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Stupid question, but what international treaties currently regulate private citizens and corporations when it comes to space? Like, who can claim which orbits? Is this just first come, first serve? What would happen if someone crashes Starlink satellites, for instance by putting projectiles on a collision course?

Edit, found an interesting link: https://www.spacelegalissues.com/orbital-slots-and-space-con...

> The geostationary orbit is part of outer space and, as such, the customary principle of non-appropriation and the 1967 Space Treaty apply to it. The equatorial countries have claimed sovereignty, then preferential rights over this space. These claims are contrary to the 1967 Treaty and customary law. However, they testify to the concern of the equatorial countries, shared by developing countries, in the face of saturation and seizure of geostationary positions by developed countries. The regime of res communis of outer space in Space Law (free access and non-appropriation) does not meet the demand of the developing countries that their possibilities of future access to the geostationary orbit and associated radio frequencies are guaranteed. New rules appear necessary and have been envisaged to ensure the access of all States to these positions and frequencies.
Sublime should (at least time I tried it in Sublime 2/3) be able to handle almost arbitrary large files. So should vim/neovim, but that's a bit more different from your regular text editor.
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What is horrible about the design of the cookie regulation?
WebGPU is to WebGL as Vulkan, Metal, DX12 are to OpenGL, DX11 and below. In that context I would expect WebGPU to be just as successful as WebGL has been.
What?? Noooo... they would only have to launch indefinitely something like 10 rockets a month to keep replacing aging nodes, I am sure that is financially viable way to compete with a copper/fibre cable -_-

The tech works, its just completely non feasible. Geosync satelites can give you global access with handful of satelites.

Trans-sea cables give you cheap and quick connection speeds.

Starlink is middle of the road solution that solves both problems are immense costs.

I can only imagine high frequency traders being able to afford it vs utilise the advantage of the latencies.
Sublime Text is also a pleasure to use, and works on both Linux and Windows.
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That the military created it, assures you that it was _not_ about control of the populace. Ok.
Actually Scheme is Algol in LISP clothing. I don’t know what that makes JavaScript.
I'm not sure I follow. Endless meaningless meetings is an orthogonal problem. Regardless of remote vs on-site, I try to avoid meetings without a clear agenda, purpose and inviting only relevant parties. Not inviting people just to 'keep them in the loop', we have meeting summary/notes for that. I encourage team members to decline meetings they do not feel will be valuable, exercising their own judgement and with an explanation to the organizer.
> Block my website for European visitors?

Under a strict interpretation of the law, yes.* (GDPR does apply to blogs, even if they're private) In practice removing analytics for EU visitors would probably be enough.

* Note that the physical location of the data won't matter for you because you are located in the US and are the data processor.
> I'm hardly a SJW

You didn't care about the quote on "castrating him" in this article, or being analytical or relating this to dirty realism so you clearly are.

The article is literally about people like yourself wanting to edit these things from history (article is 2013)

Read Charles Bukowski "The Fiend" and then understand why words like rape and castrating were chosen if you care at all about what's being talked about and why the article was written this way.

I despise trigger warnings but surprises are also unfair on a tech forum even if we are talking Bukowski, it is about child rape -

https://onlinereadfreenovel.com/charles-bukowski/page,22,416... (The Fiend starts half way down)
Or…

We just stop letting the broadband companies regulate themselves and nationalize the system.

Then we don’t have multiple layers of bandaids.
If memory serves, Jef Raskin in “The Humane Interface” made major point about how the 4 corners are the easiest places to click on the screen. Not putting them to good use is just a waste.
> How can it be fairer? If you clear surface A before surface B, the people using surface A will always benefit from that, it doesn't matter who those people are. If you reverse it, the other people will benefit instead.

This assumes that people using "surface A" and "surface B" are equally prone to accidents, that accidents are equally dangerous independent of the surface and in general that the inconvenience is equal, which is not the case for icy roads and icy sidewalks.

Assume that each surface has an "ice cost" to its users that we want to minimize. Icy surface A has a cost of 1 and icy surface B has a cost of 3. When a surface is cleared of ice, its ice cost is zero.

Consider then that there are two demographics X and Y. X always uses surface A. Y always uses surface B.

* Uncleared, demographic Y pays a higher price.

* If you clear surface A but not surface B, X will pay nothing, and Y will still pay the same price; the cost disparity has grown.

* If you clear surface B, the cost disparity will shrink. The opportunities of demographics X and Y are more equal than before. If demographic X and Y are roughly equal in size, you have also minimized the total ice cost to society.
15 PB of scientific data in our research company is served in production for twelve years using ZFS on FreeBSD and never failed one second. Billions of files replicated using ZFS send and receive streams in mere seconds. It's only flaw, ZFS diff is slow and gives inaccurate results. Grassroots I'am exploring are Minio and WeedFS and maybe Ceph.
> I mean why would someone who cares anything at all about how software looks even glance at Windows if they had any choice?

Ever saw airplane controls? They are ugly, and UX people have to design them too, to enable pilots to act in emergencies, to highlighr issues before emergency even happens, etc.

You are conflating visual design and UX, which is common.

The former draw pretty pictures and they can fuck off to MacOS, nobody cares.

UX is about structure: where should we put the delete button? How many clicks does it take to access your files?
Because this article and that movie have the same agenda.
>We already make $1,000s per customer on a business model that we have developed and refined for decades.

>Let's create a crappy experience that the user has to put up with, to squeeze a few extra cents per year.
That’s why ribbon search would have helped a lot. Plus if fast enough people could use a shortcut to get to search and then quickly type a few characters to a function e.g. Meta S -> “pa” for paste, much faster than finding a tiny button and easier to remember than a combination of keys. Like the Jump feature in Winamp. If you forget the small subset of characters that give you what you want you can use the longer names. The results list would contain the key combos if you wanted to use that next time instead. While searching the Ribbon UI could show you which tab and button refers the currently selected search result item. It was really needed to bring it all together. And for power uses why not have customizable tool strips....
Not at all. Multiple workspaces was common in Linux way before it was a thing in windows or Mac. And Compiz really helped in bringing new fancy effects to the desktop.
Oh, that makes it OK I guess.
Few days ago I watched 'Debunking Starlink' video [0] (posted by @qsdf38100 in another thread [1] on Starlink) and it got me thinking. I am just a lay person, but, after watching it, am not so sure if Starlink is such a good idea.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vuMzGhc1cg

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29975352
CBD doesn't get you high; I believe there are several other studies suggesting it treats stress and anxiety (which you might benefit from), and inflammation.

I'd suggest doing some research on it at least. If it sounds like something you might benefit from, it's not terribly expensive to buy enough to last you 5 weeks.
when i started programing notepad++ was my go-to editor while sumatrapdf was my go-to pdf reader. today however i use emacs for everything except the browser and reading pdfs. i would still use sumatrapdf if it was available on gnu/linux
putting extremely sensitive RF detectors on top of extremely power RF emitters doesn't seems the best match
No, thanks. It serves as a perfect blend of a serious bullet point in the introduction entries and niche comedy. It's part of the eternal culture around it.
It seems to me that if you know where the satellites will be, it’s not so much a problem of removing streaks but rather factoring it into automated scheduling so that you never have any streaks to remove.
I guess the difference is that Microsoft actually has to compete for people to use Edge, whereas other products people are just forced to use by their employer like that dumpster fire that is Teams.
I actually have an issue with my Windows 11 right now where I have 7 (seven!) keyboard layouts to choose from, but according to windows settings only one language installed, with one keyboard layout.

It's gotten so bad that what they're enumerating in these mobile menus aren't the same source the system is using. It's extremely annoying.

Edit: If anyone is curious about this specific issue, I solved it by adding the languages and layout Windows thought I had, just so I then could explicitly remove them again, which seems to have solved this issue... for now at least.

Edit 2: Don't get me started on the new context menu where you have to click "more" to get the rest of the options that applications can add.

Edit 3: Oh, and there's no setting for not grouping taskbar items, or always showing all systray items, in Windows 11.
We don't tend to see the same skepticism for the positive anecdotes in online discussion of cannabis, though.
I'd be surprised if the positions weren't already public data. Surely the US government requires or pressures knowledge of the positions since its a US based company and the satellites could certainly interfere with things NASA and other agencies want and need to do.
It definitely could. Depends on the meaning of “ghost”. In context of the article, I took ghost to mean “legacy”, rather than the person.

English is frustratingly imprecise.
>text file, not binary files

there is a difference?
Being able to communicate in real time anywhere in the world would seem to me, to be a force multiplier far greater than any other previous invention.

Further, access to the internet surely has spread the world faster than any other tech. Which in my mind highlights just how important and powerful the tech has proven to be.
I remember driving from Kiruna to Abisko National Park (read: from a tiny town in the far north of Sweden to a national park in the middle of nowhere) and there were huge tractors cleaning the snow in both directions almost as soon as the snow had passed a few inches.
FB & google already voluntarily banned buying politically targeted ads for money. [1]

A politician needs to give big tech something other than money to get their messages to be favourably targeted.

Don't forget that they already have access to virtually infinite money through abuse of market dominance, the only thing that can stand in their way is antitrust and data regulation.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-parent-meta-bans-targe...
I guess most execs/VCs are the kind of people who spent most of their career at "McKinseys" of this world, and this all they know. They want to return to their comfortable baseline.
That is a totally valid option. That’s a successful model for things like DataStax, RedisLabs, RedHat, and on and on. If you’re wondering how a company makes money just selling open source, this is it.

And for the record, I think this is dumb. But I’m describing the reality of what I have to deal with so folks making can understand.

There’s 2 basic routes here:

1) offer it for under 1k per seat through a distributor. Then it’s like buying an IDE. You won’t pick up a company-wide deployment, but team by team.

2) Have a commercial offering listed with pricing. Then have sales and legal folks.

The sales will be negotiating the price down by volume. The legal will go back and forth on the contract. Companies will require different language based on their requirements and legal culture. It’s not uncommon for them to require OSS indemnification. That can mean absorbing their risk if you don’t own 100% of the code. You’re basically their insurance policy on OSS violations.

Also, usually this includes some kind of (often useless) support agreement. Pricing can be tiered by response time (24x7, next business day, and so on.). It’s not a big deal on something non operational like this.

For the indemnification, the legal department doesn’t trust their developers (or contract developers) to take a shortcut, not pay attention, or whatever and expose them to a claim.
I posted an exploratory study in another comment. Here’s the same one in article form:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33841213/
I agree that an electron-based editor is not as responsive as a native one, but the vscode devs have done a lot to make it as fast as it is. This talk [0] is a very interesting look into everything the devs do to make it startup quickly.

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r0OeHRUCCb4
Check out EditPad Pro. I really like it.
> Of course, but they shouldn’t be hit with an arbitrary fine on top of that.

GDPR doesn't fine companies for having their security breached.

> Not necessarily.

Almost certainly necessary since if they weren't "addicted to ad placement and tracking" as GP put it they wouldn't have to stop and thing about GDPR.
Containers are not architecture-agnostic. In theory they are not even kernel version agnostic, though Docker seems to work around that.
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Finger pricks? My mom used a thimble.

I know it’s obviously not that simple in a medical research environment, but I do wonder if the basic idea of a sewing thimble could be adapted into a contoured, finger-shaped thin metal layer that’s mounted inside special gloves for the researchers to wear. It would have to be done in such a way as to not hinder their dexterity, but I’d think that’s quite doable if said “thimble” was confined to the first segment of each finger.
Once the GC proposal lands, letting the host and application interact through object graphs, won't that bring back most of the same perennial security problems that Java suffered from?
Lots of people think it's essentially a dead end as it's missing some kind of 'secret sauce' that the brain has and which we are just too dumb to figure out.
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Of course I do update the list!

It is taken from here https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

And I have another ~40 entries not included in that list.

You should try it. It is another layer of protection in case you want to keep using uBlock Origin.
As a former smoker: It's not just the nicotine, it's also about the ritual, the habit and the social component. Although the latter might have changed these days as smoking has become a lot less popular since then.
I recommend https://web3isgoinggreat.com/. Every day there’s 1–3 summaries of news, with sources.
No ready vector for spreading. It needs to come into direct contact with your proteins to affect them
while i agree with you there are many reasons for drug use. its likely the wikipedia article linked also applies subconsciously, so while they tellyou/think they do it for anxiety they may do it for a host of other reasons without fully knowing themselves. We all do this with many aspects of life, just pointing it out.
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> I assume Starlink tracks and knows where their satellites are, so why don't they just provide data feed to trusted third parties who might be affected by their satellites?

I'm not sure if this is in any way official and/or the right way of doing it, this area is all outside of my normal competence. But, stumbled upon a python library (https://github.com/python-astrodynamics/spacetrack) that supposedly connects to space-track (space-track.org) and you should be able to get the position there. How the data comes into space-track I'm not sure.

But there are bunch of small services for seeing the live location, so I'm sure someone is tracking the location somewhere, like this one: https://findstarlink.com/
Have you learned a new language? It's basically an exercise in memorizing vocabulary and phrases and pattern recognition. Linguistics is the study of those patterns across different languages. Therefore, I don't think there is anything wrong with problems focused on pattern recognition. I also think you are overstating the amount languages break their own rules. The only reason that your list makes sense is because there is such a clear pattern for the vast majority of plural nouns.
No, that's a misunderstanding.

Signal is vulnerable to timing correlation. An observer on the servers or on network devices nearby can easily infer the social graph of users: at what time they communicate, with whom and how often.

This is not a minor issue. Quote from the former CIA director: 'We kill people based on metadata'.
That was my first thought as well, but then I realised there is a big difference when one just grossly exaggerates (e.g. "touching someone without consent is rape") and when the word is used with poetic licence. Rape of a ghost is clearly not meant literally.
Can't live without it. Now if only the Markdown heading outlines in the function list panel stopped breaking after every upgrade I'd have no complaints.
I think that pricing based on usage will be a positive step - you only pay for what you use, it ties your spending on your incomes as well.
Not sure if its applicable for consumer products.
In everything from federal law down to an organization's handbook, a simple principle applies:

If a nonsensical action helps one remain in compliance with the rule, it is the rule (not the action) that is nonsensical.

Amazing how many examples exist.
Or that:

> and did not wear both metal mesh and surgical gloves, as she was supposed to
Don’t mind apps charging subscriptions per se — business models are good. Annoying when I buy special-purpose hardware though, and it requires a recurring subscription to use the software features it comes with. See Tesla Autopilot, Eight Sleep mattress, Hero pill machine, etc. Two different things imo and the latter is abusive.
I assumed it was a simple race condition. when I type "about" + enter, half the time I get my computers specs, and half the time it vomits up something regarding java.
> “The rail industry’s edge is that it is less expensive than trucks. But now trucks are going to reduce their cost of operating—what does that mean for the railroad?” Soule said. “That’s what we’re trying to address.”

Yes, but we still need both. Oh course it makes sense to try to take advantage of excess rail capacity. (But will regulations allow that? As the article states, the rail industry hasn't changed in years). If rail can be optimized the cargo still needs to move from hub to final destination. The infamous last mile problem, so to speak. But doesn't that tend to be in population dense areas? Where autonomous trucks might not thrive and/or be welcome?

The point being rail is only part of the system. Optimizing it might create inefficiencies elsewhere. A classic balloon grab.
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Anecdotal, but as a lifelong stoner I would say it takes about a week after sustained heavy use for the cognitive impairment to fully go away. I always quit for a little while when I have something important I need to do in my life.
>it’s just the medium through which this particular human culture phenomenon travels.
That’s exactly what I’m saying. The internet exposed me to other ways of thinking and more diverse people. I’m not sure what all that other stuff is about.
I think it largely comes down to there being no benefit to the prion. It’s more of a lightly continuous sort-of-poison than an actual actor looking for its own reproduction. Viruses and bacterias existence depends on reproduction. Prions just kinda appear naturally from folding errors.

They don’t “want” to exist, even to the minimal extent of a virus, they just happen.
For example, 1Password.

I’m happy to pay for a new version if my current version stops working. OS or browser update broke the app? I’ll pay for the new version.

But they are trying to force me to pay every month, therefore they remove my ability to use the app at all unless I pay for their cloud storage which I neither need nor want.
I should also say, not caring about megacorp adoption is also totally reasonable.

If I didn’t build it from scratch and didn’t want to start a company, that’s the route I would go.
For most intents and purposes, yes.
Doesn't that just mean physical contact? Our skin is made out of proteins, is it not?
I felt this movie was truly awful. Vacillating between a comedy and a serious movie. As a leftist I felt offended at the leftist pandering and idiotic portrayal of conservatives in the film. It felt like a dangerously left populist film cheering on the decline of public trust. Similar to how the kingsmen did so for right populism.

This film really made me feel apathetic to US cultural direction. Not because of the portrayal of political incompetence. But for the eagerness and shamelessness of pretending that the only good smart folks are the little people on the left and that everyone else is comic book evil in a mostly serious film, or at least, a film that felt like it was trying to have a serious point.

Anti science and intellectualism in the US is a problem but Christ this movie was just as bad in the opposite direction.
> Signals protocol is designed so you don't have to trust the server.

That's not true, see the other reply.
That's exactly the kind of glove the article says the woman should have been wearing, but obviously wasn't...
May I ask, can you say something more? I'm interested in how that would have looked like.
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Unfortunately the game doesn't offer my favorite font: Latin Modern Mono Prop Light (https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/latin-modern-mono)
Subscription management would be nice, but it’s a bit more complicated than simply blocking transactions; just because a tx doesn’t go through doesn’t mean you opted not to continue with the service, it just means the service provider was unable to collect on your payment. For new tech companies like Netflix, a lapsed subscription goes away easily since it’s prorated so they just stop providing you service, but many companies take the hostile route and send any lapsed subscriptions to collections without blocking access to their services.
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I've worked adjacent to financial consultants who build excel models all day. There is such thing as an "expert" at excel. I've interviewed lots of people who say they "know" excel, but when you dig into it, it's the equivalent of saying they know a programming language because they know basic flow control syntax.

With word, I'm not sure if you can go as deep expertise wise as excel, but there is still much more to it than knowing that you can type words and change their font as in the article.
I don’t see how. Everything K8s does will still be needed. Switching from containers to lightweight VMs is not that big a step. Distribution becomes easier, but what really changes apart from that?