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Would there be any obligation to pay out financial penalties if the company declares bankruptcy?
> it's important to have multiple detectors around the world

Or realllly tall detectors.
> I guess prolonging treatment is in the interest of for-profit hospitals as found in other countries

France does the same but has nationalized healthcare, so it does not seem motivated by profits. It puts pressure on the healthcare system and only brings additional suffering. We could change that, but implementing assisted death needs careful consideration and defeating politically the small subset of people that think life with extreme suffering is precious.
Wtf he wouldn't give it back or work on it?
>And comparing ad blocking to theft of actual physical items is absolutely wild. You must realize that they’re completely different, right?

Serving a page costs money. Whether a physical good is exchanged isn't particularly relevant.

>I’d just argue that ads are a blight on the web, and steal from me by deliberately and knowingly wasting my computer’s resources and attempting to serve me malware. What do we do now? Whose right not to be stolen from wins out?

Ads are a blight on and off the web, but the advertisers generally aren't trying to serve you malware (though they don't always try hard enough not to). But claiming that the ads are theft is far more of a reach then claiming ad blockers are. If you don't want ads, stop requesting pages with ads.
Windows One?
Not first but the initial release was 2 years before Netscape was founded, and 1 year before Mosaic. It was definitely an early browser.

I first used lynx years later when I was getting into Linux in the late 90s, and I found that part surprising at the time.
The discipline that competitive sports instills in a person still translates into other areas of their life. My athletic career hit a dead end too, but staying with a sport and grinding out progress over the years taught me something that I still use in my forties.
US levels fraud indictment at scientist who helped Alzheimer's drug developer
I live on the edge and just never upgrade my gaming PC. Only for drivers ;)
Absolutely not. Quit the bad faith arguments please
Maybe even if you don't make it, you'd look back fondly on your time as a competitor as a formative period. I'm sure you'd gain lots of skills by having such discipline and rigor.
This sounds very cool, but "annually producing several thousand litres of fuel"?

An average US car consumes ~1800 litres/year... So this 600 kW solar facility is just enough for one or two cars?

A random search shows you need ~2kW worth of solar to charge your electric car daily, so this technology needs to improve a lot to be competitive with batteries. Hopefully they figure it out before they build the full-size plant.
Bro should be working on the book not writing some meandering article. Classic procrastinator.
Ops here, In a simple Kubernetes environment, you don't have to know networking. However, few environments are simple and abstracting X away becomes extremely difficult job once business requirements collide with abstraction.

Obstacle is big most of time because most applications are not easy to run. Most DevOps mostly came around because Devs flinging balls of mud over the wall and landing on the Ops side with a splat and then screaming when we can't build nets to catch the mud ball and Ops is covered with mud. Sure it failed just like DevSecOps fails because most of time, Devs don't care about anything other than closing Jira tickets and going home.
I vote to join Hawaii and Alaska, and Puerto Rico with Montana.
No, it's considered an attentive and supportive parent.

Abuse and neglect is only when the parent is mean for no return.

/s
> other people committing doesn't matter if you are isolating presubmits and similar.

Could you elaborate on this one?
Do I Regret Being 'Just' a Software Engineer?
I am halfway convinced a singularity will never actually reach the singularity form due to time dilation effects. that is, it ends up taking forever to actually reach zero size(not that time or space have much meaning inside such an environment)
Theodore Roosevelt's Pocket Watch Recovered
The Olympic Village: High-Performance Housing Illegal to Build in the U.S.
No offense, but this is wrong.

There is a metric-fuck ton of telemetry on a windows machine (really any sufficiently sophisticated software/device).

Not only do they correlate the update start event with the update end event, they also have a billion other metrics that nosedive if the machine can’t actually reboot.

That doesn’t make it any more acceptable, but it’s the truth. It’s totally possible the first metric report doesn’t show up for a day, too. So, it’s doubly not ok for them to push something so haphazardly.
Well, some people are not agreeable, do not want to be seen taking guidance from others.

They are not worried about understanding what they do, or improving their practices, they are worried about status and how others perceive them.

Those people may be able to protect their status in the short term, maybe even bluff and be promoted. But they will never truly understand what's going on.
> no owners owners files and no readability requirements

Move fast and break things, right?
>It's a fantasy to think that this will mean state spying powers will be reduced.

Never said that it would, I said allowing enforcers to set the extent of their own powers is a bad idea.

>Chevron prevented the court from forcing the most narrow interpretation of the law on a federal agency in cases where the court couldn't justify doing it.

Federal agencies (indeed any government agency) should always be subject to narrow interpretations of the law when the extent of their authority and powers are in question. If that interpretation is too narrow for Congress, then Congress needs to be more explicit about their intent. The law needs to be as clear as possible. Ambiguity is a flaw not a feature and the fact that ambiguities can lead to problems means we should make better law, not throw our hands in the air and let whoever's in charge this week decide what the policy is. If we want a massive federal agency to oversee something then the extent to which that agency is empowered and what that agency is empowered to do had better be explicitly spelled out.
But then you've wasted all the time you could've applied all that "discipline and rigor" to
That single company will be setting an extra-ordinary standard, so that doesn't help you.
Who cares about "support" when Windows 11 is currently supported and they still do shit like this?

Perhaps "supported" should really mean "controlled by Microsoft".
I wouldn't go back; this is mentioned only to demonstrate that the requirements were not even possible to comply with.

Please also consider the cost of obtaining a citizenship of a different country. It would take me more than 10 years to earn the necessary amount of money, and my passport expires in 5 years.
Warren Buffett to end donations to the Gates Foundation after his death
> "annually producing several thousand litres of fuel."

That's maybe 10 liters a day. Seems low for the size of the installation.
A liter of gasoline is about 10KWh. So if this thing gets 5 hours a day of full sunlight, it's putting out 2KW. That's like 5 standard solar panels.

Either I'm calculating this wrong or this is insanely inefficient.
_was_ not _is_.

> [2] McCorvey gave birth to a daughter at Dallas Osteopathic Hospital on June 2, 1970

At that point she lost standing similar to another Jane Doe whose case became moot because she already had the abortion [1] and the desired action (injunction against an abortion) is irrelevant because it's already happened.

[1]: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/supreme-court-issues-dec...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade#History_of_abortio...
I’ve always felt the same.

Though “scale” seems to mean 10 concurrent users supported by a Kubernetes cluster of 50 systems in order to host a simple web application…
By objective results, parliamentary systems haven't necessarily produced better outcomes. And there's no need for the federal government to assume so much authority anyway; the states can take care of most issues on their own.
Just wait until you try a “modern” language
Within the monorepo there is the notion of "silos" where access to directories can be restricted to groups of people/bots. Though I believe that's exceedingly rare, I've never come across one.
On the consumer side, there was 95, then 98, then 98 SE (Second Edition), and then ME.

...and with the exception of ME, all of those were actual improvements.
"clear text files that containing end user PII, including SSNs, card PANs, wires, and settlement files."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/enfo...

"Examinations conducted in 2023 found that Evolve engaged in unsafe and unsound banking practices by failing to have in place an effective risk management framework for those partnerships"
The 'pay phone bandit' who baffled the FBI in the '80s
They mention recent example of Ubisoft's PC+console open-world multiplayer racer 'The Crew' [0]. (Not to be confused with the cooperative strategy card-game 'The Crew' on BGA.)

> The Crew was pulled from sale back in December [2023], with Ubisoft revealing that the servers would be shut down at the beginning of April [2024]. Frustratingly, despite a large portion of the game being doable in singleplayer, The Crew remained an online-only endeavour throughout its decade-long lifespan. That had already rendered the game unplayable, but it seems Ubisoft is determined to take things one step further to stamp out any attempts to continue playing it past its expiry date... [by revoking user licenses without notice, and] moving to its own individual section in player libraries, listed under "inactive games". Apparently booting the game directly from the installation directory will still launch the game, but only in a demo mode.
...

> It's worth noting that it appears you can technically still download the game on Steam, but any attempt to play is followed-up with a request to input a game key

> Now it's one thing to just delist a game and still allow owners to download and boot it up if they want—even if the game is technically dead—but it's another thing to revoke the licence to the files entirely. It came very close to putting a dent in plans to bring fan servers to the game...

[0]: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/racing/ubisoft-is-stripping-pe...
Afaik even in qft they are effectively singularities, but I'm not an expert in that yet.

It's not that they are infinities, it's that they're point discontinuities in the A field.
Would you feel appreciated by a coworker who does sloppy work that you have to pick up slack for, yet smiles at you every morning? Didn't think so. It would likely make it worse in some ways, wouldn't it? You might feel pity and guilt, not happiness.

But I think most would still try to work with them to improve in good faith because that's work. The smile is irrelevant. The happiness comes when you've helped train them up. Then the smile actually means something.

On the flip side, would you feel appreciated or intimidated by a coworker who smiles at you yet carries all that soft power of deep knowledge and skills nobody else at that workplace has?

Smiles can mean a lot more than shallow acknowledgement especially in the workplace. At a social gathering though, sure the smile is just friendly.
How do you think they caught this in a “preview update” then?
The label for Wonder Bread indicates it doesn't have sesame seeds. If you stick to good old American white bread, no problem. It's the bakeries that produce that artisanal multi-grain hippie bread that have sesame all over the place.
Petitions won't achieve anything; organizing fan boycotts of companies that behave like this might. Is Ubisoft's behavior legal under consumer law in all countries? Australia? France?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40020961 Previous thread 4/2024: "Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown"
It's all science fiction, stuff I like to think about just before I go to sleep. But I like to pretend this is what happened to time, why it is only one way. see, once you pass the event horizon of a black hole it effectively removes a half dimension from reality(you can't go back towards the horizon) time is that half dimension we are missing.
> Nor do they feel any obligation to be consistent with past rulings.

Well, you're in luck with this court!
My point is that you can find evidence for any outcome. The Supreme Court has a stance they like and backpedal to make the argument for it leading to inconsistent rulings.

There are a myraid of ways that roe vs wade could've turned out and in the final ruling document they'd all fit the correct format.
The 5 Stages of LLM Development
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http://web.archive.org/web/19980116081704/http://soundwire.c...
Russian coal industry profit drops by 93% amid sanctions
> The company secured about £500m in UK government subsidies to do so.

I almost guarantee that they will do the bare minimum to claim these, then shut the factory down.

They'll produce a pile of barely-working, but certainly not commercially viable, battery cells to claim whatever milestones are necessary.
Competition is good, and I haven’t used this yet so I’ll withhold judgement on this. But my experience with vscode hasn’t been particularly nice, so my enthusiasm for it as a base is a bit mixed. I’ve found it to be pretty slow and often buggy for e.g. syntax highlighting, when compared to something like pycharm.

It’s likely I’m just an idiot who doesn’t know how to set up my extensions/config, but if it takes some high level of intellect to do so then I think it’s still fair to call it a poor UX.
It's crazy how strong the power law distribution holds for success in the real world.

Tennis stars, youtubers tech startups, videogames on steam, even drug cartels...

In a given year, the top 5 in any of these categories can end up absorbing more than 50% of the entire market!

There should be a class in high school that goes over the wealth distribution of various industries...
Is volume of legislation the correct measure? That seems analogous to clueless managers trying to measure the productivity of software developers by lines of code written.
What's your reasoning for them avoiding Win13? It's just too large a number or something to do with Friday the 13th?
The part where it says "No state shall deprive any person of life...without due process"?
I never liked pomodoro. I hated getting interrupted after 25 minutes. It kept breaking my focus.

What I found worked well for me instead was "count up" pomodoro.

- Start a stop watch or simple wrist watch and leave it on your desk.
- If you glance at it and it is less than 25 minutes, keep going.
- Else if it is over 25 minutes, take a break if you feel like it. Write down how much time you worked. At the end of day, add up your time.
Former employee here. I remember a third example: the anti-DoS code is hidden. I remember this because I needed to do some very complicated custom anti-DoS configuration and as was my standard practice, I looked into how the configuration was being applied. I was denied access.

Fourth example: portions of the code responsible for extracting signals from employees' computers to detect suspicious activity and intrusion. I suspect it's because if an employee wants to do something nefarious they couldn't just read the code to figure out how to evade detection. I only knew about this example because that hidden code made RPC calls to a service I owned; I changed certain aspect of my service and it broke them. Of course they fixed it on their own; I only got a post-submit breakage notification.
At the moment, Oklahoma next door is even more prominent: they just mandated teaching the bible in public schools. But it's much the same.
The 10 second freeze is infuriating. It's been driving me crazy and had me convinced my PC was busted.
DevOps has never been about scaling.
It’s about shipping faster. How do we design systems and processes that allow us to go from idead to production very fast.
Everyone needs that.
> “compliant actually good encryption”

an oxymoron, perhaps
If different rulings by different people prove that expertise wasn't applied, it's equally credible to claim that expertise wasn't applied in the creation of this decision, since it's certainly a change.

Additionally, it's far from clear the examples reviewed were representative vs written to support the conclusion, so in addition to the problem of how variance is framed as a bug rather than a feature, it's not even really clear how much is actually occurring.

"Elections have consequences" is a well-known phenomena, and the idea that a branch other than the legislature might have influence over how the law is interpreted or executed shouldn't be news to anybody, least of all a member of the judiciary, many of whom will in fact be no doubt less qualified to make judgments vs agencies with specific technical and legal expertise.
Countries like the USA have a system with slightly less pretense. If you're part of the Olympic program you basically get paid a small living wage (but, importantly, all your expenses are paid for: food, medical care equipment, etc) to train full time.
> Congress already decides how much to spend and on what weapons systems for the various branches of the military.

Congress directs some times and defers other times. Congress absolutely does not direct every pentagon spending program.

> The authority to command the armed forces is directly under the executive

The EPA is an "executive department" as described by article two of the constitution the same as the department of defense. If the founders expected congress alone to execute executive authority (except in the special case of the military) then the constitution would have been written that way and the EPA would have been created as a body that reports to congress. Congress was obeying the constitution when they created the EPA under the president, just as they were when they created every other executive department.
You don't need any of that, EKS works out of the box with Fargate.

But companies don't want that, they want to support EKS and data centers, which means supporting the "implementation" side of all of the interfaces, which means getting down into the details.

The real problem is that every platform team, deep down, wants to rewrite EKS and they often do, which I would describe as "a giant money pit".
It's really not. Inertial Confinement Fusion tests have already produced energy positive results quite a few times. The most recent ICF tests that made the rounds were notable because they were consistently repeatable.

i.e. we know a well defined lower bound on the conditions required for energy positive fusion.

These bounds are more or less what we expected so sustainable energy positive fusion is essentially guaranteed to be feasible, it's just ungodly expensive until we can learn how to reduce the lower bounds for fusion or improve our ability to achieve those conditions.

So ITER will work. There really isn't a discussion on whether ITER will work or not. Like technically there's a small fraction of a percent chance it won't work for a number or reasons but even then it's less likely to be "it will never work" and more "we need to make changes and it'll work eventually".

This is actually part of the reason for the updated baseline schedule. It's apparently going to be far more aggressive now that there are better assurances that the existing model is in line with experimental evidence.
I've never regretted having fun in the sun.
A fair assessment. It's at least better than Meta.

I'm looking into hyphanet, thanks.
Etsy to ban sale of most sex toys, explicit content, and more
Thank you, checking these out.
Pour one out for all of the people the founders convinced to join the company and paid with equity that is now essentially worthless as the founders all abandoned the sinking ship they drove.
Ah, but it's not! It's symmetrical in 3D, but not in 4D. So if you move close to the event horizon, the symmetry breaks.
There are theories that our universe is the inside of a black hole.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_cosmology

If that is the case, then black holes are giant entropy recycling machines.
Badass article, super cool to think about filling pot holes with molten iron.
Visited Pompeii with family when younger and one of the few things I remember “experiencing” were the wheel ruts while walking around.
Very much makes sense now how difficult it’d be to fill in given the depth and width of the ruts; they’re expansive.
Am not familiar with iron making but curious about iron slag. Welding slag is pretty light but if iron slag was used for ballast it must be substantial
Transmission loses are 3% per 1000km so moving electricity from morroco to the UK would result in ~6% loss in electricity.

Saying

> There will be times when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't
shine

Is just FUD. The wind is blowing and the sun is shining in many places within 2000km no matter where you live
run bitcoin core, mine a few blocks and delete. I am sure also people did that
Remembering other pseudo packet data connections that could interleave various data streams all at once, I wanted SLIP so bad, but could never figure it out. The paradox of the early internet is that we didn't have the internet at that time to help us out.
Actually, for the Operating Systems Group specifically, it was reportedly a straight up layoff of all testers. See https://www.zdnet.com/article/beyond-12500-former-nokia-empl... Other divisions reportedly transitioned their testers to developers, which didn't work out well (big surprise) and resulted in heavy attrition later.
What definition of "value" are you working with here?

An athlete creates something that many people do happily pay for, directly or indirectly. That is value.

Not everybody considers it worth paying for, obviously. But that's not the criteria for "value." I mean, there are a lot of things other people pay for that I don't care about.
“We” don’t have and don’t want to seriously fight each other. But it’s not “us” at the wheel. They have their own idea what we should do and until we get rid of them completely, your question will stay naive. This feature of our species was important for building civilization, but it will drag future generations down to the monkey bottom forever.
I strongly suspect it’s not that useful for a lot of businesses.

So many have their code split between a two dozen clouds, BA tools (… does Google put that in the monorepo too? Or is that, which is a lot of the code at most businesses, not “really” code at Google?), vendor platforms, low-code tools you all hate and are trying to deprecate but god damned if you aren’t still spending dev hours on new features in it, et c…

I bet achieving anywhere near the full benefits would first require retooling one’s entire business, including processes, and bringing a whole shitload of farmed-out SaaS stuff in-house at enormous expense, most places.
"This part covers device disassembly, identifying pins of interest, brute forcing JTAG pins, and reading serial output."

So much for me expecting a usb loaded exploit or a hacked firmware
it is insanely inefficient. whereelse I read you need 3 liters of gasoline to produce 1 liter of synfuel
It's extremely easy to detect a disgruntled employee making a copy of source code. There's no accidental button to leak. There's no source code on laptops as policy doesn't allow it, with limited exceptions only.

But there was a giant leak a long time ago. It was called Operation Aurora done by China. Legend has it that to this date the Chinese search engine Baidu still uses stolen code from Google.
Congress was supposed to be composed of a bunch of people representing their constituents, not partisan hacks serving the interests of political parties.