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For KDE:

[meta] + "korg", [enter] to start Korganizer
[ctrl] + n to create new date

Korganizer is one of the least sucky calender applications I used so far
Beware, this comes from the guys that managed to put a freaking cookie layer on almost every website in the world.
I bought a physical notebook recently and oh man it's so much better than an iPad. Especially when I'm trying to sketch out architecture or play around with ideas, a pen and paper is unbeatable. Maybe it's all the years of school making me hand write code, but I've started to like hand writing an algorithm or hand writing potential syntax for a language.
I’d buy a shirt that says “Crypto means Cryptozoology” but I haven’t seen one yeti.
Technically, what you did was to insinuate, not directly accuse. Which one is worse?

Since you seem to have a great interest in this, do have any concrete reference to the “Emacs virgin” situation? I have only a vague recollection that Stallman was referring to anyone who had not used Emacs yet as an “Emacs virgin”, and some people took it as meaning some kind of sex thing.

(Any other references to the “many of the accusations against Stallman” that wasn’t referenced in the linked article would also be interesting to see.)
I am trying to find the old study about companies and their decline after building white elephant HQ buildings.
The issues are well-discussed in NotJustBikes specifically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_xzyCDT98

It's not just a vague grass-is-greener issue. And sure, Dutch cities can be soulless and boring by some measures, but that's the norm for American suburbia too.

It's not just a matter of self-report of happiness, the support for the Netherlands style of living is strong by a ton of measures.

Here's the thing: stuff like the eyes-on-the-street effect are HUGE. A sprawly American suburb that still has a neighborhood park where there are reliably dozens of kids who know each other… that works, because it's safe enough to let your kids go to the park with their friends without adult supervision. The fact is, other kids there means it's not bizarre to see one isolated seemingly-abandoned kid, and if they get hurt, there are other kids around to help them or to run home or call their parents etc.

It's not strictly a matter of cars. The whole issue of "stroad" vs road isn't anti-car. Roads are for cars mainly. Stroads are fundamentally dangerous. They are part of the development style that makes it unsafe for younger kids to get out on their bikes and be independent.

Given the choice of dense urban life vs car-dependent-sprawl, it's understandable why many people choose the latter. The problem is the missing-middle. Why is it illegal in most places to build moderate-dense walkable mixed-use neighborhoods that are neither densely urban nor car-dependent-sprawl? The capacity of people to choose different lifestyles along this continuum is missing. The rare places in the middle are crazy expensive because demand far outstrips supply. So, we really don't get anywhere with a conversation focused on which of the limited polarized choices people are stuck with in the USA.
but what happens if someone posts really unpopular at the moment... how much Section 230 protects site owners. ie. DMCA requests. or how craigslist's took down their personal section to not get jailed like other website.
#2 is variable in arabic where some letters are combined which caused the old "effective power" crash in iOS.
I wish I knew how to make it plain to the politicians and law enforcement officials who ask for this why it must not happen.

It would literally be less bad for all display and input devices to have a (password protected, randomly created at time of manufacture) police access mode, than to ban cryptography.

I talked to my local MP about the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act when that came up. I still don’t understand why the UK decided to allow the Welsh Ambulance Service in particular to access, without a warrant, the recent “internet connection records” of everyone except sitting MPs and certain protected professions.
> Using the concept of induced demand to justify building fewer roads is bullshit

Well, you don't have infinite money, or space. Adding a bus lane and a car lane clearly will add more capacity than doing just one of them, but adding a bus lane will likely reduce traffic so much in the other lanes that you don't even have to add another car lane.

And adding just a car lane means people would rather be stuck in their car, than stuck in the bus, in the same lane, and we have tragedy of the commons.

So adding a car lane just means emptier busses, but same slow traffic. So what value did adding the lane add?

It'd just be government waste.
I want to throw a question out there because I haven't really ever done any neural net modeling of any sort, but I did design a CPU in grad school, and one of the things that really had to be carefully handled is hazards, e.g. the presence of "incorrect" intermediate values in combinatorial circuits. This is a kind of circuit coordination problem, and in CPU design this is handled by minimizing circuit paths and the use of a clock so that only "final" circuit outputs are used.

Surely there must be some similar sorts of hazards in the brain. How do brains solve the coordination problem?
At this point I think we might just be talking past each other, but I fail to see how this resignation letter meets that definition either. I don't see the letter as harassment to the core team. It also doesn't strike me as a letter designed to injure or grieve.

Semantics aside, the letter may not give enough information to you, but it gives enough information that anyone privy to the internal team dynamics will understand the underlying issues and the logical progression of events that lead to the resignation.
They dropped a pretty beefy bombshell in the last paragraph that there were issues beyond accountability that they refuse to disclose. I'm absolutely certain that the core team has a good idea what they are talking about, the problem is this is a public letter, the intended audience is everyone, and they specifically attack the core team's credibility.

When I resign from a job, I send my resignation to my employer in private. I wouldn't put anything in it that I'm not comfortable with becoming public, and if they wish to share what I wrote that's fine, but the purpose of being discreet is to leave the level of disclosure up to the other party's discretion. You don't send a company wide email saying "management knows what they did, don't believe a word they say, I'm out, peace!"
Well, if it isn't operating system, than what is it exactly?
I honestly don’t understand why public opinion matters so much for space exploration while the military budget is not held to the same standard.

Honestly though several really nice space exploration projects have been well founded by several governments (including India, China, Europe and North America). Some really silly projects have also been privately funded (e.g. space tourism for the rich). People are rightly questioning how people get so insanely rich that they can afford this. They ask if they are paying their fair share of taxes, if they pay their workers fairly, and which contracts the government have offered them.

If you separate those two classes of space projects I bet you would find way more support for the former (or at least some indifference) while you would find that people vehemently oppose the latter.
> Chief Information Security Officer

> Our WordPress password was leaked or exposed--likely due to utter imcompetence--and no 2FA was in use.

Man, when can I become a Chief Information Security Officer? I could do a better job in my sleep.
Then surely the data on safety after 36 months is well studied?
How much waste is left after the "high grade ore" is processed? I thought we were pretty good at extracting metals from stuff.
There is no actual legal proposal at all to introduce mandatory screening (yet, anyway).

In my opinion, such legislation would be unlikely to pass EU parliament. It is more likely that the current temporary rules allowing voluntary screening get reworked into a permanent legislative proposal.

AFAIK the only relevant official procedure here is this initiative that sought feedback from affected parties (and it does not mention mandatory screening - instead it asked for opinions on what should be done): https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...
> If it's important to you, memorize. The benefits are huge, and it will help too ward off mental declines later in life.

I slightly disagree. I do agree that the end goal of having the information memorized is important, but drilling flashcards never worked for me. What makes information stick is drilling practice problems that touch on the knowledge to be memorized until it's established. It's more useful for recognizing when those facts will be relevant, too, compared to having a memory silo of 10,000 stored facts.
I was seriously considering one but ended up buying the latest iPad Mini. It was the right decision. It was the Moleskine replacement I was looking for. The software is simply excellent. I use Notability and Procreate. The software on the remarkable doesn't compare.

There are a few features that I didn't know I needed: using a photo as a reference, using the camera to pick colors, browsing notes like they're pages in a notebook, annotating websites, sending drawings with telegram, etc.

I never leave the house without my iPad. I never use it for browsing or watching videos. It doesn't show any notifications. It's strictly a notebook replacement, and It's brilliant.
However in this case it seems a justified one, having read your outstanding rebuttal to a sibling comment. Much appreciated.
This is true but our votes are so diluted. And there are almost no good choices anymore. Almost all major political parties have an open ear to lobbyists who are much better at influencing them than the public is.

I still vote but I don't really see the point anymore either. The game seems rigged.
Don't know the exact details but they mentioned is full of operational footguns, like using it slightly wrong can utterly tank your performance or availability. Many operations are unpredictable so is hard to know what to expect.

Another reason they mentioned is InnoDB, in particular that is the most battle-tested and well-engineered storage engine. With enormous amounts of engineering effort in hardening it for performance and for stability and operability at scale by companies like Google and Facebook.

They also like Vitess.
You're right about people simply acting in a way they think will serve their personal interests, and it's a nice distinction. Thank you. Another aspect of legacy holding companies back.
The way I read it is, the water spring is fed from whatever lies under Panama. However, there are a lot of helium isotopes in the water from that spring. It is theorized that the helium isotopes come from the magna flow from the Galapagos, which gets into the water. IOW, the water is from Panama, but the magma (as thus, the helium isotopes) come from the Galapagos. Regardless, the interesting part is that no matter where that water comes from, magma can apparently spread out laterally rather than just making islands and volcanoes.

But that's just my reading, I'm probably just as confused.
I found that quite funny.
Wow, a lot of the copy on that page is pretty bad...

"Parents: You will love the Librem 5 because it will allow you to communicate with your child, ..." -- Um, in 2021 people know what a phone is. Maybe skip to the part about why yours is better than the competition?

"Lifetime updates that actually extend your phone’s life" -- Do they think updates from other companies make their phones self destruct? Seems like they're alluding to specific scandals, but it is kind of odd not to link to them directly. Also comes across as really evasive to not say how many years of updates they guarantee.

"Real convergence means bringing your desktop computer with you wherever you go." -- Have you not heard of a laptop? Surely they could have started with an actual definition of what convergence means. Doesn't help that the rest of the paragraph is talking about how hard they worked shrinking the OS instead of why you'd want the feature. (Side note: operating systems are software so nothing special is needed to get one to physically fit in my pocket)
> Honestly it's funny to me that people think HN is toxic, because it's not even close to those forums in my mind. (well maybe that's because I almost never read the politics threads on HN, but still)

I strongly agree. I was reading the archive of an early infosec group the other day, the culture was extremely hostile. 70% of the posts were insightful technical discussions, the remaining 30% was full of personal attacks and name callings, merely reading those posts made me want to throw my computer out of the window.

I'm not saying HN is great, but to give a sense of scale: on HN, that type of posts would be flagged to death almost immediately.
What makes great software development teams
Ask HN: What are the best introductory resources on formal languages?
I've always been interested in languages and grammar so when I got into programming I was immediatelly interested in programming languages

The problem I'm having is that I see all these terms being thrown around like BNF, Chomsky Hierarchy, context-free, context-sensitive and regular grammars, LL, LR LALR Parsers, Automata etc.

Most books assume I don't care about the theoretical details and are more focused on implementing programming languages quickly and with only the minimum knowledge required for doing so. But I actually do care about the theoretical details more than implementing a programming language, which is why I come ask you what introductory books on these topics would you recommend
This isn't an EU thing, UK and Australia are already down this road. This is really security services not knowing what they are really asking from the legislators and legislators being too clueless as to what they are about to do would actually result in.
People have made fun of Linux having Linus as the dictator on top, but it seems like that model might be the best for long term project success...
It's more like, "If you outlaw guns, the only people with guns will be outlaws."

And regarding internet privacy and secure communications, that's exactly what they want: for privacy to be associated (in the mind of the average citizen) with organized crime, terrorism and pedophilia.
Often a sick child (can't go to daycare / school) gets a "today I take a PTO day, you take a PTO day next time."

When one partner has WFH, neither person needs to take an absence from work, but the person who is WFH gets all the childcare.

There's also the "the person with the flexible schedule allows the other schedule to become more normalized." In the before times, one of my co-workers picked up their child on alternating days. So Monday was late in (drop off child at school) and late out (spouse picked up the child). Tuesday was early in (spouse dropped off the child) and early out (pick up child at school). This way both people were able to get in 8h days at work. With WFH, my co-worker's schedule shifted so that they were the one always dropping off and picking up the child (and having what would be considered a split shift - working a few hours in the late afternoon or evening).

For my co-worker, this was overall a net positive (school was a short distance from the house compared to a long, out of the way distance from work) allowing (even with the schedule change) less time spent ferrying a child around... but it also meant that my co-worker is doing all the child ferrying while their spouse is working a regular 9-5 that have oddities of child ferrying adjustments.
It was also posted by members of the outgoing mod team to the community subreddit and tagged with announcement, so it's not like someone outside this drama saw the ticket and decided to reshare it with a wider audience.
Well, anyone can Base64 anything, and, what's underneath the Base 64 could be binary or ansi or utf-8 or anything. Or encrypted good if you have half a brain. So; Good luck with that.

EDIT: Noone types the message-letters on a hooked-up machine. You prepare / encrypt the payload before you paste it onto the sending computer / device. Anything withing the Base 64 you paste into the message-field should be impenetrable.
They could have resigned without making a post about it. Is that a good idea? Maybe, it depends on the details we don't know.
There had already been books and movies with that theme, you can take it to the bank that hi-jacked airliners as an improvised WMD were on the radar at the relevant institutions.

The problem was that even if the information was available to them they didn't act on it timely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_intelligence_befo...
Why in the world would you need CRISPR or lab grown meat? Just sequence the DNA and send it off to a DNA assembly service. The price is a couple hundred bucks a pop. You don't have to replicate the entire DNA, just the segments used for forensic PCR.

(On a side note, the state of biotechnology and life science knowledge on HN is utterly deplorable, repeating buzz words does not reality make.)
I don't understand the difference.
> saying that employees are striking in 20 countries is completely false.

It elicited the desired feelings and therefore it was completely true.
I recently added some books by Nils M Holms[0] to my library. Given some of the titles you mentioned, I think you might like them. I enjoy their writing style.

[0]: https://www.t3x.org/
If you look at their work closely, you'll find that it's still on. They simply removed a lot of the processes that run on it on earlier revs. ME is required to bringup the main CPU chip afyer pkwer on.
It depends on whether the actual goal is to catch criminals or to monitor the average Joe. This law won't do anything against criminals ("you can't outlaw math"), but will work very effectively against the average Joe (all major software companies will be forced to comply).

Of course, the argument is that this is to combat criminals and we all know that it doesn't work that way, but it doesn't matter at the end of the day if the true goal is to just monitor people.
Sorry, I should have said "if one has a mandate…", I meant the "royal you".

The mandate I'm referring to is GDPR and CCPA, where a quick read might lead one to think that no cookies can be used and that every possible way that someone might think they are being tracked has to be acknowledged, so the websites err on the side of over notification.

This is just as much legislators not understanding anything about technology and technologists trying to both the minimum required and meet the letter of the law. It's not a good situation.
This is an [interesting] joke, right?
> ignoring things like MISRA

Not so much ignoring, as recognising that much of what MISRA requires mechanically (ie that MISRA tools will let you check for a Continuous Integration setup automatically) is baked into Rust itself, and much of what MISRA asks beyond that is built into Rust's way of doing things.

My favourite this week: MISRA tells you never to use the result of an assignment operator. In Rust you can't because the assignment operators don't have a result.
There isn't even a guide, screenshots a video... justa sign up page without showing anything at all in advance.
Copyright industry totally does want encryption, it’s kinda foundational for any DRM stronger than a pinky swear.
Yes, syncthing works fine.
I think it's pretty naive to think that digital privacy allowing spreading of child sexual abuse material is going to be accepted in the long run. If we don't figure out a better answer to how we can have one without the other then we're gonna lose digital privacy.
that'd be neat. there's a pr for adding the MIT license. but it's from someone who just cloned the repo this morning & signed the CLA just now. seems like wishful thinking atm. i cant find any other evidence this is happening.

i did see rumors there was going to be a big exciting release today. maybe this is happening? but i dont see it yet.

https://github.com/remix-run/remix/pull/432
A frequent mistake is to confuse knowledge with intelligence or wisdom. It is neither, but a prerequisite for both.
I would love to consider this, just have the golden handcuffs situation and have no idea how I'd even come close to current salary (average for FAANG, minus equity). Do you feel like you make as much as you did FT?
When you look at the recent history, it becomes evident that all big powers were enjoying a through view of the societies they were governing, and modern communication changed this.

They don't want new powers, they want their old powers back. When I understood that, I enlightened.
Thank you. This is exactly correct. I was fully aware that I wasn't making a persuasive argument and it wasn't intended to be one. I wanted to emphasise and reiterate what I believe is a widely held moral norm.

The commenter I replied to seemed to unaware how far they had strayed beyond reasonable ethical statements. I don't think I could persuade them to change their position but I couldn't let that go unchallenged. Norms change one person at a time and speaking out is important.
If those using the language don't decide what's "correct" (whatever that means), who does?

If the person listening can understand the meaning the speaker was trying to convey, that's as correct as it can be.

You don't have to like it. But who are you to declare something objectively right or wrong?
Speaking of institutional work, there's also hospitals which are by definition usually located near people, and schools.

The local private liberal arts college down the road from me pays $8.75/hr for all work-study jobs, so about half McDonalds wage. The important point is turnover is immense and demand for such low pay is extremely low. So work on campus on the help desk for one month / one semester / something like that. Instant easy experience to put on the resume. Helpdesk is an interesting way to meet people, such as the administrators and professors whom could hire you for a "real" job possibly paying as much as $15/hr.

As a comparison, you'd be very temporarily making approx $9/hr at a college that costs $37K/yr to attend, just for tuition not room and board and books and so forth. The college president makes far in excess of $300K/yr (thats what the guy back in 2003 was getting). Although it seems unsustainable for decades now, the system hasn't crashed ... yet. So may as well get that easy experience.
WFH vs No WFH vs Hybrid WFH has become the new emacs vs vi vs vscode (order not important), but I wonder if it will all go away when projects like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q13CishCKXY&t=110s become as available as a web browser
Making money is not binary. Companies will target the profit maximizing price. Price discrimination allows this to be solved for numerous segments.

Let's say there are 10,000 people who want to buy cameras, a lot will pay $100 for bare bones, less will pay $200 for a few more features, and a few will pay $1,000 for all the features.

If Canon makes one single camera, and let's say they charge the middle price of $200, then the largest market of low-end consumers are priced out the market, while the handful of high end buyers get a great deal.

You might say "oh well just charge the $100 to everyone!". But Canon might actually make more money by charging more and selling to fewer people. They would be dumb not to do this. Price discrimination let's them target all these different price points.
I think that people are giving here genuine feedback from where they are coming from. And it looks like what you think they think is definitely not necessarily what they say they think. So unless somebody told you directly that they use the weather discussion for that reason, it could be that you value more your assumptions than their first-hand explanations...