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Over the last 15 years the expectation from online content has been "If I pay money ($10-20/mo), I shouldn't have to see ads." There's been a lot of pushback on this expectation, with sponsored content and tired services. This is the strongest pushback on that expectation.

Of course we cannot get around the limitation of a streaming content provider displaying ads as part of their stream. It's just that $73 buys a lot of entertaining content on the internet that won't have that issue. It doubly feels like a bad deal because the content on cable TV is almost always not the highest quality content available. They are charging premium prices for standard content with long ad breaks.

I wouldn't say "I can't believe it costs that much and still has ads" but I would say "I can't believe that people see enough value to spend that kind of money for that content with those ads." In my adult life I have never paid for cable or satellite tv. My parents still do.
I don't think anyone is going to say "offering parents more choices is bad." But the political reality is not simply "offering more choices." The political reality typically entails using funds set aside for public schools for charter schools. In reality, what happens all too often is that funding and resources are stripped away from the already resource poor schools and given to charter schools.

And that's probably why people seem as if they're saying "Charter schools bad." I'd argue they're really saying "Taking funds away from public schools to give to charter schools bad." We're creating a system where the already struggling schools will then be put on a downward spiral, unable to recover.

But I think our educations system is screwed up and we need to invest more resources into education at all levels, so what do I know.

There's also the moral question of your whole "it sucks for children of uncaring parents" quote, which I personally think is quite a selfish and uncaring perspective, that is also probably grossly not the truth for the variety of parents in lower performing schools, but I'm not going to get into that.
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> Configuring git send-email is trivial

The linked article is literally a multi-step process of arcane terminal commands that differ by operating system. You may think it's easy, but it's definitionally not trivial.
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> improvements to code search

The enshittification related to this feature includes:

(1) Code search is no longer available without being logged in to GitHub--even if the search is restricted to a single repository.

(2) This is compounded by GitHub "recently" started requiring additional steps in the authentication process for certain types of accounts without providing any option to opt-out (e.g. by choosing to restrict the account to being read-only/search-only/issue-only going forward).

There is no dialogue, you accept whatever new restrictions/requirements are put in place or you lose access to the account which you were "convinced" to use to contribute & interact with FLOSS projects over the past N years.

(What other choice do you have? Convincing every single FLOSS project to move from GitHub to...? Good luck!)
My sister and brother in law are both teachers. Good ones. I make more than double their combined income, and their jobs sound way more stressful. The bil is actively working to switch careers because of it
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in a 'perfect' future: we would cut off our own limbs to get the nimble-tron 5000 with magnetic finger extensions and predictive AI that totally doesn't strangle anyone even a little.

I joke... but I unironically can't wait for replacement limb tech to be that desirable. Imagine the upgrades people would get...
Very cool. I've seen a lot of these out there for DnD specifically, and am always impressed by how polished they seem, but I've long since wished there was a better way to play WH40k or other wargames online. The closest thing seems to be Tabletop Simulator, which just feels strange as a full 3D simulator.

It strikes me as slightly ironic, since games like 40k are traditionally extremely high $ investment hobbies, so seemingly a good market for the side-hustle tech crowd.
In the US it used to be more acceptable to put students in classes based on where they were academically and in terms of behavior. Truly disruptive kids were also usually suspended until eventually being expelled.

Neither approach is considered appropriate anymore. It was a central thesis of No Child Left Behind, which is/was nice in theory, but not in practice.

Now schools are data obsessed. Bad metrics like suspensions, expulsions, etc are avoided because suspensions are correlated to bad test scores and bad future outcomes for students. So schools now measure performance against that. The problem is obviously correlation vs causation, but if that is how you are graded as a principal that is what you are going to work towards to keep your job.

The reality is that if you want good schools you need to cut your losses with the worst behaving kids. Slow learners really aren’t much of an issue because they don’t disrupt other kids learning beyond maybe needing more teacher attention.
> San Francisco and Seattle might have more affordable housing everywhere like Chicago if there were land adjacent to the city everywhere, like in Chicago.

Sure, there can be lots of factors. But the original comment was about adjacent land -- which is present in the East Bay, South Bay, Eastside etc.

If your statement is now "these places might have more affordable housing if they had different geographies, demographics, regional economies, public policy, infrastructure investments and history", then I agree with the statement, it says almost nothing.
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Sure, there needs to be a „de facto“ OSS player in the space. Let me tell you that is what we definitely aspire to become.

I always think there was not yet the „gitlab“ effect in the identity space.
If public schools weren't awful, there would be no need for charter schools.

The public school experiment has failed.
I actually love using Falstad, it's fairly simple which is great because usually I just want to look at the ideal behavior of things to get the circuit working before I worry about the exact characteristics of every part.

This link will take you to that crosspoint switch demo.
https://tinyurl.com/yr34sym6

https://wokwi.com/ is great for simple, digital only stuff.

https://fritzing.org/ will kind of lay out the PCB for you, but it's kind of a pain in the ass.

Wokwi and Fritzing are more "Breadboard Simulators" than real circuit simulators, but they do have their place.
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>unrealistic to do so

I'd argue that changed as of this morning:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-11/carpente...
While technically true this is hardly an option... Both of those "alternative" plans exclude YouTube TV while charging considerably more. How many users who enjoy paying more for less did they sell to here?

$350/year for Sunday Ticket with YouTube TV included vs. $450/year for just Sunday Ticket, delivered via regular YouTube it seems.

Their pricing page: https://tv.youtube.com/learn/nflsundayticket/#id-plan-matrix

Image if you can't access it: https://i.imgur.com/0nsQZxA.png
I remember my father complaining about the ads when he started paying for cable in the 1980s. I still complain about it.

You can get a decent amount of channels for free in most metropolitan areas with a digital antenna. You get commercials but a one time cost for a $100 antenna is worth it.

And the more people that switch to OTA TV the better because that will mean more advertiser money, more eDTV antennas, and more channels coming on air. The market certainly is a growing: https://www.nexttv.com/news/nielsen-sees-uptick-in-over-the-...
You forgot the most common case:

Someone skilled produces low volumes of medium-to-high effort work because they are the sort of person who would rather browse social media, or engage in office gossip, or play "call a meeting to discuss" games to avoid having to do the boring work.

If someone is "undisciplined," more often they are just lazy and are engaging in avoidance behaviors. Humans with serious executive function issues are a tiny (super tiny) minority of the workforce.
That just makes it essentially the same as using HTTPS in 2012 or so. It may draw attention briefly, but then you get to have a conversation that might go something like:

"We ought to put this guy on a list for using encryption (HTTPS, Matrix) everywhere" ->

"We can't use dragnet surveillance because the people are on the list for evading dragnet surveillance" ->

"There's too many people to monitor, too many small servers to crack and backdoor, and the list is mostly just people running their own innocuos server anyways"

Subsequently, you may draw some attention at first, but if you spread attention thin enough it can effectively round to zero - especially if the activity drawing attention becomes moderately commonplace.
https://heyeveryone.io.

I'm building a service that helps founders (just like you and me) craft their investor updates in literally seconds. We're currently in the testing phase of the MVP, so I could really use some help.

I'd love to give anyone of you a demo of the tool and see if it ACTUALLY alleviates your pain related to any part of creating and sending investor emails, and if I'm not chasing windmills, haha.

Let me know if you're up for a chat sometime next week. 15min max, promise! https://calendly.com/n10v thanks
What motivates you and other ML researchers to do this work? What's the end goal and why do you want it?
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Both are written in Crystal, interestingly enough
This. Software engineering can be a mentally draining task, and just like with physically draining tasks your body needs time to recover its strength. Nobody would expect an athlete to last very long doing back to back events without recovery time between them - they'd end up injured. Your brain is similar.

Recognizing that and accommodating it is a sign of maturity for both an engineer and a manager.
Same with the oil industry and `reduce, reuse, recycle` nonsense. Like I wouldn't need to be concerned with that if your product didn't individually wrap every item I can purchase in a store.
Would you mind sharing the ballpark arithmetic that leads to this conclusion?
The philosophical issue is charter schools use public resources yet are not accountable to the public. Adding to that, having public education system that is available to the public is kind of the key part here. So, the practical issue is that if some students are being excluded, that misses the point of public education terribly (other practical issues involve profiteering by the charters, just like with private prisons). Additionally, having several overlapping choices with government funding is an inefficient use of the money.

As far as choice, there's nothing wrong with that, and religious and other private schools (which didn't get public funds) have co-existed with public schools almost everywhere well before our lifetimes. So equating charter schools (or vouchers) with choice in this context is disingenuous.
It's 2023; mail servers have been using TLS for a very long time.
I wish there was AI + crowdsourced extension as such.
Related, USAA was originally formed to offer insurance and later banking to military officers and their families. (They since expanded some offerings to enlisted and to civilians.)

It turns out that selecting for military officers has a beneficial impact on auto losses, putting USAA in a good position to offer competitive rates and outstanding service.
it can, sort of. it really depends on what you are optimizing for

there are nearly infinite permutations on how to form your business entities, what combinations of jurisdictions you use

and then you can structure which one does what operations where

additionally, all the countries compete for your business so are really competing against each other

most recognize that volume of transactions within their economy to many entities is more important than their passive taxation to one governmental entity, so they incentive the former
For a lot of people I imagine they are only used to ads on free stuff, like Pandora, while paying for the service removes ads. It's just an old world vs new world disparity, where old-worlders (pre-internet or slow moving area residents) are used to things like ads on cable and broadcast radio, while new-worlders (people who mostly grew up on the modern internet) didn't experience the same world at all.
Worth pointing out that "jaywalking" is not a universal crime. There are jurisdictions in the USA where it's legal. And it's legal here in Canada. Even the term stands out -- I'm familiar with "jaywalking" but you only use a term for it if it's illegal. We just call it "crossing the street", or "impeding the flow of traffic", depending how you do it. (It's not exactly a free for all: in Ontario there is still a requirement for pedestrians to use pedestrian crossings, and to follow stop lights, where those are installed.)

There are too many cases where it's perfectly safe and reasonable to do that I see any sense in making it illegal. But it is, to be fair, very dangerous in some cases. It's hard to judge how fast a car is moving, sometimes you simply don't see one coming at you. Toronto Police call this a "mid-block crossing", and in the city, they account for a significant % of all pedestrian fatalities, particularly at night, and in busy traffic.
There are some people close to the company who claim 8 x 220B MOE.
Meta's "Transcoders" or whatever they changed the name to demonstrate that. However, if we want perfectly semantically equivalent functions, as soon as you add two numbers, then Python -> JS is impossible. The best we can do is approximately translate the behavior.
The light switch in our primary bedroom is, as you describe, within reach when you enter the room. It controls a switched outlet near the bed that has a lamp plugged into it. When it comes time to turn out the light to go to sleep, you have two non-ideal choices: get up from bed to turn the lamp off using the switch near the door, or stay in bed and turn the lamp off manually, meaning the next time you operate the wall switch the lamp won't turn on (unless you remembered to turn the lamp back on in the morning).
Personally, I'm not 100% sure those videos are a net benefit for teams. It definitely reduces the effort required by the person creating the video, but comes at the expense of requiring more effort from the people consuming the content. While there are certainly cases where showing is easier than telling, more often I find the quick videos are more verbose and less well organized than a doc or a message. "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I [recorded a video] instead."

Who knows, maybe the counterfactual isn't "wrote a concise doc," but rather "didn't share the information at all," in which case I suppose Loom et al is a positive.
I'm of the opinion that we're probably at the midpoint of what future historians will consider the preliminary period.

The Non-Western axis has been turning up the heat, there's been something like 8 or 9 coups in Africa since 2020 plus more coup attempts, there was the Myanmar coup in 2021 you've got troop build up along the Serbia-Kosovo border, you've got fighting again in Azerbaijan and Armenia, and now Israel and Hamas. I expect more and more of these coups and conflicts will arise in the coming year or two as the Non Western powers try to stretch Western military resources.

The future historians will consider the true start to be whenever a NATO country is officially drawn into one of the fights, the same way the UK and France were drawn in to the conflict in WW2 after Poland was invaded.
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And struggling parents, presumably.

Education and learning is a skill that's transferred in a very large part from parents.
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Heh, that's fair enough.
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For me, the problem is not that it's terrible (it's not). It is that the the priorities of Gnome developers don't align with mine.

They want an evolving desktop, keeping up with new trends, ideas and hardware.

I want a stable desktop that doesn't change much between versions and doesn't lag on my eeePC.
It is amazing to me that the government continues to allow these mergers when time and time again it shows that the consumer end up paying more, not less.
That's fair, the links I put in mine are to my lab and own websites. I am not aware of any better way to share that info other than maybe tiny urls.
Sunday Ticket is different than RedZone. RedZone is a single channel that jumps between games; Sunday Ticket gives you unfettered access to all games.
Lutron Caseta for lights. ZWave for sensors and shades. HomeKit for cameras. (I run a whole home assistant setup but I could have done everything with HomeKit natively)
Characterizing that as terrifying is a bit hyperbolic. It looks like Europe in the present day. If cars were moving slower it would be much easier to be a pedestrian safely
Not sure why this is downvoted. Yes, in California half will go to taxes and the rest is enough for a downpayment on a shack. Hardly life changing.
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The point is when one sweats the details, one concludes that making the backboard full-thickness varnished board is an exercise in ego, not focusing on the user. It makes the user's experience worse for no other reason than some arbitrary artist's definition of simplified aesthetic.

... definitely a lesson I think many software engineers should internalize.
Almost 25 years ago, Fucked Company did such a beautiful job of aggregating countless parallel stories as the dot-com bubble started to burst. It made it so easy to see what was going on in aggregate.

There’s an opportunity for the same sort of thing now, but tracking all the desperate scrambling for revenue as the “we’ll make money after the next 10x users, promise” loses its ground as a business model.
> HA in particular makes it very easy to chose how to install

This is the problem with lots of stuff similar to HA when it tries to break into a non-enthusiast audience: people don't WANT to choose how to install it. Most of the time they have no clue why they would choose one thing over another and giving them those choices is confusing and overwhelming.

It's like starting a an intro to Nix tutorial with by asking if the user wants to enable flakes.

I say this as a very active user of HA & Nix for 5+ years.
I'm kinda curious, how many people play RPGs with map and minatures at the centre? We started with D&D and minatures, but quickly migrated away to more free-form systems and styles. For us it was always about making a story together, and nothing bogs that down faster than technicality.

If your game is centered around maps and minatures, is it also centered around combat? Just curious to find out how other people play.
https://roughdrafts.xyz/home/

Slightly fancier paste bin with markdown support that I want to turn into a group editing service that takes inspiration from pull request style workflows.
> By the way, reading this, an idea just hit me. It persistantly seems evident distro maintains often struggle to maintain huge repositories in both well-tested and up-to-date state. Why don't we separate OS distribution and apps repos into separate independent projects

Because applications rely on libraries in the distribution and need to be in sync for when they change.

Ways around this are Flatpak, where those shared libraries for applications are shared runtimes that are distro agnostic.
> I don't understand why offering parents more choices in how their children are taught could be a bad thing.

I am going to give my kid all the advantages I can, of course. But...personal optimization != societal optimization. Yes, I can put my kid in a better spot to succeed, but we aren't making progress as a society, things are getting very much worse actually (e.g. income inequality).

> Yes, this does suck for the children of uncaring parents - but for the parents who DO care, shouldn't they have a means of meeting their obligation to their children?

Again, those kids left behind...they are going to be expensive in terms of prisons, homeless services, lost productivity, etc...You can see this happening already, it is just going to be much worse when our kids are adults. And really, this is the only time we (or society) will have much influence on these kids. It is much easier to set a kid straight than try to fix an adult.
Am I weird for only using dark themes in the terminal and then only because 25 year habits are hard to shake off?
This isn't about any disinformation or propaganda campaigns.
It blows my mind how many of my employees and co-workers don't have uBlock Origin or even ABP installed. I'm 40 years old and have had an adblocker installed for as long as they've been around, and I'd guess over half of the mid-20 year old developers, analysts, content creators, and customer service people who work for me have never heard of it or used an adblocker.

Not sure how you survive the Internet these days without one.
Looks interesting. Waaay more accessible than that Lenire device for $5k. Also seems like the kind of thing that can be replicated with a smartwatch with a vibration mechanism and a decent API for <<$250.
Well, these were senior level skills, a person who can drive and complete a project. I don't know how you could become senior via self-study and without practical hands-on experience on a project (working with and learning from somebody with experience).
I totally don't understand what I gain with colored lights. My friend had a similar setup and I just don't get the attraction. I have a Google home and setting timers has a clear value, I forget less. Playing music has clear value, I relax. Colored lights??? I don't get it.
Tell me you only follow policy in the US without telling me: exhibit one.

The public school “experiment” has been purposefully sabotaged is more like it.
I enjoy this with the Youtube ReVanced app. It's an amazing feature on top of regular ad blocking. I can never go back to regular YouTube.
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Except for when it's fully off and you want to take a picture.
As many other aspects of the German ethos, this seems to be dying away. I live near Stuttgart, jaywalking is rampant, and nobody cares; in two years, I haven’t seen a traffic cop anywhere except for accident sites.
> entails using funds set aside for public schools

That’s one framing.

Another framing is “using funds set aside to educate the children of the district”.

If you frame the funding as being for the schools rather than for the children’s education, you naturally object to it being spent elsewhere.

Are we trying to run public schools or trying to educate children in the district?

(My kids attended public schools.)
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Never used them.

The way they're marketing themselves I didn't think I would have to curate their content myself. How much do I need do I need to pay to not have to sift through brain-numbing clickbait diarrhea?

At that point you might as well just kill your time on YouTube. Plenty of good channels there too - if you can stand the stench of the heap of trash they're buried under.
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