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I strongly disagree. Its not just the ratio that matters, but whether your representative is geographically close to you.

The American ideal is NOT just that you have a Representative, but that Representative knows YOUR community.

Proportional representation could result in all my States Representatives coming from LA or SF, but not the rural areas.

Ideally, I'd like Representatives that I'd have realistically met before in normal day to day living in the community. We need it representative for every 25,000 people, in my opinion. and that representative coming from my local community of 25,000 or so people.
Here's the report: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

A few highlights from the report itself (to clarify from spin):

+353,000 in January, similar to revised December gain of 333,000.

January monthly figures:

Professional and business services: +74,000 jobs

Healthcare: +70,000

Retail trade: +45,000

Social assistance: +30,000

Manufacturing: +23,000

Government employment: +36,000

Information: +15,000 But huh? How could that be? From the report:

"In January, employment in information continued its upward trend (+15,000).

Employment in motion picture and sound recording industries increased by 12,000, while employment in telecommunications decreased by 3,000. Overall, employment in the information industry is down by 76,000 since a recent peak
in November 2022."

Continuing...

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas: -5,000

Construction, wholesale trade, transportation and warehousing, financial activities, leisure and hospitality, and other services: "little change"

Overall, average hourly earnings are up "19 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $34.55" -- I wonder what the mean is.

What's more, employment "for December was revised up by
117,000, from +216,000 to +333,000".

So these are super-strong numbers, and not "just government" though yes largely services (ex programmers).
Remember that interest rates are currently restrictive and that money supply (M2) while having ticked up a bit lately, has fallen significantly for the last two years.

M2: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS
"Real M2": https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2REAL

According to real M2 we've basically absorbed the Covid helicopter cash drops?

As for programming jobs, that's likely, don't you think, an interest rate story, since startups and early stage ventures are highly interest rate-sensitive? But... it might be that LLMs actually... increase programmer hiring, as more projects become financially viable, if LLMs increase developer productivity? I hope so. What do you think?
anecdotally I have known a lot more individuals who were ruined by MMORPGs than any other passive entertainment I can think of; gambling levels of ruined -- 'lost the job and the wife and the kids and i'm coordinating this raid from a laptop in a mcdonalds lobby' levels of ruined.

i've known binge watching cinophiles that have called in sick the next day occasionally , but I don't know of any that lost it all from the hobby.
> I had a script that piped to curl to send, Mail.app for downloading via POP and Vim to read/write

Wow, this is very interesting, and I might even try it at some point. It might have been a bit challenging to sync and read the emails though, but the sending part seems nice.

Was the reason for why you gave up related to syninc emails?
>sure with we just had universal healthcare.

I dropped out of medical school over a decade ago, so my opinion is absolutely jaded. Talking with graduate physicians, the general concensus is "universal healthcare will never happen in the US." So my suggestion to unencumbered youngins is to study/travel abroad, and begin your expatriation quest... OR: become an attorney (joke: "in the US, for a cancer diagnosis, the best outcome is to be a lawyer").
Mission statements have been little more than marketing tools for at least my entire career.
One way to combat the issues you bring up is to add more members to the House of Representatives. Keep the same districts, but have each district elect five members.

A cluster of a minority population might be able to elect 1 of 5 members, instead of being shut out.

Representatives would still represent the same geographic area and have the same community ties.

The main argument against is the difficulty of running the House with ~3000 members. There isn't a room big enough, and there isn't time for all to get their 5 minutes to speak on each bill. That said, there is no constitution requirements for either. Changes would have to be made to accommodate.
That’s not true. The jurisdiction that your business operates in doesn’t change depending on where you’re located. If you’re running a business without a business entity (why?) then you can use a merchant of record service (like Paddle) which will serve that role for you.
>Your back-end and front-end are always coupled. So trying to split them in anything but the most extreme circumstances is an exercise in futility.

>If your back-end team want to move in one direction, they've got to align with the front-end team.

We have different backend and frontend teams and I can't agree that it's futile or hard to decouple etc. The only "coupling" which we have is the public API of the backend. Before a product or a feature is started, the teams design and agree on the API between the backend and the frontend, as part of our overall architecture design process (doesn't take more than a couple of days of 1-2 senior engineers if it's a big feature). After that, the two teams work completely in parallel. The frontend team has a framework which allows them to test the UI without the backend ready (using mock API). The backend team checks their API implementation using end-to-end tests. When the both teams are ready, we have the integration phase to see if it works together. Sure, often some edge cases are found and the API has to be changed a bit, but overall for me it has been quite a pleasant experience.
The deal was one of several challenges facing the federal business of the $7.3 billion AI startup, whose CEO Alexandr Wang has become an outspoken advocate of American national security amid the threat of China. One expert called the optics “horrible.”
That's like saying your purpose is enjoying the scenery, because even if you're shooting a new photo book, you put your pleasure above all and taking professional photos while looking at the landscape is just a small detail.

I mean, we can invent a lot of way to present it, it all comes down to how the immigration office interprets it (as far as I know, the only real test is suing them when they ask for the money)
Seconding this. Asciidoc was created to be a simple mapping to DocBook - which was specifically designed for writing books. It should be able to handle everything you need, but if there is some esoteric requirement, you can write your own processor.

Then again, content is king. Write it on napkins if you must. When complete, you can spend two days to transcribe to whatever format the publisher requires.
Absolutely, it is great that the article writer is no longer employed as a journalist
I don't understand what reasonable alternative there could be. Develop your own YouTube?
Isn't it obvious that since LLM are trained to predict the next word they do better than to predict the previous one?
Thank you for turning me on top Cornucopia, it looks awesome. I've used the very similar aiosql in Python, but I hadn't realized there was a Rust analog.

To tell the truth I've been waiting for postgres_lsp to mature before trying it out, but based on this example [1] I think it does support multiple queries.

Since it uses a parser extracted from Postgres, the nonstandard syntax would probably trip it up, but there's probably a way to fix that.

[1] https://github.com/supabase/postgres_lsp/blob/main/example/f...
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I really hope someone stuck a "no user serviceable parts" or "warranty void if removed" sticker on JWST
Worth mentioning that the Germans didn’t come up with this system - it was the allied forces: US, UK and France, drawing on their experience on the deficiencies of their own systems.

It was successful enough that it also served as a blueprint for the Eastern European countries once the Soviet Union fell.

Always puzzles me why these three countries never took the opportunity to learn from their very own experiment.
Herman Potočnik – the man who invented space stations in 1929
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Not based. Foolhardy.
But have you really tried any? :)

Because I go out regularly and does not have any problems with parking (uber / public trans. / choosing places with plenty of parking generalny solves this headache) , the people (you know that you can choose who you meet), prices (free meetups rules) and mediocre drinks (not drinking is an option ,but if somehow not, craft beers seems to work)
You're being fooled by the top-level chart showing you absolute nubmers. It's just showing you which sectors are biggest, not which is growing the fastest. Click the "show table" to get relative values, which don't paint the same picture.

In fact government and healthcare grew above median, but not abnormally so. And at the same rate as other sectors like construction which don't really support the same kind of inferrence.
This is because I don't think the same thing being added multiple times is a huge issue. The same word can have multiple meanings, slightly altering meanings, or some people are more extensive in their description than others. I think that is a feature of a crowd-sourced dictionary - you get to see how people describe it instead of one curated description. At the end of the day, it's up to the user to see which description they find most compelling, helpful or useful.
When I was in Thailand about 7 or 8 years ago they just recently raided a co-working coffee and jailed the 'nomads' over night (as far as I remember) there was also regular talks about what to tell and not tell border patrol and official visa places.

Most people I met just paid taxes 'at home' or were generally lost in limbo financially but there always was an awareness about this being illegal.
This is yet another technical solution to what is fundamentally an incentives problem. Whoever benefits from the status quo (gerrymandering) will naturally be incentivized to resist any change which is objectively more 'fair'.

That's the real problem. It's nothing to do with how we draw lines on a map, it's how do you get whoever is currently in power to agree to a more fair system, given that it's (by definition) not in their interest.
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IANAL, but it's written in Immigration Act Article 19, Paragraph 1, No 2 (入管法19条１項２号)[1]. Here's a translation from Japanese Law Translation[2]^1

> Article 19 (1) Any foreign national who is a resident under a status of residence listed in the left-hand column of Appended Table I shall not engage in the activities set forth in the following items, with regard to the categories identified therein, except for cases where he/she engages in them with permission as set forth in paragraph (2) of this Article.

> (ii) A foreign national who is a resident with a status of residence listed in the left-hand column of Appended Tables I (3) and I (4): activities related to the management of a business involving income or activities for which he/she receives remuneration.

The quoted "Appended Table I (3)" (別表第一の三) says:

> Temporary Visitor

> Sightseeing, recreation, sports, visiting relatives, inspection tours, participating in lectures or meetings, business contact or other similar activities during a short stay in Japan.

None of this says "within Japan", which from my understanding is that it allows for the maximum interpretation of the law, i.e. "involving income or activities for which he/she receives remuneration [from anywhere]" with the noted activities in Appendix Table being the exception.

Either way, it depends on how immigration interpret the law.

[1]: https://elaws.e-gov.go.jp/document?lawid=326CO0000000319

[2]: https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1934/e...

^1:

- (i) is not quoted here since it's about a mid-long term stay visa, i.e. work visa

- Paragraph (2) is about obtaining permission to receive remuneration (which is a different thing from (ii) quoted above).
The theory is that by chatting with the scammers, they have to expend resources (time, which is money) in order to attempt to scam you. This won't convert and thus reduces their capability to actually harm another individual.
Why do not use OLM infrastructure like catalogsources, subscriptions... but for apps?
I'm not taking a position on its legality. In most cases that's undefined because the law did not anticipate this situation and it's never been tested in court.

They obviously can't prohibit people from checking emails or taking work calls while on vacation, because that means the end of big-spending tourists.

Nobody has drawn a red line at a magic point along the continuum from one emergency work call during a two-week holiday, to 9 hours a day in a hotel room hunched over a computer. Where would it be, and why does that particular point maximize benefit for the host country?
>Better UX for slow networks

Yet the reality seems to be very poor UX from SPA's on a slow or intermittent connection.
> Bickering is rather common within them.

"Within" being the key word. It's a completely different level, believe me.

The last 6 years of UK political life have been exceptional, and the overall sentiment is that they were pretty bad. They were also absolutely run of the mill from a PR perspective: a new executive every few months, elections every 3 years or so, a constant fight to reconcile fundamentally un-reconcileable positions, extreme public brinkmanship, etc etc. PR will fix nothing of that, it will only make it worse.
Alright, that clears it up. The description I found was misleading. Thanks again!
That is very old reference, and afaik not used at NASA anymore. More current ref would be https://s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov/ssri-kb/static/resources/nasa-std-... but also note that NASA has been moving away from having their own standards and instead adopting industry standards: https://nepp.nasa.gov/index.cfm/26139
freedom of association need not apply to political representatives nor need it be institutionalized.

that means, i think it is reasonable to demand that a political representative be neutral and not have any associations for which it could be argued that they represent a conflict of interest.

parties influence or even control who gets to stand for election. why should that be the case? anyone should be able to stand for election, regardless of affiliation.

in many countries, parliaments have a concept of requiring that members of parliament vote along their party. that should be illegal, MPs should only vote according their conscience. influencing them should be illegal. lobbying should be illegal.

none of this restricts freedom of association.
> wages going up 4.5% after three years of inflation averaging above 4.5% is not an improvement

Real wages. Real wages are up [1].

We’re not up to the sugar high of the pandemic’s stimulus era, which is what people in tech are feeling. But we’re making more than since any time before Q4 2019 and any time since Q4 2021.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
Having not heard about the Messenger before today, I'm not sure what ideological position you're talking about. Can you elaborate?
> In most countries you can't do any kind of work while in a tourist Visa, but this was never enforced

That's because the laws exist to protect local jobs.

Since nomads aren't 'stealing' local jobs, the laws serve their purpose despite them being broken all the time.

All bets are off if a nomad decided to bar work or waiting at a restaurant! (or any other profession that takes a job from a local).
Well maybe it makes sense for US costumer to send their traffic down from Starlink in Canada and then via fiber to the USA? I do not really see the problem if the traffic is encrypted and forwarded.
Don’t you think that the housing market will create a niche for these people? Foreigners with deep pockets coming in for six months sounds like a great thing for landlords. Plus, you know they won’t squat because they’re gone after 6 months or they get deported
I came here to say the same thing. Laying content out for a book comes with way more issues than "just" converting between document formats. Leanpub does it well out of the box.

If you want to look down the path of implementing book layout yourself, here are two breadcrumbs from my bookmarks:

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/11/03/bringing-my-we...

https://iangmcdowell.com/blog/posts/laying-out-a-book-with-c...
Transcription and translation at faster than playback speed, via Whisper.app [FREE, local application]

As a shopping assistant, to compare specific technical specifications and device compatabilities, via Perplexity.AI [FREE, no login]

Personal: to better understand fiction across author multiverses [e.g. Vonnegut's Kilgore Trout, and what he represents across novels].

Comparing historical perspectives on topic ___________ [literally anything, between any published authors].
Agreed, 180 days and no residency card makes this way too much hassle for the meager benefits.

It's similar with the recent 1-year South Korean F-1-D Nomad/Workation visa for Canadians, who get 6 months as tourists anyways. I'm going through the application process since U.S. citizens only get 3 months as tourists, but the hassle is only really worth it for the residency card.
I think it depends what you’re looking for. You won’t go and find friends in a Japanese bar, like you could in some parts of US or LATAM. But I don’t think I’ve seen more “quiet slice of life” happening while strolling around Japan, Taiwan or Hong Kong. If you’re into people watching, it’s hard to beat.

Especially in some parts of Japan, their obsessions with culture and heritage is very cool. Something like this is always cute to encounter, and it’s weird cause I thought it’s rare up until I visited Japan - https://x.com/kiyotoshi_y/status/1179243144363331585. That being said, I have Latino friends who hated those parts of Asia because they need “hot blooded friendliness culture”. Which is totally cool, to each their own!
As someone who lives in the Outer Banks I'd much prefer a random person (our state is 50/50) than the gerrymandered bullshit we deal with now. It doesn't help that the local pool business guy (true story) is our representative when he runs unopposed because of extreme gerrymandering.
Maybe. But prior to visiting Japan I actually studied Japanese for 5 years and after visiting it I stopped and quickly forgot whatever I learned as I simply didn't have any reason to as whatever I wanted to find wasn't there (I guess I was looking for a sci-fi wonderland full of robots or something, instead found tired uninterested people everywhere). Wrt Brazil folks, there was no power dynamics between us, they didn't see any $ from me as they were from fairly well-off families, just the society was much more open than the Japanese one. It felt more like Germany where colleagues working at the same desk together for 20 years still use formal polite speech to address each other.
This is not how the US judicial system works. We are innocent until proven guilty. In the case above, to say it is illegal even though it was not proven violates the above. Also, many “laws” aren’t technically codified but instead have been established by precedent, and no precedent is hard and fast. Technically you could argue both the things you mentioned above in court and win, rendering your actions legal.
US Jobs and Wages Grow in January
Verbatim BDXL 100GB M-DISC 25 pack for $260.

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-98914-M-Disc-100GB-Surface/d...

$260 / 25 = $10.40/disc. $10.40 / 100 = $0.104/GB.

A decent 2TB HDD can be had for as low as like $60. $60/2000 = $0.03/GB. 10.4 / 3 = 3.46, so pretty far from 12x the cost. So realistically you could get three and a half-ish hard drives per gig compared to 100GB Blu-Rays.

I do agree, 100GB Blu-Rays do seem to be overpriced in some ways. I often end up using 25GB or 50GB discs as they're a lot cheaper and I often find I don't have another 100GB of data needing to backup. I mostly just wanted to point out its an option.

I wouldn't really compare them to hard drives in the end though. With optical media, its a disc that if stored even halfway decently will hold your data for longer than your great grandchildren's lives without needing to touch it or think about it again. A magnetic HDD has moving parts that will eventually wear out, magnetic surfaces that will lose their charge, need to be validated and re-checked and eventually copied over before failure. They're very physically resistant and very light weight. Dropping my CD case on the ground isn't likely to harm any of the data stored within, dropping a hard drive is likely to cause irrecoverable damage. Its way easier to mail to a distant family member to hold on to for long term distant storage. I can't easily mess up while copying the data and corrupt or delete it. The data is physically, permanently etched into the media. So no, I wouldn't say having 6 or 7 hard drives is more robust to having two burned Blu-Rays stored in two physically different locations in terms of trying to store the data for 50+ years.

There's a lot of things to like about using optical media for archival storage.

And yeah, if you're truly dealing with many dozens of TBs of storage you're needing to archive tape starts to make some sense, but I'd be more worried about procuring a tape drive able to read my tapes in 25+ years compared to finding some random Blu-Ray drive on eBay. Blu-Ray drives have been pretty mass market for a long time and will probably still be widely made for the next several years, meanwhile LTO drives are only really sold to enterprises in much smaller numbers. Also, lots of issues with backwards compatibility with LTO, so your options for getting the right drive is trickier. I'd imagine most home users are nowhere near there, and even a 25-50GB Blu-Ray a year/quarter would cover most of their data they actually care about.
My insurance paid for all of that without a quibble after my family doctor made a referral. My insurance company has many customers. So I am going to stick with "many people".
It's almost like Ukraine isn't as trustworthy, and Russia isn't as untrustworthy as we're being asked to believe. Weird, huh?
That's what we have here.

Fiber is owned by the city, which rents out access to a number of ISPs and communication providers.

They compete on price and product offerings.

Works like a charm.
I consider this trend of "announce big numbers, get headlines, then walk them back quietly in the coming months" rather alarming.
I don't know why esbuild still lacks these features over all these years. Seems like everyone is using it for various things (like vite) but no one wants to contribute to it to make it The One Tool. Is it JS/TS devs not wanting to work on a Go app? Folks not wanting to disrupt the status quo of Vite?
Modern frontend frameworks smear technical concepts into the presentation layer; for example, understanding of hydration becomes integral to semantic presentation of content and therefore an overriding concern; "developers aren't cheap!".

Then we are reduced to two outcomes — developers become more design-aware, or designers become more dev-aware. Both are unicorn hunts, what do?
> so damn if you do, damn if you don't

Damn, sounds tough being a settler-colonist. Maybe if they stopped doing that people wouldn’t be so mad at them??