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What I loved the most about SGU was Robert Carlyle playing Nicholas Rush -- The "ship's brilliant Machiavellian scientist". Also, he was pure dead brilliant as Francis "Franco" Begbie in Trainspotting, he let it all hang out as Gary "Gaz" Schofield in The Full Monty, and he was enchanting as Rumplestiltskin / Mr. Gold / Weaver in Once Upon a Time.

Dr. Nicholas Rush (Stargate Universe SGU)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353EoEYp9s4

Trainspotting - Begbie's Barfight Number 2 - WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKVkMJHFns

Robert Carlyle 1997 interview The full monty - Vintage Letterman show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhClcmUVFlw

Once upon a time - "BEST OF Rumpelstiltskin" Robert Carlyle GODLY Acting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHjwCt26yjQ
technocrats makes me think of a rpg I used to play. Called mage - the awakening. Who does it mean in this context? The writing I was thinking of was that new houses are getting those heat pumps that go down to -30c and electric cars are getting normal to see in every parking lot. Then its a matter of swapping the power generation which is happening already but slowly. In other words, I think market forces are the writing on the wall. But the lithium wars for battery production will be interesting.
So Djokovic is clearly in the crazy/paranoid pile for just not getting vaccinated - however to me the real assholes in this story are the Australian politicians for treating someone like this just to score reelection points. How is this not in the spotlight?

I mean he gets invited in, gets the visa issued - then they wait until he actually arrives to revoke his visa and lock him up - and this for information/documents they already had. The judge sees it this way too and he gets the decision overturned.

Then the politics gets involved again and revoke it again for obscure (basically not defendable in court) "public safety concerns", organise an expedited hearing over the weekend (so he cannot get a continuance and still play) to throw him out again.
Success stories has been a textbook example of survivorship bias, and I'm surprised people still religiously follow them with no questions.
I will also cast judgement back in time, to all families owning cars both fossil and electric, to all the people not recycling every ounce of garbage they've thrown. The people whom consumed even the slightest, I cast my judgement, they've doomed the world with their existence. The judgment I cast even lands upon you, hackernews commenter, when it's all laid out.
Yeah i signed up to britbox on the £10 for 3 month deal - its not bad with a mix of BBC, ITV and Channel 4. Lots of content you cant get elsewhere

The nostalgic viewing makes it easy to watch
This.

- remove social media apps, only use via browser, if at all

- deactivate all but the most relevant notifications

- remove all games and other addictive crap

- use daily time-limits for undirected "inspiration" sources like HN

The remaining phone is a tool and still very useful (or useful again).
I'm commenting on the parent comment, not the article...
On the contrary, XBox has the full disposal of Windows Store and UWP applications available to it.

So no difference than using Windows 10S, 10X or whatever other UWP only variants Microsoft has released thus far.
Bottazzi said the reason she and her team did not patent the vaccine was because of her team’s shared philosophy of humanitarianism and to engage in collaboration with the wider scientific community.

“We want to do good in the world. This was the right thing to do and this is what we morally had to do. We didn’t even blink. We didn’t think, ‘how can we take advantage of this?’ You see now that if more like us would have been more attuned to how the world is so inequitable and how we could have helped from the beginning so many places around the world without thinking ‘what’s going to be in it for me?’, we could have basically not even seen these variants arise.”
We chose Telegram for team-app, and then moved away from it (2020)
It can scale, and I'd wager that it will. There is -- or should in future be -- a far larger number of software developers than the number of components that are required to compose the functionality that everyone needs and desires, at high quality and with ever-reducing negative externalities.

That's a good thing: it'll provide more time for review, apprenticeship, mentoring and mastery of individual technical areas, and for mobility and communication between communities.

That's not to say there can't also be pure-enjoyment and hobby software projects; but those won't have the same support demands (or expectations).

Small (or solo) teams maintaining systems with massive inbound demand, significant risk during changes, and limited ability to receive community feedback feels like the less-scalable approach, to me.

That said I'm willing to concede that both approaches appear to work under different circumstances (and may be able to learn from each other).
Jobs at the BBC are often seen as having more value than pure pay, because of two related factors:

(1) The BBC is a British institution and supporting it is seen as a worthwhile act. The same effect is what keeps teachers' and nurses' pay artificially low;

(2) Jobs at the BBC have historically been seen as "for life", because of the entity's perceived stability.

I'll be interested to see what happens to both of those factors over the next decade.
You are giving this Conservative government far to much credit. Their entire track record in government is full of poorly thought out sweeping changes. (See the entire Brexit process)
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Navigational_deflector
Italy has a license fee but the parliament nominates part of the board. It's a little less clear cut now but until the 90s the only three channels of RAI at the time were clearly aligned to demochristians (RAI 1, center), socialists (RAI 2, left) and communists (RAI 3, when they were almost what you would think a communist is.) The three major parties of the time.
You're again describing one type of electronic voting, while making an argument against all forms of electronic voting. Regarding this specific type of "black box" electronic voting, yes, I agree with you, it's horrible. Now, it isn't the only type of electronic voting out there. I recommend you familiarize with other types before making sweeping arguments like that.
Apparently this is a good stress test for the Analogue Pocket's accuracy.

https://reddit.com/r/AnalogueInc/comments/s4vwoz/my_wifi_car...
> But more recently after learning from and interacting with people building in the space my assessment changed.
Does that even work in 2022? Netflix has been very active in banning VPN based access for years. Might as well just subscribe to Netflix and just torrent the shows with that VPN. Same end result, less hassle, and no chance of Netflix flagging your account for suspicious activity.
Pinterest is a predator on the web, sucking content and walling itself off, but it's full of good stuff if you enjoy the arts (I've been "into" asemic writing for years) or graphic design.
It isn't necessarily but it can be.
If you think it’s fraudulent for the federal government to give a 22yo a $120,000 loan for a Master of Fine Arts program in theater, then you have to argue that such loans should stop. Only the rich or the beneficiaries of private charity will be able to access MFA programs—or perhaps the taxpayer should make degree programs like that “free”?

I think that’s a defensible argument, but it’s regressive in a different way from the status quo.
I never felt that the Internet in the 90's was about turning yourself into a meat robot. Tech businesses want that from their staff and had been slowly working toward it, but the last 2 years feel like that slow creep was accelerated and a lot of people have had enough.

For a long time we watched businesses get leaner, trying to use frameworks and automation so that the same staff could manage 2x, 5x 10x, 100x the amount of resources. The pandemic saw hiring freezes, wage freezes, from which businesses are still recovering. Market analysis is showing that most non-hospitality sectors have recovered though, which infers that folks are really under the gun to deliver more than ever before.

"Trying to be a better person every day, in combination with the wonder of creativity and building, is what made the internet interesting in the early days. Who are these people who are turning communities into sad opposites of these values?"

I'd challenge the assertion that productivity hacking and the self-improvement hustle are what made the internet interesting in the early days. Creativity and exploration, absolutely!

If your flow is converting your time into productivity for a company, for no increase in shared compensation for the result of that productivity, then that's tots cool for you.

I think many are tired of it and you're seeing them say "no."
Twisting the definition is acknowledging having lost the original goal.

Projects don't pivot just because it feels good doing so.

Same applies to Windows on the server room, WSL did not became a standard option despite the years of Virtual Box and VMWare just because Microsoft though it would be nice to do so.
I'm not sure I understood your point, especially in relation to what you quote. Could you rephrase that?
I've considered doing this and keeping a device like a LTE smartwatch or maybe one of those pinephones.

Every once in a while I look around to see if there is something that seems like it would reasonably work, I haven't really found it yet. Maybe in the near future though.
The government doesn’t appear to have noticed this bias
Surprisingly, it looks good on mobile
One way the analogy breaks in an interesting way is that you _know_ when you're able to hypertap, whereas it's pretty easy to convince yourself you're a hero coder for long enough to leave those who follow a total mess.
> It is awful to have your taxes redirected for the private interest of the Party in charge.

In the USA this is solved by having your taxes only go towards liberal media outlets regardless of who’s in power: https://wcti12.com/news/nation-world/pbs-attorney-fired-afte...
The article sayeth:

> ...as part of emergency measures to ease a crippling energy crisis.

They aren't identifying "electricity is too cheap" as the problem. And it doesn't sound like the climate crisis is on their radar right now.
I don't respect anyone for being a drunkard but I sure do respect a lot of people who were drunkards.
It is absolutely a possibility to prioritize otherwise. You absolutely could neglect your job, your family, your future and read 12 hours a day. Saying this is not possible is bad faith.

The perfectly valid reason you are prioritizing these things is that you value them over reading.
At least roads get groceries to the local mart, military keeps the barbarians (and civilized, but irksome french) out, and the hospitals are there, for when you need your jabs to travel to the Isle of Mann.
> Another great motivator is being told you will never be able to do something, which gives fuel to the motivation in the form of spite.

Very American of you. :P

For people already struggling this only adds depression to the bigger depressive pile, FYI.

Perspectives, we all need them. People can be beaten down to a level where every single adversity is putting them back to bed, unwilling to get out for the next day or two.
That's weird, it simply says "petril" for every image.
Partially, but only partially if you take this sentence literally:

"our town is essentially a corporation where the citizens are the investors and stakeholders.. We are a real estate development company that also provides services... with holdings totaling $1.29 billion,"

Apple is essentially the stakeholder in the Apple ecosystem. Some decisions are made as you suggest. Apple price phones and laptops such that costs are covered and profits are made.

Some decisions are "strategic." There's no direct revenue from their photo app, but a photo app helps sell phones and (more importantly) if Apple doesn't provide one then FB or Google will. A lot of Apple's decisions are like this.

Some, currently very important decisions are all about leveraging power to extract revenue. Apple charge Google $15bn to be safari's default search option. They apply similar logic to all activity on iphones. As in-app purchases emerge, subscriptions, digital goods, physical goods or any other category emerges... Apple study that market and determine how much they can charge. It has nothing to do with how much these cost apple to support.

IDK if this applies to Galesburg, but I think most towns/governments/municipalities have the power to generate a lot more revenue than they do... certainly during a building boom. What Apple would be doing in this position is (a) determining where real estate profits are being made (b) moving to claim the majority of those profits as revenue. I'm not saying they should do this, but the point of difference is worth noting.
I don’t like discussing politics on here, but… i am extremely sceptical whether he has the political capital right now to see through such a radical move. This is part of “Operation Red Meat” in which Boris Johnson attempts to hold on to support of his party by giving the right-wing of his party everything it dreams of. In other words “turn a blind eye to the corruption and incompetence, and we’ll prioritise every policy you’ve ever dreamed of”.

It’s been the same strategy from mainstream parties in UK and US for the last few years, particularly well-executed by the right. If it works again, Boris Johnson will be the winner, while the British political system will be the big loser.
Some clarity. Power is cheaper than natural gas, or oil for heating typically in Quebec.
One of the many side effects of what is known as alcohol.
Both subsidizing dirty coal and using it to mine bitcoin both sound criminal to me. Subsidizing coal is the most evil while mining bitcoin with it is a meaningless act that's fun to dislike
Add to that the horrible icon only interface that they are perpetrating in Windows 11. Just horrible UX.
Wait'll you see his hair.
I was wondering what the cost per game is on lichess, and fortunately the linked spreadsheet includes the answer: lichess currently runs at a cost of $0.00022 per game (4545 games to the dollar).
I don’t see a lot of people designing their own houses without a civil engineer because they used an online cad system.
Have you not encountered the UK Conservative Party before? This is absolutely their modus operandi.
That's easy to say in theory, in practice supply of these ASICs is much more limited than you might think. Maybe if they throw enough money at the problem they could buy from existing miners..

Even so, they would have to spend a very large sum of money on this, money which will simply be "burnt". If you would want to attack a coin that works on general compute then you can use that general compute for whatever you want thus that would be "free"
This is heavily weighted towards computing / programing.

Roughly:

1: Find out what fixed looks like. When did it stop working? Has it ever worked?

2: Form theories about why it may not be working (googling is part of forming theories)

3: Pick what you consider to be the most likely problem, or the fastest theory to test.

4: Test the theory (May require googling to figure out a falsifiable way to test)

5: if that was not the problem, consider if your test falsified any more theories or changed the liklihood of other, then move on to the next test

6: Repeat until you're out of testable theories.

7: Come up with more testable theories (if you already tried everything you could think of and google, start asking people online and reading books about the problem.)

8: Keep testing theories.

9: Fix the problem.

10: Celebrate.
> only the wealthiest individual can own this token forever.
the rich token will appear exclusively in your wallet when you become a new member.
> on each sale, the club membership fee rises.

What a time to be alive.
You are right - platform with censorship doesn't make any sense. They should provide flexible filters instead, so you won't get content that you don't want.
The yearly licence always seems like a hefty amount to pay. Whereas other services offer month to month with special deals.

It's still a crying shame watching the BBC be destroyed by the Conservatives, but hopefully the BBC will rise to the challenge. With some funding from government and a decent worldwide subscription model they could be a real content force.
This video is already included in the web page under the “Watch a demonstration of the system running on real hardware. Recorded in October 2021.” paragraph.
It's not a free market if we tax it to distort it.
I've experimented with warp drives in theory and simulation, and what they could theoretically do is to "scale" the space so that every item in space appear to be closer to you so you just have to walk 10/30th of the distance to reach 30/30 of the distance.

|---o------o------------o------| normal distance
|o--o---o--| warped distance

o = objects you might bump into. So you will be traveling the same "speed" relative to the objects, but they will be closer.
Technically GUIs are, or used to be anyway, be drawn with drawing commands like "DrawRect, DrawLine, DrawRoundedBox", etc, which are basically vectors encoded in code and could be easily scaled. Windows has/had the metafile image file format[0] that basically encodes these calls into a stream for later reuse (AFAIK Office clip art used to be metafiles). Since these are vectors they can be arbitrarily scaled. The earlier versions of Windows even had to work not only on different pixel densities (that produced more or less the same visual screen space) but also on different pixel aspect ratios, like CGA's 640x200 mode.

However once GUIs started relying on using bitmaps for drawing parts of the theme things got a bit less vector-y. But that happened later.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols...
This is not the first occurrence of a scandal from this government; and it's not the first time that they have thrown out as many back-burner ideas as possible in the rush to replace the headlines with something more palatable.

In a notable previous instance, the prime minister's wife announced her pregnancy in the hours following a scandal breaking. Months later, they announced the birth of the child shortly after another scandal broke out.

Hence this fairly amusing parody tweet:

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson_MP/status/14808339950216929...
Me too. Anyone overcoming that much negative inertia and then taking their life back in their hands demands huge respect.
I genuinely have no idea why vector-based UIs have not become common already in at least one of the major OSs’
You need at least three admins to have 24h availability. I highly doubt you can save money by selfhosting at Lichess size.
I had not known about JOSE and other subsequent “standards” until this article. Everyone knows JWS is a dumpster fire and to continue to pack on additional “standards” on top of it???

The original medium blog post seems fine to me.

Sounds like a salty standards author, who worked on something nobody actually wants…
The "we" in that statement fails to account for the millions of people who do, in fact, do these things regularly. This failure to imagine that there are vast numbers of people whose lives are different from the author's is something I see frequently, and it's irritating.
I would say most UK people consider the BBC to be impartial and neutral, except perhaps for people with more extreme political opinions.
Sentence prior started “Many of us…” I’d say the “we” is referring to those people.
I think the issue is we are not in a post scarcity world and do not work towards such a thing. If it is cheaper to hire a human instead of automatic a job - we do that. Eventually exporting jobs to the poorest countries where people suffer creating useless crap or fast fashion.

What we are doing is not reasonable if you had the greater good of humanity and planet in mind. The return on investment alone is a bad compass that will make more and more people suffer.
There is nothing exciting about drinking. It's a substance, and the only reason people like to associate with famous and interesting people is twofold. a) it gives you an excuse to drink b) it takes the famous person down a notch.

The famous people did not become famous because they drank, but due to other reasons - working their arse off, talent, ambition, networks etc. The reason they are also famous alcholics is just an correlation and not causation.

I don't judge alcohol use but it's an end in itself, and it does not improve anything.

It's nice to enjoy a drink once in a while, but it does not improve a person in any way.
Seems unlikely. There were ziggurats in Mesopotamia earlier than that.

Hard to imagine people with that much power not having a roof over their heads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat
There may be types of work that can only be done in long, uninterrupted stretches, when inspiration hits, rather than dutifully in scheduled little slices. Empirically it seems to be so. When I think of the people I know who've done great things, I don't imagine them dutifully crossing items off to-do lists. I imagine them sneaking off to work on some new idea.

Conversely, forcing someone to perform errands synchronously is bound to limit their productivity. The cost of an interruption is not just the time it takes, but that it breaks the time on either side in half. You probably only have to interrupt someone a couple times a day before they're unable to work on hard problems at all.

That's why Scrum is so damaging to productivity and software quality.

Mini-waterfall or Shape Up method gives developers time to think and work on a problem in uninterrupted 6-week slices. All the reactive work (like bug fixing, support or maintenance) is either postponed or handled by someone else / dedicated team.
Is that StackOverflow policy officially in writing somewhere? I had one of my answers edited by a mod not too long ago without any warning. Wasn't too happy about it.
> It's nothing new there anymore in the graphic / web design / typography inspiration area. Everybody left, the algorithm is dumb…

For me, this is a feature.
I'm assuming it is sarcasm? So many in this thread seem to think the purpose of life is for them to be healthy and productive, like Van Gogh or Bukowski.

It's great if that is their life's purpose but fortunately not everyone is the same.
What critical systems are actively in use now that still use a signed 32bit `time_t` or equivalent?
I want to prioritize everything else more than money. For now I can't because I am mostly living month to month without any savings.

I hear what you say but we operate on a hierarchy of priorities. Right now I am definitely above the survival stage... but only 1-2 tiers above.

I can't in good conscience drop my job and just go gaze the stars with my wife. I won't be at peace. :|
This change is more likely a threat to the BBC at a time when they furiously engaged in damage control.

It can be rolled back if they "behave".

Theyve been making variations of this threat for decades.
Maybe banning the import of anything from the outside and charging a 30% sales tax is the answer?
Fantastic news would be getting rid of the coal subsidy not this meaningless theater
I have the exact same position here in France. I don't have to pay the TV license because I don't have a TV, but I still do because I consume so much content made by public media organisations (Franceinfo, Arte, Radio France, etc.).
Will your 10.6 rework include the Display Gamma change that Apple included at release?
YIKES! This is literally the one and only setting I change right when I install Windows. I'm glad I found out it's totally unsupported before I went and took the plunge on 11. I guess I'll either skip 11 or wait for the update that fixes some of this jank.