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> despite the fact that Russia has a history of aggression against post-Soviet states (e.g. Georgia) in the 21st century.

The aggression against georgia was due to NATO. Just like the current aggression against ukraine. NATO's existence is a threat to world peace just like the soviet union was. Any sane person would be for the elimination of NATO.

> and I will always take the NATO brand of "imperialism"

Yeah because syria, libya, etc are doing so great. NATO's imperialism has murdered far more people than russia's. Even in europe - yugoslavia.

> (e.g. where countries literally ask for American military bases to ward against actual aggression) over the Russian brand.

There are ukrainians who asked russia to protect them too...
Yeah true, I shouldn't have stated in absolute terms ... But I still suspect there is a differential in the progress in tech for offense (holding a territory) vs. defense. And maybe that differential is greater than you consider Russian offense vs. western defense ...
Kinetic bombardment has been a thing (conceptually) for a while.

>potential disasters

unless that's the intention
Very cool. It all started because we had a bunch of gateway PCs that had parallel ports and we wanted something to synchronized across them. It was fun trying out different parallel cards made with different 374 latches. We even made a few custom ISA cards to play around with other ideas. Hard to believe it has been 30 years since I was at Purdue!
You seem to be replying to something I didn't say.

> At the point where people are attacking something in Germany that line becomes meaningless.

Exactly my point. I'm not saying desperation and ego won't drive him (along with everyone else) into the abyss, I'm saying he's savvy enough to know that right now, that line is protecting him.
With that mindset, planes would still fall out of the sky every month. Because basically 90% of plane crashes used to be "pilot error". If you then say, well, it was pilot error, bad pilot, can't do anything about it, that's the way it is, pilot should've not made an error... well, then we wouldn't have reached the amazing aviation safety we have now.
So this video is meant to be funny, but it really isn't funny for the government to brainwash school children... or have forced sterilization and prison camps for ethnic minorities.

https://youtu.be/MipTHyFXYTE?t=175

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-47236902
The best way to cure most flat earthers of their apparent affliction is to introduce them to even more obnoxious methods of trolling people. Trolly irreverence to rational conversation is the big draw of flat eartherism.

Play chess with pigeons and they'll shit on the board, just to see you wince.
I read somewhere that they saved Hitler's cock. Hid it under a rock.
Why would they do that assuming it's true? That's a bit fucked up to be honest but I guess the feeling of guilt can be overpowering. And I can't really imagine a better reason for feeling guilty than being related to Hitler (even if it's irrational, considering at least some of his family members barely had any contact with him)
This happened to me a bunch of times as a child visiting US from Chile where they don't break out the tax, saying Oh I can get this 4.95 thing at the BullshMart, then you take $5 and you get there and oh you need to come up with 38 cents in tax, sorry, waste of a trip. I get it if you live in USA you can adapt, but if you're coming from a different country it's a burden and it's wrong.

And weirdly it's the same right-wing guys in each country including the tax in Chile and breaking it out in US. In USA of course they want the citizens to hate taxes because taxes in USA support democracy, and they figure by making it a painful hidden cost they will get me, for instance, to hate taxes instead of putting them first. And I did in fact hate them when I visited, the trick worked on me, despite being an excellent math student.

In Chile, it's because the state needs money from somewhere for concrete, courts and cops (the three things right-wing guys actually think taxes are good for) and also for incredibly shitty orphanages and "albergues" whose purpose is be able to construct arguments around that there are in fact
already orphanages and "albergues" to deny real assistance...So they have regressive taxes, mostly paid for by VAT. So poor people and to a lesser extent the middle class don't protest that they're the tax base, they hide the tax. And in fact if you look at fancy magazines like Ed, an interior design magazine in Chile, they do break out the tax to communicate that you can get out of paying it, tee hee, or split it with the seller, on a $4000 USD Ottoman.
So by the wonders of Bayes' formula we can conclude that the F-35 that sank in the South China Sea carried nuclear warheads?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60607784
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The best moment to start building a nuclear plant was 10 years ago.
The next best moment is today.
"Choose corrosion-proof electroless nickel finish when using liquid metal" !?

What are people using?
What happened in Ukraine doesn't really provide much insight into what would happen in a war with Germany.

If Russia bombed Ukrainian nuclear plants and sent a cloud of radioactive fallout over Europe, that could be seen as a direct attack against NATO and get them involved in the war. So Russia has a big incentive to not attack nuclear plants.

But if Russia is already willing to attack a NATO country, then it's not clear that they would shy away from bombing nuclear plants, which would act as a distraction as Germany devoted resources to stop the radioactive emissions.
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> Somehow bluetooth audio manages these issues.

It manages it... sometimes.

I have an NVIDIA Shield I use for my video needs, and attempting to pair my Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones with it results in crappy latency and out-of-sync audio. These are both high end products from respected companies, and they work together with pretty shitty results.

Edit: I just tried this again after writing that and magically things work much better than they did before... but I stick by the general point.

In general, I'd describe the Bluetooth experience as mediocre at best.
I always just select the text and drag drop it in the text box with mouse.

In famous words of Mr. Larry wall, 3 great virtues of every programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
Sure, to really count as "gaslighting" there has to be a deliberate attempt to make someone doubt their own sanity. I think we can rule out malicious intent in this case. However, when you save a link to something and then later come back to find the service acting like the link never even existed, as opposed to telling you that it was removed, that can feel pretty similar even if it's not intentional.

A user's list of starred repos shouldn't be silently abridged just because one of the repos was removed or made private. A placeholder should be left indicating that the repo was once starred but is currently unavailable.

This is something I always found annoying about Google Play Music also; when they removed a track from their service it would just silently disappear without a trace from your playlists, so unless you saved a copy of the list somewhere and compared them you might not even know to look for it elsewhere. You're just left vaguely wondering why that song never comes up in the shuffle any more. YT Music is a bit better about this—they generally leave a grayed-out placeholder. Sometimes the metadata is lacking but you can at least see where it was and know that a track was removed.
Reads article and somehow misses it's entire thoroughly examined point, chides author for not paying attention.
Never, we have airplanes.
Oof. Nice write-up, and it'll probably work. I.e. I'd wager that 'no we won't do for you (even in exchange for cash) what we previously did for ourselves' decision is going to get reversed.
This is a purely legal argument in the original German report. I don't understand the legal aspect here, what the report says is that due to constitutional law an extension of the runtime of the nuclear reactors would require a risk/benefit analysis. And a higher chance of attacks or sabotage would increase the risk here.

The only thing the report says here is that this requires risk/benefit analysis would need to take these factors into account.
Is $70 in five years drastically different than $50 today? We've had what, 8.5% inflation in the past 12 months?
For writing code, I still use an ancient 1986 text editor that runs under DOS. I run it under DOSEMU now. After all those years, it's pretty much a direct mind-to-text interface.

For debugging code, almost all compilers come with some default editor or "build environment." I just use whatever is there, for convenience.
Oh, well, we might not agree on what the best measure of it is. But we have quite a few contenders.
the article also doesnt mention france's gas consumption, which was mostly about electricity, while german uses the gas 50:50 (heat and electricity). basically nuclear won't replaces gas and gas won't replace nuclear.

if we want to discuss about electricity generation, coal is the thing that germany could reduce with nuclear, but not gas. it's always the same thing about these articles, blame germany for a mistake (shutting down nuclear too early) but than just blame it on the bad gas, which is basically needed for nuclear operations anyway...

and no german citizens won't replace their gas heating because of the war, that will simply not happen (of course some people do reduce gas heating but a lot of people just can't).
DNA was old news sure but using it to identify individuals was only theoretical and hardly widespread knowledge, it wouldn't be practical until the late 80s/early 90s...
Of course we should not be complacent about it. We can try to come up with creative solutions, that limit the more negative side effects of this thing we have unleashed. But the one thing we cannot do is take it back. The general public needs their nuggets of endorfine.

There is a lot of rosy retrospection when it comes to the old web, but really, most blogs were a pretty lonely place back then. It is hard to deny how modern solutions allow even someone with the most limited technical skillset to establish a meaningful online presence. Web 1.0 simply did not provide the same level of accessibility.
Because the proof was overwhelmingly pointing at the other direction. It ranges from his defeatism earlier on, multiple eyewitness accounts from his last days, including his refusals to evacuate (including people begging him to join them in running away), the official Soviet accounts, etc. And around zero proof that anything else happened and he somehow miraculously escaped from the surrounded Berlin. So it's a baseless conspiracy.

Now, what happened to the Gestapo Heinrich Muller is a mystery and warrants a conspiracy theory. Highly skilled man, ideologically flexible, didn't tell anybody he'd rather die, and no body has been linked to be his. He's probably in a mass grave in Berlin, but it's at least plausible he might have escaped.
> Why Hitler escaping a "conspiracy theory"?

No, but claiming Russia and/or the USA lie about his death is. They likely had the the opportunity and the means to do that, but what would be their motive?
The comparison is not applicable. When you join the army, you give up certain rights to join that specific group. To make it even more important, the rules are clear and explicit.

Now compare it to Twitter or Facebook. You don't know what you signing up for. Their TOS effectively say they can ban you for things they deem wrong. It is only recently that we know how they evaluate it ( see CNN discussion of FB speech violence tiers ).

Free speech is just that. It is free speech. There is no TOS. It includes all sorts of nasty bits too, because that is what being human is. Trying to pretend otherwise is, at best, counterproductive.

But here we are. Entire nation scared of reality and in dire need to cover it up with soft language.

<< But the founding principles have always had restrictions build in.

Do they? I am reading the constitution and I don't see those restrictions. You may get a visit from some agencies, but that is to make sure you were not joking.

On the other hand, I do see a mention of when slavery is ok in US and yet people seem surprised when it is pointed out.
The complicated thing is that every query has to look for the column.

Ideally, moving the entire serialized record to an archive table keeps things as clean as possible.
True. Bitcoin was once in a multi generation innovation.
They didn't burn a diary. They burnt the list of people who subscribed to updates to a diary. If those people still care about the diary, they can resubscribe to those updates.
If that's your objection then anything other than tyranny is impossible. By definition the people who do anything have power.
> Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open

Because of dogma and stupidity
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There are certain repository actions that require an interaction and assistance from GitHub customer support.

The community was valuable to GitHub as well.

I could see a spec on “sizable community thresholds” where if an interaction might blow away something of that size GH affords you an exchange with a “concierge” forcing a minor exchange with a real person.
It is not at all irrelevant. I would be surprised if any reputable financial source would think of this as a 17% premium and not include last week.

gpm said the rest already as a reply.

As to the Saudi prince. Regardless of the topic. In any situation, it is hard to take the prince at face value knowing he pushed hard to successfully give the Kushners and co $2B[0]. If there’s more at play for the prince than short or medium term money, what he says is irrelevant then.

[0]: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/hes-cashing-kus... or
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jared-kushner-scores-2-bil...
Not directly related, but I find Safari’s automatic translation invaluable for following this war - because I can read the “other side’s” media instead of looking for “our media” to pick up a story.

The one built into Telegram is useful too, but terribly unreliable. And boy, what’s happening there… Russians are getting increasingly aware of the situation, and they are calling for blood. And I don’t mean (just) Ukrainian blood.
He might be in both brackets - 11.6% of shares held privately plus some fraction of that 78.4% by owning some broad index funds.
I've run vscode, docker and node in crostini (the debian-in-a-VM that you can just enable in settings in normal Chrome OS). Worked great for me.

I'm not at all claiming Chrome OS or crostini are without problems or limitations, but I have been very happily surprised at how well it stood up to some basic web dev work.
Wouldn't there be all sorts of human detection that they could do, similar to how game cheat engines work? A human is going to move the mouse across elements, drag, poke the screen, be slow, etc, and all in fairly predictable ways. Some API calls almost certainly require human interaction, where some interaction graph could be feed as a key to the API. It's cat and mouse, but at some point the mouse is going to get tired.
Douglas Adams would have loved this. His editor put him into motel with a typewriter and sat next to him until he finished.

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by" – Douglas Adams
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I went to school in Austria in the 80s/90s, too.

I remember reading "The Children of Schewenborn" in school and being really disturbed by it. Pretty sure I wasn't alone in that.

Good times!
Because if the star is merely hidden then the repo can come back later. If you don't want any association with that repo any more, it's bad that it can put itself back into your starred list.
I disagree. And I disagree for one reason only. Never is an awful long time to state anything with any kind of certainty.
Neat, I’ve seen Resolume before and didn’t know how common it was. Thanks for the recs!
Thanks for the updated script! I added a comment to my code pointing to yours. I’m curious what the key slowdown in my attempt was.
> You asked for an example of the legislature writing the laws of supply and demand

Rent control is an obvious example. Minimum wage laws, another. Anti-gouging laws, still another. All of them fail.

You appear to be arguing that S&D only applies to the marginal cost of reproduction. This is not the case.

Let's take an extreme example. You need some custom software for your business. You come to me. I'm going to charge you what it takes to develop the software plus a profit. Not the cost of reproduction of the software. Whether you and I agree on the price or not is a function of S&D.

And there's every point in between that and Linux.

BTW, I bet you're using a free browser to access HackerNews (I am - Chrome), and HN itself makes itself available for free.

As for copyright law, it is not setting prices any more than a law making it illegal to steal apples from my orchard is interfering with S&D.

> nobody has strong ideological attachments to Newtonian mechanics

S&D is not an ideology. It's the Law. Just like NM is the Law. It applies whether you believe it or not. You can't escape it. The communists tried really, really hard to deny the existence of S&D. They had about as much success as the flat earthers. Today's Progressivists are currently doing their best to deny S&D, with as little result as the communists.

And yes, I know NM is an approximation of Quantum Mechanics.
There's a startup that did this, they posted on here about it, but I can't seem to remember how to find them.

Found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20220288 but they don't seem to have survived.
I love this, but I just can't quit the Thinkpad trackpoint with physical mouse buttons between the keyboard and top of the touchpad.
> Meanwhile, we're back to wondering why (insert bogus propagandistic talking point) somehow aren't relevant...

I'm not wondering at at all, I see it clearly. You're right, this rubbish is a distraction.
What amount of money are we talking about? 10k,100k, 1m?

Zero. Lot of lawyers searching for clients with a legitimate legal case. They get a portion of what they win.
I type it.

It’s typically short short, and it’s a very destructive action. It’s also very apparent to me why I would want to type it out.

That said, someone is going to make a mistake at some point. I’d expect better from github support here.
It is if you don't expect it.
The sentence about simply replacing gas with heat pumps is almost delusional. You can't just switch out the main heating system for an entire country. Heat pumps require quite a lot of conditions that simply are not met by many older buildings. And even if that weren't an issue, there is still the sheer scale of the problem.
I think there are two types of destructive actions; destructive actions you do as a part of completing some other task, and destructive actions you do for compliance reasons.

I think the problem arises when product designers aren't sure which case their data deletion function is for.

If you dumped a bunch of social security numbers in your non-confidential data history and batch job system, you'd want to be able to permanently delete it as part of the incident response, to reduce the number of people that are exposed to data they shouldn't have access to.

But if you delete some lines of code from your text editor, they can just pop back into existence with the press of a key because you were probably just moving them around, or trying some buggy function without a piece of code you thought might be unnecessary to isolating the defect, etc. Editors clearly understand that you don't kill text out of an Emacs buffer to solve a compliance issue, so they keep it around even though you technically asked for it to be deleted. (Imagine how crazy it would be if deleting text in your editor deleted it from memory, the clipboard, version control, and your upstream VC server!)

In the case of this Github issue, there was clearly a fundamental misunderstanding. Github probably imagined the feature as a compliance type thing; get this stuff off the Internet as fast as possible at any cost necessary. Delete the list of people that even knew this thing existed! I could see why someone might want that. But what the user thought was that this was something they needed to do along the way to some other goal.

I have a feeling that people pick the compliance route more often than the "experimentation" route more often than not, not because they expect users to have actual compliance-type issues, but simply because it's easier. The net result is that users are trained to fear computers and fear experimentation, and that's a bad state we've put society in. This article is yet another victim of "if they said they were sure they wanted to delete it, we can just delete it". But it's actually pretty rare that people are sure.
Website doesn’t work all that great on mobile. But I’d be supportive of a Linux laptop that can market itself to regular consumers rather than already-converted Linux folks.
In the face of reality nuclear is the only realistic way to address the majority of the issues that most renewables cannot realistically face:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-nuclear-power-must-be-par...
All this talk about "a bygone era" seems to stem from a place of hatred but what is perceived as "old" if anything most techbros and minimalist wannabes seem to hate nuclear.

But if you stop watching the Simpsons and look at the data, you will soon realize that renewables are not able to provide enough reliable energy and this has been proved time after time.

nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z
EU has common energy market. If Germany does not have enough plant capacity, it will buy electricity from other countries, driving up price.
Yeah, this is very strange to me. There was a case involving Cleveland Clinic where an Asian nurse's coworkers and supervisor were openly racist to her, and the case was straight up dismissed.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-6th-circuit/1767833.html

> Plaintiff alleges that younger nurses called her an “oldbie” or “old bitch” and referred to rice she ate as “lice.” (Lee Dep. R. #33-4 at 170) She asserts that one nurse stated, “you Chinese people eat anything that crawls and walks” and also stated that Plaintiff does not have “chinky eyes” even though she is Chinese. (Id.) In December 2013, Plaintiff reported the incident to a different supervisor, Debbie Brosovich (“Brosovich”), who responded that she was “overreacting” and being “sensitive.”
> We need to expand renewables, rigorously cut consumption at all levels, diversify, and rapidly ramp up hydrogen. [1]

Russian coal imports are projected to go down to 25% (from 50%) in the next month or so, and by autumn should be more or less zero. Independence from gas should be achieved by 2024. LNG terminals will be build and floating LNG terminals have been secured.

[1] https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Pressemitteilungen/2022/03/...

That's about the same timeframe which could be reasonably expected for the recertification/upgrading/etc. of the nuclear plants. The goal is to get independent of Russia.
Or, knowing that it's the only way they have to recover from this situation, they could make the process easier to do and price it out as a service.
Agreed. This just screams bad UX on a corner case.
It certainly fits all that we know about Hitler and his his last days, and the Soviets had zero reason to lie about Hitler, they hated his guts.
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