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>Alan saying Rorschach (who I thought was a great character) was basically Batman-in-the-real-world, which killed Batman for me.

I mean Alan talks a lot of shit doesn't he, yes he's Batman in the real world if he wasn't super rich. Why's that important? Because Rorschach has to make up for his lack of wealth, Batman's superpower, with the superpower of basically being crazy (an offensive but rather common trope in fiction).

Obviously Batman is crazy as well because being a superhero is really a crazy thing, but because he has the buffer of wealth his insanity does not manifest in the same ways it would have to with someone who does not have his resources, for example Rorschach kills his criminals quite frequently because he does not have the luxury of sending them through the system and then catching them again some years down the road, he goes for the kill in any confrontation because he doesn't have the resources to knock people out, all those stun bombs and body armor and whatever that Batman has costs money.

In fact a basic critical reasoning would be that Nite Owl and Rorschach together are Moore's Batman critique - when they are together Rorschach's mental issues are kept in check, but as they separate Rorschach becomes crazier and Nite Owl more ineffective to deal with the fantastical world of violence and crime comic books imagine.
A lot of things you consume when you are younger looks bad when you are older. Tastes change. Experience gives you insight. Unfortunately that’s just life.

This article would have been more interesting 10-15 years ago or so (DKR was first published in 1986!). I don’t remember the industry as a whole evolving for the better until after the speculation phase. And then we all wisen up. This article brings out the old condescending man in me: “you finally got it kid, good job”.

And there’s lots of new, better comics! The author never thought to branch out? Just “taught me hate them?”
Why wouldn’t it have a rapid and sudden effect? If you suddenly slash the UI benefits for an entire state at once and people only start trickling back to work slowly, then it implies that there are other unexplained factors at play. After all, the hypothesis is that UI is allowing people who otherwise would have to work to survive to not work. Shouldn’t the sudden cliff in payments make these people go find a job once their meager savings are exhausted?

It’s also incongruous with the other hair on fire arguments you see about UI causing labor shortages; it’s inconsistent to say that UI makes people not work, then hand wave away why months and years after cutting the benefits were still facing a “labor shortage” in a lot of job markets. If it’s really down to UI, then you’ve got to propose some mechanism for why canceling UI didn’t fix the supposed labor shortage.
There are more serious wasteful things than clothes drying machine...
two commits previous or two releases previous to final version?
It is tourists creating the local economic conditions (tourism industry lobby) that preclude running any sort of real industry which is why those fridges are on the side of the road and not crushed and in a dumpster at the local scrap metal recycler.

The fisherman running over turtles (and all the other "fuck everyone but me) behavior is just how things work anywhere tourism is a major industry. When a large chunk of the local economy is dependent on single time transactions with outsiders it creates an massive trickle down incentive to behave that way. You see this same shit in base towns, college towns or any other dump where most of the monetary input is lifted from the pockets of short term transient residents that there is no incentive to do honest business with.

Source: lived it, but not on Hawaii
Chamath Palihapitiya: “Nobody cares what's happening to the Uyghurs okay?”
The great thing about this is how many people first experienced "Starship Troopers" through the Verhoeven movie, which was, in retrospect, incredibly subversive; like, he actually reclaimed the work from its author. A neat trick!
I will definitely try but when I feel ready. Thanks for the advice. Well, the freelance companies give a sense of trust I guess, if you get what I mean. It's easier for clients to trust established companies than individuals. They'd rather pay a little more for that reassurance. Secondly, reaching out for clients with 0 work experience is not easy stuff.
Patsec might work: https://parsec.app
This was really good. I knew all the rules, but took me a bit to remember each of them. Did it in 10 minutes.
This was exactly what happened with NESticle.
But this is not a fundamental limitation, there's nothing about the language that requires you to use heap allocation. That it contains affordances for safe heap allocation is a good thing, but you're not required to use them. There's always no_std and unsafe.
Well, that was the issue with older Pis is that they were running powered by (micro) USB 2.0, which officially tops out at 2.5 W. While IIRC the 3rd Pi tended to top out at trying to draw 15 W - SIX TIMES MORE !!! No wonder that SD cards got destroyed in the process !

But AFAIK this shouldn't be an issue any more (assuming a non-counterfeit charger) with USB-C 3.0 (RPi 4+ ?) which starts at 15 W ?
Well the effect of applying draconian computer intrusion laws is extremely damaging to anybody's trajectory, so it's understandable to want to find some empathizeable reason to soften the blow. "Kids" get punished by paying damages and a stern "don't do that again", whereas for adults it's like here's your ten year federal prison sentence for being a witch.
>Well, I reviewed this open letter, and it turns out that only around 100 of the 270+ signatories to the letter are people with qualified medical degrees. And a large chunk of that 100 or so medical doctors are MDs employed at universities who are not in fact practitioners of medicine.

This would land a lot better if they showed their work; a list of each person who signed it along with degree or job title or whathaveyou. It's hard to trust one random person who says, "I reviewed it, trust me," without any clear evidence that someone beside themselves verified their claim. Such is the nature of Substack/Medium/et. al., I suppose.
> once their meager savings are exhausted

Doesn't the fact that they have savings explain why it's a slow trickle?
Our deploy scripts make a call to a separate box that actually does the deployment, ostensibly to avoid this sort of problem and have some more control over simultaneous deployments. But it is very hard to explain to anyone how to diagnose a deployment failure on such a system, and once in a while the log piping gets gummed up and you don't get any status reports until the job completes.

I've maybe managed to explain this process to one other extant employee, so pretty much everybody bugs me or one of the operations people any time there's an issue. That could be a liability in an outage situation, but I don't have a concrete suggestion how to avoid this sort of thing.
> I don't think the article is good, either; in fact, I think it's pretty lazy,

In what way? The article is what it says on the tin.
They never said they were the only employee not being paid...
Subtitles on Hulu on my Roku TV have been broken for months now, despite regular app updates. They work in every other streaming app. I’m this close to just investing in a seedbox…
So many sites run wordpress cause it's easy. Wordpress doesn't cache by default unless you run on one of the major hosts like kinsta or wp engine. Wordpress needs MySQL. Can you really fault them for picking out a standard CMS instead of rolling a static site that requires someone to be slightly technical.
That isn't how NIT works. Mathematically it is identical to UBI, it's just phrased differently.
have you looked into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassen_algorithm strassen multiplication and karatsubas algorithm for multiplication? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba_algorithm apparently its the one python uses. I just recently learned it and I find it very interesting.
I too guessed it was Frank Miller. It's a pretty common opinion and has been for some time.
The author of this page doesn't seem aware that the nesticle author's PC was hacked way back then, and the source code released against his will which led him to never release SNESticle.
Let me know which ones you want answers for and I can put them in.
I guess I should just accept the term that "NoSQL" now pretty much means "Monngo and Dynamo". Because it feels weird to group key-value stores, columnar stores and graph DBs under one term.
Thanks. I will try Toptal, but when I can meet the requirements, which means in a few years.
The popularity of his whitewashing is indeed an impressive meta-political historical feat.
Alternative translation: "Our documentation is weak and our engineering teams aren't held accountable for it, so we're blaming third-party developers instead of doing our jobs".
The HBOMax model of "get the theatrical release today" has been good to us so far. I really enjoyed Dune at home. But they keep rotating things in and out their catalog for some reason, and things that could be on there aren't.

I hear rumors alot of content that should be in their portfolio has streaming rights tied up in Hulu atm which doesnt help them.
Sorry, yes, printing money leads to inflation. I was asking for evidence that "We already have a big inflation problem that is directly related to policies that rain money on those not working." is the source of a large portion of inflation instead of the multitude of other reasons that money is printed. Of the recent $4 trillion coronavirus payout, only about a fifth of that went to workers or their families[1], and even that isn't all to people who aren't working.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/corona...
I found his comments about giving up sex a little weird on the last article.
I agree and would never advocate termination of any common utility service, especially not water. I was careful to say that depending on those things alone and pretending like everything is honkey-dorey 100% is silly.

It was just one example. But stuff like this does happen. Just the other day another nearby city mailed all its residents that there was a problem discovered LAST SUMMER, but all is fine because it’s fixed… now.

I don’t know what the solution is. But it’s scary when it happens.
Same category as those keylogger USB plugs.
Not just less strawberries, but less everything that involves domestic/UBI-competing labour, which is a lot. If we did this worldwide, it would be everything.
> It seems that it [Judaism] has evolved as a reaction against Christianity and morphed into a very different religion.

That line of thought will not lead to a good place.
The Super Punch Out!! unlockable game was a promoted feature on the box of the GameCube version of Fight Night Round 2 and Little Mac was actually a character in the game, so that much isn’t a surprise.

How the game was emulated, however, definitely was.
On more reflection... the support of p is finite, so the prior ought to be proper.
Because you can use the 2.4 Ghz chip antenna for anything you want to, including WiFi ?
I've been using ChromeOS as my primary OS for a couple years now (though, not sure I'd be willing to use it for work just yet). The officially supported Linux container integration is extremely well-done. I get all the benefits of a stable OS, but with (almost) all the flexibility of a real Linux environment. Linux and Android apps seamlessly integrate into the ChromeOS desktop environment.
mining rewards in the form of new supply is not the only way miners make money - they are the house because they take a cut of every transaction. admittedly I don't know the ratio, and I've always been puzzled by the end game - will fees continue to rise as the difficulty ratchets up such that the only incentive to mine is transaction fees? Anyway they can keep winning regardless of price volatility.
You're confusing federal programs (like Medicare and Social Security) which tend to be transparent, efficient, and universal with state run programs (like Medicaid, SNAP) that make up the bulk of welfare spending.

You're not going to find a straightforward answer about to the administrative budgets of SNAP or Medicaid.
In addition it would incentivize companies to actually invest into research and development instead of wasting money into dead-end financial schemes and bullshit jobs. Everyone wins.
Here is an example with a keyboard firmware why you might not always want all that complexity.

https://kevinlynagh.com/rust-zig/

https://zig.news/aransentin/analysis-of-the-overhead-of-a-mi...

The point of languages like C and Zig is that they are only a bit higher level than assembly for portability, but otherwise they don't hinder you to do whatever. It's up to you to solve problems like memory safety. You might not even have a memory safety problem because you don't have memory in the first place, or your use case makes memory safety trivial.
Yeah, I mean police killing innocent black people on the streets is quite public indeed.
Heard a story about some ethernet device cemented into a wall, perhaps on HN. Good luck finding that ...
how about like this

https://github.com/harmony-development/protocol

?
Totally different motivations and goals, but also, the JS stuff was hilarious too. And more importantly, like with left-pad, if your software delivery pipeline is that fragile for mission-critical systems, you got what you deserved. Better learn your lesson from downtime now than leak a bunch of user data because the developer of is-uppercase.js lost a thumb drive with their github keys and somebody pushed a backdoor in a package update.
> fundamental value doesn't matter for short term speculative trading

Agreed, but gambling is not my gig. I don't live that far from Las Vegas if I so prefer. I think smart contracts are interesting because I'm a programmer. Someone once wrote that Bitcoin also has executable code so that's on my list to investigate. It's something to do in retirement. I wish Elon Musk well, but he's only human, so I don't expect him to have investigated in depth every thing he talks about. He forms half-assed opinions just like the rest of us.
All hail (((GPT-5)))!!!
So nine distros.. I thought there is some fundamental flaw common about all Linux distros.. Distrowatch has what, 160 distros? So way to go.. Either finish that list or report back if you found something that suits your needs.. lazy bastard..
>> Aside from Android/iOS, what other Smart Phone OSes have captured any kind of market?

At this time, none:

https://earthweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image-119-10...

There are some non-iOS, non-Android phones such as PinePhone, (https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/) but they do not have any significant marketshare.
The knowledge about how to write a program comes naturally when you know, in fine enough detail, both the problem which the program should solve, how to solve it, and the environment in which the program should run. In this case, writing a Python server program to respond to requests was relatively simple; Python provides built-in modules which makes writing servers easy. And when you know what the client program (i.e. the program running on the currently locked host) should do, and you know what environment the program has to operate in, the program more or less writes itself.

The first version of the program used a simple UDP broadcasting method to a hard-coded port to find servers, which required some rudimentary networking knowledge, but only basic TCP/IP stuff.

Later, both the server and client parts have gone through numerous refactorings which brought in many features (like a plugin system on the client side, and a D-Bus interface on the server side), but those were manageable chunks to add to an already mature and working system.

But sure, in addition to the knowledge one could acquire from LFS, I also had some high-level knowledge of how TLS and its handshake worked, I knew that there was some way to use OpenPGP keys instead of X.509 certificates in TLS, and I knew a little about how DNS-SD worked. The rest I needed I read up on as I wrote the code.
"This means that as the dimension grows, the central sphere will grow in radius,"

Am I missing something? It to me that only r*D grows as we increase the dimension, not r by itself. Since we don't seem to get r > 2a for any D, I don't really get the conclusion that it's sticking out of the cube
If benefits were indeed providing more income than people previously got from their jobs, they have a good chance of building savings from that income. Those savings won't instantly evaporate when the support is cut off, they'll decrease over time. As the savings run out, people will return to work.

Personally I think this is a good thing, both the buffer and the staggered return to work.
> you wouldn't use ruby outside of Linux, Windows, Mac, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Rust has support for more than that[1].

Ruby has support for plenty of "exotic" systems like HP UX, AIX etc. It's unclear how many people actually use it, but it's there.

> I don't know if they want to use an existing JIT codegen like LLVM or Cranelift, or their own.

Their own.
> why pay the huge transaction costs and help the current crypto-rich get richer, instead of making purpose-built chains for your future applications?

the most convincing arguments i’ve heard for reusing an existing chain is 1) easier access to users, 2) easier to deploy and 3) if your application needs decentralization, a mature blockchain will be more secure (attacks like 51% attacks have higher cost) and reliable (in the uptime sense) than something you can deploy yourself.

> There's vague talk about "the backbone of future banking systems" or such for crypto as having similar fundamental value

another argument is that many cryptos are valuable because of “regulatory arbitrage”. bitcoin/monero/zcash are all easy ways to (partially) shelter your money from tax and legal regulations (hence why they are/were largely associated with drugs).
> For a starters, its not Bitcoin fault that someone did not have last will, or did not include the keys or their crypto in the last will.

Since we can assume that some people will die without making arrangements to pass on their keys, then isn't it guaranteed that a non-inflationary cryptocurrency like BTC would eventually consist solely of lost, unreachable coins?
Yeah.. PopOS = Ubunutu - snap (the objection)

It's what I use coming off MacOS. Good keyboard shortcuts, lots of people here use it. Just something I don't have to think too much about.
Already on my to do list, learning how to maximize LinkedIn on youtube for now. Thanks for the input.
The great thing about this is that it bridges the gap well between pop science and actual academic physics: certainly ideal for capable high school students. And it doesn’t skip important sections or neglect them either.
I think in general we put too much logic into our CI/CD configurations.

There is an argument to be made for a minimalist CI/CD implementation that can handle task scheduling and dependencies, understands how to fetch and tag version control, count version numbers and not much else. Even extracting test result summaries, while handy, maybe should be handled another way.

For many of us, if CI is down you can't deploy anything to production, not even roll back to a previous build. Everything but the credentials should be under version control, and the right people should be able to fire off a one-liner from a runbook that has two to four sanity checked arguments in order to trigger a deployment.
I think what you're describing is a centralized body that can use due process to resolve disputes. 4 legs good 2 legs better?
They’re only operating on scalar values. In some languages differing types and unsafe coercion rules mean it’d probably be clearer if they weren’t used.

And I don’t believe I said they were just as clear, just that it’s no big deal to get used to and gave an example where overloading muddies the waters.
I don’t perceive her as pushing remedies, but I think they are suggested. The suggestion is that the works would be better if they adhered closer to “reality” or if the psychological tension was overtly comprehended and demonstrated by the writer rather than a tacit element. Many politically conscious people are just clueing into what literary criticism has long understood, although the conclusions drawn by the bulk of good literary criticism is, in my opinion, the exact opposite of those drawn by today’s reactionaries.

Essentially, I think the article discounts the merit of a regressive fantasy. Today’s comic book media complex is very involute. Characters often explicitly state these regressive elements, the sexual tension, and etc. It is novel for a while, especially when it is in vogue for a largely illiterate populace to rediscover matters of criticism that literature has always encompassed; but it is just as likely to become brittle and inbred as the big boob, prostitute, truncated demise tropes are.

Like I said, these are fair points that the author makes. It is, however, just as easy to point and laugh at someone that doesn’t seem to comprehend that they have not broken out of the aesthetic cycle, that they have failed to transcend, as it is to point and laugh at the latent homoeroticism of 300. All that being said, these are comic books, and I stopped reading them when I stopped getting pimples for good reason.

Now, if you will excuse me, I have to watch grown men dribble a leather ball around and act like every foul called against them is a grievous insult to blood and legacy.
The issue is that the median American doesn’t have enough savings to not work for a long time. The median American had $5,300 in 2019, and the median rent was a bit over $1,000. These numbers are just not consistent with huge swaths of the economy deciding to hold on for months and months of unemployment once benefits were cut. Since the numbers don’t add up, something else has to be going on.
I don't think Heinlein per se was a fascist, he was a man strongly attracted to fascist style thought, which I think was a common feature of many reasonably intelligent people of his generation (hence the great upflarings of fascism they lived through) but I don't think he ever succumbed fully to the attraction in the same way I believe Miller has - probably because he lived through a war against a fascist country.
I didn’t know about the dig behaviours but when I read about it I immediately thought that is a great way to narrow down the problem - compare dig results with something else that does respect local conf.
My only qualm is that I feel that is shifting definitions. I'm reminded of folks calling what Gaiman writes as graphic novels, not comics. Which... Seems silly. Especially since I remember buying them, as comics.
Hilarious that you bought up "eating when hungry" as an example of common sense considering all the discussion about that recently. Folk wisdom loses, again :) I think I will wait for the study.
at almost every place that I've worked at, it's been the task of the manager/ senior managers to keep the stake holders, general staff/ users at bay, to keep the techies happy and free of harassment during severity one incidents

and that includes making coffee, tea and bringing sandwiches/ pizzas
Anyone who knows how to setup that RPi to do anything meaningful knows how to spoof mac