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> "What you're arguing is the classic of the trolley dilemma [1], the individual vs the many. Should you harm 1 person to save 1 million."

Of course if that's genuinely the situation, it's hard to argue that the needs of the many shouldn't be paramount. But in the case of airport expansion, it's rarely that simple!

A bigger airport isn't necessarily a public good. If it's close to urban areas it's often a net detriment to the public good, inflicting more noise and pollution on millions of people. The drive to expand really comes from the airport operator's desire to increase flight numbers and profits.
> Despite germany's strong dislike for east europeans

It's news to me that we strongly dislike Eastern Europeans?!

Some folks definitely do, especially in logistics or people who live close to the border, mostly due to economic frustration regarding lost jobs and some amount of crime coming from Eastern Europe but Germany as a whole doesn't dislike Eastern Europe...
The article indeed shows that certain Ukrainian tiktoks are not available to the Russian geolocated IPs.
Yeah no, that'll dissolve those ABS cases in no time.
In Europe, It’s Planes vs. Trains. For Many Travelers, Rail Is the Way to Go
I remain distressed by the relative lack of effort we put in to nuclear physics vs more mundane things.

> ...fusion plants seek to bind them together at temperatures 10 times hotter than the sun...

These are outrageous conditions compared to the entire geological history of the earth. Every interesting quirk at this point is a roll of the dice at potentially entering a new era of prosperity that has been the stuff of dreams; exploring opportunities that earth life has never had the opportunity to try.

There doesn't seem to be a level of funding here in proportion to the potential payoffs. We should be dumping attention and resources into this tech until it hurts.
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Based on other comments like this, I gave it a try.

Be prepared to sink dozens and dozens of hours learning the language, it’s features, and switching everything over. Be prepared to get stuck when you are required to use an old version of a language and things don’t install correctly — and sometimes blocked by nix itself from installing it. Be prepared to get stuck if you are not in the happy path. Be prepared to get lost in the sometimes scant documentation.

I love the idea of nix, but it did not work for me except for the simplest cases.
Because it is relevant and you seem to not have made the connection? More importantly, it's not a comment just to you, but for anyone who may struggle managing their anxiety. I thought it would be helpful to explain further. I’ll try one more time.

If a person has the same physiological reaction, they often can’t tell one from the other. You can’t “just ignore it” if it provides the same subjective experience without having the skill set to acknowledge the distinction. A person public speaking and a person standing on the ledge of a cliff may have the same physiological response, despite one being anxiety and the other being fear. The problem is our decisions may be rooted in our lower brain faculties which can't tell the difference. It doesn’t justify reacting to anxiety (which seems to be what you're hung up on), but helps explain why it happens and why it’s so hard to change.
Exercising your freedom would start by not using such a closed platform where you have no control over the content you provide and are subject to arbitrary rules.
It's a social media app. No one should expect news or hard facts from tik-tok.

With that said - it would interesting so see what tik-tok looks like in China. Based on reports, Russian invasion is also heavily censored in China[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf55gMvwc00
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Keep in mind this is pricing for an 1/8th. At my shop the discounts start piling on as soon as you get more:

1/8 -- $45

1/4 -- $70

OZ -- $120
It is mentioned in the article:

"Via our Russian IP address, we try to search for some of the war videos that Ukrainian Nykolai has watched.

But they simply don’t appear. Someone doesn’t want us to see them.

Who?"
It's an ARM Linux device that you plug into a port that's usually only present in switches.
Even if we stop paying for gas and oil right now, that won't stop the Russian invasion. They have massive currency reserves, are relatively self sufficient etc.

Whereas if we do not receive gas anymore, it would wreck our own economies, which would lead to massive unemployment, social unrest and maybe going to the political extremes in the long run.

It would basically be European suicide. We need to be strong to help Ukraine.

That being said, the day we can stop paying for Russian gas is the day we will truly be free. Germany's liberatarian finance minster called renewables "freedom energy" and that could not be truer IMO.
I sincerely doubt that, especially considering the poor quality, legal marijuana that is available in Toronto and the distribution of dispensaries. This certainly isn't true here in the US, where it seems the only people who are buying at the dispensaries are people on vacation. Why pay $44 per ounce with a 30%+ tax when you can just call a friend?
As we're not talking about small cuts of leaves but some highly industrialized component it is not so easy as counting leaves and mixing them together. You can certainly analyse the flavors, but that won't tell you much on the production process for creating this with all the artificial components.

However that could creates some creativity in place and create similar, but different (better? Worse? Who knows) products.

Compare this to Coca Cola in Germany during WW2. Due to the embargos they couldn't deliver the "secret syrup" so Coca Cola Germany used some "fantasy" and created (the predecessor of) Fanta, which nowadays is a brand of Coca Cola served in multiple countries (with differeing recipes)
One of the truly unfortunate things about modern capitalism is that making money and doing good for the world are more or less mutually exclusive. There's little money to be made helping people, and even when you find an exception, it often gets quickly overwhelmed by grift.
No but if you add their MDM to your personal PC they can push policy to it.
Every year millions of CS students invent new languages, and publish SIGPLAN papers about them.

This language is great for the author as learning process, and that is about it.
Thanks, my mistake. Sheppard was the first American in space, Glenn the first to orbit, so it should be easy to remember.
> But a lot of companies do them, which is at least some sign that they have some value.

"A lot do XYZ" is not a sign that anything has "some value".

> that is better than your random personnel at your company can come up with

I'm sorry, what are companies hiring for: To solve the problems they are trying to solve? Or to solve the puzzles in a standardized test? And who knows these problems and the skills involved in them better, a standardized test, or the people already working on them?

> are probably better than those who can't

Better at what?
Yeah, this is a red flag. I expect actual launches to happen in 2+ years.
From what I've read, the contracts between Gazprom Germany and Gazprom Export (on the Russian side) do not have a fixed settlement currency.

> This would have allowed them to require payments in Rubles instead of Euros

"allowed" is a funny word - this situation is way past a point where cross-border contracts on either side hold any legal value. How are you going to hold anyone accountable for breach of contract?
Leaves vs flowers makes at least some difference.
I've been asking blocking feature since Gmail started inviting for beta testing. I'm one of the early Gmail testers. From day 1 I registered, I started received spams and I asked again and again, the response had always been non-sense like "our spam filters are good enough, you don't need to block anyone yourself". Really? So I never used Gmail as my primary email address. And this thing should be based on the exactly the same sh*tty logic. Never mind, I'm on the verge to ditch Google.
> Chromebook are basically fancy thin clients that make efficient use of web-based services

This reminds me of Asimov's Multivac home terminals where every user, in the comfort of their home, could dial in a query on their computer terminal and the massive infrastructure which is the continental-sized Multivac computer will respond with an answer.
I wish - as an Australian company predominantly selling to US/EU, I pay 3% on almost all transactions...
TransferWise are not a bank, they are an Electronic Money Institution. Different kettle of fish. The accounts they give you are virtual accounts, not a real bank account.

TransferWise also have larger profit margins than you think, both explicit and implicit by playing funny games cherry-picking rates etc.

So for both of the above reasons, this is why TransferWise can do what they do about giving people accounts cross-border. A lot (most) of it is legal flexibility, the rest is by eating the costs.

There are very few UK banks left that will give you a true EUR account.

Financial services were not part of the Brexit "deal". Which is why UK peeps can't open bank accounts in Europe and vice-versa, too many unaddressed regulatory issues.

Cross-border card fees may well be a similar kettle of fish to the phone roaming charges, i.e. there was protection under EU, but now the UK is outside of the EU it's dog eat dog.

Its a bit like why Amazon UK stopped accepting Visa for a while. Because post-Brexit Visa hiked their rates mostly just because they could.

I'm afraid that given the hard brexit that the UK government has chosen, the UK is only going to see a lot more of this. Brexit itself was bad enough, a dogged persuit of the hard form is, to put it politely, not exactly helping matters.
Who makes these observations? Can those timestamps be manipulated as well?
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There's a false assumption that stopping oil and gas imports will somehow stop the invasion and funding of Russian army. It will not, so it's better to focus on more practical and sustainable steps.
Personal Knowledge Management has been one of the more obnoxious buzzwords I've run across lately - comes across as an overestimation of the value of one's holdings. It's just a filing system by another name.
I hate this UX
Hacker News is a diverse community, but its (not entirely undeserved) reputation is anything but progressive.
Today, a Bored Ape holder lost their bubble gum ape and mutants in an instant
Sure - but at least this is on a paper-by-paper basis, so your final mark is at least based on something tangible that you can refer back to. It also means you can instant feedback on how you're doing. Here, we're talking about providing an arbitrary grade at the end. The student has no recourse to argue the grade. The student may even have been blindsided.
You can run nix without any daemon. https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/single-user... It's not a requirement apart from multi-user environments.
Nuclear Power - Bad from inside Switzerland, Okie Dokie from France.

Their reactor in Bugey is like 200km from the one you're shutting down early.

Man.. it would sure be funny if France elected some eccentric far right character for additional excitement.
It's an ongoing joke that a mandate to place wind farms 2km from populated areas left no space at for wind farms in that state.

It's not actually sparsely populated at all.
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Sidekiq is the best library i have ever used, i have never ran into any issues using it and Mike has personally answered a bunch of my Stack Overflow questions that involve Sidekiq. He deserves every dollar.
I blocked them with ublock a few years ago. It was too tempting to engage in silly online arguments over things that really in the long run did not matter.
The disappointing reality... not once do they mention 'investors'. It seems to me this article is rather poor to be ignoring this obvious issue.

Yet NPR has an article covering this: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/18/1081751190/first-time-homebuy...

So what's happening? Boomers are near retirement. They are going to their financial advisors and switching to 'safe' investments. However their advisors see bonds at say 2% but inflation is at >6%. So investing in bonds isn't safe at all. Real yields are negative.

So retirement funds are going into housing bigtime. Those people who are blind bidding on homes? Ya those are fund investors or fed up people. No intention to actually rent anything out. Just hold it as a passive investment. As long as bonds have negative real yields they arent buying. As long as they keep buying homes faster than they can be built. The housing market goes up and it's a safe bet.
It's a step in the right direction, isn't it? LNG can also be imported from other countries and, in the long run, gas dependence should be massively reduced once gas-powered heating is replaced by electronic heading via heat pumps or something like that.
I recently did close looks at both RawTherapee (https://lwn.net/Articles/883599/) and darktable (https://lwn.net/Articles/881853/) for anybody interested in a comparison. One point worthy of note is that the RawTherapee development community has been struggling, which could be a long-term problem.
I did this a few years ago for front-page news from different areas of the world. Was very interesting to see the contrasts.

Edit, thanks internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20180118162502/https://98clicks....
There are additional rules for critical national infrastructure. The gas company didn't follow them and this gave the government the legal right to seize the business.
I'm old enough to remember when Chernobyl was on the news, not a fictionalised version. The initial "discard all milk production across Europe" phase lasted a few weeks, but the last restrictions in the UK took 26 years to lift: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-18299228

(it's also been in the news recently as it was right in the middle of the Russian assault on Kyiv!)

The French nuclear mix is currently 58% : https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/power-generation-energ... because a large number of reactors are offline: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1549986/macron-france...

There are two problems with nuclear power:

- a "black swan" low probability risk of something really bad happening, despite everyone saying it can't happen, and poisoning the surrounding area

- it's expensive, takes a long time to build, and can develop expensive problems. Many of the French reactors are approaching the end of their 50 year design life.

That said, it was definitely a mistake for Germany to close plants without a specific safety risk.
That's correct, it depends a lot on the perspective. We justify this because it's critical infrastructure, which is a good enough reason to me, but if a 3rd world country would argue with critical infrastructure, the narrative in western countries would be very different (assuming it would lead to some conflict of interests - otherwise, sure fine!).

We definitely need to get rid of our double standards. All complaints about this from non-western countries are mostly correct.
In my experience with managers of all sorts, (a) is incredibly common. Low-level managers everywhere are under a ton of pressure, and are often stuck in a position where they know the measures they are implementing hurt the people who report to them, but they've been railroaded into it and don't see any realistic alternative.
This.

Then again this site is mostly developers. They have no idea about SCCM, Intune, JAMF and other MDMs and how they work.
This is a reasonable point, and something that is being worked on. I definitely think Docker can provide LSP servers as necessary, we're just not quite there. This is something that I'm interested in working on, though I'm not the only one: https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-docker

For the most part, latest version linting is good enough for me, currently.
I don't like how this site take over scrolling. I want to read the text in the middle of my screen where there isn't a crack
Greens are not financed by Russia, this is publicly available information. Neither they did anything that could look like a support of Russian agenda.
Maybe leave your friends and family alone - sure, it's fine to mention a product if the topic comes up but I find one of the things humans tend to want help with the least it's organization - everyone has their own system.
> someone generally "on the left" politically

It's time to abandon this harmful single axis thinking. It leads to "generally left" people being afraid of having "right wing views" and the other way round, creating cognitive dissonance and other bad mental states and mental mono cultures among "the left" and "the right".
The Age of Substitutability (1975) [pdf]
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A book that helped me a lot was “clean code”.

It provided me with a way to curb complexity, which I wasn’t aware I was adding to my projects. The symptoms where always similar, after certain time and code written the codebase was such a mess that I didn’t wanted to touch it and adding anything new became exponentially more complex with time.
also Jax, hopefully
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London still has large amounts of "brownfield" low-value industrial land as well as low-quality, low-density suburban housing that is often close to existing, under-used infrastructure. We are much better off making better use of that existing land to build walkable/cycle-able neighbourhoods that are well served by public transport.

Expanding into the greenbelt is just lazy development that would increase London's existing problems (car traffic, air quality, sprawl).

... and there are plenty of small neighbourhood parks in London! I can't imagine that you're ever more than 5-10 minutes walk from one.
The section of the TeXbook (the user manual for Knuth's TeX typesetting system) that talks about hyphenation has the lovely/horrible example of "the-rapists pre-aching on wee-knights".
I wonder if in the end this will be like another Eternal September as with the introduction of Cell Phones w/ 3G+ and AOL.
How could you not plan an invasion in advance? This is easily at least a year of planning just on the entirely practical side of things like how to get enough units and hardware there.
In this example though, it would be like arguing the taxes are optional. :)
This is the draft of a paper that appeared in Science magazine, the link to which is behind Science's paywall.
I'm sure if you were to provide them with evidence of your allegations they would take actions appropriate to their obligations. What you want them to do is that work _for_ you, which they are not obliged to do, as far as I know.
If they're comparable with Starlink satellites they're 1/4 of a ton each, and made of a lot of parts that could fragment on impact. That's small in satellite terms, but you wouldn't want to try to pick one up.
I used to work at a government lottery and often worked with the Integrity and Compliance people.

One day the Compliance guy told me the balls they used for one of the draws are stored in a vault, no surprise. But he also said they wash and weigh the balls before each use. Actual physical bouncy balls of some sort.
You want multiple teachers (completely disconnected from the actual class) to catch those issues? Isn't the point of this 'ungrading' policy to take in student context - which this second reviewer system completely upends.

I still don't understand why grading assignments and giving that (instant) feedback to students is so bad.
I personally just use Darktable, and I'm incredibly happy with it. It's just a fantastic software and we're lucky to have for free.

Kudos to all the developers making free-software photography a reality!
Bluetooth audio works fine, but definetly no CarPlay functionality. Some buttons on the head unit say 'talk to your dealer to purchase this'.
>Okie Dokie for France.

Yes why not? They take the risk, we pay them for.

>eccentric far right character for additional excitement.

Is the far right not happy making money?
> Russia tried to join NATO itself after that but was rebuffed.

Yes but it's not that simple. First, do you trust Russia in NATO? Given the nefarious things Russia has done over the last 30 years, you can't trust this on the face of it. It would be a very Russian thing to do. By accounts that I've read (open to other readings here) Russia wanted to join in a privileged position as well, versus as "just another country" and wanted to be fast-tracked and so forth.

> The Baltics joined NATO when Russia was still in disarray and aren't as important strategically.

I don't find any sympathy with the disarray argument. That just says "these countries joined NATO when Russia couldn't do anything about it". Your point about strategic importance, though, is well taken. Ukraine is strategically important for many reasons. Some/one of which is that it can undermine Russia's stranglehold on European gas imports.

> This was primarily for domestic consumption and the West picked it up in February/March together with the notion that Putin had gone mad. Hardly anyone talks about either of these theories any longer.

Agreed. I think the simple case is simply that Putin believe(s)(d) that he had enough negotiating power against NATO countries to be able to stop them from inflicting serious damage on Russia after invading Ukraine, and also that because Ukraine (in Putin's words) isn't a state, the fiction would simply collapse once Russia arrived. We don't do a great job and assume that our incentives are the same as someone else's. In this case Putin couldn't give a crap less about dead people and economic destruction. He cares about The Historical Unity of Russians and Ukraine. Perhaps at a much higher cost than we are willing to endure.
> And we are still missing massive pieces of infrastructure in order to power EVs, I'm not aware of a single place in the world that could handle all residents driving around in EVs without significant infrastructure changes.

Thats a non-issue. The transition is slow and infrastructure is there to support this slow change, at least in europe city is EV friendly and it will keep improving.

> tax electric vehicles by distance in order to make up for missed tax income.

Maybe, maybe not. Less pollution means less sick people, less healthcare spending.

Plus you still have to have trucks going around. EV trucks are completely unfeasible in foreseeable future.
One side does it with assassination.
"This is the kind of magic that sometimes happens when an engineer gets to talk directly to the users to find out what they are doing"

I think this is also the kind of magic that happens when a business is operating well and it's employees have empathy for each other.

If Engineering and Product are well aligned it should be a matter of habit to be looking for and executing on regular projects like Olaf's new menu item or the auto fill of a new account form mentioned here.

As engineers and engineering management we can make sure there is room in our schedules for these kinds of small projects.

And if we develop well our relationships with our product managers we can make those conversations like the one about the form auto filler easier to happen: "this is three hours of work tomorrow that will save this team 10s of hours each week until we get the new system built, it's worth an afternoon one sprint for a developer".

But also what I think is best displayed in this report is empathy :). Organizations that show empathy for their users are ones that tend to be the best to work for because they actually care about people who are using their products and the people who are making their products. And in general, over time, I think empathy builds better customer and employment relationships which then builds better businesses.