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> so clearly lawyers have had no trouble breaking it.

You are missing the point. The point is comparing it to a hypothetical constitution that is 20 pages long, instead of 1 page long.

So, the 20 page long constitution, is probably easier to break, despite you misleading focus, on the irrelevant point, of the exact way the statement was phrased.
> If you want to make a change that half the country is dead against, all the systems of balance of power will work against it (two chambers - one by headcount the other by states, filibuster, presidential veto, high threshold of consensus for changing the constitution), as it should.

which is why prohabition never happened.
I considered working in the self driving field for a while. Being an early adopter puts you in a great position for that kind of thing.

While I didn't take advantage of it for self driving, or the iPhone (though I did buy the first one), I did for VR (backed the Oculus Rift Kickstarter and then made a career in VR) and deep learning (jumped in early and also made it part of my career) and Bitcoin (not part of my career, but still good).

I consider the cost of being an early adopter of things like FSD money well spent given the opportunities it can create for you. I think a lot of people are making money on YouTube simply recording themselves driving around with FSD Beta on.
For what protocol would this be advantageous over plain connection pooling?
> Not as wonky as you'd think, and 60 minutes means something much different than 12:15.

The expression you’ve posted is literally a complicated way of writing 60mn, and you specifically wrote that it should not be interpreted as 12:15.

> See also ETags which stop trying to be clever about dates

Etags have unrelated role and semantics. Etags go with last-update, which doesn’t suffer from anywhere near as much from drift because it’s checked by the server, which emitted it.
Back during the summer, and friend of mine’s son was killed in an accident involving a Tesla on autopilot. I can’t help but feel like the oversell of Autopilot’s capabilities is just Elon Musk feeding his own ego.
Bingo. I miss her along with 411 and calling my parents with the collect call name "QualcommStadiumGameOverPickMeUp"
try to rotate your thumb prints more than 10 times or change your face after a data leak and then get back to us.
I've grown tired of big proprietary software, even if it's open source. Companies like Microsoft will keep doing whatever their business whims dictate, deprecating tools, etc... I want to live in a world where I'm in control of my software instead of constantly adapting for reasons that have nothing to do with how I like to work.

I also don't like the common paradigms like having a cockpit of information in my face at all times. I want the information that I need magnified and the ability to dig into it with intentionality in whichever way I choose.

When working with text, I want text in the forefront, not widgets and GUIs. Those are some philosophical, but also pragmatic reasons for prefering the shell based tools and Vim. If there is a visualization that is better conveyed graphically then yes, I can of course open tools for that purpose.

Luckily I'm able to use Vim for my workflow, but I totally get that it's not always possible or feasible.
> You can only download 500 photos in one go

Uhh, no? https://takeout.google.com/ allows you to download your entire library at once.

There's even a transfer wizard where you can export your photos to an external service like Apple Photos! https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9666875?hl=en
I don't like to complicate things or chase the newest shinny thing. So that's why I always use WordPress to build landing pages.

You can do so many things for free(lots of tutorials online, community help, easy to find codes) or hire a pro for cheap.
Huh, as a non-go programmer, I was pretty shocked to see it doesn't have operator overloading. How have experiences with that been? Seems like a big omission but it is a pretty well regarded language, so I guess they must have thought this out.
I am very partial to python, but i have hit a lot of bottle necks with it. I find GO to be a reasonable intermediate, balancing ease of use and flexibility with some speed trade offs. I should probbably learn rust but it seems like a lot for writing web apps, and I could never get my head around lifetimes
> These are dark times for US democracy

The US system has little d democratic aspects but it is not a democracy. It was intentionally setup to protect the minority from the majority in critical respects like constitutional amendments. Also, population shifts are ongoing and the coastal blue populations are the most rapidly aging in the country and the increasingly red US born Hispanic populations are the most rapidly growing. The future may contain some surprises.
All of the above means a poorly configured system. A correctly configured Windows system would not allow any of that to happen.

1- For network privileges you can restrict user to strict network location and nothing else.

2 - For scanning it also needs privileges that can be restricted using policies.

3 - Can't send anything if it doesn't have the correct privileges.

Who's stopping you to create your own version of VBA, release it and replace Microsoft Office suite with your own defined version as you said. And in the process of doing this you'll become billionaire too.

Until then, a correctly configured Windows system is immune to all of the above.
I wish people (of both sides) who declare "the system is broken" etc would seriously ask themselves, is it because your particular issue didn't go your way? How would we run a stable country if that were the principle to follow?

There was the line "it may backfire on you sooner than you thought" and I think there's some good caution in that statement. Take your own argument out of the picture -- would you be happy for the principle by which you're suggesting we operate be on the other foot and the majority be in the hands of your opponent?

I come to think that democracy is, more than anything, learning how to lose gracefully and without a revolution. So many people now seem to believe, if I lose, it must be broken and deserves a revolution. On both sides.
I'll never use the metaverse unless meta moves FB marketplace there. I need my local deals.
Does BMW make their own technology now, or do they still use Mobileye products?

I was quite happy with my old Mobileye equipped i3. It never got updated though.
The Space Between Fact and Fiction a Metaverse Exegesis
> Indeed, we have AGI already, they are called humans, and the progress we see in the development of AI is not exponentially explosive

Actually it is. Human population growth has been exponential, as has been our resource use and consumption of our habitat, and the pace of our innovations. We've now created forms of machine intelligence to further augment our own, and machine intelligence could itself start advancing soon, without the messy constraints of evolution and biology. The possibility is definitely there, we'll see if it works out that way in the end. If it does, it will likely blindside us.
> Guess we need the Spotify phone, Amazon phone, Facebook phone, ... Just to be clear, I am not defending Meta specifically (I do not use any of their product) but this argument is BS. An operating system used by +25% of the population (higher in the US) shouldn't enforce such fee.

I don’t use spotify so I can’t speak for their platform but don’t they charge outside of Apples ecosystem, and therefore aren’t subject to Apples 30%? I’m an Apple “fanboy”, all my service subs go through them if they accept it. Many subs don’t. So I don’t see the equivalence here.

> They are a mandatory part of living in society.

No they are not. They are a convenience. People can and will continue to live without them if necessary. Even in modern society. Go a week without your smartphone before you say things like this.
It's an anti-user and anti-dictionary dark pattern when "turn off" doesn't mean Turn Off, but only stops new connections.
If I recall correctly, there were special DELL machines where intel allowed owners to disable ME in the bios. You had to contact sales to buy them.

The issue here is that ME can be disabled but intel doesn't want you, the "normal consumer", to disable it. Why?
I think one of the the questions being asked here is if there is not something a bit more sinister than just being a cowboy at play, but that it is a ruse to make money. I was literally asking myself that question this morning before I heard of this case. I had no answer (mainly because there is not enough evidence against the hypothesis). I am interested to see what, if anything, they manage to unearth.
Congratulations, you just summed up about 30% of Command and Staff College. /s

Professionally, we discuss a continuum of armed conflict, ranging from competition (at the "infrared" end of the spectrum) through limited contingency operations, small wars, hybrid threats, etc. to total war.

The Constitution has built into it certain assumptions about the world. Many of them either hold true or can be legally held true (e.g., there are inherent rights with inherent contours, such as for speech or keeping and bearing arms, that can be determined with historical analysis).

Many cannot hold, and become vestigial and almost meaningless (e.g., a $20 threshold for jury trials in civil cases).

Lastly, many cannot hold... and so the applicability of the provisions they implicate become open questions. It simply isn't the case that only nation-states can engage in armed conflict, or that they always make formal declarations of it (though I'd argue the AUMFs qualify for Constitutional purposes), or that all armed conflict will be at the level of total war.

The substance of the power to declare war is to ensure the President cannot act unilaterally to call up Reservists or engage in conflict; Congress governs. I think that substance continues to be met, given the weave of the statutory scheme (Title 10, Subtitle E; contingency operation appropriations by Congress; AUMFs; etc.).
I've heard the advice to give a gift of something that you like, because people are bound to be disappointed if you try to cater to their interest. I'm into cycling, and I've received many cycling-related gifts, many of which I unfortunately haven't used. Meanwhile, I've had a few products that I'm really fond of that I've received good feedback about. A few examples are tools, flashlights, and one which was received exceptionally well - a nice pair of binoculars. It turns out the recipient uses their nice binoculars all the time now. I always like receiving those random type gifts as well.

When in doubt, alcohol is an easy one, provided the recipient isn't too snobby.
At this point my needs to satisfy me are simple: Pay me a reasonable wage when you say you are going to pay it. Don’t make it a hassle to accomplish the task/job. Don’t ask me to manage people other than myself. Don’t ask me to travel more than 25% of the time. Most important, provide me effective and competent leadership.

I am nearing the end of my career, I could care less about changing the world through work/product, corporate activism and all that stuff.
the ussr and china both developed from feudalism without capitalism and lifted a huge number of people out of poverty. not advocating their system, (not not-advocating either), but they are counter examples.
The idea behind the tiles changing when you switch themes is so that you can have more distinction that just colours between themes.

For instance you might want a "focused" theme with just blank tiles and the day planner.

Or a "stocks" theme with just stock tickers and related subreddits.
I'm not sure I agree with that rhetoric. There are many countries around the world who see the US as a fascist entity who has bombed the shit out of them imposed economic sanctions and destroyed their way of life. As an American I see economic freedom as intrinsically good and what the founders would have always wanted. I do not see our particular set of OFAC rules as democratic neither our economic hegemony as something we need to accept as morally right.

I am not against that set of rules, especially for the legacy system, but it's not on blockchain devs to comply.

We will have to let our legislators decide. Starting to see a good amount of bipartisan support for reasonable regulations (in the eyes someone who is pro crypto). And whatever they decide it will prove the true strength of a blockchain if it can resist censorship. For example, if they choose to make Coinbase comply with OFAC on an attestation level the system should be able to deal with that through social slashing etc.
$75/hr minimum. corp to corp. Up to $125/hr. thru another contracting firm, will be lower.

Depending on development stack and specialty can go higher.

search for ‘patio11’ here on hackernews… he always recommended project work instead of hourly. Or daily or weekly rates instead of hourly.
As a Canadian I'd be surprised to learn our constitution was considered top notch by legal scholars.

The amendment process is very onerous. 7/10 provinces haven't ever really agreed on the colour of the sky, let alone something as important as new constitutional rules. It took some very special backroom wrangling to pass it in the first place and I don't see a path to amending it during my lifetime. Meech Lake came close and very nearly broke the country.

The notwithstanding clause was necessary to get it passed at all, but really takes some of the teeth out of the charter of rights and freedoms. When parties hold majority control of the House of Commons or a provincial legislature a lot of what keeps their power in check is mostly norms it turns out. One of the few actual laws that would really impede them is the charter, but portions of it can be ignored.

Overall I'm very happy we have the 1982 Constitution Act, but I certainly wouldn't offer it up as a blueprint if someone came asking for assistance in drafting a constitution. The Charter itself as a portion of the larger constitution (minus the notwithstanding clause) is a very special piece of law that deserves some recognition internationally, but as a whole it wasn't even 10 years before the real issues were exposed with the whole document.
You're describing a utopia where outcomes are perfectly predictable, which is silly.

"And roads should be without any defect, weather should never happen, pedestrians and other drivers should always behave rationally, and black ice is not legally allowed to exist."
Yes, smarter kids with higher attention spans will play video games for more hours in a day.
It’s hard to design good operator overloading. In c++ it’s difficult to do correctly to the point of being considered an antipattern in many shops
9-1-1 callcenters often do, some use specialized server hardware that can in <1ms switch from one motherboard/CPU to another when it fails.

Apparently there are some workloads in finance that use similar hardware.
> population shifts are ongoing and the coastal blue populations are the most rapidly aging in the country

But they also have longer lifespans by a couple of years.

> increasingly red US born Hispanic populations are the most rapidly growing.

A lot of those US born Hispanics are in California and very blue (thanks to Pete Wilson).
> Even they get rewritten and updated and 'bloated' all the time.

"All the time" is a stretch. The basic UNIX commands date back to the 70s and while they have grown more and more options over time, change is slow (which is a wonderful thing, to be clear). Yes, there was grumbling when GNU started adding even more options but even that is now decades ago.

As a consumer of the tools (whether by hand or by shell script), they provide a stable base to build on. I have some shell scripts from ca.1990 which still work fine. It's very pleasing to be able to build on top of a solid foundation that just keep working for a long time.
Wait whaat - surely students still can access all buildings no? I thought that’s just about closing from the public.

With that said, even that is pretty bad.. We used to host random word games with external students.
Are people still using this, or some successor to this? It looks very cool, but the last commit was in 2018.
> Where I get hung up on with this is how the AGI knows what a more sophisticated AGI would look like without being at least as sophisticated

I'm not sure what's difficult about this. Are we not able to test what humans can run the fastest without being able to run just as fast? We can equally test which humans are the best spellers, or the best chess players, or the best problem solvers.
An ancient greek scribe would have no problem using a pen you buy today.
There is a theory[0] that a series of impact events ~12,000 years ago melted the North American ice sheets over the course of a few days.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...
I’m not sure what’s the word is, but whatever it is constantly tries to convince me that I need an iPod Classic.

Aesthetic nostalgia maybe
There are a couple Chrome extensions designed for taking notes on videos, but I haven’t tried them. These days I use tools like Descript to transcribe videos (or insert transcriptions from the video, which is a bit complicated to do) and then have a video I can treat kind of like a doc - leave comments, make a new composition of just the highlights, leave markers. It doesn’t quite tag the way Dovetail app can, though. Storyboard mode in Descript is kind of neat, you can leave slashes to remind yourself when slides change, etc.

This really is an area that needs more innovation, long term.

Oh, I also sometimes embed videos using iframes into Miro boards and then use that for note taking. But it’s a little tricky when you want to attach notes to particular timestamps in the video. I think maybe you can embed Descript shares as iframes into Miro but I haven’t tried it yet.
What does a lot of people even mean? It's meaningless. Is that you and your friend? Results of a study? Random thoughts of sex fearing folks?
Tech is actually much bigger than media. The tail keeps wagging the dog for some reason.
Please say what about voting has been fundamentally attacked at its core that rises to the level of amending the Constitution? That voters are required to (gasp) verify their identification, once every 4 years, if certain conditions aren't met? That drop boxes for ballots were reduced in number?

Gerrymandering? Just look at some of the district designs in New York.

I might remind you that all the things that are criticized in Republican states for suppressing the vote, exist as rules in certain Democratic states as well.

It's easy, I might point out to you as well, to live in an echo chamber where issues get inflated in perceived importance, only because they hurt your side. Yet those same issues happening where it doesn't hurt the side, somehow fall from being a problem.

That's no way to come to what should be an amendment to our basic document.
Regarding the last part of your comment: you may get some value out of this plugin, https://github.com/chipsenkbeil/distant.nvim, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVAsbpByQ3o.

I've not used it but your use case made me wonder if there's a nice way to do it, as I regularly SSH into my NAS and RPi's, so I had a quick search.
Sure, you’re correct. I still have no feelings for meta. Burn for all I care.
Over in New Zealand there's a similar situation with a small island group observing UTC+12:45.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/new-zealand/chatham-is...
It was previously implemented as a special internal function https://github.com/golang/go/commit/fd4dc91a96518fdbb47781f9...

So, making it a simple Go function was more work (at least, as an individual change) because they could've left it.

A three-way compare in native Go would likely be slower in most cases than the "slow" version that exists there, because in actually equal or size varying cases the "slow" one gets sent directly to optimized platform-tuned assembly, and the other cases still end up with tuned multibyte comparison stuff that likely wouldn't be possible in the stock Go compiler without clever bounds check removal.
A compiler that can make that three-way quite fast is desirable, and there are reasons to do that independent of that function, but even Rust uses unsafe and farms out to builtin tuned memcmp stuff for 3 way compare of strings.

My theory is that strings.Compare _was_ known to be faster, and people starting preferring it because it was faster, and that in part prompted the change. Most engineers use a faster approach if available, even if it is a bit clunkier and not necessary (as this comment section shows, many folks are outraged at the idea of code not optimized for maximal performance). Encouraging bad use because a function is unintentionally faster than the naive thing is a bug in a stdlib.
Except the irony is it's baked into their systems as well, so you distribute your own national security threat...

It's like phone lines, Intel agencies loved being able to arbitrarily tap lines, at least until they started having their own lines tapped as well.

If I were China or Russia I'd have stockpiled a couple bugs in these backdoors and I'd be waiting to cause major economic disruption to the US govt with their own systems... so then it's just a game of who can knock out the other's comms first (which is as I understand it doctrine generally speaking in conflict, but)
That literally what the federal government is for. Regulating interstate commerce.

(And common defense)
> Machines that learn, sure, but conscious machines, no way.

If we're trading compelling arguments, then there is one for consciousness not only being unnecessary, but also a drawback that evolution would happily optimize away given time, and basically not worth the energy it burns.

I don't have a handy list of papers to support this, but I can recommend two novels by Peter Watts, Blindsight and Echopraxia, both of which deal with this idea (apologies for sort-of spoiler), and which both do come with references to academic publications backing this and other ideas used in the books.
I wish we had Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s in Kendall. But no, there’s only one grocery shop, which is kinda meh
> I’m curious on what the current popular alternatives are

Electing the President by national popular vote is by far the most commonly cited alternative.

> It does seem like most conversation focuses on direct democracy

It does not.

> since it’s fixated on respecting the popular vote.

Electing officials by popular vote is representative democracy, not direct democracy. Direct democracy is the citizens making policy decisions by popular vote, without elected officials as intermediaries (e.g., many U.S. states use some form of ballot initiative and/or referendum system, which are – limited forms, since they still have elected legislators do most lawmaking – direct democracy.)
Another way to look at this: users got years of free unlimited photo storage before google decided to monetize. IDK, storage ain't free, it was nice while it lasted
US theaters had intermissions up into the late 60's but not since.
I don’t like operator overloading much. I think it hides a lot of what’s happening behind the scenes. It’s good syntactic sugar but wouldn’t be a deal breaker for me.

I love python. My personal complaints about it - speed, gil and static typing. Other than that I love using it.
In space, if you want to engage in energetic processes, heat builds up to the degree that you fail to get rid of it. But the only ways to get rid of it are to radiate it toward someplace cold, or put it into cold stuff and eject that.

In the inner solar system, the sun is blasting everything with 1kW+ per meter², setting you back before you even start.