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> don't try to have the existing law interpreted differently in select cases, especially if you're only doing that where it benefits already-powerful entities like Disney or Microsoft.

Who says it only benefits the already-powerful entities, or that it even benefits them at all in the long run? As evident from my other comments on this topic, my hope (and indeed expectation) is that they'll shoot themselves in the foot and be hoisted by their own copyright-infringing petard. It wasn't that long ago when copyright enforcement wasn't a thing, and that lack of enforcement didn't seem to stop people from creating all sorts of artistic and literary and musical works, great in quantity and quality alike. The more the megacorporations backtrack on their copyright absolutism and admit that ignoring copyright expedites creative work, the more ammunition the rest of us have against their continued insistence on copyright absolutism.

Put simply: Copilot sets a precedent that I suspect will lead to the downfall of intellectual property law entirely. Probably not alone, but very likely one of several dominoes toppling toward that end result.
I'm trying to remember when I first came across this "animated eyes follow cursor" effect. I'm fairly certain it was on the Amiga back in the last century. I searched Aminet - was it part of the MaxonMagic[1] screensaver suite?

I doubt the Amiga was the first computer to do this. Does anyone have any earlier examples?

[1] - http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/MaxonMAGIC - uploaded in 1993
Well, arguably Java’s implementation is not the best regarding checked exceptions. Nonetheless I feel we threw the baby out with the bath water here, as a non-inheritance based checked exception system was not really tried and I feel it would be the best of both words. Since in the end, checked exceptions are just Result types which happens to be natively “understood” by the language - it gets stack trace support, auto-unwraps and bubbles up.
> Does golden rod mean something other than what it sounds like?

"Goldenrod is a common name for many species of flowering plants in the sunflower family" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldenrod

Although the picture there looks more yellow than amber.
Apparently it's a known issue: https://github.com/Djdefrag/QualityScaler/issues/21
Long-term we could plant massive new floating plant species in the atmosphere to decarbonize it and form floating soil layers, which eventually would compactify and metamorphosize and spread out latitudinally to form a ring around the planet, thinning out towards the poles and making cliffs and beaches and islands with the atmosphere. The growing regions would not actually stay together but break apart and move technically on top of the atmosphere, with plate boundaries and subduction zones and volcanoes, driven by the pressure below, surface volcanism proper, and weather around the coastal areas.
Yep, and that's why the whole concept of entropy and especially negentropy is superfluous, it's just lack of information !

http://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/entropy.html#sec-s-not-kn...

(However, it is perhaps useful to separate them into two concepts when teaching the 19th century thermodynamics, since it would be hard to avoid questions about the subjectivity of information ?)
which made me realized that xeyes is still installed on vanilla ubuntu installation (22.04 LTS). type `xeyes` on the console and there you go. I does not follow the mouse when the mouse is outside the xeyes window though.
I prefer log into Hostgator, click cPanel, click File Manager, drag files across. Any day!

Ok I missed: point DNS to Hostgator name servers. Click the button to install lets encrypt.
True enough, people tend to buy what they see and can afford. We see that even now with laptops &c.

My point exposure forgiveness of the larger negative and lower precision requirements in the camera still stands I think. Did your relatives get their photos processed at the chemist? Did they ever get enlargements of selected frames done?

(Amazing how the cheaper smart phone has totally changed the way people use photographs - in less than a decade really)

PS: don't underestimate the Cooke-Robinson triplet lens stopped down to around f/8. The main issue with the cheapies was flare and the absence of lens coatings.
Only a few programming languages have a facility to render that second assertion in a human readable way (python surprised me with this). Most C influenced languages will just present you with “assertion failed” or “expected true to be false” which means nothing. Test failure messages should be actionable, and that action is not, “read the test to see what went wrong”.
Films from all around the world. For the past couple of years, I enjoy watching 3-4 films a week in average.

Much like literature and art, quality cinema gradually makes you a better person, and has a profound effect on acquiring good taste, and having a love affair with beauty - you see something, and you immediately know if it's special.

If you don't know where to start, open Wikipedia pages for past film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, etc.), and e.g. select randomly a decade, then a year, then a film from one of the winning positions. In time, you will develop your own taste and opinion about the filmmakers, and the actors, and the countries of origin, and the themes, and the genres, etc.

French, Italian, Swedish, Taiwanese, Japanese, American, or so many other places - there are great filmmakers nearly everywhere around the world, and you can enjoy it.
Statist is a term for someone who thinks the state can solve society’s problems. There is never a solution that doesn’t involve the government and never a situation where giving more taxes (and it’s always the rich who must pay - never the masses!) is the wrong answer.

In my view an increasing number of people are agreeing with me. You won’t see it in the mainstream media because they are also statists whose worldview is wrong and intolerant. You are witnessing them scream and cry and whine that democracy is failing, the climate is failing and the world is ending, basically the apocalypse is upon us and you need to be scared and afraid 24/7. Whereas the people I know don’t give a shit and don’t believe those lies. It’s like an alternate planet where hyper-online people actually think the world is ending and all the normal people stopped believing those lies.
Yeah, I lived in Austria and travel across Europe fairly often, the only time I buy bottled water is in the airport or when I accidentally leave my refillable bottle of tap water at home. The quality of the tap water is equal to or better than the bottled water.
> culture clash

You'll probably experience less of these if you stop calling people "naive foreigners".
It’s still valuable to have an overview of techniques or things that have worked for others. It’s fine to adapt to your unique situation (you are absolutely right on that) - but starting from scratch doesn’t sound great. And nobody does - friends, relatives, doctors - all give advice thet might or might not apply. Books fall in the same category.

Everybody advised us to let the baby “cry it out” to learn to fall asleep on his own. We never did because it didn’t feel right. And things did work out in the end :)
Well I've been stuck like that a few times (still very young though), and changing cities/states/countries has always been the best way to get out of it.

There are probably IC positions that don't cause Amazon-style stress while being technically interesting. Just a thought.
This must be how Oracle felt when they were trying to protect their java declarations from android's clutches. M$ is likely to win this case.
What if you want people to use your code, but not for proprietary software?
Why I left algorithm-based social media
Indeed. Also, this notion that Go makes one think about all the errors is false.

What happens to the errors from all the "defer foo.CloseOrMaybeFailSomehow()" that get run on early return? Answer: they're ignored. Ignoring errors baked right in. Yes, you can handle them with a closure, but I can count on part of one hand the number of times I've actually seen that. And I know why: because at some point the regression gets unreasonable and people just pretend they didn't see it and thank their makers the compiler lets them get away with it, this blog post in question being a fine example of that.

So I know what sort of malarkey I'm reading when this "think about the errors" gets bandied about.
I do game development on the side, just fun small indie games. I like using twitter to follow other game devs and see what they are working on. It's fun tracking down new devs and seeing new and interesting projects, and it's fun sharing progress on my games and getting some positive comments from them.

What's not fun is the sheer amount of topics on twitter I have zero interest in invading my timeline. I don't like how much marketing spam there is, since every post is secretly hoping to 'go viral', which even for the indie devs I follow makes it fairly bland sometimes. Twitter is just so huge that it's not possible to have any small communities.

For all its warts, there's a fantastic twitter community around the FGC (fighting game community) - members in the community regularly post really interesting questions or statements on fighting games and/or their design, and it usually kicks of dozens of videos from other people I follow on that topic. The FCG's usage of Twitter is probably the best I've seen.

Personally, what I would like is something more akin to a mailing list or RSS feed I suppose, but with the ability to reply to threads, a bit like a forum. I want to be able to follow people I find interesting manually, with zero discovery in the app itself. I want to hear updates from them, and without any 'retweet' functionality there's less incentive for small players to spam the ever living hell out of their account in the hope of getting lucky.

I think that would be my dream app - something that works like an RSS feed, but without the technical overhead of actually setting up and publishing to your own RSS feed, with the ability to respond with comments on the posts without having to repost it to a site which does allow it (like HN or Reddit) with one shared identity. That would be cool.

Does Mastodon fill that role? Does anything? If so I'd certainly use it.
There are a few place names of Celtic origin, for example, Kilburn.
> Have you considered that maybe it's in your best interests to at least be acquainted with people in your local community?

Yes. But in the last 4 years, I've heard the local community scream at their children, heard the local alcoholics shouting abuse at people walking past, seen the local shop attacked by a gang of kids 3 times, seen countless fireworks let off in the square and also aimed at people, seen the rubbish left behind after the community has used the square and park, and been kept up more nights than I can count by the noise.

I'm OK keeping my distance, thanks.

> also the tangible/pragmatic perspective of being able to negotiate for necessary (let alone desired) goods and services

We got a plumber recommended by and from the community to replace a shower. That kind of thing?

It took a couple of years and a few hundred pounds to get a stranger to fix what he messed up.

> Wouldn't it be useful to know who those people are

I'm reasonably sure I do know who those people are, yes. Perfectly happy to collaborate with them, if required, remotely.

What all these suggestions seem to be missing is that some people (and I don't think it's a tiny percentage, either) do not have the burning desire to mingle with people at fire pits, roof beers, park beers, etc. and that remote communities, enabled by things like Usenet, IRC, Twitter, Livejournal, what have you, are how they prefer to interact.
Water as a basic human right is... an extremist view. Wow. WOW. These people urgently need to fall off their jets and yachts. They can be "controversial" on the entire way down they'll be falling.
The canonical place is Norway for the American left. A country of 5 million people of the same race and culture that has zero immigration and built their socialist utopia on oil and gas.

High taxes are a lie and the seeds of destruction are planted the moment they are put in place. Developed countries like the UK are falling apart.
At what time did you start working that day when doing the all-nighter?
It seems the entire article can be reduced to: China has their own railway standard. And they are pushing it when they build railways as part of the belt and road initiative.
It's certainly possible, though I don't think it will unfold that way -- the dynamics this go around are quite different, making it hard to make a prediction with any degree of confidence.

In 2008, there were many many more homeowners who were hopelessly overcommitted, for whom foreclosure was inevitable. In some cities, the majority of the housing stock was held using mortgages that couldn't be repaid.

This time around, homeowners are in much better shape -- nearly all mortgages outstanding are fully-amortized and fixed-rate, for example.

Most of the supply glut is in the hands of developers, and most are still under construction. Developers are more likely than individual owners to be able to wait out a downturn -- they're more likely to be well-capitalized than a homeowner chasing the peak in 2007 was for sure.

And if developers fold, their unfinished units may not get finished, and might not come to market (for a long while, at least).

But, unlike 2008, the feds don't really want to prop up the market, so "amend, extend, and pretend" isn't likely to be around to slow the supply.

All in all, a tough prediction, but I tend to think that this downturn will be milder except in a few key overhot markets (especially TX)
to add salt to the wound, there is a certain service you have to use and provision on us-east-1...such as cloudfront...where you already had the same ACM cert in us-east-2.
I was expecting them to say “..as easy as riding a bike.”
So basically, since you need to be targeted as an individual rather than at random, and that's rare, then we should be okay with an insecure /banking/ website? I can't get my head around that point of view. This creates a financial incentive for people to scour the internet for people's phone numbers, clone their SIM and steal their PayPal account and so you can be fairly sure people will do that.
Not OP, but as someone who also sometimes get stuck in my writing as well I thought I'd reply.

Personally I use Scrivener for drafting and Vellum for formatting, but the tools usually don't matter that much for what you are describing. They won't really help with overthinking and getting tied up in phrasing.

What helps me a lot when I sense myself getting into that getting-stuck phase where I just overthink everything is doing sprints. They're common in writing communities on Discord, but you can do them on your own as well. Just set a 15 minute timer (or whatever time works best) and write random flow-of-consciousness crap. I was surprised to find that usually the output isn't even as bad as I expect and is very usable (with some heavy editing). Also, remember that the first words you put down aren't really meant to be the final version of the thing you publish: they're just a rough sketch to be shaped later.
You probably want to be using one of the popular libraries to do that.

AWS documentation isn't consistently good, and there are lots of decoys. So, if you wound up in some local minima that made it look like you had to implement the signing and such yourself, try a Web search that includes the name of your chosen programming language.

(A long time ago, I had to implement the AWS client API from scratch, but that's because I was using a fringe language that didn't have such libraries.)
Thanks for the link. Didn't know about this.
If you get paid by the hour, sure. But if you are salary, you are reducing your hourly rate by doing this. That means you are cheapening the value of your own time. And you are screwing your co-workers. There is nothing wrong with getting into the flow and working a few hours late. Just tell your boss and leave early on Friday. Even if leaving early means coding on your side project.
At my company (Japanese), the average ‘salaryman” workday was 8-6, or so, with 6-8 hours on Saturdays.

The time was paid, though. It wasn’t “time and a half,” like in the US, but people were paid for the time.

Managers weren’t paid for extra hours, but engineers were.
Not that far away now.
If the code was GPL-licensed, it was indeed impossible (legally) to use in proprietary software.
This is a very good overview of the topic, thanks. I also was not aware of Sprkl and it looks like a promising tool!...
I'm not an expert in the field, but there is already a NIST competition going on to stansardize post-quantum public key ciphers. So I would say that we're at a good point in post-quantum cryptography development.
If you don't use the SDK, how can you judge anything as being "overly complicated"? I mean, I don't know about you, but, last time I checked, signatures, certificates, security and all that stuff IS SUPPOSED to be super complicated because it's a subject with a very high inherent complexity in and of itself. The SDK exists and is well designed to precisely shield you from said complexity.
If you deliberately choose not to use it or can't for some reasons then yes... The complexity will be laid bare
A pair of shoes, a bike or a phone will be used a lot more, and with no license restrictions, than a hobbyist copy of Mathematica.
I remember people putting bubble-gum in the public drinking fountains. You're right, now I rarely see any.
Many bad things can be said about contemporary society but one of the things I love the most about the 21st century is how we're starting to appreciate cultural things in a global sense. I also want to read more about postcolonial literature, history of all the parts of the world we didn't study in school, and so on. It's starting to get ridiculous how in school we study "history" just about Europe, and "literature" 90% of our language.

About cinema specifically, mainstream Hollywood cinema has become largely repetitive, big franchises, sequels, etc etc, feels culturally sterile to me. It's so refreshing to see that, say, Korean cinema is becoming so popular.
Doesn't work on mobile, android, chrome.
> you have to be prepared for a higher than average error rate from your people.

Exactly this. From first hand experience, when forced to deliver under time pressure, I cut corners.

This means, I might be able to deliver the feature. But the tradeoff is it adds technical debt and physical stress, which needs to be dealt with afterwards.

Furthermore, if you have a family, it also takes a toll on family life.
I like the idea of watching the text cursor! Maybe it could be an option

wait until the project is a little more stable (more testing). I will do some refactoring and look into looking at this
I wish you the best, I know what it is, I fought 5 years with a leukemia when I was 15.
I hope you will recover well, medicine has evolved pretty well.

The best advice I can give you that worked well for me, is to always keep your brain active, keep coding, keep thinking. :)
It was a cure for me to keep my ability to think, resolve problems, etc ...
What the heck is going on with the grammar of the title? A possessive apostrophe followed by “is”?
100%, I don’t use wasteful bottles but my house has those large water jugs with a dispenser that we get refilled weekly and there is a very noticeable quality difference in taste (even noticeable when making fancy loose leaf tea).

People who say tap water is exactly the same aren’t being entirely honest. They do the same thing and a lot of people don’t care about how it tastes but plenty do and aren’t always hurting the environment.
> As a gourmet experience it is worth the money. Do I need it for survival? Not really.

The point is that many people are convinced that tap water is unsafe, or at least that bottled water is safer. In most regions of most developed countries, that is untrue. Buying water as a gourmet experience is something different.

> The slippery slope is if bottled water is a con, aren’t all bottled and canned drinks a con?

To a degree, yes. There was a time when people used to carry around a thermos of coffee, much as people carry around their reusable water bottles today. People can buy significantly less expensive bulk packaged drinks or concentrates, then transfer it to reusable portable bottles.
Unit tests should be cheap. Cheap to write, cheap to run, cheap to read, cheap to replace.

Near as I can tell, many people are made uncomfortable by this in practice because these tests feel childish and dare I say demeaning. So they try to do something “sophisticated” instead which is a slow and lingering death where tests are co corned.

Lacking self consciousness, you can whack out hundreds of unit tests in a couple of days, and rewrite ten of someone else’s for a feature or a bug fix. That’s fine and good.

But when your test looks like an integration test, rewriting it misses boundary conditions because the test is t clear about what it’s doing. And then you have silent regressions in code with high coverage. What a mess.
May I ask you why?
I use and have used both PUT presigned urls and POST signed policies for uploading file to S3 without too many problems, but your remark worries me a bit. Am I missing something?
It's still too little too late. In Spain we still burn a lot of gas. In the last 12m gas was the main source of electricity.

And then it's everything which isn't electricity. For a more clear picture, look for sankey diagrams like this one [1], which shows how electricity is actually a small part of the equation.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/sankey/energy/sankey.htm...
How does a filter, like Pur or Brita, compare, for taste? Far less resource use. Perhaps a way to wean people off bottled water.
You should oppose rail because it allows the lower class an avenue for entry into your community. Georgetown, I think, in DC has been opposing metro expansion for decades because of this reason.
I've just browsed for a minute, and aesthetically, I think the trees/grass/water try to be realistic and they're too high-frequency for them to be pleasing IMO.

Flat colored trees and grass, and simpler water shading would make everything more cohesive. It's like some things are minimalist / low poly looking (buildings, roads) and others try to be realistic (and kind of failing) and they don't fit.
You're mainly talking about the problem of content moderation, and it's the sticky point for sure.

We know that content moderation cannot be done at scale. That why Facebook etc are such hellscapes; there is no algorithm in existence that a clever human won't figure out how to game.

Content moderation at human scales, however, is not as hard. I participated in many online forums which were run by one or a few moderators who policed the content with some auto filters for spam, and their own eyes. Some complained about the work, most just got it done and the forums worked fine, no big algorithms or star chamber councils to decide on what they do.

So, in answer to "why the fediverse," my answer is that if we break up the large platforms into a bunch of small forums under the control of only human moderators, there is every reason to believe that content moderation will become a great deal more possible and effective, and we will get our old internet back - the one based on protocols not platforms.
When you get the suites nested and configured right, and the code decomposed properly to support it, each of these assertions is two lines of code, plus the description of each constraint. So you just write four or five tests covering each one, in descending likelihood of breakage.
The man page for xeyes [1] says that it's been derived from a demo shown in 1988. I seem to remember an even earlier toy on the Amiga which did the same, but I might be wrong.

[1] https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html