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Reminds me, we're currently migrating from Oracle SQL to Postgres because it seems they simply stopped maintenance. They only have official releases for the ROracle package until R 3.6 [0], the latest R version is 4.2. You can still get it to work, but it's getting increasingly harder, and at some point we drew a line (for multiple reasons).

[0] https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/roracle-downloa...
Pretty sure it's the same old issue and people just haven't updated.
Anything is easy to do once, but maintaining that going forward is a business.
Its a similar thing to saying that VR is more than just hype
I think this take is somewhat over-reacting. I'm pretty sure you'll find that the price they agreed is really in USD, and only the medium of exchange is gold (even if the paperwork or agreement doesn't even reference USD). So really they are paying X USD's worth of gold - with both oil and gold price being fixed in USD somewhere abroad. USD is so incredibly ubiquitous, it won't easily go away.

Reserves are a little different, but even then, whenever something bad happens, the dollar strengthens as investors flock to it. When the 2008 crisis happened (and it was US-centric!) US and the dollar were still the safe haven everyone escaped to. Not the Rouble, not the Yuan, not so much EUR or CHF or, from memory, gold.

So we'll see people avoid the USD as a medium of exchange, maybe, even if the prices are fixed on USD-denominated prices. But also remember, gold is not a great medium of exchange. Will Ghana ship physical gold around the world (risky and expensive)? Or will they sign a piece of paper saying "gold held by in a safe by someone else and owned by me is now owned by someone else" - in which case there is similar counterparty risk, except perhaps not against the US government. But if you think the US is an evil octopus with long tentacles, surely they could get their hands on this gold. Where will this haven safe from US interference be?

If anything, I can more easily believe an alternative economy based on crypto. It's actually happening and working well, for all sorts of shady or illicit activity.
France’s streets once again echo to sound of working horses
> Up to one-third of humans might be chronically infected.

That explains so much...
I mean,

"(2) We use this finding to design malicious music to create resonance in DPSs, resulting in an overshooting in the DPS's normal pressure readings."

That's already pretty awesome. They could have just led with that. It's straight out of Godel, Escher, Bach :)
Are we colleagues, by any chance?
You haven't really picked the best example here, because in the last decade the UK literally gave Scotland a referendum on leaving the union. So yes, the UK does support a right to self-determination, even for integral parts of their territory. It's also worth noting that in response to China's moves in HK hundreds of thousands of HK residents have fled to.. the UK.
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https://support.smtp2go.com/hc/en-gb

https://support.smtp2go.com/hc/en-gb/articles/223087707-Deta...
Exactly what part of the scientific process involves locking people up, stripping them of their jobs, splitting families apart?

Admitting past errors without also acknowledging the current knowledge is just as fallible is nothing but empty words. It's also a very rose tinted interpretation of what has been happening. The messaging has always been "These are this week's truths. They are absolute truths, and we'll enforce these truths at gunpoint, for these truths are infallible, and The Science is settled."
> testosterone and dopamine production is increased

Or advertisement
It's not "theft" to pay someone the compensation they agreed to receive, any more than it's theft to buy an item for what the shop agrees to sell it at (which will also be less than you actually value it at, unless you're very bad at purchasing decisions...)

There are situations where people accepting a certain job at a certain wage might do so with somewhat less than free choice (that's where livability comes in), but that doesn't include ones where they've got another job paying $200k.
> Most of these chips have perfectly fine Linux kernel support, it just comes more from the community rather than the vendor

So you mean no actual support and bug fix is pretty much never once the community moved on.

"The community" is not a magic bullet.
There is no point in giving good faith explanations in reply to rhetoric that wasn't good faith and seeking understanding in the first place, just pushing a particular narrative. I refer you to the sibling comment, which fully understands this.
Time to watch the government auction sites for cheap cameras.
Bible laws are imposed rules of violent hostile overlords, not the foundation of civilization. Although you could argue that the way civilization has evolved, those kinds of rules _are_ its foundation :-(

I might agree that all theft is wrong, but - as Proudhon aptly put it: La propriété, c'est le vol !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft!
It sounds like you started designing system from database perspective

But doesn't this "skew" your domain model in code by affecting your thoughts by technical details?

I'd prefer start with some event storming session? visualization of system and connections

then design proper domain model, correct abstractions, events between those modules inside system

then just implement persistence layer with mapper from domain model to database model which in the case of SQL contains those technical details like cache fields, FKs, etc.
Wouldn't this be an easy fix? Just have any emergency number dialed automatically kill all 3rd party apps before sending the call.
I don't believe 90% of these stories of overemployment and I agree with the comment about "This is pretty much exactly how I would run anti remote work PR campaign."
This is a bad idea on multiple levels. Do not do this.
Yeah, I look at this thread and wonder why a store should have to do the police's job.

It's also interesting how the HN crowd will jump to protect a company's profit except when it's about the few love to hate you entities.
Im sure that Walmart is the gold standard of cost optimization, but it's not universal. Many stores operate on very low margins, so it's easy to imagine that just a few missing cans of baby formula actually brings down the profitability of the entire shelf down to zero.
A reduction in 'pitting people against each other', could paradoxically allow for civil disagreement because of decreased polarisation. I.e. if I go on a platform and I expect strong/aggressive disagreement as my engagement, I am more likely to counter argue. If I'm on a platform where views are more moderate, I am more likely to carefully consider a different viewpoint.

I agree there are risks of bubbles though.
AWS VM for Stable Diffusion
Of course this is an Android issue, but it's also extremely typical of Teams to be an ill-behaved app.
Ah thanks, that's what I was missing. Such a mindboggling decision.
i have a 6 months cycle. i am in some sort of a limbo. i can't get a job in a organized company, i get jobs in a mess companies. in a mess company people behave like they run around blindfolded and hit walls from time to time, communicatiin is shit. i cant break the cycle. i have no hope there is something better
don't know if this helps, but there's been weird traffic patterns reported from Hikvision cameras in places like Italy, though i think a lot of it has to do with the moral case for working with a company linked so closely to what's happening in Xinjiang https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Wh...
All those infrastructure managers are going to be really annoyed about this
> many carriers used this "testing" as a convenient way to block phone updates without preloaded bloatware preferring their services or apps they were paid to put on the phones.

How were you involved with the update process to know this?
Well most of the leaders of the world today are psychopathic, so its not that far off.
For anyone working crazy hours and getting paid salary while having zero sense of control, it's worth checking if you're misclassified as exempt:

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/exempt-and-a-non-exempt-empl...

If you work with computers, or are above 100k and any part of the job is executive, administrative, or professional, you're probably not, though.
The UK government is behaving more and more adolescent like … Not good for the kingdom …
Culture can be seen as a symbiont for humans. Without infection, we are mere hunter-gatherers.
It really is time we returned to glass bottles. If people continue to be irresponsible and still don't dispose of them properly they will at least sink and mostly do so locally where eventually they may be recovered.

To bootstrap that, a decent (truly effective) deposit should placed on bottles (and drink cans) to ensure they are returned—not the piddling amount of 10c or so as some authorities have mandated but at least 50c, perhaps even a dollar.

If plastic bottles (and cans) are retained then the mandated deposit should be at least double that for glass bottles. A high differential deposit between glass and plastic would provide incentive for drink manufacturers to run with glass, so too consumers. I'm aware there will be some instances where plastic bottles/cans may have to be retained for convenience and or safely reasons, this too is covered by the large difference between plastic and glass containers.

Plastics on packaging can be taxed at a higher rate than say 'rottable' cardboard.

Yes, I know this doesn't cover everything but placing deposits on drink bottles is a no-brainer—and an effective start. It's simple and effective, especially so when the deposit is high enough. It's worked in the past when Coca-Cola only had glass bottles—so it ought to be no big deal for the company to return to what it once did very successfully (I can remember when glass Coke bottles were not only returned but were also recycled—some bottles had been reused so many times that the shine and luster had been lost from their prominent edges by them bumping against each other).

This all boils down to a battle between large corporations such as Coca-Cola (who want to maximize profits at the environment's expense) and the legislature. If people really care about the environment then they should lobby their democratic representive for such changes. Just leaving the lobbying to the Coca-Colas of this world—who'll be lobbying the counter position—will get us nowhere.
Actually, I didn't know that, thank you. I always assumed the big magnet over the coveyer belt was for cans but it is for steel indeed. Apparently they use a similar process using eddy current to separate cans.
They don't want to avoid the dollar, far from it, they want to keep the few dollars they still have and pay with something else instead.

Now, if I were the Chinese with an overabundance of dollars (or worse, US Treasury bonds), I'd be trying to convert them into something else ASAP. They tried to buy companies, agricultural land and other things with intrinsic value, but were blocked by CFIUS and the EU is setting up its equivalent.
Hegemony Or Survival by Noam Chomsky
Politicians right and left have no problem with taking a big check to further their own interests.
literally an episode of Star Trek TNG, episode title Conspiracy, season 1 episode 24
According to his biopic he was originally slated to play Major Kong as well, but struggled to make the character work. Which is just as well since Slim Pickens is of the great highlights in the film
That can be one use for it, however certainly in the UK most of the clear food packaging is made from rPET.

PP, usually ready meal and microwave trays, at the moment can't use recycled material and still be certified for food contact. I think much of that goes into things like traffic cones and building materials.
This is a priority for all platforms. No one wants to enable this but none are 100% successful.
I see that you're not the person that I was replying to, I see that you are attempting to change the subject, speak in extremes, and and to use emotional language, a common tactic to derail logical processing. Writing this doesn't help anyone, not even you.
That seems plausible. Thanks
Good data modelling is a big part of it but it’s not keeping you from many potential problems.

If you have several unrelated teams accessing and modifying the same tables, you’re guaranteed to have some headaches the moment one needs to make changes without affecting the others.

So interfaces isolating those access points to data become a must, and having clear owners of those access points that can maintain the interface contract or break it in a safe and coordinated manner is a godsend.

From that point on, the separation of code ownership kinda follows organically from data ownership.

Microservices are absolutely not a necessity, but in non disciplined organisations they tend to help enforce code and data ownership. It’s easier to keep a team from taking shortcuts and importing a piece of code or directly accessing data they shouldn’t when it is not technically possible to do so. Does that warrant the extra complexity? Debatable.
They've been fined for it in Italy. But yes, the law struggles to catch up with Big Tech's brazen violations of antitrust. The reason why is because you'd be surprised how short-staffed antitrust departments are worldwide, even in the US and EU. Big Tech, on the other hand, can afford armies of lawyers to stall, deflect and obfuscate, and when the fines eventually come due, just pay as a cost of doing business.
They looked at animals that were and were not infected, throughout their lives, and saw what they did, so they knew whether the animals were infected or not before they became pack leaders. From the article:

>The team looked at 256 blood samples from 229 wolves, which had been carefully watched throughout their lives, and had their life histories and social status recorded. Meyer and Cassidy found that infected wolves were 11 times more likely than uninfected ones to leave their birth family to start a new pack, and 46 times more likely to become pack leaders — often the only wolves in the pack that breed.
It solves the problem of relying on 3rd party platforms to establish user identity. That is, when Alice wants to hear from Bob, they both have to be authenticated by some 3rd party Acme Corp. Alice can't know that a message is written by Bob unless she gets the message from Acme Corp. In that case she needs to trust that Acme Corp correctly vetted and authenticated the user Bob, and that their database isn't corrupted. This reliance on Acme Corp. is what has lead to walled gardens, de-platforming, bot farms, etc.

I will also add that, when done right, 3rd party platforms managing user accounts does come with benefits over Chatter Net's decentralized approach. So I consider Chatter Net an experiment to better understand the alternative.

There are some interesting features that come out of Chatter Net's approach, like the self-moderation idea discussed in other comments. I think exploring them could be rewarding.

As a final note, Chatter Net is inventing very little here. It's mainly packaging together a DID (https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/) and Activity Pub (https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/) implementation into an opinionated library which is ready to deploy on existing web tech.
Why does this article trail off to a link into the full article? https://techgenix.com/microsoft-365-ban-in-germany/
Coca-Cola does not benefit from pollution or from using single-use containers. They use them because incentives are set up that way, i.e. "it's cheaper". Money is only a proxy for the actual incentives, though. If we expect Coca-Cola to use recyclable containers, we should set up the incentives that way, using taxes, subsidies, or outright banning single-use containers.

Put another way, what happens right now is that (some) people tell Coca-Cola to "do X, not Y", but actually punish them for doing X and reward them for doing Y.
This is a reblog of an article at:

https://techgenix.com/microsoft-365-ban-in-germany/
Ask HN: Does airplane mode prevent communications towers from pinging you?
How come Ukrainians are still able to pick signals from Russian soldiers in Ukraine?[1]
Are they not putting their phones in airplane mode?

[1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2315553-russia-and-ukraine-are-both-weaponising-mobile-phones-to-track-troops/
Comment by Stephen in Apr 2014 did not age well:

> Texas is unique in a since that it has an overwhelming number of “specialized” police officers. City and county police officers are responsible to there locality, however school police are more localized for things like trained more heavily in active shooter scenarios with children present

> in a particular situation wouldn’t you want a law enforcer that is extremely knowledgeable in your particular problem?
Such things should be under the prerogative of the national telecom regulator body to be checked in the type approval procedure. After all, before EU took the care of this, telecom equipment in European countries had homologation marks of the local FCC equivalents.
it's unplugged
German state of Hesse has banned the use of Microsoft 365 in its schools
openwrt like thing for cameras - open source it and gchq / cia can keep it up to date (with their own backdoors)
They do this with public audio systems for similar reasons.
> Do you believe that rich people should suffer more because poor people can’t afford bail?

They aren't suffering more than poor.

> If you break a leg, should everyone else have their legs broken too? That’d be fair, right?

No.
Syphillis makes you artistically brilliant, gondi makes you fearless, never felt so good, then just before exitus.

So, in conclusion, if the vector has requirements, the infection will try to make the host capable of fullfilment.

If the infection needs sugar, the mitochondria, will make the amobea crawl to algea.
I'm interested in the argument for this!
This is something that I've always considered crucial.

However, documentation is a "concrete galosh"[0], so I've learned to reduce the sheer volume of docs, and try to tie them to the code, itself. I write about my approach here[1].

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/various/concrete-galoshes/

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/
A thing that I started doing at previous $work was accompanying projects with an FAQ doc that'd try to answer potential product/support questions. These would be non-technical docs, that grow over time .

And any time I got pinged in Slack I'd try to find the answer in that doc and link to relevant section as response.

While I found that most people would not read through the entire doc when it is written or the first time it is shared for comments (can't blame them, attention spans are rare these days), they did however start referring to the the doc first after a couple of times of getting the doc link in response.

Recently I read a tweet[0] that describe text as a liability, just like code. And now I feel all docs should come with an archival/revival date. We need more "canonical references" and less long living design review docs that are often shared around as reference docs.

[0] https://twitter.com/thesephist/status/1592924904911163392
this makes sense I’m guessing this is why I love go and rust so much. it’s like I have the confidence to just figure things out when I get stuck cause of the docs it has
That was back when the so called “middle class” still existed.

Now you need to work two or three jobs (as a software engineer!) to afford a house in a good school district unless you inherited generational wealth.
So by this logic, the less money available the more time you're probably willing (or need) to spend solving problems ?
I have no comment on the security of Hikvision devices.

However, a lot of cameras these days come with a good sized amount of processing power onboard. This can be used for object detection amongst other things. Even without network access the devices could communicate and act on the command of others in many ways. A couple of ideas. You could communicate with the IR LEDs. You could blank the video feed if a certain QR code or flashing light pattern is detected. I'm sure there are more, but you get the idea.
They solve the mutable shared state problem that I'm specifically talking about. Which is that it's clear which state you own, and which state you don't own.

"Shared" implies shared ownership, this is where the confusion comes from. When you ask an API about a user's profile, it's that API's user profile. But the API response itself is entirely yours. It won't change right under your fingertips. The original profile may change, but you know that the profile is not yours already.
Keeping old stuff is hard af in a internet run by walled gardens
No, it's taken much longer than that. But Musk is far closer to this goal than anyone else.

Other solutions rely on geo-fenced known areas, LIDAR sensors (which will never understand the whole picture e.g. coloured traffic lights), and non-generalised AI. What Tesla is shooting for is much more ambitious, and much more likely to succeed in my opinion.

Why be pedantic about forward-looking announcements, rather than celebrating the incredible things Tesla AI has acheived so far (and continues to acheive)? The cars can now navigate competently through city streets. That was sci-fi just a few years ago.
Modern, user-friendly, programmable command-line HTTP client for the API
CLI http client
If you document something well people won't have to nag you over it.

One of my first real job assignments was a relatively large C project (client/server architecture) behind a simple CLI. I was given the opportunity to document it relatively well (not just the CLI, but the internal design as well). Ten years later there are multiple GUI clients implemented, some even at other companies. One guy even replaced the client-server UDP protocol (don't ask) with a TCP one. Aside from reviewing pull requests for stuff like that, I don't think I've ever had to explain how any of it actually work aside from pointing them to the docs.
> That 200K earner likely produces much more than 200K in value.

Of course, the business has to live from something, accept the risks.

The point is that these are not people driven to the corner who have no other option to survive than to steal. These people have enough funds to start their own businesses, but I guess defrauding is easier.
People have every right not to buy into racist concepts like cultural appropriation and reject them without further arguments.
How much empathy should we have for gamblers in an unregulated casino known to be filled with criminals?

There are so many people in the world more deserving of empathy.
It is well understood that full time jobs don't always require, well, your full time. But at certain times you might run into a bottleneck which requires you to work extra hours.

Playing the employment juggle is fine as long as you don't run into any serious challenges, and especially not in all positions simultaneously.

For front end, this could maybe work if your job requires a light touch and mostly off the shelf parts with a tiny bit of glue.

But good luck trying to debug an elusive issue that has something to do with parallel computing in your distributed services while in another job you were just assigned to replace a piece of the stack in a legacy system.

I personally don't think there's anything morally wrong about working several jobs, as long as you can deliver the full capacity when needed. I've been avoiding doing this myself for this reason. When the narrow straights hit, I need to be able to fulfill my position.
This is on an entirely different scale, and not only that, the UK water companies are under investigation for their practice of dumping sewage during storm overflow situations; it may be nefarious, it may simply be inadequate capacity.

IMHO it's unlikely, unless they are being exceptionally brazen, that they're skipping the easiest and most easily observable step in sewage processing, filtering out solids.