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I would love to drop MySQL/MariaDB and go with PostgreSQL, but information like this makes me nervous that I would setup a footgun and be constantly debugging things because I am not a DB admin expert.

Anyone care to comment on how PostgreSQL works out of the box without being an expert?

(I've run MySQL/MariaDB for almost 20 years and there are very few issues I've been surprised by)
IRC's main barrier remains easy access to history, IMO.

There are a few easy 'just click a link' web clients I've used (via doing exactly that from a GitHub readme or similar) - but you connect and then you have no history, no idea (without waiting a bit) if there's an ongoing discussion, no idea what it's about if there is. Then you go afk and if you get disconnected only to reconnect later, you have no idea if someone answered your question during the time you were offline.

(I like & 'support' & want to use Matrix, but haven't yet.)
> If one wants a "fixed" CL they could look at Scheme.

CL is almost a decade newer than Scheme, so if one believes Scheme to be the superior one, it would make more sense to call CL a broken Scheme than Scheme a fixed CL.
Let's hope it's not easy to hack... A remote controlled tractor in the wrong hands would be terrifying.
Google fuchsia.
We already have this right "to alter or abolish" the Government, though. The Constitution provides a means for us to make amendments by a 2/3rd majority of the states or Congress (see Article V). The consumption of alcohol was once forbidden by the Constitution; thank goodness that's no longer proscribed. Similarly, we can vote in new representatives if we think they're not acting in our best interests.

The problem here is that some short-sighted people believe, incorrectly, that they don't have to accept the bad parts of democracy along with the good parts; that they are exempt from society's responsibilities; and that anarchy is the solution to the problem that we collectively make decisions that they sometimes don't agree with. They don't make things better; they complain and whinge and don't move the needle in any meaningful positive sense. And they don't see the countless ways in which anarchy is worse than democracy. The human race has tried anarchy; it didn't work long ago, and there's no way it's going to sustain a planetary population of over 3 billion souls.

The Internet has made the problem worse: Whereas these people used to be universally derided as nut jobs who lived on the fringe and communicated via tracts dispatched through the mail, now they can participate in self-congratulatory circle jerks in "safe spaces" on the Internet with hardly anyone sane interrupting them with a dose of reality, history, or common sense. I fear it's going to get worse before it gets better.
I just read [1] that scientists in 2007 [2] found a melanin-rich fungus in Chernobyl that thrives on ionizing radiation. The suggestion being that the species would grow excellent in space.

[1] Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets, end of chapter 7

[2] Ionizing radiation changes the electronic properties of melanin and enhances the growth of melanized fungi by Dadachova
Most of this thread is about how people dont use iMessage, and summarily most of this thread misses the point.

It’s not that people need a blue bubble to indicate that the other party has an iPhone. That would be silly. It’s about the features afforded to you if you use iMessage, which were revolutionary for a phone when it was introduced. remember that this was introduced a couple years after the iPhone - it wasn’t a first gen feature.

Knowing if my recipient received the message, that my recipient will receive the message at all, and seeing if they are replying — these are the reasons I’m an iMessage fan. And perhaps most importantly, on my Mac I can respond to and send such messages as well. All of this works works with wifi connection only, no cell signal needed. Making it usable on airplanes etc.

None of this works with the dreaded green bubble. None of this.

With green bubble, I can’t guarantee my messages were sent in order. If I send a message with a photo it just as likely won’t be received at all of their phone can’t receive it in the proper time or if they are in a bad signal area. Suffering through this is not worth the effort to talk to most people (and call me whatever you want but it’s true and you know it).

It’s not about what device my other person has. It’s about being able to communicate with a technology that doesn’t resemble a dial up modem.
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> From talking to people, I had formed the impression that people buy iPhones because they are the default, like IBM.

I use iPhones for the consistent UX and single point source for the OS. There is one version of iOS that is updated by Apple. This is not the case for Android.

FWIW, I use a basic iPhone 8 issued by my employer almost 4 years ago. Before that I used an iPhone SE. I’m not sure why everyone assumes you need to spend $1,000 on a iPhone.
I don't fully understand this line of thinking. The vast, vast majority of Android users do not use Google Voice. They just have a different phone operating system than your phone.

I mean, your preferences are your own, and if you prefer to only date iPhone users, that's weird, but you're entitled. I am just struggling to understand the Google Voice connection here.
Rapid testing every student wouldn’t be necessary to open the schools.
Given the low yield of many Interstate billboard adverts ("Your message here" being amongst the more popular), I'd suspect minimal cost and some return.
Do Americans even really "stick" to SMS? I know millennials who might use iMessage as their primary channel, but the only people I know who ONLY text are my mom and grandma. Everyone I know around my age (millennial) has a small collection of apps that they used a lot for a bit, and now maybe have one or two people they still talk to on.
Windows and MacOS also have that. I think they both call it mouse keys. It's an accessibility setting.
>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.

That's a good analogy of my skepticism for AGW. We are saying temps went up 1c over 100 years, taking daily measurements, and comparing them to ice cores which are our measurements of historic temps... Only those ice cores aren't daily- they're thousands of years apart. So the ice cores data is irreparably smoothed in a way the recent data is not.
Ah, scientists lying for the benefit of stupid masses. Worked great for public health experts over past 2 years, I'm sure it'll work great for climatologists too.
Yup. Social media is constantly searching for the perfect product by trying out ridiculous but interesting combinations of technologies. Something works, we try out different stuff and hope to make progress.

But where is progress taking us? Should we follow it blindly?
+1 to both of these approaches. Maybe once per year we would have a query plan regress because of out of date column statistics. This happened on some pathological cases like tables that had old data evicted frequently. Once we committed to running VACUUM ANALYZE nightly on a cron, we never saw query plans regress out of of the blue again.
I mean, I'll agree with you in so far as that the wording could be improved further. But I do really, honestly think it's a good summary.

> I expect everyone here commenting is familiar with systemd. I doubt very much that anyone who was unfamiliar with systemd and read that description would then have any idea what it does or how it works.

It depends on what knowledge you expect. If someone is familiar with general init management and some programming concepts, this short summary will get them up to speed (and that's what I/we were arguing). If you grab a layperson of the street and read them this, it's obviously not going to tell them anything - but that's not the target audience.

What I value is a short summary which brings a reader, who knows the concepts and the space a software is operating in, up to speed quickly. And that's what this summary does.
> The difference now is that Microsoft are saying they will only support machines which have these TPMs

That's a reason to worry about Windows 11 requiring a TPM, rather than a reason to worry about Pluton specifically. But even so, I don't think it's an especially realistic one - outside extremely constrained setups, it's very hard to make remote attestation work in a way that gives you any meaningful guarantees (eg, simply forward the challenge on to a machine that is running the "approved" OS).

> The trap hasn't been sprung yet, but those are the teeth, yes.

Again, something they could just do today while zero people have Pluton.

If Microsoft want to lock-down the entire x86 market, they can do that now. They don't need to wait years for everyone to shift to new hardware that has Pluton in it.
They toned that down by the end of Sabrina season 1. I think the idea there was to make a sense of otherworldly spookiness.
Might be wrong, but I think unseasonably wet weather can also increase the fuel load for a fire. i.e., boisterous undergrowth due to wet weather during Spring, which then dries out and is available for fire season.
> In my opinion a clearly superior question is "Why might you want to rebalance a binary tree?"

How would you answer a prospective candidate who's convinced the only reason you would ask such a question is to make them feel stupid? [After all the concrete choice of a BST to implement a collection is an "implementation detail" that most programmers probably rarely have to worry about.] Is this attitude less defensible in response to your question than the test in the original post? It seems to me that if you feel that way, it is only because you have an inside view on how your question is testing something valuable. The author(s) of the original post almost certainly feel that their test is testing something valuable too.

> In fact I would rather hire people who I feel are smarter than me. Wouldn't you?

within reason :P
But I would certainly rather work with/hire people who will not assume everything I tell them to do is primarily/solely motivated by some narcissistic self-serving intent until I dedicate extra time to proving otherwise. I feel life is too short to deal with that.
Since you can't fix it yourself it will probably be in the barn waiting for an appointment at the genius bar when your account is deleted (for complaining about John Deere).
How many more switched it to Google from Bing from Microsoft Edge? Google having 91% market share is an effect, not a cause; they have it because their product is the best and does what I want it to 91% of the time.
> the telescope is aimed at the dark and away from the sun

To be more specific; It's "parked" in an orbit [0] that constantly puts Earth between the sun and James Webb.

So it's not only aimed away from the sun, Earth is also acting as a planetary scale sunscreen for it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
Presumably such a mission would be unmanned and therefore a one-way trip.
Not all that different than commercial aircraft. If Boeing cuts you off from software updates or replacement parts then your ailiner is basically worthless and unable to fly within a month. Many agribusinesses are probably fine with this as a tradeoff for the decreased manning of an autonomous tractor. JD might say that the small farmers who dont like the arrangement are not its target market.
I think part of the problem is that the discussion has already been rigged beforehand, and now you _must_ lie to be heard. Not because you want to, but because those that came efore you did. So if you now simply state the facts as they are, the other side will go "oh, things are actually better then, because the previous experts were pretty alarmist, and now this person is telling me something that sounds normal an reasonable".

You know where else I see this pattern? Digital forensics, my area of work. People have been selling snake oil all around for years, and know lawyers, attorneys and judges (in general, with some god particular exceptions) believe in whatever they've been seeing in CSI, or their "IT guy" convinced them as possible. Who cares that I'm one renowned expert in the field? _Their guy_ said this thing was possible, so I must be lying!
>But that’s all anecdotal: does Hari actually present any evidence that shortening attention spans is a society-wide problem?

No. Then again he doesn't present much evidence that the sun is hot either...
Guidance often lags behind or doesn't match science because of political influence. What's legal doesn't determine what's right, science does.
Because the market for agriculture is competitive, the value was passed down to consumers in the form of cheaper food. Before industrialized agriculture, it was normal for food to be the largest chunk of a household's budget.

It's likely also a leading cause of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#/media/File:W...
If you have a 747-400 those updates come on 1.44MB floppies
> The percent of people not constantly checking their phone has got to be so vanishingly small.

Sample size of 1, but the amount of time I go without checking my phone has only grown over time.
As an Android user, yes, people absolutely care. I care, even. If I get added to a group chat (any group chat, since my entire family and social circle uses iPhones), that chat is immediately degraded to potato videos, every like is now a whole string of useless text, etc. I'll never forgive Apple for the crap they put me though _as a customer_. My family has iPads, MacBooks, two iPhones, AirPods, you name it. I'm typing this on a year-old MacBook. But because I run one Linux desktop and don't feel like replacing my old Pixel, I have to deal with their ire. Apple demands absolute loyalty.

EDIT: Reading down the page, it seems that other Android users have a different experience, where only they are degraded? That's odd. In my experience, my presence degrades the entire chat and everyone gets swapped to MMS.
NB: for virtually all real-world human-behaviour data, smoothing intervals in multiples of 7 days are the best choice as they smooth out weekly usage patterns.

Try 7, 14, 21, and 28 day smoothing as alternatives to 10.

Note that 7-day averaging results in far less variance than 10-day, despite being a smaller interval.
I have an Epson ET-2650 printer/scanner combo. It's OK. The main problem is that if I don't print anything for a week, I have to run the cleaning procedure several times before it will print again.

As for fading, one sheet that's been outdoors for two years has faded about 75%, but nothing not exposed to bright sunlight has.

Runs OK on Linux over WiFi. Used to also work on USB, but that stopped working reliably at Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Also, on WiFi it phones home and tries to download firmware updates.
Yes. I think that it is cultural. There are cultures were work that earns money is more important that your own time or even your own family. That puts some very important things in the 'not important' classification.
More terrifying than a guy with a gun, though?

Don’t get me wrong, the worst case scenario is bad. but anyone interested in creating that scenario probably has better tools at their disposal.

If this tractor gets hacked, it will be to allow 3rd part spare parts.
I think people do know.

Currently very few people I know actually print anything with digital services and email. They use tablets for reading documents. For a covid pass you can show the PDF. For a train ticket you can show the QR code on the phone. Some employment contracts can be signed digitally, maybe this you print?

I'm not sure what you need printing for.

Some of these people buy a printer for a one off because they will never finish the cartridge over time.

The only uses I can think of are public notices like lost cat or printing a handwriting exercise. I have had to print out rental contracts to sign but real estate will eventually modernise.
Food waste.

Half of the food grown is thrown out instead of eaten.
Python 2.7 is 12 years old at this point. Twelve years! That's the difference between Windows XP and Windows 2.1. It's completely unsupported software. There may be people still using it (sadly, embarrassingly), but anyone choosing to teach it to new programmers - what this article is about - is sabotaging them. Its quirks are irrelevant here.
Super-resolved imaging of a single cold atom on a nanosecond timescale
The article misses the point. Green is not what makes it bad. Green just becomes associated with all of the bad features. The reason it’s bad is because it lacks all of the Rich capabilities that iMessage offers relative to sms.

Also the notion that if I text a friend a blurb of text that it somehow shows up as a line item on my cell phone bill and is logged by the phone company is simply absurd.

I too detest green texts. But the color has nothing to do with it.
I think you've misunderstood the economics. In the presence of competition, productivity improvements result in lower prices.
> That's a fixable design problem.

You are right, it is fixable. It was fixed by adding active station keeping to the telescope.

> Or you can rotate the telescope.

There are limits on its rotation with respect to the Sun, dark side must be kept away from sunlight at all times. It can rotate 5 degrees "pitch down" toward the Sun and 45 degrees "pitch up". Gimballed antenna has enough authority so that it can communicate with Earth at whatever valid rotation telescope is so that science operations are not interrupted for transmitting data.

> The earth and the moon are nearby anyway. What about that reflected light? And heck, what about the sun limiting its field of view?

That light is reflected back by sunshield as all 3 bodies are behind it. Sun is limiting field of view but area of exclusion changes as telescope orbits and it can image every point in the sky at least every 6 months and 39% of the sky at any given moment.
> Bitcoin...can be harnessed to achieve a cleaner energy. Bitcoin can and does subsidize clean energy, independent of States.

Yeah, I would need to thoroughly understand the mechanism that would be at work here, if I were to believe this at all.

Based on my own understanding of these things, your assertion seems incredible to me.
It's not just the frequency of extreme events that is going up, but the intensity of the most extreme events. That is a function of the shape of the tail of the distribution. A very small change in the mean or median, or even just the standard deviation, can result in a huge increase in the expected value of the extremes.

Combine this with human psychology and you have a recipe for catastrophe -- literally. You get an extreme event, and then everything reverts to the mean and things seem normal for a while, and people assume that the extreme event was a fluke. It wasn't. It's the new normal, and the next extreme event will be even worse.

You see this playing out in California right now. Everyone thinks the drought is over because it rained last month. It's not over. It's just getting started.
The point here is that "local effects cancelling each outer out" sum up to what happens statistically on the whole. You need to account for all of these.
Yes, as opposed to. At least in the sense that it’s available on almost every platform out there!
No I stand by it, talking about cause when the effect is probabilistic is an endless quagmire that people should avoid. Trying to attribute an individual case of cancer to smoking is nigh impossible, which is part of the reason tobacco companies got away with it for so long.

Plenty of companies have gotten away with bad practices by simply demanding proof for each individual case, the earlier we recognize this as a meaningless question the better.
I'vs been following the building of this chateau since 2011, both onsite and via the media. It's fascinating to watch. I was watching a blacksmith around 2014 who was making nails. He only made about two a day. He said that once he spent more time than usual on one particular nail, only for it to be a useless failure.

The infrastructure there is also amazing. They grow sheep for making woollen clothing and tapestries. They make terracotta tiles which are baked in a 'kiln' - more a pile of stones and fired with wood over several days.

Other stuff they make, lime for their lime-mortar, ropes from vegetable fibre, shaped stones using wooden templates for they masonry and gargoyles. They use treadmills for raising heavy stuff up the walls, which can be seen on the tower on the right in the photo. They also built a water-mill about 100 metres away for grinding grain.
I think many were checked out already, Covid just accelerated it. The separation between home and work was blurred unexpectedly, during an extremely stressful time. People were forced into remote work. Many thought this to go on for a few months, not years.

I also feel there are more meetings now than pre pandemic.
Even embedded is changing massively. The days of regular ASM use are already long behind us and the time when you'd use the smallest, cheapest MCU available and run a bare metal program on top is past in the high end. The mid and low ends are going the same way in the next decades. I've seen companies who have compilers less than a decade out of date or even updated annually! You can actually talk to people who aren't in safety critical areas about undefined behavior and formal verification without getting quizzical looks nowadays. It's shocking.
The resolution bottlenecks of early digital as described in this thread are not related to the loudness wars of the aughts. If you were doing big budget recordings back then you were either doing 2" analog or you had enough setup time to set gain levels carefully and "fill up the meters" for your digital recorder.

Recording close-mic'd drums to analog tape is actually a useful technique when maxing out levels because analog tape saturation can be aesthetically superior to digital peak limiting for shaving drum peaks — analog tape saturates high frequencies first. It wasn't uncommon to either record basic tracks to analog then transfer to Pro Tools, or even to track to Pro Tools then bounce the drums out to analog tape and back.

For the record, there were loudness wars back in the vinyl days, since it was seen as important to have your 45 rpm single "compete" with others in the jukebox. It wasn't something new in the aughts.

> If analog recording captured a much more flexible dynamic range

It doesn't, especially not in comparison to modern digital. Dynamic range is not a strong point of analog because of tape hiss.

The issue with low res digital is that truncation distortion is non-harmonic (not an integer multiple of the input frequency) and so is disproportionately aesthetically damaging even in small quantities — in other words, digital grunge sounds worse than tape hiss.
Pretty much. Wish I could say the same for pulseaudio.
Poison hemlock stems have a purplish tinge. It’s suggested that you don’t even touch it.

Another warning: they tend to grow near water/river banks and often found near mugwort. A few years ago, we’d have visitors who came to forage mugwort and elderberries ..and one of the kids spotted hemlock and thought it was Queen Anne’s Lace. I had to deny entry after that..they bought kids and the liability wasn’t worth it. Those who forage must absolutely know how ti is which toxic/poison plants.
Well, either way you provide a good example of the exact problem, I suppose.
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