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From my observation living in Texas for 35 years, _most_ people who buy trucks don't need them. They are buying for the same reason people by Harley Davidson bikes - not because they are the best vehicle for the job, but because they need to compensate for something.

Dodge has a repuation for being the "toughest" and "boldest". It's not necessarily earned, as Ford trucks have done far more real work than Dodge trucks. But Dodge has Viper and Hellcat and SRT and other nonsense which is loud and obnoxious (and I do admit to some appreciation of their willingness to try wild stuff and actually pull it off).

Honestly, most people don't put a lot of thought and research into vehicle purchase (or any other life) choices. They don't make spreadsheets to compare options, weighting and scoring attributes. They watch TV, and the car ads (which comprise about 1/3 of all ads) lead them to their chocies.
Yea I'd buy this
The adoption was probably pushed through the church and it's a 'if you leave the church you have to give the kid back' sort of deal. Just a hunch.
The DNS server is set in my phone as well. But even if it wasn't, I live in a third-world country that still has crude data caps (the United States) so consuming video would probably quickly approach it.
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Note that the article is from 2013, and this is very much in line with Facebook’s stance overall: that they are just a forum for expression, and not in the business of policing speech. That stance has only softened, really, in the past few years.
Prolog matches up really well with AI, it just needs the killer library/tools
I'm sure there's real spiritual things happening in Mormonism. You'll get that kind of "That's a crazy belief" response from people who aren't spiritual, who just accept religious ideas to fit in with their family, etc.

Regarding evidence, there's always ways to get evidence whether you're talking about science or spirituality. It's just easier to read about others experiments with natural science, to get spiritual evidence you need to become the experimenter or meet a real person.
>People love to bandy Diablo 3 about, but the thing is that it's the only game that they can reasonably bandy about and that was released 10 years ago in May.

Hardly. Diablo 3 is probably the most famous example (partly because it's so popular, partly because it's direct predecessor didn't have an always-online requirement), but hardly the only one. Google "online only single player game" and you're bound to find a list.

>making old games that forced you to keep the CD in the drive that new computers no longer have playable without the CD.

If I have a disc or any other physical item I can at least take measures to protect it. I could conceivably put the console with the disc inside it in a closet, come back in thirty years, and play the game. I could back it up and wait for someone to make an emulator for the console. If the game needs a remote server to be up to run, there is nothing I can do to ensure I can continue playing the game in the future (other than painstakingly reverse-engineer the server). That's difference between owning something and not: control.
Anywhere I can read more about issues with Badger?
People do support Putin. He's been at 70-75% since forever:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-ra...

Compare with Western leaders.
I don't recall if the article mentioned years, but I don't think Ford has produced the Contour for many years now. If so, and if the DUI topic is recent, then it suggests well-used (old) Contours. Maybe it's people without a lot of money. Maybe they hate their car so much that they are driven to drink (sorry for the pun ;) ).
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Only a win-win for Poland if they actually receive the F16s and parts and training free of charge from the US. AND if there's no blow-back from Russia (as has been promised).
I often see these “I raised this to sales team… but they are not listening”. The cost of the sales team (including sales engineers) working on an opportunity is not low. If you have a use case and explain to them how you want to use their product (and if you are serious enough to buy it at the end of evaluation if it satisfies your requirements. You must also have influence in your company to make decisions. Some random startup with little cash to spend on software is not going to get you far) then they will surely try to address each of your specific issues. If not they may tell you it’s not a good use case. Just saying something about compatibility doesn’t really give them (or any Enterprise software vendor) to really hear you.

This is not to say all companies are like that but that’s how it works in general in enterprise software. Every conversation is part of a Salesforce stage (whether we like it or not)
Why SF?

If you're spending your money on healthcare, a cook, chauffeur, maid, and housing, then sure; you can probably get better healthcare than in the US if you pay for it. But as I said elsewhere, if what you're interested in is retiring in Costa Rica, buying a fleet of DJI drones, or buying a berth on Starship to Mars, US$48k is just US$48k. Or even clothes.
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There are multiple browser extensions for generic infinite scroll, like AutoPagerize, AutoPatchWork etc. so...
I really don't understand how/why Prolog (or something Prologesque) isn't more popular and easy to use (extremely linked of course) especially embedded within other languages/frameworks.

It was amazing to me ('mind-expanding' indeed) at university but didn't seem practical then nor now.

The closest I can think of that has solid usage is Terraform (or HCL, but mostly as incarnated in tf). Having studied a course with Prolog certainly gave me a grip on (and liking of) Terraform early on in my encounter with it, and people's struggle with it often seems to come from procedural vs. declarative. Oh and VHDL/Verilog of course. But I've written all that now so I'll leave it! (And they're more outside the sphere of those to whom Prolog could be of benefit, as I see it.)
I only do it if I suspect that the code will not work. Sometimes I can think of edge cases that I suspect are not covered; so I check out the code, add the edge case as a unit test, and if it fails I mention it in the code review for the other dev to add and fix.

Other than that, no. I am reviewing the coding standard, architecture, and algorithms used. It's up to the dev to ensure that the code works and runs. The CI builds as well as the QA testers will test the actual functionality works as expected (obviously if I can't find the code that is supposed to fix/implement the PR item, I will question it).
I made the mistake on the command line of wrapping it in a alias and dumping the output to dev null, missed something actually important and wasted time! Won't make that mistake again, your monkey patch sounds a much better idea.

STDOUT/ERR is just the wrong place for information other than what my code is outputting.
> Everybody is going to have to get off oil at some point anyway, why not do it now when the will is there? Or do people just think global warming will go away?

Broad strokes, people who buy low fuel economy vehicles (SUVs, pickup trucks) vote their feelings [1], and there is overlap with the same folks who don't believe in climate change.

Arguably, the pain is good (economic incentive and signal), but you have to create a one way ratchet so we can only push harder to getting off oil, and everyone doesn't go back to buying combustion SUVs and pickup trucks when (if?) the price of oil recedes again. If 50 years [2] isn't enough time to get away from oil, I'm unsure what'll do it. It's also a marketing campaign: you have to sell EVs as an energy security issue to those who economics and climate change benefits won't appeal to. More incentives for EVs would also be helpful.

Very much agree it's absurd though.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/wheels/news/what-your-car-might-say-a... ("Republicans make up 55% of the full-size utility (SUV) market and 53% of the heavy duty pickup market (table below); Democrats make up 38% and 36% of the small and mid-size APT (hybrids, EVs) market, respectively. The single greatest Republican-Democrat disparity is the heavy duty pickup truck segment, where Republicans buy eight pickups to one for each Democratic buyer.")

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_energy_crisis
The victims here are the Ukrainians; the Russians are the aggressors.

What you're not a fan of is aggressor-blaming. To most of the rest of us, the aggressors are precisely the ones who should take the blame.
I'm russian DevOps who fleed from the country 2 years before that, but only for one reason - crazy Putin's regime. And I have many friends from IT, who now are running headlong from conscription into the troops which was declared, from closed borders, from police pressure and jail sentencing due to their political views.

Please, let them escape country, by disabling Russia issued cards outside of Russia you only turns them - people who already mostly opposite to dictatorship - into bums, and do nothing to Putin himself. Business, don't share falsey support please.
They get cheaper as they get older. Child care for infants is extremely expensive, or the opportunity cost of staying home and watching them.

Are you thinking college? Despite what expensive selective private colleges want you to think, parents do not have to pay for it.
I would love to do this, but years of mindlessly browsing social media has seriously shortened my attention span. I used to read books all the time. I remember staying up late as a kid just to read the new Harry Potter book.

Nowadays I pick up a book, read a few pages, then immediately lose interest and go do something else. Anybody know how to get back into reading?
I look forward to reading it! Your blog is always a pleasure.
A small push button attached to a Raspberry Pi. It runs a bash script that sends the network request to my AdGuard Home server, adding a list of domains to the blocklist. After two hours, it undoes the changes.

I usually review the DNS requests in the two hours after, to look for other time-suckers, and have since added every single non-productivity-related website to the blocklist. Apparently I compulsively check the weather dozens of times whenever I can't access my normal procrastination sites.
Or just offload their servers cause infinite scroll makes the process of loading additional pages mindlessly faster and much less cumbersome.
Where did I say anything to the contrary? By all means, deprecate, by all means talk about it. Do not, however, put those messages in the output when I run a program. I don't even want it there on install but at least that's defensible in some way.
I tried really hard to not come right out and say that, but yeah. Basically yeah.

There is virtually no analysis of options which could lead to "Dodge" unless it was some rare ridiculoudly cheap offering.

There may be an occasional Dodge model which miraculously isn't garbage and doesn't break all the time, but if one is limited to US brands it's more likely that a Ford or Chevy will be more reliable, equally or more fuel efficient, and no more unsubtle or flimsy inside than a Dodge.
By "everyone" I really meant people building things. IE: If someone builds something with infinite scrolling that's like putting caffeine/alcohol/cocaine in a drink.
>Because Reagan and the Kennedys made it so that you need direct consent

No, that was the ACLU and the courts.
I've reached the stage where I no longer even enjoy social media consumption, I'm just doing it out of habit. I feel like a heroin user who no longer gets high and just uses it to feel normal.

And I'm not even talking about the usual social media ratholes. I pretty much bounce between HN and NYT at this point. And I feel close to dropping even those two entirely, out of sheer boredom. Because on the bright side, it's probably a lot easier to quit than heroin.
It helps if the USB cable one is using actually provides more than just Power and Ground. (red-faced blushing....)

I take back all the mud about CCS; except of course now it wants to put a new bootloader on one of the boards, but seems unable to do that. Good thing the other board is fine.
S mode just means you can only install programs through Microsoft Store.
I'll have a bit of a contrarian opinion here: if you publish some software there is at least an implied notion that it allows to solve some problem (license terms notwithstanding). For example if you go to the home page for this blog then you will find a rather well made page that might get you the impression that you can find here some piece of software that allows to download APKs. Now, if it actually does not quite work because of bugs that you refuse to even list somewhere because that would be "work", then you take the responsibility to mislead people and make them lose their time based on incomplete information. Yes your time is important, but other people's too. When you unleash something upon the world, then you have some responsibility for it, at least morally. For context I do have some minor open source projects that very few people use and I allow bug reports but I just ignore them until I have the time and motivation to get back to it in an hypothetical future. In the meantime it serves as information for others.
How can CO2 removal ever be profitable without 'subsidies', like carbon taxes and credits?

Anything useful you could make out of CO2 can be made much easier from fossil fuels.
I think there are still enough people who remember 2010-era Starz on Netflix (and with the massive DVD catalogue for the rest). Everything, on every single service, has been downhill since then.
From [2]

> For some reason, though, the plant’s owner, Northern States Power, never got around to informing the residents of the neighboring Prairie Island Indian Community that something had gone wrong.

Oof. Thank god it turned out ok in the end.
It doesn't help that they now won't even let you read many subreddits without the app on mobile.

Once you're logged in, just to read that one thing, it can't hurt to engage on that one issue, can it?

Before you know it, you're 23 increasingly angry comments into a thread about sand, people are still wrong on the internet, it's 3am and you hate everyone, everything and yourself.
The solution to this is simple though by no means easy: treat ones digital data as private property.
https://docs.github.com/en/github-ae@latest/admin/overview/a...
This is genius, definitely going to give this a try.
But if you control the kernel and all the code that runs in the kernel, you know exactly who has written to disk and when. So if nobody wrote that data, then it hasn't changed.
Never used badger but after discovering major perf issues in graphene graphql library for python, the issue tracker is sometimes a good place to look.

I found this one pretty quickly:

https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/db-write-latency-in-badgerdb-hig...
Ah okay, I agree. Unfortunately it's really easy for PMs to hide that behind flowery language like "to increase retention rates", "improve user experience", etc.
What would be handy in an article like this is an explanation of why the options are turned off by default. Presumably MS didn't decide to e.g leave the Ransomware protection turned off out of spite. So presumably there is a compromise between additional protection and ... something?
Thanks. Reshape is quite promising.
According to this site [1], Bitdefender is amongst the most efficient antivirus packages for passive slow-down, and I can confirm that this has been my experience running an engineering firm that uses their enterprise security product, Bitdefender GravityZone.

If you solve for efficiency (effectiveness over performance), Bitdefender has one of the highest detection rates (over 99.9%) and lowest false positive rates in the industry, making the effectiveness-performance ratio very impressive. Many other A/V packages are bigger hogs and yet detect less malware, with more false-positives.

I'll admit their interface isn't great, but they did a refresh recently in their Enterprise product and now it's much more subdued (finally). They also changed their branding from bright Red to White, so it doesn't pop in the taskbar as much as it used to.

It's worth noting that Windows Defender is amongst one of the only AVs that scores as effective as Bitdefender, but from my research it seems like Bitdefender's predictive engine is significantly better in benchmarks at fighting new/novel malware. Is it worth the approx. $100/yr? Not sure. I have considered canceling our subscription to Bitdefender and using Windows Defender, as the premium offering is already included in our Office365 licensing.. but I think that obscurity (using a non-standard security product) could be a defense in itself.

[1]: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/av-software-least-system-impact...
"Now I’m a computer programmer and I feel like some of the projects I have worked on could make a nuclear reactor feel simple by comparison."

So you are faced with a certain amount of complexity. Do you really have any idea just how complicated a nuclear reactor (and associated engineering is)? Let's start off with a simple problem: You need a shit load of concrete in structures like this. At what sort of volumes does concrete curing become dangerous? It's exothermic and there is a danger of fire (yes fire) in a concrete structure that is poured too quickly. This is one small worry in the Civil Engineering bit. Geotechnics - ground stability across a large structure is a whopping set of problems. The sheer size of the thing will move the topsoil, subsoil, strata around. The distribution of water will change too. Now you have the Structural Engineers diving in. Some of the structures involved are huge and involve multiple materials. Nuclear plants are often near the sea for the water cooling benefits but you also get additional corrosion to think about, including concrete cancer and what salts do to steel and other metals. Also you generally get extra weather to worry about.

I have not even scratched the surface of the complexities involved in designing, building and operating a nuclear power plant. Those two engineering disciplines I mentioned alone are at least three years at Uni for a degree and a good 5-10 years time served before you do anything close to critical.
>Nobody buys an A4 because they need to make up for feeling like a small person inside

Why don't they spend half the money on a Honda if they aren't trying to "make up" for something? An A4 is a "premium" car.

You seem to be able to tell a lot about a person based on their vehicle. What do you drive?
Although low-code has been popular these years, I don't see the application of this.
The main problem is that low-code should be application-specific. For anyone who want to make use of this platform, he is probably proficient in Python enough to directly write the code - which is faster and more convenient. Python is already simple enough for you to write out without the need to worry for consequences.
The state of the art models these days would not be able to be bundled with browsers. These are typically neural models [0] and require specialized hardware to run, and also have high memory requirements.
The models in browsers are light-weight to be able to run on most devices. Might be similar to those used in smartphone keyboards like GBoard [1].

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/speller100-zer..., https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/everyday-ai-b...

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/10/grammar-correction-as-you-...
> Hardly. Diablo 3 is probably the most famous example (partly because it's so popular, partly because it's direct predecessor didn't have an always-online requirement), but hardly the only one. Google "online only single player game" and you're bound to find a list.

If this is that big of an issue, shouldn't you already know the examples and be able to list them off?

> If I have a disc or any other physical item I can at least take measures to protect it. I could conceivably put the console with the disc inside it in a closet, come back in thirty years, and play the game. I could back it up and wait for someone to make an emulator for the console. If the game needs a remote server to be up to run, there is nothing I can do to ensure I can continue playing the game in the future (other than painstakingly reverse-engineer the server). That's difference between owning something and not: control.

Ah, yes, so instead of waiting for someone to reverse engineer the server, you're waiting for someone to reverse engineer the console so that it remains playable in perpetuity. That's definitely different.
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It isn't the push-button setup that you've built, but PiHole is a decent option for this purpose as well.

Occasionally I add social media sites (including HN) to the block list.

It's very easy to bypass when I really want/need to, but it does cut down the more unconscious "CMD + T - news/redd/face - enter" moments that happen when I'm bored.

Prevents the occasional unnecessary mindless scroll by creating a couple extra steps.
This is happening since 2014 at least, on both sides in Donbas.

Also mandatory "4chan /pol/ helps coordinate an airstrike" [0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/N7DwWP1.jpg
Are you intentionally trying to preserve lexicographic ordering? If so, doing percent-encoding-but-with-dash is reasonable and pretty easy to explain. If you don't care about lexicographic ordering then I would recommend picking a different character than dash. Even if Datasette's particular set of tables don't use dash in their name, if you're hoping other people will use this same scheme then using a more esoteric character might be nice. Using &/$/! would still preserve ordering relative to alphabetic characters and are not commonly found in URL paths.
What happens when you ask someone to email you, but you don't send them an email first?
I can see parents wanting to use it.
> I'm still young so maybe my mind hasn't matured enough to where I can combat this well.

I'm not sure this changes as you age, it certainly hasn't for me. :(
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Do you have more info about the button and how that works? I’d love to read about it.

I’ve built a simple slot machine and loaded it with a raspberry pi. Now I’m building some rudimentary slot software for it, but I also need to wire up the buttons to the GPIO pins.
According to the same site, 43.2% of sites surveyed are running Wordpress. That's over half the PHP number, and I suspect much of the rest is running something open source that hasn't been significantly modified by the site operator.

I just put up a site running Wordpress. Backend language was not a significant factor in selecting that software. Its ease of deployment on cheap shared hosting was certainly a factor in its initial success.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with manual labor. And if you do manual labor, a truck might just be the best choice.

Dodge has a reputation for being bold -- the kind of bold like the guy who wants to prove himself to his buddies (and misguidedly for the ladies) by breaking his beer bottle over the head of another guy at the bar.

It's not classist just as many stereotypes are statistically accurate, even if they don't represent all cases.
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And yet that is exactly what happened to people who held savings in bank accounts in Cyprus after the GFC when the government decided the banks needed a bailout more than the people needed a retirement.
> it is an addiction and you are addicted

This is legal dopamine, and cocaine although a Selective Dopamine Reuptake Inhibitor (SDRI) is illegal. You choose.
This is a great idea, but, one probably most people will wish they had set up after they need it.