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This response seems unfair. Not the GP, but to me their question seems in presumably good faith (I’m not sure that asking if there are any disadvantages is a loaded question) and is followed by a description of their understanding clearly wrapped in a disclaimer to avoid simply “parroting” political memes.
Same here, just for the refresh rate (I have 165Hz monitors, love the smoothness). I don't see any pattern to it, whatsoever.
Apple, Meta and the $10B Impact of Privacy Changes
So you're changing the goalposts here and asking for defense of a statement the post doesn't make. The statement was that "the US surface Navy has...been deferring maintenance," not that it was cutting the budget for maintenance.

There is no smoking gun of "aha! you cut funds for needed repairs!" here - just a series of operational and organizational priorities that have resulted in ships being at sea for longer and longer deployments, and resources allocated to prestige projects like carriers, instead of resolving the less sexy issue of manpower, and lack of "work horse" destroyers in the fleet.

ProPublica has a good piece going into some of the details of this if you'd like to know more, specifically as it regards the 7th Fleet.

https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crash...
Being from the Netherlands, I don't think we in majority regret being in the Euro or Schengen.
Of course, there's downsides and some people want out, but you'll have those in any country.
* some kinds of unproven new industries (excluding construction/housing)

As someone who has a US passport, loves cities, and lives half the year in the US, this is particularly frustrating to me. It seems that no matter how wealthy or powerful you become, it's still basically illegal to build innovative things on land you own in the US (anywhere near other people).
Bad press is a calculated risk - for every time something goes viral there are likely TONS of time that it quietly goes their way.

Large financial and legal repercussions are required here. The balance of power is way to far one sided.
This definitely applies to programming as well. It's not uncommon to see people happily churning out mountains of highly redundant and repetitive code, or zealously pursuing far-reaching nit-picky refactors of dubious benefit and I think it's simply because the act of writing code and running tests and watching them go green is fun.
All beings act in the interests of its members, and can still do so while in compliance to some greater system. That is why perhaps a union, like any other association of sentients that have ever existed, may be governed by a greater set of rules, such as laws, designed to preclude abuses such as in the AMA case. Which is why it is possible to support a ruler- even me- while simultaneously be at ease that they are not a dictator, because we live in a society of the rule of law.
> Thus, the actual switch is just a note swap, the actual advantages and disadvantages are already there.

Not quite. When your currency is pegged to the euro, the exchange rate isn’t fixed; you only promise to try and keep it fixed. If that turns out to be impossible (or you don’t want to do it anymore), you can change the exchange rate or decide to stop that pegging.

Of course, that you could do that has a price: people will weigh the risk of something like that happening when they invest in your currency.

If you join the euro, the exchange rate becomes 100% fixed. Giving up that flexibility removes some uncertainty for investors, and that may be beneficial to you (technically, you could still exit the euro system and reintroduce a national currency, but your national debt and interest payments would still be valued in euros, diminishing the effect you get from getting back your own currency. It also is deeply uncharted territory; I’m not even sure rules for doing it have been made. Markets may judge a move like that similar to how they would judge defaulting on your loans)

In some sense, pegging to the euro is the try-out of “what would happen if we joined the euro?”
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon#Noun
I’m so confused about how many times it’s reiterated that _no one_ is parsing untrusted YAML with the library. It’s so unlikely as to be laughable.

Then later when someone says they are, he doubles down saying that parsing arbitrary YAML provided from people on the internet isn’t parsing “untrusted” YAML because they’re authenticated. Apparently it’s reasonable that anyone that signs up for a SaaS service gets code execution privileges on the prod infrastructure?

I’m pretty sure that thread had me shaking my head hard enough to give me a concussion.
It is very likely a combination of it being the holiday season and incredibly bad weather. Anecdotally, there have been a lot more semi truck crashes than usual in my area due to insanely bad road conditions.
This article misses that for most software engineers there is no monastery. Unlike a doctor who actually is doing the thing they care about, healing patients. Most software engineers aren't doing anything related to expanding technology or even using technology in a skilled way. It's just an empty race to the bottom.
As a prime user in the UK, I am definitely experiencing this - Not had a 24 hour delivery in a long time
"Concept artist" lol
Finally someone says it. Always felt like it.
Well, "try and" has been valid English for centuries [1], and "would of" and "could of" are not recent problems.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/were-going-to-...
I would think it is less on the "don't have branches" but more "try to have a happy/common path." This is oddly at odds with how humans work as operators. For human operators, you typically want each interaction to be as unpredictable as possible, to keep their attention. Falling into rote action is a sure way to get a mistake out of a person. (Or to get them to quit.)

However, for computers, it is good to view them as a machine. As most machines, they are best if they are doing the exact same thing over and over. And over.

As such, if you can contrive for the machine to always take the same branch the vast majority of the time, you will get it to work faster. Whether this is done with a dynamic arrangement of the data, or a static arrangement of the code depends largely on the specifics. Consider sorting networks as a fun exploration of the idea. They can be ridiculously fast, as they always do the same amount of work. (Provided you have enough execution units.)
That's what I was trying to say but I can see how my comment was ambiguous.
> "Unelected cabals operating behind the scenes" -- that's an age-old trope

I think you could do with fewer condescending comments and more study of the history and mechanics of democracy and mass psychology. Bernays is a decent starting point.
No, the system was always intended to have entry points for highly interested groups to make a play, at all levels. Remember that many of the balances in place are levied against (what the founders saw as stupid) people represented by popular vote (e.g. the electoral college).
I never thought about the schnitzel/noodles thing before, I guess "schnitzel with potato salad" doesn't quite fit with the rhyme nor the rhythm of the song :)

Those famous musicals made during that era aren't usually very culturally accurate. For example Dick Van Dyke played a cockney chimney sweep in Mary Poppins, made a bit of a pigs ear of the accent but otherwise turned in a performance that was really fun, and if you're able to let a few things slide they can be quite enjoyable.
This might be relevant to HN readers that are (or consider) digital nomads. Croatia's been pushing hard on making it easy for them to come and temporarly work from here.

Not having to leave/reenter Schengen area when visiting/leaving Croatia and dealing with yet another currency will definitely make their lives a bit easier.
There are a few reasons why humans have not returned to the moon since the last manned mission in 1972.

One reason is that the Apollo program, which sent humans to the moon, was a major achievement for NASA and the United States, but it was also very expensive. The cost of the Apollo program, in today's dollars, was approximately $100 billion. As a result, there has not been a strong political or financial motivation to return to the moon.

Another reason is that there have been other priorities for NASA and other space agencies. For example, the space shuttle program, which began in the 1980s, focused on building and servicing the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS is a collaborative project between several countries and is primarily used for research in microgravity. NASA and other space agencies have also focused on exploring other destinations, such as Mars, and developing new technologies that could be used for future space exploration.

Finally, there have also been technical challenges to returning to the moon. For example, the spacecraft and rocket technology used in the Apollo program is now outdated, and new systems would need to be developed. There is also the issue of developing new landing and surface exploration capabilities, as the equipment used in the Apollo missions is no longer functional.

Overall, while it is technically possible for humans to return to the moon, it would require a significant investment of time, money, and resources.
The countries don’t understand a thing, until it’s too late. Politicians want bigger-size budget to spend (the first 5 years) and the local elites want to avoid possible depreciation of their bank accounts (Italy, Greece, etc).

The local elite now will be owned by Brussels within a few years to an extend they can’t imagine. The politicians care too much about their personal careers, they don’t care about the state.

Ultimately the Citizens will have to pay the piper, but then again … maybe I am wrong.

Joining the EUR in 2000 one could claim ignorance. Joining in 2022, without having infrastructure and industry to compete with Germany, using a currency they completely control is pure suicide. You go looking for someone to take over you country.
What they decided to do is really quite strange. Something like Capacitor makes much more sense but they said they wanted access to React Native libraries... I hope https://github.com/OpenNative/open-native can address their requirements in the future. It's goal is to make things like React Native native modules work across frameworks (e.g., react native libraries working in capacitor and native script)
No AST Jai Alai's[1] via treesitter?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_alai
I felt the same way until I had an epiphany recently, not a smart new idea kind of epiphany, but one where the obvious came back into clarity.

Years in industry had conditioned me to seek validation from my peers in the form of completing projects quickly, positive code reviews and just generally being thought of as a "smart" programmer. That isn't really my job though, my job is to create something. If I don't suck I will understand the essence of what I am creating, whether it should be pretty, easy to use, flexible, fast, or whatever and make sure it embodies all those qualities. I know it is a really obvious thing but realizing it brought back a bit of my passion. We as engineers are so often called upon to assess feasibility and make estimations around projects, but it is really important to take a second and forget about coding entirely and picture why a user would be impressed with what you made, and then making sure you deliver that.
Interesting! Of note, My `Vec3` and `Quaternion` types (f32 and f64) have `Copy` APIs, but I've wondered about this since their inception.
> Verizon treats their customers with contempt as a business practice

I agree, but with actual support technicians at Verizon I've actually had pretty decent, even above average interactions. The company itself does things I detest, but I try not to take it out on the people answering the phone.
Nobody is trading away any sovereignty. That's a mistake on your part.

Croatia is freely entering into this and is free to leave in the future as well, the same as the UK chose. This is a sovereign treaty like any other. They are not signing away their ability to change their mind in the future. So there is utterly no change in "sovereignty".
512 (f) Absolute provides a method for a person to claim damages for a misrepresentation of copyright in a DMCA Take Down

The fact this provision is not regularly enforced is because it would be expensive to do so, often exceeding the damages in the first place. However I wish EFF and other organizations would start pushing back against companies like this using 512 (f) and get some case law and actual damages including legal fees against these copyright abusers
less social media. work on a side gig and enjoy life more.
Firewatch I enjoyed, I'll have a look at the others.

Thanks :) happy new years
Totally agreed; nevertheless, any voting system capable of expressing the desires of voters should result in an outcome that better meets their desires than the desires of non-voters. If it didn’t, why would anyone vote?
As an addendum, LLVM can automatically perform the “&T-as-T” optimization (without inlining) in some cases where the callee function is in the same compilation unit and known to not care about the pointer value. However, these types of optimizations tend to be fragile, easily disturbed when things get slightly complex.
The original article is https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/27/us/politics/c...

This also includes a Javascript implementation of it.

If this intrigues you, there is a physical board game that you can also get that is based on a similar concept.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/252997/mapmaker-gerryman...

It is currently available from a number of different retailers.
Handling “apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead”
There is a huge difference between being able to do basically whatever you want with your property pursuant to the law and being constrained by whatever a typical rental contract for that type of property is. To imply otherwise is lying just lying with some fluff on top.
Historical records from the year 1054 are available (and are of course the reason we date the nebula to "1054" rather than "the eleventh century"). You can just go see what people of the time thought.

Wikipedia doesn't quote the records associated with 1054, but does quote the record of a supernova in the year 185:

> In the 2nd year of the epoch Zhongping [中平], the 10th month, on the day Guihai [癸亥] [December 7, Year 185], a 'guest star' appeared in the middle of the Southern Gate [南門] [an asterism consisting of ε Centauri and α Centauri], The size was half a bamboo mat. It displayed various colors, both pleasing and otherwise. It gradually lessened. In the 6th month of the succeeding year it disappeared.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_185 )

What people thought appears to have been "sometimes there are new stars, but they go away again".
Baerbock too. Before she was selected for government, an Atlantic Council member said her policy opinions "are in lockstep with" NATO. How convenient.
Seems interesting though I can not say that I like the Ada inheritance (especially the interface files, but the verbosity as well, the lack of tuples and verbosity of Pair seems like it would quickly be frustrating with a linear type system, as well as the seeming lack of same-scope shadowing).

Shame the examples are a bit too simplistic to show the value of linearity e.g.

function closeFile(file: File): Unit;

that's the wrong interface, because closing a file can error. And it is an issue with destructors, which linear types can solve.

It would also demonstrate runtime error handling, which is completely ignored by the entire document and largely absent from the spec (error handling is discussed a lot, but never actually demonstrated).

The only document I found was https://austral-lang.org/tutorial/errors which seems to indicate that not only does Austral (unfortunately imo) follows Haskell's lead through using an Either for errors (which is clear as mud), it proceeds to break Haskell's mnemonic for success/failure (not that that's great, but at least it was something).
Counterpoint: NIMBYs in SF preventing development of new housing by even a small entrepreneur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4

Something tells me JP Morgan would have an even tougher time getting past the NIMBYs.
>Once you are arguing in terms of whether you are not ablist or anti-bad enough, you have already taken the bait, and you are arguing at a disadvantage within the inconsistent framework of rules in the critical theory,

The best way to escape quick sands is to actively avoid getting into quick sands.

This is such a poignant analysis of these -isms. Do you have any recommended readings by any chance?
Once again, thanks for engaging.

I feel I'm getting entangled in a discussion I'm not really a part of. I'm not a prescriptivist, I don't really care that much about the direction most of the language takes. I know it's alive; it has its own ways; it will change continuously despite all the efforts some may put behind keeping it in this or that way.

My point was just that it's a bit sad how what was nothing more than a prejudice, and an very biased one, got 'normalized' without us even being aware of it now.

And yes, your point is pretty valid.

> But you can take comfort in the fact that nobody who uses that word in its current meaning is speaking ill of the Vandals as a people.

That being quite true, that also shows how we are not really paying attention how language has been shaped by ideologies/prejudices/biases. In a way, it's also comforting to know that despite the way ideologues/those with prejudice try to shape our minds, all that gets silenced in the long run. Language has a life of its own.

> Because despite the negative connentation the word now has, wouldn't erasing the word from our language be another step towards forgetting about the Vandals and their history?

Well, one thing's for sure: no Vandal will feel vandalized by the historical vandalism of calling someone a vandal. May they all rest in peace.

Once again, thanks a lot for engaging. Your comments have been insightful. I really appreciate that.
It's more of a cringe than outrage. And yeah, you are right, words do have meaning, which is exactly why we should be intentional with our words.

Saying retarded has been uncouth for a lot longer than five years, not sure where you have been. I've had plenty of time to think about it for myself.
> Current space hardware development costs range from $100,000/kg for basic, boring LEO hardware up to >$1m/kg for deep space robots such as the Mars Science Laboratory rover. A 50 T lunar power system would then cost between $5b and $50b

This assumption seems highly dubious. Nearly all of that 50T will be solar panels and batteries that only need to be designed once, meaning the development costs will scale sub-linearly.
On the flip side, digital nomads often look for places like Croatia that are similar to Schengen countries and border schengen territory to spend time in to "recharge" their schengen 90-day window (depending on your passport/ visa you may only stay in schengen for 90 days in any given 180 day window)
My first thought when I saw this is it would also be useful to draw millipedes and snakes
Mario Kart :)
Hey jiggawatts,

I agree, and want to also add: If you're in software / tech (if this is an incorrect assumption on my part please say so and I apologize in advance; I've become used to seeing your posts and my sense is this might be your domain), on average you're working with people who are significantly more intelligent than the average adult human being.

In my experience, the rate of nasty / miserable / mentally unstable / "want the world to burn" chaotic people amongst the general public in the United States is pretty close to 1 in 20 (5%).

At my swe jobs it's been more like what you say~ 1% or less who are serious struggles to try and work with.
Ah yes. Sadly that is the case.
Nope. She, being an intuitively good mom, understood that crying is literally a cry for help.
> One reason is that the Apollo program, which sent humans to the moon, was a major achievement for NASA and the United States, but it was also very expensive. The cost of the Apollo program, in today's dollars, was approximately $100 billion. As a result, there has not been a strong political or financial motivation to return to the moon.

This is less than the 10% of the current investment USA is doing only on the Air Force. USA spends 1,5 trillion anually on the air force only, not including marines, etc.
> What are some videogames that are absolutely worth playing in 2023?

CrossCode[1], hands down. If you have someone else to play with in couch co-op, Aegis Defenders[2].

> I love strategy games.

Shadow Tactics[3] for stealth RTS, Fae Tactics[4] for turn-based RPG tactics.

[1]: http://www.cross-code.com/en/home

[2]: https://www.humblegames.com/games/aegisdefenders/

[3]: https://www.shadow-tactics.com/

[4]: https://www.humblegames.com/games/aegisdefenders/
Would this event be in the Netherlands?
A tosti is Dutch for what's called a croque monsieur basically anywhere else.
10-80-10 are the numbers I assume: 10% are terrible, 80% regular, and 10% excellent. I have no empirical data to back it up. Does anyone have?
Given it opens on 1 Jan, does anyone know the story behind this?

> However, border checks will end only on March 26 at airports due to technical issues.

Inability to e-parse which group a passport belongs to?
The plan was always to use a debt crisis to turn the monetary union into a fiscal union. I guess therein lies the fatalism. But fiscal unions were much easier to form when money was gold backed and financialization wasn’t so rampant. Plus people have seen the effects of Germany being able to export unemployment via its surplus is it upsetting other Europeans and building anti-EU sentiment. In my view the debt crisis is structurally baked in and guaranteed to happen, what I’m uncertain about is the extent of the backlash EU leadership will receive from the attempt at normalizing fiscal policy.
John Adams on composing and creative freedom
Don’t forget padded contractor invoices.
AH, I see

Looks from the icon like it's the same franchise, not sure. But yeah, different idea for sure
Random checks may still occur.
1st class NIL, NULL, 'nothing'/ aka () and blank aka "" and/or '' handling without manditory kid gloves work arounds

thereby eliminating the future possibility of whole classes of 'wierd' bugs/crashes/issues. (before C, blue screens of

death, stack/heap smashing, seg faults, core dumps and Lvalue & Rvalue were a thing)
The plan NASA is going after now is establishing an orbiting lunar station and a permanent lunar base near the south pole where hopefully water can be recovered. If you watched the video runup to the Artemis 1 launch they made the plan very clear.

Just going back for a quick jaunt to get more moon rocks can be done with robots.

The other game changer is the US isn't the only "we" working on landing humans on the moon.
The more predictable a work process becomes, the quicker people can do it too.

Our issue is with correctness, that is something we not even think about in computers. So, it's not really surprising that this completely different issue has different constraints than speed.
When my grandfather was in the hospital I got to talking with the patient in the next room, who was recovering from a quadruple heart bypass operation. He didn't like the hospital food, so he convinced his family to bring him a double cheeseburger and fries from the fast-food restaurant down the street. That's got to be a little disillusioning for doctors.