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Google has been completely infuriating over the last few years.

It’s email. They hide the forward and reply all behind multiple clicks. Where is the Subject? CC? BCC?

I get that grandpa and grandma benefit from removing some extra functionality for usability.

The worst is that my Google Workspace account works the same. How can you ship this to serious enterprise users?
In other words, DNS load balancing or something similar.

I am not really I fan because I like to choose the IP address, instead of letting someone else decide. I believe in user choice.

In some cases I have found the "most optimal" IP address for me is not always the one advertised based on the location of the computer sending the query.

It is like choosing a mirror when downloading open source software. I know which mirrors I prefer. The best ones for me are not necessarily always the ones closest geographically.

As for the question, the answer is yes. Because if it did not change then the query was not needed. If it does change then I will know and I will get the new address. The small amount of time it takes to get the new address and update a textfile is acceptable to me. I may also investigate why the address changed. Why did this HN submission go to the front page, why does it have so many points and comments. Some people are interested when stuff happens. I actually like "mysterious failures" because I want to know more about the sites I visit. Whereas an extra delay every time a TTL expires, for every name, again and again, over and over, every day, that is a lot of time cumulatively. Not to mention then I have to contend with issues of DNS privacy and security. When I started weaning myself off DNS lookups, there was no zone signing and encrypted queries.

The approach I take is not for everybody. I make HTTP requests outside the browser and I read HTML with a text-only browser. I do what works best for me.
That's really interesting, thanks for your perspective. I tried to be careful not to blame the buyers but the forwarders. From a seller's perspective, they are a pain, and leave us wondering when and if a product will be delivered. I once sold a nice watch that way, and paid a lot to insure it. About 2 weeks later, I get the shipment back with REFUSED scrawled on it. I offered to refund the buyer minus shipping fee, which then led to a big back and forth fight via ebay. I felt sorry for them, paying for nothing, but why should I have to eat that? In the end, I won but refunded half the shipping cost as a gesture of good will.

In any event, I'm curious why it's cheaper to buy things from the US? Is it to do with tariff wriggling, or is business locally that inefficient? In that I mean, it seems some local company would realize they could import say a thousand Iphones, mark them up slightly, and make money while being cheaper than you paying to ship a single one from the US.
> A law like this clarifies exactly where that line is expected to be.

It sets a specific measurement, but it would be extremely difficult to prove someone was or wasn't within the set distance.

The court will always defer to police over other witnesses.

The law is completely unnecessary for the stated purpose. Every state already has plenty of "interfering with a police officer" type laws...and there's no epidemic of people filming stuff, getting in the way of police.

This law is a softball for the supreme court to use to revoke their prior ruling that filming police is constitutional.

I suspect it's also designed to stop passengers in a stopped motor vehicle from filming - a few police shooting cases involved footage taken by a front seat passenger, showing the driver never made any threatening moves.
Dead solar panels are about to become a lot more valuable
I was in Whistler today -- a lot of multinational retailers running cash only businesses today.
Because it will takes years to enforce and in the meantime Twitter will have bad headlines and huge operational challenges? At best, they are likely to get the break-up clause which would not offset the damage such legal proceedings would cause over the duration of XX months.
DD would matter in the context that Musk was acting on bad information. But there was no DD AND he wasn't acting on bad information, so it's all moot.
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He typically creates massive hype, well over what he could possibly deliver, not sure I've ever seen him temper hype.

Just remember the launch of Tesla auto-pilot, where he was promising full self driving within a year or two, so good that you would let your car work as a taxi while you don't need it and it would become a passive stream of income so great you would see your investment back in around a year! He actually said "our goal is to make Ilit financially irresponsible to buy any other car". This is not a man who "manages hype".
This will work, but will have poor performance due to the way Java generics are implemented. You could use your function with `Integer[]` or `Long[]` arrays but not with `int[]` or `long[]`. `Integer` being a wrapper class around `int` is a regular Java object accessible via reference, hence slow and memory-inefficient.

On the other hand C# offers "real" generics and you can use almost exactly the code that you wrote (generic syntax is slightly different).
> Why would somebody need to get closer than 8ft to an officer doing their job, when you have no involvement in the situation at hand?

Why do you need a law designed to prevent people from interfering with an officer doing their job, when you already have plenty of laws that make it illegal to interfere with an officer doing their job?
Unfortunately it's getting to be more like app than apps plural.

SyncThing and very occasionally BitTorrent for Linux ISOs are the only ones I use.

I could imagine using Jami, if I could get it to work reliably, or Tox, if I knew anyone on Tox.

In general it's pretty dismal though. I rarely see anything particularly interested in P2P or self hosted.

Any ideas for what the next big P2P app could be?
I think 6.10f leaves him in trouble. No financing, yes transaction.
Switzerland has a long tradition of building tunnels, and they have one of the strongest economies in the world. I suspect they have done their calculations. Besides, it seems like a big part of the argument for this project is to reduce the environmental impact the increase in goods transportation have. So even if it is more expensive than a traditional road, they are willing to take the cost. That said, building roads in the Alps is very expensive, so it's not given that this tunnel alternative is that much more expensive.

I think this initiative is brilliant and hope we can try out a similar approach in Norway. We have extensive experience in making tunnels and in automation and should be able to build something like this.
Which actually makes Elon's position worse, since theoretically that reduces Twitter's stock price and increases the spread between the fixed offer and the current valuation. Plus, his financing tanks since it is predicated on Tespa's stock value.
You are writing fan fiction, not observing reality.
Also seen in the planning of curves in roads (where jerk corresponds to the rate at which a steering wheel must be turned) and railways.

And this is also why the passengers jerk of a vehicle jerk backwards after it comes to a complete stop. Their muscles statically counter the relative forwards acceleration of their torsos during braking and require time to react to the acceleration suddenly going away. This effect can be prevented by gradually letting off the brake before reapplying it fully upon stopping, but few drivers and rapid transit systems seem to be aware.
Because the point of this law is to get run up to the supreme court and reverse their ruling that recording the police is constitutionally protected.

I suspect it's also to stop passengers from recording a traffic stop.
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1997? Well, the restaurant opened in 2016.

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/dinos-tomato-pi...
Just you, with ublock origin it looks well formatted.
I like the calls, because they highlight the shortcomings of the telephony protocol that has been strapped to the side of communications technologies with box tape and is a bunch of legacy system compatibility layers glued together.

Telephone numbers are stupid. An arbitrary sequence of digits, area codes, they only really serve as unique identifiers like a social security number, I can easily be contacted by anyone even if I don't want to be. They're technically inferior. I only need one because other people I don't really care to interact with need me to need one. The only reason I even have one is because it comes free with my mobile data plan.

Who are these people that answer the phone for numbers not in their contacts anyway? Or check voicemail? If someone wants to get a hold of you via your phone number and you actually want to speak to them, they'll SMS. I don't even like that, but at least it's better.

Just ask me for a fucking email address so I can communicate asynchronously, I also have a few other contact mechanisms and if I want to talk to you I'll give you information you need to contact me that way.
Despite the District’s claim, I still wonder if the Southern Pacific had a hand in the choice of a non-standard gauge, to help make sure they’d never be ordered to take over BART and bear its operating losses. That risk might seem slight today, but it would have been more of a concern in that era, years before Amtrak, when railroads were being required by their regulators (ICC and CPUC) to operate other unprofitable passenger services.

As the posting concedes, “The pamphlet does not specify why only the wide gauge of five-feet-six inches was tested and not others.”
This is literally their playbook, they are transparent about it, and proud of it. It’s what they do.

Founders are precious about the companies they start, and they do things to “be different” because it is a key recruiting technique for smaller, earlier stage firms.

But those aren’t cold-hearted calculations. They are quality of life choices you can make as a founder, because you are optimizing for your dreams. It’s likely what helped you be successful.

But that’s not Kaseya. They are a clinical money making machine. They weren’t there for your first big enterprise contract that gave away huge concessions that you wouldn’t touch even though it was a money loser. They know that the buyer will either accept the price increase based on the fact they haven’t canceled, or that they can easily wash their hands of a money losing deal. In the end, that works for them.

They have their own engineering teams that work well for them doing things their way. Those people work there because they enjoy the work and the arrangement. They aren’t bright eyed and busy tailed about changing the world, they are building a portfolio of business and tools. That’s their passion, and good for them.

You can’t expect the people that buy your childhood home to leave your room painted the same god awful color you painted it as a teenager, or leave up your posters of your favorite bands because “that room means something, and that decor was about more than just a primate sleeping, it was about a process of self discovery in a cold universe that sent me to Stanford”. Seriously, they don’t care. It’s now their own kid’s room, with freshly painted white walls.
What is the counter argument?
Banning him at this stage would almost certainly expose Twitter to massive liability, especially as they have shown they will ignore rules for public figures. Twitter could only get away with banning Elon if he egregiously violated their policies, and Elon is too good of a troll to do anything that severe.
I'm with you there. Having spent so much time on the command line, it's so much more straightforward to just have a label that plainly describes what something is or does.

As I understand it, imagery is (ideally supposed to be) language agnostic, like the "icons" for events at the Olympics, though it doesn't always work out as intended.
Before this law took effect, were police often interfered with during their jobs from members of the public with cameras?
Genuinely can’t tell if this is satire
Its interesting, I watched a "how its made" type show about a car chase in a movie, it turns out it was all actual real footage and they had a bunch of elaborate moving camera crane setups to get footage from all different angles.

It was so elaborate that my brain just assumed it was CGI.
> a boundary past which it's perfectly fine to film the police.

A boundary relative to what? An immovable object or a cop who can walk? I mean walk towards someone who's at 8 feet and tell them to stop filming?
Both industry and academia are making languages according to their own incentives and criteria.

Industry language designers are trying to make their users more productive enough to justify the cost to design and build the language. An industry language that doesn't have enough users and doesn't make those users' lives better enough to offset the salaries of the language team is a losing proposition and a bad language.

Academics are trying to publish papers on novel ideas. A language that cured cancer would be considered a bad language if someone had already designed a language that cured cancer the prior year.

These incentive structures a somewhat opposed: the easiest way to make a language easier to adopt is to make it more familiar and less novel. But they are somewhat aligned as well. A language with no new ideas can't be any better than the languages before it.

So there is a natural diffusion process where academia explores the frontier of weird language ideas. Many don't pan out. All of them are weird and unapproachable when they first appear. The ideas worth keeping stick around. Eventually an industry language will add a dollop of those novel ideas and surround them with a familiar framework so that users can actually absorb and use the thing.
I still don’t quite understand why we don’t have a successful IDE / editor based on web technologies that would be anywhere close to Flash in terms of popularity.

Is the problem rooted not just in web technologies but in the fact that we live in a different era and creators don’t really express themselves in this way anymore?
I came here to say “meh,” but I appreciate the way you expanded that into four paragraphs of an utterly brutal take down of this thesis.
To agree with the article author a little:

A modern $150 50mm f/1.8 at f/8 will out-resolve an older $1300 50mm f/1.2 at f/8, but holy poops, can that older design produce a rendering quality that is simply smooth and beautiful in an intangible way due to the lens designers' intentional tradeoffs.

If you find yourself making comparisons like this one, you're almost to the part of your photographic career where you may be about to start reducing the amount of gear you use, as you begin to find the tools that resonate for you.
For the movie WALL-E, Pixar commissioned a space cinematographer to advise on how they might render aberration, lens flare, and other optical artifacts for the space scenes. The cinematographer remarked that Pixar wanted to replicate the very things he spent a career trying to get rid of.
It will eventually settle. If they sue and win Musk's financing will have long backed out so they aren't going to end up with enough to close the deal.

I suppose they could force him into bankruptcy which would end up with his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX sold off. Given how much of a loose cannon he's become that would probably be better for other shareholders but who knows.
https://www.naps2.com/ is a great pdf scanner that supports ocr as well.
Maybe you should pin this comment? I almost lost it in the shuffle.
Probably correct.

In most cases, isotopes can be detected for up to about ten half-lives, after which prevalence is reduce to 1/1,000th the initial concentration. In this case, that would be about 240,000 to 650,000 years.

For comparison, h sapiens seems to have diverged from its common ancestor to the other great apes about 2 million years ago, and achieved modern anatomical form about 200,000 years ago.

The period 240kya -- 650kya corresponds roughly to h. heidelbergensis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_heidelbergensis

The well-known organic-material radiodating isotope carbon-14 has a half-life of about 5,730 years, and is effective in dating materials to about 60,000 years ago.

We're going to need a bigger boat ^W^W longer half life.

Probably on the order of 200,000 to 10 million years.
Jounce, crackle and pop for the 4th, 5th and sixth derivatives
An example where inline constexpr makes a difference
This is exactly what will happen.
I'd say the tech sector getting routed played a bigger part. It's not like Twitter dropping 40% (for any reason) is exceptional amonst all the other stocks that dropped 20-60% over the last year.
While I agree with you, some proprietary closed communications channel controlled by a corporation that mines data for advertisers is worse.

I think ideally people should use something like xmpp or email.
How about docker support on Windows? Does it still require Hyper-V?

That’s one of the biggest hurdles preventing Windows to become a dev environment at my work.
That seems reasonable if service is still not back to 100% -- they need to focus on fixing the problem. They can investigate what caused the problem later.
I thought about it, but it's fun to leave rewards for people who read entire threads.
It’s been amusing to see the flip from people saying Musk can’t buy Twitter to Musk must buy Twitter.

Buying Twitter the way Musk did right before the most telegraphed recession in modern history was colossal stupidity. I have no insight to Musks liquidity, but if Twitter is able to force him to complete the sale in the middle of a raging recession then how much of his empire would be diminished by forced liquidations. And was this decision made so he could promote Shivon to CEO of Twitter? That could make it the most expensive (including the cascade of losses due to liquidation) gift to a mistress (?) in human history.

But Musk has a habit of escaping justice (see ‘pedo’ case which was egregious) and I have a feeling there would be little appetite to damage his empire due to the job losses it would cause, especially in a recession.
> "They failed" does have some connotation of culpability though, doesn't it? I mean, the phrase certainly is sometimes used in situations where nobody would understand it as implying any blame; but, on the other hand, there are many other cases in which it is used in a blaming way, and those other cases contribute to its connotations.

It usually does have some, yes. For example if you are infertile through some fault of your reproductive system, then that is to blame for your inability to have children.

> I'm not trying to shut down anything. I'm just attempting to produce an explanation of why some people, rightly or wrongly, actually are upset (which is rather apparent from other comments on this post.)

I think they're just vicariously upset. Either way I wasn't wondering about them. Just correcting a misconception about the use of a word.
Not totally true, the train rides here have lots of tunnels, especially the 57 kilometer long Gotthard tunnel.
Dude I get calls to install solar on a house I rented a decade ago for 2 years.
The fact that the police currently abuse their power isn't a good reason to give them additional legal latitude to do so.
> The new Arizona law requires any bystanders recording police activity in the state to stand at a minimum of 8 feet away from the action. If bystanders move closer after police have warned them to back off, they risk being charged with a misdemeanor and incurring fines of up to $500, jail time of up to 30 days, or probation of up to a year.

I have not read the law myself, but if the summary is accurate, it seems to suggest police moving towards the bystander does not count.
I have been driving bspwm for the last 4 years, and indeed audio has improved with pipewire.
I agree with your analysis, but I also think the numbers are bogus. Just for fun I tried buying half a million followers from some Russian guy a 7 years ago. While that number declined a bit over the years as Twitter did some trimming, I still have half of them.

(Interesting some of the followers were "real" in that these were people who installed a program that ostensibly would tell them who recently followed or unfollowed them, but the program would also add followers they didn't know about. I saw many comments like "I opened twitter and for some reason I'm following 100 more people! WTF?") ... but about half of the paid followers seemed like bots.
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when i was young i didn't like carrying a watch, because somehow i noticed that relying on a watch made loose my sense of time.

i don't know if it was my imagination, but i guess without a watch i was forced to pay more attention to my surroundings to see how much time has passed.

i still don't carry a watch, but now i carry a phone, so there is that...
I feel like people always approach this question from a cost perspective. Ive actually literally had people insinuate that if they used standard guage, they could somehow just repurpose existing trains or existing parts.

I do wonder how much that plays a role. I suspect not much. Bombardier or Kawasaki or whoever is going to mill everything from scratch. And deck heights whatnot would probably make repurposing very expensive.

Build for what makes sense.
If they had launched without supporting odd numbers, nobody would be saying “they always intended to add that later” in their defense.
And nobody should be.

We’ve talked many times before about how ridiculous their amount of hardware is. There are really only two arguments for “why” that make sense to me: One, they are succeeding in spite of a very large degree of excess hardware. Two, all that hardware is about advertising.

Schadenfreude wants it to be #1, but I suspect it’s actually #2. And I hope that some day - soon - “overtracking your users” becomes a hot button topic in consumer safety, maybe not as serious as industrial pollution but pretty close.
> And if we’re doing three minutes of shooting and twenty-one minutes of editing, are we truly photographers anymore?

I find this amusing. Many of the "best" photographers spent a whole lot more time in the darkroom than shooting before digital came along.
I love that you are this passionate about static IP addresses. Static IPv4 addresses, to be precise. Illegitimi non carborundum!
Yes I'm sure they can quickly log on to discord from jail.
I mean, I'm anti-musk, but I certainly would believe his claim they've been lying about the bit population. Both Twitter and Facebook have lied about this in the past, so the only part of musk's position I find believable is that Twitter underreported bot users. That being said, he waived his right to due-diligence, so lol. Truly a situation where both sides are dislikable.