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> If all our industry was owned locally it would be a huge boon IMO

Maybe, it would be a bigger boon if you had less corrupt politicians, but sure, try your luck with the corrupt robber barons you have as politicians and "locally owned" mineral companies, I'm sure Zuma's cronies could use the spare cash to wipe their asses with while they laugh at the silly rubes that keep electing them.

Heck I'm sure if you try hard enough you could maybe have another spat of xenophibic lynchings, maybe kill some of those shareholders this time, definitely that will fix all your problems. Just more of the same, if it has not worked yet, it is surely just because you have not done enough of it.

EDIT: Remember this https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1575536/uber-dri... - "Uber driver burnt in car last month succumbs to injuries" ... South Africans fucking South Africans over while blaming the west, such a familiar tune.
If that were the case the medias would give the number of deaths, which is the main "lasting repercussion" of covid. Instead they are focusing on the number of cases, to distill fear, which is a devious metrics since the virus has a very very little lethality in the overwhelming part of the population. Even the number of deaths, when not ventilated by age, is actually just fearmongering too.

The article is right, most of the West lost its mind, and its more important value, freedom. And the mass is chearfully applauding, spitting on the non-vaccinated. This is very visible for me, living in Japan, where the most dystopian measures (forced vaccination, QR codes, lockdowns, deportation camps) aren't in effect and where the situation is not worse (arguely better) than in any country implementing those. The measures are not about health since a long time and governments are more clearly than ever the enemy of people they are supposed the take care of.

I therefore propose to use an experimental vaccine using Guillotinine (a molecule related to quinine) and administer it to a selected test subjects such as Pfizer's and Moderna CEOs, CEO of big TV network as well as a few ministers of health and selected parliamentarians. I bet that covid will cease to be a thing in less than two weeks after injection.
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>design in which they authorize anything while do not provide full specs of HW interfaces for "another OS" I can't call so

When did Intel release the full specs for the hidden OS that runs on the Management Engine in x86 chips?

>[Intel] processors are running a closed-source variation of the open-source MINIX 3. We don't know exactly what version or how it's been modified since we don't have the source code. We do know that with it there Neither Linux nor any other operating system have final control of the x86 platform.

It can reimage your computer's firmware even if it's powered off. Let me repeat that. If your computer is "off" but still plugged in, MINIX can still potentially change your computer's fundamental settings.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-op...
Actually if there is enough interest, that’s exactly what I have planned.

It’ll basically be a custodial proof of funds wallet
There is also Apache Tika (https://tika.apache.org/) - file format detection & content extraction library
From [1], I see it's a discreet, black lever with a small picture of a door opening. It perhaps is about 6" away, but in a space almost always obscured by ones legs.

Emergency controls in vehicles with proper regulation look like this [2], so they can still be used in the dark, with smoke, etc.

[1] https://hhcorvettenewsletter.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/dont-l...

[2] https://railgallery.wongm.com/gold-coast-light-rail/F122_929...
Probably should not have "trailer parks" in a tornado zone - in any event a trailer park could have tornado shelters.
No, I got that. I understand how the host is protected, but didn't understand how everything inside the "VM" was protected... @galgalesh answers that above.
Follow the crumb trail all the way back to the 70s when Big Old Mechanical Timer sold out to Big New 555 CMOS.
They probably do more slave labor in prisons.
To overextend the metaphor, I try to see all the little systems of the world as incubator babies. Some of them are worsening, we may lose some, some are near perfect health... We can celebrate the improvements while simultaneously mourning the losses.

Sometimes you'll hear that a person is "complicated". Our emotional world can be layers of many tones, textures, timbres. I think that when we invite the emotional correlate of abstract visual art, it gives us an intellectual advantage. In terms of being able to mentally simulate multiple contrasting perspectives in parallel, it almost guarantees we'll land closer toward truthiness. The basic emotions are like representational art. Easier to digest, easier to understand, easier to handle... Cotton candy for your guts.

Suffice to say, we're richly rewarded when we couple intellectual understanding with emotional resonance.
Does it matter if they aren't selling anything?
Initially it had amazing writers, the UI was never good really.

However it was from the beginning an unsustainable business, fueled by VC.
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> Additionally I think SOLID principles should be part of every (software) engineer’s skills repertoire.

No.

I don't agree with Casey Muratori on a lot of things, but he hits the nail on the head about that statement in this video (around 23:00, but I'd suggest you watch the whole thing for context) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YpFGkG-u1w

I've walked out of interviews (politely) because I was asked to recite some buzzword bullshit like SOLID.
Kinda sorta ish.

Win98 was intended for, and was a good fit for, home users. It was aimed at games, multimedia, portables (not new by then, but affordable mass-market ones were quite new) and causal internet use, which for most people then meant dial-up internet. It had no firewall, for example, and so would have been owned in seconds if attached to an always-on connection.

NT 4 was intended for, and was a good fit for, business users, especially with relatively high-end well-specced desktops because it had next-to-no support for power management, no USB support, no hot-plug of PCMCIA cards, etc.

I don't think home vs. business maps well onto public vs., um, not public... do you?

I mean, business means work, for many it means offices, and most working people are members of the public, aren't they? Even if they work in state or government departments, most of them are members of the public.

"Not members of the public" to me implies, I don't know, police officers, people in the military, maybe elected officials.
I’ve lost ~$250k in < 1 mo in stupid decisions.

$100k for 4 years…I’ll take that :)
>I heard Wayland is currently broken

I can vouch for the complete opposite. I use sway, an i3 like Wayland compositor (compositor = window manager in the confusing wayland lingo), and its completely problem free, only changing kern.evdev.rcpt_mask to get input working and specifying a sway socket file thingy is needed. (Something I am confused as to why package maintainers don't set by default)
Maybe the wayland mode of other Window Managers is broken, which can have both X11 and Wayland modes.
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> Not one mention of the disgusting xenophobia demonstrated by the majority of city residents. Not. One.

> ...

> The western world has stolen enough wealth from us.

Hilarious :-)
Get rid of?
People in factories, ships, trucks, farms etc didn’t stay home.
>Basically nobody in Japan has ever heard of this. Whenever I'm hanging out in Japan and run across another viral post about "The ancient and time-honored Japanese tradition of goldjoin", I ask Japanese people about it in Japanese
Not once has anyone heard of it.*

Almost nobody one would casually ask in Europe has heard of tons of European medieval, renaissance, or even 19th century techniques and terms either.

For example, 99.9% of the people don't know that Chopin is not a classical composer (it's a romantic one) - laymen just call the whole "old orchestral music" thing "classical".

How many know what chiaroscuro (a huge tradition once) means, or what a zither is?

>There's plenty of historical evidence that it's been done, but it's not some common thing that people in Japan regularly do.

Well, it was never a "common thing that people in Japan regularly do". It was a period-specific aesthetic choice of crafts artists.

>I'm asking "Hey, have you ever heard of this thing where you fix a broken item using gold? Like gold glue?", and I show them the viral post du jour

Sorry, someone's story said that modern Japanese would fix pottery using gold as glue?

Most don't even have any expensive pottery, aside household items they use for soup, to drink tea, and stuff. At best they'll have some ordinary vases...

Even TFA says: "a unique form of Japanese art restoration known as kintsugi."

Art restoration - not what Hiroshi Sixpack does to fix his broken tea cup or kitchen plate.
I think the problem is that it is an actual hard problem which is not trivial to solve. There are just so many different parts and they all come in different versions (packaging, industrial - automotive - military, etc.) with productions sites all over the world. I am actually pretty impressed by sites like octopart, how well they organize all that data and I am not quite sure what they could do better. But of course it's true, electronic products have so many different components and even one small missing component can cause havoc.
Not only Facebook, but the whole industry, if I may say. For example, I had a client who could not get rid of weird JVM GC pauses that would come from nowhere, after which it would render the application unusable for some time. The cheapest solution (as they could not scale it to more machines because it would just replicate the matter) was to add a custom code that would ping systemd watchdog every X seconds. If that stopped, systemd would restart the app.

I think there are two problems with "hard core" debugging: 1) these things are costly and will usually pull in the best devs (so no one will be working on that "important" UI-related ticket that should have been finished a week ago /s). 2) for the management team, spending 10-15 hours fixing one-line or/xor/bit-flip magic stuff doesn't make much sense, and I'd usually get responses like: "oh, it was THAT simple?". Yeah, right, none of you'd seen I've read that Intel manual twice and re-evaluated my math knowledge multiple times over the last two nights :D
This is a great library. I’ve been using it on and off for a few years since it was released and it’s fairly well written, and the developers provide great support on github.
“To be fair” nothing approaching the same ballpark has been committed by the left and the any “violent and anti democratic behaviors” you can give examples of have not been championed by the left establishment.

One side wants to seize power for all time, and the other side wants democracy. If anyone on the left isn’t polarized by that fact then they aren’t paying attention.
Using it daily for inspiration for radio controlled cars and trucks I scratch-build from styrene. I also use it for interior design ideas, fashion and if the odd pitcure of a VW T4 van build pops up I tend to save to a collection for when I start my own conversion in the spring.

I love it.
Thanks for taking the time to explain. I guess I was pretty ignorant in thinking that a plugin basically has all access to the dev-env it's written in.

I hadn't really heard of WASI, let alone understand it, but it totally makes sense why you would want to leverage this approach, along with any IDE-specific plugin interfaces/integrations.
So, assuming this isn't just a rumour spread by Diogenes himself....

Diogenes' barrel was in the middle of Corinth, where he could be seen & talked about. Where he could be vocally cynical of other people, etc. If Diogenes really wanted to be left alone, fill his belly and nap... he could have done this easily.

Many Greek well-to-dos in his place did just retired to a quiet country life where no one bothers you. He didn't, wanting to be seen not giving a fuck.

I wonder if like modern counter cultural figures, his fan base tended to be late teens?
If someone can come up with a way to get solid state thermo-electric generators to overtake steam generator systems in efficiency, there will be substantial uses for them, and the world will become a very different place.

* Solid state stuff can be made much smaller, and has no efficiency benefit with size.

* They can be used in reverse to make a temperature differential, or generate electricity by eliminating a temperature differential.

* For example, your oven could use one to heat up. But then when you're done with the oven, it could generate power again to cool down. The only theoretical loss is the heat in the cooked food.

* They replace all 'cooling fans'. Anything hot can be cooled *while reclaiming energy*.
Thanks for your comment. I'll definitely watch the video.
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Very interesting to read the history of these generators.
I recently came across the modern thermo-electric generator that is mentioned at the end of the article. It's small and portable, you can cook on it, and also charge your phone. Might come in handy for my bicycle caravan.
The fact that it makes you think about it all the time, rather than using a garbage collector?
None of those things you listed represent “quality of life” in any capacity. I highly doubt anyone who’s working two jobs/60h weeks is spending too much time thinking about driving a sports car for one weekend a year.

They’re thinking that they just want a day off and that it would be great if their multi multi billionaire employer would give up some of his obscene and ultimately pointless wealth and pay them a decent wage.
The "bad and better" mental model works well in many scenarios. Particularly where people tend to become hyperbolic and think in only absolutes.

Rosling used to work in Mozambique, the poorest country in the world at that time. In his first year there he was the only doctor for a population of 300,000 (!) people. He writes further: in my second year, a second doctor joined me. We covered a population that in Sweden would have been served by 100 doctors, and every morning on my way to work I said to myself, "Today I must do the work of 50 doctors."
Nope. And nobody is banning novaxxed from getting medical care for free, for example, in Austria and Germany. And nobody ever will, because that’s unconstitutional.
Yet, every single European constitution allows a degree of authority to the state, when the impositions are about catering to the safety and well being of the majority of society.

I agree that vaccines are not the magic wand some science zealots would like them to be.
Put what’s even clearer, is how the lack of vaccination affects and strains the national medical systems.
Every decision has be taken with that as a beacon.

Novaxxers here aren’t simply free thinkers. They’re totalitarians attacking scientific proof, wishing that their magical thinking could be taken as reference by policymaking.
They’re above all extreme individualists who put their personal choice in front of everyone else’s well being, out of principle.

They are, in other words, anti-social elements, that are willing to risk the well being of their fellow citizens for a libertarian choice often rooted in misconception and misinformation.
Agreed, to clarify - the Heros' Journey is prevalent in effectively every movie/TV industry I'm familiar with - part and parcel of the mainstream. There are some good creative movies, but most of them are typical rehashes with some variety(story backdrop, scene settings etc) baked in which gets cliched pretty quickly.
What are you even talking about? Do you think the current discussion of class in the US comes from Wealth envy?

Infrastructure is crumbling. Wages are not keeping up with inflation. Employers have treated employees as their property. A hell of a lot of people can barely afford medical care.

And yet you're talking about how great it is we can rent a sports car for the weekend? And therefore we don't need to question the rich, who not only hoard resources but have a massive amount of influence over how our society is run? What?
In case someone reading this thread has never encountered this stance, I sincerely hold the belief that there are objective moral truths that we can discover with our senses and intuition.
Having had a premature baby, please don't: progress is rarely "linear". I agree that does not make the example inapplicable, it just makes it insensitive.

There are so many better examples to choose from that don't strike a personal nerve (at least, personal to this extent) with any of the audience. Or if your audience hasn't had this experience, it's a moot example that they can't really relate to.
Sooooo so many hobbies have moved from forums to first Facebook, and the last few years IG. One of my girlfriend's workflows is research on IG, buy on Etsy.
VSCode is bloated [0]. I ran a fresh install on a 1st gen i5, it couldn't process keyboard input on an empty file above 4 char per sec. Levels of lag my brain couldn't remember (and I'm a hp48g lover.. not known for zero latency).

[0] That was last year, so maybe it was a buggy release (doubt it) or maybe they made big improvements since (possible)
>"Lieber also joined China's Thousand Talents Plan, a Chinese-government run program designed to entice scientists and researchers in the United States to share their research expertise with China," said U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, announcing the charges. "Boston is an especially attractive target for this kind of exploitation and universities must become sensitized to this threat."

But why is this a threat in the first place? Its never explained and assumed to be bad because "China"? This is completely absurd. I can understand the hiding the income angle for tax purposes, but sharing scientific information is not a threat. This is absurd
How on earth would you get that from what I said?
Cybercrime forums developing court-like system for dispute resolution
>Why is Tesla “autopilot” still allowed on Californian roads?

Because Tesla suckered some idiots to take the blame if for example the car will instantly change direction and throw you of a bridge or in from of a truck, Tesla is saying that their customers are supposed to be ready for this cases .

For now only some Tesla alpha testers suckers got killed and no innocent person, but when an innocent will be killed I am waiting to see if the driver and hist lawyer will accept the blame or will fight the ToS claims.
Other than having to put up with Electron, nope it isn't bloated, in fact it is still missing lots of nice IDE like features.
1. How do I subscribe to these lists in uBlock?

2. Often, the original website (Github, Stackoverflow) is not present in my search results; in such situations, I prefer seeing the copycats to seeing nothing at all. Wouldn't using these black lists be counterproductive for me then?
I don't entirely blame the city government, though that does have some responsibility, the rest lies with the State and national government.

If the homeless people got the support and resources (eg, healthcare, a secure job, and a reasonably priced place to live) they needed somewhere they were familiar with, far fewer would be leaving to head to a city to try and survive.
The mention of alcohol licences is very telling in the article and your comment - maybe some of the legacy of the founding religious cults needs looking at here.

Also look at the pic in article - its parking spaces that have been converted.

From experience in the UK its not patrons of restaurants with outdoor dining or drinkers outside of pubs in the evening that are the real problem.
I won't let you pay me for my open source
> Those vaccinated and excessively infected also infect unvaccinated (some of them can't be vaccinated even if they want to) and they die?

That would count as a lasting repercussion, wouldn't it?
> "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

> YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

> "So we can believe the big ones?"

> YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

(Death about belief and humanity, from Hogfather by Terry Pratchett)

> Until human society stops serving abstractions […]

Without abstraction, there is no human society to speak of. No government to organize large scale actions, no incentive to share ideas, no way to exchange goods from places where there is overabundance to the places in need of those resources. Wanting to maintain a livable environment, too is nothing but an abstract thought.

I would dare to claim that human society exists first and foremost thanks to our brains being able to abstract away some processes. Of course, it creates blind spots and shortcoming in the process, but they are in the end an acceptable cost.

> As a believer in the concept of memetics, it is clear that standing in defense of the real is a battle that is being lost, but the consequences will not be escaped forever.

Is it? Seems to me that more and more people are starting to be more proactive in attempts at preserving the nature. Too late? Maybe. Time will show.
Yeah, they do and they get called out for censoring as well. People complain that their voice was suppressed. HN is a small community so this thing doesn't blow up.

Imagine a big social media platform doing it. Just because some topic became a flamewar if it gets removed, one party will blow it up as them being censored. When these posts are started by your ruling lawmakers, it can even be cited as contempt. It is an extremely tricky thing for big social media platforms to moderate content.

Thousands of years of tribalistic evolution can't be removed in just a few decades, this is a lot on how humans interact.
you could create submodules of submodules to make an ever lasting chain too :D

tbh I believe this is an organisational problem and the usefullness of the monorepo just has to be questioned in this case. If you had lets say 30 devs in your org, there would have been 300 repositories. Since they are only containers for something, the question is what does each repo actually represent?

What we are trying to do is to ogranize things that belong together therefore I suggest a domain driven approach where stuff that belongs together is simply grouped together. kind of like a workspace is anyway in the end.

eg:
Org
- Infra
- DB-Servers
- App-Servers
- xyz Servers
- App1
-x
-x
- App2
- etc

Now the questions I would like to throw into the room is that if you need all repositories in order to build the software in front of you at the same time: why has it not been a monorepo to begin with? Subtress do seem to be the answer here I completely agree. At lesat this way you have -some- possibility to work on a subset of the code.

But if you use libraries/modules/pacakges to build the product, no matter what language, testing and integration should be done on the package level, even if at least at first anyway right?

So its not really a tech problem, but an organitational one.

What Submodules give you, is a repository that acts kind of like a readme, and you can even deploy documents alongside those submodules easily. By adding and removing ohter repositories you are also given the possiblity to fade out tech you are no longer using and with things like background ci workers you can even keep it nicely updated. Basically built by tech to be used by humans.

edit: I forgot to mention, that if one of those repos is on github, it for instance does not need to be cloned locally but can simply be clicked with a mouse and in the end you clone the repository you would like to work on.
Just wanna say…thank you amin for posting this :)

And thank you all for so much love and support. I woke up this morning to this thread and it made my day