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> many are unable to figure it out from first principles no matter how many questions I answer about TCP/IP

TBF it's neither TCP nor IP, but ICMP :-)

Edit: I meant to write "neither TCP nor UDP" -- but even though I could make the correction I'll leave my error in place.
With training, yes, but not everyone is lucky enough to learn before they have a permanent injury or an addiction, or they are broke and homelessness and have a criminal record.

Some of these dangers we actively encourage, like high school sports, where 17yos will list off their fairly major injuries, this is considered normal, and the only realistic way to prevent those injuries would be to quit, because playing in a way that avoids injury is not what's expected.
It looks like speechSynthesis is supported in all the major browsers, not just FF. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/spee...
Why is it any more or less harebrained for the language devs to overload an operator in the core?
You can sell „private cloud” so you make separate server or servers for that specific customer.

On premise goes away and you can also setup private cloud to be filtered on firewall to give access to customer only or connect it via vpn or whatever else.

Biggest upside is that you still control deployment and are responsible for uptime but you have best knowledge in-house to deal with it.
This very scenario was one of the key threats in book Homo Dues and that was over 5 years ago.

Russia could do surveillance, but was limited by manpower.

Now AI solves this, there can be an AI bot dedicated to each individual.

Wasn't there another article on HN just day, that Car Makers, Phone, Health monitors all can now aggregate data to know 'your mood' when in an accident? To know where you are going, how you are feeling?

This is the real danger with AI. Even current technology is good enough for this kind of surveillance.
Easier to kill something when it is a small niche area that few people know about rather than wait until it gets bigger and more people use it.
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> current paradigms allow individuals to enter into contracts

And such contracts can be illegal or unenforceable. Just as the parent was suggesting it could be illegal to collect data, it is currently illegal to sell certain drugs. You can’t enter into a contract to sell cannabis across state lines in the United States for example.
I'm not sure if you're intentionally not understanding the point or not but let's assume not.

You're claiming criticism of th eRepublican agenda is attributing evil motives to everyone involved. This is an obvious straw man. But evil intent and evil outcomes aren't really that different.

Take housing policy. Lots of people vote and campaign to restrict building more housing. This has the net effect of making housing more expensive and creating homeless people. These policies quite literally kill people. It's a policy you could describe as "evil".

Now, the people involved do this for a variety of reasons. Some have an interest in increasing their home's value without necessarily considering the consquences. Others want to "maintain the character" of their neighbourhood. Sometimes that's cynical but sometimes it isn't. Others vote out of fear of various things: crime is a big one, racism is another.

So if you criticize housing policy because it kills people you could attempt to say that such criticism is ascribing "evil intent" to everyone involved but that's not the case. If anything, it's narrow self-interest and fear of change.

You need to go deeper. What motivates people to, say, fear crime from increasing residential density? Or why are people afraid of losing the "character" of their towns or cities? Why don't people realize the link between housing cost and homelessness? Why don't they care about that?

It's because a lot of money is spent on making voters care about such things. Some of that money comes from property developers and realtors who benefit from this. Other times, politicians stoke fear to get into office and increase their own power. Some involved clearly understand the consequences and don't care. Others truly believe wrong things. The outcome is the same: people die from lack of shelter.

So when people talk about the "Republican Project", it's based on decades of evidence where they've come out and said it. The current hysteria around abortion, for example, was completely manufactured by people who were fighting desegragation. In the early 1970s, the Southern Baptist Conference published a letter saying they didn't really care about abortion.

yet now it's a polarizing issue. Why? Because forces seeking power for other reasons have made a bunch of people care about it. Is everyone involved aware of this? Probably not. But again, the outcome is the same. People die as a result of abortion bans.

So I don't ascribe intentional evil to your actions, if this is something you happen to believe. More likely you're simply rationalizing emotions and/or are easily manipulated by arguments of religion or emotion.

This entire thing is well-documented. Here's a good starting point: google "Lee Atwater 1981 interview" for example of how abstract concepts are used as a veneer for racism.
I feel like that’s just sensationalism to get more media attention. The existing clay is formed by tectonic activity over a long period of time and using lots of energy (ie the earth’s core moving tectonic plates). Any artificial manufacturing effort would require similar energy input and it’s highly likely it requires more energy to create the clay artificially than it was to burn whatever amount of carbon gets sequestered (just guessing based on thermodynamics). So I don’t see how this clay helps us. It might be more efficient to create new clay than our existing recapture techniques although I would be skeptical.
I'm going to have to be a bit contrary here.

How often do you expect to make the schema changes? I mean I quoted this bit "...make schema changes sometimes on a daily basis" – is this realistic, or a kind of business insanity typically caused by bad management? Ditto "...but continual, recurring downtime due to schema changes". This really looks like a failure of management rather than a technical problem to be solved.

Also aren't you likely to be doing something larger than just a schema change very often, in which case that would necessitate replacing your application, so changes are not just restricted to the database. You now have a bigger problem of co-ordinating app and DB changes.

I also asked to do you need permanent uptime because in a lot of systems, especially smaller ones (and by the long tail most systems are going to be smallish) the users are very tolerant of an hours' downtime a month, for example.

"Once you have beyond a few million rows in a normal RDBMS, schema changes can take minutes to hours depending on the type"

That's a pretty strong claim; what kind of thing is going to take hours that your database can do consistently? Does it even take hours? I had a 100,000,000 row table of unique ints lying around so I put a foreign key from itself to itself (a bit daft, but just for timing purposes. DB is MS SQL, table is fully hot in memory)

alter table [tmp_ints_clustered] add constraint ffffkkkkk foreign key (x) references [tmp_ints_clustered](x);

21 seconds.

What you're doing (if you can get it correct! Which I have to wonder at) is doubtless excellent for some very large companies, but in general... I'm afraid I'm not so sure.

Edit: I feel I'm perhaps missing your bigger picture.
> the best solution is to use your own website for everything

You can host your own fediverse services and won't have to worry about being censored
That means that using telemetry to determine browser market share is a flawed approach.
I'm bullish and I think Passkeys, or some variant of on-behalf-of attestation, could be on of the worst technology related things to ever happen to the average person.

The reason I'm bullish is because all of the entrenched tech players are pushing them. The reason I think it's terrible is because the entire concept is dangerous. It's "one thing you have" (a key) that can attest to your identity. Whether or not that's attesting for you or against you is yet to be seen and I'd bet the farm on against.

As soon as tech companies have the ability to force you into using some type of device for authentication and authorization, I think the floodgates will open on abuse. It's a huge building block on the road to ensuring people never own anything, because per-use access can easily be gated now, and I think that's why big tech wants it so bad. They're going to get "a cut" for doing the auth, so why not, right?

It doesn't matter if tech enthusiasts resist either. We've seen the same story play out over and over. Developers gave Apple the keys to the kingdom for app distribution and rolled over as Adobe started charging subscriptions for desktop software. As soon as enough uninformed users accept what they're being pushed, it'll become a requirement and your options will be capitulation or exclusion.

Consider whether or not you'd want the right to use your car tied to a passkey that contacts the manufacturer, attests to your identity (authentication), and needs to get a token (authorization) before it'll start. People would never tolerate a password requirement to start their car, but a Passkey that's built in (ex: to a phone or watch) and works OTA via the cell network will easily be sold as good security, but it's really just to benefit the company leasing you the car because they can revoke access at any time.
> I surely hope I’m wrong about this, but I fear I’m not.

I suspect that the remaining Firefox users are likely to be quite "sticky". If there are websites that don't work in Firefox (but work in Chrome and Safari), I haven't yet blundered into one. My guess is that those would be mainly corporate intranet sites/apps, which I don't have to deal with.

No platform deploys Firefox by default; you have to deliberately choose it. That is NOT true of Chrome or Edge. I doubt anyone has ever deliberately chosen Edge; you can only get Edge on Windows, where it's the default anyway. And the only people I know that have deliberately chosen Chrome over the OS default are developers.
It's not grinding though. My highschool years were also super productive when it came to programming-related things, while I have seen most of my peers, aside from select few, really struggle despite their willingness. So maybe there is some secret sauce that can help others to get good a this. Maybe it's a mindset or attitude, etc...
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Yeah, Apple has a remote app but you need to be on the same local network and connect to the remote library and then can't add stuff from Apple Music. It all feels so antiquated and inelegant.

Some people are complaining about Spotify UI/UX but at least they provide a lot of features and it works pretty well most of the time. I find the app more responsive and just overall better has a streaming player.

I subscribed to apple music for 5 years but then I just switched back to Spotify this year. It is just better.
I use GitHub frequently and have never came across that issue; can't speak for the other sites though. If you're sure it's not the website's fault I'd encourage you to submit feedback: https://webcompat.com/issues/new
How it works is the driver is responsible for maintaining safety at all times. We are talking about the beta here. So it is 100% the driver.

When the non-beta exists, then we can talk about that, but we aren't there yet.
There is nothing wrong with pivoting
> but even in his day he was considered to be factually incorrect

Some of what he said might have been and some parts probably weren't.

> Cyrus it's pretty obvious he's outright lying

He was telling a story from the perspective of the (or some of them) the Greeks might have seen. It's just as likely to have been hearsay as outright intentional lies.

> And incidentally, Herodotus is the ONLY ancient source that so much as mentions Tomyris, full stop

How many other ancient sources do we actually have on some of the periods (especially related to Persia) described by Herodotus? Also as far as we can tell the narrative history or even Mesopotamian/Asyrian/Babylonian style chronicles weren't really a thing in ancient Persia so it's not inconceivable that he just wrote down one of the oral stories coming from there (it probably wasn't that clear to the Persians themselves what might have happened to one of their previous rulers after a generation or two).

Overall by the standards of ancient historians Herodotus was probably above average.
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wrong thread. shakes head sadly. But I was offtopic!
This was programmed into a PLC, not traditional code.

PLCs are basically environments designed for mere technicians being able to adjust code in very clear concise fashion. It can be way more verbose, but the logic is clear and solid for decades of operation.

It doesn't require reading an api documentation on version X of a library downloaded from NPM 15 years ago nor rebuilding an entire project to the latest dependencies.
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Oh, you are indeed right about the figure element! Sorry for missing your point at first.

I would not blame this on pandoc though, it's my mistake of missing what the intended purpose of figure element is, because I haven't studied the spec and browsers doesn't do anything useful with it (as you pointed out). That said if I used pandoc to generate pdf via latex, I would have noticed that, since the figures are repositioned as expected in such case.

And while I agree that in the current state, it's kind of pointless for browsers to try to take advantage of this element when most of the real code is against the spec, I believe that it didn't help that browsers didn't do that in the beginning when nobody was using it yet. But since the spec is not explicitly asking for anything, browsers did the bare minimum.

While I can imagine 2 use cases already:

i) better layout of printed page (eg. when I try to print my blog post, firefox will happily cut a figure in half if I select print on a5 paper even though it could try to reorganize it bit smarter ...)

ii) similar to what you describe, an ability to show the figures in a separate window so that you can see the text and figures at the same time (this is actually similar to a picture-in-picture like feature for images what I describe in the blog, and to be honest I would still find that kind of useful)
I'm with you!
How would you compare this to tools like Budibase?
interesting, as a non-Indian who asked a lot of Indians about various aspects of India, I've never heard this come up in conversation. Assuming you're implying that it's costly, would you say it's costly in comparison to standard cost of living in India? or are talking like foreigners buying up land/buildings to the point where prices are at HCOL NYC/SF levels?
There was a time after you still needed to have the iPhone to do it, though. And I'm not sure how many are actually aware you have to do this, just getting messages for them sent into the void.
I'd say, "if you care about the web, don't use a Chromium-based browser, but also Safari does not need your help w.r.t. marketshare" so.... yeah. Use FF basically.
Sivers and Doctorow discuss different problem-solution pairs. Are the problems posed by Doctorow not technically solvable?

Primary Automobile diagnostic codes: Doctorow's hypothetical tech solution already exists in OpenPilot. This is due to a technical standard, CAN bus[0]. The CAN is is easier to access with the government mandate of an ODB connector[1] but that wasn't necessary, just helpful.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics
Ask someone with 32-bit Mac apps about Apple’s willingness to leave parts of their userbase behind.
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Brave is slower than chromium from my experience, had issues related to bookmarks when I last tried it, and it doesn't do stuff it claims to - such as privacy, ad blocking, etc.

Safari has weird Apple-isms like nonstandard shortcuts, weird UI, and the dev tools are just kinda shit overall.
Some Xero products don’t work properly no matter what your browser is.

For me, Mozilla has bugs or weaknesses in Linux. YouTube chews my cpu (hardware acceleration is broken, at least for me). Tabs ‘freeze’ due to a bug in an X11 lib. Pop up bubbles (do you want to enable gps to this site type bubbles) if visible before switching workspaces appear on all workspaces but cannot be actioned and appear on top.

Mozilla as a company appears to be attempting poor monetisation models like attempting to build social networks etc. I would consider paying them a yearly fee if I thought they’d use money wisely, but at the moment executive appear more interested in vanity projects.
I mean if we're playing anecdata, my spouse has been through 4 mac laptops in the same period, which have given up the ghost in various different ways.
Apparently the starship HLS for the Artemis landing mission is expected to require 14 or more refuelings: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_3

> The delivery [to NRHO] requires that Starship HLS be refueled in Earth orbit before boosting to the NRHO, and this refueling requires a pre-positioned propellant depot in Earth orbit that is filled by multiple (at least 14) tanker flights.
iMessage spam has been a thing for months, and if these guys could reverse-engineer iMessage, so can criminals.
I've done plenty of internal web apps with Python's old cgi module and it's really about the simplest approach. Too bad the cgi module has recently been removed from Python due to some weird neurosis about underused modules. It's still possible to side-load it from someplace though.
It was the explosion of mobile browsing that did it.
I wonder how easy it would be to produce something with similar structure in volume. It doesn't sounds like a nanoscale structure and wouldn't have to be clay.

Not because nature can surely made larger volumes (this is plate tectonics after all) but to do it faster and in higher volume than we could extract from the ocean floor. Who knows how long the weathering takes, and its statistical prevalence.
There just needs to be “social protocols” on top of activitypub.

Basically a set of message types that every implementor has a way of displaying
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I grew up with a foster mother that actively "suppressed" what I did on the computer, banning me for a month if I didn't get changed immediately after school.

Now I've become a senior engineer, but I'm kinda shotty at it, chaotic good in solving problems, but issues with authority and process.

Who knows, maybe I would've became a "run of the mill" engineer if she helped.
Data is from 2001-2005. Zoom didn't come out until 2012.
If Firefox stops being a supported codebase, would Rust popularity be another domino to fall? Since it is the largest (and probably best known) Rust project in the world.
I notice that they didn't announce any substantive changes to the actual mobile app. So, it appears that rather than addressing long-standing complaints about the app that lead people to use 3rd party apps like Apollo (that Reddit killed off with absurdly high API pricing) they decided to invest in customized and proprietary fonts and logo updates.

It appears that the app will still have all the same bugs, problems, and usability issues. But the text, logo, and color scheme will be awesome.
The Chernobyl disaster was partly because the design was graphite moderated, which does not have the safety that water does since it’s not self regulating due to the GPs explanation about that above. When the reactor started to go supercritical, it was reinforced by the moderator working better to create more neutrons, the opposite of what you’d want.
This is true, but it does reinforce and cement in- and out-group dynamics. You're more likely to be exposed to unfamiliar ideas on a place like Reddit, specifically because you don't _have_ to pick an explicit bubble. When picking a Lemmy instance, you kinda end up aligning yourself with some worldview, and letting some set of strangers curate your environment for you.

Incidentally, that's sort of the weirdest part of signing up for Lemmy. I can't be the only one who got to the "Pick an instance!" step and got kinda paralyzed. I'm a programmer, should I sign up to a programmer-centric instance? But I also have hobbies, political views, favorite forms & genres of media... Should those take priority? And by picking one of them, what curation or censorship am I going to be subject to?

I appreciate the fact that Lemmy isn't under the thumb of one monolith, and that I can bounce from once instance to another if the first isn't working out. But I also like the 'big-tent' feeling of Reddit, where I can sub to all kinds of subreddits, even if the two groups don't get along at all.
This is the correct take. As the cost to do a bad thing decreases, the amount of political will society needs to exert to do that bad thing decreases as well.

In fact, if that cost gets low enough, eventually society needs to start exerting political will just to avoid doing the bad thing. And this does look to be where we're headed with at least some of the knock-on effects of AI. (Though many of the knock-on effects of AI will be wildly positive.)
No, I’m receiving this same block notice from Safari on mobile with content blockers disabled in Italy by visiting cnn.com.

I found this page by googling the Brave block message on the website that had nothing to do with my browser. I was happy to see the first link was here.
How much additional calculation occurs in high-stakes decisions by individuals. Also what is the variability in quality of high stakes decisions in humans?

I'm guessing LLM decision is rather average, but that the LLM has no easy way of spending the extra time to gather information around said high stakes decisions like a human would.
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I wish they would have followed up more in the ending section with how the CEO (Wilke) felt about it in totality, specifically their decision to shoot. Their reflections on the events say a lot about if/how the park has learned from it
> Am I getting closer to answering your point?

No, because you keep focusing on the technical aspects of bitcoin when I'm talking about the philosophical argument that crypto securities are not currency and that in the end, any medium of exchange that is a proxy is fiat money. My entire goal is to prove that "fiat money" is like saying "ATM machine" or "pin number."

All money is fiat, none of it has intrinsic value, it's all valuable because enough people agree. Commercial paper is not a gov't currency, but traded on it's face value. Rewards points and game tokens and gift cards aren't gov't issued, but they're tradable like money. Zimbabwean dollars WERE gov't issued, and when people lost faith it lost value. Hell, Brazil used fake money to generate faith in real money (1)!

The best currency we ever invented were bank notes and digital credit (card payments). It's the king, and BTC will never overtake it. A form of distributed ledger might become the ledger of the future, but it won't be BTC and it's extremely energy-hostile paradigm.

1 [https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-...]
I also love the mathematical tautologies.

(On a 14 oz container) Now with 40% more than 10 oz.

Or on a urinal 1 liter per flush urinal:

Uses just a quarter of the water as a gallon per flush urinal.
I agree. GNU rhetoric does not help their case. Much of it sounds very confrontational and whinny.

I am a supporter of free software and open hardware, but I would never try to forcibly try to convince people with half-truths.

BTW I don't think coreboot is really helpful in that it appears to me is more about controlling hardware access.