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> Quite strange to attribute those beliefs to "the rich". Being rich is not an ideology. They sound more like typical progressive/woke beliefs to me. Replace "luxury" with "woke" and your comment is spot on.

You are criticizing someone who is pushing the same anti-“woke” propaganda as you are, except they are using the version from a professional propaganda outlet that has decided that it is more effective when mixed with elite resentment.
Ebiten actually works fairly well. I believe there is an example of a game made using Ebiten that garnered 100,000 downloads on the Google Play Store. I am even more impressed after perusing this article. Thank you for sharing.
> One of the main responsibilities a reader has is to find out what the author meant by his words.

No, it is the responsibility of the writer, if they are advancing a factual claim (as opposed to, say, providing entertainment), to convey their meaning clearly and unambiguously, which Chesterton did not. A reader has no responsibility to a writer of nonsense beyond calling it out as nonsense.
The fact checkers didn’t admit they were wrong, they merely unflagged the article. If this is what the author think passes for logic no wonder they flagged him. Article was garbage clickbait for anti-maskers anyway.
Wouldn’t that be impossible? The structure of python is finite, and invalid deviations are infinite. Sure any language AST compiler could be more helpful, but they can’t take trash and turn it to gold.
WebSockets in PHP huh? That's a pretty cool approach, although it naturally scales terribly (sadly D:).
Can we not editorialize titles?
Did Szabo live in Van Nuys, CA on January 10, 2009?
That's not a core competency of YouTubers.
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What if it's broken by legislators and the pieces are named something differently. Want to bet no apple.com links get broken? And their certificates?

The point is, if I want to buy a personal computer and stuff it in the closet for 50 years to use later, that's between me and the creator. Not Tim Cook.
Really looking forward to commentary from Mentour and blancolirio on this. Judging from Mentour’s comment on the video I think it’s an understatement to say that he thinks it is correct for the FAA to investigate...
I read Apple TV takes like this all the time and I have a hard time getting my head around them, because the "smart TV" features on most televisions are just atrocious; I would gladly pay $200 just to have a reasonable remote control app. In the era before set-top boxes like these, people paid this kind of money literally just for remote controls. With the Apple TV I've got every conceivable streaming service and a pretty solid jukebox interface to Apple Music. Seems pretty good?

The Apple TV isn't amazing or anything, but it works. For the role it plays in my TV setup, it's not real money; it's below my threshold of price sensitivity.
> Putin is testing Germany's new government and the EU leadership.

To me the current situation seems more self-inflicted than driven by Russia. Also it looks like Gazprom is fulfilling its contract with Poland [1]. If my assessment is inaccurate please point me to some material for reading.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/power-prices-russia-gas-pgni...
Towards communicating between the two parties, which is significantly better than permanently truncating contact. But also prevent certain events/developments.

A minimum of progress could avoid, for example, the abusive parents calling the social services, and/or going to court, and/or receiving a restraining order.

There's lots of behavior that therapy can (potentially, of course) at least mitigate or teach to handle.
Only within the last year have Sony, Nikon, and Canon released their flagship mirrorless cameras (the Alpha 1, Z9, and R3 respectively, though the R3 might be semi-flagship if R1 becomes a thing). From what I gather, before this generation of "stacked" sensors there would have been too much warbling from the rolling shutter to be truly useful for things like sports photography.

So most sports stuff is probably still shot with DSLRs, but that will likely change in the coming years, as (a) mirrorless cameras can ostensibly shoot more quickly (b) photographers replacing their gear won't have much of a choice.
According to BBC: "The country will not turn its back on nuclear technology completely as part of the compromise deal, with 100 million euros ($113m; £84m) to be invested into research including on smaller, modular nuclear energy plants."
You're trolling us, right? Maddow won a nearly identical court case using a nearly identical defense.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddow...
Well ok, that's just like your opinion, man. Like I said in my original comment, I avoid it personally but I find it hard to criticize objectively. Like so many things these games do, it's just a cheap imitation of real life where this stuff is everywhere. People can and do spend to overcome challenges in real life all the time while the proles meagerly grind away, there's so many meatspace mechanics like this but it takes a lot more than $10. Since many people will never achieve that kind of substantial wealth in their entire lives, these games offer a fake world where they can. Using fantasy worlds to escape the shitty reality we live in is such an old & boring concept.

Meh, it's a free country and games like Runescape are a known quantity that players can choose. I would say that if you want to change minds then make your case, but clearly you don't have the time to do that.
What is pathological? The need to feel safe and have some control? That is perfectly healthy. How you do it - that is where unhealthy things can happen. Is art an unhealthy way to do it?
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Dunno, I can see it being understood this way but as a sci-fi reader I understood world to just mean another body in space.
There are casual games that are mostly funded by merchandise (Angry Birds). The game makes the brand popular, then they sell kid toys and clothing. I don't know exactly how you would get paid by just someone mentioning your trademark, but it might be your business innovation - as in order to reach unicorn status you either need to innovate in the business area, or innovate in the product area - you do not need to innovate in both! (heck it's probably enough to copy/apply an already successful business model on an already successful/invented product, but in a combination that no one yet has tried)
Rural New Mexico School Buys Starlink Internet for Students
I might go so far as to consider this article a bit meh as well.
They should jump on all cases. That their job is hard is not an excuse to not do it.
> I'm still waiting to figure out what problem it can solve meaningfully

Money laundering and other criminal behaviour.

Many of the things we spent decades trying to remove from the financial system will come roaring back in. Of course it will come courtesy of young, wealthy, educated IT guys who are the least exposed to any financial shocks.
Doesn't work on Chrome/MacOS. Go for Quick Game and then Got It (which is slightly off the bottom of the page) and then... nothing.
> You're advocating giving up all agency and placing 100% trust in a person.

Not at all. Placing provisional trust in am expert about a specific opinion you are aware may change in the future is completely different from "giving up all agency" or "placing 100% trust in a person. Nothing in that advice tells you not to check the opinions of a few different experts to be sure you aren't being misled.

> The latter is nearly impossible when an issue becomes political.

It's not that hard. You find experts who seem to do a good job of acknowledging nuance and don't seem to be trying to make their facts fit a narrative.

What you don't do is trust someone because what they say on completely different topics matches what you believe or trust someone because they consistently give you the answers you want to hear. Doing either of those is worse than just blindly trusting experts.
If I could switch back to Freshservice circa 2018, I would do it in a heartbeat. Every change they've introduced since then is perplexing.
> decentralized - disparate nodes communicating directly using agreed upon conventions. There is no centrally managed network. Think in terms of snail mail, IPv6, or phone numbers. This could be as simple as people using an agreed upon application to abstract away the transmission concerns but that application does not route traffic through a third party server.

This definition really doesn’t sit right with me. IPv6 and phone numbers have central authorities. I can’t just configure my cellphone to receive calls from a number that I wasn’t issued by my carrier. Nor can my carrier issue me a number from another country’s number pool. To me, the phone network is a great example of a federated network. IPv6 is similar. I think snail mail is probably the best example of something that is truly decentralized. Sure, there are authorities that chop up plots of land and give them names and numbers, but no one prevents me from asking a friend to put a letter in the mailbox of 123 Main St.

Please correct me if I’m missing some key semantic argument(s).
> users can move from application to application, keeping their data (and their login credentials stored in their wallet) as they go

"Keeping their login credentials in their wallet" was already possible a long time ago with client-side TLS/SSL certificates. But web developers didn't want to change from the classic implementation of plaintext passwords.

Porting personal data from one service to another is a problem, so I'll give the author a point for that.
I'm on board

How?
Decision Tables (2018)
When trying to understand C, it's always useful to look at what the pdp-11 did. the pdp-11 didn't have a mod instruction; but its div instruction can be used instead. Div can only take an even numbered register as its dest. That register holds the quotient. The odd numbered register numbered one greater then dest holds the remainder, which for a negative number will naturally be negative. so div easilly be used to calculate a mod-just ignore the quotient, but you'll get a negative value.
This is open source software with access to the source code. Why not just submit a patch on your own? Just bill the customer with "nuclear weapons" for time spent contributing to OSS. Contractor gets paid. Client gets working software. OSS community gets a patch.

Is it incompetence? Is it laziness? Is it bad management? Is it all of the above?

Personally, I would love to get paid to work on OSS on behalf of X company. Much better than re-inventing the wheel, plus with the added benefit of learning something new.
I'm still waiting for the CDC to explain why last year when they were explaining how N95 masks required expert knowledge to use and that us dummies in the public would just poke covid in our eyes if we tried to wear them, how exactly that changed. Are we no longer dummies and capable of using masks without poking covid in our eyes or were they lying? And if they were lying, how many people died from using inferior masks since then based on the lie that cotton masks are somehow useful.
So what'd The Internet People™ do to it, exactly?

DDoS the WebSocket server? Write Very Bad URLs? Worse? :(

I wanted to see. Not fair, takers away of nice things. >:/
The guy who thought maybe you could cure Covid by swallowing bleach? The same guy who was convinced he won the 2020 election on the logic that “it’s impossible Biden would get more votes than me”. Yes, I sincerely do believe Trump is that stupid.
The nasal spray? An anesthesiologist told me that it's 1/10th as effective as IV therapy due to some aspect of bioavailability and how it ultimately didn't produce the same sort of norketamine levels required.

edit: For context, he subsequently complained of how big pharma was conspiring to destroy ketamine iv therapy access in order to better control the "legal ketamine" market.
Excluding people without money sounds like the opposite direction the internet should be headed :(
A "grift" is a small-time con, a carnival trick or back-alley shell game for a few bucks. The word has been co-opted by social media users who were and are ignorant of its actual meaning, I suppose because it's fun to say.

There is very little small-time about the corruption various "grifters" are accused of perpetrating.
I always use regexp-replace for this.

There's an incrementing counter for regexp-replace, a way to manually enter a part of each replacement, and other goodies.

Personally I only use capture groups, no counters or other stuff.

I do like using M-p to edit my previous failed replacement before trying again. Sometimes I use a simple replacement as a test, undo it, then edit it to add further modifications.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Re...
I like it. Allows to check some potential race conditions statically and not rely on "go test -race" or running "-race" binaries in prod for a small percent of the traffic (does anyone even do that really?)
Not totally related, but something like kinopio + spreadsheet would be pretty neat.

So often I find myself annoyed in Google Sheets that I either have to section off some subset of cells for some sub calculation or move that sub calculation onto another sheet.

I would love to have resizable independent tables/speadsheets inside cells on an infinite canvas like this that I could connect together.
You make a good point, but I think he was more generalizing to actual implementations of C compilers. And that does align with my experience.
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As is prefixed in the post, this was originally a private response to Daniel Aleksandersen's post about Google Maps [1]. It was a quick email, not a fully thought out article. I'm not a writer, and defiantly not an author.

I understand the value that Microsoft brings via it's imagery, Map Builder and it's users. OpenStreetMap wouldn't be in the position it is today without Microsoft, and the other commercial interests involved in OSM. I want there involvement, I welcome it, and I'm grateful for it.

I am a little soured by the value that I put into society (through contributing thousands of hours to OSM [2], and my day job), and the value I get back. This email wasn't meant to discus that, but I guess it underlays everything I ever do and say.

[1] https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/maps-public-service.html
[2] https://www.hdyc.neis-one.org/?CjMalone
And they vote. Go figure. Maybe schools should teach literacy skills and other useful subjects. Just a thought.
I was actually thinking the opposite. I seem to recall talking about Web 2.0 and AJAX, SOAP, etc. before most apps were built using those technologies. We were using AJAX minimally, CSS was a thing, but UGC was still a few years away, from what I recall.
They truly have no clue! Money ain’t everything… and with all the benefits we get from the government you can live with pretty high standards with half the salary of US worker!
Yes, most government data is awful but it's usually at least workable. That's why sites like sec.report and https://fccid.report exist. https://www.ecfr.gov is actually good though.
From a LG and Samsung user completely agree.

Plus Dolby Vision and 4K actually works in my Disney+.. Since in my PS5 and Samsung QLED doesn’t for some reason
Casual skydiver with no piloting experience here.

> > skydiving rig

> Is this because he is already a skydiver and/or was going paragliding (is this the same rig? Another thing I don't know). Would it make sense that this is just "what he has," as opposed to owning both a bail out and a sky diving kit?

Not really. Those are really different material, with really different design constraints. Skydiving parachutes open slowly so they aren't a good fit for an emergency situation because if you have to leave the plane too low, you're pretty much dead, and as long as your plane is still high in the sky, I guess there's little reason to leave it…

> > long/stable freefall

> What is the norm for this? My thinking was this was to distance himself from the plane, which he later mentioned "came back around him" after he pulled.

AFAIK safety parachute don't open well at high fall speed (unlike skydiving ones) so you want to open it quickly and not enjoy your freefall.
Designer drugs/“Bath Salts” are a problem including in many places which have legalized or decriminalized marijuana.

One of the biggest obstacles to preventing them from hitting the streets is the fact that you can legally import them and quite often sell them as they are not restricted substances.

By the time authorities identify the substance and put it on a restricted list a new formulation appears.

Having the ability to predict formulations of these drugs might be quite a useful tool.
Why do I need to own the copyright to mint an NFT of the image?
Interesting how when MS is on ad market justifications like this pop up all the time on HN. Meanwhile, quarter of HN is nothing but a jihad against Google for its advertising business.
It works for anything that makes you feel safe, in control, accomplished, etc. It's not related to the means. Every human has done it since the dawn of homo sapiens, and probably our ancestors too. It was done before computers, before books, etc. Paint something on a cave wall, if it works for you!
For me, an interesting language development would be finding ways to make managing dependencies more... manageable. We've seen a rise in systems for packaging, distributing and consuming code written by others. However, still a significant part of maintaining systems is spending time on upgrading dependencies, updating application code as things are deprecated, responding to CVEs, etc.

I think there's interesting research and ideas to find in this area, that could lead to a productivity boost. One example idea (I'm sure there are better ones) would be allowing simultaneous use of multiple versions of a library. E.g. This dependency I'm consuming uses CommonLibrary-1.2, and this other dependency uses CommonLibrary-2.4, but they can both get along just fine without having to find some combination both dependencies can agree on.
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I take your point and, while there's some subjectivity there, that may well be an example of fact-checking done in bad faith.

I'm just not sure that it is happening at scale though. But I do agree that, to the extent that it is happening, it is particularly egregious when done under the guise of fact-checking versus, say, your standard tilted article.
How is cash in mail recorded?
Oddly enough, I'm familiar with the wilderness where the plane crashed and based on the video am pretty confident I know where the crash site was. Am now interested in hiking out to it sometime too.

In the case that this was real, it is interesting to me to see just how close he was to trails and camps without knowing it where he might have been able to better assess his situation and get his bearings.
Yeah OK, I hadn't considered that. Where I live (in the Netherlands) that would never fly.
>But I also find sneaker and stamp collectors equally perplexing,

People for the most part don't get rich off of stamps. Is more of a hobby than an investment.
It would also get rid of a massive amount of useful calls. Germany doesn't get robo calls, but that is at the expensive of not being able to use their phones as a phone when they want to.

Back when cell minutes were expensive what Germany has made sense. Today nearly everyone in the US has unlimited voice minutes (in and out) and nobody worries about how long they talk to each other.
I've been doing some ETL exploration with opening a sqlite :memory: connection, ingesting small-to-medium data, and then doing

"VACUUM INTO somefile.sqlite;"

to dump the RAM copy to disk.

What a great tool.
I've been a skydiver for many years and as far as I know the FAA _does_ require the pilot to wear a bail out rig. Most skydiving pilots I know do wear them, but I have come across some pilots not wearing them in flight (even though their bail out rig was in the plane next to them).
It makes you knowledgeable. You should pick knowledgeble people to trust on complicated topics and you shouldn't base that trust on if those people tell you what you want yo hear but on their ability to acknowledge nuance and change their minds when they see new data.
Narcissism is something that normal adults grow out of, although they can still act childishly _at times_. But for some people, the growth never happens at all.
> Adamantium halfling slingers anyone?

With Alchemist guide, of course, otherwise you would lose the benefit. Yes, best unit ever. And Life spells.
The problem is that when auto formatters completely wreck with the semantics of your code because of a missing or misplaced character. It has actually happened often and drives me nuts every time.

I prefer to write code the way I want/need then apply a formatter to unify my code with that of myself and colleagues.
In C there are ton of things that are hardware dependent. For example the size of every data type is not specified, or the fact that char is signed or unsigned, the representation of signed integers (tough I don't think there still exist a platform that doesn't use 2's complement), ad a ton of other things.
She is also very likely a CIA mole in the green party. So she's a person of interest
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I had a BB Curve 8300 [0] and loved it. The keyboard, the screen, and Google Maps made it wonderful to use.

0. https://m.gsmarena.com/blackberry_curve_8300-1979.php
I know, that is more proof tha Apple is heading in the wrong direction than anything else.

They can deprecate all they want, they will never be able to remove it!
It amazes me how many pilots I see on here when the topic comes up. Is it because this site is just popular enough to have a mix of everyone or is there some true demographic overlap here?
Their cookies start with "JSESSIONID", so I'm guessing you're right.
It is a constant arms race that the defender is nearly guaranteed to lose (for a variety of reasons). This is why resilience is incredibly important.

Unfortunately, too often we see M&M security — hard crunchy shell exterior, but once you're in it's delicious sweet chocolate that the business is unprepared for the attacker to start eating.
Mexico plans to end oil exports in 2023 to reach self-sufficiency
Wonder what Fred thinks about having a single-shared database (Ethereum) vs. having multiple shared databases (SOLUNAVAX).
I endorse this.

I've known about the majority of these points since I learned Scheme in college back around 1995. My thoughts have solidified and remained mostly unchanged since around 2015 as I've watched web development eat itself.

For example: PHP is one of the only languages that got pass-by-value right, other than maybe Clojure. It even passes arrays by value, using copy-on-write internally to only make copies of elements if they're changed. Unfortunately that triumph was forgotten when classes were added, passed by reference of course, putting the onus on the developer to get things right, just like every other mediocre language.

Javascript got the poison pill of async, Ruby is Ruby, and I have so many disparaging things to say about mainstream frameworks that it's probably best I don't say anything at all.

My only (minor) disagreement with the article is that I do want reflection, so probably need some kind of type info at runtime, ideally with low or no storage overhead. If that's a dealbreaker, at least make it available during development or have a way to transpile that into a formal implementation, maybe something like Lisp and C macros.