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It seems like the important thing about the 88 officially-enumerated constellations is that they divide the sky up into standardized sectors. Asterisms are just the stars themselves.

In other words, the asterism "The Big Dipper" is exactly seven stars. Since these stars are prominent, they--and some others--define the constellation "Ursa Major" but the constellation is actually the region of space around them. Thus, you could say that you can see (e.g.,) a comet "in" Ursa Major, but not "in" the Big Dipper.
Rust programmers can write buggy code, but you'd really have to go out of your way to write memory-unsafe code.
Optimism, Pessimism and Cynicism
The Burroughs MCP operating system and some applications written on top of that. In fact, I believe that was the very first OS to be written entirely in a high-level language.

MCP is not today widely used in the same way, say, React or Linux is, but businesses used and depend on it such that it's still sold and supported, as Unisys ClearPath MCP.
Sunk cost. It's not going to cost less if the facilities aren't occupied.
> The vast majority of poor Americans have a car.

Because they have no choice, and are constantly forced to dump money into it to keep it on the road. This is absolutely pertinent to this discussion. Public transit systems are restricting because they are so poorly implemented.

I live in a small town, but when I was looking into taking the bus to work in the morning, it would have taken two hours each way, every day. That's extremely poor public transit and creates a huge amount of pressure to buy a car instead.
No... security depends on the cost mounting an attack, and that's the absolute cost.
Yeah, that's a very high-interest loan.
> If you mean that in a sense where we should be doing all in our power to make sure that only those deserving enough get rich (comabtting corruption, stripping people of ill-gotten fortunes, preventing trust building and unfair competition, removing money from politics, stopping government welfare for the rich, etc) so that the ideal is closer to reality, than I agree.

That's what I was getting at yes.
A significant, maybe half, Ill have to look of student loan debt is held by people who didn't graduate and thus gained no economical advantage from the debt.
"Chaos engineering for your backlog"
Hm, I guess for tools like this I always read "powerful" as "flexible" - as in: this tools has strictly more power/capabilities making it more flexible. In terms of "dev tool marketing speak" I guess it's the opposite of "robust" meaning: fewer features that are less likely to break on you.
yeah, i feel this is going to bother me, or at least be difficult to get used to.

i often have temporary files that i do not want to commit, nor do i want to add them to .gitignore (because i want to commit them later)

but then, i'll have to spend some time using jj split. if it is powerful enough then maybe the end result is just that those files only live in the last commit.

also, what happens on push? i'd never ever want the working copy to be pushed to the remote repo. i could not find anything in the documentation about that.

(according to the answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30399554 the working copy is not supposed to be pushed)
With today's industrialized medicine, this is becoming a bigger problem across the entire medical system.
A patent protects a means of doing something. It doesn't protect the final form.

In this case "concept" has a specific meaning. Not just an "idea", which obviously is not copyrightable. But the general structure of a creative work from the consumers experience.

For instance, rewriting a novel with new names, new locations, swapping out details not necessary for the plot with equivalent supporting details, etc.

IANAL, so I have no idea what the legalities of copyrighting a "concept" are. But that is what is meant by the concept of a creative work. It is the core of the creative work, and creative works are what copyright was intended to protect/incentivize.
Duplicate storage as already mentioned, but you will also lose the ability to merge / doff cross branches if you have separate checkouts.
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Just because you’re using an IDE doesn’t mean your should read the documentation, and know what’s available, what’s in the latest versions and what’s coming up.
The IDE is just a tool to make typing faster wherever that’s through code completion or refactoring tools.
That's unfortunately the only solution. The wealth gap between poor and billionaires is irrelevant. What actually creates inequality is the difference between $150k and 60k.
This is amazing. Can you share any info on how you were able to compile so much info from different sources? In my limited experience of hunting for legal filings, it seemed like every court had its own system, with nothing standardized or programmatic.

Thanks!
How about being served ads based on your state ? Is this still ok ?
i'm not interested in simplistic ideological battles, but note that the recovery of all those european economies, as well as japan's, were helped mightily by a relatively unscathed america, largely for ideological reasons to make your conclusion seem plausible.

11% is a fucking travesty for the richest nations in history whose overabundance is downright, shockingly monumental. we should have exactly zero people who don't have secure food, shelter, and a modicum of dignity. that's squarely on capitalism along with (republican[0]) democracy.

[0]: not the political party; republics centralize power in the hands of representative 'elites', because we all know the msases are too stupid to know what's good for them.
>not have to compete to attract employees. Also strongly implied is that minimum wage workers do not have an alternative means of supporting themselves.

In practice, that's the case. I think that the idea that it isn't so, and people go to this or that employer out of "free choice", stems from a religious-like belief in "free market", than from real-life empirical evaluation of how desperate and poor people pick jobs - and what options are open to then.

>Still, these people will still have to contend with employers that treat them like commodities, with no real alternative way to support themselves.

True. But at least they will make some more money will doing so - and might even afford to save a buck or too, and eventually look elsewhere.
> In the US, can you travel +1000km for next to nothing at +300km/h in an environmentally friendly way?

No, but the way that is worded essentially the only form of travel that meets those criteria is high speed electric rail in a country with little to no fossil fuel usage in the electric grid. For various reasons, passenger rail isnt as viable in the US as Europe (population density, suburban sprawl, etc).

You absolutely can travel >1000km at >300km/h for next to nothing in the US though, since air travel is quite inexpensive.
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> a lot like coordinational/planning micromanagement, where the manglement had final say on how much effort needed to be expended where instead of allowing engineering to own the resource allocation process

Yep, that's a fair assessment!

The 1000+ one was an ERP for mid-large businesses. They had 10 or so flagship products (all acquired) and wanted to consolidate it all into a single one. The failure was more on trying to join the 10 teams together (and including lots of field-only implementation consultants in the bunch), rather than picking a solid foundation that they already owned and handpicking what needed.

The 500+ was an online marketplace. They had that many people because that was a condition imposed by investors. People ended up owning parts of a screen, so something that was a "two-man in a sprint" ended up being a whole team. It was demoralising but I still like the company.

I don't think it's impossible to notice, but it's hard... you can ask during interviews about numbers of employees, what each one does, ask for examples of what each team does on a daily basis. Honestly 100, 500, 1000 people for a company is not really a lot, but 100, 500, 1000 for a single project is definitely a red flag for me now, and anyone trying to pull the "but think of the scale!!!" card is a bullshit artist.
nanomonkey says>"There are studies showing that travel has actually gone down in areas like Mexico with the addition of modern Highways. The poor just can't participate."<

More likely the poor used the highway once - to get out of the country and to the city. It isn't that they "can't participate", it's that they are gone.
> But yeah, you can walk for miles below ground level without ever setting foot outside.

It's ironic because if you visit Montréal in the summer everyone is outside.

Also, if a French Canadian take you to lunch, expect to eat for 1+ hour. No such thing as a quick lunch.
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Software development is like Tetris
Because that's slavery.
>"You begin using AWS for your first day ever"

I am not talking about outages here. Bad things can happen. More like a price.
We can deal with it by not buying them.
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What things would need to be implemented in order for it to be a web3maker?
Expenses aren't income... But a VAT is basically a tax on business revenue.
I know. It’s often difficult to find anyone at all.
Yeah, plus the consulate in NYC is pretty empty, at least when I’ve been. I once was able to get a two year visa in under an hour in and out, although my father is Algerian and half my family still lives there, so it was likely a special case for them.
Amen! So many friends have wanted to "visit" it, but it's just shops, Starbuckses, and hallways with nary a mole person to be seen.
That's not true. Fact is, labor costs money for the laborer to exist and show up for work.

No matter what, that money is paid, or the labor does not exist and or show up for work.

Your argument is one of merit, skill and market value.

This is exactly the wrong way to look at things. If we start from the cost of labor, and it does have a cost as I put above, whether to fund the labor boils down to the value said labor has for others, and that value can be traded on accordingly.

Fact is we need basic labors. Anyone can do them. There should be no shame in this work, and it should be valued as the massive time and effort savings to others that it really is. And automation holds few answers right now, and I would argue for a considerable time yet. People will be doing those labors.

Question really is how much does it cost people, who hold other positions in life, to perform basic labors themselves? And the answer is expensive!!

That difference in value can very easily fund labors then. It's a perfectly acceptable basis, and it means we value labor differently and it means we recognize that guy digging the ditch, or making our shit disappear, or any number of basic things has the same waking hours any of us do, same basic needs any of us do, and may have a family as any of us do.

This idea of people being inherently worthless is very highly toxic and is doing a great harm to all of us. It's completely unacceptable given the quite obvious value even basic labors actually do have for us overall.
The is one of the coolest maps I've seen. I thought that showing strong contrast on minor elevation changes would hide information, but it does the opposite. Great resource and great summary on the left tab thing
Yeah I'm curious to see what percent of users have been actively on Hinge for more than a year. They should be optimizing to minimize that if it's actually meant to be deleted
While I understand the pain of developers who get their projects cloned, I think bit is a bad idea to make the platforms the arbitrators of intellectual property, especially when it isn't clear what the legal decision would be. While there are complete ripoffs that should clearly be removed, there are also iterative clones that steal some ideas and improve on others. This iterative cloning process has lead to some of the best games ever made and we should be careful about limiting them.

If the indie developer's only reasonable recourse is to petition platforms, we need to reform the laws about to allow indie developer's a realistic and economically feasible route to address clones within the court system.
Rust has truly reinvigorated these types of tools.
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Snapchat will let users share their real-time location with friends
A part of me wishes for a video game crash to happen again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

But it wont, because most video games are no longer tied to physical products. It takes very little effort to purchase and delete video games now, and they take up 0 physical space. And, there isn't a new technology to replace the current mediums. They are also much cheaper compared to then.

It was an interesting time in video game history though because the video game market in 1983 became saturated with low quality games and clones because Atari did not enforce any control over 3rd party studios/publishers. People lost trust in product quality and stopped purchasing games. There was a 97% drop in revenue. !!! (not a typo)

Then Nintendo swooped in several years later and enforced quality control.

Recently I heard the Nintendo Switch is opening the doors to 3rd party developers. I think Unity already has a module for creating games for the switch, so the flood is coming, if it hasn't already.

My point is I'm sad to see everything go way of the internet. Procurement is dying and yet is necessary for quality. There's no enforcement in the Android store (and partially the the App Store) per the article. Steam opened its doors to everyone years ago and there are hundreds (or thousands?)* of new games added every day to steam. I believe they changed their algorithm to match games based on sales, not similarity (which makes sense, except my particular favorite genres don't have a lot of competition, so I really have to dig deep to find similar games).

Haha.. maybe I'm just getting old. I just dont want to have to put effort into finding quality products. It's such a waste of time to go pioneering.

Edit: *Correction, it's 100-200 a week, not per day.
That's irrelevant to the matter at hand. Scaling them has nothing to do with implementing UBI, and would be a good idea whether or not UBI is implemented. UBI simply does not solve the problem of poverty, or the poor having access to those goods and services.
The earlier post seemed more focused on the userland, so we should very much consider excluding the kernel before we decide the idea is too hard.
Ah, I guess I was referring specifically to radio transmission. You could say 400 years ago if that matters. A distant civilization could be 1 million years ahead of us.
Yes, but they get a lot more out of this...
"The FBI, National Security Agency, and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a report on Wednesday alleging that since at least January 2020, the hackers have been collecting information that is unclassified but contains “significant insight into US weapons platforms development and deployment timelines.”
Whoa, thank you! That does look like the answer!
The key is at the right of the map.
Lol, calm down buddy, drink a glass of water. I dislike Microsoft quite a bit, despise ads, and pay or block to minimize my exposure to them.

But believe it or not, not everyone is simple-minded enough to think that it's impossible to be incorrect as long as you're rooting for the right "side".

There's a group of people (let's call them "adults") who are capable of discussing reality in more detail than "hurr durr ads bad". The claim I responded to was that the choice of ad format was a new dark pattern, which is a specific claim that's independent of your feelings about ads overall.
Are you joking or is this a serious comment? Can't tell.

I hope it isn't serious.

This wealth redistribution nonsense is some of the dumbest ideology of our times. It comes from people who have no clue about how economies work --usually academics. In most cases these people have no experience whatsoever in the economy, have never built something, been responsible for making payroll or have any business experience whatsoever. In the case of the academics who push this garbage, they live in a reality distortion field. That's the only way a concept such as redistribution can survive contact with reality.

For those who would still insist on the delusion of redistribution. I have yet to see any of you support your comments with math. No, not a wall of links. Math. Simple math. Nobody every does that, it's always a holier-than-thou moral superiority stance supporting the delusion.

This is exactly like "save the planet" and switching our entire ground transportation fleet to electric cars in fifty years. Two modern-day delusions that continue to be pushed as though they were supported by physics.

Believing in something does not make it real.
These Rust vs C comparison often get fixated on the, somewhat unique, memory safety advantage of Rust. But the proper comparison should be ANY modern language vs. C, cause those remove a heap of other C footguns as well. Most modern language have:

- sane integers: no unsafe implicit cast, more ergonomic overflow/saturate/checked casts

- sane strings: slices with length, standardized and safe UTF-8 operations

- expressive typing preventing API misuse: monads like Optional/Result, mandatory exception handling, better typedefs, ADTs vs tagged unions

And even without the full Rust ownership model, I'd expect the following to solve a majority of the memory safety problems:

- array bounds checks (also string bounds checks)

- typed alloc (alloc a specific type rather than N bytes)

- non-null types by default

- double-free, use-after-free analysis

- thread-save std APIs

In the write-up you linked, Section 2 is a missing error check => Result<T> would surface that. The macOS case contains a relative path vs string comparison => expressive typing of Path would disallow that. DriverKit exploit is a Non-NULL vs NULL API mistake. Kernel PAC is a legit ASM logic bug, but requires a confusion of kernel stack vs. user stack => might have been typed explicitly in another language.
Mental health helpline funded by royals shared users’ conversations
I definitely agree with you. I’m not a physicist but I did watch a ton of pop sci growing up and saw so much stuff about Dyson sphere, Fermi paradox, etc. I got so bored of it and hate how it drags down most discussions about potential alien life etc. The Fermi Paradox itself was supposed to proof we’ve got something wrong, not that we’re alone in the universe and something scary lurks.

I think the answer may be that most civilizations never need or want to colonize everything in sight. It could also be political: no species gets to the level of being able to build structures like this without breaking up into competing polities. We think about colonizing everything because we’re still in the mode of a creature who evolved on a planet and spread out everywhere.

It’s probably the case that with fusion dyson swarms aren’t used due to the opportunity cost of building them. In 1-200 years we’ll find the idea of surrounding the sun with metal as laughable as there being canals on Mars.
This is... not great. It's crucial that these records be open to public inspection. But instant full-text search of the entire dockets of 630M cases feels wrong, invasive, and dangerous to me.

It's yet another instance of panopticon surveillance now being too cheap to meter. I think our society needs to come to grips with this new reality and figure out what to do about it.

Or are we all just cool with this?
How does it annoy you? Development velocity, creativity hinderance?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220219132205/https://smaller.f...
Out of interest, what's wrong with Hetzner's data center(s) in Germany?
Awesome, thanks for the answers and thanks for sharing your project! I'll give it a try :-)
> Pyrite is a web(RTC) client for the Galène videoconference server.

So probably a play on the name of the parent project.
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Or it could be just as simple as me jotting down some notes in my native language, which includes such exotic characters as ę and ą. You know, so I don't have to go back to using a code page like back in good old DOS days, that I'm actually too young to have lived through.
https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver?ram_from=2&ram_...

https://postimg.cc/xXxpNw1k

i was comparing the "used servers auctions" vs new dedicated servers.
That was in fact the statement of the post that I replied to "If they can build Dyson spheres, wouldn't they already be all over the place?"
It’s probably just that colonizing the entire galaxy is really hard and no society ever has an economic need to. Populations don’t expand exponentially forever, the recent explosion is an effect of the industrial revolution, and any species that gets a certain size breaks up into subspecies and starts competing with each other.

There could very well be individual dyson swarms out there and we haven’t seen them or haven’t realized that’s what they are. But building them around every star in the galaxy is something I’ll never understand why it’s taken as a given.
I notice too that the UK Samaritans website also includes ad tracking.

I can think of no good reason why Google are tracking the users of a mental health crisis site.
> Also, they have a Finland DC now, so off-site backups are possible.

They've had Falkenstein and Nuremberg for a long time, so off-site has already been possible.
i used to look down on languages other than C, considering programs written in C a better choice than eg. python. i have since reversed my stance because i realized that python is a lot more hackable. i haven't tried rust yet, but i would prefer it over C for sure. compared to python i won't know until i actually get familiar with rust.
Understanding Consciousness with Color-Coded Cartoons (2020)
Why would you lose that ability? You can just pull from the other checkout as an upstream, right?
>Further tying it to minimum wage will only add more pressure to politicize and corrupt the CPI calculation. That is the failure point in all similar ideas.

That's not much of an issue in practice: to even get a few those ideas implemented already requires voter vigilance and strong societal push.

If you have those then a reliable CPI is just another thing this vigilance/push should cover.

If you don't have them, you wont get far with those proposals either.

So it's not like we can get the proposals into laws, but the CPI will be the issue making them ineffective. It's all or nothing.
I haven't noticed anything like that. Must be a geofenced experiment or something of that nature.
> spherical constellation of energy gathering sails that stay mostly in place?

Wait, what? You can't have a spherical constellation of unconnected stuff that mostly stays in place, that's not how orbits work. You can have a single orbital ring, but a sphere consisting of many circular orbits would have these orbits intersect with very large relative movement. If you're thinking about non-rotating constellation where the gravitational pull is balanced by solar wind, the problem is that they have gravitational interaction with each other and the planets so it's inherently unstable, they would "want to clump up" and as soon as they do, the balance is disrupted as the same mass has less solar pressure and it starts to fall into the sun.
Artificial barriers to entry are the problem 100%.
As far as I'm aware, every major company in the industry is working on exactly this. I'm telling you why we don't just have an all-memory-safe iPhone right now, despite Apple's massive checking account. I'm not arguing with you that the industry shouldn't (or isn't) moving towards memory safety.