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It might be worth doing if it’s of psychological or behavioural benefit to the prisoners ie it prevents boredom / fighting / depression, and inculcates an ‘employee state of mind’ (usefulness, discipline, and ‘earn to spend’).
I could drop my Galaxy S5 in water, and it would still work.

I actually rode around for several hours in the pouring rain with it attached to my motorbike handlebars, and it still worked.
a good deal of users who overcome the usability issues of nix remain ill-equipped to contribute to nix beyond basic packaging. just because i can navigate Linux userland doesn’t mean i have a clue how to navigate the kernel, is i hope a not-terrible metaphor.
Do we want prison to be rehabilitation or a revolving door?

If people leave with money, they can actually try to break the cycle... Perhaps try to keep some of their property/belongings for short incarcerations... Most Americans families would lose their house and/or car if one parent was in jail for 6 months... Which makes prison a family killer, encouraging more crime to continue from neglected children and single mom/dad now working 2-3 jobs to cost the gap
Right, that's Lex's secret plan to make more smart people do more cardio.
In the context of taking psychoactive mushrooms to get a proper trip, there are the concepts of a good trip, a bad trip, and steering your trip towards the former and away from the latter, based on your thought patterns and emotions (so actively pursuing the intent to have a good trip in your mind).

Now I've never microdosed mushrooms, but it's not hard for me to imagine that this same concept applies, of actively pursuing a good experience, which can steer that experience in a good direction. It will just be at a much smaller scale.

For myself I think of this phenomenon as a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy (not meant as a judgement about others) which helps me to keep in mind that I'm the one in control (assuming doses are not excessively high, I think others in this thread call those "heroic doses").
Look for a medical-grade power supply. It makes the ground connection less important.
"When Alice made a loan to Bob, Bob got a deposit in their bank account but Alice never lost her deposit"

You're arguing with a scenario I didn't give. As I said already: neither Alice nor Bob are banks, therefore when Alice lent Bob the money she no longer had it. She didn't retain an appearance of having the money in her account because there is no account - it's all just cash. It's a very simplified scenario designed to show why the argument about money supply and debt is false in the general case.

"But those others they sell the good too also only have money if it was created via debt somehow. Not a single human bootstrapped with dollars."

Of course they did! Banking is an evolved system that sits on top of physical money. It isn't the case that all money is bank issued fractional reserve debt and it never has been so. Most people and institutions do indeed control at least some "hard money", even if it's just in the form of cash, or these days cryptocurrency.

In the west, we've come to rely more and more on fractional reserve accounts over time, but that doesn't change the correctness of the underlying argument - we aren't in a situation where paying debts off is impossible because there isn't enough money.

"At the inception of the loan, the total amount of money in the system was money owned by Alice2. When the debt was payed off, the total amount of money in the system was Alice1. While it is true that Bob ended up with a business, it is also true that the amount of money in the economy has shrunk."

You seem to be having a hard time keeping the various layers of the system separate! The amount of money in my toy scenario didn't change at any point because, again, neither Alice nor Bob are banks. They are people. When Alice lent to Bob she didn't create money: she had zero money at that point.
> Doing everything with Scheme just leads to layers of macro spaghetti that I really did not enjoy to dig through.

On the flip side, it’s a real language, well understood, with a real specification, working tooling, and community support outside Guix (or in the case of Nix, outside the package manager).

As someone who gave up NixOS exactly because of the incomprehensibleness of the Nix language, I know what I would choose.

There’s no doubt at all.
Um. I have to ask: did you read the article? All of it?

Because what you're offering as a comment is sort of a backwards version of the argument I'm making in the article.

My argument is that it flopped because of the monoculture of C21 OS design that means we lack OSes that can take full advantage of persistent-memory computers.

Yours seems to be that the kit wasn't competitive. I think that's a conflation of multiple category errors.

[1] It is not in the same product category as either DRAM or Flash.

It's not RAM: RAM is volatile, Optane is nonvolatile. But it can be used as primary storage, that is, appearing in the CPU memory map. It is not secondary storage, that is, storage requiring any kind of block-based controller handling.

It's not Flash: Flash is not word-writable and thus cannot be primary storage.

Because of decades of technical debt in C21 IT people do not know this vital primary/secondary distinction well. As a result they can only think in terms of two different types. Optane is not even neither type: it's both. It blurs the distinction. That's why it was important tech.

[2] Thus it is a fallacy to compare the price, or performance, or price:performance of a new tech that eliminates the primary/secondary split with either primary or secondary storage.

It is traditional in IT to make comparisons with automobiles.

It's like criticising cars because they are not good bicycles and they are not good aeroplanes.

These are different vehicles with different characteristics for different types of transport. To say that cars are bad bikes, or bad aeroplanes, means that you have failed to understand that cars are not either.

Cars are better for some things than bicycles. They are better for totally different things than aeroplanes.

You are trying to judge cars by the criteria of bicycles and aeroplanes, because you've never seen a car before and you're not used to thinking about cars. You're used to 2 categories and this is not either. It's not in the middle. It's a different category.

That is what the article was about.
I use Linux as my main OS. I’d love to switch to FreeBSD but I can’t.

Most software that run on Linux may or may not run on FreeBSD. And when it doesn’t, it’s typically hard or impossible to get instructions or community support.

Looking at the download page, Firefox doesn’t even seem to have a FreeBSD version or instructions.

I can understand for servers although you lose community support for most software and can’t use ready to deploy docker images, as much as I loathe docker.

FreeBSD is vastly superior to Linux IMHO (the handbook is a great read), but it’s unfortunately not practical for most usages.
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Do you think? "I don't like communist art" invites the alternative. "I don't like this style of art" doesn't.
> Same with HN. Conversations like these are rarely happening offline.

May I suggest that you might be looking in the wrong places offline?

HN-style discussions are a staple of lunchtime banter at any number of tech firms. Likewise you can find similar discussions at any number of universities, or on the tech conference circuit. Not to mention your local nerd-leaning special-interest communities (be it tabletop, D&D, hacker space, BDSM, etc).

The internet makes it really easy to find a community of folks who share similar interests, all without leaving your house. But unless you live in the middle of nowhere, one can generally find such a community IRL
Sounds almost religious to me
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Well there you go:
> The Dum Dums racket doesn’t appear to hurt Amazon because it still makes a commission on each sale even if the product is sourced from Sam’s Club.

But earlier:
> Amazon spokesperson Nathan Strauss said the company has long banned sellers from shipping products from other retailers to customers. “We monitor a variety of data and signals to detect, investigate and enforce violations of this policy,” Strauss said.

Uh huh. I'm sure you put your best interns on that, while you have a massive computing infrastructure running ML models to optimize traffic and profits. Amazon does not care about individual retailers surviving, because they win either way.
As in the picture accompanying the article, the solar shades don't need to cover the entire area. You can leave open sky over corridors to allow trucks through.
It works on Chrome/iOS but refresh loops on Brave/iOS. Both are forced to use the same browser engine by Apple so the main difference is that Brave has a built-in adblocker.

I didn't bother to test it with devtools on desktop, but they almost certainly have js on the page that attempts to load analytics/ads and refreshes the page until it succeeds.
Are those actually cheaper or easier to come by than manufacturer-branded options?

I actually found an HP charger on Amazon, and it even had a USB-A port, which I've found neat. But with all the horror stories about counterfeits and Amazon stock comingling, and what with my wish to not burn down my house, I didn't buy it.
I feel like you gave a perfectly good answer to your own question. A big program like this would buy insurance with some of the solar revenue and the investor wouldn't have to do anything.
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There no point comparing a library to a work open space.

Please, tell me what is the point to go physically at work in an open space instead of doing remote work if it is to have the rules of a library?

Not interacting with colleagues, not calling, not listening others speaking to know what is currently going on the company...
It's nothing more than a stunt to further skew public opinion/rile people to support him backing out from the deal.

This is unlikely to change the outcome when the case finally goes to court since he waived his rights to due diligence.
But if the whole point of blocking something is to "stop people from using it"
why would they use the easiest method of blocking to bypass
> Then you're able to conclude that `a` is a monoid

Yep, which is why I'm saying all the interesting bits come from `a` being the monoid in that example.

In the free monad interpreter example, I have no idea though.
The lunchtime banter at my (tech) company is mostly silence since few people come to the office.
In Israel, prisoners can work for about 65% of minimum wage. This allows them to learn the value of work and of saving for the future. (This describes the court case that boosted the salary from ~40% https://news.walla.co.il/item/3409487 )
Have you ever wondered why things that doesn't match your state propaganda appear to be a trolling? I'd love to understand why are you doing this: are you bored, uneducated, or just US shill?

I mean, the fact that you're not making sense should be obvious even to you, as you can't provide even a single argument to support your "point of view".
"Nix" refers to many things. Nickel specifically replaces the language that is called Nix. It has nothing to do with the package manager called Nix, the build system called Nix, or the OS called NixOS.
What a mix of vision/delusion, focus/unfocus this guy has.

$44B Twitter acquisition will go to the record as the most expensive manic episode in the history of business.

>Earlier on Saturday, Musk said that if Twitter could provide its method of sampling 100 accounts and how it confirmed that the accounts are real, his deal to buy the company should proceed on its original terms.

Such a weak and bad faith argument and the number of bots it not even legally relevant (his lawyers have different argument)

They sample 100 accounts per day for 3 months (n=9000). These samples are checked by humans. Everybody who knows anything about statistics (including Musk) and conducting experiments knows that the this sample size is more than large enough to determine if Twitter has less than 5% bots even if Twitter had infinite amount of accounts.
In the US, that is constitutional, though still a terrible thing. https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13
This is not simply an evil plot to squeeze money from consumers, there’s of course a tradeoff between price, product size and longevity.

A Macbook will easily last you 8 years, unless it has a butterfly keyboard, how many would be willing to pay extra for one that lasts 15 years? Or a phone that lasts 10?

When it comes to products with strong brands, people will quickly learn what the life expectancy is, so you can’t really fool them. If they break easily, people will atop buying them.

With generic gadgets like an electronic thermometer or something the incentives are different, it does make sense to have them break early.

Btw, I’ve used my AirPods pro for at least 2 hours every day since they were released and the battery is still pretty decent.
If Sam's Club pays same as other retailers, it is Sam's Club losing the money. So clearly Spangler is in that case losing no money, or actually making more.

And if they are giving a discount to Sam's Club, they can solve problem by ending that discount.
I'm not sure I find this argument convincing. Would you say that if I speed and get a fine, then society has chosen to fine me and so they should pay the fine?
The ping has been around since submarines started using sonar.
Why does it feel that more and more people aren't not using capital letters anymore? What is this, a trend, some kind of movement?
This is odd particularly as : the traditional ratio symbol seems free.
The Logitech M705 Marathon lasts well over 6 months on a single AA battery, or double that long with two.
The USB-C connector is a lot easier to break than a normal power connector, it's also pretty fidgety to get right when you fix the connection on the laptop side. The fixability can be done better than normal charging ports, I've done a USB-C daughter board swap in about 2 hours of total time (research, ordering, mounting). The normal way though is doing soldering surface mounted USB-C connectors which is not something I like to do.
> but to claim that they are going to fail is a bit of hyperbole

They make a loss on every ride, but don’t worry they’ll make up for it in volume!
>IBM i, Unisys ClearPath and OS/2200

Once again, have you seen anyone technical wilfully choosing any of those for web stuff over the past two decades?
We're onto the pedagogy thing. Check out the Nix book efforts: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-....

Regarding the language and "configurations" specifically, you might like what we do with Nickel: https://github.com/tweag/nickel. Research project showing a potential future for Nix.
I too find this critique a bit odd.

Tho, switching between BSD and gnu versions of some tools, there is a mismatch of command line arguments.

IIRC I had to look up docs using tar and sed on BSD.
btw. macos also has a case sensitive mode for their filesystem, it's just not the default.
Sure, that's probably all true. I'm just trying to contrast the reality of living outside of prison (a substantial amount of money goes to living expenses) to living in prison (you have or should have no expenses).

To me if you pay prisoners a normal wage it would seem too much like a reward for breaking crime, given that we pay all their normal expenses as well.
Goal isn't to block citizens, but force hand of these companies to follow new regulations.

In that sense it is cheap and proven tool. For average consumer bypassing block isn't common. Thus force these companies to keep average consumers they will bend or leave.
Wow. ..I'm really surprised by this comment..what do you mean by "farther away than ever" . I just recently started learning to code and I really want to go into machine learning ..does it mean there isn't any major innovation right now in the field ?
> You can use Fedora Silverblue, which also offers atomic upgrades and rollbacks

The beauty of Nix with Flakes is not just upgrades and rollbacks, but that it can be completely stateless. You can just run software directly from the Git repository:

nix run github:JUser/your_app

And if you want an old or newer version, just go:

nix run github:JUser/your_app?rev=01f352202ad

You can even override dependencies if you like:

nix run --override-input somlib git+file:///yourlocalfork github:JUser/your_app

There isn't a whole lot of software that has turned their Git repository into a Flake yet (i.e. added a flake.nix), so that benefit is a bit theoretical for the average user, but the potential to completely reshaping the Free Software landscape is certainly there, as Nix finally allows upstream to become a first class citizen in the distributions packaging system.
Doesn't USB-C have a "basic mode"? As in, if it's unable to negotiate some kind of high-power PD mode, it will just deliver the basic USB2 5V/0.5A?

I can charge my Sony headphones with anything from an old USB2 only PC, old Samsung USB-A phone charger to my 65 W HP USB-C power adapter.

I don't think they have any kind of PD mode, I think they just expect regular 5V. The specs on the site say "USB charge" and the charging duration is 3 hours. They come with a USB-A to C cable.
So the self driving talk was all a lie ?
I decided to do a little bit of research. Up until 1933 the War Department maintained that cemetery after which responsibility was transferred to the National Park Service. It looks like NPS was the ones that decided to cut the headstones based on the dates.

The real sad thing about this is that those are only the positively identified remains. There are twice as many unmarked graves. And a nearby Confederate cemetery has 30,000 buried and only 2,000 identified.

https://www.nps.gov/pete/learn/historyculture/poplar-grove-n...
There is a one-size-fits-all answer, and it's rehabilitation. Even for rapists, thieves and murderers.
Are cars starting to have USB-C PD connectors?

The most "advanced" I've seen are wireless chargers. My dad's 2021 Toyota only has USB-A.
They could raise prices, reduce volume and turn profitable.
You do not become a ward of the state when you receive a speeding ticket.
I don't have much interesting things to add to this, but I think it's awesome that framework encourages this kind of reuse.

Kudos to the author of this writeup, and kudos to Framework!
Likely looks.
Uber is not profitable and DiDi which takes less cut as middle man is profitable. In Central and South America, I prefer to use DiDi as it is cheaper and app experience is about the same.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2021/02/04/didi-m...
It is not like we charge people for time of the police when receiving speeding ticket. Or the paper it is written on.
Which parliament are you even referring to? US, UK, EU, other…?

And are you sure “the open source community” would be able to agree on a shared agenda? When it comes to stuff like taxes, funding of healthcare, gun laws, abortion, etc etc.
Interestingly Lucas Pope says he thinks Papers Please is a better game. As a method of telling a story I think it's as good as you can get - e.g. the gameplay in Obra Dinn doesn't thematically link to the story in the same way - but I'm just don't enjoy the game. I know: you're supposed to be bored, it's supposed to be unwieldy, you're supposed to be frustrated by the rules. But I just want to do something else.
The difference is that predatory pricing includes an expectation of future profits from that product. So it makes sense to exclude perpetual free licenses like open source from the definition.
Top-left isn't as unnatural for humans in my opinion. It's how you read and write text... Also it's natural for web pages as the top left is fixed.
Yes, I know. Parent was proposing a hypothetical scenario.
No one is talking about the grid connection and batteries though. You will need batteries somewhere because demand and supply don't match.

Then there is servicing the solar. And engineering/architecture bespoke to each case. I can see how a large solar farm might make all that more efficient.

Put it this way, home solar is not always a no-brainer, financially, and that doesn't usually involve building a structure, just attaching them to a roof.
quite a scenic bridge. Hopefully they solve the tunnel problem.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-world-lo...
Uber has also just gotten really bad from a product standpoint in so many cities too. Canceled rides, terrible customer service. It seems like other app platforms are attracting more/better drivers. Plain old taxis are better than Uber in many cities again.

Quite ironically Uber has become the terrible bloated transportation option with a bad customer experience that they set out originally to replace.
Challenge here is too much solar destabilizes the grid and there’s not enough peaker plants/other sources to handle to variation in generation/load.
The reason residential makes more sense is that it’s consumed at source. I don’t know the power draw needs of supermarkets but I doubt it warrants fully covered parking lots.
Residential is better because it decentralizes power generation more and puts more power in the hands of consumers.
Those are reasonable.

If said I count GB as 512MB, the court would say “nobody else does that, you’re just trying to defraud people, your disclaimer is not in good faith”.
git, for instance, became mainstream in spite of that.
One more option to complement the rest: what I do is have the cheapest, smallest, mobile data package that lets me get done the stuff I actually value (3 GB/month, turning my commute into a focused time for various online learning courses).

There’s some spare bandwidth for habitually chatting, but not much.
> Another interesting option is to mount solar panels higher up with some gaps and then do farming below them.

Or put them on grazing fields[1] and get the extras of i) shade for the lambs, ii) free plant management around the panels, and iii) maybe reduced water consumption.

[1] https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/04/mixing-she...
Yeah and that's part of what made it so confusing.

Even in a pure Guix shell it only worked in a specific order. Packages were R, TMB (an R package), gcc-toolchain, gfortran-toolchain and make. You need to be able to compile C++. If was R specified before the toolchains then nothing could be compiled with TMB. I forget the exact error. I did not have those packages globally installed and I saw the same problems with Guix SD and a foreign distros.

But with R 4.2 I ran into a different problem and never fixed, that anything using the RcppEigen header would not compile.

And I don't believe Guix has the same wrapping packages into R style as Nix.
Is that really not everyone?

Who is an engineer that excitedly looks forward to that final 10% of polish and maintenance? (I do it because I look forward to shipping things, and ofc pay)

What engineer enjoys routine work? Oh, lovely, I'll go and clean up comments in the code today... for a tenth day again.

The only distinction that seems to make any sense seems to be that they are "good at solving" all kinds of problems.

I'd call those "good engineers".

Edit: I seriously hope you are not looking for "10x engineer"!
...either would be good.
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