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> You're saying companies would choose not to release profitable software, if it weren't also covered by software patents?

Yes, keeping software in house and selling services around itbinstead of releasing software has been a popular option as long as software has existed, and changing the IP landscape (or any other part of the legal and business context) in a way which changes the relative incentives between those options changes the frequency at which one option is chosen over the other.

And that's even before considering the way that changing the IP landscape impacts the decision of whether it is worthwhile to develop software for a given market at all.
AI is the replacement for low-effort work.

What annoys me is that all the managers who were accruing technical debt were right. AI will clean it up for them, decades later.
Seems similar in spirit to Nushell[0], which is a project I'm really rooting for, a super interesting update of the shell/pipes framework

[0]: https://www.nushell.sh/
It does, actually. It implies the process has just started, which is pretty substantive.
It is really difficult to create parody now, no matter how absurd it is, someone will think this is a good idea and an instruction manual.
There is a sharing agreement in place between pretty much all air carriers that allows off duty airline pilots to ride on the jumpseat to commute to work, if there isn't space available in the cabin. It's quite common for instance for American Airlines pilots to ride on the jumpseat on say, Delta, to get to work. There's a whole host of unwritten rules and etiquette around the practice, but for all intents and purposes any airline pilot can ride on the jump seat of any airline to get to work.
> You can write good, backwards compatible software just fine on the .net ... ecosystems

(Cough)

The .net core initiative broke A LOT of code. Microsoft obsoleted a lot of libraries. (Some for very good reasons, too. A lot of legacy .net libraries had rather poor design choices.)
Inline skates on flat ground are technically "no external energy".

And they can race a marathon in under an hour, so that's 26+ mph (42 kph)
Sorry, but you can't buy all offal in most American supermarkets.

Living in NYC, where you can get both tripe and liver easily - you have to go to "ethnic" stores to get heart, kidneys or lungs. (I have yet to see any lungs or intestines in any US store... and I mean ANY. I'd have to go to a butcher and order small intestines to make sausages.)

As for seaweed - it's primarily dried Japanese style seaweed that we can get in Costco's around NYC.
> The worldwide attacks on Jews and synagogues, the chants of "Gas the Jews" and "From the River to the Sea" (which is a call for genocide of Israelis), the open calls from Palestinian terrorist groups calling for attacks on Jews worldwide, make it clear that antizionism is inextricably linked with antisemitism (as does the actual history of the conflict).

This makes zero sense. Terrorists call for terrorism, ergo anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism? You'll have to put up a better argument than that.

The actual history of the conflict starts with a bunch of European Jews turning up in West Asia and claiming that it was their land on the basis of a story book. European anti-Semites were more than happy with this arrangement because it meant their Jewish citizens would leave. Even the Nazis worked with the Zionist Agency to enable some 60 thousand German Jews to emmigrate to Palestine.
Not sure if ublock updated their blocking rules to bypass the block or youtube stopped the experiment - but starting yesterday, I'm no longer seeing any adblock warning which previously had started blocking me (as opposed to originally just nagging me to disable) from watching youtube videos.

I do wonder if the actual outcome of the experiment was increased rates of adblocking though - since every time it makes it into the news, more people are exposed to the idea it's even possible.

Aside, (cmd+l, cmd+c, cmd+shit+n, cmd+v, enter) is a pretty useful sequence to have muscle memory for to open the same page in incognito, which easily bypasses the block as well.
Surely, the biggest factor is women’s financial freedom.

Even in the Asian countries lauded for collectivism, I would bet it is women’s civil rights and financial freedom that is changing the situation from collectivist to individualist.

Which makes sense to me since it is probably easier to keep a society collectivist if half the population has little choice.
The United Kingdom is not a state in the United States.
The "official narrative" changed when new variants of the virus spread and behaved differently. "Delta won't hospitalize you but you can still catch this new omega (it's not as bad)," is still very effective.

Retconning it to pretend like "the narrative" radically changed for no reason is another problem when discussing things with people who are intentionally dishonest.
Hey FTC.....Antitrust is needed now. Break up Google....like ffs
I wouldn't put too much stock into personal carbon footprint estimates.

It's just a way of re-framing the carbon problem away from those actually responsible for it and turn it into to a battle between folks arguing who is more virtuous.

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Thought experiment:

What if we removed the "people" from the problem and just looked at the geographic area?

Does a rural 10 square mile produce as much GHG as an urban 10 square mile?

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When you analyze it based on personal carbon footprint you are ignoring business and industry and focusing on residential.

This is by design, so those responsible aren't even included in the equation.
"Primer mover" isn't a concept that exists.

You can either help organize something or act alone. Those are completely different kinds of action. And acting alone won't achieve anything.
Locking out a conscious crew in the cockpit? Never going to happen, for reasons others have already listed.

The only thing where I could see a remote landing system make sense is during the (very few) cases of crew incapacitation (e.g. Helios 522), but it would almost certainly be done in a way that makes it very apparent and easy to override for the crew actually on board, just like the cockpit door lock operates currently: Require authentication (a PIN code) for unlocking from the cabin-side; give the cockpit crew complete authority to override even that.

That very system has unfortunately contributed to at least one tragedy (Germanwings 9525), but I think the general risk assessment of "bad guy in the cockpit" being significantly less likely than "bad guy trying to compromise the good guys in the cockpit" still makes sense.
> The guy never breached the cockpit, he was already IN the cockpit!

IMHO breaching the cockpit by physically forcing the door and breaching it by deception are essentially the same in the end.

Thankfully this ended as well as it could have and might help in preventing something similar in the future.
People want bug-for-bug compatibility when switching costs are high, and that never works out in practice.

An alternative language has to be far superior to its alternatives to justify the switching costs.
I take your point, but I personally think that it's not that necessary to hedge and it's safe to say that most people (in developed western nations) don't need to shower every day. Very few people are working demanding physical jobs in which they get especially dirty/sweaty every day. And, given the obesity crisis in the west, I doubt that many people are working out every day either.

The real answer is that people need to shower enough so that they A) feel comfortable and B) don't cause issues for the people around them. A is a bit fuzzy, and will change depending on what an individual is used to, but most people in most situations won't run into B if they are showering every other day (or even every 3 days) modulo things like "I went for a run this afternoon" or "I worked in the garden all day" etc.

The edge cases are probably rare enough to say "you don't need to shower every day, but if you get particularly dirty/sweaty, then you should shower" and you will be correct for most people. The few people who do need it every day can probably work it out for themselves.

Perhaps the largest exception to this is teenage boys who just really are a biological marvel of smell generation. They should potentially be showering multiple times a day for the sake of those around them.
Japan has green traffic lights, there are no two ways around it. I’ve lived in Japan for 3 years in all the major cities. They are green, just like everywhere else. They just call them blue.

Why they do that is something you can argue about and I’ve heard Japanese try and come up with all sorts of explanations:

“The character for blue is easier to learn than the one for green, so it’s better to say blue with children.”

“They used to be blue, so we still just call it that”

“Green isn’t an original Japanese color. Before foreigners arrived we didn’t call anything green”

“They are blue!” - usually these are people who will call traffic lights in Europe and smarties blue even when speaking English.

It’s just a quirk. I think Japan places the border between blue and green different from most western cultures and that gives.
I agree on both counts. There are still many barriers such as limited access to funding and research infrastructure, but I have high hopes that we will see more peer reviewed science coming from the field of naturopathic medicine, as well as more mainstream research starting down lines of inquiry informed by a wholistic approach and an increased willingness to explore treatments and medicines that are not easily patentable and profitable. It is in (just about) everyone's interest to see more of a synthesis between these disciplines.
I'm not aware of any production-grade libs of these algorithms, but they might exist. While NIST did pick Dilthium as among the winners in summer 2022, it still hasn't been fully standardized yet. The mathematical principles are final, of course, but they still need to be documented in the form of a standard, with many other details specified, such as the ASN.1/binary encodings of keys, signatures, etc., so they can be used in the context of a broader PKI and certificates. Some of this is specified in the Dilithium submission (primarily because some of the values need to be encoded and processed as part of the algorithms themselves), but it doesn't cover everything and doesn't specify other details like OIDs, etc. This specification is also necessary before validation programs like FIPS 140-2 can get off the ground.
Have you tried npx? It comes with Node.

There's also npm run, but perhaps I'm missing something about how they differ
Same here. Looks like they're A/B testing it to see if this strategy actually works, i.e., if people convert to Premium users.
Ah! Moon boots - had those as a kid.
No. There are two fire handles in the overhead panel, one for each engine (and a similar one for the APU on some types). You pull it, that immediately shuts off fuel, hydraulics, generators etc on that engine. Twist it to discharge the fire extinguishers on that engine. No override, no extra steps.

In case of an engine fire the procedure is to put a hand on the handle, the other pilot checks and confirms, and then you pull it.
From the average user perspective what “large issues” does Windows have? You and I can complain about telemetry and candy crush until we’re red in the face but the fact remains the same that Windows is far better for the average user with less problems.
It shows; something that needs a lifetime to master is definitely not on my list of Easy(TM) things.
> Ironically, some of the statements with 5 or more citations were the most incorrect.

There is nothing thing ironic about it. Wikipedia is run by bullies who make up references.
We’re doing just fine here in the Midwest. Come visit us if you’re in the Chicago suburbs. https://www.Fox.build
many adults have experienced the same. or say they have, in my experience. as to if it’s denial vs reality? good luck untangling the biases in any attempt to figure that out!

‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ vs a world with a large segment of mental disorders basically resulting from someone having an existential need for something to not be broken (and no tools or time/resources to fix it).
The electric vehicle market is almost entirely affluent liberals. Does this electric Chevy truck appeal to affluent liberals? I wouldnt say so. Since Elon's falling out with the left Rivian is the new vogue electric car brand and they sell a truck
All Liz is doing is holding ISPs' feet to the fire, getting them to enforce their own ToS and crack down on sites that violate them (and the law in many jurisdictions, including U.S. states with anti-doxxing laws).
the ability to do this is pretty accessible nowadays, its just a little expensive for normal use for the layman
I've done and loved at least 15 years of Rails, but not since the new Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus releases. I've played with it a bit in side projects and it seems interesting, though I'm still skeptical that it's a good model for apps that plan to stick around for a while.

One of the things I've found difficult coming back to Rails is how spread out all of the behavior is in so many different files and partials and helpers. While SPAs have a lot of trade-off, organizing related code into components works so much better than any experience I had with server-side MVC, especially when using something like TypeScript and Remix's islands that very effectively isolate even further into logical modules. What little I've done with Hotwire/Turbo made it seem like very basic behavior is even more spread out and even harder to reason about for someone who didn't write it, which seems like it would make maintenance and refactoring in Rails even more time-consuming and perilous than it already is.

I'm really interested in the technology because I hear such glowing reviews of it, but I'm not sure I see it. I'd love to see a non-dogmatic comparison of SPAs vs Rails with Hotwire/Turbo MPA for post-MVP longer-term projects.
I think moving cities every ~4 years is far less default than buying and staying in the same place for a while
> I have a feeling that one of the first commercial applications of AI, will be moderation and response to customer complaints.

> We'll have to see how well that works.

Worth noting that almost all of YouTube's front facing customer service is heavily, heavily automated, which is a source of constant hostility and aggrivation for YouTubers, in that they must interact with these ML agents, get a stupid, nonsensical answer, then reply again to get a human reviewer who (usually) resolves the situation that would've been faster resolved by a human in the first place and let to less frustration for all involved.

I think it's a fantastic idea to not automate the process of signups for a service, and yes, it will substantially slow down the process. But I think everyone has just about had their fill of all these services that produce bad outcomes extremely quickly when a trivial amount of human involvement would've handled whatever issue better, in a perfectly acceptable time frame.

If you don't want to have a customer service department that is well staffed and well paid to handle customer complaints/problems/issues/what have you, then my suggestion is do not involve yourself with or build a company that will need one. Simple as.

Edit: And like, I think it's fair to extend this to all these sectors of a normal, functioning business that silicon valley companies are happy to "automate" to cut their costs:

- If you don't want to provide the resources for human approval for your platform, then don't start a platform.

- If you don't want a provide the humans to moderate content, do not host content.

- If you don't want to handle verifying ID's and driver's licenses, running background checks, and all the rest that is Bog Fucking Standard for a cab company, then don't start a cab company.

It just blows my mind how many of these business have gone into the field of X or Y and just... not done or half-assed huge aspects of those fields, and then shrug their shoulders when people get pissed that they can't get help. Do you think all these dinosaur businesses you're trying to disrupt went out of their way to find an excuse to hire on customer service agents for the hell of it? No! They needed people to solve problems for customers with the product they sell!
Also, I wonder why we don't have electric planes.

You know, you're right. Electrical fires have NEVER brought down an aircraft. :/
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> Google shows that the states with the highest per capita carbon emissions do tend to be states with lower urbanization rates.

But that's due to industry, no? Agriculture and forestry alone count for ~20% of all carbon emissions. And getting those goods into the urban areas means shipping, which is another major contributor.

Even in more populace states, power generation typically happens in rural areas. Landfills are located in rural areas. Even large factories, even when they employ city-based workers, are quite often located in rural areas.

On balance, there isn't much that happens in large urban areas other than a whole lot of moving people around with machines (which seems completely ridiculous) and commercial business operations, which is not insignificant with respect to carbon emissions, but only about 6% of total emissions.

Basic household living probably isn't much different either way.
TIL, thanks. What an odd thing to do. Seems well intentioned though at least
One thing I'm finding... The browser is just a horrible, least-common-denominator, environment for running an application.

I spent the 2010s in the desktop world. The Mac / Windows APIs are generally well designed. A lot of the abstraction and niceties comes from whatever frameworks are shipped with your application.

The browser forces you to use Javascript. Even if you use WASM, you have to use Javascript, because you still need to call back into Javascript to interact with many of the lowest-level APIs.

The browser UI is based on parsing complicated text; instead of the API and object-based models that we have on the desktop. It's really absurd, IMO.
Under Resources at the bottom you can download a 9MB File (aay1950_movie_s1.mp4) of movie S1, but it only shows an animation of a disc running on blue, green, and red springs...
I think you misread the parent comment, I'd say they are blaming the government for not covering their "investments" legally, same as you.
That's a helluva read.
You're proving my point by implying the two are mutually exclusive. China successfully regenerating forests and reversing desertification will certainly have (very long-term) economic benefit, but saying it is therefore "not environmental policy" is absurd.
Still works fine for me.
> It honestly made me wonder if Twitter is engaging in click fraud.

Considering the moral and ethical character of the person who owns Twitter/X, I wouldn't doubt it.
For reference also in the space of 'website from markdown':

* https://content.nuxt.com/ - JS, SSG and SSR
* https://www.11ty.dev/ - JS, ??
* https://getkirby.com/ - PHP
* https://statamic.com/ - PHP also static export and database
Light rail is a huge boon for SeaTac, that's for sure.

Security and the whole "get to the gate" process is just so easy at Paine Field that it's hard to go back if your flight works out there.

No lounges is a downside though.
YouTube, if you're so smart, just show me the ad instead of the overlay!
You do not have to register your copyright unless you intend to go to court. The DMCA should be a first notice of "I think you are offending, take this down so we can all avoid the trouble and cost of court". If you refuse to take things down than the claimant should get a lawyer, register the copyright, and go to court. However as first notice I want the DMCA take down to be simple and cheap for both parties if the guilty admits their mistake and fixes the problem. In generally nobody registers a copyright until just before they open a court case (you get triple damages for everything after the registration)

Where the DMCA went wrong in my opinion is it should have been upon notice you have one business day to notify whoever posted the content, and they get one business day to respond. If they take down the offending content, then all is well (the amount you could gain from two days of something being up isn't worth your court costs) If there is no response at all, only then is content taken down automatically. If there is a response that the content doesn't infringe then content stays up, but the response must contain full legal contact information: the accuser is required to go to court to get the content taken down. Note that court mean the count of law in the country the accused lives in.

The above is how normal cases should work. There are some tricky things that need to work different. If the accused is in a country that doesn't recognize copyright, if the legal contact information is invalid, if the accuser is submitting many false claims, or the middle party doesn't do their part there are problems. I'll post my ideas, but there is room for better ones and a lot of details need to be worked out.

If accused party is in a country that doesn't recognize international copyright (China being the big example), then take downs need to happen immediately - we cannot trust your courts to protect our people so you in turn are assumed wrong, take it up with your government. (I can't think of anything better here - I'm open to better ideas)

If the legal contact information given in the response is invalid, then the entire account should be terminated and all content deleted.

Many false claims needs to be legally defined. I'm going with the copyright owner and (not or!) their authorized agents send more than 100 take downs that after 1 year are still up and no court case has been filed.

If the middle party (youtube) doesn't react to court orders to take things down, or to the poster asking to take infringing content down then they are in trouble. Otherwise they are only a middleman.
> Even then, midori was considered a shade of ao. As you can imagine, this sudden switch-over had lasting effects in Japan. One of the most popular forms of Japanese wordplay is numeric substitution—writing numerals in place of words or letters with the same phonetic value.

Mad that they just add the numbers thing there, but never mention if there's a number play with green/blue
Hmm.

You have a point about RP2040 being a thing that JLCPCB's assembly service benefits from. A singular chip that you "plan to use in most projects", along with pre-loaded pick-and-place machines that have common I2C attachments, makes sense in the scheme of factory design. (While something like Microchip's AVR DA vs AVR DB vs AVR DD vs AVR EA loses out, because SKUs are the enemy of such an assembly line as you'd be forced to manually swap-out reels in between production runs).

Still, RP2040 is a compromised part with plenty of downsides that I've listed above. And as far as a "centerpiece jack-of-all-trades" microcontroller goes, I'm not convinced that the RP2040 is the best to keep preloaded in such a configuration yet anyway to be mass produced into many designs.

But your point stands. It is a production / prototyping issue that intrigues me and I wasn't thinking about earlier.

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> Just a note on soldering: I’m perfectly capable of soldering VQFN at home

Well yes. I did say that Hotplate + Reflow Hot Air Gun works. But *soldering iron* is an advantage IMO.

Personally speaking, I don't see any of the chips I use on a regular basis on JLCPCB's list, so I've never felt the need to experiment with it. I can see how its advantageous if those preloaded pick-and-place machines have the chips / components you use though.
When someone does it with sound mental state, it's usually called "killing" and not "murder."

I.e. she shot and killed her attempted rapist.