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> DDG sounds like a promising alternative

Unfortunately, switching to a different search engine does not prevent you from ever stepping onto AMP again. For example all links in the mobile version of Twitter used to be AMP until recently: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/19/22791002/twitter-amp-ios...
I keep being tempted by retrofitted cavity wall insulation, but then I read some of the horror stories and it puts me right off. However our house is reasonably well insulated otherwise, and mid terrace do I’m not sure if it would make that much of a radical difference.
There's stories of professional couples - both doctors - who can't afford a place in Vancouver. It's completely crazy there. I consider myself lucky to have got a foothold (well) outside the city when I did.

I can't imagine how bad it'd have been with the Liberals (provincial) still in power.
Sure, it's a problem that needs to be solved on all layers. So why shouldn't application programmers take their part of the responsibility? Is that how it works? Other people also have problems, so I don't need to solve mine?
I don't think that it's amazing.... I think that the new and shinny databases tried to make you think that it was not possible...
> From this back of the envelope math, I don't think the royalties business is enough to support the development cost alone.

Did you mean subscription business? Like I mentioned, the royalties were 440 million which is way larger than 25-50. If you put 200 developers on this project, with fully loaded costs of 400k / year each, that's 80 million dollars per year. You add 20 million dollars for administrative and other expenses and we come to 100 million dollars per year burn rate.

In 2020 they made ~25M on subscriptions, if 50 of the 200 developers focus on improving the subscription business, at the current rate of growth they had from 2019-2020, in a few years they could totally phase out of needing royalties at all to cover their $100M / year expenses, with 200 developers earning competitive salaries.
Is this sarcasm? Because they already have:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/technology/racist-compute...
To rephrase my point: What do you think would happen to the price of the average home if we printed, and handed out, each man, woman, child, and dog in Canada a million dollars?

My guess is that it would increase by ~2.6 million.

But it would certainly level the playing field between the average person and 'the landlord with capital'.

So if we are so concerned about keeping the average Joe up with that landlord, why don't we go ahead and do it? [1] It's not like it's hard to run the printing presses!

[1] Unfortunately, we do do it, except instead of just handing this money out, we wrap it up in decades of indentured mortgage payments, instead. The net result is the same, with the addition of a colossal wealth transfer from borrowers to lenders.
Do you really have to type it over and over again? There's probably a few tasks there that need automation.
Not necessarily. Rockets are still bound by the tyranny of the rocket equation. Rockets have only improved slightly since the Saturn V and the Space Shuttle, both designed over half a century ago. Chemical fuels maxed out a long time ago. Fission was too risky. Fusion is still stuck. Antigravity, which was seriously discussed in the 1950s, went nowhere.
I like that people are trying to show you examples of fetch vs xhr as though you haven't seen them. "If you just look at them, you'll clearly transform yourself to have the same aesthetic preferences I do!"

They're all missing the point, frankly. The point is, we're stuck in this vicious cycle where we all get selective amnesia and forget why someone was invented, and we decide that it's old/ugly/unergonomic/ungraceful/unclean/unsimple/etc./etc. and invent something new. Woe to them that love the fetch API, and fall into a time warp to 2005 when everyone was singing the praises of "AJAX". You'd be bowled over by the sheer culture shock. (Likewise, I can't wait for 2035, when we'll have invented some emoji-based way to represent fetches, and those still using fetch() or axios() will be seen as hipsters/clueless).
The easiest way to do something like this as a European is to use something like MyCommerce to sell your stuff. They take care of VAT for you, and you don't need to do anything. Of course, they charge a percentage of your revenue for the privilege.

(I've tried Fastspring too, but I vastly prefer MyCommerce. MyCommerce sends you proper invoices every month that make tax reporting trivial for EU businesses. With Fastspring you have to export lots of CSV files and do lots of work in Excel to get the data you need)
I Ontario at least, houses in the middle of nowhere are still absurdly expensive. Getting permission to build anything anywhere is hard.
There's evidence that the structure of the dog genome makes it easier to breed for various characteristics – the "slippery genome" theory [1]. It looks like the science isn't fully settled, however [2].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17437958/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/hdy201098
Which I can justify by saying do you know of houses purchased and kept empty for years in high rent demand areas. It is pretty common.
Presumably the core of this feature is things like the n-word. But how far does this go into grey areas (ie things some folks believe are problematic but not everyone)? And do "suggestions" count as censorship?
But you can always decrease the costs of such systems, improve their mass-production, and maximize their smarts.

The "Gray Wolf" cruise missile system that USAF is investing into (or maybe more accurately: experimenting with) is one such "cruise missile swarm" that's quite modern, for example, and is competing against Hypersonic missiles for development. The Gray Wolves seem like they're small enough to be deployed on common fighter-aircraft, like F16 or F35.

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Lets say you only need 8 Gray Wolves to reliably hit and kill an enemy cruiser. That's only 2x F35 fighters that need to be deployed to launch those 8x Gray Wolves.

It might be easier logistically speaking, to launch 2x or 3x F35B or F35C fighters off a US Navy Carrier / US Marine Assault Ship to launch 8x missiles, rather than figuring out how to launch a larger bomber who can carry the larger Hypersonic missile.

No one really knows how the next war is going to face. Even though we're getting more information in this Ukrainian/Russian conflict, we're not really seeing major naval battles (Ukraine after all, doesn't have a Navy). Therefore, we don't really have much insight at all to how carriers / destroyers / frigate missile platforms vs airplane systems work.

> Hypersonic weapons seek to deliver equivalent power in a far smaller, lower cost and more agile platform.

But the Hypersonic missiles themselves need to be much larger and full of propellant to break not only the sound-barrier, but the hypersonic barrier. That's a lot of drag to breakthrough.

Can those systems be shrunk to a small enough size to fit onto an F35 or F16? If you can only "shrink" those missiles to B52 size, that limits their deployment. Its not like you can launch a B52 from a carrier. And even if you could, B52 doesn't have any stealth capabilities like the F35, so you wouldn't want to use it in anything resembling a contested airspace.

Subsonic weapons are naturally going to be smaller than hypersonic weapons. Subsonic weapons always have exponentially less drag, since they're flying at far slower speeds. Less drag means more range with less propellant, and smaller weapons yet yielding more payload (bigger explosives, since you're spending less precious "weight" on propellant).

EDIT: Case in point, the USA's HAWC project has no explosives at all, and is purely a kinetic-energy projectile.
It can also be disabled in preferences if you don't like that functionality.
> Personally I'd prefer true pay-as-you-go without hard limits, even if it's a bit more expensive. To me the point is to sign-up-and-forget-it without having to worry if I'm within those limitations.

Sure, if you can set a max budget. Otherwise, you'd constantly have to worry about the unbounded cost.
Salient to a lot of argument ITT about real wealth, inflation, and the US economy:

no analysis of the contemporary bubble is possible without explicit treatment of the mind-boggling capture of wealth by the richest quintile and in particular the richest < 5%, which began in 1971 and has only accelerated.

If you are not yet familiar with the hard numbers on this, I beg you to look it up.

It is life-changing to realize that the true decline in wealth accumulation, leisure, security, social mobility, etc., since ~1970-71,

(described elsewhere in the thread here as "real GDP decline" etc.),

is ENTIRELY a product of wealth-capture by the very rich.

Actual total wealth in this country is at least triple what it was in 1971 by any meaningful metric. But the wealth held by all but the top 10-20% has DECLINED in that time. Because ALL the gains have been captured by the wealth; and most of that by the VERY VERY VERY wealthy.

The social disruption, material breakdown, comprehensive anxiety cum tribalism, etc., could ALL have been avoided.

Now consider that wealth capture has resulted in political capture and media consolidation and oligopoly. Why are the consequences of this wealth accumulation never discussed, or made into policy centerpieces, except for a few lone voices who are written off as radical or eccentric?

This has changed from general-order horror to active-threat horror in the last 10 years because the capture of wealth cum power is now driving us away from solutions to urgent problems:
• political tribalism cum brewing civil war
• accelerating worst-case climate change

These are major forces for social disruption.

Confronting them is impossible without addressing the consolidation of wealth and power by the uber-rich.
This is the wrong way to approach mental health and privilege. All suffering/experience is relative to the individual. Your using the same "starving kids in Africa" argument and it is irrelevant.
>Why isn't "people of color" as offensive as "colored people"?

Great question. I was surprised when "people of color" came into the lexicon given the history of its similar sounding term. I wonder who decides what is offensive and what isn't? Who gave "people of color" a pass while being so close to the other?
(b) is the biggest one. It doesn't make second hand unlivable, it just stops putting a premium on things which clearly aren't premium (unlike say Europe). It also makes it easier to tear things down in case of future needs, whereas Europe tends to "lock" itself in, creating a market which is very inflexible.

>(c)

Keep in mind 1LDKs (living room, dining room, kitchen) come with everything you'd expect a full apartment to come with, and are still very cheap in Tokyo compared to most metropolises and big cities. Many DKs also come with personal shower, small kitchen and toilet. Their spaces are generally on par with what you'd get in bigger European cities, for an equal or lower price. Not bad considering it is Tokyo.

>(d)

I mean, between the US and Japan, Japan isn't that much more difficult to immigrate to, unless you expect to get by with just English. Decreasing population also isn't a problem considering population numbers are getting far too big for comfort among developed countries.
The real reason is that those foreign investors are productive and have excess capital available to invest. They are from creditor nations, not debtor nations.
Agreed. I use Home Assistant to standardize across the various devices I have. I have a collection of misc. Hue bulbs, Tasmota-compatible plugs and other random devices.

HA acts as a HomeKit bridge, meaning that as long as I get a thing working with HA, I can control it from my Apple ecosystem.

Do I need it? No. But it's extremely helpful and still meets my goals around data ownership and no dependency on an Internet connection to turn off the lights before bed.
It's a bit of both, at least for my state specifically. There is a bunch of gatekeeping, but also some necessary restrictions and codes in California which is stricter than most other states, but necessary given its history. You can't take shortcuts anymore here like you could in the 60's (or heck, even in the 80's in terms of Los Angeles).

It's a a long and expensive process and I wouldn't be surprised if some deals fell through something because the minimum expenses exceeded what some potential clients expected.
Dual writing has huge downsides: namely you're now moving consistency into the application, and it's almost guaranteed that the databases won't match in any interesting application.
I meant in google docs, right now they don't "warn" you about them. I prefer that google does not dictate how I choose to express ideas.
I see this as basically the same thing as a grammar or spelling checker. It's essentially a suggestion that "some people might find this wrong". As long as I'm free to ignore this and use whatever words I please in my own Google doc, I don't really care. However, it's getting harder and harder not to see these moves as incremental steps towards corporate-backed censorship and violations of free speech. I could see Google removing my documents down the road if their algorithms backed by internal policy finds them "objectionable" -- with this feature as the first step only in hindsight. It's pernicious because if I freak out about it now and it doesn't happen then I'm a conspiracy theorist or alarmist. If I don't complain and it does happen, then it's probably too late and has become embedded in culture as acceptable forms of social regulation. It might be time to just do the hard work and run my own hardware and tools.
"What do you guys think of Tarot or other metaphysical things?"

There might be some things we don't understand, like the 21 ounces or whatever that one loses after death. Very interesting, so far unexplained, yet documented phenomenon. Similar things can be said about certain reincarnation and near death experiences - how could they know some of the stuff they do? Maybe there are yet unidentified physical explaination, maybe something else. I am looking forward to answers either way.

For stuff like tarot, there are probably some interesting body language or physiological things that are behind it. I have a hard time believing most stuff like this and mediums. However, that could be that there are a large number hacks obscuring an extremely small number of people with actual talents. I'm also looking forward to any research finding on these topics.
I know my scanner also sharpens images a lot (by darkening and increasing contrast?), which with the noise and blurring makes a pretty distinctive look. These still look very "clean" compared to this: https://i.imgur.com/tBkVVic.png
https://twitter.com/thecitywanderer/status/15161769835495301...
You can always wrap XHR with the success/error semantics you prefer with a Promise, or even, if you want to optimize, your own thenable interface.
Your theory doesn't seem too far off. Perhaps it is not a deficiency but more of a craving associated with hormones like ghrelin.

I find that salty processed foods such as Cheeze-Itz (flavored) are very addicting and not filling at all. My theory was always that anything with onion powder, salt and refined carbs is a craving that can't be satisfied easily.
I too have never heard of "landlord" being non-inclusive, and I actually do follow a lot of un-inclusive talk(ie guys, motherboard, whitelist/blacklist, master/slave database, black/Black off the top of my head), and the suggested replacements aren't even actual synonyms - "property owner" and "proprietor" don't mean the same thing as landlord. A property owner may not be renting a property to a 3rd party, and a proprietor is the holder of any business or property, not just housing properties that are rented to 3rd parties.

I don't even understand what the problem with landlord could be...is it because it is masculine and landlady should also be included? Because I know literally zero people who have ever made the distinction that a landlord is a male. Or is it the "lord", implying an underclass(more like master/slave)?
it's ok to bomb people, but not ok to bomb satellites?
Where do these daily sodium recommendations come from? If Japanese people on average are eating two times the recommended daily amount and are not seeing adverse effects then is the recommendation more of you don’t need to eat so much sodium?
> - Whatever that purple (or was it green?) plug was called that you used to plug your keyboard/mouse into

Purple was keyboard, green was mouse. PS/2 Port: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port
Uk houses are not designed around warm air heating, wet radiator systems are the norm. I’m not sure you could retrofit warm air into most two storey brick houses in the UK particularly easily.
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Can I train DALL-E2 on my personal computer with a fairly decent gpu? or it is out of the question?
> The recommendation to eat less salt is only for the people who eat mostly industrially-processed food, which always includes excessive quantities of salt

Such a logical argument, but I could never get it across to my relative with congestive heart failure. Poor guy was terrified of food and what he did eat was almost flavorless (steamed plain proteins and veg, no fat). He was plainly malnourished. Not sure how the doctors didn’t see it.
Main reason to use AMP links is access to content that is otherwise restricted.
But I dislike AMP to the extent that I hope more browsers will implement this De-AMP feature.

Brave is also fighting another fight with Google, this time with the Brave for Android browser, where Google has decided that all users want to have Tab Groups. The latest status is that users of the Brave browser for Android still can't get the old Cascade Layout back yet.

More on https://community.brave.com/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to...
I find myself oscillating between excitement and sheer terror, sometimes several times a day.
The main reason that I think I make good decisions in the absence of data, is because of how much I've relied on whatever data is available to inform my decisions and learn going forward. This is a huge advantage to multivariate testing as a practice/culture. As a consequence, it's often very easy for me to pick out when readouts are giving a deceptive answer (i.e. oh, the scope of this uplift is too much, we need to double check if something happened to negatively impact the control).

I'm not sure I'd agree that people are often operating "close enough to optimal", but I would definitely agree that integrating experimentation is hard enough that sometimes the effort (or mistakes) you can introduce will cause more problems than you're helping. But I think this is more a function of how poor people are at the mechanics and the mindset of running experiments than that they're doing good enough pricing hot dogs. Experiments in many places are looked at for either CYA or boasting about quarterly results and not to truly learn/grow/improve.
For option A, how do you put the requirements in the repo? Another user mentioned the possibility of having a "req" folder at the same level of e.g. "src" and "test". Maybe the file structure would match that of the other directories? And what do you use - excel files, word docs, .md files, something else?
Indeed. Which brings us back to my original comment.
Relativity itself is founded on the prior work of folks like Maxwell. Without previous work, Einstein wouldn't have any basis to discover the things he did. So in addition to a supportive environment around him, he owed much of his success also to the supportive environments before him.
So everyday people don't want to fight climate change? I know some do.
When you liberalize zoning you get slum cities. This has already happened many times in latin america, india and africa. It also happened in America when we had liberalized zoning. (See, for example, the history of San Francisco, and New York).

I am all for increasing density in places where there is high demand for housing. But a lot of people are living in this libertarian fantasy that all you have to do is liberalize zoning and you will magically get a perfect high density city like Singapore (which ironically has some of the strictest zoning in the world) and not a sea of slums (which actually happens in the real world when you combine high demand with no zoning).

I think cities should increase density when they see high demand for housing. But they should do it smartly by providing services and infrastructure for more citizens when allowing higher density buildings.

The most important service for high density living and the first pain point a city hits when population increases is transport. So if you want higher supply of housing, the most important thing to do first and foremost is to vote for all mass transit initiatives and try to convince your city leaders to put in more mass transit. Once the mass transit is there it will be far easier to put in apartment buildings and increase density without choking the city in traffic.
This is scaler talk about an issue that will require some vector solutions. Having consulted for several F500 corporations, I've seen first hand that they mostly suck, and a lot of this culture talk is driven by Bill Lumbergh not being able to do his cube circuit every day.

The direction of decentralized work effort has let people step back from the trees to see the forest, and simply ask why a company thinks it's even worth their in-person time. This should even be a stockholder fundamental question if a chunk of company expenses goes to keeping lights turned on.
Except building the only modern alternative rendering engine on desktop, which is necessary to keep web standards serving the users instead of Google!
Isn't that like saying someone who won the lottery wasn't lucky, we just don't understand the individual person's chances to win? Like in some way it makes sense but for the purposes of actually deciding whether to recommend whether someone should buy a lottery ticket you can do quite well by looking at the broad trends.
FWIW my advice would be to include enough information in your comments to disambiguate your intent (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... for past explanations about that). It's all too easy to assume that other people know what we know, because the contents of our minds are obvious to us, but of course other people have no direct access to that; they only have access to the information you explicitly put in your messages. Most online misunderstandings, including uncharitable interpretations, seem to come from that.

Beyond that, the only thing we can each do is raise our standards for ourselves and lower our standards for other people. That may sound unfair, but we're all biased in our own favor to begin with, so it's a balancing move.
Queue the jokes about studying dark matter on Uranus.
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Read the thread, it's not just (0,0) but (0,0) plus an unspecified radius of some kilometres. That might be ok if you're a Software Developer in San Francisco, but if you're a fisherman or crew on a merchant vessel off East Africa you may feel differently.
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That kind of rationality is rarely found in a hot market. You'll essentially be driven to massive overbidding due to the highest bid in the group. In a big enough market with enough demand, you can be sure that high bid will be well beyond a rational amount. Fairness has essentially nothing to do with it.

Once you lose 5-10 bids, you'll either give up on owning a home, move to the country or start upping your bid to suit.
It allows you take make other mistakes, such as using the wrong type for POST data resulting in "[object Object]" and similar gibberish being sent to the server.

Not saying XMLHttpRequest API's is brilliant, but fetch's API also doesn't exactly fill me with joy.