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> Doctorow: "We have to make it legal to do to Facebook and Apple and Google and all these other tech platforms, the things they did to the companies that came before them."

It would be good to hear what he thinks they did to other companies that are not legal (implied by: "...make it legal to do to..."). As it stands, his statement is a sleight of hand technique to paint things in a way that suits his narrative and perspective, but not necessarily reality.
Depending on the size of the keyboard and on the size of your hands, using the left modifier for that shortcut might need two hands instead of just one; it's very convenient to be able to quickly lock the desktop with only one hand.
In a smaller company it's not hard for "invisible" (like CI) contributions to be actually seen and noticed by both leadership and by the people you work with every day. And on the other hand, if you're a dev working on product and getting work done is a lot harder than it should be, you've got a strong incentive to pause product work and focus on "maintenance" work.

When almost a quarter of the company (15 devs) can both see and feel your contribution to make their lives easier and more productive, you've got a pretty strong political position even if you aren't directly producing product. This is true even if you produce, say, an internal dashboard: you're known as the one dev who took time out to help the 20 sales people sell better (or whatever); you know their names, and they know yours.
And beyond pricing strategy, there are people who feel that a fair price is intrinsic to the product (e.g. the amount of work that goes into it). For example, it's pretty common in the classical guitar luthier world for there to be a decade-plus waiting list for some masters. They refuse to scale up their prices to “market-level” (i.e. a couple years max, takes months to build a guitar), because they don't want the guitars going to someone for purely economic reasons. Mind you, these are still very expensive, five figure instruments.

(edit: you could obviously think of it as a strategy that maximizes some other utility function in which profit is just one parameter)
I chose C (Turbo-C) because it was much better at strings than Pascal: specifically it had strdup() and their length was not limited to 255 characters. Also C had escape sequences- actually Turbo Pascal had them, not sure about standard Pascal.

I think earlier versions of Pascal had only fixed length space padded strings.

Yeah, 6809 and 8088 (arguably an 8-bit CPU) supported C just fine. The other 8-bits, not so much. I wish the CoCo had been a better computer than it was (crappy keyboard, not a real serial port, terrible video). My Atari 800XL was better except for its CPU.
Pretty big. I’m the OP and this is the CRT I have:

https://twitter.com/AndrewKemendo/status/1738948621238694167

At least 40lbs

Funny story, one of my best friends, former head of BD for confluent and former power lifter got this CRT for me and literally carried this massive thing down the street in downtown DC to deliver it to me. Ha!
What is the crystal structure of the new material, anybody knows?
Evolution built our brains.

Though to be fair, actual biological evolution is more complex than simple genetic algorithms. More like evolution strategies with meta-parameter-learning and adaptive rate tuning among other things.
Most of my car rental experiences are like that one Seinfeld episode. I reserve car X, and when I get there, they say they don't have car X (that they allowed me to reserve) but I can use car Y. Sometimes it doesn't matter at all, especially if they're going to pay for the gas. But it does bother me that I want a Honda Civic and walk out with a Dodge Charger or Ford F250.
We moved recently. Our previous house served us well, with adequate space for all the kids. My wife never complained. But this time, as we were getting ready to hunt for a house, she said, "Can our next house be pretty?"

Beauty matters. We can have different definitions of what beauty is, and tastes change. But we still need beauty. We are not just purely functional organisms, whether or not our philosophy admits it. We have a sense of the aesthetic. We don't like ugly, and we don't like boring, and we don't want to be surrounded by either of them.
I think the perishability and extreme difficulty of handling these like other produce makes them a special treat. They're good. A mild, banana-like flavor with vanilla overtones. I would not say pineapple like the article, that's too acidic.
That still seems a bit high to me, unless you mean older ones? A ten year old Prius is >$10k here [1] and I don't see $5k until I get back to the 2010 model year (14-15 years old, and starting to get a lot less reliable).

[1] https://boston.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=2014%20prius

[2] https://boston.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=2010%20prius
say you load 1 million records and you average them at 5.1. you then load another million and average them at 4.5. so you 5.1+4.5=9.6/2=4.8. rinse and repeat. as long as you keep the amount of records processed per each run about the same, your numbers will not be skewed. only the last chunk will most likely be smaller and it will introduce small rounding error, like if it has only 10k records instead of 1M. but still it is the simplest solution with good enough outcome.
"But instead of spending the money on a house big enough to host those dinner parties, you could host them at a fancy restaurant, with better food and the ability to spend the entire evening with the guests instead of in the kitchen."

That just not true. Restaurant quality has plummeted and it's easy to out cook them. Go to your average fancy wedding and the food is mediocre (this summer I went to a wedding in Canada's fanciest hotel. Same "fancy" fare you get anywhere else).

By the time your guests arrive, if you're spending your time in the kitchen instead of entertaining, you've messed up.

Also, you're telling OP how to live his life. You'd hate it if someone told you how to live yours.

"And for hosting occasional guests an extra bedroom, plenty of solutions exist for creating temporary sleeping space in the living room, while leaving your own bedroom to the guests. A small inconvenience to pay to save out a whole bedroom to pay for and maintain. There’s also the option of going on vacation together, which can be a really fun way to spend the holidays."

The carbon cost of vacations is not zero. Close the ducts to the extra room and maintaining it is essentially free.

But again, you're telling OP how to live. You do your vacations with friends, I'll invite my in-laws to stay with me for a year.

"Plenty of landscaping places will deliver to the home, much more convenient, and cheaper overall when you can downsize your vehicle of choice. I ended up making life choices that let me not have a car at all, and I spend that money on traveling instead."

And the detritus afterwards? Since I don't have a truck Ive been slowly cleaning my yard one green bin a week at a time since moving in two years ago. With a pickup I could have finished in two weekends.

Your travel is not environmentally sound at all. Sure, a plane gets 100 mpgp, if its full, but the distances are massive and its way worse overall.

But that's your life, you can choose to do that if you want. I care too much for the environment to air travel much (and, as a "third culture kid" -yuck- I actually do have friends and family scattered through out the world).

"My point is: I find life to be more comfortable when treating edge cases like edge cases, and finding an appropriate solution. I see so many people maxing out their house and car within their budget, and then talking about but never doing things they really want to, like that far away vacation, or that expensive hobby. I never quite understand why."

You don't have to understand. Ppl like to bitch. They would have even if their choices were different. That is a message of basically all religions throughout time - be content with your now.
Are there any location constraints?
Either way it doesn't matter: buildings are going to be either heated or cooled nearly ever day. Some seasons you heat them, some you cool them, but rarely is the ambient temperature close enough to rely on passive systems for comfort. Of course local climate matters, some places never need any heating/cooling, some need is only some days. Humans have started to demand the building be more comfortable.
Right. But I think it stemmed from her incompetence in her testimony. She seemed really stupid and false in her answers.

Then people examined her and found other dumb things.

My point is that it’s not like they said “let’s get Dr. Gay.” But that attention was focused on an idiot and it led to their firing. Any idiot would suffer the same fate if they gave those answers. No one really cares about her intrinsically.
Other than the high annual death toll and millions of life-changing injuries annually, lowered health, significant impact on household income, and pollution, you mean?
They do claim that, although they should still share with the appropriate regulatory body where they were fishing. I know at least some of them there are rules about what can be done with fishers' data for exactly that reason.

More likely they don't want to follow quota, rules about what they can or where they can fish.
A flood of customers visiting your stall in the hopes of buying an elusive pawpaw may well be more profitable overall than a steady trickle of customers willing to pay the market-clearing price. C.f. the crazed crowds of bargain hunters on Black Friday, or the abundance of artificial scarcity in the premium sneaker and streetwear market.

The sort of pricing and supply irregularities that lead to queues and scalpers and hype are frequently rational for the seller, precisely because of the irrationality of buyers.
And many/most of them were subsets of the C you'd get on, say, a PDP-11, at the time (although I understand they got better over time). That was what always put me off using C on the 8-bitters. Turbo Pascal on the other hand.......
Price is determined by supply AND demand.
Deduplication of US voter data to identify voting fraud
Kioxia reportedly kills off 30-year-old Plextor brand
Another good organization in this space is Signals Network, which has experience working with whistleblowers outside the US.

https://thesignalsnetwork.org/
Except apple books is horrible. Truly. Why can't Apple give me more control over formatting???
According to Christopher Alexander et al. in A Pattern Language, it's about edges: you want buildings to have a non-zero-width "edge" to them that creates an additional zone that is (a) not the building (b) not the open space beyond it. APL has several nice examples of this.
Genuinely

Didn’t everyone memorize Deleuze? (Joking)
And I’m asking for clarification.

The definition isn’t anywhere close to envy.
Why did they refuse? That makes it sound like they had cars but decided not to give you one, despite your pre-payment.
Thank you for pointing this out. I had no idea. Seems like the kind of thing that all Beepy users should be made aware of.
I’m not sure that your experience should be generalized to a broad rule against volunteering “any information about yourself to anyone in the office beyond what is required to complete your job.”

I used to work in finance. Volunteering personal information about myself led to a close friendship with the CFO of the bank I worked for. I did good work, but so did many other people. The CFO and I got along so well only because we connected as people — mostly based on our personal lives and shared interests. My relationship with that person rocketed my career forward.

I don’t mean to take away from your experience. It sucks. But volunteering personal information can be beneficial.

Your risk tolerance should factor into the decision. The story above happened very early on in my career, shortly out of college. Taking those risks, to me, at the time, was totally worth it.
I use DNS-01. In fact, it's the only way I can do it as LE doesn't have access to my internal setup.

And buying an SSL cert only gives you 368 days in Chrome / Apple browsers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102028
If you had a dining room, maybe you'd throw parties more often than every two years. We use ours every Thanksgiving and Christmas at a minimum. It's also a great place to simply eat dinner without retreating to one's bedroom.

Same with guests; people aren't going to visit you if they have to pay for a hotel, and have to travel from the hotel back to your house for breakfast in the dining room you don't have.

My town doesn't even have a hotel. You'd have to go to the neighboring city. The hotel is on the side of a mountain overlooking the river, which makes it hard to get to. About 20 minutes away is 20 minutes too far when everyone is exhausted and drunk at the end of the party. First to bed gets the spare bedroom, and the last one up crashes on the couch. In a pinch, a cot can be put in the dining room.

A spare bedroom is also an excellent location for a home office. Having extra rooms is capital. It greatly increases the quality of one's life, every day. You might as well say you don't need a kitchen. You don't really need to cook when you can get all your food prepared from outside, in our prosperous society. While technically true (there exist apartments without kitchens), it is an austere standard to live by.

No argument on the pickup truck, though.
So it's okay for WSJ to give them false information, or what are you trying to say? Is it fine for WSJ to give me false information about the economy because I'm not an economist also?
Before password managers people used the same password on every site. Vaults being a SPOF is true but not really relevant. They're still an improvement over what people did before.
If we assume ICE car owners are freeloading on the rest of us (fossil fuel externalities), and them losing some convenience is making their life harder, that is an accurate reading. No one likes paying true costs when they come due, and they've been riding on a discount. We'll do our best to reach parity with combustion vehicles, but there is no guarantee, and some sacrifice might be required.

I've said in numerous other comments that we should provide generous subsidies to ease any transition burdens, but there might be gaps unfortunately.
Billionaire donors like Pierre Omidyar: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/20/tech-billionaire-ai...

Given the donors and the list of cases WhistleblowerAid has been involved in, I wonder how politically neutral this organisation is.
When you say most people, are there in fact people that can see this at low intensity?
Writing complicated software in assembly is a pain. The famous "Wizardry" (one of the earliest CRPGs released in 1981 for the Apple ][ and eventually ported to other systems) was written in Pascal. Making all the code to support the various character classes, weapons, monsters, etc. was far easier in a reasonable structured language rather than either Basic or assembly.
> I'd really like to see a plug-in hybrid pickup where I can do 10-20 miles on a charge without needing the gas engine to even kick on.

Next year, the 2025 RamCharger

https://www.ramtrucks.com/revolution/ram-1500-ramcharger.htm...

92-kilowatt-hour battery pack paired with a 130-kilowatt generator
We need a ton of infrastructure build-out for EV chargers.

There was funding for EV chargers in one of the recent infrastructure bills, but while the money is there the execution appears lacking. They've barely built anything.
I remember more than once disassembling pieces of C code and loudly complaining about the poor quality of it while hand optimising it by deleting about half the instructions even after I got my Amiga. On the C64 the notion of C or Pascal didn't cross my mind - a few BASIC compilers were somewhat moderately popular.

E.g. Oasis Software had White Lightning FORTH ad Basic Lightning[1] and a few others. I never tried the FORTH version, but Basic Lighting and the successor Laser Basic and Laser Basic Compiler started with a bunch of BASIC extensions and eventually added compilation on top of that. The extensions did things like install raster interrupts to virtually increase the number of sprites and provide sound routines, as well as add pre-emptive multitasking(!) on the C64. If I remember correctly, 3-5 BASIC tasks + sprite animations could run concurrently - I don't recall seeing much point, because around then I started with assembler and cycle-counting raster interrupts was suddenly where it was at.

I vividly remember the demo programs the screenshots on the page linked below are from, though...

Who'd want Pascal when you had stuff like that, though? My introduction to Pascal came on my dads boring and slow ITT XT PC, mostly out of curiosity as to how anyone could use a machine that was so obviously inferior to my Amiga - monochrome, no bitmap graphics, no proper sound, less memory (I had a 512KB expansion, for a full megabyte)... Of course it had a harddrive, but it also costs 3 times as much... But I did end up experimenting with Turbo Pascal and some dBase for a while.

[1] https://www.jimbrooks.org/archive/programming/forth/WhiteLig...
So address the fact that there are 4000 lb boxes doing 70 mph.

Physics, to a first order approx, doesn't care about the car mass, btw. It does care about A*Cd*v^3 though. Especially the v. A lot of problems depends on that v.
> two hours at a restaurant.

I know there are significant cultural differences at stake here but if your party with family/friends at a restaurant only takes two hours, you're doing it wrong.
It may come as a shock to you, but there are people for whom getting the maximum possible profit is not the primary concern.
In the US, this isn't the case yet. Other makes won't get access to all V3+ superchargers until later this year.

Supposedly, Ford will get it next month.
How does that meme go? Oh yeah: Tell us you haven't read the thread without telling you haven't read the thread.

But, okay, let's entertain your random tangent. Such a request is emblematic of junior managers/junior manager hopefuls misguidedly trying to wedge their knowledge into the function of the operation. In reality, you don't want to have to build a team that requires discussion about such matters. You need to define clear performance requirements upfront and let the benchmarks speak for themselves. Even if a function is O(N!), but measures successfully within the needs of the application, good enough.

It is especially important to encode these requirements in benchmarks as it documents for future developers the same requirements, and ensures they stay within them as code gets modified. The reality is that you won't be around forever. Keeping a team that relies on you to ask such questions is a failing on you.

But let's accept, for the sake of discussion, that you have failed your team. One still does not need to remember that kind of information. The function they wrote contains what they need to know, and they can consult the function to ascertain that information as needed – just as you could all by yourself in this scenario. If you like keeping such trivia in active memory, good on ya, but it is never necessary.
Don't editorialize - the page doesn't mention add because it's not really like dd except for one very specific use case.

It's a decent tool though. For ISO files I'd sooner use something like Ventoy but for applying img files from Windows it works well.
> I distinctly remember cks as the very guy who recommended ten years as an expiration date on my self-signed certificates

Link? In https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/MakingSelf... I see him saying he uses 27y (9999 days).
The scenarios in which you want to lock the bins is precisely the scenarios where the locks are likely to fail - crashes.

It's already been reported JAL plane damage was bad enough that intercoms didn't work.

Can't lock them for the full flight, at most you can lock them during first/last 30min ascent/descent. But even there, many incidents begin in the air and precipitate an emergency landing. We will then add another item for the checklist (lock the bins) while they are supposed to be focussed on keeping the plane in the air and safely landing it?

So needless cost & complexity that will have maintenance costs, inconvenience costs.. and then have a high probability of failure in the one case it was designed for anyway.

Many problems are people problems and technology can't solve people.
It’s about strictness scoping. https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/v877zq/why_cant_you... gives a decent explanation, and https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes/blob/d0c651b358b361b0... is good and technical.
are there other countries with the same problem?
In 1983 Turbo Pascal sold for about $50.00 meaning some 40 years later that price would be equivalent to about $250.00 given an inflation figure at about 3.5% per annum.
By comparison, a very expensive IBM PC shipped with a free version of Microsoft BASIC burnt into the ROM.
I for one can't wait for the cheap 18650 cells flooding the market. They are so useful!
Its not just electricity. Looking as an investor, I would not today choose the UK for starting a busines or buying real estate. The level of social unrest, street violence, infrastructure outages, and more are very off putting. It's a subjectively 'ugly' environment. There are far more attractive places to put one's time or money.
The Dept of Homeland Security, established after 9/11, has been involved in copyright violations of all things. When I read an article about that I was kinda shocked.

https://www.dhs.gov/intellectual-property-rights
That is why GP said: "Specifically, I only want first-party cookies on websites I login to."
Fitch Upgrades MTA, NY's Transportation Rev Bonds to 'A'; Outlook Stable
If i had to guess, i bet it's the other machines nearby. I'm sure we've all felt the static from a crt screen when it's turned off. Being in a closed room of turned on crt's would probably create a significant field of potentials around the room. I can't imagine the earth's magnetic field is so erratic as to change noticeably from room to room. I'd think any variation of that order would disrupt the functioning of compasses, and the phenomena couldn't just be localized to your one room on earth, compasses would be somewhat unreliable all over the globe then.

But who knows, maybe a solar flair hit you between rooms and changed the environment enough to disrupt the tv, but then i'd bet it'd effect all the machines. Eh, who knows. Weird thing that electromagnetism
Millions still haven't patched Terrapin SSH protocol vulnerability
> First party cookies are how you’re authenticated on a website

Sure, but they said they were ok with first party cookies on sites they log in to.
> But what kid growing up in the 80s would go out of their way to purchase a Pascal compiler and learn an academically oriented language

Me, and most of my friends pirated Turbo Pascal and had a blast with it. This was the early 90s mind you. Rapid Windows GUI prototyping, inline assembly and compile to .EXE, way better than qbasic / gwbasic of before. And it took years for Visual Basic to catch up (if it ever did).
Japanese Experiment Breaks Record for Internet Traffic Speed
Electric is quieter, so many people you probably would never even notice or be aware of, who are out there seeking a peaceful direct experience of the mountains, will appreciate the absence of your motorcycle in that respect.

Also you make a common mistake of motorcycle owners in equating the amount of gas consumed with the amount of pollution. Smaller engines are by far vastly more polluting per kilometer than larger ones.

Which is saying something even worse than saying their per-litre pollution is bad since motorcycles get more kilometers per litre. In other words even with their better per-kilometer gas usage, they still pollute more per unit of distance travelled. That is truly bad, from a pollution perspective. It’s a mistake to think the small amount of gas used means there is less impact.

So your motorcycle should be trashed, yes.