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When I toured NZ as a tourist it was next city - that's the one with the Wizard isn't it? It's the main thing I remember about Christchurch along with it feeling kind of Scottish.
How do you feel that your invention was used to harm users and empower a quasi-global monopoly on search engines for the profit of tech billionnaire psychopaths and secret services? I don't think you had to have bad intentions (just like physicists and the atom bomb), but do you think the web is better for users without search boxes or search engine choices, and with Google forcing centralized AMP proxying down everyone's throat and therefore trying to actually completely remove URLs?
Vermont is interesting because it has the absence of the authoritarian left that traditionally dominates politics in urban areas (Vermont's few urban areas aren't very urban) and the absence of the christian right and "not quite christian right but similarly conservative on all social issues" right like you find in a lot of the rest of the country. Basically the factions of both parties that care strongly about putting everyone else under their thumb when it comes to the social issues are under-represented in Vermont.
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8, 40, 160. Because that's what's in my contract.
Well, ps on linux shows kernel threads whereas on OpenBSD it doesn't.

The list is pretty short on my alpine install if you exclude kernel threads:

# ps ax | grep -v ']$'
PID USER TIME COMMAND
1 root 0:01 /sbin/init
1985 root 0:00 /sbin/udevd
2361 root 0:00 /sbin/syslogd -t
2387 root 0:00 supervise-daemon wpa_supplicant --start /sbin/wpa_supplicant -- -i wlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
2388 root 0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
2473 root 0:00 /sbin/udhcpc -b -R -p /var/run/udhcpc.wlan0.pid -i wlan0 -x hostname:pi4
2567 chrony 0:00 /usr/sbin/chronyd -f /etc/chrony/chrony.conf
2592 root 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -c /etc/crontabs
2621 root 0:00 sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd [listener] 0 of 10-100 startups
2652 root 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2653 root 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
2654 root 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
2655 root 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
2656 root 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
2657 root 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
3099 root 0:00 sshd: root@pts/0
3102 root 0:00 -ash
3109 root 0:00 ps ax
3110 root 0:00 grep -v ]$

I don't think kernel threads are a good measure of bloat. And a base install of Alpine is smaller than OpenBSD.

But that's a fair point about presentation. OpenBSD seems to be more 'quiet' by default, and tends to only show relevant information. dmesg on OpenBSD seems much cleaner compared to the mess that Linux outputs.
Given the kind of niche, self-deprecating humor often found in our ecosystem, it was probably seen as a plus :)
Agreed, but I don't have my hopes up. Their keyboards have been atrocious for the last few years. Everything in their current lineup has the stuck-by-dust-particle problem.
I think Arch is very close to the OpenBSD philosophy.

Not necessarily for security reasons, but more as a byproduct of keeping things simple so we can manage them manually.
> Millions of CS students...

Are there millions of CS students in the world?? I would guess a few hundred thousand, at most.
The interesting thing is everything is required as it happened for the universe to become conscious in the form of humans. E.g. supernova that generated the right heavy metals to stabilize the protein complexes that let our brain function.
A lot of those stores will also do some iPhone repairs.

If you are having trouble with your email or want help connecting some accessory, how many of those shops will help with that kind of stuff? When it's an issue that can't be fixed and your phone is still under warranty, how many of those shops give you a replacement on the spot? A few will for sure, but it's not a lot of them.
You're right, atypical influenza is also risky. I know people who have died from it, and have two close friends that have had their life ruined by side effects from H1N1. (Guillaume Barre syndrome and Chronic Fatigue). I wouldn't wish either of those on my worst enemies.

Some risks in life you have to accept, but ones that are trivially avoidable?

Shutting down schools to prevent children from getting COVID has too many side effects given the risk level, but the vaccine has such a low cost and so few side effects.
Ever heard of a little project called Firefox? I hear they've been dipping their toes a little into the space of late.
Apple's are better. AMD's can be better. Why look to Intel at all, if not for availability?
> At this point, I’d happily call this level of negligence criminal.

I'm missing WordPress responsability here. The amount of crap listed in the plugin store without any standar needs to be stopped.
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So what other means does anyone have to distribute speech that isn't commercial?

If you're OK with with protestors at Netflix doing it, then surely its OK for protestors at Youtube, Apple, a TV network or a comedy club to do the same. They can do it at a newspaper, a podcast, a radio station. Everything in a capitalist society is run for profit by some commercial entity. So what's the difference between whatever you call censorship and this? Suppressing distribution IS censorship.

And obviously I didn't say everyone has the right to be paid by Netflix. This is again just arguing in bad faith or woefully ignorant of how the world works. No, Netflix has the right to pay whomever they choose, which as a for-profit corporation, they will generally do based on how much of an audience you can pull to their platform. They pay Chapelle because he's funny and people like watching him.. not because he has "the right" to be paid. They pay him in exchange for something that Chapelle produces, not as a free handout. If you can convince a million people to pay to watch you get on a soapbox and cry about transphobia, then perhaps Netflix would sign a deal with you and pay you as well.
Can't edit the above post anymore. Somehow I ended up submitting this in the wrong window, should have been a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28851350 or here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28867750 or here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28876343
How local do you want to go?

Fundamentally, the theory of trade is that there are comparative advantages in different areas. At the time the theory was introduced, the early 19th century, by David Ricardo, much of that advantage was in agricultural products. Goods such as timber, cotton, wool, grain, tobacco, sugar, hemp, silk, and spices were either much more readily grown in certain areas, or were highly specific to specific climates. We see much of this today still.

Extractive commodities also are very specific as to location, with tin, copper, gold, and silver particularly notable in ancient times. In the industrial era, this is dominated by fuels: coal, petroleum, and natural gas most especially, as these are both 1) highly concentrated energy sources and 2) very unevenly distributed geographically. Strategic minerals --- non-fuel resources which are vital to advanced manufacturing but are not widely distributed, are another concern, and was first recognised by the US during World War I (see the "Harbord List").

Another set of inequalities emerges though in the sense of regulations and power-balance between specific economic sectors, most especially capital and labour, though also of environmental regulations. One view of China is that it's been exporting not only hugely disadvantaged cheap labur, but a tolerance for accepting tremendous long-lasting economic damage without pricing that into the cost of its goods and services.

There's an argument that manufacturing, if all extermalities and labour differences are priced in, should not be a geographically differentiated service, in general. Specific sectors of expertise might emerge (a discussion on its own), and there's the question of being able to motivate or redirect a massive workforce on short order (again, a strength of China's, though one India or Indonesia might also be able to match, eventually Nigeria as well if its population continues to rise).

That would leave us with some locally-provisioned goods and services, and some imports. Overall the world might look more like the late 19h century through mid 20th, where local advantages in natural production account for some global trade, but most food and finished-goods production is relatively local.
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Cool, thanks for your response!
Well, if you ever have the time to give it a try..

Alpine is the most OpenBSD-like Linux distro I've yet to see. Of course, it's still not OpenBSD.
My daughter's new Alienware laptop broke. We contacted support and they dispatched a repair person to her house and he fixed it on site.
AFAICT (medium certainty), the development sequence went thusly: (1) MCAS added to design, (2) FAA informed about MCAS, (3) MCAS potential control inputs and overrides drastically increased during development, (4) FAA not informed about changes, (5) FAA certifies aircraft on basis of (2).

So it's probably most accurate to say "the FAA was aware of the system existing, but incorrect on the details of that system."
Do they not? I thought California high speed rail was impeded by NIMBYs for example?
> Well yes, that's what city leaders tend to sound like; trying to appeal to everyone sounds bland.

To me, that PR blurb actually uses a lot of words to say nothing at all. It boils down to "I decided to do something else".
This is great advice, but you also have to be really strategic about this as the solution you create to try to acquire one side of the market can easily become a full-time burden that distracts from what you really want to offer.

Using your example, the market for time tracking, invoicing, etc. is very mature and highly competitive, so if you launched a solution in this space, you'd have a steep uphill battle to gain traction.
Hackerrank begs to differ https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-country-would-win-in-the-p...

Again, there are plenty of US tech companies in Eastern Europe.
Yay, except that at least Java does so by using reflections and has lead to more then just a few massive security vulnerabilities.
I have four desktops at my house, two of them operational, one in constant use. But good point, yes.

Some people might be better served by a tablet or whatever.
I'm torn about the college voting thing. I voted for some stupid shit in college and then left the state to deal with the fallout. I think we should just make it trivially easy for college students to vote absentee in their home states. If they satisfy the residency requirements of wherever they go to school then fine, but many don't.
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Let's hope he sings like a bird.
Nothing in this essay addresses the single most prominent question of contemporary philosophy of mind, which is the hard problem of consciousness. It only addresses the soft problems, which everyone agrees are solvable "merely" with enough time, funding, and initiative. Nothing about the "beast machine" addresses how qualitative experience arises from physical phenomena, or as Chalmers puts it, "Why are we not philosophical zombies?" Of course the hard problem, by its nature, is likely irreducible, so expecting it to be solved is unreasonable.

The point is books and passages like this are only compelling if you've already accepted a hand-wavey answer to the hard problem. In this case the author's accepted answer seems to be the ever popular, "consciousness is an illusion," but that particular explanation to the hard problem is no more valid (or any less vague) than any other. Stating it with authority and not acknowledging it as a "faith-based" axiom undermines the work.
Not a web developer, I don't like Typescript or the usual web frameworks and prefer using Javascript just as is. I use it mainly for visualization and control (embedded dev). To me adding a toolchain just for the benefits of typescript isn't worth it, so I don't really understand the popularity. Just writing stuff I can immediately execute is the main benefit. Yes, I could configure my environment in a way that the effort is small, but as I said, not worth it. Maybe for real webapps, where you go through the effort of cleanly bundling your sources anyway, but that isn't for me.

While many may have jumped in joy while reading the headline, I do think Javascript will stay alive longer than anybody would want. What is true however is what the article describes and MS tries to do. They know they lost a lot of developers and try to get/buy them back.

It is also true that Typescript isn't a superset. Just nearly a superset.

Your work on Github will be monetized. That is already the case you might think, but MS will probably soon introduce business repositories of some form. It will be like an app store for source. Shitty, proprietary and exploitative.

Don't host too much on Github, you have been warned.
A chance, yes - though not in the immediate term. When people request access we ask what app they use and we use that to prioritise what integrations to build next. So far no one has "voted" for Timing so its likely that other integrations will be built first.
3 function declarations in a single line already broke my ability to parse the first line :) It's not the first time that happens to me, so I suspect that it's simply a matter that my mental push-pop stack for comprehending tightly nested code layers has a depth of just 1, or maybe 2 after a coffee...
Maybe they actually mean VM-less, which would probably imply GC-less because if you have a GC, you pretty much have a VM doing the GC (unless it's simple ref-count). For embedded, you need VM-less, I think, as VMs tend to be too heavy.
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7.5 per day, 5 days per week.
> better mice, keyboards, chairs, and headsets

Mice and keyboards that don't operate without online-registration-required accounts?

Chairs and keyboards that look cool for streamers but are utterly unergonomic?

And headsets with cat ears on them...

No thanks.
No, no, I didn't mean it like that. Rizen and Apple's current crop will suffice. Just not some mobile Nvidia or Intell bullshit, that won't do.
I've been reading through the examples and it's readable enough. What is it that you find odd?
If you're interested in learning more about Du, I recommend the biography of General Joseph Stilwell (Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945) which covers the political rise of Chiang Kai-shek and his thrall to Du. Stilwell, as the senior American military officer in China, was constantly frustrated by Chiang's connections, obsessions, and obligations to underworld and warlord figures, and the book covers these intrigues very well.
Yeah this, people come for the utility, and community then arises naturally. Unfortunately it's very hard to lure users from the big platforms with community only.
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The fact is there's a market now to connect eastern Europe with companies needing skillsets.

We're constantly approached by middlemen looking it broker an EE to us in Australia with terms that simply don't make sense based on how much of the ticket they're clipping.

The part that's worse is these devs signup and commit to these parasites and miss out on being a direct hire die to some misplaced loyalty.
As long as their booms are fueled by oil, we're all better off if this is the last one.
Make it free then
They can barely use computers because:

- computers are uselessly complex even for simple tasks

- UI changes are pushed by vendors every other year or so, despite providing zero interesting features for users

- there's no IT education, and when there is it's focused on writing a CV on Microsoft Word and sending email, nothing more

All three points could be addressed. And having a proper UX that empowers users with ease can help. I don't think all web users need to know what "URL" means or even what's http://, but they could certainly understand the difference between "location" and "search criteria" if UI was good. Even a simple help box could help: "If you know the address you're going to, type it here. Otherwise, click the search button". The kind of UX that's similar enough to phonebooks and maps so users aren't confused.
They are really solid, last forever and are quite light for a non racing tire. They also have decently low rolling resistance when inflated high.

However, in my experience they are really sketchy in wet conditions. I've wiped out or almost did multiple times on gatorskins. Deflating them in wet conditions works but the rolling resistance is then quite high.

I've found that the Schwalbe Marathons in wider sizes (I think I got 38s?) are much more confidence inspiring and comfortable, and makes up for the fact that I have to change a flat twice a year instead of once a year.
Annualized, that's about 25 per 100,000. So COVID won't be the leading cause of death, but it's high enough to be classified as a major source of child fatalities.

For something easily preventable once the vaccine is available.
Regarding a portable router - I wonder what you think about that one?

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-e750/#specs

It's about double the price, based on openWRT (but not fully open source).
I'm a Java fan and an ex-Scala aficionado. I would have hoped that JVM would eat the pie when it comes to cloud deployments but it didn't happen. Like Scala.js never happened and TypeScript became the type system of the web. JVM languages will remain at the application layer, concerned with microservices, data processing, streaming, databases, etc. It's not what folks seem to be way more into, it's all about tradeoffs. I am talking here about layers and the suitability of a language at a specific layer. I don't know about Rust, but Go proved that it can handle it. If Rust would prove to be better, that would be great, but only time will tell. Until now it did not happen, instead people are trying to fit Rust in scenarios where a higher-level language would go round in circles (GUI programming, microservices, game development etc.). For Java it is too late, if GraalVM with native images and value types would have been released earlier, maybe we could say that Java could compete with Go at that layer, but it is not, the train has left the station long time ago. Only if Oracle comes out of the cave and throw a lot of money at a JVM alternative to Kubernetes, which is likely to happen in the foreseeable future, given the investments and the attention the Java platform has received recently.
Why is Sweden so good at creating fintech exports?
Why it is that all scrum peddlers always reason by shitty analogies?
Do they really think this a sensible way of reasoning or they are fully aware this is BS but they don’t care as long as they sell training and consultancy packages?
> support for Bluetooth LDAC and AptX codecs

Hooray!

> Firefox version 93 is now seeded as a snap by default

Fooooooo!

They say they will still support the classic deb as an option in 21.10 but are going to move it to snap-only in 22.04 though so I will probably abandon Ubuntu and switch to some distro which is not corrupted by this bullshit. I have dozens of employees set-up on dozens Ubuntu computers in the office and want a single-install/update to apply to everyone seamlessly, not having to install/update an app separately under every user on every PC. Snap also notably doesn't work with LightDM's guest user mode (which I found the coolest feature introduced in Ubuntu after the Unity desktop).
Same coins different spectrum.
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28871805
No.

Use LinkedIn for pro, github for tech.

It works for other sources if needed and shows where you deviate from the norm.

Not a problem IMO
I do agree that it'd be gigantic quality of life improvement

but doing "cool" stuff instead of gluing jsons over https is interesting perspective too
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I'd be less concerned about people double voting and very concerned about large institutions pulling strings to have polling places locally enough

It's not hard to imagine how a rural university or large manufacturing facility could sway things in state level elections if a ton of people went across the street to vote on lunch break rather then went home and voted at home after work/school thereby changing what district they vote in.
Is that your assumption?
I need this ASAP in Teams!

At my work its always the same guy babbling about his past and imaginary current accomplishments, taking precious meeting time (and often leaving the meeting for other meetings after talking non stop for 30 mins, so he never really participates in any discussions).

Having this would make my life so much easier.

Edit: if any Microsoft devs are reading this and shaking their heads: I would settle for chessclock.
Nomad, just like Unix, prefers composition of simple tools in favor of one-big-tool-for-everything that Kubernetes is going for. So for achieving those things, you'd use Terraform or something similar, and then you have a reproducible environment for the hardware/software setup outside of Nomad.

> Yes, but No. Kubernetes is a portability platform, that happen to -also- orchestrate containers.

The homepage of Kubernetes seems to disagree with you. Their headline there is "Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications." and also "Production-Grade Container Orchestration" so it feels safe to assume that Kubernetes is for orchestrating containers.

> Nomad, is -well- just a glorified Airflow.

I never used Airflow, but looking at the website it seems to be geared towards automating workflows, something like Zapier but self-hosted and open source? That's very different from what Nomad is.
That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the headline. Some of their shows are often seen as absurd and then they become mainstream reality years later. Sort of like some of the old Monty Python works. For example there is the skit where they talk about fractious Judean (insert Israeli) politics and men giving birth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=sFBOQzSk14c&...
> Does it support multiple nodes?

Yes it does. Docker Swarm essentially provides an easy way to get a cluster of Docker instances running in multiple nodes that works right out of the box.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/
My mom's flip-tap Lenovo does have that matte touch display. But it's way underpowered with it's mobile Intel. And the keyboard is not what I'd consider a keyboard at all.
>> The Reference Types proposal, shipped in V8 v9.6, allows using external references from JavaScript opaquely in WebAssembly modules.

This is a major step for WebAssembly which I've waited for a long time! Note that Chrome was the last major browser not supporting reference types, so soon we'll be able to use this on real websites: https://webassembly.org/roadmap/

The main contribution is that now arbitrary values can be passed between JS and Wasm modules. These will show up on the Wasm side as opaque `externref` types.

This allows (arbitrarily powerful) Wasm modules that only import JavaScript glue code instead of having to wrap their exports with JS functions. "Modules that import the functionality they need" is, IMO, a much saner model for creating an ecosystem of modules than "modules which are wrapped with functions specific to the functionality they need". I think this will lead to

* more transparent code (= closer correspondence between the code which is compiled to Wasm and the thing that actually runs in your browser)

* a standard interface between functions across the ecosystem => much more potential to just import and use Wasm modules written in other languages

* an easier way to ship only the minimal amount of JS glue code you need
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