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I liked this piece a lot. However, I think one failing, which is also tripping up many of the commenters here, is this insistence on ordering one's relationships. Who's my number one?

The moment you ask that, you end up with the social norm that one's sexual-romantic partner must be the number one. So you have a ton of people in the comments here who are very defensive of that norm, and you have people like those in the article who are consciously opposing it - they have a different number one - by finding an intimate friend or platonic life partner.

But what if we gave up this silly notion?

I have a cohabiting sexual partner. We're sexually monogamous, because as with most human beings that works best for us. Is my partner my "number one"? I genuinely don't know how to answer that question, if I seriously think about it. There's a strong inclination to just say "yes", because that's the expectation when you have a partner like this, but I'm looking for something deeper that would ground such a response.

My partner and I care for each other (the action, not the emotion) more than for anyone outside the relationship; we know more of each other's secrets. But I have friends with whom I have an enormous amount of emotional intimacy, who understand me better in many ways than my partner does. I love them very deeply; I argue less with them, and sometimes building intimacy with them is easier than with my partner.

While I fall mostly into the norm, I don't feel compelled to compare these relationships to the one I have with my sexual partner. Each of them is important. They're all "friendships" of one stripe or another. I think that's the solution here: to the extent that marriage is the "center of life" it's because marriage is just a friendship like any other. What the article is really about is the American norm that one's marriage be one's only deep, emotionally intimate friendship.
> i'd assume it was junk lol

It's not. I've been using the same band for years. I am constantly taking it off, and putting it back on, so the butterfly latch gets lots of exercise.

The Apple band is nicer, but ... I got one that is likely an exact replica of it (including the quick-release buttons on the links -which is silly, because you only take them out once, unless you plan to gain a bunch of weight), for $60.

I don't even know if you can spend more than $60 on Amazon, for one of these things.

I have a bunch of wood bands (I literally have several dozen bands).

However, the ones I like the most are "hybrid" ones: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071NV2GF4/

I got that, five years ago (I still have it, and it's fine). I don't know if they make the same one, anymore.
Every developer understands how subscriptions work. A product may provide value today, but there’s no guarantee that the payoff will be worth the cost in the long run as the company increases its prices.

With a subscription, you’re agreeing to let a company tax you to do your job in the hope that it pays off instead paying upfront one time for a product.
This might be a believable theory if they hadn't just barely finished a complete redesign of the task manager.

But even then it's a stretch. Windows does not have the stranglehold on the market it once did. Making Windows a closed system would kill its biggest remaining selling point. Microsoft is very aware of this.
Even K9 (now Thunderbird)?
Zig is not my favorite language to program in, but I think it's focusing on a lot of the right stuff.

1. Easy Build System
2. Drop in Replacement for c/c++ compiler (zig cc)
3. Easy cross compliation
4. Single executable compiler
5. Package manager
6. Debugabillity

It's the sort of developer focus that has a huge impact especially when you are doing it for more than just a hobby. Crystal, another language I love, is weak in this area. No tree sitter, No tier1 windows support, Major libraries like the Lucky Framework that don't build on Windows, a buggy LSP etc. Don't get me wrong I love the language, and I will continue to work in it, and all of these things are in various states of progress, but it's already at 1.8 and some of these issues haven't been ironed out yet. I'm not just armchair complaining, I know these are hard, and I will contribute once I am more familiar with the language
I think it's fine to have a black and white line about stealing (and other moral dilemmas), as you clearly do. It makes life easy to navigate.

It's hard to see a victim here. The kid stole for the early access, he would have gladly paid for the game.

So really the rule he's intending to break is you know, "you're not allowed to look at this until X date"

The shoplifting is a byproduct.

I can see a gray area. There's a lot of stupid laws painted in black and white.
It used to be called "growth hacking".
I haven't tried Zig, but "all the things you like about C plus better versions of most/all of the awkward bits" seems like a reasonable value proposition. Especially since the compiler can apparently let you use C painlessly alongside your Zig -- enabling incremental rewriting.
Another surprise front-running tactic from Meta to derail Apple's headset announcement; just like what Microsoft did to Google 3 months ago.

Given they decided to announce this earlier they must have looked at the Apple XR spec leaks and will undercut Apple's efforts to attempt to sell their headset. The first new form factor of an Apple product is the worst one to buy (Unless you are a collector)

Meta is clearly far ahead in AI, XR and vision research than Apple is. But then the goal is obvious and it is the AR glasses. Either way, the death of Meta Platforms Inc. (Formerly Facebook) has been greatly exaggerated here.

We'll see about Apple's headset but the leaks only show that the hardware and the price is very underwhelming. The most important thing to look out for is the software. But no doubt that Apple will try to justify the high price at the last minute.
I think by the time I have a massive project where compile times could actually hurt the newest endeavor with compiling to an intermediate form, etc., will already be released so it's likely that I'll dodge that entirely.

For what it's worth I haven't found any language constructs that seem to make the compile time grow considerably, so I think the risk of adding a library and suddenly being faced with massive compile times is fairly low in comparison to some languages. With that said, I'm only using the core lib and vendor libraries.

JangaFX by way of GingerBill reports that their 200kloc EmberGen[0] project takes 5 seconds to compile:

> On my old machine, it took 5 seconds, and now it takes 2.2 seconds on my new machine.

Before some paths in the compiler had multithreading added to them that number was 15 seconds for the same project. As far as I know both of these numbers are for unoptimized builds, i.e. development builds.
Yep. The key difference is, the deposit here is taken before the commitment is resolved. And there is no self-reporting needed. So its 100% fire and forget.
Depending on where the scam is run, I wouldn't consider it out of the question that it would be economical to do manually.
I don't know if the US goated Russia into this, it also doesn't matter since it was Putins decision in the end.

However some of what this article states is just hogwash. "Third, NATO enlargement never posed a military threat to Russia". The US has placed nuclear weapons in Europe to allow a quicker aniliation of the "enemy" [1]. How can this not be interpreted as a threat? This would be like Russia having nukes stored in Cuba. I highly doubt the US would not see that as a theat to their national security.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/07/16/location-us-...
Yes, botspam is bad. But if a change is good. A change is good, merge it and get on with your life.

If someone wants to write "check_spelling_bot" and get a ton of github karma, I have 0 issue with it. In fact, I encourage GitHub to do it :).
I think you're just over-analyzing the words a bit. When I hear someone say "seldom duplicated elsewhere" I don't think they're convinced it's unique all throughout the world. They know there are millions of other soldiers out there who make similar bonds. They just mean seldom duplicated with other people within their own lives.
Or they can keep the same level of employment and make their customers 14% happier
Early critic of Donald Trump means nothing - Lindsey Graham was too, but has resorted to kissing Trump's ass for the last 7 years. You could say the same for Mitt Romney - an early critic who spoke against candidate Trump, but voted for candidate Trump, and voted in lockstep with President Trump.

A liberal Republican? Will Hurd's voting record speaks otherwise. In the 115th Congress, Hurd voted with Donald Trump 94.8% of the time. In the 116th Congress, that number dropped to 64.8%. That's an 80.4% average across Trump's presidency. [0] Agreeing with Donald Trump 4 times out of 5 across all legislative activities over 4 years isn't really being critical of him or his administration.

[0] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/wi...

It's like calling Dick Cheney a liberal because one of his daughters is lesbian, even though he supports all sort of other far-right legislation.
When I was working at Starbucks ages ago, my best friend would come on by regularly. We're both tall men.

Coworkers thought I was gay, and had a sexual relationship with him, because it was and still is a strong bond.

In actuality, Im bisexual, and we weren't in a sexual relationship. But men aren't "allowed" to have close bonds with other men. There are exceptions: military, police, mens social clubs (masons, shriners, etc). Outside of those, society thinks you're just gay.

As for me, I don't particularly care what "society" thinks. I'm not going to trade my agency for some vapid "society groupthink". Did I let my coworkers think I'm gay and dating my best friend? Sure did. And it had a cool other effect - women coworkers treated me more like one of 'them', and was much less defensive than around the other men who worked there.
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A common trend with vendors is they can provide you all the data in the world that you want, but few condense it into actions to be done. The better ones do and even they only do surface level actions like one action for each detected issue. A smart person worth their salary takes in the data and turns it into a plan, these 500 issues get fixed with this action. If you want to lead in the automation state, do that. Go beyond simple detections and turn it into actions. Use data to infer states about systems you haven't scanned. Feed that into a tracking tool to showcase progress to make your customers look like they are moving goalposts.
Not everyone is like that, but the average person is stupid and yes this includes individuals in the hackernews space. People who are unwilling to discuss policies and just want to shout and repeat political propaganda are just not good people to associate with in general.

Policy discussion is healthy. Supporting your political "team" is stupid.
The incumbent in this space is https://www.beeminder.com where the specific use case shown here about screen time can be configured with e.g. their RescueTime integration. Beeminder however just take your money for themselves as opposed to giving it to charity. They claim people would otherwise be more prone to giving up on their goals, thinking "oh well, the money is going to charity anyway so I'm doing a good thing by breaking my commitment". The opposite approach would be setting it up so the money goes to an organization whose goals you disagree with.
Apollo has about 1.5 million active users. To put this another way you would write Reddit API to cost users about €1 per month.
I lived in Richland (near Hanford) and worked near the facility in an IT contractor position. The mess there is truly awful; they were in such a hurry when they were building the bombs that they basically just threw anything contaminated into huge concrete tanks to worry about later. Those old single-wall tanks are now leaking huge plumes of waste into the Columbia River [1].

The current plan for dealing with much of this waste -- and I am NOT making this up -- is to turn it into GIANT GLASS LOGS. [2]

[1] https://ecology.wa.gov/Waste-Toxics/Nuclear-waste/Hanford-cl...

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Could just fix the typo yourself and reference the PR in your commit then close the PR without pulling.

I imagine contributors won’t exactly be happy with that though.
I agree in a sense, it's a grey area, given the only crime is a person is literally copying a work and enjoying/using it. So my biggest issue with IP laws are that the potential punishments for copying do not come close to matching the crime, as they're quite draconian.

And I find it hard to believe that the spirit of these laws was intended to target end-users who copy something to watch for their own personal enjoyment, rather than to target people who copied works in an attempt to earn a profit personally. The only way the punishment fits the crime is in the latter situation, IMO. Yet I assume the laws are applied more frequently to the former situation.
I thought this was a very good and informative post for those of us who saw the basic problem (keynote cancellation handled badly due to miscommunication and/or organizational management problems, so... unfortunate, but happens all the time), and then wondered, why are all these Rust people FREAKING OUT over this?

It does a good job of explaining the back story. As a normal Rust user, and not an insider, I still can't help but look at the event itself and think, Well, that keynote snafu was unfortunate, I guess... so anyway what should I have for lunch?

But with this background, I can understand how if I was an insider, I might have a way stronger reaction because of the secrecy and organizational problems and the stream of similar unforced errors that preceded this latest one.

And in fact, as a user who's only recently started to actually use Rust at work, I am kind of reassured to see all these people freaking out and resigning their posts in outrage (or just from a desire to not be part of a dysfunctional/non-transparent org structure).

Because it seems like the overall organization(s) that comprise what we think of as "Rust" do badly need a dramatic overhaul, so some drama is probably required to achieve that.
Yup. As far as the first guy goes, the company's action was proportionate: forcing him to pay for the copy, and firing him for breaching the company's trust. A criminal charge would have ruined his life, and for no gain to the company, or (in my opinion) to the rest of society.
The Garmins I've had before the Apple Watch was first released involved getting out an Allen/Torx wrench to change the band. It wasn't until after the Apple Watch came out that I noticed Garmin had quick-release bands. So, though there were arguably quick-release bands before the Apple Watch, you picked a poor example.
It's scary because AI is going to put the developing world out of business.

This coming century is supposed to be about 'Rest of World' - first China, then India and the rest.

But it's going to risk the ability of the nearly-unskilled labour to help.
Is this a writeup about Zig, or any Wirth language written 50 years ago? Asking for some Modula2 OG.
Creepy employees

> In January 2018, a male employee used his broad access rights to spy on a female colleague through her videos. Using her email address as a look-up mechanism, the employee identified his female co-worker’s device and watched her stored video recordings without her permission.

Weak security which they were aware of

> Ring employees wrote of the 2017-2018 attacks: “Unwittingly, we aid and abet those [hackers] who breached the data by not having any mitigations in place.” In this document, the author notes that Ring permitted “thousands of requests [for account access] per second” from a single IP address (i.e., a single user), rather than an appropriate “half dozen per day.” The author notes, “If we can slow the attacker down, they will definitely look elsewhere, as we’ve destroyed their economic model of cheap and fast bulk verification of stolen user account credentials.”
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>you might come to realize it's not really worth the amount of money you could've made by selling it for $5/mo,

I wouldn't have brought this up if you weren't trying to give the impression that money is a factor.

I interpreted it as "I still wouldn't pay $120 because even though it returns more value than that, it isn't worth that."

Edit: (that being said, the one time purchase cost of this for a "lifetime" license is $900, which seems more like a way to push subscriptions than a serious attempt at selling a one time purchase)
It's just that if you have 6 people all responsible for different parts of a decision, like the control board for a product, you now have to get all of those people to buy in to the decision. And some of those people take months to even know what decision to make, or they have a pet supplier who takes forever to deliver, and then your project eats the delay because of that. So you wind up sitting on your hands and adjusting your schedule not because you weren't ready but because someone else isn't.
> if your house, containing some inverters like this, is disconnected from the national grid, it will continue independantly. Your house and the national grid will continue on their own paths, with slightly differing frequencies.

That's not the main reason.

The main reason is that if grid is down, workers need to work on it safely and so they need it de-energized, not some random solar installation trying to feed power into it.

Some inverters for that reason have 2 outputs, one for grid, other one for so called EPS (emergency power supply). When grid goes down, usually relay disconnects the two and inverter only feeds power to EPS, and re-connects both outputs only when grid is back up and synced. So you'd shove your important loads onto EPS output and have it grid-independent.
I see that NEMIX will sell me 4x64GB DIMMs of ECC DDR4 for $357. A TB at that price is $1428, so now I need a system that takes at least 16 slots. A used DL360g9 with 2x 10core CPUs is $220, so I can put together a decent high-RAM server for home use for under $2000. Not bad. I just have no use for that right now.
I still don't understand why I would want one of these. There's no killer app that makes any sense to me.

I mean, I absolutely do not want one from Facebook, or anything else from Zuck, but even if a company not founded on advertising revenue offered one I don't know why I'd want it.
Only the state (and a few odd cases like the federal government) manufacture plates in the US, and they usually don't have a published process exactly for obtaining a new plate when you already have one. That said, my experience in a couple of states is that DMV clerks have no problem putting in a plate as lost/damaged/stolen if you just ask for a new one. The fee where I live today is only $15, but I live in a poor state, Maryland might be steeper.
And it would be nice to have the branch/PR workflows for them. Better to just use a docs/ or wiki/ folder since markdown files are rendered.
Australia’s ‘Trial of the Century’ Stains Its Most Decorated Soldier
I'd call it fraud.
Yes, avoiding extinction from AI *is* an urgent priority
> I think it's fine to have a black and white line about stealing (and other motel dilemmas), as you clearly do. It makes life easy to navigate.

Motel dilemma's, they're the worst. Econo Lodge, Super 8 I never know what to do...
You almost made me laugh with that one. Companies do not optimize for customer happiness, they optimize for shareholder satisfaction.
>but there’s no guarantee that the payoff will be worth the cost in the long run as the company increases its prices.

You can cancel a subscription
Well written article... I know the US has definitely provoked and instigated its fair share of wars. But it has honestly surprised me how conservatives have jumped on the side of Russia which was their favorite scare tactic in the past. It's incredible the power a single charismatic person can have on the psyche of a nation.
Wouldn't you just have your pihole block well known resolver ips and solve that problem?
> We have already have a General Intelligence that outperforms most humans on most tasks it is assigned.

To the extent that is true, it's because we're assigning it tasks that it is especially well-suited to do:

- writing filler copy

- generating boilerplate or commonly-used code

- rephrasing words

- summarizing

Actual tasks I need humans to do today:

- performing a medical exam on my dad to see if he needs vascular surgery

- cleaning my bathroom

- writing a performance review for a software engineer

- investigating a react codebase that uses redux in some places and not others to determine a strategy for better state management

- driving my daughter to the gym after school

Which of these can a computer do today?
Yeah, like toy and electronics stores had console demo stations out so the kids could line up and try different games.
I was initially thinking about doing it crypto-based, but that makes onboarding and the UX more challenging. A fee-less solution like LN could make sense.
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- How much experience should you have to get visa sponsorship from a startup?
- How to best prepare for visa sponsorships?
Good point I was implicitly fixating on USA. in the USA it feels like none of those things are happening outside of Portland and SF

edit: immigration is an interesting one. Leftists want it for a variety of reasons, and usually right-leaning uber-capitalists want it to lower wages
The newer lower skilled workers improved the most. I know that my art skill has gone from far below average to pretty good with generative AI art tools.

Maybe the whole "people will need UBI because robots will replace all the marginal workers" argument will fail because marginally productive workers will get so much better at their jobs.

In reality, automation and mechanization of manufacturing got rid of the skilled craftsman. Using the assembly line, Ford replaced artisans with people who were much less skilled.
$30/month? Are you high?
I like the new aesthetic a lot and I like how the Settings pages were redone.

I don't like how there is two right click menus - feels half baked. Just include one or the other, why is there both.