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I’ve used JavaScript for about 25 years, sometimes more seriously, and always hated it. I’ve always found it unpredictable, I don’t like the turtles-all-the-way-down thing going on with its objects. I’d like to leverage my experience with regular class definitions and instantiation from Java workalikes. I’m sure many people love JS’s take on OO but I find it annoying.

A perfect example: I read hey there’s a cool simpler way to write small anonymous functions called arrow syntax. Nice let me try it, hm it’s not working —> google —> arrow functions have no access to ‘this’.
I agree with you, except this part: "assets they just have lying around". Assets never lie around, except when you buy an apartment, don't live in it and don't even rent it. Usually the money is in investments (that make money by definition), stocks, bank accounts. All of these generate further value.

So while it is unfair that some people get a huge head start in life, it's not wasted potential for the most part.

Growing older I realized a life that is unfair but you get equal rights is actually better than trying to live in a fair society, like communism, which causes more issues than it solves. Plus, you can never be 100% fair, e.g. when do I get my check for being "less beautiful than my peers". Being at the bottom at the ladder looks-wise made it harder for me than anything else.
I actively avoid sun exposure because I burn super easily. Does this mean I'm going to die?
For anyone playing, the dark green letters are correct and the lighter green letters are in the wrong spot. Took me 4 tries before I figured that out.
Totally.

Lack of sanitation, food, etc… do cause deaths.

Lack of equality is a fact of life. It cannot kill.

Thanks. I agree with you totally.
He's saying that this is a misleading figure because a lot of people have a lot of negative wealth.

That's apparently supposed to ameliorate how bad this looks but as far as I can see it only serves to emphasize how bad the problem is.
Hershey I think is meant to be melted. Eating it solid it tastes like chocolate with sawdust mixed in. There is good chocolate here but Hershey isn’t it.
Why do few Americans have access to european chocolate? It's not like fresh fruits that go off easily/require climate controls, seems like it would be pretty easy to ship over the atlantic?
I agree, that's the one unfortunate flaw of Lua I'd go back in time and change if I were Hitler With a Time Machine, but I've used Lua and other 1-based languages like ScriptX, and you totally get used to it, and finally realize that 0-based languages have their own confusing quirks and inconveniences that you got used to when you learned them, and you just don't think about them any more once you've internalized them, just like 1-based languages. It's just a matter of moving the confusing quirks and complexity around, not that 0-based languages are less confusing, complex, or quirky than 1-based languages, or the other way around.

But that said, I'd prefer that Lua had 0-based indexes, simply because that's what most other languages have, not because it's superior.
Carthage is a fascinating story. Driven out of Phonecia by the Sea People (another amazing story) they end up on the north coast of what we now call Africa and later another city Cadiz Spain. They had an amazing culture until a new culture, Rome, appeared across the water in what is now called Italy.

Carthage was the and only real sea power in the region and its funny yet sad that they labelled ship parts to make construction more efficient. The Romans eventually capatured a ship and were able to use the built-in guide to make their own copies. Rome used the ships to attack and defeat Carthage.

I often wonder what the world would be like if Rome fell and Carthage survived. Adding insult to injury even words like Africa are Roman terms that we use today to describe where Carthage existed.
Sing pension funds last at most 15-20 years for most of people of his generation without white collar job.

People are expected to only "semi"-retire
They controlled for exercise and the effect size decreased by 40 percent but was still significant.
My biggest criticism is, as usual in epidemiology, there's a bunch of confounders that weren't controlled for and are very difficult to control for. Vitamin D levels, social life, psychiatric disorders for example.

However I'm sceptical that vitamin D deficiency explains the entire effect given it is quite large. If sunlight itself isn't relevant I expect other confounders to be stacking on top of vitamin D deficiency.
Then let’s use a facade pattern ;-)
The "over 300 billion years" kind of headlines always bother the crap out of me. The clock won't run for 300 billion years. It'll probably run for ten or twenty.

But during that time there will be several copies of it built, and they'll run in several locations around the world, and the outputs of those copies will deviate less than some tinysecond per longtime. Attoseconds per month or whatever.

And the useful timescale is more like, how much do they deviate over five seconds?

Because they'll be used for something like astronomical ranging. Say you have two radio telescopes at distant points on the earth, both observing a distant stellar source simultaneously. The long baseline forms one side of a triangle, and the distances from the two observatories to the star form the other two sides. The more precisely you can determine those distances, the better you can resolve the position of the source. So you've got coherent receivers that can measure individual wavefronts in the signal, but how coherent are they, anyway? That depends on the clock they share. But they're on opposite sides of the planet, they don't actually share a clock...

And the measurement period over which you can compensate for other confounding factors (probe and measure the atmospheric distortions in the way, for instance) might be very brief, so the clocks' stability over brief periods is salient.

This is my lay understanding, so if someone more versed in the art wants to chime in, I'm all ears!
As I said in my comment I just made in this thread, I think concerns with wealth inequality are often based on understandable and reasonable concerns. However, I do always wonder what the actual issue is. Would it matter if there are ultra-wealthy people if the non-ultra-wealthy had a good standard of living? Personally, and maybe this is a wrong outlook, I don't care that someone is a billionaire as long as I'm able to live a fulfilling life myself. What do you think?
>Everything is a stressor. Doing nothing is a (negative) stressor. The question is is it a sufficient stress. And it is not.

You are wrong.
The point is that we wouldn't have needed decades of work on tooling to achieve what could have been done from that start with intelligent language design.
WebSockets

Frameworks like JustPy have used it to couple the frontend to the backend and have a Python server doing all the logic work (i.e. frontend just passes everything over WebSockets to the server and asked what to do). It's an awesome demonstration of what WebSockets can do.

MQTT has no place on the web. It barely has a place in IoT and should lose all rights to that claim yesterday.
For patents, you can do your implementation, but you need to pay for the privilege.
Why Vladimir Putin and his entourage want war
> We acknowledge several major limitations of this study. First, it is not possible to differentiate between active sun exposure habits and a healthy lifestyle, and secondly, the results are of an observational nature; therefore, a causal link cannot be proven. A further limitation is that we did not have access to exercise data from study initiation; however, similar sHR values were obtained when including exercise for those women who answered the second questionnaire in 2000.

This is the rub. We don't know sun-exposure is merely a signal of some healthy lifestyle; but evidence from the later questionnaire suggests that normalizing for exercise still leads to a reduction in risk.
Eventually, yes
Arguably it's the only way! A rising aerobic tide lifts all boats...
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Why not drop a temporary popup or form on your page? "How did you learn about Umbrellatoday? [ info box]"
The SE line has Touch ID, does it not? That's a huge differentiator, and one of the main reasons I switched to Samsung a few years ago. Actually, assuming they keep Touch ID in the SE 3, I might now switch back...
If you're a woman in the south of Sweden, I'd say yes. Otherwise you're probably fine.
From personal experience I can say that this is true.

I had the iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 13 Pro afterwards, and the difference is night and day. I’d say the battery life on the 13 Pro is at least twice as good as on the 12 mini, and I wouldn’t attribute it to the 1 generation jump in technology.
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“There’s a fool born every minute.” P. T. Barnum

Just because people are buying something doesn’t make it a smart decision. I understand the technology but I’ve never come across an new idea for using NFTs that didn’t feel like I was just going to be scamming the person buying them. The fact others don’t have the same ethical compunctions I do does not in any way make me feel more like disregarding my own personal ethics.
The problem of having trillionaries in our spellchecker dictionaries?
Seriously?

I think we have quite more pressing problems than that right now.
You can switch that site to tablets, here's a direct link: https://www.productchart.com/tablets/

At a glance, you can filter by both screen size and weight, so that should work for your purpose.
Only way i would work in tech again is if i found a small company with a tight knit group of functional people. Or owned my own business, be that a startup or consultancy.
JustPy sounds interesting, thanks. Why the MQTT hate, though?
How about power? Ten most powerful men have how many times of power of how many billions people? You don’t see that kind of report because power is difficult to quantify.

Money maybe equivalent to power at some level, but Xi can easily make Jack Ma disappear. This means money means nothing in front of power. Power is obviously way more dangerous than money. And there’s way more inequality in power than in money.
I think the point might be that democracies are like autocracies -- just with extra steps. The wealthy and powerful call the shots in all in political systems.
Vitamin D3 supplements are commonly made from sheep wool grease (lanolin).
It's a bit of an inefficient hack compared to a language feature.
Possibly. But your risk of melanoma is reduced. It's just other shit that will kill you.
I have found a similar issue affecting thousands of root domains on another service. They still sit there, ripe for the taking.
(1) explains the difference between us.

My model of Putin was that of a shrewd, smart, somewhat cynical person without sincere ideological convictions who is happy to enjoy his billions without much desire to rock the boat too much - perhaps just a little if he needs to shore up nationalistic support.

Your model of Putin is that of a megalomaniac who wants to go down in history as a great and revered leader.

Could you explain a bit on what your model is based on?
I used to like milka but at some point started eating bitter/lower sugar chocolate and find it hard to enjoy milka/ritter sport type chocolates these days - they taste way too sweet. Generally as I age i find it harder to enjoy chocolates, even better brands (I live in Germany).
Take a look at the mid-tier Synology units, they have Docker support and relatively nice specs
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There are a HUGE number of historical counterfactuals to this.

Musk and Bezos combined have about as much as Rockefeller had and that's just after accounting for inflation, not even considering the overall pie was much smaller then.

Or look up Mansa Musa.

so no, it hasn't "only been like this" for x amount of time. The world is less equal now than 50 years ago but drastically more equal than most of the rest of history.
I've been doing something similar when coding.

On one long-term project we even had special comments with an expiry date attached. Every time the build was running a script would scan all comments and print to output those comments that were expired to make sure someone revists them. And you could either remove, keep and extend expiry or modify that code, depending on context.

I guess it never crossed my mind I could do the same when creating company policies and processes.
And LuaJIT has historically been extremely fast (initially much faster than JavaScript's early JITs) because it didn't have nearly as many optimizer-busting design flaws to work around as JavaScript JITs did, because Lua's language design is so much simpler and cleaner than JavaScript's, which wasn't originally designed to be compiled (cough cough "with" cough "this"). But because JavaScript was the "Chosen Language", a whole lot of effort has been put into developing JITs that worked around JavaScript's flaws over the decades since. But all that effort could have been put to much better uses if it didn't have all those flaws in the first place.
Not to mention the exceptionally high correlation with low education and low income.

The same data could be used to conclude that low income and lack of education are risk factors for death similar to smoking...
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And just like Crypto AG is. Power doesn't only subvert public orgs, or only orgs in their own countries.

What org would you implicitly trust? I wouldn't immediately discount anything on this list more than anything else I see advertised on HN.
I think it still applies, even if it’s not an exact analogy. Consider a lawn mowing service. Anyone with a lawn mower in your neighborhood can compete with you and charge less. So you need to offer more than just the fact you’re mowing their lawn for $X, or if consumers only care about price, tough luck.

Yes, lawn mowing services aren’t global over the internet. Not I think the same principle still applies: to have to offer more than just some value proposition that can be copied. The global nature of software just means anyone can compete from anywhere.
Had a big green snake in downstairs in the garden.
Does it burn in the early morning and late afternoon too? Those are probably the only times light skinned people should get extended sun exposure during the summer.
I think I’d be ok with that. Trouble is, right now, plenty of people don’t have a good standard of living, and the wealth accumulated by the ultra-wealthy could make a dent in that.
It's, I think, more complicated than that.

Lack of wealth is lack of power, and with a sufficient lack of wealth one has no power even over ones own living situation. That kind of thing is bad for people-- because they rent they have continuous uncertainty and can't change or build, which I think are human instincts which it costs something to suppress. Think of it as being restricted to working only on the production branch of a software project, where anythings done incorrectly has consequences for others.
MQTT is neither "esoteric" or "not useful to society at large" nor is WebSockets vs MQTT even a useful contrast, since WebSockets to a large degree addresses a different level of the stack (and indeed "MQTT over WebSockets" is a common way of deploying it).
Extending this logic, I assume most larger nations would be included for similar reasons, certainly the more western and/or developed ones, which seems rather reductionist and somewhat unproductive. Perhaps a more evidence-based approach is advisable.
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> it makes the use of software in automotive devices effectively impossible.

No, it doesn't, any more than repair laws do.
Yes, sorry, the example is not as simple as Einstein would have advised. Yours is simpler. The rule is that every variable in the head must share with the body, so that the head can be ground as the body is ground. I make it more clear in the rest of the comment above, at least I hope :)
I read this as why the economist and friends want russia to want war.

but maybe im just cynical and jaded?
I'm not sure on the exact timeline, but E2EE has been mentioned in references to the protocol going back as far as 2015.

However, because of a lack of cross-signing support, it was disabled by default for a long time. The protocol and UX improvements to allow multi-client multi-receiver end-to-end-encrypted messages came in about a year or two ago, which precluded the need for every user to verify every device of every other user they're talking to. The default flow is to verify each of your devices yourself, and others verify against your key only once. However, it's technically not required to cross-sign your keys, so it's perfectly possible to force others to verify each device of yours if you want to enforce some extra security. Not very practical, though.

So: protocol wise, encryption has been in there for a while, but client support and ease of use were major constraints. Modern cross-signing support (and uptake of encrypted messages by alternative clients) have helped a lot in actual adoption of the encryption abilities the protocol already had.
This is mostly a structural issue. The dollars amount that an individual has is basically a distraction.

The wealthy has that much money in part because they don't have to compete with anyone else. This is especially true if you consider land, which are basically horded by the upper strata of society, and we allowed people to build wealth through property ownership rather than efficient use of land.

You get strange words like "robust housing market" due to rising land price as if that's a good thing. Everyone who's looking to buy a home or rent get screwed by the market.

Once you introduce competition and reward the wealthy for proper allocation not land hording, the stark inequality will likely be lower while the pie itself gets bigger.
You know that the terminology comes from one of the drafters of the GPLv3, right ?
Cost of living is irrelevant when the cost of certain goods like iPhones, computers, Internet subscriptions and other things is fundamentally determined by strong markets like USA or EU.

Or are you going to tell me that Indians don't deserve to use iPhones, watch Netflix, or learn new skills through online programmes? Because that would be pretty racist, and I don't suppose you consider yourself racist, do you?

Further, the fact some countries earn astronomically high wages means they can, when they retire, take everything with them, into a cheap country like Egypt, India, or Greece, and live like emperors. Is that fair? Especially when hard-working people in India can barely afford vacation in their own country.
Strong labor laws are needed. The salary difference needs to be reduced.
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Funny coincidence, I'm also stuck with a slowly breaking XZ2 waiting for new phones to be released.
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I really don’t think that is a surprising result, as compared to time in the sun being a direct cause of long life.
The pie isn’t fixed. One man being rich doesn’t make another man poor.
This is my philosophy as well. First off, inflation exists which is one of the factors in creating a "trillionaire"

Second, the amount of wealth is not fixed. Someone having more doesn't mean that others have less. I think many people don't understand where money comes from, lending to their fears of a large wealth gap.
How about getting an eink tablet? Boox note air has a 10" display and is 420grams, and runs Android. The downside of eink is that you cannot watch videos and is black and white. Also boox devices are kinda in asive to your privacy I'd not login to then with my real Google account.

Otherwise I had only very disappointing experiences with Android tablets (mainly due to the lack of support, apps, updates), if you need one get an iPad.
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use utf8;
use Unicode::Collate;

my $uc = Unicode::Collate->new(
normalization => undef, level => 1
);
printf "pos %d len %d\n",
$uc->index('Lettre à ma sœur.docx', $_)
for 'sœur', 'soeur', 'lettre a ma-soeur _DOCX_';
__END__
pos 12 len 4
pos 12 len 4
pos 0 len 21

You have been wrong three times in a row now, just because you have an insufficient understanding of the standard.

Time to do what I said in the beginning and read it, or do you want to continue arguing against straw-men and pretending to be knowledgeable enough about the subject matter to talk about it authoritatively?
Seems an overreaching and incorrect statement. Lots of studies on the correlation of outdoor time and well-being. This study itself, though imperfect controls for some of those variables like exercise.

It might not be true for everybody (sounds like you're fine sitting inside, popping vitamins, and grinding on the Peloton or whatever -- good for you) but don't make the mistake of thinking your experiences are others'.

Clearly there are things about "the outdoors" that can't be replicated indoors. Smells, the sheer size and variety of environs, O2/CO2 levels, etc. Unless you are living in some kind of enormous, elaborate bio-dome.
Rather than android version, it might be better to filter by the release year and cpu manufacture since Qualcomm is the primary offender in terms of arbitrarily short support windows.
Most people saying teams is terrible are probably referring to the non audio/video components and have used any slack competitor before their employer randomly switched to this weird PoS called teams.
Wealth inequality based upon productivity doesnt bother me at all. This accounts for a pretty small component of inequality, however.

Wealth inequality based upon "the magic of compounding" is essentially unsustainable legalized financial parasitism.

Rents, dividends, interest payments - when this component of the economy grows faster than the productive component (r>g) then the parasites are slowly killing the host.

The mask slipped off during covid somewhat when we saw how badly paid almost all of the workers labeled "essential" really were.
It’s not just that though. It’s also because a lot of people with $0 or subzero wealth have reasonable incomes, and a lot of people with a small but positive amount of wealth have very little income (China in particular). The overall well-being depends more on income including the imputed value of social services, not the stock of wealth.

Wealth comparisons generally are fraught even besides this. The most valuable asset of the average human, by far, is their human capital. These and social services and purchasing power parities can be measured and compared for a more meaningful result, and highlight the truly poor, but this piece isn’t it. It’s just agitprop.
Newly graduated doctors American doctors are then one of the poorest groups in the world according to this measure. This doesn't doesn't seem to make much sense to call them poor though, since the wealth of rich people includes expected future income of their assets you need to also include the expected future income of workers, and then young American doctors would no longer be considered poorer than anyone in Africa which makes sense.
Wealth is not based on salary. The difference comes from stocks and other illiquid wealth.
They were probably trying to avoid people viewing this as a round-about way to just get their name in front of more people. I can understand the impulse.
At the moment yes.
> Avoiding the outdoors won't shorten your lifespan if you take care of your health in general.

You write this as if you somehow know this for sure. It’s well known that indoor air is significantly more polluted in most cases than outdoor air, at least in the west. Fresh exposure to outdoor air is also important not just exposure to the sun. I would definitely not want to spend most of my life breathing indoor air, and opening windows only gets you so far.