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> Inalienable rights are an abstract idea that can't exist.

You left out the first part, where I said “in practice.” As in, it should never occur that our human rights are able to be circumvented, curtailed, or allowed to be violated. That our rights are violated in practice, in reality, is bad and should not happen, and proves that we must act as if inalienable rights are not some platonic ideal, but a lived reality, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.

To the degree we are alienated from our innate human rights, it is because we as a society allow it, accommodate it, justify it, and excuse it. It is up to us all, individually and collectively, to do better. We can do better, and must, or we lack the courage of our convictions, and thus prove that the ideal remains an idea only, and not real, not a lived experience in and of reality. Arguing about the “existence” of abstract concepts is not my point. We embody these ideals with our thoughts, beliefs, and especially actions - what we do or do not do in accordance with our stated principles of inalienable rights.

We only have the rights we claim to have, rights we claim as ours by expressing them, even when others disagree, and defying any and all who would deny them to us. Inalienable rights are not up for debate to those who claim them. To have inalienable rights is to talk the talk and walk the walk.

To say inalienable rights exist is not a truth claim about the nature of reality; it is drawing a line in the sand and picking this hill to die on.

> Rights that were never violated could not be conceived of as rights, like "hot" wouldn't have any meaning if there wasn't "cold".

I agree wholeheartedly. Ironically, we discovered human rights by violating those of ourselves and of others, until the consequences of and backlash against such opprobrium became juice not worth the squeeze, deciding not to, and accepting nothing less than our continued newfound freedom.
If you are taking public money and come back the following year wanting more, there should be a plan and data showing why you deserve money. Specifically the effectiveness of what you are trying to do. Most of them want money without any accountability.

Most times when you apply for a grant, there is a proposal with a plan and expected outcome.
Are you aware that starting in 2020 CA has enacted rent control on everything more than 15 years old:
https://sfrb.org/article/summary-ab-1482-california-tenant-p...
It is a machine responding to inputs but it involves feedback to the level we don’t usually experience with computers. This introduces non-linearity which is difficult for a human mind to process in terms of cause and effect. They are still there, just more difficult to see.

Consider Jay Forrester in Brooklin in the 70s. He correctly argued (and was apparently almost beat up by saying that), that simply setting up more housing projects increased the problem. The simplified argument went: The word spreads that there’s housing available, people move to the area, housing gets full but the inertia of the word-spread keeps going and people keep coming in. This leads to creation of more projects (as there are still people on the streets) perpetuating the cycle. Meanwhile, the businesses and residents start moving away from the area because of the projects and many homeless, dropping real estate prices and compounding the problem with another feedback loop. Complex stuff. Whatever the solution if SF (that I like very much) is, it better be looking out for that sort of policy resistance.
For python development pylance is one of the most important parts.
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There’s also ’ For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled’ by Feynman
I agree, the museum is great. I visited there shortly after I read Moby Dick and that was where I learned about the marathon. But I was there in August and not January so missed it as well. Sadly I live in the Midwest. Will have to try to plan when there isn’t a horrible snow storm to make it there in the future.

My wife visited the museum on Nantucket and said that was also a very enjoyable experience.
A lot of anecdotes in this thread, but it’s important to keep it in perspective: The current employee turnover rates are higher than they have been, but when you look at the numbers it’s about 2.8% monthly quit rate compared to an average of around 2%: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSQUR

So yes, it’s up, but the news articles trying to explain this as some sort of society-wide shift and pushing anecdotes of people leaving companies en masse are getting ahead of the numbers. It’s also ignoring the sharp downward spike in quit rate during the start of the pandemic, which has produced some ripple effects.

The economy is also booming right now with the influx of cash, people staying home and spending more on tech, and low interest rates. Every company that can take advantage of it is doing so by hiring.
Emacs for Windows 10 with Dark Mode
If anyone knows Win32 or Emacs development, help improving the patch and getting it into Emacs would be appreciated!
Why is that “sad”? If people enjoy the food, that’s a good thing right?
I wanted to look into this to see how they actually compare. A comparable thin-and-light laptop from Lenovo is the ThinkPad X13 (Gen 2). In the only manual I was able to find they have a small list of "Customer Replaceable Units" which is:

* Keyboard
* Any M.2 parts
* The cover assembly

And that's it. No battery, display, laptop body, CPU, ports, etc. From what it says in the manual this seems to be part of their warranty process, not for general repair.

> If you intend on installing a CRU, Lenovo will ship the CRU to you. CRU information and replacement
instructions are shipped with your product and are available from Lenovo at any time upon request. You
might be required to return the defective part that is replaced by the CRU.

After some more digging it looks like they do actually have repair guides for most if not all of the parts:

https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/ht510477-removal-...

And they do seem to list all the parts for that laptop:

https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/au/en/products/laptops-and-netb...

But the only things I'm able to actually order are the SSD and the power brick.

So it looks like the framework is a fair bit easier to repair (no popping key caps to unscrew the keyboard for instance), makes all their parts easily available (or at least it's easy to get notified when they become available), doesn't have 20 different versions for each part, but also doesn't offer the same kind of warranty and services that lenovo does.
Google digital advertising antitrust litigation [pdf]
In a similar vein, but more broad (and less optimistic)

I thought The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr was pretty good.
The reason he compares it to desktops, is because the only thing in the performance test that's comparable, is the desktops. The M1 system tested had double the RAM of the Intel systems. For processing video, RAM makes a huge difference. If your editor can store all the decompressed clips and cache in RAM, your performance increases exponentially. In addition, the "live playback" score is weighed heavily for some reason, when that's an easy test all systems can perform fine, and is not timed.

It's not clickbait, because the article literally tells you both the positives and negatives, as well as titling it "mixed bag" instead of "apple loses." We call this a balanced review.

But I get it. Anything that's not "m1 is revolutionary" is clickbait to the apple crowd.
Less than 0.3% of the population watches prime time TV shows on any of the networks in your comment. Unfortunately despite a small initial audience they do have wide reach in terms of distributing short clips to various factions of the Twitter mob (which also happens to be comprised of an insignificant percentage of citizens).

In some populations, a person has a better chance of catching covid and dying than they do of saying they watched Chris Cuomo last night.
> remorse about being paid lavishly for work in the attention economy.

The vast majority of tech jobs are not working with consumer facing products.

The companies that occupy the space on our phones and web browsers may seem like the majority of the tech world when it’s all you see every day, but it’s really a smaller fraction of everything going on in the world. There’s a lot of tech out there that doesn’t involve the small handful of companies that dominate social networking and entertainment apps.
This black or white mentality is extremely detrimental mind set to have, both professionally and personally.

Also this anecdote has little to do with the current thread...
Homelessness is a solved problem.

SF residents don't want the solution.

Real estate is the primary wealth building asset class of long-term residents who bought property ages ago or inherited it.

In California property taxes as assessed at time of sale, so you hold onto properties realistically valued at multiple millions while paying taxes at rate appropriate to tens of thousands.

Bulldozing a single family home to build a multi-family unit has an enormous cost on the back end given re-assessment.

Any potential drop in property values has massive protest.
It's such a nice free-ride you will fight tooth and nail for.

These residents just want the homeless population "dealt with".

The only solution viable for these residents is getting rid of homeless people through force.

This in untenable give that these residents also have internalized a set of liberal moral values, which mostly means alleviating guilt by dumping money onto ineffective non-profit organization who at worst are siphoning public funds for themselves or at best are trying their best at executing strategies which have minimal impact.

Consider that between 2010 and 2020, SF built ~25,000 new housing units.

Charlotte, NC, a city with a lower population, built 160,000 new units.

Norway has homeless population of 0.07% by mostly doing one thing: building and giving homes to people who don't have them.

That would cause property values to plummet. Many long-term residents would have to seek employment after a lifetime of living off rents.
That would actually maybe be a good solution? If you leave empty next time port fee is double or whatever.
An interesting connection:

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
- PKD (1978)

"The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences."
- Robert Anton Wilson (1975)

I wonder if PKD read Leviathan?
I mean, storage containers are made of structural steel. It's not like they're radioactive waste. They're valuable, and there's an active secondary market for used containers. There is absolutely no situation where empty containers would get dumped at sea or whatever.
How would you avoid those same issues happening yet again to the hoped for shiny new effort?
Gold, silver, food, guns and ammo.
Huh, thank you I will try this.
No, its an ancient panasonic with no network connection either.

The other thing I didn't count was that google probably know I search for movie information regularly and bias the search results accordingly, which is more plausible than it knowing what movie I am watching by listening to it. But maybe they have something like that "what am i listening to" feature that used to be in google play music.

I guess we unintionally might be triggering a pile of information side channels without the voice recognition spying being foremost.
It seems to me that homelessness is a desired state by the far-left progressives. I don't get the sense from talking to people here in Berkeley/Oakland that they want to eradicate homelessness. If you offer a few discussion points about possible solutions, you get sneered at and shot down. The arguments are weak and don't hold up, so they are varnished with emotional appeal (be kind to homeless) and other soft-tactics of altruism. I disagree with this whole premise. You can still be kind and try to solve homelessness and clean up our streets. There is nothing wrong with that and infact the only right thing to do. Like every city in the world. No one should be afraid of calling homelessness a problem that we want to get rid of. Methods of doing that can be debated but resist the appeal for this so called wokeness that is endemic in places like Universities.
While your stock portfolio drops massively as people move to i-bonds/commodities and your property prices fall as well since noone can afford to buy property at the higher interest rates.
This attitude is partially why car drivers are so anti-anti-car people. You attribute such negative traits as egocentrism and anger to them and then insinuate they don’t care about your health. But the truth is that just about everyone outside of your friends and family doesn’t care about your health. It’s mere human nature.
https://web.dev/learn/css/ is a well-organized overview, with optional short video clips and interactive parts (via codepen).
the systems in place encourage this type of action. This happens regularly, does that mean all these people are selfish psychopaths? Or what's more likely that humans in a system designed to push and punish leads to fraud?
Jets don't launch from remote FOBs.

(I hear you re: gas and diesel for land vehicles, but that's not the q)
Yt-dlp implemented a work-around that seems to work for now.
The MSM largely is a coverup for the Biden administration, so you're not going to see much in the way of investigative journalism until after the 2022 mid-terms. :)

Proof of this is that Pelosi made a mistake recently and publicly asked the MSM "to sell the budget bills."

Note that cnn.com is half-accurate since Sept. 1 because the Afghanistan debacle and plunging ratings jarred them into some factual reporting.

In the meantime, you can watch Fox and Sky Australia, and NTD media (all on YT.)
I state specifically why netengs should not write code. I don't like yaml. I think you haven't seen a good nocode solution.

What's the difference? They are both essentially programming languages except nocode allows abstractions, modularity and building blovks that lets networkers focus on network state and infrastructure. Similar to R helps data scientists focus on data science, matlab allows mathematicians to focus on math, powerapps allows office workers to focus on automating office work.

Your last comment: I agree, except neteng people are not dev/sec/ops. And tbf, asking people to wear 3 hats and be really good at all, and expect those people to be replacable and then whine about lack of talent is bullshit! Have a dev build building blocks sec and ops people can use. If you have people wearing 3 hats then they should be there to enable specialists not to be your developer and network engineer and it admin and cloud architect and operations engineer and SRE and security engineer and compliance auditor and whatever else.

Do things right, try to do them right the first time and learn from others' mistakes!
Your body throws CO2 and H2O overboard freely all the time, you know.
Literally impossible as long as the First Amendment exists. You cannot compel speech with legislation the way you apparently want to. Section 230 is just a way to shortcut litigation, the First Amendment is ultimately the protector of YouTube, and will remain so as long as the United States remains a country.

Repealing 230 would just trigger a new set of lawsuits, one of which would end up in front of the Supreme Court, who would then rule it as unconstitutional to force YouTube to publish content it doesn't want to, and we'll be right back where we started, just now with precedent in a Supreme Court case.

https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/05/section-230-as-first-am...

https://www.lawfareblog.com/wall-street-journal-misreads-sec...

https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr_online/vol95/iss1/3/

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/section-230-critics-are-...

You are tilting at a windmill, friend.
I agree, and the competition is at this point more between VS and other full-featured IDEs like JetBrains Rider, which is my tool of choice for .Net-development.

But, what I didn't know until this recent debacle, is how there is a theory that the reason the .Net-tooling in VSCode is so bad is the same reason we had this watch-debacle. There was some discussion on that in the other HN-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28968231
The Story Of Ivermectin They Don't Want You to See [video]
US DoD sidesteps Biden Taiwan vow
Or what about using a newsletter like Revue instead of a blog? Some benefits from Twitter, like getting exposure and subscribers a bit easier, easy to setup, and good for some longer form content?
I'm in the same boat. I use VSCode for JavaScript and that is only because I'm required to by my workplace. Otherwise I'd be using Webstorm.

VS is on a whole other level than VSCode when it comes to C#. I suspect that many people here haven't really used the IDE features and VS' debugger for more than simple breaking and inspecting a variable.

Yes, if you have a hobby project, you can use VSCode instead of VS Community Edition just fine. But if you are dealing with concurrency errors, performance analysis, dump analysis, and very, very large projects, you can't use VsCode. VS' GUI is also a lot more flexible than VSCode's. In VS I can have a lot more information present where in VSCode I need to constantly switch windows.
The CCP has recently been favoring anti-trust policy. Having enormous all-encompassing companies that absorb everything is not necessarily a great economic strategy.

https://www.ft.com/content/01b7c7ca-71ad-4baa-bddf-a4d5e65c5...
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/exclusive-china-readies-...
I don't understand why you're mentioning the US government or policing speech, this article (and my analogy) is about youtube taking a video down. I think you may have misunderstood the analogy.
For US railroads, railroad cars may seem to be fungible, but someone owns each one and there's a settlements system running behind the scenes. The Association of American Railroads, via their Railinc subsidiary, is behind that, and all railroads that interchange traffic are members. There are standard rates.

How does that work for containers?
Email isn't the only way Git is used. In fact, email is explicitly external to Git; Got just cooperates well with it.

You know what else Git cooperates with better? Push, pull, rebase, squash, a whole world of branching strategies etc. GitHub's PR model is artificially gimped against many useful features of git, to the point where I suspect they actively hate users creating commits and want themselves to be the only ones who can make them. Their PR model actively fights any kind of commit-based review; to the point of erasing access to old, rewritten commits.

Even their diff model is proprietary — and inadequate. You can only diff individual files against previous pushes, and that too only if you manually marked each file as 'viewed'. Diff two tips (read: heads)? Forget about it. You can't have it. Do it out dumbed-down PR way, with a pileup of correction commits you can't squash properly, and be happy you were given the privilege.
This is not just for primary editor. So if I use VSCode as primary, IntelliJ for Java development and vim for server side/small file changes, I'll be counted in all 3.
>” They are. Most modern cities are an unlivable toxic mess thanks to the fact we based transportation on private cars.”

This is rhetorical hyperbole that undermines your position.

If cities were actually “unlivable” then people wouldn’t be living there and it would cease to be a city. Toxic is also an exaggeration.
Ha. Voice recognition does seem to induce a large amount of anthropomorphism.
This rabbit hole goes a lot deeper.

I've found that the less I give a damn about what other people think at all, the more enjoyable life is.

The thing is; if you have no authority, you have no responsibility; and I'm clearly not in control of other people's thoughts.
Amazon wants Alexa to own the Smart Home
Colin Ian King relates why he left Canonical
The Twitter thread said that the crackdown on illegal immigrants hit the California trucking industry hard since so many companies were using undocumented drivers to cut down on their costs.
I ended up getting both :)
Asshat bosses want bums on seats in plague pit openplan offices even if #WFH is eminently possible and as someone over 60 even vaccinated I'm still more at risk than I'd like.

If I was more financially secure I'd resign in a heartbeat, so looking around for a remote job.
Writing code isn't all there is that can be considered 'real work'. Reviewing code is also real work. Re-reviwing code after it has been checked in is also real work.

GitHub is a real hindrance for reviewing code, and the dumb practices its infantilised review system forces you into make it a nightmare to re-review code after check in.
I know I'm in the minority but I mostly don't get Trader Joe's. The food is mostly mediocre at best. I guess you're saved from the "tyranny of choice" by only having one of each item but if you don't like "Joe's spaghetti sauce" there's no other option vs a normal supermarket that will have several brands, one of which might match your tastes more than another. Maybe that old saying that Americans see food as fuel, vs French that see food as pleasure, means that most Americans don't care about taste so whatever they get from TJ's is fine?

Further, the fact that, other than wine, the entire store is only "Trader Joe's" brand seems like it's working to put 1000s of small businesses out of business (the 1000s of brands that stock normal markets).
The Law of Perfect Explanations
The need for complete POSIX scope has just never been an issue for me using zsh. I shebang all my scripts to bash (or even plain old sh if its for some stripped down container). I guess if I wanted a lot of functions to run tasks natively it would, but never had that need (but aware some might).
So you'll host a camp in your backyard then?
Yes, that was claimed. It's been thoroughly disputed. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/21/fac...

Even if there was truth to it (I do think a genteel corruption was in play but not to this extent), these arguments are being made in bad faith. There's no concern for actual corruption as they don't seem to care when it happens in any other context -- it's just "gotcha" politics.

US foreign policy in its very nature is corrupt (it's the lobbying arm of big business). Let's shine a light on it but that light needs to be colorblind to red and blue.

Without recognition of the corruption of the previous administration this dialog is simply partisan pandering. I'd be more than happy to share my criticisms for the administration and its party (including this aforementioned corruption) but if your concern does not cross party lines then it's no concern of mine.
You're also making the implicit assumption here that people who commit petty theft would actually care about the marginally higher chance of suffering consequences from it in a context where there isn't anything to mitigate the reasons they're committing petty theft in the first place.
I wonder if telling the story of the recipe, both it’s context, your account of learning it be it as it may, and a description of the experience of preparing the dish itself may be more efficient than writing the recipe down as a series of facts? What do you think?

Really fascinating point that I’ll admit I think is very valuable beyond just the realm of cooking.