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Often when I use number-input it's because I want numerical keyboard when people interact with it on a smartphone.

Yes, input type="number" is not the best, but when I ask for 2FA codes or credit card number a metric keyboard makes sense. And this is currently the best way I know to achieve it.
In most popular tourist destination there is a special tourist tax, paid at the hotel reception desk. Sometimes it is included into hotel rate and visible only in a detailed bill.
It's not even a tax break. The headline is basically shaming them for skipping 700 million in taxes by not selling the company.....

.....except since they're not selling the company, they're also likewise not earning a net 2.3bln in income. Hence: ridiculous.

It's one of the most absurd articles to ever come out of Bloomberg, and in fact it's so bad that I'd instead rather see meaningful dialog about people with the means exerting long lasting influence beyond death. The tax argument presented here is entirely contrived.

I'd likewise prefer seeing a debate around whether a 501c4 is enough to achieve the stated goals around influencing climate change policy and whether the option of political contributions is worthwhile compared to a 501c3, for instance. Any discussion stemming from the current "skirts $700m in taxes" headline is bunk.
> Thrilled to hear you're 6mo into life with a heat pump!

It was the logical thing to do. Even before the war in Ukraine, the ROI of the heat pump was 8-10 years compared to natural gas. With current conditions, shortage of natural gas, inflation and more, the ROI is around 4 years.

> Is it air-to-water and still using water/steam radiators, or forced air now?

Pretty much everything regarding heat in (northern) Europe is based on water, with the exception of hotels that usually use either only air or a combination of air/water.

Our particular installation is from the 1970s, meaning it's 1 string and made for much higher flow temperatures than the houses from 2000 and onwards, so instead of a 35C flow temperature we instead have a 55C flow temperature, which reduces the COP value of the heat pump.

My particular model (https://www.vaillant.com/home/products/air-to-water-heat-pum...) has a COP value of (up to) 5.4 with a flow temperature of 35C, which gets reduced to around 4 with a 55C flow temperature.

I've coupled mine with radiator thermostats from Tado (https://www.tado.com/gb-en/products) which use geofencing to lower the temperature when nobody is home, and they also have a "sensor/control unit" for the heat pump control itself, allowing fine grained control of the heat pump. One of their upcoming features is to try to optimize heat pump usage for when electricity is cheap.
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There are also additional issues with this arrangements.

For example, social security payments. Pension plans, etc.

A simple example, Israel has mandatory pension plan requirement for all employees. If you are working remotely in Israel "as if in the US", you are now opened to a whole bunch of interesting questions. Employer isn't aware of that, in this scenario, so isn't paying the pension.

That creates:

* criminal liability for the company
* criminal liability for the management team personally
* the company is assumed to be "self-insured" and basically has to act as the pension provider for the employee.

You fall down and become invalid at the age of 27? The pension insurance will pay for that. Which is basically the company. Then you have to pay 60+ years of pension payments to that employee.

And that is _one_ aspect of this issue.

Others are related to laws. What is the minimum wage? How do you compute the allowable number of hours and overtime pay?

For fun, let's say that you are working for a few years in this mode. The employee then sues the company for overtime pay (200%) because that is the law where they are working.

Firing someone, also, is a totally different process across jurisdictions. In Israel, you have to pay a month's salary for every year that the employee worked for you (based on the last 3 - 6 months).

You have to fire a senior guy that worked for you for 6 years? Prepare to pay immediately a big chunk of money.
Also, have fun with _another_ criminal liability (for the company & leadership) because you didn't pay insurance for this scenario.

The company in this question is going to be absolutely against this sort of exposure.

For that matter, it isn't even legal only that is going to object. If you are a public company, you need to put things like "liabilities in case we have to fire people" in the balance sheet. The CPA is going to have a field day with all those undisclosed issues.
This feel familiar to me, I think this is the thinking used mainly by music and video DRM implementers. An arcane one, in the sense that it is not consistent with modern liberal capitalism, that it argues the society as a whole and equalities/fairnesses within absolutely prioritizes over economical profits.
Much like surface trash cleanup, the perfect is the enemy of the good. The goal is "less junk on the streets", not necessarily "absolutely squeaky-clean streets". First get rid of that rusty fridge that someone dumped in the woods before we deal with all the cigarette butts.

Let's focus on the more problematic, larger objects first, that are at risk of creating much more debris if hit.
Even better if there is another Eagle in formation with Legelos, ordered to drop the other Eagle and Frodo with an Arrow when they reach right over the Magma in case someone is having second thoughts. Elrond planned the whole thing.
Flash loans happen all day every day for millions of dolllars with zero collateral
Wikipedia’s account of Koh-i-Noor’s history contains this curious tidbit not mentioned in OP.

Although Victoria wore it often, she became uneasy about the way in which the diamond had been acquired. In a letter to her eldest daughter, Victoria, Princess Royal, she wrote in the 1870s: "No one feels more strongly than I do about India or how much I opposed our taking those countries and I think no more will be taken, for it is very wrong and no advantage to us. You know also how I dislike wearing the Koh-i-Noor".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh-i-Noor
There are about an equal number of "I read that" and "Did I read that? Or just part of it?"

If you go into a used bookstore (remember those?) you find very few copies of Swann's Way but plenty of copies of the other books in In Search of Lost Time. Apparently it's common to read the first one and never go any further. I can't claim to have even done that.
Should Mali also pay reparations to Ghana over the atrocities they committed during 13th century wars of conquest?
Again: I'm no defunder. But we tried intensive policing and incarceration (and: if you catch someone with an illegal firearm, put them in prison!) and it didn't work. CPD broke the major gangs in the 80s and 90s, and now we've got dozens and dozens of tiny new gangs.
This is one of my biggest fears about companies constantly outsourcing easily deployed internal apps as SaaS and just using mycompany.saasprovider.com

Normal users stand no chance, especially when there are URLs that are sketchy because oops, saasprovider already has a customer with your requested url, so you end up with

mycompany0.saasprovider.com or mycompany-1.saasprovider.com

Its terrible practice all around and lazy systems and services administration
Many instances, and in some cases it was more like months or even years.

One large government department struggles to hire skilled application architects, because they can only pay public service rates in a highly competitive market. The only hires they can get are 6 month contracts for relatively inexperienced architects who use the job to pad out their resume and then immediately move on to private industry. To make their resumes look good, they throw the kitchen sink at every design.

A recent project was a simple web app that's an extension to an existing web app. It implements trivial things such as adding sign-in to an otherwise static site, some email notifications, mobile push, reporting, and the like. Nothing fancy.

They were a couple of months into development, and they already had:

- Multiple web apps

- Multiple API apps

- A "mid-tier" behind the above

- Dozens of lambdas/functions

- Logic apps and workflow apps

- Multiple databases

- Multiple Kubernetes clusters despite most of the above running on a different PaaS platform already.

- ETL jobs for copying data between databases that can directly access each other.

- All of the above stretched across both Azure and AWS, just for funsies.

Etc...

It looks really impressive on a high level architecture diagram! Fantastic in a resume.

But it's a ton of work for a developer to implement, and achieves nothing. Microservices and lambdas/functions have their place, but not for a single-person web dev project!

Throwing out 90% of the "moving parts" from the design probably saved a year or two all by itself.

Then I started demonstrating how to use storage emulators for local development, how to manage dev/tst/uat/prd configurations, how to get logs and debug dumps from the PaaS environments in the cloud, etc...

That workflow stuff alone would save weeks or months, easily.

All this took was just a couple of hours of chatting.

Another meeting was less than an hour, and while the guy was scrolling through his code I yelled "Stop!" because I saw a reference to a low-level cryptography primitive. He had started trying to implement authentication and authorisation "from the ground up". I suggested using a popular JWT library instead.

Just showing a developer how to use an APM tool like Application Insights or New Relic can cut weeks off the troubleshooting time over the lifetime of a project.
Invision doesn't really have the editing tools that Figma and Sketch do, right? Like you can't easily wireframe or make components there or import readymade component libraries from the web, right? (like these: https://mui.com/store/#design)

The live multiplayer is cool, but admittedly just having an easily shareable link (google docs) style that any manager/dev/client can view and comment on was nice. No desktop app needed, no transferring files back and forth, just an evergreen link to the design. How does Sketch handle that sort of iteration?
People say this will be "good" for the environment, but isn't it just "less bad". The very existence uses up energy.
Fully Oxidizing `Ring`: Creating a Pure Rust TLS Stack Based on Rustls and Ring
Paper is a renewable resource that sequesters carbon so it’s arguably less bad than electronics.
They crushed the competition, because competition management was quite bad with their decisions, a good example of their bad decisions was sticking to MS-DOS until it was too late.
It’s much easier to get users to stay subscribed than it is to get them to actively buy every period.
Depends. If they're building satellites that grapple dead satellites, that can certainly be used to attack active satellites too. But laser brooms wouldn't be effective against anything larger than a few centimeters. A space broom might be a cover for a more powerful directed energy weapon, but not necessarily so.

Anyway, China is already toying around with the first sort, and they didn't ask anybody for permission. Their 'authority' to do it is being a sovereign nation.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sj-21.htm
Isn't that what Gandalf ment when he went to fight Barlog and his last words were "Fly, you fools!"
Then your phishing involves them installing some type of remote access on their machines. Or to get some information you need
There's https://fleek.co/.

It's not a drop-in replacement, but relevant to the conversation here.

Haven't used it yet but it's increasingly on my radar.
"Even if the baby is asleep, they notice when they have been separated from their caregiver"

It seems they're born with proximity sensor. They'll start crying again once you're moving a feet away.

"most effective way to put a baby to sleep was to carry them and walk around for five minutes, sit and wait for five to eight minutes, then put them to bed"

This advice doesn't mention crying, does it mean we have to make it stop crying first?
Yeah lots of “cart before the horse” happening in this space.
When talking about games these days we often imagine rich engaging audio/visual interactive experiences. The crypto people don’t really seem to understand that kind of game.

But there are also more turn-based games which really are about the mechanics of which items/stats/buildings/lands you have, what their effects are, how to level up etc which all could be encoded in the chain. Its not a mainstream gaming format but thats where crypto ‘gaming’ could provide a new kind of experience. Although I would say the term on-chain game is more specific. The “game” could become as much about finding tools that give you an edge in accessing and navigating the on-chain data from yourself and other ‘players’. The genre is then competitive turn-based strategy with a turn timer (block time). I would compare it to playing competitive Civilisation with full map vision and real cash rewards. Which isn’t really mainstream gaming atm although I’m sure there is a minor audience for it, but for now I expect real on-chain gaming to stay pretty niche.
> it's truly insane that they only support 1 device

I recently got a notification to create a separate AWS account (I don’t use it), and thought might as well enable 2FA. Added the first key. Looked for a way to add the backup key. Was confused, removed 2FA. What is that, lockout Russian roulette?
> evacuated by white people

That seems like a very strange assignment of blame.
I'm baffled as to why in all these years no one just changed them into a pair of diagonally-separated buttons, and increased the width a bit. This would look a little awkward in the world of rectangular everything, but eh. The whole shtick with their size is that they're made to equal the input's height.

Alternatively, of course, custom forms just make the buttons full-size, and I'm pretty sure they could be positioned next to each other: https://i.stack.imgur.com/IHqmt.png
This is great! The main questions I’m anticipating are “why cant we just improve the backend apis” and “why do we want the frontend team to own an Service?”

I think your point of focusing on how the requirements of the BFF team differ from the backend team could be a strong argument. Like the backend apis have to be low latency and consistent whereas the frontend apis can accept some higher api latency in exchange for lower page load speeds and eventual consistency via caching.
I was just there about a month ago, definitely did not look redeveloped
It does no such thing. It either plays out via ALSA or Pulseaudio.
You’re right, sorry about that. My non-english brain got it mixed up when I read the tweet here [1] as he previously talked about a free tier. Unfortunately I can‘t edit.

[1] https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/15704512806651494...
Well if anyone had doubts, it’s better to be a different looking person now than during medieval times. That is even scarier than the torture itself to me.
It's still a necessary component, even if it's not sufficient. People are way too eager to be soft on crime without offering anything in the way of an actual solution. To me, it sounds like cover for less than altruistic motivations.
Perhaps extreme torture wasn't all that common after all, and was applied only in exceptional circumstances. Literature mentioning torture often could be attributed to people's morbid fascination with subject, just like society is right now.
It’s also very easy to justify. As long as the product generates more value than it’s monthly price, it doesn’t matter what it costs. And it’s so low risk since you can cancel any time.
YukiKey does make a dual key. The problem is that these keys suck to have because you can’t leave them in your laptop and carry it around like that. Which makes it easy to forget.

I personally was always forgetting my key when I worked in office. Or more likely I’d have the key and forget a USB A to USB C adapter (work was cheap and wouldn’t give out USBC keys).

My new job gives out USBC keys and I have yet to forget it when I needed it. They just don’t work as NFC on a phone.

https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-5ci/
There is a missing HOWTO in my life - a FOSS based home guide. I would like to take advantage of linux on the home router, or this TV or better ways to cross manage messaging on different platforms.

Basically years ago FOSS made things simpler because it gave you back control.

Now maybe I am just out of the loop, but I am not feeling the control in the everyday.
I'm still rocking my 12 year old plasma TV, the thing won't die!
> Two points: the booster wasn't barely tested, it was excessively tested. I don't think you realise how (comparitively) little testing goes into normal drug testing.

I’m sorry: you can’t call a vaccine tested for six months excessively tested. None of of the Covid vaccines were properly tested.

It was fine. The urgency required it. This is not the case for the booster.

> Secondly, people need boosters because immunity wanes to both the vaccine and natural infections. In about a year, you will get just as sick again if you get a natural infection

Immunity wane but we have no data which would allow you to affirm that. We know that reinfections can reoccur quickly with milder symptoms. We don’t know how long this ability of your immune system to fight more efficiently last.

There are very little data suggesting that a booster for omicron is actually useful. There is a reason European countries don’t recommend them to healthy adults.
Rewriting Our Database in Rust
It’s stronger than that: you can’t say it didn’t work at all. Using the same rigor you can say they didn’t do enough! Unless you have extremely broad meta studies, and you don’t, saying it didn’t work is just personal skew.
> Anyone who actually cared about this green bubble, which I'm just finding out is a thing in this thread, would make a swift exit from my life

except: it's not irrational as you might expect. seriously!

green bubble means that your single android friend has just downgraded your fun, interactive group (or solo) chat (with tapbacks, effects, group features, rich content integration, and cross device syncing) into some weird, featureless set of messages

the only solution you have, as an android user, is to convince your friends to use a cross platform chat. I personally try to get people to use Signal.

the simple reality is that the default messaging story on android is a hot mess, and apple has done a vastly superior job at the feature set and integration. and, having an android user "drag us down" naturally leads to denegration
would you be able to explain why? Is there some minimum chip complexity that we should just accept in order to do such testing?
I guess that means if somebody stole the diamond from the crown today, they would get to keep it?
Especially possession of guns and weapon systems.
Agree, I actually wrote a multiline dual sided powerline inspired prompt with modular segments (info from git/pyenv etc) in bash exactly to get these fancy shiny things without having to introduce new dependencies. I log into any server, pull my config and bob’s your uncle. (Btw, that expression is so weird). Ofc, to have the powerline look I would need custom fonts on the client terminal but I usually don’t enable them as I’ve added other “themes” instead.
I'm not really proficient with games or C/C++ or gcc therefore please forgive me if this question sounds naive:

With games already being large downloads wouldn't it make sense to bundle many/most libraries directly instead of relying on system versions?

I did some experiments (with rust) and found musl builds and static linked libraries working quite fine.
Commit a crime in such a way that when your lunch gets delivered soon after the robot has interfered with the evidence of your crime.
> Like, how do they figure out when a row is updated?

AFAICT because you can only update a row via the UI, it's easy to tell when a row is updated.

But if you're talking about raw SQLite, there's [1].

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/update_hook.html
Collaboration software have network effects.
Audio passthrough on the pi is done using ALSA. There is no bitbanging of anything going on here.
I made money on crypto, and still believe it's just a Ponzi scheme that's wretched for carbon emissions. I'm certain that I'm not alone.

The fact is that crypto doesn't really solve any pressing problems for normal people. Fiat currency and related digital networks work just fine, all of the time.
From the Berne Convention, Article 6bis, Moral Rights:

> (1) Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation.

Ref: https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/text/283698
All of this is voodoo. I just moved and the airline that services the main airport is not one I normally fly with. Okay, good airline, lets apply for their credit card to get miles, status, etc. Fill out the application online. Expect answer quickly. No. 5 days later turned down. We will send you a letter explaining why. Still waiting. I am CEO of a startup and have a FICO of 832 out of 850. IE perfect credit. Card is backed by BOA. Voodoo.

I am very much in favor of making the laws simple for payment providers as it is the best way for everyone to grow and succeed. That being said the laws for financial institutions need to require someone to talk to, a time limit on response time and an escalation process to resolve issues. We shoot ourselves in the foot here by not mandating clear, clean procedures for dealing with issues.
No they don't. They run ALSA.
I love the fact that they've shoved a completely unrelated auto-playing video about a "solar car" into the middle of the article. Do these people even visit their own sites?
Sure it is, for the first year. Or the first five years. Or however long it takes for a caulk seam around a window or door to get sprung or a plumbing fitting somewhere to develop a drip. How long do you expect your home to last without major restoration work?

The fact that you have to cut that many backflips just to get the stuff to work should tell you something. Once it finally does get wet all hell breaks loose because OSB cannot tolerate wetting cycles in the same way plywood can.

If you're ever curious about just how big the gap in durability is here's a free demonstration: next time you see a new house going up stop by after the framing crew has the place sheathed and ask for a small scrap of OSB sheathing and plywood they have sitting in the scrap pile. Take both home and let them sit out in the yard for six months. The plywood will warp a bit, and it might discolor. The OSB will disintegrate unless you live in a desert.
While I’m usually a great proponent of moral relativism, the whole point of Abrahamic religion is that there is a book that expresses an absolute moral standard.

Considering the manner of Jesus’s own death I think we can safely state that he would not have approved of torturing people to death, and the people of the Middle Ages (or the Bush administration) were deluded in their understanding of their religion. What’s tragic is how little progress has been made in the last 2000 years.
Fun fact: The number of gang members in Chicago (>117,000)[1] exceeds our peak troop deployment to Afghanistan (110,000)[2]

1. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicagos-top-cop-break...

2. https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/afghanistan-war
One could argue the security industry exists because of the failings of computer science.

Maybe swes should start facing legal liability for thier failings like most other engineering disciplines. We would see this problem change overnight.