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Working without monetary compensation is the punishment part. But work itself is rehabilitating. I can't think of a better way to help people feel empowered and able, preparing them to be positive members of society when they're released.
The value of test prep is way, way overblown.

Besides, the idea that you have to be wealthy to avail yourself of test prep is absurd. I buy books at the thrift store all the time, and there are always test prep books there for a couple dollars. The local public library has them for free. yootoob is loaded with test prep videos. There are no excuses.

If you want to prep for the test,

1. read lots of books meant for adults

2. pay attention in math class
Request for startup: something like Render, but that is HIPAA compliant from day one.
You can get out 10 years from now, or 5 years from now, your choice.

Something like that.
If you can't rip a car in half or see the insides of a building then battle damage will look like it's painted on.

If Spiderman can't move a bit of rubble (he doesn't really do dirt) then he can't pull something into or out of place to free a friend or trap an enemy.

It's (all) the little things that are in the way of a game feeling immersive and appealing to people who aren't just into the main mechanic (ie shooter on rails).
It really depends on what colors you are using in the gradient. In some cases LCH or others looks a lot better than RGB or HSL: https://res.cloudinary.com/indysigner/image/fetch/f_auto,q_8...
I somewhat agree, but I don't see that Locoscript was really exposing much of the underlying OS to the user.

It booted straight into Locoscript, with no CP/M-like functionality exposed. The application was booted directly by the bootloader which as you say was loaded itself by the not-really-ROM in the bloody great ASIC.

People just put the "Start of Day" disk in the drive, powered it up, waited five seconds, and then picked the thing they'd worked on last with a single keystroke. Now I have to admit, I have never used a Canon Cat - I'm surprised I haven't even run across an emulation - but the videos I've seen of them in use didn't look all that different.
Had more keyhole arrows than that shooting at womp rats.
He’s a ghost, the company has zero vision.

Meta is a shitshow, but I’ll give Zuck credit for at least have A vision of *something*.

Sundars vision is to keep Larry and Sergei’s money machine humming along. That’s it. That’s the goal, cover the costs of the founders private islands by letting the CFO make all the real decisions
Why not just use AWS? The free tier goes pretty far for a basic webapp. Plus basically any extra infrastructure you might need. I have a whole distributed data ingestion startup that when not used costs 2$ to host on AWS. The front end and backend APIs are basically free, its only the ML workloads that cost anything
I think you're oversimplifying the complex nature of policing. If we want peaceful, stable, societies we should model our policing systems on the places that most effectively deliver peace and stability. Two notable examples being Israel and Japan. Both places give police wide latitude to accomplish their goals and punish criminals harshly. Is Israeli policing discriminatory against Arabs? Yes. Is it effective? Also yes. Is Japanese prison inhumane by US standards? Yes. Is it effective in preventing the establishment of a criminal culture? Also yes.

Violent antisocial behaviour presents itself in a small percentage of young (mostly) males. It can be predicted as early as age 4 and effective intervention is very difficult. Most people who present with it tend to age out of the behaviour by around 30. Therefore the only effective strategy to protect the rest of us from this tiny fraction of people is to confine them until they age out. This is basically what our criminal justice system does, however imperfectly.

If we were to design a system eyes-open, knowing these constraints, with the goal of minimizing violent crime, we'd:

1. Enact age-based confinement - teenagers who present with violent antisocialism are very likely to reoffend in their 20s. Violent teenagers and young adults should be confined until they've aged out.

2. Structure prison culture - prison should not be crime university. Criminals should not be permitted to form a culture. Violent antisocialism should not be tolerated in prison. Instead they should be given the tools to find a legitimate place in society upon their eventual release. Japan does this quite well.

3. Seal records after release - criminal records relating to youth-associated violent antisocialism should be sealed. People we release should have a clear path to reintegration without discrimination.
Hey, thanks for the suggestion.

Based on the commit activity, it looks like the project is no longer being developed -> https://github.com/umami-software/umami/graphs/commit-activi...

Don't you think? Or maybe I'm wrong.
I've spent a fair bit of time engaging with these systems and I feel most of the issues are in the bureaucratic elements of the system, and less the medicalization. We can all pick six sigma events to prove a point, but this just tends to radicalize either side.

I'd also contend that you might want to look into the medical aspects of how transgender care for children is done. It's generally conservative with no physical or hormone changes until puberty, and even then, getting puberty blockers requires a number of hoops. Ensuring the child actually has a brain different from their body is a long and arduous process involving a therapist and generally a medical team.

When I hear "chop off penises" and "mastectomies", it tends to be generally in emotional appeal fallacies that are originally spread by more sensationalizing talk show hosts. Sexual modification isn't a requirement for transgender individuals (and considered a big risk by some in the community), and I think we risk simply dividing ourselves and winning the the honor of being right at the expense of rigorous, diverse communal dialogue otherwise.
You seem to see a high probabilitt that Russia will do nothing. How much of your income would you like to bet on you being right?
fly advertises HIPAA

https://fly.io/docs/about/healthcare/
We vastly underestimate what can be done if someone dedicates insane amount of time to something. People often mistake “really hard for me to imagine doing” with “actually impossible”.
Sure, but then jack up the fines to account for the cost of keeping them.
haven't seen an official announcement of this, only various people assuming in various places on the internet.

if you have any official statement to support that i'd be happy to see that.
I think we tried all that about 80 years ago and it actually turned out to be a good idea.
Believe it or not, a huge number of incarcerated people would rather work (without pay) than sit around doing nothing. For the few that don't, you can certainly incentivize it without resorting to torture.
I don't really disagree, but would point out that, for the languages I hack on, they're DSLs that wouldn't be appropriate to write an editor in. I agree that you should be writing code in your language & solving problems with it though, even before there's a working implementation. It does really help hone your vision and focus on the problems you're solving.

I've not written a language server either, and I'm positive it's one or two orders of magnitude more difficult than a simple editor, but I think the time is better spent for many projects because it gets you into the nitty gritty mechanics of your language & sets you up for a good developer experience. If your language specializes in writing things like editors though, that would certainly not be the case.

Tangentially, my language development hot take is that YAML is a really great platform to start with, so you can focus on prototyping your runtime & semantics and kick the can on parsing & syntax. Parsing takes up a lot of time and you might not know if this language idea is worthwhile or not yet. Additionally, YAML is pretty darn good and you may never need to move off of it.
Just so we are accurate. It was three buildings; hit by 3 planes full of people. A fourth plane that hit the ground and several buildings in New York as secondary casualties.
Or go with the Oracle OCI free-tier and get even more resources for $0. The free 24GB ARM instances are generous and capable. Just make sure to select a home region during sign-up which has them (Phoenix / PHX probably gives the best odds).

that said, perhaps not everyone is a sysadmin and security expert. In fact, this was the whole beauty of Heroku; "git push heroku" and you're done.
That assumes a static hierarchy. Cooperatives could fix most of that though, since anyone becoming a problem could be recalled from their position.
It reminds me of the quote: "the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy".

The thing about the Iron Rule (which I agree with) is that it appears in online forums too. In placaes like Wikipedia, Stack Overflow and various forums the community divides into three groups:

1. Content creators: those who past and answer questions, etc;

2. Moderators: those who write and enforce rules and standards; and

3. Lurkers: those who simply read.

The second group, while useful, has to constantly be kept in check. No matter how originally (and concurrently) well-intentioned, there will always be a tendency to create and enforce more rules to solve perceived and actual "problems".

I'd be interested to know what psychology drives people to join the moderator camp.
Okay, then why do you think that Resolve is not an NLE? Have you ever used it?

What do you think the Cut page is? What do you think the Edit page is?

It's not just "an" NLE, it has two slightly different kinds of NLE.
Presumably this is only the SQL backup? (you can backup almost everything else using a regular backup system)

20 minutes seems really long for running an SQL backup. How big is the database? Is the disk/storage fast?

Have you tried replicating the database and running the backup off the secondary server?

Restarts are annoying though, and fairly slow (2-3 minutes?), but less than once per week?
yeah - I've been basically full time WFH for 20 years now...

That cat is NOT going back in the bag.
So would you say we have nothing to fear?
Pole vaulting seems a bit different because if you set it too high you might miss.

Whereas the eight shot here - if you miss it you still have your seven good ones.
How does alwaysdata work? The pricing just references different storage tiers - how is that related to vCPUs or RAM or the number of apps, DBs etc. deployed? Couldn't really find anything on their site...
I'm not aware of any clubs in my high school that charged its members. Not even the Boy Scouts.

None of the colleges I applied to asked for my family's tax history or income level, except for on the separate financial aid application.
You might check out https://www.aptible.com/. It's not quite as ridiculously simple as Heroku but they are HIPAA compliant.
Because an IaaS is not a PaaS, and people who were previously dependent on Heroku probably don’t have the DevOps skillset required to use an IaaS?

I know Elastic Beanstalk and Lightsail both exist; but they’re both much more complicated than `git push heroku master`. And that’s not even counting what you have to do/learn to be able to wire up a DB or Redis instance or Email deliverability on AWS.
There can be multiple penultimate things. If you have two quest chains, each one will have a penultimate and an ultimate quest.
>It is just because we are used to their shapes.

No, it's because it is very asymmetric, and we prefer symmetric shapes to asymmetric ones.

>The french horn is not exactly the paradigm of beauty.

I disagree. The instrument has an aesthetic.

> Or a player blowing into an oboe

The instrument looks fine though.

>The posture with the violin is one of the most awkward one could imagine, also.

The posture with the cello is arguably a very sexy one, but if you ask a cellist and violinist to walk while playing the instrument, guess which one's going to be the awkward one.

The violin gained initial popularity among street musicians. This is why it has the ergonomics it does.

The violin posture allows the performer to walk and jump and dance while playing the instrument.

Have you seen performers like Lindsey Stirling? That would be the last showperson I'd call "awkwardly postured".
I have noticed that when people complain about Stripe on Reddit in places like /r/personalfinance, people direct them to HackerNews with instructions to escalate here.
Looks pretty readable to me. 4 explicit columns, the first is width auto, second 40px, third takes up any remaining space, 4th is 80px. How would this be any more readable with tags or table setup? Especially if you want to have additional columns auto-generated by content or numerous other grid abilities that are not easy to setup with tables.
Highly trained rats have sniffed out 150k explosives
They're not doing "momentarily unpopular things", they are deliberately destroying the country to make themselves a bit of cash.

Conservatives are all - without exception - junkies. Addicts. Criminal junkie addicts, who will steal all they can to sell off for a bit of cash for their fix, although in this case the fix is the cash.
Colleges do overadmit, including elite colleges, because a predictable percentage decline the admission.
Should they not also pay for their food and housing, then?
I migrated my Heroku app to GCP Cloud Run. Works like a charm, integrates well with Github, and has a generous free tier.
It's hard as a Millenial or Zoomer to believe your vote counts. I would say it is delusional. In my 35 years, living in two countries (Italy and UK) I have never experienced a government that wasn't deep dysfunctional and rotten to the core.

Not even one.

Older people keep saying my vote counts and this politician will fix all the issues, and I just want to laugh in their face. The younger people from the zoomer generation from what I understand have just given up. What even is the point?
I would generally agree. Just as some people characterize prison labor as "slavery", with all of the connotations that word holds when unqualified, I have also seen incarceration described as "kidnapping". Rather than get bogged down in the minutia of arguing about words I'd simply posit that there are moral forms of "kidnapping" and "slavery".

Locking a murderer in a jail cell is moral, I also see no issue requiring them to work.

Where I do see a massive issue is when incarceration is used by private corporations to enrich themselves rather than enriching the public or individuals whose harm is what caused the incarceration in the first place.

I don't in principle oppose private prisons, though I am wary of them in practice. I think there could exist a model where private prisons would be rewarded based on recitivism, but unfortunately such a system would be hard to create for a variety of practical considerations.
I think charging the same rate for labor makes sense so it’s not anti competitive business. But why should the prisoners pocket all the money when our tax dollars are housing them?
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Lars was heavily involved in the Robin hood movie production, the one with Taron Edgerton from a couple years ago. Despite how incredulously "blockbustery" the action sequences looked, the archery itself was all heavily grounded in reality and research from manuscripts of that era. I gained a lot of respoect for Taron Edgerton for his dedication to pulling all that off without resorting to stuntsmen or cgi. Wish the movie did better, so all their work could have had more exposure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZsQmlZclTo
Good point, thanks for contributing that. Helps me to understand it a lot. :)
Of course there is objective measures, that’s the point. And it’s why no sane person thinks the race inequity within the NBA player pool is a problem. The problem lies in the hypocrisy of crying about systemic racism or sexism as the reason for inequity when talking about college admissions or C level jobs but never talking about the same inequities in nursing or iron workers or NBA players.
I am an organ donor, already donated one and can assure you I am not dead yet.

Donating organs is an easy way (for the donor -- the medical staff is performing magic) to make a significant, positive difference. And frankly, for many of us, it's probably the only way.

No need to be afraid.
Maybe, but if you do enough fishing around on github repos, you can find CDK code that will spin up a whole secure website with a database.
Nit: I don't know that it changes the point, but 0.01% of 8B is 800K.
Right. Really what’s needed is one of those feature comparison sections with check marks or not as seen on landing pages.

Put it in an airtable. Done.
Appears to have been a purge, given censors removed recent references to Hu Jintao afterwards and Li Zhanshu took Jintao’s folder only to then appear to be told by Wang Huning to stay out of it, at which point he hands folder to Juntao’s escort. Zhanshu buttons his jacket, as if he was preparing to leave, was sweating, and can be seen wiping sweat from his forehead. Xi’s response prior Jintao standing does not appear to show any concern for Jintao.

More videos are here:

https://twitter.com/dansoncj

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Facing from the camera’s view:

- Hu Jintao is to right of Xi; Jintao is removed.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jintao

- Li Zhanshu is to right of Hu Jintao.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhanshu

- Wang Huning is to right of Li Zhanshu.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Huning
The first few paragraphs of the article read like the intro of an H.P. Lovecraft novel. Certainly explains why he often chose the New England farms and small towns as the setting for unspeakable horrors!
"It's funny because it's true"
-- Homer J. Simpson
Disclaimer: I've never been involved in fundraising on either side of the table, but I don't think it makes sense to earmark a fixed marketing budget for an early stage company. Fixed budgets are good for fixed, predictable costs, but an early stage company needs to experiment, which means variable costs. It may well turn out after the fact that 30-40% of the funding went to marketing, but trying to fix it beforehand is just going to limit the company's flexibility.

Once you do have some experimental data, here's how I'd determine the optimal marketing budget in a simplified model:

Assume you have i people interested in your product and the conversion rate is c, so you got ic conversions and would like to make this number go up. You do a small marketing campaign and get m more interested people per marketing dollar spent. You also do some product work and improve the conversion rate by d per development dollar spent. You have an overall budget of b and would like to know the share x to be spent on marketing, with the remaining b - x spent on product. The objective function to maximize is (i + mx)(c + d(b - x)). Take the derivative in x and you get m(c + d(b - x)) - (i + mx)d. Set equal to 0 and rearrange to solve for x = (c/d + b - i/m)/2. (The numbers c/d and i/m have a neat interpretation as the amount of money that would have been spent on improving these factors so far, assuming constant m and d.) The second derivative is -2md, so as long as spending more money improves outcomes, x is the optimal marketing spend.
Yep. Making this environment fully interactive would be an entirely new task to accomplish. The game only allows you to stick to the script, which for CoD is appropriate. But developing a MMORPG like a Skyrim, where the environment is meant to be fully interactive, would be exponentially more complex. I'm sure it's just a matter of time though
Coincidentally ACOUP has an essay on this very topic[1] just out.

TL;DR: Strategic bombing has been tried many times in the Second World War and after it. It has never caused the reaction you describe. It invariably stiffens the morale of the bombed population. It backfires very badly.

If you want to win a war, confine yourself to military targets.

1. https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower...
Is it torture when you force kids to do their chores? Surely there are ways. But regardless don’t a lot of inmates volunteer for work? How much is forced?
"what kind of bs is this that you cannot have a video on your own cloud drive"

"your own cloud"

not a single person called out that oxymoron, what a tragedy
Look for consulting gigs on Upwork where you can do Laravel work and get in the practice.

You could also take on some issues in open source code in Github
https://github.com/search?q=laravel+label%3A%22good+first+is...
I was trained in mechanical engineering, but write software. I still find my college education to be of great help.
I worked from 12 in a fairly industrial business and mostly appreciated the experience because I was in poverty. Meanwhile the school I was actually forced to go to was abusive.

Of course businesses do this. If nothing else the kids in poverty are literally going to ask for a part time job and a few people will say yes because they won’t see the harm because there actually isn’t any.

The only abusive sounding part of this story to me is the kids were pulled out of school and seemingly working at the factory all the time. What is surprising here is that it went beyond “child helps contractor/small business on the weekend and gets money under the table” and instead “large corporation had full time child labourer at factory” which is rather extreme by American standards. But child labour is plenty common, if you’ve eaten chocolate recently there’s a good chance it was made with tiny child hands, rich people literally just can’t comprehend such things.
Flying in a private jet is awesome.
Even in video game speed runs “hello you absolute legends” there is a kind of “that seems good” that can be reached - where people knowledgeable recognize that the run must be interesting, even if nobody did it before.

And of course on the tracking sites one of the best ways to get noticed is beat a famous record by a bit, or beat an unfamous one by a lot (because a large beat likely means it can be improved more, and so people will try).

This is also why record runs In track mania for example often “calm down” until a new path is shown to work (even in a tool assist) and then there’s a flurry of interest.
Infrastructure is a distraction to what Heroku users actually care about: sharing their thing online. AWS takes us in the wrong direction in terms of minimizing that distraction. It’s also kinda scary to screw up and be on the hook for lots of money.
Nice, this is better. Thank you!

https://archive.ph/ckh41
"humanities is all about flattering whatever opinions the professor personally holds" - maybe at some universities, but not at a good liberal arts school.
PS2 - The Getaway.

Very impressive for the time!
What is CDK?
Counter point: It's a good thing this factory was on US soil allowing the US DoL to do its job. Imagine how many cases of "staffing firms for a sub contractor hiring teenagers" goes unnoticed and unpunished around the world.
yeah it would smell delicious/s

you know how garbage smell is in a hot garage?

i can just smell hot cockroach scent now.
Most people don't have encrypted drives with fallbacks to retrieve its contents (whatever that means).
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I'm not speaking about when you are alive, go ahead, donate. I'm only talking about the "Donor" tag on your driver's license after an accident - where, well, people have woken up who were considered "brain dead" and were sometimes just minutes from organ removal. Which naturally induces shivers about the people who would have woken up but didn't have enough time...
>we as in humanity want to keep weapons around

We don't. But it's basically impossible to get rid of them given the existence of incentives.