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That's a helluva break. Godspeed on your path forward.

When you said composer, my first thought was of Haim Saban. Although you sound like you were at two very different technical levels of the industry, I still love the interview he did with the How I Built This podcast though.

If you haven't heard the story: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650524515/power-rangers-haim-... (or the transcript, if audio can't be modulated to a tolerable level)
People are incredibly reluctant to believe that ailments might actually be partly or mainly psychological. Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, chronic lyme disease, back pain, are all things that sincere people truly are suffering from...that may be mainly psychological/psychosomatic but lots of people refuse to consider it. Probably due to the general dismissal of mental illnesses and being told for years "it's all in your head". I think partly, people with these conditions are sometimes accused (or think they're being accused) of malingering; I don't think that's the case very often, I think they legitimately feel the symptoms they report, but the root cause may be in the mind/brain rather than the rest of the body.

Yes, some back pain is due to repetitive stress injuries or physical structures out of place or whatever. But as this study shows, looks like it has a strong psychological component as well. I suspect we'll (some day) get better treatments for all the things I mention, if mental illness stigma ends and they can be honestly considered from all possible causes.

Edit: to be clear, I'm not saying that all cases of back pain or CFS or whatever are psychosomatic - just that it shouldn't be dismissed, especially when the treatments are relatively low-risk.
The Bic pen is genius. Im a writing utensil snob, but I have but the greatest respect for the bic. When you need a indelible pen that will just work and not run.

As long as I dont have to write w/ it for too long ;)
20+ year old farm equipment. They are easy to use, simple to maintain, often repairable by the farmer on-site (with perhaps a trip to the store to buy a small part). I often found myself marvelling at the complex things that could be achieved by an arrangement of gears, such as the contraption on a square baler that wraps the bale with two pieces of twine and ties two perfectly tensioned knots that will hold the hay together in that shape for years.
Its a trailer park, full of Spanish people so its neglected. In a honesty I heard someone was stealing cable internet by splicing the cables with trailers that did have internet. And now they refuse to serve there. Thats what I'm hearing when I ask the residents.
I'm watching fly.io with interest, I want to see how they handle the first major incidents - response time, lessons learnt, transparency before I trust them with a production site though. Most SRE skills related to your own operations are all learnt on the battlefield and not via some cliche must-read book from Google engineers afaic.

If its Linode style - delayed status page updates - sometimes as much as 15minutes, zero detail post-mortems - this problem has been fixed by our engineers thank you yada yada, and same issues repeat six months down the line then I will be understandably disappointed.
Are you talking about the CIA demanding something from Apple and ordering Apple to stay silent? Or are you talking about Apple detecting an attempt to hack a user's account? Those are 2 different things.

You seem to be talking about the first, whereas the support page is about the second.
I worked for a company that had Tetris and an analog clock app installed on their AS/400
I agree with this. I remember buying mine in a busy part of SF. I opened them on the street and my iPhone instantly recognized them and paired. I didn’t even need to open the Bluetooth settings menu. Then, as soon as I put them on, the street I was on, which was so busy and chaotic just prior, became dead silent. I hadn’t experienced magic like that in a long while.
Some of the wealthiest US states also are rumored to be essentially run by organized crime. I can't say I'm aware they are especially bad places to live.

I read something about how a certain famous politician who supposedly cleaned out the "X" mob was actually a tool of the "Y" mob taking over.
On-site exam may be needed because three of those point to xfinity and att&t told me sorry they can't do anything.
This isn’t a reduction at all?

It’s introducing more free tier, but once you blow past that, the costs add up again.
I lean nowadays towards:

For ~90% of your database use, ORMs do basically the same queries and get rid of a massive amount of boilerplate and potential errors. Use 'em so you don't spend all day manually mapping object fields to the right slots in SQL statements.

For the other ~10% of database use, ORMs make it a massive pain to write a query that does what you actually want, or do something boneheadedly inefficient. So use an ORM that makes it easy to drop to pure SQL when you need to, and don't hesitate to do it if the situation calls for it.
Whoops I said this too before I saw your comment. It's so great!
Sonos + Spotify have been so spotty. Playing music from Spotify consistently starts tracks halfway through a song. Sometimes no music plays at all even though it displays as playing in Spotify. Sometimes Spotify just cannot connect.

I have something like $3500 in Sonos speakers; it’s really disappointing how unreliable they are.
City View Center – A shopping center built on toxic land (2020)
Not having a control group makes is kind of useless but indicates that more study is needed.
So $800 a month would break the bank? I'm with you on wanting egress fees to be lower but 10TB isn't that much traffic
OP has an Engineering degree. He is not going to have much trouble getting admitted. GA Tech has been quite clear that the goal is to admit everyone they think can pass who has a Bachelor's degree. They're not even aiming to make a profit, just cover costs. They're kings.
The issue I always had with DLNA is that I found its implementations and apecifically controllers and renderers rather wonky:

- Open-source controllers are unstable and with terrible UX when they manage to discover the renderers and servers. Closed source controllers all seemed suspicious to me, esp. on Android.
- Renderers all support different media formats, some support sutitles, others not at all...

Don't get me wrong, I marvel at the engineering thought that went into designing the spec, however adoption was never up to par IMO.
I'd love to be proven wrong that this is no longer the case, however the defeatist tone of TFA makes me doubt this...

On the issue with NAT-PMP, PCP, IGD, I am somewhat jaded. I use OpenWrt and XMPP. For my home use this setup works hassle-free and file transfers and calls just work. (IoT is in a different vlan, cut off from the internet). However I doubt setting this up is not really something the average consumer would do. Maybe only if pirating as Torrent clients, too have very good support for the protocol.
I never quite get the reasoning behind changing box-sizing. My gut feeling is that most places that benefit from switching it to border-box were doing the wrong thing anyway, and that content-box really is the way you should be thinking—design the layout in terms of the content where possible, rather than other parts of the layout. To use his own example: `width: 100%`, that specific value is completely superfluous, just remove the line; and if you were talking about stacking things side-by-side, where historically you would have done things like `width: 50%` or `width: 33.3%` and hope the pixels line up well enough and it doesn’t wrap, then you should use flexbox instead.

Certainly there used to be a couple of major exceptions to my feeling that content-box is a better way of thinking, but this is the main one. Now I can only think of one significant exception: that `html, body { height: 100% }` needs border-box on body if you introduce padding or don’t zero margin, and that if you have an element inside the body that constrains the whole page’s width with max-width and also has margin or padding, same situation.

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> The WCAG criteria states that line-height should be at least 1.5.

This is being completely misread. The criterion says that no loss of content or functionality must occur if the user overrides line-height and sets it to at least 1.5. It doesn’t say you should be setting it to at least 1.5—or else it would also say you should be setting letter-spacing to at least 0.12em, which would be awful.

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On `-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased`:

Neither screenshot exhibits subpixel antialiasing. I’m guessing (as a non-user of macOS) based on the appearance that `-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased` might actually be disabling that thing that macOS misnames “font smoothing” which is actually glyph dilation (about which I have written here on HN before). If it’s doing that, then hey, that could actually be useful for adjusting font grades.

> MacOS is the only operating system to use subpixel-antialiasing, and so this rule has no effect on Windows, Linux, or mobile devices.

This is not true: on Windows, ClearType (enabled by default, I think? but certainly not always) does subpixel antialiasing, and you can definitely choose to go with subpixel antialiasing under Linux. It’s just that those platforms don’t provide a CSS knob to twiddle, perhaps because they saw how much it was abused on macOS.

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p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
overflow-wrap: break-word;
}

Why apply it to paragraphs and headings alone? Would it not be better to just apply it to the root element? Let it cascade, it’s an inherited property. That way also you don’t get anomalous behaviour when you write lists without wrapping each item’s contents in <p>.
Macromedia Fireworks. UI was better than any other graphics program I tried, ever.
Doesn't matter, you still don't get to just use that electricity for whatever you want. Why would you want to participate in a decentralized financial network, anyway? Now go sit in a dark room and recite the Law of Jante seven times.
Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmX1YWhYMzI
Here's the blog post JUST for the changes in the newest release. It is surprisingly meaty for being something other than c#

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/whats-new-in-fsharp-6/
Is it just that "randomized clinical trials" can not exist for definitive actions like surgery or steroids, as there's nothing that can play the role of placebo?
Dr Sarno 12 Daily Reminders

The pain is due to TMS, not to a structural abnormality

The direct reason for the pain is mild oxygen deprivation

TMS is a harmless condition caused by my repressed emotions

The principal emotion is my repressed ANGER

TMS exists only to distract my attentions from the emotions

Since my back (replace with whatever pain you’ve got) is basically normal there is nothing to fear

Therefore, physical activity is not dangerous

And I MUST resume all normal physical activity

I will not be concerned or intimidated by the pain

I will shift my attention from pain to the emotional issues

I intend to be in control-NOT my subconscious mind

I must think Psychological at all times, NOT physical.
You said this well. These are annoyances at worst, not dealbreakers, and nothing like what is seen on other platforms.
Robots Won’t Close the Warehouse Worker Gap Anytime Soon
SOA vs Microservices: What’s the Difference?
It's a no-brainer. Card processing fees are just too high (2.9% + $0.3).

Account transfers bring more flexibility and convenience and costs almost nothing.
The corresponding author on this is a very serious scientist, most of whose work is in metabolic resuscitation and cardiac arrest. It's cool to see him applying his skills to this leading cause of disability and suffering. I guarantee you it isn't just "woo".
How does your query builder work? Is it an API that you use to build queries during runtime or do you generate database access code from queries?
The problem is, there is not really a rational reason why you would not want to opt-out. The only practical reasons are:

- You don't know you can.

- You don't know how.

- You don't bother.

This is what irks me about this and similar "personal choice" solutions that try to get you to internalise the conflict: If there was an actual risk of a significant number of users opting out, the companies wouldn't offer them. (Or pull them back - see how quickly DNT died when a player attempted to remove the friction from it)
> But it's still, in the end, the addict's choice.

It seems to me your language above suffers from a false dichotomy.

One might start with a binary question such as "Do we have free will or not?".

However, a better question is "Under what conditions and to what extent are we conscious of our choices, rational in how we evaluate them, and informed enough to predict how they will play out?"
Turkish lira sinks to fresh low after Erdoğan insists on interest rate cuts
I'm about as far away from the scientism mindset as one can get but I don't think that's really the reason. To assume that someone can solve a debilitating problem that affects millions in hours by selling you a book is probably in 99% of cases a scam.

And the subjective well being point isn't so simple as well. If there really is a physical problem the placebo isn't a treatment but masks symptoms, which is counter-productive long term. Plenty of people pour substantial money into alternative medicine that doesn't address their illnesses because they feel subjectively better for a while.
Without spending too much time...

I had a friend that had some debts to pay off that she paid interest on and some spare cash during unused that she didn't need for any other purpose. She knew she was paying that interest and having the debt was costing her but she couldn't get herself motivated to pay it off.

Now, if she had an investment opportunity that reasonably safely paid a higher rate of return than the debt cost her, that may have been a more optimal choice. However, she had not reached that level of sophistication and the interest rate was high enough that paying the debts off made the most sense for her.

We talked about a variety of ways to look at it, from how paying it off she would have more money and flexibility over time and at the end of the term of the debt she would have a chunk of money she would not have. After looking at the many dimensions of the consideration she intellectually agreed paying the debt off was best. All those things seemed true but at the same time unimportant to her in the moment.

The conversation continued and I laid out the fact that every future moment is the rendering of all past actions in combination with the ongoing circumstances and happenings of life. That the payment today was choosing an immediately easier trajectory and more prosperous future to start immediately. This is just that future consideration moved into the current moment but it encoded making a choice that she understood to mean that her financial life would be not only easier but easier to make easier as she gained the ability to begin investing, seeing returns, and finding wealth growing and ever increasing rates.

This in frank terms meant she would be able to care less and less about money and more tightly focus on the things she did care about and paying off the debt was step one towards that viscerally improved life. She paid the debt off without any emotional effort the next day and has seen a mostly improving financial picture ever since.

The broad process was invoking the whole picture short and long term, increasingly integrating it into the moment where she was then in a way that connected to what she cared most about and aligned the outcome she agreed was most desirable with her current feeling states and preferences.

I offered vegetables and sweets. Do I care more about feeling awesome by default or having a moment of oral pleasure that is a bit flat and simple anyway? By actually integrating the full picture into my current moment my perspectives, preferences, and experiences have shifted over time. I still eat sweets every once in awhile and even binge a bit occasionally but it just reminds me that I really do like my kale and radicchio with mustard, sweet and spicy peppers, along with a little vinegar way more than sour peachy-os.

Anything seem glossed over our fuzzy still?
amluto is spot on. AWS don't want to make money off of egress, they want to make it non-viable to move anything out of AWS that isn't being served to an end consumer.
Here’s my suggestion: make a base browser support wasm, canvas (or something like webgpu, I’m not sure) and APIs, unavailable from sandbox. And then build JS engine, HTML, CSS, etc on top of this base platform. Now all the complexity is encapsulated and can actually be replaced by a particular website. Web apps can avoid this complexity. Web sites will just `import html from google-chrome` or something like that.

The point is that base browser should be simple enough to be implemented by a single developer. And all those complex standards are just libraries, like Angular.
I've never seen the Wedo pen, but the Bic 4-Color is a classic.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bic+4+color+ballpoint+pen
That's an interesting point about how the Internet has a kind of "biological architecture", whose chaotic and self-organizing nature makes it robust and resilient.

It's the same quality that's claimed by proponents of "decentralized autonomous organizations" (DAO), though for that I'm not yet convinced of its practicality.

Someone on this thread mentioned the book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.

> Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.

This reminds me of the concept of "emergence" in living systems.

> the arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns and properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
The idea is basically that your brain/subconscious creates pain and other health problems as a coping mechanism.

If I remember correctly the solution was basically to learn about that and acknowledge it and do exercises like tell your mind/body thank you for looking out for me. It I don’t need that. Go to psychotherapy and other stuff.

I’m definitely a partial believer in the ideas. Read about it decided to stop going to chiropractors after doing so for over a decade due to often severe neck and back pain and now 2 years later I am virtually neck and back pain free. While doing nothing, in fact while eating worse, not exercising , being stressed out, bad posture etc. I just decided that it was psychosomatic and it eventually went away.
You don't have to spy on people to give them relevant ads; you can just match the content on the page rather than their entire history. For instance: If they're on a page for computer hardware, show them computer hardware ads instead of mining the last few years of their search history to decide to show them an ad for soap on that hardware page.
I bought a Breville Barista Express when everyone started working from home. It's one of the best product investments I've ever made. It's beautifully designed, reliable, and makes amazing coffee. Has a steamer and grinder included. And I probably paid it off in all the coffee I didn't buy from coffee shops.

Second would be the Tesla Model 3.
> Another feature: keywords aren’t reserved words.

This leads to this confusing block of code being legal (the syntax is almost certainly wrong however):

IF IF = THEN THEN
THEN := ELSE
ELSE ELSE = THEN THEN
THEN := ENDIF
ENDIF
Please don't fulminate or post flamewar comments or call names on HN. All that is against the site guidelines, and we ban accounts that do it. You've unfortunately been doing these things repeatedly. If you'd please stop that, we'd appreciate it.

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It looks like you can buy a ~1 meter sugar maple tree for about 20 CAD. They are claimed to grow half a meter per year and reach a height of 30 meters.

A tree is one of those forms of ur-capital that doesn't require any of the modern financial machinery, like wine in your cellar.

But if you don't live in the right climate, well, maybe someone will put maple trees on the blockchain?
Logged in just to reply and say I enjoyed this comment so much I've been randomly laughing over the course of the day just thinking about it again. A+++
Surely you can respect that not all solutions are based in pharma or surgical intervention.

Take depression for example. Some people might have a chemical imbalance. Some might be in terrible marriage or struggling with other trauma.

The idea here is pretty simple and not particularly crazy: Some people have problems that can be solved best with treatment other than drugs or surgery.
> However, the additional integrity RPKI brings also comes with a fair amount of added complexity and cost, the researchers found.

I wish our government spent billions on funding open source software to reduce that complexity and cost, instead of on introducing/hoarding vulnerabilities.

This is an appropriate task for government funding. (even better yet, multi-lateral/international funding). Nobody else is going to provide the resources to get it done. Clearly.
Yeah wow. I don't understand why any ORM would ever let you do that. I don't think I've ever heard of a case where someone actually wanted to update every row in a table from application code.

IMO, any decent ORM should block that entirely and force you to drop to SQL if you actually want to do it, or make you call some obnoxiously named function, like:

db.Model(<table>).YesIReallyDoWantToUpdateEveryRowOnTheTable().Update(<values>)
I love Rotring pens and pencils - I used a Rapid Pro mechanical pencil throughout college. Nowadays I use a Rotring 600 or 800 with Ohto ballpoint refills. The knurled grip is great, the the overall weight of the pencil is much better than your average plastic pen.
Sham surgery for some procedures. Saline for injections.
> The problem is also insurance. Namely, mine doesn't cover ride shares, and here in Canada at least, most don't (unless you pay extra).

That seems kinda fair? Commercial ride sharing implies more miles driven under different (or at least increased) motivations to get there fast, and regardless of profit motives having more people in the car increases potential payout if something happens. It naively seems like that's a plausible correct increase in cost.
No, there have been sham controlled trials of surgical interventions before, they're just rare. One example is kyphoplasty.
Number 6 in the analysis hints towards Walter Benjamin argument that capitalism is a religion. This is extremely important that characterizes capitalism as cult.

Also the "wage slavery" is indirectly referenced in Apocalypse.
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