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It’s absolutely wild to see people making comments like the one you replied to. Are people so eager to have Daddy Government monitoring their every move, deciding how they’re allowed to spend their money? Europeans seem to have Stockholm Syndrome, a fetish for authoritarianism of their preferred flavor.

It feels like the entire continent is one big HOA, deciding what color you can paint your house, or what flowers you can plant outside, to “preserve congruency in the neighborhood”.

It’s honestly a bit concerning seeing how pacified and apathetic people become about government overreach when it doesn’t affect them directly (yet).
Think of it this way. The world is PvE. Inside a prison it’s PvP. That should give you the clarity.

Some people like pvp. Some thrive on it. Others like PvE (maybe with agreeable refereed PvP) and don’t like PvP. They want their game to follow the same rules each time they play it. Predictable. Safe.

Others thrive on the chaos that each new day brings new victims and spoils. As well as threats to their own. (Hi Eve-Online players!)

It’s a mindset, a choice, probably something to do with childhood. Most definitely trauma based.
MST has been a dead letter since day 1 because nobody puts a more expensive monitor controller board in a monitor than it actually needs.

4K60 monitor? cool, it gets DP1.2. So MST means dropping to 1440p or 1080p resolution (splitting DP1.2 across two monitors).

crappy dell office monitor? it gets DP1.1, so MST means dropping to 720p or 540p.

absolutely no company in their right mind is going to haul off and put a DP1.4 in a bottom-shelf monitor or whatever, such that MST actually had extra resolution to play with. So the only places it matters are (a) stocktrader type people who want 8 monitors and don't care about visual quality/running non-native resolution, and (b) office situations and other places where the ability to run a single cable is more important than visual quality.

so de-facto nobody has ever cared about MST, and docks fill this use-case much better. Thunderbolt/USB4 doesn't care about what monitor controller board is behind it. It just cares that you have one DP1.4 stream and the dock can allocate that into as many physical ports as the dock physically allows. Have the bandwidth but need more ports? Cool, just daisychain more docks/adapters.

(and this does work on m1 pro/max btw - this guy for example did eventually find a dock that worked for him.)

https://www.derekseaman.com/2021/11/my-journey-for-dual-disp...

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the big gotcha with M1 is really that the base M1 is actually a crossover chip between high-performance tablet/ultraportable laptop and so Apple doesn't want to waste the space for multiple PHYs that won't be used. So it gets 1x HDMI PHY (normally used for the internal screen, on tablets/laptops) and 1x DP PHY for an external monitor. The Pro/Max support 2 and 3 external displays respectively.

I do agree this is a major limitation on the "just buy macbook air" approach, although you can use displaylink (video compression+USB+active adapter) or use an ultrawide monitor (it's a fast connection, you just only get 1 of them). In particular the 15" MBA really needed a "Pro" CPU option like the Mac Mini family, because that's actually a very nice ultrabook other than the single display, and I absolutely think the chassis is big enough to handle it for normal "interactive" use-cases (not bulk video processing/etc).

And of course the 13" MBP doesn't get one either but lol fuck that thing anyway, let the touch bar/old-style chassis die already please
My favorite prime number generator is http://alpha61.com/primenumbershittingbear/
You don't occasionally need to open .7z or .tar.gz files?
They would have a loss of telemetry that screams of failure. I don't see the possibility that they wouldn't notice.
Every single country in the EU has VAT. If you’re yearly revenue is to low (not that likely for commercial farmers) you still have to give out receipts for every sale.

Also have you heard about bookeping? It’s also a thing that has existed for thousands of years.
>In fact, he could technically leave — to go get lunch, or visit one of the nearby towns — but someone would have to request permission and sign him out, which no one appears to have ever done.

Wonder how many person are in the same situation. I guess you also have to take responsibility for the person while they are outside so no randoms (like a charity or volunteers) can do it
Bank transfers are cheap and instant when both parties in the transaction have a working bank account, which means they had a residence where they could receive mail, which means they had government identification, etc.
My Verizon Fios set top has a feature where it periodically flashes a warning on the TV when the remote's batteries are low. The problem is, these warnings start when the batteries still have several months of life left. So my choice is to consume batteries much faster than I need to, or put up with the garbage warnings on my screen interrupting my viewing.

I choose the latter, and yes it's a more miserable experience than I've had with TV remotes before this new "innovation."

Also, the power button on the remote doesn't reliably turn off my TV. 10% of the time it puts the set top in its sleep mode, keeping the TV on. Never in my life before this did I not trust a TV remote to do its basic functions. This was a solved problem.
Fraction doesn't have to be rational.
Why bilinguals may have a memory advantage–new research
I’m talking spending as a %age of GDP. Those figures were all over the map. I think we should be cautious about perverse incentives in the future.
Yeah, I've been using this for a while and it's awesome! Sadly some of the big publishers don't opt in their games (Activision Blizzard, Bethesda) and some of the indie devs don't bother either.

But yes, it's wonderful.
There's a lot of negativity in this article and the comments. I'm married to an almost-partner at a prestigious consulting firm and they truly do care about their clients and has genuinely solved a lot of problems for them--well into their 30s I will add! So clearly the advice here is to only hire good ones, say maybe my spouse? ;)
> The US is supposedly so bad for the poor yet they are breaking down the door to come here, month after month.

The hope of most poor coming into the US isn't that the US is better for poor people, it's that by coming to the US they can stop being poor. And in most cases it doesn't work.

In fact, the American dream of "anyone can become rich" is a lie which exists specifically to justify why we've let America become such a shitty place for poor people. After all, why do we have to improve conditions for the poor if they can just become rich? It's their own fault they've chosen to be poor--they must like it, right?

Really, rich people have no idea what's going on with poor people, and you should really stop talking about things you don't understand.
Did the World End in 1973?
I was recently in El Salvador, which uses the USD as an official currency (alongside BTC lol). Despite using dollars, the $1 coins are used instead of notes almost exclusively for that denomination (mostly presidential dollars and some silver Susan B Anthony dollars). I was curious and did a bit of research, apparently the reason is that because day-to-day transactions are done almost entirely in small amounts of cash the paper notes have a very short lifespan (apparently <1yr) there, while coins will last decades.
Makes me wonder if this is an attempt to preempt the new laws in states like MA with a weaker federal law.
Another example: under electric razors they barely even test the Panasonic Arc 5 despite sites like Shavercheck praising that one. That review in general is laughable because it used to say that they couldn't get the majority of their testers to agree on a single shaver, but somehow they're recommending one as the "best for most people" anyways?
"Conservation of complexity" is a useful concept in my experience. You can shuffle the complexity around, but usually you can't eliminate it.

In practice, most software solutions I see that emphasize "simplicity" are really putting the complexity elsewhere, typically on the user. More complex solutions have more features because the user needs to get stuff done. The simple solution doesn't have those features, so the user now needs to either do more manual work or rely on additional tools. The simpler tool has made the user's life more complex.

My pet theory (that I just made up) is that what you really want to do is start with something ugly that gets at the real shape of the solution, and then simplify it over time. So "simplicity" is a refinement process like moving from the rough cut of a sculpture to the finished version. But I'm skeptical of simplicity as an up-front design requirement. If you value simplicity so highly that you're never willing to have ugly complexity, then you miss so much of the design search space that you're unlikely to find a good local maximum.
No need to curse to make your point, especially since this is a burgeoning area of both criminal and civil law in western countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture#European_Unio...
A critical question first: why do I ever need Rust for web development?

Typically a critical question at HN will get downvotes because it is not encouraging or constructive or whatever, but that's OK as I really want to know the answer here. I understand Rust is cool for system programming, but I don't feel Rust is good for _everything_

Assuming you have some cash to make web related products, are you going to use Rust web framework at all? I know I won't.
> nearly every dollar bill I've had in the US has been grimy and darkened and felt like it was three seconds from falling apart.

Yeah, that's how they are, but feeling like they're going to fall apart and actually falling appart are two different things.

> Though your $20 notes are usually in excellent condition for some reason compared to the british equivalent.

$20 bills tend to get picked up at the bank, spent at a merchant, and deposited at a bank. Banks will send worn notes to be retired. Many businesses don't take bills larger than $20, so don't use $20s to make change. It's uncommon to pay vendors and employees in cash, so merchants end up with a surplus of $20s that need to be deposited.

$1 bills are used in change, so they tend to get exchanged frequently. Few consumers will deal with $1s at a bank, and many businesses won't ever deposit them, but may need to make withdrawls in $1s so they can make change. They tend to pass through many hands before they get back to a bank where their condition can be checked.
Well thats weird. Because Denmark doesn't use the Euro. Why in the world would it be accepted anywhere when it isn't used? Same goes for Sweden.
> Paying something $10,000 cash strongly suggests you’re buying something illegal, or you got this money illegally (not necessarily unethically, but still illegally).

Since when?

Maybe I just want to buy a handsome dog that won a show?
Browser Extension Risk High Risks for SaaS Data
I have added in a video showing inference into the README -- thank you for the feedback!
> The embedded world is crying out for people experienced in modern software teams.

The embedded world refuses to pay through.
I’m a fan of the death penalty for really egregious cases, given a hypothetical perfect Justice system. Some people are not worth trying to rehabilitate. However, the Justice system is flawed and a decent percentage of people who get the death penalty are innocent. So what do you do? I’d rather they be locked up for the rest of their natural lives, barring a change in evidence or technology that leads to a change in sentence. But I don’t want some remorseless psychopath back in society because they’ve reached the limit on how long we can hold them.
Well stated. I've been trying to find the words to make pretty much this case for years.
This isn't the gotcha you think it is. As for all businesses transactions, you should file it in your accounting software and make sure you pay taxes, vat etc on it. This law changes nothing in that regard.
> they find more than 3000 eur in one place that is not pre authorized, they will confiscate

Any sources which would substantiate this claim?
I doubt it as the value of cash isn't only the value, but also in liquidity and granularity. Regardless of whether you have a $50k car or diamond, if you want to buy some groceries you're gonna need to liquidate because no one is gonna have a diamond worth $50k - $25 handy.
Prison has multiple purposes: retribution, incapacitance, deterrence, and rehabilitation.

- retribution: gives victims and families of the victim retribution. This one doesn't seem important in the modern day, but if you ignore it you get vigilante revenge, blood feuds, honor culture etc. Having the state take on "revenge" kills these cycles.

- incapacitance: straight up preventing dangerous people from being out and being dangerous.

- deterrence: long prison sentences deter other people from committing crimes because they don't want to get a long prison sentence. Also deters the prisoners themselves from committing another crime (if their sentence is short enough)

- rehabilitation: here's finally the "corrections" part, and honestly our system in the US isn't great at rehabilitating anyone. In principle this is a prudent idea, but we'd have to spend a lot more tax dollars on prisoners to actually rehabilitate anything. That's politically pretty unappealing
What is 'skiplagging' and why do the airlines hate when you do it?
"I recommend you to go with Actix or Axum" ... for what use case?
Choice is good. But too many options creates decision fatigue.
Really wish the creators/maintainers of Rust would adopt one Web framework and standardise on it so the Rust-curious could have an easier entry point.

That's what I really like about the Elixir ecosystem; Phoenix is the automatic no-brainer choice. Just crack on with building your idea.
Literally accepted nowhere in Denmark except the most touristy for tourist traps, money exchange places, and the bank to exchange into DKK.
Communicate wasn't the important part, but you got it in your last sentence. It was trying to navigate over aviate - trying to get to its designated landing spot too hard so that it neglected/failed to stay airborne (spaceborne).
How do people buy used cars? Besides crypto, I don’t know of any non-cash payment method that isn’t prone to fraud, overdraft, or transaction cancellation/reversal in the United States and many sellers on Craigslist etc will only take cash
I should clarify, I meant to type Open Source should NOT be a generic for everything free, but I was on mobile at the time.
The same could be said about encryption.
I'm in Denmark, and the last car I bought was from a private seller on a Sunday, we met at a coffee shop and settled the (large, cars are expensive here) payment via an instant bank transfer that I initiated from my laptop. The money immediately showed in the seller's account and we transferred the title/registration via a government online service (which is free of charge).

Easy as that, no need for checks or cash.
We are turning into a narco state, and that largely runs on cash. I don't think the measures are great or will do much, but the fact that they try to do something about it is understandable. Also I really don't care about cash, I never use cash.

I personally think they should just legalize and regulate a lot of the drugs which would be much more effective. People use drugs anyway, they generally do it in a safe way, it makes no sense to keep it illegal, it leaves the whole market to crime.

Legalize, regulate, and charge fat taxes. The crime problems are a symptom of our ridiculous drug laws. If we don't solve the root issue, measures like these will not change anything.
As a sysadmin, I frequently deploy 7zip via .msi to all machines that I think might even have the slightest use to open archive files. It's not that the OS doesn't support .zip it's that the OS ONLY support .zip out of the box and the OS .zip file manager is inadequate in many troubleshooting scenarios.

Sometimes you need to split archives
Sometimes you want to open a non-standard file type with something to unpack it (.xlsx/self extracting .exe)
Sometimes you've got Software Restriction Policies that prevent standard %temp% extraction installers from running and need to manually extract a package.

This is the short list
Shawshank redemption is a movie, a fiction. It never happened and characters are made up.

That being said USA have rather high reoffending rates while Norway has a low one. And Norway has more pleasant prisons (and makes it easier to find a job after you have been in prison).
See also https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
> It seems pretty undeniable that both Russia and NATO would be more willing to countenance a direct confrontation.

Without nuclear weapons, Russia would likely not have invaded in the first place, because a NATO intervention would have been likely and would have ended in the annihilation of the Russian military in just a few weeks.
Man assumed dead brother's identity in 1965, caught by facial recognition
In J generating prime numbers is simply p:21, that gives you 79 which is the 21st prime number.

It is so fast, I wonder what the algorithm behind it is.

[0]: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/pco
I whole-heartedly believe that a good fraction of what we have come to think of as innovation and progress is utterly useless. Technology and innovation have become products that often have no intrinsic value, but that marketing efforts convince people to desire, like popular caffeinated soft drinks.

Since I'm more or less just getting some stuff of my chest, I'll continue to say that I'm sick of everything these days having to have a battery, and need frequent charging. One of my favourite pieces of "tech" that I own is a pair of good quality binoculars. They make things far away look big, all in glorious super-HD and with no battery! We should have awards for consumer tech that doesn't have a battery!
Working-class hero anthems were once the mainstays of union supporters, free speech absolutists, and anti-war advocates. The Overton window has shifted hard.
Definitely not the only one, an entire country decided that durability is important for the $1 denomination, I'll copy what I posted above:

I was recently in El Salvador, which uses the USD as an official currency (alongside BTC lol). Despite using dollars, the $1 coins are used instead of notes almost exclusively for that denomination (mostly presidential dollars and some silver Susan B Anthony dollars). I was curious and did a bit of research, apparently the reason is that because day-to-day transactions are done almost entirely in small amounts of cash the paper notes have a very short lifespan (apparently <1yr) there, while coins will last decades.
> Historically, those supporting the king were on his right, and those opposing him on his left.

Kings typically didn't allow their opposition a seat at the table.

Where the right wing/left wing thing actually came from was a seating arrangement in the French Parliament during the French Revolution (in this case it was the King who didn't have a seat at the table). It only made sense for a short time even then. It was soon superseded by another seating arrangement called the "The Mountain", named because the representatives clustered together in higher tiers of seats.

The terms "right wing" and "left wing" in modern times are essentially just intellectual laziness.

Any purported mapping that puts libertarians and Nazis in the same position on the spectrum is ridiculous on its face.
For sure. Where we are we have mild winters.
Could just be a misuse of infamous but could just as well be intended to refer to the fact that Man and Mankind mean the same. You need an article in front to transform "One small step for Man" into "One small step for a man" to refer to Neil himself stepping.
Quinn does actually author doc pages as well. Some of the code signing tech notes are written by him I think.
So a bitcoin exchange created an index that makes themselves look good?
Author of `wherr` here. Thanks for sharing a really nice alternative solution to the problem, I like it!

It seems to be a bit faster:
running 2 tests
test tests::benchmark_location_caller ... bench: 15 ns/iter (+/- 0)
test tests::benchmark_wherr ... bench: 18 ns/iter (+/- 1)

I also like that it's more explicit; the actual error type is then spelled out, instead of being magically wrapped by the macro, that's nice!

Sounds like a better approach overall, but I'm curious to understand more about the disadvantage you mention, the problem with using `#[track_caller]`, that then masquerades the actually error line number. For my own code, I can of course control that and just ensure I don't make use of `#[track_caller]` anywhere in my code. But if other crates would be making use of `#[track_caller]`, that would prevent getting the correct error line.

Can anything be said about how common it is to use `#[track_caller]` in crates? If very uncommon, then I can live with it. But it would be annoying if it works sometimes and other times not.
Fractions = rational numbers, which are an infinitely small subset of the real numbers. The rest of the reals are irrational numbers, of which pi and e are examples.
So you need to be convicted by a court and the government needs to be able prove the money was obtained from illegal sources?

How is that unreasonable and more importantly what does it have to do with the €3000 limit discussed in this thread?
There’s accidental complexity and essential complexity. The former can in principle be eliminated.

The web tech stack is brimming with accidental complexity.
This doesn't follow; then they could just spend it in increments of less than €3000.
You realize someone would actually need to repurpose them to do such things, operation which would cost money and technical know how, right? They don't come with those capabilities out of the box.

It's just such a weird argument that you're making. It's like saying that once roads disappear all the speed cameras are going to be repurposed to take pictures of you walking about to match facial data or something. Technically possible I suppose, but given how these things work it might as well be sci-fi. Government would have to scrap the entire system and buy new devices that do what you suggest, and that's where the whole idea will fail.
Yep, an example of this was how people on SSI disability were restricted from not having more than 2k worth of assets in the 1980s, and it hasn't been updated since. Good luck escaping that poverty trap.
This idyllic view sounds theoretical to me. What I've seen working best is a fast CI/CD pipeline with unit tests, key journey tests, and integration tests with blue/green deployments. This in my experience is far superior to staging environments for both startup and very large scales. In addition the development environment itself should be as close to prod as is practical so most checks can be done there.
Lol it's funny to summarize this discussion as: "we don't want to make a (seemingly) positive change because too many people rely on us to live in their 'backwards' ways".
I disagree.

1. Those who express disparaging remarks towards others do not need to utilize a specific term.

2. A common narrative is that urban environments/cities are mismanaged, possess dangerous amounts of crime, and filled of corrupt politicians.

3. "Flyover Country", in a political context, is generally a complaint about the structure of representation.