look after their children and socialize with her friends.

I don't get it. What kind of reward for the husband is the fact that she socializes with her friends?
I think it took me about 30 minutes of trial and error.

I had a lot of experience with DispatchQueue already from developing Lunar (https://lunar.fyi).

So after reading this blog post [0] I just thought someone should make this available.

[0] https://eclecticlight.co/2021/09/14/how-to-run-commands-and-...
git commits are a good place to look for passwords/users checked in. unless you specifically prune them. so your current mainline may not have it but the stuff is still there in the commit history chain. so if you have access to that you probably could leverage it into several other systems.
I only recently learned about Scunthorpe because the username I've been using for 15 years is now affected.

Georgyo has orgy right in the name. More and more places are refusing to accept it when signing up.
Compiler Explorer [0] is a godsend for seeing what the compiler is generating.

For example, the codegen for some C++ that was discussed a few days ago [1]

[0] https://godbolt.org/

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/cfYKqajMd
I run a hedge fund. On any given day I hear a large number of complaints from the technologists that complex python systems are difficult to look after and we should use something else instead. There's some Rust being used, but there's little chance to get a quant to use Rust to do research because research is an exploratory process and the last thing one wants is a language that requires a lot of thought about lifetimes etc.

How is the python-ocaml interop story? To be clear, any language that does not have first-class interop with python is basically dead in the water (at least for our case).
It's interesting that the Japanese version of the article itself is 5 times shorter with barely any elaboration.
Gods do I miss the days when I could be a Firefox fanboy. I even miss version 1.5 when the Close Tab button was in the same place for any active tab so you could muscle-memory click it without even looking at the tab bar.
Show HN: Flagsmith – open-source feature flag and remote config service
Understanding Infer in TypeScript
I think Binances BUSD is the closest to legitimate
The U.S. Mint apparently is producing a brass/manganese- clad copper $1 coin called the "American Innovation dollars".[1]

You could try that.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Innovation_dollars
Who is this "we"? Are you shocked?

Speaking for myself, I'm not shocked, nor even surprised, that marketers would like to get into my living-room and my bedroom. If Mozilla wants to facilitate that, then they become my enemy.

Marketers are going to do marketing, just as pigs roll in shit and rabbits breed. I'm not trying to stop the tide; but I'll sandbag my front-door, so the tide doesn't wash into my home. If Mozilla wants to try an end-run around my flood defences, Mozilla can be removed quite easily.

Mozilla execs seem increasingly the same as the execs at IANA. They don't have real customers or shareholders; they are not held to account. It astonishes me how much these greedy oafs get paid. They are removing value, not adding it.
Plus 4000 local credit unions.
When I was younger I worked at a trucking company. This included both long-haul (gone for 1 week or more) and short-haul (gone for 12-14hrs).

A common thing I heard in the break-room was "If I worked a normal job I would be divorced by now".
give ripgrep a try. it is probably better than anything else that you might have tried.

if you are using emacs, then rg (emacs interface to ripgrep) is just excellent. that when combined with embark and wgrep is almost magical in what it can do.
That one says: "In these studies, participants are grouped according to the outcome, e.g., whether they had cataract surgery or not, and then information is obtained about their exposure to a risk factor. In these studies, the risk factor is high myopia."

Which makes me go "ummm" and wonder about correlation.

I'll just restate that I'm generally leery of long term drug treatments when there's other options; there's certainly reasons to consider them too.

Your reference says High Myopia is "A person who needs ≤ −5 D of correction has a visual acuity that is far worse than the threshold for blindness (–3/6 in the better eye)." which is certainly worth considering some rather severe side effects to improve.
> The proceedings are not open to the press or public.

Can anyone explain the policy reason behind the secrecy?
Or just remove the interstitial. We devs are seldom also lawyers, and we should treat the user with a sense of personal agency. Out of every person I've ever met, I'm the only person who reads contracts such as EULAs and PPs. That means that in my anecdotal pool of people I've met so far, I'd estimate the majority of everyone else does not benefit from these warnings. It is performative and has no function.
Hi Everyone. I started a London-based software agency back in 2001. We felt a lot of pain dealing with engineering teams of all shapes and sizes when devs were trying to release major changes without breaking anything. We spent a lot of time understanding why shipping is so hard, observing common patterns, and figuring out how we could make things better for our clients.

Flagsmith was born out of these learnings. We built it as an internal tool, and in 2018 we open sourced the project and launched a paid SaaS product. A year ago we decided to go full time and bring the commercial open source product to market. Since then we have grown revenue 10x.

Here are 5 of my biggest takeaways from that transition:

- Open source is the advantage. The community has benefited us with customers and contributions. It also gives us deployment flexibility, which we have seen be extremely valuable to our enterprise clients - that is why, for example, some of them prefer us over LaunchDarkly who has more features.

- Enterprises have money. Amazing, right? Don’t be afraid to ask more if your service brings value to them. We originally underestimated our price tag more than 10 times for these large customers. Early on, we lost deals for being too cheap!

- B2B software is not winner-take-all. You can always find a niche for your product, no matter how crowded the market. The 800lb gorilla will always have a blind spot; figure out what it is and leverage it relentlessly.

-The KISS principle works anywhere. The simpler your tech stack is the more likely you’ll be adopted by a big company. We’re running a REST API based on Django, a ReactJS front end and a SQL database – that’s it. If you have dependencies on a bunch of AWS services, you just lost an enormous amount of market opportunity.

- Know your customer. Track down their pain points, solve them, and you will be rewarded. We learn from feedback a lot. Recently we added Flag Archiving based on direct feedback, and it has been warmly welcomed.

These learnings have been really valuable for us, but we’d love to hear from other projects and founders who are pursuing the commercial open source route.
Despite all the insightful intellectual back and forth on this thread, this is my favorite comment.
Sure, that's the case today, but in the 80's and early 90's it wasn't all that uncommon to write big applications completely in assembly code. With a proper macro assembler and IDE-like coding environment that wasn't as bad as it sounds today. The focus has just shifted away from assembly programming to high-level languages, and the tools moved along. At least reading assembly code is still important today though.
Developers, a guide on how to use AWS named profiles
We used OS/2 for a research project in the late 80s, it was a great experience when it was a big step ahead of Windows in every way. That got me my first job out of college, we ended up writing the Mac connectivity SW to LAN Server as a contractor to IBM. I was surprised they would give that job to a little startup.
I know a few retired business execs or owners who got bought out and for the most part they are miserable. No good hobbies, no schedule.

For the most part they just boss around their families, driving them nuts.

I think we're lucky in that for most of us our hobbies and work intersect, at least to some degree, such that even in retirement, if we're truly idle, we can still write software.
Hygiene factors.

The ultimate technological mechanism.
Looks like a futures-based Bitcoin ETF may come in ~2 weeks : https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2021/10/04/the-first-u-s-bitcoi...
So you might as well be using Chrome then. They already got all of your data from your phone.
If you find all this interesting, look into Aldous’ brother Julian Huxley sometime. Infamous eugenicist and architect of a few institutions that are still influential today.
> If there is no human input or labour involved in mining, manufacturing and distribution of a product, especially if that product is only used by other autonomous system

Creation, energy and maintenance of machines are not free. People who provide this things to site need money too, so it adds to price of mined items. Then moving and transforming/smelting those things costs too. Watch springs are several orders of magnitude more valuable per kg than raw mined iron.
His reward is " a level of adoration" which she awards to him for enabling her to socialize.
You're right, I guess it depends on what you choose A and B to be. For:

A = OP supports Mozilla making money from address bar ads

B = Mozilla is honest about making money from address bar ads

"B -> A" (OP supports Mozilla if Mozilla acts a certain way) makes sense. "A -> B" sounds confusing in a sentence, but its contrapositive, "!B -> !A", also makes sense.

However, for:

B = Mozilla decides to make money from address bar ads and is honest about reasons

"A -> B" no longer makes sense, since OP can support Mozilla having the address bar ads with an honest justification, but Mozilla can still decide to not have the address bar ads.
No. USDC was long considered the adult in the room, but they started going off the rails earlier this year, dropping the 1:1 promise, delaying attestations and also now facing heavy regulatory scrutiny.
Nope, it’s the central theme. It’s a deeply feminized society with preassigned behaviors and motivations and zero agency.
"I hope these sorts of experiences will still be accessible for my kids. "

If they surfe the web from their computers, they are just a click away, from a WebIDE, called dev tools, much more powerful, and millions of tutorials how to use them. Thd opportunity they have.
Mozilla has been a shambling corpse for awhile, and theyre dragging whats left of firefox with them. Their only goal is to line administrators pockets as much as possible before the end. To that end theyll use up whatever good will and trust they have left.

Personally Ive been done with them since that incident a fee years ago where they were silently pushing out some adware extension for some movie. That followed by their explanation and non-apology told me they were already dead.
It might also be the wrong incentives being passed around. I mean, if you're hired and paid to push knobs and levers, you'll choose a tool with knobs and levers. Even with more of them.
Happy wife.
It is easy enough--arguably easier, right?--to generate random keys, but if you always work with hashes of the key (which I am not claiming cockroach doesn't do, only that I would be frustrated if they do) then you lose the ability to do range queuries.
That's brilliant. That's the way it should be done.
Climate models got so accurate they earned a Nobel Prize
>For those of you coming from Hacker News, I'm on a cruise ship going through Asia at the moment.

>posted in 2009

I really hope this guy gets out of quarantine soon
Wrong conjunct binding - not:

> reward (for his bringing in the money she used to look after their children) and [that she] socialize[d] with her friends.

(err.. or something, not sure exactly how you read it)

but:

> reward for his bringing in the money she used to (look after their children and socialize with her friends).
Now they give syndromes for every problem happening under the sun? That's entertaining. Is there also a "I am tired with school so I do stress eating Syndrome"?
I don't know that it is "the best", but CKEditor 5 is what we use because of how flexible and extensible it is. It has a plugin that can convert it to using Markdown instead of HTML.

Out-of-the-box, it likely isn't what you want, but if you learn how it and its plugin system works, you can make it what you want.

Their team also is fairly awesome - as we've twisted it to our needs, their support folks have always been there for us to not only answer questions, but even going so far as to understand what we are trying to do, and having their dev staff send us sample code to help us out.
I find this absolutely incredible, that the workings of the court in a commercial case like this can be hidden from the press and the public. Disgusting that they would ask for this, and I sincerely hope that the court will reject that.
Not fighting the battle is also unwinnable.
I see many articles like this one talking about how cheap these machines are to run and how they must be a no brainer. But It’s not that simple. How many dishes can it make? You have to pay a programmer to add more. What if it breaks down? Highly paid tech needs to come and fix it.

I think until these machines become commodities level cheap, and equivalent to perhaps a colour laser printer in terms of ease of use, it will simply make more sense for restaurants to continue to use low paid or underpaid workers and just deal with the employee churn that comes with that.

On the other hand, I can definitely see a place for robotic food vending machines in todays world. In places where the customer level is not high enough to justify having a full restaurant or pop up with people, a 24h food vending machine with fresh pasta would be great.
This is true only on its surface. Most fusion energy production happens in Sun's core and that stuff is both more dense and produces much more energy per unit volume than a compost pile.
> Wealth is a measure of how much stuff people have that they actually value for its own sake. Food, housing, clothing, shelter, and artwork, are all examples of wealth. Money, by way of contrast, is merely an accounting mechanism that humans have invented in order to facilitate trade.

I think this is pretty accurate, except the description of money as "merely" an accounting mechanism. Trade is facilitated through a variety of accounting mechanisms, and money is obviously an item in this list insofar as it is the unit of account for economic entities that maintain accounting books. However, money is also a concrete economic good in and of itself, subject to forces of supply and demand much like any other good.

The author correctly states that wealth is derived from subjective valuation, so money could be seen as something like the "limit" (categorically) of wealth, which aggregates the value judgments over all (person x good) combinations.
At least it is easily disabled
U.S. House of Representatives Passes the “Libya Stabilization Act”
I mean what is a shady about the dropshipping store trying to sell you a cheap imported product for a 400% markup or the guru with the rented Lamborghini who is trying to sell you on his course on how to 10000x your money by trading forex? /s

I know the example mentioned is facebook, but I feel like a similar development is going on with other ad networks as well. Even on YouTube around 40-50% of all ads I get are by some guy trying to sell me on his dropshipping, forex trading, crypto or tax evasion course.
One could be that some of the most absurd predictions of the post Brexit catastrophe never materialized. The FT predicted riots in the streets, queues around the block for the eurostar, the city disappearing, etc.

The other is that they wouldn't vote "remain", they would vote "join". There is always a resistance to change.
> Fine, if there really are 50% less conversions, that's an issue, but frankly 6 hours won't really matter.

You buried the lede with things we already know for some reason.

Two things:

- It's 6 hours and 60 million dollars to them, which is absolutely nothing, but they risked harming their customers (advertisers) over it. This was Facebook's screw-up, and now they're passing it on to their advertisers. When you view advertisers as captured, you worry less about their experience and attempt to extract as much value as possible.

- It's systemic. Someone in another thread mentioned there are good people at Facebook, and they can't reconcile the behavior exposed in internal documents with those good people. This is a great example. When your performance is tied to metrics like advertiser spend, even when you had the largest outage in your recent history, you'll immediately hop on afterwards to direct your team to try and extract the most money out of advertisers possible to make up for it. These individual incentives add up to form the predatory company that we see externally.
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