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You don't need to prove voter fraud. If you show that ballots were counted that should not have, you should prevail.

For example if under law there needs to be a signature match on the envelope, but such matches were not done, or done to such a low standard that they are useless. Then technically you should be able to have those ballots thrown out. Since a signature on the envelope is a big part of verifying whether the ballot was filled out by the person it belonged to.

This was the contention that Trump was arguing about. Whether the election rules were followed. In the end, they pretty much counted everything. And no judge wanted to overturn that. So that pretty much summarized last US election.
There was a result. They recounted the ballots. And no judge wanted to step in to question it. Procedure was followed.

From an outsiders perspective, or even from the perspective of someone that uses some critical thinking. The procedure is flawed. There are multiple opportunities to cheat, by either cheating at the source, stuffing envelopes and faking signatures. Or cheating along the path. By swapping out the ballots after the leave the envelopes and before they get to the machines doing the counting.

It seems to me that both were possible. The extra long time it took to count ballots in select cities, made it more likely.
Deus ex Machina has been a literary hack since the ancient Greeks coined the phrase :-)
Are you sure about that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina#Ancient_critic...
Reading OpenBSD source code daily (2017)
Links to blog posts or analysis? It seems like it's pretty compute heavy, not sure threading could help?
Funny that in the same magazine where Asimov wrote this, there's a story by Robert Randall titled Deux ex Machina.
I'm assuming you don't really follow the news or the market due to your response.

Here:

- https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/10/amazon-stock-has-lost-nearly...

- https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/ndxt?countrycode...
I've heard this sort of thing is almost as hard as naming things.
Consider https://www.wired.com/2013/11/minecraft-book/ and its estimated value https://fictionhorizon.com/how-much-is-minecraft-worth/

If Dwarf Fortress was able to be more than an inspiration and took the "we're selling it" instead which then would allow a different cycle time on features with different priorities, a 50M number isn't unreasonable at all for what the game would be worth today.
It also looks like the original Mac Control Panel from 1987:

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/System_4.1?file=System_4.1
wow. they're ugly, but that's awesome they map to green and red.
We’ll maybe you might enjoy listening to Leonard Nimoy reading it: https://youtu.be/8XOtx4sa9k4
Thanks.

FWIW, Speedometer started with & always seemed like an Apple specific test. It greatly favors low optimization paths, because it's just loading app after app after app. It's basically not worth having optimizing compilers, because Speedometer is just testing initial load speed, more or less.

That's a valid number, and I love that others (like Chrome) accept the thrown gauntlet as is, withiut protest, & compete. But this is not really indicative of what life will be like after the first 2s. Maps (or any other app) may run way way faster on an engine that focuses more on optimizing compilers.

Thanks though, thanks for the links. Im not trying to invalidate this. But I do think it is limited, I do think it's origin & what it tests is worth noting in here. It's only one way of looking at performance.
You can’t run VSCode or Atom in a terminal, so I don’t think that’s a fair comparison.
Inability to see no one has been raped is though. Feeling this disgust while reading the perspective of the pervert is what is interesting. You don't need to be "fascinated", just relax, read the beautiful English, frown at the turpitudes of the monster and stop censuring this thing that at best can serve as a warning tales for young girls ?
Thanks for telling us what MicroPython is for. :P

(BTW, I can't vouch for NASA or SpaceX, but it's no secret that the European Space Agency has been working with MicroPython for many years.)

I don't disagree that reliability, repeatability and fast performance are (often) key; but our experience suggests that these can be (usually, if not always) achieved with MicroPython.
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And yet we still haven't learned enough from it.

The fact computers have been so isolated from one another (even with internet apps) is a complete tragedy. Even sending large files is a pain in the butt to this day.

The demo had multiple people working on the same computer remotely, with their own cursors and ability to do things on the system at the same time.

Best we have now is web-browsers syncing data silos, or a one way "let this person control my mouse + keyboard".

It feels like building a bridge by everyone making parts in isolation then expensively shipping it to the work site that only has one crane to assemble them.

Usually it's way easier to have multiple people work on something. Like carrying something heavy, or having a line of people walk the bridge with the right tools/verification to install the rivets right, or even the opportunity for someone to speak up present unique ideas to the group.

Even just a few basic OS primitives early on could have jump started so much collaboration tools and techniques that mirror how we all work together everywhere else in real life.

As an aside, the whole "meta-verse" craze might pull these ideas through to the mainstream again.

I see lots of demos of avatars standing at a table working on stuff together, and I've been on VR chat before drawing 3d images with crayons at the same time with other people.

It's incredibly fun to try and draw an elephant together and work on different parts at the same time to hilarious results.
Election?
I refuse to install software on macOS that requires root. (With the current single exception of the Creative Cloud, for which I am actively seeking replacements.)
Hindi has sufficiently diverse and fine-grained kinship terms, far more than English, and enough to baffle Dravidian speakers like us. The terms in Hindi though, seem to be entirely different from that in Urdu.
My team often does the reverse of this. We need something built and it goes into project planning for the next year (we plan out bigger features a year out, with flexibility to squeeze in smaller features every month). Sometimes those features get punted out from the next year.

So we end up building the feature in Excel. With large (for Excel, say 100K-500K rows) data sets, it gets pretty slow. Or it'll get too complex, so we'll put it into our own Postgres DB.

Eventually, it'll get big/complex enough that we prioritize using development resources to automate the feature.

To an extent, this has become a standard part of our rigor for deciding whether or not to build features. You say you need X, but you aren't doing X today. Can't do you do that with an SQL pull and then doing all the business logic in Excel, and then creating the entries by hand? In some cases, the answer is no, we need it to be part of a larger pipeline, etc., but for a lot of things we do, building it by hand proves that the feature is needed, and also helps us work through the edge cases and makes writing the stories/BRD much easier. It also takes pressure off the dev team to try and intuit the true requirements.
> I could have all bored ape pictures and could reproduce them infinitely. What now? How does the NFT thingy stop me from doing that?

As the grandparent poster alluded to, the history is more important than the image - the same as the fine art and collections world, but technologically enforced in the NFT world. so the transaction hash from the collection contract is more important than the image it accesses, and is way more important than your indefinite reproductions because they won't be in the collection contract. An entry in the bored ape collection contract grants you access to a variety of goods and services. The "NFT thingy" doesn't try to stop you from defrauding undiscerning onlookers or consumers that don't look at the collection contract. The "NFT thingy" prevents you from having programmatic access to gated communities.

> Actually, one can't even "verify" a NFT if the market side goes down. Because the actual DB isn't on the blockchain…

What are you referring to? Did you mean the market site? You don't need OpenSea or any site to verify current possession, prior possession, or metadata. Some styles of NFT's store metadata on their own servers, which can go down. Some styles of NFT's store metadata on more resilient services like IPFS. Some styles of NFT's store metadata on the blockchain directly. All three styles use the blockchain directly for current possession and prior possession.

Which point did you think you were making? I only wrote all that because I didn't know what you were saying specifically.
The author's consternation at some people getting things for free that others work hard for is certainly justifiable. But I also think it ignores the same dynamic in other places in the system.

What about the university administrators with made-up jobs? Student Success Coordinators and Wellness Promotion Managers are getting salaries for doing almost nothing of import, and it's all on the backs of students, mostly student loan borrowers.

And even the categories of university administration growth that aren't whimsical odes to self-licking ice cream cones are due to unfunded mandates from state and federal government. It certainly seems fair to ask taxpayers to pay for costs imposed by their representatives.

I don't know what the right answer is. But here's a proposal:

- Drastically reduce governmental administrative burden. There doesn't need to be a parallel system of criminal justice, for example. If a student accuses another of a sexual assault, it should be investigated by professional law enforcement and, if there's merit to it, prosecuted by a professional ADA. It shouldn't be the subject of a chimerical Title IX kangaroo court.

- Cap administration costs at 20% of the total budget as a requirement for federal funding for student aid (but not research grants).

- Federal student loans should either be made at the Fed rate or dischargeable in bankruptcy. The idea that non-dischargeable debt is as high as 8.5% is absurd.

- Student loan repayment payroll tax. Payments come out of payroll, before income taxes.

- Universal IDR. Everyone is on IDR by default. Every tax filing, your new IDR amount is automatically calculated and transmitted to your employer for appropriate payroll tax.

- Tiered Public Service Loan Forgiveness. 7 years for teachers, military, firefighters, national rangers in receipt of hazard pay, etc. (public servants with significant sacrifice). 10 years for other public employment. 10 years for private employment of particularly high social value (doctors, nurses, family law, farming, safety workers, electricians and other infrastructure folks, etc. etc.). 15 years for all others.
And also suspicious, that if they had stuck to the original plan, these vaccines would have come out in October, before the 2020 election, instead of just after the election, like they did.
Again?

We just had CVE-2022-26133 on 4/28.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...
The caveats were that 1 - you needed specialized research hardware that basically nobody had and 2 - people didn’t understand how revolutionary computers were.* Even in the late 80s the general consensus was that personal computers would be just used by specialists because “no executive can type, or would want to”

And the labs in those days were pushing forward and “inventing the future”. We had network-native systems: not just computers with network adaptors, but cloud native software with mail, filesystem etc transparently available over the net. In fact where did the “cloud” concept come from? A TCP design document in the 70s.

When you’d look outside the lab it felt like the past. DOS was the state of the art. And you’d visit your friends at different institutions and see different approaches to address the same problems.

These days I never get that “this is the exciting future” feeling. The old nexus corporate labs (PARC, IBM, Bell Labs (RIP) and others) aren’t dominant as they used to be, but when I visit their successors (e.g. Google) the research doesn’t have that same jaw-drop impact. Not because I’m jaded, but because nothing appears to have come back through a time machine any more. Perhaps because computing went mainstream and then the constraints appeared?

* and are: I think people still haven’t grasped how transformational they will be once we finally get computers to work and be useful. We’re still just puttering around at the base of the mountain.
If the tech industry dies, then I'd do business or sales. I think one thing we take for granted is how damn fast the startup scene moves. If you don't dominate a market within a few years, some competitor backed by Sequoia will.

It would be interesting to take my skills to a company selling brownies and then create like a dashboard displaying territory and dominance of agents within a certain territory, conflict within competing agents and distributors, optimize logistic routes, and so on. We solve travelling salesman for practice, why not actually take it to the real world?
I never understood the model behind these mobility sharing startups…

Nearly every metropolitan mobility sharing system we’ve had so far operates at a loss and is heavily subsidized by the city or local government.

The pricing is also out of whack compared to the cost of a scooter as after about one month of daily commute use you get to the price of a scooter and in some places even faster than that.
> You do get less freedoms as a renter though

But you get other freedoms, like being able to move without having to go through the pain and cost of selling you house. That being said, I do agree that "all things being equal", it's better to own than rent; but there are certainly cases where renting makes more sense.

Plus I don't think all landlords are evil. I've had a number of them that were fantastic people; more than the number of bad ones I've had.
Let them talk. You will do it no matter if they get it or not.
This comes up every year and people still don't listen to the original justification for why Apple used iOS instead of OSX given they had a choice.

OSX is designed for a keyboard and mouse. iOS is designed for a finger.

They have wildly different semantics e.g. precision, gestures that you can't abstract without ending up with a horribly compromised experience e.g. Windows tablet mode. And that's just not in Apple's DNA.
>Most voter ID ideas wouldn't help (short of digital IDs and cryptographic signatures), because it's being done by the people who would be checking the IDs.

Not exactly.

Keep going on this scenario. If voters had to show ID like in Europe, when someone shows up and is denied to vote because “they already voted” it would be an immediate red flag for fraud.

With the IDless system, someone could be denied and it does not necessarily imply malice.

There is a whole system of provincial ballots - because this and other mistakes in ballots happen often enough. Voter ID wouldn’t secure anything but in Europe it brings more confidence, I’m not sure why it wouldn’t in the USA.
> made it difficult to believe that he would betray the community

a lot of people are confused, and seem to think that purporting to share an interest makes a community.

they're disappointed time and time again.
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Ok, so I’m a property owner. I am obligated to be a member of an HOA. If I give my HOA a bad rating, then I devalue my property by doing so…because buyers will check the HOA rating before buying in the neighborhood and walk away if it’s bad. So I won’t give my HOA a bad rating. I will handle things quietly.

I don’t understand the value proposition.
Although I would prefer to see more dense housing (taller and more MDUs) I really do prefer the single family home lifestyle. That said living in an MDU (apartment, inlaw, condo, whatever) in a city was generally more pleasant than the equivalent in the burbs. I can tell you from living in a relatively low density part of San Francisco that a lot of the long time residents don't want more people. They wield terms like "manhattanize" as pejoratives.

While I do think my old neighborhood should be densified at least a little bit I think you really hit the nail on the head with mixed-use zoning. I had restaurants, transit, libraries, retail, police, schools, parks, pools, etc. all within a stone's throw of my apartment. It was amazing. I'm currently in suburban hell and it's just bleak and depressing.
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Only with certain work. Writing documents, definitely. Coding UI? Can't do that yet. I have been copying designs from Figma onto paper though and then building off that, but it's just easier to refer to typography, padding, etc from a secondary screen.
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power automate, airflow, etc.
> So when they have no incentive to take the "right" decisions, they will, most of the time, allocate the available energy towards useless work, sometimes for ego reasons, sometimes by ignorance, sometimes by corruption.

This neatly sums up the reason for Apple's ever expanding set of Animojis with every iOS release.
> The demo had multiple people working on the same computer remotely, with their own cursors and ability to do things on the system at the same time.
Best we have now is web-browsers syncing data silos, or a one way "let this person control my mouse + keyboard".

Apple's multi-user support in it's "iWork" productivity apps actually comes very close to this, and it's a real shame that it's not as well known as it is. In fact Apple just demo'd improvements to it a couple of days ago at WWDC.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206181

It works almost exactly like you're describing and frankly I think it's amazing and am surprised more people don't rave about it.
In Norway it seems you could have an exception for people who worked at Sparebank1, everyone I know who have worked there has been great to work with or listen to.

(I never worked in a bank myself.)
I don't think many people have the mindset of being against student loans because "they've already paid off theirs." I'm sure some people feel that way, and it is an understandable emotional reaction, but you are giving the strawman version of the argument.

The more measured position against student loan forgiveness is:

-People in the trades who did not go to college should not be paying for people who did. College degree holders already have high earning power.

-There is a moral hazard that comes from not holding people accountable to their own decisions. People will assume (perhaps logically) that there will always be a bail out. This same thing happened in the stock market for rich people via the "fed put."

-We have inflation at generational highs with extremely low employment - this will exacerbate the issue.

-Forgiveness that is decoupled from fixing the underlying system doesn't actually solve the problem. Will we do forgiveness every X years without making college more affordable? (you correctly made this point)

-Forgiveness is a misnomer - in reality it is a tax we all have to pay and is much more akin to a transfer payment.

-What values are we trying to teach our children about decision making and accountability? Victim mentality is becoming more common.
Fantastic project.

Have you considered running (# of cpus) parallel scanners continuously? An inbound query “hops on” the the least-loaded scanner; at each article/chunk the scanner runs all the queries; each query “hops off” and returns after it has completed the cycle through the entire DB.
Ok, I'm dying to ask this. Is it strange that `casado` (side note, I mentally translate it as: "shacked up (with)") takes estar (instead of ser, like your profession does? Though I figure back in the middle ages your profession really was permanent)
All I know is that Steve Ballmer once smashed someone's phone in front of a stadium, but I've actually never seen a Microsoft employee do anything harder than an overbaked edible.

Then again, I couldn't do cocaine if I wanted to, because I have a deviated septum from one of the beatings I caught in middle school.

(I want to track down the one book I read then -- it talked about how Bill Gates just screamed at everyone and invited a string of women over to his mansion... they had assigned some paraprofessional to sit next next to the detention area and I was like "uh, this guy sounds like an asshole" and she just kind of got this weird tone and was like oh that's how it is, bosses are all like that, or something to that effect.

Between that and having your elementary teachers sometimes literally roll in rocking a black eye, it was a weird time to be a teenager.

It fascinates me that some people can be violent, on purpose, over and over, and someone like me can just pound caffeine and post a bunch on the internet as they run errands, and the end result is some autist like me is the one who looks unemployable.

(Or maybe I'll wake up to better email tomorrow, stranger things have happened.)
Gender is a "social construct", such things exist as an emergent phenomenon of society, society does not uniformly and unanimously agree on all of the constructs or aspects thereof, therefore the existence or non-existence of certain aspects, or asserting same to others (such as via the publication of software, or changes to same), is inherently a social and political act.

There are people who think that trans people are simply non-trans people with psychological illness, for example. Regardless of whether or not that is true or false, it is a point of fact that people with those beliefs definitely exist, and that they reject such social constructs as non-ill trans people existing, so asserting that they do (which is what publishing an OS with such emoji in it implicitly does) is a political act (in conflict with the beliefs of those people).

If everyone agreed on all social constructs and narratives, then nothing would be "political". Given that no two people share precisely the same mind and context and social constructs, every action that involves other people or society in some way is political.

Abstractions are leaky.
Yep. To generalize this even more, it’s not that cache invalidation is hard but “materialization/denormalization is hard” (even if it’s a table on the same database). Hence why I never thought this is what made cache invalidations hard (because it’s not even unique to cache).

I can imagine an automated solution to achieve what you described eg by keeping track of the table:columns touched by the query. Maybe that’s what these system did.

It has its downside though, as the invalidation cost in this case can be unbounded (read as huge write amplification in some cases). I imagine it would be hard to provision the invalidation pipeline. This is where it gets into trade offs. Eg by just caching the primary index and secondary indices (not materializations) you can very far as well (do joins on read). But it depends on the workload.
Are you sure? My understanding was that nginx would fill up all free connections up to the max, but then would begin draining idle connections so it could create new ones for new visitors.
Inflation should be fun .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x-wQWZuQho