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Most lighthouses are cultural and historical icons, and they often faithfully reproduce the best technology of an era. Moreover, even if obsolete, most are wonderful architectural objects.

I can only applaud Norway's decision to preserve its cultural legacy. Shame others aren't as proactive.
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It depends from country to country; in Romania, for example, where we used to have many communities of Hungarian, Bulgarians, Czech, Polish, Turks and Tatars, if you are reasonably white (or Mongolian looking) and speak a decent Romanian you are considered to be integrated. If you look very different (Black or Chinese) you are accepted, but not considered a local even if you were born and raised in Romania and speak the language natively - this is because non-White people are a tiny, tiny minority (a few in a million).
Encapsulation (to lock down an object like this) is used when there's a notion of coherence that makes sense. If B could be standalone, but is used by both A and C, then there's no reason for it to be "owned" by either A or C, only referenced by them (something else controls its lifecycle). Consider an HTTP server embedded in a more complex program. Where should it "live"?

If at the start of the program you decide that the server should be hidden like this:

main
ui
http
db

And main handles the mediation between db and ui (or they are aware of each other since they're at the same level), but later on you end up with something like this:

main
ui
http
db
admin-ui

And the admin-ui has to push all interactions and receive all its interactions via the ui module, then it may make less sense (hypothetical and off the cuff so not a stellar example, I'll confess, but this is the concept). So you move the http portion up a level (or into yet-another-module so that access is still not totally unconstrained):

main
ui
db
admin-ui
http
-- or --
web-interface
http

Where `web-interface` or whatever it gets called offers a sufficiently constrained interface to make sense for your application. This movement happens in applications as they evolve over time, an insistence that once-written encapsulation is permanent is foolish. Examine the system, determine the nature of the interaction and relationship between components, and move them as necessary.

Arbitrary encapsulation is incoherent, I've seen plenty of programs that suffer from that. But that doesn't mean that encapsulation itself is an issue (something to be negotiated, but not a problem on its own).
In case anyone missed it, the poster is describing Jason Bourne.
Installing an app is no problem, and I was using a calendar app that worked okay. But I was unable to find an email app that I liked and all the password manager apps worked (or work) by (ab)using an accessibility feature that had a pretty severe impact on the performance of my phone.

And uninstalling an app is impossible on stock Android, if that app is made by Google.To achieve that I had to unlock the boot loader of my phone, for which there was no official method.

Meanwhile on iOS I can use the default mail and calendar apps that work fine and my password manager integrates perfectly with the os, while I don't need to use iCloud at all if I don't want to.

Those 3 apps weren't the only reason to switch from os, but they did make the choice for, and switching to, iOS a lot easier.
>but if it comes down to a shortage of food, healthcare or consumable goods, the workers should be fed before the slackers.

Some of the people in /r/antiwork see these shortages as artificial or caused by a society that funnels labor toward profit instead of toward need, but to your other point, there are a lot of people on that reddit who are incredibly naive or just have a chip on their shoulder.
Florida is a shithole? You spend too much time on the internet. Florida man is a literal meme that came about because of laws that all state collected data should be publicly available causing the media to get most of its fun crime stories from the very large population there. You realize that a large portion of the richest Americans chose to move there for their retirement? Very large swaths of southern Florida contain some of the most modern and amenity rich sections of the WORLD. Not accessible to the average citizen of course, but then again Luxembourg isn't well known for its accessibility either. We are so much more alike than we are different.
"Turn the other cheek" doesn't work for nukes.
It's just the pony that does it all there are better services just for cal/carddav or file syncing but then you have 5 services running instead of 1.
I read through this entire post going "oh, this is cursed", slowly growing in volume the entire time. As is proper for something this clever.

I've been doing a bit of prodding at Durable Objects lately, in part inspired by the same note that the OP quoted about implementing datastores atop the framework, and this is the sort of environment that I could see being really, really useful at scale in the future. I'm anxious about using it without a public spec and some portability, but the concept is just tremendously cool.
Behaviors often vary at different scales. At a macroscopic level you're correct, this movement is exaggerated based on the coverage to overall economic significance (most of its all inflation driven), but at, let's say, a mesoscopic scale, there are businesses feeling these very real effects. It's in specific industries and certain types of employers, I suspect largely abusive employers, where turnover is increasing significantly. And in such environments, these trends are happening the way the media is portraying it. I've seen it and I too have friends with anecdata who have experienced it. This is abnormal as prior to the pandemic such turnover and rejection was fairly rare at a given business, it usually happened on the business's terms during restructuring, rarely on the employee side outside of say unionized strikes.

Taking this view that nothing is going on at a macroscopic scale is like standing in the Himalayas and shouting "but the Earth is really smooth, almost spherical." While at a macroscopic scale you'd be very correct (technically oblate spheriod), the mountains and valleys localized around you are very real challenges you need to navigate. That's important if you never travel outside the Himilayas, maybe not if you're circumnavigating the Earth (just, avoid it, you know). Not everywhere is Kansas and if you ignore very real localized phenomena that may be unavoidable, you're going to have problems navigating if your specific scale can't compensate for it.
Early 2000’s?

Here’s Joe Biden in 2011 fawning over King Xi and calling for a rising China.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQaBdlu4rL4
Is it picking up though?
True. I did love the multicultural aspect of Los Angeles, but it got blown to pieces during 9/11, and once the hatred and the flags came out, it was definitely time to leave .. But for many years I considered LA to be a very fine example of people living together, relatively peaceful. Well, after the RK riots, that is ..
Because people that work in the industry want to exaggerate the issue to try to get more funding and support.
Found foobar2000 in 2005 when I wanted a lightweight music player to play heavy metal while I played Counter-Strike Source.

17 years later and it is still my music player of choice. I've gone through maybe 6 different UIs/skins with it, all of them wildly different. My most recent being a sort of "return to form" [0].

I've since also set up a Raspberry Pi with OMV installed to act as my music server, so I can access my library from around the house.

[0] https://i.vgy.me/Bwv7Eq.png
Indeed this comic, which has been around for quite some time, makes fun of sci-fi's tendency toward the opposite. https://imgur.com/gallery/n6vZCm2
I'd add that, although I haven't really been to restaurants in the past couple of months, things were very clearly not normal in the fall. Limited seating even outside, closed for multiple days a week even though there was clearly demand, etc.
> The simple answer is there is no games, there are just liberals taking slogans from more radical places and toning them down or flipflopping to be more palatable. It's more an effect of the general confusions of the internet, and people not being sure what they want, but knowing that things are wrong.

To some degree it's click bait, and people getting used to it.

Like "anti work" being the click bait version of "anti how work is currently handled".
You can taste the wildfires in most of the recent west coast pinots.
A lot of Chinese company owners have moved production to Vietnam, Thailand. Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, etc., specifically because they are aware of this changing preference in the West. Chinese owned business is not China-based business, but most Chinese-owned businesses are subject to CCP influences.

As you pointed out: manufacturing standards vary factory to factory and region to region, and quality issues abound in newer manufacturing regions that lack the crazy competitive environment China has (a thousand pots et al).

Counterfeit PPE really revealed a lot about boys these factories operate. Very hard to verify ownership reliably.
It's a pretty similar system in Germany and Sweden at least though (I haven't lived in France).

I moved from the UK to Germany right when I had to have surgery and the wait time was identical (scans were much quicker though as I lived right next to a student hospital).
I actually support masks in schools. There's solid scientific evidence backing it as a mechanism to help limit the spread of COVID. Until all ages are able to be vaccinated, it seems like a prudent course of action.

It's unfortunate that people are trying to turn such things into political statements.
Only if you build a stop there.
The only year in which the NHS budget was cut in real terms was 97 or 98. Otherwise it has increased in real terms since 1980. Since 99, the NHS budget almost doubled.

It is increasing right now, the current plan (2018-2024) increases the budget by 3.4% in real terms every year.
Which parts are you unable to read and understand? I'm sure some of us here could help explain if you have specific questions or hangups.
>LA is actually representative of large swaths of the US

No, not even close.
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Wasteful of computing resources, yes, but for a long time we've been prioritizing developer time. That happens because you can get faster hardware cheaper than you can get more developer time (and not all developers time is equal, say, Carmack con do in a few hours things I couldn't do in months).

I do agree that we'd get fantastic performance out of our systems if we had the important layers optimized like this (or more), but it seems few (if any) have been pushing in that direction.
I mean there aren't cities like Vienna in the US.
As I never thought there was synergy here, I think Nvidia will do better without ARM. There is plenty of growth in their core domain.
I use flameshot and I don’t have anything running in the background. v0.9.0 on Debian with dwm. Works great.
>You realize that a large portion of the richest Americans chose to move there for their retirement?

Yes of course, making it a shithole for those who didn't.
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I don't.

My current understanding is that even though there are sharding / replication projects out there for SQLite, it's usually a better idea to just go with a typical database server when you need many machines. But a lot of sites never get to that point, especially given how fast servers and SSDs are these days, so SQLite seems like it can get you further than you might realize.
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It's likely that China will use illegal or underhanded techniques to get ahead today then clean up their act and claim rehabilitation later. You can see the mental groundwork being laid in the whataboutism rebuttals comparing the US today vs past history.
It's not forging. It's putting your own.

You spend twenty years designing the perfect steel production method, spending millions of dollars, and start selling it as Pessimizer Steel. It's obviously superior. You start making some of your money back. I spend an hour watching you through the window and start selling it as Super Steel and claiming that it's just as good because I made it the same way. I sell it at half price because I'm not paying off any business loans. You go bankrupt.

That's the system you want? Who is going to invest in steel research in that system?
In a sane world (which is the world that we live in), it's best to find a well-optimized library for common operations like matrix multiplication. But if you want to do something unusual (multiply large matrices inside a browser, quickly) you've exited the sane world so you'll have to work at it.
They shouldn't get funds from taxpayers to pay large settlements when they abuse their power.
He's not upset. He just wishes for a more mature level of discourse. Your inability to understand that makes you someone not really worth engaging with.

edit: Now that I think about it your mentality fits very well with someone from Vienna, you've integrated well.
Owning a company is traditionally thought to be of value because you get a stream of dividend income from the profits the company earns, not because you can sell the company.
I think "The Great Resignation" is an excuse bad bosses use to explain why they can't retain employees. There has definitely been an attitude shift and a re-prioritization over the past couple years that I think has resulted in people being much less likely to stay at bad jobs. But like you said, they are going to other companies, and the companies that offer good jobs in a good environment are not experiencing the same rate of turnover.
Exactly. But don't hold your breath waiting.
> It's a very subtle form of American exceptionalism.

Oh, bullshit. NASA spends an awful lot of money and effort on promoting its projects to the English-language press. Does the ESA make a comparable amount of effort?
Yes, you're right, thanks for correcting that!

Incidentally, did you intentionally write keming instead of kerning?
The number of cities where that is the case are a distinct minority.

And no it isn’t the same thing, but that was what parent comment was communicating. If people assume you are poor because you aren’t driving then you live in a place where you can’t walk to get groceries, in a practical sense, because clearly for any normal person the trade offs are prohibitive.
Now instead of lazily explaining differences with "there must be some testing bias, black kids are just as smart as white kids", we're lazily explaining differences with "it must be systemic oppression, black kids are more oppressed than white kids".
Panic writes software for Apple products.
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I landed on a similar approach. Nextcloud is heavy for my purposes, but integrating everything into one service has benefits.

The only feature I miss from Radicale is the built-in support for versioning in Git. It's definitely handy to keep track of/roll back changes to my calendars, contacts, todos, etc on the server.

I wrote a small script [1] that periodically syncs changes from my Nextcloud cal/cardDAV feeds into a Git repository. Sharing it here as a bonus in case it's useful to others.

[1] https://blog.ctis.me/2021/12/31/nextcloud-backer-upper/
> There were tons of fake Apple chargers flooding the market that contained exfiltration circuitry, among other problems.

I think you're conflating two separate issues. IIRC, I think the exfiltration concerns were more for "in place" chargers at places like airports. There's definitely a separate retail "fake Apple charger" problem, but that has more to do with safety and quality control.

It wouldn't make much sense for a retail fake Apple charter to have exfiltration circuitry, because then you run into the problem of how to exfiltrate some rando's data from some random charter. Also I'm guessing that stuff would be expensive. It really only makes sense to me for a thing like that to be a targeted attack (e.g. swap out some research scientist's charger at a conference, and place an exfiltration receiver near his hotel room).

> I even have a few "data condoms" leftover from those years. (If you don't remember, they're little dongles you put between your USB cable and the USB charger that only have the power lines connected.)

Those are useful for other things. For instance, I have some devices that deactivate and switch to transfer mode when they connect to data, so I use those for charging those devices while I'm still using them. Also, I think they can allow faster charging from a data-enabled port in some cases.
I'm British. Lived in the USA for six years: three in Manhattan, three in Seattle. Moved to the Netherlands in late 2020; currently living in Utrecht.

Downsides:

The most obvious sacrifice is financial: I took a substantial pay cut to come here, and, on top of that, I now pay more tax. The day-to-day cost of living is a bit less in Utrecht than in Seattle, but not (nearly) enough to compensate. That doesn't make much direct impact on my disposable income — I have more than enough to live on from month to month — but it does mean I save substantially less.

House prices are out of control here; buying a house that we like feels like an impossible dream.

It's also harder to meet people and make friends. Part of that is Covid-related, of course, but the language issue makes it hard to join groups, clubs or activities — although my neighbours can speak effectively perfect English when necessary, that's understandably not how they want to spend their down time. That's compounded because most people my age are well embedded in social networks already, so it's hard for a newcomer to make connections with them.

I miss the landscape of the Pacific Northwest. The Dutch flatlands don't really compete.

Upsides:

The level of visible poverty is much lower. I found the level of homelessness, begging, deprivation, in the places I lived in the USA to be genuinely distressing. That's much less of an issue here (not zero issue, but much less).

Similarly, the level of visible inequality is lower. Sure, there are rich people and poor people in the Netherlands, but the differences feel less stark. Even the fairly poor have a decent standard of living. This makes me feel much more comfortable. I should add: neither this point nor the one above it are intended to minimize the plight of people living in Europe who are really struggling.

There's a safety net. I was well paid in the USA; I had good health insurance, etc. But there are enough “gofundme” stories of people who were in a similar position, and for health or whatever reasons it suddenly all goes wrong and they need help to deal with whatever life throws at them. Here, I'm pretty confident that if I or my family are suddenly unable to work, there's a safety net and we won't be out on the street. (In practice, if it had all gone wrong in the USA, I'd have escaped back to the UK, but you take my point.)

In general, infrastructure feels more solid. The road surfaces are better (seriously, American roads are terrible). Trains well-kept and reliable. Public spaces are clean and well maintained. Banking systems feel like they are decades more modern.

A good standard of education is fairly ubiquitously available to everybody, without costing a fortune. Although I save less, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to afford to put my kids through college.

Evens:

I biked everywhere in Manhattan, in Seattle, and now in Utrecht. I have never owned a car. I guess I failed at my American integration!
Market is regulated by its very definition.

If it was completely unregulated, the person with the biggest gun would just take everything he wants.

It was always abut where to draw the line.
I run https://sabre.io/baikal/ mainly because of the webinterface some merge errors on carddav are just easier to fix with an ui.
Non-cookiewalled: https://text.npr.org/1075115539

(Wow, it’s like free karma to post these.)
> Google claims that untargeted ads bring in 52% of the revenue of targeted ads.

So targeted ads aren’t necessary, they are just more profitable.
Why is the term “Reverse ETL” becoming a thing? Committing data to an OLTP system has been around since the beginning of SQL. I believe one vendor coined this term to a marketing success but this meme needs to stop. Besides, ETL has been going out in favor of ELT.
The question is does defund mean "remove all funds" or "remove some funds"
How can you be broke as a senior software engineer? Even if the wages are lower than in the US, they're probably still in the better half of the wage pyramid.

(I'm a senior software engineer in Europe, doing alright)

Did he have massive student debt or something?
> Really one of the few things you can say context-free is: you'll have more vacation in virtually any European country.

In tech, at least, this probably is no longer true. In my experience most of the bigger companies have been moving to unlimited vacation. I'm pretty sure that someone in upper management did the math and concluded that employees granted unlimited vacation actually end up taking fewer days than if they are metered.
Just today, I received a text message from Google that my account has been disabled. The stated reason is "Spamming". I've been actively using this account as my main email for more than 14 years - back when you Gmail was intive-only. I rarely send any emails, and I'm sure my accounts has sent less than 50 emails in the past year. I don't know how an account with so few sent emails can be marked as spammer by any AI. But it was just the last day that I read the tweet saying files containing a "1" are marked as copyright infringement, so I shouldn't be so surprised.

Like the author I've also seen many such horror stories before, but always thought that wouldn't happen to me. I'm setting up my new email address on my own domain now, and encourage everyone to do the same. I'm still waiting for my appeal, so have not yet exactly checked how many sites I've lost access to because of Google login. Anyways, I will not make the mistake of using Google login or an email with domain not under my control for registering on any site again, even the least important ones.
I had a phase of seeking mechanical keyboards. But I felt like it's a downgrade for me, and whenever I voiced my concerns, people would just tell me I got the wrong switch, I have to do this mod, or buy this expensive keyboard and then it will be amazing. But it never did. I went back to a scissor switch keyboard and I love it. I even like some membrane keyboards, such as dell kb-522 or even cheapo ones like Logitech K120.

I don't like the feel of mechanical keyboards. Tall keys, tall keyboards and especially long travel time are a bug for me, not a feature. My style of typing, I don't like to spend a long time on each key, so the less travel time, the better. I actually enjoyed Macbook butterfly keyboard. Yes, I know mech keyboard proponents will tell me I am doing it wrong, that on a mechanical keyboard you don't have to bottom out, but that felt like an extra challenge to find the actuation point on each key.

I have to say however I enjoyed the feel of low profile (Kailh Choc) blue switches. It was a good balance between fun of mechanical keyboards and relatively low profile keys of non-mech keyboards.