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> I might argue that the real problem we're facing is we continue to perpetuate the idea that the totality of issues facing a nation of 330 million people can be lumped into "republican" or "democrat" and this binary view of the world invariably fosters extremism.

I agree broadly. The two-party system is emergent phenomena due to our first-past-the-post voting system wherein whichever candidate for nearly any given election receives 50% of votes cast +1 additional vote wins the election, as opposed to a system which apportions seats in a cabinet proportionally according to the percentage of votes cast for a particular party out of total votes cast. It is my belief based on cursory study that this method of voting in USA was known to have this failure mode, but alternative methods of counting votes would be difficult to calculate as well as win support of the early colonies which ultimately became party to the Union.

The two-party system benefits both parties equally, to our collective detriment, as it has the knock-on effect of causing both parties to become increasingly pandering to their extremes, while representing poorly those at the extremes as well as their mean.

Ranked choice or other alternative apportionment schemes would allow voters to vote their conscience and would ultimately lead to better outcomes, as well as allowing third parties to have a reasonable likelihood of actually being elected. This would also force the extant parties to actually form coalitions based on issues and points of agreement, as well as enhance cooperation among the parties across the aisle, as opposed to down-the-line votes which lead to obstructionism and filibusters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting

> But when we try to force people into binary solutions it's either "the people for socialized medicine" or "the people against socialized medicine" and that's a guaranteed downward spiral.

The blessed/cursed wedge issue. As they say in politics, never let a good crisis go to waste. Wedge issues are the ultimate Gordian knot of political hot potatoes, as they aren't meant to ever be solved in a two party system, as then they would be rendered ineffective as wedge issues, as the issue would be settled law, and could no longer be used to dodge or deflect. Much of current culture war disagreements fall under wedge issues broadly, but this is not a new development in politicking or jurisprudence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_issue

When you look at these issues as part of a larger whole, the two party system benefits immensely from the first-past-the-post system; similarly, wedge issues are designed to force voters and elected officials to pick a side on nuanced issues that may not have only two possible legislative outcomes desired by the public.

From the point of view of the two dominant parties, it's literally notabug/wontfix.
And in addition Switzerland has challenging terrain with hills and mountains all over, making train service complicated and even busses non-trivial sometimes
What does it mean for a corporation to have "freedom"? It's a structure which represents owners, who may be in disagreement. If 40% of shareholders want to employ a worker, they're not "free" to do so. Why should a corporation as a group of individuals representing owners have freedoms which a union (a group representing workers) does not?
As much as I want to like Tyson, he comes across as much as a hack as Michio.. who is like the Zahi Hawass of physics.

Tyson is the Walmart 'Best Value' brand of physics. Or the media queen...

However!

He is still great - (btw, the black hole/white hole thing is truly funny!)

Its just that I take everything Tyson says with a grain of media-marketing-salt.

EDIT: The bit about the preacher scientist is fn wonderful.

https://youtu.be/v_TLvPmzuN0?t=760

Jiminy thats fn funny.
question is: should we worry? now i just have a new fear that i dind't have before
Receivers and ATC are on ground and can’t see each other unless pretty close. They can both see airplanes because those are up high.
I suspect students and employees, would be more inclined to do their assignments if those assigning the work had read, understood, and then implemented, some of the ideas proposed in Drive by Daniel H. Pink, and No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer. :-)
I see pi-e-sigma beat me to it, but:

C++ is at least as complicated as Ada, both in terms of using the language and in terms of writing a compiler for it.

C++ also sees plenty of use in military applications. The F-35's 141 page C++ coding standard is publicly available, for instance.

https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
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I'm torn. On the one hand, this is a great application of ChatGPT and a natural response to HR departments' ML-based filtering.

On the other hand, this is just another step in the deadification of the internet. It's a feedback loop: an overwhelming amount of junk leads someone (HR in this case) to produce an algorithm to filter it. This algorithm by its nature has a high false positive rate, so people game the system, initially by hand and then eventually automatically. Automation leads to even more junk and even more aggressive filtering.

It's the same pattern that plays out all over the internet, and the end result is that high-quality non-gamed content becomes nearly impossible to find in the mess.

Not that you're wrong to build this step—it's the natural and rational reaction to the system in which we find ourselves. I just wish there were a way to stop the cycle and get back to human interaction.
This is the a good essay on the topic: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con
Publicly funded radio and TV in Germany was a mishmash of entertainment, education, news reporting but also music production. Entire symphony orchestras and Jazz bands were part of the state-run stations. Private broadcasting didn't exist, maybe wasn't allowed then.

Not surprised to hear about electronic music being funded as well, the public networks had a reputation of being somewhat elitist and high brow.
The text you quoted doesn't contain any uses of the passive voice.
Your single vote changes nothing, but having to vote changes you. You start considering politics. You debate policies, online and online. You get your opinions across and evolve them. You persuade your community, your friends and family, and they do the same with theirs. Eventually, it turns out it’s not just your single vote.

That’s what happens where people can vote and expect that their vote actually counts.
Doctors are going to get things wrong in a novel situation and the use of mechanical ventilators doesn't seem be unreasonable in the circumstances. It's only malpractice if it's obviously known to be harmful.

Not sure what the point you're trying to make is, but doctors always work with imperfect knowledge and mistakes are inevitable, but that doesn't detract from their utility overall.
I don't think that age verification is a good idea. But I don't think the counter-argument that "parents can just monitor their kids' devices" really holds water - there's still plenty of ways around it.
Understood but I always use protection anyway.

And when I did this kind of work I was a shy horny teenager so I wouldn't have cared about looks :P
Sort by number of orders.

It's a bit crass but you can accept a few duds and still come out ahead. In my experience even the duds are good for a year or two.
In this case they clearly are as the IP address was traced to a particular person.

I think it’s more accurate to say “IP addresses are not always people” but they frequently are identifiers and enough to be useful in these cases. So it’s a bit of an odd statement to make regarding a case where the ip address literally uniquely identified someone.

It’s like saying “fingerprints aren’t people” in a case about fingerprints linking to an individual.
But you can understand the inclusion of Phind and PerplexityAI(whatever that is)?
Good writers know everything's already been said before in different ways, but not in different ways /by them/. In other words, we all have a unique voice and style, and it's useful for humanity if people hear that voice and style. So blog. Get out of your own way and share your voice.
Indeed. A friend of mine did work in a small town hard-hit by the changing economy, and multiple times had offers of sex (more commonly oral sex) in lieu of payment (or partial payment). If you're not picky then some of these people have a lot of experience and are good at what they do. But if toothless/meth-toothed people, usually not recently showered, and sometimes with a fair amount of extra weight is something that will be a problem for you, then it's not going to be as appealing as it initially sounds. On the (maybe) plus side they won't make you wear a condom. On the negative side, they didn't make anybody else either...

Much better (IMHO) to put in the time and effort to cultivate a loving long-term relationship with a good partner.
I think what most people are "preferring" is the compressed dynamic range. In many cases it sounds better to me as well, but turn the volume up to reference and the illusion falls apart.

The genres I enjoy on vinyl don't typically exercise the full 90+dB of range available in CD audio. Electronic, pop, metal, rock, etc seem to sound approximately the same to me between the two.

Classical & jazz are where the magic of vinyl breaks down for me. When I am listening to a recording of a concert hall, I want to experience more than 50-60dB of dynamic range. I prefer the contrast between the solo flute and the percussionist w/ the gigantic mallet to be as pronounced as possible.
Wouldn't it behoove a subversive to be, well, subversive? Meeting in one spot, known to be a place where subversives meet sounds like a coup for any org wanting to keep track of associations even before an article in vice let everyone know.
Eh that is up for debate. If I dump a library of chemistry books and industry books on chemistry and volatile chemicals its distinctly possible the model could generate this data.
> recognize the political reality that almost no one is willing to suffer a substantial downgrade in standard of living.

“Downgrade” is an understatement, people always idealize living “in the field” until they need an emergency surgery, then all of the sudden the cheap availability of plastics is great.
I think it's great if thinking of commits in the context of commits in a rebase as diffs works for you. I only caution against it because there are many situations during a rebase where the results can be very confusing with such a perspective. Precisely because a 3-way merge can make things much more complicated.

I think you're muddling the concepts of tree (a snapshot) and commit somewhat. A commit is not merely a snapshot, it's a tree as well as metadata.

> the commits are essentially changed if snapshots change - even if the change introduced by them remains the same.

If by commit you mean tree, then yes. One can think of B and B~ "introducing" the same changes if the diff between A and B is the same as A~ and B~.

For example, say you add a new file in A~ and then cherry-pick B on it, the tree of B~ will not be the same as B, but the diffs of A and B will be the same as A~ and B~.

The main reason I caution against this perspective is that you can easily end up "introducing" other changes when you reorder commits.

Change A-B-C to A-C~-B~ and very often you'll find yourself "introducing" changes from B in C~

That's not too say that doing git show REBASE_HEAD, to view the diff of B-C isn't a bad idea, just that thinking of commits as diffs during a rebase, imo, is often a false friend
Extortion usually demands something under the threat of something bad happening that you do not want, and the action is taken against you by someone else.

You have a choice to write and iOS app and publish to the App Store or not. If you choose not to, what bad action is Apple purposely and actively taking against you in retaliation to you not giving in to their demands? Oh wait, they didn’t demand anything from you or threaten anything bad should you not meet those demands. They didn’t approach you with a demand. They didn’t approach you at all. They don’t care about you or anything you have going on.

How is Apple extorting you here? I would like to understand what state of psychosis I must obviously be in for this to be reality
It's obviously unworkable to restrict free speech like that. According to the article, we'd have to jail Trump and Macron.

Free speech issues aside, there were plenty of doctors who recommended Hydroxychloroquine. I know a (good) doctor who thought that Ivermectin probably had in vivo antivral properties (before studies showed that it didn't). Lots of doctors have weird fringe opinions.
You're right, I didn't go. I bet it's windy, though?
Unless the LLMs have suddenly gained API access at Amazon, the correct title for this piece is "SCAMMERS are CONTINUING to kill books".
Hello. Do you have any resources about this? I have memory issues similar to the ones you described.
duckdb is a single file with no dependencies and it's fast. Still blows my mind how quickly it can query GB sized gzipped CSVs.
Presumably the panel landed in in some farmer's field, otherwise we'd hear the news report about someone's roof getting an unexpected emergency exit addition?

Come to think of it, I bet that's something the NTSB investigators will track down so they can do forensics on the debris
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Yep, this accurately describes both the original and the joke about what it would be if any animal abuse was removed from it.
I do this too—every post has a footer telling people they can email me with feedback, along with a mailto link. I maybe see one piece of spam every few months because of it. And once in a while I get feedback that I really enjoy. As the top-level comment mentioned, there are advantages to 1-on-1 communication.
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For anyone else interested, and to clarify, "the Book of Kells experience" is to stand in for the exhibit in the Old Library while it's closed for renovations until 2025 [1].

Rather than and Old Library, it's a huge red prefab building in New Square. Might not be quite as impressive as the original tour.

1: https://www.tcd.ie/old-library-campaign/faq/
Yes, now can I direct your attention to the term “margin” used in the comment I was replying to? It is common for people who are looking for the sweet upvotes from a “this company is ripping everyone off” spin to present this as if “retail sales price - BOM = UNJUST PROFIT!!!!!!”. The source is a blog post based on a tweet by one person who does not work in the industry who is repeating another unverifiable claim by someone who does not work in the industry. The term “BOM” is not mentioned anywhere in that, and none of this has any details which could be reviewed for accuracy.

The blog post really highlights how effective those headlines are at getting clicks but not informing readers: it leads with “nearly 1,000%” because that sounds even more rage bait-y than the already high “823%”, and that's clearly the impression people take away from the story even though starting with the second paragraph it makes it clear that this is a very fuzzy claim which is likely significant understating the true cost for Nvidia to make the hardware as sold or the other factors I also mentioned.

Finally, “swapping out the memory on an existing product” can mean “we replaced part A with larger part B” or it can mean “we upgraded a controller, added additional channels, and redesigned the physical form factor to provide better mechanical and thermal capacity for the extra chips”. That's why those extra details are so important since it's otherwise easy for someone to make a tweet which sounds like they know what they're talking about but is in fact leaving out a lot of important context.
I dont trust devs that praise clean code as much as i dont trust people that say they eat clean.
FAA is under DoT. We (consumers) have several options to force FAA to act. Complain to the DoT, contact your senator and/or sue them.
Oh it wasn't just FOSS, it was ideology over everything ( e.g Everything should be Javascript ) and complete lack of understanding on hardware. It is also an observation that to this day most people working on web related technology has similar problems.
I don’t get the impression that standardrb is that popular.

It’s also hyper strict, which is ok for a new project, but won’t play nicely with any legacy app.

Though I’m surprised DHH didn’t write his own RuboCop from scratch.
Spirit was Boeing - Boeing Wichita - which B sold off to bankers in 2005. It's not "burned by X", it's "sold the plumbing, burned down the restaurant for insurance money". Except not even Tony Soprano would expect to get fresh pizza from a burnt-out shell.
> It’s prolonged downtime, that’s what it is, and it may make the system unusable

IMHO, that's how I feel about systemd --- if a startup task is stalled, the system is non-interactive, unless something has changed since I last experienced this issue.

If some other operator access has started, you can use that, but the console is useless.
Talking about the overall size of Canada is dodging the issue. The scale of the country does provide a justification for not being able to access any arbitrary spot across Canada (or the US) using public transport, but the previous commenter is talking about accessing a town a mere 200 km away from British Columbia's largest city and urban agglomeration — 3rd largest in Canada as a whole.

How many Switzerlands can you fit within a 200 km drive from Vancouver [0]? My eyeball guess is that the area is half the area of Switzerland, maybe less than a third if we exclude US territory covered in the map. And what's the population density of that area? Again, ignoring the US, just counting Vancouver's [1] and Victoria's [2] metropolitan areas alone adds up to 3,000,000 inhabitants (more than a third of the population of the whole of Switzerland), so this area's population density is very likely to be similar or even greater than that of Switzerland as a whole.

[0] https://www.smappen.com/app/map/802yt

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria,_British_Columbia
This is a great read! I am fifty years old now, but for many years during my twenties I supported myself as a one-man Mac/PC repair shop...in a college town. I made house calls almost everyday, and every evening was spent in my home shop working on drop-offs.

I got to meet a ton of different people. There were the computer-illiterate business owners with ridiculous expectations; the lonely middle-aged guys with esoteric hobbies who talked my ear off; the single moms on a tight budget raising three kids; the ultra rich people wanting to keep a ten-year-old PC alive; the author who had lost years of data and would pay "whatever it takes"; the religious father with gigs of porn; the helpless college students whose lack of basic computer knowledge actually impressed me....and more

This was like a trip down memory lane. Great read. Thanks for sharing!
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irq: Agreed. It's just a roundabout way of saying they want everyone physically at work. Given that they're based in SF, and the real estate/rent is high and the need for a small group to boost downtown revenue, of course the investors will push for that since it benefits that group. Not having a clear remote only position for a 100% software company post pandemic is just not going to work for me, and there's no evidence that physically being together has any productivity gains.
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Here is a website generator that does not require tooling. Project has just started. Quite tiny. Feedback needed. Thanks
> LinkedIn was an employment focused social network

It very much still is focused on employment, you just have to use it to that end and avoid their 'feed'.
Yes, they measured bisphenols and phthalates.

I actually tracked down the original which has charts of how much was found, and is what should have been linked to in this post. https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/the...

Frankly it's frightening to consider the implications.
Not sure what you’re responding to
I have just learned from observation, speaking with counselors, and watching videos online. I have a family member with severe ADHD.

You might want to visit with a doctor to be evaluated for ADHD. There are medications that help, but they differ by person and medication with side effects.
I suppose if you're a cold hard logic type only just dipping your toes into it, the Stoicism of old might be more your speed, as they considered logic and reason their hammer and nails, yet still retain a certain universal appreciation that I find vaguely similar to Taoism from China (along with a concept that change is the only constant)

Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius has quite an interesting journal that also illustrates some of the thoughts and theories of the time (unable to confirm or deny it, he merely repeatedly brings up the possibility of atomism.)

Atomism also apparently makes an appearance in some Indian philosophical texts, though I don't know them off hand.

Philosophy was originally married to the "natural sciences", and so you'll find many scientific concepts originating in mystical thinking if you look past whatever simple version that suburban cavepeople of the area have decided is king.
RHEL6 did use upstart, but when RH tried to submit patches/work with upstream like they do with most projects they ran into issues with Canonical's CLA and other submission policies. So when Poettering came back with systemd they went "what the hell" and switched to that.
s/year. I know we're not very far into the year but I do read a lot./week, and I read a lot./

FTFY ;)
Agreed. OP is rather naive. Would he support companies not choosing to employ LGBT people, Muslims, Jews etc? There are reasons people fought for employee protection and they're rooted in exploitation, discrimination and, in the case of Pinkertons and anti-union activity, the literal murder of workers by powerful employers and the state.
Some attention is better than no attention but monetization/a side hustle/etc. just isn’t a big deal for a lot of people and honestly isn’t a real option in a lot of contexts.
And this is my drawn out experience as well
I just made one last week (revamped) and started tracking analytics using self-hosted Plausible.

It’s pretty neat, I’ve been able to get thousands of views due to a couple popular articles. I added comments as well to get any feedback. Link in bio.

Dev wise I just wrote it from scratch and ship minimal JavaScript for a better UX.
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I understand. I'm wondering if I should do AI for HR to catch my own AI resumes and cover letters. It's kind of unethical, I guess.
On the other hand, it's very hard to find a job for non-top professionals right now. And I'd be happy to help them.
It's an extremely difficult ethical issue. I don't think I can find an answer to it very quickly.