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Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) once flew a plane too after the pilot fainted in 2001

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/mr-bean-flies-pla...
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Back in the early 90's, I used AREXX (Amiga REXX) to write some closed captioning software that was used by a video post-production agency. More than a decade later it was still being used there. Good times.
I'm sure there is a German or two here who can chime in with the specifics, but the parent poster shared a somewhat abbreviated version of the story. There are multiple kinds of high school in Germany (and other European nations) whereby you can opt into the right kind of school to fit your talents and needs. So what they likely meant was Gymnasium, which is traditionally viewed as a university bound high school program. Other students will go to other kinds of more hands-on schools that I'd say are no less rigorous or well-rounded, just different.
A good city should be able to withstand people moving there. Otherwise it was probably only good for reasons that aren't actually inherently city qualities, such as culture or access to nature or cheap land.
- it's more work when you're trying to stop
data exfiltration / espionnage

- privacy -- I've no idea what the telemetry
says about me today, and I certainly don't
know what they'll make it look for tomorrow

- privacy -- even if the telemetry is fine,
maybe information about my usage patterns
might be more valuable to me than it might
seem at first glance

- performance -- every app, every library, all
sending out telemetry? Please, no.

- because I get to not want this
"sweat equity" is as cheap as you are willing to work

... after reading the article, spherical lenses are great in many many applications, there is still a place for aspheric optics one of which is large aperture telescopes you can reach without an orchard ladder or drone.

the sibling comment on spinning fluids does lead the question; can the researchers vary the density of their neutral fluid (or polymer) to gradually vary the "local" forces shaping the lens
There is a big difference though. GDP is measured per year. Bitcoin market cap is of its lifetime value on date when you measured it (based on exchange rate fluctuations of course). So Bitcoin collapsing is not the same as France's economy going out of existence.
Question: can you write a de-googled flutter app?

Yes, there's several in F-droid. Flutter doesn't use any Google services by default.
Proof of work existed long before bitcoin, and I haven't seen any evidence that bitcoin is an important innovation despite it being 13 years old. Send it to zerooo
You make a good point. I have no data to back up the comment you replied to. It’s just how I feel being from Austin and watching it grow way too fast. I wish I had another home town to move back to.

I should have thought through my comment a bit more. Today I did some genealogy research and was amazed at how often my relatives moved in the 1700s and 1800s. It wasn’t uncommon for them to move cities three or four times during their life in a time when you couldn’t just rent a uhaul and head down the road.
If by "best" you mean "more job opportunities." That's always been true, and earlier migrants always hate the later migrants.

At most, you could say that the preference of living in the city vs. its suburbs flipped compared to 20 years ago, which had previously flipped when cars made suburbs commutable.
Turns out I'm covered in lint and basically a walking fire hazard.
Further to this and in news just at hand:

> "HB 20’s critics have blasted it for infringing on the First Amendment rights of private companies. “Texas’s law violates the First Amendment because it compels social media companies to publish speech they don’t want to publish. Worse, the theory of the First Amendment that Texas is advancing in this case would give government broad power to censor and distort public discourse,” said Scott Wilkens, senior staff attorney with the Knight First Amendment Institute, in a statement following the decision."

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/11/23067002/texas-netchoice-...
I don’t understand the go-to-zero case. Surely an open source, permissionless financial system has some value? There’s tons of value being captured in closed financial systems.
the ex made a very convincing blog post some time ago that she was an innocent bystander to that train wreck.

As a neutral observer, she sounded somewhat believable, especially since she basically was along for the ride, and has almost nothing to show for the scam (and a lot of downside from being the person targeted by the ire of depositors)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/jennifer-robertso...
Then once you build a track record, bring your team back to Canada, completely avoiding greencard queue.
OP code would throw an exception. ^^
Looking over the GitHub commit history of the two contributors on the repo, I’d say it’s a reaction.

These folks look like they’ve barely touched much open source code before now.

A planned run up would surely have these folks doing more GitHub based commits even if on very private repos.
The easiest way to not show non-chronological results to kids lying about their age isn't KYC, it's showing chronological results to everyone.

(or, well, not showing results to anyone)

I'm much less concerned about the issue of identifying kids (if they can't identify kids, all the better, adults get to benefit too) than that they're probably accidentally banning whole categories of useful things like rolling your own search engine.
Consider also that Bitcoin already halved in value in recent months without having the impact of half of a France getting bombed out of existence. ;)
This was one of the things I loved about my community college / transfer-to-a-commuter-state-school experience: once you got through about a year of the program, 90% of the people left were pretty serious about improving their lives with their education. A lot of "nontraditional" students, older students, people with kids, etc. Yeah, it sucked that only a scant handful of people got internships with any prestige attached, but if you actually cared about learning from each other you got the opportunity to. (Even there, I learned a ton from the guy sitting next to me flexing his vim skills and shit-talking the databases professor -- there's always somebody!)

For the vast majority of people, the alternative to that isn't Stanford -- it's some "traditional" four-year institution where a good portion of your classmates are really there to plagiarize and finesse some early-stage alcoholism. A lot of my community college classmates may not have been "the smartest minds", but having an environment where people cared was far better for my learning than the time at a private school I'd spent in courses full of hungover rich kids.
The carve out for education and govt is also HUGE.

The power of small forums exists today - inside larger platforms that through aggregation have been able to corral the resources to persist.

Smaller forums falter and fade fairly easily (source: having admin'd them).
can you even see out the front window with how low the seat is?
Paywall removed: https://archive.ph/20220511184519/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
For sure, the algorithm changes that we made we believe work across all languages; they are inherent to the architecture of microservice applications and not specific to a particular programming language.

That said, we currently do not have any client libraries for node.js. Therefore, we would probably have to make a client library for the common GRPC and HTTP libraries that are used in node.js. As I am not a node.js programmer, I do not know what they are. However, since we have written client libraries for Python (HTTP and GRPC clients) and Java (one HTTP client and the primary GRPC client), we believe this is a "small matter of programming."
Volume of an n-ball
So private entities can't snoop on me, just thee government?
Maybe my reading comprehension is low, but I read the entire interview and it revealed no evidence whatsoever. Just supposition.

Please, by all means, educate us all how the lab leak hypothesis has been strong for awhile now. Because as far as I am aware, it has been more or less proven the closest we can get to the origins of COVID-19 is that Wuhan Fish Market, where all kinds of people were working and shopping in close proximity to all kinds of animals in astoundingly unsanitary conditions, and it is entirely typical for a virus to emerge in this kind of environment since every other virus outbreak, epidemic and pandemic in the history of the Earth originated from people living and working in close proximity to animals.

I will appreciate the time you take to actually support your argument, if it can actually be supported with actual evidence, which I strongly doubt.
> I don’t begrudge any American who wants a country of their own, just like Indians and Bangladeshis do.

Setting aside the fact that your reply had no relevance to OPs argument, I have other questions.

Do you consider your presence in this country impugning on an Americans desire to have a country of their own? Just like Bangladeshis do? Perhaps there is a more appropriate country on this planet that you should call as a country of your own. Why are you treating America as some kind of science experiment?

This clayton bigsby schtick is only funny the first time around.
There is a shortage of good housing. Humans are not meant to live in 100 year old rat trap paper thin apartments.
Buy some (casino) chips first, then the dip...
As an aside, anyone have any insight on people with NSAID allergies? I pretty much have not taken aspirin/NSAIDs since the first allergic response as a child. What can people like myself do for anti-inflammation?
It's called Dependency Injection for a reason
The latter answer is simple. Tether and other stable coins printing money from nothing. They have statements that they are backed as equivalent to dollars but it is utter nonsense.

Just yesterday tether printed another billion usdt.

They were openly proven to have only 3% of their currency backed by USD by the NY AG but everyone just ignores that judgement.

They never held under audit, have proven to not be backed by USD and refuse to disclose their holdings. Their CFO is an Italian surgeon who sold pirated copies of Windows.

When eventually that falls, the entire space I figure will implode.
some years ago I had to take a break from my startup to consult, partner had a consultant come in to do some stuff, consultant wanted to redo a bunch of things to their liking - one of things he redid was to redo how products were found to be based on navigating by brand - without evidently taking time to consider that many sources of data we had, had a very poor understanding of what constituted a brand and that a brand might very well be some escaped xml and unreadable unicode glyphs, the letter A, the exact same text as the product name, the word Shirt, or a number of other things, including in some instances the actual brand.

In other words he did something because he thought it was okay to do it, he did it because he didn't like the way it was done, but he did not consider that in this case there might have been a reason why it was done the way it was and not the way he wanted it.

There were many things he could have changed, and improved things, but since he didn't bother finding out why things were they way they were changing things for the better was at best a random outcome.
Tether is fine (usdt)
Abortion bill fails in U.S. Senate as Supreme Court weighs overturning Roe
And for a practical example of how the crypto operators weave “market cap” out of nothing, read this revealing interview with Sam Bankman-Fried:

https://www.ft.com/content/eac0e56c-f30b-4591-b603-f971e60dc...

He’s the CEO of one of the largest and most established crypto exchanges. The interview is stunning.
That wouldn’t be an issue. The whole claim is that this:

let a: u8 = /* */;
let b: u16 = a;
push_u16(a);

can easily be inferred into: (no pun intended)

let a: u8 = /* */;
let b: u16 = a.into();
push_u16(a.into());

But the Rust language has decided that implicit upconversion that is already apparent is a bad idea because “bugs”. And I’d agree with them, but it’s stupid in this case. The issue at hand isn’t asking for ‘a’ to be upconverted to a u16 in the middle of an expression like this:

let b: u16 = a + 1;

…because you’d be left with the question of when to upconvert (“implicitly changing behavior” as you call it). No, it would only be when it shouldn’t need to be said such as a lone assignment or function call.

And if the Rust language’s argument is that it’d be unclear when it’s allowed? Because I’ve seen many RFCs where someone does what you just did: “what about this weird corner case where ‘u8 max + 1’? Should that be a u8 or u16? Maybe we should toss the whole proposal!” To that I’d say: start off where it’s clear (like my examples above). It’s not a backwards incompatible change.

/rant
It's the classic mistake of comparing stocks and flows
Instacart Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO
Case in point: De Anza College in Cupertino has a guaranteed admissions agreement with many UC schools, including Berkeley and (I think?) UCLA. Anyone can go to De Anza college, and the guaranteed transfer agreement allows anyone with a good enough GPA and enough course credits to get in to Berkeley.

Why stress over admissions to prestigious schools like Cal, when you can just do 2 years at a trivially cheap institution (less than a $1k per quarter; you'll pay more in textbook fees), where you'll be taking lower division and general ed courses that are the same no matter where you take them, and save 2 years of tuition? Not to mention, if you're from out of state you can establish residency while at the cheaper CC.

Community colleges are way underrated.
Sounds like a market maker. In traditional finance the market maker hedges their large liquidity position through options to limit any risk from wild fluctuations in either direction. In defi, I guess they just hodl and then go bankrupt.
Brass can also be used for jewelry. Why is gold more valuable than brass?

Look up gold’s use by mass. It is dominated by gold’s value being a social construct.
Hi! Christoph from Jest here. Your feedback is great, and 100% valid. Jest was built a long time ago when ES modules did not exist, and we are still carrying some of that legacy baggage around.

The good news is that we have never been shy about making breaking changes and we are working on cleaning the house and making many legacy components optional, all while bringing the existing community with us.

As for mocking, you don’t have to rely on Jest’s inbuilt mocking libraries and you can use the ones you like better.

If you care more about raw performance and ES module support and less about isolation, check out the jest-light-runner: https://github.com/nicolo-ribaudo/jest-light-runner

We also mentioned it in our Jest 28 blog post: https://jestjs.io/blog/2022/04/25/jest-28

I’m wondering if it’s time to consider taking a big step and making this runner the default, and give people the optionality of isolation. However, in my past experience at large companies (both first-hand and second-hand experience), the lack of isolation in tests led to major reliability problems with testing infrastructure. I’m still feeling like it’s the better default today, but maybe we should have a serious discussion about Jest’s next set of defaults.
This reminds me of blood. Most of us think of it as this fluid our body makes and uses to move oxygen, co2 and nutrients around. In reality it's far more complex then that. It does things, work, chemistry, and is non-newtonian. It's another organ.
Energy != pollute

Typically this desire for any other use of energy to occur relies on not understanding why that wasnt occurring beforehand
The exchange is just that.. an exchange, people use it as gateway to the world of dollars. When they're done trading users can (and ought to!) withdraw their funds to their own wallets. Like anything else that requires an extra step, many do not (or delay a long time before doing so).

> Couldn't that function be equally served by some kind of high-risk brokerage account that has a crypto investment option?

Absolutely. What coinbase does could be done by traditional brokerage accounts. This is one of the reasons that people have been critical of coinbase as a business.

The regulatory uncertainty around Bitcoin has so far mostly kept more traditional brokerages out of the space. Though, FWIW, Interactive Brokers has a partnership with PAXOS to support bitcoin on their platform, the integration is not amazing however.

It's also the case that cryptocurrency exchanges make a considerable amount of income from promoting varrious extremely sketchy alternative cryptocurrency and accepting massive bribes for their listings and other activities that traditional brokerages wouldn't likely be interested in engaging in because they're already illegal for the other assets they handle.
I'm confused! Why would Nvidia want to keep any of this closed source. Surely they make money when people buy graphics cards, and having open source out-of-the-box graphics support in Linux would mean they would sell more graphics cards?
I don't know about that. They include the word small. Judging from the original headline and HN story position, how big would you estimate this business to be?
Yeah, I don't know how to get out of that dilemna. It's a behavioral change for the whole society with big impact: if your parents moved from LA to Dallas to escape rising costs (as a friend of mine's did in middle school), where do you move when the rising costs come for you? Why aren't there new destinations in the same way?

Or is it that now that the prices are up in so many places, the behaviors will revert back?

Is it gonna be places like Boise post-Covid? Will anyone do that same level of massive development? Would they be allowed to?
Not all major(ish) colleges are an arm and leg the way the Ivy's and some other upper crust/common names are. Certainly there are many very good state institutions at relatively reasonable cost/value. Michigan State is order 15K tuition for in-state.
Bitcoin fixes this. Read the white paper.
I guess we should all be glad that the Internet was not designed by Pratchett.

If it was possible to send infinitely repeating messages like he describes, the whole Internet would soon be completely bogged down with useless overhead packages filled with spam and ads.

At least the fanboys who implement this nonsense header on their servers are only wasting the bandwidth of themselves and their visitors.
I've been waiting for Microsoft to acquire Canonical.
That’s exactly what I wish we’d codify: gerrymander as much as you possibly can and don’t be bashful about it.

Having this ridiculous system where each side gerrymanders just as much as the other but then stops when they get caught accomplishes nothing. If they’d just concede the morality of the matter and let the government dictate the morality (like it should), then we’d stop with this silly finger-pointing.
Has any rationale been provided around the blob being closed?

Is it licensed, or simply too too complicated to pick apart?

Graphics is a complicated field, but the techniques could still be patented - surely their market status isn’t dependent on trade secrets?
and USD is a physical asset?

gold is actually not doing very well either in this inflationary environment due to rising interest rates. Gold bugs are pissed.
Nobody who uses crypto has ever heard of BitPrime
Surely an open source, battle-tested, massively widely used operating system like Linux has some value? There's tons of value being captured by closed operating systems.
> You are still not getting this.

I understand perfectly well what you’ve said, and I don’t disagree with any of it. The point I’m trying to make (badly, apparently) is not that.

My point (and I believe the point of the linked article, and, I mistakenly thought, my original comment) is that decisions by a few can have enormous impacts on the productivity of many, including design decisions like “should we bother polishing the errors from these corner cases at the expense of delaying new feature work, or just let people report a bug if they run into a corner case and get on with new features?” Rui chose to group a whole swath of errors in lld into the “not worth polishing” category so they could move on with more important work.

My apologies that my point somehow came across as “always crash your program, never throw exceptions!” Thanks for your patience and taking the time to read generously and deeply and to really understand my point.
We've already got states, and under those states we have counties. I don't understand why we can't mandate that congressional and legislative districts must conform to county boundaries (which is fundamentally where people live, vote, are regulated, etc anyway). My guess is this would result in a simple and fair answer and that couldn't possibly work because politics.
>I'm increasingly convinced that a large portion of our problems as a society is our absolute refusal to hold anyone in power accountable for anything.

Well the problem is you try and then you disappear either because you self-select out of that environment or you get managed out because that's an easier problem for the manager to solve because it doesn't involve admitting they're the problem.

It's sad but true.
USDT is doing relatively ok (right now).

What failed over the last few days (and caused the big dump on the rest of the market beyond just the correlation to stocks) is a stablecoin called UST.

If you want a heavy dose of whataboutism though... look at EURO/USD.
If you don't mind, which proxy software(s) do you use for this?

In the past privoxy has been good but it seems quite neglected recently, especially wrt TLS-related functionality.
I am a white American that majored in History. I am a self taught programmer making $225,000 per year now.

I believe that all countries need to reduce restrictions on the movement of people. Humans should be free to move and live where they want.

I am worried, however, that transitioning away from our current flawed system will have a lot of unpleasant side effects. Many Americans might lose their jobs, simply because others will work for cheaper and probably provide around the same quality.

Additionally our house prices would likely decline as well.

For these reasons I am selfishly concerned about my job prospects, especially since I have to compete against others in my own country, but I will never be given the chance to compete against them in their own country.
How you can be in business selling this shit as non-shit when admitting the truth without having some crazy legal liability exposure problems is amazing to me. Like, FTX literally advertises "you don't need to know anything about crypto." But he says you should here!
"Brass can also be used for jewelry. Why is gold more valuable than brass?"

Because your wife says so. Yes jewelry in genaral is a social construct, but it is not replaceable. At least it was not for the past 5000 years.
As a climate scientist (currently non-practicing) the cryptocalpyse is something I deeply wished for. If you want to make Ponzis that’s fine but there’s no reason to ruin the environment to do it. Tulips were a truly green asset bubble, maybe we could do them again. I feel sorry for the folks losing money, but not really because they still have more assets than I’ll ever have.
Bitcoin's energy use is pollution in the strictest sense: it is quite literally wasted as part of the proof scheme. Some of that energy might come from renewable sources, but plenty of it is coming from coal and dinosaur juice.

This is true of lots of industries, but even our most wasteful (raw aluminum processing?) or grossly extractive (gold mining?) industries produce actual materials of value.