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I can't agree with this enough, and I think it has to do with dueling cultural values. Especially because I live in a very purple area. My interpretation is that the pickup drivers endanger my life to "own the libs" (people who ride bicycles).

What's more is that most of the trucks that act in this way have dealership license plate frames or stickers from the outlying rural communities, so they're coming into the community where I live and endangering my safety out of what I assume is some misguided hatred of environmentally friendly transportation.
i'd like to see something like this done with music.
I've heard this sentiment before, could you explain what you mean?
> We also have children working, in dangerous and toxic conditions.

Can you elaborate on that? I've never heard that parcitular thing about the US. For reference, In Kongo, there are 5 year olds today carrying heavy buckets in makeshift cobalt mines, a'la XIX century England or France (plus the toxicity of cobalt, people who work in these mines get cancer if they don't die in an accident first). Even with whole families working in such conditions, the pay is not enough and not stable enough to sustain the family, and they are often working while hungry. Is there anything comparable going on in the US?
I wasn't trying to state a moral.

Just reminded of an older movie with a similar theme as parent comment, and thought I'd make a comment about it. That alright?
Yeah, but training will cost a multiple thousand dollars and the car would go for a checkup every week.
It might be!

I'm not a lawyer, and have no idea if there is already precedent in the US specifically regarding castes, but there is a motion that national origin covers ancestry.

It's entirely possible that the legal department in the story above thought it was a cut and dry case and that's why they pushed hard to shut it down before it became one.
Well, they are cheaper, cooler looking and faster (scooters at least). They are way more useful than Segway ever was.
One big thing to add about bikes and ebikes even more, is they can carry stuff, way more than a Segway could (or scooter). With the cargo models, they can replace a car for major trips to the grocery store.

I think this utilitarian feature of the bike is the biggest reason the bike is taking off.
Just to clarify, you reasons against this are:

1. It will make some people resentful.

2. It will cause "doubt" among people who benefit.

In essence, your first argument is about further benefiting the people who are already in an advantaged position. And your second argument is blaming people who would benefit. Yikes. That is some twisted logic.
I booted a live system from a USB thumb drive and then pulled down a backup using rsync. After that, I adjusted my `/etc/fstab`, `chroot`ed into the new (old) system, ran `mkinitcpio -P`, and generated a new GRUB configuration file.
If you heard USAF sonic booms, they were probably over 15 miles offshore, or 15 miles inside an Air Force training range. They were probably not directly over your house.

A crosscountry scheduled supersonic flight will have to overfly populated areas twice a day - booming all the way.

(Something that causes a lot of confusion - people often think a sonic boom is an instantaneous thing that happens when the plane breaks the sound barrier - it is not, it’s a continuous shockwave that travels with the aircraft while it is flying above Mach 1; anyone on the ground who the shockwave passes over along the flight path hears a sonic boom)

If you’ve ever heard thunder from lightning 15 miles away compared to thunder directly overhead, that might give you some framework for figuring out the difference.
Jesus Christ, why be so petty about him slightly confusing his point. I think the point he tried to make is that people often go to the gym and don't enjoy it, because they think it's the only or best option, but that those people should instead just look for a physical activity that's fun/enjoyable to them instead. HOWEVER if someone enjoys going to the gym, then that is perfectly fine. And that was the point they tried to make. Just use a little bit of empathy, people.
Also sounds like you wouldn't be trusted to run any tech HR role too.
The article was updated to: "Germany: 1 dead, 9 injured after test car veers into traffic"
It needs to be mentioned that casteism is less of an issue in the major urban areas and in South India. In these places it is possible to grow up and live your entire life without having to deal with caste, and Bengaluru is of the biggest urban areas in South India.
> 2G GSM connectivity (3G coming soon)

2G was fully phased out here (Israel) and 3G is going the same way soon, so even as a random cell-connected RPi this wouldn't be usable.

I'm guessing they're using some sort of HAT as the cell modem, what's the cost difference between GSM/UMTS (2G/3G) and HSPA/LTE ("3.5G"/4G) to make this work for longer than <deprecation period>?
For me, it's a good chance to watch a movie and maybe read a book (which I don't do often enough at home). I'm may be an outlier but I don't really care if I have Internet on a flight or not.

If I have a lie-flat business class option with decent food, getting to my destination a few hours early with less comfortable seating isn't a clear win. Like most people, I'm not jetting over to London to have lunch and sign a deal and heading home to sleep in my own bed.
Edit: removed battery voltage analogy.

You might be interested in reading this stack overflow answer about differences between turbo prop, jet, and fan. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/71301/what-is-t...

Another aspect to consider is changing engine characteristics for different conditions. An example is changing the structures guiding air into the engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intake_ramp
I have a tracfone. It is in my backpack, I don't remember the number, I don't know if it is charged. It's an Android so it would probably take several attempts to charge it before it gives up and decides to accept the charge.

Sometimes I use it to see if mobile web sites I develop work on low-end Androids.

I also have an iPad in my backpack that connects via Wi-Fi and that runs Skype in addition to my laptop running Skype. I am just waiting for the people at the public library to tell me I'm not supposed to talk on a "phone" and then I'll tell them I'm not talking on a phone.

I live in upstate NY which has cell phone dead spots bigger than some European countries, it makes no sense at all to me to get an expensive mobile subscription from a carrier that chooses not to offer service where I live and many of the places I go.
I'm glad it works for you. It gave my team years of headache while we ported it all to jOOQ.

Also our Ruby engineers liked the flexibility so much that they exposed our entire database as a service to customers, which we had to emulate and support.

Two sides to every position.
As someone who flies coach everywhere, I’d do the same if I had the means to do so. A long flight in coach is extremely draining even if you’re time-focussed, you’ve got to take recovery time into consideration.
We seriously need to rethink agriculture in the West. California produces a lot of food for the country and we use 80% of our water to do it, but it's also only 3% of our economy. The other 97% of the economy needs water too, in part to feed and bathe the people who make that part of the economy go.

It seems like it would be wise for California to pay farmers not to use water and pay farm workers who are unemployed since we have plenty of money and not a lot of water.

This would mean that farmers would not go broke, and they would be motivated to find ways to use less water, or charge more for their product, or both. Which would then shift the growing of those things to places where they have water and can build massive greenhouses, which would be supported by the higher prices.

Or at the very least charge farmers the same price for water as the rest of us! In Santa Clara County (aka Silicon Valley), an acre-foot of water costs a farmer $36.85 and everyone else pays $1,724.00! If you go a litter farther south, where the majority of land use is still farming, it's still $36.85 for farmers and $513 for everyone else!
> Does anyone live without a smartphone?

I do it since my SE xperia mini has broken sensor on 2016.

> What does that look like?

No stupid apps with pesky adware, most of them might be easily replaced with web-browser on laptop. Sometimes some things is not available for me but I do not miss it. My life is totally ofline but with intensive use of a laptop everywhere.

> Do you feel isolated from your friends/family

Nope, I still use to have GSM phone and email.

> or do you have some other more traditional way of keeping contact?

Lots of offline in addition to phone and email.

> Do you think it's beneficial to you?

I am totally happy with this setup. Especially when I see somebody struggling with some animated shit happening on their smartphones. Nothing beats a beautiful CLI on my Debian laptop.
I can't count the number of projects I've fulfilled where the specs were archeological remnants of absolutely ancient directed bids.

"... shall be capable of tracking 48 separate points per system and storing 13,287 individual records per point..."

Just copy-pasted from a certain supplier's specs sheet in 1995 and never updated.

I was also still seeing requirements for dot-matrix printers and color monitors in 2015.
We are living not in a capitalist dystopia, we live in a modernist dystopia. That is, technology itself is the value, rather than a means to an end.

You can live in, say, in a socialist or fascist society, and you would still be subjected to modernism. It permeates everything.

e.g.

> It's kinda weird that you wouldn't just listen to your body.

That's precisely the modernist sickness of the mind. The idea that we need technological mediation for cooking, eating, exercise,... and that because these activities are mediated by technology (ideally speaking, the high technology of that time), it is inherently better.

The amish were famously the first to reject modernism, and they did so in quite an extreme fashion. They don't reject technology, but they reject the idea that technology is an inherent value.

When we feel a general malaise, it is because we intuitively feel we are submitting to the machine, rather than having the machine submit to us.

The suffering is real, and people have been describing it for a long long time. The problem is, we can't seem to shake it. There was already great clarity on these topics in the 70s. Yet, we keep doubling down.

Technology needs to become a tool again, not an end of itself. Only then, when we've rejected modernism, we'll be able to imagine new futures.
> No one is joining Meta

The graduating president of the Caltech student body just joined Meta. They may be losing people, but they are hiring, and although their work may not be benign, it does qualify as interesting, challenging, and a potential "growth" opportunity.
Yes, bad filter configuration can cause these kinds of issues. However, this is a configuration issue. Any competent hearing aid is going to have configurable Q (narrowness) for the filter, so this is on whoever set up your hearing aid.
This just puts Ubuntu at the same level as Fedora/RH/Arch were before, am I right? In the sense that this just means .Net is in the official repos (as was the case for Fedora/Arch before)
Hmm, so basically you just sink into an overstuffed recliner and stare into a huge screen while it feeds you content interspersed with commercials?
The question was not really a quantitative one. The purpose of asking that question is to determine the mindset of the person answering.

Safety systems don't generally get built with an MVP mindset, but that seems to be what is happening with autonomous cars and it's concerning to me on multiple fronts.
Reminds me of the quote by Genesis P. Orridge in the movie Decoder:

"Information is like a bank. Some of us are rich. Some of us are poor with information. All of us can be rich. Our job, your job, is to rob the bank. To kill the guard."
Ah, this is a perennial problem on NixOS as well, at least when packaging anything with a bubblewrap sandbox (e.g. Steam).
The grammar is easier then German
Maybe the comment isnt written well enough to get the point across. We should focus on, doesnt exclude anything.
If anything my point is that both is even better.

Then the second should is about the latest science. I didn't elaborate on that.
The latest science is pointing towards daily exercise. Therfor we should ideally have some form of movement each day.

It's beneficial not only to overall health, and longevity. But also your brain health:)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220815085707.h...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/topics/exercise-and-fitness
Much 'applied' ML is based on tweaked existing models, getting them production ready and integrating them into a product. That's inherently a bit of non-trivial engineering work, but as you pointed out, not scientific per-se.
How is MerLoc different from SST?
Why is a child riding in a “test” vehicle?
Two years ago an rental Audi A2 almost crashed me several times into the tunnel wall on the right side. It was a rainy night and sometimes when I drove into the tunnel, the car steared really hard right.
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tl;dr: deferred join is faster in MySQL
Small number of eccentric contractions daily better than larger number once/week
As a mixed-race individual, I don't face that question by default in the US. There are enough mixed people in the US that I don't get asked "where are you from." But as soon as they realize I'm half-Indian, they will hunt me down and ask me questions. They'll try to ask me my parent's names etc. (names signify caste)

It's sad behavior. If it helps, here's a comment I wrote about my travels in India that might shed some light on the phenomena;

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My travels in India have been revealing.

Caste and class are inextricably linked, and a part of their daily vernacular. They're used as descriptors, "s/he's an X" (as if that means something to me!) And there's a huge coded language with inferences going on. It's a bit like saying, "s/he's jewish". Something that just doesn't happen in the US anymore (unless you're around rather unsavory folks)

It's such a deep part of the milieu that I'm not surprised when I hear stories about it being exported.

True story. I met this Indian woman while working out of the local hipster cafe. We had mutual friends. And ended up going out for lunch.

On the way back, she started asking questions about my background. They grew intensely personal. Until she was interrogating me on the sidewalk.

Unsatisfied with my responses, she just gave up & cut to the chase, "What's your mother's caste?"

Last I checked, she moved to the States and is a contractor for a FAANG.

She's hardly unique though. Indian people cannot stop asking questions. Where are you from? Where were you born? Why's your skin so pale? Where are your parents? What do they do? Where did you go to school? Why aren't you married?

What's worse is that the society is insular. Even in a big city, few people socialize outside of, in descending order of proximity, family > friends of the family > classmates from elementary school > people from their high school > college > (perhaps, sometimes) work.

I have met people who have gone through their entire life without ever meeting someone from a lower social class/caste. Casual greetings with people who clean their homes don't count.

There's a lack of je ne sais quoi. A certain lack of creative energy. A kind of absence of the meeting of free radicals that sparks interesting ideas and art. Culturally, it's as if, the society has submerged itself in halon, determined to not let the sparks of creativity and genius spark.

This problem is so acute that every free radical I've met has done their very best to move away as soon as humanly possible.
The novel element is combining the passive medium with infinite content. In my circles, sitting slack-jawed in front of the TV for hours was something that only those with little mental energy or drive did[1]. By contrast, probably 75% have some non-trivial degree of slack-jawed passive social media consumption, even more so since IG and Tiktok.

To wit, I think what's interesting about this Era of media relative to the TV Era is the vanishing proportion of the population that's able to escape the habit.

[1] Not a value judgment: my sister and her husband consume massive amounts of TV but they're also both early-career doctors. I would be braindead at the end of the day too.
If there is such a shift, it will be a paradigm shift and very difficult to predict before it happens.
Curious, why did HR "struggled with the issue", and why it was a brave thing to decide that it was discrimination? I hope it's not the so-called multiculturalism.
Yes, it's possible to build a traditional web company with Haskell. We've made IHP exactly for that :) It's like Rails/Django but for Haskell. https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/ We specifically try to be batteries-includes (like rails), so you don't have to think too much about what libraries to use, the core of IHP can get you very far without needing to manually decide between libraries.

IHP even won a G2 badge, which is kind of funny and ironic for a Haskell project :D https://www.g2.com/products/ihp/reviews
> The processes designed to enable competition (vs an official just hiring their cousin)

It is important to note that the process is not designed to enable competition. Competition is the default tool used (but there are built-in exceptions for non-competitive processes that are aimed at the same purpose), the purpose is to prevent (and make it easier to detect, when that fails) corruption.

That’s also the reason why the news stories it produces are fairly consistent: it makes corruption that is otherwise routine a noteworthy exception, and even when it fails to prevent it leaves huge piles of evidence around it.
Not me. I am building http://datalisp.is.

I am also a douglas adams fan but younger than you by more than a decade so I think we can trust this perception we share.

My objection to the current state of things is absolute. So I'm in the "die trying" phase of "changing the world" - it is going excellently - I don't have a single cent and cannot go to the doctor or control my diet.

The thing is, people don't do anything unless rewarded by the assessment system (at what age do kids start asking "if it will be on the exam" - because a few years later they're lost). If people assess the situation honestly then they see that the assessment system is lost in delusion but, in my experience, that makes people doubt their own assessments rather than the system.

It is one big tragedy of the commons w.r.t. bureaucracy.

The solution is to throw away all notions of safety, nothing can be a safe store of value, no one can have oversight over the bureaucracy... we'll just have probabilistic assessments of our worth w.r.t. various contexts and we'll be able to use this data to persuade others to do business with us (so they can increase the likelihood that they can persuade others in tgeir contexts).

This way we have a chance, with our current system it is trivial to prove that we don't (tragedy wrt bureaucracy).
Yeah definitely.

I just used the stack I was used to, didn't really turn out to be the best stack for the job...

Kubernetes is completely unnecessary, although I do enjoy using it.

Having a separate API is kinda nice. I could easily spin up a different front-end like an iOS app and share the same API. And I can write all the server code in Ruby instead of JS, which I prefer to do.

But yeah overall, way over-engineered.
Oh, my site https://snaplink.dev in in there, so random!
Forgive my ignorance, but what does this do? I'm interested. Would I just add Twitter/Reddit/whatever to the file with an IP of 0.0.0.0 so it throws an error or something?
Seems strange to write an article about why they switched without mentioning one of the main technical reasons Airbnb said themselves:

> Many of the difficulties we encountered were due to the hybrid model approach we took

They had about 220 screens in RN, 880 native screens total. They found it difficult to juggle that, essentially developing 3 platforms instead of 2.

Personally I prefer to do pure RN, with native extensions. Not a lot of native screens, because yes, you then are developing your targets plus RN.

Also keep in mind they were early adopters and they probably had to do a lot of heavy lifting. RN has matured a lot since then, both thanks to Airbnb and to the rest of the community.
Fire Breaks Out at Nintendo Headquarters
It is too early to tell. I'm more optimistic that humans will shape the outcome they want ultimately, but that will come with bumps in the road. We know that the human experience has been getting better overall than worse in terms of living standards if that doesn't give you some hope. I would also add that individual expression given the various platforms to express it, is also more empowering than ever.
If you work for yourself do you have any clients? I assume you do? Do you know if any of then have the same views? If you don't care or are willing to take their money then I don't see any difference. Do you give your potential clients a political test before you work with them?

I may be misremembering, but I don't think Eich was deliberately public about his support / donations. Political donations are public, but its not like he made a blog post or something. This is for all intents and purposes a private action.
I grew up reading about the opposite - not quite a utopia maybe, but a future in which technology was on net beneficial and worked for individual people. "Computer, call Joe Smith's robot butler and see if he's free for dinner" and the like.

I think we were close. We got general purpose computers and we had a robust open source movement. It's not like anyone's stopping us at gunpoint from getting there. But something about the incentives got misaligned, and we missed a turn and are now getting further and further away. We have 10 devs building Bejeweled clones, 100 working on engagement algos, and 1,000 working on adtech for every 1 working on self-hosted stuff.

At this point it seems like it's not going to happen. Best we'll get is "Joe Smith's robot butler responded to say that the Sizzlin' Fajita Platter is only $19.99 all this month at Outback Steakhouse, mens' grooming poducts are on sale today only at Manscape dot com, and also no he isn't free. Would you like to suggest a different day or hear more about the fajitas?"