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> A few years later, an unrepresentative (to scotland) tory government takes it from us anyway because they were frightened of nigel farage and some middle englanders don't like hearing polish in their local tescos.

You want a referendum because other people you disagree with were given a referendum that you then lost? And you paint this as "tory government takes it from us"?

I also note that millions voted, it'd be hard for them all to be middle Englanders. I just wonder why you need to paint it so far from reality and in a way that only suits you?
Well, probably?
> There is nothing wrong with an organization following an open-core princip[le].

In itself, maybe, but MS is crippling the ability to use the open core. Plus, there _is_ something wrong with using the state to prevent people from copying information amongst themselves.

> Microsoft still has to pay for the developers who contribute to VS Code and other bills associated with VS Code and running the extension store.

If that's the justification, then it's BS. Microsoft has enough money to pay for this stuff many time over. Plus, the indirect financial benefit of people working in an MS app or environment is high enough.
As an English guy living in Scotland, I've followed the debate closely - there is not support to hold a referendum within the current term, despite election pledges.

Everyone I know votes SNP but doesn't really want to deal with a ref right now. Are vaguely disappointed with quality of SNP governance, but overall prefer to vote for a party which is primarily scottish focused and (slightly) to the left of rUK.

Current polling shows 2023 to be unpopular. But if current trends to Yes hold, then 5 to 10 years seems more realistic.

SNP need to juggle this reality with their election pledges.
The running joke of hardcore Remainers is to let Scotland leave the UK, join the Union and then allow the rest of UK to apply to unite with Scotland. That's the best of all worlds, everyone is unhappy except for bureaucrats who will have lifetimes employment to handle the negotiations.
Border policy as it applies to the external EU borders.
If Scotland votes for independence should they hold a referendum every 4-5 years on rejoining the UK?
It would match the % required to pass the referendum. So if 65% is required, for example, and it seems like 65% might support it, then you should find out. What % is required to pass a binding referendum in the UK? What was required to determine the will of the people for Brexit?
What about Nim?

An in-progress full-stack framework for Nim: https://github.com/jfilby/nexus
For a very large percentage of voters, "no Tory government ever again" automatically equates to "better". You might not agree but you can surely see the logic.
I live two blocks away from Lake Michigan and I’ve noticed the same effect with sailboats on the horizon. When I’m walking towards the beach and can only see a small sliver of water, sailboats on the water look absolutely massive, but as I get closer and see them in full context, they seem to shrink.
You can alphabetise them (at least up to Monterey, haven’t tried the new one yet). It’s in the View menu iirc
> But you really don’t need much more engineer time than using another language, and you get the lower overhead when you actually run your program.

That seems like an extraordinary claim to me. That would imply that when picking something like Django, Rails or Spring over Rust, there's no difference in engineer time taken to add a new feature.
The whole point of static site generation is that you don't have to manage servers; that you can instead simply generate your assets and distribute them via CDN. Sure you can manage servers and put a CDN in front of your servers, but then you still have to manage those servers...

Anyway, you're missing the crux of my point. I was criticizing GP for implying that all NodeJS-based frameworks require a dynamic server to run respond to queries at runtime. They don't.
Mercury works very well with Plotly (here is a demo https://mercury.mljar.com/app/7). If you need to choose between Flask+Plotly and Mercury I would strongly recommend Mercury because of the speed of development.

What do you mean by dynamic data? Do you need automatically fetch new data in time intervals? (Mercury has scheduling and auto-update built-in with 1 minute lowest time interval).
I very much doubt many scottish voters will pay too much attention to the economics.

Are constitutional referendums ever really about economics? Brexit certainly wasn't
You could do it for example like so: First you give volunteers limited time to collect a relatively small number of signatures, say about 1% of the voters in half a year, to start the process. If that is successful you transfer responsibility to the government and have the government determine whether at least 20% of the population is interested. If so, you hold the referendum.
> But very few of them are segfaults. With smart pointers and some common sense, they're just not that big of a concern.

I think it's really a POV thing. Rust surfaces those concerns very directly, even if it would have been correct 99.999999% of the time, Rust will enforce another decile of correctness. Since it does this quite aggressively Rust's users tend to have their mind (mine included) a bit (over)fixated on those issues.

(also, in Rust you don't use common sense, you use the compiler, and imo that's great, my common sense has failed me enough)
I think you have are ahead of a lot of, possibly most, others who are similarly graduating in that you are aware of what your strengths are (or not). Learning or completing those gaps, whether real or perceived, is far easier than realizing that the gaps exist. Kudos for your awareness and willingness to put in effort to bridge them.
> The 2nd amendment talks about a "well regulated militia" not a well armed one

FYI “well regulated militia” in that 18th century sense meant “armed and dangerous as a fighting force at whatever scope of operation that is needful” hence the admonition not to infringe on the supporting “right to keep and bear arms”…
Rustian Safety

Rustian Garbage collection
I second the series, it’s amazing (for space nerds). Produced by the same guy who did the Battlestar Galactica reboot which was also amazing.

I think the thing about For All Mankind that makes me sad is how it conveys the potential that the 60s really offered but failed to deliver on, in terms of progressivism, equal rights, womens roles in the workplace. Of course it’s a work of fiction, but science fiction has always been a mechanism for exploring different socio-political evolutions and it makes me feel like we missed something important that we’re only just on the cusp of today.

Anyway, my 2c
I can't say that many, including myself, would agree that education plans are on the same level as independence.

But maybe I'm wrong. How often are independence referenda held in Europe?
The electric motor was never the problem, practical batteries are.

The electric motor used in today's EVs are basically perfect, with some reaching 99% efficiency and being capable of outputting more torque then any vehicle will ever need. All while being cheaper, lighter and more compact than any comparable ICE.

However, the bottleneck for EVs have always been the batteries. In weight, size, price, safety and usable range, a tank of fossil fuel will always beat a battery, even with the limited efficiency of an ICE.

There isn't much more to gain in electric motor design (at least not for use in road vehicles), but there is still a long way to go in battery design.
Since a few verses are in the KJV but not the NIV, some would never appear in searches.
Ye no. The reason is not Javascript framework churn. I feel the notation that the software field change fast is a MBA take on it since the in fashion key words change name all the time.

I guess the underlying reason is that engineers wont be promoted to (real) chief engineers with agency. Being a boss requires reports for some reason. So experienced people leave sweetshops to escape the grind when they get fed up.
> Programming-related jobs have high rates of skill turnover

True, but there are fundamental patterns that remain the same. And if we are talking about the level-of-abstraction type of change, then having experience in the underlying techs certainly helps.
I understand the comparison with C (the memory management) but I wonder how do you compare Rust to Java? What is it that makes you feel more confident in Rust compared to Java?
I don't believe Scotland will (or should) become independent for exactly the same reasons Northern Ireland should be reunified with Ireland: land borders.

Scotland shares a land border with England. If Scotland were part of the EU it would have to have a harder border with England. It may exclude itself from the Schengen zone but there's still the EU customs union.

Northern Ireland was the real sticking point in Brexit because of this land border with Ireland. So we ended up with the only compromise possible: Northern Ireland is effectively in the EU customs union, which is somewhat unpopular (it's complicated).

But here's the advantage Northern Ireland has: part of the Good Friday Agreement gives Northern Ireland the ability to withdraw from the Uk and reunify with Ireland [1]. This is something the UK would probably drag their heels on but a lot (myself included) think that Brexit made this inevitable. Demographics also favour this. Broadly speaking, the Republicans are Catholic and generally for reunification. Unionists are Protestants and generally favour remaining part of the UK. Population growth is higher among Republicans.

Scotland has no such mechanism. It was offered an independence referendum in 2014 and voted no. It's not likely it'll be offered another unless Scottish MPs become the balance of power in Westminster for a future government. Given the success the Conservatives had in the last election, that won't happen anytime soon.

One can argue Scotland got jebaited since 2 years later the UK voted for Brexit. Scotland overwhelmingly voted Remain. But Brexit complicates "Scexit" because England (and Wales) is no longer part of the EU customs union.

Remember that just as the UK can and did leave the EU, they can also join again. In 20 years this may be the desired option. I doubt the UK will get the concessions the EU once gave them however so maybe it'll never happen.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ireland#Good_Friday_Agr...
> what is the harm in revoting if things seem to have changed?

Opportunity cost. Politics and diplomacy take time and effort. Time and effort that could be spent developing plans that have utility.

For example, we have many domestic matters in Finland that need political attention, but guess where all the resources have gone lately? Dealing with covid and russians.
No, it hasn’t. The court ruled that there’s nothing in U.K. law that bars specific flights but they didn’t rule on the legality of the policy itself.

This will be challenged at the court of appeal and will, eventually, be found a breach of international law.
What is your criterion for poor and depressed country? Which are the comparator states, and what is your measure?
LinkedIn works, I don't like it, but I CAN use it to scout for people and for new jobs.
I don't. I want the one linkedin that everybody is on. Now, if they'd remove the ability for people to "reach an audience" (the "wall" or whatever that feed is called) it'd be pretty good.
A fascinating premise, and matches what I saw as an engineering director. The best just get bored and move on.

I think many teams are unaware how much extra value is possible by retaining existing employees vs hiring new ones. Each year I'd try to make sure I was "making them an offer they couldn't refuse" with new interesting challenges, new tech, plenty of personal research time, as much pay increase as I could possibly give, etc. A lot of engineering managers think that it's no big deal to just hire new staff, but even going from average turnover of two years to three years is an massive improvement.
I think that's much better dealt with a greater than 50% majority requirement than with any kind of timing requirement.

There's no reason to believe that a time requirement is a good protection against random politicians saying outrageous things. In fact it probably makes things worse because it gives obvious timelines for a campaign, so whenever the possibility opens up it pretty much guarantees all the outrageous politicians coming out of the woodwork.
The border problem in Ireland was originally settled by a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK (until the UK found it didn't like what it agreed to anymore). I'm really not an expert on anything in that field, but a border between Scotland and the EU similar to the Northern Irish one should resolve that problem, making Scotland able to join the EU with an open border to the UK, no?
This describes me of 20 years ago. Since there wasn’t social media back then I didn’t have a wider reference point to compare myself with so I didn’t fret about it. Much of what I learned about CS is on the job and following random rabbit holes. Don’t worry too much practice coding and it’ll work out just fine.
Employees may want a raise, buy they are the ones who decide about raises and are the ones who know the health of the collective finances. Give them the power to make changes and the information to decide about it and you will see the behavior is not the same.

Salary is not everything. Amazon is known for its crude exploitation if its workers to the point they don't have time to go to the toilet and must bring a piss bottle with them everywhere; a worker-owned company can't have the same policy because people won't exploit themselves. Workers are fully aware of the ecological impact of industries, so they can take meaningful actions to live a bit more harmoniously with their environment. They can care more easily about the discriminations, about their place in the city and in society because they are directly part of it and are the first concerned.

If you can't maximize benefits without hurting yourself and the environment you live in, there's a food chance you will actually not maximize it and care about the rest
Other than you trying to replicate sounds (eg. music), I have a hard time believing that claim. For normal speech, text is essentially a 1:1 recreation. It might be faster for you to record the same amount of words than to type it, but that's not the same as "succinct", and it ends up costing time for the other party (as the patent poster mentioned).
the author seems to try to, but immediately fails to maintain distinct concepts of consciousness (experience) and reflective self-consciousness
> Brexit has shown very clearly that Scotland wants to chart a different path to England and IMO they should be allowed to do it.

i don't get this. to me, in 2022, all the countries of the UK are exactly the same. even Ireland in some aspects. same language, same history, more or less same laws. what's so special about Scotland, and what's their "different path" as compared to, let's say, Wales?
One odd feature I would love from LinkedIn: let me make my profile invisible to literally everyone except connections I specify. I know this will sound niche but if I just got a new job or even a raise, I dont want random strangers contacting me! Just the simplest of options to be able to not be pestered would be nice.
Whenever there's a seismic enough event like, I dunno, leaving the European Union. That was a fairly effective scare-tactic used by the No campaign - you'll kicked out of the EU, you won't actually meet the criteria! These were pretty huge points that spooked a lot of people into not voting or voting No.
Scotland is assuming the EU would want them, the only reason they where in Europe previously is because they where part of the UK and came as a package deal, without the rest of the UK, what does Scotland have? it's silly of them and it's all lead by the SNP who only care about independence at all costs, they ignore literally everything else and try and twist it into an independence issue.

SNP is causing Scotland far more harm than it's worth. Scotland doesn't need independence, it needs a better government for the whole of the UK, but with the SNP in power in Scotland, it makes it hard for the UK to have any other government but the tories.
The lack of currying and do-notation really hurts.
The integration is part of the problem. Scotland ends up paying for things like HS2 and other London centric. English regions have same issue arguably, but Scotland alone has some hope to rectify.
Scotland doesn't qualify to join the EU upon independence

What would be the problem, assuming the independence gets recognized by London? The border situation? The deficit? Or is there some more fundamental problem I'm unaware of?
I guess it works for a fully remote company, as you have a large pool of possible candidates. But in my area, I'd say it would be easiest to recruit using java. Next python or node/js, but still a vastly smaller group compared to java devs.
It would be interesting if recruiters had different rights than the traditional user. At the airport, taxis and Ubers must be authorized to enter and solicit rides to people. The same could occur in the New LinkedIn. Recruiters must be registered and only interact with users in authorized sections of the site, presumably the section where job seekers are present. Normal users should not be hassled by recruiters in their chat, else they should be reported.
The Flying Goose brand is the most common here in Germany. The Huy Fong brand hasn't been available for a few years after the EU implemented some restriction on one of the ingredients.
Really, what makes you say that?

English is not my first language, but I personally thought the Irish border would've also been important in the Brexit referendum, considering you had a 30 year pseudo-civil war over that same border.

But the British people straight up ignored that little issue and here we are today at the precipice of a trade war and breaking up the Good Friday Agreement.

Compared to terrorism and civil war I would think the inconvenience of a Scottish border is an inconsequential problem.
Both you and parent are correct. Memory safety issues in c++ code are common, but very often they don't manifest as segfaults. Malloc assertion failures or occasional data corruption in edge cases or "impossible" behavior are more typical symptoms.
All EU accession states are legally bound to join Schengen, with the exception of Ireland, which during the negotiations for the Treaty of Amsterdam received (along with the UK) an opt-out. No other nations have this opt-out.
It’s not as if they found some random documentary maker. This person spent a ton of time with Huy Foods to make a documentary specifically about Sriracha. There isn’t a burgeoning field of Sriracha experts to talk with. I legitimately doubt there are other readily accessible people who have as much as knowledge as this documentary dude.
Since the 2014 referendum upto 2021, total oil revenue has been about £5b, that's £700m a year

Pre-covid, Scottish public spending was about £15b a year more than tax revenue.

I believe the SNP position is that historical revenues should be taken into account for historic debt, but Scotland still has to convince the world to lend it a hell of a lot of money every year to pay for those services, even if they took all the North Sea old revenue (which seems an odd thing for a government with Green backing to be relying on)
Considering the amount of dirty Russian money ( Londongrad), the fact that Russian spies tried to assasinate a former Russian spy, murdering British civilians by accident, and Russian support for Brexit...

It's not a boogeyman, it's part of the reality.
Building a social network is hard, building a social network for professionals is even harder.

It's already tricky to convince your friends to use a different messenger, it's even harder to convince your coworker, boss or other peers to join a new network and putting your reputation on the line of being the person sending out invites.

Linkedin isn't great, but it does the job, everyone is there and I guess nobody is spending hours on the platform except recruiters or influencers.

As a tool to have an address book of professional acquaintances for getting an intro, referral or reference in the future it works well enough.
It's not a revolving door decision. You can't vote-force your way into joining a separate country or political institution, e.g. Ukraine can't simply gain a majority vote to be part of the EU and it happens.

This is why it's seen as a once-in-a-generation vote. The impacts are so huge, revolutionary and so long-term, that it's not a conversation you want to have every 4-5 years until one year you chance your way to the preferred result.
Denmark's left-wing government is planning to send away asylum seekers too.

It's interesting times when protecting borders from illegal immigration is seen as „far right“. It's not „far right“ rising, it's some people pushing Overton window extremely to the left.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/denmark-talks-with-rwan...
UKIP sentiment hasn't waned, they won. Until there's a serious movement to re-join the EU, the UKIP sentiment is the UK's sentiment.
Or maybe they have a shred of ethics.
> sinking ship of the UK.

what "sinking ship" and why this opinion?
I'd like to see a professional network that doesn't encourage people to humble brag, engage in toxic positivity or post cringy stuff.
Scottish independence is a bad idea for many of the same reasons that Brexit was a bad idea and Brexit has made Scottish independence into a much worse idea. Instead of being like the Czechoslovak break-up it would be more like the issues around the Northern Irish border.

Having a huge land border which is an EU/non-EU border with customs controls would be massive economic disruption on both sides of the border. The damage to people's jobs and lives would be huge. This border has been open since 1707 and people have based their lives and livelihoods around being able to cross it freely with goods and services. I can see the romantic appeal of an independent Scotland, but it would objectively be a disaster.
You are not getting this.

Your spell/grammar checker is not offended at your cuss words even if it flags them as not recommended. The Boston Dynamics dog took the kick as input to its dynamic stability algorithm, and instantly forgot it without a trace.

What people think about you for punching the wall has absolutely nothing to do with the wall, and everything to do with your character.

If your chatbot regurgitates a request to be nice, that means exactly as much as your Magic 8 Ball saying "Answer cloudy, ask again later."
For example, the OP seems to know (he writes it in the post) that he was fighting with his wife because he was generally stressed. It would be interesting to know if, once he had this realisation after changing jobs, he actually sat down and told his wife "you know, I'm sorry for how I was with you. I was unhappy and I poured it on you. Did you realise it back then? What can we do to make it better next time? Thank you for bearing with me."
The parent was correct, a rooster is a chicken. An adult male chicken.
I am also in Christchurch and was wishing my iPhone was able to capture the moon in any amount of detail tonight
Ultimately it's a dumber idea than Brexit.
The same for any referendum.
Since when is dealing with illegal migration under coverage of refugees „far right“?
I hope this isn’t too off topic but I’ve been living in the year for 12 years and never seen the acronym rUK, it’s been mentioned several times in this thread, what does the r in rUK stand for? (Forgive my ignorance of this is really obvious!).
Restoring the R&D Tax Credit
Is greater London exactly the same as Cornwall?

Scotland has sufficient tax base and legal structures to go it alone, whilst Wales arguably doesn't.

In your list, you exclude politics.