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> What would be needed is an intervention force that takes over the entire country and stabilizes it

An occupation force is not tenable in the modern era.

Per a Washington Post article from 2004[1], the post-WW2 occupation of Germany had an initial force ratio of one occupying soldier per 40 civilians. At that level, occupying forces could assume direct command of civil structures, without needing to sign deals with the least-bad bandits or warlords in waiting to act on our behalf.

Per Wikipedia, Libya's current population is a bit above 7 million. With a similar force ratio, that means an occupying force would require 175,000 soldiers. A Fermi estimate of cost is $100k/yr/soldier ($10k doesn't pay for salary, $1m is implausibly large), giving an occupation cost of $17.5bn/yr[2] before any special funding like (re)building major infrastructure projects.

This kind of cost is insupportable in a modern democracy, where voters will rightly ask why 'we' should bother. Libya was not and is not an existential threat like WW2-era Germany, and we're not in the imperial/colonial era where occupying forces could loot the country to pay for its own occupation.

[1] -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2004/05/09/a...

[2] -- This is also why meaningful intervention in Haiti will not happen, if you believe the calling-for-intervention reports that civil government has more or less collapsed in that nation.
> Learning C is about learning how the OS works.

If I just want to write a C program I don’t understand how this is true, can you elaborate?
Send me your CV. Our team works 100% remotely.
Wall St. Analyst are coming out with positive notes and upgrades on this pricing change.

$U upgraded to Buy from Neutral @ BofA; PT raised to $56
I couldn't read the examples (on mobile), but in general I like more functions because it it is easy to skip over details I don't care about. If I'm interested in the oven preheat (his example) i'll dig into it, but if not I'll skip over that part to the toppings function.
Have you looked at https://mobx-keystone.js.org/ by any chance?

I've been quite enjoying keystone + lit (or react if required) of late and at the very least it feels like solid prior art towards MVC stuff.

Also https://mojojs.org/ for server side.

(I'm not saying "use these" even if I quite enjoy using them myself, but they're my reference points for comparison here)
Perhaps it is you who doesn't understand. We all get that part, and it makes sense in isolation. Yes, that is better.

Then it's goofy af to say Godot might make a license change that necessitates using one version in perpetuity-except a version you and others are allowed to modify and distribute.
If I'm understanding correctly, you're suggesting that all pet owners should disown their pets and let them free?
unity ecosystem is enormous. so many resource packs, assets, tutorials, extensions, etc etc etc.

Big network effects
Y'all are having really boring sex, it seems.
Sure: because there's a load of power in politics, it should be minimised where possible, as the state has the ability to take your money and also to lock you up, so the people we pay for with our taxes need to be beyond reproach. There is no natural check and balance that the free market has where if I don't like a product or service, I don't pay for it any more.

They have access to money they take forever, so they need to be held to a higher standard. Thus in general, the market should handle money and not power (as it does, mostly[0]), and the government should handle power.

[0] an example of this probably being a bad idea is private prisons
I've been advised that in the US it's not possible to declare something public domain, that the closest thing is CC0 or a similar license.

But surely if he doesn't have the right to give specific licenses to individuals he doesn't have the right to CC0 license it either. Based on what I understand, DC will be able to win this that he can't actually do this.
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I worked at loads of agencies that were millions or tens per month. None of them really used MRR as a metric because work was volatile. Most of the biggies that belong to the major holders like WPP, Omnicom, Publicis are that big.

I'm maybe confused by what OP is considering an agency. A group of people making WordPress themes are technically in the same industry vertical as Accenture or IBM.
There are other confounders associated with parties though, like drinking, staying up late, talking with people leading to innate comparisons with one's own life, etc. all of which affect one's mood. I'm not entirely skeptical of the possibility of a cannabis effect, just saying not to be too hasty in generalizing.
The even more shady thing seems to be their desire to obfuscate the fact that the previous ToS said that you could disagree with a new ToS by staying on the version you are. Something they have now changed in their ToS and try to obfuscate by deleting their ToS history GitHub repo!

I'm genuinely lost for words.
I bring up all those other things because there isn't a single "well you just do x dummy!" answer to any of those in the same way there's no single answer to how do you challenge an HOA fine. Maybe there's binding arbitration. Maybe there isnt. You'd have to look it up, you can't say that's the process every time. And hey, you can lobby your neighbors to change it, it's not set in stone. Just like if your city has some dumb ordinance nobody likes.

There wasn't any binding arbitration clause in any HOA bylaws for any house I was looking at buying, so suggesting that's some standard thing doesn't seem accurate to me.

I've got a super basic question. I'm sure you can give an exact answer to. What time does the restaurant close?
How can they do that retroactively tho ?!? Is that even legal?
Not sure why you’re being down voted. Status pages for big companies are never hooked up to automation. It’s just bad PR to show red across the bar.

If there is a networking outage, everything on a status page should be red but then that looks bad for PR. So you just set “networking outage” but everything else is green even though everything is realistically down.
>>>"""But what about Godot? He says as if "it's open source so no issue". Yeah but what if the devs stop supporting it? This "community will continue to work on it" is BS: in reality it's usually one or two guys who actually do the actual work.?"""

Exactly.

We like to hate corporate greed and lionize the open source developers. I also hold open source devs in high regard.

BUT.

Open Source Dev have to eat too.

If we want to keep the Open Source ecosystem moving, we do need to find a way to pay them. Even today, a lot of open source projects are supported by individual corporations that keep the devs on payroll to give them time, but that can also lead to influence and lock in, and even abandonment if desired.
I don't remember people being the cause of Gaddafi's assassination. There were bullets and knives actually
Not even all of Weta - only the digital VFX bit.
I don't know how status pages work at Google, but I do work in reliability engineering and I sometimes make recommendations to update the status pages.

Some context before I go on is that reliability is often measured by mapping critical features to services and degradation. This gets more challenging as a feature starts to map to more than a couple services and those services begin to have dependencies. When your reliability on average can be measured in its number of nines opposed to its significant preceding digits your signal interpretation game has to step up significantly. These two situations make it infinitely more complex to state whether a given service degradation in a chain of services is truly having external customer impact at a given time. That's why a human needs to make the call to update the status page and why status page availability numbers are different from internal numbers.

I spend a good portion of nearly every sprint hunting down systemic issues that'll pop up across the ecosystem of services from a birds eye view. Often, knowing whether external customer impact will be felt for this series of errors relies heavily on knowing the current configuration of services in a chain, their graceful failure mechanisms, what failure manifests as client side, and whether that failure is critical to an SLA.

I have not, in my history of reliability engineering, seen anyone object to updating the status page for political reasons.
What kind of "fast" traffic do you want?

rozenmd makes a good point with search/social ads

Or posting to HN, /., Reddit, LinkedIn, etc and hoping for the best

But ... without knowing what kind of traffic you want, recommending any specific path is going to be a bit of a craps shoot :)

Is this for a business? Personal website? Something else?

If it is a business, is it a new business, or an existing one? What kind of business - getting a bunch of traffic to your landscaping business in Acapulco is not going to be especially helpful if it is all coming from Lagos

What are you hoping to gain by getting "traffic fast"? Name recognition? Bragging rights? Sales?
> a time when programming computers was considered nerdy, in a socially discouraged and mocked kind of way

This is still true, regardless of the money.
Not really. Its memsetter is unsafe still
>But here’s the thing: No one will ever know how valuable the asset is that they threw away. Yes, they sell lots of Watchman, but how many sales did they lose from those who would have bought the book, but didn’t, out of respect for Moore? There’s no way to know, and because there’s no way to know, the loss can never show up in their balance books. How many new and wonderful projects might Alan Moore have done with DC, had they been able to keep him happy (and in this case the way to keep him happy was easy and known: simply be fair in their dealings from now on. Quit trying to cheat him)? There’s no way to know how much DC lost over the years due to something that didn’t happen.

Well we could go by antipiracy logic and take everyone who has ever bought an Alan Moore book post-DC and multiply it by what DC was charging for books. If it works for publishers it works for authors, right? /s
Jellyfin works perfectly fine with subtitles.

But if you use ASS subtitles, which are entirely unspecified and unsupported and only have a single working implementation that requires half of Wine to work correctly, well, then you're fucked.
In %99 of cases these data are resovled from the filename in my use case.
Exactly. If a single company could not be granted an artificial monopoly over upgrading and repairing a system due to "intellectual property" laws, no company could decide when a device has become EOL. If anyone could maintain a system, anyone would maintain a system.
iPhone 15 Pre-orders are live
Is Unity-2023 version a billion dollars better than Unity-2022, or even close to that?
NASA says more science and less stigma are needed to understand UFOs
I've used SVN in a similar capacity for personal and business use, and even at some of my Customers. It's very handy and TortoiseSVN provides a good user experience. I got into doing this back in 2004 and even though Git might be a better tool today (maybe) I've stuck with SVN.
"but it can also feel lacking in some scenarios"

Just curious: what features are available in QB but not available (yet) in EB?
That's the big issue. This is going to hurt smaller developers more because they can't afford to fight it.

The big question is: to what extent to Unity games need to be able to talk to Unity's servers? If they're looking at number of installs (and apparently that includes pirated copies even?), serve ads, and probably provide other services, that sounds like the games need a connection to the server. In which case they may be able to disable your game if you don't pay. And then even if you could sue them, the real damage is already done.
> I agree, open source is not required, but we need to own our software not rent it.

That's just a start but also require freezing your OS and have lots of spare hardware or have rights to emulate it :)

And same with data - buyed songs for example :) Big industry already is killing media you can own - cd, dvd, blueray depends on outdated cpu, pendrives decay before becoming usefull backup media...

In the age of asholess open sources and resources are best. Let's bring more viral licenses then GPL !
Looks like you know a lot about F2P games, can you help me understand this fee in the context of other variables such as cost of customer acquisition? Is that usually a much lower amount than 20 cents? What about 2 cents, which would be the cost on a pro license, which most successful F2P devs would assuredly be able to afford?

I’m hoping you can answer these with concrete data. If that’s not possible, could you share your references?
I would guess Bill does get a share of that money though? This was the impression I got from Bill's explanation of his contract?
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That sounds like you're referring to prostitution; I don't know the economics of that, but I'd assumed chmod775 was referring to the FIRE sector.
Fair, but I think SC2013 was all of that and worse (as well as having glitches and being a massively multiplayer always-online affair).
Who are the people listening to Taylor swift? Is it all mostly zoomer and millennial girls?
pretty sure you need to `sudo su - ` first
The weapons for a (hopefully not) showdown over Taiwan are going to be very different, just like the entire situations. Shells and tanks in one, boats and planes in the other. There is no easy way to ship tons of material to Taiwan, likely the West will be having to run a Chinese blockade, kind of the opposite of the Cuban missile crisis.

Except for drones and phones, war has definitely changed, the fog is dissipating.
How many societies would have made marijuana illegal had the US not done so first and then forced the rest of the world’s hand?
I separate my data into two categories, fast (and small) and slow (but big). Both types are important, but separation makes management much easier.

Fast data:

- documents, pdfs, config files, notes txt etc.
- these files are synced directly, on-site and off-site

Slow data:

- archives, images, music, large backups etc.
- these files are transfered to off-site archive on a per-need basis
- they are made available in the (family) cloud as read-only
- they are made available to selected internal services read-only (music service, photo service etc.)

Tech stack:

- I self-host
- I follow best practices (zfs, 3-2-1 rule, vpn-only)
- currently I use Nextcloud, rsync and borgmatic
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I knew it was the Neanderthals all along.

They’re still here you know.
I think the art asset library is a big part of the difference
A rich kid, from rich white privileged parents.

Has never been held accountable for anything in his life before. Mum and dad always paid bail and “made it go away.”

Now, for the first time ever, reality strikes. No wonder he just can’t adjust. It will take time. Some never get there at all.

It’s sad but true.

And be honest, if you were a rich parent and your kid did “something silly” possibly under the influence of “bad friends” wouldn’t you bail out your kid just as well? This is al so very natural. Very few people manage the self restraint to let a kid learn from his mistakes.
do : if int(rnd(1)) * 2) = 0 then print "\\"; else print "/"; : loop
Did you try to cross-validate your approach?
Some hosters will freely give out the personal data of who owns what, others won't.

This would explain why only some hosters are affected and not others.
I'm not going to say that they spend their money wisely, but game engine development, in general, moves at breakneck speed, and unity is no exception.
Then stop toppling governments[1].

Where you can't do anything, you do not need to want anything.

1. Perhaps one can say that this is already done, since we do not hear of any recent examples. Still, this was not very far back.
The term global outage in public clouds is used whenever there is an outage that has the same root cause that impacts more than 2 independent regions
They operate a number of programs to help companies and government organizations to do the right thing wrt privacy. Both awareness building, providing open resources, but also having advisors that one can call and get case by case guidance (free of charge for small things). Of course GDPR has been a priority for a long time, but recent focused efforts also exist around AI. Example (should translate OK to English):
https://www.datatilsynet.no/regelverk-og-verktoy/sandkasse-f...
A folder on my desktop named “stuff”.

On a more serious note I use MS OneDrive family account and iCloud - I figure if either of those companies goes under there are bigger things to worry about. I print a lot of my photos so I’ve always got hard copies of the kids when they were growing up - everything else is unimportant or replaceable.
Here is a bonus list of other Python declarative native GUI projects:

https://github.com/pyedifice/pyedifice/discussions/43
I was in the audience and was a heavy Python user at the time.

As another commenter mentioned, this was during a round of several lightning talks. These talks generally can be about pretty much anything. I don't remember the others, but I definitely remembered this one.

At the time, dotCloud had oriented itself as a PaaS that also had first-class support for Python (Heroku was still very Ruby/Rails-focused), so it makes sense that they'd want to show off what they were building at a conference with Python developers.
Doesn’t matter what your pricing is if you no longer have clients
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Every drug carries a dose-dependent risk, so I’m not sure why you constrained your statement to “prescription” drugs. Your comments seems to betray a bias in thinking.
Gitea is lighter, GitLab has more features. Look at the Gitea features list and see if it works for you.

Obviously both are Git hosting platforms so I'm not sure what more we can do for you.
The fact is that there are "rules" because they are needed to cover all the possible ground. Yeah, one lone operation can skip on almost all the rules and still be successful, but that doesn't prove anything. Rules are needed at scale, to try to cover for unlucky coincidences, people not that smart, unforeseen (by you) consequences etc etc
Why don't you apply the same reasoning to Gaddafi's regime and Syria/Russia/Al-Qaeda?

What reasoning? First of all I'm an American citizen, so I concern myself more with what my country does with my tax dollars than what other countries do, especially within their own borders or in situations that don't directly affect American citizens. I don't believe America's job is global law enforcement. It's like asking an American "why don't you apply the reasoning that President Trump is corrupt to President Ali Bongo of Niger? Why aren't you calling for President Ali Bongo's arrest? Double standard?"

also a problem that the West exists I suspect

It's fascinating that my criticism of the US/NATO bombing and invading and occupying other countries leads you to suspect I have a problem "that the West exists". In your conception perhaps "the West" would cease to exist as such if it were not the global hegemon?

yet not a peep when these regimes torture and kill people by the thousands

Saudi Arabia tortures and kills people by the thousands. If China or Russia invaded Saudi Arabia and attempted to turn it into a client state using the justification of Saudi misdeeds, would you support them? I suspect not, but we're back to "when the US/NATO does it it's good, when US/NATO adversaries do it it's bad" being the "rules-based order" many believe should exist.
just because people interpret a fact incorrectly doesn’t mean the fact stops being a fact, lol wth is this sub
> intervention

We used to call this war. Is Russia just ‘intervening’ in Ukraine right now?
Something that someone who didn't get filtered would be able to look up on their own.
If I got 3 ads impression the moment I install and open and app. I can promise you that I will never know if the app has 3, 4, 10 or 100 ads impressions.

No matter what is the app.
Unity has a large asset and plugin ecosystem.
I don't think the author's point is truly contrarian. The author is a proponent of clarity in the code, and of the readability.

The deal here is that both versions are fairly readable, written by someone with intent to make it clear what the code should be doing. As a result the two versions are just examples of two expression styles, while the focus is on showing how the transition between these styles could be done.

What's worth underscoring here is the cohesiveness of stretches of code, such that their execution could be summarized by a descriptive function name.

Often in grand god-functions the contexts are so intertwined and mixed that it is hard to see cohesiveness in stretches of code.

Thus, the refactoring is very much a tool to creating such cohesiveness and proper logical sequencing.

Scooping out the code into separate function or commenting it out is more of a style judgement. Though putting the code into a function with a descriptive name indeed enforces this sort of analysis.
Curious, what changes have been made that you’re not interested in?
My relatives showed me once how they track their children's every move and honestly I can't say I understand this idea - seems awfully intrusive.
I use temporal ordering for all paper financial papers I receive. I used to sort into folders by category, but the took too long. At tax time, I do a linear probe for the date range of the tax year.

Since Apple started providing better end to end encryption for Notes and iCloud, my wife and I just use that. We also have a ton of storage on OneDrive, so periodically I ZIP up important stuff, encrypt it and put on OneDrive.
It strikes me as a bit disengenuous to claim that you're going hard on license enforcement because "type designers are not fairly compensated for their work if their fonts are not properly licensed". While this might be a true statement generally, type designers don't actually own the fonts that fall under the "TTF umbrella", do they? Aren't they all now owned by you? So you and your private equity investors are the ones reaping the profits when you act aggressively on license enforcement, and not the designer/s? And by not being clear about this, you're ironically giving independent type designers a bad name by leading people to believe that it's the designers driving these efforts?
Kind of a similar approach: one drawer for paperwork, google drive for all files, evernote for all notes with a dedicated notebook for different frequent used stuff like IDs, birth certificates, etc. Use search when I need something digital. Periodically throw away warranties and manuals from the big drawer (every 1-2 years) :)