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The letter doesn't support that the prosecutors are not following up and prosecuting these criminals, rather it says the exact opposite.

Rather, the complaint seems to be that the government is granting the criminals their constitutional rights to bail and a presumption of innocence before trial, that the prosecution is accepting milder plea deals than the railroad company would like, and that the court system is backed up.

Emphasis added to the below quote to support each of those statements

> Criminals are caught and arrested, turned over to local authorities for booking, arraigned before the local courts, charges are reduced to a misdemeanor or petty offense, and the criminal is released after paying a nominal fine. These individuals are generally caught and released back onto the streets in less than twenty-four hours. Even with all the arrests made, the no-cash bail policy and extended timeframe for suspects to appear in court is causing re-victimization to UP by these same criminals.

This is the railroads side of the story, and even it doesn't support the idea that the prosecutors are just "not follow[ing] up and prosecut[ing] these criminals".

Moreover the court system being backed up is not prosecutors fault, and not offering mild plea deals would just result in a more backed up court system...

There are probably some valid criticisms of the prosecutors here, but let's at least consider that there are tradeoffs they are making, and that this isn't something that is solely their fault.
I'm assuming you are talking about a sous vide device.

This is one of the few (unrooted) smart devices I actually appreciate. You can easily configure it for a specific task (steak? chicken? brussels?), get push notifications when it's done and even turn off it's warm setting remotely if needed.

And given that most of the thing is immersed in boiling hot water, it makes sense to not put controls on the device itself.
> On the other hand, the unreadable weird-ass pseudo-XML configuration files

If I have one gripe about NGINX it's that its configuration is a still-half-baked DSL that has quirks you wouldn't expect and when they error you don't get great feedback.

Examples: You can have an if clause, but no else attached. You can't have an if clause with multiple conditions. Finally, "if [might be] evil." 1

You end up writing a bunch of partitioned control flow statements and you're never really sure at what level of config hierarchy they would best be applied.

I love the product but Apache's XML versus NGINX's semi-declarative, hierarchical blocks aren't night and day better.

1 https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/depth/ifis...
Igor and the rest of the Nginx team achieved commercial payments by offering premium modules. Later on they were acquired by F5 networks. He achieved the goal.
No, Because you can simply answer "China bad too, so back to you..". If you can't say it, welp, we got you, It's not the Israel government\policies you hate...
> Is this damage more then the cost of prosecuting and punishing the thieves? If not, it's not worth it.

This naive first order thinking is why we can’t have nice things. Yes, prosecuting a guy for stealing $100 headphones might cost more than the merchandise, but you cannot think about this in isolation from broader social context. By showing that you will not prosecute crimes under certain monetary value, you’re sending a signal that these can now be done with no consequence, in effect enabling more and more crime to happen. It’s not about a pair of headphones, it’s about the career of crime for the perp you’re enabling, and the crime careers of the imitators.
I thought YouTube had ads before Google that just weren't hyper-targeted. Could be wrong on that.

Even if I don't like them, I can live with contextual ads (e.g. I'm watching a video about video games and I see an ad for a Switch).
Outlook 97 was the last decent version (and I think the last version to fully support Lookout, whose ability to index public folders before people thought ACLs were necessary resulted in some interesting discoveries).

Then again I have (reasonably) positive memories of MS-Mail. The version of desktop Outlook I have to use (2016?) is a horrible buggy mess.
We are going for the Cyberpunk future. But instead of Arasaka, Kang Tao, Militech and Biotechnica, we get Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Facebook
What's the alternative?

I hate pagination, nothing feels efficient to me. Fortunately, I've never worked on anything that required scale hehe..
> Conquering new land is deeply embedded into our psyches for evolutionary reasons. The species that's not afraid to do that will probably be more successful in the long run. Conquest of more land is generally correlated with better survival chances.

Overwhelming majority of people stay where they are. Generally humans need huge practical motivation to conquer lands.

Plus, interpreting climbing as conquering lands is super odd. It has more to do with any other sport achievemt then anything else.
> ability to take actions that are not defined merely by the state of their brains and inputs.

How would one prove/falsify that one's actions are merely a function of their brain state and inputs?

Even assuming we have a perfect mapping of the brain and perfect measurement of all neural action, experiments still happen over time and the act of observing changes the observed, so you'd never have repeatability.

It seems to me that determinism is as unscientific as the soul hypothesis.
I can't stand graffiti anywhere because it implies a lack of respect for those around you.
Too bad SQLite didn't exist at the time. It would be a pretty good candidate for something like that without eating bogs of memory for large documents.

To be fair to the Office team of the day, when your company also develops the compiler and can guarantee the safety of writing and loading raw structures under specific constraints (even in ways that violate programming language standards), it's not too bad of an idea. Not that it's the greatest, as even then there were certainly better ways of doing it, but the landscape of serialization wasn't as nice as it is now.
All the original creators of the magical IPs left a long time ago.
Biden decisively defeating progressive opponents was far from a fiction. In fact the opposite is true: the media wrote off Biden at the outset, and his campaign nearly ran out of money until key endorsements later in the process. Instead, the media propped up progressive candidates like Elizabeth Warren for most of 2019, who in retrospect were not remotely viable. The Democratic Party in America can win national elections only by getting a super-majority of Black voters in the south and Latino voters in the southwest. In Texas, Warren won just 7% of Latinos, and in Virginia she won just 7% of Black voters. Michael Bloomberg beat her for third among both groups. Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, did well among Latinos. But he was a distant second to Biden among Black voters. And he alienates many among the dominant part of the Democratic coalition--affluent, highly-educated white professionals.

There is a lot of anti-establishment sentiment in the U.S., but what I think outsiders don't understand is that it's fragmented between the parties. Many anti-establishment, working class people are socially conservative as well, and vote Republican. They have no place in a party that talks more about race and sexual orientation than about immigrants taking American jobs. By the same token, many progressives are social liberals first and foremost. For them, opposing second trimester abortions is a bigger sin than working on Wall Street. That divide exists to an extent even within the Democratic Party--most of the "progressives" I know hate Sanders and think he's a "racist" and "sexist" "old white man."

This means that a key progressive premise--the idea that if the party only moved sufficiently left voters would "turn out"--is a mirage. Yes, there's a lot of anti-establishment, apathetic voters out there. There was a huge surge in turnout in 2020. But out of people who voted in 2020, but not in 2018 or 2016, fully 47% voted for Trump, versus 49% for Biden: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-biden.... There is just about zero chance that any of those Trump voters would have turned out for any of the progressives apart from Sanders. (But, as discussed above, Sanders couldn't carry the social liberal wing of the Democratic party that Biden carried.)
And dont forget to look into the Maxwell Twins - the sisters of Ghislane --> They made initial DB software for the intel community for "tracking financial fraud" and other tracking...

They sold this to .gov and supposedly it was in use in the early '00s - and it provided ostensibly access to tracking financial and human trafficking data..

Think of it as a precurser to palantir and such - and there was a bunch of shady shit around this.

Here is just one sketchy story about it:

https://oye.news/news/world-news/epstein-the-maxwell-sisters...

but apparently they made counter-terrorism software and that this software was in use in the US intel comm and that it was also compromised...

Regardless of the truth of how it was used - the fact that the most notorious human trafficking/blackmailing operation yet exposed was directly related to providing counter-terrorism software to the USG is.... interesting.

Google the maxwell twins.
I had one of these way back when, and loved it.

This is a great article, and reading it might give younger folks an idea of why HP users from the 1900s loved their calculators so much. They were designed for people who needed to get things done. And it wasn't just the algorithms inside. The physical machines were terrific, too. The pivoting keys left no doubt as to whether you had entered a digit (or whether, as in competitors' machines, the keystroke had entered the digit twice by mistake). And then there's RPN. Oh, lovely RPN -- trusty friend to those who needed correct answers and needed them in a rush.

Such elegance (of machines and writing) is rare nowadays.

Thanks for posting this, which brought back good memories.
I strongly recommend this. Put all the CICD machinery inside the dev repos, letting all the devs see, understand, and modify the pipeline.

With carefully chosen creds, Devs can run the CICD things directly, thus making feedback loops much faster in certain circumstances. Maybe don't let them delete databases, or run expensive VMs, but other than that go for it.

In my experience if the pipeline is even slightly different Devs will treat it as a foreign object and will whine about it not working the way they want... they don't feel like they can change the pipeline, which is odd. Dude, it's code, just change it, I'm happy to approve your PR and/or help you make a change.
As someone who has created a service (www.gatherthefamily.com) to do this, I can tell you there are no great solutions.

As a number of people have pointed out there are several problems with cloud based solutions:

1. Will the solution continue to be available

2. Will the company properly take care of your data, and protect your privacy vs. the companies own self interests.

3. There is an ongoing recurring cost.

With home based solutions you also have a large number of issues:

1. A lot of work that requires technical knowledge (making backups, regular testing, etc...)

2. You have to keep copies in multiple locations and maintain your own disaster recovery.

3. Obsolescence of your hardware, backup solution is a real problem.

4. This takes real time that you would probably prefer to spend doing something else, which means it will probably get neglected at some point, and therefore still highly susceptible disaster issues from hardware failure or much worse.

A number of people have suggested that the old way is better (Have paper copies of the photographs). This is also a bad solution

1. When converting modern digital photos to print you will loose data that is available in the digital photo.

2. Printed photos will degrade over time (Whether in a book or printed individually)

3. These are highly susceptible to destruction via disaster

4. There is no way to search your data

As far as the ongoing cost of storing in a cloud based solution, by the time you figure the cost for any of the other options when done right, The cloud based solution is probably cheaper depending on how you value your time in each of the other options.

As a number of people have pointed out in the comments as well, the photographs are only valuable if you have useful Metadata of the photos. With modern photos that is much better than before as you get a timestamp and often a GPS location with the photo. Ideally you want at least the date, location, event(if applicable), people in photo, description/story. That will take a photo from being useless to others besides the person who took it, to becoming highly valuable. The more information the better. Collecting that metadata is much harder to accomplish with old analog photos that have been digitized as they often have none of that metadata handy.

Storing, searching and using the metadata is solvable with good software. I tried solving many of those issues with my software. the issue that is not easily solvable is the where/how to store the data. My software allows storing on our service or you can import from Google Photos or Dropbox, but as noted those all have issues. If anyone has ideas on how to solve those issues and actually come up with a solution that is good, I would love to hear it.
I think it might be the other way around, Valve(proton) improves wine. Since they(valve) started working on game compatibility both wine, and dxvk has gotten a lot of love. Which continues to show that "real" enterprise investments are needed to advance some complex software, be it open source or not. Everything can't be done on a hobbyist basis.
For me, the simplicity of Nginx is what beats it out over Apache.

I've always felt like Nginx "just works" by default and creating configurations is relatively easy.
Perhaps that will the push needed to finally separate pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Even in NYC, pedestrians are largely treated as meat sponges who are going to lose the fight with a vehicle. It's much worse in other, less walkable cities.

When you put the shoe on the other foot, and give the power to the pedestrian, drivers will absolutely push to get more places to drive where pedestrians aren't allowed.
That is true, thank you for pointing it out. My personal preference is "vsego Vam dobrogo", which is even more respectful (it translates roughly as "All the kind (best) to You").
If you install modern fonts and get busy with the drawing tools, you can produce a modern styled CV. I would say the chances are good if you made a modern one and saved it as a .doc it would open identically in modern Word. (Though, I have already some ideas for a blog post on this, I might try this scenario too and see what modern Word makes of it!)

I actually used Word 97 to write a report for university. I switched Arial for Calibri and they were none the wiser.
The remedy to that is that the thing will stop working after a while - like how Intel x86 CPUs turn off after 30 mins without their precious spy co-processor[0], or how Diablo 2 Resurrected discontinues working after 30 days of being offline[1]. Of course another remedy is that you're free to buy a similar thing from another manufacturer, that's not completely dropped the ball on the issue. That is, until all of the manufacturers drop the ball, like how the situation is with x86 CPUs and Intel ME / AMD ST.
The true remedy would be well thought out, well enforced legislation. But yeah, I'm not holding my breath either.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Undocu...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29977673
"They expect twenty of us in the wreckage, brother."
Since we are capable of EMP-hardening very large airframes (see Nightwatch, Looking Glass, SAM) I assume shielding crucial systems on a drone would be an initial design challenge but not impossible.
The remedy for that is to emulate the server

The remedy for that is to encrypt the communication

The remedy for that is to MITM the server connection

The remedy for that is HSTS...

It's a cat a mouse game, the better solution for society (imo) is to have specific rights enshrined by law to allow for a qualified 3rd parties to access a system's internals.
Was the case resolved? Wikipedia doesn't provide any further information?
The lack of data and excess of heuristics, and that no one seems to realize this, or care.
I’m not so sure. I lost a day of school work in November because Word crashed and I wasn’t syncing the file to the cloud. It seems you need to use the cloud service for decent crash recovery.
I really don't get this 'precedent being set' argument. I do agree that these extraordinary powers being granted to governments should have a due date build into the law as to make clear that this is a temporary measure for an extraordinary situation. Unfortunately, in many places, that's not the case. In my view, extraordinary situations do however require and justify extraordinary measures. You didn't hear people during WWII saying they were terrified of precedents being set by the government forcing blackouts and curfews on them? It was understood that that extraordinary situation required extraordinary measures and nobody expected governments to continue those measures after the imminent danger had passed because some precedent was set.

People are rioting all over the world in the middle of a pandemic because they have to stay indoors a bit, and life is being made a bit more difficult if you don't want to get a shot. What do you seriously think the response will be if those types of measures would continue once the pandemic has passed?
Oh good grief, don't give them ideas.

Incidentally, I distinctly remember reading something about skippable ad on tv ( skippable if you do something adveriser wants -- like McD ad and its only skippable if you yell 'i m lovin' it').

Your idea is next level though:>
That's correct anyone with half a brain does not support unions. Those who do not support unions are generally uneducated so I guess you could say have 'half a brain'.

Anyone with a full brain can see through the corporate propaganda anti-union videos they get lambasted with during on-boarding and see that unions are why workers have any pleasant living conditions at all.
>"with a basement full of washers who was obviously repairing with parts from other machines."

I really hope he has some sort of lift or elevator installed. His back is going to be destroyed in a few short years.
The article was fascinating but honestly read like an ad for PioSolver
I have never heard anyone have problems with a PDF CV. If that's a disqualification reason... I don't know.

This is speaking of IT of course; if you are talking to a small business doing woodworking or whatever, all bets are off on what tech they can and cannot handle. I'd still bet on PDF more than doc(x), though, since maybe they don't have an expensive Word license but PDF should render in browsers.
> Given that capitalism describes a mode of production, it literally is still capitalism

Given that redistributive taxation and benefit systems labelled “social democracy” designed specifically to mitigate the adversity that provides the whip behind the capitalist mode of production modify both the property system and the mode of production that together are labelled “capitalism”, social democracy literally is not capitalism. It retains substantial elements of the property system of, and it's mode of production has important similarities to that of, the system for which the term “capitalism” was coined (as does that system with pre-capitalist aristocratic systems), but it's not the same system.

It's not Marxist socialism, either, and I know Marxists like to deny that any system that isn't pre-capitalist that fails to be Marxist socialism can be anything other than capitalism-under-a-different-name, but that's a giant false dichotomy.
I was under the impression(perhaps very wrongfully) that Bosch was supposed to be quality engineering. Was this never true or is it just not true for certain product segments? The last part of your comment made me laugh out loud.
Imo, high muscles are more about impressing other giys then women. Most women do not prefer huge guys, really. They just ... don't look attractive.

Entertainment for boys has way more muscles in it then entertainment for teenage girls. Boy bands tend to be those thin, slim dudes too.
The solver was purely based on our (mine and my partner's) ideas. We tried reading some papers to find ideas to improve our solver but we had found that they are not very helpful - written in opaque language, using wrong tree representation and not focusing on practical implementation aspect. Maybe things changed since then but I haven't found anything useful at all in published papers about poker with the exception of two page one by Oskari Tammelin describing CFR+ algorithm (which we haven't used in our software because of its significant memory requirements).

We considered it very unlucky that the science paper was published as we thought more people will implement solvers then (ours was ready in mid 2014 and we released and a working solver with a GUI in early 2015, 3 months after the Limit Holdem paper). As it turned out though it didn't really matter much.

I had an idea to code a poker solver around 2008. Unfortunately I was yet to learn to code back then. The biggest challenge was to overcome implementation issues. Once I got the crucial part to be fast enough I knew the solver is possible. I think not having much background in the field allowed me to come up with more natural (and better) tree representation and memory efficient (even if not the fastest) algorithm as I was thinking more as poker player than a computer scientist back then.
And a better battery port. Also, dont confuse A23 batteries for N.

But ya, i always like the 28 more than the 48.

Have you heard of RPL/2? A modern implementation of RPL meant for scientific computing? Its annoying to compile but its quite nice!
> I used to pat a Black employee on the head to greet her.

> I wanted to bring DEI exercises into the digital age.

Yeah, gonna go ahead and assume nobody at all is gonna miss this company.
Diagrams are visual and need many more bites than the code they are created from. Just compare a gif of a diagram and its description. The additional information is how the boxes look - are they big or small, colors, what font is used, what margins are there, and many more. Describing it I use text and divide the differences into categories - but maybe I should just write that for the visuals you need information for each pixel.

When you interpret the diagrams you map them into a much smaller space of meanings. In that process you throw out a lot of that visual information.
Is it possible to run Corel Painter on Linux with a recent version of Wine ? The database says "Garbage" https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio..., but the versions don't seem up to date...
Conversion, software version 7.0

Looking at life through the eyes of a tire hub
Precedent? What about Microsoft being forced not to cripple browsers other than IE in windows? That's the most prominent recent example.

Just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it makes no sense at all.