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> Rust has pretty much all the failings he accused C++ of having, it just has memory safety as an additional benefit.

Memory safety is one hell of a benefit. In contrast, if you look at Linux' coding style, C++ really doesn't have any benefit over C.

Not to mention, many of C++'s advantages come from the STL, which wouldn't work without extra work in kernelspace. Rust has been designed for running on bare metal from day 1.
You're being unfair to Linux if you think Windows doesn't do the same "you're not supposed to do that" every time you step out of a nice path. Or even with the nice path it'll suddenly decide it's time to worsen your experience to improve their marketing or data mining.

There's awesome Linux experiences out there and the Steam deck is starting to show what's possible giving varying levels of control.

We live in exciting times. The more choice, the better.
Also had they followed established safety standards the incident focused on would not have happened.

That actually sounds like a mature and potentially safe industry.
> Furthermore, trees need organic material. A lot of it. A tree planted in "dirt" will be about the same size 3 years later.

As someone who has a green thumb, was fascinated of trees since a kid and is working a considerable amount of forrest partly with his own tools: It's not like that.

There are trees which fall into the category of early succession. They shy away of compost, their seeds do not even germinate in such an environment. They need bare soil.

Other trees prefer poor soil as they perform symbiosis with fungi (mykhoriza), essentially producing the type of soil they need (partly).

And then there are the trees which prefer rich soil.

The later category are trees where the lawn owner is to impatient to wait (how can I make my tree grow faster) or the aggroforrestry is dependent on highest yield in shortest growth time.
You mean like they did in communist countries and had a huge success at killing their economies?
Also this is a mostly volunteer organization with a limited budget. The cost is kept very low (so everyone who wants to can participate) and no profit is made.

Very likely the go/nogo point to commit to large expenses (eg venue hire) is now and these would not be refundable. Yet participants would expect to be refunded.

Any financial reserves would already be strained by now. Making it a risk for the survival of the organization if it would have to be cancelled again.

And IMO an event with forced masks or other heavy-handed measures would not be worth it. And Germany is very quick to go for mandatory measures compared to other countries.
> There are risks at every job. How is this even an article-worthy?

A sadly large % of the people reading news on-line have nearly forgotten that hazardous real-world jobs still exist. (Vs. office jobs where "fell and sprained wrist while getting out of an extra-comfy wheely chair" is just about the worst workplace injury they can imagine.)

Also, it's SpaceX. Loads of construction, roofing, etc. workers get maimed & killed every year, and are barely worth a passing mention in the local paper.
> Being vaccinated is also directly correlated with being healthy.

Source?
It's worth noting that Brendan Eich is far from the most impartial party you could hear criticize Firefox. He used to be the CEO, and resigned after Mozilla employees discovered his political contributions.
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I think philosophers get a bit annoyed about this because they've spent literal years and years thinking about something that might be quite esoteric/tricky, and then someone comes along and just assumes the answer as if there hasn't been decades of discourse about this exact thing.

The subtext in your comment is that everyone does philosophy all the time, and there's no difference between professional and amateur philosophers.
I could read it after turning off javascript. Maybe try that.
FVWM also remains the default windows manager in OpenBSD.

It also includes CWM, but you really have to know what you're doing with that.
Is "last modified" the time of the beginning of the write?
Meet is in my experience worse than Zoom and Teams, and with the latter that is saying something.

Gmail and Calendar are great. Drive is also sub-par in experience when compared to Dropbox (probably Box as well though I've not used it)

Oddly Sheets is the only one I like. It is good enough for most use cases and simpler and easier to use than Excel.

I've never even considered using Docs or Slides.
By a 2-1 margin https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/18/technology/amazon-labor-u....
SpaceX is a for profit organisation.

You might find it hard to believe, but having select few design equipment and processes that will then be used by much less skilled and paid workers is how most production companies work.

Now, I don't have any numbers. But if SpaceX is able to hire and maintain predominantly minority staff (assuming they are paid a reasonable wage) isn't it a win for those communities?
I encountered the same problem a few years ago and indeed realized that using categories to understand what type of article a thing was (person? subject? event?) was utterly useless, for the reasons you describe.

On the other hand, I discovered that infoboxes (the data in the top-right box on most pages) was generally extremely reliable, if frustrating to parse.
I've been a librarian for more than 15 years and I can only speak from personal experience when I say that I am the apex predator of nothing. Every once and a while I will get it in my head to systematize my personal knowledge base with a controlled vocabulary and ontology and I just fall on my face. I really want it for some twisted reason, though.

Turns out LC subject headings -- for all their failures -- are pretty good.
I could make the same baseless argument that many people also died due to the over restrictive policies and draconian imprisonment tactics.

Of course 0-covid is only possible if it is maintained forever, because like it or not the rest of the world still has covid.
Engage with less vitriol :) it's in the spirit of the guidelines.

What is the standard that we use for deciding what leader is worthy of intervention against? Is it the level of support among their own population? Is it how much they seek to export their ideology and take over other countries?

I understand the analogy you're making with Chess. But perhaps you could also view it another way: MbS is a terrible dictator (with even less legitimacy than the still-illegitimate Chinese political process). The US could easily crush him, compared to do anything to seriously confront China's CCP domestically.

Given that our resources would have a direct impact on people's lives in Saudi & Yemen, whereas we don't have much ability to have any impact in China, why is it better to invest our resources in fighting Xi Jinping?
HIPAA!
If it won't make a difference what's the harm in being transparent, then?
The wording of that sentence threw me off, he wrote 'necessarily' but my mind heard unnecessarily as well. I think the gist of the article is more to bring attention to the technicians who carry out the dangerous work than to assign blame to the industry. I think the author meant, it's dangerous work, but necessary to get it done quickly to be competitive.
But on the other hand conscious bias is the only way to compensate for unconscious bias, isn't it? It's just hard to judge where to stop. Without blind testing it's probably futile.
In a way it is, but capitalism has been way more successful than the soviet's Pravda could have dreamed of
In fact it seems like a reasonable assumption that on many days at a BSL-3+ lab, we're trusting at least one hungover graduate student who is operating on two hours of sleep at 9 in the morning, not to commit human error while implementing biosafety protocols to protect against the accidental release of a synthetic pathogen to the local urban population.

Another comment in this thread suggested building these labs in a desert or some other extreme environment where scientists can be isolated for months at a time. This seems like an obviously necessary mitigation against the unknown risk of introducing synthetic pathogens that haven't been created in billions of years of evolution. And yet, the secretive groups funding and regulating this research instead choose to build their labs in urban centers. Why?
Over the decade I worked in retail and warehouses prior to becoming an accountant, I never once saw an OSHA inspector.
> Who is threatening Japan with cruise missiles? Certainly not China or Russia. North Korea, perhaps.

China. Japan cooperates with AUKUS [1]. If Xi invades Taiwan, it's going to pull in America, Britain, Australia and–in all likelihood–Japan.

That said, we're more likely to see a recapitulation of the Ukraine playbook than direct intervention by American and Japanese forces.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUKUS
One way would be to publish on Medium but link to https://scribe.rip/
thanks! for some reason my googlefu wasn't doing the job right.
How does this compare to something like famd(8) and if it’s a marked improvement, could the techniques used here be backported to FAM?
Even better would have been to get one of those last month when Costco was liquidating their stock for $270.

Almost nobody carries the "old model" in stock, always a good idea to pay attention when they lower the price to get rid of it ;)
I don't really understand the allegation put forward in the programme. I see that Protelion is suspect but why would this reflect on Cyber-Sicherheitsrat Deutschland e.V.?
> ... listening to their users, focusing on giving the user control over their own browsing experience ...

To play devil's advocate, that may well be exactly what they're doing. I've always used Firefox, but I'm aware that I'm not a typical user andmy interests likely don't align with mass adaoption.

I've said it before when Firefox has released new features that the HN crowd aren't interested in - there's not enough of you (us) for your opinions on [ themes ] to matter. And if this is a quicker way to grow adoption then it's a good thing in the long term.

I don't have access to statistics to qualify whether or not this is the case and contribute to making it harder to evaluate by turning off telemetry and never using Google ads, so I can't exactly complain.
I remember a project in the early 00s at a place I was working. They were rolling out Windows tablets to installation engineers[1].

The justification was to reduce breakages to the screen and hinge of laptops[2]. It sounds daft but apparently it was not uncommon for people to leave their van keys on the keyboard and then shut the lid on them.

By switching to tablets they hoped to get rid of that failure mode.

I imagine that's quite specific but just having less moving parts will increase reliability in a large organisation. A keyboard on a ThinkPad might be easy to change if it fails but a keyboard an iPad will be even easier as it's not attached permanently.

1. In this particular case that means people in hard hats and high viz going up telephone poles and into holes in the ground all day.

2. Standard issue at the time was Panasonic ToughBooks.
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H-1B holders can seek green cards through a variety of ways: green card lottery (for certain countries), family sponsorship (such as marriage green cards), and employment sponsorship (the EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, EB-4, and EB-5 categories.)

Within the EB's, most companies will sponsor H-1B holders for green cards in the EB-2 or EB-3 categories in a 3-step process: PERM, I-140, I-485.

If an H-1B holder wants to get a green card based on work/accomplishments as a self-petitioner, the two main pathways are:

Eb-1A for extraordinary ability, helpful for people subject to long India/China backlogs

Eb-2 NIW, easier than O-1A, takes 2-3 years if you're not subject to India/China backlogs.
So you think someone who worked at a crypto startup showed a lack of judgement? Do you have a blacklist of companies or sectors (adtech, surveillance tech, data collection, weapons manufacturers, pharma, lottery, porn, ...)? I would love to see that list.
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i love forests too. i don't know where you live, but you might learn something about grasslands from the southern grasslands institute: https://www.segrasslands.org/

re: "history isn't gone," that's a reductive position. it will certainly be very different millions of years from now, but it won't be as drastic within our lifetime. the ecological history of a place tells us where plants thrive and don't thrive. site selection is a fact of plant success. certain types of trees grow in grasslands but they aren't the dominate plant life — fossil records would indicate this.

i'm no ecologist or scientist, but i've read that grasslands can hold water too. just google "do grasslands store water"
You would at least be honest in a discussion if you say that you don't care for the climate impact or accept that your arguments in regard of Bitcoin and being green are wrong.

I'm not arguing for people like you who don't care. I argue for everyone who hasn't maid up their minds and want to have real arguments for pro and con.

Without people like me there would be no push back at all and there is active push back.

The power station in NY got much more criticism than it would have gotten otherwise (none).

Very weird your reaction though. Do you'really believe I stop arguing against Bitcoin just because crypto bros don't care for arguments?
If you’re in the US, contact your local extension office for help. Though I’m also unsure why your trees would keep dying; I haven’t seen a lot of people with that issue.
I don’t think Epic’s install costs are secret or a “gotcha”. Any administrator interested in Epic can look at 20 years of installs and see that an Epic implementation is routinely a multi year, $100 million+ project for large organizations.

I’m also not sure what these “Epic Engineers” you’re referring to are, but I know that IT staffing is a conversation that happens early on in the sales process and it is not a surprise to anyone who’s looked around at existing Epic sites.

Whatever Epic’s flaws may be, I don’t think “public boondoggle” is a fair portrayal of how they do business.
https://archive.ph/vGVcP
> apps where you can't copy a single word

This one is ridiculous. On Reddit I always want to quote part of a message or copy a phrase to translate it, and it’s literally impossible to do. You have to copy the whole message, paste it in a text editor or in Notes, and finally copy what you actually wanted to copy.

This should be solved at the OS level.
Windows Phone was bad executed at development experience level, with the WinRT, UAP, UWP enforced rewrites.
That's OSHA's job, not SpaceX's. And I don't think you can take a single incident and use that to determine if a workplace is safe or not. Especially considering the context of it being a rocket factory.
> I'm really surprised that this sort of functionality isn't built into OS's/filesystems

It appears to be built into macOS [1]?

> Whenever the filesystem is changed, the kernel passes notifications via the special device file /dev/fsevents to a userspace process called fseventsd

Which I assume is what they're referring to here:

> A platform filesystem watcher for Darwin is used, but certain event properties are handled by the standard library. Namely, the event time and the path type.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSEvents
A sample size of one is definite proof for anything I already think is true!
This was likely done to keep Musk from being stock on the market at a reduced price prior to purchasing the remaining needed shares at the prior price, thus lowering his overall costs. It's a tragedy of the commons situation where any individual shareholder would be incentivized to sell early. It's understandable why they did it, but really insider trading (like most other rules) is over-enforced on the masses and selectively not-applicable to those who wield power.
I shouldn't have said it that way. Removed.
> SpaceX was fined $18,475 by OSHA for two safety violations, one of which was rated the highest penalty level of “serious” and a maximum gravity of 10.

Am I reading this right? One of the two safety violations was rated the maximum gravity of 10, yet could not have had a penalty of more than $18,475? That is not even couch money for a company the size of SpaceX. I really hope I'm missing some critical piece of info which makes this all make sense. Someone please assuage my concerns here.
What was the reason a three legged stool is the best? Doesn't that depend on your environment? E.g. the amount of gravity, perhaps wind, or the quality of materials available to construct a stool?
Here's an Android Tablet with that chip for £99 ($88 at current exchange rate). https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/tcl-tab-10s-32gb-10.2-inch-w...
They didn't quite screw everything up. Cloud is making a killing. Office monthly subs is a goldmine, and Windows online subs will be too. That's why they constantly talk cloud, it's their new bread and butter. And, in a highly related way, Xbox is also killing it. They have half the hardware sales, but their Xbox live ultimate sub is awesome. Lots of games, pretty cheap, and pretty, pretty recurring revenue. Oh, recurring revenue that feeds their cloud a gigantic customer, too. They went so far as to force most games to be compatible with both the new and old generation of Xbox's, so they could keep getting Xbox sub money. This has been successful enough that Sony has both been forced to do likewise, and Sony has resorted to the courts to stop it.
People look forward to a visit with the ontologist they way they do a visit with the orthodontist.
Ah yes the lightning network argument.

In practice people have problems even understanding bitcoins (general speaking and El Salvador specific) and now lightning is the solution while people not even get Bitcoin.

But yes lightning also doesn't work in El Salvador.

So
Even awesomer is heading up Washington "institutions" like Brookings while taking a foreign paycheck.

https://www.vox.com/23166516/scandal-john-allen-brookings-th...

The court filing alleges that Allen had been tapped by two unregistered representatives of Qatar — a business executive named Imaad Zuberi and a former US ambassador to the UAE, Richard Olson — to advocate on Qatar’s behalf. (That Olson used the email address rickscafedxb@yahoo.com, a reference to the seedy Rick’s Cafe in the film Casablanca and the airport code for Dubai, might have been a tip-off that no one should be shocked that something was awry.)
Right? What was advanced auto supposed to do? Hire a person specifically for cleaning the parking lot?

There's a reason job postings all say "And other duties as assigned"
Here: https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lau-math-teachers-...

is the Toronto sun (a news agency) some "conservative think tank" as well?

Is this why parents send their kids to school, to learn this instead of math

"Whether or not teaching children about microaggressions and colonialism is a good idea, infusing mathematics with such collateral issues inescapably detracts from the learning of real mathematics."

> This is exactly your type of persona I had in mind when I was thinking about failed homeschooling.

you should step back and question your assumptions. I was NOT home schooled, nor were my three kids. You could not have been more wrong if you tried.
Not surprised. I'm living this sexist disrespect and discrimination at Villanova.

Its clear in the comp science program, the profs are under pressure to make girls pass.
They get special attention, extra feedback,etc.

Special perks for sure.
Its just unfair and demoralizing, but also honestly enraging.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯, your comment was originally flagged and has been made alive again.

I'm honestly not sure what the code was for. My guess is that my FB uid is associated with my email address in some database somewhere, so let's assume they have my email. The phone number I originally texted them from is not connected with anything 2FA. I almost never have 2FA associated with SMS, since that is just dumb and when I do, it is with another number that I don't use as my main phone number.

So, maybe they have some account of mine somewhere that can be validated with a 2FA sms. If they have my email, they can request the code for that account, plug in my email address + code and somehow get into my account. I don't know. It was odd... I kind of wish I had some sort of honeypot account I could have used to see what got 'hacked' after giving them the real code.
I was surprised, having recently visited a hospital here in England, to find I'm the only one wearing a mask.
> I'm sad that HTTPS default and isolated cookies are turned on only for Private Browsing

You might want HTTPS-only mode (bottom section of about:preferences#privacy ). I kind of thought isolated cookies were already the default, as per https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-o... but maybe I'm missing a nuance?
> Leaders should set a principle and expectation of a blameless culture. When something goes wrong, it’s a wonderful learning opportunity, to be studied and used to continuously improve. An example of this is the concept of a blameless post-mortem.

I understand this idea. I've read several books on the subject and worked to integrate it into several teams now. I think it's an admirable goal.

But the blameless culture idea becomes counterproductive when taken to extremes. I've been in a couple "blameless cultures" where a small number of people were clearly to blame for every project falling behind, but every retrospective was about how we could have organized our work better, or planned better, or been more clear about the expectations. No, at some point, the only way we're going to ship better is to shine some light directly at the one poor performer on the team that everyone knows is to blame. That doesn't mean being mean or rude or calling them out in public, but something must be done.
Expatriates would still be subject to not disclosing national secrets. It's not like they're former second-rate steak salesmen.
AFAIK there is nothing being worked on. I would be VERY interested on a faint glimmer of hope of linux being possible on Ipad Pros.
Librarians are the people that we (technologists) should learn from. But all I see is programmers trying to invent things from first principles.
Oh noes, what will I use to watch all of my 8K content on? Im sure they will manage to work out power draw by the time 8K broadcast and distribution is actually viable.

I like how the "idiot proof" Energy label doesnt have the most basic information in normal form. Instead of 66W its 66kWh/1000h, like its somehow easier?
An expert indeed; Dr. Shi discovered the bat virus ancestors of SARS-1. Her subsequent research at the WIV is the matter of controversy here, as to whether that could have caused the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The interview is with Science, the well-known academic journal. That journal seems to have reorganized their website recently and broken my old link, so I used archive.org instead of hunting down the new URL.

So Dr. Shi is obviously going to say the pandemic is of natural origin. Even if she personally believes otherwise, she's under the physical control of the PRC government, and would suffer grave consequences if she went against their official story. My point is that not even she thinks spillover in Wuhan is likely, though. The idea that the WIV was situated in Wuhan because of an abundance of nearby sarbecoviruses is bizarrely common, but it's neither anti-lab-origin nor pro-lab-origin, just wrong.