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Public infrastructure needs quite a lot of work to make it work and care about it. You need a constant stream of engineers, technicians, materials, money, etc. And quite a lot of coordination.

So even a first world country can fuck it all up and you wouldn't need a spectacular failure, just a bit of time, and a bit of willingness/resources shortage too.

You can build a more, say, resilient infrastructure, but I don't think anyone builds infrastructure like The Romans did today.
Despite the title, the OP is not a rant, but a guide to using Homebrew in a more broadly compatible and self-contained way.
When I was a teen I had a guitar amp that would, if plugged into an effects pedal with certain settings, pick up a Spanish-language radio station. No clue how!
except climate
It all depends how many rich people live in the city. You can tell when you cross city/town borders because the roads become noticeably better or worse.
Non English based programming languages
In Device Manager you can configure any USB device to not wake the computer (“Allow This Device to Wake the Computer”). I usually do this for mice.

> why is the only way to send Windows to sleep a four-key combination (win+x,u,s)

Using OpenShell, the slightly shorter Win-Right-Return works for me. Some keyboards used to have a dedicated off/sleep/suspend key. You can map any shortcut you like using AutoHotKey, or you can bind a global keyboard shortcut to a batch file via a file shortcut in the start menu (Ctrl+Alt+something), or by pinning it to the task bar (Win-n).
How hard would it be to get nations to agree that all (new) fishing nets be made from line that contains a barcode-like pattern, with that pattern being registered to each ship (just as each ship itself is registered by governments already)?

Ideally governments would then do periodic random checks that boats in their ports have only the nets which they are registered as having. Fishing companies may even support this, as it would prevent stealing of nets (although I don't know how common a crime that is).

In practice, some countries would probably have a lot of bribery and wouldn't pay fines for their old broken nets going "missing" while out at sea, but I think countries might be embarrassed if their nets were found to be responsible for a disproportionate amount of ocean pollution.

There's an interesting technical/political question about how to implement a global append-only registry, and also maybe a question of whether navies could use drones to inspect the nets of foreign civilian ships in international waters, but this all depends on how feasible the initial agreement is.
I wonder who thought the autoupdate is a good idea. It's absolutely crazy. Lots of things break down and some of them do silently, making it really difficult to find the problem when one discovers it days or weeks after the autoupdate.
As an indian, I find this politically fascinating. As Noam Chomsky's Manufactured Consent pointed out, the US has always used its media to influence politics and culture both in its own country and outside. It appears the US now believes that it can "mainstream" the acceptance of certain vulnerable group by showing them more on TV and movies. (I do think this will work with the next generation in a decade or so). However, the way it is being done forcefully, and in a poorly executed fashion while ignoring the backlash being generated, I fear it will only lead to "tolerance" and not their acceptance in society. And I wonder if this is deliberate too?

The poor, and sometimes forced and contrived execution of an LGBT or female or a non-white character does really seem unnecessary. To me as an indian, sometimes it looks like the white man's guilt is showing when they even rewrite historical characters and insert such characters doing things that they would never have been able to do (e.g. the enjoyable but oh so historically inaccurate heroine of Miss Scarlet and the Duke - in her period, she would have probably been committed to a mental institute for the things she does in the show. Or the deliberate ignorance of "victorian" values in British society in some recent "historical" dramas, just to show some character doing things that would be really out of character for them in their period - Indeed, one wonders why such obvious white-washing of history in such a crude manner?).

As a someone who is not an American but enjoys American tv, sometimes I feel that the reason such characters are deliberately shown poorly (with lousy acting or writing), is because even show makers resent being forced to include such character. Obviously this doesn't help.

If a story requires an LGBT character go for it. If it requires a person of colour, great. But they do need to get a good actor and make sure the writing and the direction all add value to that character in the show without any blatant sermonising (show, not tell, at least on shows for grownups). It's not as if the American media doesn't know how to do this - there have been so many good characters, even main characters from such vulnerable group portrayed beautifully in past TV shows.

(Or perhaps, I am wrong - all this has nothing to do with inclusive politics and is just a way to manufacture outrage and keep the American public distracted from the real political issues).
The issue is the way you talk about this, you make it sound like they had a week to get a solution in place.

They had to build the pipelines, those take time... So doesn't building gas terminals also take time?

You're still failing to see the point... Buying like 30% of your energy from someone like Putin, it's a deal you know could end badly.
I was commenting in the context of the Eye of Africa, it’s a fascinating structure that happens to have some dimensional characteristics that vaguely resemble Plato’s description. There’s just no physical evidence of any significant architecture there of any kind.
Even the 10% pay cut you suggest vs the numbers mentioned seems like a significant difference to me.
Sadly, you'll probably need to give them the hormone before they answer, so people will take seriously
Don't append rows to a pandas DataFrame – wrighters.io
> you need to be mindful not to be a jerk to the developers and maintainers

And you don’t think the article ticks that box?
No, there are 1000's of cities in America with who have had uninterrupted functioning water systems for decades (hundreds of years?). Doomerism anecdotes lead to lots of clicks.
People have been saying this for the last 50 years.
> Unsupportable

I'd say it's more of a nitpick. You're right, he was more concerned about an English mythology rather than a European one. But I'm not sure where you're going by bringing up North America...
Who? They're all on the same team, team USA! Or are you implying the glacial pace will inevitably mean China gets there first?
For historical depictions, it matters.
>Does it shutdown afterwards?

No it doesn't shutdown, it wakes from sleep and it stays like that. Then I have to install Windows updates and restart it in order for updates to be applied. At least it taught me not to postpone Windows updates.

>I’ve had a recurring issue where I put the computer to sleep in the evening and in the morning I have to boot it from shutdown.

Maybe your computer has some power issues or it might be operating system? And if it is laptop check your battery life because when laptop is in sleep mode battery drains as well but slower than when laptop is awake. All in all check power and battery(if laptop).
Stable Diffusion with Diffusers
IIRC there was a time when radio signals were so strong, and bedframe coils so thick, that you could hear radio broadcasts through them.
4-H teaches responsibility and the realities of life and the food chain. It’s definitely doesn’t warrant such a negative response, even if you have chosen to be vegan.
Neat idea, but so many questions . . .

how are process boundaries on data preserved?

If data can be shared between processes via the db, how do they enforce clean, clear, testable interfaces (like monoliths lack)?

And given all that, how do they manage data schema changes that we'd handle now with API versioning?
The city of Flint, MI didn't have a water problem until the governor took control of the budget, appointed a special administrator, who promptly switched that city over to a polluted water source.
> Looks like he was going for a 2001 A Space Odyssey feel.

I thought he was communicating just how _boring_ and time consuming space exploration will be, being such vast emptiness.
The problem is barriers to entry. If made legal there'd be very little barrier to entry for people (or companies) to grow mushrooms.

There's a lot stopping people from producing patented drug concoctions.
This already exists, it’s called Koyfin
$200 bucks a month on bottled water you may as well drink beer /s
> Nix, Guix, and Flatpak

How many of those are "built in into OS unlike the other OSes"?

> But why is that a requirement? Homebrew doesn't work without root; it only pretends to.

Can't remember when I last needed to run sudo with brew. Whereas I've yet to see a Linux distribution able to install anything per user.
> The average EU employee is what, in a two bedroom with half a kitchen and no yard?

the average unskilled employee maybe?

an average swe can live a decent life, while the worker, every human actually benefits from universal healthcare.
Who wants to work on public infrastructure when you can be a software engineer making 6 figures after a single 3 month long bootcamp.
And it’s looking like it’s going to get so much worse. Check out this “Sheriffs Fellowship”: https://twitter.com/sifill_/status/1565036537179512832
K, yeah... but why?

There's little pleasure in the substance. No value to me.

Sorry, cannabis lovers, but you need to stop proselytizing.

I get you like it. But it also kind of sucks.

100% legal here I could walk down the road and buy it... and I couldn't be bothered.
The private space industry interprets brain damage as damage and routes around it.
Try Macports. I’ve been using it for years with no issues.
This gets really close to the racial and ideological divide in MS, you have a very white conservative state government and a very black liberal city government, the former isn't going to bother trying to help the latter very much. As a poor city on the economic decline (and makes Detroit look nice), I'm not sure what we would really expect when natural disaster strikes (look at what happened to New Orleans during Katrina).
Urban decay. Maybe the state will step in to save Jackson, but maybe not. There isn’t a quick fix to reverse the situation in Jackson. Even with dedicated funding and committed resources it would be a multi-decade effort to save the city. The state government may just let the city rot away and disappear.
I run the data science department in a corporation. The best thing I've done is banishing Excel from our reporting workflow and replacing it with various types of automated reporting. Stuff like that is what you should cut, not something that'll end up adding technical debt.
Worked pretty well for 135 shuttle missions.
Fair enough, but that still sounds absurdly idyllic and very hard to believe. I would expect it to be the opposite, that there was extreme racism even between different families within the same culture, and mostly only in Europe and not so much in the Middle and Far East. Europeans invented racism, and I would have expected it to have occurred around the fall of the Western Roman Empire. But this is all conjecture.
An excellent point.

Fortunately bigger tanks get better and better the bigger they are. The mass of the tanks is mostly a function of it's surface area, growing with n^2, while the fuel stored grows by n^3.

And the SLS tank is pretty darned big indeed, with a very large diameter.
I might try MacPorts again next time I do a fresh OS install.

Last time I used it was back in the mid-late 2000s, before my technical capabilities were decent (could only barely write code and was basically clueless about the GNU toolchain and the like) and at that point, MacPorts packages were frequently broken and would sometimes remain that way for long stretches of time, with the only fixes being manually applied local patches (if they existed at all). It was very frustrating, and so when Homebrew came around and packages generally "just worked" I was an instant convert. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of other people who were newbies during that time span have similar stories.
The History of FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff (1986)
The people in Europe are getting shafted IMHO. Even in a small town in an average part of the USA you could make 70-80k managing a McDonalds. For a while my dad worked as a furniture salesman and cracked six figures on a regular 40 hour work week.

As long as you’re not in coastal California or NYC you can own a house and live a decent lifestyle with that.
Governments in the US are set up explicitly to represent minority interests, usually those of owners of large amounts of property, over the interests of the public at large.
How is that relevant? Whether or not employees unionize and how they do so is up to them to decide. It still should be illegal for Amazon to interfere in that process in any way.

If employees don't agree on stuff to the point there's a 50-50 divide, then they aren't actually united. There is no union. That's fine, as long as Amazon accepts whatever result. It's also totally possible that 99% want to unionize so they can apply maximum leverage on Amazon and extract better pay and benefits out of them.
Chuck Moore, is that you?
>This is a strongly blue city inside a strongly red state.

This is a strongly black city inside a strongly white supremacist state.

Let's just put the cards on the table here - this tends not to happen in majority white areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_racism_in_the_Un...
I’m on the path you’re on - bootstrapped and starting to look at potential exit strategies. I truly hate the people management aspect of running a business and I’ve thought about replacing myself as the CEO several times - but finding someone who can truly buy into your mission and vision, and also execute on it without you having to micromanage would be ideal but incredibly risky and hard.

Perhaps partnering with a private-equity investment firm will allow you to offload the management part (that’s what they specialize on) and also extract the value or rather allow you and your cofounders to take something off the table.
The cloud is all ready a security nightmare. I don't want to put more stuff in it.
@RickWolter This has nothing to do with your story. I do not think I said anything to state or even imply imply that. It was not an 'analogy', not an attempt to 'discredit' neither you nor the organization. I have/had respect for both you and underdog devs, the work you have put in and the goals of the org. I do admit that the way you responded has not increased that respect to put it mildly. It certainly was not ''charming''. But hey, we all have our bad days I guess.

As to 'What is the point in your comment?'

I posted the experiences because it was/is a truly troubling situation for many at the company. Since this topic came up in general, thought I'd ask for advice from what I assumed people with more experience in these matters. Apparently, that is assumed bad faith. Isn't it sad that we have come to this where we can no longer can have questions or discussions? 'I think youre full of shit. I think you made that story up and I think you have some personal issue with me or underdog devs'? Seriously? I had never heard of you or underdog devs before this post.

I use a 'burner' because if I used my real account it would be very easy to find out the company and people directly involved, and that is not what I want.

And yes, you will find psychopaths in business. I don't think it is possible to have a full carreer without running into a few. And no matter how preparared you are, the best ones will fool you, sometimes even for considerable time. My advice there would be, if you see them decloack on others, do not assume they will not on you.

I feel realy sad you took this so wrong. I guess the net realy has no place for good faith inquiry anymore.
This is hmm. Poorly informed.

I use a Juul most of the time to vape. To keep myself in cartridges, I do have to buy the Juul ones, so I get a cart full of the magic Juul juice to keep me company.

Then I refill it a bunch of times with third-party nicotine salts which taste better. It's the same thing basically.

Juul popularized using salts at high concentration with less vapor. That's about it. The rest is good product design and a fad.
Having better local sources of water and treatment may turn out to he a better idea than centralized water treatment.

Here in the US, water is pumped (often uphill) and purified to drinking water standards, only for 70% of residential water used for watering green lawns. Those lawns are usually grown in a way where soil microbes are killed off, water retention capability are reduced (so it needs more water), and the lawn is excessively cut and fertilized in order preserve an aesthetic. Being able to waste land and water resources like that is a typical signal of wealth. Personally for me, signaling wealth by wasting resources is not a characteristic that is admirable for me.

Better water management can include multiple rounds of circulating greywater to support food-bearing perennials, and on-site or perhaps, neighborhood level treatment of water.

So it may turn out that, if you look beyond the modern West as if it is the pinnacle of civilization, you can skip the mistakes and develop something better for your country and your local community.

EDIT: this 10 min video shows the basic principles for onsite greywater and blackwater harvesting: https://youtu.be/f-sRcVkZ9yg
That’s probably due to the “System unattended sleep timeout” being set to zero.
Useful Ignorance (1851)
It's Time to Fight for the Right to Build
> my “offense” was saying “Are you for real?” when they screwed up

Volunteers banning someone with an asshole tendency is not cancel culture. Just don’t be like that.
People screw up and make mistakes, no need to insult them for it. The proper way to react is to thank them for fixing it.
Hard disagree if the killed are volunteers (i.e. invading, genocidal marauders). As the saying goes, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. The solution to the problem of getting blown up by the defending army is pretty simple: surrender, or otherwise get the fuck out.
Hindsight is so easy and I wanted to apologize, but wasn’t allowed.

It was certainly taken as more offensive than I had intended and I realized that, but too late.
> I used to be blind.

That’s awesome you aren’t anymore!

And also: wait what? It’s possible to reverse blindness?? I’m totally ignorant on the subject but I’d b interested to know more if you care to elaborate.
This is the comment you meant to reply to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32705193
In the US, states and the federal government are the legal and political actors. Counties, cities, and other sub-state levels of government only have power to the extent that the state allows for. Cities are literally creatures of their state, not independent political entities within a state.

Of course those in city government have a duty to run the city government as well as they are able, but it's worth keeping in mind that cities can be supported or hobbled in that according to the desires of the state. Even states where city and state are nominally part of the same political faction, there is often tension -- c.f. NYC and NY state.

If the city and state are run by opposing political factions, things can get pretty tough for a city. Add in race, and that gets even worse. majority black, majority Democratic city in a majority Republican, majority white state is going to have a tough time.
I think it's "cool" in some circle to hate on Homebrew. It's not my favorite piece of software (I prefer MacPorts), but it's improved a lot over the years and its existence does a lot of good for a hell of a lot of people.
Yep. I don't know that momentum is sustaining them so much as it is denial.
All of the common Linux package managers make it really easy to accidentally shoot yourself in the foot in my experience. apt and yum/dnf are the most frequent offenders in my case, but I've managed to do it with pacman and portage too.
Shaving Compact Discs to improve the sound (?)
Thank you for this little bit of sanity.
If anything, Brew going in /opt makes a whole lot more sense than the old default of /usr/local. Supporting individual per-user installs in the home directory would be really nice of course, but I guess that's just not something they intend to support (it's offered on Linux on the "you are on your own, good luck" basis).
Same happened with simply a cable plugged, I think the jack cable acted as an antenna.

The length of the cable would be a multiple of the right frequency or something like that, it'd catch a random AM radio
I would agree with this, but judging and banning people on one single exchange is as bad as being a jerk.
This has nothing to do with cancel culture, you're just a moron. An open source maintainer gets to set their boundaries with you however they want. If they want to instantly ban you for being an ass that's on them.

If anything, what you are doing RIGHT NOW is inciting cancel culture. You want the culture of Mac users to know you were slighted by a brew maintainer, and that they should be punished in some way for that interaction.
That’s true, but only for very early prototypes. Once the decision had been made which to go with, that was it. Yes the iPhone team was isolated, that’s not unusual for a stealth project at Apple, but the iPhone software team still reported to the head of the Software org who also ran the Mac software team for example, the iPhone hardware guys still reported to the head of the hardware org responsible for Mac hardware as well.

There was no real separate Mac product team from the iPhone team, the head of hardware was responsible for the hardware for both so he didn’t have a conflict of interest. Whichever succeeded, to whatever degree, he would succeed. He would have no incentive for either to fail or to spike one in favour of the other.
I used to be cranky about it taking over /usr/local but since I upgraded to an M1 I have no problem with it hanging out in /opt. I don’t understand why the path switched when the architecture did but I’m happy about the change.
If only 2) were true; the process that pot went through didn't turn out that badly. My fear is that it's exactly the opposite, and medicalization will turn psychedelics into the new class of drugs that a medical degree anoints you to deal, like opioids. Still very illegal, but everyone is on them.
Scorched Earth was so good!
They were fighting the good fight of whether a week begins on Sunday or Monday… /s
I use brew all the time, and I found the title of this article was super-negative for no reason?
In Lagos (capital) there were public toilets, and public water taps, and mobile cisterns with drinkable water even in slums. Goverment is not going to risk outbreak of cholera!

I live in Central Europe, private wells and septics are pretty common here in smaller villages.
No native compilation to WASM yet, but since the compiler outputs self-contained C, it should be fairly easy to do it with Emscripten.

The sandbox is running the code server-side in a nsjail container.

As for unwrap, I feel you! the try expression (expr?) is supported, which makes it look a bit nicer, but I'm still trying to figure out a good idiom for when you actually want to do specific things based on whether the result is ok or err.

Alumina does not have Rust-style enums (tagged unions) or the match construct, which makes it a bit tricky.