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I almost feel like their stated intentions matter less. After all, they had every opportunity to say what they really meant. If they chose not to, then they must not have had strong feelings about it.

Suppose Rowling said in an interview that, oh yeah, BTW, Ron Weasley was actually descended from King Arthur. I'd argue that no, he's not. If he was, she should've said so when she had the chance to make it, well, canon. Now, if she wrote another Harry Potter universe where Ron's great^20th grandpa was Art, fine! She just hadn't gotten around to that part of the story yet, and now she has. It's now canon. But until then, it's just chit-chat.

For a real-world analogy, in American courts where 2 parties are arguing about how to interpret the words in a contract, judges tend to rule against the party who wrote the contract. After all, if their intention at the time they wrote it was the same as it was while they're debating in court, they should have phrased it that way.
No, upwork didn't scam you. Aaron H scammed you after cleverly leading you outside their platform for payments.

You have no grounds to sue upwork. In fact, they have grounds to ban you based on their TOS that you agreed to.

> Ceed Civil asked that I pay them off of Upwork to avoid Upwork's fees. I stupidly went along with it because I wanted things to go well with him

This here is the issue. It'd have helped if you actually read and understood their TOS, then you'll realize they have no reason to ban the freelancer as you transacted outside their platform

https://www.upwork.com/legal#terms-of-use

Upwork's TOS clearly states the following (see section 3.5, line starting with "You can’t go around us"

> 3.5 Other uses that aren’t allowed

> Upwork relies on technology and trust – here’s how we maintain those things.
You can’t copy, share or give away your account. You can’t have multiple accounts and you can’t sell, trade or give your account to anyone else without our permission.

> You can’t go around us. In particular, you can’t talk to another user or ask for or share a way to get in touch - a means of direct contact - outside of Upwork before you’ve agreed to a service contract. This means you can’t add your contact details to a job post, your profile, communications or other content. (There are exceptions to this for Enterprise clients.)
I feel like I'm having trouble picturing this. Istm like in most cases you're either not taking the big number as an input (in which case you can just make the modification to the big number after the calculation is done) or you are taking the big number as an input, and there's no difference in error.

E.g., say you're adding some velocity to an objects position, there no reason to do that "scaled down" since you get garbage in and garbage out regardless?

Imo the right advice is to either store things in some sort of offset format e.g., relative to this very far away thing, the position is X meters, or to store the inputs separately e.g., if you're doing position of an object under some constant velocity, store time and velocity separately instead of accumulating it so errors don't add up. But maybe I'm missing something? I guess you'd also want to avoid using larger number in calculations, so e.g., the midpoint trick of adding half the distance between two points to the smaller instead of adding them together and dividing by 2.
It's an engine and the brakes are friction. Parts of it get very hot. The whole thing is a huge heat source. Cars get hot enough to light dried grass on fire. The risk is inherent in the platform.

Outside of not fueling near an open flame, the more moderate strategy is to always plan your exits and know where that fire suppression button is relative to where you are.
> Sounds like democracy?

Here is an example -

16 year olds who have a keen interest in their futute, are not allowed to vote.

A 90 year old, who does not even remember that USSR has already collapsed, votes for a war-Mongering government.

18 year olds are drafted into the army and sent to fight a war, and they never had a chance to vote at all. Maybe their entire experience of democracy is getting sent to faraway land to die.

Their experience is indistinguishable from tyrany
Update here is that the developers of this app have now updated the Apple and Google store pages disclosing that they do collect location data. So now it's up to the retailers/resellers to comply with local privacy laws and regulations.
110 Fahrenheit is over 43 Celsius.
Different is not always stupid, but sometimes it is. To my reading the article offered not a single advantage these homes had compared to alternatives.
Sure, high-bandwidth inter-satellite links are essential for providing service to remote regions (or even just to make ground station placement more economical), but the question here is whether they could ever economically compete with fiberoptics outright.

For extremely latency sensitive applications, I guess they will (e.g. for trading and real-time communications), but for everything else that can wait a few more milliseconds, I'd guess that the operational overhead and reduced reliability will never be worth it, especially if fiber already exists on the same path.
Probably a junior dev without the required experience to really understand how hard it can be to suddenly and unexpectedly scale.

Why don't I strap on my money helmet and squeeze down into a money cannon and fire off into moneyland where money grow on moneys?
I'm a massive fan of epunk and I feel like I can't talk to anyone about it without looking crazy lol. Cyborg9k is my idol but I also love osquinn (which I guess is more hyperpop)
Does the UK not have any equivalent of the US “motor voter” system? When we update our info at the department of motor vehicles, there’s a checkbox on the form to automatically register to vote. So getting on the register is mostly automatic once you have the paperwork in order to get a driver’s license (which is a necessity to function as an adult in most of the US).
Yet.. there aren't any states without the law that have people doing this job.
there are solutions out there like auth0 okta supertokens keycloak openpolicyagent but they all got their own learning curves

personally i would revisit the problem first if my current market really needs a full blown solution or i can get away with simple postgres backend with simple users table and rbac implementation (sometimes it's even just a roles array in server side)

much of it though is addressable once theres a real business need to it, hiring a dev that really knows hows to roll it out is worth the money, or even a consultanf that can guide you through it
What are some examples of this occurring?
The speed limit is 35mph, there are 1-2 two lanes, plus an occasional middle turn lane, there are street lights, the roadway isn't elevated, and connects directly to businesses and homes.

I don't think there's a less highway-like road, other than dirt ones.
There is also no law they can pass to reverse climatw change. Once some things are fucked, they are really hard to fix
If you're in the US, the reason for this above is because certain political groups have adopted a zero-tolerance stance on discussion on many topics, and viciously attack people who try to have conversations about them that aren't affirmations of their positions.

> I do not believe ideas and ideals can be discussed with the general public.

Although most cultures have always had at least some small set of "taboos" for which this was true, I believe that we're in times where that set is especially large, or at least it is for the above groups of people.
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Here I am specifically referring to the behavior of the app in question. As pointed out elsewhere, Android 12+ offers flexibility here. That said, it could be argued that there is too much trust for developers doing the right thing when Bluetooth and other location permissions can be mixed under ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION as we witness here.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/blue...
> I believe the tales of such voters are highly overstated, a really common red-herring used by advocates of private developer subsidy to deflect criticism.

I'm not familiar with Ireland or the UK, but for the US at least, this is absolutely false. I'm most familiar with San Francisco so let's look at that as an example. Why do you think it takes nearly 2 years to get permitting done for housing here? Why do you think you need to pay $100ks in fees just to break ground? Why do you think all of the housing built over the last 20 years has been located in one part of the city (SOMA)? Why do you think our Supervisors are so reluctant to adopt by-right zoning and ministerial review processes? Why was huge swaths of the city down-zoned in the 70s? Hell, why do you think California literally has an amendment to their constitution (article 34) prohibiting the construction of low-income housing without explicit approval from local residents? These aren't the demands of private developers, but the demands of influential neighborhood associations, unions (SEIU, CBTC, etc), and average homeowners who like their neighborhood as it is and don't want it to change.

> Have you ever stopped to think about why it costs $1m to build such a unit in SF in 2023? About what system of incentives lead to the current status quo? I can assure you it wasn't decades of publicly-run projects.

Absolutely. There are of course many factors, but a big one are the various road-blocks politicians put up, and the concessions (rents) they extract from projects for their preferred special interests. These are things that don't just go away once private developers are out of the mix.

Have you ever stopped to think why the market hasn't been able to produce the necessary supply of housing? It's not because they aren't interested in making money.
Google asks websites to not abuse Topics API
Automated laundry folding is working just fine at industrial scale.[1][2]
Chicago Dryer, a century old company in Chicago in a very boring business, is doing quite well at automated folding. Their approach is about 20% AI, 80% clever machinery, and it gets the job done at scale.

Damp laundry fresh from the washer goes in, and folded stacks come out.
There's a vision system with some AI finding corners for a robotic grabber. Another vision system decides if items are worn or damaged and should be sent to the reject bin.

[1] https://www.chidry.com/products/genesis

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bd900ehE9M
They don't feel convenient because we grew up on them, they feel convenient because your alternative is obviously and extremely inconvenient.
This is changing. Mass layoffs and bias against FAANG employees is real, I wouldn’t feel so secure.
I subscribe, print is gorgeous.
It’s a new mag but right up my alley.
> On the back of his napkin he designs Programmable Hyperlinked Pasta (PHP). PHP documentation remains on that napkin to this day.

Hahahhaha oh my
SCP Wiki says 'hi'
2006 - Graydon Hoare begins work on a new language and compiler. Understanding the difficult nature of compiler programming, Hoare creates a language with the same level of difficulty.

2012 - Microsoft asks, "What would JavaScript be, if it were C#?" and releases TypeScript

2012 - Google asks, "What would C is be, if i̶d̶i̶o̶t̶s̶ Ivy grads could use it?" and releases Go.
Can you control which apps can run at startup and which can run in the background?
Looking forward to that one! Followed you on all your channels. Thanks for the detailed write-up on the battery monitor - very interesting read!
I call systems that attempt to filter out bad words and fall prey to the Scunthorpe problem as "failing the Scunthorpe test".

There are people that fail the test, too - such as people who think that the terms "whitelist" and "blacklist" are offensive.
Google killed Stadia’s AAA game studio and skipped Windows servers over the cost
So does android, but a bluetooth scan requires location permission, and gives you the option for "this time", "while app is running" and "always" ... users probably just click "always" and forget
Cylinders and cones (and thus yurts) do have advantages. Spheres don’t. They are much more difficult to construct, and are unstable on a flat surface.

If we a giving credit for whimsy, full marks for the sphere houses. But scoring as a place to live? Failure.
I don't think it's legal, but a lot of places allow it. My friend never had any issue filling up his motorcycle by himself, but it could be that the attendants didn't want a confrontation. I'm pretty sure motorcycles would be under the statutes listed here: https://www.nj.gov/labor/safetyandhealth/resources-support/l...
13” CRT tv for video game tournaments and LAN parties
that’s the point i was making
Sure, but it's not legal. Most gas attendants probably don't want to have a confrontation
Thanks for this. How do I trust their VPN is not just harvesting my data?
The amount of money that McDonalds makes is completely irrelevant to how much the developer "deserves". Especially given that they released their product as open-source and explicitly sought no payment.
This is interesting. Had no idea that was the case. Just read it on here: https://www.nj.gov/labor/safetyandhealth/resources-support/l...
The worst part about this is last I checked, Android requires location permission to connect to a BLE device. Presumably because BLE scanning can determine location.
Thankless work but Maia is getting it done nonetheless! Thank you!
That's described as a test for "artificial colour"
Screws are how in fact one accesses the battery in an iPhone.
Personally, I use the Samsung fold 4 and it's really nice. I don't want to go back to a smaller screen and was happy to see google copying it since it makes it more likely these phones will still exist (and maybe be competitively priced) when I need to buy a new one
young people are absolutely targeted - education was fre for older generation, and young people get a lofetine of debt.

In boomer time government probided free milk for babies, now baby formula is the most stolen items and is kept under lock and key in super market

Todays politicians talk about growijg up ina. councill home as a market of being through hard times. They dont even get thay councill homes are gone, and if they were growing up today, they would be on the street
I hate to say it, but maybe that's been added to the unwritten list of third rail topics.

This recent post [0] in the same vein was flagged for hours, for no discernible reason. It was then quietly unflagged, after all algorithmic momentum was sucked out.

Even the adjacent comment itt [1] pointing out the bizarre flagging recently has been flagged to death. You might not see it without showdead on.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452226
1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36482768
I run both of those things for a while now, and I think it's easier than many expect. And once it's set up correctly, both Email and DNS Servers do not require much maintenance and scale pretty well.
Alteration:

I've written the blog, and I'm going to publish it on...
I trust you but what exactly does it mean to provide you with GCP or AWS account information? What guarantees do your customers have that you won't be minting bitcoin using their account for example?
I don't think it's that simple. Ads emerged because people couldn't connect their wallets to the Internet.

It's a different situation today, but it's still there. Especially teenagers. I would pay $1 for a newspaper easily, but I would never pay for online news. Maybe if it charged me 8 cents and only needed a thumbprint to pay, I would. Maybe if there was a comic section, I would.

We had a business which was basically media ecommerce. Instead of making a site about football and selling ads related to footbl fans, we'd sell shoes. We'd make recipe apps then sell hard to find ingredients.

This worked great. It made money. Good profit margin. But 80% of the work became logistics. We ended up outsourcing content creation and then became a logistics company.
Co-creator of lithium-ion battery and the oldest Nobel winner dies at age 100
No, they used it as acoustic insulation for the microphones and optical insulation for the cameras. The signal blocking, if any, is just a bonus, but isn't to be relied upon.
Oh yeah I think a quadcopter can easily count as a (tiny) vehicle, if it’s, say, carrying a camera. I liked how someone pointed to the Merriam Webster page for “vehicle”, which includes things like “an agent of transmission” and “a medium through which something is expressed”. People fit the literal definition of vehicle!
How do you opt out of the full body scans? You just ask them and they let you then the gate instead?
... and congrats on your launch!
How can you expect to interview for a job without doing a basic coding interview?
> What else is new?

People are learning anew that they have a say in this relationship, and after decades of hiatus, starting to resist again.
5 years of Chinese spy balloons worldwide plotted from Planet Labs imagery
I’ll see what I can figure out. Feel free to email me (address in my profile).
> Currently the most annoying mysterious issue is that some commands (usually pulling or rebasing, sometimes committing too) reach the point of Magit echoing "git finished", and then... whole Emacs remains frozen for 30-120 seconds. I haven't traced that tone to source yet.

`M-x toggle-debug-on-quit` and `C-g` during the freezing will probably help here, though I would guess the problem is highlighting since that tends to take a lot of time on big diffs.
Note: I should have added “free” to my wish list.

Edit: and open source, if possible.
In high school, I knew someone who was badly burned in the Sierra Nevada just from removing the cap on his MSR fuel bottle. The bottle was pressurized from elevation gain and sprayed all over before igniting due to another nearby stove.

I still used my stove for many years after, but the knowledge of that made me handle it with extreme care each time. Like one step below a Japanese nuclear technician who is calling his shots and pointing before each action...
French police are trained to use Cougar grenade launchers dangerously
This is probably what was happening. Once it gets noticed, the purchases are deemed fraudulent and the cards are closed. I had my credit card information stolen in a similar scenario. They spent $500 at Walmart and I noticed :)
>It’s in my post.

So apart from opinions about what might happen in the future (that can't really be called "false information"), just "8,000 vs 25,000" discrepancy?

But that also can't be called "false information" as "25,000" is what Prigozhin publicly said he has, and that was correctly reported as such, and "8,000" is an estimation from "UK security sources" as I understand.
Thinking of writing a text editor from scratch scratch? Oh, sweet summer child.

Like seriously, font rednering is bonkers complicated.
Hello,Waterluvian. I missed your comment, sorry. Still have a few to reply. If I understand your initial statement, to me it means incompetence drives innovation. You are correct that many start small and grow over time. The difference here is this platform is has been built to handle volume and we can handle a larger area because the feature are built into the site.So we are starting small by only opening in 13 states to interate. When we see an accelerating adoption we will likely open much faster. This all assumes customers like what we are offering. We shall learn soon enough. Thank you for your comments.
"once-classified documents and tapes released in the past several years, combined with previously uncovered facts, make clear that high government officials distorted facts and deceived the American public about events that led to full U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War."
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You may just need to clean the inside of the door so it closes better. Try that first.
The article is 100% rubbish. Just complete trash.

Each submarine cable is 12+ strands which are DWDM multiplexed to 20-40 channels at 100-400gbps.

The entire _planned_ starlink constellation has less aggregate switching capacity than a pair of current generation core routers. The market for terrestrial ethernet _routed_ 400Gbps ports is 10k+ annually and 800Gbps is just getting warmed up.

Satellite is not going to even make the slightest dent in terrestrial networking. Starlink isn't even viable without most of the traffic doing two leg ground-satellite-ground for SP-network connected ground stations. 100% of that traffic is landing on the terrestrial internet.
It may also be a way to make financially supporting a project easier for users in corp environments -- it can be easier to get an expense through for a $1k software license than a $100 donation to an open source project or individual author.
I lived in New Jersey for about 4 years. When I first moved there I thought it was the dumbest thing that we couldn't pump our own gas. Now that I've left, it's one of the few things I miss from NJ. Standing out at a gas pump when it's like 10 degrees and windy outside is miserable.
> Pivoting might be the worst thing for continuing down the path I was on, but to me that's a feature, not a bug.

Love your perspective. I didn't want to assume (which is why I disclaimed in the first sentence). Hopefully my comment will still be helpful to people who don't want to pivot their life.
A new bullshit job was born.
I think about i heard about renaissance technologies

They are pretty cool firm but not sure how they use technology
Yeah: it really is a different world now: kids--who absolutely should not be locked out of access to development tools--pretty universally only have access to phones and tables, or, at best, a highly locked-down Chromebook; but like, it goes much further than even that: even lawyers I work with--people who you'd think MUST have a full computer--sometimes only work on an iPad!! :(
Does it stop data from leaving your device or just collect it all as a proxy and refuse to forward some of it. I'd much prefer to not have to hand all my traffic over to anyone offering a free app and just trust them not to use/abuse it.