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>No business would do this; non-competes would be de facto banned

That is the point. It is a sincere suggestion, because it would force companies to only seek out a non-compete in the case where the employees knowledge is valuable enough to warrant subsidizing their extended vacation.

And this does happen in the finance industry. Some businesses do in fact do this.
That's not really true. It would be if it was done right, but most companies have some way of getting around it.

I lost my yubikey I used for my AWS account (I know, I should have two but I really did not have anything worthwhile on this account). I also changed phone numbers in the meantime as well as email. And then proceeded to forget my root password. I have not used the account for a number of years and it really did not sink in until I needed it.

See? You would think I was totally and utterly fucked.

Well, not. I called them and with a procedure that took some 3 days and numerous phone calls, id photos, etc. But I finally got the access to my account back.
i always get lost here. we specifically targeted and kept down people based on race with government policy. why is it a bad thing to acknowledge that and try and fix it? are we so naïve as to thunk it’s all fair now? where the 1960s long enough ago that the impact of prior rade based policy is legitimately gone?
> COVID isn’t spread by touch.

COVID's primary means of infection certainly isn't touch, but that doesn't preclude getting the droplets on your hands and introducing them by touching your face.
I have a TomTom PND and I swear by it. It's much better than the navigation systems built into cars (unless they're TomTom, several brands have them built-in).

Also, I refuse to use Google Maps as I am loath to let Google know my travel history. I am, however, somewhat concerned that TomTom uploads my travel history to their servers, since my device has LTE/3G capability. This was used to fetch congestion information and to offer a smarter / faster route, but since I don't have a subscription the service stopped after a free trial period.
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> SMS-based 2FA which is still very common

It's not like it's showing any signs of going away either, financial institutions even are newly implementing it.
Interesting, but what about the more recent YOLO versions? Do you have any research on if they encounter the same issues?
Not the poster you’re responding to but I think they’re referring to the current need to allocate more memory when updating immutable data structures.

Not that there aren’t ways to represent mutability in Haskell, just that the de facto use of immutability causes excess allocation.
Last time I tried to learn Erlang I stopped immediately for 2 reasons:

- could not find a platform/runtime where to host it

- basic open source libraries are not available

It’s nice and all to be attracted to cool technology but we also have to be aware of everything else that goes with it: developer experience, oss libraries, community support, ease of use and so on
And just how will these new laws be passed? HackerNews upvotes?
for me it's the cables and similiar visible infrastructure.
Most european cities I know have most or all of that stuff underground.
1) Figure out something that you are good at but don't like and make plan how to levarage that in the best way to become financialy indepenend (aka rich) from that.

2) Now you can do what you want.

For the average Joe this means that we'll be spending a lot of time outside of work working on 1). There is no other way for those of us from non-rich families: we have to wisely sacrifice free time and convert that free time into a non-linear $$$ return in the most practical way possible.
I could believe this if it was mostly spread by coughing and sneezing and other such large droplets, but we knew by mid/late-2020 that this virus was almost entirely aerosol spread - something cloth masks don't stop at all.
No. That might be a possible backup, but the usual way is any current logged-in device + password.
Free account?

When you are paying customer you are also getting the privilege of contacting the support.

I think it is fair that Google does not want to directly talk to billions of people using their services and not paying a cent for it. You get it for free? It is up to you to make sure you don't loose access.
That goes for both carriers. Either one has an error receiving or the other has an error porting. Communication between the carriers could be near nonexistant though. I hope there is a way =\
Or how to train a billion people to do what their told.
>This process is highly regulated.

https://www.fcc.gov/general/wireless-local-number-portabilit...

Looks like the only time they are legally required to, ATM, is if you switch from one wireless provider to another. Introducing a VoIP providers probably means this dude isn't getting his number..
Humans won't be able to tell the difference. If another AI is able to tell the difference then we'll just use this as in adversarial model to make sure the bar is raised even more.
You have to have a very special mask to clean exhaled breath sufficiently to prevent an aerosol virus with such a high R0.
Well, you can get a base-model tomtom for AU$179 [1]

And the customer's alternatives include "just use year-old maps" and "use google maps" so it's not like tomtom have the customer over a barrel here.

[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/Updates-Lifetime-Smartphone-Messag...
Ironically it's Adobe that made mainstream the concept of subscription based graphic software
> Sure, on a small scale, but Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and I'm sure many other platforms exist and are quite successful.

They are not stopping the piracy.

They are providing better service than piracy. As Gabe Newell said, piracy is a service problem.

Offer something convenient and worth the price and a lot of people will pay it just fine.
It's certainly not an easy thing to solve. I want that stuff in my feed and share it with my friends, but the blogger will want it on their blog. And blogs could be using any of hundreds of different comment systems, which no social network is going to support. So there would have to be a standard for communication between the social network and the blog that enables them to share comments, while still letting the blogger keep control over their blog (the social network shouldn't be a backdoor to force spam or abuse on his blog), but the social network user should remain in control over their feed.
I just disagree that performance isn't a concern in almost every context. There's a hierarchy of concerns, to be sure, and if you haven't written reliable code which solves the problem yet you shouldn't be worried about performance, but if your PL itself imposes a performance tax, that's something which has to be paid every time your program gets executed, by every user.

As programmers, our job is to not to play with abstractions, it's to move electrons and make hardware do things. We can't afford to abstract away the complexity of the hardware completely. Indeed the trends in PL popularity of the past 20 years have been to move back closer to the hardware, and away from highly abstracted environments, like scripting languages and JVM.
> So they’re just wanting a cut.

A cut that is actually larger than the price of Photoshop, which is $10 / month.
How many conservatives are still on Twitter complaining about censorship, rather than using Gettr or Parler or Truth Social?

Network effects are WAY stronger than we think. Also, if you built a following on Twitter over 10-15 years, leaving it is a massive sacrifice.

I wouldn't bet on an actual twitter exodus.
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Uhh, if you need a currently logged in device to bypass the phone number login, then I wouldn’t say it’s a “possible backup”. Phone number is the primary authentication mechanism for Authy.
If these "climate change" moral toddlers are making a mess, wait until you see what the "climate change" adults are doing.

Sabotaging sustainable energy programs, and increasing reliance on fossil fuels.

Demanding that two stroke engines be banned, and focusing on absolutely miniscule contributions to emissions, while turning a completely blind eye to flying around the world in jets for dinner parties.

Legislating insane policies against ICE vehicles, while desperately trying to get people to stop charging their vehicles at peak consumption hours because the current grid can't sustain it.

Putting ridiculous taxes and standards on dairy farms, increasing the cost of food during a time of inflation and economic hardship.

What these guys are doing with the soup and blocking highways is just the distilled manifestation of climate activism. Screw everything up, be obnoxious, accomplish nothing.
I'd assume that there are plenty of editors that just do general C-style comment highlighting without diving into java-specific Unicode escapes. As long as you can't be sure that no bad actor could ever consider this obfuscation a net positive for their goals, the lint approach remains worthwhile. Worthwhile because its cost is so low.
This sounds like handwavy opinion with no scientific basis. Has this mode of transmission ever been proven to occur in a scientific trial?
In human societies we have a spectrum of approaches to settling disagreements. The most peaceful being dialogue, and the most aggressive being violence in the form of terrorism and war.

Environmentalists have tried dialogue for literal decades at this point and it has accomplished basically nothing. Escalating to threatening property rights seems the lowest possible escalation, and seems only natural from the perspective that climate change is an existential threat.

While I do not think that these strategies will be successful, I also think that calling them moral toddlers for it is dishonest.
I like that provider and it's really useful in a lot of situations. Configuring Stripe as it is currently designed doesn't always help as much for SaaS and infrastructure billing models. We wrote here about how we map to Stripe https://www.tier.run/docs/mapping/

Even after Stripe has been set up, you then get our SDK (node available, Go shortly) which gives you things like .subscribe(), .report(), .whois() (gets stripe ids) and .limits() that you can use to tool your app. The benefit is that when you change your plans or pricing, you don't need to refactor your front end. These are the benefits of the pillars on https://priceops.org

The CLI also acts as a sidecar in your network to do things like rollups and it manages Stripe pretty gracefully (Stripe can often have rate limits or requirements that aren't always clear). It also handles metering for you via the above referenced methods.

Someone made another comment on this thread that outlines some of the benefits vs Stripe raw as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33431567
I know right? I think all those FBI warnings worked maybe, and the new generation of geeks think IP is actually a moral thing instead of a corporate money-grab.

Also, Herbert wasn't against AI I don't think. I suspect he simply recognized he couldn't comprehend the world that far in the future if AI was a part of it. Instead, he used space magic to explore his very present reality of resource wars, and went on to make a point I'm not sure I understand, about too much political order and resultant stagnation causing self annihilation.
I would agree 100%, but this is not 90s Red Hat, it's IBM now.

It seems like the classical "Here's our new pricing and for being a long time customer we throw in a bottle of vaseline too". Which technically has nothing to do with open source but Red Hat ( like every company in this space ) created an "ecosystem" and uses the word "open source" VERY liberally when selling you stuff. Some of their opensource software need some paid service or "maintenance" contract to work or have any value.

I'm sure Red Hat/IBM is ( mostly ) covered on the legal side, but the sausage is made in a very different way.
I like the philosophy of Rust (and some other languages) of "safe by default". Rust variables are immutable by default, but can be made mutable using "let mut". Rust is memory safe by default, but can be made unsafe using the drumroll "unsafe" keyword. As for null references, other languages still have them but enforce "strict null checking", such as Kotlin and TypeScript. They force you to verify a reference is not null before using it, but without the verbosity of an Optional or Maybe type.

Functional programming is great, but it's far from optimal in many situations. For example, implement a self-balancing binary search tree using a common imperative language with mutability. Then try implementing it again but using pure functional programming. Certainly very possible but also requires a lot more work when you're not allowed mutability.
The Pantone subscription is 1.5x as expensive as Photoshop.
High street cooks don't get that after 20, which I think is the point being made here.

I'd have to check what the pension rules actually are to say if it's 30 or 40 or more for civilians, but it's not 20.
Yes, free account. And having lost the ability to do 2FA I probably won’t be able to upgrade it. I’m fine paying for support, but that is not even provided as far as I know (for free accounts).
The scripture says….
I don't understand why some people are so hellbent on eliminating Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which would only mean the most reasonable way to have UGC is to have none at all, because anything else leaves a non-zero probability of the UGC website operator (now being considered a publisher) being sued.

This is the only good take on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and the one that I agree with the most; since it would set the First Amendment as the bar for speech on social media, bringing parity to the protections we have elsewhere.
What an article! Suggesting that we should be having a civil discourse while our forests, natural resources and breathable air are disappearing and we are literally about to BOIL is so delusional.

It's not like scientist have not been trying to have honest conversation about change with the people in power/money for decades already, to almost no effect.
What a way to dismiss the concern people have about the future where there will be no livable planet as "moral toddlers".

If anything, I think the Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion are too mild in their tactics. After decades of inaction, they are merely trying to (mildly) shock the system from apathy to action, to avert the biggest catastrophe humans have ever faced.

I can't wait in a year or two, when it becomes more evident what is happening to our natural world, and who's been benefitting from that. The Shells and Exxons of this world would then wish that the people then would use such soft tactics as spraying a painting with paint or gluing themselves to the road. But I am afraid that instead they are simply going to face a lot of VERY angry people with pitchforks and torches.
no hate here - the "replace everything with an iPad" movement of car dash design has been generally, IMO, a horrible change. When driving, you need tactile feedback when adjusting things like the cabin temperature so that you can keep your eyes on the road. Replacing knobs with GUI sliders on a screen that you have to see to manipulate is a step backwards. I would love it if auto manufacturers came to their senses and went back to old-fashioned knobs and buttons, but I suspect that just sticking everything on a screen is cheaper to manufacture and maintain, so I won't hold my breath. :(
> I'd like to have a language that is imperative when written and functional when read :)

Depending on which language Monads give you exactly that bridge between imperative and functional.

In your example, you can always choose to have side effects in that deep call.

Personally, I like a type-driven approach. Then, I do not care so much where functions are (they will be grouped logically, but could be anywhere), as long as the type in and the type out matches.
AFAIK you don't can't get COVID by having it on your face, it has to be an airborne particle that floats and ends up deep inside your nose/lung.

so the whole touching your face is a red herring

I am sure you and I and everyone else, has lots of things on their faces at all times
Sorry dude, one can't simply tell truth here. Your downvoters shall persist with their cognitive dissonance until they find themselves literally l̶o̶c̶k̶e̶d̶ self-isolated in t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶e̶l̶l̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶M̶a̶t̶r̶i̶x̶ their cosy appartments f̶e̶e̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶M̶a̶c̶h̶i̶n̶e̶ signalling their virtue, and even then they will pretend it's OK and everyone dissident is just nuts.
The nostalgia fantasy rears its head yet again
Because they don't like Google therefore they hate the products
Masks are designed to protect the wearer. Your priors may need updating on what it means that an aerosol is spreading the virus.
Why do you think that functional programming results in data duplication? I would think it's rather the opposite.

I suspect it has something to do with the perceptions around always returning a new thing from a function rather than the mutated input to the function. For example, if you need to mutate the property of an object based on other inputs, the perception is you would clone that object, modify the property appropriately, and then return the cloned object.

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Cutting edge new immunotherapy cancer treatment called "World of Warcraft"
Section 230 protects every moderated forum.

Maybe it should distinguish between forums, where everyone sees the same content, and social networks, where people choose who to follow and who to block. Maybe social networks should be regulated as common carriers[1].

But simply removing the second paragraph of Section 230, making moderated forums liable for every post, would make them legally unviable.

[1]: https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/carrier.pdf
> I wonder what China is trying to achieve here.

Exactly the same as what the western world has tried for 2 years, give or take. It doesn’t work either way, but due to their authoritarian government they just have the ability to keep trying for longer.
Has hand washing as a means to reduce disease transmission ever been studied outside of third world countries? I tried to look it up once and the only studies I could find were all in cultures that used their bare hands to clean themselves after defecating.

At that point, it seems kind of obvious that washing your hands reduces disease. But for cultures that have more "advanced" bathroom ritual, is hand washing beyond cleaning literal shit off your hands actually effective? I can't imagine that a person could dedicate enough time to hand washing versus the amount of times they touch things and their faces, to make it a practice with good enough adherence rates to be considered useful policy.
I think many are getting a fedi account "just in case".
Methane is odorless. It's the added mercaptan that gives it the smell you know about.
They recently added some “free” option for a few licenses as an individual developer https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-...
Yeah, I figured this out as a kid. I could tell which neighborhood people lived or a business was located solely based on phone number.
Can someone tell me what value does Pantone bring to the table? As a man-on-the-street I fail to understand what they are claiming for. Is this about the naming Pantone has given to a particular Hex Code?
No boom mic. it is fine in most scenarios.

The model i have is paired with one phone. not sure if the newer models have multi pairing.

Music is kinda crap on them. but everything else is fine.

I also have a set of Bose QC45's for Teams and decent music listening. that also supports multi pairing
Where I work you have to change gloves when you move from any work location/room, because gloves spread contamination.

Asking for glove use would have a huge environmental impact…
You found the wireless page so that’s all it discusses, but that’s not true. What is true is that for wired providers, you are geographically bound. But you can still take your wired number and port it to your wireless plan and then move wherever.

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/porting-keeping-your-ph...
I wasn't suggesting we'd all be using Google Maps. The point I was making is that TomTom had a large role to play in their own demise. They went for the quick buck, employing dark patterns, necessary device upgrades etc. And yes car manufacturers are guilty of much the same.
In Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, written during the rise of photoshop (such things were already being predicted back in the 90s), people eventually reject tv/movie style media and go back to plays since the generated media is just too easy to pump out an chintzy.

This one resonates with me a bit.

We already see this in goods to an extent "artisinal" vs "cheap dropshipped crap".

People find value in seeing other people do something well (see the popularity of maker videos, or the number of people commenting on someone's performance in a movie rather than the plot, etc). It also captures the idea that art isn't just a product, but a method of communication and is inherently human.

I dunno, just rambling before my morning coffee.
The premise and the story don’t really match up to me.

It sounds a lot more like you had a manager who claimed they were going to shield your team but did it poorly.

When you have an actual umbrella, you can still see the rain. You still know how hard it’s raining and what way the wind is blowing. But you get less wet than if you didn’t have the umbrella.

A manager can help stabilize incoming requests, and help filter out / deprioritize / deflect noise from elsewhere in the business. A bad manager can surely do so in a way that is detrimental to the team, but a good manager can do that and still make sure their team has context and connection to the rest of the company.
This article tries to push FP as a solution to NPE??? What the?! NPEs are a problem due to dodgy type systems... it's a type sytem problem, not a language paradigm one... i.e. it has no relation to whether a language is functional or not.

For example, Dart 2 is null-safe! No one in their right mind would claim Dart is a FP language. Even Java can be null-safe if you use some javac plugin like the Checker Framework.

Also, a language can totally be functional and yet suffer from NPE, like Clojure or Common Lisp, but I suppose the author may be forgiven here because they are talking only about "purely functional programming languages"... (they didn't mention "statically typed" though, but that's clearly implied in the content)...

I believe the author is inadvertently pushing for two things that are pretty much unrelated to FP, even if they are a requirement in most purely-functional languages:

* immutability

* strong, static type systems

I would mostly agree with both (except that local mutability is fine and desired, as anyone trying to implement a proper quicksort will tell you - also, see the Roc language[1], which is purely functional but uses local mutability), but I write my Java/Kotlin/Dart just like that and I wouldn't consider that code purely functional. I don't think whether the code is purely functional actually matters much at all compared to these 2 properties, which can be used in any language regardless of their main paradigm.

[1] https://www.roc-lang.org/
They all went and bought vacation houses (read: what would have been somebody else's starter house) in flyover states. The money spent on goods is just a figment of them spending all the stuff they need to kit out their extra house.
Yes, but Pantone colours is more specialised software and its price shouldn’t be compared to that of software for a wide audience. If you really need Pantone colours, it’s an expense easily worth it.

I understand the outcry but TBH I think it’s a bit exaggerated. That being said I‘m also not sure whether it’s really worth it for Pantone to charge for their digital stuff. I can’t imagine it being a huge part of their revenue.