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This is an excellent reminder to read @benbreen's new book.

I'd argue that our inability to deal with the fact that drugs are a natural aspect of humanity is at least as damaging as any harm that comes from said use.

The "Just Say No" campaign (and others of its ilk) has helped condition the general population to reject any thoughtful discourse on how to properly integrate this behavior in a way that minimizes the damage and maximizes the reward from such use.
Consider looking up the definition of render. You will find that it has nothing to do with pixels specifically.
Well, a flicker preventer is a double on-line UPS, so the market has a device, albeit an expensive one. You could purchase a double on-line UPS that has small batteries and that would serve as a 'flicker preventer' while providing only a small bit of runtime.

It would be possible to build this kind of on-line conversion with a very very small battery that could only provide power for a few seconds, and that kind of device would serve the goal you mentioned. I suspect the cost for this device would quickly approach a UPS in cost, so it might not be the 'cheap' solution.
Sending outgoing mail is more rare now though? Perhaps when it used to be common to stamp and mail letters then one more wasn’t as big a deal. Now, I’m not even sure where our stamps are or if we have any at home.
Some more info about the lawsuit: https://avn.com/business/articles/legal/attorney-wants-to-su... (NSFW warning -- AVN is "Adult Video News")

It's an interesting legal thought experiment. Possible analogy: if I claim that Celebrity Y is going to be at an event, and that people who buy a backstage pass will get to briefly meet Celebrity Y, but Celebrity Y is actually a Celebrity Y impersonator, is that dishonest dealing? False advertising?
I have found myself legit using this instead of duolingo for the past couple of days, in spite of the speech to text issues. It feels like a better way to learn. The inline suggestions, in particular, seem like they will help me quickly move through bad habits and mistakes in order of severity.

The tutor review at the end of the lesson doesn't feel as useful currently; its content isn't particularly actionable. Maybe if it gave me a couple of exercises or something?
interesting. i forget if it was allstate or state farm but one of them refused to do online and also refused to do fewer than 14 days out - this was like two days ago.
Well it's France.. when there's no parking spot sidewalks and bikelanes become parking spots..
This isn't about run-of-the-mill discrimination, this is about the companies receiving government money to build out broadband to areas and then just not doing it. The government should just claw back the money and impose fines on top of that but the regulatory agencies in charge are corrupt.
Yeah that’s a fair point. It would be much more valuable to at least wait until someone in the world has had a chance to read the book and post a more detailed review of it. As it stands right now there’s nothing to talk about now other than the boogeymen we invent in our mind of the people who have the opposite stance on this than us.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if someone involved with marketing the book posted this knowing that it would provoke some kind of response from the community.
"The people who do algebraic geometry in applied settings are doing math that is basically unrelated to algebraic geometry as practiced by theoretical mathematicians" seems like it is just a gatekeeping statement. It is basically related---it is algebraic geometry.
Interesting that your perspective helped me understand why I feel different whenever I return to London from my US travels. I get a sense of relief that isn't related to being back home.

That said I've seen quite a few people here trying to stuff their oversized SUVs into streets that just weren't made for them. But they insist. I can only wish that we had the regulatory gonads to do the same as Paris is announcing!
I've definitely been in workplace situations where one person's language creates an impression of egotism (to me). For example coworkers making extravagant comparisons in aptitude (in relation to senior coworkers). I can definitely relate to that aspect of the OP and I would want more examples.
Agreed. If we're getting the point where you're saying "it's like writing your configuration in [insert Domain Specific Language Here]" then I'd prefer to simply use that language. I understand the point Pkl is making in that "configuration won't work across DSLs so here's one language for all of them" but I don't know that that's enough motivation for people to adopt it.

However, I haven't built anything cool like this so what do I know. I'm just procrastinating on the my personal project and browsing hacker news.
You're worth a lot more than money.
Agree. True "urban" starts at roughly 5000/sq.m density.
To be fair the market was so good at turning parking in to better land uses the US spent eighty years making it illegal to build... Anything, really, without oceans of parking.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say the major third from equal temperament is a horrid thing, but it sure doesn’t hit as well as a true major third
Slightly off-topic but wasn't there work on eliminating the bacteria that colonizes the mouth and causes tooth decay? I vaguely remember reading there was putative work that had reached trials or something and it just kind of fell of the map.

Obviously thats when things are found to have efficacy and be safe etc but the tenor was slightly conspiratorial in the way of "ICE manyfacturer buys and shelves first electric car"...

Are the mouth bacteria actually valuable or impossible to erradicate?
People complaining about the site wouldn't pay for the site they say they want.
We wouldn't necessarily see improvement, especially in a deregulated Telecom environment where you order new service and the technician gets you installed but knocks your neighbors on a competitor out of service, resulting in them scheduling a tech who knocks you out of service.

Physical networks like this also clutter up the skies or create areas you can't dig in, and accrue damage while decreasing in value each year until they are abandoned or upgraded.

Abandoned Telecom infrastructure is a serious issue all its own as well, no one wants legacy unused cabling running under their streets or in their building.
didn't find anything either
If people want to live in the hinterlands and avoid the conveniences of society, well that's up to them. Why should anyone else pay for their lifestyle choices? If they want to live off the land (and off sewer, water, electric and telephone utilities) they can go do it. Otherwise, these rugged individualists need to suck it up and move closer to town.
Which is why some people push for no longer using C and C++ as much as possible. It's just not feasible to expect the average programmer to avoid all the security pitfalls. Of course, whether Rust is the best option isn't a given.
I think we need to have some minimum specifications for what a "computer" is, especially as corporations are dumbing down devices while telling us they're smarter than ever.

For me, a computer is something where you can create and run programs directly on the device, without needing to hand off anything to a cloud service, remote desktop, or require permission from an app store. No local development environment = not a computer. If your device can't do it, you have a PDA. No shame in that. I have an e-scooter; I don't call it a car.
Left the US eleven years ago and every time I go back to stroadsville USA I HATE it. I can't imagine my kids walking there. Even the "good" cities are horrendously bad.
It doesn't sidestep the point, it shows the value of your truism, particularly in a 21st century globalized, internet-scale economy.

Who's being exploited if I upload a song (or ringtone, or wallpaper) to an app store for $0.99 and it gets millions - perhaps even billions - of downloads?

(Answer: me, because of the app stores' rapacious policies)
>You cannot live a successful modern life without a number of things,[...] and I'll happily add high speed internet access

Define "high speed". I understand that you need internet access to bank, interact with government, and receive education, but all these use cases don't require exceptionally fast internet. You can get 12Mb/s down with ADSL2 tech from the 2000s[1], which should be more than enough for essential use cases. True, it's probably not fast enough for multiple concurrent netflix/youtube streams, and updating steam games is going to be a slog, but those are arguably luxuries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSL#ADSL_standards
Google needs to nerf their rankings. It's essentially a near-useless click bait website for ads. Any new site with such horrible signal to noise ratio would never get such a priority in results. I can't imagine any other website linking to it, so I can't imagine how Quora remains so high anyways, even if page rank is long gone.
It took me quite a while to actually understand how Debian packaging works; I haven't really found any good, approachable documentation that explains the concept behind it.

Once I thought I understood it, I've tried to write it down myself, in book form. In case it helps, you can get it here for free for a while: https://leanpub.com/debian/c/hn-2024-01

But to be honest, even though I think I have a pretty good grasp how it works overall, I still sometimes run into hard-to-debug problems, or I think I know which hook to use, but it still doesn't work, inexplicably. dh is very flexible, to the point of sometimes being maybe too flexible to fully understand.
Modern SUVs are mostly not on truck chassis anymore. The body-on-frame breed of SUV is growing increasingly rare. Modern SUVs are a lot closer to larger sedans (for example, a Mazda CX5 is not remotely close to a truck).
Not running JavaScript in 2024 is like putting a speed governor on your own car that limits you to going 35 miles an hour.

It serves no useful purpose
Deer are beta-testing a nightmare disease
AVP runs other apps at up to 100hz. I think they meant that the MBP screensharing is capped at 60hz.
That would be a trickle compared to what is required. HV power infra is incredibly expensive and countries like Ethiopia have too little of it as it is. Check out the footage linked below and where and when there is electrical infra. I wouldn't be surprised if there are large areas in Ethiopia where there is no grid at all.

First things that get bought when electricity becomes available: refrigerators, televisions. Mobile phones + solar panel chargers are commonplace even where there is no grid. That's a whole industry in Africa. For instance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDfvjtb17uE

EV charging: forget about it. Only in the biggest cities.
https://archive.is/ryj69
Vision Pro isnt just great, its the single greatest piece of tech ive ever used
We have a VW e-UP, that fits the bill perfectly, and I honestly like it more than our 400bhp Volvo. It fits everywhere, goes 150 miles on a charge, fits us both and a child seat, Costco shopping.......honestly that's the perfect city/mixed use EV. And if only weighs 1200kg.
All customers are worse customers in my opinion, and those who seek max value for their bucks are often the worst. But I am always that customer. I harassed my car dealer so much that it took 9 months but he sold me the car for the exact price I have been demanding.
When Costco still did printing we printed serval of those out as posters and hung them up in the kid’s bathroom. The designs are pretty timeless and are fun to daydream about.
This awkward thing was never usable? It a bad clone of Stackoverflow.

And Stackoverflow works. But it needs a new owner which has a clue what it is about. Even better - the old owners and creators buy it back :)

SO lost a little through the initial AI-Hype but probably most people know already the AI is feed with SO. And SO needs humans with new knowledge. So the main problem are the new owners. Why they did even removed the job adds linked to the questions. That made sense :(
> The need for multiple diacritics on almost every vowel reveals starkly how ill-fitting Latin is for a tonal language.

How so? There are some phonetic systems for Mandarin that adjust spelling to indicate tones, and IMO they’re terrible. Fortunately they’re also obsolete. I don’t know much about Vietnamese, but it seems to use 5 diacritics for tones, which seems just fine.

The real issue seems to be that Vietnamese has too many vowels for the Latin alphabet, and that was also’solved with diacritics, so there are tone diacritics and vowel diacritics.

English also has too many vowel sounds, and it’s, ahem, solved by being ambiguous. Mandarin has too many vowels and Pinyin uses (somewhat ill-conceived IMO) pairs of vowels. But that means that all the diacritics [0] are tones, which is nice.

[0] As a sort of exception, Pinyin occasionally needs an apostrophe as a word/syllable break, which is a side effect of the aforementioned vowel pair issue and the fact that Mandarin doesn’t actually need spaces to be readable, so spaces are kind of optional except when they aren’t.
Dance mat-style game helps stop older people falling
A large file can be chunked into blobs.
>this is about the companies receiving government money to build out broadband to areas and then just not doing it.

I see this repeated often, but I've seen very little in the way of details. What was the government program that gave ISPs money? Were there any strings attached?
The point is stated around 8:00 in to the video. But if that sounds interesting, I think it is worth watching the earlier part of the video with examples.
Yes, out of the city ideally, you will use cargo train. In fact, in some (french) city lorry are forbidden, only local service are permitted. The most heavy one are already forbidden on the WE, day off and summer all over France.
Throw away account for obvious reasons.

My wife and I run an onlyfans account, a manyvids account and a few other related accounts. I can tell you from extensive networking with other onlyfans creators the number of them using chatters is pretty small, probably less than 1%. I personally have never interacted with someone that uses them. I also run a discord and telegram support server for creators so I interact with a lot, but certainly have not made any kind of scientific measure.

Some higher tier models use agencies to run their stuff and that's usually where the chatters come into play.

The general consensus is to avoid agencies or managers for obvious reasons.

While I personally think it's kind of shady, I very much doubt it's illegal, but ianal. There is one fans platform that I know of that has integrated AI chat bots so shrug
I wonder, what would happen if Clojure was marketed as a configuration file format from the very start, without mentioning persistent immutable data structures, software transactional memory, and other scary words. Would it have more adoption now?
Re: Point 9, I am reminded the following of the following scoring legend from a psychological inventory:

0 .. I never exhibit this behaviour
1 .. I exhibit this behaviour at times, for reasons other people find just
2 .. I structure my life in order to accommodate this behaviour
3 .. As above, but also my health (or financial health) suffers
If it helps, I'm in an affluent part of the Netherlands and you see some very swanky cargo bikes signifying class. Cars too in fairness, but still.

Not gonna lie, I ordered an urban arrow today (nothing fancy!) And I'd love to show it off back in the states.
I suppose there are things which are just beyond the scope of LSP, like menus and other UI bits which are IDE specific, not to mention refactoring tools etc.
Defense money is good? One of my reasons for leaving was the below average compensation coupled with a mountain of extra bureaucracy.
Currently going through Andrew Lo's MIT Sloan course, Finance Theory 1, for free:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-401-finance-theory-i-fall-200...

The lectures are well structured. Class questions are good.

And best of all... these lectures were done during the 2008 financial crisis, so you see how people react in real time. Fascinating.
Eh, probably.

When I bought a webcam at the local best buy, I price-matched scamazon's price that was 30$ cheaper. I trust Best buy to not sell scam shit, but do NOT trust Scamazon.

But hey, I'll get the scamazon price WITH the convenience of in-person pickup.
And the liability premiums aren’t linear. Most claims are for the smaller amounts, not common to have multi-million dollar claims (though it does happen), so that fifth million of coverage is cheap.

The thing is, say I get sued for $100m. It’s great for my victims that I paid extra all these years for $5m in coverage, but I’m going bankrupt either way.

Indeed collision on an older vehicle often doesn’t make sense. And could result in your vehicle prematurely salvaged.
There are many terms about computers in English which have been borrowed from similar acts in real life. Compiling, interpreting, context switching, branching, etc. Similarly, rendering is reserved for the last step, converting whatever you have to something which can be shown.

You render videos, text, etc. The thing is, they are not modified further, they are shown.

When you "render" to HTML, you "render it again" for display. So it's not rendering in "Computer Science Sense", hence making the usage wrong.

Otherwise, JIT and interpreted would mean the same thing, but they're not. Because JIT allows tons of other things from a techincal point of view.
Yes, to an extent, first had my startup where that was extremely easy (people love to suck up to you when you're in charge). Then Google.

Google was a nightmare for sociological reasons not dissimilar to what you describe.

Quick anecdote attempting to:

- colleague is a server-side engineer, highly sociable and communicative. They transfer to client side work on our team, get about a year experience

- new manager comes in but is quiet and absentee due to parental leave, about 6 months of a 9 month launch cycle

- manager assumes and communicates I'm de facto lead and should be getting people on the project

- colleague sees it more as a competition (residual from new manager coming in and me being de facto lead in between managers). new manager never spelled it out to everyone, so 6 months of hell ensue

- got to the point he went to manager's manager to complain regularly, eventually gets cut off and told to stop giving me a hard time because he's describing me helping him

- 2 weeks past ship deadline, with 2 weeks of work left, he repeatedly insists in a meeting that our work is in Binary A, but it's in Binary B, I let partner team deal with explaining it to him, I tried to avoid anything approaching conflict

- He consistently was a helpful contributor when he sat down and coded, but caused an infernal amount of racket between severe absenteeism and a sense of extreme alarmism when he was present and learning what was going on, because of the gaps like you explain (not knowing what you don't know)

- The bitter lesson I took away from all this was more or less that I did the right thing, I got them involved and was polite.and helpful with them, and there was nothing I could do to keep the abusive side of that from happening without causing a situation where it looked like I was uncharitable and failing at my duty to mentor.

- Didn't matter or help with my performance review. He kicked up enough noise to indicate smoke, so there must be fire, even if managers manager had enough at that one point.

- after launch, i spent the next 6 months carefully building a relationship with the other key team member via everyday things, lunch, cat pictures. That way, my relative formality was obviated, and they began being a good influence (i.e. being blunt with the trouble colleague when they were on another planet, rather than re-enforcing their alarmism)
> the hoarding of inelastic goods like land, gold, and oil.

What do you mean by "hoarding"? I don't think any living person owns enough land, gold or oil to represent even tiny percentage of the overall market. The whole Russia, for comparison, owns 12% of oil market. So if you personally owned all the oil in Russia (by any measure an achievement far beyond the wildest dreams even of the richest Russian oligarchs, who still have to share among many others) you'd still be just one of the players. So I don't think those mystical "hoarders" really are as scary as you seem to think they are.
I predict that this will necessitate an upgrade to TPM 3.0 with a key exchange handshake mitigation along with it being a requirement to upgrade to Windows 12. That’s fine though because it will help with economic growth and all the relevant companies’ bottom lines.
This is misinformation.

There are already plenty (literally hundreds) of places where the amount accumulated in the environment already exceeds safe limits (mostly in the immediate vicinity of chemical plants processing them, or fire departments which use them extensively).

You said you cared about science in the first message but you obviously don't.
That last part is the reason I hardly have any pictures of my own trips. I'm just too busy to be making pictures all the time and I don't want to be the 'cameraman'. It also tends to immediately mark you as a tourist (though in Ethiopia you would be marked as a tourist anyway but I have never been there).

Some of the most amazing sights I've seen were in Colombia and even if I regret not having pictures I have them in my head and that's good enough. But your trip and your footage are on a different level and I think just as an unadorned record it has immense value.
A big idea for small farms: How to link agriculture, nutrition and public health
I knew a kid with ADHD in high school. There were days (game days) when he would intentionally not take his medicine, yet he would still drive. He had numerous accidents. One time he stopped behind someone at a stop sign. Then he rear-ended them because he forgot they were in front of him and he got caught up in looking for a gap to pull out. He totaled 3 cars before the end of high school.
From my experience, you don’t need to know the exact ending but you should have a general idea of where stuff needs to go.

Knowing the end state makes planning the events and character development easier, and can help you avoid pacing problems. You can create the structure working backwards from the end state.

When I write I usually think about what needs to happen to get everything to where it “needs to be” in a comprehensible way.
Yes, though further what to abstract when can only be mastered with a lot of experience, or attempted. Attempts are not bad if a dev/team doesn't lack the courage to reflect and undo them. You see you abstraction becoming leaky? Stop right here, don't do it! You see that abstraction has little value, hides intent, is confusing everybody? Remove it again!!

Rarely done, instead people just cargo cult on, do it for consistency even if they don't like it, or are too lazy or afraid to tear something down again.
Community Notes could just be an expansion of a good tweet to clear up some ambiguity.

The up/down feature tends to create echo chambers that eventually exclude half the population. Reddit is worse at this because of excessive moderation combined with doomscrollong incentives.
The thing is that there are multiple things that are problems and which can have independent(and even contradictory) solutions. Like for instance - cars cause noise and pollution in cities where people live and breathe.

Solution: give large incentives for people to buy EVs instead, so you solve the noise and pollution problems(not entirely, but in a large part).

But obviously that does nothing to the lack of parking spaces, people using/not using public transit, cycling etc etc etc. It's just one of the sides of a very complex cube.