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> one of them illegitimately

From googling, I'm guessing you're referring to the fact that Barrett's appointment was a week ahead of the presidential election and months ahead of the end of trump's presidency.

Federal appointments down to the last minute of a presidency are lawful, and somewhat late appointments happen frequently. I find the suggestion otherwise in this context particularly amusing, because the fantastic drama over some literally 11th hour appointments-- ones so late they were delivered after the end of the presidency-- is how the supreme court took the power to review laws for constitutionality in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison . Even lame-duck supreme court nominations used to be fairly common (even though supreme court nominations are not that common themselves) -- that they aren't common more recently is because an unplanned vacancy is far more rare.

It's true that Obama failed to make a nomination at the end of his term, but the view that he couldn't or that it would have been improper is just not factually supported by the law or the history of the country, including the history of supreme court nominations. Instead there is a clear political explanation: Given the composition of the senate and the weakness of an outgoing president, Obama would have only been able to get through a compromise nomination. There was high confidence that Hillary would win and that the dems would have greater senate influence, allowing a more politically extreme nominee if it was left to her term. This was a grave political error, one I suspect we'll be suffering from for years to come. (The fact that we had a number of unplanned vacancies of late are also political errors, at least to the extent that you consider the justices political actors.)

I find it unfair to the point of outright incivility though to escalate a debate about the fairness of it the level of calling the appointment _illegitimate_, and is disrespectful to a fine and honorable institution. The fact that some politicians and pundits can't restrain themselves doesn't excuse the rest of us.

> you reading some of these decisions [...] to treat any of these decision

It's a big step from some to any. No person or process is infallible.
Going further, make it dry run by default and have an --execute flag to actually run the commands: this encourages the user to check the dryrun output first.
Correct! I didn't' mean to say it's a good fit for every use case.

For me, it works. For someone else, it may be a terrible idea. Always good to think things through, and there's no shame in going for something more commonly used. Boring isn't bad, it's often a good choice.
>> Perhaps excepting procedural generation, all aspects are those Roguelikes
took from TTRPGs… we’ve gone full circle

Absolutely! I have some thoughts on this that haven't crystallised yet, but the
gist of it is that computer Roguelikes like Nethack have basically preserved
certain basal characteristics of a certain style of RPG design[1] that was
popular around the '80s and that involved setting up the conditions for
adventurer-style characters delving into dungeons to retrieve richess and
getting killed often, and in horrible, but memorable ways.

Those "basal characteristics" are just the mechanics that enabled this style of
play, primarily by necessity, because those are the mechanics that are
relatively easy to implement on a computer and even _easier_ to implement on a
computer. For example, roguelikes and later Computer RPGs (CRPGs) include
mechanics for things like Hit Points, Experience Points, loot, encumberance and
gold, that are bookeeping-intense and therefore tedious to have in a physical
game.

In particular, my experience with mainly 3.5 ed. D&D was that combat was a
matter of constant scratching and scrawling on character sheets to keep track of
HP going up and down, as damage was dealt and healed, then followed by even more
scratching and scrawling as XP were handed about and loot and gold was
distributed at the end of an encounter.

I'm not critical of this style of play but I sure don't find the bookkeeping
fun! It makes sense to do it with a computer, but in a physical game, it's a
limitation to enjoyment that needs to be addressed. And I've sure tried to do
that in Nests & Insects.

So I think I'm saying that what I mean by "Roguelike TTRPG" is really an attempt
to port the gameplay of Roguelike CRPGs to the table, but without all the
elements that would make a human feel like a computer (if that's not the conceit
of the game, that is).

Oh, btw- procedural, or rather random, generation was with TTRPGs from the
start. If I understand correctly, the first edition D&D books had random tables
for wandering monster encounters and probably other such random tables also. So,
I don't know, maybe the procedural generation is also something that CRPG
Roguelikes took from TTRPGs...?

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[1] Note I'm saying "design" and not "play". I did not play back then so I don't
know how those games were actually played. I also don't own and haven't really
read many early-era RPGs so I'm largely speculating about the design elements,
also.
Not to mention that he _deleted_, but not _lost_ videos. Nothing to see here.
Can be USB 3 [...] USB 2, so it is a bit hard to tell.

...or Thunderbolt, USB 4, DisplayPort (through Alt-mode or encapsulated in Thunderbolt), or HDMI (Alt-mode), or MHL (Alt-mode), USB Power Delivery...

Unfortunately, not every cable with USB-C connectors can carry all of these. E.g. there are USB-C cables that can only carry USB 2. Or cables that can carry USB 3, but not Thunderbolt. Also, not all cables can carry the same wattage for power delivery.

It's a mess.
I think WWII could actually be quite a fun time to be alive for young people on the home front in the UK (and maybe N America). They had much more social freedom, often worked in groups with other young people, and had a sense of purpose, unity and camaraderie. The future was uncertain, but their own role was much clearer. And rationing even meant that people were getting fed properly.

The modern world is brilliant at creating a constant sense of insecurity. That is often artificial but feels real. Your place is society and in the group is always insecure and shifting. Maybe kids are mollycoddled, but you have to wonder why people are driven to do that. Why do the richest most stable countries feels so insecure?
I mean I did say it's worthwhile if you go consistently, just not for one off networking events.
I'm 57 and I've been told that my entire life too. Born in Dec. of '64, I'm technically a boomer but have only seen the economic dregs and I identify 100% as a GenX. My political birth was the Sex Pistols.
Well at least deleting the secret is a step back toward the NDA he left behind.
In addition to what @nivenkos says, it lowers geographic demand for goods/services in the place you moved from, so costs in the old place go up slower (or even down) because you moved, while also increasing demand (and in turn potentially increasing overall economic output) for geographic goods/services in the new place. It’s a levelling effect in both cases.

Of course, remote working also seems to often cause pay cuts to match local cost of living, and also opens the possibility of being outsourced to extremely low income nations (same effect to a larger degree, especially as it might not be the same person doing the work).
Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined or data lost.

Even though you were fortunate not to lose any data, you gained a lot of experience!
Thank you, my question was more a kind of bottle to the sea, if anybody was using it. I was able to configure the plugin nicely and get gitea as a source of users and groups to control access to other applications.

And by the way, thank you, I am really impressed by the quality of Caddy.
Deleting them would break builds ;)
Yeah about 8:1 in 2005 for the US

https://acoup.blog/2022/04/22/fireside-friday-april-22-2022/
I guess at some point optical will be the only way forward.

Having more data lines in a serial bus is interesting, as the whole reasoning to go from parallel lines (e.g. Centronics, ATA/SCSI or ISA/PCI buses) to serial (SATA/SAS, PCIe, USB) was that coordinating multiple data lines got impossible due to physical limitations where e.g. minimal differences in cable lengths started to matter).
Funny, I would argue that the rock on my table is very definitely an object ;)
Yes, they do. Hosts are strongly disincentivised from cancelling on guests at any notice, for any reason. On the one occasion where the apartment I own and let on Airbnb was unavailable at short notice, as the boiler (new, recently serviced) failed spectacularly, I ensured the guests were in equivalent accommodation or better (ended up better, as the only thing I could find with a few hours notice was a nine bedroom house), as cancelling would mean losing my superhost status (only book with superhosts and you will more likely than not avoid the cancellation problem), and failing to provide an adequate service could result in a poor review, which again could not only cost me superhost, but also tank the business - negative reviews hugely impact your search ranking and conversion rate.

So, while there isn’t a huge amount of recompense in the event it happens (I’ve been on the receiving end, literally arrived for them to tell me that sorry, they can’t do this week - it sucks), they do penalise hosts who do this, and will almost always take the side of the guest in any dispute.
"Teens are aware that they are going to inherit a pretty terrible world, and are powerless to do anything about it."

Terrible compared to what? Rebuilding after a world war? Subsistence farming? How did those previous generations manage to maintain their mental health? The difference is that these days people spend their time looking at lies on social media, then measure the world's shortcomings in comparison to those lies.
Sounds like rabbits need a similar diet to guinea pigs them.
I'd hire this guy if only being for this frank about his mistake. He owned it and that is what I would look for.

After deletion, what should he have done? Postpone the go-live? That's often not a a cost-effective option. As for a risk-analysis the worst what could happen was deletion of the remaining videos. I don't think that that makes big difference in this situation. And to do the right thing, you have to have the infrastructure in place, if you are in a hurry. I doubt that's the case for a 10 heads shop.
To me reading this guy was immensely useful for understanding Russian way of thought: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1498377757536968711 - starting with demographic, https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1504585616834457619.
I might've missed it, but I don't think that line existed when this was first posted.
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In medicine we have a saying: on a scale of 10, death is an 8. It’s not clear to me that suicide is the worst case scenario. For example we have a really good family friend whose daughter has attempted suicide multiple times and has been in an inpatient psychiatric facility for over a year. She’s 13. Her first attempt was at age 11. The state of California is out of beds for this sort of thing so she’s several hundred miles away in another state. Do you think the SWEs, PMs, or executives at FaceBook, Instagram, Snap, or TikTok do volunteer work at these facilities? Do you even think they know where such facilities are?
> However, as a resident of the UK, I have to ask - how does it have a non-existent safety net?

Jobseeker’s Allowance is one forth of the average rent in London and I’m not sure you are entitled to it if you have any savings.

If you lose your private insurance you’d have to rely on the NHS, which is not as bad as what happens in the US, but it’s not in the same league of the French, German or even the Italian healthcare systems.
> Can a person from Kentucky and New York share beliefs ? Of course.

What I'm trying to say is that extremism boils down to the same flawed mental processes, whether you are left leaning or right leaning. Once your first culture is "broken" by being immersed in another one for long enough, you realize that it is all a matter of circumstance.

> Are we the same ? Women and LGBTQ+ people might disagree.

If you lived in the South, you might understand that women are the biggest enforcers of the status quo. You imply in a very simple way that it's not in their best interest, but it is, really.

If you are from a wealthy family, being a white woman in the American South is great. You have all the control in the world. It's not hard power, only soft power. But who cares? Your husband with all the hard power is wrapped around your finger... who cares about the recognition? It's a small price to pay for real control. You are also never expected to work, maybe part-time at a flower shop, or at charity fundraisers... you can even hire a nanny and still be a "stay-at-home mom". Who is saying this isn't a good deal?
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I would imagine that there is criticism for every decision the Court has ever made. However, this one has been challenged numerous times over these 50 years and stayed in place. Either we believe that law is a purely technical matter and the Court has failed at that job for 50 years, or we believe that politics are far more important and the technical arguments simply follow from that. I find it absurd to believe that you can treat law as some sort of math proof.
I've met people who know a lot more than me, anyways.

And thank you!
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A long time ago, I was using a USB 1 or 2 Wifi adapter through a USB extension cord, I'm pretty sure the total cable length was more than 5 meters. It "worked", but even just flicking a light switch caused the network connection to reset. So yeah, it may "work", for certain values of "work".
https://archive.ph/FybGv
It is a story that provokes “but why?”. Wouldn’t be out of place on that explainer part of the xkcd site.
Cognitive Load Is the Mind Killer
I’ve grown watching „The Animals of Farthing Wood” (1993 cartoon).

It has episode showing family of mice struggling to survive and worried about future for their babies. In following episode we get shot of same mice family impaled on needles by birds going to eat them.

https://www.wykop.pl/cdn/c3201142/comment_EkpfJKfyX8WRKQnr7H...

Entire story is told around forest dying out and animals struggling to survive in it. It was once called „that animals cartoon that traumatised generations”.
I did, it's the first paragraph.

> lots of people enjoy being in more or less wild nature

> camping [is] about self-sufficiency and simplicity
> French are generally very interested in politics from youngish age, for better or worse (the amount of outright communism supporters there among young anywhere I spoke to is disheartening

I think it is normal and even desirable for young people to be interested in extremist politics. Communism but also anarchy, dictatorships, etc... Modern day "free market" democracies are really a "least bad" system, there are many things wrong with them, things that communism or why not a ruling king can address. In practice, most people discover soon enough that it doesn't work, but to go to that conclusion, you have to at least consider it, and it is better to do that when you are still young and not involved in actual politics.

Also, being able to consider other systems is a sign of a well functioning free country. If any idea other than "democracy is the best" is being suppressed, then it is not really a democracy.
I don't strictly disagree with you, but I dislike the pendulum model for the same reason I dislike modeling history/future as linear. Society can regress, it can progress, it can do both in different areas. It can be reactionary, but it can also way too far for a hundred or more years. Maoist China was not by itself reactionary or linear, but a totaling force. The Dang era that followed changed some essential aspects, but even that has been reversing under Xe.

Each component in life must be modeled by itself. Societies can and have destroyed themselves. There are real better and worse ways of living.
I host on Airbnb, and won’t take direct bookings, for pretty much the same reason you describe - they verify ID and all that, so I don’t have to, and if something goes badly wrong, my insurance would provide cover - whereas with a direct booking, they’d have far more surface area to say why this was a foreseeable risk that I failed to adequately treat.
> I don't believe the social medias are that much different from what preceding generations were exposed to; TV, magazines, movies, etc all showed more idealized lifestyles.

You're overlooking the demographic targeting, and how that seeks to place content before the user's eyes that generates the "most engagement". That mechanism right there makes social media SIGNIFICANTLY different.
It’s not a typo, they either join a communist party or a fascist party.
Shouldn't that be `page={page}` rather than `page{page}`? Or better yet, use the requests `params` argument.
My favorite EBUG story - the GM of the Rangers forced to play goalie in the Stanley Cup final:
https://nypost.com/video/rangers-gm-lester-patrick-plays-goa...
It's clever, but also brittle. And might have disastrous error conditions (like hitting "Delete" instead of "Continue" if the wrong UI part has focus).
Most hotel chains like Marriott and Hilton have extended stay brands where you get a kitchen.
It actually is something that gives me pause for thought. In my field of coding (finance) ambiguity is terrifying and eventually you get it wrong.

Maybe it's not so bad in practice, but looking from the outside, I think... really? To be specific, case-insensitivity doesn't bother me, but the automatic conversion from camel-case to snake-case... very much so.
TIL that I have a heroku account.
Political-Financial connections.
Yes, I love the idea of the Plan Apply.
I don't buy this argument. Assume the oil has already been dug up and refined. Two gas stations next to each other: Shell & BP should compete on price to the point that minimum profit margins are established. This doesn't happen because it's not in their interest to compete. Instead it's in their interest to collude and maintain prices as high as possible knowing full well that a new player won't enter the market any time soon.

The oil cartel is alive and well.
FWIW this article is from 2014
What are you comparing with? I'd really like to see some comparisons in Numbeo or similar. Rent takes similar portions of the budget in several of these cities for professionals, even compared to several American metropolises.
Well, if you see that to be in dichotomy with being principled or judging, then it is less noble then you seem to imply.
> You think teenagers are thinking about pensions... If they are they are probably already having mental issues because that's not something someone pre 20s should be concerned about.

I was actually just talking with a teacher friend about this very thing (he lives in Germany btw). He was essentially expressing his surprise that the high-school students (well Gymnasium technically), were at the age of ~17-19 already planning their whole live in terms of career, money etc.. That is definitely very different to how it was back when I was a teenager, where one essentially started studying what one was interested in, with career paths being somewhat secondary.

So in short, anecdotal evidence is that yes teenagers are already thinking about their pensions now.

> People in this thread need to stop projecting their problems and worldviews as universal social issues.

While this is correct, we should also not project our memory of what it was to be a teenager > 10 years ago, onto todays teenagers.
> fired speakers who do things they disagree with

Can you please make an example? I am genuinely curious about what things
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Glibly, because the theory of self-correcting markets only works in economists' minds, not in real life.

Oil price is affected my many variables including speculation, supply & demand, latency and panic buying, but the supply is artificially controlled to maximise price and political leverage. If OPEC decided to announce a significant increase in production then the price would drop. But there is no real incentive for them to do this as they are maximising profits already and selling more for less doesn't benefit them long term. some of the oil producing countries want to exert political influence via oil supply (especially Saudi Arabia), essentially forcing forgiveness for bad governance and human rights abuses.
I've been split on this. On the one hand it is a bit unpleasant and can be traumatizing, and we tend to shy away from unpleasant things, but on the other hand lots of generations grew up on Grimm's Fairy Tales and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales and learned a bit about how difficult life can be and the consequences of moral failings or lack of hard work. It is important to prepare children for the fact that life is not all rainbows and unicorns, but still important to protect them from the depravity of the world so that childhood is pleasant and magical with healthy emotional development. I guess there is a right way to do it, and a wrong way to do it, and that's part of the complexity of life/the universe/everything.
If you own producing wells the cost is mostly constant other than transportation; if the price goes up, you make more money. Pricing for gas is different, the price is dependent on the price of crude, the availability of refining, the distance from refining to the pump, and demand for driving. Thus the price fell off of a cliff during the pandemic since no one went anywhere.

The price of crude is dependent on demand and supply. The price of crude was $20-25 lower before the war started which is likely more economic; it went up because Russia is a large supplier and losing/reducing that supply caused the spike.

People love to blame a market when the price goes up and forget to blame the market when the price goes down. At one point during the pandemic the futures price crashed below zero. No one complained.

You may not like oil companies, but oil is about as basic a market as you can get as long as there is no collusion (aka cartels like in the 70's).

Arguing we should no longer use crude for burning is different; I'd rather see renewables to provide energy and heat.
Deleting actually is idempotent. Doing it twice wont be different from doing it once.
Americans really live in their own big bubble don't they - how can there be such ignorance of the rest of the planet.

Terrible world? Are you kidding me? Try being born literally anywhere else at literally any other time in the world. The rest of the world isn't fucking Sweden.

Count your blessings. There are literally billions who would give up their first born for the "terrible world" you just described. Kids in the congo aren't having meltdowns pretending they have tourettes like spoiled American kids of the self-esteem experiment.
They have other blog posts as well, all equally interesting and detailed.
I hope so, it would be quite compelling if it was but so far I've been unimpressed and there's a lot of resources being pumped into the project.
Am I being dumb? What's described here is basically EMAIL.

1. fetch all personal inbox messages,
2. subscribed outbox messages,
3. and allow for sending messages to the fediverse.

Especially as it's all proxied through a local SMTP server.

So:

1. Like an email inbox?
2. Like mailing-lists ?
3. Like... sending EMAIL to anybody or mailing-lists.

I must be missing something?