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> Honestly, this article understates the situation. Everyone is bricking it.

Yeah, it's really quite bad. I'm yet to talk to anybody who isn't worried about this, from low class to upper class.

> Small businesses and charities are already receiving their new contract quotes and deciding to shut down.

Sadly we will now lose many historic institutions that COVID lockdowns didn't quite manage to kill off. Some pubs for example have been around for hundreds of years.

> And our next Prime Minister shows exactly no sign of caring about or even understanding the seriousness of the situation.

I believe I saw Boris _finally_ committing to building new nuclear power stations, but this is maybe 10 years too late. Nuclear power was such an obvious quick win in terms of energy security, green climate action and energy costs. I hope the UK is able to keep its remaining reactors online a while longer until new ones can be phased in.
Foundation was so disappointing.
The only part of the depiction he’s complaining about is race, though.
Literature and politics are inseparable. Have you ever been in an English class or read a book?
I find this shift to paid, online code editors and IDEs very dystopian. The last thing I want to do is rely on a proprietary non-free tool that I need internet to access, can not only gather telemetry about my usage, but also all my code…
At some point people have to decide that privacy and freedom are more important than some level of convenience. For me that line is already crossed.
This is the thesis of the excellent book on financial fraud “Lying for Money”
How do these “monitors-on-your-face” impact eye health?
Also based in NL, "Amsterdam" area (Utrecht). As people have mentioned elsewhere, it depends. My current long-term (6+ months) contract is at €95/hr, working as part of a great team of developers on an Elixir backend, and being able to learn Elixir (which I didn't know beforehand) on the job. I have also done smaller projects (2 months), a bit more specialized, on the side for €125/hr.

By the way, I am not totally convinced about weekly vs hourly billing. In my case, hourly billing has worked well. I just make sure I bill for _everything_ I do for the client, also the time I spend learning stuff, and communicate clearly about it. People hire me because I can figure out stuff quickly, not because I know all there is to know about programming (though I do think I have a strong background).
> [would you be completely undisturbed] if a Jewish camp inmate in Schindler's list was portrayed as a black person?

Why would you be disturbed in the slightest? Hitler hated blacks, and yes, some WERE actually in concentration camps:

"Although no exact figures exist, it is known that a significant number of black people were detained in concentration camps and forced labour camps during the Nazi reign, and that many were murdered. Nonetheless, there seems to be little interest in Hitler’s black victims. Their plight is not talked about enough. This is partly because unlike Jews, Roma and Sinti, black people were not marked for destruction. But they were denied their human rights, sterilised, persecuted, experimented upon and murdered in camps."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/27/black-...
Ah yes. You simultaneously claim there is no anti-gay panic and that gay people are at fault for "societal rejection", which is exactly the anti-gay panic I'm talking about. While also promoting an obvious anti-queer double standard of the exact sort used to oppress. A fine example of doublethink, but not one I'm going to take at all seriously.
I hate to break it to you but Black Panther IS a fantasy story set in a fantasy world. The reason why black people would lose their minds if they would have Black Panther played by a white actor is that escapist superhero fiction has become cultural identity and the superheroes are role models. Therefore replacing a central element by their oppsite, is destroying said cultural identity. Now ask yourself why it appears to be so important to Hollywood to replace white roles with black and queer actors: Why does Arielle need to be black? Why Spiderman? Why James Bond? Why Captain America? Why Roland Deschain from Dark Tower?
> Starmer should unwind the pear of anguish and say he’ll investigate reversing Brexit.

Only so they can leave again in a few years? People who voted Brexit didn't just disappear, and the broad EU-scepticism that was always present certainly didn't. You can't force these things through; maybe in 20 or 30 years if (emphasis on if) a broad consensus has been reached: sure. But now? It would be pretty ridiculous. Lots of things about Brexit could have been handled better, but it's a done deal at this point.

It's also important to distinguish between Brexit as a concept and the bumbling of May and especially Johnson governments. NI was always going to be a difficult point, and "that agreement we had about NI? We decided that it's not good after all and we will unilaterally cancel it even though we signed it ourselves, kthxfuckitybye" has nothing to do with Brexit as a concept, and everything to do with the government. Pumping sewage in the sea? Again, not a Brexit problem – a UK governance problem. etc. These are the real problems that should be fixed by any new government (among many others).

In my opinion Brexit has always primarily been about dissatisfaction with the British government and politics, rather than the EU. British politicians have long had a tendency to blame the EU for their own policy failings, and one of the reasons I was low-key in favour of Brexit is that the ability to (often inaccurately) deflect criticism towards the EU would be taken away. It remains to be seen whether that will happen (another was that it was always an unhappy and strained relationship, and that the EU would be better off without the UK).
It's standard spin tactics. Faint praise is damning. Faint scorn is ennobling. Censor appropriately.

The craft of lying is the oldest. Somebody should write a book.
Potentially controversial take: this general idea also applies to other areas such as elections. Any sufficiently large election will have to contend with fraud and human error, but this is acceptable as long as the numbers aren't large enough to change the outcome.

If you carefully scrutinize any large election you can almost certainly find at least one example of fraud. However, isolated cases of fraud or human error are not evidence of widescale election rigging.
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https://www.opensourceecology.org/
When I worked retail, I would give customers whatever they asked for because 1) it's not my stuff, 2) it belonged to a soulless corporation that did not need it, 3) I am not paid enough to be a store's loss prevention agent.
If it's the merchants who carry the burden of credit card fraud why is it that almost all fraud prevention efforts seem to be done by banks/card issuers rather than by merchants ?

Except for a small number of cases involving pre-paid cards, I have never seen a merchant refuse to accept a valid credit card payment for an online purchase. I have however encountered and heard of cases of banks declining transactions they considered possibly fraudulent.
does the inpainting code actually work or is it just a vestigal placeholder from the last version of stable diffusions release?
Hey why can't i seem to open solidstate.so?
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It’s wokewashing.

The more diverse you make your cast, the more immune you are to criticism when your product flops.

If the show was less diverse and flopped they couldn’t play the racism card to wipe reviews and churn up sympathetic media.
Ok, I misunderstood. I thought it was clear at that point that Meego was a dead end, but Harmattan was missing things like app sandboxing and some app store and payment related features, the package management was a mess, etc.
But some of us had EGA or VGA in that era. In fact, some of the screenshots in the article shows more than 4 colors.
It's about performative pretending to care about minorities.

Like making a rainbow flag logo, or promoting based on race. Minorities first of course.
> Or do you also enjoy having run out of ideas?

This has never happened for me the closest I have gotten is that I have to give the client to option of sticking to our initial plan or change it for the expense of more time and money.

I wouldn't really call that being stuck with a problem tho, its more the client is stuck with a decision they don't want to make.
patio11 is good at many things, brevity is not one.
Keep in mind that contractors don't receive benefits (health care, dental, etc) and have to pay about 30% in taxes. So in reality, the pay is about equal once you factor in that.
Obviously the optimal number of rapes is 0, but the optimal amount of rapes we should try to prevent is not infinite, and thus the optimal amount of rapes we accept as a consequence of the above policy is non-zero.

It's really a simple cost-benefit calculation; the cost of preventing the last 0.1% rape on earth is surveillance cameras in every home and egregious violations of privacy, obviously the cost of such a scheme is probably not worth it.

The simple observation is that there are tradeoffs: in exchange of preventing <bad thing>, we have to give up <good thing>, at some sort non-linear curve. The cost of rape prevention goes up with each rape prevented, there reaches a point where the cost is no longer worth it and we should call it a day.

People can (and do) argue all day about the point where the marginal cost of rape prevention is too great, but I'm fairly certain most would agree that it's not infinite.
I personally can't stand PSD2[0]. It has completely ruined the online shopping experience in the EU (for me at least).

I loved the way American Express implemented it. They sent you a one-time passcode on your first purchase with the merchant, and then you could also choose for them to not bother you with any further purchases from the same merchant. I had this enabled by default, it made the experience a million times more enjoyable.

Unfortunately not everyone took AmEx, and I no longer live in UK (or a country where AmEx has presence for that matter), and the way banks in my current country of residence have implemented it is absolutely abysmal.

1. The billing address must be a match 100% of the time, which is painful in situations where you can't specify separate billing and shipping addresses and you want the item shipped to a different address (could be 3 for me)

2. Mandatory 2FA on every transaction, depends on the exact implementation, but typically you must wait for a notification on your phone, and then type in a PIN. In some implementations you have to scan a QR code, and then type in the said PIN. Sometimes the solution they use for this is down.

3. If anything is wrong at all (billing address/mistyped CVV/whatever), the transaction just gets refused at the end of this loop. Was it something you did wrong? Is some system down? Let's try again.

And sometimes this even messes up recurring subscriptions. My Microsoft 365 Business sub that's billed monthly on a credit card GETS REJECTED EVERY TIME UNTIL I MANUALLY GO THROUGH THIS STUPID PROCESS.

It has made paying for things online a chore. I couldn't care one bit about all the fraud this presents, because I was never liable for it in the first place. That decision was previously up to the merchants (who could have implemented all of this if they wanted to). Now it's forced on everyone.

[0] https://www.bbva.com/en/everything-need-know-psd2/
"It’s weird. Masks have always been known to reduce transmission from a sick person."

No they have not. That's why you think it's weird - if you look at the state of mask science pre 2020, you will find a whole lot of nothing. There's no evidence masks have ever been able to stop respiratory disease.

After 2020 the space was flooded with nonsensical studies claiming efficacy but they all have rather large and obvious problems e.g. CIs that include zero or even worse problems, but the reason scientists pretty universally pooh-poohd at masks at the start had nothing to do with shortages. That was a lie retconned into their claims later and wow, was it ever successful at confusing people. No, they said that because there was no actual scientific evidence to point to. There still isn't.

"it’s like yes it wasn’t about preventing you from getting sick, it’s reducing a sick person from spreading"

The idea of a magical one way mask is also completely unsupported by any scientific evidence and in fact by now strongly refuted by it, because there is lots of evidence masks have no effect on COVID. It was invented out of nothing to justify forcing everyone to wear masks even if the risk to them was minimal to none.

"But people in America and Europe have this idea that vaccine is like a shield that prevents you from getting sick entirely and then claims vaccines don’t work"

Yes I wonder why they think that, after all, they were only told the vaccine was a shield against getting sick and spreading it by the guy who runs Pfizer, the president of the USA, public health officials in every country, etc. People are so totally unreasonable, aren't they? But I see from a sibling comment you weren't aware of that, so why are you so confident about all the other things you think you know?
There was a study done on a tribe of wild monkeys where mutual grooming to remove ticks/fleas/lice happened. Some monkeys 'cheated' and didn't pay forwards the grooming they received. The study concluded that as long as cheaters were less than 5% of the population then mutual grooming continued. when the number of cheats exceeded 5% the system broke down and no mutual grooming happened for some time.

It seems that a society can bear a certain amount of cheating before the system breaks down, a 'tipping point' of sorts. As long as we keep the cheating below the tipping point, the game continues, which is after all the most important aspect, I think.
Like headphones for your eyes, could see this being nice on a plane or something.
How much money are you willing to bet that there would be an AI producing working clothing designs from prompts in 1 year? If it's less than your yearly salary, even you don't believe this crap.
I wonder if someday people will invent giving something the lowest possible rating and then not telling the truth about why they’re giving it their rating?

…nah.
I’m fairly brand-loyal to Starbucks precisely because of their relaxed attitude towards customers. I remember a few times in grad school going there to work for a few hours, using their wifi, and leaving without buying a single item. I never intended to do so, I just got lost in my work. I don’t think the baristas even noticed.
> Bank branches exist to sell new accounts. They are sited to maximize new accounts and the value of those accounts.

Funny, just recently I was trying to help someone switch banks and we went to 3 different branch locations in an attempt to open a new account.

The first didn’t have any reps working that could help open a new account and the other two didn’t have any availability to help with opening a new account and requested we schedule an appointment and come back.

We went online to schedule an appointment but the first available slot was at least 2 weeks out.
Wouldn't "sticking it to the man" be a type of self-sacrifice? Obviously we're sticking it to "the man" because he's a threatening oppressor.
I definitely have a case of "someone is wrong on the internet" syndrome, and this is the reminder I needed. Thanks, and that's exactly what I'll do.
Interesting how people care about Ukraine where Russian actions are arguably very localized to military targets but no one is concerned for over 500k dead in Iraq and their current civil war, all caused by certain NATO countries. Half of the ME is on fire, but no one care. Just a bunch of hypocrites.
With a

'<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">'

it's no earlier than about 1999, when HTML 4.01 came out.

The last big CGI-based web app I did started in 2001. By 2005 (when TurboGears came out) we knew the design was outdated.
> The reality is that at least as a North American, nobody even knows it is an Italian story. We all know Pinocchio from our childhood. Nobody knows it’s Italian.

Yep, that is the problem.

USA is both pushing diversity and inclusiveness everywhere they can, while also using other cultures because "they don't know where things come from"

Which is cultural appropriation according to modern standards and it's neither inclusive nor helps diversity, it actually crushes it and make all the debates about recognizing the cultural differences as they exists look like white people complaining over minutia, or, even worse, racists that do not want women of color in movies or shows.

When It's actually the opposite, I want to see black people stories, not just black people participating in white people stories where they are not originally mentioned.
Neat! Now I can finally watch p0rn in public. /s

But seriously, watching something private/sensitive in public is the only use case I see for those as they're not AV/VR capable and you already need a phone/laptop to use them, so you might as well watch your videos on that instead.
> I’m mainly arguing against the idea that banks take in money as deposits and lend out that same money as loans.

We are in full agreement on this point. Banks never lend out even a fraction of depositor funds. Instead, they have been given a monopoly right by the government to create bank credit as a money equivalent out of thin air.

If you or I did this it would be considered fraud but when banks do it, it is legal.
I believe they're worth even more! Double it again!
Virtually all contractors in the UK are operating through a LLC and paying themselves in dividends, so there's no pension at all, and legally they are not even employees of their businesses (because board members can provide the business with whatever services without being employees).

If you go through PAYE, you make yourself an employee, and you must pay yourself a pension. But going through PAYE is a net loss, because then you also have to pay national insurance not only on your side, but also on the employers' side. Paying NI if you can perfectly legally avoid paying it is stupid.
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Man. I (CISSP, CISA), 20 years of experience, everything from development to dev management to sales and marketing to finance to fundraising, the whole shebang, do ISO27001 ISMS’s and coach through certifications… for $70/hr. But then, my clients are based in the U.K., where technology is still generally seen as worthless.
That is an amazing story! I'm glad you made it out and have found a kind of success many ex convicts don't find.

I never went to prison, but similarly, I'm not sure the person I was before my software career would have faired well if programming wasn't an option. It's such a practical skill that not only can be learned for free but is lucrative and opens all sorts of doors for people to be entrepreneurs.

I hate to be one of those "learn to code" people, but sometimes it is hard for me not to evangelize. I'm of the opinion that a successful career in coding doesn't require the kind of genius intelligence that many, including a lot of HNers, think it does. Mindset is way more important than IQ, and writing "good" code isn't even that high of importance most of the time. More people can get into it than they think, and some of them should before the inevitable day that a hypothetical GPT algorithm can do everything a current day mid-level software engineer can.
It's really true. How often do you hear about Upload, an ongoing non-adaptation scifi series run by the guy who produced The Office and Parks and Rec? Or The Orville, a non-adaptation space exploration show from the Family Guy guy?
Plan de sobriété énergétique: le gouvernement va généraliser le télétravail?
Sorry, the threads got a little confusing here. I think this particular one was discussing those examples in the context of using Canvas vs HTML, with or without Javascript.
But Starbucks had this explicit corporate policy anyway, which lines up with the article and its principles.

And it takes a while to become that realistically cynical about retail work. We were actually treated pretty well, had mostly friendly customers, and got along with management. At least at the time.
At my company, I've seen too many developers trying to cram fairly complex Flask websites (providing business tools) into Lambda functions. They deploy, and then the users complain that the website, which used to be immediately available, now runs very slow, because every request is also initiating the Flask app from scratch. That's a ridiculous amount of overhead. Tools like this belong in ECS, not Lambda. Or rewrite as a SPA and use microservices. A classic case of hammer and screw.
Terraform CDK has terrible UX compared to Pulumi
The term fee-only universally applies to flat fee. Anything AUM based is not fee only.
Sure, although in this sense C also has a runtime. I assure you there's no magic where CPUs just know that the C main() function is where your program starts. That's what CRT stands for if you see things like "crt0.s" or "crtmain" mentioned, C Run Time.

This Rust code is handing over from your operating system to the main() function of your Rust program, it's arranging that you've got all those modern application amenities like command line parameters, environment variables, it will name your thread (if the OS has names for threads) and so on.

Obviously if your Rust is firmware for $5 device it probably doesn't have an operating system, and it certainly doesn't have command line options, accordingly no_std (the Rust environment you are writing for) doesn't do this stuff. You will wake up alone, with the function you annotated (IIRC with #[start]) running and only the features from Rust's core library. The equivalent in C is standalone mode, C doesn't give you a library at all, just your language, operators etc and your wits. You will of course write your own library unless your project is tiny, because this is pretty unsatisfactory.

However, Arti is not intended to be firmware for a cheap piece of electronics, so both the C Tor implementation and Arti will end up with this very thin runtime to run as applications, the runtime just sets things in motion and calls your main function.
I don't know how that article is written without mentioning utility theory in economics and the concept of diminishing marginal utility of money and the risk aversion it implies. No need to even bring in behavioral economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_aversion
I think you just repeated the article's main argument.
The epoch is the date & time that the minimum value of that field refers to. For Unix derived or inspired machines it’s typically the Unix epoch of 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970. This means that a timestamp of “0” refers to that date and time, and increases at whatever granularity a timestamp value maps to. If you bake the epoch into the device at the factory as being the date of manufacture and your timestamp value has 20 years worth of granularity then you get a 20 year life from manufacture time before the timestamp rolls over to 0 again.

If you’re going to use more space keep a rollover counter you may as well just add more bits to your timestamp field instead, since every bit doubles the amount of time that field can represent.
That’s just lazy writing, akin to those cheesy horror movies where everyone has to be a complete idiot to die to the monster.

A much better story is where smart, cunning characters vie against one another. There’s eb and flow, give and take, maybe a few pivotal movements that set the characters down a path they’ll resist but ultimately succumb too. Where when they reach the end despite their best efforts looking back they made the (mostly) same choices but still failed. Early Game of Thrones was a masterpiece in this regard.
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