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> They've clearly taken steps to avoid pulling the rug out from under preexisting users, but this practice is overall so scummy

Why is the practice scummy then? If they did a bait and switch for existing customers, I get that would be scummy. But what’s scummy about raising prices for future customers (who have a free and informed choice whether to actually become customers)? Genuine question, I might be missing what you’re getting at here.
>I don't know why this other person is claiming that altering your driving based on what's happening on the road is a bad thing.

Thanks for the strawman. My point is that doing so to an extent that is anomalous compared to other traffic sends up red flags.
This is making me realise how strong the analogy between Conway's Law and Coase's Theory of the Firm is.

(recap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm especially "Why is the boundary between firms and the market located exactly there with relation to size and output variety? Which transactions are performed internally and which are negotiated on the market?")

The answer involves looking at informational and coordination costs. Microservices are extremely Coasian: rather than have a part of the software/company under direct, traditional command-and-control management, it's kept at arms length and interacted with via a software contract.

Using microservices theoretically reduces the coordination costs between parts of the team, but in practice risks just shovels them around. After all, the easiest way to reduce a cost is to dump the externality on to someone else. If you were deploying a monolith, it would obviously have only one set of SRE practices; with microservices, you end up duplicating those and introducing costly variation.
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Nothing that appeals to general public, OpenMoko was released in 2006.
well, "fully open" is just an ideal. I think I could live with proprietary bits that are not involved in the private data trade.

it doesn't have to be "cut rate". I left the specs/price point open for that reason. But indeed thinking of it as a tool, not as a trend-following gadget with 12 cameras and the screen size of a laptop.

Just interested to see whether this approach is viable.
What is this? Some person’s collection of personal coding projects?
Generalization from experience isn't irrational or specific to humans. It's a basic part of any cognitive process. Animals are great at generalizing from experience.

The reason there are social taboos against very specific kinds of generalization is because in the past powerful and evil governments have implemented horrible policies on the basis of such generalizations. But that's an argument against letting governments pass such laws, not an argument against any form of generalization about groups of people.

In this case, public health professionals have been observed behaving as a group in very specific and abnormal ways over a long period of time. It is not merely reasonable to generalize about public health at this point, it would actually be irrational not to do so.
What value is "certification" from random IT of apple or samsung devices? Pure CYA.
Fuel oil production in EU decreased by 62% over the last 30 years
I used to work for a company where launching a shell from within vim was the way we got privileged access on some of the customers boxes (which ran code we developed). Pretty crazy looking back on it..
Rationalization and excuse making and attempting to make false equivalencies and whataboutisms to divert the argument away from Bitcoin's problems is another sign of shilling and gambling addiction.
For those who wonder how these "\033[1A..." notations are specified, look up "ANSI escape code" on the net, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
If even Apple is affected, there's no hope for short or mid-term end of this.
But this object was not traveling at supersonic speeds when it hit the house. Meteorites below a certain size slow down to terminal velocity long before they reach the surface.
The person behind the Gamestop (GME) saga.
Well, one of the possible applications is game theory. Maybe these techniques could be used to design incentive structure that work. This of course is very loose reasoning on my part as I don't really know the details.
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I mean the postgres parser (and semantic changes) for ZetaSQL. The zetasql parser is in a file called zetasql/parser/bison_parser.y, I strongly suspect they now have a file called something like zetasql/pgparser/bison_parser.y as well (and much more pervasive changes to support the deeper differences in the dialects).

This is the lexical structure and syntax docs for the new postgres inteface to cloud spanner:

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/postgresql/lexical

And this is the zetasql lexical structure and syntax docs:

https://github.com/google/zetasql/blob/master/docs/lexical.m...

Notice that the new PG docs are an edit of the Zeta ones - evidence that my hypothesis is correct.
> if both planes should be counted as the same attack.

Why would it be counted as a same attack, two planes hit two seperate buildings so they are two separate events.
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DeepFuckingValue is his username
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One of their four datacenters in Strasbourg. They have many others accross the world.
This is a bit like saying "The real problem is drug addiction, not heroin. Heroin just seems to be especially good at causing drug addiction."

Edit: I'm not going to respond to the replies. I'm just going to add that I used to be a heroin addict, and the replies are classic addict: semi-coherent, indulging in the "ordinary people are just the same as us" trope, moving the blame to other things (with drug addicts it's very often alcohol, with bitcoin addicts it's apparently fiat money). None of them engaging with the point in the context of the argument - just warding off any perceived challenge to their addiction.
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Easy there big fellow. The petrodollar is certainly and undenyably a huge problem in and of itself, as you well know. Its horrible environmental impact is a huge problem, as are its effects on the mental health of the people who go online and shill it and rationalize it while ignoring and denying and marginalizing its environmental impact.
People probably think ‘I don’t want to pay for having access to a car’ all the time.

People want to snap their fingers and be at their destination. Not surprising and not very useful to know.
how did the Guardian get Gavin as a source? Why would he want to reveal his secret to anyone? How did he think to contact someone at the Guardian to say hey should you be writing an article on me? How did he become a software engineer from these other jobs.

These other jobs seem like a weird combination to me, how long did he last in them? What does his resume look like that he can get employed. How does someone who likes to shirk off consider getting a job as a software engineer considering the extra hours of interviewing, take home projects etc. you have to do?
When and why did he learn to become a software engineer, it was only after he started working as one that he realized he could really shirk off?

Finally how did he manage to stay employed when pretty much everywhere nowadays does some sort of standup where everyone sees you had a ticket that was supposed to take 2 hours and then you took a day, and then the next, and then the next. At some point fairly quickly it becomes obvious you real slow.
80 locations! Dear me. And do you feel that this more-than-single-digit list is sufficient to abandon the entire discipline of nuclear physics, or just the part that generates energy?

That is comparable to the number of Biosecurity level 4 labs in the world. The ones that research biological weapons. That is the sort of activity that can be threatening when there are 80 of them globally. Not 80 small piles of toxic garbage.

How many unspeakable waste dumps are there in the world? More than 80. More than anyone can count.
Tried to soak in as much as possible ranging from buying/selling crypto, over mining, farming, and folding, and being an SPO for Cardano, to reading whitepapers and becoming a value-adding community member. I haven't tried yield farming yet.
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This might be another reason why I find macros less appealing: macros introduce DSL in form of normal s-expression, but they don't actually behave like a function; macros introduce their own mini-language/syntax.

In the last example you provided, I bet the macro implementation would look like a little interpreter? If that's the case, having a function call like

doTexture(myTexture, ['op1', 'op0', 'opR'])

and let doTexture handle each cases(ops), might be able to achieve the same behavior, right?

I'm not trying to argue that macros are unnecessary, I really want to like them! Just most of the time, I find functions are sufficient enough.
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Are you talking about the laptop monitoring? I find employers who watch the clock or other "activity" as a measurement of your output to be far worse.

Focus on the results. Set the timelines and goals, and let the employee work however they want. If they deliver as agreed upon then what's the issue?
In s7 scheme:

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Maintaining shared references is not necessary to meaningfully print objects. For instance, conses can be printed and read back, even though mutations will not propagate to the versions read.
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The wisdom of monorepos is highly contingent on what sort of operation you're running. I've worked in organizations where some higher up read some tech blog that praised them as the salvation of programmer kind and pushed them through, but it turned out to be a really bad fit for the stuff we were doing.

If you have something you might characterize as one large suite of applications, they do bring benefits.

If you have many independent products, as is common in the B2B-space, especially with several versions in production at different customers that have different customization demands, it can be an absolute nightmare. Team A and D urgently required feature X as some regulation went through in their market and their customers had gambled it wouldn't, now Team B, E and G can't produce anything meaningful for six weeks because they need to build a downstream workarounds to circumvent feature X because their customers aren't allowed to have it because it violates GDPR.
DFV stands for /u/deepfuckingvalue a reddit user who became famous for his bullish investment on gamestop which resulted in him becoming a multi-millionaire.

You may know him from his part in the congress hearings regarding gamestop.
Yes, it's cooling down, very quickly.

There is no reactor anymore, it's just melted fuel that flowed into rooms under the reactor vessel but it cooled quickly and now it's just a warm rock.

Nuclear reactor is constructed in a way that the neutrons from fission are reflected back to the fuel to cause more reactions so the reaction rate is kept stable at a very high level. When the reactor was blown out by steam it lost most of it's power in seconds because the structures that kept the chain reaction running not existed anymore.

The conditions at the spot where the fuel is deposited may change due to environmental factors, for example when rainwater sinks into the fuel or it evaporates or runs off (water is a neutron moderator). That may cause temporary surge in fission reactions but it's still nowhere close to an operational reactor.
You're writing this on a US site.

You try to change the lives of hundreds of millions of people for the worse, when you are not even able to change your own.
Linux has capabilities(7), as I'm sure you know, but security is complicated, and the practical thing to do is still to turn off selinux and apparmor if you're running into weird problems. There are absolutely use cases for them, but "complicated" is a bug, not a feature.
This needs to be in every hospital. I know so many potential patients. Just last week a coworker told me he considers people who don't believe in the future of crypto dumb. It's almost unimaginable to him that a smart person would refuse to buy into crypto.

It's the same type of people that would be hawking pyramid schemes two decades ago.
This feels analogous to Coca Cola framing their plans as a “battle for your stomach”.
I went down the rabbit hole of trying to minimize client side JS usage for web applications and interactions on websites with these kind of paradigms. I understand where it comes from and at first seems like a good idea. I tried prototypes, different libraries, tried to roll my own solutions etc.

What I found is that this is a good idea in _some_ contexts, namely if you can and want to treat the browser as a rendering engine for state snapshots. If you break with that assumption, you want something else, or you'll be slowly creeping into an ad-hoc, complicated mess, where there is no clear abstraction boundary for the UI. You just end up smearing it all over your code.

There are some fundamental reasons for this.

A technical one is that HTML isn't just data representation. It also dominates the shape of your UI tree. Do we really want to complect these things? The separation between HTML, CSS and JS is extremely leaky and blurry. The more you try to pull them apart, the more painful it gets. It's also the ultimate de-normalization of your data. Meaning it's going to be a huge PITA to coordinate if its not done in one coherent place.

Another issue is that you are breaking a separation of concerns and encapsulation. Does the server really have to know how I just toggled a menu, rearranged some widgets with drag-n-drop or switched a stylesheet? Trivially no. The server might care about some of that happening after the fact, but almost never about the details of how.

But this gets even more pronounced when you implement features touching on security, consistency and reliability. With a clearer UI and server separation you have two distinct mental models or modes. On the front-end you only care about the user experience and optimize for that: Immediate feedback, guiding messages, visualization and transitions. You can treat the user as your best friend and fulfill all of their wishes. But on the server you treat them as an incompetent stranger and/or as and adversary. Because, you know, its the Web! With this separation you enable focus and avoid mental taxation mixing things up. It's ultimately a simplification in the pure sense of the word.

With all that said, I don't doubt that many find this paradigm useful, especially because of what you said in your last sentence. And I'm sure that in many cases you can work around the problems I mentioned, or even model them well if you don't break with the assumption I mentioned at the start. But if you do anything interesting _in_ the browser you'll likely be forced to patch over the fact that you are now smearing your front-end logic all over places.
> Already factored in.

I highly doubt that. The Tricastin NPP for instance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricastin_Nuclear_Power_Plant) is a rather average one, producing up to 3660MW. An average windmill output stand around 2.5MW, hence equivalent 1464 windmills simultaneously running before accounting for the load factor.

> but here's once

This one is about a nuclear reactor, not an NPP. Typical NPPs features 2 to 6 reactors.
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> however, the authors do not disclose any conflicts of interest in their scientific reports

I find it amusing the Lancet complains about this considering Peter Daszak's et al covid origins letter was published without disclosing conflicts of interest.
Some other tech like solar, wind, batteries etc. perhaps?

I've noticed a weird trend recently where the people still keen on nuclear power don't even mention the elephant in the room that is renewables.

They used to love talking about how expensive and unreliable and unsafe it is.

Gives me some small hope that a consensus is slowly being reached.
>The thing is, it isn't. People aren't islands. Our societies, our economies, are structured in a way that make it really hard to keep your impact on the environment low. It's hard to give up on a car in a car-oriented town or country. It's hard to give up on plastic where every single thing you buy has some in it. It's hard to give up on meat when it's the most cost-effective form of nutrition you have available. And then, when you add up all those sacrifices - the result is not living a good life. It's mortification on principle. It's not something you can reasonably expect everyone to follow.

Yet my grandparents led a low impact lifestyle without even thinking about it.

This is more of the same. Excuses.
Given the long wait times for these things I think it's pretty clear this is a supply issue, not a demand issue.

As for touch authentication, there's still the SE so at least they still have that as an option in the lineup. The thing is they begin the design outline for new iPhones from 24 to 18 months in advance of launch. Even a 2 year pandemic is a temporary issue relative to the iPhone design cycle, and any design response they might make to it would only show up towards the end of the crisis anyway.
Exactly, being able to pick your own frontend is what makes Laravel so useful to me. I hope they will give API functionality the same love and attention some day.
I mean economic value – what people are willing to pay for something.

For example, drinking water is incredibly important. Without it, we would die in a matter of days. However, you can't create much value by producing clean drinking water (branding it is another story), because people are not willing to pay that much for it under normal circumstances. As long as people can reasonably assume that someone will produce drinking water anyway, its value remains low.

In the same way, many jobs are essential but don't produce much value under normal circumstances. There is usually another person or another company willing to provide the same good or service.
Well...yeah. The national labs do fusion experiments because they can't do bomb tests any more. (It's also the reason they tend to have the biggest supercomputers in the world, so they can simulate nuclear explosions.) But that doesn't mean they don't learn things that might be useful for energy production.
Regarding healthcare, sure a US worker may be well taken care of while employed at that company, but what happens later? A US friend, his father, after decades of well-to-do middle class lifestyle, unfortunately got cancer while between jobs and not properly covered by health insurance. I believe that as result the family were worried about having to sell their home, at a time when the real estate market was falling. This could happen to anyone in the US, today's high-flying Google engineer could later have some kind of health problem (especially given some of the lack of food standards or pollution controls in the US - not that I'm saying Europe is perfect either...) then they lose their job and their insurance. As result, if you intend to live the rest of your life in the USA, it seems to me you need to amass some "danger money" to deal with health problems, for yourself or loved ones. Therefore a decent chunk of your salary needs to be used for this, and invested properly to keep pace with inflation which can be a pain/hassle/time sink . That then doesn't make those super high US salaries look so superior. And 1 more thing, price of basic fresh fruit etc, non-junk food in the US seems very high to me compared to other countries
E.g. their COVID deaths per capita stats place them at, I think, about position 50. The UK with much harsher restrictions sits at position 25.
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co... might be what you're after?
> The only thing missing is that I can't close the tab using JavaScript when it's finished, so the user (usually me) has to close it himself.

how come? doesn't window.close() work for you?

save(event) {
...take the action you wanted...
window.close()
}
<button onclick="(event) => save(event)">
It comes with the adrenalin rush. Similar addiction some have to extreme sports, or people who shoplift even when they have plenty of money.

I heard that in Iceland after the 2008 financial crash wiped out the banks traffic accidents went way down, as there were fewer traders speeding when driving home from work, as they were still buzzing with the adrenaline rush while trading (could just be of course their cars were all impounded to pay off debts...)
It's all about how many transactions there are.

I don't think there are enough, just like in the past
Custom ROMs like LineageOS which is in this study does have an inbuilt firewall. Long press an app and you can deny internet access entirely, deny VPN access, etc.
Didn't recognize you're the OP! So my comment may not be that off-topic then :D

> But learning programming language theory is the best part :)

That's very true :)
> like we have for carbon dioxide for instance.

Carbon dioxide is the only substance for which we have such an alert. (Although there is another kind of alert for substances which smell bad. Most toxic substances don't smell bad.)
I’m not saying he’s wrong — I have neither the education nor the experience nor the time to do so — but as a word of caution: One single atom in a different place, or a chiral flip of the molecule as a whole, can radically change the biological response of a chemical.

H2O is good; remove one atom, get explosive H2; add one atom get the bleach H2O2.

For chirality: S-penicillamine is an anti-arthritic, R-penicillamine is highly toxic[0] (I was going to use thalidomide as my example, but that turns out to be something which changes between both chiralities inside your own body).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillamine)
Terminal abstraction libraries feel like a relict of the past to me, because there used to be a lot of diversity in command sets and capabilities. Nowadays you can pretty much just assume that most commands work everywhere, so there is a lot less reason to drag around ncurses and friends if you want to make a progress bar that doesn't break your output or have some colored text.
Which friction? Friction with the air (or actually, compression of the air in front of the object, which is a much greater cause of heating) is how it sheds almost all its velocity in the upper atmosphere. Once it reaches terminal velocity, it doesn't heat up meaningfully by friction.

See also: "From what height would you need to drop a steak for it to be cooked when it hit the ground?" https://what-if.xkcd.com/28/
I find that when people need to expand the definitions of common words to render them virtually meaningless and, more importantly, strangely convenient to their point of view and the argument they are presenting, that is the point I realise that they’re not interested in a proper discussion and leave, entirely unpersuaded.
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