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The key annoyance is FTUEs for updates. Mobile apps are terrible about this.

And updates that don't install until you open the program. Sparkle apps on macOS do this and it drives me nuts.

If you're going to update or want my attention about a new thing, have a red dot somewhere that is not conspicuous. Don't get in the way of a user trying to be a user. This is one thing that the Slack app gets absolutely right.

Firefox toes the line. New versions occasionally pop up a new window. It's easy to close but jarring. At least the updates happen mostly transparently and tend to not radically change appearance or behavior. They're bringing this experience to Windows now.
COP26 climate conference: Jeff Bezos pledges $2bn for restoring nature
I have no opinion on whether they are “evil”, but they certainly are causing actual harm to actual people. Religion is not a license to avoid accountability of this fact.
"we'll take the ... back by force"
Why are so many people so quick to suggest that a nationwide situation will be resolved by force. No one is going to take back hundreds of homes by force. That amount of force would be absolutely crushed by state sanctioned violence. Even if you could, what are you going to do with the thousands of homes you have now claimed? Who decides who gets to live there? What about the renters already living there? America is in an awkward position right now and the constant larping of using force to resolve issues is not helping.
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In the study, participants with no background in art, were shown an original image and distorted versions of a statue. The original statue’s proportions reflected the golden ratio. The original image strongly activated sets of brain cells that the distorted images did not, suggesting beauty is partly an innate quality.

This doesn’t sound like the best study design unless they also tested with statues whose original proportions were not in the golden ratio. Otherwise you’ve just proven that people can tell when a human statue has been distorted and don’t like it.

I’m also unclear as to exactly how the vertical and horizontal lines on the Mona Lisa were chosen. Why didn’t a1 go to the top of the head? Why did a2 go up to the eye and not some other facial feature? What determined the endpoints of b2? It seems like there were so many options available and no natural way to select between them, so I have to assume the endpoints were selected simply to produce a golden ratio. And one could do that with any image at all.
I sort of thought we had had this discussion already. Gay people don’t have heterosexual relationships in the same way a straight person does, yes they are free to marry, but not in the way they’d actually want to. Also the very best you can get to about marriage as a traditional even religious institution is maybe the government shouldn’t be running it. Thinking otherwise isn’t just an opinion a bit out of the mainstream anymore at least among the class that works for tech companies. Can you imagine if he’d donated to a cause that was against inter racial marriages?
I have this on a Microsoft Surface Laptop Go, and all the hardware "just works" right after install. Video, external video, touchscreen, sound, networking.
What I still can't wrap my head around is that they vaccinated the control group after less than a year and got away with it. Here we are, with a novel coronavirus, a novel vaccine technology and a novel vaccine, and we can't even do a 2 year longterm study.

> "During that visit we discussed the options, which included staying in the study without the vaccine," he says, "and amazingly there were people — a couple of people — who chose that." He suspects those individuals got spooked by rumors about the vaccine. But everybody else who had the placebo shot went ahead and got the actual vaccine. So now Fierro has essentially no comparison group left for the ongoing study.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/9691430...
I remember the manuals that came with the Apple II series. They actually had schematics of the machine. How times have changed...
Laika raises $35M Series B led by JPMorgan
Here's an example of an endpoint that returns a JSON array. Check the response body of the List Commits endpoint: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#list-commits

You need a way to get to the next page. Some APIs might return it in the JSON response. GitHub returns it in the Link header (not really a custom header). Details here: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/guides/traversing-with-pagin...
You're not wrong. However, even if you make an all-cash offer and remove every single contingency, you're still looking at roughly 2 weeks minimum to close. You're making the assumption that title companies are competent (they are not) and move quickly (they do not). Wire transfer takes a few days, need to find a notary to sign all of the closing docs, and title companies are slammed with all of the other home purchases happening as well.
Why do you need to create a collection? I was happy when all extensions was the only collection. And this has been in Nightly for about a year.. when is it coming to stable? (those questions aren't really questions, it just looks like Mozilla is trying to make extensions go away)
cheap loans for some, and inflated asset prices for those who own assets. Most people don't think "can i afford this house", they think "can i pay the monthly payment". Add to this the frenzy of asset prices increasing and FOMO, you get a real situation where people who were waiting to buy, buy now because they think they will miss out on cheap loans and increasing asset prices.
> History is littered with the corpses of those who tried and failed to corner a market. Real estate is no different. That's not to say we can't make the system better. We can and we need to. But serfdom isn't imminent either.

Zillow is just a piece of the puzzle. I don't want to go down the 'collapse-porn' hole but with Zillow (and many others) doing this and pushing/pricing out family buyers + my city's new buildings being 99% rentals owned by financial corporations, I don't see a bright home ownership future. I'm driving around and all I see are 'vibrant' cities that look like https://archive.curbed.com/2018/12/4/18125536/real-estate-mo.... I find that super depressing. Whenever I see cranes going up I get excited there's going to be a new condo building. NOPE. It's yet another 6 story matchbox owned by some no name shell in Delaware which ends up in 2 years under Berkshire Hathaway.
Sounds sort of like “the semantic web”, perhaps with slightly less interoperability outside of the organization.
more people would decide to live with their roommates and family

And we made fun of Soviet Russia, where people would live with roommates and family because their government was so dysfunctional that it couldn't even arrange shelter for its citizens, a basic necessity for life.
Yeah, have you seen TikTok?
In personal interactions, be on average at least 20% kinder/more considerate than you think is necessary to account for subjective bias.
Could you list some of the things that make the right fascist? Its a pretty blanket statement to call everyone that has a different political opinion of you fascist. Here is the definition https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

Last administration had several people of color in it. It also had an openly gay member. I did not see them banning anyone off social media or suppressing the opposition. They removed far more regulations than they created which reduced their administrations power. As far as I know they never ignored a supreme court ruling.

Sure the last administration had major problems, but to try and compare say it is fascism is absurd imo. The fact the we have a new administration is all the proof you really need.

Fascist actions to me are things like admitting the government regularly bans people they don't like from social media. Ignoring supreme court rulings. Trying to shutdown opposition news organizations. Spying on opposition news organizations. Spying on political opponents. Demanding access to see every citizens bank transactions. Demanding the federal government have full control of all elections. All these actions lead towards a one party system in which the federal government has completely control over every aspect of its citizens life and forcefully suppresses the opposition.
It is though, and it will confront you when you least expect it. It should be seen as a wake-up call, not something to be afraid of.
The Expanse is one of only five science fiction productions on TV I could seriously recommend to someone. It deals with big themes in a coherent manner. And the characters get incredible depth as the seasons continue. And thematic/political elements get way more interesting. Almost every other science fiction series turns out to be mostly fluff (admittedly, very entertaining fluff) when viewed through the lens of The Expanse.
If the board is incompetent, then the CEO will usually be incompetent too. A CEO doesn't make every decision for the company, just the important ones. A new CEO has great impact on a company's present and future unless the company is already organized to give /other executives/ most of his or her responsibilities.

At the companies I've worked at, lower levels never make far-reaching decisions for the company.
I don't know where it's being blocked in your view but to use my earlier example of silicon valley, maybe there is a limitation of geographic space, resources in relation to population, and zoning considerations. Maybe silicon valley workers could sponsor the building of a floating land mass to add additional residential space unbound by traditional limitations.
Fed it to a cow and ate the cow.
The story behind Flexport founder's supply chain tweets
I didn't know before this post that Homebrew's infamous ‘auto-update’ only automatically updated the dependency closure of whatever you were installing/upgrading, which sounds more or less correct to me.

> Now, Homebrew has a choice. Either we upgrade _everything_ that depends on `python@3.10` that you have installed or we knowingly break some of the things you have installed that depend on `python@3.10`. We choose the safer option by default.

A look at the formulae in homebrew-core shows that Homebrew basically doesn't consider versions in its dependency management at all, so formula are just using the ‘@x.y.z’ in place of all manner of version constraints. So you get wild stuff like this line here[1]:

depends_on "curl" # curl >= 7.55 is required

wat.

Of course the recursive update policy is going to be weirdly painful for some users! Homebrew doesn't even attempt to encode some very basic aspects of dependency, so now (a) you can't know what you're going to break if you do upgrade a common dependency and (b) you can't know when you can afford not to upgrade a dependency shared by a package you're about to install and the already-installed system. The choice you outline above is one that is not faced by most package managers, because they don't make this mistake. The naive wheel reinvention with Homebrew is so eternally disappointing, and it explains a lot of the pain users experience with it.

> Homebrew upgrades dependencies and dependents of those dependencies (which, admittedly, can feel like unrelated)

One relatively non-disruptive thing you might be able to do to make this behavior less surprising to users is (offer a way to?) print the dependency tree for package installations/upgrades that pull in upgrades of their ‘siblings’. You'd probably want to just do it in a textual way, but this project seems to model the kind of logic you'd want for printing dependency trees with Homebrew as it exists.[2]

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1: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...

2: https://github.com/martido/homebrew-graph/blob/master/cmd/br...
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AFAIK there's no reason to favor English translations of the Old Testament (or anything else) that use now-archaic English, except maybe for passages which are themselves written, in the original, in a kind of archaic or very formal mode, relative to the rest. It can be accurate enough (for whatever purpose—poetic, literal accuracy, et c.) without being stuffy or outdated.

Another factor in my naming it the probably #2, after Gilgamesh, though, is that everything else is just that bad to a modern reader, so the OT looks pretty damn good compared to all that, even if you're stuck with the King James Version. My favorite story from ancient Egypt[0], I wouldn't recommend to many readers, because damn, it's a slog, and it's still an easier read than some of the others, or than anything I've seen in Sumerian or Akkadian (Gilgamesh excepted). It probably tells better, as a joke (it's a comedic story), than it reads, if you had someone really talented telling it.

That's typical for other Near Eastern literatures, too. Lots and lots of repetition, is the main problem for a modern reader, as far as the prose goes. Much of it also doesn't really relate a story, exactly, and the cultural and religious references are obscure at best. You don't even get mythology, really, for the most part. Prayers or incantations, sure, but there's no Hesiod or Ovid of Sumerian religion. There's a little of that, sure, but it's very fragmentary and you have to bring a lot of context from outside of it to make much sense of what you're reading.

For the millennia(!) of texts we have from Egypt, for instance, there are only a few short (and often fragmentary) works that we'd recognize as stories. You have to settle for reading a variety of non-fiction or semi-fictional genres to get much more out of it—"mirrors for princes" and scribal didactic texts, which are probably the most interesting of the lot, plus endless formulaic and not-especially-illuminating funerary texts, and a good deal of historical propaganda about military victories, mostly from monumental inscriptions, almost all of which are intensely boring even if you're really into military history. And that's probably the richest literature we have from that region in the pre-classical period, at least as far as what's available in English translation.

[0] The Eloquent Peasant
How is this titled "fully featured" when it's still in its early stages with very little code in the repository (and most of what is there looking like an exercise in software architecture)?

Is the "it's in rust" hype so strong now that even a few lines of code covered in ambition are sufficient to make the front page of HN?
The article is thinking about mining in the wrong way. Mining is the reason that the price of bitcoin didn't collapse over the last few bear cycles. The raw energy cost to mine bitcoin (coupled with investor FOMO & buy-the-dip mentality) sets a price floor that's hard to overcome because it's tied to physical assets and production.

Once you have a mining farm, it takes nothing but electricity to keep it going, & electricity is cheap.
Actually, yes there is. My brother has a senior position at HUD, they've been very concerned about this the last few years.

You won't hear this at the cabinet level, because those are all political appointees, but when you get down to the career people, they have grave concern over institutional buyers.
So strange! Very much add odds with the "full-featured" label. No Mission: Impossible theme (5/4)? No Pink Floyd - Money (7/4)? No Seal - Kiss from a rose? No Hey Ya!? Metallica - One / Nothing Else Matters? Fallin'?

Edit: This was under "non-goals" for the MVP. Completely understandable...
Well, if you generalize the statement enough, indeed it's the same class of issue.

In the situation you described:

* you have a fairly easy way to detect the problem

* the interns still have plausible deniability as to whether they intended to leave a defect or not

The discussed problem with unicode is clearly meant to be used as an exploit, its likelihood of occurring by accident seems very close to zero.
Tipu's wikipedia page has been so whitewashed even caucasians are jealous of it.

Tipu relocated men of kodagu to various corners of his empire, so that they wont fight him erasing their identity, converted all wives and daughters of these kodagu fighters and distributed among his army like livestock.

he rounded up thousands of mangalore christians apparently for no reason, and kept them as slaves under appalling conditions for over 10 years until most of them converted. Post his death, whoever held through this torture were liberated by british army.

The reason why they were held captive? Tipu felt like it & since they are not muslims, they deserve this treatment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captivity_of_Mangalorean_Catho...

British may be conniving, once british looted you, they would leave you & your culture alone.
Tipu on the other hand, will kill you, rape your women, wipe out of your culture.
So, its no wonder kodagu people silently supported british in their fight with tipu.
Look at how short the last recession was in the US. It was 2 quarters, meeting the bare minimum definition of a recession. Since 2008 policy makers have shown a broad willingness to stimulate the economy at all costs. Barring a USA debt crisis or a change in the political climate, I’m skeptical the US will see a major recession any time soon.
> this sounds downright medieval to me, like why even use macOS for development if the software management tools are so bad that that's what you're doing

Because it's only one tool that really sucks: Brew. For the languages I specified, it works quite well. Even using C++ with vendored dependencies works better than average in macOS for me.

For most of those languages I mentioned, Brew already offloads the real installation and updating of the language itself to a language manager (via rvm/rbenv, nvm, pyenv, rustup, whatever), so it doesn't make a difference, except without Brew I get a more stable, officially supported, environment.

Also, DotNet was a Cask until a few months ago, so they effectively were just downloading something from the official website just like me.
The growing complexity of modern software systems
trust is easy to define. Trust = Character * Competence.

zero competence will still result in a low level of trust. I think what the article is saying is that its easy to overwhelmingly improve your character at a job you may only have marginal competence at. This boosts your Trust, and in doing so makes you palatable to all but the hard-working tech people with low character and high competence, who view you as a grinning moron they occasionally have to stop to support.
The fact that this rolled out at all is alarming. Big quickly noticeable regressions should be caught by some process internally before giving it to customers even if they are "beta testers", especially for safety critical stuff.
Former real estate finance professional, here.

If you were hoping this was a sign of the real estate market falling and perhaps its your chance to get a bargain, think again.

> The company is seeking roughly $2.8 billion for the houses, which are being pitched to institutional investors, according to people familiar with the matter.

Institutional investors (Blackstone, Blackrock, Colony, et al) will be being in bulk, in cash, and at a steep discount before they even hit the market. Zillow's loss will be the institutional investor's gain. Of course, they will happily rent to you since that is the the plan all along - own all the assets, and every generation after X gets to rent [1].

I wish this would anger people more, but enough home owners will benefit from this dynamic - it will likely keep home prices elevated for longer, and set up an ugly conflict between those who do not have (and aspire to have) homes and those who currently own homes.

[1] https://www.ocregister.com/2021/09/30/in-a-hot-market-compan...
Two things happened: Twitter switched to the JVM and posted a talk getting a few high profile Ruby consultants to do the same.

A lot of the people that I knew from that time had already switched to Sinatra for their non work related projects.

As simple as Rails was compared to what came before it (J2EE), it was still complex in ways and people felt Sinatra was simpler.

When node.js started gaining traction and people realised that they could write front-end and back-end both in the same language, people went in troves to node.js. All popular Ruby projects like passport and Passenger had a node.js version. Some others had a node equivalent quickly put together.

Some rubyists that I knew also took the route of writing everything in (a very Ruby like language called) coffeescript and compiled it to js before running it on node although this didn't last long.

For me as a kid, Rails taught me a lot of things: MVC, db migrations,relationships, HTTP and REST for which I'm grateful.

But I don't see myself using Rails again because we have tooling now that makes me more productive or atleast feel that way.
All these awful people sound dangerous What do we do with them once we've successfully identified and separated ourselves from them?
No. If you’re not an experienced python programmer then I can see that your comment might seem like a witty contribution. But I was actually providing good advice.
> And on Linux, we’ve improved WebGL performance and reduced power consumption for many users.

All right!

> Users of the proprietary Nvidia driver will need to wait a little bit longer as the currently released drivers lack an important extension. [1]

Oh no :(

[1]: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/switching-the-li...
> But it is more accurate for a company trying to increase their own revenue, not someone trying to own and occupy a house (most Americans, based on home ownership rates).

Also for the house seller (prior to the company), who is getting paid a more accurate, higher price.

And a price is accurate all the same for buyer and seller, since there exists a range with the minimum price the seller wants to receive and a maximum price the buyer wants to pay. The smaller this range, the more accurate the price.

With more data and more accurate projections, it may be possible for current owners to capture more of the gain that may have happened down the road.
Who, developers aside, gives a single whit what language it's written in? Just give us something useful, expandable, and with ongoing support for when bugs do appear.

So much digital ink (and the associated mindshare) wasted in the design doc whinging on about how much Rust is better than C++ that they hardly talk about the DAW itself.

And for features, immediately canning MP3, 4/4 time signatures, and sidechain routing makes this little more than a toy when compared to existing offerings.

I'll watch this to see what this becomes, but I don't have high hopes, not with the current stated direction.
Shockingly blatant ripoff of Notion, down to the hero and icon placement.
I think I agree with your ultimate conclusion, but that's not a fallacy it's an ageist trope, and also you're mistaking whoever generates oversimplified clickbait for the youth. I want to emphasize this: the youth do not control what the real estate media is urging various news outlets to say.
If you have any data about similar distributions for other countries (life expectancy by income) I would be very interested - I have not managed to find similar.
On the flip side, I've been using Manjaro for years without issue, but when I updated my Fedora 33 workstation to 34, KDE showed a black screen oh boot. No matter how hard I tried I was unable to solve this problem, so I will be skipping Fedora from now on..