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> Can we refrain from the reddit-esque creepy "gotcha" of digging through post history of another user instead of addressing the argument at hand?

That's not against etiquette here, it's totally reasonable due diligence
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If you think iambic pentameter is the beginning and end of poetry in English before free verse conquered all either your Master’s was narrowly focused or your defense of modern poetry could be improved.

As to Maya Angelou, she does seem to be writing poetry and some of it is ok so that places her head and shoulders above any of the writers you mentioned in your first post on the new GCSEs. Obviously she’s far more famous for her novels, but then again they’re unambiguously good.

If someone thinks the governing body of British schools has no taste then their respect will not especially impress. If it is possible to read poetry aloud and even consider that the author didn’t care how it sounded it’s not much good as poetry.

Ginsberg and Heaney were household names. People who weren’t forced to know who they were at least knew of them. Instead of Ed Sheeran think of Sally Rooney, if that makes the point clearer. If you read the Irish Times or listen to Irish radio or watch Irish TV you know Sally Rooney exists. She’s important in the cultural conversation. None of the poets you mentioned have a tenth of her cachet. Poetry as a popular art is dead because modern poetry is so unappealing.

Being irrelevant to the cultural conversation is how modern poetry is unimportant. Most people who love and care about and read literature don’t read modern poetry because it’s authors have no interest in popular appeal. They want to appeal to the kind of people who award teaching positions at Queen’s because they certainly aren’t going to make a living writing poetry.

I used to think this was inevitable, that poetry was doomed because of TV, radio, recorded music, but Arabic and Chinese have important, popular poets. Normal people know and care about poetry. So it’s not that poetry in English was doomed to irrelevance, it just disappeared up its own arse.

Important, meaning of wide cultural relevance and impact. In the US, Ginsberg was the last poet an ordinary person might have been expected to know existed, the last household name.

As a gesture of good will if you want email me the names of 30 modern poems you think are excellent and I’ll do a close analysis of five of them, like I’d get my students to do. I will give far more than cursory attention to all of them.

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Svelte is already 6 years old and nowhere near competitive with React in terms of popularity
There were other computers from that era that did the same thing but the 2600 did it more elegantly:

https://www.timexsinclair.com/computers/sinclair-zx80/

And the Apple-1 which is also a very elegant solution to the same problem but without some of the drawbacks (it does have video memory but the CPU isn't slowed down much):

http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?t=1352
I have done many a repair with kynar wire like this. I am not proud of most of them but they worked afterwards.
All of this has happened before; and it will happen again.
Triangle solver on the search results page is also gone. Here's how it previously looked like: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/03/google-geometry-cal...
In Tokyo it is possible to just randomly walk out onto most streets and expect cars to work around you. There are obviously a number of busy roads that would be dangerous but cars will still stop (for example if you were to misjudge crossing a street) and of course the highways are off limits (but there was a case recently of a man standing in the middle of a highway redirecting traffic who was hit by autopilot telsa).
Checks out. There were a few commutes from my room in the Mission of San Francisco that were equal time lyft, bike, or take train. Of course this relies on timing the muni/bart appropriately. I never had my own car in a city, it is surely a diffetent way to experience a place. I figure if it was only OK in SF, it sucks everywhere else in the US.
Funny domain!
I wonder if moderate Amish would consider nuclear in any form? For the sake of argument let's say there is a small scale reactor that would behave as large batteries with essentially zero risk and limitless energy. Could that replace the diesel generators or is diesel seen as more predictable? Would Amish ever consider a technology which allows them to produce their own diesel fuel even if it was somewhat complex?
Who are the economic ‘referees’ that decide if the US is in a recession?
the only digital currencies that exist for people who don't have access to banks is crypto, I believe.

Holding physical cash is just asking to have your life savings stolen in places that are poor enough to not have bank access.
It can if that machine creates a tunnel outbound. Installing cygwin and openssh should suffice. Keepalives should be enabled and the client should be called in a bash for-loop to reset the connection when it goes down. Use ssh to create a gateway port on the remote end. You would then RDP to that remote host which could be a cheap VM. The openssh-server on the remote end would need to be configured to permit gateway ports. The remote VM should only allow you to connect to the gateway port. Security can be improved by binding your gateway remote port to 127.0.0.1 on the remote end and then accessed via SSH port forwarding on your remote client that would be accessing the Windows 7 machine.

Here is an example a school gave to its folks [1]. One would replace the target servers with their own personal VM. There are additional examples on SuperUser [2] and youtube that may be helpful. Search for "RDP tunnel over SSH gateway ports"

[1] - https://help.ece.gatech.edu/windows/remote-desk

[2] - https://superuser.com/
Worth noting that people associated with this resigned and complained about being used to further climate change denial because it's basically propaganda:

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Copenhagen_Consensus
> For New York metro residents who take public transportation, a door-to-door commute averages about 51 minutes. That’s much longer than the 29 minutes typically spent by those who drive alone.

I mean, is this really an apples to apples comparison that is at all meaningful? The NY metro area includes NYC with its subway, but also suburbs in long island, New Jersey, and Connecticut with long commuter rail trips where you go to a different city, and short car commutes where you don’t.
It may just be down temporarily.

I used to use this Google Search timer extensively until there was a period of time (years ago) where it didn't work reliably for me - I think it counted down fine but then played no sound. Unsure if this affected others but I had to abandon it.

Funnily enough, the Google Clock timer on my phone (which I set via Google Assistant) has had a similar intermittent issue lately. It would count down to 0 properly, and then just continue past that to -1, -2, -3 seconds, on and on, and end up playing the alert audio like 2 minutes late. Weirdly, it knows that this is happening as there is no normal 'dismiss' option until the sound actually starts playing.

Not the biggest deal when it's my coffee timer being a bit late, but if it's for something more time-sensitive in the oven it does actually matter.
Your examples do not support the proposition that punishment is not a deterrent, unless Norway's prison is such a nice experience that being imprisoned there can't even be considered punishment. They more support the proposition that punishment that is too harsh is counterproductive or punishment not accompanied by rehabilitation efforts (which Norway puts much more into the US) is is not effective.

For a comparison between two places that are more similar than the US and Norway that took different approaches to punishment due to the pandemic, see this article comparing Albuquerque, New Mexico and Wichita, Kansas [1]. It suggests that what is important is the speed and certainty of punishment rather than how severe that punishment is that serves as a deterrent.

Here's an interview with the author of that article about this [2].

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/two-cities-took-different...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2022/07/24/1113281623/pandemic-court-clo...
Randy: Rust web app with a bunch of random (but probably useful) tools
The first example they give is NYC, showing cars being almost twice as fast as the train. NYC is denser than most European capitals.
Can AI Fix the News?
I made a post on trying to do absurd-but-controlled food photography with DALL-E 2 (https://minimaxir.com/2022/07/food-photography-ai/ ) which did get upvotes on HN but apparently did not make the front page (so may have been flagged?)
Thank you for sharing this. It's an interesting thought and I found it helpful.
I hope it works against American misinformation too
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> I'd be shocked that it was purposefully removed.

Why? They've done this time and time again. Google is its own worst enemy in this respect. I have our whole company standardized on Google because I still see them as the least bad option but I live in fear of losing some critical functionality because of an 'upgrade'.
Firefly: A browser-based interactive 3D data visualization tool for large data
> When I look back at my projects and writings that made the biggest impact in my career, they are never the ones that I built for the express purpose of accomplishing one of the many checkpoints I was naively chasing. Instead, they’re almost always borne out of me following through on what’s personally interesting to me

This really hit home for me. My most significant memories are of the things I did out of passion and interest and not because "I had" to do them.

In other words, it's about being authentic vs trying to reach some socially prescribed ideal of success in order to prove yourself.
Still, centralizing the energy production is an architectural win that is well worth the effort put into refactoring. It decouples the devices from the means of energy production, making it easier to swap that out later. It’s basically branch-by-abstraction:

https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/BranchByAbstraction.html
> I understand, it’s privacy and stuff

Right. If you have nothing to hide, then the police are welcome to watch and listen to everything you do. Correct?
>> Isn't it also for the safety of pedestrians?

>No, since it puts the onus of their safety of the pedestrians.

This does not mean that it is not for their safety.

>"High speed" train tracks take very little space compared to the road network criss-crossing cities, and thus the exclusion area is essentially nil by comparison.

Train tracks don't take you to as many places as roads.

> Pedestrians are not excluded from tram tracks

Yet, they are expected to avoid them and the tram has priority, and many tram routes are protected from pedestrian crossing by barriers. Pedestrians aren't excluded from roads either, it is just that safe crossing points have been established. I know in many places, such as Wien, trams are not obligated to stop at crosswalks if people are waiting.

It's not that important, but the idea that "entire concept of jaywalking is for the convenience of car owners" is really not accurate. No need to overstate that to make your other points.
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Setting something like this up encrusted in enough process to ensure that it won't disappear a few million commits later would certainly cost a lot. It can only be cheap of it's allowed to disappear.
Well, the problem is... food safety is a medical nightmare when safety practices aren't observed.

As a personal note, the sickest I have ever been in my life was from food poisoning. The details are horrific, but imagine 3 days of violent diarrhea while at the same time throwing up. I couldn't even hold down water. My arms looked like, its hard to explain... the skin was draped over them. You could see every sinue of the musculature like I was a body builder, except I was a fat 30 year old. I went to the hospital and took 4 liters of saline.

All I did to earn that punishment was eat a few slices of pizza that had been left out too long.

If you please, the saga of the "pink sauce", which is the exemplar of why food safety has to be regulated:

https://youtu.be/fa-qq4lK0NY?t=2790
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> I’m not convinced that will ever change unless sprawl becomes unimaginably expensive.

Right, but that's the core of my point: It is unimaginably expensive, it's just getting subsidized to ridiculous extents. (For the readers unaware of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI)

And saying the "vast majority" prefer it is wrong. They prefer it over the alternatives they have within the United States, not over the alternative possibilities. I'm absolutely not dismissing that some people prefer the suburbian lifestyle over EU-style walkable cities, but saying the majority of Americans do when so few even know what's possible is misplaced in the best possible read of it.

The demand for car-free neighbourhoods is also obvious if you look at what exists, and how exorbitant the prices are due to the high demand and low offer. Another example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWDFgzAjr1k

This song-and-dance of "Everyone likes suburbia because everyone wants to move there, it's illegal to build anything else because it would then be something else than suburbia, nobody wants the alternative anyway because it's too expensive, it's too expensive because it's in high demand, and it's in high demand because it's illegal to build something else" is like the definition of catch-22.
Train stations in NYC are much less dense than (for example my own city) Paris subway network.

New-York subway network is impressive for its sprawl, but not really for its efficiency.
Online demo (WebGL):

https://www.alexbgurvi.ch/Firefly/website/_site/index.html
Will naming heatwaves save lives?
Search is a very old codebase comprised of several large monoliths that are mostly tested by end-to-end diffs.

There is no central repository of all search features and if the timer is tested, it is likely forced to trigger with debug flags.

For timer to disappear like this would most likely be caused by a ranking change which prevents it from appearing as the top result (the only position it can render itself in).
Maybe the only person interested in maintaining it left the company.
A throwback from the days when domain hacks like del.icio.us were all the rage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack
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Yeah, from that same period I remember the lab where I worked had a giant drafting table-sized digitizer. It could be angled and it weighed a ton.

Those things died out, clearly a large format scanner is better.
Last I checked (unless I missed something), this didn't have the ability to perform VLSM. Which is what I thought distinguished Jodie's tool from every other similar command line tool. Which is frustrating that this is what replaced Jodie's tool on Fedora.
I assumed it means there are either frequent bridges or tunnels that gets you to ither side of highway.
The New York metro area is much larger than NYC and includes suburbs and smaller cities in Long Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Are you aware of a tool that supports or planning to add support for more advanced delays? E.g. let through the http response headers and then slowly drizzly the content? Or let the last byte be delayed? What about package drop at a certain point in the response?

I’ve found some interesting behaviour in our applications when delay isn’t uniform during the response.
A similar book about history of cars in Norway is "Et land på fire hjul": https://respublica.no/produkter/et-land-pa-fire-hjul/

It's very interesting to read how a few rich people getting cars changed the whole capitol. Tens of thousands of pedestrians had to move out of the way for these few, and everything changed permanently. Or how most traffic safety organizations were really pro-car organizations, and in the media always shifted the blame over to pedestrians being uncultivated and walking where they shouldn't be etc.
This seems like so much more effort than war in modern times. Wonder what future generations 100 to 200 years from now would think and write about our current happenings.
> I think about programming languages as tools for different bottlenecks.

I’m going to steal this!
When they have lost revenue enough quarters in a row that they have to shuffle and start doing business differently.

Until something big changes they reap record profits off our data and people continue to be the product while their customers continue to be the advertisers.
No one gets promoted for maintaining the timer widget on Google search.

One of the most successful engineers I know in big tech told me this once -

“thewarrior you need to understand. In these companies everything happens mainly for one reason - does it get someone promoted or not ?”

I’ll wait to see if this was an accident or not. But I suspect there are systems in place to prevent changes like these from being shipped by accident.

This is one of those tragedy of the commons situations that has bedeviled the industry.

Every org , team , project and task is a pawn in an elaborate multiplayer game of promo chess. Career success is defined not only by technical excellence but also in how well you can align and deliver your projects within the chess game that is currently in play. Fail to learn this and you will burn out or be forced to quit.

What this does to the companies in the long term remains to be seen.
I second this. And here’s proof it’s possible. It took a while, but we now have a part of the city that is designed around pedestrians: https://www.lenexa.com/government/departments___divisions/co...
Paper batteries on the cards to power IoT and smart labels
That's usually a ranking problem. Search is one big ranking system even for these custom looking responses. Sometimes they mess those up, or the backend that replies with them is down (ex. They accidentally took down weather once for the whole world).
Malicious NPM Packages Tapped Again to Target Discord Users
> There is no source of knowledge, method or tool that surpasses science in epistemological authority. That does not mean it gets us to a total and absolute truth, it just means it's the least-bad way possible of knowing things.

What do you base this statement on? How do you know science is the strongest possible way of knowing?

What do you mean by "science"? I may be misunderstanding you due to a divergence in our understandings of the word.
I'd take a shitty ui over a shiny ui backed by an unpredictable algorithm any day.

That people would prioritize ui and initial setup costs over payment processing reliability is insane to me.
"Google does not care about their users". Well.. I am not sure about that, but there is always the option of not using Google products, or using as few as possible Google products.

- I've closed my G Suite legacy free edition (as opposed to transitioning to paid)

- I've moved away and stopped using Gmail, Drive, Photos and Keep

I am still using maps & youtube - these are a bit tricky to replace.

No hard-feelings, Google is no longer the company/innovator it used to be (remember back on 2005 got an invitation for gmail, and I was over the moon).
That is a nice design! It’s cool that one can download the app for desktops.

I made a shared timer (not nearly as pretty) a few years back, with live URLs and admin login codes for controls. Intended for LARP leaders or fitness coaches.

Unfortunately never deployed, but works using Elixir, LiveView, and ETS in-memory DB.
https://github.com/mvellandi/easy_timer
Apparently it isn't. We have to build barriers to prevent people from running into traffic because not even the law is enough to discourage it.
No. If primary goal is safety, you draw crossings and traffic lights. You create laws that give priority to pedestrians attempting to cross where is no sidewalk. You lower the speed inside cities.
What was the coverage map of something like AMPS? Was it ubiquitously available like GSM more or less is now?
Yeah of course it does. Everything about the built environment is designed to ensure this is true.

Even places you think would be transit oriented in America are not. Here in Berkeley we have a transit-priority signal installed at a few key intersections along the busiest bus route but the public works department refuses to turn them on, because although they save minutes for the bus riders they cost a few seconds for the drivers.

We also refused to put in bus lanes on Telegraph Avenue because it would have necessitated the removal of either a parking lane or a car travel lane (four exist today). So the bus just lumbers along in traffic and it’s impossible to be faster than cars that way because the bus has to make its stops.
I recently bought a TP-Link router. It comes with a note that says that it is based on GPL software. However, when I try to install OpenWRT firmware on it, it rejects the update (probably based on a missing crypto signature) ...

They do provide access to the sources, but isn't this still a violation of GPL?
Looks like my about failed your filter too. :)
When I lived in Brooklyn, driving in nyc was a nightmare experience to be avoided at all costs. Parking could take as long as driving.

Where I live now I could drive to work in less time than taking the subway. But it is about the same time as riding my bike.
That's OK, but you've just gave up on free speech and settled with "information is weapon which must be contained" like in good ol' pre-modern age.
I’m fairly certain their engineers are aware. How long until the people at the top get it through their thick skull?

Actually, never mind that. They know. They just don’t care (for a variety of reasons).
I don’t know, JS is famously a lisp hidden under the C syntax.
The old adage "preach water, drink wine". I think this particular development has happened a lot of times in history...
Hence why fake it till you make it is so popular
So what? It practicaly is ads already. Load your today page. I almost never open the app store and even then go right to search, so paying attention to this page was new for me. I see a “limited time event” for roblox, “revisit your favorite games” (btw they all have IAPs, which I do sometimes indulge in. but I’ve opened the games it chose maybe once each. clearly selected to drive revenue) this is followed by a selection of “stories” which are links to deeper pages of algofeed.

here it is: https://imgur.com/a/iT6wUH4

it sounds _better_ to me that there is an auction for those pixels. I barely look at them anyway, but I’m sure the market can use one or two of those blocks at least as good as Apple can, and probably better/
The three balances one must make with their career is: (1) doing things you enjoy, (2) doing things you’re good at, and (3) doing things other people want.

Having only 1 or 2 of these 3 can be OK, but not ultimately fulfilling or sustainable.

In this framework, the author is saying one should shift more weight towards doing what you enjoy (and are good at), and less what others want.

I think the balance is dynamic, and changes as you get older.

Under the apprenticeship model, you start heavily doing what others want, while building what you’re good at. Once you’ve proven you have real skills and can provide value to the world, you think how to mix that into a unique way to deliver value to the world while being able to express your unique self.
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