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I would 100% bring back flop houses. They're much better than sleeping in the street.

The insanity of "we can't let you have a bad X, so you get no X!" is one of my least favorite things in this era...
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Yeah this is strange to me. Besides periodically telling it to update, I haven’t had to tinker, tweak or fix anything on my Dell XPS 13 laptop since I installed Linux on it shortly after buying it almost two years ago.
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It’s symbiotic. We can’t build denser housing because we need space for car storage and roads. We can’t encourage people to reduce/eliminate their car usage because our infrastructure makes that miserable.
I use emacs and I really like undo-tree, for basically this reason. Every edit is its own save point, and I can go back to any point in my editing history, even the stuff that would have been overwritten using traditional linear undo/redo.

Vim also has this in gundo. It's one of the killer features of the older editors that doesn't seem to be present in newer ones.
No one is required to pay a 5-6% commission. Use a discount real estate broker. You won't get much in the way of marketing or staging service, but in a hot market that hardly matters.
My experience with ThinkPads is the opposite. I found them one of the more practical Linux brands.
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The question you should be asking yourself is: do I want to have good/exceptional/fantastic fun? If the answer is "meh", "whatever", "I guess", you will inevitably be miserable.

I was reading Vaclav Smil's latest book and he does all these calculations about how much energy we have available to us now compared to 200 years ago. And how much less physical labor we have to do to put food on the table and how many more material goods we have available to us now - in my grandparents' day, about 80 years ago, they had maybe one pair of pants sewn together, one shirt that was washed once every two weeks, shoes had holes in them, of course.

Their job was picking tomatoes. Were they living a worse life than the one I had the opportunity to experience? Certainly yes, from a material point of view. From the point of view of internal feelings, the individual variability in life satisfaction within a cohort is greater than the variability in average life satisfaction between cohorts of different generations. They lived their lives, comparing themselves to people living in the same neighborhood, certainly not to people living in generations yet to come.

In the immortal words of Lorenzo de Medici: "Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so! Because of tomorrow there is no certainty". And sometimes, let me add, there is no certainty of this afternoon either.

Let's say you live in the modern Western world, which is more familiar to me. Modern life has endless opportunities for fun, which includes, for some, finding that meaning of life that is so hard to grasp.
You can dump your partner, in case you get tired of them, and people would understand - a hundred years ago, such alleged selfishness would have been tolerated at best. Maybe it is the answer, how many I have seen spending decades of the one and only life they will ever have with significant others they barely tolerate, when not hate.
You have access to an unlimited number of learning opportunities. We know that agency is supremely important for life satisfaction. You can learn to draw, write, do martial arts, sing, write a screenplay, cook delicious seafood. Assuming you have some disposable income, you can take a flight to some places that until a few decades ago had no sign of civilization. Can you imagine? You can be hypnotized, take some psychedelics, eat and drink as much as you want. Find something new in you and outside of you.

What is the point of it all, you may ask. I can only answer that I haven't become rich or world famous, I don't have world-class skills, but in the fifth decade of my life, I'm having a great time living an exciting life - because I do things that excite me -, which includes some overall minor contribution to society (I don't fool myself thinking I am giving a larger than negligible contribution to society), and which I enjoy sharing with others, but only if they have the right attitude. And for me, that's the point of it all.
> assuming you don't mind read-only interaction

That can be framed as a feature.
> It's the state of mind when you decided that the society has to provide you with housing, I guess.

Well I suppose there's some moral hazard because the government is more tolerant than rent-seekers (I find the term "landlord" gross because of the "lord" part, no nobility in America, and the whole point of the endeavor is collecting rent, they're synonymous. If they don't want to be called rent-seekers all they have to do is stop seeking rent). Plus Section 8 costs IIRC either 30 or 33.33% of your income, so it's not that they pay nothing for housing, it's just limited to a very high but still feasible amount. You're objecting to exactly what I was talking about, entropy. In this case you're using the synonym "noise."

So you built your own house from scratch, no help from builders, mined your own iron, wrought your own steel, the copper and all, because surely "you" wouldn't be talking about "it" online if it weren't up to code. And claimed your own land...loaned yourself the mortgage, did it all on your very own. Society didn't do anything for you, after all.
I know what fantastical means. The context of the comment I was replying to was that the sheer variety of crops and associated diets in the US is atypical and relatively unique to this country due to the list factors. The mainstream (or I should say armchair nutritionist) opinion suggest such food production is generally excessive and disease-inducing. I would think it should be an advantage and what I wanted addressed is why this isn't the case.
bipedal bird to beat is the ostrich

anatomy of the intermediate palaeotis weigelti shows that if we're serious about this biped project, we need to move the pelvis around, fuse the shoulderblades, and reduce the # of toes + bones in the foot. (weigelti has 3, modern ostriches have 2)

unclear if we'll be able to climb trees or throw things at that point -- might be able to use the neck as a sort of trebuchet

https://pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/palaeotis...

https://palaeovertebrata.com/Articles/sendFile/270/published...
I was on a same boat, but perhaps slightly less to the extent. But I was doing Linux primary for 10 years or so, change to Windows primary around late Windows 7, and now Windows 10/11 mostly.

Some of my observations:

1) Linux is great when it is working. It handled at higher load better than Windows. Being able to choose lighter DE when working on a lesser powerful machine were great. Being able to customizing definitely make this more versatile in different environment. Windows does provide modest default -- there are things I don't like about it but at same time (personally) it doesn't bother me too much.

2) Update is more or less caused unpredictable outcome on Linux -- hibernation stops working from one version to another for instance. It actually got worse as the update cycles accumulates. On earlier version of Windows, OS rotting was a thing, but this seems to be bit more severe on desktop Linux these days.

3) International support is bit weak on Linux. (Particularly Japanese in my case.) Most I could make it work. It ranged from input method is not showing up in correct place (bit common -- annoying but easy to workaround) and more severe ones (like Chrome bug[1] -- issue that seems to exist from version 55, still open.)

4) Command line wise, PowerShell definitely made it light years improvement over "command.com" or "cmd.exe" on Windows. I actually like PowerShell that I was using PowerShell Core on Linux for later part of my "Linux era" too.

Both Windows and Linux has its own strength, and weaknesses. But I don't know if I miss Linux so much as a desktop, to be honest. (and if I'm so inclined, these days I do have mean to use WSL for some edge cases where I need Linux.)

[1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=952181
Recently, I attempted to create one --- and then quickly NOPE'd back out when it asked for a phone number.
Rebuilding is basically what they did for all the Pixel Remasters. They are remakes on the Unity Engine. I believe the earlier Final Fantasy VI remaster on PC literally wrapped a ROM.
Chernobyl was hardly a monster. According to Wikipedia, 30 people died immediately, and probably another 30 due to the radiation aftermath. Maybe a few thousand more someday due to long term effects. Highest estimates are 60k deaths.
>Can we learn from previous wars/incidents

If previous wars/incidents are any indicator, no.
This almost ever happens to doctors or lawyers in practice
The NVIDA came along and crushed SGI with an add-on board for PCs instead of a custom workstation. Order of magnitude cheaper.
> They appear to have gained an edge over the US in both offensive and defensive nuclear capabilities as well as having caught the EU with their pants completely down.

Citation needed. They appear to be a generation behind their adversary in just about every way.
Indeed, it sometimes feels like they are getting right in lane for a Microsoft acquisition.

I'm kinda surprised it hasn't happened with all the mutual love (eg Ubuntu being the poster child for WSL)
Software that does its own resolution will not run on my network, and we have banned it by policy at work. Of course it becomes another game of whack-a-mole.

My house, my rules; you don't get to subvert my network security and continue to use my network.
> All I am saying is every platform exists for a reason and has issues.

Hardly an inspiring sales pitch for Windows.

The reality is that Microsoft allowed a lot of things to stagnate in Windows that it shouldn't have:

- the C runtime
- the terminal and shell
- UTF-8 support (lol)
- package installation
- CLI admin tooling

To their credit, they've been doing a ton of catch-up work on all of those things lately. Yes, PowerShell is nice. Yes there's a lot of very nice APIs and protocols. Active Directory is good enough (though I think Microsoft may be resting on its laurels with AD).

Impressions made 20 years ago continue to be true-ish now, though, again, Microsoft is finally making progress towards remediating those, but inertia counts for a lot. Eventually, maybe, just maybe, Windows might recover a lot of the mind-share it lost to Linux.

This is a business where mind-share is kind. It's interesting to see a number of companies that benefited enormously from mind-share they built then fail to keep it up. Mind-share is the biggest lock-in.
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If doctors or lawyers lost their livelihood for one mistake, we wouldn't have any doctors or lawyers.
> It’s a lazy slogan that gets us nowhere.

“Cars are land inefficient” isn’t a slogan, it’s literal fact.

> I live in NYC and we’ve built three brand new subway stations in the last fifty years

Ah, the stereotype of New Yorkers not paying attention to other cities strikes again! Yes, New York has its own problems, but for the vast majority of other cities GP’s comment is true. New York is one of the very few exception cases in the US.

> The number one issue is that we’ve allowed too many people and interest groups to effectively bring any major project to a halt. This is not some inherent feature of democracy either, you can have a democracy where the majority gets to do things. We just don’t have one of those in the US, or Canada it sounds like.

What if I told you that for a lot of transit activists, undemocratic processes that prioritize the needs of drivers over the rest of society is car culture?
> If this person genuinely thinks that there is no way to measure an ad's performance while it is running, they are either too ignorant to be in business, or they hired someone who lied to them.

Doing a blackout month is a legitimate technique.

I've deeply studied ad performance metrics and they are NOT as conclusive as people might think. If they were, you could just keep increasing the amount of $ spent and the conversions would go up. Ok, not exactly, there is usually a diminishing returns aspect, but you get the point.

A great example of why this requires more analysis is branded vs non-branded search terms on AdWords. Let's say you spend $10k/month on the brand "Mattel" (aka branded) and $10k/month on "toys" (aka non-branded). Mattel likely gets you like a 20x ROAS because people are probably searching for a specific Mattel toy. It's also potentially likely that if you completely turned off branded search you would net the same results.

Ad attribution is NOTORIOUSLY difficult: https://www.optimizesmart.com/what-is-attribution-problem-in... so to pretend like "this guy is an idiot, he doesn't know what he's doing" is disingenuous.
Maybe a year ago you could make a comment like that when everyone was locked down but the vaccines don't work anymore for the current variant. Common sense needs to be updated
Stop with the veiled ad hominem attacks and provide some information if you want to have a discussion. If you're aware of a currently deployable massive scale long-term storage mechanism, I'm fully open to changing my opinion. I understand your point about allocating resources to renewables vs splitting them between nuclear, but storage is the key to that. As for the time nuclear takes, that's a matter of will, just like renewables. We can do it faster if we have a will to do so. France went from 0 to about 70% nuclear in under a decade. We need to be able to guarantee a complete scalable storage solution before new nuclear could come online to discard nuclear. Not with speculative tech, but things we know can work and scale.

As for cost, who cares? It's an existential threat. Spend what we have to do get it done. If it takes a few $Trillion building nuclear to shutdown all the coal plants, great! Money well spent. The US has dispersed about $10Trillion due to COVID. Coincidentally, at $10Billion for a nuclear power plant @1000MW, that's about the amount of money it would take to build enough nuclear power to go 100% nuclear in the US. Horrible as COVID is, the next few decades of climate change will be worse in their human costs. If we had done that 5 years ago we'd be close to bringing that capacity online in the next 2-3 years.

Anyway, what's the storage option I'm missing here? Molten salt, compressed air, some variety of stored kinetic energy? I'm aware of a few, but none that are ready for prime time, and would be extremely happy to be wrong if I've overlooked something obvious.
fail2ban wouldn't help as he used the default password, it would have let him in. All you have to do is change the password or force key only logins (which is what most security conscious people do)
Are you fucking kidding?

We can look back to the 70s when black americans were legally prohibited from certain jobs. Or prohibited from from owning property in most areas.

In the 80s we have plenty of lawsuits demonstrating the black americans were routinely denied home loans because they were black.

Most of the Ivy League colleges denied entry to black americans no matter the quality of their character. This racism remains entrenched, and leaves a lasting legacy of bias through legacy admissions, formalized hereditary entrance: the original positive discrimination.

The legacy admissions also provide the formal evidence of the original claim: people who's admission to a good school has nothing to do with their skill, merely being white allowing their family to have attended any school.
Worth adding AI to this list :-)
Chromecast doesn't respect any settings and only communicates over TLS (and some local broadcast protocols for compatibility). If you don't like that, don't buy a Chromecast.

I've managed to get it to use my PiHole by forwarding all outbound traffic to UDP/53 that's not coming from my PiHole to the PiHole itself through a DNAT rule in Firehol:

ipv4 dnat to "${pihole4}" proto udp dport 53 src not "${pihole4}" dst not "${pihole4}" inface not "${world}"
ipv6 dnat to "${pihole6}" proto udp dport 53 src not "${pihole6}" dst not "${pihole6}" inface not "${world}"

So far, I haven't seen any weird traffic that's trying to bypass this rule, but honestly, I don't really care. Whenever I block any of its domains I just get weird error messages about connectivity problems, or a non-working Chromecast. The real meat is inside the TLS connection anyway, and I can't block that.

You can't buy a closed-source, always-online Google product and expect it to let you block it. If I wanted that, I would've disconnected it from the internet or just used a Kodi box instead. We've lost to ability to introspect and filter connections the moment we started switching to TLS. If you don't trust a device, don't install it in your network, that's my take.
The only functional difference between DoT and DoH is that it's easy for ISPs to block DoT.
We also have "doubleplusungood", from the famous Orwell classic; but that's not a term I've seen used to circumvent censorship yet.
Somewhat related, after hearing about the Alzheimer's drug controversies I found it interesting two facts about alzheimers...

I heard on a podcast interview of Dr Matthew Walker that Alzheimer's seems to be related to a lack of sleep.
> I wonder when the music stops.

Who cares? Champagne on the Concord, and let's order a bunch of Starfire servers from Sun Microsystems!
The idea of Open Street Map is great
That totally makes sense.

I think there's a place for both the one click 'i did the thing today' like flathabits, and a higher friction but more expressive 'here's what I thought about the thing I did today'
However, the micro-transaction games often start getting fun after you start cheating (aka paying). Especially things like card games.
Even cross-application, formatting is also more subtle things like emphasis, quote levels, and bullet point lists. It's possible that in those cases you are quite happy about the default of it having been copied correctly and so don't really notice as much. I don't know what's more common for the average user.
Google Yanks Apps with Hidden Code That Harvests Data
Another discussion recently RE: issues with trucking coming from someone w/ experience in the industry that I thought was insightful (unironically covering main talking points of Oliver's segment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30813331
Sorry I lashed out.

The problem is that certain mindsets are not chosen, but engrained and hard to erase. You can't assume we can simply "Stop" our destructive mindsets.

Also, "I just want to sit down and read my books and write my essays but I can't" was the most vulnerable part of my post. You can't just tell me I don't - what the hell?
Could US start confiscating ships at sea carrying Russian resources?
> She worries about her property value

Well at least they're honest
Well, a modern HARM costs nearly 1M USD. Not sure if these drones could be made that inexpensively.
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They ask for a phone number even for mere read-only access.
Good luck with our free time. But if this was our day job and we kept at it for decades, who knows what would turn out!
Why wouldn't they be able to get such components from China?
Right, and the feature is not designed for you. It's designed for the billions of users who are not on your network, and are sitting in their own home or in a coffee shop where there is no such security policy or skilled network administrator in sight.

Aside: If you are using Firefox in an enterprise environment, you should be locking the settings to begin with. If I remember correctly, the Firefox ESR downloads don't even prompt about enabling DoH.
Not everything is just a "convenient boogeyman": some things actually do contribute more to housing costs.

If you drive through any major American (or Canadian) city outside of the core downtown area...it's pretty clear _something_ is preventing large developments. If you drive through the Bay Area, or stand on a 4-storey "high-rise" and look out over miles upon miles of aging bungalows, and consider the value of the land they're sitting on, it's really a bit shocking.

And if you look into adding a suite for rental to your house, it'll be pretty clear what the barrier is to new development. It basically doesn't matter where you are in the country.

Local zoning really does play a huge role in housing cost in North America.
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I have one specific problem but I'm not sure if this is connected. I have a home assistant on a raspberry pi at my parents house. From outside of the network there is no problem, they have a dynamic DNS pointing to their IP address and then port forwarding so that they can access the home assistant UI from the internet.

But they also need to access it from home when they're on the WiFi. Because their router doesn't do this NAT Loopback so that they need to access it via the IP address which is very cumbersome. What I did was that I set up a DNS server which would resolve the dynamic DNS domain to the raspberry pi and pointed the router to use this DNS server. This way they were able to use the same domain in and outside of the network.

I understand that Firefox falls back on the old way of DNS, but I have to assume that Chromecast and Google Assistant will not and therefor it will fail to play local media or show the home assistant UI?

Somehow this fucks up local networks and assumes everything is on the Internet, doesn't it?
> How does that happen?!

The guy who knows where it is stored, or who knows what is stored on "that hard drive", leaves the company.
There are modded apks. I have one for Stardew Valley because it's pretty mindless to continuously click on farmland.
This is exactly what was done at LinkedIn back in the day.
Not to be confused with the Psych Boson
Can't tell if sarcasm.

If not, do you believe there is value in education beyond optimizing TC?
Each time you get a vaccine you suppress a part of your body that would naturally react. You won't over react to covid but you will also not react in a natural way like previously. What does this mean We will find out in 2024 when the first longterm studies are due out.
>I imagine these people would be quite successful if they aimed at more legal areas of business.

As I understand it, the Yakuza basically have their hands in everything related to entertainment (especially gambling and porn) in Japan, including the video game studios. There's a story about a certain four-letter video game studio that had a developer's sister kidnapped to keep them from working for Nintendo[0], a company that had its own Yakuza connections when it sold hanafuda cards and ran love hotels[1].

But... what's the point of being an organized crime syndicate that only obeys the law?

[0]https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/11/rumour_leading_jap...

[1]https://www.cbr.com/nintendo-japanese-yakuza-history/
If you're looking for a "menu" of papers from various subfields, I've been collecting a list of all best paper awards from a set of 30 computer science conferences for the past 25 years. This is just a personal interest of mine, and is a long page with no ads or upsell.

https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards/

These are papers that were deemed "best papers" in that year, though obviously may not have turned out to be as influential in retrospect, i.e. they're likely not the papers we consider "best" when looking back today.
Makes me think about theranos or wework. Charismatic leaders can get a lot of people/talent following them without necessarily having a solid grasp on all of the complicated aspects of the business they run. Of course you have really great charismatic leaders in startups like Marc Benioff for example who kind of get everything right.
Can people?
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