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I see we’re kindred spirits. Everyone talks about Vince Gilligan or David Simon. But no hats raised for Graham Yost.

As far as LOST goes, I enjoyed the ride up until that very last episode, much like Battlestar Galactica. It’s a pity but I bet I could watch it all again and just skip the last ep and fill it with my head canon.
Buried on page 5. We need to re-learn to click the upvote button, not just comment. (I've also noticed this in the comment replies recently, in which very often someone will reply while seeming to agree or be interested, but seem not to upvote.)

> 144. A Leaked Memo from Google CEO Sundar Pichai Comes Amidst Employee Discontent (inc.com) 46 points by tlogan 3 hours ago | flag | hide | 54 comments
As per the documentation the secret is never shared unencrypted an the private key to decypher it is never ever in the url. It stay in the receiver local storage.
Rating: ½

ok! :D
The Mac turns 40 – and keeps on moving
As context afaicr, they were expecting to be cancelled after season 4, so wrapped up the big arc.

Then unexpectedly got a season 5, but weren't sure if there would be a season 6, so ended up hedging their bets with an odd season (compared to the others).

And then the post-show movies provided a few more opportunities, but never evolved into follow-on series.
The Shanzhai movement was also mostly based on pirated WinCE and the MediaTek all in one chip. After that became outdated (Android replaced WinCE, MediaTek lots its commodity advantage), they really didn't have much of a chance (I don't remember seeing many Android Shanzhai phones, but then I wasn't really paying attention back then).

A lot of the design team (almost all Chinese) I worked with at Microsoft China 07-09 moved over to Xiaomi to help found their UX design team (I see one is now a UX director at xiaomi, he was an intern in 2007), which I found pretty cool. They had previously done a lot of Windows Mobile work, and were really committed to trying out some of their wilder designs.
I don’t quite understand how shows were chosen. There seem to be a shows missing, fitting the criteria’s.

Six feet under: average rating 8,7, finale 9,9 (!)
US Union Membership Dips to Record Low Despite High-Profile Wins
I wanted to see where The Wire landed. Season 5 was the weakest but also rounded out the series by showing several cycles completing. Perhaps not the best, but in some ways the most important?
This really doesn't seem to be comparing to comparable data structures. For int map specializations like this, the optimized alternatives are things like Judy (which is looking quite aged these days) or roaring bitmaps, not to mention that any C++ developer using "ordinary" maps will be using absl's SwissTable (flat_hash_map) or folly's F14 (F14FastMap) or perhaps absl::btree_map if order is important. Comparisons to std::map and std::unordered_map are simply too naive to make the case for this data structure.
For most consumers, there is no good way to know ahead of time if tge device pulls DRM shenanigans. It's not on the packaging, and there is no online database of this kind of things. Reddit threads are too full of technobabble to comprehend for the average consumer.
For folks who are not in tech, check out WARNtracker.com which tracks US layoffs from all companies through mandatory government reporting from the WARN act of 1988, which requires layoffs above a certain size to be reported to state governments.

A good complement for Layoffs.fyi (Sometimes the source of a layoffs.fyi entry will be an article written by a journalist who saw the WARN notice on WARNTracker)
Fun analysis! Some thoughts and subjective opinions.

- Westworld's very poor showing helped me realize what I think the major flaw is in this analysis, which is that it doesn't properly capture shows that have been on the decline for a while. In Westworld's case, the season scores are as follows: S1 8.86, S2 8.38, S3 80.25, S4 79.38. As you can see, there is a consistent decline from beginning to end, not just a disappointing ending. The series average is propped up by a very strong first season and goes downhill from there. Not sure how to best adjust the calculation to try to take this into account.

- I found The Expanse ending disappointing because it ended mid-plot (which is less excusable than GoT since the authors actually finished the book series), but I also understand that they had to end it somehow and did pretty well with what they had. As a note to anyone that is enjoying The Expanse show but maybe hasn't finished it, I would definitely recommend stopping now and reading the books first, then watching the show. The books actually have a complete arc, but also the first six books pretty closely match the series, so if you watch the show first those books will be a bit of a slog to get through. Doing it the other way I think will work much better, because although you'll know the plot of most of the show in advance, the space battles and other visuals are so cool that it is still a fun watch. Then you can just kinda imagine what the rest of the books would look like if the'd actually made them into the show.

- Ozark being in the Disaster Finale surprised me – I thought the ending was good (if not great). I guess viewers were hoping for a Breaking Bad-tier ending (given the subject matter and strong rest of the show) and so were let down.

- Agree with the author that Lost is a surprise "satisfying finale". It is definitely in my top 5 most disappointing series endings (alongside the unsurprising disaster finales of GoT and Dexter).

- Big Bang Theory had a finale that seemed right in line with the rest of the show, surprised by the delta that puts it into Transcendent territory. I have a sneaking suspicious that non-fans may've been watching other random episodes and rating them (negatively), thus dragging down the season average by a good bit. But non-fans would probably not be tuning in for the finale, thus leaving that score to be entirely dictated by fans.
That's some Mad Max level stuff.
Should've restricted it to (prestige) dramas, as there is a world of difference between Game of Thrones or Mad Men and, say, Big Bang Theory. For instance, where's the greatness of The Shield? Or the controversy of Battlestar Galactica?
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Season 9 had Denise as main character, with Turk in a supporting role. Ergo, it’s the spinoff season.
I feel the same way about Game of Thrones. I really loved the first few seasons, but I can't bring myself to start rewatching them as I know where it inevitably goes.

It's even worse than How I Met Your Mother in my opinion, for two reasons - first , GoT is much more focused on a long running story, making the conclusion more important. But more importantly, HIMYM is a sharp decline; you can simply skip the last two episodes and have a perfectly fine ending. GOT just declines ever more, making it hard to set a point at which to end the show.
I wouldn't call it DRM because there are no digital rights here to manage. I would rather call it electronic muzzle or lead
> all very 1930s level home garden stuff

Conventional farming is 2 to 3x more efficient in America than it was around WWII [1]. Home grown is delicious. But it's a luxury for a reason, even when dovetailed to a conventional farm operating at scale.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2018/march/agricultural...
How the British Library's Roly Keating managed a major cyber attack
NASA System Predicts Impact of a Small Asteroid over Germany
Not a screenshot in sight...
> Services require support

Especially when they are needed due to flaws in the product or overall bad quality. /s
If they were smart they would engage with the current game creators and spin this into something bigger.
The common consensus is that this statement is a "We know, stop messaging us goddammit" with nothing implied one way or the other.
is there supposed to be any context for this post?
> I don't think there is really a market for user-replaceable batteries

Why do you think so?
It all comes down to where crops for animals are produced. If ground water is needed it is probably wrong place. In places where rain covers the water need, we are entirely fine as that water will mostly end up back to cycles or even rivers. Which then if needed can be processed.
That’s a dangerous line of thinking: memory safe languages can and do have memory safety bugs. There are many causes for this, from incorrect compilation (as seen here IIUC), bugs in the language runtime, concurrency problems, to unsafe language features. That doesn’t mean that there is no value in memory safe languages, they are a definite improvement. But, they are not the solution to all problems around memory safety. For example, even in Rust, which provides some of the strongest memory safely guarantees, there are memory safety issues discovered in the standard library.
In fact the President is even a slave by this definition.
Please save the acronyms for repeated uses of a long name. It helps the rest if us to understand what the hell you're talking about.
I’m not worried about the last 1000 people online still using Opera.
Look at Palworld's marketing materials and take a guess: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623730/Palworld/
> "What were the writers thinking?"

As for the Game of Thrones -- that's exactly what JRRM envisioned. At some point he sat together with GoT storywriters and producers and laid off all the plans, how who dies, and of course the finale.

I think the finale was awesome -- what a nice populist autocratic ruler may become. That sometimes life is not what you want it to be, and you cannot change it. That your favorite characters don't always win.

PS: I only regret they pictured protagonist Tyrion (the dwarf) somewhat nice. The whole GMMR's idea was that his character was repulsive, incredibly ugly, but did good things all the way. That would stand off from pretty much all the movies, when I can tell who's who from the first minute (good are cute, bad are ugly).
I just finished watching it for the first time. Start to finish.

I didn’t hate the ending. Season 5 was the worst, and the whole, “I’m going west of Westeros because that’s where the maps stop” was some weird nonsense, but otherwise it fit the general theme of the show.
1. There's a massively succesful new game called PalWorld

2. It kiiiiinda sorta vaguely looks like Pokemon

3. Everyone and their dog is all "haha nintendo won't sue.. they won't sue, right...? right...?"
It was a fantastic first season. But it aired a year and a half ago and there is still no release date for season two, so any hype has subsided quite a bit. Season two was reportedly filmed in April/May of last year.
Not sure what you're on about. The article itself states they're typically 1mm to 2.3cm in length, and most of them that I've ever seen are closer to the 2cm than 1mm. Probably helps that just about anything 1mm in size looks about the same from a normal viewing distance, so there's reason to believe most people would have seen more from the bigger end of the spectrum.

Regardless of the size I quite like them, many are quite pretty and fascinating to watch.
That's surprising.

GA workflows are basically yaml lists of docker container names to run.
I thought it would've been trivial to emulate. At least much easier than any other system.
VSCode has always felt incredibly slow to me, even compared to e.g. pycharm. , which I have always assumed of be otherwise roughly comparable. VSC’s lag in basic code inspection and linting became so annoying I had to switch off it. We’re not talking seconds, but maybe tenths of second lag, for everything at all times. I understand plenty of people love VSC, but honestly I have never been able to share that enthusiasm.
BB = Breaking Bad, BCS = Better Call Saul
I wish it was make believe. It's what happened in NZ in the 90s.

It wasn't just mental illness patients affected, it was also those with significant intellectual disabilities. At least there's an NGO sector that could develop the ability to provide housing and care for them.

For an anecdote.
Have you ever been in a position where you’ve had to try to convince a professional of something only to have them dismiss your concerns because it falls outside of some technical boundary? When it comes to medical, financial and legal domains it can be particularly exasperating to have your lived experience denied to your face, copping benign patronisation at best and the dismissive/angry claim that you are lying (with some suspicious ulterior motive) at worst.
It has a compiler, yes, but if you know HTML and JS you already know like 99% of the language.
It's different for anyone working in a corporate environment, where no one cares what you prefer.
They also make a really good hot sauce.

For folks who like their hot sauce, I'd compare it most to valentina in texture and composition, with a mild to medium old bay flavor.
It's a general, not a politician. Also, what career politician (of any prominence) is saying anything like that?
Stranger Things feels like it could be heading towards a transcendent finale.
Great, lets starting by jailing everyone who commits wage and hour theft, which exceeds the cost of all theft and robberies combined, but which gets little news coverage because it doesn't have dramatic video footage. IT's logical to start with the biggest thieves, no?
I almost never wear graphic tees. But to me it seems like there are people too shy or uninterested to ask about a generic cartoon character on a shirt. The name doesn't have to be so bold, but it shouldn't be in fine print either. I think the logo is not cute enough either. The grungy sketch style is not as appealing as normal clean logos. I think they need to seek help in designing an appropriate logo. At least the name Kagi is catchy.
Fantastic project.

Very illustrative for new founders to learn how much revenue they'll need to generate to see any useful return if they raise venture money.

To that end, I'd add some of the more annoying aspects of priced rounds, like liq pref, etc
https://web.archive.org/web/20240118213333/https://www.nytim...
Does it really matter? The idea is that if you’re stealing because you are starving or need a pair of socks or something, it won’t be anywhere near $950. In other words nobody steals $950 on accident.
I simply refuse to accept The Sopranos as a quality finale. I don't care how pretentious people believe it has aged, it's just a crap way to end one of the all time greats. Total cop out.
I assumed size which is probably what most people would associate with "heavy".
It's been well over 30 years and only now your post made me realize that. Thank you!
Define heavy
I think you're not really listening. I explicitly said I don't have any alternatives to offer. Maybe some sort of future magical internet money that doesn't suck in the ways the current crypto ecosystems do?

I also absolutely acknowledged I don't have experience living in that kind of situation. Not sure why you seem to be getting so worked up about this.

I never claimed Bitcoin was the lesser of two evils. I was merely illustrating my disagreement with your assertion that "good" is determined by the options available, not out of hypothetical options or some idea of "objective good". But I do think Bitcoin (and most crypto) can be (for some people) the best of bad/so-so/meh options. And that's great that it exists for people, when their other options are worse.

But I really hope we can do better than this. Obviously we can't right now, and I'm not suggesting that someone who lives under a repressive financial regime is going to have to be the one responsible for figuring out what that is. But I have to believe that better -- something that's actually good, unlike current cryptocurrency -- is possible.
What’s nice for dour ending enjoyers is you can stop watching in Granite State if you want that cabin ending, assuming you’re willing to ignore the last 5 minutes or stop at episode end with the assumption being the episode ending is a call out of Walt’s hubris never letting him give up as a “Bolivian Army” ending before his demise. [1]

The show still works thematically like that, BCS largely doesn’t really care about how Walt croaks, and El Camino works equally well with “and Jesse tried to escape again, but this time got away with it”.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BolivianArmyEndi...
Pixel phones are broken again with critical storage permission bug
Get your personal info off the Internet
For sure, this is a very obvious potshot at ONCE/Campfire.

I don't disagree with the article, but I also think consumers have become overly tired of subscriptions that only ever multiply and go up in costs.

Spending thousands of $ on per-seat Slack vs a few hundred and some tech support hours seems like a decent investment if you have the internal capabilities. There's a lot of ways it can go wrong, but with clear vendor instruction and purpose-building the software for this, it should be doable. It really depends on how much you trust the vendor to build something robust yet easy to use.
I struggle to picture Nintendo teaming up with the game that has players farming and eating their own "pals". More to the point, people have been clamouring online for an MMO-style Pokemon game... hell, since the internet went mainstream. Nintendo not wanting to do the "heavy"[0] lifting of making a game like Palworld is, IMO, not why Nintendo hasn't launched one.

[0] Not an afternoon project, but also very much not out of Nintendo's wheelhouse.
Every once in a while I come across people with nostalgia for British Raj, and I point them to Orwell's essay 'A Hanging' to remind them to thank what gods there may be that they no longer live in British India.
That's interesting. But no. I can write queries so fast with the Django ORM it's silly. Especially dealing when dealing with relationships...

Pycharm will auto complete like 4 levels of joins in two seconds. That's faster than you tabbing to chatGPT let alone writing the prompt.
You are giving that show wayyy too much credit. (Bonus points: read the JJ Abrams interview about the magic box on his desk)

It was clear to me by the start of season 3 that the writers had no plan, that they were making it up as they went. That is why they had filler episodes, one which introduced new characters only to kill them off at the end with 0 impact on the overall plot.

The finale was more of a Rorschach test for what you thought the show was about. I even tested a friend of mine on this, making a convincing case about how the whole show was the Island bringing to life the gay subtext between Jack and Sawyer. (She is still raw about that)

I think the best way to understand the finale is with a Nihilist bent: it's whatever man.
If they are doing Kotlin/Spring, they are using Java no matter what.

It is like using Web and avoiding JavaScript, or UNIX and avoiding C/C++.

Sure it is possible to pretend it isn't there, until one needs to do serious stuff that requires understanding the platform and its ecosystem.

By the way, once upon a time Spring was also all hot on Groovy, then it was Scala, now it is Kotlin.

There is a certain irony complaining about Java programming language features and them going into Go, the epitome of programming language design.
Also, between the UK and Russia is all of NATO, including large segments of the US military. They far outweigh Russia in wealth and power (15x?) - IIRC, Russia's economy was the size of Spain's, before the sanctions. The Baltics, Hungary, and Poland have concerns, and NATO needs to defend them. How will Russia attack the UK with ground troops?
Another very underrated consequence of mass birth control is the amount of estrogens flooded into our drinking water. It's hypothesized that the amount of breast tissue men develop these days might be heightened because of this - among other things.

For anyone looking at solutions to this, I recommend activated charcoal water filters for the home.
Just had to bop a black widow in my office a couple months back. I’ve been check the spot she had set up in every few days since, I will for years I bet.

I played Grounded and I swear that game fucked me up.
The most likely outcome is that Palworld gets released on the Switch 2 eventually.
"_when_ feds are going to lower interest rates" is awfully presumptuous, don't you think?
Hacker Newsers do this on purpose. Many believe that the fewer people that understand what they're saying, the smarter they will look.
As I understand, tree-sitter implementation in Emacs is currently more like a foundation for development / adoption by plugins, it's not really usable as-is today.
I'm a JS guy but I'm not sure I would agree.

Backend frameworks in JS are not as mature as Django, Rails, or Laravel.
Are there any screenshots or feature lists anywhere? I couldn't find them.
It was a through-hole 1/4W resistor. It burnt in about 5 seconds as far as I remember.
How is this person the "head of the British army"?! I could not imagine the US chair of the Joint Chiefs saying such nonsense, or even addressing the topic without alignment with civilian policy.

Is there something about the UK's military personnel system that creates very independent-acting generals?
I know this and I hope you realize how horrible this is for community engagement.

I'm surprised there isn't an option to send your request via post mail.

Also other community-hostile behaviors of Java/OpenJDK project:

- mailing lists have no search function and block search engines/crawlers by returning 403 (apparently robots.txt is not enough!)

- can't post to mailing list without subscribing despite information that such messages will just need to be approved by moderator (they never are)
The "end result" is not quite the same as what they mean by finale.

The shortcuts taken in the final season of GoT, my word, are unforgivable when placed alongside the care and detail taken up to that point. By the pace of the series up until the start of the final season, there should have been two more seasons to do it "properly".

The decline of Daenerys deserved detailed, focused nuance as power and inherent genetic disposition combined to corrupt and disconnect her completely from reality. And Jon Snow's slow drawn-out torture as her decline played out, should have been comparable to Theon's at the hands of Ramsay.

It could have been beautiful.

Edited to add: It may have been the final two seasons that were greatly accelerated, not just the last. I can't remember, I don't want to re-visit the series because of it.
This discussion thread made me realize I was just assuming how it would work, without confirming, nor even thinking it through.
What I do not understand is the corner cutting. Why not lobby instead for a standardized QA by law for all plane producers. Costs that apply to all equally become invisible to the market?

Also this is a maintenance issue?
> That’s probably due to the character over plot idea, as there usually isn’t a storyline I’m dying to finish.

Yes, but how you handle your characters can still be very important. There are shows where the ending is simply a good episode, sending some loved characters off - like The Big Bang Theory. The ending itself is not that great of an episode on the tin, but the viewer has come to love these characters and having a great ending for them is important.

And then there are endings like How I Met Your Mother, which manage to cast the the whole series in a worse light. It would be the counter-example for ruining a comedy with the finale.

Overall, comedy endings are probably simpler than most, but you can still make a lot wrong.
Some people, I never liked such kind of crutches.

Stuff like Lombok are persona non grata when coding in Java, other than when imposed on us via 3rd parties without alternatives.