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> I was challenging YOU who said that investors should consider treasuries capital preserving and default risk free

I am up for the challenge, but promise to read the whole thing because it took a while to write :)

It is risk free and also think that it's capital preserving in the long run. Every 3-4 years there is a big crisis (health/military/economic) and when fecal matter hits the proverbial fan everything that is not USD gets torn to pieces, like it happened in March 2020. And if you are into any investment that is not USD and need the money (for any reason) or just panic sell...then you take a gigantic loss.

Again, risk/reward. You'll never find an entity with a lower default risk than the U.S. Govt so, by definition that is (for all practical purposes) zero-risk and every other investment entails a non-zero risk of default

As I said, you only have to get rich once, and if you are an American you are already in the top 1% of the world when you are born, so losing 5% or 6% to inflation... that fits the definition of capital preservation much like subbing all the starters and letting the other team score when you are up 72-0 in the 4th quarter of a football game fits the definition of football roster management.

It's also important to stress that you are not really losing 5-6% either, you as an American are a shareholder of the Federal Govt. and as a shareholder you also benefit form the fact that the organization that you "own" can borrow money at a rate lower than inflation.

> You pay to borrow, you get to collect interest if you park capital

If the interest rate of a loan or a bond is lower than inflation you as a lender are essentially paying the borrower for the privilege of parking money with them because by the time they pay you back, inflation ate up your profit and diluted their debt, so they are the ones who come out ahead from the transaction, not you. Big entities with low default risk (zero in the case of the Federal Govt.) and very low for blue chip companies have the advantage of getting loans/issuing bonds at a lower rate compared to inflation expectations.

Leaving aside inflation expectations, if we just look at the past and see what was the rate of inflation in Q1_2022 there are various entities which had the advantage of having borrowed money at a rate lower than inflation, and thus they were de-fato being payed by the lender for the privilege of parking money with them, that's because again...you only have to get rich once. Powell said that inflation wasn't transitory but people decided to lend to those solid entities at below inflation rates anyways in the name of capital preservation because as I repeat again, you only have to get rich once.
I'm glad someone has written this down. I've often felt this way.

But also I've met and read some truly brilliant programmers and can't help but think they might know more than me.
People never required employment not to be bored.
Just don’t put anything on line that you don’t want the whole world to know. The governments will know (tech or legal), the crackers will know and given lax security and hasty development, it can easily be leaked as a side effect.

Talk to your medical or financial people directly and consider boring things like pads of paper. Don’t buy anything “politically sensitive” on line as it’s all being tabulated. Think cash or take some steps to obfuscate the sales. There are cash bounties being offered in the us for “biological information” so keep that in mind.

And any of the open hackers (still) on HN, how about apps that can be used by people with direct communication handheld to desktop/laptop that does not go through a server (a->b rather than a->net->b?

Remember the cell networks always know where you are…. The packets are routed.
"User pays is nice in principle but if there are massive positive externalities of doing something the government should do it. That’s what taxes and the idea of the public good are for."

That's always the big question though - where are we going to get the tax from. When we have a deficit and increasing debt, there using exactly extra money laying around to pay for this. Taxes need to be increased somewhere, but where depends on who you talk to.
Last year I got to ride an automated shuttle bus as part of a trial in Cambridge. That had an extremely short route and was very much a trial, with a small number of pre-booked tickets available.[0] Sounds like the Scottish trial is much further along, which is great to hear.

[0] https://www.greatercambridge.org.uk/smart/autonomous-vehicle...
I still don't get it :D
You’re proud of this?
Global warming changing the wines Australia can make
Indeed, the blog post is an interesting read, but the premise is mistaken. Windows 11 is satisfied with TPM that is based in an AMD or Intel chip (arguably, that is even more secure than a discrete chip).

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enable-tpm-2-0-o...
My downvotes for this comment are going pretty deep, indeed. Probably people who would like to still hate on that man. Or people who think that not being against Trump must mean I'm for him, but these people missed my point.
Even for Intel, it's been around since 2016 (Skylake).

But support depends on system/motherboard.
>but know that leaving a money printer that makes $5 a day sitting idle is stupid. ;)

> Every individual is financially incentivized to keep playing their part, so everyone would have to collectively agree to not make money by taking part, and as people fall out the incentives become steeper and steeper to participate. Would you mine on your card for $100 a day? $1000 a day?

>We will just have to live with destroying our planet, because now that it's been created it's virtually impossible to kill.

You seem to have made up your mind on that front. If all you're worried about is making money at the cost of perpetuating behavior/consumption habits that are in the macroscale approaching pathological in terms of sustainability, that's on yo. Don't be surprised when the rest of society puts a punitive price tag on the activity as people are better able to quantify the tangible costs, and the layers of hype are peeled away.
Also because of the little-known Jones Act from 1920 which states that any shipping between US ports must be shipped solely aboard vessels that are U.S.-built, U.S.-citizen owned, and, registered in the U.S., which means crewed by Americans. It's incredibly expensive to ship anything domestically in the US even though the geography is quite good for it.
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Literally none. Please point out a study done in humans that was posted. I'll read it to see if a causal effect is shown in humans.
Right now I rather believe in the Great Filter. If you look at e.g. Climate Change and the current war mongering including unprecedented nuclear threats, it's hard to imagine the current technical civilization is long-term survivable. During the next 500 years we will get delayed genetic weapons that can eradicate all of mankind, intelligent killer robots, probably even weapons that can destroy a whole solar system, in combination with exhausting all of Earth's natural resources. I used to be more positive but looking at our own behavior and judging that most intelligent life might evolve from former predators and technology involves heavy resource exploitation, the Great Filter seems quite credible.

It's also worth noting that long-term space survivability seems to be extremely hard to achieve, we haven't even managed to create long-term sustainable fully closed biospheres yet.
Proud is not the right word, call it calm and collected.
stdlib will never change, because it would break every PHP project out there. Many of the previous deprecations as been relatively easy to handle, like switch from each to foreach, or make sure that you don't pass null to stdlib functions, but changing the stdlib itself would instead be a complete nightmare.

Remember that many projects out there needs to support multiple PHP versions at the same time, it would be extremely confusing if the stdlib started to do subtle changes between versions and also hard to properly handle and detect.

Like if you would swap $needle and $haystack for strpos(), it would be nightmarish to statically detect in an existing code base which is the correct order and quite hard for a human.

Introducing aliases is also a bad idea, there already exists aliases in the stdlib and they only add confusion when reading code, that would be true for new aliases as well.

Named arguments alleviates the problem with argument order in exchange for more verbosity.

What PHP could do is to introduce primitive objects, e.g. $str->substr(...), however that would not guarantee a well designed standard library either, because RFC:s and emails is not a good forum for designing API:s.

I think the correct solution is to implement operator overloading and let the community design a standard library/libraries. Because of the massive performance improvements of PHP the standard library is no longer required to be pure C, it can either be implemented in PHP or wrap the existing stdlib.
Thanks for explaining, now it makes more sense to me.
It doesn’t seem likely to me that a civilization with the ability to travel interstellar distances would have any use at all for our planet or resources. I mean, the amount of matter in “empty” space between them and us would be enormous. What would they need our little rock for?

Not to mention the impracticality of communicating with your home planet across several light years.

If you’re basing this off of what’s happened in the past on this planet, without a good explanation as to why that would apply to an alien civilization, I’d suggest that you’re not using a good model. Bayesian epistemology is not a good way to decide what’s true, because new knowledge is created which makes the old models not work anymore.
Pls how can work in tiktok
I don't agree about malware protection: a TPM woukd protect you from malware in the sense that it would prevent a malware from getting your keys, but currently the most widespread form of malware are ransomware for which a TPM can't do anything. Also attackers are rarely interested in getting your cryptographic keys, usually they are interested in getting your login details for some service, for which they use phishing
Why can't you? That's exactly what the wind farms did - brought in Spanish workers after the initial contract period to replace the more expensive US labor.

Edit: why disagree without a response? I never said it was right. I'm saying it's not impossible and has been done in the past.
Who did you think you were replying to? I implied no such thing and the comparison to my comment doesn't even make sense.
How would you know you are shadowbanned? I've never gotten a response to any comment I've posted here.
Huh. I'd always kind of guessed that dd used if=input-file of=output-file as a way to sort of prevent the use of shell globbing and to not rely on the order of arguments (as cp does) since dd as it is often used can be a bit dangerous (I often found myself using it with disk device files) and you want to be extra careful in specifying the input and especially the output files.

Edit: wikipedia agrees with your IBM origin story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)#History
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I assume you mean it seems biased because it implies that the poster has different views to Google even if they actually have the exact same views as Google. I kind of get that, it implies a level of distance which may not actually be true. However I do think that's at least a bit uncharitable. But also there is a good point there.
As long as you don't go vote, that's perfectly fine.
> Barges don't pay for US waterway use. There's a tax on fuel, but it pays maybe 10% of the cost of maintaining waterways.

Do you have a citation for this 10%?

I operate a tugboat company. We move barges. We currently pay an excise tax of $0.29/gallon of fuel burned on inland routes. There is no good tracking or enforcement, but the tax is there.
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do cheeze acts as probiotics?
> Authenticator apps, and SMS help them derive you have identity

How do they do that?

TOTP (i.e. authenticator apps) is a simple algorithm where the value is derived from a secret key and current time. It certainly doesn't verify anything about you.
This seems to be an issue with the Google Fonts API, not Firefox itself.

For me (Firefox 100, Arch Linux) all the options work fine on https://v-fonts.com/fonts/roboto-flex (all of them have _some_ effect, have smooth transitions, and look roughly the same as in Chromium), but on https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Flex?query=roboto#t... the only option that does anything is Weight, and that one only snaps into one of three broad categories.
s/import/install/

It's not in the standard library, can't just import it and expect it to always be there
A code smell is a heuristic to detect maintainability issues, so while a heuristic can fail, if it fails consistently, you're using a bad heuristic.

Sounds like you're basing your heuristic on dogma rather than experience.
These are _managers_. Management is not part of a union. They were presumably fired for failing to produce the company's desired result (an anti-union vote).
I’d add [supabase](https://supabase.com/) to the list as well. They have some compelling hosted Postgres options.
https://geizhals.eu/ is one of the few websites I know which automatically respects DNT settings. Small info notifications informs me about my do not track settings and is closed automatically. With DNT = 0 they ask if it's ok to set cookies. I agree, that with DNT 0 they shouldn't be required to ask.
It's probably because your comment is irrelevant. It has nothing to do with what was said in the article.
I must say I disagree. There's a reason all books and magazines don't use fixed width fonts: they read slower and with less comfort
In reality nothing does that because, well, why would you when you have good exceptions? But even so, Java has a way to block that using the SecurityManager. Now they are deprecating the SecurityManager "how do I stop code calling System.exit" is one of the use cases they're planning replacements for.
Suppose we had a shop that produced widgets and it took tasks A, B and C to complete a widget. If the production standards were: it takes 5 minutes per widget for task A, 10 minutes per widget for task B and 5 minutes per widget for task C and we had three workers, worker-a assigned to task A, worker-b assigned to task B and worker-c assigned to task C and all of them met the production standards, we would still have waste and inefficiency in the overall system.

Here's why. Task B is the bottleneck and one could never 'ship' on average on any given day, any more than what worker-B would be able to produce. Worker-a would be piling a lot of 'intermediate work product' (or work-in-process) for worker-B while worker-c may be starving for work and will likely be idle. Sure there would be a lot of busy work for workers a and b and a lot of work-in-process, but not much changes in terms of volume of widgets shipped to customers.

If the goal was to achieve the lower cost of production for the same volume, one approach might be to remove worker-c and cross-train worker-a in task C in addition to task A. Now, worker-a can alternate between task A and task C (50% of time between the two tasks) and we would produce the same quantity of widgets as three people were producing earlier.

If the goal was to achieve higher volume at the same (labor) cost of production, one approach might be to train worker's b and c in task B and train worker a in tasks A and C. So, the deployment is {a} -> {A, C} and {b,c} -> {B}. Now, all three workers are occupied the entire time and the rate of production for task B is now doubled i.e, the shop doubles its throughput thereby increasing revenues, profits etc.,

In either case, the pursuit of productivity in itself is not a bad thing. If the firm failed to choose the suitable rational option, in the long run, it would have higher costs of production (and hence eroding margins over time) or a higher price that customers abhor (and hence losing market share), considering other things constant.

This is a management issue. When management prefers the status quo, you have dysfunctions such as worker-a potentially complaining about the effort vs. reward when (s)he is paid the same reward as worker-c ("they have an easier job while I slog my ass off!") or when management doesn't explain the change (i.e., cross-training and the benefits to the company, customers and workers) properly and faces resistance to the change ("what's in it for me?").
Yes, but the problem is that very often a programmer "knows" an index operation can't fail because they haven't thought of a case where it is a different size, or code gets refactored and assumptions are invalidated, etc.

The panic mentality comes from people who have spent most of their life writing C++, in which if anything goes wrong like an out of bounds index, memory might be corrupted in arbitrary ways, and in which you don't have a GC to clean up after you. Writing exception safe code is much easier in type safe GCd languages, and many programming errors end up being recoverable.
I can believe it.

There are even advantages from a clean slate methodology; if there’s sufficient buy in from management.

Reason being: if you have done things before and bore the weight of architectural misgivings, you can clearly reproduce the software.

The biggest barrier to doing this normally is:

A) time pressure.

B) pressure to use existing log available tech

C) pressure to be cheap (which is manifested most often in A&B but is it’s own thing too).

This causes “large rewrites” to be rushed, subpar and lesser quality as the emphasis often isn’t on getting to feature parity.

Regardless, if google lost their code- entirely, we would probably have search by next week, auth in a fortnight, mail by next month and something approximating google cloud by the end of the year.

Because a lot of the really hard lessons have been learned, a reimplementation is just time.
Or people that don't think your comment applies very well at all or is a meaningful tangent to the subject matter of the article.
Oh double negations... When you decline legitimate interest, you declare to your browser: "no website has a legitimate interest." And the browser passes this information on.

Also I said this in the context of GPs statement in that legitimate interest couldn't be handled. So it without saying it goes alongside a general advertisement cookie rejection.
Note, it says "most companies".

At both small companies I worked at, the real value was in the business relationships built up (suppliers etc). The code could be rewritten. It wouldn't be bug-compatible, but all the ideas and design were backed up in engineers' minds.
Watches are yet another YouTube subculture: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCWxRZGPejdW2l-H19_QCbmQ
Async Rust: Portability and Interoperability
What did people without need for work do throughout history?

From times before the concept of employment existed, to aristocrats and wealthy people in the last 2k years?

They dedicated themselves to culture, music, art, philosophy, science, architecture and so on. They wrote books and plays and music, did research, played instruments, sang and danced, painted, played games.

Search any list of the 20 most important scientists in history and count how many of them where money-driven. Very very few.

E.g. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-10-greates...
Thanks! That helps a lot. Can you maybe recommend any good starting points besides just searching the internet for each of the keywords you mentioned?
This is how to roll out autonomous vehicles - on known routes with a published schedule.
Wow ... that's really sad to hear.
There are plenty of scenarios where tracking is useful though. For example a product team may want to know how a particular segment of customers use their product vs a different segment.
If it involves operations in steps, your “code” is manipulating the digits. Easy example. Suppose I ask you to think of a positive integer. Then I ask you to double it. Now, give me the last digit. It’s either zero, two, four, six or eight. With a few more steps I can probably get any number I like.
Since you've never disclosed where, that makes it possible for me to ask: what's the tech firm's policy - or, to reduce the number of bits of entropy in your answer, does it at least stipulate that you should disclose that your opinions are your own, or specify that you need to clear things with HR?

If there's no actual policy for these sorts of things, that flips the coin and makes it very unfair that I don't know where you work, sounds like an interesting place :P
TatSu takes grammars in variation of EBNF, outputs memoizing Python PEG parsers
Heh, well that's one way to work around the inane Twitter character limit...!

My personal Musk dream is that he'll abolish that. If I never have to see tweets of pictures of text or tweets ending in `/n` again, it will be too soon.

Though, I sort of remember that Twitter was architected initially in a way that relied on the short tweets and it was a surprisingly complex change to even bump it up the little that they did recently, so who knows.
AIT to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2035
Oh, feed icons. That is a good one to add!
Interesting. When did redirections got added?
I think if you had swapped Trump with Obama, the downvotes wouldn’t change.
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Yes, weekends and holidays are the worst because I just bore myself to death. Let's go to a 7/365 work model instead
Every time I come across posts like this it's inevitably:

- plain lies about IDEs, followed by

- painstakingly recreating half-baked partly-working parts of what IDEs give you out of the box

> I feel like moving your hand from the keyboard to the mouse every time you want to move the cursor a few words back or forth

This interaction is literally built into your OS. It's called navigating with cursor keys and modifiers (Option on Mac, Ctrl on Windows, etc.)

> to create a new file

Even if there's no direct shortcut (such as Cmd+N/Ctrl+N), all menu items are available from keyboard.

Moreover, you rarely create just a file. An IDE's "Create New" tools usually give you a plethora of choices to create a file and all the necessary boilerplate in one go

> split the window or whatever

This I can agree with, and I think I even reported this as a request for improvement to JetBrains.

> Searching for some cool plugins and tweaking them was a very cheerful time and I run into almost no problems during the whole process. And, to be honest, 20 hours for creating a virtually full IDE from scratch customized entirely for your personal needs does not seem that much time at all. Lua is an easy and pretty language for configuration code, I think I’ve learnt it pretty well just by reading plugins’ code

No mention of plugins or what they do. Random screenshot shows something a modern IDE has out of the box.
How to embed flip-book animations inside 3D prints
I made a virtual bookshelf
Are you running master, or the latest release? I had some odd bugs when I ran the latest release.

Helix is surprisingly good for how young it is. I agree that movements in Kakoune and Helix are more intuitive.
I think people just find your point stupid. Whatever your opinion of Trump he was the President of the United States, it’s generally useful to at least have some sort of understanding of the man behind the title and what he may be looking to achieve.

Preaching wilful ignorance isn’t something to be lauded.
Watch as magically all cookies become "necessary".

Software engineering: the last bastion of legitimacy for people who still seem to have a fundamental issue with the idea of consent.
Adding all the words to the top of each file[0] and saving every file resolved it for me. Just need to pay attention to not change the casing when modifing/adding code.

[0] https://github.com/Soldat/polyworks/blob/37aaf471646fe4773e6...