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In the uk I’m currently not allowed to buy a cheap old nissan leaf car with a worn old 22kwh battery pack (that’s basically useless for transport now, something like 30 mile range in perfect conditions) and connect it to supply my house.

I can buy electricity from the grid at 5p/kwh between 12pm and 5am and if i was allowed to charge that car and then draw my daily 10kwh of house usage from it instead of paying 20p/kwh during the day. I’d be happy to give some percentage to the grid but it’s just not allowed by most DNO’s here right now.

Wallbox.com has a £10k bi durectional wallbox (quantum) that can be deployed in a few very select areas in the UK currently.

My best option right now is a couple of £2.5k battery packs from givenergy but my supplier won’t switch me to the ev tarrif without proof i own an EV. Also the givenergy route is the same price as the old leaf but for half the capacity.
Too bad about Linus. They don't make them like that anymore.
More context?
The quickest way to force/ assist adaptation of new tech is to stop complaining about it, start buying it when/if possible, watch how demand drives innovation for the years to come - yet be happy to have gotten in at a certain point which helps both yourselves and everyone.

Solar panels for one have come a very long way in the last decade. The same will apply to batteries. How retired EV packs can be reused for home storage is but one field of opportunity I feel is exciting.
Why did she want the ad blockers off?
> This is all discussed in the original article

I read both posts, and I still have this question.

Is it possible to provide a clear and simple explanation? Is there any answer at all which is not the expected "you're right, centralized crypto is pointless at best and a scam at worse"?

Otherwise this sort of reply feels like a blatant attempt to dismiss a concern through hand-waving for which there is no good answer without addressing any of it's points.
FORTRAN is pretty easy to learn. One of my first programming gigs was, basically, writing a CGI program to present scientific reports on an OpenVMS system that used Apache. I had zero to do with the setup and FORTRAN was used because they had license for that compiler. This was the late 90s and it was a FORTRAN 90 compiler.

It was fairly easy to learn the language and port the C/Perl/TCL CGI things I normally did. In fact, I ended up writing library much like Don Libes cgi.tcl that was somewhat popular back then.

Surprisingly one of my favorite data projects (https://retrosheet.org) has tools that will output data in a format that makes it really easy to read in FORTRAN. So, I still use it quite a bit to do some heavy lifting with my baseball research.
> Database people do all sorts of silly things like storing datetimes as normalized ISO strings (2022-01-08T08:18:20) instead of using 64bit unix time

That's super weird. I can't think of a major RDBS that doesn't have a native date/time data type, unless you count SQLite.
> “Axie Infinity and how it’s bringing entire nations out of poverty” https://www.notboring.co/p/infinity-revenue-infinity-possibi...

No way I can take someone seriously if they think Axie Infinity is saving the Philippines/Vietnam from poverty.

Edit:

Crypto maximalists don’t understand history, economics, or globalism. All while claiming that crypto will solve for globalised economies and save people from poverty.

Do they know why these countries are poor? Do they understand colonialism and modern slave labor? Or that colonising countries dictate the global economy and devalue developing world currencies? And that these countries are poor by design, and their weakened economic status is a result of colonial history?

How does a “Play 2 Earn” game that is provably negative sum by making money from fees - where the poor ”scholars” have to rent tokens from the rich “lords” and share 30% of their income with, help the poor come out of poverty?

This is crypto colonialism for crying out loud!
Did you intentionally say "not be an easy or inexpensive" enterprise?

That feels carefully crafted to suggest it would be harder or more expensive than getting the same energy with fossil fuels (which isn't true) while carefully avoiding actually saying that untrue thing.
You may be correct with OpenSea and Ethereum. The art/NFT scene on Tezos seems different, with maybe 80% of people focused on the art itself and collecting for the sake of holding for personal enjoyment. The prices are much lower, in general, and gas fees largely nonexistent. This makes it easier for people without significant resources to participate. Check out objkt.com, hicetnunc.art, fxhash, etc - the vibe is almost completely different than the Ethereum marketplaces.
> I don’t understand why remote learning during this surge isn’t acceptable. I’ve seen opinion piece after opinion piece go on and on about how we need to have kids in school.

I agree that this would be a great time for temporary remote schooling. I think the problem is that months and months of unnecessary school closures have broken parents (and kids), as well as burned a lot of trust that this will be handled with a modicum of competence or compassion. I don't personally have kids, but the parents I know are very reasonably at their breaking points over how poorly-managed and dogmatic school closures have been. That excludes those whose kids attend or started to attend private schools, whose immunity to the cacophony of Discourse means that they've handled the risk of Covid sanely and compassionately.

I'm as annoyed as anyone at Covid denialists, but in my urban coastal context, the neurotic hysterics of restrictionist fanatics has been a lot more salient. There's been a faction of the conversation that insists that making any space to discuss the costs of restrictions is denialism, and the excess restrictions driven by those people are exactly why there's zero capacity left for NPIs like lockdown or school closures during a period where they would actually be helpful.
I've never come across unpaid internships in Fortune 100. They may even be paid higher in internship than the bottom end if software engineering full time jobs.
Yes they do. If you no longer have the ability to talk to whom you want because the chat app is locked down or you can't drive to that part of town because your Tesla forbids you. You lost your freedom.
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Italy is the same, "school must be in presence" is a kind of mantra, and though it is (IMHO) right in theory, it fails in practice (where/when teachers, janitors, bus drivers, and even pupils are COVID positive in more than a tiny fraction).

Schools (generally speaking) are due to reopen on monday the 10th, but very likely only a part of them will actually be able to.
The problem formulation doesn't really work for n<3, as you cannot safely open n-2 doors anymore. Of course you get semantical problems then.

But even then, I don't see your problem here. The invariant is that the chosen door has probability 1/n to contain the prize, and all other doors together have probability 1-1/n. This still holds for n=2: Both doors have a probability of 50% to contain the prize.

Also if you do not believe or grok the mathematics, you can just whip up a program to simulate the problem, and verify the probabilities empirically.
I feel you. Just like the GPL killed Linux.
That said, the GPL only covers the software, not the protocol. So banks are free to just re-implement that protocol, it's not that complicated. This should be peanuts for any larger bank. Or maybe pay money to Taler Systems to re-license the software under a commercial license?
News headlines surrounding jobs report differ wildly
You are failing to consider the spread to vulnerable populations where the symptoms are fatal. Omicron is not mild, people with vaccines have mild symptoms due to its efficacy. All these kids come home to families with parents and grandparents. They also have young siblings.
It was the primary source of energy in Germany since the beginning of the industrial age we had a few years which favored renewables so they went ahead. Nuclear was never over 25% of power generation.
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> It's like arguing against decentralized email because so many use Gmail.

Which Moxie does often do, including in the web3 article.

I respect Moxie's opinion on (de)centralization, but I just have different priorities to him. I am personally more concerned about one company (Facebook or Signal, although I do use the latter) owning and controlling access to a platform than I am about perfect end-to-end encryption and forward secrecy.
When we'll look back on the panic in 5-10 years, everyone will be mystified. Previous pandemics like the Russian Flu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E2%80%931890_pandemic) have stopped naturally without vaccines or major government intervention.

How has humanity survived without $BigGov? In Austria (highly locked down, fascist vaccine policy) the cumulative death rate now surpasses Sweden's. This means that you cannot avoid deaths, and if you allow them sooner, the pandemic will be over sooner.
I'm still free to use other tool. I'm not in jail for using an Apple product. My freedom, my real freedom, is equal. You know who are privating you for freedom. And is not a fruit company.
I'm not sure that's a minor one in the case of Fortran, I've seen enough Fortran code to know that every codebase has its own special set of flags that it needs to compile correctly (or the need to dig up an old, unmaintained compiler...). Also missing from the Fortran code is `implicit none` (and let's not talk about good old fixed format or the mess with comparison operators or common blocks or ...).
I don't use Ruby.

Are packages that don't follow semver allowed to be released?

Haskell asks for PVP for example.
“proposed solutions solve this”

~ every cryptocurrency/blockchain/web3 article ever written
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I'm not afraid. I am triple-vaxxed not for myself but out of solidarity for those around me. I am simply at the end of my patience with people going to protests clogging my city and creating politicians using the greenpass and constant checks and testing to create a divide.

mandatory vaccination will get rid of surveillance solutions like the Greenpass while also protecting everyone. there can still be an exemption if a physician approves that a person can not be vaccinated for some strange reason.

that's the only way to go back to normal, the rest is silly greenpass rules or noisy discussions about "shall we pay un-vaccinated people less?", etc ...
This reads like a machine that has DEP enabled and getting locked remotely ;)

On a more serious note, I ran macs on multiple occasions without an AppleID - it presents maybe one nag a month, usually when you accidentally open “Messages”.

Microsoft, sadly, has also been increasingly more annoying with pushing online accounts on people’s machines lately.
Sadly in the USA the prevalence of wireless cc terminals is amazingly low; even in restaurants you hardly ever see them, although this is getting by better, and (same hypothesis) would likely change if chip and pin was required here
For all the downsides to macbooks, and those do exist, every alternative I came across is unbearable.

So yes, these comments are unhelpful.
Proposal to add build graph output to GNU Make (2020)
I would really like to see a fan fiction site that combined AO3's ease of downloading with Fanfiction.net's organization.
The golden internet age was innovation and community. You wanted your own X? Code it yourself. You looking for a certain subject? You may find a forum.

Web2 has been polluted by frameworks, modules, libraries and that the generic website now looks like the next. It hasn't gotten any easier its gotten harder. Where do you actually start if you want to create a new website or "app"?

My mother knows html, she has her own website. When it comes down to wanting a gallery to display her portfolio the easiest answer is to say "install wordpress". Which isn't easy in any shape or form.

And then if you wish to be part of Googles Search Engine you have to pay sponsorship.

The golden age was the innovation, the new, creativity, surprisingly freedom. Folk putting work in to developing a new platform.
Sadly we are now surrounded by walled gardens and one of the caveats are that if you want it on display, you have to pay.
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I'm a guitar teacher and software engineer from Italy, FaChords Guitar is my labor of love. It provides interactive guitar learning software ( https://www.fachords.com/guitar-learning-software/ ), as well as lessons on practice and music theory to help maximize the training (here's mylast post all about how memory works https://www.fachords.com/effective-memory-practice/ )

Hope you'll take a look at it, thanks!
> colour grading a commercially-released movie

I'm wondering if you deliberately picked an example where the undisputed industry standard runs on Linux.
This article also claim that “Z solves the problems mentioned” but Z is actually 100 different potential proposals.
I was downvoted but it’s literally happening, see https://twitter.com/asvanevik/status/1479569507739856897?s=2...
GNU taler is based on Chaum's e-cash. There are certain issues with chaumian mints. Obvious one is that the mint owner can run with the money, and thus the system requires trust. Compared to a centralized payment system such as Paypal, the only benefit is anonymity of transactions.

There has been some development of federated chaumian mints, such that the required trust is split over multiple parties. This is possible with Bitcoin, and it would make sense as a scalability and privacy solution. See: https://fedimint.org
>It offers anti-vaxxers a road out of their self-radicalization. They are able to tone down their conspiracy and blame the government for having been "chipped", and so it's not like they "betrayed their cult" but they were forced to.

I think that yours (and most people's) idea of the typical "anti-vaxxer" is a convenient caricature packaged and served to you by mass media and memes, that you've never actually listened to a real live one of these "anti-vaxxers", what they think and feel.
The distinction between functioning democracies and dictatorships/autocracies is that in one you might need anonymous financial transactions to have dissent.

In the other, being able to hide transactions from authorities will quickly erode the democracy you have.

Whether complete financial anonymity is a net positive or negative is likely context dependent.
Maybe OP refers to the situation where you lose all data since the last takeout, but if you had a daily imap backup running you could mitigate this loss for your emails.
>Will OpenSea verify an NFT minted on a non-OpenSea platform?

Yes. All the popular NFTs were minted on their own contracts, not on OpenSea.

My suspicion is Twitter will move to verifying for themselves in the long run. I get why they don't want to do it to start, but the hassles of dealing with any 3rd party will grow over time.
Before the pandemic I had this uncomfortable sense that the people running the place were asleep at the wheel, and everyone was tacitly expecting someone else to do the actual hard work/thinking so they could go back to their phones/Netflix in peace.

Now I’ve had to acknowledge that for a lot of institutions this more or less is the case.
Well, you get what you pay for. If integration tests are viewed as too expensive, then an occasional penalty is just the price of doing business.
> buy a new better non-apple laptop for less money.

This isn't as easy as it used to be - the performance of the new M1 Mac's is pretty great compared to the competition at a similar price point (especially considering the form factor).

They aren't really overpriced anymore (although it does depend on what you value). I've not seen another laptop I would trade in for my 16GB M1 Macbook Air at the same price point, even a year on.
Depending on how you read the sentence, it may mean that they will not call you about that specific email, but they will call you if you're being targeted by criminals. So the caller says "I'm not calling you about a specific email that you're received, but because your account is being targeted by criminals".

It's not about having low intelligence. It's about being caught off guard. Not everyone is in a big city and have constant contact with fraudsters. Some people are in small towns where they trust everyone and when they receive a call from the supermarket or some other place they usually just trust them too. So, they are not attempting to find all the flaws in their reasoning, they may just think that the wording was a bit off, but an understandable mistake and continue the conversation.
If the client needs to use the object right there and then, it can start polling the GET for that ID until it returns 200.

A slightly more sophisticated pattern is to have the initial creation command return an ID of the creation event. Then the client can poll that ID and just check that the event has been processed successfully. This requires the client to trust the server a little, but it means it can just poll a small, temporary, probably in-memory "recent events" table instead of hammering the main API.

A more efficient design is to YOLO, submit the second command while the first is still being processed, and trust the server to handle the commands in the right order. This is fine for backend services, unfortunately human users get annoyed at their frontend when it says "sorry you have to do the purchase finalization again because an earlier 'add to cart' command failed and I only noticed it now".
Please elaborate how are lockdowns not a solution to stop the spread of a pandemic, because they most certainly are, and stopped every country's health system to get to the terrible state Italy's got at the beginning.

It's actually quite easy - the virus is airborne. If most people stay indoors and don't meet other people, the spread is significantly stopped.
i doubt it.

i recently walked a friend through setting up a their MacBook Air M1. and, like you said, i told them to skip setting an Apple ID. that it was not necessary.

but the first setup doesn't allow you to skip. or didn't make it obvious how to do so. (dark pattern?)

i suppose one could use keyboard shortcuts, or install in safe mode, etc... but for the regular users won't be able to skip that step.
Do you use Bitwig?
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It was also more fun watching the analog dials as well
I think the default should be named prefix operators. Then you can have infix operators that are aliases.

This is a problem in Haskell with infix operators being directly defined I would argue.

I disagree that infix and prefix should not be mixed. Although there is a special hell for people who use + with non-commutative operators.
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Mauro is really nice. I worked briefly with him when I contributed a patch for the ZBar barcode reader. It was the best experience I had contributing to free and open source software. I'm really thankful for his work.

https://github.com/mchehab/zbar/pull/64
IPv6 works fine. It's all over my house, my mobile devices use it all the time (they're probably IPv6-only over LTE at this point), and I don't have any problems when I occasionally have to type in an IPv6 address. I don't see how you'll wrench IPv6 out of the billions (?) of devices using it and make them use anything other than IPv4 at this point.
I would argue consolidation and centralized elements are inevitable, the promise of true decentralization is like socialism: a promising theory but failed application.
I have too many colleagues who rubber-stamp my pull requests. I'm tempted to include a significant mistake in each one to see who's paying attention. Unfortunately I have done so too many times by mistake with nobody noticing. Maybe if we gamify it a bit and start keeping score. I don't have authority to make a bonus contingent on the result, but it could be money well spent.
Remote can be difficult if you have more members of the family than computers and rooms. That can seem absurd to you and me (I have five computers plus three smartphones and probably a tablet somewhere, for two people) but in many families, ressources are more scarce than that. Having my partner (medical doctor, so working out of the home most of the time) take a call during one of my meeting is frustrating, but it happens once a month. Eight hours a day can’t go smoothly.

There are more issues with younger kids who need supervision on this side of the screen, might fight with their siblings, etc. My sister has three boys (8, 10 and 12 y.o.) and she just can’t cope with the cabin fever. The lack of structured exercise seems a problem too.

Finally, in some cases, school offers free meals to families who need it. I feel like that could be substituted with a more universal service, but no one knows who can do that (has the time, budget, PPE, etc.).
A thousand times no. A true democracy earns trust through the integrity of its institutions: executive, legislative and judicial, and the respectfully balanced and constitutionally limited powers they share.

Never in a sovereign.
What part of "Tool for work" you don't understand? If this helps me make money, why would I buy a 200$ cheaper Windows/Linux machine? Am I more free with a Windows/Linux machine? Seriously? We can go all the way down if you want, does Intel/AMD/ARM let you see the code?
Wow, it looks like this is the closest our schools have ever been at preparing students for life in the real working world. I could have written this myself about work (with a few changes noted below):

Classes that I did attend were quiet and empty.

would be:

Meetings that I did attend were meaningless and pointless.

I arrived at school and promptly went to Study Hall...Second period I had another absent teacher...Third period I had a normal class period.

would be:

I arrived at work and promptly went to the break room...Second meeting I had another absent manager...Third meeting I had a normal standup, but no one was prepared and no one cared.

90% of the conversations spoken by students concern COVID. It has completely taken over any function of daily school life.

would be:

90% of the conversations spoken by I.T. workers concern AGILE. It has completely taken over any function of getting any real work done.

One teacher flat out left his class 5 mins into the lesson and didn't return because he was developing symptoms and didn't believe it safe to spread to his class.

would be:

One manager flat out left his team 5 mins into the meeting and didn't return because he had no idea what we were talking about.

I’ve removed the name of my school as it made me uncomfortable sharing such information, but I’ll say that it’s a specialized high school. This is occurring everywhere.

would be:

I’ve removed the name of my company as it made me uncomfortable sharing such information, but I’ll say that it’s a Fortune 500 company. This is occurring everywhere.

This is around 10% of my school. As of Monday, only 30 of whom were reported to the DOE ... which just seems like negligence to me.

would be:

This is around 10% of our transactions. As of Monday, only 30 of which were reported to the auditors ... which just seems like negligence to me.

I spent about 3 hours sitting around today doing nothing.

(Didn't have to change a word.)

Congratulations OP! You are officially ready to join our I.T. department at Megacorp.
But just like I don’t approve with my neighbors right to own a handgun I’ll also never support their right to take their financial transactions and hide them from me. Because my freedom to live on a street where zero people have guns is a lot more important than his right to keep one, and my (and the majority’a) choice to live in a country where authorities can strongly enforce taxes trumps his right to even have a theoretical possibility to avoid them.