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My father passed away suddenly last week.

I would love to be able to just get someone in to clear the house and "get on with my life", but it doesn't work like that when someone dies.

Instead of being able to just grieve I spent all weekend digging through 40 year old bank statements and other crap trying to find all the documents that we need to be able to register the death so we can actually bury him.

And no, I'm not going to just get someone in to clear the place out, because in all the crap is stuff that matters. Some of it will be paper, like his hand-draw schematics from when he worked on Concorde, some of it will be objects like his first camera, or the model of a ship he built when he was young that's in a cupboard somewhere, some will be photos. But all this stuff is buried under all the meaningless objects he filled his house with (how many torches does one man really need?).

The problem with accumulating crap is not the crap itself, it's the way it acts as a barrier to all the stuff that mattered, both to him and to us.

I had been slowling trying to sort all his stuff out before he died, and as we did so we'd uncover little mementos and memory joggers (great for a man in the early stages of dementia). Each one would spark a conversation and his eyes would light up and his voice would get all excited and I'd learn something new about my dad, some new story.

But 95% of the time was just going though tax returns from when he was 30 and insurance documents for policies that expired in the 90s, and pointless objects that were only there because my parents couldn't go into a garden center without buying some nik-nak.

So no, I'm not complaining about all the crap because I'm an asshole. I'm lamenting all the time and effort lost, that could have been better spent with my father when he was alive, and with his memory now he's dead, but which I and my siblings instead have to devote to trying to excavate what's important.
Reversing an OpenBSD Kernel Syspatch
No one has ever forgotten how to close the tab. Whats the point of being exclusionary and having a 'if you don't like it, leave' attitude to presenting information? It isn't some pretentious indie bands website, its weather data!
Lessons I wish I knew earlier on in my professional career
Basically, Reitz marketed pipenv as _the_ package management tool recommended by Python, by which he meant PyPA, which he was on the board of at the time.

This was displayed prominently on on the front page of the pipenv docs.

After push back, that claim was amended to _the_ package tool recommended by PyPA, not Python.

Then shit blew up on /r/python and someone else from PyPA stepped in to clarify that pipenv was _a_ package tool recommended by PyPA.

And then there was a lot of angry reddit comments, and blog posts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8jd6aq/why_is_pipen...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180519001601/http://journal.ke...

I wasn't really up to date with Python community drama, but when I had to write a new app in Python, I went looking for something better than pip and a requirements.txt and I chose pipenv, because shit, it was the recommended package management tool for Python, right?

Then I found that pipenv really sucked in many magical and horrible ways, and then the drama about that alleged recommendation broke out.

Anyway, basically, Reitz made claims about pipenv that weren't exactly outright fabrications, but they were very much distorting the truth, people called him on it, he blogged, and then the uptake of pipenv dropped dramatically and people started to realise Poetry was far better.

One issue I experienced was that pipenv would choke and die on dependency graphs that Poetry found to be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Oh and upgrading Python or pipenv was risky AF because of how closely coupled pipenv was to pip code.
I am personally quite worried. The thing that worries me most is that our government (at least in Spain) would do anything in order to keep their power and maintain their high salaries at the expense of our lives. That involves increasing and creating more taxes everyday.

So it´s like living in the Titanic. Everybody knows it´s sinking and the government is just stealing from us (the passengers) in order to buy nicer lifeboats just for them, and paying the musicians (media, labor unions, allied parties...) to keep citizens still and quiet.

We are under an autocracy disguised as a "people´s party" that is bleeding us dry while many families are just drowning because of the high cost of living and unemployment.
Neoliberals want a society of Ford-model obedient workers-subject-citizens to master them as a shepherd keeps his flock, since most humans actually obey but only "a certain bit" they invent ways to judge humans like a farmer who price his livestock as a way to reach such obedient flock they dream.

The "class action" should be a public imposition against such scoring simply saying in Democracy People rules, we rule that no such things is allowed, you are a minority who can obey or being crushed. But since we are not in Democracies, they are just corporato-dictatorships dressed as formal, not substantial, democracies and most are not Citizens but just subjects...
At least old silverware can be melted down and recycled (and used to make PV modules!)
It’s regulated and allowed by law. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fair-credit-reporting-a...
It's such a gross industry, heavily dependant on who you know.

Best of luck out there.
What did you ultimately do with it?
Yet if you look at a more granular level we see that theory fall apart. Look at the crime stats for Media PA and then for Chester PA. They're 7 miles apart, have the same gun laws, yet there are wildly different outcomes. Socioeconomic factors seem to be the most correlated (some studies and books support this). Gun ownership is realtively high in Switzerland and Canada (including illegal guns from the US) as well, yet we don't see the issues there on the levels we would expect - the correlation doesn't track. Plus, we should be looking at reducing all violence and crime, so addressing the socioeconomic factors is the holistic approach that would provide the most benefit to society. Also, re: mental illness monopoly - most other ODEC countries have much better access to healthcare, including mental health services. If you look at the mental health scores by country the US falls near the bottom.

Another interesting thing is the focus on guns and gun laws that don't match the events. The gun laws being proposed would do almost nothing to prevent the events the media swarms to (Rand analysis shows). Most of them would have little impact on crime in general. The main way places like the UK get to low levels of gun violence is by near prohibition on ownership over generations. Then we will see that violent crime is still twice the US level, even after adjusting for differences in definitions.
Fiverr is The marketplace for small scale one-off freelancing, not limited to software development. It has it's own problems, but I don't know anything else that fits your description better.
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Also not knowing if disabling it will break the page, something even technically inclined people can't know ahead of time. It's not like push notifications where you would have to try hard to build pages that could break without the feature enabled. I could easily see people abusing this to serve pages over alternate protocols and making people expect to need to click "allow."
yes, because the tens of thousands of people that make up government across tens of different departments are only capable of doing one thing at once
Behind the Pretty Frames: Elden Ring
The people who work on fuchsia are very good engineers - I’ve worked with many of them in person. But the project itself has always been a staff retention project. It only existed to keep said engineers from going to a competitor. I don’t know how any understanding of fuchsia is possible without this crucial fact
Often they’re also too damn close to the heating elements, so you risk burning your fingers when you operate them.
The solution to the particular problem reported in TFA is simple and obvious: allow people to sue credit reporting agencies for damages if they report false information. You will be amazed how fast these things will get resolved if that reform is adopted.

Of course that won't happen because regulatory capture, but let's not wring our hands and pretend that this is a fundamentally difficult problem. It's not.
Credit scores from the major credit bureaus are such a big deal because handing out credit on an ad hoc basis is de facto illegal. You will be sued and accused of discriminating against black people. You will probably lose, or spend enough money on legal fees to have lost anyway. To defend against that, you have to make the process as rigid and impersonal as possible. The best approach is to use the government-blessed credit bureaus.
How can we cooperate to get rid of them?
Estoppel
The touch screens are the only thing keeping me on dino juice cars. I want to go electric, but they all have these awful touchscreens! I don’t want to navigate a menu to change the temperature or turn on a seat warmer.

I’m just not buying an EV until there’s one that doesn’t rely on a giant touch screen for everything or I can’t buy an ICE vehicle anymore.
It depends on a whole lot of things. Is your app generating revenue. Is the developer a full time employee. Are the changes you want the developer to do simple cosmetic changes. Is the largest part of the value in the front-end or is there some complex orchestration in the backend? I.e: has the product never existed for lack of good front-end and the value is precisely in the UI?
Write it out :)
The Botometer guys need to give this up. They've been doing this for years yet their models lack credibility, having been subject in the past to 50%+ false positive rates which were never acknowledged. Instead they silently hard-coded their websites to fix the particular examples being used to prove FPs (their methodologies are never replicable, so a black box API is all you get).

When you sit down and read these papers you find the whole field of academic bot research is just ideologically motivated quackery. It isn't taken seriously by anyone who actually works in the spam fighting industry, but does harm the overall credibility of science. If these people actually want to work on bot fighting (like I did) they need to quit academia and go apply for jobs at tech firms. Anything they try produce externally will be noise, because as they acknowledge:

"External researchers do not have access to the same data as Twitter, such as IP addresses and phone numbers. This hinders the public’s ability to identify inauthentic accounts."

It doesn't hinder it, the lack of such basic signals makes it impossible, which is one of several reasons their studies keep yielding junk-quality results.

Further reading:

https://blog.plan99.net/fake-science-part-ii-bots-that-are-n...

https://blog.plan99.net/did-russian-bots-impact-brexit-ad66f...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3814191

https://archive.org/details/hopeconf2020/20200726_2000_Peopl...
The 'advertise' with 3-5 year per SMR, but it seems that's not reality. Otherwise, we would be plonking down a lot more more of them in parallel I would think.
Since liberals and progressives always suggest alternative voting schemes, clearly California or SF should beta test them. In Sf we’ve had a bunch of recalls since tank choice voting was adopted. Be interesting what your criteria for success would be. I tend to think america suffers from too much democracy and any restriction on voting is considered outright racism. This seems odd to me.
OSINT is just investigation using publicly-available information. Hence why open source in this context refers to open sources of information (usually online). OSINT was traditionally employed for criminal investigation, but is now growing in journalism.

One example of a collective doing this kind work is https://www.bellingcat.com
Have you ever looked at 1950s electrical wiring? How about electrical appliances from the 1950s?

We used to have Christmas tree lights from the 1950s that were passed down from our grandparents. Two unshielded wires and no fuses, we burned out many an outlet and tripped the breaker every year.
The bad thing about Fuchsiais that it's a Google product.

They may decide to kill it next week and switch to XNU or symbian or templeos and no one would be surprised.
> It only existed to keep said engineers from going to a competitor.

Who in this day, and hour tries to make an OS as a commercial product?
I think you’re reading too much into the language of that one sentence. But also, if you’ve never felt true loss before, anger and resentment are absolutely a part of the grieving process. It’s very natural to feel anger when coping with the loss of a loved one.
IDEs 20 years ago were not vastly insufficient and there were many “RAD” (rapid application development) tools for those that leaned towards high level languages. Some were abominable like Visual Basic, but many of the web platforms used today are equally poor performers.

The modern GUI designers in IDEs are notably better, but many shops don’t take advantage of them due to issues with slow performance (eg storyboads in xcode) and issues with multiple developers modifying the resource files simultaneously.

Refactoring and static analysis tools are improved as well, but none of these improvements afford orders of magnitude in efficiency.

The biggest gains in efficiency come from the extended libraries, open source code, ORMs, and the fact that most of what is coded has already been built by someone into a framework or library.

Software development does not now require the expertise of knowing the intimate details of the code and how it works. Many modern apps are plugging together libraries that developers do not understand and are unable to fix any issues in those libraries. The default now is to Copy / paste from Stackoverflow or submit an issue to the library maintainer on github and pray that it gets fixed; or find another library and swap that in. Software development (especially web development) has become a more decentralized effort usually resulting into in a mishmash of layers and dependencies whose inefficiencies are allowed by the amazing hardware. Unfortunately, performance and user experience are sacrificed to the interests of “efficiency” and using the latest language/platform fad of the year.
Oh Candy
Hackers can hack your online accounts before you even register them
> And in Turing’s case, it was further complicated by the fact that he always wore a gas mask as he rode, to prevent triggering his allergies. But the alarm clock he was known to wear around his waist might have helped.

What? Is that for real?

Edit: It is!

> He loved to ride his bicycle through the countryside. To time himself, he would simply tie an alarm clock around his waist. During the war, according to I.J. Good, a Cambridge mathematician, Turing suffered horribly from hay fever during the first week of June every year. So to keep the pollen off while riding, he wore a military gas mask.

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/1999/06/09/alan-turin...
My takeaway from the article is that Fuchsia exposes a capability-based interface externally, but uses the old kind of privilege-checking inside the kernel. Once a single sloppy check was found, the game was over: a privilege escalation and planting of arbitrary code into the kernel followed.

Did I miss anything?
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>No, no, it's really easy to get used to

Says everyone on Linux with their ridiculous custom setup on an obscure window manager. The difference here being that you can change things to make them more comfortable and don't have to wait for some "designer" to have the idea first.
I like the idea! Coming from the IT world where remote teams always have the challenge of getting together online to do fun stuff (not everybody loves video games) it definitely has potential. Maybe provide some more out-of-the-box ready questions sets. A lot of stuff is freely available e.g. https://opentdb.com/
Cleaning is what I spend far more time doing with a stove, and is more important, then the very brief period I'm involved in setting the temperature during cooking.

So it seems like a fairly good trade-off to me.
programmers != software engineers?
If you try using sel4 in a project, you soon realise it is extremely limited and not at all useful for general purpose computers
> You must be misunderstanding the work if you believe that what is being done routinely is impossible.

Quite possibly I don't understand what you mean by "work". If by "work" you mean creating provably correct software then no, it is not done routinely.
> Changing the temperature while driving on a good touch interface is trivial and incredibly far from incredibly dangerous

Looking away for even ~3s at motorway speeds is 100m driven without looking at whats in front of you, I'd say that's fairly dangerous

> The great benefit of a touch screen is unlimited update capabilities

It also introduces a single point of failure for any features on it, at least with physical buttons you stand more chance of operating other parts of the car if one breaks.
This anecdote is memorably presented as an application of modular arithmetic (along with the behavior of Enigma machine rotors) in Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon. See the discussion in this review of the book: https://www.ams.org/notices/199911/rev-kasman.pdf
You'll have to forgive me that my thoughts are a little muddled on the whole issue right now. My core point is that one aspect of the situation feels quite appropriate to discuss here, while the other more intimate (and central) one does not. The outcome, assuming most other people also feel that way, is that the discussion here is not representative of the grief experienced when a close relative passes away, and shouldn't be taken as any kind of indication about people here 'all being assholes'. And that this is expected and fine.
Why not just sue them in small claims court for some small monetary damages right now? You can do that, people rarely do.
Web spam is a separate problem to bot-driven spam posting on social media, despite using the same word.

Spam is also not the same thing as posts you disagree with. I went to YouTube, searched for [ukraine war report] and picked the first result that came from TV news to try and check your claim [1]. The top comments are all clearly human, some are claiming to be Ukrainians, and are all anti-Russian.

Regardless, your post is a good illustration of the problems with academic bot research. Although researchers claim to be researching spam bots, their methodologies are often defining any post they don't agree with politically as "spam" or from "bots".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-6Y00MrFo
Monkeying around with small knobs and switches to make marginal changes with how government is run and how people are represented is not going to change the fact that large swaths of the population have ideas and values that are fundamentally incompatible with other swaths of the population.

That said, I can see ranked choice voting being a huge improvement to state and local elections in one party states where you basically can't run as the other party without taking a huge hit right off the bat which disadvantages moderate candidates who want to challenge incumbents.
I'm not sure you're getting this. Let's say you want to build a video chat application with all of the same features as Zoom and not a single bug. That is, in fact, possible. Nothing about Rice's Theorem says you can't build a program without bugs. You can build a flawless video chat application. You won't, but you can. How? Very easy. Every time you're about to write code with a bug, don't. Write that same code but without the bug.
Micronaut DI is compile-time for almost everything.
> Yes, and when the Fed reverses course after everything breaks from this tightening, ...

This.

I'd really like someone to explain to me, how the central banks and the states are supposedly going to get out of the increasing-debt-spiral we're in right now.

I see literally no way except for governments to tax the rich, which they won't do.

The only other way for governments to still sign off budgets to enact policy is to pile on more debt (going further down the spiral).
Everybody who gets forced to work in an open office plan should get a pair of really good and comfortable ANC cans from the company by default.
Check out Thin Backend https://thin.dev/
El Reg has an in-depth review of the book, FWIW.

Here is the single-page view:

https://www.theregister.com/Print/2014/09/12/blockbuster_boo...
What are the examples of touchscreens done right besides the iPhone which is also on a UX downhill since, probably iPhone 4 or 5 era?

Cars? Motherfucking abysmal.
ATMs? How many times we tried to press a button realizing you're missing it completely because there's a 3-inch think screen?
Laptops? Only those who like fingerprints.
Cameras? I think if you are seriously using it, you prefer tactile.
Signature pads? This should not even exist.
Vending machines? I think they're more confusing with buttons jumping on screen and changing their labels than without.
Handheld video games? Still rely on buttons.

I wish designers would not try to stick them in everything. They're only good for small handheld devices to cram lots of functions in, and they're always a UX compromise. They can only improve the number of functions you can squeeze in a device.
It looks interesting. However, there are a couple of issues here.

- The page is missing even a vague privacy policy. I get it that that might not be a priority when you're just working on the MVP but, IMHO, you should put at least a couple of words on what you're doing with users data.

- There's a single word on the page that says "Encryption" and that's it. This makes me more nervous, not less.

- No information on the company that's selling this.

- No screenshots.
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Changing the temperature on a touch screen will always suck even the UI is completely modeless (imagine that!) On my car I can just press my hand against the console without looking and feel around for the controls. You can not do this with a touch screen no matter how good the interface is.
I also find that many of these touchscreens are designed with California in mind. Sure, touchscreens are great when it's sunny and 22C. But when it's -25 and the car feels like a freezer, the touchscreen is sluggish and won't accepted gloved inputs, I start swearing and think about selling the car.
Credit scores can only affect your life if you live on credit. I spent 20 years without a credit card, and the only impact was being a hassle to rent a car. but as far as cars go, I do the unthinkable: I save and buy with cash. I simply do not use credit. Beyond my house payment, I purchase everything up front, including the nice and hefty discount when paying insurance in full for the year. It is a pain in the ass to get used to not using credit, but it is so, so worth it.
"How insecure" a surprising conclusion based on a single exploit.
hey thehodge, good to see you and a great looking site.

I hate to be that guy, but you might want to rethink putting irish theatres on the UK page: https://www.dresscircle.co.uk/theatres/cock-opera-house-cork
The fact that we have zero politicians of any stripe running on actual reform platforms is all one need know about politics.
Sweden and most of Northern Europe would have no farms anymore if it were not for plenty of government subsidies and protectionism. It's a lot cheaper to farm where the weather is not just barely above freezing and there's plenty of sun.
I've been using a V12 for a year or so and it's incredibly easy and pleasurable to use. Huge battery, rarely I use it for more than 40% of its full charge, on full speed. Plus all the quick swap accessories make it a no brainer.

I consider it the Apple of vacuums.