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You need to change the incentives of the federal government (specifically the congress) to be in more in favor of localism. In 1900, senators were (at least partially) still appointed by state legislators and the local political parties held far greater control over their nomination process. Those mechanisms had their own issues with corruption and were replaced by more democratic processes, but they made members of congress far more beholden to local interests (particularly state and local elites.) In turn, you saw a lot more distrust of large national institutions and legislation to limit them. Almost all banks used to be local, for example, because of legislation strictly limiting branching.

So to answer the question of "who deals with the titans" the answer is "the federal government, but they do so because they are beholden to state and local governments/institutions/elites."

I'm not sure I see a path from where we are to making federal representatives more responsible to state institutions (my repeal the 17th amendment campaign never having gained much traction), but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I'm honestly super tempted to -- though my Apple Watch Series 7 gets somewhat close to being a good replacement.

Somewhat, but not quite!
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Makes sense. Kermit is probably best understood as "xymodem for reloading old boxes" -its the serial line bitstuffer protocol to keep that legacy dependency alive. I haven't used it in anger since JANET stopped running an X.25 to internet gateway in UCL-CS.

OSI to my mind was best left as the (ISO) reference model. And I say that as one of the people who was coding in it (ISODE)

"10 networking technologies which used to matter a lot more than they do now" maybe?
The purpose of a business is to generate profit. Giving out goodwill raises goes against this fundamental purpose unless you need to retain SF tech talent to maintain the business. Businesses would continue to minimize their expenses, the largest of which is generally Human Resources. I disagree with your perspective.
It is because venture funding has become a legal Ponzi scheme. Seed investors make money by convincing Series A investors to follow and buy them out. Series A does the samr to Series B, etc. The final suckers are ordinary people whose investment/retirement funds buy stock when the company goes public. Enough companies start to create actual value throughout the process to justify the scheme. And this is the reason why, when someone boasts that his startup is valued at X, I ask about annual revenue first.
Remember, no PCB CAD tools, it was likely laid out by hand - double sized with red/blue tape - the engineer had to work from a (probably) hand drawn schematic and keep all the layout in his head
This feels like lacking empathy. Many people are forced to work much longer hours. Some are working in dehumanizing conditions; worried that getting pregnant might lead to starvation or homelessness. Some do dangerous jobs for much less pay. I've never been shot at. I've never had to worry about being killed by an industrial machine. Some of my relatives have had to bribe people to cover up deaths.

I'm not sure what class really means here, but I'm happier where I am, and I try to help people out of their situation where possible.
How does that translate to carbon foot print per dollar.
Is that so odd? The creators have a background that predate the (relatively recent - even more so when golang was created) GNU convention. A convention that is (or at least was) mostly prevalent on Linux anyway.

Personally, I'm puzzled when people act as if the GNU double dash convention is a universal standard.
From 1956? I'll take the automobile, please.
The truth in this case is that there's no programming language that is better in all regards. There are programming languages that are better at certain things, or that provide certain benefits that are more important for some tasks.

Turning the conversation away from "X language is better" to "X works best than Y to accomplish Z", trying to gauge by how much (e.g.: will it pay of for you to learn X if you only have to do Z once in your lifetime?), etc.. is what I'm understanding "good faith" communication to entail in such situations.
"They should do this thing in order to continue to succeed."

"Why?"

"Because if they don't they'll fail."

"Now you're arguing for a monopoly."

You can't possibly be arguing in good faith at this point.
Sonos buys Dutch speaker maker Mayht for $100M
Every customer service call I make, the first thing I hear is "We're experiencing unusually high call volumes".
⌘+left/right goes to the beginning and end of a line, ⌥+left/right moves by word.
We're in this weird point of attribution where the discoveries and popularizations of white men (in a society they created and dominated mind you) must now be discredited because similar theories existed in cultures and languages that are extinct, or we know little about, or are poorly documented. Convergent discoveries.

In essence, 'white mathematics' is wrong because mathematical concepts existed in ambiguous points in times in undocumented or undiscovered regions of the world. We must now attribute these regions because...white men are bad ok? Nevermind that we can historically correlate these discoveries in a somewhat chronological timeline of innovation in our own western history. We can reverse engineer these discoveries and see that other cultures had similarly convergent ideas that sometimes predate discoveries in western history. It's important to give proper attribution where attribution is due, and I actually have no problem with this. It's cool to know that ancient India had such an advanced mathematical field of study for example.

We frame these in a racist structure because... white civilization is bad? Is basically the gist I'm getting out of this. Which is why I think you and frankly most people reading that article are getting offended. Especially when you acknowledge mathematics as being a purely logical language used to express abstractions
Comparing this to Stalin's purges is borderline offensive. The latter's purge affected almost all walks of society. I recall when I was in grad school I would read the biographies of famous physicists/mathematicians, and virtually all the Soviet ones had siblings or parents who had been killed in the Purge.

It also crippled the Soviet army, which is why a much "weaker" Finland held its own when the Soviets attacked them - the majority of the senior, capable military leaders had either been killed or imprisoned in the Purge, leaving behind a rather incompetent military.
Talk to an accountant and a lawyer. Register something, probably a simple LLC would do but no generic advice is possible on exactly what and where to register - it depends on your personal situation.

Do some business for a year. There is nothing like learning by doing, none of us have any idea what your skillset is and how you're making money to give you advice.

Why do you think you need investors at this stage if you're already profitable?
If you are worried about `Google's history of killing projects`, you will anyway not be on Google Cloud.
If they change the spec and certbot follows them, I doubt it will deprecate the non-google approaches. If they do something novel like enable multi-level wildcarding not just the terminal leftmost *. form, People might get stuck on how that works, but it would probably require chrome to change too.

mainly I suspect this is to pacify people inside GKE who don't like calling outside of the protected space to get certificates to exist.
> "So once a second, a hundred stacks would get paged in so that a hundred taskbar clocks can repaint."

See, this is why Windows users can't have nice things.

Every last "terminal" would be displaying identically the same seconds pixels, but Microsoft would render them a hundred times over.

They also don't blink their cursor for the same dumb reason (rather than because blinking the cursor is itself dumb).
Hype in the VC community.

I’m not familiar how Fast actually did their fundraising but it’s not impossible to get pre-emptive terms sheets from VCs when you have barely met them or shared any data.

Once you get a term sheet or close to one, this sometimes starts the hypetrain where VCs beg you to meet them and consider them for an investment. At that point it becomes a competition between the VCs who win the deal. The competition will often balloon the valuation since investors care more about ownership % than valuation.

It sounds crazy to invest in a company with no real numbers or traction, but VCs have seen that it works sometimes when the company actually delivers on the story they told when fundraising.

Also amount of ARR or other revenue matters less than the speed it is growing. $10M with stable growth over the years is worse than $5M growing 3-10x a year.
This "feature" of Reddit has always really bothered me. Who is Reddit helping when a user's comment is removed but they're tricked into thinking it's still up?
The legal system and a stable non amish government keeps them safe. In a collapse they will sadly be overrun by desperate people who aren't pacifists and who use guns.

The history of the amish is being chased from place to place. I think they are admirable and very special, but they would not fair well in a period of serious instability.
They don’t pay retail.
Perhaps they have a slightly less high of a markup than the OEM.

I have no idea whatsoever.
This is a romantic take and the only takeaway from it is that Fast failed because it failed.

> They successfully hired a big, seemingly-experienced team (something many companies struggle to do)

So they hired a massive team of oncologists no expense spared, but their abiilty to deal with cancer isn't good enough

> As it turns out, the risks were very real!

Well, they wouldn't be risks otherwise.
You can't be a small player with hardware when big players exist in the same category. Customers start to ask why the watch costs as much as an Apple Watch but contains an 8th of the features.
No one is suggesting Pebble did anything wrong. But that they had been rapidly crushed by Apple and it was clear the company had no future.
Why is it so difficult for people too see bad faith communication hurts their own ability to understand things?
Often times users don't even know they have a fraudulent product. Some of these clones are literally just your product (third shifted) and so short of assigning bonded, single use serials (which is easy to say and very hard in practice) there's little you can do to distinguish between a legit and fraudulent product. This wastes your customer service time by supporting customers who didn't even end up paying for your product, which is overall very bad.
```Elementary JS

core.render(el.cycle(440));

```

```SuperCollider

{ SinOsc.ar(440) }.play

```
It’s not about screwing people, it’s about database access.

Countries administer their own version of these trusted traveller programs for their residents since it relies on the ability to perform a mini-background check using that country’s customs and law enforcement databases and apparatus.

UK: https://www.gov.uk/registered-traveller

Canada: https://www.catsa-acsta.gc.ca/en/trusted-travellers

Singapore: https://www.ica.gov.sg/enter-depart/for-singapore-citizens/o...
The pebble was not epaper. It just had one of those old style reflective LCDs like the gameboy. Low power usage but they look unacceptably bad to the average consumer who would rather a vibrant display with daily charging.
I think you are right, society as a whole will basically have no effect from smartphone Luddites, my main point was that it is just yet another arbitrary rejection of technology, and that the majority of society will adapt to it.

The Amish decided that technology developed after 1600 or so was dangerous for humanity and needed to be carefully avoided. None of us agree with that. 200,000 years ago some of our ancestors' relatives were probably terrified of fire. In 400 years the idea that it is somehow dangerous to use whatever they have on whatever their equivalent to our smartphones and tiktok is will seem rediculous to them, just like you disagree with the Amish that it is important to avoid buttons on clothes lest you become a slave to vanity.
Ukraine conflict: Why is Russia losing so many tanks?
It looks like you have zero familiarity with NTFS. NTFS had a far more fine grained ACL model since version 1. Perhaps linux caught up several decades later. I am not really sure.

I am also not sure why you insist on arguing about a topic you are not familiar with at all.
I highly disagree on Pendolino and I am quite angry about it. It has been around for what, >5 years now? I have still yet to take it because it is so expensive. It’s basically the Concorde of Polish trains - it cost a fortune to build and only rich people take it because it speeds up travel time by ~30%. Meanwhile, standard speed trains, which are still capable of covering the same distances in reasonable time, are late, are underinvested and are overcrowded. What we would need is an affordable high volume train network, not trains that cost the same as planes and look cool.

That’s my rant on that subject. On the other hand I do think the one great thing we got out of the previous system is a well developed train network. Even with all of it’s faults and issues, trains remain a great way to get around Poland. And that is something to be grateful for. I’ll check out that book, thanks!
But maybe we should talk about the lack of space character between the flag and the argument…
Yeah, and it's got so many useful APIs it's nuts. There's a keyboard-based expose API that is like Mission Control but with vimimum/tridactyl's follow mode. It's insanely useful when you need to jump to a window you opened ages ago and is therefore at the bottom of the alt-tab list. That's useful enough as it is, but then you can filter the windows that show up in expose, so you can make an expose just for your terminal windows! Legitimately amazing.
> So a way to easily temporarily override the dependency reference to use a local project rather than a NuGet package?

Yes. Great for debugging too.

> I think this can be done relatively easily in a csproj with conditional references though?

Maybe, but you’d have to do this manually for all the projects in a solution. This is built into the tooling and produces a .gitignore-able file
A Boeing 737 consumes 2.28 L/100 km per seat. Fuel prices would have to go parabolic before airline tickets approached rail ticket prices (nevermind the time rail takes, even on the fastest routes)
I think some other responders have touched lightly on this but I feel it should be explicitly said that sometimes engaging in conversation is not actually what the other party is doing, even though it might look like it.

Sometimes they are not speaking to you at all, but rather to your listeners. And the larger your pool of listeners the more likely you'll encounter arguments in bad faith because it turns out that if the goal is persuasion then good-faith arguments don't scale.

A tangent here is that on private-public platforms like twitter "your listeners" could be an entirely separate set from the people you actually have contact with. Algorithms that signal-boost opinions out of their actual social circle become essentially propaganda posters for a host of varying in and out groups.

My personal opinion is that this is a misaligned incentive that social platforms should correct structurally, rather than via governance or policies. And pushing the corrective actions back down to the individual is a cop-out.
He's just from the same era. Been around for ages - this is a right blast from the past. "Hackers" used loads of contemporary hacker subculture and adjacent culture. I guess part of that was Megatripolis and acid techno stuff, which is why there's shared DNA here, all the "rave visuals" stuff from the 90s, although this kind of eats that for lunch and spits it out.
What else would you want? Notifications and calling were pretty much solved on day one. Things like NFC payments were a nice post pebble addition but after that, extra fitness tracking is the only feature consumers desire which isn't fully being met.
“-help” being equivalent to “-h -e -l -p” is not a GNUism. It’s described by POSIX. If a utility takes the options “-a” and “-o something” and uses POSIX getopt(), then these are all equivalent:

cmd -ao arg path path
cmd -a -o arg path path
cmd -o arg -a path path
cmd -a -o arg -- path path
cmd -a -oarg path path
cmd -aoarg path path
> It was by accident that some mathematicians were recognised by the west (Srinivasa Ramanujan for example). Others have to get into western academia to be recognised.

So what? This dynamic is no different than the unpopular, nerdy reject crying to teacher that the popular kids are excluding him. On both accounts, it's very strange that outsider so strongly desires to be recognized and included by the group that supposedly hates them. Create your own reality.
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I like my job, but I'd like to cook or draw for a living. Maybe writing, but that would be more painful than coding. None of those jobs pay well, though.
I've generally found that if someone accuses you of manipulating them, they're projecting. (By which I mean "projecting" in the sense in which psychologists use the term: the person senses the presence of a quality they don't like, but they don't want to admit to themselves that it's coming from them, so they project it onto someone else. In this case, your ex correctly sensed the presence of manipulativeness because she was actually the one being manipulative, but she didn't want to admit to herself that the manipulativeness she sensed was coming from her, so she projected it onto you.) So in the case of your ex, I would say she was engaging in bad faith communication (though possibly without consciously being aware she was doing so).

In the case of the woman you describe, I don't think she falls into either category we've been discussing. She was just expressing her own pain. I don't think every single human interaction has to fall within one of the two categories we've been discussing ("good faith communication" or "bad faith communication".)
If you planted a tree purely for the purposes of later burning it, it would 'capture' a bunch of Co2, then when you burnt it, it could release that Co2 creating a net 0 cycle.

It's not efficient as an energy cycle.

Not even considering the fact that wood burns in a very 'dirty' way and would require a lot of energy to 'clean' the emissions.
Isn't it odd that Google would sign their own domains? After all, https is about ensuring your sites's authenticity to your visitor via a trusted third-party certificate. This sounds like it's mostly there to make it difficult to modify content by intermittent parties, such as ads and tracking added by your ISP. As such, "self-signing" by your own root CA would appear as a conflict of interest, and only add to SSL enforcement increasingly seen as gatekeeping.
A few of my college courses used OCaml, and it had lots of conventions like this that I found somewhat odd. If I remember correctly, exceptions (which were not used that often from what I could tell due to preferences for handling errors in a more algebraic manner) are named with casing like `Not_found`, which I don't even know the name for (maybe "capitalized snake-case?), I assume to try to make them resemble the capitalization scheme that sentences use. I also remember finding it quite strange to read types annotated with a space before the colon (e.g. `let x : int in`); a friend told me that this was due to OCaml's authors being French, which unlike English puts spaces in front of colons in prose. Combined with the fact that we were taught only a subset of the language (we never once learned how to use the object system for which the "O" was put in OCaml), and we were processed provided with pre-written build files for projects and not taught much how how to use the build tools, writing OCaml always felt somewhat surreal for me. Overall though, I did learn a lot from those classes, and I think it was a good choice for teaching the concepts the courses were intended to cover (especially the compilers course, which in retrospect I would have found much more tedious if course was taught in C or Java or something).
I had the pebble time steel which had a 10 day battery, and interestingly I felt like it was always going flat on me mid day because I'd get the charge warning away from home and forget about it causing it to go flat. While my current 1.5 day watch has never gone flat on me because I put it on the charger every night. I have a feeling this is a big part of why phones and accessories have not moved past the daily charge schedule.
Have you checked out https://mithril.js.org/
Not a cage in the sense you are portraying it.
agreed, but then what’s the issue?
There’s a big difference between coming up with “good enough” engineering solutions, and integrating a philosophical tradition with rigorous mathematics.

One the Greens were not good at was applied mathematics. They saw math as sacred, and avoided using it for “mundane” things.

For example, the ancient world had something similar to double ledge accounting, but none of the mathematicians tried to flesh it out.
So cool to see this here! Ceephax is quite good. In the same circle as Aphex, Squarepusher (his brother, don't you know), BoC, and the rest of the Warp/Rephlex adjacent stuff. But he's got his own style, and his own things to say.

Camelot Arcade is delightful, it's what it sounds like - electro if it were made by cool dudes in King Arthur's time.

His videos are a bit cheeky but fun. Someone else already posted a link to Eurozone, it's worth a watch.

Some of my favourites:

Hovagen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ftnHe5K88)

Sneaker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhZzSdgnDF8)

Legend of Phaxalot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on8C1mEKp88)

and also, a shoutout to the hippest city in Canada (tho he was probably talking about the UK variant): Haliphax (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dev3_-cHvhY)
100% agree. These pain points eventually broke me and I just left .net for Go
Many of the things you list were not fully and uncontroversially understood to be bad decisions until the end of the 2010s, so by analogy let's wait and see what we're saying in 2030 before we declare the 2010s to be an improvement over the 2000s.
> one of the reasons we need a bigger, more powerful federal government is to have a governmental entity that can take on the massively more powerful private entities (corporations) that exist.

Is bigger government more able to do this? It already has the power it needs -- the legislature can outlaw undesirable corporate behaviors, the justice department can pursue litigation (including antitrust litigation), and federal courts can rule against unlawful behavior by these companies. I don't see how bigger further enables any of these goals.

The problem I see is that lobbying and corporate hobnobbing with government elites in Washington creates a friendship and unity between corporate elites and government that ought not to exist. (Exhibit A: Ajit Pai)

A merely bigger government concentrates unjust power at the top: power to dictate more of our lives and increase bureaucracy, not power to enact justice and protect liberty.

We need a better government, not a bigger one -- a government that enforces justice without corporate favoritism, enacts the will of the people through representation, and upholds and protects the US constitution.
Yes, kennel could be another way to call it.
I know I'm probably a rare user here but I pay monthly for the hosted element account which I hardly use. I consider it more like a donation to FOSS and I check back every few weeks to see how the project is going.