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UTF-16 seems very likely to me in database fields that cleanly support Unicode. It's the native default (for decades) in SQL Server and Oracle. Up until very recently it was the only Unicode safe character format for MySQL (when a true 8-bit UTF-8 character type was finally added after decades of hacks with broken 7-bit encodings). Postgres is the only SQL database I'm aware of that has had clean UTF-8 support for as long of a time that UTF-16 has been recommended or defaulted in every other SQL database.

Obviously there are a lot of databases out there with hacks using things like bad UTF-8 in unsafe column formats not designed for it, of course. But if you are working with a database like that, codepoint counting is possibly among your least worries.
Seems like the article wants you to accept a very narrow definition of recycling. reusing perfectly good shoes fits the definition of recycling in my book.
"Caring more" requires us to believe that Dow knows and intended for this to happen, rather than it being a beneficial outcome of local economic pressures. That seems unlikely; why go to the effort of publicizing a specific recycling program (one that's worse!) when you're secretly going to do a better thing?

The much more likely explanation is that Dow doesn't care, and expressed that lack of care by paying someone even less scrupulous to "care" for them. That party in turn doesn't care (because they can see Dow doesn't), and simply did whatever made them the most money.
I really like simple, reliable, tools like this - just watched the demo video. I hadn't heard of mastery learning before, but now I'm thinking about trying to map some Excel lessons towards this and see if I can implement it at work.

I've found that our youngest employees are coming out of school with little-to-no knowledge of how to work spreadsheet software - even those who are otherwise pretty technically proficient.

While programmers tend to eschew tools like Excel, in consulting (or at least the consulting we do) it's critical to being able to understand how a process works before designing an automated solution. Excited to potentially have a way to share that understanding.
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I wonder what RMS would say. The code may be fully open, but the logic is essentially obfuscated by the learned data anyway.
Software development is a trade, if all you aspire to be is a WordPress or frontend developer then you don't need a fancy degree, you can just as easily go to a 6 to 8 week code camp for that.

Computer science is a pathway for those that want to delve deeper, and that necessitates rigorous fundamentals in applied mathematics and information theory.
I actually stopped reading HN as much as I used to in the past 10+ years because of this. I found out running a small fediverse server and just curating my own feed keeps all the Apple stuff out from my view, and it's also easy to just hide/ban/filter people. It's sad, because I really don't want to jump in into many HN threads anymore...
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These comments are doom and gloom from people who have read articles but haven't been there. I've crossed the local railway tracks, blindfolded and earmuffed, for over a dozen times, and not once has a train hit me. If you're worried, contact a random australian dude working for one of the biggest cybersecurity threats on the planet, who also seems to pass time by counting cars that pass over a nearby bridge, and have him be an intermediary for you, as others have suggested. It will be great!
Yep, ChromeOS basically has Chrome itself as the compositor, so it doesn't have to worry about running "under" Wayland at all.

Take a look at the "blocked on" to see the kinds of things still remaining:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=578890
Sometimes it's even worse than that. I had a condo and then I discovered all the units were on land that was just a 99 year leasehold. The whole thing had an expiry date no matter what lol
I think part of the problem here is the very different kinds of meetings that exist.

On the one hand, we have what I think you are describing: people who do the work—people who are, in fact, doing the work—getting together to do that work together. Personally, I'd call this something like a "collaboration session" (because clearly, we need better terminology for more clarity).

On the other, we have the kinds of meetings that I think most of the other people in this thread are talking about: the kind where managers get together with individual contributors for various reasons not directly related to performing the tasks at hand. (These range from getting status updates that they can then pass up the chain, to trying in vain to understand how things are going because they're too technically inept, to straight-up time-filling to attempt to justify their worth, with a wide variety of other flavors besides.) I'd call these "management BS," because I'm not too kindly disposed toward them, but perhaps someone else can come up with a less judgmental term.

There are also some other kinds of meetings—for instance, meetings between individual contributors and various kinds of stakeholders in order to get initial or better specifications for performing the tasks; brief check-in meetings to make sure everything's running smoothly; meetings that were called because someone involved is either conducting themselves poorly or not performing well...etc, etc. These don't fall neatly into either of those two categories, and may be positive, negative, or neutral, but I think they're also mostly less common than the two described above.

Some people's jobs require a lot of collaboration sessions to get the work done. Some do not. This is going to depend very heavily on the specific work environments. Personally, I'm currently in a position where there are no other ICs to collaborate with, so I don't have those.

If you've been lucky enough to avoid management BS, then congratulations. I've seen more than enough of it (both first- and second-hand) to know that it's absolutely real, it's very often caused by management ineptitude and insecurity, and that even when the meeting itself may have some worth to it, far, far too often it's not run well and just ends up wasting everyone's time because of that.
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Condos are yet another example of how being poor in America is expensive.

While condos are attractive for people who can't afford regular homes, mortgages are harder to get for them. Even if you have a perfect credit score and 20% down, there is a whole category of condo called "nonwarrantable", which makes them ineligible with any lender who sells direct to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. One of the laundry list of stipulations is that no single person or entity owns more than 10% of all condo units in the building or development.

Condo buyers are living with risks like the article describes, and they're paying more for it to the bank for the privilege. It's a cruel joke that the people who can't afford single family home mortgages are given fewer protections and subject to a litany of HOA payments, special assessments, fees, and fines that can result in the condo being foreclosed on even if you own it free and clear.

There is a great novel "Condominium" by John D. MacDonald that lays bare the skeezy nature of condo developments. It's from 1977, and here we are 40-50 years later, still letting people get conned and maybe even die (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse) thanks to the numerous messed up incentives in condo development.
Ya, as Bing showed us AI rampency is an issue that we've not tackled even in a tiny prompt space. Going to be interesting to see how we figure out how to deal with that.
Bold claim. Can you name a few corporate executives who control the UK government and in what specific ways they do?
Long Covid disabled them. Then they met a broken Social Security disability sys
Do you have a link to any evidence of prior misconduct that affects the validity of their studies?
The phrase is "reduce, reuse, recycle" because it's intended to be an ordered taxonomy: reduction comes first, following by reusing existing materials, followed by recycling them into new materials.

Reusing perfectly good shoes is a good outcome, and nobody in this thread has suggested otherwise. But it isn't recycling in the way that Dow stated, either literally (since they claimed a polar opposite use) or definitionally (since the shoes aren't turned into new shoes).
You would need a platform for that. Coincidentally t's exactly what Upwork does.
>Either way, it’s not the fault of the US if the UK acts as a vassal state...

Maybe not totally. But history is litttered with unfortunate "happenings" to countries which refused to ask 'How high? when the US said 'Jump!'

It's only in the US and amongst a self-deluding swathe of British society that this "relationship" is seen as one of equals. The reality is that we're sucking up to the playground bully because we've seen what he does to the kids who won't hand over their dinner money. And we're trying to kid ourselves we're best buddies.
Do we need to fix this? I am not sure that everyone needs a "mastery" of education
his whole schtick is that he says polarizing things and then when everyone reacts to what he says at face value then haha, he got you, he wins, you're being persuaded. or something. basically he has a lot of money and fame so he trolls different political groups and everyone has forgotten what authenticity looks like so they take what he says at face value even though he really quite obviously rarely says anything with a completely straight face... then later he can completely walk anything he said back because he "learned new information". but in the meantime, others (like this organization) grift off his grift by reacting to it at face value. nobody really cares about the issues being discussed, it's all just clickbait/grifting, but everyone rolls with it, because this is what passes as intellectual discourse anymore: trolling, and taking trolling at face value and reacting thusly. it's pathetic.
What is the non-naive interpretation?
> I don’t think you can call PM “unelected” when the system doesn’t, and has never, required them to get a direct mand

Just because a system doesn't require something doesn't mean it is legitimate or democratic. It's a personal opinion for sure, but I would call that undemocratic. Many of the systems we in the West consider autocratic do have some sort of 'representation' after all.

> As the PM isn’t meant to be an important part of a persons vote. They’re voting for their local MP not the national PM.

The PM does have a fairly huge impact on how the country is being run, where it is headed, its foreign policy etc. do you want to argue otherwise?

My point is the UK has had multiple PMs in a row who didn't have to make a case for their agenda in front of the people. I call that undemocratic despite what its system says, no system would consider itself authoritarian, that's a judgment passed onto them by 3rd parties.

I think the general expectation in the UK was that this is tolerated because when a new PM comes in, they're expected to win a mandate for their agenda in a general election ASAP.

> Also every PM had to campaign in a general election. They need to be an MP to become PM, that requires them to run in a general election and win their seat.

A MP running for a local seat is something quite different from being a PM, but anyway this is just one aspect of why I think the UK isn't quite as democratic as it presents itself.
>There is so much in hormone responses and often-undiagnosed conditions that makes "just eat less" absolutely irrelevant to many people.

I agree with your that's why you see many obese people in parts of the world with food shortages.
I hate how the Fed’s reactions to inflation only affect the demand side (reduce number of people who can afford to participate in an overheated market) rather than the supply side (produce enough of housing/food/goods to lower prices)
Yet Microsoft makes so many of them. I'm not even sure what the current recommended way is anymore.
I run Wayland using PopOS. I can record screens and run WINE apps. I have a cheap laptop and it works just fine.

Wayland means - for me - no fiddling with text files if I want an external monitor, roatated, with a weird resolution.
Many of those lawmakers want to regress back to the 18th century, replacing modern banking with cholera. Not having a tech industry isn’t a threat to them, it’s the goal
It's madness to me that all it takes to completely own an iCloud account (including one with yubikeys, advanced data protection, etc set up) is an iPhone passcode.

It should be possible for security conscious users to disable the "change iCloud password with only an iPhone passcode" feature. That would largely fix all these concerns. I think that it should be disabled by default if you set a recovery key or enable ADP, especially if you have FIDO2 tokens.
Every snappy slogan eventually becomes a slogan “widely known” for being a dog whistle for extremist opinions. You can’t express any nuanced opinion without eventually being lumped together with crazy extremists.
> That's not particularly a shell string, but a DEFINE

Ah I am guessing that you are invoking the compiler using ‘sh’ (or cmd.exe on win). Otherwise you wouldn’t need the extra quotes. But then you should properly quote for the posix shell.

Though you could exec the compiler but then you could probably keep it as a list.

> I'm not sure whether it is a decent approach to add yet another layer to cmake

Yah that’s the problem. Especially with large legacy build systems.

> (the parser would then likely be written in cmake language and all the legacy would still have to be present for backward compatibility,

Well I think they meant it’d built on the c++ layer. But it’d still need the old cmake language parser still.
That’s a great point. I’m always baffled by touchpads… does apple have some secret formula? Their touchpads are consistently excellent.

Other vendors vary dramatically, even between models.
We had this class, Unix, in freshman year (VT). This isn't normal?
Where they stand does not matter. If those three observers do not move in relation one to another, they will see events in the same order.
> Implementing a good GC is incredibly hard

If you are interpreting instructions a simple one will be more than enough. Classes are its primitives, you just create a basic runtime representation for them with name, superclass, implemented interfaces and the methods’ bytecodes. Then an object can be as simple as a header containing a pointer to the class’s representation and then a listing of its fields, which can all be 64bits. And an array can have the exact same representation as well, with the first element being its size.

All APIs are just classes with some methods that may be “native”, which are linked to a native implementation (basically just a function pointer). This is how file access and the like becomes possible.

> Otherwise what you have is not what people expect to find in a JVM

You can just say that it is a partial implementation that doesn’t support the whole of the Java standard lib. It’s not unheard of (e.g. Java ME is a subset that runs on every SIM and bank card).

> I'm also under the impression that building a good JIT for a JVM would be a massive undertaking

Well, then just go with an okayish JIT. With all due respect, you ain’t going to beat the JVM with your UVM’s JIT compiler, not even close. Why do you think creating a similarly good JIT compiler to a very similar design would be any easier in case of UVM?

But don’t get me wrong, I just ask these questions because I dislike NIH syndrome and I believe there are useful lessons to be learned from the past. But you should be able to answer why the thing you do is any different (unless it is for learning). And the JVM spec is a surprisingly good read, and you can sure take great ideas from that.
> You can load models from your computer. In this case the model won't be uploaded to any web server, the entire process happens in your browser.

Could I somehow embed this as a preview feature in an other application (which is completely under my control)?

Let's say I am working on a gallery application, but not for photos/image files, but for 3D files. Could I ember a browser/html page render and use this online 3D viewer there?
It might actually be useful to think of that as an equivalency because “c” is the fastest rate by which one part of the universe interacts with another part. I think of the universe branching off by the further in spacetime these interactions have to travel. The whackiest QM interactions are still bounded by “c.” The distances between events are called space-like precisely because light/etc would have to travel faster than light to go from A to B.

Then there’s ER=EPR to try to conceptualize.
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Not really related to the biohazard subject, but has anyone figured out why cats do this? Or even posited a theory? It was a source of amusement on vine way back when that was a thing but I’ve never really seen an explanation for the phenomenon.
No, I'd just call it software support duration, or more narrowly software security update duration. "Software repairability" basically means FOSS (though I don't want to underestimate what creative people will do without source or permission).
I don't know how it works for others but this happened to me many times already. I went from being an extreme-right teenager to an extreme-left young adult and feel like I'm going through a moderate stage right now. I wonder how much my viewpoint will change decades from now.
Congrats! That's huge! I know it's a very liberating feeling, both physically and psychologically.

My collegue went from 115kg to 85kg some time ago. I know it's a different kind of game. Took a year for him. He was younger, in his late 20s, so running was still an option for him. I am In my late 30s, and traumas accumulated so i had to accept that calorie counting was the only remaining option.

Also, I'd suggest still working from a high-protein approach. You get to keep you muscle, especially if you do some reasonable amount of training.
Kombucha has about 0.5% alcohol by volume [0] (a ripe banana has 0.4%) so it’s not really a reasonable risk per the studies you link to. I think this is a foolish interpretation and even as a non medical doctor it’s easy to look at the alcohol content and think critically.

Kombucha has 1/10 the alcohol of a beer. So you would need to drink 40 12oz kombuchas in an hour to be intoxicated (moderate alcohol use). That’s almost 4 gallons and really not practical a single time, much less daily like what contributes to colon cancer risk.

I suspect you’re being downvoted because your comment is low value, wrong, and doesn’t need to be seen. For specific feedback, I think you can think critically about whether the level of alcohol applies to the advice you give.

It’s the dose that makes toxicity. Working to eliminate completely things that don’t matter reflect a wrong understanding of nature.

[0] https://www.no1living.com/blogs/blog/is-kombucha-alcoholic
> Ryzen 5 mini PC is well under $200 and will probably have hardware acceleration for 4k60.

The cheapest one Google knows about is an AliExpress no-name brand at $159 and that’s because it includes no storage or RAM, and uses a 3750H which benchmarks at less than half the speed. Once you add memory, it’s over $200. It does match the Apple TV on 4K@60 HDR support so I’d assume it must have hardware support.

Amazon has a couple of off-brand Intel devices, also around $200 for around half the Apple device’s performance.

Again, if you really want a PC you certainly can make it work but the reason it’s unpopular is that you’re paying a lot more – this is starting at 150% for hardware which is unlikely to last as long – and you then have to support a full PC, buy remotes, etc. If you enjoy that as a hobby, sure, but it’s hardly surprising that most people buy something which just works out of the box.
You link to the video, but (as I can’t watch a video right now) can you quote (and explain) the “unhinged racism”?
> he trolls different political groups

Does he though? Where are examples of him trolling the right? It seems to me his trolling is in one direction consistently. As they say, you're still a goat fucker whether you really want to fuck the goats or you're just trolling.
Yeah, it's pretty complicated. I have gotten blood, stool, and urine tests and all have come out fine. Food that previously would never cause any issues cause massive problems nowadays. Did your issues come from any dietary changes? How did they appear?
T2D diagnosis is labeled as something awful a few times in the article, e.g.

>If Kay wanted to continue to lose weight, live pain-free, and stave off a dreaded diabetes diagnosis...

Not having anyone close with diabetes, so I'm quite unfamiliar with that landscape: why is being diagnosed with type-2 "dreaded"? If it's a valid diagnosis, and it would solve many of your problems, it feels like a fairly obvious choice...

I'm sure there are social stigmas around it, but is that all? Or are there some severe insurance implications or something?
I was making a reference to recent events: https://www.wsaz.com/2023/01/26/book-ban-underway-teachers-f...
Just like 1.6 I've been waiting for 1.7 to start my project.
Wonder if I'll procrastinate until 1.8 lol
> have lamented my LaTeX being utterly useless

ConTeXt integrates Lua. KeenWrite[0] is my text editor that converts Markdown to XHTML then pipes that XML document into ConTeXt for typesetting[1]. ConTeXt does an amazing job of keeping presentation logic separated from the content. Meaning, once you've created a theme template, it's easy to pick it back up to create new ones.

There's a video series showing how to use KeenWrite.[2]

[0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbGSiRzx-0

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...
Support costs money, and it's part of the price. This moralizing is ridiculous.
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Whenever I hear this argument, especially with its prominent example of hair cutting, I can't help but think Chesterton's fence. Isn't one of the main problems that hair salons are avoiding is the spreading of lice and other bugs (that we now take the non-existence of for granted)?

That doesn't excuse the high fees, red tape, zoning restrictions, etc. But we should seek to reform those dynamics and make them less onerous, rather than assuming that the lack of problems we currently enjoy is reflective of the natural condition.

Personally I think that all costs for state licensing programs should come out of the state's general budget rather than being foisted onto those being required to get licenses. And passing a straightforward test should suffice, rather than needing to complete any particular education program.
My cat absolutely flipped out at seeing a wrench on his chair a few days ago...
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