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> don't learn anything new, no matter how much I try to explore new concepts

I'm sure there's more that you're not being exposed to. Distributed systems, functional programming, or Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). Go, Rust, Pony, Clean are all interesting languages that do things differently. Elixir/Phoenix framework since you have Ruby background is also a neat twist. You can learn new things if you hang around the same neighbourhood (unless that's HN).
This is the irony here in that in the situations recently where environmentalists and indigenous protestors halted pipeline construction the Conservatives in parliament railed against these actions, citing economic harms.

Now with these protests, causing even more incredibly severe economic harms they've demurred from criticizing the protestors.
The article addresses this question directly. In my entire career I've never been asked for an ID at any interview.
Obviously a lot of details unknown at this point, but: https://globalnews.ca/news/8600592/trucker-convoy-police-inv...
> Chemical synthesis is much more than just retrosynthesis.

Of course, but we are talking about chemical discovery - after which you want to test if the compound theoretical capabilities work on cells. Yields are not yet a concern!

> expect any reasonable results

No it won't do all the work, but it will direction, and suggestion for which pathways could be used.
I was expecting the same.

I don't agree with a lot of what Jobs did, but he was absolutely right about rounded rectangles.

> Bill's technique used the fact the sum of a sequence of odd numbers is always the next perfect square (For example, 1 + 3 = 4, 1 + 3 + 5 = 9, 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 16, etc). So he could figure out when to bump the dependent coordinate value by iterating in a loop until a threshold was exceeded. This allowed QuickDraw to draw ovals very quickly.

Still blows my mind. I have a hankering to try to blind-rewrite this algorithm knowing only the above.
and from the linked NYT article:
>A review of the data shows that some $4.3 million came from Canada, while an additional $3.6 million originated in the United States, though the United States accounted for the most individual donations. Small donations from dozens of other countries made up a fraction of the total amount raised.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/world/canada/canada-truck...

Phrasing it as the majority of the donors are foreign to drive a narrative that Canadians don't care about this issue when they are putting their money and their time on the line is absurd.
I remember when it launched and I got to find out who on Mastodon had a consistent praxis and who had puritanical views on sex workers.
Civil disobedience as I support it is a non-violent action. A lot of people cite these protestors as "non-violent" but there have been many incidences of protestors attacking or intimidating residents as well as intimidating the police to resist enforcement actions so I don't regard the current occupation in Ottawa as meeting that threshold.

I think that anyone following closely would have to concede that police conduct and the lack of enforcement is a product of the threat of violence, but I certainly concede that it might be the case that immediate enforcement /might/ result in nonviolent resolution - it just seems very unlikely.
Arrested for refusing to identify himself. He had been blowing the horn in a residential area for quite a long time. Cops came by to tell him to knock it off, he refused to cooperate with them.
> Assuming I'd rather self-host instead of hitching a ride on npm - could it it still be useful, as a cross-platform bundle maker?

I've seen some interest for self hosting, so it will likely be added. In an earlier iteration (I've been at this for a couple years), it was self hosted, but I found that npm brought a lot to the table and simplified things, so I focused on that.

> What are the single points of failure for the curated JRE procurement?

Here's the process. The launcher (written in C and Go) checks the npm registry to get the app's metadata (e.g. JVM requirements, versions, etc..). If the app needs to be updated, it will update it. If it needs to download a compatible JVM it downloads it. (But it reuses JVMs so if it already has one that meets requirements, it will use that). Currently it downloads from Azul. Used to use Adoptium but switched for JavaFX support reasons.

Any of these pieces could be switched out pretty easily (npm -> self hosting, Zulu -> Adoptium, or self hosted, bundled VM, etc..).
https://archive.fo/yBpUJ
Vaccines cut down the hospitalization and death rate 20 to 60-fold. They reduce transmission by a substantial amount. That means they work. Why are you nitpicking and purposely ignoring the titanic scientific achievement of developing cheap vaccines, deployed by the billions in the span of a year, that literally avoided tens of millions of deaths?

It's clear you're not here to make good-faith arguments.
Sweden currently has a system where when babies blood are tested, a small sample is kept, recorded, and stored. There are strict rules about viewing access and purpose.

Politicians violated those rules once in late 90s when a high positioned politician was murdered and they wanted to catch the criminal by doing a dna search, which resulted in a match.

From a pure practical perspective, the result of allowing police access to dna databases is that more criminal cases will be resolved than if they aren't, be that a database of rape victims or research database with blood of infants. The biggest ethical problem is that by violating the purpose of those databases, the result might be that people stop volunteering to be in those databases. There are also a slippery slope argument that by allowing police access to the database you are also inviting abuse of the information within in, both legal (in terms of politicians creating new use cases) and illegal.

There is also this icky feeling that comes when people violate the purse of collected personal information for purposes which people have not consented to.
It depends on the type of relationship to some extent e.g. friends, acquaintances, business relations, etc.

But in general, I feel like we are too self-conscious about staying in touch.
And often because we have experiences where something happens in our lives and we find ourselves regretting "I wish I had stayed in touch with ----".

But when that happens, maybe we can ask ourselves: even if I had stayed in touch, would it really have turned out as I am fantasizing now in my regret?
If we think about it carefully, I think the answer is probably no. A meaningful relationship is not that simple nor easy.

As others have mentioned, a relationship is two-ways so it takes both sides.
And it only takes one to remember occasionally to stay in touch, so if we both were interested in each other, most likely we would have remained in touch already.
And even if we had not, it's never too late. With such relations, I find that I can just reach out now and resume the same relationship no matter how much time passes in between.
Even in the worst case where I don't have the contact anymore, if I were truly determined, I will do everything I can to find a way to reach that person.

On the other hand, a shallow relation is bound to not get too far: it will fail (or break, or be lost, etc) at some point in one way or another anyway.
So it most likely wouldn't have turned out as my regret is fantasizing anyway.
Justice means appropriate measures for relevant actions. Not wanting to take responsibility for your own decisions like these truckers is a far cry from being repressed and abused because you look like someone the men who control the money don't like. The tolerable level of their civil disobedience should be commensurate with the severity and legitimacy of their complaint.
I do not want a Ministry of Truth to judge on my behalf on the value of information.

Information wants to be free and any attempt for suppression is only for MOT's owners' short-term gains.
> I honestly don't get these... "but some BLM protest in some US city" responses

I am ok with BLM blocking infrastructure and disripting things to spread an important message. But we have to give everybody the same ability then.
I'm pretty sure stakkur means mermaidjs is a bad option for markdown, as its source form is not "useful" as a diagram, and that it's actually GitHub which is saying every "markdown parser (/renderer) should support building diagrams as well" since they're encouraging its use by supporting the syntax.

The real criticism of the original comment is that markdown has never really been "portable"; yes there's now a hard dependency (for some definition of "hard") on mermaidjs for GitHub-flavored-markdown, but that actually brings it in line with other implementations. So has portability been obviated or just slightly changed?
It looks like the old man was stopped for honking. Not sure on the timing of everything, there was an injunction granted against honking downtown Ottawa.

He appears to have been arrested for refusing to identify himself when stopped (it looks like he was intending to, then emboldened by the cameraman opted not to). That's bog standard highway traffic act stuff - if you're stopped driving, you have to show your license, registration and proof of insurance if asked.

To say "arrested for honking" feels misleading - it seems reasonable to suggest that if he followed standard Highway Traffic Act stuff he would have been on his way with a warning/ticket/whatever is done presently to stop the honking, doesn't it? I'm open to have misunderstood, I'm not even qualified to be an armchair lawyer.
Heel striking is generally considered suboptimal from an efficiency and injury risk standpoint. But there are major variations in what works best due to individual physiology and type of shoes worn. There are a few elite distance runners who have had long, successful careers with heel striking even though it's supposedly "bad".
In my experience shaders are one of those things that doesn't really get enough use in data viz because of how inaccessible the langauage is. Sure CUDA is great, but it requires a ton of libraries and specific GPUs. What makes shaders so useful as a tool is that they work nearly everywhere and when they work they're super fast.
$100 is "a little incentive". Firing people from their jobs, threatening their livelihood, making them unable to put food on their table or a roof over their heads, and ostracizing them from society is brutal coercion, no matter how nicely you dress it up. Getting people vaccinated that way is not informed consent in any way, shape or form.

> People want things to go back to normal

The biggest problem is that people who defend the coercion believe that a higher vaccination rate will somehow end the pandemic. In Ontario, today, the majority of ICU cases, hospital cases, and cases cases are among the vaccinated.

It's the vaccinated who are driving the pandemic, and have been driving it the past few months. But all the blame is being heaped on the unvaccinated.

The Omicron wave will burn out, as waves do. The pandemic will end, as pandemics do. And the vaccination rate won't make one iota of difference in the long run.
XMPP server is slightly easier to setup and it requires far less resources than matrix. I think that in the server aspect XMPP is superior, in both performance and scalability (ejabberd).

The client setup in XMPP and Matrix seem to have the same usual steps (username and password). No big differences here, other than Element defaults to matrix.org to create an account (which contributes to centralization).

I'd say that XMPP clients are generally better than matrix's ones. Maybe because matrix is an immature and younger protocol, but Element seems to be the only client that implements everything and UI is confusing and it's electron.

And a personal preference, I like using my GPG keys to encrypt my conversations when possible in XMPP. This wouldn't be possible in matrix.
Downloading from techspot is certainly not illegal, but it's your obligation to ensure that you're complying with the project's license.

> Version uploaded to Techspot was listed as Freeware and identifying itself as Freeware, how much more Freeware do you need it to be?

"Freeware" is not a license, at best it's a category similar to "Open source". MIT and GPL are licenses with clearly defined and understood terms.

Just like "Open source" only implies that source code is accessible, "Freeware" only implies that you don't have to pay for the software. It doesn't automatically grant you a right to use, modify, and redistribute it without restrictions.
BLM protests happened in a completely different legal jurisdiction. Trump couldn't invoke the Emergencies Act, because that's a Canadian law.
My data point, FF has worked fine for me on MacOS and Windows for years.
> You have placed all your trust and blind faith in these unregulated exchanges that no one ever audits.

As I mentioned in the other comment thread, Coinbase and Kraken trade USDT, are highly regulated under US law, and are audited regularly. Gemini is also highly regulated under US law and audited regularly, though they don't trade USDT. I don't know where you're getting this idea that most exchanges are unregulated and never audited, or that it even matters as long as the particular exchange you are using is regulated and audited.

It would be really hard for me to believe that both Coinbase and Kraken are colluding to trade USDT at a rate other than fair market value as determined by their order books.
No, I'm referring to Americans donating to Canadian causes, and yes, it's a problem both ways: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/foreign-donors-gave-1-3...

> The inquiry launched by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s government into the scale of foreign funds aimed at damaging the province’s oil and gas industry has issued its long-awaited report, finding that foreign donors provided nearly $1.3 billion in funds for Canadian environmental campaigns between 2003 and 2019.
Or those clever hacks, where it's a neat trick because you realize that some of those things you thought were fixed are actually under your control and messing around with them you discover something that was hard or impossible, pretty straight-forward actually.
Internet Death Cult of Fun (1998)
it's back up now for me
In addition Java is signed. So the app is running within a signed/trusted VM that has the right permissions. The OS includes guards in place (at least in Mac) so permissions should be granted if you do something outside of what you're supposed to do.
On the other, you have more time with your foot on the ground where you are pushing forward
does not seem all that surprising frankly,

considering US is about 10x the size of Canada and that the issue is highly politicized

I am surprised only half the funding comes from US
What sort of privacy do you loose tho?
News report (investigation ongoing so details not really clear): https://globalnews.ca/news/8600592/trucker-convoy-police-inv...
There was a study out of the UK on here recently that seems to indicate most Orthopedic surgeries are worse than no surgery. So I'm very not relaxed :)
The point of the analogy isn’t that it’s clever. It’s that both types of governmental actions are stupid.

Forcing someone to inject something into their body against their will in order to save you a few tax dollars is simply disgusting.
Unless I calculated wrong 19% in the past 10 years. According to the https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm $100 in January 2012 has the buying power of $124.04 last month.
The CEO Masayoshi Son lost spectacularly during the dot com crash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son

> s of October 2021, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated Son's net worth at US$23.1 billion, making him the second richest man in Japan and 68th richest person in the world,[1] despite having the distinction of losing the most money in history (approximately $70bn during the dot com crash of 2000).[4]

After that the big success came with investment in Ali Baba.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank_Group

> In October 1999, SoftBank became a holding company.[21] In 2000, SoftBank made its most successful investment – $20 million to a then-fledgling Chinese Internet venture called Alibaba.[22] This investment turned into $60 billion when Alibaba went public in September 2014.[23][24]
>Of course I can, as long as the taxes collected are according to the law, that’s not confiscation.

>But the wording choices makes me think that this is not about what it is claimed to be. That start sounding like libertarian agenda pushing, which is fine but it’s very manipulative.

We can debate whether taxation counts as "confiscation" or not, but the argument works just as well if you replace "confiscating" with "taxing", ie. '... can you say the government isn't taxing people's money "against their will", because ...'

>The best part? You have direct say in how much it should be collected or not collected.

So what, if you get to vote on it, it doesn't count as being "against your will"?
I have never witnessed race waling in my life, not even in passing. I am aware it exists and have seen clips of it, but I've never actually seen a race live, nor do I know anyone who has.
As a matter of fact, never heard of "boeuf bourgignon", so I had to check it's wiki page.

1. Fry meat + <<whatever else usually grows in Europe, or in/around France>> (givin' it's a french dish).

2. Once done, smash some whatever red wine on top and get it into a shape that looks like food.

3. Add gradually whatever spices and herbs are known to grow in Europe at the 'correct' time during 1 and 2. (apparently nowadays it's popular to smash 3 peppers cumin coriander and some brown sugar all into one big pile and cook it, with a whole stick of butter, regardless of dish! wtf?)

0. Pan-fry separately either some onions, mushrooms or potatoes (I hate boiled potatoes, and carrots), with, again, whatever spices and herbs can grow in France. (personal preference, don't like mixing way too many stuffs together, they'll usually lose all taste)

FIN. Put both dishes together when serving per plate or table. Add another load of ground peppers and the same herbs on top while the food is still hot, for aroma.

Wikipedia still looks like a great resource for scouting recipes for me.

Except for cakes. Cakes are magic. haven't managed to get them to work properly for some reason, regardless of recipes. My best guess store cakes use some kind of cheap industrial grade oil/margarine which is not readily sold so I never managed to replicate them..
Unless the validation system has been compromised too. But I agree, it should increase the cost to attackers substantially.
What are your thoughts about Regan promising to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court in his campaign?
Great concept, but a question about permissions: say that I'm the admin on the client side with a billing question for example, would my non-admin teammates (that don't have access to the billing info) have access to the support conversation about billing?
We do need some criteria though. You’re invoking the fallacy, not me. What is the criteria for being essential?
It's extremely strange that your boss could be so unaware, and honestly quite a red flag. Did they have 100 reports?
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It's a last resort that Trudeau and the Federal Government even needs to be involved in the first place. It's wild that we're at this point.

The first resorts are the issue being dealt with by local police. The fact that local police couldn't resolve this, and neither could reinforcements from the Ontario Provincial Police is very troubling tbh. It really should never get to this point.

At the end of this there needs to be an inquiry as to why the police were unable to get a grip on the situation.
You can use MIDI hardware as input devices. That means you can use foot controllers with pedals and other controls that might be easier to manage than keyboards, mice and trackpads. There are also purpose-built input devices for those with repetitive stress injuries and what not. You use them to work with, or modify, voice controls.

Assuming by engineer you mean a software engineer who uses a computer all day.
They actually do this already in a roundabout way: if you turn on iCloud Private Relay, you can choose the IP Address Location as Use country and time zone
Aaaaand there it is. “The only way to solve climate change is to vote 3xtreme left”. I’ll continue to be skeptical.
Locking bank accounts without a trial happens every single day in every democracy in the world. Any legal process where money is suspected of being dirty but is allowed to flow freely through the banking system until the conclusion of a trial would be completely useless - I believe this is fairly obvious if you think about it.

Due process should be quicker, I wish more people would vote based on making the courts more responsive, but unfortunately no one does.
Yeah, the best times are when your creation/program does something that you didn't expect in a good way. Oh shit, I didn't know it could do that too! Like when an initial design keeps being built upon and on and on, and it doesn't seem to need much reformulation in its conceptualization, only specific updates (partitioning/caching) to keep its performance scalable.
My programming language doesn't want to use it; I do. If you would "never even think" to realize that ⇒ in your editor is actually =>, after having installed a programming ligature font where that is always advertised, that's on you. And any developer should already be well aware that no common language uses symbols beyond ASCII, so seeing ⇒ should be clear enough already that it's a ligature. I really think this 'confusion' argument is made up and has never actually occurred for more than 5 seconds.

Semantically, the language would like to use a ⇒, because it's representing the idea of an arrow. It's only due to keyboard constraints that it has use use =>. Parsers (and our brain is also a parser) would be much easier to implement if meaning didn't have to derive from symbol combinations like =>, !==, <!--. The input interface is limited to ascii to represent meaning, but our eyes don't need to be.
A possible explanation is that leading a team effectively isn't necessarily more difficult, but rather that it might be less pleasant and/or less financially advantageous than being either an individual contributor or an ineffective team leader.
It's been going below -25 C at night for the past few days in Ottawa and the truckers are sleeping in their cabs. I have no doubt there will be some who blame Trudeau.
One thing I've never understood about protests of the "you've made your point" variety is what they're supposed to do. I'm thinking of the Women's March and things like that, where there's a scheduled day and people walk around and then they are done. What is that supposed to do? It's less of a protest and more of a parade in my opinion.

The trucker protest, on the other hand, I can understand what it is supposed to do. Make people uncomfortable, block critical infrastructure, force the government to do what you want. But, if truckers just leave, then we're back to "What's the point of this?"
My comment was a nitpick about how the Canadian electoral system works: no one outside of that particular riding voted for Justin Trudeau, they only voted for their own member of parliament.