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> much less convenient and much less comfortable than the alternatives of a bus/subway

This is quite subjective... For one, I've commuted by bus+subway for most of my life, in three different European cities (Lisbon, Barcelona and Paris). Two years ago I had a sort of epiphany looking at the bike lane that followed the same path as my crowded bus. I bought a bike, in order to "try" the bike commute, and I've never looked back since. Even some days with hard weather, I prudently walk to the bus stop, and then say "no shit" and walk back home to pick my bike.

Thus I politely disagree with you that it is "much less convenient", at least for everybody.
Also landing speeds would have to be higher because stall speed increases with weight. Faster landings are more dangerous.
Fair play. I'm thinking more from the perspective that the lack of regulation in the space makes it much easier to acquire and hoard zero-days at a government scale, as we saw with the Vault 7 leaks. Since the government is incentivized to hoard vulnerabilities for intelligence gathering, it's hard to see them being so willing to give it up.
Solstice and equinox-relative seasons?
Thinly if at this point at all veiled anti natalist propaganda with the same tired old talking points. These articles talk about how marriage doesn’t last and children are too expensive. Their solutions never involve fixing the divorce rate and lowering the price of childcare but instead abandoning it all entirely for the corporatist dystopia of the future of wage slavery and government controlled populations. “Things will get easier if you just give up and lay on your back”

Instead of asking yourself “how do I live without a family” ask yourself who has to benefit from you not having a family. Here’s a quick tip: it’s not the environment, it all comes down to independence from government and corporate entities. The same governments and corporate entities that try to convince you that you must live like a slave in order to save the environment they themselves are killing.

Family life isn’t for everyone, and while individualism is great, the family unit is our most powerful and important unit and when the family unit suffers, we all suffer.
> The truth is an absolute defense to defamation.

Sure, if you discount 100% the cost of defamation litigation.
The latest standard (2019) is divided into two parts: ISO 8601-1 and ISO 8601-2. Part 2 is titled "Extensions" and includes many different - but optional - ways to extend representations of dates and times. In my opinion, Part 2 represents the "leftovers" - that which was too domain specific or esoteric to warrant broad implementation.

Representations of seasons, quarters, etc. is one of many types of extensions included in Part 2.

These extensions are always used in "YYYY-MM" format (and always include the "-"). For the "MM" field, you use the numbers 21-41 inclusive. The numbers represent, in order, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, in 3 ways: independent of hemisphere (21-24), northern hemisphere specifically (25-28), southern hemisphere specifically (29-32); quarters 1-4 (33-36), quadrimesters 1-3 (37-39), and finally, semestrals 1-2 (40-41).
>Mark my words - Windows 12 will severely impede direct installation even of an user-space software, funnelling everyone to go through the store. That's the end goal and we will all be there in a couple of years, whether we want it or not.

People have been saying that forever. At our company we rely on windows backwards compat to run older commercial software which has saved tens of thousands of dollars for us. It seems to me like people are not exposed to a large swath of the computing landscape that uses industry specific commercial software that isn't going anywhere.

Also who are the "lemmings" in your analogy? Hopefully you're not referring to normal people who make rational decisions based on their needs.
I believe you are misinformed. There is plenty of compassion, specially in the cities discussed in the book, that is not the issue at all, nor is lack of spending at all. Please read the book, or listen to any of the podcasts the author recently did, the Joe Rogan one is good summary. Please, I do not mean to be condescending, just listen or read with an open mind. This is not about compassion vs accountability or left vs right, this is about solving a problem that is destroying American cities.
I am white but with black (and now slightly grey) hair and a beard with tan-ish skin. More pertinent to your implication I assume is that my middle name is of Muslim descent and can pass for being of middle-eastern descent, and I seem to get stopped for "random" checks and patdowns more frequently than my white-bread looking friends and colleagues. Observation bias perhaps on my part, but also maybe not.
> What is the value of "is competent enough to copy paste commands from a wiki?"

Very high actually. You can tell them things like "please run in debug mode" or "please run with this command line flag" or even "please change this setting and retry". Even more basic, you can tell them to restart the game/program, or to reboot their computer, and then you can trust that they actually did it.

When dealing with a regular computer user, you can't assume any of these things.
> My point is that it's not a good idea to expand bike lanes in big city centers where you already have public transport

I don't know what is your background, but many cities are doing it and it's not only about enabling bikes but also to disable passenger cars, and the main reason is it makes the places more livable and enjoyable: it's quieter, the air is cleaner, the streets are safer, people actually spend more time outside. So this is a practical solution to a problem people have: noise, pollution, loss of public space to car infrastructure.
I got a papercut and I'm made out of meat!
I was thinking "how would this do if fired from a nail gun" since as I understand it most commercial work is not done by hand nowadays anyways.
I agree if the container brings any benefits. In this case there is nothing that a standard distro-packaged apache/nginx wouldn't do. There is no automation of build steps, lets-encrypt or similar.

Installing docker and running that daemon for just this is not the right way.
It depends very much on your own skills and drive.

At some point, you need people to check your work, though, but you can search for online communities to do that. E.g. a post to mathoverflow asking about whether the following proof is correct, for example. Try to find a community of others online and work with them.

Also remember that math is about ideas. It is not just an exercise in formal deduction. The field is dense with non-trivial, non-obvious, interesting insights, and understanding these insights so well that overtime they become obvious to you is what it means to learn math. Sites like 3Blue1Brown to a good job trying to explain these ideas, but they really put a lot of work into it. Most math texts do not, but you have a professor or classmate you can talk to -- so there is a gap between the text and what you need, but perhaps you can close the gap with online resources.
I live in Rotterdam and don’t drive my car in the city anymore, only to go out of the city.
We’ve had quite a few changes with reduction in lanes (2 to 1) to allow less traffic in to reduce the air pollution and by doing that bike lanes got bigger which I think is a good thing.
It makes driving a car in the city less attractive and while I have no idea if more people ride bikes now, from my limited perspective it does seem to be the case
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So what I'm getting from this thread is there are no reasons why the iPod would become successful, would go on to dominate the portable music player market and reconcile the music publishers with digital downloads. In fact, it seems most likely that those things didn't happen at all, and if they did it was because of Apple's magic marketing which is cheating, rather than real reasons.
If China's economy will collapse, the whole world will follow
"Print lines by number" is a vague thing to say, particularly since the comparison later includes, "Print specific lines by number".

However, the grep -Hn feature is described in this comparison as, "Prefix the line number to matching lines"

One thing that can help people to compare this sort of tool is to pair technical descriptions like command line parameters with the natural language explanation. If tool foo has a feature you're describing as "Prevent cheesecake" then I have no idea if my tool bar can do that, whereas if you say this is -Xqm then I can read the documentation and discover that I call this "disable refrigerated dessert" and it's -VQb so yes, my tool does this too.

I spent some time recently reading the proposals to fix/ extend C++ ranges P2214 - and because this general idea is very common they often discuss Haskell, Rust or even Python. If you're experienced in a language you already know whether it would spell something FlatMap, flat_map, or flatMap but you might not guess that C++ people would call your filter_map by the name transform_maybe, or as a C++ programmer who has barely dipped their toe in Haskell you wouldn't know that Haskell doesn't use the word "transform" in this context and without being told what it's called you won't find the relevant documentation let alone be able to try it for yourself and appreciate what it's for.
Fascinating. We don't ask race on the census here in Canada; the question asks about "ethnic and ancestral origin" with emphasis on linguistic and geographic origin. It's an open-ended response and multiple responses are encouraged.

Typical answers would be like: English, French, Chinese, Cree, Irish-Italian. Sometimes it's filled out as British Canadian, Korean Canadian, etc. And sometimes white and black Canadian are reported. But by far the most common response is, perhaps somewhat unhelpfully, "Canadian".
On the other hand, perhaps the hardware/OS designs of iOS and Android devices are fundamentally flawed, when viewed from a security-first perspective.
I don't think "Process Hacker" is a tool that has zero other alternatives. As a former systems dev, I find that very hard to believe. Sorry, I didn't understand what point you were making though.
I hear this a lot about Scala, and I am a Scala dev so maybe I'm biased, but I don't get the difficulty angle particularly. I'm in no way exceptional as a programmer or IQ-wise but I picked up Scala easily as part of my first job. The difficulty thing doesn't compute to me but it could just be that I'm well-suited to the language. It works beautifully as a better Java if that's how you wish to use it. Granted, it might be hard if you start with a "pure FP" codebase but most devs don't struggle picking things up on most code bases even as juniors.

The point about tooling and developer experience I'll concede. It has been at times patchy in Scala in the past but it's pretty good these days.

As I say, I have no hate for Kotlin, and I'll possibly use it one day being a JVM developer familiar with Java as well, I just find it unfortunate that a language which is so similar to the languages it's influenced by was invented.
Berating someone for admitting they don't know something is counter-productive and is only going to make them not admit it the next time.
Totally agree. I am a runner and most running clubs no longer have their own website. Often events are behind a Facebook paywall and I deleted by account in 2016... Many many others niche interests have the same issue.
Rejecting the smartphone might be a start.
Just adding tapping on it does the same in Firefox on iOS

Something like an auto-select of the code that makes up the entire scope for the line in question.

Gonna have to see if I can get vim to do that.
I've used this trick on a Roku 3 and a Roku 4 and it worked on both. If there's no "reset / clear cache" option for you on the secret settings screen, it might take a little while for any downloaded ads to expire.
I noticed something similar recently in the GNU Guix docs, try mousing over the S-expressions

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Database-Services.h...

Your editor probably can do that! Emacs and VSCode at least both can. Search for 'rainbow blocks' or 'rainbow parens' or 'rainbow delimiters' extensions.
Thanks! I'm thinking others would see the same problem too.
Sacks was a doctor, not an amateur. The book is less narrative and more clinical case studies.
IPng Acquires AS8298
If they don't pass a number at all, looks like cx.argument() will return a Result::Err (which in the example will panic because of the unwrap(), but can instead be bubbled up as another commenter pointed out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28977697)

JsNumber::value() then returns an f64 to encapsulate all possible JS numbers, and `as i32` is just casting that float into an int. The exact behavior for this cast is that a) any fractional component will be dropped, and b) if the number is larger than the destination type, the destination's maximum value will be used. Both of these behaviors could of course be controlled by adding logic, like an explicit call to .round()
That's entirely possible. I go to a fair number of European events but there are a lot of North Americans at them as well. I wouldn't be at all surprised if pricing made MacBooks even more premium outside the US.
The whole thread was interesting but this comment had me cracking up:

>Same experience here. Linux folks not only are our most frequent bug reporters, but they're also the best at documenting their issues and sometimes just... give us code for UI improvements?
Scala still has a better design at its base, which is missing from Java and I don’t see how Java can retro-fit it into the language, Immutability is a big part of being functional and doing safe multi-threading stuff, java is doing all the good syntactic stuff (case class, switches with guards etc) but without immutability it’s a far cry from the same facility in Scala land.
Having said that, this trend is welcome for every time I have to write Java and makes it feel more natural to me as an old time Scala developer.
> You might want to step back and take a deeper thought about this. We aren't very far removed from redlining and all manner of restrictions on where people live.

the situation is: in a co-op living arrangement the community can kick someone out by consensus.

someone says: why should you be allowed to live somewhere if the community wants you out?

you respond talking about redlining and de facto criminalization of homelessness. but these things happened and are happening not in the context of a cooperative community.

so by comparison you have a co-op that can banish someone if the community decides on it collectively, and you have a status quo where other forces can also banish a person.

i don't get what you're getting at.
Patent Hell!

Marshall, Tyler, all those places I never had to go for a trial, although other tech assistants did.
I’m not sure that regulation really applies much when you operate at that level. How many countries has the US waged war on with the combatants in both sides using US made weapons?

The scene has been set again in Afghanistan. It isn’t ICBMs but it’s not a virtuous circle when you are dealing with weaponry.
This was 3 projects from 5 ideas of projects.

If I count ideas I had that I never seriously started on, I've failed hundreds of projects.
The "document" in this case is just the complaint filed by the plaintiffs in the lawsuit[1]. "List of accusations" seems like an accurate description.

[1]: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.56...
Hacking someone in Israel is the crime right? Same as in the US it’s a crime to hack someone in the US? If the US group hacks someone in Israel and the Israeli group hacks someone in the US, then they’re fine as long as they don’t vacation in the country while someone is looking to serve them with a warrant?
I keep mine in a file in a drawer. My threat model doesn't cover people breaking in and finding them as well as knowing my password managers master password.
Forget Y Combinator -- come build the next great surveillance start-up at the IDF's Unit 8200, the world's greatest hacker school and incubator for mass surveillance start-ups. With generous subsidies from US taxpayers, Unit 8200 lets you level up your surveillance game by practicing on 4.5 million Palestinian beta-testers. (Go nuts, it's not like they can sue you!) Plus, say goodbye to those moral qualms -- at 8200, you'll acquire the unshakeable conviction that you're a Good Guy fighting the Bad Guys. When you graduate, the IDF will keep the data you collected, but the skills you acquire and the friends you make are yours to keep forever.
Is it just me or does soda taste better out of a can than out of a plastic bottle?

I’ve felt this for many years and have even tested by pouring into glasses. I like the can one better.

Is this just me?
Platitudes.

> Stop working for companies producing products nobody asked for

What is this in reference to? Nobody asked for Google to create their ad marketplace? No, there is huge demand for and complicity with targeted ads among millions of small businesses.
Can and will are two separate things, and even if it happens then you get countries trying to influence decisions with the threat of stopping funding.

That's not to say it wouldn't be better, just that it's not without its own problems.
I was on a Microsoft page a few days ago reading about some of the Microsoft Store APIs and they were all marked with big warnings that claimed they could only be accessed by apps with special entitlements (so, basically signed versions of winget). Seemed really icky to me.
Since this is an international issue and there's no global "legality", the effect is that locations matter a lot.

Presumably, the hacking was done by Saudi authorities from SA, using NSO-developed tools. Citizenship of the target is not very relevant, but it does matter where "the event" happened.

If the reporter was in Saudi Arabia when the hack happened, then Saudi laws apply and essentially Saudi government gets to set conditions on whether it was legal or not, and if it was forbidden by their laws, then what consequences (if any!) that should have.

If the reporter was in USA at the time, then it would be reasonable to apply US jurisdiction and try and investigate it as a crime in USA. However, Saudi Arabia can refuse to cooperate and even if USA prosecutors identify the culprits and convict them, Saudi Arabia can refuse to extradite them and choose to protect them. In essence, if it's not a random foreign criminal but someone from the actual foreign government that has harmed USA citizens in USA, it's not really a criminal matter as much as a diplomatic one, where all the other aspects of USA-Saudi relationships matter much more than any facts about the actual case; USA can choose to make a big deal out of it or ignore it, but historical precedent shows that it likely will be ignored as the Department of State considers all the other factors of Middle Eastern politics as much more important, SA could likely get away with literal murder (e.g. Khashoggi), not just some hacks.

In a similar manner, perhaps you could argue that NSO is an accomplice in that crime (I'm not saying that this would succeed - in general, arms exporters are not considered liable for whoever the purchasing country harms), but that essentially comes down to (a) whether USA prosecutors are willing to pursue this, and (b) whether Israel is willing to cooperate, as in the absence of specific treaties it would be legitimate for Israel to say "NSO did not violate our laws, we won't enforce any foreign judgements about this event"; if so, then any action would be limited to seizing whatever assets NSO has in USA (if any!) and/or trying to capture the involved people (if specific people can be identified) when they are traveling outside of Israel somewhere within the reach of USA. USA could apply diplomatic pressure to get Israel to restrict NSO, however, it doesn't seem likely that USA wants it so much to actually try and change that.

For another of your questions, sale of hacking software can be regulated by countries in whatever way each country wishes. In this case, as far as I understand, Israel treats is as essentially an equivalent of "arms export" where NSO has to obtain approval from Israel government for their foreign customers, but in this case it is not contested that NSO did have all the required approvals to sell their tools to Saudi Arabia.
I work in big tech

I selected all my previous companies because they seemed to have a worthy mission from the outside. Each disappointed me immensely. At startup scale you have to see the sausage be made or at least sit next to it.

I know big tech companies have too much power because every other company I’ve worked at would be most accurately described as an unscrupulous Rube Goldberg machine for moving money from VCs to ads+cloud.

Do what works for you, but don’t be so sure you’re engaging in a “better” way with this late-capitalist hellscape. I feel so much better aligned getting paid by big tech to build cool tools for engineers than I did getting paid to knife fight for their scraps.
Yes, it is a VST plugin (and standalone), and amusingly probably works better in Wine than Native, aside from the fonts being craptastic. Containerized distribution doesn't really work for plug-ins.

This is the first time I'm reading of Pipewire, and it sounds promising, but will need to have host support before it becomes a reasonable VST / LADSPA replacement. (I didn't see if that's among its goals, but such would seem reasonable.)
Note also that this was not always the case. Originally, it was a DOS-only application, then a Windows-only application, then for a while we had both the Windows-only application and the Java application, and then finally the Windows-only application was retired.

I believe that the creation of the Java version of that application was due to complaints from Linux users, so this is AFAIK a case where citizens used to be excluded based on their choice of operating systems, and convinced the government to allow more choice.

Another example is online banking in Brazil; for a while, most banks required the use of an horribly invasive "security plugin" for the browser which ran only on Windows. Nowadays, there's also a Linux version of that invasive software, so users of Linux are no longer excluded from online banking on their computers (it's not perfect because it still requires that invasive software, but it's better than before).
Autonomous Vehicle Myths
Well, and the first amendment only matters if someone gets it to court, the court accepts it (not easy to get against the federal gov’t), the evidence or the plaintiff doesn’t ‘disappear’ in the mean time, etc.
I guess the big Sun City is NW of Phoenix, but that's not where my brother lived. I don't think it had a golf course, but maybe it did.
Just for kidding but... do you think windows users are able to make/know what is it a bug report?
The small vertical " things to do " booklets that you can buy in bulk at most shops also work very well for my own task management overview. Used these also for the past 20 years.
> To me this makes synthwave perfect for the way millenials and younger people have had to manage their smooth social brand exterior in every concievable micro aspect of their lives

I think the popularity of Synthwave has a lot to do with the Stranger Things series, which used a lot of 80s nostalgia synths.

I think in it is the opposite way round: Synthwave seems to be nostalgia for a simpler time when technology was something people controlled, rather than now where it seems technology increasingly controls people.