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The post seems to have two separate topics - one I agree with, one I don't.

One is about keeping things simple and having focus. Could not agree with it more. On every proposal, ask, "What problem does this solve?", "Is the cure worse than the disease?", "If this is added, what else can be removed so that the overall weight stays the same?". All good points; I don't think that is controversial.

But then, the post goes into what I can only describe as a rant. Something about going to the whiteboard. About desperation. Some random tangent on bottle deposits. I don't agree with this.

A "small company" is not synonymous with a "poorly-run company". Sure, Mario Andretti's quote "If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough" applies to almost every startup. There always will be some portion of the company that needs urgent attention. But valorizing constant struggles, throwing your hands up saying "Duh, startup" is poor leadership, IME.

The big tell for me is that Ravi does not explain what is a good process. There never is a "no process" world. The choice is between a stated, well-understood process OR a poorly-specified, poorly-understood, inefficient process.

A few years ago, startups used to say, "Oh, we have a flat organization - no hierarchies," and wear that as a bad of honor. Not really; there always is a hierarchy - except now it is based on who hangs out with who. I notice that most startup leaders understand this now, and the "no hierarchy" line is not trotted out these days. The "no process" bit is also like that, IMO.
That's fair push back. I stated it affirmatively, but I meant it in the sense that Putin / Russia sees it as an existential threat. Whether or not it truly is I do not know.

Maybe it has to do with pipelines or ports.

Maybe it has to do with a critical mass of bordering NATO states.

Maybe Putin is just short bald and angry and wants to flex on the west.

Foreign policy often seems more art than science. More poker than chess.

W.R.T Mexico, consider the Cuban missile crisis. It's not always about invasion.

W.R.T destruction, consider that the Axis lost WWII but Germany and Japan still "exist". It might be more correct to say "a pro-west Ukraine is an existential threat to the Russian Empire and their ability to project power beyond their borders, but Russia itself will always exist."
Imagine a custom implemented drop down that just goes out of the screen and make you unselectable. Let alone the item height are just narrow that make you accidentally click something next to it. And yea, that happens all the time.

And as a developer I often need to argue with the designer that please just don't use dropdown on mobile ui when there are many items. That is just a torture for a phone user.

And sometimes I even need to add hidden area to the ui. Because the controls are way too tiny to click.

Usability are not really in their mind., Or probably it is just a bad designer.
That’s untrue. As long as the UI works, people will prefer a nicely looking one.
Though not likely what you had in mind, you can try talking with people directly "on the air" via radio communications. It's interesting to speak with someone and hear things straight from them instead of a reporter telling us what they think we should know. Large grain of salt with this method as you only get one person's viewpoint. It looks like the Ukrainian call signs start with EM-EO.

http://www.arrl.org/international-call-sign-series
Fits with the "Trump praises ‘genius’ Putin for moving troops to eastern Ukraine" stuff.
Doesn't that happen on more or less a weekly basis?
Coastal California will never have affordable housing. The demand is way too high relative to supply, so people will trip over themselves to compete with each other for it, pushing prices to the limit.

There may have been a possibility prior to the 90s before it was widely known about and the world’s population was much smaller, but it has been a few decades since it has been obvious that demand for coastal California is insatiable, and obviously the people living there are not going to want to share it with everyone in the world that wants to live there.
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission said they have spent weeks prior to this getting assurances from other countries to increase their gas deliveries. They named Azerbaijan, Egypt, Nigeria and Norway.

She said, they are now in a state, where they can't be pressured trough gas deliveries from Russia. Whether this is true, I have no idea.
They typically publish post-mortems, I think? Not 100% sure. They definitely do in-house.

We'll have to wait and see I guess.
> As the Nato secretary said, they will support Ukraine

With words.

EU has also supported Ukraine with words recently.

I've seen ads on the telly making an emotional statement that "Ukraine is Europe".

Europe as a continent does not exist: it is a small corner of Asia. Eurocentricism needs to stop. This us-vs-them game needs to stop.

This invasion is terrible for normal people, Ukrainian (bombs), Russian (sanctions) and everyone else (instability, high prices). It could have been prevented if the "west"/NATO was not "pulling on" (arming) Ukraine. The NATO already have plenty places to make bases on Russian border.

See what happened to Cuba. The US/NATO also do not like bases on their border. They should have understood Russia also does not like that.

But then I believe NATO is more into the business of war then the business of peace.
It's funny I was talking to precisely a steelmaker about imports and exporters some time ago: "The American is no patriot, if steel is 30% cheaper in Japan, he will buy it there rather than at home." It looks like, in fact, these Ukranians, also in the steel industry, might actually be doing something patriotic--like people all over the world, America too--and keep the surely very tricky and specific technology to themselves.

It's not unlike German "hidden champions", companies that figured out a niche safe from industrial espionage, usually something involving very precise know-how regarding something analog, and nobody can do it like they can. German hidden champions are generally family-owned, rather than public companies, and prefer it that way; they stay in Germany typically; and there are 300 of them by some reasonable reckoning. They make the critical thing that goes in the thing that goes in the thing.

Taiwan does something similar--they see their chip industry, which is also very dependent on human know-how and highly analog, high precision--as a patriotic endeavor that protects their sovereignty economically and geopolitically.

So, apparently the reason neon comes from Ukraine is some pretty smart Ukrainians wanted it that way, for the good of Ukraine, and specifically for Ukrainian sovereignty to matter to the rest of the world.
LA isn't even better than most other cities. You'd think it would be considering how many people have come here and how much it costs, but it's possibly one of the most mediocre cities in existence. Countries with much smaller economies (yet longer histories) than LA manage to have better looking skyscrapers and scenery, along with roads that aren't crumbling to the same degree. There's some great things in LA, but there's great things elsewhere and people are happy in other parts of the world. Somehow there are still some "angelinos" getting high on their own supply over "la la land". Literally no one comes to visit anymore unless LA happens to be on the way to something.

It's sad because this used to be the place to be (one of them, I mean). At least that's what we wanted to believe.

I'm still in LA because I happen to be paying a ridiculously low monthly rent for a 4 bedroom house in an area where I have friends and family (yeah... I know). As soon as that rent shoots up, LA will have to be in my rear view mirror. Probably California all together.

Some are probably gonna downvote me, but guess what, I got highly downvoted back in ~2015 when I was pointing out the decline of San Francisco; now it's issues are commonly accepted. You can't explain away the need for poop patrols, the garbage overflowing in the streets, or the fentanyl zombies. Eventually people won't be able to deny that LA is suffering serious socio-economic issues, just as how few will apologize for SF anymore.

Believe it or not, I want these places to succeed. That's why I openly criticize them. Cities in California are my home.
> These units for the homeless are basically luxury condos.

What is luxurious about them? Or are you referring to the price?
I reached out to an independent contractor who I used to work with on Upwork many years ago. It meant so much to her that I simply inquired to see how she was and if there was anything I could do to help. Often people feel so abandoned.

She told me that she is trying to cross the Polish border, but it is a huge traffic jam and a total stand still.

"It’s crazy here, we are trying to cross the border with Poland, but so many people are here, cars are just standing. Thank you for your warm words, I will update if I make it to Poland with my husband and two kids"
To note, even eggs and lard have large amounts of Linoleic acid, and I'm pretty sure lard and eggs have existed in the human diet for as long as chickens and pigs as livestock have existed.
This looks really cool! Can't wait to try it when I'm listening to podcasts on my walk; are you using a paid API for the transcript or are you using an open source solution yourselves?
Lithium is a great example. Canada used to be one of the major lithium producers in the 1950s and still has huge deposits, but output has fallen dramatically over the years and actually declined to zero in 2020.
Is there a way to tell OSM that I want English/"Latin" names on the map?
they had their big layoff in 2020 or 2021 though so I wouldn't expect it to improve
any word on snipping coming to private RSS feeds? all of my most listened to pods are private
1.7M Hondas are being investigated for phantom braking
Open Source is made up by the organizations that represent Open Source. As such if the Organizations are hostile to Free Software, then Open Source is hostile, you can not separate the 2 like you are attempting

Sure under a technical definition Open Source all Free Software is open source, however not all Open Source software is Free Software.

That is the core of the problem, as we move forward in time, the amount of software that is "Open Source" while not being Free expands, not contracts.
"The stability of the EU’s energy supply may be threatened if a high proportion of imports are concentrated among relatively few external partners. In 2019, almost two thirds of the extra-EU's crude oil imports came from Russia (27 %), Iraq (9 %), Nigeria and Saudi Arabia (both 8 %) and Kazakhstan and Norway (both 7 %). A similar analysis shows that almost three quarters of the EU's imports of natural gas came from Russia (41 %), Norway (16 %), Algeria (8 %) and Qatar (5 %), while over three quarters of solid fuel (mostly coal) imports originated from Russia (47 %), the United States (18 %) and Australia (14 %)."

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/infographs/energy/bloc-2...

Doesn't look like US is a significant supplier of natural gas to Europe. Not sure how much capacity the US has at its LNG export terminals either.
Autonomous Computing (short version)
I enjoy using Vanced, which blocks ads and in a recent update started blocking sponsor segments.
Looks awesome! As a podcast aficionado I will definitely give it a try! Well done :-)
Yes, but where did I say it would trigger worse things than NATO article 4?
That is, NATO article 5.

This is just in your head, not mine.

For me, it's all about the sheer fun of the coming horror and dangers of foreseeable Russian hybrid warfare without any caution or limitations. That nobody has expected to ever return to Europe.
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Not anymore they're not. Time to find another supplier.
Glad to see inline asm is finally stabilised, that's one less reason to use nightly for osdev!
Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances
Mandates had nothing to do with that. Proper education and information helped the UK to achieve good vaccination update especially among elderly while many countries with strict mandates lagged behind.

Vaccine mandates however can caused considerable friction in the society. Just see Canadian convoy protests with hundreds of millions of damages.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/02/15/the-origins-of-...

"President Bush also assured Gorbachev during their meeting in Malta in December, 1989, that if the countries of Eastern Europe were allowed to choose their future orientation by democratic processes, the United States would not “take advantage” of that process. (Obviously, bringing countries into NATO that were then in the Warsaw Pact would be “taking advantage.”) The following year, Gorbachev was assured, though not in a formal treaty, that if a unified Germany was allowed to remain in NATO, there would be no movement of NATO jurisdiction to the east, “not one inch.”"
stop reigning in people and figure out how to help them grow in ways you wouldn't
> what would lead you to this conclusion?

I'm just posting what would lead somebody to that conclusion. Nobody is definitively saying anything right now.
I'm not sure this is true for urban multi-unit housing. A whole lot of shoddy work gets sold at a high price simply because the location is attractive. Single-family and luxury builds are more held to this dynamic.

But the mechanism would be the contract itself. It comes with requirements. Make high quality and low cost among the requirements. Actually hold the contractors to them. Require open competition for the bids.

So why does this not work? I'm in defense contracting, not building, but at least in that realm, there isn't meaningful competition and no credible bill comes in low for a variety of reasons, but the biggest I can think of is the security and compliance requirements are so high that they represent a minimum regulatory hurdle very few contractors can clear, no matter how good and/or cheap their work might be, and when smaller operations emerge that do a good job and threaten the entrenched incumbents, the existing oligopoly just buys them.

What can be done about that is the FTC not approving so many mergers and acquisitions on the part of giant contractors, and automating and/or streamlining some of the security hurdles. I don't think removing them is an option, since critical defense systems will be under constant attack by nation state actors and need to hold up under conditions of persistent warfare.
Are you talking about YouTube ads or sponsorings ? I'm talking about sponsors that are mentioned in the video by the creator.
Now it is understood that erucic acid is not so dangerous as initially believed, because rats are much more sensitive to it than most other mammals.

Nevertheless, the same paragraph from Wikipedia says that erucic acid was shown to also cause heart problems in pigs, but at much higher quantities than in rats. Therefore it is dangerous, but only when eaten in larger quantities.

Canola oil is widely used in food and it contains erucic acid. However it contains much less than traditional rapeseed oil, so the current food standards are based on the assumption that it should not have bad effects when eaten in normal quantities.

Nevertheless, someone cautious could avoid it entirely, because the only desirable property of the oils which contain erucic acid is that they are cheap.
But we saved some money by shuttering all our factories and outsourcing everything, so, who's to say what the right answer was.

(/s)
Lithium mining is not that nasty. And Tesla for one wants to make it even less toxic. Besides there's just not that much life on the salt flat, yeah flamingos great, and the brine shrimp they eat, but come on. That's one of the meaningful defenses for mining in the Atacama, there's very little life to harm. Much better than mining in the middle of the Amazon, making four species endemic to the orefield extinct, don't you think?
Who ever told anyone to drink soybean oil?

On the other hand, I consume massive amounts of flaxseed oil (insane amounts of omega3), olive oil, sunflower seed oil every single day. I have no issues with weight, no heart or blood vessel issues, blockages.

Ingredient isolation studies of foods are a complete disservice to scientific method.

Any particular food can be part of a healthy diet and lifestyle, absolutely any.

People today are sedentary, just look at natives living in wilderness across the world. They gorge on honey, occasionally eat meat and have insanely strong skeletons and muscles. Look at others that eat only meat, milk and blood, have massive amounts of atherosclerotic plaque, but given their lifestyle in the wilderness, their blood vessels expand and are insanely flexible, only a few unlucky ones die of heart attack very young.

The RDA for Calcium in Western world is so high due to sedentary lifestyle not promoting usage of calcium by the body. There are healthy populations, consuming half the amount and have even less bone fractures.
Neon is not the main reason they are doing it. It's a byproduct that gives them a little extra profit once they've distilled the air anyway for other reasons. Distilling the air just to get neon wouldn't be profitable.
I'm not from the Ukraine but there has been news of something like this on a regular basis since 2014. It's kind of like South Korea/North Korea. On a near weekly basis there is big news about something bad potentially happening.

It's hard to know what is serious and what isnt.
Thanks! Let us know how you like it! We don't use any paid APIs for the AI. Everything is in-house ;)
> So the members of the program are getting a much worse deal than if they were just given money directly to pay rent.

There are programs like that, including large ones like federal Section 8. It's not simple at all: Landlords will often refuse to rent to Section 8 participants. Also, people who are unhoused often need other services in order to get back on their feet.
yes, and I'm just pointing out how ridiculous of a conclusion this is.
I have the same thing. It took me ten years to rule things out. Plain as day, if I have soy oil, I will go a little wayward emotionally, mentally, and if I have enough, also noticeable skin issues - canker sores, flaking skin, scalp pimples, and random itchy patches I'll scratch to bleeding. Oh, and if I have enough, in a short amount of time, I can easily trigger a migraine. Sushi with soy oil, mayonnaise (soybean oil), and fried foods are all drifting away from me.

I'm not allergic to soy - I went to an allergy doctor and did the little skin application test, and it's not a histamine reaction. So the term is "sensitive" - I'm "soy sensitive".

If I eat 'clean' for 14 to 21 days, I get a clarity that compels me to continue avoiding it. I'm happy to connect with anyone (profile) that wants to swap notes on this - it's incredibly frustrating to figure out. Dealing with it, not so much. Almost all aspects improve with its avoidance.
Meanwhile, something like 1/3 of the market cap on the Oslo Stock Exchange is state owned, the second largest media group is owned by a public benefit corporation, the largest bank is owned 34% by the government and ~10% by a foundation with a public benefit mandate. At the same time Norway has a more expansive welfare system than most supposedly socialist countries.

It's fair enough that they're not fully socialist by any means, but for a lot of socialists the Nordic model is far closer to what they want than e.g. China.
The closest thing to innovation I do is scope expansion. I like to take things that exist, and look for overlaps. If 2 products are 99% the same, even if they conceptually have totally different purposes, that's an opportunity to apply the DRY principle

I also enjoy sci-fi shows and often think "Ok that should really exist by now". Sometimes you see something that really is possible with current tech, but it's mostly just tedious UI work and nobody has actually made it practical yet.

Right now I'm working on open source CCTV software. I am also working on some basic VJ type functionality and adding QR support to an automation system. These are in fact the same project.

Non tech projects are different, but with tech I mostly focus on what existing things are out there.

Then I look for anything vaugely similar and see if it could ve extended to cover the use case.

If I'm absolutely sure a new app is needed, I look at what standards are used in slightly similar things, what tools exist to use those, and go from there.

Basically all my projects have just been FOSS things that already exist in the commercial space. I'm not sure I've ever really done anything innovative. I just use more software tricks to work around and hardware and put more effort into UI.

But ultimately, everything I do has been done a bazillion times. I just kind of pick up where the state of the art left off and add some nice to have features.

I really hate custom code and things I have to maintain by myself, so my first goal is always to make my project fit the larger ecosystem with as little originality as possible.

On a related note, old popular science type magazines have tech from 50 years ago that somehow still doesn't exist. If you want a real world changing project, I see zero reason a consumer level raman spectrometer couldn't be made.
IME, adding that 90% statement coverage is much of the tedium and frustration of the job in Ruby-land--in particular for things that you just get solved for free with something like TypeScript.

It might have improved somewhat, but I find myself pretty comfortable with a much more pared-down test suite that focuses on correctness tests at logical module boundaries in TypeScript, rather than verifying things the computer can just do. I do look forward to seeing Ruby's gradual typing become more entrenched in the ecosystem, though, because I like the language--I just don't like using the language professionally because of the additional manual work I find myself doing.
Yes, it supports connecting with your (or multiple) YouTube account(s). That means it supports subscriptions, history, likes, etc.
It just doesn’t handle comments in any way (which is a feature if you ask me :D)
as a Chinese raised in China myself, this happens pretty regularly since years ago. I don’t think Winnie the Pooh has big balls to attack Taiwan in recent future. China has too much to lose right now.
The title (which comes directly from the article) is surely clickbaity at best. It is not the case that there is one homeless person, whom LA is spending $837k to house; it is the case (so says the article, anyway) that LA has a massively overspending project whose amortised cost works out to "up to" (what a weasel word) $837k/person.
Pew Research found that 88% of crimeans wanted Kyiv to recognize the vote and 91% thought it was free and fair.

Do you think that they are wrong?

Do you subscribe to Kyiv's view that holding a vote is a criminal offence?
I've seen this done, and effectively. Site in Russian:

https://www.agents.media/rutube-kremlin/

Basically, instead of footnote markers, you present ellipses inline. When readers click the ellipses, the page expands additional text in place. That can be a separate sentence or a continuation of the contextual one.

If you reach an ellipsis and you want to know more, you click it. Or you don't. There's no page-wide lever for level of detail. It's more granular than that. There's also a summary and outline at the top.
> Our European visitors are important to us.

> This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.

Thanks, I guess?
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You haven't explained your opposition to gay people. Can you please do so? I apologize for assuming it was due to some imagined harm.