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The thing is, TS has a very pragmatic type system [1], with multiple opt-outs or workarounds if necessary.

"Decent type systems" are usually in your way (especially if you want to quickly prototype something), and despite "decency" have abysmal tools (like "hey I've changed this function signature, update all call sites etc.)

[1] It's getting more and more complex, but even if you write something like this, it's still aiming to help you:

Partial<Record<typeof keyof SomeEnum, boolean>>>
I think:

There is a point in every company’s growth where employees stop caring about the product or the company and only care about the mini game of staying employed and meeting KPIs while combating every other team wanting your team to be the one that has to work extra hours.
Old various Unix signals are
I figured it's cloaking the general background anxiety that has afflicted many in recent years.

The author is just playing number games to try to self-soothe
Your statement does not make much sense. As you correctly say, there are obligatory schemes to pay into in Europe. The companies could easily keep the same amounts at hand and pay them out at the same conditions - no difference whatsoever except corporate greed/lack of obligation.
Sure when the military wants more they have no issues building and launching satellites.

The point still stands, it’s clear the Starlink constellation is independent. They are simply reusing a useful platform the same way the DoD buys PC’s etc.
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I didn't say our discomfort was rational, and I didn't say we'll decide against Stripe in the end. I was agreeing with the other commenter that "yeah, sometimes our algorithms screw up and kill legitimate businesses, but you can always email the CEO directly when customer support refuses to help" is not a good look.
From the article:

> Amazon says that searches for the word “suicide” present customers with a banner at the top of their search results with the phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline.
Chicago scientists are testing an unhackable quantum internet in their basement
I dunno, can't you just say "Dude, if you put me on the PIP, I'll have trouble leaving. Since what you're proposing amounts to disciplinary measures, I'll be quitting anyway; so why make it harder for me to get a new job?"

The dismissal process for underperformance here (UK) requires the employer to give warnings: one verbal, and two written, I think. The employer is also expected to help the employee meet the performance target. The PIP sounds like a checklist version of that help - it's not meant to help the employee, it's meant to hustle along the dismissal process. I'd take a job flipping burgers, rather than work for a boss that put me on a PIP.
My first thought was that maybe the parents should blame themselves instead of figurative rope-sellers for being a failure of a parent who let their kids go to the point where they attempt suicide, while claiming they were not even "aware of it". But that's probably too jaded for here.
I don't think this is the place to air out all the dirty laundry from the past two years, so I'll just say this: since the time I've joined the site (three years ago), I haven't seen a single ban that wasn't warranted, be it due to a single incident of flouting the site rules or a pattern of behavior.

It is true that the moderators are fairly strict regarding behavior that wouldn't be punished here (such as abusing flags to down vote), but I don't see that as a necessarily bad thing.

Regarding the thread you linked, I'll agree it was the admin's fault for writing the passive-aggressive banner that led to that (well-respected) user leaving.
It's coming to the point in which protecting children means everyone else has to sacrifice their privacy and freedoms . no thanks.
>> it removes some of the stigma

Stigma around being on a corrective performance plan should be removed?
I notice the Console Newsletter from Hoppscotch's story :)
You can probably get basically the same thing from McMaster-Carr: https://www.mcmaster.com/magnet-ball/shape~ball/neodymium-ma...
"We should improve society somewhat"

"And yet you participate in society!"
If this is something permanent (and needs to be reliable), I'd advise the author to move it to perfboard/veroboard.
There are many suit and claims against Paypal. Most of them are settled out of court. Many are exactly about account freezing. The fact that one went to court but was dismissed does not prove that Paypal does not engage in bad bahaviour.

It's not merely the cost of doing business, it's the cost of avoiding judgements against bad practices.

Do note that Paypal did lose some suits, notably in Quebec for example, where customers protection laws are stronger and arbitration clauses in user agreements cannot force you to forfeit rights you have under the law, in particular to sue.

https://lastattorney.com/paypal-class-action-lawsuit-settlem...
A more charitable read might be, "If you're going to change to something, you might be able to wait and make 1 change rather than 2."
I think you’re making it more complicated that it actually is.

I believe the case is specifically focusing on the promotion of the kits to underage children. As a society we have already embraced censorship for children.

If we can count how on Amazon to not offer up R rated movies to children via Amazon Prime (which they dutifully do), it seems reasonable that we should expect (and sadly now demand) that they not promote combinations of products to children that are designed to lead to their death.
The more I work with MQTT the more I enjoy it. It's just enough protocol to get the job done without overcomplicating things. Nice work.
There's a hell of a difference between recommending pairing a cute shirt with some cute earrings and pairing an industrial chemical with an item from the pharmaceuticals category. There are extremely basic and straightforward safeguards that could have been put in place that simply do not exist.
Day.js seems cool, but when I was evaluating these libraries I noticed the ‘startOf’ function doesn’t take a time zone argument… I guess it just presumes you want the system offset?

https://day.js.org/docs/en/manipulate/start-of

I can’t trust a date/time library that’s blasé about time zones at the API level. Undefined behavior around time zones causes a steady stream of off-by-one bugs in your codebase if you’re not vigilant.
amazon has so many products and so many customers that it's inevitable something like this will happen no matter how hard you try to prevent it.
If ever there was a case for 'killer satellites', this is it! I can't believe the origin of this story is actually one of the companies proposing to do this. And leading the article with a bragging "Ad-block this: Space advertisers ready to display commercials in the sky"

Total and utter cunts!
Because someone decided admitting they fucked up profoundly here is too scary from a business perspective.

They are obviously afraid of a precedent of having to answer for what they sell on their site and what happens next.

It’s understandable but no less sociopathic once understood.
Another reason to Open Source - impossible to have hackers ‘leak’ the code!
https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1579143200186707969

and

https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1579145553442545664
Thanks for the stick figure tip! That's so helpful.
Would Inkscape tracing work for you?

https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tracing-an...
There's a simple word for people with that attitude: freeloader. It's pretty easy to understand:

> I can not image the extra amount of work that get places on people that do not have children...

What you're forgetting is the amount of work required to raise children. That's an externality that is only covered through a social contract, where everyone contributes to a next generation. Why should parents put in the extra work to raise children that, god forbid, would ever do something you benefit from?

What you want is someone else doing the work so that you can just reap the benefits. You're a freeloader, plain and simple (other, less favorable words come to mind).

Unless, of course, you will never in your life use the services or inventions of anyone younger than you. But, somehow, I doubt that - am I right? You just expect those cohorts to just appear out od thin air to your benefit.
I assume this stuff works ... but how well? I imagine it's often like the "don't do drugs" ads just above the vape products at the store ...
PIPs rarely work but it's the legal system that awards poor performers the equivalent of a year of salary when they're fired that makes them a requirement in the first place.
We should do everything possible to prevent suicides however I have a 2 issues with this lawsuit, firstly Amazon is not selling these items as "a kit". These items are being algorithmically suggested as frequently being bought together, no one is combining these items together and selling them onwards. Additional checks and balances for dangerous items would be appropriate. Secondly, there are several items that be used for this purpose (rope + ladder, razerblades, etc), where do you draw the line?
That's what I like about europe: legal protections. I have the feeling there's no way that would ever happen in East Asia (excepting maaaybe Japan). Tho it would probably happen in parts of SE Asia, Indonesia etc, informed by a cultural and political impetus to slough off the perceived historical yoke of Western colonial exploitation. But other places (like Ph, and Thailand, I guess) this would never happen, I think as they need their Western manufacturing contracts too dearly... I think.
> I don't know anyone who advocates that suicide drugs should be available over the counter to anyone who's feeling suicidal today.

Seems like that would fall under basic bodily autonomy. Why should a doctor gatekeep something so important...
About the article headline, the real concept that I would prefer to see articles written about is sustainable, not renewable. Not every part of the solution is going to be technically renewable in the short term according to strict definitions. But the overall energy picture needs to be sustainable. Or else, it cannot be… sustained.

An article that talks strictly about renewables is fine (just not great); that's their right to write such an article if they want, but the transition to renewables should be understood in the context of the encompassing transition to sustainability. Sustainable solutions would, for example, include some reasonable and needed use of fossil fuels, for certain situations where they are still the best solution even accounting for their adverse effects.
Searching Amazon for 'suicide' or 'suicide kit' is showing me a hotline banner, currently. I'm not sure if this is new behavior.
Or lawn darts, or those old time open fans that you can stick your hands in (or more often kids), or x-ray radiation based shoe sizing machines, or asbestos tiles.

As stated in other comments, this is a concentration that's not used for anything else. The food preservative is a different concentration.

A better analogy would be to ban ropes that are pre-tied into noises and cannot be untied, so they can only be used for hanging. Yep, I agree, those should be banned too.
> I haven't seen anyone suggesting that Amazon ban teens from buying the book, just the dangerous chemicals.

Thus proposing a new system of age restrictions, which can be re-used for other things once they exist.

> And calling that "censorship" seems silly.

The lawsuit is asking Amazon to stop sharing information, or associating that information in particular ways, that is in fact censorship.

> What else would you call a bundle of items consisting of a book with instructions on a way to commit suicide, plus all of the materials needed to do so?

I'd call it an automated "Frequently purchased together" recommendation.
Wow I bet no one else has realized this until now. Thanks, Elon.
That’s interesting! I see how the manual labor will require higher caloric intake in the morning.
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The articles makes vague complains and leaves many questions unanswered.

First, I don't get the primary complaint in the article. The MTA chose OS/2 in the early 1990s, when there no other choices and it has served the MTA for almost 30 years with minimal hassles of upgrades or outages. I can't recall a single day when the Metrocard was not working - sure there are problems but it is more a UI/UX issue - a app that shows you Metrocard usage and balance would be insanely useful but we lack small mercies but hey you can pay with your smartwatch /s.

A piece of technology that is stable for 30 years is remarkable. Even if they had gone with Linux/NT the upgrade cycles themselves would have wreaked havoc. OS/2 seems like a brilliant choice in that regard.

Questions left unaddressed:

- What tech did they move to now with contactless payments?

- The move to contactless payments is awesome but what happens to people who lack smartphones or do not have credit cards or <big-tech>-pay setup on their phones. Or just casual tourists visiting from overseas with no US cards. How do they pay? Do they keep supporting metrocards forever? Does that mean to support Metrocards they need OS/2 and assorted new systems.

- What is the mainframe part of the stack and what function does it do.
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You are being obtuse.

The point here is that someone shouldn't be able to decide, in the course of 5 seconds, to engage in a permanent decision like this.

The reason being, that people make mistakes in the course of 5 seconds, that they regret.

So, instead of that, we should be pretty sure before allowing people to make such permanent decision.

Such as, for example, by having a doctor talk to the person.

This is why the OP mentioned the TV show Futurama.

Because in the comedy TV show, people could decide in 5 seconds to do that.

And the reason why it was in a comedy TV show, is because that is bad, and absurd, and that's why it is funny.
The societal harms of children huffing paint are, in your opinion, not as bad as the personal inconvenience of having to pull out your ID at the checkout line?

You must buy a lot of paint.
Is that at least a non-painful way to go?
Most wikipedia citations are linked to some news articles (this is not too bad, still newspapers are being archived) and some random internet blog articles of some random people which show up and disappear. Source creditworthness analysis? Good joke Wikipedia says :-) At best you can get some people's opinion about something.
> ... Sibelius basically won't let me just run the program I paid for without having to open their useless Avid Link app first. Seemingly, I can't run it without an internet connection now.

https://twitter.com/Tantacrul/status/1578807727056629760
Considering having children is beneficial to society and the economy (e.g. it's advantageous for employers since they still want to be able to hire people in n years and surely they'd like there to still be customers) one could argue that the programmer with five kids should get some "compensation" for this service, and as we know some countries do either directly or via employers.
I mean, Japanese kids walk/bike/metro to school, I think it's free for the school districts
I get what you mean, but really, the command is rewinding the index backwards in time by one ”snapshot”, i.e. commit, which is not a snapshot in the meaning that it would contain the entire filesystem tree at time of commit.

> cp file newFile, I don’t need to know

Depends on what you intend to do with that file.

If you’re fine with the British Railways approach / eventual consistency and don’t need distributed file access, I suppose you don’t need to know.
And the ripe is pre-tied (this concentration isn't used for food preservation)
> highly regulated industry that requires a ton of manual testing and paperwork

This describes every industry for a company I've seen SAFe at.

Or, in other words, SAFe is:

{how do we say we're doing Agile?} + {how do we avoid changing any of our regulatory compliance pipelines?} = {business as usual} + {a bunch of extra useless Agile theater}
please explain how increased purity makes the compound less suitable, not MORE, for household use? our “kitchen lab” has all sorts of chemically pure ingredients and I feel comfortable knowing there aren’t random impurities in my “house grade” feedstocks.
That particular combination seems likely to be a sex thing.
This is so fucking cool.
> Surely you can just run the card through a reader before and after taking some journeys and reverse engineer from there?

I doubt they do this, but if the data's encrypted with a good cipher used correctly, all you'll be able to detect is that it's changed.
This company's website, offer, and videos gives me such creepy vibes... American-business-software kind. Everyone are so proud, fulfilled, trained, and friendly. Have one shameful few months long episode at a similar one in Czechia... CREEPY.
meh. sure. the world is against you and doesn't understand your specialness. or you could just read Popper.
And why would you deny the same right to mentally ill? It's just as much suffering as any other chronic illness sometimes more. Either you believe in bodily autonomy or you don't.
Ads don’t have to imply tracking or targeting based on anything but page context or browser language or crude geolocation.

If as tracking and targeting disappears tomorrow, not much would have to change, except that some of the money that has been flowing out of traditional advertising like print and TV will flow back. This would make a dent in the “free” online content for sure but it would be worth it. Personally I wouldn’t lose any sleep even if 90% of the ad funded internet including most social media disappeared or became subscription only tomorrow.
> If I have to rate my digital content surely Amazon shouldn't be selling sodium-nitrite to minors as they unlikely to use it for preserving processed meats.

Did you actually think about this for more than a second.
Despite all this moral panic bullshit I would wager the majority of minors purchasing sodium nitrite are doing so for its legitimate uses. Teenagers with cooking or aquarium hobbies are not that rare - sodium nitrite suicides seem to have been in the single to low double digits for most countries - which when they report 150 to 200 percent increases over the year sounds all the more sensational.

This is stupid. Might as well ban ropes.

Some of you might want to look up the stats on intentional and unintentional Tylenol toxicity and number of deaths - it is 1000s and 100s more respectively.
My mum has a philosophy that when travelling you'll have more enjoyment by visiting the second or third best version of everything. You'll turn up at a tourist attraction and be trampled on by a biblical quantity of people, then turn a corner to the lesser-attraction and it'll be practically desserted.

In Rome, don't go to the Colosseum, go to the Baths of Caracalla.

In Cambodia, go to Angkor Wat for a little while, but spend more time exploring the other temples - because you'll find there are a fraction of the tourists and there are plenty of fabulous temples to explore!

I think in a world of almost 8 billion people some compromise when travelling is necessary and healthy, for the preservation of these locations, but also your own enjoyment.
This is a good example showing that all work is not removed by automating a task, such as selecting which products are related and displaying that on an online store’s product page. Some work may be removed, but new work is added to compensate for what the algorithms can not trivially do, such as considering whether the links between these products are ethical to present to users.

It seems to me that companies massively underestimate (or willingly don’t compensate for) the importance of this newly introduced work, only cashing in on the savings from the work removed. Other examples of similar behavior include automatic moderation, which also massively fails to remove actual dangerous content.

This kind of behavior looks like greed to me, but I guess it’s legal, and needs more regulation.
> Aren’t the developments in algorithms that lead to these kinds of unexpected outcomes a bit more recent?

No. Unexpected outcomes are pretty normal for search engines (and really, any complex computer system) since... forever, and really, the solution, regardless of input is is really easy: on input if (keyword in prohibited_phrases) disable recommendations, and on output if (keyword in recommendation_results) disable recommendations to user. I do believe this was solved sometime prior to E. F. Codd's 1970 "Relational Completeness of Data Base Sublanguages".
I can understand that this was, initially, an unintended consequence of their recommendation algorithm.

But when informed of the problem, how on earth can Amazon justify doubling down on this and trying to disclaim all responsibility. At that point, they know that they have been selling suicide kits to children.

This surely makes them complicit in all similar deaths going forward, where these suicide kits have been sold on their platform. What a disgrace.
The hardware is holding back wider adoption, it's too bulky, complicated and tiring to use for extended periods of time. If they can make an AR/VR device that isn't bulky and tiring to use, we may see adoption increase.
> Maybe you should dust off your reading compression skills, his paragraph is pretty self explanatory

Thank you for your suggestion :-) Can you show where this specific point: "...and those whealty families have been raised to treat people from lower caste poorly" is made in his (we are assuming it's a he, aren't we? how bad of us) comment?
It's at its worst when the company can't go bankrupt: e.g. because they're in the healthcare insurance space.
Back then the OS that shipped with the PC determined what 99% of people would run (much like today). Microsoft used their burgeoning monopoly to make sure that no one shipped a non-Microsoft OS with any PC. OS/2 was so much better than anything that shipped with any PC I bought at the time, but I remember the cost being prohibitive for a student.
Nitrite, not nitrate.

I think it’s because the other is mixed with salt (Prague Powder #1). You aren’t buying sodium nitrite though - you are buying prague powder.

It’s packaged that way specifically.
I disagree. That's a toy that kids might choke on. Kids aren't going to randomly buy sodium nitrate and accidentally eat it.
OS/2. Also used for Vancouver's SkyTrain system, afaik.
We aren't getting rid of fossil fuels though, so this concern is a distraction from the real work that needs to be done.

Yes of course we will still need fossil fuels even after we finish transitioning to renewables, for some of the cases you mention, and for edge cases.

It's a valid point for you to raise since they made the mistake of making their article about renewable energy, not about the larger encompassing solution of which renewables are only a part, namely sustainable energy. But raising this point doesn't begin to dismiss the fact that a huge component of transitioning to sustainable will be transitioning much of our energy sourcing to renewables.
So what if you get carded? Deal with it, it's hardly a problem is it.
They do want your money, as well as use your usage for telemetry
It’s still the default and actively developed.