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I like your take. The part that's frustrating/interesting is, you would think with all that increased transparency, they would be at least less brazen in their corruption.

It certainly could be that despite the appearances being better in say, 1950-2000, that actual corruption was equal or worse, and most of it went undetected and unpunished!

But my take is that it wasn't as bad, because shame used to exist. A politician would "resign in disgrace" when caught in a medium-to-large scandal (even one that seemed technically irrelevant to their responsibilities, like 'sex scandals'). And he would stay out of public life thereafter, out of shame, knowing he couldn't run for office again and win because of their shameful past. Compare Richard Nixon vs. Bill Clinton.

That's what changed. Now it doesn't matter how shameful and corrupt your conduct was, you just either deny or answer with whataboutism towards the other party's worst sins, and carry on, and for some reason voters are consistently fine with this!
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> As companies grow, they pay more taxes, and this will let government spend in things like education, infrastructure, social security.

As companies grow so does their ability to dodge taxes. That's why they're headquartered in Ireland, Bermuda or whatever the latest low corporate tax state is. Proportionally they're likely paying less than a corner store. I certainly pay more in income tax.
Well, I can't speak for you, of course. I also haven't seen that code you reviewed. And I won't try to evangelize you. I'd say, in a nutshell, that Go is readable and reviewable because its grammar consists of the C-style basis that most every imperative language has, and not much more. It's the lack of features that makes it very 'WYSIWYG'.
We have a "built-in" (for lack of a better term --- it's just another Fly app) multi-region single-write-leader clustered Postgres offering, but people also run their own databases directly here; the core feature is regionalized durable NVMe storage.
Doesn't really matter as America can go after funds regardless of where you move to. Just pay your fucking taxes, you got the benefits of the system, pay back into it.
One of my scenarios was inter dimensional entities. The other was just sufficiently advanced tech. It’s funny you ad hominem the first one and ignore the second.
If they are using their experience to advocate for changes that affect me then they should justify it
Stalkerware hiding their spyware without jailbreaks is typically accomplished through MDM profiles. I linked the jailbreak page because of how obvious the abuse is.

Text and image extraction doesn't even need an app, stalkerware uses iCloud credentials to fetch those, together with location history.
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I don't understand all these comments coming out of the woodwork like "oh, no - one day they may raise prices and try to be the bad guys". I don't plan on using fly personally, but I don't understand how you could look at another provider entering the market and parse that as a "bad thing".
Brutal. Thank you to share your personal experience. It is hard to see now, but other young men will be reading this post in the future, and it will help. No one controls if you draw a sh-tty ticket in the lottery of life and have a bad family.

Real Question: If your step-father was an "alcoholic racist fuck", why did your mum marry him and stay with him? Please, please, don't read this as an attack on your mum! People enter and stay in relationships for a long list of reasons.

I was so lucky to have great parents, but my dad was mostly commuting during 8-18. I know he cared about me deeply, but his job and commute made it very difficult to spend a lot of time with me.
In this case, the EFF?
This is a project meant to keep EOL softare from the 2000s running so of course it's going to look like 2000s software, because it is.

Design is subjective, I'm taking PopOS custom GNOME over OSX any day of the week.
Do you have CPU or memory heavy background tasks? On my M2 spotlight is instant and Notes opens in less than one second.
There's no such thing in the US. You may be thinking of a Presidential Proclamation which again doesn't have the force of law unless Congress authorizes it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_proclamation_(Uni...
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These days everyone with a pulse is remoting for US companies as the salaries are enormously better than offered locally.
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Higher immigration per capita combined with poor planning for the future.
I was visiting with a therapist at the time and they were encouraging everyone to watch it if they could. It touched on a number of intrinsic but commonly overlooked things that most people never think about, but also went pretty deep into our current understanding of the mind in some parts.
the thing is that IF is a keto diet.

The theory is that during IF period your body depletes all carbs stores and is forced into ketosis o produce energy.
Great! It’s a shame voices of people like you were next to impossible to find amongst the ignorance.

I think there’s a strong argument for and a strong argument against the system Apple designed. I wanted that discussion to be had instead of it all being washed away with knee-jerk ignorance.
And by the time you've done that 97.3% of all shipping from the new world is being handled by a small handful of companies with gigantic cargo ships.

But congratulations, you've successfully created a small "local" business with a decent number of customers who are reasonably loyal. You should be happy with what you have and possibly invest in future generations who want to colonize the moon or something (assuming you want to expand your wealth)
Good luck avoiding every single venture-funded company. Can you give an example of such a "monopoly"? Vercel? They have plenty of competitors, all they are doing is charging a premium for convenience. There will always be alternatives to any given tool if you don't like the costs. Seems your problem is with capitalism and not this particular startup.
- Weather is personal preference - personally? I wish Vancouver didn’t get quite as warm.

- The foreign buyers tax doesn’t apply to those with PR.

- A very quick search doesn’t support the claim that crime is as high [0].

- Rents in Vancouver absolutely are high, but tech pays significantly over the median. I’m not sure there are good statistics to compare here.

- Vancouver itself has pretty broad fibre coverage, I get gigabit for ~$70/mo, but yes mobile telecom is more expensive.

- I don’t really have enough data to comment on that last point.

[0] https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Can...
I don't know if that was ever true. That wouldn't make sense.

... and this is about the password manager ...
To be fair, Teams being down completely is only going to make it slightly more painful to try and use...
Thank you for the thoughtful, honest, introspective essay[0]. I have a 15-year old son who -- like a lot of kids -- is interested in making games for a living. I've shared other pieces with him about "what it's really like to write software in the computer gaming world" and after clicking the link, quickly sent him this one. I just assumed it'd be something along those lines so I sent it before I read it.

These "real life in the world of game development" pieces are usually the kind that serve only to discourage a kid from wanting to write games (and really any other software for that matter) which is not really what I'm aiming for. I simply want him to have a more realistic view of what game development really is and I suspect he'd be interested in a lot of other corners of software development.

You basically nailed it, here[1]. In fact, as I read it, I imagined my son writing something like this in the future -- albiet with some details changed. He's an incredibly intelligent 15-year old kid who has pretty serious ADHD and struggles due to family circumstances. He had similar issues with friends -- mostly related to being homeschooled until last year[2].

[0] Looks like submitter is the author assuming the HN profile is accurate.

[1] As a fellow Christian who was praying about his son this morning, I suspect this was something He sent my way ;).

[2] He's got friends and makes friends easily but the school he was put in was a small (unfortunately awful) Christian school with kids who had attended since Kindergarten ... it was hard to break into.
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Regions do matter for stuff like GDPR though. It is beneficial to know that all of the data is in the EU region and will stay there.
They don't. The way it's set up is:

The stdlib only exposes some syscalls via rust-friendly wrappers, and in a way that is generally a cross-platform subset, sometimes with platform extentions. So the `fs` module (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fs/) exposes common file operations across most (all?) supported platforms. Some unix specific file operations are exposed at: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/os/unix/fs/index.html . These things do a pretty good job for most work, but sometimes you gotta get wierd...

The libc crate allows more direct access to the syscalls on your flavor of *nix by creating a rust-> bridge for them, and exposing the C types directly. This bridge isn't a lot of code, mostly it just does the work of creating a rust function that minimally wraps the external C function. For a lot of low-level software you end up pulling the libc crate to hit your system specific calls.

And for some very system specific calls (e.g. io_uring) you end up having to pull in another crate that calls into that subsystem for you (often pulling in libc also).

All of this ends up being linked to the libc you build against tho.
Yeah, something like that seems probable. I don't really remember how I set it up, and I don't know what my Dad might have done in the boot menu.
To be fair, those euthanasia programs are only used when someone is either terminally ill or is a healthy-ish 31-year-old who can’t afford housing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/assisted-s...
Interesting, what made you go for wood fiber insulation versus something like ICF?

Also, UK or Canada? Noticed the spelling difference.
As a counterpoint, anyone working with compliance data needs to know and be certain that data does not cross geo-boundaries. Intelligence data for US gov’t agencies must typically be kept stateside: AWS uses the GovCloud region specifically for satisfying gov compliance requirements.

Passing HIPAA data through other countries when not needed to is generally frowned upon - data should be kept as local as reasonably possible.
I haven’t worked with GDPR requirements but I have heard they are similar.
AWS solved this problem well with regions. I’m curious what other providers that are “regionless” do to solve the compliance problem.
Do you always put the currency behind the number? I know some countries prefer the currency infront (e.g. USD), others behind (EUR).

But since this is not a human visible field, this is probably irrelevant, right?
US justice system failing again nicely I see. The average man would be rotting in jail and slowly wasting away.
And what might that be? Because all I see is what it says on the tin: Google Ads are innately unprofitable, and as others added require intense optimization to even reach profitability.
I worked at a mid-size MSP some years back, and their datacenter had a room only the three letter agency folks could access. While it was never explicitly articulated, the belief was that the room was filled with the gear they were using to suck up whatever communications they deemed interesting and worthy of snooping. As far as I know, no warrant, subpoena or other formal request for such was ever issued.

At some point, the Internet becomes a tool for surveillance above all, and only by building from the ground up for privacy, can we hope to use it as a tool for anything other than propaganda, advertising and oppression.
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The delta is that the “on-device scanning” proposed by the British government and the “on-device scanning” proposed by Apple are very different in meaningful ways.
I have a three year old and I can barely stand watching the Monsters University movie but Monsters Inc is easy to rewatch.
Why is Canada rushing all these visa initiatives? They've experiencing sizable issues with fraudulent student visas (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64988228) which could be resolved with something as simple as having universities submitting paperwork to the immigration agency. Can they really handle reviewing 10,000 more cases on an expedited basis?
It was not and it was worth it in my case. My resume needed very little help. What I didn't know was how to get past the filters and processes that are used now. If you're good at that, you may not need help, but I did get more responses after I really beefed-up my LinkedIn (grueling) and wrote individualized reply letters to every match that I liked from Indeed.
Real world example: was DropBox a better or worse product when they were a simple syncing app before they started “innovating”.

The only consumer company that I can think of that went from “initial value proposition” to “not sucking after it went public” is BackBlaze. None of their new offerings has taken away from their initial “unlimited cheap backup” offering.
Proof appears to be in the pudding: the feds & law enforcement routinely complain that they can’t access Apple users stuff.

Hell, they sue over it.

So it seems to work oreeeeetty well
This is true, I moved from the UK (London) to Canada and receive a higher wage. AND in the UK I was working as a contractor which is a way of avoiding a lot of tax.

What I would like to know is what can Canada do, tangibly, to increase wages to USA levels?
I use a Linux desktop that is extremely snappier in comparison with how popular distributions like Ubuntu or Fedora feel, at least in their default configurations.

However, I have never analyzed which are the exact causes, because my configuration has a lot of differences and I am not sure which of them matter.

I suppose that it is important that I use neither Gnome nor KDE, but XFCE. Even so, some of the applications that I use are intended for KDE or Gnome, so they use the corresponding libraries, and I do not know if these have any reason to be more responsive under XFCE than under their native desktop environments.

I prefer to use a completely empty desktop, without icons or toolbars and having as background a neutral gray. I launch applications by right click on the desktop and I restore minimized windows from an auto-hidden taskbar.

I take care that there are no active services/daemons besides those that I really need. I do not use systemd or anything associated with it. I have stopped using swap memory two decades ago (but I equip all my computers with generous amounts of DRAM, to avoid out-of-memory situations; my oldest computers have at least 32 GB and nowadays I would not buy one with less than 64 GB).

I use only 4k monitors with 30-bit color, so using lower resolutions is not needed for a snappy GUI.

I use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers or the Intel drivers on computers with the integrated Intel GPU. I use a customized Linux kernel, but I doubt that this can have any influence on GUI responsiveness, even if it ensures fast boot times. I do not use Wayland and I doubt whether it is the right replacement for X Window, because its initial design was very flawed, even if some of the original defects have been corrected meanwhile.

For viewing PDFs or EPUBs, I use MuPDF, which is much faster (especially on startup, which is instantaneous) than the other viewers that I have tried. It has some limitations, so I also keep around other viewers, e.g. Okular, for the cases when I need a feature not provided by MuPDF. As file manager, I use Xfe.
Ghibli has switched to more slice of life story lines and while my kids still love them, they lack the sense of wonder that made me “force” them to watch Totoro, then the were up for Castle in the Sky and friends, and later Spirited Away, Nausicaä and Mononoke.

They liked Up on Poppy Hill and Marnie Was Here more than I did.

We aren’t watching Grave until they’re 21. Which is probably more for by sake than theirs at this point. I watched it 10 years ago and once is really enough.
I don't think so. If you want to actively find stuff there are ways to do it, like going to a tech show near you.

Businesses survived before advertising was as crazy as it is today, so we can tune it down a _lot_ before bad things start happening to businesses in general.
> Why not the boot mechanism?

The SoC is its own static architecture - each vendor sells its own little computer system complete with booting methods. Since the hardware is static there is no need to implement a configuration mechanism which also acts as a discovery mechanism (like PCI). So we can't build a kernel that asks the SoC "Whats inside", instead, the device tree is a list of what hardware exists and where it is mapped in memory.

And that hardware might not be standard or use weird register layouts that don't match other commonly used layouts in other similar devices further complicating the porting effort. The SoC might have a unique USB controller or Ethernet MAC or whatever that needs a new driver. Just lots of duplicated effort for each "new computer" when its all the same hardware inside. And its like this because SoC's are low cost disposable chips - no one cares if you cant port a new kernel because by the time you want a new kernel the thing is already obsolete and expected to be disposed of and replaced with a new gadget.

What could be done? Setting standards for hardware registers - similar to how PC vendors like Intel and Microsoft standardized the dumb basics like ATA, USB, Ethernet, Serial ports and so on. Set standards so we don't need to re-write drivers for every new chip released. Then standardize the boot firmware so the device can boot-strap the hardware to the point where it can load a kernel image via a debug interface, thumb drive, emmc, sd etc. Let the device boot hand the OS its device tree - done.
When neighboring carbons are linked to oxygen, you get a less stable molecule.

That said, yeah, PLA is known to not be very stable, and that's part of the reason its biodegradable. It degrades into lactic-acid based large molecules that living beings have no problem on destroying. (But are toxic when you get several grams of it, so beware if you are doing strange chemical experiments with PLA.)
Small actions on a personal level can help people feel efficacy and engage on a larger level. Political and economic action is absolutely what's most important, but humans have weird psychology. Some for instance will not engage in the larger political action because they feel they are not virtuous enough (they don't bring a plastic bag along, they don't recycle) and if they can't do the small things that they misconstrue as essential, then f*(& it might as well just run the F-150 all day in a parking lot with the windows open and the AC on and vote for drill and burn politics.

In a rock band, you have a guitarist and a drummer and a singer and a bass player. Not everyone does the same thing. We all need to contribute in different ways at different times.

Plastics are indeed everywhere and have made some aspects of daily life better while making other aspects worse. Neither of the extremes of overemphasizing personal virtue and nihilism are useful.
Ease of use is the biggest one. While you and I are capable of setting up and keeping up a remote machine with a self-hosted password manager, I'm incredibly confident my barely tech literate parents are. Realistically for people that aren't savvy enough to set up their own thing it's a e2ee password manager using that password manager's remote service or them using the same password for multiple websites and more of a lesser of two evils.
If my cofounder told me to translate our current Electron app to something else (maybe Rust), I'd jump on it. As it is, I've wondered if I have an obligation to do so anyway, on my own time, giving up all nights and weekends until it's done. But our actual users don't even seem to care, and some have been very positive about the product.
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All the carbohydrates will be coated with Acrylamide or burnt to a crisp. Acrylamide is believed to be a carcinogen (Acrylamide is converted to a compound called glycidamide , which causes mutations in and damage to DNA) and shown to be in animal models.

Once you're frying, roasting, and grilling things at this temperature you are increasing cancer risk completely unrelated to any cooking materials involved. That's true of french-fries, bread, steaks and a zillion other things. It's why they're tasty (see Malliard reaction).

I certainly consider cast iron relatively safe, but it's polymerized unsaturated oil is likely to leach acrylamide and associated chemicals. It's just that compared to the food you're eating it's not relevant.
Well, because imaging sufficiently advanced tech without evidence that it exists or is even plausible is literally science fiction.
I was more thinking about employment by the VFX studios themselves - i.e., if the article is right and VFX companies are already in a race to the bottom with respect to the movie studios (their customers), this race would likely swallow all productivity benefits that generative AI could provide.
If you're being that pedantic, C itself is not Turing-complete in the first place: pointers have finite size, which means that C can address only a bounded amount of memory, so it is a finite state machine (just with an extremely large number of states).
It's snappy and stable now. 3.6 works great on my M1 Max. Both Eevee and Cycles have some nice accelerated performance. The render performance isn't Nvidia good, but I'm sure enjoying the superior stability and lack of VRAM limitations.

I suggest you use it for Eevee or images in Cycles, but you probably don't have time to wait for Cycles video.
"Why We Raised A Bunch Of Money" doesn't answer any of the questions above.
I've seen private equity rounds disguised as traditional founding rounds, which is neither very transparent, nor very honest. Raising 70M just shortly after a 25M round makes me feel like there was more at play then just 'raising' money tbh. But I might be totally off here - but therefore disclosing a bit more than you currently do might be really helpful.
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> . It is very common among people who organized or were very active in summer 2020 anti-police violence protests to have caught charges in the last few years for completely unrelated things.

I participated in these protests, as did many of my friends and community. Nothing happened to them such as you describe.

So no, I don't believe you.
I'm in New England and my Lowe's stocks white fir from Idaho, so I dunno what to tell you. ;)