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This single-tool-usefulness thing is why, in a former life, I started out administering over 100 instances of Trac.

When Trac came out, it did everything confluence, jira, and bitbucket do, in one open source, easy to use tool that had tons of community-developed plugins.

The thing is, though, that it wasn't meant to be administered. It didn't lend itself to management. It was meant to be deployed, and then not managed, which is _fine_ if you have one or two of them, because they're pets, but in a world of cattle, you can't have 100+ special snowflake systems deployed like that.

I spent years mowing down every Trac instance I could find, migrating them to the actually-centrally-managed Atlassian stack. After I left that team, I would incentivize other people to carry on in my footsteps by buying a bundt cake for anyone who led the charge to remove a Trac instance from the infrastructure.

I gave away a lot of bundt cakes, but the infrastructure was better and more reliable because of it.
I now see where you are coming from and based on your definition, it makes sense that US is a global outlier. However, the dimension of developed status of a country was not at all apparent in the original context which was only about WFH, commute and public transport.
There are surely groups of people holding those opinions, but I don't many move from one to the other in any given three month period.
A lot of the pages just scratch the surface on the subject to get ad revenue. The example will be incomplete, highly situational, only explain one out of five overloads, etc. Whereas something like MDN or an independent CSS blogger will list every argument, return types, every overload, have complete examples, etc.

They position themselves as a reference but are more interested in SEO rank and ad clicks than providing quality reference information.
Antidepressants have been handed out like candy in the UK for decades. It was a news story in the 90s.
Because it be behind an NDA and a paywall and the cost of getting the info was not worth the speedup.
You own the disc, you don't own the game.
Tack on some image recognition to gauge customers "value" as they walk in and track where they sit. See a party sporting luxury bags and watches and charge them a little bit extra eh? Add in some facial recognition too to keep prices consistent between visits and voilà.
Is it possible to design plane wheels to spin on landing to reduce tire wear?
I can understand remaining minimal, and not shuttling lookie-loos to an active thread.

But remaining mysterious kinda works against the "memorial" aspect, and making the editorial decision "this passing is worth noting". It creates an "in-the-know"/"not-in-the-know" division that's somewhat against the ethos of being fair & open with those who don't yet know something.

A simple, "RIP, [name] [YYYY]-[YYYY]" would be a kindness to readers, and enhance the respect paid the deceased, while avoiding the thread clickthroughs you're concerned about.

And otherwise, we'll keep having these threads every time the honoree's identity is sufficiently obscure, and any associated stories/remembrances scroll off the front page.
VSCode always could have multiple windows. You can open multiple projects and they all share the same process(es), so clearly Electron supports multiple windows.

What it couldn't do, though, was to have a single workspace span multiple windows (ie "detach" tabs).

Whether or not this was caused by an electron limitation or a design flaw in VSCode, I can't say. Though I find it hard to believe that it would have been impossible to implement had they really wanted to.
I taught in a moderately wealthy suburb of Minneapolis. With ten years of experience, my comp was about 50k. While I have heard stories of teachers from prior generations receiving somewhat lavish defined benefit pensions, I don’t believe that has been an option for new teachers in decades. With regard to vacations, we had the school calendar vacations (which is fine), but otherwise I accrued about 8 days of PTO per year without any other sort of vacation/parent leave/etc. When our first child was born, I burned all three weeks of accrued PTO and was back on the job. By comparison, when I left teaching - I doubled my income, work about 20 percent fewer hours a week, have comparable healthcare, unlimited PTO, took 8 weeks paid parental leave with our second child, and have much less day-to-day stress. Teaching isn’t a salt mine, but - in my experience - it wasn’t a cushy job either.
Yeah this is the surprising part to me, I have managed to use Yandex successfully to track down specific documents and videos when Google failed.

Google search tries and fails to interpret what you want to search for, where there was no interpretation needed in the first place.
Japan Reaches the Moon, but the Fate of Its Precision Lander Is Uncertain
It sounds you want microkernels, and I agree, it would be nice.
Go Wiki: Rangefunc Experiment
Isn’t atmospheric loss on the scale of millions of years? If we were capable of giving mars an atmosphere, surely we’d be capable of topping that atmosphere off when needed?

So, even if maybe the terraforming and colony project has a life span of a few million years…that’s still longer that’s humanity has existed.
And it's hard and time consuming to hire in the EU also
Except that I can control whether the server I run is up to date, or internet-connected, or has appropriate NACLs, whereas I know firsthand that most large companies do not meet patching SLAs, or have properly-configured security controls.

This is a tech space; if you work around security, you know that someone's home computer is going to usually be harder to hack than a big corporation that has an attack surface a million miles wide.

Maybe I can phish you and get on your machine, but maybe not. But I can definitely phish at least one person at a big company, and usually many more. Your home machine doesn't have an ssh key buried in a git repo's commit history, or in a public S3 bucket, etc.

Most large-scale botnets running on consumer machines target either IoT or routers, both of which are difficult for consumers to patch, so that's more bad business security once again, than bad consumers.

> choose between Google and a free ticket to built vast botnets on perpetually legacy, unmaintained infra

My god, what a false dichotomy. Yes, every computer not run by Google is running freshly-installed, never-been-updated Windows 95, but Google is totally absolutely positively doing better than all the others in the same space. /s
I remember this do everything program way back in the DOS days called Framework - it was like a spreadsheet/word processor/database and programming system in one in a language called Fred.
You’d need the same information for rooks to handle castling.
Thanks. For my usecase leaflet is great, but was wondering if I was missing something.

I use some intermediate stuff (vue2leaflet) that is starting to rot a bit but that's less of a concern than the map lib itself.
And again what do "they" have to gain from making us less productive ? less consumerist ?

Fossil fuel is a cheat code for capitalism, why would "they" want to get rid of it ?
The law doesn’t say that at all. It only applies to instances in which payment is made, and says you can’t accept credit card and not cash:

> Everyone is obliged to accept up to 100 Swiss regular issue coins in payment. Regular issue coins, commemorative coins and bullion coins are accepted at nominal value without restriction by the Swiss National Bank and the public cash offices of the Confederation.

Nowhere does this imply that you can trade working for paying an equivalent cash amount of your labour.
And even if they’re not, a lot of games (used to) use Steam’s DRM and then never actually called the extended license check APIs. That’s to say that a lot of times the same “steam_api.dll” that pirated games have may work for a bunch of games.

I found that out a few years ago when I tested out virtualization graphics performance and wanted to avoid installing full Steam every time for my (legally purchased) games.
It should be clearly stated.

But a lot of scams can be setup with this "for as long as the publisher likes". Since this is a "Service", I guess it depends on the laws regulating the "services".

It looks like everything does favor the publisher, and the gamers get nearly only the right to shut up whatever happens. I wonder.
Ha ha thanks for the kind comment. :) Well I ought to know some things, been in the industry that long. BTW, despite the above tactics I haven't become financially rich from Tech - probably could have done if that was a priority, but , that's my other piece of advice to people, prioritise happiness, fulfilment and relationships with others especially family and friends, over money, 'cos "You can't take it when you go" , and people matter more. The wonderful luxury of working in tech is, salaries being what they are, you can take the middle path, balance life and work, while no-one's gonna starve. :)
Yes. Any bilingual person could tell you this.

For example, let's take the joke "What do you call the head of a school of fish? A Sardean" and translate it into Dutch.

Google Translate will give you "Hoe noem je de kop van een school vissen? Een Sardeaan." It's a mistranslation because "kop" explicitly means "head" as in the thing on your neck.

ChatGPT will give you "Hoe noem je het hoofd van een school vissen? Een Sardeaan." The first part now works, but the wordplay in "sardean" is still completely gone.

A proper translation does exist, for example "Hoe noem je het hoofd van een school vissen? Een direcsteur." In this case "directeur" is the translation of "director" and is a word commonly used for the person in charge of an instution. Similarly, "steur" is a type of fish - namely sturgeon. It's a pretty direct translation, but you need to be able to deal with wordplay to make it.

So no, ChatGPT translations do not properly incorporate context yet.
Wouldn't it be much be easier to list the small handful of cases where you want it to apply?

Think I am going to pay you in my house when you pay me money for said house? Ha! By this law, I can simply give you your money back. You are obligated to accept it since you must always accept money as payment, and now the house you lived in prior is gone. Seems incredibly problematic for the vast majority of transactions.

Which is no doubt why nobody actually follows it.
As some basic examples, the spotify app does not have a listening history, or at a minimum some counts and the most listened songs.
Or the app on the samsung tv does not have any setting or information about the audio quality.
This is a stupid take. Partly because of the use of acronyms for key terms, but also from the "constantly bothering a person is okay because it makes good security easier for us". There are plenty of good solutions that don't require you to heckle old ladies, and regular queries are generally bad security policy anyways. Regular boilerplate check-ins just breed complacency, after the 30th one do you think the person checking in is going to make sure the voice they are talking to on the other side is the right person? People get lax doing busy-work they know could and should be done by a computer. You ever had a job where you had to change passwords every 90 days? Opposite of security.
Paying with QR instead of having a stranger take your credit card somewhere to swipe it is also a much better experience for me.
I actually lost an American Express Card while visiting Delhi last year and they had a new one at my hotel in under 48 hours. They have a pretty sizable local presence in Delhi (I guess a lot of their support teams) but still they came through unexpectedly well.
My issue with labeling is the same weak link as ever: it relies on trusting the labeler. I think the consumer having a general rule of thumb of "treat this as entertainment and not educational" for all documentaries is the safer, more broadly applicable solution.

I don't know about you, but I don't really trust Netflix to consistently find the line between documentaries that are honest purveyors of truth vs. ideological cheerleaders.
Some people in this thread describe ordering online from the table. Others are talking about menu links but you order from the waiter.
Yes Section 174 is a huge issue for US companies of all sizes. We are seeing a shift in companies and other decentralized projects explore places like Panamá. The blockchain industry is dealing with IRS, SEC and other regulatory challenges. Some companies are choosing to leave the US.

There are options and advantages to operating outside the US. US timezone, a USD economy and a territorial tax system makes it easy to operate from my home country.

interview on this topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzUAJzKb8bA
> They're charging you about $0.10 per page. That's an insane markup, especially if it doesn't include the paper.

Most people get the more economical 6 cents per page plan.

> What happens when the heads dry out, the printer stops working, or they decide to drop windows device driver support?

The same thing that happens when you own the printer -- it stops working and you have to get it fixed or replaced. I'm not sure what your point is here.

Inkjets break unless they get regular use. If you're going to use it regularly, the ink subscription isn't a bad way to go.
> Every time I stand in some photoesque place, I think "there are probably already thousands of photos better staged than mine will ever be."

Also 100% when I travel: when I see some amazing piece in a museum I know if I want to see it again (especially in great detail) I can, without taking my own photo over the heads of others. Instead I can just enjoy it.

A couple of decades ago I scanned my dad’s slides. There were some fun pictures of old familiar places in the 60s (Singapore was really muddy!) but basically the only pictures of interest to anyone were of people. Lots of fun hours since then pointing at random photos and saying “remember when we did that?” But those landscapes? Boring (my dad said “These remind me how fascinated I was by the leaves when we visited the US” — basically thousands of (expensive!) photos were worth a 10 second glance in total).

Video is also different from a photo — you can participate or watch but not both. At least you can whip your phone out, snap something interesting, and go back to being part of it.
For me, commenting on HN is a low-risk activity:

- Nobody knows who I am

- If I'm attacked, I can usually write it off as random Internet people being jerks or having bad days.

- I don't accidentally say stupid stuff because the clock is running out for a timely response.

- If I say something rash or nasty, I can often delete it before many people read it.
This is strange. Going by log files, my low-post-frequency, low-readership personal blog gets regular googlebot visits. I'd say 95+% of the log is crawlers with Google coming the most often. I don't use any of their analytics or advertising services. When I last posted, I checked the log and saw sitemap entries within a minute and indexing a short while later.

I agree with the premise that Google's search has gotten worse but that seems consistent across engines. I use Duck Duck Go as my default but wind up having to bangtag to other engines more frequently. Maybe clustering search tools which burbled up in the mid-2000s will come back and get more users this time.
> I sometimes wonder how many of its 149,813 ‘characters’ any one human is likely to use, and suspect for most that’s in the low hundreds or less.

Chinese sends it's regards.

But also text interchange is useful even if most people only use a fraction of it most of the time. How else is an English document supposed to quote Chinese characters for instance (this happens all the time on wikipedia pages which share the original name of something next to the translation).

The days before unicode were dark days, nowadays besides the ocassional oddity text pretty much just works without users thinking about it -- thanks to unicode.
I got halfway through an AI article the other day before it veered into a completely different random topic and revealed itself. Kagi should add a way to flag such sites. Implement a reputation system to minimize gaming from adversaries while still taking in revenue from them.
Many restaurants (quite possibly most) take away the menus after you've ordered and traditionally had to bring them back if you wanted dessert/another round of drinks/etc. If they left menus, they're fighting space on what is often a table barely large enough to hold a plate for everyone seated at it

QR code to PDF improves both these scenarios.
I don’t like them. But I’m not sure how many people in this thread have friends in hospitality who are owners. They LOVE them.
Labor costs are killing restaurants, not having wait staff makes a huge difference to them
This gets to the heart of the conundrum to me.

The whole point of this interface is to be minimal, to be less, to be un-intensive & simple. Its a pleasure that it's a embodied in a high end crafted object, but also, so what?

Meanwhile the actual object of concern, what we interface with, is highly virtual. And it's incredibly hard to judge from afar what Rabbits offering is here. It's a huge unknown quantity how much this would really help in life. Especially weighed against whether it's justified as yet another object to carry.
In one of my previous lives I built an encoding platform for all the major record labels. Part of this involved listening to hundreds of tracks to try and optimize the encoder settings. It's not necessarily the quality of the original recording, but simply the type of audio. For instance, the absolute hardest, IMO, were "unplugged" albums, e.g. solo singer, acoustic guitar. Lossy compression would shit itself on those.
The Orange Pi 5 Plus
On Dictators and Clowns
Users will lose what they non-bought eventually if they don't own it. It's just a matter of time.

Even if the company earnestly believes, at this time, that they will continue to provide access forever, circumstances will inevitably change in the future and might cause a change of plans. Or the company might be acquired by another with different ideas, or bring in new management that decides to refocus on different business opportunities. Or the technology they use to lock down the product will fall out of support. Or they just go out of business. Something will inevitably happen, and users will lose access.
Imagine A/B testing physical user interfaces, like a cockpit. Or training on all the different planes with different cockpits using 1 setup.
TSMC's importance is at an all time high because they're finally in the lead, which wasn't true 10 years ago, when it was Intel.
Sadly, you are correct. It used to be that prices didn't change that frequently and a printed menu would not be too much overhead. Now, prices are changing so rapidly, it's a non-trivial cost associated with printing new menus every time the price changes.

I think digital menus are accommodating of the restaurant owner, in this regard. But they sure suck for customers, or at least, for this customer.
My sisters were born after 1990, and they have random ssn's ... especially compared to my brother and I who were born before 1990 (we were all born in the same city). I think the scheme implemented in 2011 is a more random one than the previous scheme or maybe it wasn't implemented everywhere before 2011, and took 20 years to implement (which is also believable).
Probably the .biz team :)
> choosing which work to be done, deciding whether work is good enough

The author elides over the fact that I'm knowledge work it is typically the manager's experience of having developed competency themselves that makes them effective at deciding which work to do and evaluating that work.

I wonder if the author would bet on a tech company that decided to fill their management ranks with new grads.
I never liked the version where the waiter explains the menu options because I always forget them by the time I need to order.
> which payment is made

Yes, that's right, labour offered in a trade is a form of payment. All trades sees both sides of the transaction make a payment. In the most common case as it pertains to employment, I pay you labour, you pay me money, at which point the trade is settled.

But since the law states that money must always been accepted as a form of payment I can also pay you money in place of my labour. Per the law, the employer has to accept it. Thus, any time you don't want to go to work you simply have to offer money instead of labour, which you will get back since the employer is still obligated to fulfil their side of the trade.

It's an interesting approach. But doesn't seem tenable in the real world, so it is not surprising that it is oft ignored.

> and says you can’t accept credit card and not cash

Exactly. Credit cards don't offer money, but instead offer tokens that you can later trade for money. Practicalities aside, no different than accepting chickens and then trading those chickens for money. Or no different than accepting labour and then trading that labour for money. It's all the same. A trade is a trade is trade.

The law here requires that the cash must be accepted as a substitute in a trade.
Are you asking whether I would keep showing up to my job if they stopped paying me? No, I would not.
"Necessity is the mother of invention!"
Won't a simple downsample->upsample be the antidote?
It would seem that Sutterella negates the efficacy of bile in the system - so if you have a high count of Sutterella in your gut, you're likely going to suffer bile related cancers.

Look at these articles - and a simple intersection summary from Bard is a good indicator to look at this bacteria - specifically due to its ability to survive in oxengenated environs - which would maybe mean liver/blood cancers...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712893/

>>>...it is possible that this bacteria could play a role in the development of bile-related cancers. Bile acids are known to damage DNA and promote cell proliferation, both of which are hallmarks of cancer. Sutterella wadsworthensis is resistant to bile acids, which suggests that it may be able to survive and even thrive in the presence of these harmful compounds. This could potentially lead to increased DNA damage and cell proliferation, and ultimately, cancer.

It interferes with the bodies ability to properly process fats and such...

So - targeting that bacteria could have widely beneficial outcomes.

--

If you look at the following:

Sutterella is indicated as being the cause of Celiac/IBS - and as bile is used to break things down into glucoses and such - it seems that basically sutterella blocks bile, and results in the body not absorbing nutrients - and basically making you nutrient defficient where youre not absorbing key nutrients as they pass through your system.

THe bacteria, if related to celiac, basically would appear to be what makes the immune system attack itself in the intestines and limit the ability of villi to deal with gluten...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5080374/