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I'm so glad they're wasting money on this crap instead of making Firefox better and faster. The CPU temperature goes to 70℃ occasionally and I can't even find out what's causing it. The about:performance page is a bad joke.
I discovered process.send() in Node a couple years ago and it made the decision to fork a child process a lot easier. No need to sanitize command line output when you can do direct IPC over a connection that uses JSON under the hood.

The itch I can’t seem to scratch is how to run tasks in parallel and have logs that are legible to coworkers. We do JSON formatted logs in production and I’m wondering if something like this would help solve that set of problems.
Just thinking out loud....but making mods is already an incredibly niche thing. I'm not sure how anybody would learn actual game scripting without being able to easily share lots of code.
Ideas can't be copyrighted. The media that describes it can be. Ideas can't be patented either, you need a non obvious novel invention, a reduction to practice. That the theory anyway.
You may not believe it, but people are fickle. It’s that old Eddie Murphy bit about “What have you done for me lately”. Believe it or not, you have pleased and disappointed your company over and over, back and forth, based on things you did, and they only look at the last thing you did.
It's also basically dead after the acquisition.

Look at the github history.
Their goal is to keep inflation steady at a manageable rate, and to prevent any deflation at all. Since inflation indicators haven't been too reliable in the last 20 years, they were caught horribly off guard. But ideally, they would make small changes one way or the other to maintain a nice equilibrium that would keep employment levels relatively stable.
5 years without a single citation and still at it
Why are tech journalists becoming so obsessed with all these twitter stories?

I have gone through acquisition(s), even after a quarter you have no clue what is happening.

And these, one of the best paid, workers had to turn up to work for one weekend and the journos are deeply concerned?

Is there nothing more concerning around tech today?
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Link to where Signal added these terms? You've posted a variant of this claim several times on this post but as far as I can see Signal-Desktop is licensed under a pure AGPLv3 which definitely does not have such terms.
The first time I heard of this was Atlanta dealing with its homeless population before the 1996 Olympics and I'm sure that wasn't the first time. It's been going on a long time:

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19960322&slug...

Atlanta also dealt with homelessness by criminalizing it and putting folks in jail:

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/01/us/as-olympics-approach-h...
I suspected this some time ago when I tried to learn more about all the potential problems related to gut bacteria.

When you ingest something that you can't digest directly, there is a good chance that some bacteria in your guy can.
And when they do, they multiply, this process is often faster than most people realize.

The problem rarely are the bacteria themselves, but the byproducts of their own metabolism, that can be benign is trace quantities and harmful in larger quantities.

The immune system also constantly monitors and reacts to those byproducts and bacteria population.

What we usually call Lactose intolerance or Gluten sensitivity is in practice an indirect effect of some species of bacteria digesting those, and then the reaction of your immune system.

Overall, the gut microbiome is a fascinating and complex subject, unfortunately often oversimplified or misunderstood.

As an example, we've often been told to eat more fibers to increase "flow", the flow increase is because the fibers are digested by bacteria and the mild toxicity of the process forces the digestive system to flush everything.

Same with Sorbitol (contained in dried prunes and often used as a soft laxative) but even more toxic.
Crows found to be smarter than we think
Interesting!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Glucose
It would be nice to not have politics permeate every aspect of our lives. Just to give people room to breathe. Everyone knows about whats happening in Iran already. There was no real benefit to making a declaration here via a rust release. Best keep these things for social media.
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Ah, I knew I was missing something! Added both 1.31 and 1.51
iirc fdroid allows apps to be signed by the developer if the builds are reproducible.
I believe bls data is generally from surveys
> Imagine for a moment what would happen if this rationale were extended to the criminal justice system.

It already is!

The criminal justice system is a perfect example of why total information transparency is a terrible idea: never talk to the cops even if they just want to "get one thing cleared up" - your intentions don't matter, you're being given more rope to hang yourself with.

It's an adversarial system where transparency gets you little, but gains your adversary a whole lot. You should not ever explain your every action and reasoning to the cops without your lawyer telling you when to STFU.

Due process is sanctified, but the criminal justice system is self-aware enough to recognize that self-incrimination is a hazard, and rightly does not place the burden on the investigated/accused, why should other adversarial system do less?
I was young too, but I think the .com bust was far more obvious than the housing crash which snuck up on a lot of people.
Yes, but so was the bubble that preceded it, in the opposite direction.

If you have a whole economy ignoring signs and pretending growth goes forever you get bigger, harder crashes.

We can hope that this downturn is going to be a short wave just in response to the post covid overhype. But really there are still big problems with real estate valuation with lots of things going to be literally under water in decades and everything overpriced as a result of bad policy with low interest and too many people having enormous loans for most of their working lives.

Housing as investment needs to be drug out into the street and shot, but there isn’t really any way to do that which doesn’t cause a huge economic shock.
No, that's not what Powell is saying. Read this quote again:

> So I will answer—I will answer your question directly, but I want to start here today by saying that my main message has not changed at all since Jackson Hole. The FOMC is strongly resolved to bring inflation down to 2 percent, and we will keep at it until the job is done. So the way we’re thinking about this is, the overarching focus of the Committee is getting inflation back down to 2 percent. To accomplish that, we think we’ll need to do two things, in particular: to achieve a period of growth below trend; and also some softening in labor market conditions to foster a better balance between demand and supply in the labor market.

Powell says (paraphrasing slightly): "In order to get inflation under 2%, we need to do two things. 1. achieve a period of low growth, and 2. soften the labor market." Low growth and higher unemployment aren't simply side-effects of Powell's policy. These two things are explicitly stated goals.
> Doesn't the risk of being overweight completely overwhelm the risk of a not-yet-understood gut flora change?

It's possible that becoming overweight could cause a gut flora change, or a gut flora change could make you likely to become overweight.

There's no benefit to ending research into diabetes after you find an association between overweight and diabetes, or in making an assumption that the condition of one's gut flora and being overweight are independent.
As Mike Tyson said: "Social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it."
Ha!
I’m also part of the Sprig team.

This project has been created by many Hack Clubbers, and not only in the development of the engine, editors, firmware and hardware. Hack Club teens handled all logistics/supply. The backings were made by a HCer that taught herself laser cutting. PRs for games are being reviewed and commented upon by 4 teenagers. All front end dev & copy was done by a HCer. The 3d model on the front page was another's first time in Blender.

Our youngest Sprig game dev right now is an 11 year old (https://github.com/hackclub/sprig/pull/443). We have a water sim built by a 13yr old (https://github.com/hackclub/sprig/pull/402). A raycast experiment by a 15yr old (https://github.com/hackclub/sprig/pull/153).

We have so many fun games built already: https://sprig.hackclub.com/gallery.

Hack Clubbers are now running Sprig workshops in their clubs and hackathons - and publishing them for others to use. Others are hosting 'Sprig Jams' to work on games together. Can't wait to see what more comes of this all.
Many people have tried that in the past, but none have become super popular games. Maybe it's just not what people want, or maybe we haven't seen a game that has cracked that formula yet.
Personally, what I want out of "accountability"—in general, not just here—is not consequences for their own sake (or for punishment) but rather taking actions to address the problem and bearing the natural costs of those actions. This should include immediate as well as long-term actions:

1. Some way to help with the immediate layoff. Reasonable severance/etc is about what I'd expect.

2. Concrete action to prevent the problem in the future. The post identifies specific errors in judgement and at least pays lip service to avoiding layoffs in the future.

I'm not sure how serious they are about 2—given the structure and incentives of large corporations, how serious they even could be about it—but at least they're talking about it. I would not be surprised to see growth pressure overwhelming any strategic or cultural changes they make today if business conditions pick up again, with the whole cycle repeating over the next 5–10 years.
Yeah, I should have clarified - useless doesn't necessarily mean the employee sucks at the job they're doing; it could also mean they're an expert at doing a useless job, even if the skillset could be utilized quite valuably.

I feel there's a lot of this in crypto, where you have absolutely amazing developers doing amazing code for no point.
https://archive.ph/DjbtW
> why would you use windows nowadays?

- Gaming

- Cheaper hardware options than Macs

- Commercial software support (e.g., Adobe, Autodesk, Affinity, Office, etc.)

- Better hardware support (e.g., Nvidia graphics cards)

- Easier Linux VM setup with WSL and x86(_64) support than Mac (i.e., requires ARM iso or the hassle of setting up Rosetta)

- Piecemeal hardware upgradability

- Less hassle than Linux, depending on hardware configuration and needs

- Smoother experience for some things like (HiDPI) multi-monitor setups and video playback than Linux with the current state of Wayland and the recent drop of third-party codecs by multiple distros

Some of these apply to Mac and some of these apply to Linux, but only Windows has all of these characteristics. Windows is far from perfect, but it is the best tool for some jobs. People also simply have different preferences and trade-off priorities, whether it be in regards to usability, affordability, privacy, or anything else.
Or they have fun coding.
no? If paying employees has a return on investment that is lower than the interest rate on federally insured bonds, I will prefer the federally insured bonds. The biggest driver of inflation, and thus interest rate, is the supply/demand for labor.

What we're seeing are the natural consequences of the fed's mandate to prevent inflation. This is always at the cost of demand for labor, bu design.

The regulation supplied by the fed preserves the interests of capital at expense of the interests of labor. The dual mandate is essentially meaningless.
I've done a number of these kinds of experiments across a variety of platforms, and over the 1-month period, the numbers looked very similar.

The problem is that it doesn't scale. After that first month honeymoon period, the numbers don't grow as fast. After 3 months, they basically stop growing. "Just consistently post" is not a sufficient recipe for "success".
Default should be sms, it is on every phone.

As for web/desktop one can use also Telegram.
1. Convince people stocks are going to go down. 2. Mass sell-off. 3. Now stocks really are going down.

Pet conspiracy theory: boom/bust cycles are not only inevitable, but desirable to some extent. If the housing and stock markets didn't undergo catharsis every so often, new/beginning investors wouldn't be able to buy in.

The signs are usually telegraphed well in advance, but not by collusion or intent. A self-organizing conspiracy of sorts. It could be interpreted as "herd mentality" but I think that oversimplifies what's really going on, and why.
Who decides which issue gets mentioned in these announcements? Is there a vote among the Rust members?
I guess peacetime is kinda a fuzzy thing. The jihad is always on.
Or - stocks have been ridiculously overvalued for a while now and are just coming back to earth somewhat. https://www.longtermtrends.net/market-cap-to-gdp-the-buffett...

I'm not saying I know that's what's happening. But I wouldn't be surprised.
This is true but also useless. AC synchronous motors cannot be easily substituted for Permanent Magnet DC motors in all use cases. BLDC motors with permanent magnets are drastically more energy dense and are easier to control.

We've had AC Synchronous motors for a long time, but there is a reason that cordless drills have only been really good for a decade - BLDC motors. Likewise with drones, hoverboards, etc.
It also impacts the loans that companies frequently take out and the interest-inflated payments they need to service their debt.
It looks like fed should have started QT in 2015.
I drank a lot of Coca-Cola life (the one with stevia) and thought that I may have found a drink with a good-enough taste/sugar balance for me. Then, from one day to the other, I got absolutely disgusted by one part of the drink's taste, most probably the sweetener. I could not drink a single glass anymore and today when I even think about Coca-Cola life, it sends me a shiver down the spline. I can drink infinite quantities of drinks made with cheap sugar-free lemonade sirup, so other sweeteners seem to be fine for me, but not stevia.
In your first case, imagine that you have a contract manufacturer that is told to build something according to a particular Bill of Materials. You change the firmware and assign it a new part number (or assume that the version is embedded in the part number). Internally, the BOM is updated with this new part# and as part of your process, the manufacturer is sent the new BOM. Manufacturer goes to build the product and discovers that the firmware they have is a different part number than on the BOM. If not for this, they'd be building with the wrong firmware version.

In your second case, if the only person loading it is the customer, a part number may not solve anything other than the business managing inventory. However, if you're already in the habit of assigning part numbers to everything you build (I have come to be a big advocate of this), then it really is just part of the process.

I've seen a mix of both: there is a standard firmware version for the hardware combined with a set of customer customizations. In this situation, not having a unique part number for each combination (of firmware + customer config) resulted in confusion, angry customers and a manufacturing department having no idea exactly what it was that they were supposed to be building.

Yes, there are other ways of solving these problems but assigning unique numbers works well enough.
Have you tried XMPP? The server and client implentations are both a lot more resource efficient.
I would because hot damn does Redhat have their shit together when it comes to creating a stable cohesive system but I use Lightsail so my options are limited and I'm not touching Centos 8 since it's already EOL.
Yup.

Powell has been saying for months he wants people to save and pull cash out of the economy.

This is intentional because DC decided tech workers were undermining Washingtons of course most correct and immutable control over agency.

Why if all these people kept earning and could acquire more assets and live comfortable, politicians and uber rich would have no place in our society.

The fundamentals must be maintained. Fundamentals being we serve their goals, not the other way around.
Thanks, but I've come to like systemd.
Neither can be trusted, but Telegram's UI and privacy track record have been much better so far.
https://archive.ph/39IUU
No performance numbers, though. I was hoping for third party benchmarks.

QUIC is optimized for Google's use case - Google client talking to Google servers, with many Google streams combined into one big pipe. This is not the normal non-Google case. Early performance numbers from Google only indicated a relatively small gain (15%?) even for that case.
If you're getting rid of 14% of your staff I expect you to be making a lot fewer hires and having less output, as a result of having less employees, is also not surprising. Those are completely unrelated to the severance they pay their employees.

The general argument for high CEO pay is that it is a reward for their skill in the job. By that argument, if there is evidence that they're making mistakes that negatively impact the company shouldn't that directly impact them in terms of their compensation?
Yes, it should be possible to compare labels for equality octet-wise. There should be no normalization considerations in this case because every A-label in a certificate should already be normalized.
What did you use as a resource for this? I struggle with DT on every update to get my photos looking like I want when the semantics of a module change or a module is replaced with something theoretically better but practically with more controls that I now need to relearn.
It's definitely possible to write simple EDI transactions (no HL loops, etc) with a couple of trading partners using something akin to mustache templates – many of our customers come to us after getting something basic like this up and running in a day or two, and then hitting complexity.

It's difficult to use the method you're describing to write a transaction like this, particularly when the receiver's system can fall over due to a single character out of place: https://www.verizon.com/business/support/vec/onlinehelp/dam/...

(I'm the CEO of Stedi)
If someone built this as a Chrome extension to quiz based off my browsing I’d totally pay for it.
L-arabinose is a thing and it's natural. Only really available in Japan though. Might give you some gas because some bacteria can break it down, but probably not as bad as xylitol, erythritol, etc.
To completely reasonable 6% unemployment levels that will slightly shift the scales of worker supply and demand?
2001 crash primarily affected tech and finance. Everyone else that worked in physical atoms just got on with it and did their job.

2008 crash was different. Literally everyone was over-leveraged and swimming debt.

This feels more like the 2001 crash coming than the 2008 crash. Most of the economy will trundle along while those running on VC money will fade away.
The code had tests checking if errors threw under certain conditions... like I say it had error handling but we changed the way it worked during the interview so we needed to add some extra error conditions which we did and test coverage remained 100% so all paths in the code were tested.
I had a hard time with that one. I tried leaving the CD at the office, but late at night when the withdrawal kicked in I ended up driving to the office and fetching it anyway. I truly felt like the meta-story of the game was that the CD itself was the crystal and the player was the traveler.
Did it manage to embed itself into anything beyond Ubuntu, which is a distro that is waning in popularity?
Yeah, you have to account for that. Everywhere there's a huge shortage of jobs paying at or below $20/hr. Likely caused by most of those people moving up to jobs in the 25-30/hr range.
> also why I don't really use jq)

You also don’t like software written in C (the language jq is written in)?
There’s a bunch of issues with how these surveys have been designed in the past, imo, and generally solicitating easily interpretable qualitative responses on technical systems is just hard.
Low employment combined with high inflation is forcing the fed to raise interest rates to induce lower demand with the side affect being higher unemployment. This is how they killed inflation in the 80's. They are trying to thread the needle of inflation and recession. The likely outcome is eventually a recession.

Conversely, the government could raise taxes across the board to control demand and trickle that money back to individuals over time, but it is political suicide.
> Apparently they could do that, but the sales team couldn’t conceive of the “rewards center” as being a turnoff. They either truly thought it added value or it was so central to their business model they couldn’t believe people might not want it.

The most contact I've had with sales is walking through their area, but it just comes of as a totally alien culture to me. Their walls were covered with posters about this or that quarter's big prize. They even had an area commemorating the big prizes from years past.
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What is the "4-6 second rule"?
Because the AGPLv3 allows for trademark restrictions, violating the trademark revokes the copyright license.
How does this delay GAAP profitability? They paid out 3.5 months severance and their full 2022 bonuses. If they hadn't laid these people off then in the next 3 months (1 quarter) they would have paid them 3 months salary and their full 2022 bonuses.
The short version is that Google Maps is 'free', it's not terrible, and it's better than nothing. (And often better than the integrated in-car satnav systems - although that's not so much because Maps is good as because the in-car systems are often quite bad - the Tomtom & Garmin integrated options being a notable exception).

But Maps is definitely worse than dedicated navigation devices, although it does improve over time.

There are certain things it is particularly bad at, for example routing down slow 20mph residential roads with speed bumps.

But... are the dedicated navigation devices so much better than Google Maps to justify the increased cost? Probably not for 99% of people.

I used to use a Garmin satnav, and plug it in to my laptop and use Garmin's software to do my travel expenses, full tracking of all my movements, and it's my data to do with as I wish with no concerns. I can do the same thing through Google Timeline... but it's not even close to as well executed, and gives me serious data privacy concerns... because Google.
Why are tech journalists becoming so obsessed with all these twitter stories?

Because these are not "journalists" in any real sense of the word. These are mindless bloggers, many of them interns. Value their output accordingly.
Tab crashed when quantum something option appeared. Never again.
(nit: todays release with GATs is 1.65 not 1.64)
Seriously...What?!??!
"In networking units"
Guys.. There's no Edwin on this post :(
In other words, we bang our drum when we feel like it and really have no meaningful metrics or A/B measurements to gauge whether or not our announcement has made any actionable positive impact vs just irritating people who are solely interested in the technical release topic.