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The Sovereign Military Order of Malta has no territory.

Under your definition, is Wales a country? What about Northern Ireland? Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdo...

> Since 1922 the United Kingdom has been made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland (variously described as a country,[1] province,[2][3][4][5] jurisdiction[6] or region[7][8]). The UK Prime Minister's website has used the phrase "countries within a country" to describe the United Kingdom.[9] Some statistical summaries, such as those for the twelve NUTS 1 regions of the UK, refer to Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales as "regions".[10][11] With regard to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales particularly, the descriptive name one uses "can be controversial, with the choice often revealing one's political preferences".

What about the Isle of Man? It's not part of the UK, but is a self-governing possession of the British Crown.
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I thought it was universally known that photographs usually have post processing effects (filters) applied to them. Post processing effects allow the artist to place their hand on the picture. It's clear that the photos have been touched by the artist and they have achieved a look that the photographer was going for.

Most photographers alter the raw photograph data.
This is weird, the grill is the tool!
> count dankula

In April 2016, Meechan posted a video on YouTube of his girlfriend's pet pug Buddha titled "M8 Yer Dugs A Nazi". At the start of the video, he says: "My girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is so I thought I would turn him into the least cute thing I could think of, which is a Nazi."

Meechan was arrested on suspicion of breaching the Communications Act 2003. On 19 March 2018, Meechan was convicted of breaching the act by Sheriff Derek O'Carroll at Airdrie Sheriff Court.[21] The court ruled that Meechan's claim that the video was a joke intended for his girlfriend "lacked credibility" as Meechan's girlfriend did not subscribe to the YouTube channel to which the video was posted.

Meechan was scrutinised for embracing support from right-wing figures Alex Jones and Tommy Robinson, to which he replied: "Imagine totally abandoning protecting human rights, just because someone you don't like is defending them too. Astounding."

BBC Scotland planned to feature Meechan in a 2019 debate program, The Collective, and had him film two episodes. However, the network announced that these episodes would not be aired after a backlash over the announcement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Meechan
Oh, that's easy. I'll help. The story is two-fold:

1. He's a prominent person in current tech, so people are interested in what he is doing and where he is possibly looking to relocate.
2. Indonesia is actively trying to attract wealthy foreign investors, which is relevant to HN and they succeeded in getting Sam Altman.
If you're paid per delivery, then you don't want to faff about wasting time locking and unlocking a bike every single time
Grilling isn't a meat thing tho, it's an operator.

Arbitrary nonsense serves no one except those paid to put it in place.
> Regarding Vector DBs, most have advocated for weaviate and pinecone. Incidentally, all run into quantization problems at scale (1M+ vectors)...

Can you elaborate? We (at Pinecone) have dozens of customers with over a billion embeddings, still serving queries in under 300ms (p95) with index updates in <1s. If you saw performance issues with just 1M embeddings then something else is going on that we may be able to help with.
Fully random only appreciably diverges from 2^n when 2^n becomes a sizable share of the world's population.

When the population is roughly 2^2n, you expect to lose one ancestor in that generation.
I'm not sure which French word they translated to "grill" tho. Maybe barbecue? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmMCbTAmFI8
India warns of malware attacks targeting its Android users
I wonder if this specific case isn't counterproductive activism, which will create opportunity for a new food delivery segment that specifically promises door delivery.
I'm not sure of the implications here, so, two questions:

(1) What effect does this have on user-installed credentials, such as a certificate for OpenVPN? I used to be able to install those myself, with a few taps. They did produce the ominous message about someone monitoring my network activity, of course.

(2) Will users still be able to disable CAs in preferences? I routinely go through the list of CAs and disable anything I don't trust, mainly based on country of origin, so China, Russia, Turkey get shut off, et. al. Will this functionality still be available in Android 14?
Had an Apple II+ clone that was in a PC style case which made the whole thing more convenient as the drives were in the chassis.

The Apple II+ clone had a CPM card made by Microsoft.
Assume those numbers are wrong. Many gun owners lie on various polls and surveys when asked about firearms ownership. The reason generally being a certain level of paranoia about firearms and firearms owners being cataloged in a way that could support a hypothetical future confiscation effort.

Firearms owners may well still be in the minority, but there's probably a fair bit of error there.
They already have to deal with crime at the other end - it's not uncommon, where I live, to see videos of people stealing scooters and bikes as the rider steps into a restaurant.

The least customers could do is to take care of their end.
> BRAM

Never heard of this despite being casually interested in hardware, it is apparently this?:

https://nandland.com/lesson-15-what-is-a-block-ram-bram/
Wow, those are totally different smells to me for malt vinegar
They are between a rock and a hard place: I think the game StarCitizen had a perfect visualization of their problem.

When you try to trade resources, you make say 4% income on the trade. So if you trade say 2-million you can win about 200k or 400k, depending on server state. However the risk is your ship blows up, which could be because of a buggy crash or a server crash. The risk was "is the value I get from the work worth it if a single crash can undo days worth of effort".

Same is happening here. They are risking a month of income in order to do a single delivery. However if they leave it by the door "I never got the order" and thus they get penalized. So basically damned if you do, damned if you don't. So they basically said "well if I get penalized ANYWAYS... might as well eat it, because it is equivalent to me"

I see zero ethical issues with what is happening.

Now if the motorbike was provided by the company, and it gets stolen? Cool, the employee doesn't care, and I assure you, the company would change its policy in a day "nope, you come downstairs!"

Edit: The root of the gig economy is that all the risk is shifted to the employee, but none of the benefits. A friend of mine is an HVAC tech, and he gets a company car. If he is about to be late to an appointment because of parking issues... "well, leave the car, we'll pay for the ticket, just get to the job" and he doesn't care. Why? Because the company assumes the risk as they should. He's not a gig worker.
I've always been completely baffled by the point of view of hard-left-wingers.

But if there are many people who truly believe that economics is linear and zero-sum, that explains how they got there.

From this point of view, CEO's and billionaires are of course overpaid because they couldn't possibly type/talk/work/think a million times better than a thousandaire.

It's only when you internalize concepts that came up in the last couple of centuries, like leverage, positive sum growth, exponential economic growth, and exponential technological development that modern life makes sense.
Having stock of every possible type of M3 screw/nut you could ever need does not take up a lot of space and also doesn't cost that much. $100 and it'll feel like you have a lifetime supply of every possible type you'd ever need and because of the time saved over the course of your life (and inflation) it'll definitely be a sound investment.

What does take up space is the part of your brain where you thought you had knowledge of every possible type of M3 screw/nut you could possibly need. After a few years of owning a "massive" collection of M3 screws/nuts that part of your brain will expand by an order of magnitude and suddenly you'll be looking to stock up on something like, "tapered torx head, alloy 18mm M3 screws" and maybe even nylon M3 screws/nuts.

Example: A few years ago I needed a square M3 nut to go into a 3D printed part. "No problem", I thought. I have plenty of square-shaped M3 nuts. Except the square nuts I had didn't fit in the part! "What the heck? Why is the slot for the square nut so thin‽" Turns out there's a standard for thin square nuts, DIN 562 where the thickness of the nut is 1.8mm instead of the usual 2.2mm and I didn't have any of those.

Now I have a little baggie of 50 M3 DIN 562 nuts (well, probably ~40 remaining) that is carefully marked separately from my other little baggie of regular M3 square nuts and I know better than to think, "I have all the types."
Hi, i've looked a your post history and concluded that you're a nazi based on your penchant for justifying violence towards gay people, though those posts got flagged.

It's a good thing you disagree with the premise that you be allowed a valid first chance, or else i might have to consider a reality in which you might be an innocent bystander. But no, into the nazi bin you go.
> I've dreamed of a browser that supports multiple stacks, instead of the HTML/CSS/JS monopoly.

These existed. You could have used VBScript instead of JavaScript (Internet Explorer). Or, perhaps, you might have wanted to go all the way in the other direction, and use JavaScript syntax for your stylesheets, instead of CSS (Netscape Navigator, JavaScript Style Sheets aka JSSS). As for HTML, it might be possible to use pure XML styled directly with CSS or something like XML-FO, without having a XSLT which transforms it into HTML, but I don't know which browsers support or have supported that.
At what point do consumers become responsible for the choices made by businesses that they patronize?

I expect the working conditions and pay of your delivery driver exceeds that of the person who made your pants. Don't you also owe those workers a fair shake?
Glad you liked it!

Yes, I was impressed by the gadget -- I wrote this story -- and I can see it being useful.

A colleague of mine has the older Lenovo display I mentioned, and he told me he doesn't travel without it now, if that's any help.
Google groups is a source of a huge amount of Usenet SPAM, and google seemingly does not care, as they do nothing, and reporting via their 'report spam' button also appears to do nothing.
The service that the customer paid for, according to the apps and detailed in the article, is street-level delivery only.

So imagine paying for one thing and then extorting an additional service out of the driver because the service gives you more power than the driver.

Seems to me the legislation should be focused on the delivery app companies -- force them to pay workers extra if an order requires the extra time and risk of inside delivery. And maybe even cover the cost of anything stolen while they're workers are on the job. They'd very quickly figure out a solution.
You don’t think your neighbors’ voting habits in local elections will affect your life? There are numerous counties in Texas, for instance, that have criminalized driving a woman through their county for the purposes of getting an abortion. That behavior would make a material difference in my choice of where to live.

I can’t imagine simply not caring, unless one is so wealthy that the laws don’t matter, or the kind of person who is never affected by their neighbors’ antagonistic voting.
TikTok has started routing European user data through its data center in Ireland
Bento Layouts Tilt Me
Train a LLM to write blogs in your style
Back issues of Private Eye from the late 80s and 90s almost certainly cover a lot of his dodgy dealings for anyone wanting to know more. Probably mention him in their next podcast too (~20th Sept? Their output is erratic.)
>And just because it's a widespread practice doesn't make it ok.

You're missing the point. The fact that nearly every website you visit displays the banner means that users become desensitized to it. It's just one more thing for them to click on, next to the dialog to permit notifications and whatever else. It's the same reason developers are encouraged to solve warnings, so that when a new one props up they will notice it quickly and decide if its a problem or not; if you normally get hundreds of warnings when building you quickly learn to ignore them, hiding any problems that might exist.
I also deliberately left out the phase change that was caused by IBM including 1401 Emulation in System 360. Before that, everyone rewrote their programs every time a new machine came out, because it was expected it would be incompatible with the old one, so we have a ton of code still running that wasn't expected to last more than 10 years when it was written, in the late 1950s, early 1960s.
I think it depends on where you are in Europe. I had far more reaction doing childcare in Poland than I did in the US and Canada. Almost completely positive, though. "Your wife is so lucky, a Polish man would never change a diaper".
A colleague ordered one yesterday and got his in 27 hours, so the regular orders now happen in quite a prompt fashion. This was in Europe.
I use Emacs on Windows all day long. LSP tooling works flawlessly, it would be kinda funny if it didn't given that Microsoft originally developed it for VS Code.

The one thing in Emacs that does not really work for me are these fancier new completion frameworks (Vertico, Orderless etc) as the performance is abysmal. So I switched back to Helm.
So they're supposed to let themselves into your house, walk to your bedroom and hand it to you there?
>being accepted as Indigenous requires no minimum amount of ancestry

That's not my take on the requirement that one have ancestral DNA
I would say the F-22 and F-35 are _far_ more advanced than either the SR-71 or the U-2. I think spy planes have been made less critical and more vulnerable with advancements in spy satellites, drones, and air defense and so are not a focus of R&D.
I don't know if HDR that bad should be illegal but it should at least be roundly criticized.
I did a similar experiment on myself. For songs I knew very well on good headphones, I could reliably distinguish up to 320 kbps on MP3 and 256 kbps AAC from the lossless copy. For songs I didn’t know as well, 128 kbps AAC was usually transparent.

My takeaway from the experience was that the bitrate didn’t really matter above 128 Kbps AAC. This was me paying super close attention and trying to find flaws in the encoding, not actually listening to music. I periodically rerun the test in myself as I get better equipment (laptop DACs are quite good now, for example) and get similar results. Age will be a limiting factor soon as it takes my hearing.
The article explains that, at least in Brazil, customers are only paying for street-level entrance delivery as per the app terms of service.
All of his photos are highly edited
https://www.blairbunting.com/Portfolios/thumbs
EA just means do what you can do to help the most number of people.

Obviously our boy SBF was not doing that, so he probably doesn't count, regardless of what he said he was doing.
“Complex systems won’t survive the competency crisis”
1. No effect, as far as I can tell. User-installed credentials for other cases are unchanged, this just affects system-managed CA certificates

2. Yes - you can still manually soft-remove CAs through the Settings UI
> Perhaps the problem is America is economically biased.

I think in this situation the problem is not reading the article.
There is obviously no such thing as unhackable systems, but when people mention Brazilian elections and it's voting systems, it's incredible how everyone assumes it's a system developed/reviewed/audited by unexperienced people.
You can do dependency injection without a DI framework/container, just declare the required dependencies for a class as required parameters in the constructor and build your own dependency tree manually when constructing the objects in `main()`-equivalent.

Using a DI container is not required to implement the DI pattern, it's just a tool that facilitates some more complex DI.

I tend to prefer to keep my projects simple enough that manual DI is quite appropriate and readable.
The X-37B seems like a likely candidate.
It can also be argued that in a country like Brazil you might get assaulted or kidnapped if you leave your flat.

Either way, some people can’t leave their flats, period.
Not really. While there was a Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, it was neither an empire nor a national one; people identified much more with their local land or town than some nation. There was no Italy. Some nations currently residing in the former territory of Austria-Hungary did not exist at all - sure there were local languages and dialects and culture and so on, but there was no national identity of eg Slovaks.

It's hard to understand that from our perspective, but bringing the current notion of a nation or a nation state into 16th century is an anachronism.
Ludeon Studios, the guy behind Rimworld. They raised a kickstarter though.
I'm less concerned about any tracking (Being paper records, the 4473 is effectively meaningless as a tracking facility) from the 4473 and more concerned about a background check - I'd be perfectly fine for eliminating person to person transfers between individuals without a state license (CPL/CCW, FOID, etc).

Though one of the gripes with NICS is as far as I know it does not fail safe, if a local LE or reporting agency ignores the request or does not process it in a timely manner, the person may get a false pass.
With what employees?
> I know it's more commonplace in women.

There are plenty of women who are perfectly happy without kids, too.

And that doesn't mean those men and women don't like kids or don't have kids in their lives. It's nice to get some kid time. And it's nice to go home later and not have to deal with them. Or the inevitable ex spouses.
> The comment on implementation is neither here nor there.

About as much here or there as the statement that they are implementing utilitarianism at all.

> Every source I can find says exactly the opposite.

There was a post here recently about this exact thing. Detailing the rise of megachurches, how they are stealing away the majority of Christmas from small churches, and how they don't do any charity.
Remember: it's only a "hamburger" if it's from the Hamburg region, otherwise it's just a sparkling fried patty.

Joking aside, I need to see if I can make spicy bean burgers at home — they were a thing back in the UK that I can't seem to find since moving.
It's mostly the venting of personal frustration. It's understandably difficult to share the same space with someone who quite vocally wants to eliminate you for a personal trait that you didn't get to choose.
AFAIk, the military also has non-camo uniforms.
I'm not trying to diminish your hardships, but the fact that everything worked out for you in the end is either the result of luck or (mild) privilege. Imagine that everytime somebody helped you out, that didn't happen?. how much worse off would you be right now? There are loads of people who are in your situation who don't have any family, or have a mental or physical handicap, or who happened to get twins instead of just one kid?

The start of a family will always be a leap of faith, but difference is if you start on solid ground or not.
I thought I was reading some fantasy article with CGI "photographs" littered all over. Yeah, it's bad.
It's like asking why rotary phones design stagnated since the 60s, we just don't have the use case anymore, we have better tools for the job
Not sure which way that cuts
i suppose that comes down to specific activities. pretty much everything that i did in my 20s i am still able to and am doing now.

on the other hand there are some activities that i wanted to do in my 20s but i could not because i could not afford them, and now i can't do them because i have kids.
It also depends on locality - around where I live, the delivery guys will go right up to your door, because there are so few apartments that it's not a major issue to ride 'vator for the few deliveries there (which are often seniors, anyway).

But in New York? You might spend most your life in elevators.
> Your feet are not going to die because your fat ass has to get up from the couch.

The obesity rate in Brazil isn't actually too terrible, by modern standards. Most of the customers are probably not fat asses.
Most serious photographers alter data while not straying far from reality. Cheap instagram-style filters are sign of amateurs trying to grab attention, not pros.

Or in 2023 we can call it 'midjourney look'. Whatever the name, it looks cheap to many. Hardly the effect desired by author.
Way way way way way too much image processing.

Good grief, is reality really that shitty?
the more they move towards apple levels of control, the less reason people have to sick with android.
Yep nice piece! (I need to get back to writing for elReg sometime...)

I used to work in the City with as many screens as I wanted (though probably never more than 4), then switched to working on a 13" laptop for many years. I recently lashed out on a second-hand monitor portrait on my tiny home desk, and this thing may fill me out to a similar number of usable visible pixels as in my mis-spent youth!
This is all completely missing the point.
Giving WASM/WASI full access to the file system is about as smart as having unprotected, unfused, 12,500 volt 3 phase outlets in the home. I can just imagine someone here saying "NIPSCO has it across the street, why shouldn't I be able to get all the power from the grid, right?"
Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React
Hey hackers, OP here!

I've been dipping in and out of this problem space for the last few years with many of my clients.

Puck sits somewhere between an old-school WYSIWYG-powered CMS and headless one, allowing content teams to author content using real React components.

Traditional CMS solutions were flexible but often resulted in page that completely broke the brand guidelines. Headless CMS solutions are a fantastic way of controlling brand by restricting UI changes to developers, but makes layout changes restrictive and slow as developers often need to get involved.

Puck provides a visual editor for React that can sit on top of your existing headless CMS (or act as standalone). We've been dog-fooding it on a few pages at https://measured.co and on https://wellpaid.io. So far, so good

The API is built for React, which allows FE devs to quickly integrate their existing component and add some form fields for author input, or connect it to a headless CMS of choice.

It's open-source under MIT, and pairs nicely with Next.js (check out the demo application). Next in the pipeline: support for multi-column layouts, richer demos, new plugins.

Looking forward to hearing your comments!
I think most of these people are interested in being tech workers and not tech entrepreneurs.
Looks great, and I'm excited to try it for a personal project (nice free tier). It looks like it can act as the entire devops team for my single-person project.
IIRC The SR71 stopped being useful as a spy plane because missile defence improved to the point they could be shot down, and spy satellites took over the duties of reconnaissance.

These old airframes do get incremental upgrades to software/avionics/engines etc, and there is actually a SR-72 in development as a UAV.