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The article in the thread does not discuss the mechanism by which populations migrated to factories!

Or are you reading a different article? Where are you getting these ideas that peasants were forced to move into the factory towns against their will, or that they considered themselves worse off for doing so?
Their plan has always required disabling the secure boot stuff.
I’m saying that. The insult is not appreciated.

Most companies are guilty of this, doesn’t make it right.

I’m not saying Pantagonia might not be a better company environmentally than others, just mentioning that I find their usage of plastics in clothing objectionable.

I also do find it hypocritical that they sell plastic products while doing some kind of boycotting of companies producing raw materials for plastics.
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> So, while you may perceive "comes from the most advanced civilian gun culture in the world" to be true, I somewhat disagree on its merits and propose that if the Taliban infantry are indeed goat herders, they may have more hands on experience in properly using firearms, as animal husbandry in areas like Afghanistan has some livestock preditors they must be wary about.

Your point is well taken, and I don’t know when your anecdote is from, but rural Americans definitely use guns as an agricultural tool. Hunting season laws don’t apply to wildlife that’s damaging crops or worrying livestock. In my neck of the woods everyone knows how to zero their rifle, because one shot is the most you’re going to get.

I don’t mean to say Americans are neo-Spartans or anything, just that I’m willing to bet the average Ame

> I have however heard reports from the tales of General Butt Naked & Co, that down in West Africa and such, that the child soldiers know nothing other than the idea of "big number equal good"

I heard that anecdote applied to the Bush War.
While in college, my summer job each year was working for the city in manual labor. "Street specialist" was the job position. I experienced three summers of hot asphalt shoveling, vegetation removal, catch basin cleaning, and traffic flagging.

I had a lot of fun working there, and so did most of the other guys who were my age. The job paid well and gave us more freedom than we were used to. But I noticed all of the guys who were aged 40+ had bad backs and were addicted to chewing tobacco. There's only so many OSHA-approved ways of paving a quarter mile stretch of road in one afternoon, and that can take a physical toll on someone's body over decades.
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A friend of mine from engineering school had pretty much this exact idea for a joke record player: Require the user to provide a record and place the needle on it, but then use image-recognition to identify the label/cover art and stream the album while the record spun uselessly.

Seeing someone do this, but unironically and for a real product specifically meant for humans who are actively developing their sense of how the world around the works, feels somewhere between cynical and outright deceptive. It reminds me of the Mechanical Turk (the original one, not the Amazon service): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk - a machine deliberately designed to mislead.
There's also the modern version of the See 'n Say. The original one is mechanically brilliant. The new one has much better sound quality and a flip-over semicircle that gives it two full circles of things to point to. Is it better? Hard to say.

On the other hand some modern electronic toys are brilliant. The Leapfrog one with the 8x8 LED array and the light pen is absolutely brilliant in how much play value it gets out of that simple hardware and already feels like a classic.
Also a former submarine DCA: a sailor failing to call away smoke speaks to an egregious cultural problem in how the crew treats damage control (unless this was an absolutely brand-spanking-new nonqual).
I think driving is an obvious example most people experience.
I have a feeling there are many of us, but some are too afraid to admit it.
Same here, on a number of machines. One of them - an Intel SS4200, now retired - I migrated from 32bit to 64bit without a reinstall. This seamless upgrade path was my main reason to move from an RPM-based distribution to Debian somewhere back in 1998, having moved to Redhat from Slackware before than and from SLS to Slackware before that, from nothing to SLS somewhere in 1992.
Real estate is the only asset class where you can very easily get 10-20x leverage, and at rates that are only modestly above the risk free rate.

If you used $1,000,000 to buy $20,000,000 worth of property in San Francisco, and you wanted to get a 15% annual return to beat the market, the numbers would look like this:

You’d be paying around $600,000 in interest, say you’ve got another $100,000 in expenses, and you want to get $150,000 for your return. That’s $850,000 that needs to come from somewhere, in San Francisco I think the rent to price ratio is about 1:50, so that’s $400,000 in rent, and the remaining $450,000 needs to come from house prices increasing. So to beat the market your property assets needs to appreciate by 2.25%, or about what the fed targets inflation to be.

This is only possible because the mortgage is a very unique debt instrument. As far as access to cheap debt goes, it is comparable only to the highest credit corporate and sovereign bonds. The only type of debt that a regular consumer has access to, that is somewhat comparable, are subsides student loans.
What the buildings look like in color

National Theatre https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Pr...

The Transgas building
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Pr...

Koospol (The CUBE)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-waymarking-images/315ed165-5a22-...

DBK Department Store
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Pr...
I love when elites talk like "Yeah, I'll speak with your mama outside".

It's entirely plausible that a white person who was accused of breaking into their own home would not be arrested for disorderly conduct afterwards, because they wouldn't view the event as being part of a larger narrative against their race. All of that could happen without anyone actually doing anything wrong.
I see how awkward you are when saying this
> When you make housing an investment, by definition, it has to become less affordable in the future.

Sadly this has become a meme response, always repeated in every housing topic. Can we dig deeper? What would it mean?

A house has value, one can live in it, a basic human need. It also takes raw materials and skilled labor to create. Both of those go up over time, so building an identical house in the future will nearly always cost more than today.

Thus, that house can't help but appreciate in value. At a minimum, with inflation. Even that makes it a decent investment with minimal risk.

So you propose a house should depreciate? How, exactly? And would you want to live in those conditions?

One way to have housing depreciate is to have the economy of the region collapse (e.g. Detroit). But clearly that's not a good solution.

Maybe another way is to build houses with such bad quality that they disintegrate before the mortgage is paid off. But that's not an attractive solution either, I don't want to live in such a structure.

So what exactly are you proposing?
>There is no such thing as a disconnect signal

Incorrect :) MIDI OUT provides power. No power = disconnect.

That's not to mention that you don't need a signal for *physical disconnect Your stereo knows when you unplug headphones.
Write regularly yes, but quantity does not lead inherently to quality. You have to hold a higher and then higher standard for what’s good
Doesn’t this just highlight that php development ecosystem doesn’t value quality much? What even is a “file” in context of a web request? What about dependencies or logic defined in other files?

This is just bizarre, I can’t see a sane codebase where this would be preferable to going on GitHub and pressing “.”
Seems a bit naive to me. OP seems intent that Facebook (or “Meta”) will play nice and remain decentralized and absolutely not “own the metaverse,” and uses Google as an example. Unfortunately, that very comment painting Google as an underdog says that it has become a company which “controls the web.” And saying that Facebook has developed some open source frameworks therefore it will continue to do so is just not holistic. FB developed React closed-source and for its own benefit. They didn’t sit down and look at the state of web development and say “hey, let’s create a framework for everybody.” They say down and said “we need a way to easily build UI components and systems that scale.” It just so happened that other people’s interests and needs aligned with FB in this particular instance. To say that this means FB is somehow inherently interested in being “compatible” is fallacious.

I do agree that comparisons with any old technology, positive or negative, are inherently slippery. So while I don’t much agree with the original article, I don’t agree with this either because how can you? This is simply pointing to a past event (the commercialization of the internet) and saying “this will happen again.” Maybe, maybe not, to quote a Chinese aesop.

But on a deeper level, it seems that the foolish Luddites OP is quoting against the internet were not opposed to the very nature of the web - a decentralized information system - but rather the technical development of it. This is different from the arguments against the metaverse, which are almost entirely inherent to its nature. I think everyone would accept some lacking VR technology or uncomfortable AR glasses, if they agreed on the final destination. Unfortunately, most of the criticism of the metaverse are against its very nature. There is not a market for the metaverse. Nobody seems happy or excited by the idea. And come on, really? Saying that VR is anything like really interacting with another person? This is like those million and one social media apps that are gonna “solve loneliness.” Maybe this comment will be quoted and flashed up on the Meta Headset 8 in a decade or two and everyone will have a good laugh at me and my foolish blindness, but I don’t see a genuine market demand for the metaverse and that’s my criticism for it.
How does this compare to React Native from a build-tool persepctive? From experience Native, Cordova, Xamarin, etc, all took a while for their build-tools to mature (mostly by making the right trade-offs) so to allow a degree of freedom without running into some build hells (though sometimes still do).
It's for this reason that I normally just go plain objc/swift/java
My hope is that they finish the MIDI 2.0 rtpmidi protocol, and that starts to be truly used in real hardware, not half used as current rtpmidi.

This would allow easy connectivity with very low latency over normal LAN, including switches, power over Ethernet...

Disclaimer: I created a rtpmidi implementation for linux https://github.com/davidmoreno/rtpmidid
I've never thought of it this way until I've read your comment, but now I cannot shake it off, because the comparison seems so clear and obvious in hindsight.
“The developmental psychologist Jean Mandlar says that image schemas make up the foundation of human thought.”

Interesting that the author refutes that the brain thinks in symbols.
In China 114.114.114.114 / 114.114.115.115 or 223.5.5.5 / 223.6.6.6 is used.
well now wait a minute - if you put in a part at the bottom of the resume:

"After my astounding work at places that were not Amazon, Facebook, and Google I believe I am able to meet any challenge head on"

I think it might actually increase your number of contacts based on some recruiter with a keyword match script bringing you up.
The two biggest advantages of RN in my mind are that it has no paywalled content like Ionic/Capacitor and that the ecosystem is very very active, very Soldom do you run across "crappy community plugins" like you will with Cordova/Capacitor/etc. Sure there are many "crappy plugins", but there's almost always a much better option to those.
I was a carpenter, then a coder, now a carpenter again. I strongly prefer carpenter (independent contractor)(and by carpenter I mean generalist). But I still have coding projects.
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I believe no one died in this incident.
Something that shocked me was that when I was trying to teach a scripting language to some non-programmer sysadmin types, they kept getting stuck on what I thought of as minutiae.

Things like the difference between single-quoted and double-quoted strings. Special character escapes. Etc...

One person was confused as to why I kept using different kinds of brackets -- round, square, and squiggly.

To me, these basic idioms are so ingrained, that I simply didn't even think to explain them. Of course the squiggly brackets create a nested scope! What's a scope? Uh... that isolates variable names so they don't clash. Why can I refer to the same variables across those squiggly brackets but not those ones? Well... umm...
And the personnel issue goes deeper than that. Recruitment is seeing some negative trends. You need a lot of people to man the ships. There aren't a ton of people interested in that. Reducing crew numbers was a major consideration in the newer ship designs.
Happy to be unvisionary on this one, but the change log I wish for the next major release is this one:

- We changed nothing, but spent most our time on Bluetooth reliability, and remaining time on general reliability.

That’d meaningfully impact most working days, whereas most of the last few majors really haven’t.
This is pretty sweet! I always have to look up jq docs if I want to do anything complex, but your pipe model seems more intuitive. Also, I love that there's both a library and a CLI.
I understood your point full well, and it is both wrong and immoral.

Prostitution does not have victims. Forcing someone into prostitution has a victim - the unwilling prostitute. This is a crime committed by the trafficker against the prostitute, not a crime committed by the prostitute against the client (or even vice versa).

Again, take the example I gave of slavery. The analogous argument to yours is to claim that cotton picking is not victimless. Obviously there were victims in the antebellum south. But to say that cotton picking is the crime is to miss the point entirely and to hurt the victims of the actual crime. Cotton picking is victimless, unless you think cotton feels pain. Forcing someone to pick cotton is a crime.

STDs are not a crime*. They are a potential downside of sexual activity of all kinds. We are comfortable with all sorts of activities having potential injurious downsides which are not criminal. You can get a concussion playing football, but that doesn't mean giving someone a concussion in the course of playing football (as opposed to because you specifically set out to attack them, of course) is a crime, and it certainly doesn't mean that playing football itself ought to be criminalized. If someone claimed that the only way to stop football concussions was to criminalize the game, we would find that position laughable or at least dangerously authoritarian.

Robberies and killings are a crime, and they can be prosecuted in their own sake. Robberies and killings also happen in, say, banks; we don't say that this is a reason to make banking illegal.

In fact, it is because banking is legal that police and regulated armed guards can be at banks and stand by as legitimate, victimless banking transactions happen, and that a bank under attack can call for the police and know that they will not get shut down. Going back to the example of the fugitive slave - a slave who knows he's been forced into illegal actions is unlikely to seek his freedom and is quite likely to seek the effective protection of his master, preventing him from accessing the liberty due to him in a just society. Similarly, people participating in the victimless crimes of the sex or drug industry generally have little recourse to the justice system. Robberies and killings (and mistreatment of prostitutes) happens because criminals know that their victims do not have the same ability to pursue justice as the general public does. Fully legalizing these industries is the only plausible first step to solving this problem.

* I should probably say that they should not be a crime. Some jurisdictions have such laws, and they are widely recognized to be both unjust and ineffective, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_transmission_of_HIV_i...
> The idea that a teacher should ever touch a student keyboard in a computer science or programming class to me is absurd.

I agree.

In this case, the students who seemed to work this way were mostly (all?) ESL students, and none of the tutors spoke the native language of the students. So it could be difficult even to indicate what you wanted them to look at, and it was especially frustrating when the errors they were dealing with were trivial syntax errors.
> they still feel usable after 6 months of use. By this time, most of the context that I learned to develop the project has faded away and I have to rely on the documentation that I left myself.

This was a much-needed reminder that the target audience for my documentation is my future-self.
hah, love that. "NePoCU"

I've realised immigrants, expats, bilinguals, and just anyone who has lived experience at the interfaces of different cultures are particularly good at this.

When you're both speaking your non-native language in a murky context you 'negotiate' back and forth, using simpler and simpler language (and hand gestures!) until you both agree you're at the NePoCU, and then you slowly build back up and have a great conversation. It's how things like pidgin trading languages emerge.

And of course it's a fun time because you both feel a little ridiculous struggling so dramatically to explain such simple words. Have those conversations in a bar, or over cups of tea, and you'll make some great friends and get invited to 'real' local events :)
> wars, historically, have been won by the parties with the strongest economy.

That isn't in conflict with what bpodgursky said - the country with the larger economy can iterate through technologies more quickly. If their opponents come up with an idea, a highly productive nation can copy and mass produce it. If they come up with an idea, their opponents may not have the industrial base to replicate it.

Although I do agree that based on the economy heuristic I'd expect China to do really well in any war. They're probably going to be better at drones than their opponents in a sustained conflict and it looks like drones win wars right now.
frontend development, if we can still call it that, is the wild west right now. but a few youtubers shine at summarizing the mess down to essentials. i also don't do much of it nowadays but i like to stay informed.

one of these channels is traversy media: https://www.youtube.com/c/TraversyMedia/.

now, i tend to be picky with what i watch on youtube but here are a few tips for web development content:

a) skip any video older than 2 years. unless it's one of those aspects you know for sure doesn't change much.

b) skip any video longer than 1 hour.

this is a general rule for any programming content. this is also not a hard rule. i can tell based on the nature of the content if 30, 40 or 1 hour is too much.

c) skip any video that has a click-baity thumbnail.
This is how the Wii works too. It tells you to swing the wiimote like a bat or a golf club or a tennis racket or steering wheel, but it works better when you just flick your wrist.
That only works for files altered in place, not extra .so files, cronjobs, lines injected into global bashrc/profile, that kind of thing.

(Granted, those are unlikely to survive for many years without breaking or otherwise getting caught)
I generally agree but wouldn‘t be so dogmatic on the 5-pin.

I know some people consider 3.5mm to be the devil‘s plug, but as a eurorack player I don‘t. I feel like MIDI on 3.5, now that the polarity is standardized, is really helping the good, USB-less MIDI stay relevant.
I used to update Mac OS versions day one. Now I put at least a month buffer before updating. Mac OS never used to nag so much about updates.
There do exist people out there that are selfish sexual partners and mis-value sex. It is possible you'll run into someone like this in the real world. But these people are at fault, not you. And I think if you look for sexual partners that display obvious compassion in all aspects of what they do you'll be safe from this kind of behavior.
I absolutely hated primary/secondary school until I realized all these "difficult" methods were designed to help ME learn.

Naturally the attitude at that age is "Oh my gosh the teachers love torturing us >:( they hate us >:( school bad >:(". I'm forever grateful for the gifted program at my district for teaching me otherwise. Writing this comment gave me a rush of nostalgia, I think I'm gonna go visit again
My last job called people’s high school to verify you graduated and would fire you if the school didn’t verify or didn’t exist anymore. Something like 60% of high schools refused any information, including if you even attended. Probably because my previous employer sold competing products those schools used.

I had to sign a release form for this shortly after I was hired.
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Sagan’s Dragon doesn’t really apply here, though. Because, while we don’t have evidence for something non-physical behind mind, we do have a phenomenon - conscious subjective experience - occurring with no real physical explanation anywhere in sight. Or even conceivable, really. Chalking it up to a specific religious idea of a soul or anything is a bridge too far, of course, as is believing anything one thing with more fervor than just a hunch, but...

Well, the analogy falls apart because whether there’s a dragon in the garage really is something physically verifiable, and it’s hard to know if where the there that’s there comes from is. But it’s a little like if you occasionally heard loud stomping noises or roars coming from your garage, and things in there were turning up with big bites taken out of them or singed with fire. No matter how much you look you can’t find the cause. Is that a dragon? Dragons don’t exist...but who knows?
Effects of land dispossession and forced migration on Indigenous peoples
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Fun fact, Dolby Atmos support is very much pushed now, not sure how long it has been like this but it says it on the box so perhaps a software update?
Ah, sorry, then it’s all fine, I wasn’t attentive enough :)
Not useful. I think I have never recieved useful feedback. It's always some political BS, generalized conversation, or a half baked picture of the situation.

I mean, if you worked here you would learn not to expect much. The managers are always trying to push responsibilities down to the employees. It's to the point where the employees might as well do the manager's job. Oh wait, we have senior devs in a new chapter lead model that do half people leadership and half coding... what a mess.
To some degree, older folks or folks with money are leaving the workforce and not reporting themselves as unemployed. Going part time or just closing down their career. This causes a mid to high end shortage which will indirectly drain lower level jobs as well.
Ask HN: Has anyone been able to grow side project bought on Flippa or similar?
I'm a software engineer looking for a side hustle as a solo. I'm considering buying a project from Flippa or similar platform, which has some traction already. My budget will be <$2500. Preferable SaaS or App.

Has anyone here been able to buy side project like this and grow it successfully? Would you be able to share some tips on what to watch out for. What was your story?