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The author is saying "we're the only major contributor to Akka, open source isn't sustainable!" without considering/trying to address why they are the only major contributor to Akka.

Plenty of big Apache projects have major contributors from multiple projects/ecosystems/companies, without having to change the license to something not Apache. Since it's clearly possible to have sustainable projects licensed under Apache, I'm saying that it sounds more like an excuse rather than a proper argument for the license change.
This is really a surprise to anyone? Russia may have more resources than Ukraine, but pretty much the entire world is on the latter's side. Especially social and major media.

Bots are one of the reason that NO social media should ever be used to get "public opinions" on anything! Not just via likes/votes either!
What recourse do you have when the US fed keeps on printing money and reducing your purchasing power.
> we should force people to do wasteful things in order to stimulate the economy!

you laugh, but this is exactly what the US gov't does, esp. with military budget allocation. Why do you think all sorts of military products are split into different pieces for manufacturing, separated into different states? It certainly doesn't help efficiency.

I'm not saying that healthcare shouldn't be improved via efficiency increases - it needs improving! But let's not kumbaya and ignore the plight of those whose livelihood would be disrupted (and not of their own fault).
In other words, you still decided to support a manufacturer that makes it impossible to simply insert another stick of RAM (like we've been doing for decades) and requires you to throw a whole computer away. Or sell it, whatever, you've said that it's pretty much unusable already in spite of being new.

Seeing that from one of the poorer countries, you guys really do have too much money.
I hear you, but this was always the deal. If anyone ever said, "and we can use this for free forever and it will be updated for us for free forever" they were wrong.

Akka devs are 100% within their rights to set the terms of use for their product and thus their work. There was no bait and switch here. This is just how licensing works.
Obesity, like smoking, is one of those morbidities that lower lifetime healthcare costs significantly, as most costs are incurred in old age, as you saisd. Obesity, smoking, etc can kill before reaching an age where people start incurring high costs.
> unofficially not much more than a few paragraphs

There's a lot more than a few paragraphs on the wiki (which is linked right after the setup instructions in the official docs), including ~30 pages about the scripting system alone: https://talon.wiki/unofficial_talon_docs/

> As for Slack, I don't really consider that documentation

I think you should try asking questions on this particular Slack before you write it off and recommend that I do something else. It is my official support channel and I am extremely active and helpful there.

> Having the option to try to figure things out by looking at the code could be very helpful

One thing to try - Talon has good Python type annotation coverage and the type information is shipped with Talon. If you point VSCode at Talon's Python interpreter (at `~/.talon/bin/python` on Linux/Mac or `%appdata%\talon\.venv\scripts\python` on Windows), the language tooling in your editor should then know about Talon's API and types.
Oh please, "loads of crash bugs" are not and were never inevitable. And for the user experience, an exception that prevents you from doing what you want is not even that much better than a hard crash.

And let's not pretent that users are ever given a choice in the quality vs. cost tradeoff except for looking for a different program entirely. And even that is often not an option because the software needs to interact with systems that are actively hostile towards third-party clients.

We shouldn't excuse mediocre software just because the market puts up with mediocrity.
HDD arrays for “Linux ISOs” have never been better. In fact, I’m pretty sure that modern day is something of a golden era thanks to the dropping prices per TB on spinning media.
That makes it look like that the cost of tuition is entirely the fault here. Lower that by half at least and numbers start to make lot more sense.
I find the term "not even wrong" to be unnecessarily patronizing, and I don't mean to invoke that connotation, but this is the sort of hypothesis it was meant to criticize. There is no amount of evidence which could disprove this hypothesis, but there's no good reason to believe it either (and I do find the statistical argument that's sometimes presented to be unconvincing as it's built upon a tower of arbitrary assumptions which are designed to reach the conclusion that we're living in a simulation). It's a technical veneer over solipsism. I don't find it a helpful thought experiment; I find it to be much more invigorating and useful to assume the world is real and worth engaging with wholeheartedly. And taking a sort of variation of Pascal's wager, I don't see what I lose by living that way if it does turn out that we're brains in jars.

If other people find this to be a helpful I'm interested to hear about it.
Agreed. I once worked with an engineer who seemed to have dedicated their career to reducing bundle sizes.

I think it's easy to do things like this in the name of "better" because they're measurable.

I'd advise that if you've not accumulated Gandalf levels of experience yet, or you genuinely don't really need to reduce bundle sizes, or eek out an extra 10ms of execution time, your energies are best focussed on creating better software for users (here's the important bit) _that doesn't hurt the developers who'll need to modify it in future._

Why? Because bad code compounds in cost. When you make a decision and write code, it always results in other tangential decisions to need to be made in future. If your decision makes future decisions harder, they're more likely to be wrong. And then it makes all the tangential decisions after that likely to be even harder. Compounding, like interest, but the bad kind: debt.

So it's far more valuable to invest your time in learning to make inoffensive decisions than to go swapping libraries or trimming bundle sizes in the name of kilobytes.

On that front, it's more noble to choose a framework because it makes the pit of success as wide as possible, helping even the least skilled engineers make changes that are simple to change, fix or undo when needed, than to save 30ms per user, only to lose it because someone screwed up because of some bad code you wrote in one of the features.
The problem with decarbonization is that there isn’t any low hanging fruit.

At its core, hydrocarbons are the best source of energy at this moment, ignoring emissions. And the emissions problem is a massive tragedy of the commons.

So you have a need to drive behavior towards something suboptimal with incentives that benefit those who don’t change behavior.
...and many of the high hanging ones too!
Programming style has changed over time to include more dependencies from 3rd party. Look at style of programming from 70s, they would do everything from OS , filesystem to application. Today there are many dependencies.

EDIT: It's much like building a tower. Upper floors depends on lower floors. Taller the construction more unstable it gets.
Of course they will, but the actual problem is there.

I've been delivering systems where we had to deliver the source environment (ie what is used to build production) into escrow with a lawyer as part of the contract. It effectively required us to prove that what we delivered (both hardware and software) into escrow, would be able to reproduce what was in production, reliably and provably.

Reproducible builds are really hard, especially with people encoding CVS/SVN/git tags into the build, compilers and linkers not producing equivalent results between runs (eg caches warm/cold can make a difference) etc etc.

It's a real problem and a real issue.
I would also recommend Khatia Buniatishvili's.
> I think Revolut also gives you cards but I have not used them personally.

Yes. I use Revolut for that exact purpose.
Because C does not have package managers. We were copy pasting libraries as .h files in our projects and never updating them.
> That feels more honest than stealing their gas and then not paying for it. Sure, they're probably ripping me off. Doesn't mean I should do the same.

This kind of supine attitude is why 'The Great British* Public' continues to be fucked over by their governments, year after year, decade after decade and just keeps on taking it, with barely a murmur.

Even when they're plunging a huge section of the population into abject poverty, causing thousands of elderly people to die of hypothermia over the winter, causing countless people to contemplate suicide --because they literally can't afford to heat their homes or pay their energy bills...

...you're more concerned with not 'stealing' from the energy companies --who've just made record profits again, whose shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank. And whose directors will likely see out the worst of the winter on the yachts in the Bahamas they bought with their multi-million pound annual bonuses.

[*insert other nations, as appropriate]

PS: Why has this thread been flagged. It's a damned sight more important than most of the stuff that gets submitted on here, these days.
Just a nitpick: if something climbs by 60% and then falls by 60%, it hasn't returned to the original level, but to 1.6 * 0.4 = 64% of the original. (Rates rose more than 60% in 2021, as your chart shows. As well as showing how much information is lost when just considering the annual change!)
Or maybe it would mean that more people actually receive quality care? In AU, at least, our waiting periods for pretty much everything are ridiculous.
Imgur has been quite shit for some time now, especially on mobile.
Nobody is kicking anybody off the internet here. Kiwi Farms are free to associate with anyone willing to associate with them, or host their own content. There are thousands of hosts. Different strokes for different folks. Why should anybody be forced to give up their free speech/association rights because you say so?
$2k once per year is irrelevant for enterprise, but not $2k per core. With bigger deployments that's more than the entire dev team's salaries.
An old article by Joel Spolsky talking about this exact decision:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-...

Organic growth vs throwing investor money at every problem.

Juicy quote: "Still can’t decide? There are other things to consider. Think of your personal values."
It's the mutuelle. The way healthcare works here, the essential medical stuff is reimbursed by the universal healthcare system (sécurité sociale), and the rest is out of pocket. The mutuelle covers the part that's normally for you to pay, which can be quite significant for dentistry and glasses. My employer currently gives me a mutuelle that's decent to start with, and I chose to pay a 15€/month premium for increased coverage.

For example I just got a 900€ dentist bill recently. By default the sécurité sociale would just reimburse 300€ of it, for the essential care as well as a standard deductible on dental crowns. With my current mutuelle there's only 3€ left for me to pay.
I barely got through the introduction before giving up.

The opening line - "Hydrogen is the ultimate clean energy." - is a vague, meaningless, scientifically vacuous claim.

I'm not sure that hydrogen can even be considered "clean" - potentially clean maybe?

Hydrogen leaked into the atmosphere is 6-16 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas[1]. Hydrogen combustion (for heating, transport or driving turbines) releases 6 times as much NOx as burning methane (natural gas)[2].

The same opening paragraph contains the dubious claim: "H2 produced by water electrolysis using renewable energy, namely, the green hydrogen, represents the most promising energy carrier of the low-carbon economy". The most promising energy carrier of the low-carbon economy is and has been electricity. Hydrogen as an energy carrier has contributed almost nothing to lowering carbon emissions despite decades, if not a century, of research and effort.

[1] https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/hydrogen-twic...

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
There are a few companies in this space that are trying to do the "Security Seal of Approval" thing to various degrees.

Tidelift is one company that has a bunch of "catalogs"[0] of packages. I'm not sure how their package metadata is generated though -- maybe semi-manually?

There is also Bytesafe[1] which is supposed to help give you a way to "firewall" yourself from unapproved dependencies. I don't think they sell data though. Just tools.

A company based on the Open Source project, packj[2], is Ossilate[3] which is trying to use automated analysis for analyzing 3rd party packages.

And another that's in this space is Socket.dev[4] which tries to warn you in your PRs about bad packages.

I know about this space because I work on a project[5] that's also related to supply chain security. It's a bit different from all of the above since we're focused on patching known vulns, but the idea of "vetted packages" has crossed my mind before.

Are there any other services in this space that I missed?

0: https://tidelift.com/solutions/catalogs

1: https://bytesafe.dev/

2: https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj

3: https://ossillate.com/

4: https://socket.dev/

5: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/
> I don't use Akka, but I feel the pain of the people who did that and now has to tear the thing out.

Did you feel their elation at being able to use Akka for free? They can, as long as they stay on the Apache versions.

> Bait and switch is never nice

I don't see any bait and switch here. If you can find Akka devs saying "we'll let you use this for free forever and we'll keep updating it for free forever" then I'll eat it, but until then, this is just how software licensing works.
Metabolic syndrome is often a side effect of medication or symptom of other diseases that can't be fixed with lifestyle modifications alone.

For example, there are a lot of people on psychiatric medications that can cause metabolic syndrome as a primary side effect.
I think the package texlive-base or texlive-latex-extra includes dvips (for PostScript), which provides the dvipdf command.
In case of death it's indeed an issue if someone isn't planning ahead.

With grace periods of the domain expiry process it's quite safe. People have plenty of time to recover it. It's also hard not to notice if your mail stops arriving.
Nobody actually knows how many people died of Spanish flu. Look at the range of estimates provided and where they come from - you'll discover that the distribution is enormous, partly because the high estimates come from epidemic models. But such models always seem to overshoot by large amounts, so their estimates aren't credible.

Putting that to one side, Spanish flu happened in the context of:

- A society that didn't know viruses existed at all, only bacteria.

- The very recent discovery of aspirin, which was believed to be a wonder drug that could cure anything. Doctors didn't know what doses were safe and had a habit of prescribing lethal overdoses to people suffering from the flu.

- Widespread censorship by the authorities due to WW1. It became known as "Spanish Flu" mostly because the censorship was just less aggressive there, so that's where reports emerged from first.

For tech firm employees systematically censoring reports of bad reactions to vaccines, there are lessons here that still apply to the modern day. Spanish Flu would probably have been less deadly in a society with less censorship, and which was less likely to mass prescribe brand new miracle pharma products.
Can I interest you in a Metaverse?
What? It's Thales who produce Russia's R77M1 guidance systems and some of its avionics, and they are worst than MICAs (let's not even talk about Meteors). Russian pilots get on average less than 80 hours/year of real flights, standard in France in 140, including regular wargames against US raptors and superhornets at both Fox3 and Fox2 distance (some old videos are available on the internet of rafale f2 vs F22 raptor, it is fun to watch)(also, i write engagement distance in full letter because french standard for their rafale is confusing).

And not talking about the difference in Fox3 missiles (because Russia cannot compete), even Fox2 it's not that close, with a time to lock for MICA IM at least twice as short as Russia equivalent on the same plane (and MICAs avionics are better, so harder to evade).

But enough talk about missiles and air to air engagement. What about electronic warfare capabilities? Oh yeah, dependant on Thales designs. Also, do you expect a lot from country whose plane passive IFF isn't working? Yeah, that happened on a Su34 (so, not that old of a plane).

The S400 would prevent too much entries in Russian airspace (although we learned last year than EM disruption was enough to counter it, you still have to find it. I think S400 are better than what a lot of people now expect from Russian modern weaponry). I doubt however they would have anything other than Su57 left after two days of war against EU. And since they already lost two (or is it three?) in six months in ukraine, they only have thirteen left (including prototypes).

Also i'm not convinced of Russian nightime optics, i know they didn't hire Thales for those, but i think they should have considering it took two weeks to spot nighttime Mariupol approvisionment raids.

I'm pretty sure aerial warfare is not
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Intermittent Fasting has become very popular, leading to the development of numerous plans. There are a few of the most popular ways to handle IF. Which is suitable to you?
Pretty strange to call it unnecessary when it's magnitudes easier to build the UI in in the DOM than re-implementing it in canvas. Yes, the UI needs to update that often because every game tick there are a lot of numbers being updated (think colony simulator). It works so not sure what the problem is or why I would change it.
Pretty cool.

There are a lot of issues today and coming in the near future, that thinking big and outside the box isn't just useful but potentially even a necessity!
I would say it helped with early adoption. But at this point, it's got quite a bit of adoption. It's proven and for companies making over $25 million a year a proven piece of tech is generally more likely to be used than an unproven one.
What year was that? I got a Pentium 1 166mhz with 16MB of ram in 1995. Cost my parents $3000. Later we upgraded the RAM and for a while I was running a weird 80MB of RAM configuration (16 + 64).
Risking every penny I own by trusting credentials with Plaid is a worthwhile trade off for having to deal with my bank’s website less.
https://youtu.be/dfl8Xt8W09A?t=126

https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/...
Tesla Driver Seen Sleeping at the Wheel Using Autopilot
Probably not the "right (dry) conditions" that you were thinking of, but...

If a wooden beam is exposed to fire, the outside chars yet it still retains almost its full structural strength.

A steel beam almost certainly needs to be replaced.

https://www.structuremag.org/?p=1129

https://www.edtengineers.com/blog-post/fire-effects-steel
I've used many open source projects in the past, several of them had critical bugs, that did not get fixed (e.g. either the core developer abandoned it, or the BDFL said WONTFIX). A software without someone fixing the problems is - YMMV - too risky to use. And fixing a bug on your own in something complex and complicated like Akka without breaking things is no easy task (essentially creating and maintaining your own fork).

To me chosing an open source framework to base my future on the framework needs a healthy community of committers.
You're coping. Americans are responsible for about half of the world's medical research.
> notably the change in pricing didn't seem to substantially affect the volume

I don't think that means much.

Changes would be long-term, there is a lot of inflexibility short-term, you can't just create new suppliers locally overnight. It also depends on expectations of where the price will go. If it is expected to be a local maximum and that prices will sink again then few will take the price as signal to move production locally.
Wow, that is an insane number of students. I shudder at the thought of marking all those exams!
That was my guess too. It can skew the result quite a bit depending which stock you are looking at. Eg BNS historically hands out 2-3% per year in dividends, and that’s just one randomly chosen “high yield” stock.
It's a specific font to Minecraft. It's not an existing font. It appeared before Minecraft in 'Legend of Chambered', which was a simple game created by Notch, who later created Minecraft.
This will be pretty helpful for all 15 people who would be able to get, let alone want, one!
I used to have 90% of my money in a bank

Moved to a foreign country during covid

Meantime, the debit card expired, 3 months later when I try to login to mobile app/internet banking, can't do anything without the debit card.

Call the bank to send new one

3 month waiting

Call them multiple times: we can send new one but we'll cancel the one 'in-flight. Do you want to do that or wait another week?'

Eventually I requested a new one, two times

1 year waiting

The last phone call the staff admited they could be getting stolen

I've requested multiple times to send the card by Fedex or DHL they refused to do anything that didn't follow "their process"

A debit card sent by untracked letter!

Meantime they refuse to give me any alternative access to the account, move any money or make any transactions.

Lesson learned, don't trust _ONE_ bank with your savings/banking needs!

Can't be safe unless you have multiple bank accounts, crypto, and some nice friends.
Yea, this is the licensing I think we should have in place of many open source licesenses. I'm going to be using it with my commerical software very soon.
>A lot of developers work for companies that has more than $25M in revenue, and now a ton of them is going to get shit from management because they added this cuckoo egg dependency back when it used an open source license.

No, they're just going to not bump Akka until they can either find a replacement, or accept a new version with a new license. You do not need to bump it every month, you can live with half a year of not patching it while you make your decision.

Additionally, your company is making 25 million in revenue, they can afford the extremely minimal cost. Not accepting that cost shows the company for what it is, a bunch of leeches.
The simple answer is that renaming a variable (or function parameter) is a semantic change - even if it doesn’t, say, change the compiled code, it affects how a human would read and understand the code. Plus, in many languages, function parameter names are indeed semantically meaningful and can be accessed via features like reflection or keyword arguments.
Stupid question:

How to mitigate loss of phone, lets say on holidays?
if a VC takes 10% for $2M or whatever is appropriate at whatever valuation then as long as it is less than 50% or less than what the founder holds in shares or as long as founder shares have more in voting rights then why should the founder not take the money? They'll still be in control, no?