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Work for yourself is always superior. The nature of employment is akin to slavery. Master-slave, lord-serf, employer-employee. When the US was founded, people largely worked for themselves as craftsmen and farmers. People were probably a lot happier then than today, for obvious reasons, less oppression.

People that do work for themselves often present themselves as victims, being responsible for more in some ways. But the freedom is regained, and sense of liberation. I've offered these individuals many times to simply apply and get a job working for someone else to quench their victimhood. While I'm sure it's happened many times, I've never personally met a taker on that offer.

Unless someone had a terrible experience and couldn't make it work while being self-employed, most people intrinsically know that having your boss be "survival" rather than an actual talking head (who will cut you as soon as you're not profitable just the same), is superior. There's more upside financially doing this as well, rather than locked in a situation where the only reason you're there is because you're creating more value than you accept in pay. Self-employed people always get 100% of the fruits of their passion and labor back.
> IMO, language that is more inclusive is better than language that is less inclusive.

Why say person then? Are you anti-other mammals? Not very inclusive is it!

'more inclusive' is not always better, because it's less specific and less exact.
Factorio is CPU-bound in the sense that it isn't memory or GPU-bound.

Sure, this will put a limit on megabases, but it should be performant enough for a pretty large factory.
Saw this an hour ago, just used it with my skip-level, worked well. +1 lol
Ask HN: Which old, functional, electronics do you have?
I’m investigating a project to up-cycle old, unused, electronics that are functional. Specifically anything that can run custom software. Mobile phones, tablets, laptops, etc.

Do you have any of those? Just comment below with what you have lying around, if you wouldn't mind. I have a couple laptops dating back to 2013. A couple tablets and a couple iPhones more than 5 years old.
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And by coincidence, an unopened, branded box of 10 x DS/HD 3.5" floppy disks arrived in the post for me today.

They will be used with a couple of Z80 systems I have constructed - when I build a floppy controller board!
This is so dead wrong in so many ways. Also markets way down today
Lindsey Graham committed to, in the testimony, working with Elizabeth Warren to create new rules, similar to Europe’s GDPR. Perhaps watching the testimony would change your mind.
Regarding #1:

As a young man, I was out for a bike ride when a man drove past me in a very expensive Mercedes coupe. My first thought was that I would love to be in his shoes, and what an amazing life he must have.

My next thought was that a man of his age would probably see a young man like me out for a weekend bike ride and wistfully think of his own youth. Not just the vigor of youth but also the lack of responsibilities.
> It was described as a propaganda network capable of controlling the narrative.

No, you added the second part. That could indeed bolster the argument, but it wasn't made in the initial claim.

If scope is the tipping point - which appears to be your argument here with regard to degree - recall my initial question was about the threshold. Which is conveniently what you're saying we should ignore because it's unimportant. So which is it?

I contend that one of the core tenets of "propaganda" is that there needs to be a deliberate and centralized. It's easy to call something propaganda but it's much harder to defend that claim.
Or Cake by the Ocean Blue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9VfJqHwYKs
> Your "simple first step" is nonsense

What are you talking about? I never said anything about a “simple first step”

> appeals to right and wrong are only persuasive for people who are aligned with you one that

Look, I’m all for understanding the other side, but don’t take empathy so far that morality has no meaning.
As far as I can tell, the main criticism is that the more cyclical and bursty science funding is, the worse it is for the health of the talent pipeline (during high-funding times, lots of PhDs are trained up and brought into the field; in low-funding times, grants are incredibly hard to find, the field gets very selective, and many trained researchers exit)

I don't think the author had any arguments against trying to reduce cancer deaths, just injecting tons of money into one-off initiatives to achieve that.
I would bet hard money that even an experienced developer wouldn't learn C in a year (e.g. avoid or recognize most UB and security issues) without prior exposure. I'll grant that C is pathological in that respect though.
The experience in VR is much much better in X-Plane. Sadly it doesn't have the amazingly realistic cities and world textures of MSFS but the controls work so much better. Especially X-Plane's "ergonomic yoke" which uses the tilt sensor in the controller instead of having to hold up your hand in thin air. MSFS is far behind this.

And why call out VR specifically? Well, VR is in my opinion absolutely groundbreaking in flight simulation. I've flown small planes too and I've never felt that a flightsim was able to provide the feeling of flying. Until VR that is. Now it's amazing.
It's impossible because you need to simulate the volume and variety of Twitter usage. Especially when you consider that production Twitter is thousands of servers, you're just not going to be able to create a mirror of production.

For something with many millions of users, it makes more sense to do canary releases to internal users, then to a few thousand, and then scale up from there.
I'm a Xennial and I thought I was well-versed in all things Nintendo, I even went to Powerfest 94[1] after I won a local competition, and I've never heard of U-Force.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_PowerFest_%2794

Side note: I just realized my name is on this Wikipedia page!
I don't use self-signed certs for this reason. Instead, I run my own CA to sign my certs.

If you want to use my systems, and want to ensure the certs are correct, you need to get and install a root cert from me personally.
There's more than one person but it's a small team, core development on the pre-1.0 versions was done by three or so people I believe.
Why not plural microorganismS?
Although a neglible increase of mortality across countless events where broad-acting immunity protects us may be outside your ability to calculate, it's still readily applicable to recognize that a lot of straw exists on a camel's back without simply studying just the one which broke it. An overall increase in mortality from all causes is congruent with valid scientific theory and is a hypothesis worth evaluating without eschewing existing data.
Your question is unneccessarily leading with false premises by which you define the answer without accepting the known truth.
If you're looking for just one organism which would need to spread, then you're looking in the wrong place for how, i.e., people were killed by myocarditis, or inability to stay nourished while suffering vaccine-induced side effects, including inability to defend with the same metabolic fervor from the flu.
As a joke, some of my colleagues created a fake persona for another colleague after obtaining an old picture of him in punk rocker garb from college.

It was a long con, they created a fake band, added references to various obscure pages, etc. ultimately a page was created with the photo posted that followed every Wikipedia policy except for being false.

I’m sure people are doing that professionally. The problem with Wikipedia is that it’s awesome except for when it isn’t.

The weakness of the system is that it depends on arbitrary standards of notability and online reference. Not novel problems but you need to have a different kind of critical eye than other platforms.
To be fair, you do have to buy some expensive addons to make it that realistic. Most of the buttons in the included boeing don't work at all.
Indeed but like senior engineers, they are paid to stop doing the original job that they loved. What I'm saying is that engineering is not unique in this way.
The POV of Russia is genocide of Ukrainian people and culture. This is a POV that is not up for consideration or saving of face.
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I am on the exact opposite side on this. I always name things after exactly what they do, and I've never had an issue with one of my components taking on a role it wasn't intended for. If the scope changes, that component probably gets wrapped, or replaced, or somehow else room is made for a new properly named component or tool.

This is something I am very grateful for when I return to a project after some time away and the code is documenting itself.

But I'm also a fan of disposable code. If I'm actively working on something I probably rewrite more or less the whole project every 18 months bit by bit.
Yemen isn't in Europe's backyard, and it isn't culturally European.

If it was, you'd probably get a similar reaction.
Relevant Wikipedia article about "Greek to me" and variant in other languages:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me
Do yourself a favor, and checkout the X Pilot channel on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/channel/UCLPA0Dhi1VXQDGbkXwjDUzQ
> What are you talking about? I never said anything about a “simple first step”

I corrected that. I didn't notice at first that you were a different account than the one I originally responded to.
The tiny storage and slow access time/speed are not something I'll miss. What I do miss is the security that they provided.

The serenity of having known good backups, that just work, is something that nobody under 50 is likely to ever experience. Because we had the ability to copy and write protect our software and data, we could easily make manage our security in a completely transparent manner.

You could take your little case of floppy disks and have your work environment up and running on any IBM compatible in no time flat.
> First of all, the difference between threads is not nearly as severe as the difference between (remote) machines

The whole reason for Loom is to improve performance of code that would otherwise be blocking. So what code is blocking? Exactly: code that waits for the OS (files, network, etc.). A call from one thread to the other isn't really a blocking call and that is not really what project Loom's main focus is about - at least as far as I can tell.
Don't compare yourself to others. Life is half chance. Find a good paying job and a good life.

There is nothing special at the top of the ladder, just more money sometimes. Money isn't the only way to build a good life, and that's all money is good for.
I've been playing Mindustry a lot lately, and while I've been enjoying it, it's just a different game than Factorio -- they scratch different, but similar, itches.

Factorio is about the long game, and your designs have to be able to scale, especially if you're going for mege-base scale. It's more about complex designs and a very deep tech tree and dependency hierarchy. It's about factory automation at its core, with some PvE/tower defense (optionally) thrown in.

Mindustry is mostly a tower defense game at its core that uses automation/factory building to accomplish that goal. It simplifies a lot of things that are more of a challenge in Factorio. E.g. not needing inserters makes optimizations much easier. Also, the way building happens almost immediately and you don't need bots makes construction much easier.

I like both quite a bit, but depending on what you're looking for, either game could be more enjoyable for you.
I think the odds of this actually happening are probably and hopefully fairly low, but if China's ruling class believes that they're facing a doomsday scenario demographically for their own power, there's some level of crazy rationality to them forcefully using their population surplus advantage while it still exists.
When Scala was "hot", it was embraced by very good programmers. The complexity of the language sort of demanded it.

Thus, the stuff they wrote were well written.

After they leave, nobody can improve it or change it. (See sibling reply).

It's the people, not the language, that produces good software.
Bratislava had three Meteor-class hydrofoils. During the lockdowns, they were pulled into the dry dock and after the lockdown was over, they were in very bad shape, needing repairs, that the owner was not willing to do.
it is a reasonably small team but definitely more than one developer

https://www.factorio.com/game/about
> The acting/writing was pompous, actors talked like reciting Shakespear.

To be fair, they were literally lifting from theater talent that was trained to do this
Even very senior engineers can make simple mistakes that can bruise their egos. Several years ago I was called into the office of the chief architect. I was also a senior engineer with a lot of experience, but he was quite famous (at the time) in the industry for his technical skill. He was convinced he had found a compiler bug. He had some c code that he had traced through the debugger at the assembly level. It was something like this:

if(/some really long boolean value with AND and OR clauses/);
{
/* some code to execute if TRUE */
}

He was sure that the if statement was FALSE some of the time, but the code inside the brackets would always execute. He spent more than an hour pouring over the code.

It took me a few minutes before I noticed the semicolon at the end of the if statement. I'm sure he felt stupid when I pointed it out.
The bar can be pretty low from a direct from the source Pfizer press release to a tweet from some crazy fanatic. Both happen on HN daily.
ARJ... Now that is a blast from the past! Thank you. :)
In before someone recommends building UPI on the blockchain and having region specific rollups to settle transactions offchain, that also uses a bluetooth mesh network to communicate with all nodes.

(just a joke, this won't work due to limitations of data storage and blockspace, without even going into the can of worms that is governments interacting with a "independent" blockchain)
For another alternative: I added some monitoring, by using file_fdw. This is a standard pg extension that presents files or program stdout as tables. So I file_fdw'd some files in /proc and some system utilities.
And get plagued with questions why not C#? No, thanks.
I fondly recall when my friend became the first kid in our neighborhood to get cable internet instead of dialup. I biked over to his house with a backpack full of 3.5" floppies and spent hours filling them up with games.

It's especially amusing that a single photo taken on my phone exceeds the capacity of a standard 1.44MB 3.5" disk; same for the total download size of a fairly barebones website. Nostalgia!
It works both ways you know. Europe cannot afford to lose face either.
Imagine EU can be blackmailed by Russia! Wouldn't stand a chance against the US or China.

The EU clearly believes they can win this fight so why should it withdraw support to Ukraine?
Do not make such assumptions - it is against the guidelines and is abusive to the notion that we can engage in dialogue here in good faith.
You’re literally doing feature branches, you’re just doing it worse by not changing the names of the branch as you have it locally (so you can’t share or store your work anywhere but on your machine), but you don’t know enough about git to speak intelligently with others to accurately describe your team’s workflow.

Also I guarantee I’ve used git branches in more dynamic situations than what you’ve described here and it caused absolutely zero issues.
Multiplayer in Factorio has all clients running the whole simulation in lock step, so you are still bottlenecked by the slowest client.
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Malware that has root privileges can do anything. Even reading secrets from RAM. You said you're not an operating system expert, but I am one, of sorts. One strategy I have is having a clean install of an OS that has just the bare minimum amount of software installed, which minimizes the chances of running something malicious. No browsing is done, as the browser is the main vector for infection, no matter how hardened the browser is: it's the main route of infection. I also monitor all my traffic with a firewall so I can disallow any connections I deem as suspicious. I also use ClamAV to do routine sweeps of my system for any 'low hanging fruit' that could be lurking there.
That seems like the wrong line to draw here.

Really, we may want to make sure we have a system where victims of crimes aren't afraid to come forward for help, for fear that coming forward may result in an increased likelihood that they themselves are caught for a crime they previously committed.

Even typing it out, it doesn't feel right. We obviously want to catch criminals, even those who are themselves victims of crime. But we also need to be practical and recognize that breaking cycles of victimization wherever you can is a social good, and that anything that makes people too afraid to interact with the law enforcement and justice system is problematic, because it expands the outlaw class.

I don't know if that's right, but it is my immediate thought.
Code quality is very real, but the bounds you have to exceed before lack of quality start to bog down development are pretty large.

As a senior I can pretty quickly tell in the languages I write in often, when something is a smell, and if you keep repeating some code smells for a like a year you'll start seeing compounding effects on development speed. Understanding when to allow those with good reason and when to coach someone to stop doing those is an important skill for a senior imo.

But it's definitely not immediate, way more of a pernicious concern, the codebase will effectively rot until it's painful to make changes.
I've kinda had the opposite experience. I started my SWE career in my early 30's. I feel like I've been treated as if I have more experience because of my age. And to some extent, rightly so. We have substantial work experience compared to a 21 year old. I did not start in a junior role.

Point being, don't blame your age. And don't underestimate yourself. And definitely don't compare yourself to others. If you are growing, then good fucking job. Keep doing that and maybe switch positions to somewhere more conducive to your growth if you feel like that's necessary.
The article doesn’t say anything about the legal team claiming the DNA is protected by HIPAA. The DNA is evidence. The distinction is that it is evidence for a crime in which the woman is a victim, not evidence fro a crime in which she is the perpetrator. One of the issues at stake is that mixing up the two will disincentivize rape victims from reporting the crime committed against them (because the evidence collected to investigate the rape could later be used against them)
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Strange that nowhere on this landing page does Mindustry advertise itself as "free software". In fact, there is a very prominent link to buy it on steam for $9.99. A bit off-putting.

As developers of course we associate GitHub with FOSS, but would a layman? I guess the thinking is anyone who doesn't know to visit the repo and `git clone` probably requires the steam installation? $9.99 however is not cheap many places on Earth.
My impression is that it's memory-limited, and it has a builtin limit.

Anyway, your factory size is FPS-bound, but any reasonable computer will run it well enough all the way to victory.
> he’s above the law because a large enough section of the public likes him

public opinion is the voice of God
That's not how HIPAA works. HIPAA only applies to "covered entities". Covered entities are: healthcare providers, healthcare plans, or healthcare clearinghouses. HIPAA rules do not apply to anyone who is not one of these.
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It's rare that you get any game for free on one platform just because you own it on another platform. Almost any game I've seen on both PC & Switch, you have to pay for both.

I don't care. Factorio devs can have my money.
> The POV of Russia is genocide of Ukrainian people and culture. This is a POV that is not up for consideration or saving of face.

Exactly, so no one should suggest to the Russians that they just go home because what they're doing is wrong. It's not realistic. If you want them to just go home, you have to do better than that to engineer the situation. Otherwise, the options are fight or surrender to them.
He also testifies that the CTO, Parag, suggested that Russia be allowed to moderate the content on the platform because they are a “democratic country”. Really, really, really terrible optics.

It seems like Parag was a terrible exec, is losing his job, and the market knows it. Twitter’s stock is the only social media platform whose stock is up today.
At least until you heard the click of death, that is!
The ability to trace back is way too easy to achieve for bullies (publisher mafia, copyright holders, state agencies with geopolitical interests etc).

Stuff like NNCP might help.

The complete lack of interest in developing a truly anonymous internet is worrying.

Another thing that is sorely missing is the ease of use of the web-of-trust networks. Me and a friend on the other side of the globe meet up physically, exchange keys, then put them in our routers / home servers and suddenly we have access to each other's NAS and local networks, for example.

For now, nobody is working seriously on nothing like that. That's not good at all.
$0.50/m per Gig.

Pretty high; maybe 20x what Google would charge for raw storage for regionally available disks.

Not counting access (0.05c/10,000 ops) or backups.
Weren’t charges in this case dropped in February? Why is this in the news again?

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/16/chesa-boudin-...
Mistake. The Factorio team is much bigger than a single developer https://www.factorio.com/game/about

And multiple of those devs have posted blog updates about various optimizations they've done. So performance isn't one person either.
It is interesting because this type of protection doesn't really exist in other areas. If you let a cop into your house for domestic abuse and they see an illegal gun, drugs, ect, they can certainly use that evidence against you.

And Yes, this IS a barrier to victims who are also criminals seeking help when they need it.
Or a lot of robots with pending orders.
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I find they're also good for kids who struggle with narrative comprehension. You can read a normal book and not really understand what you're reading. You can read every word from cover to cover and just process it as just words one after another.

Choose Your Own Adventure books ask the reader to make choices based on the information they just read. So the reader has to make the attempt to comprehend. The books are usually light and fun as well, so that helps. When reading is not a chore, kids are more likely to do it.
Yeah if you fly VFR in areas you know real-world, it's really helpful to have the photorealistic scenery in MSFS!
I was thinking the same thing, that as we gain experience, it can sometimes get harder to not see problems, which can lead to environmental depression.

The flip side is that I used to suffer from agism-related depression, because I generally knew the answers but was powerless to sway anyone because they thought that I was too young to know what I was talking about. That didn't end until I hit middle age and realized that the problem wasn't so much about my performance, but my inability to communicate and set boundaries like older people do.