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I try to be an optimistic person, I really do. I try to remind myself that the sky isn't literally falling, and that the world is a more generally pleasant and peaceful place today than what it has been throughout much of history.

But.

Every time I see something like this, it just about drains my spirit to nothingness. I want to embrace nihilism and just quit giving a fuck about anything or anybody when I see stupidity on this level, and displayed by somebody who managed to get elected governor of a %@%#ng US state. It really is hard sometimes, to not just withdraw into a shell of isolation and decide "fuck it, this world is too damned stupid for me to bother with."

I don't like feeling that way mind you, and I actively try to fight the urge to give in to that kind of thinking, but it seems to get harder and harder with every passing year. Am I weird in this regard, or are other people experiencing this as well?
Story points are unitless, which makes Agile "velocity" just the inverse of time. Those are not the only things in Agile jargon that are harmful.
I couldn't agree more - I think the number of pervasive narratives accelerated by social media (with almost zero backing in data) are also a factor here. For instance, I support reducing emissions and fossil fuel use, but I find it a bit nuts when Gen Z claims "the world will end in 12 years" without offering any real path forward other than "fuck anyone who disagrees".
I enjoyed this animation narrated by same:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VALLiF18tvM
Russia supplies 55% of Germany's natural gas imports. Cut that off and say goodbye to manufacturing, electricity, heating.
Having choice matters if the option wasn't only single family homes where you live. There are no middle housing options for the vast majority of the country or options to expand your existing property into duplexes.
> I don’t get the talk of colonising Mars either. Who the heck would want to live there?

I think the idea is more about creating some redundancy for humanity. Every day, there's a nonzero chance of some cataclysmic event happening that wipes out all human life on earth. If we had a self-sustaining colony on Mars, we'd be able to continue on.

But I agree with the take that you wouldn't want to live there until they have vineyards, and creating a vineyard on Mars is going to be orders of magnitude more difficult than creating a vineyard on the South Pole, or the top of Everest.
Your comment about most people online optimizing for something like a hit of dopamine is correct. However, just FYI, I clarified later in that same section that my comment was referring to "well-intentioned" people. Obviously that's a bit subjective and harder to delineate, but makes an important distinction.

And just FYI, I never said "all" journalists, I was only referring to most, a not altogether uncommon opinion.
SLAM would be to build a 3D model of what you filmed with a drone.

Adding CGI to drone footage doesn't require that, and is absolutely something Blender can do. Look at its motion/camera tracking features.
> The "learned helplessness" here is on us, not the users.

I think the big problem here is everyone of the big players “giving up” and trying to obscure and abstract as much as possible rather than make things clear.

Most people understand a phone number +[country] (area) (number).

Basic URL parts like (http/https)://(server)/(address) is not that much more complicated, is it really?

Google and Apple have really set the trend here in making it feel more difficult for users. Things like “unified bar” and hiding the address are just two concrete examples in two decades of “making it easier”.
Probably without comments stripped.
Recently, I had to submit a bunch of information (name, address, DOB) into a Google Forms page in order to request a COVID-19 vaccine CDC card from my state’s health department. This Google Form was run by a contractor for the state’s health department and was misconfigured to allow viewing all previous responses after submitting. One click on “view previous responses” on the post-submission Google Forms page and you can view everyone else’s names, addresses, DOBs, and information like which vaccine they received and in what arm.

I almost didn’t report it, since the kind of shit as described in the link above gets reported so regularly. But I did, and it got fixed quickly. Now I’m just sat here hoping I don’t get served a lawsuit next week by some idiot hoping to cover their ass and make me out to be some kind of malicious actor. (Advice welcome...)
OpenBSD is not really as secure as people make it out to be: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/openbsd.html

And plenty of other OSes have FDE and everything in-between.
You don't need tunneling to make a transistor work.

(And for difficulty making walls too thin lest electrons leak through, you don't need to invoke tunneling to explain that.)
If I ask you to show me a document, and you willingly show me the document, who exactly is responsible for the disclosure?
"Intuitive" is often a code word for "familiar to me". A full-blown general purpose OS cannot be completely intuitive; the user always needs something to build from.

For what it's worth, I think OpenBSD is intuitive because of its consistency. It's certainly been more intuitive to me than any other OS; it just makes sense as a whole in a way that no other OS quite does, and that's refreshing in a world where users are expected not to understand what their tools are and how they work.

OpenBSD just builds its intuitive bits on things you may not yet know. Fortunately, it has excellent documentation to get you started.
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That sounds right to me. The press has tried to push all sorts of narratives, but buried in the previous Bloomberg article on the ports we learn that 30% of truck appointments go unfilled. The WSJ article yesterday quoted Long Beach port guy saying only 60% of their truck appointments are being utilized.
The title is misleading. In general, you want to pay off debt. However, sometimes leveraging debt to gain assets which make even more money is good. Convincing a lender to reduce liabilities is strange and probably won't work in many scenarios.
Air-less tires have been working fine for decades: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/wheels/

You'll also find industrial equipment examples like https://www.sourceproequipment.com.au/crocodile-skid-steer-b...

As the person you're replying to said, though, the problem for passenger cars is NVH. They aren't quiet.

Even with that downside, though, they are still used in consumer-facing applications like some bike sharing programs: https://medium.com/@fredchang/by-now-youve-probably-heard-of...

Where a smoother ride is less significant than unlocking a bike & finding a flat tire.
I like to think Wyndly is okay -- https://www.wyndly.com
I meant privately, now my wallet is leaking.
For all practical purposes, we need to pretend like fusion doesn't exist. Sure, we should still invest in it and do research, but we're setting ourselves up for disaster if we peg our hopes on viable fusion.

Plus, fusion likely has the same kind of practical, economic limitations (huge upfront capital cost and long build time) that make fission hard to justify in an environment of small, cheap fossil fuel burners and wind/solar units.
I really hope this means GPU support on macOS for blender is coming soon!
Appstore rules are incompatible with GPL. There a lot of past discussions on this topic:

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store...
If anyone wants to PR a fix for more browsers please do! (https://github.com/healeycodes/doom-checkboxes/issues/1). Otherwise, I'll probably look into this tomorrow.
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I could totally fix it for $49 million. /s
I'm sure the judges likely to see this case are giggling over what they'll say to the state prosecutors.
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What are the consequences to not filing? My wife is a US citizen, and she hasn't filed for two years. I've met other US citizens that don't file either. So far I have not heard of any issues relating to not filing.
How do you “outlaw” a theory?

You can’t purge a cultural heritage—everyone in Japan learns Japanese history and ritual suicide is a notable part of that history. The point is not that people commit suicide today for the same reasons or in the same way that they did 500 years ago, but that it is more likely to be accepted as a way out than in a culture that e.g. considers suicide to be a one-way ticket to the spiritual inferno.
It's hard to say. For me it is fascinating to look on the dynamics of activism and politics from the sidelines and try to connect the dots across locations and with history. In the US it is difficult to openly discuss this topic because of social media censorship, risk to social/professional status, and so on. But the stances pushed by progressive TRAs in the US are also very new and highly radical. There are other perspectives that grant trans people recognition and basic civil liberties but do so differently. For example, older cultures that recognized additional genders for much longer have treated them as a third category rather than a spectrum of infinite choices (which seems more like personality) and without the concept of gender fluidity (where your gender can change day to day). Countries in Asia and Africa typically do not accept the US-progressive perspective of trans issues or are hostile towards it entirely. European nations have a healthier (but still emotional) debate on this topic than the US, as it seems more psychologically safe and socially acceptable to express your ideas there. China seems to be enacting a strong social-shaping agenda in favor of traditional (biological) gender and sex. And so on.

The only thing I have certainty about is that the people who seek to shut down others, or censor debate, or get people fired, or distort/lie are on the wrong side of things. There are large numbers of people who engage in these illiberal actions on all sides of this debate.
> That said, I understand that there is a large issue with devices that drop support way too soon, even though the hardware is good. But the solution is not the weaken the security, but instead to force better standards for how hardware is maintained, and ensuring that there is a long lifetime where either the manufacture supports the device, or the device is completely unlocked and allowed for easy community sourced modifications and updates.

Yes, that would be nice.

Unfortunately, I have exactly ZERO control over this, and it won't happen for years or decades to come, if at all. And almost certainly not for existing devices.

What I DO have control over is supporting all those devices today, right now, with some MITM risk in certain scenarios.
I really am trying to understand here — I'm not Buddhist, but I'm interested in your reasoning. It looks to me like a large portion of American Buddhism is not really that interested in the traditional Asian form of Buddhism, but instead in a form that's heavily influenced by secular Jewish ideas. If people simply prefer that approach, but traditional Asian Buddhism is embraced in your spaces, isn't "erasing secular voices from Buddhist spaces" in general more oppressive, not less? After all, people are free to pursue your preferred strain of Buddhism if they prefer, just like you.

Maybe I'm missing some pressures that you're not expressing.
Are you saying the immigrant visa path isn't available to former citizens? That seems surprising.

Sure, it's a very difficult path in practice... But in theory I don't see why something like this wouldn't be possible: you renounced your citizenship, win the Nobel Prize 30 years later, get an EB-1 visa based on that achievement, then get naturalized five years later.
> No, it is to say that you do not seem to know what you are talking about, and that you do not seem to understand what you are told.

It may indeed seem that way, but if I say the same to you (that "it does not seem what you know what you are talking about, and that you do not seem to understand what you are told"), does it then mean that it is the True state of reality that you do not actually?

Or, might it be possible that I am wrong, confused, have misinterpreted your words (there are many points along the idea transmission chain where loss of fidelity can occur), or something else? And if it is possible that an error can happen on one end of a communication, might it be possible that it could also occur on the other? Are you one of those rare (or maybe not so much lately) people who never makes any mistake at all, however small?

Many thanks for your advice (or: thanks to the degree that it actually contains value), I hope for your benefit that you follow it with perfection yourself.
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You're forgetting that >60% of homeowners don't own their home outright and can refinance at lower rates.

<7% of homeowners have owned their home for <1 year - the rest can refinance to take advantage of lower rates.
I like the sounds of that. I like the prospect of Apple competing with Facebook on AR/VR. It's an area I was quite interested in some years ago, but firstly wasn't well supported on the Mac, and secondly it got bought up by Facebook to a large extent.

I've been wishing for a modern Playstation so I could try the limited bit of Gran Turismo that's VR and uses their headset. I know the Nurburgring fairly well by now but would love to play there 'for real'. Quite an environment to be whizzing through: that and the tricky rally circuits would be real interesting to get more immersion in.
I'm not American, just got interested in how their politics devolved to that, and apparently this was an intentional power play which started from republicans:

> "a race to the bottom to see who can be meaner and madder and crazier. It is not enough to be conservative anymore. You have to be vicious." The viciousness doesn’t necessarily reside in the individual souls of Republican leaders. It flows from the party’s politics, which seeks to delegitimize opponents and institutions, purify the ranks through purges and coups, and agitate followers with visions of apocalypse

I feel this article summarize it well: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/how-did-re...

Newt Gingrich seems to be responsible for that more recent attempt at this, and everything happening now seems to be the end game of what he started, though the party seems to have a history of it to some extent.

I know some people might say that the Atlantic is partisan and maybe Democratic leaning (I think?), but personally except for the part where the article seems to say they don't like what the Republican party is making of democracy, everything else seems pretty accurate and factual to me. I'd love to hear counterpoints, like is there anyone who doesn't think this characterizes the Republican party properly?
That was pretty clear and succinct in my opinion.

> the problem is that humans are destroying natural habitat.

Right, but why?
Even with the added context, it's pretty clear he has a very limited grasp on how finstas work. It's reasonable to be concerned about that when he is demanding they be banned.
This reminds me of how I used to get fake passports.

There was a period when almost every day I had Royal Mail drop through my letterbox envelopes containing various fake documents (passports, driving licences, National Insurance letters, ID cards from various EU counties). Someone was mailing those from a nearby post office and putting my address on the back of the envelopes as the sender. A fraction could not be delivered and got returned to the "sender", some having travelled to, and returned from, other countries.

I reported this several times, both to Action Fraud and to the police. At some point I spent an entire Friday evening sitting at a local police station, thinking that, if I brought the documents to them in person, the police would be less inclined to think I was some crackpot making the whole thing up. I also thought that the fact the documents were being mailed from a post office across the road from the police station might pique their interest (the letters had tracking numbers and so I could look up their journeys on the Royal Mail web site).

In the end this turned out to be a waste of time. The front-office police person were clearly pretty unhappy with having to deal with this, but escalated to someone who "knew more about these things". The latter applied the investigative method of typing "Portuguese driving licence" into Google Image Search and comparing the results with one of the licences I gave them. After a further escalation to an even more specialised officer, the conclusion was that the documents were indeed fake.

I got a crime reference number and a clear indication that I would never hear from them again, which I indeed haven't.

Still have all the docs (the police didn't want to keep them). They stopped coming after a while.
This is folly because it only takes ONE person to leak documents, and there are always disgruntled employees somewhere in a company at the scale we are talking about.

You cannot assume good behavior of literally tens of thousands of employees because you have an overall "good" company culture.

That's just impossible.
That's strange.

Try looking for "gitlab CEO here" (with quotes) at the bottom search on HN? (and pick Comments. they won't show up in stories.)
Being wary of the guy, sure. But it's a terrible response in general. The correct response is to take the site down! Monitoring IP addresses? Really?

First, it's trivial to just use a different IP address. Second, even if you could track people perfectly, which you can't, who the hell thinks it's okay for data to get leaked as long as you know who it gets leaked to?
Transparency and privacy aren't antonyms.
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Like most Missourians I know (mostly who have left their state though), it's fair to say that you've transcended where you're from.

Thanks for all you've done -- I use your work daily.
The most popular macro lenses for dSLRs are 60mm, 90mm, and 105mm. Of course, there are other focal lengths. I don't think I've ever seen a 24mm macro lens, unless we're talking micro 4/3 or some other non-35mm sensor size.
F# and .net core are completely open source. You don't need mono.
In US, if we do not have enough workers to clear the backlog of ships/containers what can we do?

Can the army be called up to help out for a short duration?

Every time I go to a store, they are sold out of something. The answer I always get is that it is stuck on a ship.
Can't the Indian government promote it's own agricultural companies and ban Monsanto products? That would allow Indian GM crops without worrying about some other country's corporation making Indian farmers dependent. Prohibiting GM foods sounds like handicapping countries if the concern is merely becoming dependent on other countries.
The relics of European honour culture, which includes duelling etc., being preserved in parts of the USA, particularly in the West and South, due to the delayed roleout of the centralised state, is a real argument made about why men from those parts can be so quick on the draw (perhaps literally) at the slightest interpersonal offence. Dunno if it's true but it doesn't seem preposterous.
Vulkan isn't a viable alternative for Apple. Apple wants to give developer an easy to use API to encourage them to use it as much as possible. Vulkan does not offer that.
For those of you who want more of an introduction to securities, checkout FINRA's Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) Exam. It's only $60 and open to anyone aged 18 or older, including students:

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I honestly don't understand. I stopped my Audible subscription years ago and I have access to my library of audiobooks purchased with credits.
That guy 'Mel' has amazing name recognition. On par with Mitnick (but for much better reasons).

If you don't know how Mel is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel
I haven’t used OpenBSD yet, but I found FreeBSD to be a total breeze to administer compared to Linux. You’ve gotten me very excited about OpenBSD…
It isn't stupidity. Government officials know this kind of thing will ultimately be a loser for them. But they know the mere threat of putting someone through the process of prosecution is punishment enough.

This is what we need to work on correcting. If a judge laughs your case out of court, there should be a severe penalty, especially if you're the government.
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It's my experience. In case of unidentified punctures the foam leaks out (of them), and then you can remove the splinter, or whatever by hand, maybe with a paper tissue, or tweezers from your swiss officers knife, some multitool. Dunno. I don't have that many flats. About 5 or 6 since 2005? Each one maybe a 10 to 15 minute break.

edit: Thinking about it, one could even omit the spray can because in cities there's almost always a gas station near, which is stocking that stuff. So only the small adapter would be necessary, if your valves aren't like the ones for cars anyways. I didn't do that so far because I'm often bicycling out of the city, instead of into it.
> There is a real opportunity for focused web stores out there.

Ironically this was a key differentiator that worked in favour of Amazon against EBay all those years ago.

Amazon went against the tide and introduced "Single Detail Page". An SKU was supposed to get exactly one page no matter how many sellers were selling them. That way customers would be assured of buying the right product they searched for.

As a customer, it's sad to see that principle being obliterated. Their catalog has become a cesspool of all sorts of knockoffs and fraudulent sellers.

So now we are back to square one hoping someone would do to Amazon what Amazon did to Ebay.
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So they should make all their code open source? Have no intellectual property rights?

You are suggesting they just go bankrupt.
"2K resolution is a generic term for display devices or content having horizontal resolution of approximately 2,000 pixels." (...) 1920 × 1080 is the most common 2K resolution"[0]. How are you distinguishing between 2K and 1080p?.. are you thinking of 1440p (2.5k wide), or of a non 16:9 aspect ratio?

Have you ever found a laptop like this? 1kg is sacrifice a lot of corners in the name of weight (battery, screen, glass, ram, cooling, drives, processing and GPU), while workstations are are the likely place to find 128GB ECC.. they focus on performance over weight (they're getting better at style). Sounds like you want a workstation laptop in a ultrabook's body (and who doesn't.. I think there's a guy at NASA that would like you to bring it in for study)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K_resolution
isn’t the extremely long term plan to colonize the universe? how can we achieve this goal without major increases in population?
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The main thing I found strange about F# was that, having prior familiarity with Ocaml and SML/NJ, was that what F# calls modules are completely unlike the module system of any other ML-inspired language, being instead an adaption of C# classes to serve F#'s namespacing needs. Since the module system is of similar importance to code reuse to Haskell's typeclasses,the relative deficiencies of F#'s module system hurt.
> Can you buy a naked Cortex M0 in a PDIP package?

No. The busses used to access peripherals and memory are not suitable for off-die use. (This goes for all ARM cores, not just Cortex-M0.)
Obviously doesn't mean it as an ad just very interesting how Sony is fighting against scalpers