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> Dell says Jobs came to his house in Texas several times that year, trying to convince him to use the Next operating system on Dell PCs by arguing that it was better than Microsoft's Windows software and could undermine the Unix workstation market being touted by Sun Microsystems. The problem, Dell says he told Jobs, was that there were no applications for it and zero customer interest.

The irony of that, now in restrospective from 2021.
Nobody Should Listen to Twitter Mobs (2018)
The president of France giving a speech just a couple of days ago in front of an 18th century French revolutionary slogan:

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b24157621977bd4ff3fd790731e6c...
Education is key here - we the tech-savvy, need to make more of an effort to educate those less so, on how to remove files from their devices that could prove compromising in the future.

Naturally, I understand that what I've just said isn't the whole answer, but I really do think it's a good place to start.
Estimating uncertainty is preferred, but if you have people who insist on a single number, then teach them that it should be the median instead of the mean. Means tend to overvalue "moonshots" where there's a 99% chance you lose money, but if the payoff in that 1% where you win is large enough, it can still result in a positive mean. And a mean can often be an outcome that isn't actually possible, but falls between several options, while a median is always an outcome that can actually happen, and there's ~50% chance you'll get a better one.
CY8C32xxx processors are based around the 8051 but they're actually part of the fairly capable Cypress PSoC 3 line[1]. The PSoC 3 includes an 8501 compatible processor along with a bunch of mixed signal peripherals and a PLD fabric to connect it all.

[1] https://www.cypress.com/products/psoc-3
A Plan 9 site that actually talks about Inferno as well, there is some hope after all.
Which Countries Have the Most Nuclear Weapons?
> Unfortunately, Microsoft can’t use the code because (a) it’s GPLv2

That's not unfortunate. Having people who work on competing Free Software is a good thing. It would be even better if Microsoft adopted this code and complied with the terms of the GPL license. Then we won't have to deal with problems like these because they'd be nipped in the bud. And we would set the precedent to take care of lot of other problems like the malware, telemetry, abuse of users' freedoms.
I did much of this archival research (and wrote the Wikipedia section) let me know if you have questions.
That’s surprising only if you consider the Tories as being economically liberal. They are conservative in the sense that they look after the interests of the old aristocracy and a coalition of the rich. Their policies are intended to benefit a specific subset of the population. Their taxes (as well as things like the universal credit cuts) are perfectly aligned with that ideology.

They don’t have a problem with the concept of taxation, just taxation of the powerful.
Which of course, is also the majority of the quick weight loss that one notices in the first few weeks on a keto diet...

Personally I don't consider reduced tissue hydration something I desire so I no longer favour keto diets but each to their own.
Yes. To demonstrate lets phrase the question thus: Does watching videos of people drinking cola, make people more likely to actually buy and drink more cola?

For more details, I recommend reading material from the advertising industry, starting with Edward Bernays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)
Just now, one of the junior develops contacted me about a problem trying to start an application we are developing. I asked: "Did you follow the instructions in README.md file?". He said: "Yes". Then when I asked for him to show me the error, I could see he clearly had not made one of the steps in README to start the app. Just to confirm I asked if he had done it and he said: "No, maybe this is why I am getting this error then".

I need a punch bag urgently...
No-one mentioned "Tapiola" yet. That's one of my favourite pieces he wrote.
Surely no one installs cabinets with just screwing into the drywall and not into the studs, or some other more solid part?
Well this is a popular idea imported from comptuer science, but there's absolutely no evidence for it -- and plenty against.

Eg., QM is only linear in infinitely-dimensional real-spaces, etc.

Essentially of a physics uses real spaces indispensably. There is no evidence whatsoever that this is dispensible; other than the fever dreams of discrete mathematicians.
Hinges in branches automatically fold once a fall has been detected by video surveillance/weight&load sensors.

Combine with foamy floor/ballpens.
I find it much easier to use than bookmarks. It's a great for research, when you have disparate bits of information spread out over dozens of sources.
I close tabs as they become irrelevant. A window may have a lifetime of a few days to about a year. When I'm done I save its state using Tab Session Manager. By that time it's a 'best of' on that subject.

I also used 'New Tab Suspender' and 'Total Suspender' add-ons for a while in an attempt to reduce memory usage, but stopped due to Firefox crashes I assumed were caused by them.
Denmark: ~80% adult vax rate, 6M population
NYC: ~80% adult vax rate, 9M population
Flat metrics for both

NYC is firing nurses and teachers who have immunity, while retaining vaccinated nurses and teachers who can be infected and transmit. Vax passes causing 40% revenue reduction for some restaurants - and that's before winter closes outdoor seating. No option to prove immunity or negative test.

Thanks to to Denmark for their sane example.
And their slogan is still on coins (Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite). But how exactly does Napoleon figure into that again? In the way the Founding Fathers still influence modern US politics?
That is pretty neat! I have a dice stats python script I use specifically for DnD. It has command line flags and basically the same syntax as the discord dice bot. Very useful when you are considering strategy, even though my group plays fast and loose with the DnD rules.
> when a node disappears you get a new volume

Actually no. Currently you need to manually delete the persistent volume claim. Followed by deleting the pod. For the statefulsets ti to create a new PVC.

There even was a race condition until like 1.21 that made this operation fail 20% of the time so you'd have to delete the pod twice or the system would deadlock.

It'd be nice if the PVC would claim a new PVC if the orchestration layer knows 100% the PV is gone but it currently doesn't do this yet.

It's not an enormous problem once you're aware of it. But it does mean things don't auto heal at all. A node going down with local storage on it needs manual intervention to get the system running and healthy again.

There might be some operators that automate this away but i haven't seen it yet in the wild.
If Le Pen or Zemmour get through to the second round then I imagine Macron will win, as voters unite to avoid them winning, much as happened in the previous elections.

Although I guess Le Pen and Zemmour might split each others vote, preventing them from reaching the second round.
mmmm yes, but this question is fundamentally trying to stick a person into 1 of 2 buckets.

Singapore and many other countries recognize immigrants, which is what the PR/Green card/etc bucket is for - a merit path to citizenship.

Doesn't have to be so black and white.
I think the key here would be to change to laws so that victims of non-consensual release of pictures are not charged.
Google confirms $1B investment in Africa
Blanket policy to prevent claims of "you looked at our code and stole $importantDetail": only let people look at code you can safely admit to using in your product.
Those threads disappear
There was plently of conflict with Malaysia. Don't know about the current situation though.
Shape up is a powerful framework, it takes a while to get right but it’s very worth doing. We are about a year in, still improving at it. Our main focus now is doing things more by the book and getting rid of the customizations we added in the early days - so try and not make too many! :)

Email is in profile if you want to chat more on trade notes on it.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
2.6 was chosen based on empirical heat penetration testing for typical target food sizes, e.g. Potatoes.

GE lobbied for 2.4 instead so they could emit a noisy harmonic from a crystal based 1.2 system so the FCC agreed.

Source: national archives documents I researched
To be fair, the Australian/UK case is mostly just driven by greed. The Singaporean rules were created to prevent maids "breaking up families" by getting into romantic relationships with male citizens.
Where I live the walls are brick and then you plaster on top of them.
I don't want to click the link, because I fear it might not be the "Ministry of Marriage".
The E71 was a god tier device. Owned one for a good bit as a teen and it was the perfect phone for that time IMO. You could even WhatsApp on it until relatively recently.
Yes! I forgot they initially tried to blame it at some low-level engineer. There is a old joke in Germany, predating the VW scandal, saying that is definitely was the night guard.
When they eased restrictions numbers of new cases climbed. They tightened restrictions again. 3480 new cases today.

We are not even 2 years into the pandemic. Not that many countries are sufficiently vaccinated. There are going to be lots of different strategies and there’s not much to do but wait and see what pans out.
This is not true. Once your PVC is assigned to a pod the scheduler takes into account the zone information stored in the PVC/PV to make subsequent scheduling decisions if the pod gets restarted. The scheduler will make sure to only start a pod in a place where the PV can get reattached.

There used to be bugs with this years ago but all storage providers now get this right.
> If you choose a) you don't really get to avoid b), since something still has to bootstrap your Kubernetes nodes themselves

Not quite true if you use a managed K8S offering - and it seems a self-managed cluster is something to be avoided until absolutely necessary. Even with a managed cluster like GKE there's plenty of operational overhead to keep everything up-to-date and working properly.
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Presumably they mean just plaster, not sheets of plaster board.
Although, Blockchain is quite a vast topic that puts you in perplexity, the core concept of this topic is very simple. However, since Blockchain directly relates to the database, let us briefly understand the database first.
I live in the city. In a pretty decent neighbourhood (Oostelijk Havengebied), but I still don't understand what open spaces have to do with this. We've got tons of open spaces around here, all of them very safe. Police response or lack of it has nothing to do with open spaces.
But why would the clear command be in their history?
I've ran several small postgres databases and a kafka cluster on Kubernetes; in our case, the VM route would have added lots and lots of overhead with very questionable benefits, given that we didn't run a single prod VM ourselves (all managed by GKE) and hence we had good tooling, observability, monitoring for k8s workloads in place, but VMs were essentially treated as more like a set of disposable blackboxes (not entirely, but we'd only monitor certain aspects and leave all else to GKE)

Being able to get essentially the same result, but with our familiar processes, tooling, infra, that was really helpful getting things off the ground quickly and keeping them stable. We picked k8s/GKE way before that as a platform where a small set of abstractions allow us to do a lot of different things, and that makes it easy to debug unfamiliar workloads, keeping operations overhead low, and it worked out really well, and much easier for people with little ops experience to learn and get to a point where they could take care of their workloads themselves.

And it never felt we had to mangle k8s for our stateful workloads at all. Statefulsets, storage, node affinity etc. feel very much like organic building blocks and work really really well, with very few surprises. I guess k8s has come a long way as far as stateful workloads are concerned.
> This seems like an obvious improvement.

Well, it's not all that obvious in a world where "just add a monetary incentive" is the go-to policy change for just about anything...

Great that some people think beyond that though.
Eh, for what it's worth they've deployed a couple of PostgreSQL instances for me using Kubernetes and it's worked exactly like I've wanted it to. But then again I've never had push those instances to breaking point either when it comes to IO or concurrency so who knows.
> Again, the US has never had anything remotely as horrible as the French Revolution or Nazi Germany. That’s likely a consequence of a constitutional government with limited powers.

Uhhh... slavery? American Indian genocide? The Civil War? The US has certainly had things at least "remotely as horrible" as the French Revolution or Nazi Germany, although the holocaust is a bit of stretch.
This is a very extreme dramatisation. Singapore investigates and prosecutes the abuse of domestic workers very judiciously. The only reason it seems novel is because domestic workers are not particularly common in the west. Here you just get the normalized deviance of traditional family violence.

There are places where domestic workers don’t have the protection of the law. Like the UAE for instance, where somebody reporting their abuse can lead to them being charged with adultery.
Microwaves could have used almost any frequency that was cost effective, 2.4 was a compromise to between competing companies and empirical testing.
One of the great understated problems of remote work is conflict resolution. Quicker to handle face-to-face and just drags on over zoom. I absolutely love WFH, but much like any long distance relationship, dissonance lingers which is unhealthy for any organization.
Amouranth making almost as much as shroud is insane and the fact that it's that high even after twitch's recent moves is telling.
One can't help but marvel at the fuckwittery it must take to blame the EU for this.
And even a 7$/ku MCU is complete overkill (assuming that's the real price, not shortage-related, though its lead time is over a year, so the price is probably inflated), because literally any microcontroller with an ADC can easily do this. Around ten years ago I built my own on a tiny AVR, and even that would be an expensive option compared to what you could use instead in a commercial product (<0.5 $/ku ARM MCUs).

I haven't had a fan controller for many years though, because they're quite pointless if you do things right.
We work this way as well and it is wonderful.

We've been doing Shape Up since July 2020 and have yet to fail to ship what we shape for each 6 week cycle, and while there's sometimes a bit of a crunch in the last few days before a release, everyone is generally working at a pretty relaxed pace.

My favorite side-effect of working this way as a leader is that by batching 6 weeks worth of planning effort, the team (and myself) can just be generally left alone to get into it without having to decide on the next priority every single week. Combined with async check-ins (that the team provide themselves every couple of days via Basecamp) instead of daily/weekly stand-ups, everyone generally has an empty calendar at all times.
Shameless plug but we wrote a free tool that you can pipe in Jira data and run monte-carlo simulations to help generate forecasts.

If you don't want to go through the process of logging in via Jira there is a demo where you can manually input the data needed.

See: https://agilytics.leanloop.co.uk
Why would anyone want to use this?

The author can just advertise their preferred payment method including a BTC wallet if they like to. And the user can be sure that their money reaches the author instead of PeerSend pocketing it after 24 hours.

Brave attempted this with BAT as well and it seems it was put on ice despite better browser integration and not pocketing the money after 24 hours.
It's almost certainly tongue in cheek.
Not making claims about you, but simply skipping meals and eating more fat seems naive.

& other things matter, like gender, other genetics, and your macros.

YMMV, sure, because when I am low carb (less critical, more of a YMMV), high protein (critical), workout/lift (critical), count macros (critical) and fasting (less critical) I become the best version of myself. Mentally, physically.
Back when AMD64 was relatively new I had a case with various case fans which I could control. The machine ran Linux. I controlled the fans by hand with knobs.

I know this isn't what you meant but what's inherently bad for this if its a PC you have physical access to? What I did was put the fans down when I went to sleep. Its not like you can change power profiles dynamically, only on remote computers software controlled is better. And if its remote machines, who cares about the noise?
Plaster can be very thin and it isn't sandwiched between sheets of wallpaper. It's used to smooth out the wall texture.

You can also have concrete wall with plaster and then on top of it paint, no wallpaper at all.
The far right failing to reach the second would really be great! Even if I cannot vote, but it would send a signal so.
I'm trying to understand your fundamental point. "That Singapore is losing foreigners because it is so expensive to live?"

If that's the argument, then I agree. But you've got a lot of other stuff doesn't speak towards that end because it's talking about how cheap it is for citizens.

If you're a citizen, it's quite affordable to live in SG vs many other first world countries, all inclusive. US seems cheap at first, but factor in any amount of healthcare and you've got a real problem on your hands. HK far out weighs housing costs.

Still trying to understand the core thought.
There are plenty of American political parties, including one literally called the "American Independent Party," which was founded in 1967 in order to nominate George Wallace to run for president on a segregationist platform after the two big parties were no longer willing to die on that hill.

Usually, if you hear about a politician being an "independent," it means they're either a legislator not siding with either of the two major caucuses or a candidate running without the backing of any party, which does happen sometimes when a candidate is wealthy enough to fund themselves. The last time anyone managed get very far doing that nationally was Ross Perot in 1992, but when he ran again in 1996, he formed his own political party instead.
Or

d) He realizes that there are opposing factions with different ideas of what needs to happen, and it's impossible for his company to please them all, so pushing the decision to some semblence of a vote that claims to represent everyone is the only way to put an end to the endless arguing.

or

e) He believes what he wrote and doesn't think these social issues should be decided by corporations.

Either interpretation is fine and a lot more generous than yours.
I wonder if such a mounting solution would work when paired with the crumbly gypsum based drywall commonly found in North America.
Getting laws changed is hard, educating others is easier, and if we all made the effort, the law change wouldn't be necessary.
I like how "deactivate account" still keeps Facebook Messenger fully enabled and all of your posts remain online. That's probably so that your friends can ask you why you deactivated your account ;)
"10 backbone router commands Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want you to know. Number 7 will shock you!"
My vitamin D level is only optimal when taking an average of 11000 IU / day (D3 + K2). It hasn't improved my sleep quality. As an example, I woke up at 3:30 am this morning and feel like I haven't slept at all.
It's always true that the election system itself plays a big role in how/what candidates get elected. It's also true that the US electoral structure was a huge factor in Biden or Trump's election. Change the structure of the primary or main election, get different results.

That notwithstanding, it's also true that elements of Trump or Bidens' success might translate.

In any case, the "The whole "socially progressive, economically middle of the road" political coalition that would win every election on HN." is arguably the most successful coalition in western (and many non western) democracies for decades.

Depending on vantage, political classifications like "progressive" and "middle of the road" are relative, and we don't usually agree on the bounds. But if

If you compare changes though, these orientations have been politically powerful for decades. ...

Normative beliefs around gay rights, minority rights, secularism, women's rights and such have been marching forward, call it progressing. Circa 2005, gay marriage was fringe and ilegal almost everywhere. Obama, Clinton & other prominent US democrats occasionally even had to pretend to be against gay marriage, for elections. Within <15 years, gay marriage is legal in the US, most of western europe, etc. A religious-conservative position on a lot of issues is considered fringe now. 15 years ago, condoms were still politically controversial. Bush cancelled HIV prevention initiative because condoms.

Meanwhile, the economic middle-ground is approximately in exactly the same place as it was in the 90s. This might be breaking down ATM, but very generally, the conservative position from the 80s became the middle ground. Barriers to trade, corporate shields, tax structures and such haven't changed much since that shift.
The slogan, not the people. Big difference.

An idea, not founding saints :-)
Yup, and I've watched YT videos on that drone before...all the comments are filled with Turks who are proud of their country's killing machines. That said, there are people who are proud of MQ-1s etc as well.
Birthrates for non-PR/citizens shouldn't affect the long term outlook nearly as heavily as expats are not expected to stay.

> Is there a reason they're reluctant to treat permanent residents the same as citizens for kid stuff?

My naive guess is, yes there is. PR is a merit based system to gain access to the "full thing" you need to be willing to put in the work.

At the core they need to solve the local population's birth rate problem.
This is by far the most comprehensive Plan 9 walkthrough I've read in the past couple of years.

I've been running a Raspberry Pi as an all-in-one Plan 9 setup for a long while now (as a sort of catch-all minimalist dev environment/console), and the two main showstoppers for me have been:

- The reliance on a three button mouse, which makes it impossible to use Plan 9 on a modern laptop without finagling with modifier keys (no, I don't want to go back to using a mouse, thanks).

- The utter lack of any minimally usable browser (I know, the browser would be larger than the OS, but it is a major issue for any kind of work today).

It is an excellent system to dig into and learn from, but there are many paper cuts when using it daily: SSH/terminals work differently, VNC/Remote Desktop clients are... weird, etc. (rd sort of works, and sort of doesn't, and without it really working I can't even read documentation online unless it's plaintext).

All in all, this is a great thing to see as I hope new things are built atop Plan 9 (when it makes sense), but as a minimal desktop environment I've moved to Openbox + xterm + Firefox, and have been pondering setting up Chromium OS on a beefier Raspberry Pi, since most "consoles" are just web-based these days anyway...