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This sounds like something literally 90% of humanity does in their imagination at some point in their lives. It's inevitable that someone is going to do it in a video when the tech becomes good enough.

I'd say it's not the thing itself that's a problem, it's publishing whatever you create as if it's real. There are many things in life that are potentially harmful, but are part of everyday life since nobody actually harms anyone with them.
I personally don't understand why the "smart switches" don't run powerline (data over the electricity lines) instead of zigbee. Surely that'd be way more reliable.
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"objectively simpler" is just false. You might prefer it, but that doesn't mean it is simpler.

The reason people mostly don't like it, in fact, is because they find it more complex. A simple infix expression - say (2 + 3 - 1) / (5 - 2 + 4) becomes the comparatively more complex (/ (- (+ 2 3) 1) (+ (- 5 2) 4))) - with multiple layers of nesting to parse, operators a large distance away from what they are operating on etc. There's a reason it isn't taught in primary school, and it isn't objectively superior, just a trade off some people prefer because of other benefits they think it brings.
The Nuclear bomb in itself was a lifesaver in the way that the US nor the USSR ever dared to attack each other (directly) because of the potential consequences.

Without Nuclear bombs a "hot" 3rd world-war would have probably happened.

Also no country who has nuclear weapons was ever (directly) attacked.
>I managed to quit all social media over the last couple of months.

Almost the same for me. Turned off all notifications on my phone for all apps except the instant messaging ones and the caller app. Stopped browsing social media like Reddit which only optimize for engagement. Still keep some of the apps though as that's the only way I can reach out to some people I don't talk to that often. Dumped my smartwatch for my old trusty Casio.

It feels so liberating not being hunted down for my attention anymore.
Good for them, hope they keep working on DF, as there are many things in the roadmap,
it varies; sometimes people are being helpful by reporting bugs, for example because they don't know how to fix the bugs themselves, or because they're paying me to solve their problems so knowing what those problems are is the first step in getting paid, but sometimes they're just griefers looking for someone to bully

i suggest you fix the errors in your copy of the page and post the url here
With steamcmd (the steam client CLI) one can download whatever version of their owned games they want.
The problem is that there is a big confusion about building the technology and using it in some specific, wrong way. Surely anyone here will agree that building the technology itself should not be forbidden. You can do it for some valid reason, or simply for fun. It’s not for anyone to judge or stop you from doing it. Those who use it for some nefarious reason must then answer for that. Guns are the obvious comparison (although maybe not the best) as in they are needed for protection also. But another example is how explosive devices and technologies can be used in a variety of useful ways, such as mining, terraforming, etc. Using someone’s image without their consent is already a crime and applicable in many other non-DF scenarios.
I didn't miss anybody's point. Your comment made me realize something that I wanted to share.
Thats a disingenuous take.

The US and EU limit is the same - 20 ppb.

https://www.efisc-gtp.eu/data/1433337461EFISC-%20Code%20of%2...

https://agriculture.mo.gov/plants/feed/aflatoxin.php
The problem is that I want to control things with my voice. I have no desire to pass screens all over the house, nor do I carry my phone - or frankly most technology with me.

When I'm going upstairs, and I determine I'd like to - I want my lights, outside to turn on; sometimes, I want the stair lights to turn on. Sometimes I want neither. The real issue is that voice is currently a clumsy interface. But for many of us, it's ideal - just not there yet.
No, it probably means you're getting assigned your personal security guard tracking every step you make until you leave property. And that the moment you look too awkward a very friendly guy is going to come to you and start asking questions.
I'm a fan of the game but waiting for proper Linux support.

I also have a lot of other games to finish beforehand.
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Also note that the Borland dialect got inspiration from Apple's Object Pascal (TP 5.5) and UCSD (TP 4.0).

The switch in what customer base to target was what done more damage to Borland, more than anything else.

Delphi could still be a major language on the PC world at least.
I bought the Steam version and run it in Wine on both an Intel and M1 Mac. I ended up refunding the Steam version and bought it on itch.io so I could just directly download the game files and updates instead of having to mess with Steam inside Wine (the Mac Steam does not allow you to download Windows files). Also you get a Steam key with itch.io, so when they release a proper Mac version I can add it to my library still.

There are (where?) some issues with missed mouse presses (double click issue) which make it really annoying to play, but there is a workaround for that which worked fine for me: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=28983...
> jobs like cleaning, tending tables

For those, you now may have to talk to a chatbot by Apply Z[1] et al.

[1] https://www.talk-n-job.de
Wow, I've always associated that gesture with Blair.

Sometimes I do it to annoy my partner, when I should be giving a thumbs-up I'll do this instead.
Original article (paywalled):

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-gas-prepayment-me...
My take after reading it entirely is that it shows that so far DEI policies have not negatively impacted the desire of potential recruits in the groups that are traditionally overrepresented in the military from wanting to serve. It does note that this might change as knowledge of the DEI policies increase in such groups. Nevertheless, the current recruiting shortfalls cannot be placed at the feet of DEI.

The author theorizes that the shortfall is mainly in white Democrats who are less likely to want to join due to negative views of the country as a whole. Why join the military to defend something you hate? For this theory, the author had to rely on some speculative interpretations of the available data but makes reasonable, though not definitive, justifications for the interpretations.
Actually no. Because of my career, I deployed KDE to some very resource limited thin clients and it worked pretty well.

Also I talk with people who use KDE, and report bugs I encounter, or encourage people to report bugs when people I talk encounters them.

I'm pretty beyond "It works in my machine, so PEBKAC" at this point. I think using Linux for 20 years and managing a large fleet for 15 years helped on that front a lot. :-)
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You just leverage supply and demand.

Serve dodo as an exclusive gourmet meal to thirty oil sheikhs at $1 million a piece.

Easy.
I guess that was because they were afraid of it getting stuck in a tire. If I found a strange metal cylinder in my tires, I would probably pick it up a try to find out what it is.
The Law of Return does not distinguish patrilineal from matrilineal descent. Indeed, most such immigrants are not Jewish by religious law, even if ethnically they have that connection.
Source for US federal law that would make it illegal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_i...

Of course, the feds are going to require taxes to be paid in USD, so you will need USD at some point.
But I don't need a mechanical keyboard when a standard cheap one works just as fine. What would I possibly gain from paying more?
Ha, I should really learn to read.
Question. What will it mean for the 2nd amendment when the police and armed forces of the world consists of semi-autonomous bullet proof robots and drones?

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

If guns that fire bullets aren't relevant to the security of a free state does it change the legal arguments?

I think you guys should probably amend the 2nd amendment already
But for anyone in IT or related fields? $20/month feels like a nobrainer if you're in the West.

It's like paying for Jetbrains IDEs. I'm a bumbling idiot writing Symfony and Wordpress code and PHPStorm is 150 Euros a year. It probably increases my productivity by that much per day.

If ChatGPT saves you more than 60 seconds a day, or makes you work more comfortable, it's easily worth $20.
> In communism, as in all authoritarian/totalitarian regimes,

WTF? Communism is an economic model, not a leadership selection model. Communism is diametrically opposed to capitalism, not to democracy.

(It always baffles me when a communist authoritarian dictatorship enriches wealthy plutocrats while the workers starve, it's always the communism part that gets blamed, never the authoritarian dictatorship. But when a capitalist authoritarian dictatorship enriches wealthy plutocrats while the workers starve, it's never the capitalism that gets blamed. No, then it's the authoritarian dictatorship that's the problem. How about, just maybe, it's dictators and wealthy plutocrats that are the biggest problem for the working class?)
Indeed. What the strict aliasing rule implies is that only well typed C programs have meaning. Which means that C is indeed not "just memory".

If C was just memory, the only operations allowed would be on and through memory addresses, and values wouldn't be first class.
> It could also have completely flopped though, since the classic version is free and for die hard DF fans who know all hotkeys inside out there's little actual reason to switch to the Steam version.

For diehard DF fans "supporting the creator" is a large enough reason, even if they never intend to play the steam version.
We are all writing JAVA because we do not want to write machine code.

Why not compile some higher level formula code into Excel formulas?
> Also if I were in Europe, I would be looking at contingency plans that involved alternative continents.

If the war escalates to that point, then being on a different continent isn't going to help.

> turned Ukraine into the next Afghanistan

Ukraine is Ukraine, and is vastly different from Afghanistan. I can see some slight parallels in the Red army's invasion, but that's about it. There is nothing covert about the fight back, and we are not finding extra government militias to arm.

Yes, the energy situation is a pain in the arse. But it means that finally we are moving away from being held to ransom by Putin try to be a Tzar.

The EU finally has a common enemy at the gates. It can no longer ignore the war monger next door, gradually creeping into its back garden. Russia has basically played it's card, and is a bit stuck now.

Don't get me wrong, its horrific whats going on, putin doing the traditional thing of throwing an entire generation of men at the problem is frankly abhorrent. But there in lies the problem, Russia was already fucked, and it can't sustain that level of population loss.
But with this argument you could blackmail someone whether or not you have some evidence.
Sure but I included a couple of US ones myself as a starter, it was still a daft thing to say.
Or forward all netflix emails to 4 family emails.
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This is an epic list of free programming books

The link is to the English list, there are other languages available
The Science of Wi-Fi on Airplanes (2019)
As a hiring manager, boilerplate cover letters written in what I can only describe as the human version of ChatGPT tone already make me want to claw my eyes out, so I'm sure this will only help.

Am I misaligned with what the larger job market wants to see from a cover letter, or is all the advice given to kids on how to write a cover letter terrible?
Turning this around somewhat: in some sense, the focus on luck can also hurt people. If it's "just luck" that you did _not_ get the promotion or whatever despite trying and training for it, does it mean that you are "cursed by fate?"

I think it's super hard to balance "agency" versus "random factors beyond my control" on a daily basis. I agree that embracing the role of luck is one step forward, but I also wonder whether we'll ever get there.
Without trying to suggest the author is wrong (I'm confident he isn't) "C Minus-Minus" is interesting and does aim to be a "portable assembly language" which in turn is pretty much a target for an abstract machine which most modern compilers can deal with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C--
That's what many companies do, but if you're cutting whole business units, and lots of them, you probably don't have as many openings elsewhere. It's a good incentive to generally gravitate towards projects/teams that are contributing to profits if you're an engineer though, and not just look for another position when your is being axed.
> A passport/citizenship (for most countries) is a free option, ... and comes at practically zero cost

Why do you say that? Most countries (unless you can claim some descent from native citizens) require you to have a link with the country, to have spent several years there, to speak the language well, and to be financially secure.

Most countries rules select the people that are eligible for passports/citizenship to those that will benefit the nation.
They made 7m in personal income in one month, how would that not be normal
Both of these need to 'access [my] data for all websites' - I suppose I'm not really sure what my 'data' amounts to, (it sounds like anything I might input?) but surely they only need the URL, is that really as fine-grained as Firefox allows?
This is a fair point, but we have no way of knowing how close we came or will come to a nuclear apocalypse, so the risk posed by nuclear technology is difficult to evaluate.
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I think some misinterpret “about nothing” too literally. The entire show is about the minutiae of life, or to connect the dots more clearly, about “nothing important.” Indeed, the show gets a bit “meta” when it makes a copy of itself inside itself and is also about nothing.
can't they book expenses? income taxes are to be paid on "net profit" and not gross receipts, right?

how can you pay half of revenue as taxes? this assumes tax rate is 50% and there are no expenses?
Twitter wouldn't die if they don't pay bills, someone would buy it for huge discount. It seems like it would be the best way forward, depending on who would buy it. A lot of people don't follow news or Elon drama, the brand still has a lot of value. Especially abroad where news about Elon are much fewer.
The chat collectively playing in to the nonsense is all part of the experience.
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It's funny that you judge someone's character because he adheres to YouTube algorithms on his thumbnails. You should be more educated while working in tech.
I think you have misread my comment. A regular toothbrush + toothpaste costs pennies a day, add floss and mouthwash and it would still not reach $20/month. If I can take care of my teeth by using all of those costing so little, what on Earth would I gain by paying more?
Elixirs syntax is only Ruby like in that it’s very readable IMO. Any similarity with Ruby stops there.
At least you understood my comment.
> (There have also been actual C interpreters, some of which had strict adherence to the abstract semantics, cf (available online in the Usenix summer 1988 proceedings).)

I used one of these a little, Saber-C, circa 1990, on a Sun SPARCstation. It was glorious, and several steps beyond the Turbo C IDE on MS-DOS that I'd been using at home as a teen.

One of the big wins of Saber-C, before Purify and the later fancy open source memory checkers, was that it could quickly find memory problems. One of my mentors spent some evenings doing a Saber-C-powered memory-bug-search&destroy blitz through an open source Unix X11 game. (I think our own code had less need of help like that, so less Saber-C low-hanging-fruit fun.)

https://archive.org/details/1988-proceedings-summer-san-fran...
Philippine literacy rate is abysmal so Filipinos depend on the mass media and social media. Those who are aware for the need for reform the artists, poets, scientists, engineers, they are all gone. This includes Apostol the author on the article. They migrated abroad and followed the dream.
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Maybe this is the nail in the coffin of a stupid, meaningless traditional procedure that was already outdated and exploitable a long time ago. If you can’t differentiate between an AI-generated and a real one for your position, you should probably not rely on it anyway.
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Once we get that kind of generation into games it will be incredible.
> I actually think that infix notation has some advantages, especially for associative operations {e.g. if (G, +) is a group and a, b, c \in G, it's much more natural to write a + b + c than to choose between the equivalent (+ (+ a b) c) and (+ a (+ b c))}.

> But undeniably S-expressions are superior from a teaching point of view as they don't hide the "true" structure.

That's exactly what they do though. A group G is not the same as a particular choice of presentation, and an element of g is not a particular tree of generators. Linear transformations aren't matrices, numbers aren't decimal expansions, polygons aren't lines on a chalkboard - and internalizing this is extremely important for beginning math students.
You can't sign stuff without crypto (unless you mean by hand, on paper). Cryptographic signatures by design involve cryptography.

I know what you both meant, just playing with words, sorry. I just hope now that the dust has settled, we can go back to the world where "crypto" meant "cryptography", not anything else[1]

[1] https://www.cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com/
From now on, I will switch to this version for my child's story before sleep
> I'll bite. Fines and fees are a difficult topic. Fines and fees should never be used to fund the government.

Fines should be used to fund insurance for victims of lawless drivers, or to improve road infrastructure, build bicycle roads, etc.
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We should be.

This fatalism is exactly the problem. You see poor behavior, slap the label "business" on it, and all of a sudden it is expected, accepted and even defended.
I use the Phillips Hue Button, which I quite like! It has 4 buttons on it and doesn’t require external power or batteries to function. The button communicates with the bridge over Zigbee, which is then connected to my Home Assistant instance, so I can control more than just other Hue devices.

I put them on the bedside tables, and in living areas near where I have any smart bulbs in dumb lamps. Main button usually toggles the light, other buttons do things like turn on a favourite radio station, toggle other lights, and toggle gas fireplace thermostats. Downside is you need to know what the buttons do (guests usually take a bit of instruction to get used to it), but it works fairly well otherwise.

The automations are a real game changer! Some of my favourites that you didn’t mention in your comment:

- UniFi external cameras detecting people / vehicles turn on corresponding lights or making voice announcements in the house

- motion lighting in closets / pantry

- motion lighting in under cabinet lighting at night for night lighting

- good night routines that shut off the lights, arm the alarm, tell me the weather for tomorrow, and play white noise

- good morning routines paired with an alarm that disarm the alarm, play the morning radio (station depending on weekday vs weekend), turn on the gas fireplace in the bedroom and a space heater in the bathroom

- voice announcement / phone notifications triggered by a power usage monitor to tell me when my laundry has finished
- auto off timers for light switches / fireplaces that reset the countdown when motion is detected in that area

Any time I need to use the voice assistant or my phone is an anti pattern as far as I’m concerned! Phone more than voice assistant, but neither is as nice as a simple button. One thing I do find helpful is some Amazon FireHD tablets mounted on the walls in most rooms. They are powered by a PoE charger, and the screens unlock when motion is detected. I find this to be way better UX then pulling out a phone, unlocking, finding the app, then trying to remember why I pulled out my phone in the first place lol. The FireHD tablets are setup with a dashboard specific for that room (with tabs for controlling other parts of the house too), and are fairly UX-friendly for guests. I run "Fully Kiosk Browser" on the tablets, and that handles the autounlock / displaying the Home Assistant dashboard.
Yet the right to free speech and assembly have far more restrictions in place.