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I find the blatant gaslighting regarding this topic baffling.

> Wisner insists that “WEI is not designed to single out browsers or extensions” and that it won’t block browsers that spoof their identity.

WEI's sole purpose in life is to detect browsers that do things that Google does not like. If it does not block browsers that spoof their identity then what the hell does it do?

Sure, sure, WEI won't block them: it will just tell the web server that you are not using an approved browser. It's not Google's fault if the web server then blocks you! How could they have known?

I would find it slightly more respectable if Google just came out and said the quiet part out loud: "Our profits and the industry's profits are more important than your freedom, so shut up and take it, since you can do nothing about it."

Sneaking around like this is just an insult to our intelligence.
"Peter Draws" on youtube has some nice relevant videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxcK-V-tf8E

The occasional dry jokes land so perfectly.
I have used him as a sleep aid before, too.
Mojo language combines the simplicity of Python with speed and security of Rust
jvns, your articles and conversational writing style are great.
I hear you saying "'X is hard' is a way to not lose a reader by insulting their intelligence". My immediate reaction is "'X is easy' is a reminder that things that look hard upon first examination can be quite easy".

I think in general this level of "kid-gloves" is overall unhealthy for society. It encourages mental weakness.

At the same time, I understand that your aim is to reach as large an audience as possible so your educational material can have max impact. For this reason, I can justify you having this stance. That said, I don't think it applies globally.
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It was commercially viable to deploy residential gas infra in the past (when electricity was a lot cheaper than now!) and yet gas isnt viable now. It doesn't stack up. I don't pretend to know much about the economics of residential gas supply, but I wonder if your high connection charge was a result of costs being spread across fewer customers (driven away by high usage costs).
I’m genuinely curious, What's wrong with Java's model?
EEVblog 1555 – LK99 Ambient Temperature Superconductor Busted [video]
I forget the actual quote, but there is a saying that if an old esteemed scientist says something is possible, they are almost certainly right. If they say something is impossible, they may be wrong.
Thank you for answering sincerely and without condescension. <3
The average American watches three hours of TV every day.
I don’t get what this blog post is supposed to propose nor the point of it — the special sauce of imperative loops is imperative/causal sequences of those operations due to mutability, otherwise it’s just a `map` operation-but-with-(many)-extra-steps. If you want to express the imperative loop you’ll need a way to represent mutability or some form of transient state and/or the `reduce` operator
Macs are pretty much in the same boat. I have a couple 2015 models. Can’t get the latest major OS update. But they get updates and I expect I’ll be able to continue using them as primarily browsers for quite some time.
They're up to 855, but 3 within 10 minutes of you (e.g, three within 20 minutes of each other) is pretty darn dense.

But now that I think of it, you can probably get that in Southern California in multiple areas. That's a circle with 314 sq miles inside.
HSR really wants total seperation, zero crossings, no shared traffic. That is what ultimately allows safe high speed travel.

Otherwise you are slowing down everywhere and can only run as fast as other trains on the line, unless you also impact their services by having them pull off.
For anyone looking at it on mobile, you can play in the browser on desktop.
The title is a bit clickbaitey but I didn't want to editorialize it. Dave recreates the video demo accompanying the recently announced LK99 superconductor using a (non superconducting) copper clad PCB and HDD magnet.
> If I and other chromium leads didn't actually care about openness then you'd be able to tell pretty clearly because Chromium would be closed source, we wouldn't have big programs like wpt.fyi, and we wouldn't bother even trying to talk about this stuff on open mailing lists.

I do actually believe you care about this. I think your employer once cared; but now they fundamentally do not (as a whole; I'm aware that Googlers are not a monolith).

There are a lot of people shouting at you that this isn't what an "open web" means, and that it's directly counter to the "open web." I imagine that's a difficult thing to square: your own feelings about the open web, and this proposal. How do you make them fit?

One way, of course, is to label the people shouting as criminals. ;)

If you are feeling that tension like I suspect you are, then sit with it for awhile. Really examine your principles and try to decide if this proposal actually lines up with your values. If you find that you cannot actually align this proposal with your principles - then I urge you to do something about it. Kill the proposal from the inside. You'd stand a lot better chance of doing that than I, an outsider, would.
I highly doubt Amtrak will suddenly run on time if enough people write Congress like their video suggests. The delays are egregious. Can’t they just pay for priority?
The next word it is directing you to is "word". Type that, then hit return.
"...The benchmarks support the claim that LPython is competitive with its competitors in all features it offers. ... Our benchmarks show that it’s straightforward to write high-speed LPython code. We hope to raise expectations that LPython output will be in general at least as fast as the equivalent C++ code."

At least as fast as C++ is a bold claim, but this is an interestingly documented process. I'm keen.

I'm quite partial to Nuitka at this point, but I'm open to other Python compilers.
> Is this even enforceable?

They'll consider it enforced if all the major companies comply.

In terms of actually having the criminals using software that complies with the law, absolutely not. Making your own program that doesn't comply isn't much of a challenge.
>1. Privatization has been an absolute disaster for the rail industry.

Privatization implies it was previously nationalized. Was that ever the case?
The number of very large retailers who can't give accurate inventory counts is hilariously high. Even the ones that do try fail spectacularly, in all directions - I've found that when you see "limited stock" or "none available" you have a chance of finding anywhere from -5 to 50 items. And yes, that means sometimes you will carry an item into the store and it will mystically disappear.
“Just a phone” is incredibly reductive, and not an argument made in good faith.
Yes. I've ridden on many of them. I'm a huge HSR proponent. I just don't think it works for Eugene to Vancouver. If we had double the population it would be a no-brainer.

The math is very clear. Below about 25,000 people per linear kilometer of lines, they require massive subsidies and never really pay off. Eugene to Vancouver BC is <12,000 people per linear kilometer. Honestly I would love to be wrong.
> the first digital computer

Z3?
I'm in Canada so I don't really get to see a lot of these political ads.

But, do ad's like this actually work?

This one in particular looks like something a bunch of high school kids would make...
>To speak plainly, children from the same parents with the same opportunities can and do have drastically different lives.

But children do not have the same parents. Not unless they are twins. Parents treat each child differently. This is common knowledge, expected even. This is why outcomes are so drastically different, not because of the "seed" but because everything else has changed alongside the seed.

Ask the oldest child of a family how they view each of their parents. Ask the youngest. They often see such different people. This is exaggerated in families where addiction was overcome for example, where the first child grew up without a loving home, and the last grew up experiencing parents that finally figured out how to love.

You can see how even the tiniest of changes affects this, and why "same parents same opportunities" doesn't apply to most, again excluding twins.
Maybe you could like block the river just a bit to build up like a reservoir.
Pay attention to the thread. I was only discussing environmental impacts.
If it's yellow let it mellow....
It wasn't a typo.
Absolutely unconscionable to ever deny someone their right to vote, even during a prison term. There are no exceptions!
I'm pretty sure they were pulling your leg.
Sharing the tracks is a huge problem that’s just becoming worse. Railroad’s have taken the strategy of running trains so long that they no longer sit in sidings. That means that it is now impossible for many freight trains to pull into a siding allowing other trains to pass. While Amtrak is supposed to have the right of way it’s often impossible for a freight train to do so. Additionally, railroads have shown no interest in lengthening siding or really any capital investment at all.

If you’d like to learn more about this and other issues with the way the US does railroads I’d recommend this podcast. It’s probably the least efficient way you could intake the information but I enjoyed it.

https://youtu.be/jNkYNjADoZg
Yes, that's why I said "a substantial portion". About 25% of OR/WA don't live within an hour of the corridor. I live in Oregon, along the I-5 corridor. I've been looking at the feasibility of HSR for years. The math does not yet make sense. If the population was doubled, it would be a no-brainer.
To make monopoly a lot more fun, every time someone lands on an unowned property, go to auction. It means people are engaged almost every turn.
Let's not use this platform for what it's not very suitable. I'm afraid we won't relay our arguments without doubtful amount of efforts.
When you realize that we are just barely caught up with what Forward Thrust was supposed to bring us when voters rejected that in the 1970s (like before I was born...) it's hard to imagine any of us will benefit in our lifetimes from any significant I-5 corridor high-speed improvements. The legislature really needs to be considering the housing benefits of improved transit, not only along I-5, but also for those who might live in say Ellensburg, Yakima, Spokane, who could conceivably be just an hour or two by rail away from their office in Seattle. Maybe not as every day commuters, but certainly in a blended work model.
If any child supposedly understands this, why does HN consider this novel? The questions in this post also don’t support your comment.

There’s also no need to be impolite. If it’s such an easy concept that you actually already understand, maybe explain it in layman terms instead?
lol California would disagree. I am amazed at how much is being built here. I wouldn't be surprised if Seattle is the fastest building urban metro area in the US. I still think WA has a libertarian streak (hence no income tax) that moves things along.
Don’t know if it’s the original source but Arthur C. Clarke had an even more definitive quote along those lines.
I think that thing makes money because utilities will pay though the nose for a reserve of instant on demand power.
Yep I fully agree. It's going to ultimately mean 99% of people end up running in old GIL mode with deterministic behavior. Companies will get burned and have to have policies that absolutely under no circumstances will the GIL be disabled in their codebase. A very small handful of highly skilled and funded teams, probably at big companies only, will have the time and tenacity to make their code AND all their dependencies work in a multithreaded environment without the GIL.
Spain has double the population density of OR/WA, much less if you include BC. What's your point?
It’s not over until multiple labs fail to reproduce it. A definitive no will take months.
Normally, I'd agree with you, but the Portland-Seattle HSR corridor is around the low end of viable HSR corridors. You're connecting the 17th, 27th, and 28th largest cities in US+Canada, with no realistic prospects to connect anything else approaching a major city--the next largest city is Boise, but that's 350mi away as the crow flies (and mountains means it's quite further in practice), and smaller than even places like Fresno/Bakersfield, which people complain about CAHSR considering to visit. Oh, and one of those three cities is on the other side of an international border, which tends to dampen ridership a fair amount.

By contrast, all the other standard HSR candidates anchor regions that involve at least one, and for all but the Midwest two, cities in the top 10, with many more in the top 50.
My limited experience using friends' and family's Samsung phones is that they are the worst out of all of them. Absolutely nothing but bloated, buggy software that you can't disable.
Somewhere I read that this is how things used to be in Einstein era (or maybe earlier than that). There was little bureaucracy in getting the idea out.
I mean, arguably there's all sorts of side effects. Society has improved considerably over the centuries. People used to tolerate all sorts of stuff and could have said "we've bathed in the water we drink for thousands of years, and what's wrong with that!"
Technically, yes--the railroads were temporarily nationalized during WWI.
I'm not a fan of them either, but at least they aren't positioned in a way to abuse their status as much as Apple is.
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Amtrak are freeloading on privately built and maintained railways.

If they want better track alignments, or prioritisation over other users, they should come to a commercial agreement with the infrastructure owners like anyone else. Alternatively, they can build their own infrastructure.
This is miraculous. I randomly flipped to Air Bud and it's just... playing the whole movie! How on Earth was it possible for one person to make this???
I mean I've been doing the math and looking at ridership, transportation and population density mapping in hopes of justifying it for about two of those decades.

Show me a similar area with fewer than 12,000 people per linear kilometer that has HSR and I will be impressed and take notes. I don't know of anywhere on earth that has fast trains and that few people.
I really don't like supporting Costco as it's the antithesis to good urban design. It's not healthy for people to be living so separated from shops that stores like costco end up with 1000 car parking lots. Grocery stores should be on every other corner or so of every neighborhood within walking distance. Prices would be kept low due to healthy small business competition. Costco is mearly a symptom of the sickness that is Euclidean zoning.
> I thought the UK courts can't override Acts of Parliament, because the courts are subordinate to it

The UK Courts aren't subordinate to Parliament and can tell the UK government to "go back and think again". For example, the move to export immigrants to Rwanda.

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/rwanda-policy-unlawful-unpacking-the-c...
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It seems you didn't read the article, it specifically talks about people are already buying accounts for $30 or less to be able to make accounts in areas where you're not allowed to register.
>> If he can’t differentiate between “negative feedback, delivered abusively” and “negative feedback, delivered forcefully” then he should not be someone involved in this decision-making process.

> Have you ever managed a large team of people? If so, do you think a good manager would really tell people that part of their job is to accept threats of physical abuse?

See this, right here, is exactly the problem: Yes, threats of physical abuse are unacceptable. Nobody here is saying otherwise. Pretending that the presence of unacceptable threats somehow invalidates legitimate criticism, however, just makes you look dishonest.
Because Russia was a big supplier and they decided to invade Ukraine. But that only affects Europe and liquified NG users. In Victoria, the field they have been using is running dry, and they would rather not resort to fracking to find new NG reserves. It probably isn’t very economical to pipe it in from Western Australia where most of the current known reserves are.
Full report this article is based on

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Perfect response!

My own response to "X is actually hard to learn" is ... compared to what?

1. compared to your first impressions?
2. compared to general opinions that you're aware of?
3. are you talking about general principles or deep down stuff?
4. are you talking about the learning curve? Is it irregular? Steep? Shallow?

"X is not hard to learn" is ultimately a pretty empty statement.
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> For example with school attendance data you could easy release a dataset at the county level with every student’s record with unique generated student id, race, grade, gender, absences by year (or even month) and still have 5-20 of each category to be able to show attendance trends before and after Covid without being able to identify individuals.

Yes, for any kind of specific study you want to do, you can form aggregates that support it. Indeed, lots of aggregate data is already released publicly.

Lots of aggregate data is already released publicly.

If you want the actual, real data, so you can answer questions like --- "what about attendance on Mondays in students receiving subsidized lunch-- what does it predict about that student's attendance in the future?" --- you'll either need the real data, or for the state to basically do your data aggregation for your specific question.
"Along with community engagement, limiting political sway is important. The study shows that if political representatives convince planners to route through different locations — deviating from the design — cities could end up with an expensive commuter rail system instead of a competitive high-speed rail."

Good luck, it's Seattle
It’s honestly astounding you consider them to be distinct
Reserves in eastern Australia are tapping out and reserves in Western Australia are too far away from any city other than maybe Perth (but most of the reserves seem to be in northern Western Australia closer to Darwin). It is more profitable for them to liquify the gas in Darwin and ship it to Japan and China than to build pipes to eastern Australia. In fact, it looks like they are building a liquified NG terminal in southern Australia to get it by boat from northwestern Australia (competing with Japan and china for the same supply).
What do you mean by this non-sequitur?
> Meta are not trustworthy and it's reasonable to want nothing to do with them.

I agree, but will that prevent the majority of the public from signing up? A bridge will collapse regardless of what the motorists think, but people being ignorant of Meta's misdeeds does mean that Meta's untrustworthiness won't—can't—factor into their decision regarding signups. Maybe Meta will make the news again with another scummy decision, and maybe that'll drive users away—but how many? I suspect it's a small fraction.

'Course, one might be able to make the argument about "the most important N% of users who create most of the content", who are also unusually savvy... I don't know empirical details here.
This does not align with my experience. I see Uber automatically log me in on a fresh install after I've uninstalled the app for months.
In their country not mine. Meanwhile shit like CSAM distribution is illegal everywhere.
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You don't need a high-speed rail station for that; you just need one of the park-n-ride lots at a light-rail station. You drive to the transit network, then use the local train to reach the regional train.
It hasnt' stopped Python, by some metrics, from competing in popularity with JS. Some even put Python ahead.
Just got one of them on the phone and they had no idea what I was talking about - so most likely a throwaway joke I believed and committed to memory all those years ago. :-)
very true, i also wonder if in some weird twist of fate some outlier like cyrix became the dominant x86 manufacturer and designers or something wack like that
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The thing is that what matters is not the total number of users but who those users are. Anecdotally, there has been a slow exodus of people in my writer circles from Twitter, either deleting their accounts or just not using them as much. I’ve found less to bring me back each day. There might be people engaging more to make up for it, but they’re not the people in my circles.
LOL well thats a much better end than a 3 paragraph reply about em running at single digit voltages and how many more volts and amps itd take and yadda yadda
Android phones have become good enough to keep. - Written on a 4 year old phone.
I can appreciate why Costco appeals to people. I would go maybe 1-2 times a year to pick up a few items. That said, once they started hard enforcing the card sharing policy and then proceeded to literally scream at me that I couldn't use my fathers card, while in line, I decided to not give them my business ever again.

I had used his card a couple times before without any issues. It wasn't even a busy day and I really didn't get the hostility that I received. Certainly, I got some stressed out check out person, but wow... me never going back there again is going to cost them a whole lot more in the long run, than them missing out on my membership fee from my occasional visit.
I find youtubes music algorithm to be on point most of the time for me. I just click one song and listen bunch of songs i enjoy, new and old.
I don’t think that’s a given. If you’re constantly stopping/accelerating, average speed is much lower. The rail from downtown Seattle to the airport has a comical number of stops that barely see any traffic.

The optimal system to connect a large number of places is a car. The optimal system to connect a small number of places efficiently is a train.
The areas in Sweden with railroads are more populated than the Van/Sea/Pdx corridor, by about 1.8x, more if you drop a couple outlying small towns that don't make sense in themselves to connect except for network completeness reasons. Also, railways in Sweden are more middle-speed trains these days, running 200km/h as far as I am aware. These people are proposing 300km/h+ which requires a significantly higher level of track investment - you can't just use standard sleepers and bolted rails.
Appreciate you putting these words together. More employers need to hear it.
As a PNW native: no thanks. I'd much rather we spend tax dollars on ways to prevent the need for commutes – especially ones that require highway travel.
The thing that established journals do better than arXiv is clarity

You can upload whatever trash methods you want, but a normal journal will have at least one guy who tells you to wipe your ass and make your bullshit presentable in public, if only because they're expected to be gatekeepers for a minimum standard of supposed reproducibility.
I learned some English vocabulary with videogames. The first time I saw the word lurker was the lurker above in Nethack (or did rogue and hack already had it?) https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Trapper