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Sabine plays a mean game when it comes to marketing her work, i.e. slightly reductive titles and a vaguely countercultural spin in her prose.
> Plenty of software makers feel completely free to make incompatible upgrades

That isn't really contradictory, is it? It just means that you can do that only if you dare to break some of your consumers. Otherwise, you have to bear the costs of maintaining all those undocumented features. The law simply says that any observable behavior becomes an implicit promise.
Why can't they give laptops and internet connection free to kids and get them going online until this settles down?

What is so difficult about this ?
This isn't so much a limited resource problem as an allocation problem. If US, and western, interest increases in science then funding more missions like these will be more popular and Congress will increase budgets. But budget allocations are low because they are unpopular. We talk about the high costs of these missions but they are close to rounding errors in the US yearly budget. It's weird to me that we argue over pennies when we're spending hundreds with no question. We'd say that's insane if we were trying to set budgets for ourselves. The reason it works it because the total numbers are large and we aren't scaling properly. It's a distraction.
If one wants a "fixed" CL they could look at Scheme. Sadly, that language didn't become even as popular as CL.
When a virus is endemic, it means everyone will get it. Which means most of these precautions are ultimately worthless - other than to flatten the curve and relieve the burden on services. But oh, how long have we been "flattening the curve" now?
>shouldn't need to spend their own money on basic COVID-19 supplies

Not covid supplies, school supplies pre-covid (which they also shouldn't have needed to, but did need to nevertheless).

And hiring enough surrogates would eat up a huge chunk of that $1.45 million, given that you'd need, what, ~10 per school for nearly 2 years now? Actually, that's more doable than I expected.
With the bullying I refer to the tax service employees celebrating "afpakjesdag" ("taking away day"). It sounds like anything but normal professional behaviour with the citizen's rights in mind. It sounds like bureaucracy gone unchecked, serving its own goals. They also frustrated affected parents by sending them highly censored documents that didn't help them at all. The goals I have to admit were an assumption. But why would they celebrate it as a "win" otherwise?

I didn't know about the court ruling but I would trust that no court would mandate fining innocent people, otherwise there's an even bigger problem. I imagine they overinterpreted or used this as an excuse. The tax office also feels free to ignore laws, like GDPR (AVG) which they were way too late in complying with. So why obey this one so strictly?

I also didn't know that this would now be direct billed no. I don't live in the Netherlands anymore. And I don't have kids so I was never impacted. I just know what I've seen in mainstream media around the time of the inquiry. But it sounds like this should have been done right from the start.

And I think the "omgekeerde bewijslast" should be changed to normal criminal rules of "innocent until proven guilty". This is what I was referring to when saying no changes were made. This particular issue has been addressed by the direct billing but the systemic failures that led to it all running out of control have not been. It could all happen again with some other process.

You clearly know more about the ins and outs of this than me though, and I wasn't aware of the court decision or the direct billing, and only vaguely of the original fraud scandal that led to this. And I have made some assumptions about the goals. I just can't see how else they would have gone this far and celebrated it. I'm sorry for these errors. But I still think this was a serious failure of the system and the fact that a government fell over it shows I'm not the only one.
Barry Lyndon was shot with an f/0.7 lens because Kubrick wanted period-correct lighting: candlelight, which required a super fast lens with the film used. To my knowledge he wasn’t going for shallow DoF.
I agree and even for my own side projects, where I'm writing everything I often forget different parts.

We end up spending a lot of time naming things (variables, functions, classes etc) well, we forget we can also just include a longer description to help.
Pluton is not currently a threat to software freedom
This sounds like an awful experience, and it must be cause you a great deal of distress also. So you have my sympathies.

Unfortunately you don't have much (if any) leverage here (at least to get the money you feel you are owed). And without access to these private communications, I have no way of knowing if there were any protections or guarantees written into your contract (that consultants typically put into their contracts, precisely to defend themselves from situations like these).

The only advice I can give therefore is:

(1) Get a lawyer (who understands and ideally practices in the countries where you do business)

(2) Moving forward, it is absolutely crucial to get -some- form of a proper contract in place, even if it's just a few short paragraphs. It's true that email contracts have some validity (depending on jurisdiction) but there's no reason to leave this to guesswork. Hire a lawyer and find out what the standards are for the countries where you do business. And raise your consulting rates to cover this expense.

(3) Respectfully, consider partnering with someone (even if it's just a friend whom you compensate with beer and pizza) who speaks the languages of these countries -fluently- (and ideally natively) and can be relied on to help you straighten out communication gaps. Because that sounds like what's most likely what was at play here. I strongly doubt these people set out with any intent to screw you over in any way. Just at some point there was a misunderstanding, which led to other misunderstandings, which led to where you are now.

(4) You definitely will not get them to pay you any additional money. On the bright side, it will also be unlikely they will be able to sue you (given that the cost would probably be much more than what they feel you owe them).

That said, for the sake of your reputation, it would be good to at least -try- to settle this matter amicably (even if it means refunding part, or even all of what they say you owe them). To do that properly, you need to at least work in item (3) and if you can all afford it, item (1) of course as well.
Sure. Pick a spot offshore and measure the water depth, to the centimeter. Moment to moment, the precise value varies chaotically due to countless transient phenomena, from the direction and strength of the wind to the heading of the last boat to come anywhere near it. However the tides can be forecast years out.

Just because weather is chaotic and unpredictable doesn't mean that climate is.
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Thus, the "Aft Momentum flap":

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/deploymentExplo...
I would agree IFF there wasn't the 'maybe'. If that word wasn't there I would read it as having not many tables in the beginning and thus not many primary keys and thus not many primary key indices.

'maybe' changes that dramatically unfortunately.
Exactly, https://github.com/thoughtbot/fake_stripe works well enough for this sort of thing.
Given that guidance has said that close exposure for 10-15 minutes is required for transmission, yes - it does seem a little overboard.
Summary:

1. healthy decentralized services often have <1% of users who do "want to run a server," and the whole thing works as a result
2. immutability / inability to change quickly is good for protocols
3. crypto community does need to decide whether it cares about money or decentralization

Took a while getting to the good part of 1. Should have skipped "'no one wants to run a server' is factually incorrect!"

I loved the Moxie piece but it was strange bc Moxie is a legendary cryptopunk who presumably believes decentralization is good (though hard to attain/maintain)... right? Moxie made excellent points but left me wondering what he actually thinks, or thinks should happen.

I also liked the pushback here about email being an example of failed decentralization, because Gmail is big or something? Email seems like the last major decentralized communication protocol still standing, despite incredible centralization/"balkanization" of the messaging space.
S&P 500 price-to-earnings about double historical average would indicate at least over valuation of stocks.

https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
Nice work! For certain storage media, e.g. S3 it might be useful to have some sort of delta-based updates where you can enqueue deltas that accrue over time. It might also be interesting to solicit volunteers to help implement distributed in-memory or disk persistence.
I believe the climate it changing. I believe human activity has contributed to these changes. However, I do not believe _every_ "extreme event" belongs in that category.

For example, the recent fires in the Denver / Boulder. Have you been there? It's effectively a desert. Dry, very dry. Open. There are few natural barriers once a fire starts. Based on what I know of the area, those homes - God bless those families - were built in harm's way. That disaster - regardless of climate change - was inevitable. To suggest otherwise is simply irresponsible.
RCS has existed for a while but Apple refuses to implement it. Instead of rewarding them for anti-competitive behavior, you should switch to an open platform that everyone can play in.
> There is a realization requirement for tax on value of asset class like property

No, there isn't.

Realization is what the IRS uses as the taxable income event for taxes on capital income (gains).

It is not, in any of the US jurisdictions that tax assets (real property or otherwise) a requirement for taxes on asset value, and doesn't begin to make sense for such taxes (one purpose for which, in some theories of tax on “hard” assets like real property, is motivating sale of idle assets to those who will productively employ them.)
Kids can simply use hand-me-downs.
I gotta say that one of the biggest reasons I'll never buy an iphone is because iMessages are awful. Anytime there is a group chat with an android user there's like a 5% chance your message will be lagged by hours, or sometimes not even be sent at all.

I'm seeing in these comments that no one uses texts much, which must explain why this isn't an issue with most people, because I can't imagine why people would think iMessage is good when it doesn't even reliably work.
There's around 50M K-12 students in public schools. That's roughly $4k per student over the course of about 18 months, at the time the article was written. Subtract six months for summers, if you like; that's still ~360 days, for about $11/student/day. It's not nothing, but a single rapid test costs more than that.
There are many students for whom "warehousing" is considerably better than the alternatives.

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/many-kids-dont-have-a-w...
Not true any more, a modern Android phone will show the likes etc.
I mean, the top careers for psychopaths are: CEO, Politician, and Journalist. Remember the last time someone of them said "I'm not in this position because I want to have power, it's my duty to X that drives me"?
The teachers are out sick. The workload falls on the remaining teachers because there are no subs. The job was already shitty and even worse now. Teachers quit. Public school has stricter credentialing requirements than private school so it’s hard to replace them, particularly in the middle of a school year. Doesn’t matter how sick the kids are getting or not getting when there is literally no one to run the school.

Some of these problems can’t even be solved with funding. People just don’t want to be teachers, it’s a low-status profession in the US. Who’s going to go through a teaching program and a multi-year certification process for the privilege of working a job everyone shits on, when you could just go to a coding bootcamp?

Same goes for the medical profession. Everyone is quitting and the shambles we’re left with produces a lot of vindictive rhetoric towards the remaining doctors and nurses who haven’t quit, yet.
> Which one would you trust to take you into space?

neither. last i checked, linux, even with rt_preempt, was unsuitable for realtime control applications.

even hollywood gets that, didn't you see the end of "don't look up"?
When I read this comment, the comment directly above it talked about people receiving incorrect test results and included links to relevant articles. I think its safe to say that some of Theranos' users did suffer non-financial harm.
The astronauts had some serious, unexpected difficulties fixing the Hubble in orbit, and had to improvise. I'm skeptical that blasting a fuel coupling into space, and then trying to figure out how to connect it to a robot, will end well.
This year, the pacific north west got hit with the four Fs. Fires, floods, and fucking freezing weather.

In the summer, we had an unprecedented heat wave which killed thousands of people. Seattle hit 108°F/42°C. The town of Lytton, BC, hit 118°F/48°C[0], and then completely burnt down in a 30 minute firestorm. More rain would have been great.

We didn't get it.

We got it in the winter, and it was absolutely devastating. [1] To cap the year off, we ended with a record-setting freeze (With, thankfully, comparatively moderate snowfalls).

So, yes, more rain, less rain, more heat, less heat, we got all that. Unfortunately, weather is not a bank account, and having your town burn down to the ground in the summer, followed by a flood in the winter doesn't tend to cancel things out.

[0] An all-time heat record for Canada.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2021_Pacific_Northwes...
Hospitals tend to be most burdened in the winter anyway, which is unfortunate given transmission patterns, but I definitely think we're moving to a world of "only base policy on hospitalizations, not on raw case numbers" - and believe public health officials are largely moving in this direction too. In this world, once this surge is on the downswing, a lot more things look reasonable to relax.

One major change there, I think, is that we need to change the messaging on masks to get a mask to protect yourself if you are vulnerable or will be near those who are. Cloth masks have shown themselves to be better at a population level than nothing in some studies, but that's hardly the same thing as a medical-grade mask, which are now much more widely available than they were a year ago.
> No one is going to bother doing an attribution study to say, "Climate change is 20% responsible for the fact that we didn't have a fire this year."

Well, I mean you would hope so since that would be honest science.
We tried that last year, and in 2020, and kids didn’t learn anything.
The statement isn't "most Android users are scammers," but "most scammers use Android."

I personally would be less likely to respond from a dating app or marketplace app in particular. Google Voice numbers are less traceable and more easily replaceable, which makes them more viable for scammers.
I wish we would move to higher bit color for playback as well. Dark scenes very easily result in banding (especially with streaming compression). With video shot with cameras there is usually noise and grain (real or artificial) to help break it up some, but dark scenes in video games almost always look like garbage to me. Some games, like Playdead’s Inside get around this by, again, add a ton of noise to the image, but that doesn’t always work stylistically.
I have the Indian edition of Sedra and Smith, the difference being greyscale rather than black/white/blue images and rather worse paper.

And a dire warning about where the book may be sold.
How would one go about determining the right values for these settings?
Also: this got me wondering about how much the “loudness wars” and “brick wall” music products overlap (in time) with the almost total transition to digital recording. It also got me wondering how much the more gradual digital transition affected musical style and taste. If analog recording captured a much more flexible dynamic range, it’s easy to imagine a lot of other recording artists similarly deciding “fuck it play it louder”. And it’s easy to imagine that culturally influencing louder recording targets generally.
Thanks, those sound pretty cool. I need to give modern Photoshop a spin one of these days, I haven't touched it since CS6.
If you don't select the day on the calendar widget (which is somehow easy to look over) then it seems to calculate your age as if you were 30 (from 1992). No error message, not using the year and month you set and either 1 or the current date for day, not disabling the start button.

This is a nice example of when you won't find a bug in your own app because you know how to use it :)
>So perhaps there are more of us than you think, we're just not keen to speak up in the comments section

May be. But I certainly know he is extremely unpopular on twitter, HN along with pretty much all mainstream media. You just have to look at some of the comments in this thread ( some of them are filtered as dead )

To the point I think it is extremely courageous to admit you are a big fan of him.

I dont want flame wars. But I certainly want balance of opinions. Whenever something is extremely one-sided I tends to get wary. But then I also understand why replying may start a flamewar. Discussion is hard.
> I have no idea how people can ignore evidence they dislike so easily.

Isn’t this the natural response to the unknown? Denial? I guess not everyone likes Bayes’ theorem!
Actually it even gets more complicated. California is a good example. Dry weather makes more fires yes. More fires means less vegetation with deep roots. Not only do these shrubs burn more easily, but they neither hold back water. This makes heavy rainfall more dangerous as flash floods become more common. It's crazy how interconnected these things are and frustrating because it becomes difficult to talk about. The whole picture is so complicated but focusing on a small aspect over simplifies the problem too much.
Excellent point. Other examples of easily invertible binary labels:

- "Little-endian" vs. "big-endian": Does "little-endian" mean the little part is at the end or at the beginning? Why not "minor-first" and "major-first"?

- "Type 1 diabetes" vs. "type 2 diabetes": Why not "insulin deficiency" and "insulin impotence"?
Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
Are the 4.5K cameras intended for 4K output? If so, why 4.5K?
Good catch, will definitely update or perhaps even re-order. I'm not sure either in isolation gives you everything you need, but point noted that some sense of what is getting cancelled is equally important.
Because the group felt funding was secure enough they didn't need to appeal to the masses for a giant PR win. They say the diagnostic value over latch completion signals wasn't significant so all you're left with is the socials.

Other space initiatives like the Mars helicopter felt OK with adding consumer grade++ (minimally hardened) but I think a telescope on L2 orbit probably isn't as good as on the surface of Mars and so it would have to be significantly engineered for thermal and rad. And I've seen suggestions cabling present both vibration and thermal risk. Basically it was either built in from the getgo or else not needed. Webb is late, there's been a lot of advances in camera tech but too late for space certification I would guess.

Maybe future missions can use stuff we've learned from smartphone folded lenses, insect-eye CCD dots, pinhole cameras to be low burden, tiny, and risk free (or less risk)

I really wish the British lander hadn't crashed. I don't think having britpop and cameras on it made it crash.
> It is opaque because I cannot read, modify or understand what it’s doing without breaking out gdb, heaven forbid I want to alter its behavior in a less than approved way.

In this respect I think that systemd is really a victim of the Unix kernel/shell style, where 'kernel' is read expansively to mean 'everything in C' and 'shell' is read to mean '/bin/sh'. The problem is that where shell is easily examinable and understandable for most technical folks, compiled C simply isn't (yeah, yeah, we all know someone who can debug in assembler; that guy ain't me).

It would have been nice to have had one system, with a typesafe compiled language. Scrutable, fast and safe. We have an example with emacs: one can always just M-. to a function's definition (even in the C core …).

It's a real pity that systemd hadn't been written in Common Lisp or some similar language.
> the opposite from practical is general

No, it's certainly not at all. Those are completely unrelated spectrums. Something can easily be practical and general, or impractical and specific.

> the opposite of efficient can for example be trade off for [...]

And if they stated what trade-offs they made, then that paragraph would actually start to say something useful. Unfortunately, they don't.

Also, if you're developing documentation for libraries, I really would recommend finding a better source of inspiration. Take Redis, in the very first paragraph:

> What this means is that Redis provides access to mutable data structures via a set of commands, which are sent using a server-client model with TCP sockets and a simple protocol. So different processes can query and modify the same data structures in a shared way.

That's all you need to do: before anything else, tell the user what the thing does. Then you can give some basic details about implementation: "written in Go", "runs on Linux & macOS", "uses GC, so not suitable for RT applications", etc. After that you can get into trade-offs, real narrow implementation details, setup, handwaving abstract adjectives, etc. But lead with what the hell it actually does.
> "So you think platforms should allow for radicalisation?"

Radicalization like the civil rights movement or the LGBTQ rights movement, both considered extremist back in their day? Everyone should; allowing radicalization is very, very important. Platforms that aim to prevent radicalization sustain the status quo which is exactly what a conservative would want.

To quote Doug Gwyn "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." and perhaps something similar could be said about the principle of freedom of speech.