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> helped make top-quality answers instantly accessible.

I wonder if it depends on what questions you need answering?

I stopped using SO because I couldn't find good quality answers to my questions (to be clear -- I'm talking about in their database, I wouldn't dare to actually post a question on SO). But the questions I have tend to be obscure or difficult ones, because I don't need much help with the easier ones.

It's also a bit irritating when I find someone else has asked the same question, but they were either left unanswered or the answer was incorrect.
> Were the recommended places all real places?

For us, they worked. They were all real minus the one I mentioned, and the descriptions weren't vague. They were accurate and what we were looking for.
A fine (or in this case settlement) has to be somewhat painful in order to deter. I remember a story about Steve Jobs never getting a license plate and always parking in spaces reserved for disabled people, and so on. He just ate the fines and continued the behavior because they were trivial to someone with his fortune.

If OP's numbers are correct, the fine in this case amounts to 0.015% of assets under management--far lower than what anyone would pay a money manager to manage their investments. I'm sure no other potential violator would feel it necessary to change their behavior if they knew their penalty was 0.015%.
Only fun thing I found to do with this is race two cities' balloons around the world and back to original longitude. DC comes from behind and beats NY (at least at precise locations I selected).
International student fees. I did say "all legal, privately paid for"
I think there is some confusion here. I will clarify, but please don't get offended.

For your first point, no, they were wrong, I did very well on bitcoin - hence my example.

For your second point - I am confused - I agree senior developers know what they are talking about, I was one for nearly 2 decades.
I was referring to peers not superiors.
I was saying I have encountered narrow mindedness and ignorance. I did not say that is all I encountered. I also encountered kind, intelligent, superior and inspirational people.

Edit> On second thoughts - I re read your comment - Who downvoted you? When? Was it in regards to this article?

What on earth are you talking about?

Are you chatgpt?
Here's another source with better quality image, WSJ did fancy stuff putting it in the vault which doesn't give you a great look at the artwork itself.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/a-cabinetmaker-spent-30-ye...
Random searches for this phrase on Twitter seems to back this up somewhat. From the first about 100 which I was made, about 2/3rd was about some obvious misinformation, and a deeper analysis would probably take it higher. However, there is definitely a bias here, because I’ve only encountered with this phrase before from people “backing” obvious COVID, vaccine or Trump misinformation.
This. Somebody I read noted that streets in Polish villages started becoming empty in the evenings in the same period of time when the windows of houses there began to glow with the light of the TV screens. TV is just easy companionship and entertainment (even if ultimately unsatisfying), and we're a huge sucker for easy.
I didn't check the specs of that Air, but is it upgradeable? If it is, maybe you could make it faster too.

Anyway, there is no reason for your Air to be slower after 10 years. The hardware is the same. Either Apple makes a slower OS for it or it will be as fast as ever.

In my case I moved to Debian two months ago after years of Ubuntu. It was fast enough but it feels faster now. The fan didn't turn on often but it's even more silent now. Maybe less stuff running in background or a newer kernel and graphic driver, who knows.

On the other side, my friend's cheap Windows laptops become slower and slower until they buy a new one. I'm not sure to know somebody with a 2000 Euro Windows laptop. Maybe it's different.
I've thought about this too. I tried YC's co-founder matching, looking for a co-founder for my current company. But it's all new founders (i.e. no experience running or even building a company). It's kind of like Indie Hackers -- it's full of wantrepreneurs (nothing wrong with that!), with very little entrepreneurs.

There's gotta be a better way.
I could probably get the exact numbers, but nowadays probably less than 100/year. Diminishing every years from 2004 through 2014 at least.

Plus we have gauges issues that the US don't, so this much disparity is concerning.
I think it's already this way right now. Look at the scrollbar height on the screenshot in the article.
There are echoes of the net neutrality debate here, where one might argue that: beyond the OSI Application Layer (HTTP etc.) there is also the Layer Where The Browser Decides What Pixels To Show, and that we would want that new layer to be every bit as neutral as, say, whether T-Mobile can shape lower-layer video traffic based on its business partnerships.

But there's also a lot of nuance here. Imagine there was a law or regulation that said that a browser manufacturer must only write code that is agnostic to the current URL; imagine it said, say, that Edge developers cannot deploy code that detects that Edge is on google.com/chrome and decide based on that information to execute certain code.

Unfortunately, a version of this per-site customization is arguably exactly what Chrome does for the HSTS preload list: https://hstspreload.org/ - and disallowing this would not be good for security at all!

And imagine if there is an urgent Chrome security fix that, as a side effect, causes the Outlook login screen to bug out - or any other mission-critical login page on the web. The most reasonable hotfix might be to push a quick fix that whitelists certain domains for the legacy behavior. But this, too, would be disallowed.

We definitely don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater just because Microsoft got a little cute - arguably too cute - here.
Buddhism is all about reducing suffering. BUT, once a large group gets together in an organization, like with the big Zen Centers, they fall prey to the same organizational defenses. The organization becomes more important than the individuals, just like any corporation, it becomes a beast with its own survival instincts. Once this happens, you could argue that they are no longer representing Buddhism.

But this is pretty tough issue, or balance, because meditation does help people, so how do they get exposed if there is no organization? People have to get started somewhere, so some weekend meditation courses or sittings are good for an organization to 'organize' and get the word out.

The big mistake is people jumping right into these long week long silent retreats. Those are supposed to be for advanced meditators, not right off the couch. Like doing a 10K right from the couch, don't do a week long retreat from nothing.
Tangential, has someone tried to have two chatGPTs chatting together? Like the good old joke which consists of dialing two random persons and have them discuss together.
Car company marketing isn’t working anymore?
It's in Edge, they control the browser and everything the browser does.
None of the contaminants are carcinogenic, really
Can Prune be used to build a bundle (as in a zip) for, say AWS Lambda, which includes only the dependencies (and not dev dependencies)? I've played around with pnpm's deploy but it felt a bit lackluster. Especially talking about situation where one has a backend package and some shared package. The bundle should contain all dependencies (but not dev dependencies) of the backend package and shared package and of course the built shared package should also be include in the bundle's node_modules.
The part about welfare for those not of their faith was just in the news due to the way we do block grants to states to fund welfare services.. the state of Utah largely hands off their program work to the LDS Church which is pretty unfortunate when they make support contingent on joining their church, going so far to tell people they won't be provided with support that's Federally required unless they get baptized into the church.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/12/02/utah-makes-welfare-so...
Wasn't COBOL a first attempt in having a natural language interface to the machine? Is this the next attempt to make the human-machine interface simpler?

Why is it that we create something with which we can't communicate but that we expect to solve all our problems.
You missed the other two common ones: permissions change and a disk filled up somewhere.

Before finding out the dead simple failure mode and fix, engineers need to spend countless hours diving into the most technically complex scenarios that might be happening but are irrelevant. Then they can reset permissions or add disk space or add back a DNS entry.
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Wikimedia’s Challenge to NSA Mass Surveillance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34884612
>Well, that’s quite essentialist and othering towards Asians.

It's rather seeing a religious tradition in its historical context, and recognizing its environment.

It's "western buddhism" that is both orientalism (exoticizing the other) and a form of cultural appropriation and cheapining an original thing.

Note that I don't say that that they are "better Buddhists" or "closer to what Buddha meant" etc, as those are irrelevant. They are authentic even if they are bad at it or indifferent to it.

>Eventually you realize that the only way a born-in-the-West person could become a Buddhist, according to this completely wrongheaded interpretation of “lived experience”, is to do the following

That would be a good way, yes.

At least they wouldn't be a tourist at it.
Then you grossly misread the articles.

For the majority religions, its still a paperwork game. However it's also rather standard filing and granting said non-profit status.

The minority religions are told time and again, that "we're not really religions and not worthy of non-profit status". And when we're able to do so, we fight for state recognition of our religion. Most of the times, this fails for us.

And naturally, there's some severe problems with "state recognition of religion leading to non-profit status" and "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".
Probably a biofilm.
Great article, but:

> "I thought that SAT solvers were widely used in package dependency management. Turns out they’re not!"

Proceeds to link to PubGrub, a "Pub's version solving algorithm, called Pubgrub, solves these issues by adapting state-of-the-art techniques for solving Boolean satisfiability and related difficult search problems."

It's basically a sat solver that uses the problem domain directly. Which they later acknowledge might be a reason for not using an "off the shelf" solver.

It's just funny to present it this way - but I enjoyed the article nontheless.
I think brave has a good model, but normal cryptocurrency shenanigans taint the possibility.
Does it make sense to insert Edge ads in Edge?
I nearly considered moving to Edge on my last Windows install.

In the end, it's true that IE/Edge were bad choices before moving to WebKit. Now, why not? A more integrated browser (as Safari is for Mac) makes sense x Google being evil(er) x Firefox being left behind (for bad reasons, but still) x Bing being a good Bing x Google Search being less useful.

I agree the method isn't good, but feels like Edge is not a bad choice anymore.
One AI to rule them all

(sorry)
Can't wait for this to be one of the reasons the hard deprecated old reddit :(
(Thoughtful comments appreciated with downvotes; thanks.)

OK, I'll bite.

The response doesn't answer the question. What "mistakes" are being referenced? Who made them?

This is a yes/no question. Don't get fooled by grammar tricks, like the ambiguous voice of made or the ambiguous reference to mistakes.
Ensign had well over $100 billion by 2020;

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/mormon-church-...
Additionally, wind data for altitudes at or above 60,000 feet isn't commonly available. The spy balloon was in the 60,000 to 120,000 range.

The variability of wind direction at different altitudes can be seen at https://www.aviationweather.gov/windtemp and https://www.aviationweather.gov/windtemp/data?region=slc
I didn't find this to be the case, took a few tries on both, but at least the old one provided an error message
re: [flagged] lol, you can't criticize Democrats on HN. It's verboten.
The main issue here isn't propaganda.
Great story, glad I read it!
What makes you think I agree? I certainly am saying what the SO owners have said. I'm repeating it here because I think it's a useful way to understand why SO is the way it is. As I said, I think people commonly misunderstand and think that SO is doing a bad job of optimizing around "being a good place to ask questions" when they are, instead, optimizing around a different goal entirely.
> That seems like something that FEMA would be better prepared to do.

Given that FEMA is perhaps best known for poisoning people with toxic chemicals, who would really be the audience for this?

https://grist.org/politics/people-are-still-living-in-femas-...
It's not a defence. The "new city" per year is a scare mongering tactic that presents only a partial data picture as its basis.
…and Microsoft and Apple if your endpoints include Windows, IOS or MacOS. All of those have 3rd party drivers but I don’t think any of them come with SCTP support out of the box.
Shouldn't it be obvious I'm speaking of the Federal Government generally?

What's more important? Stopping people being harmed or getting agencies functions right?
Tested, old yields 503, new shows the normal content. I need a tin foil hat.
Smartphones are just the final nail to the coffin. Before smartphones, TV had already killed a of people's sociability (and radio did a lot of damage before TV as well). The book "Bowling Alone" was written well before the era of smartphones.
I don't care for AirPods, HomePod or all the other accessoires. However I do want a smooth and consistent OS. Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile after that was that for me. Usually very smooth, clear design language, very consistent. Until Microsoft killed it.

Then you have Android which isn't Android. Samsung desperately trying to establish its own identity, by including own versions of apps on their devices - so you have Android Browser/Google Chrome and Samsung Internet. Gmail and Samsung Mail and Android mail. The list goes on.

Then let's talk about security patches and updates. Improvements have been made over time, but it is still nowhere near Apple. Partially this is due to the way Linux kernel and build process works, but as a user I don't care about that.

Even on flagship devices Android is not truly smooth. Sure, some animations are added here and there, but it is not truly smooth - and often there is some stuttering here and there. That completely ruins it for me. Let's not talk about how lower-end devices work.

Apple asks too much for their devices, the apps can be incredibly expensive, and I don't like how they've handled repairability until now. Accessories are too expensive. AirPods shouldn't even exist. But what they offer does work and it works mostly well.
More details: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/02/21/u-s-supreme-...

Actual legal documents: https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/wikimedia-v-nsa
It's worth the work heading to System.Text.Json - even if only to make staying up with .NET easier for yourself.

It had a bit of a rough start but it seems far more interoperable on weird edge cases than Newtonsoft now, so all the "Newtonsoft-y" things you're doing might evaporate.
Will this cause the Teams notifications to be delayed even further than they already are?
Been using The Great Suspender / The Marvelous Suspender for years on Chrome. I feel like it maintains state when reloading a tab but I could be wrong.
Sorry, I don’t check comments all that often. I’ve heard it’ll take a decade for supply and prices to recover. who knows. But I’ve started to just shift to alternate materials for next few years—mostly punted or veneered MDF. Fwiw I’m only a hobbyist doing mostly personal projects, so take my views with a grain of salt.
yes. winds change at altitudes, so you might find it faster/slower depending on your altitude. or even going in the opposite direction
I think you're basically saying that this thing is a) a black box, and b) more complex than any human can pretend to understand, even if we cracked open the box and looked inside.

But, that does not close off the possibility of learning what ways we can poke and prod it to affect the results.

It would be interesting to run an experiment to test whether some people are consistently better at generating desirable results from an AI model. My money would be that they can, even at this early stage of "prompt engineering" as a discipline, let alone 5 or ten years from now.

You may also be saying "don't call it engineering, it feels more like black magic," a position I would be sympathetic to. But, I think a lot of realms of engineering deal with uncontrollable elements we don't understand and have to just deal with, with increasing levels of control as our disciplines become more sophisticated.
Maybe the cause and effect is reversed. We're seeing errors because the old reddit is deprecated.
Apologies if this sounds reductive but can I think of it as an open source CircleCI?

The thing that annoys me most about CircleCI, TravisCI, Github Actions and Appveyor is that there is no simple way to run the same thing locally to debug or test workflows without creating either git history mess or temporary hacks like taking off branch restrictions in the yaml.
I think the point is: Goals of "A subset of high performance applications" is not going to _replace_ TCP unless its works OK for everyone else.

Additional M.O. protocol cool, but replace TCP with it?
Auto brightness and auto whitetone aren't features of the panel, but of the OS. Apple just mosattributes that, as always.

And yes, 200+ ppi P3 displays are easily available, Apple just buys their panels from the same suppliers that are available to you.
No ideas, but I agree.

I personally view all forms of advertisement as a parasite or cancer on our eyes and ears. People disregard it as not that important, but I feel like it's way more impactful than most people think. It's constantly invading our spaces of work, casual enjoyment, transit, etc. It's a mental tax we're constantly paying.
I agree. Overall it seems like the fine was small for a couple of reasons, including:

(a) The SEC raised a concern about how stuff was being reported in 2019, so in 2019 the church changed how stuff was being reported.

(b) It appears that all of the money was being reported to the SEC, just not in under the same entity.

So maybe not a nothingburger, but kinda on that end of the scandal spectrum.
They had the ability to work independently on their own projects, just not the team projects. Also, the post screams impostor syndrome, so it’s likely their “inability to work independently” claim is exaggerated.

You’re right, we don’t have the full details, but this sounds like a team problem to me. I also believe that when a student fails, this is the fault of the teacher, not the student. It seems likely they weren’t getting the support they needed.
If you less this txt file, your terminal plays a sound
Is anyone surprised? Microsoft has good parts in it, but wolf changes clothes something something.. core was rotten for so long, so what and when changed?
Yellow card for insufficient dialectics. Joining a revolutionary party makes you more of an underdog!

Obviously there's no way to just become someone who can feel successful, but having social hobbies is a more normal way to get there. But if you're depressed you have a harder time doing that.

It's probably not what SSRIs are doing though. It might be something BDNF related, or brain inflammation (everything's inflammation…).

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/how-antidepressant...
I’m someone who hasn’t jumped onboard this space—isn’t this “prompt engineering” concept just for OpenAI’s ChatGPT or is there some broader reason to expect prompt engineering to be relevant? I’m extremely hesitant to rely on ChatGPT or its current interface as a tool since it exists at the mercy of a massive profit-hungry corporation. It feels too early to start inventing formal concepts against a single black box API.
Yes! Prune then zip the output folder.
> Why is it not feasible to store and later rebuild the page DOM and view state?

It is. It's called swap. They should just throttle the JS down to zero, and then let the OS deal with the memory. Each tab is a separate process. What they need is the opposite of mlock, a way to tell the OS to pretty please swap out this process's memory because it is unlikely to be used in the foreseeable future.
What other model(s) are you referring to? TCP/IP? that still has identical ip/transport separation so can you explain why it's a good idea to so blantly violate fundamental layers of abstraction?
I figure about $100,000 of the lost value was me diverting all my recurring AMZN bills (pillpack, AWS, ...) to other providers because they ended 2 day prime delivery to my location. I can't wait to see what happens to their stock the day they admit that prime subscriber numbers are dropping. According to some analysts that will be real soon now.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-shopping-prime-member...

Sure is penny wise and pound foolish. It's like they never heard about Azure. They should have talked w/ my AWS account rep before they made that decision.
I honestly feel like Edge is run by product owners with no accountability to anyone, who get paid substantially more if the numbers go up. Except they're different numbers per team, and some of them are working against each other.
I just meant that my particular argument right there was trivial, not the belief itself. Ie:

Not believing in x === believing in not x.

Thats what we in the biz call "trivial".

If we lived in a world where the idea of god never crossed anybody's mind, then they would neither believe nor not believe. I dont believe in unicorns, but i neither believe nor disbelieve some random microorganism Ive never heard of.

Just consider yourself lucky you are not familiar with Dawson :).
> no one wants to post updated answers because "it's just going to get flagged".

I've seen plenty of "20xx: Now we do Y instead of X" answers posted years after the original answer.
Definitely. Programs such as Google's Project Loon used altitude to access different wind profiles so that they could plan & control the balloons' paths. You see this a lot with hot air balloons: The wind at one altitude can be going the opposite direction than the wind a few hundred feet below.

https://x.company/projects/loon/
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Firefox is the only non-evil browser.