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> how often you can smell some dickweasel's little OKR in the inexplicable frustrations

... and he's the guy that just got promoted.
What about Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC ? I recently installed it in a Qubes to be able to run some specific database software until I can export the data to an open, libre database. My understanding was that LTSC didn't require an account or even an activation code, but I've been able to run a trial iso I downloaded directly from Microsoft.
Sure there is, prepare to safely crash with 5% left
I don't expect much from German content. ;-)

I meant English language content, but with my phone being in Germany.

Thanks for telling your experience!
I thought about that and created a giant moodboard/wall of thoughts/diagram/mess on a Figma file, loaded w/ keyword and anecdotes.

I really need to "process" it all into a written document
>For the US, I read that as "it will be so expensive in attorney time to secure a litigation-proof post-firing outcome it is cheaper to simply pay them to sit and do nothing for the remainder of their contract"

It's all done through arbitration, so much lower cost than the regular US court system.

>I wonder what the union side of the picture looks like for these allegedly problematic teachers?

I'll bite: why should management just be able to fire people unilaterally? All the union is asking is for the case for firing be proven in arbitration. It's management's choice to take these teachers out of the classroom while the case against them is pending and pay them to do nothing. Just look at some of the cases cited in the actual article: a lady they spoke to got bad perf reviews for two years from a new principal after 20 years of good ones. The writer spoke to 5 unnamed parents from the teacher's school who said that the new principal was good. Is it so obvious that the lady needs to be fired from her job?
That was also my point. There are too many groups spreading themselves too thin. If those groups all trying to do their own thing came together, there would be a greater chance of finding the community that they seek, but at the cost of it not being geared towards their particular interest.
Your argument is that somehow in the EU the wind picks up and blows straws and bags into Indian oceans?
Sounds similar to Retool which has had quite a lot of success in this market. How are you different?
This is why I tell every senior or “muggle” I know to just get an iPad for their computing needs. Sandboxed. Cheap. Backs everything up for you. Totally managed experience. I’ve switched numerous folks in that demographic over and have never once heard anything but rave reviews. F*ck PC’s and the entire race to the bottom market they represent.
The parent said that they want a specific kind of smartphone, and questions why the market doesn't provide it. They essentially ask why the market doesn't provide something that suits them better
I was curious as to how effective scrubbing was, turns out Packed Tower Wet Scrubbers can filter out 99%+ of VOCs from incinerated plastic. You still get carbon emissions however.
New Entanglement Results Hint at Better Quantum Codes
And yet you'll still get technical folks parroting mindlessly "Updates are good! Make sure you always update! Muh security!"

No, updates are objectively not all good. Updates frequently break things. This is colloquially referred to as your user experience being "enhanced." Any solution begins with an honest appraisal of these realities.
ya i'm not surprised at all when reading the statistics on youth depression nowadays... this stuff is poison
Probably better to stop propping up the small farms and let the unproductive land be reclaimed by nature. Extensively use pest resistant GMO crops to increase yields on less land and overall lessen the land needed for farming. At the same time, lessening sprawl would be quite helpful. I see plenty of people 'move out to the country' and then spray pesticides over their entire 5 acre lawn.
"Yeah a raw pointer makes sense but is equally unhelpful for the caller, since there's still no safe way to access the data."

The problem is exactly that there is no safe way to access the data, according to Rust's definition of safety. The entire point of Rust is to exclude the C-esque "well, I have a pointer, I guess I have the right to do whatever I want with it, I hope, maybe?" access model, but that's what Python is operating under. No amount of Rust hackery can add Rust's promises onto the Python code. I'd argue that the "correct" answer is to hand back an opaque pointer value into the Rust, and obligate all Rust access to that opaque pointer to be through "unsafe". To put things back into Rust's safe space would require an unsafe copy, but at least the copy would be back in "true" Rust.

The problem here isn't that that is incorrect, the problem is that it's uselessly unergonomic, both for the programmer, and because I may not want to pay the price of making a copy. At this point we're just down to figuring out what promise of Rust we want to break. (The only reason we're not discussing which promises of Python we want to break is that on this dimension, it doesn't make any. There are other conceivable situations where we might have compromise in both directions, e.g., Haskell's immutability.) We have the freedom of acknowledging there isn't a perfect solution, and then pursuing the "good enough"... and the "good enough" is probably to just hand Rust the buffer wrapped in whatever Rust type you feel like/is most appropriate from Rust's point of view, and then just saying "all this type can do, and therefore all it does, is constrain my Rust code; I can do nothing about the Python at all on this level". Since there is no solution, spinning about trying to find one is not terribly productive.
Plastic bags are an interesting example. There was a study a little while back that plastic bag bans at stores resulted in an overall increase use of plastic.

The thinking was that people reused the thin store bags at least once (i.e. as a small trash liner for a work desk). Without those as an option, people switched to buying plastic bags, which were thicker and used much more material.

Personally, we always opt for plastic bags at the store, and they always get reused once if not many times. Paper bags just don't seem to hold up as well for some reason.
It can transmit one internet of traffic per second. So the unit is an internet.

They should have used a more common unit like encyclopedia britannicas.
People are going to be upset about being fired no matter how it's done.

I worked in an agency once where we were unable to renew a contract with a large client. About a month later 75% of the agency was called into the gym for a discussion. Everyone who did not get called into the gym was let go. There was a lot of confusion about who was supposed to be at this meeting and it really was terrible for everyone involved. The people there were good and well-meaning, but that was the absolute worst way to do it.

I'm not sure how this was handled by the woman's manager in the article, but "We're starting to transition your responsibilities. We'll keep paying you, providing healthcare and you don't have to have a gap in your resume, but please look for something else" comes off as pretty respectful to me.
How unbelievably blithe to characterize the move towards onerous non-pharmaceutical interventions as "Bloopers." Every single time the public health organizations get these things wrong it destroys public confidence and makes them less likely to actually adopt measure that works. (That goes for cloth and surgical mask-wearing too. FFP2/KN95 are a different story)
It's crazy how... non-consensual technology has gotten.
That's very assumptive of you. I have in fact used most of those features, and note I said their opinion was not wrong. In their readme they said it's a replacement for some use cases which is upfront and fine.

Vector queries aren't niche, Elastic however only tacked on a proper (non HNSW) implementation in the last year and a half. Geospatial isn't niche, anyone working with location data will work with those queries. TF-IDF is a basic ranking algo / signal.

Maybe Elasticsearch is good for you because they have all their features in aggregate. But I can name a tool that focuses specifically on each area and query type and is better for that specific subset of functionality.

So my point still stands, if all you need are specific features Elastic is too much. You need all of it and that's fine too.
Thank you Usama
I get what you're saying - in that people will sue over anything. But.

If you being "direct" with an employee about their performance rises to an EEOC complaint, you absolutely need to think about what you're doing and why you're doing it.

>Even if everything is above board, just the existence of the case can harm your reputation in the future, like someone who has been arrested and cleared.

I have had several EEOC complaints files against me for BS reasons (I work in a field that works with folks with disabilities, and it can be difficult to separate disability and job performance for some folks). None of them have had findings, and none of them have ruined my career. I'm confused by your statement here.
Op here :)
> (Aside: why do you even think the president is in that convoy? They may well be elsewhere, moved into the third suburban at the last possible invisible moment.)

Unless they are actively repelling an attack, I can guarantee you that the President is absolutely not anywhere except the Beast. All of the other vehicles in the motorcade are less armored, and do not carry the critical items the President may need, namely his blood. The standard operating procedure if the President's motorcade is attacked is to exfil the President while the CAT (Counter Assault Team) lays down massive amounts of suppressing fire. To that goal, the Beast is the safest vehicle for the President to be riding in.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_numbers_clockw...
LOL, you probably never heard of Meta or Amazon where not having an impact in the first 6-12 months will get you PIPed...
Despite the handwringing and poopooing from "liberals" there isa correlation between test performance and performance in college. Why would you send a student with sub 1000 SATs to Harvard when they likely won't be able to pass a single course?
This reminds me of the classsic story of the Boredom Room[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/business/global/layoffs-i...
is someone keeping track of all the no/low-code platform YC invested in?
Meanwhile FF allows one to just disable those requests altogether for all sites until further notice.
lmao oops
Wow. In the US the list price/general price is ~68k annually or ~17k per infusion. (Of course this isn't what people pay, but for 'cost to the system' metrics, it would be the apples to apples comparison).

Nothing near my number, which is encouraging. My numbers are clearly somewhat out of date. But I do wonder where that extra 40k+ cost (depending on currency values) in the US comes from.
Won't happen. It would cut out a lot of creative, legitimate content from people who would otherwise be unwilling to divulge their personal information to a CCP-governed application.
I have not yet hacked a good way to search around it though. It presents a massive time sink for me (not to mention frustration) and is probably multiplied across the population. More and more, when I search for advice, review, explanation, solution, or description, I virtually exclusively get articles/websites/books/sources that at first glance (certainly as far as Google and Bing can tell) are exactly what I am looking for. It then takes several minutes of reading to realize the author (human or not, irrelevant) does not know more about topic than I do. Then I go down the next one on the list, etc.

Quantity CAN make a difference. When there were few such sources, avoiding them was annoying but easy. Today, it's HARD. Tomorrow, it may be impossible with today's tools, and I don't know that we can win such a race.
That's why friends don't let friends run Microsoft software. In return for your money, you get to follow their orders, watch their ads, and generally compute in whatever way they want you to this quarter.

Windows is a control mechanism that, for now, runs third party code.
For those that don't want to go to TikTok's page (for one reason or another) there is a proxy service you can use, like how Nitter is used for Twitter, called ProxiTok. Gets just the video, description and ability to download it.

The first video in the GP proxied: https://proxitok.pabloferreiro.es/@bsmachinist/video/7157587...

Proxy info: https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok

(Not the creator of it but a user of it)
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Weird, Bytedance has not done anything, to my knowledge, worse (or even better) than other big companies in consumer software space. Do you also not use Instagram? What about google or YouTube? They have done some pretty shady stuff. Or oculus VR? PayPal/stripe? All these companies have done extremely shady stuff, it's impossible to be at the top of any of these markets without being shady.
Genuinely interesting. Some examples would be beneficial.
> Meanwhile, poor parents who weren't, their kids suffered learning losses.

Not even poor parents. The suburbs I mentioned (Fairfax and Montgomery) are among the most affluent in the country. Their schools were closed for two years or almost two years.
All of that is feminized nonsense. Comedy is being killed by gender politics.
With little change! When I'm watching some of my favorite YouTubers, they have changed both delivery and looks quite a bit.

The Captain stays the same. Alan does so, too, but I suppose that's because he isn't paid enough to afford changing anything.
>> will have enough batteries for 20-30 minutes of flight

>Where does this number come from, exactly?

It's a ballpark. Electric planes are capable of having up to 1 hour ([1]), but I've taken a smaller number to allow for more cargo instead of batteries - there's not much difference between 20 minutes and an hour in terms of finding a safe landing.

> Also, why not circumvent these questions by using electrolysis to make zero-carbon fuel from sunlight, and just pump that the regular way?

We should try almost everything. A massively parallel approach to reducing CO2 emissions has a higher chance of success.

> Or ships, which can be wind powered most of the time and backed up by PV-H2 and/or beamed power in the doldrums?

Same - we should try all technically-sound options. Wind, green hydrogen, biofuel, ammonia, solar, nuclear, beamed power in the doldrums. Non-practical approaches will vanish, practical will find their niches.

> We can probably also use lightweight PV coatings (or beamed power) on a blimp for air travel that won't crash when power fails. (But probably only for cargo; the Hindenburg meme will probably prevent passenger interest).

Somebody should try that too.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipistrel_Velis_Electro
Maybe you don't need a battery and can go with wireless power transmission.

A scaled-up version of this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ3K0suY1Dc

To provide more power to the led you probably need a bigger coil inside the eye, it should work if you hide the induction transmission loop inside a hat.
Samsung has fallen far. I switched to a cheap version of the pixel last time I got a new phone. Much longer os update cycle, and they essentially always get rom support first of all the phones. There is certainly better hardware put there but it only has google adware not the vendor's and Google's adware. And roms with no google are am option. I think I may consider an iphone when it gets usb-c but I would miss having a fedora install on my phone to do weird stuff. If they gave me a way to get a terminal where I could have rootless docker or jails on an iphone. I'd be on it. Bonus for having the usbc recognize keyboards, thumb drives and Ethernet adapters.
That happened to me right here in HN in a Linux story, when I mentioned and linked to an issue of not being able to use the Nvidia card along with the integrated intel card to connect 2 monitors. Answer was: Why are you trying to do such fringe configurations (plugging two monitors is fringe in Linux?)
> And cursed with a terrible housing market, especially for newcomers.

I know! I help people settle in Berlin, and I don't know what to tell incoming students anymore. I'm not sure how they can find a place to live in a reasonable time frame.

I hear that it's worse elsewhere, but it's no consolation.
With DIY, you have the option of looking at sensor manufacturer spec sheets, e.g. there are previous HN threads on the sensors used in the DIY Air Gradient PCB.

A challenge with consumer-grade sensors is lack of calibration. Here are some comparisons of PM sensors, relative to a more expensive reference meter, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32376719
Lenovo has been doing this junk for well over a decade - remember Superfish (2015) - https://slate.com/technology/2015/02/lenovo-superfish-scanda... , https://thenextweb.com/news/lenovos-bundled-adware-also-come... .

I personally remember returning a Lenovo Yoga family had (primarily due to windows 8 accessibility issues with font sizes) and switching to a mac.
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email is not the same as the web. HTTPS seem a bit more permissible than smtp/imap. That said I know that some banking sites do reject old version of browsers on the basis of security.

Some providers (email and others) can also continue to support deprecated/broken security for a very long time in order to not having to deal with customers using old deprecated software. 512 bits RSA public keys for example was used a very long time, long past where different standards and recommendation had a much higher minimum. Algorithm and key attacks are quite rare so companies can keep a low security standard for many years/decades before anyone exploits it. For customers that could be seen as a positive or a negative depending on perspective.
Anyone remember Eyeborg?

https://petapixel.com/2016/01/25/eyeborg-the-man-who-replace...
Automatic updates to address real issues and security risks are fine, unless you're talking about updates that can't be postponed if you're in the middle of something.

What we see, of course, is exactly what the twitter thread posted mentions: some "dickweasel" hijacked the update system to push crapware or do something user-hostile for purposes completely unrelated to what the user would want.

James Williams discusses this in his book "Stand Out Of Our Light", and likens it to a GPS that takes you off to places that you never wanted to visit in the course of (maybe) getting you to your intended destination. Of course, you arrive late, if ever, and burned way more gas (or battery) than you needed. But the GPS got you to drive by a specific set of billboards that they wanted you to see.
I applaud the efforts, but it's not there yet and still, look how long it took to be where they are today. Look at the lost efforts of webOS, Maemo, Symbian, FirefoxOS. Most of those have working forks, but only commercial ones are still living and are still not what I'm looking for.
The invention of breakthrough energy sources are not being blocked by efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle. They're being blocked by difficult thermodynamics, engineering, and materials problems.

I'm hopeful, but as far as we know it could take many hundreds of years to solve these problems - they might even be practically unsolvable. So it makes sense to also hedge our bets by making the systems we currently depend on more sustainable, rather than just assume we will transcend them on-schedule.
The problem there is that the law didn't define "reusable" bags well enough, so stores just made slightly thicker plastic bags and called them reusable even though they really aren't. As a result people ended up using the same amount of bags but with far more plastic.
That was the right move for my mom, mostly. Not perfect and she’s completely unable to remember passwords so I’m concerned she will brick it one of these days.

Personally I have one of these Lenovo’s and a default install of windows helped tremendously. I also went with linux mint on it to just completely get out of that s** show. So much lighter weight, fast. Not completely stable though, Vivaldi and firefox have some crashing and high CPU issues on it.
My perspective is velenced by my own biases, just like yours. My function here was just to provide a countering force to your force, and let the OP atleast be presented with the opportunity to be skeptical (mirroring the discourse around this topic, no doubt). It's worth pointing out that psychohistory is not a serious field, and largely considered a pseudoscience.
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Also open source options:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27421408

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24840355
A low-power laser pointer would still be very interesting and perfectly safe. Star Trek/X-men/Superman/Star Wars dreams of stunning enemies with a beam of light from your eyes, there's no to have power levels that can light matches, pop balloons, or otherwise cause destruction.

One cool use, IMO, would be a time of flight distance-measuring laser: With only a single working eye, OP lacks binocular vision for distance measuring. With the equivalent to a Bushnell rangefinder, they could stare at an object, blink twice, and hear a tiny voice literally in their head say "37.84 meters".
I'd argue most consumers do care, but only after the fact.
While I don't necessarily agree with it, I don't see why people feel entitled to claim this as a free speech violation etc.

It's Google's storage property and they can remove whatever they want from it.

They're not obligated to host anything.
For clarification, how did not wearing belt buckles translate to not buying Microsoft products?
I can confirm it makes a huge difference for SIP as well. Toll fraud attempts are not making the logs completely unreadable anymore when using a non-standard port.
Yep - it's cool to hate tiktok, but it's chock full of excellent content. Yeah there's a lot of trash (just like the internet in general) but just swipe it away. Follow creators you like, and the algorithm honestly does a pretty good job about showing videos I don't hate.
>abject hatred

Well, thank goodness we're all managing to retain some perspective and not just descending into performative melodrama.
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I will have to completely disagree on this one. The amount of excel I've learnt from my TikTok fyp is genuinely unprecedented in my life. It feels like passive learning because they appear between my other interests like history or comedy. Specially stuff like archeology is specially condusive to this format.
As a hiring manager I view even a single short run as a potential red flag —- and like any such finding I ask about it versus simply rejecting outright. 3+ and I ignore the resume.