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To me the logical conclusion of what you write is not to write yet-another-web-browser, because browsers are rotten to the core by terrible protocol designs, terrible specifications, politics, greed etc. Browsers did not spontaneously start to degrade, it's what the key actors at different times did that made it happen.

The only hope, IMO, is to build something much more sane that cannot be abused. Something like Gopher or Gemini. Simple specs that make it possible for a single person or a small team to implement something decently working without them spending their like on it like Middle Age monks spent their life mapping and cataloging stars.

I would start with a feature-limited markup language that's good enough to display text - maybe images if you really insist - and leave all media and interactive stuff to external programs; if your browser ends up being a virtual machine and a universal media player, it is doomed to degenerate into a WWW browser if it ever gets popular.

But of course if one builds something that cannot be abused or monetized easily, the big content creators won't be interested. It will take a lifetime or two to gather a critical mass of users, and only if the WWW overloads abuse their power so much that the average WWW serf actively starts to look for a better place to be, and only if at this time the alternative has more and bigger advantages than drawbacks.
It can import directly from some banks maybe, but certainly not my bank. I haven't had any success importing to GnuCash from _any_ bank I do business with.
Fundamentally, the problem is that the worker should be given incentives to bring their income to an area. This allows a community to diversify economically, vs handouts to large corporations who will continually wield their business contributions against a jurisdiction to continue to obtain substantial tax breaks or other economic concessions, and when they finally leave, they do substantial harm to the community.

As a community, you then cater to workers to draw and keep them there (not maliciously, simply providing high quality of life like a community should), and they will continue to contribute to the community by way of their spending from income (on taxes and consumption) for their productive lifespan.
There's a positive aspect to employing police officers to be present even when there is no tangible risk of crime or danger.

Where I live, it's extremely unusual to ever see a 'bobby on the beat', so when I recently visited a city with thirty or more police officers with riot vans congregated at the docks, ironically I felt slightly uncomfortable - what mortal danger could be present around the corner to justify so much police attention? It turned out to just be a big football match, so there was not such a huge danger after all and the police would no doubt be able to diffuse any disturbance immediately.

If there had been no police around, it would never have occurred to me that there was a risk, even though I would have been tangibly less safe without their presence.
I understand how it works but it just seems a zero sum game. When someone moves from city A to city B, it's more tax for city B but less for A, and it often happens in one direction than the other. Same for companies. Reminds me of the silly and meaningless "border war" between Missouri and Kansas.
I mean I'm just saying that it's a regulated monopoly as the article was saying that airlines used to be.
I keep my house the same temp whether I’m home or not. I figured most people probably do the same.
Some Democrats Are Trying to Preemptively Outlaw a Billionaire Tax
And downloading patches often meant waiting in a queue at places like FilePlanet for an hour or two, then downloading it at a snails pace
Do you do code reviews during development?

I ran it locally and couldn't find my way to go from a conversation to its code context. Nothing is clickable. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/kk8wLIK
>Does Steam force game exclusivity for their platform?

In the same way Nintendo doesn't, no.

>Do they put up barriers to entry to keep small devs / publishers out unless they pay to play? No

Technically $100 is a barrier. The smallest non-free barrier, but a barrier nonetheless.

The bigger barrier is the opaque rules they sometimes have regarding certain sexual games. Even a few rated by the ESRB were rejected, so who knows where the barrier is. The only thing worse than a high barrier is a misty one.

>Do they prevent you from using other people's hardware? No.

Because they didn't have their own successul hardware until 2021. And 1m copies isn't a market large enough to do much with. Even the failed Vita sold a few million in the US.

>Do they engage in mass censorship or shadow banning of content? No.

yup, just not for the kinds of games people care to try and defend. Except that Stein's Gate one. Never underestimate anime fans, I guess.

They've done good stuff but let's not pretend they are saints nor perfect.

>Have they reversed course when users complain or give negative feedback? Yes (such as the paid mod idea years back).

still went through later. Heck, Steam marketplace is worse than any paid mod. I'm still so confused how people don't see this. Any other AAA studio woulda been burned for this (and still are burned).

>More monopolies like this please.

I'll pass.
This sounds backwards to me. The way I experience it, the reality of advertisements is that they are attempts at manipulating me, and the framing as mere news about nice things is part of the trick.
We wouldn’t need to detect signals - life arising only a few hundred million years earlier than us would easily have been able to send physical artifacts/vehicles/harvesting to every system in the entire galaxy if they had interstellar travel.

If life were common enough that it has evolved multiple times in the same solar system (excluding panspermia) then this becomes almost a certainty that it should have occurred
> one of the benefits of cable TV, we were told

Who told you that? Cable TV had ads on practically every channel for the first 30 years of its history, since it was just collecting and transmitting all the local broadcast stations. And even when cable-only stations came out, they often had ads. The second cable-only TV station, TBS, had ads from day one!

HBO was an outlier because it didn't have ads. It wasn't the norm.
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re: `pull_request_target` and fork PRs - You can get around the !Even More Fun! limitations this has (GITHUB_TOKEN being read-only) by having a workflow called by another workflow.

For example, I wrote a set of workflows[1] to automatically apply a label after 2 'review approvals'.

First, a 'dummy' workflow triggering off PRs (in that context) that uploads an artifact: the PR number

Second, the 'real' workflow that runs in the context of the actual repository, set to be `on: workflow_run: workflows: - Final Review Labeler` - this pulls in the artifact, runs a GraphQL query, and applies the label if applicable.

[1]: https://github.com/goonstation/goonstation/blob/master/.gith...
Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee's Productivity (but don't have to)

https://www.businessinsider.com/wfh-work-from-home-decreases...
How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
My personal wish is for the ability to attach HTML reports the the action runs without having to use the current actions/upload-artifact etc.

Particularly for test builds, I very often just want to quickly view the output HTML report. The current approaches I am familiar with are the aforementioned upload-artifact, or using GH pages, but GH pages is not great when you have multiple different reporting output for the same repo, or you wanna quickly view historical reporting rather than latest.

I'd love a simple "attach-report" action that just put a link to an HTML report on the job summary, and clicking on it renders the html.

Other automated CI/CD style systems have much richer support out of the box for dealing with HTML report capturing and viewing.
> the PM was Laura Grit

Talk about nominative determinism...
>Epic invests in devs.

Is this true? I know they pay up front to have exclusivity for some games, but I don't know if I would consider that "investing in devs" in the same way that Valve "invests in users." Valve puts money into platforms and tools that users enjoy (things like forums, hosting mods, user reviews, community pages) as their investment. Does Epic do something similar for devs? The only thing I can think of is using funds to polish Unreal Engine, but that would only invest in devs that use Unreal which is not really applicable to most devs.
I'm not Indian, but I help people immigrate for a living.

There is no straight answer. It's just complicated. You either send money through another channel, or choose from a smaller selection of banks until you get a residence permit. I can't answer so easily because I opened my account 8 years ago and things got harder since then.
I’ve been terrified for years that MICROS~1 is going to figure out some way to do a hostile acquisition of Valve…
Um Clinicians perform second transplant of pig heart into human patient [pdf]
The biggest issue is IPv6 is a privacy, wide open wild west, there is no privacy on IPv6. Every device's IP is literally public, on the public Internet, 24/7. All so called privacy extensions or improvements do not change the lack of privacy of IPv6 and one more thing, the address structure sucks.
This is the only real no code project out there

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
Two scenarios come to mind:

1. Someone will out-innovate them.

2. Their products and services become less relevant or obsolete.
Being critical of what you're making...is infinitely better than being critical of what other people are making while not making anything yourself.

The making part is the key.
As someone still daily driving a Pixel 4A, I'm curious as to what people need from their phones that hardware from 3 years ago can't provide. Newer phones have better cameras, but otherwise it seems like they just do the same things a little bit faster.

The value argument is valid of course, but much like PCs, major phone manufacturers get a lot of their profit from bundling crapware so it's inevitable for one that doesn't to cost more.
It can also be used for the AppleTV, as of tvOS 17. I believe only for FaceTime, however.
> with no persistent storage

There's https://github.com/actions/cache though?
Ah yes, the past years have been only incremental upgrades like the Airpods, Vision Pro or the completely boring M1 chips that literally no one bought because intel was just as good.
This article downplays the very real risks of allowing TikTok to operate in the US without significant congressional oversight.

Chinese companies operate as effective extensions of the Chinese government, which is to say that Xi can at any time choose to do anything he wants with TikTok users in the US with no oversight whatsoever. The CEOs of Chinese companies say this is not true, but they are lying. If they told the truth, they and their families would simply disappear. They so far have not flexed this power significantly, but if a conflict with China were to occur it's extremely naive to think Xi would not use this power unilaterally and very effectively to destabilize the US.

Content on TikTok can cause serious real world harm - there are numerous examples, like the Kia carjacking trend, students coordinating to harass teachers & mass group organizing to create chaos in the US. These are only a tiny fraction of what China could do if they wanted to.

If these types of things were happening on Facebook to where the US govt felt that national security was at risk, Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team can be hauled in front of Congress and held to account. If they broke the law (or even if they didn't), they can strip them of their position, confiscate their property and fortunes and throw them in jail. This is good - it keeps everyone in line.

The same cannot be said of TikTok - Xi is obviously not going to show up to the congressional summons or cooperate.

The best analogy I can think of is this:

At the height of the cold war, if Russia came along and said "yeah we're going to install TV sets in the home of every American and broadcast anything we want" the US government would laugh them out of the room. Yet that's exactly what's been allowed to happen with TikTok, but on an even more severe scale.

While I am justifiably wary of any govt having undue influence on content, the US govt needs to have full jurisdiction over any foreign owned property with that level of reach in the US. Allowing it to continue is extremely unwise and both Trump and Biden administrations see the risk.
I have replied at another thread, but there is no plugin support as of now. My country changes the rules every year and add grandfathering, xyz rules etc. I think, I have to figure out a DSL or some other way to make it general. This is something I am interested, but haven't figured out how to solve it yet.
The title is misleading as it ignores the qualifier that the employees have to take certain steps at home to achieve this. Some examples:

> You and his team found that this isn’t the case. In fact, remote workers often drive more often than their in-office counterparts by taking several short car trips throughout the day.

> The researchers also found that working from home can prompt people to use more energy over the course of a workday on things such as air-conditioning and a dishwasher. And remote workers are more likely to move out of big, centralized cities, where lifestyles are generally less carbon-intensive than in suburban or rural areas.
> I never thought we'd see a no questions asked return policy for digital games and yet, with steam, it's a fairly simple process.

That was however not Valve's idea, but only came in response to EA Origin offering a return policy in 2013, Valve follow up in 2015 with their own.

One of the very rare cases where the competition was a little ahead for once.
> Roaming used to be very expensive and so people almost never used it. Instead they would buy cheap local prepaid SIM cards when they traveled across intra-EU borders.

So it was already available at a low price via a different route.

> The carriers would charge high prices to each other for roaming, and pass those on to their customers. The market had worked itself into a stupid corner where nobody wanted to come down on wholesale roaming costs because they would lose out to cross-border carriers.

You're describing an uncompetitive market. The local carriers have such high market share that charging otherwise-profitable wholesale rates would deprive them of a monopoly rent so they're not willing to do it.

Compare this with a market where there are carriers with low market share who don't care about cannibalizing someone else's retail sales to get more wholesale customers.

> It's been moderately beneficial for carriers, and a huge benefit for the public. The imposition of regulation has enabled the companies to be more profitable and consumers to get more value.

The drawback of this approach isn't that it can't produce an improvement relative to a preexisting uncompetitive market, it's that it leaves the uncompetitive market in place. Which is almost certainly itself a result of existing regulations.

Suppose the way mobile networks operated is that anyone can build an independent cell tower and then auction off capacity in real time. Which makes it easy to operate a cell tower; you just build one and sell into the market. So you end up with dozens of local cell tower operators or more and any carrier, local or otherwise, with a customer in the area can bid for capacity from any of them. Which also means that anyone can start a carrier, because "carrier" just means you resell wholesale capacity from all these independent cell towers and your business is to bill the customer and provide customer service.

Doing it that way is going to solve your roaming problem and seven hundred other problems and lower prices. But existing regulations don't facilitate this, do they?
Yep, you can. I tested by typing the first 13 words of the book Frankenstein and GPT3.5 happily completed the rest. Feel free to try.

Here are screenshots of the completion and the diff with the real book.

https://ibb.co/album/sJBB11
The barriers to entry are only low in some areas, in others they have steadily increased (try creating a new multinational bank, getting a new drug to market or building a (large) factory in most western countries, for example).
Why? They also stand to lose revenue if a human does it.
We don't have the mental bandwidth or responsiveness to perceive reality. Our brains use shortcuts to observe and think. These lead to errors.

We didn't need to be perfect to get to this point. Just good enough to beat the environment and the other meat sacks.

Predictiveness of a mental model is the the closest we can get to understanding reality.
Good to know a place it might show up; we live in North Carolina, but, with a little awareness, persuasion, and planning, I could talk my wife into a trip coinciding with a showing. The Castro in SF would be a more difficult proposition but my wife does want to go back to 'House of Nanking' one day, so even that's a possibility!
Thats kind of weird. How long ago was this? What specific AMC theater did you go to? In the AMC app it explicitly tells you if there are previews and typically they don't ever go past 20 mins. Typically they are 15 mins.
> Are concepts like proof of work not even interesting?

Sure, but we had that with SETI@home, and then Folding@home, and they were doing something useful with their work rather than just finding which random numbers hashed a certain way in order to get a token whose primary economic value was the assumption that "remove trust" is a useful thing in economics.

We also had a blockchain of sorts before bitcoin, and still regularly use it: it's called "git".

And we already have fast and cheap online payments. In my case this was initially in the form of paypal, then my banks got good at it more directly; in Kenya since 2005, and now more countries in the region, there's a thing called M-PESA which does much the same but works with pre-feature-phones: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M-Pesa_on_Nokia_1100...
I'm really not sure if we are using CI correctly. Sometime i think all those CI Templates should be replaced by just one executable that does everything, like a modern alternative to Makefiles (and there are a lot of build tools).

So the CI pipeline would only call the build tool, like "./build containers push-to-registry release:1.0.0 run-tests"

Those scripts can be tested and debugged everywhere. Also migrating to a different CI platform would be really easy.
>youth that wish to make a career out of this [1].

and your link for 1?
I feel like you're unfairly underplaying all the hard work and success of Wine. None of this would be possible without it. It allowed a lot of games to work on Linux that didn't have native ports. Proton and SteamOS are bridging the last mile (particularly in regards to polish and ease of use), which is important because of the Pareto principle, but I wouldn't credit Valve with everything.
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I don't use the GPL (and never have) because, like another poster said, it is less free. When I put work out there for someone to do what they wish with it, I don't think I should then say "oh unless you do xyz, I don't approve of that". That strikes me as hypocritical, and so I don't do it. I don't harp on anyone who uses the GPL, they gotta do what they think is right. But for me, the GPL was never a good choice for software licensing.

And before anyone says "someone can make a closed fork of your code and then charge for it", I am aware of this. I also don't see the problem. My goals when sharing code are to share my work and help others by doing so. If some company uses my work to profit, I still have accomplished my goals. Moreover, others can still download my original code if they wish and reap the same benefits as the for-profit company did. This is a great outcome. Everyone benefits, nobody is harmed. While this scenario is often used as an argument that permissive licenses are bad, I think it is a very poor argument indeed.
> fu??off@exmaple.com — (we removed two letters for obvious reasons)

Which reasons?
I think that’s typical. I can drop my thermostat about 7 degrees F in the winter if I’m not home. Just have a window unit AC which I rarely use and don’t even put in some years.

But I’m probably about 40 miles RT to go into my closer office which I have basically not done for years. Sometimes go into the urban one to meet with customer which is about 2x the distance and 3x the time.

For most people commuting costs dwarf the costs of being home for the day—unless they move to a bigger and more expensive place.
Could you add Statsig to your research?
Right, if you worked at Amazon and didn't have incentive, then, you didn't do it. It was part of your job to not do things which you were not incentivized to do.
Option 2 also makes it easier for developers to run their builds locally, so you're essentially using the same build chain for local debugging than you do for your Test/Staging/Prod environments, instead of maintaining two different build processes.

It's not just true for GHA, but for any build server really: The build server should be a script runner that adds history, artifact management, and permissions/auditing, but should delegate the actual build process to the repository it's building.
Do you not pay your power bill or something?
Think about any software company with a large sales team. The people writing the software are not the people selling the software. Writing software and offering it to people does not sustain a business. Creating IP and then finding creative ways to charge people for it does. The sales team that "inserts themselves between" your problem and the solution the product team has created is a core part of the business, a sine qua non.
I do believe the AWS Load Balancer Controller on Kubernetes allows for sharing a single "physical" load balancer.

You have to set a load-balancer-name annotation https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/aws-load-balancer-controll... to tie everything together to one load balancer. There is a downside where you have to have a few other annotations be the same value across your ingresses, but once you work around that, you're good to go.
I've had success in a production capacity with using rqlite before. There are also a bunch of other alternatives that still seem to be actively maintained, although I've only used rqlite myself before:

- https://github.com/canonical/dqlite

- https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

- https://github.com/Expensify/Bedrock
You never know. Disney survived for 100+ years. It's only getting easier to survive these days, short of apocalyptic disaster.
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Typically cities A and B fall under different local governments (states or counties or whatever), making it not zero sum for the government of city B to attract the business.
> GH Actions is basically a re-brand of Microsoft's "Azure Pipelines"

Probably even moreso than most people think - a large portion of the AzDo team got moved over after the acquisition to work on GitHub Actions/Projects.
> I have so many "trash" commits trying to fix or debug a pipeline and so much of it's just throwing stuff at the wall to see if it sticks.

One tool is to use draft PRs for this - you can run changes to your action YAML from the draft PR. When you are happy just squash the commits as you see fit on a "real" PR to merge the changes in without the mess.

I've found draft PRs for debugging/developing GH action logic to be pretty reasonable.
I guess you have to ask yourself what's in MyWorkflow.yml that can't be in a script and run locally?
maybe they live in their car? what a bizarre comment from them
"Documentary Now!" did a great spoof of this called "Final Transmission". Give it a watch if you haven't: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5821512/