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Some states allow the person/org who failed to pay the taxes on time to "redeem" the debt (pay it off). So this means that for several years after you acquire the property, there is a risk that it will revert to the previous owner.

Some tax auctions are only for the right to collect the tax. In those states, you never can acquire ownership. You just get a lien.

And some tax auctions are for worthless strips of land. I've seen some that were essentially the strip of grass between a parking lot and the street. The shopping mall had a permanent easement to put a driveway through that grass (if they wanted) and there was no possible way to make ownership of that 10 foot wide (and several hundred feet long) strip of lawn to be useful. Plus, you get to pay property taxes for something you can't live on.

Tax auctions are a wild west of buyer beware.
Doesn’t really seem like an advantage, from a security perspective it’s still something screwed on to the outside of your car.

Homelink is already in many cars and it supports rolling code auth.
Probably in a small close-nit team working on something for no more than a year or two that will be impossible to maintain once the authors move on to greener pastures.
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> At least we used to pay lip service to that ideal.

When was that? For as long as I can recall, a core mantra of free/libre software has been that it was provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. Decades ago the dominant response I recall was one of gratitude and a little amazement that ad-hoc communities of volunteers were making real software that wasn't just academic but on par with commercial offerings. Some of those communities chose to adopt a user-friendly posture because they wanted people to like them but plenty did not and just did their own thing. As long as they could attract contributors they kept going.

Personally what concerns me is this growing expectation that volunteering to maintain an open source project also means you are "morally or ethically beholden or responsible" to anyone who uses it. In practice that seems to mean maintainers must respond to user requests or end up on the receiving end of a great deal of vitriol. It's no wonder so many volunteer maintainers who have internalized this responsibility are burning out, and how many more potential maintainers are dissuaded by seeing what is happening to the current maintainers.
And this is what I hate from the argument "you can't expect the maintainers to always support the feature". No, I don't. But I do expect them NOT to regularly remove/break the features I have contributed!

E.g. I can't count the number of times I have submitted _the_ _same_ _GUI_ _fixes_ to certain popular browser over the decades. Because apparently "they" have to rewrite the chrome of the mobile version from scratch every handful of years. "They" is in quotes because it's, in fairness, never the same person or even the same group of people. It's a CADT.

And in this case, to remove what apparently are two small shell scripts which for sure cost more to remove than to preserve....
vim / Windows Terminal is what you want.
Happy to have left the mess that is grep, awk, bash, zsh, fish, etc. behind and just use Python for scripting.
I'm honestly surprised this is going through given all the concerns with hacking and such.

There seems to be a lot of opportunity for hackers (script kiddies) to either:

1) Change their license plate number before committing a crime.

2) Troll (endanger) other drivers by changing their text to "STOLEN" as shown in the linked pages.
I agree about the power of language. Talking is generally much more powerful than pointing at words among a list.

But think of a typical Linux system. The system's functionality is implemented in lots of different languages. Some of it is in binaries, some of it in scripts. Various conventions, semantics, terminology and object systems across the system. Different CLI tools even have different ways of passing arguments. No need to go on.

If someone is not interested in this stuff or does not have to learn it for work, the only benefit it could offer them is to make them think of what could have been, and even this is too optimistic. It would probably just make them not want to touch this stuff ever again.

With today's technology we could do so much more but who would sit down and design such a system and why? It cannot be the work of a single entity. It seems impossible in the current situation, since everyone is happy. Probably trillions of dollars are circulated each year, developers are paid nicely, companies make money and the users like their laptops and their phones.
That's the primary use case I've seen talked about.

That and tax enforcement, imagine instead of the police having to look for a sticker or anything they just see a giant "UNPAID ROAD TAX" on the back of your car, or "EXPIRED REGISTRATION".
I would make the claim these e-Ink plates are not suitable for road use as they make the readability much worse.
You have two options: The first option is to simply replace "fgrep" with "grep -F" everywhere in all your scripts, which is correct but is more work than your other option, which is to add your own "fgrep" script somewhere in your path.

Any of these options seem reasonable to me.
What if a cron.monthly or cron.weekly script calls egrep? Congrats now you get a lot of noise from cron stderr emails in the distant future.
> And it doesn't then take those records and casually publish it for anyone who asks for it. Because that would be fucking creepy, right?

Or you’d be Google Maps…
I have yet to work at a place that didn’t have systems running mission-critical shell scripts with little to no SDLC on boxes that got periodic “yum update -y”s. There seems to be a difference in oversight of software we write & “the operating system”.

Should we do better? Absolutely! Will this burn people if vendors don’t take care? Also absolutely!
The whole point is that there won't be a mess or at least as much of it if you use a framework. How is this so lost on people here so often!
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Really, any broad based wealth redistribution that is not able to disproportionately benefit certain voting blocs is politically impossible. UBI lays bare all the subsidies various tribes get in an easily comparable number, which will not be sufficiently popular among active voters.
I have a 1 month old, so I suddenly have both a ton of time spent driving to the store to get supplies and a ton of time spent just sitting and rocking back and forth.

I don’t think this is the most efficient way to carve out time for podcasts :D
Shhh! Don't tell people that. Oxford can have him.
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It is not as simple as this. In most cases, capital gain tax is involved; however, very wealthy people usually have access to a number of tools to defer, or to completely avoid, certain taxes such as these.
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As much as you feel that this person deserves a comeback (and I feel the same by your description), that's not about it. The team will question and distrust the company, you will give enough fuel for grapevine conversations that already happen (they have signal/whatsapp/discord groups where this is an active subject). I'd pay out, let this person go and never talk about them again. This way when they come back or keep saying bad things about the company there will be more people to remind them that everything is on the table except honoring agreements, which they didn't do btw. It is hard being a human tho, we always want to drop the lightning bolt on what we perceive as unfairness but it is a person against a company. Let it go.
Well, if I write some software for my own use, put it on the internet "because why not?", and lots of people start using then that's nice. But ... I don't think putting anything on the internet automatically imparts any kind of responsibility towards "the community", which usually means "people who download and use your software, the overwhelming majority never give anything back in the form of code, bug reports, money, or anything else".

But like I already said in my previous comment, I wouldn't have made this change myself. I actually strongly disagree with it. But I can also accept that other people have a different attitude, and that's okay too, even if I personally don't really care much for the particular attitude.

Funny you mention OpenBSD, because OpenBSD is very much "by the developers, for the developers" and has a fairly decent "fuck off" attitude once people start making demands (which I don't think is a negative per se).
> Building your first house was a big achievement in the early days, as money took real time and effort to accumulate; much later, the challenge was finding an empty plot rather than affording a house.

I was a day 1 player and got to witness all of the fun stuff, like the ability to keep your vault open wherever you went, PVP in towns, kiting mobs to towns to be killed by guards, building my first home, spending hours upon hours making furniture, etc. My UO career came to a halt when I loaded one day and spawned inside of a house. Apparently, it was built on the same location where I'd logged off. I waited 60 minutes for a GM to assist, but never got help so I was stuck in there. Same situation happened for the next couple logins and then I eventually forgot about the game.
I don’t understand the point of that. Just use ANPR on the plate to identify the vehicle. If it really needs to be that secure (a restricted area or what not) then you’re going to need a person to go check the driver’s identity anyway.
If Apple pays TSMC $40 for an M1, and sells a MBA for $1000, Apple's gross margin can be much smaller and still easily support a larger TSMC margin.
Don't the police already have vehicles with very fast plate scanners that can do that as well as check if the vehicle is stolen?
My main issue with the usage of frameworks is when they are used in a situation where they are clearly not needed. It seems common in my opinion that people who use npm, react etc. as a part of their work -- where we can assume for the sake of argument that it is necessary -- also use these same tools for minor hobby projects they're involved in, where it really wouldn't be necessary.

I've seen more than one "theme" for example for any generic site generator or blogging software that does nothing more than set up some CSS rules, define some views and use some very minor JS for interactivity, but still has a minified output ground through npm with the almost mandatory 200+ dependencies that of course break and cause security warnings over time.

I've also seen entire products written in a framework that seemed invincible in the day it was created, only to be a dinosaur everybody despises five years later when new functionality needs to be added. Frameworks inevitably makes me think of the poem "Ozymandias"[1], they accumulate as dead monuments over time, and it cannot be avoided.

So, what to do? Well, my humble and highly personal opinion is that two thoughts should at least be entertained:

1) Using less code and less infrastructure to "build" it may, for smaller projects, make them a lot more maintainable and robust over time

2) For larger projects, instead of hooking your cart to one framework for everything, focus on separating the functionality into different parts, so that at least when one of your frameworks need to be replaced five years down the road, you can keep using the other separate parts that work fine.

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Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

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Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
eInk screens are notoriously easy to break, while metal plates are mostly for the life of the vehicle. Metal plates also need no charging or batteries change.

Why would anyone want this?
Textpad is good for large files but that is the only thing I use it for (F5 to search - are you kidding me). Also, I don't think it is free.
This is my thinking. Which leads me to think if he’s not performing he should be fired. Vesting or not vesting. The employee is hired to do a job and if he’s not doing it then let him go.
What’s the advantage to the car owner here? They cost more than stamped or printed plates. Why do I want this since my plate doesn’t really change other than putting a sticker on once a year.

The downsides include ads (pretty insane) and tracking (don’t care).
Maybe there is some kickback going on here between the company that makes these and the state...
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Those are already solved issues with the plate readers are already in widespread use. Police just drive around and their car automatically tells them when vehicles around them have issues. Some states have stopped issuing stickers entirely because they’re no longer necessary.
They might not exercise the options, and even if they do odds are they're probably not going to be worth anything anyway, so why not just let them vest?
‘much worse’ good choice of words because California License Plates were never easily readable from the beginning.

Personally, I think we should use European-style wide format plates to be honest.
Indeed it is (and it's good that you mentioned this). I should note that the pricing and license terms are very reasonable:

- $99 (USD) for a perpetual licence for the current version at the time of purchase + 3 years worth of updates.

- Per-user rather than per-machine, so you can install it on multiple machines with a single licence.
I really enjoy watching his videos, if only just for pure entertainment.

I never really touched processing or p5js, still I like the way Daniel introduces and teaches core programming concepts. Seems to be a great guy!
Isn't this why states like California have higher tax rates than the rest of the nation?

How is this any different from other social programs like Social Security or Welfare?
Has anyone had any luck getting network shares working under them? Be pretty cool to use Infuse player on the go!
I'd like to see an attempt to predict the movement of an NFL defense based on the starting positions of both the offense and defense. Seems like a much harder problem than volleyball, yet is something that human experts can clearly do on the fly.
Why can't they get rid of registration stickers?
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I just tried this:

>echo bollox
>history | grep bollox

and got a long line of results, dating back to 2019 [Who knew I swore so often in my terminal!]

I don't have any of the fixes suggested in the article in my .zshrc so either it's duff info or not all OSX zsh installs are setup the same. Mind you, I'm still running OSX Mavericks so my zsh may not even have come bundled as the default shell. I may have enabled or installed it myself at a later date.
That last bit is 90% due to the insane 10x increases in house prices over the last few decades.
Why odd? He falls as Deputy PM of 67m in the disUnited Kingdom, takes a payrise and more importantly rises to be Deputy Emperor of ~3bn in the World Wide Wall.
Couldn't they just have centralised database and OCR? It doesn't even need to be live. Updated daily should be enough.
The first thing I printed in a loop was "poop"

I thought it was comic gold
And yet…ScyllaDB is famous for being a 10x faster rewrite of Cassandra (written in Java) in C++.

Your general comment is correct. I see it often with GPU algorithms which, no surprise, are also much faster on CPUs (using something like ISPC to compile them).
Anpr seems to work just fine in the uk.

/perhaps the 'A' can now stand for 'analogue'
The problem is that we don't just live on our own machines. We hop around to different boxes and just being able to type what you are used to matters. My dotfiles and other tools don't go or even work everywhere.

We shouldn't change the oldest parts of our OSes without a really good reason.
Oh, and you forgot to mention a trolling move that I saw a lot (and fell victim to once), which is to leave a trapped chest just off a busy road. When a player opens the chest, boom they're dead!
This story really needs the old-school The Register biting treatment.
Someone who works in aerospace and defense told me the original invocation of this technology was in 1957
> Making it illegal to get an informal survey of land sounds insane.

It's not illegal to get an informal survey of land. It's illegal to pass a fake one off as legal, which is what is commonly happening with his "drawings".

"Taking a picture of yourself" and "writing your name and address on it" are legal, but if you open a Fake Drivers License business, you should expect to get hassled about it. A tiny line of text reading "this is not a real license and should not be used as one" shouldn't absolve you of all responsibility for your product.
Right. Which is among the reasons why it isn’t UBI, and is an adjacent factor for why it’s a poor proxy for UBI research.
I have a truly devastating reply that this website's comment length is too small to contain.
Knowing our legislature, they'd be done with voice vote and no accountability at all.
The ball is moving fast enough that for at least some moves the previous person hasn't yet touched the ball 2 seconds before, you cannot block a spike if you are not in the air before the spiker touches the ball. The spiker of course will be watching you and change how the ball is spiked based on that (if you don't make any attempt to block at all the spiker will drive the ball hard into the ground, if you do it is either find the hole in your defense to spike through, or tip the ball over the blocker making the return a lot easier)

I only played at a college class level (I wasn't the best in my class, not a pro for sure) - yet I can do the above.
It’s a matter of principle. If you wrote a script yesterday (or a year ago) and didn’t include that line, you need to re-release it today. That’s stupid.

Also, you’re being very sanctimonious about this but what if you didn’t see this HN story. Would you know to do that for the next script you distribute?
It's everything but ridiculous. China is developing its military at incredible speed and currency wars usually lead to economic and then real wars.

It's a terrible thing that none of us wants, but happens anyways.
You're protected, but it also means you can never upgrade anything. An application can never know what future versions of a dependency it can work with (because a new version might contain a breaking change), so it will always require versions that existed at the time of its own creation.

But those versions might contain vulnerabilities, and the new version might fix those while being fully compatible in every other way, in which case you really do want the upgrade.

Those dependencies should really declare when they change existing behaviour of the previous versions, and only then should your application refuse the upgrade.

No idea if there is a system that works that way; I can imagine it could get hideously complex.
All the replies so far are missing the point: it is prudent to monitor for unusual events, including previously-unseen messages, over and above the explicit handling of specific errors. It is also prudent to not wait until morning to investigate.

Your infrastructure probably is crap, as very few people get to build it themselves from scratch. That does not mean one should cheerfully accept additional unnecessary or pedantic complications.

It would also be prudent to investigate each and every change to any of the software you use, in order to anticipate problems, but unnecessary and pedantic changes increase the burden there, as well.
I use both Signal and SMS on my phone (iOS) and don’t find it to be that cumbersome to deal with. I already have to use multiple apps anyway to communicate with everyone I need to (Slack, some people are only on Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat so I have to have those apps too).
I default to SMS but if it’s a conversation where I care about privacy I’ll use Signal.
Is anyone using scyllaDB in production nowdays? I tried some years ago with dataloss and kinda spooked the bejesus out of me(and went to cassandra)
In general the CEO has the ability to award equity however they want. It's fairly common for exercise windows to be extended, awards to be increased as a part of a severance package, cashless exercise to be allowed, etc. You may need to get sign off from the board, but that's usually easily justifiable.

As stated above, after that, the communication to the rest of the team is key.
They convert NTD to nominal USD using the conversion rate during the financial period. For the income statement they say:

"Amounts in New Taiwan dollars have been translated into U.S. dollars at the weighted average rate of NTD 30.316 for the third quarter of 2022"

https://investor.tsmc.com/english/encrypt/files/encrypt_file...
I absolutely love the approach, the code, and the motivation. Unfortunately, some things I read in the 'about me' page makes me worry about the author's future.
That was my question too. Although, you have people who pay additional money to special interest groups by buying personalized plates anyway.

Perhaps an e-ink license plate frame would make a lot of sense for those seeking to personalize.
This is strictly for the 1% for vanity plates and maybe a few commercial trucking/hauling companies. No one else will find it useful. I suspect if you look around for campaign contributions you will find several to state reps from the company that sells it (or it's mother corp). The LTE is more dystopian tracking nonsense
I think you have to seriously consider if there is any market for that. Any $150 Android phone is going to be worthless for modern use.
Can confirm:

$ egrep '.' < <(grep --version) > /dev/null
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
Surely each offer round becomes a bidding round, rather than a simple purchase.
My Huawei built google nexus back in the day was as good of quality and experience as any other phone. That doesn’t take away from the valid reasons to ban their equipment, but in my one experience it wasn’t total garbage.
That happened to me, but much worse. They said I performed well, but in their words I “wasn’t the long term employee they envisioned for the company”. That was the best lesson I received about work ethics and helped a lot to shape the rest of my career. I’m thankful I saw this kind of disgusting management early. I would be trapped in that sick environment and low salary until today if that hasn’t happened.