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The observation about the militarization of the entire society is a defense against the charge that dropping the bomb was a war crime, even if the decision makers didn't know it at the time.

I see you think that even presenting legal arguments in defense against war crime charges is "the reasoning of war criminals". I guess you're not big on the idea of legal defense when charged for a crime. A real fan of justice, aren't you. /s
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I'm running an XMPP server for my family and have convinced most of my friends to get an XMPP address. I think XMPP is the more standard way to do messaging. I feel like all the projects that reinvent a basic thing such as instant messaging, instead of sticking to the internet standard are doing more harm than good.
Infinite scrolling makes it extremely annoying to use. Also very limited search results. I searched for "London" and got nothing modern enough to use, or nothing that even resembles London remotely. Are there really no images of London in the public domain or just that they aren't either being tagged and hence not indexed or maybe both?
Does the Twitch IRC side still work?
As their chat is based on IRC.
I did participate on a few streams chat with a normal IRC client a few years back.

Ah, Xircon, Quakenet and Counter-Strike. Those were the days.
According to President Biden this proxy war is the only thing preventing Putin from launching a hitlerian jihad on the entire European continent (source: the most recent presidential debate) so it's a bit odd seeing the Europeans continue to buy his fuel like they don't have any skin in the game. Granted it's also possible that the situation isn't nearly as dire as some would have us believe, but that's the official story so....
I live on solar power and would definitely pay a premium for fewer solar panels that produce the same amount of power. There's a tropical storm coming through and I just had to pull them all down. I'm going to have to put them all back on Saturday.

Plus having the space back would be nice.
Have you thought about / are you big enough to buy that vendor?

Otherwise: Find a really good HandsOn CTO, give them enough budget to build up a team and have freelancers, build it out.

But before that, have good people analyse the business requirements first.
Rationally what you are saying makes sense, but the problem with progressive diseases like Alzheimer’s is not just defining the point at which quality of life is so poor you might as well throw spaghetti at the wall with the hope of helping society if not the individual, but also getting people and their caretakers to admit they’ve reached that point.

Then there is potential legal liability if someone disputes a doctor’s choice after the fact.
Taking notes is part of the process of learning. The first part is hearing the information from the professor. The second part is writing it down, either verbatim or paraphrasing. The third part is review. Having another person or program create the notes takes away at least two of these opportunities to learn information.

Missing a class here and there due to emergencies is perfectly acceptable. But having someone or something else take the notes for you because you think you’re too busy to attend class is cheating yourself.
Launching Single-File Source-Code Programs in Java
You can?
I did so too, and still had to reread and reinterpret the original comment after having seen yours. I didn't think twice about it, because if I would have my first date with someone and they would tell me they had this project running, I'd be immediately interested, knowing I found someone from "my tribe".
'Here are some questions I’ve found fun to ask people I’ve just met to get to know them. I’ve found that good conversations start from questions that get your (future) friend to'

Next questions usually involve trying to sell me something, donate or sign a petition
$5 Raspberry Pi Pico 2 launched with Raspberry Pi RP2350 dual-core RISC-V or Arm
The Freenode implosion also nuked chanserv and nickserv on Freenode side as well, so things happened there as well.
OK, then Apple should also be transparent and show how they meet all of these requirements no? Actually this should probably be judged by an independent organization. Great idea Apple!

Kind of ironic that they are also requiring WPT compliance while they are the worst scoring major browser there.
The trail in the picture clearly doesn't have gravel and doesn't seem like it's maintained at all. If it was a maintained gravel road, people wouldn't get stuck in the first place. It also doesn't seem like a life threatening kind of place. You can probably just have another car drag yours a few meters to get you unstuck.
https://github.com/openai/whisper

vs

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

They are two inference engines for running the whisper ASR model, each with their own API AFAIK.
So a little backstory, I have worked in Logistics and warehousing, albeit as a senior dev on robotics solutions and its needed implementations.

What you don't want to do is hire a team inhouse if your pain timeline needs fixing in < 1 Financial Year.

As someone mentioned. Senior freelancers preferably with some domain exposure.

Don't think of this as a software problem, but a house rennovation project!

Here is the playbook we have recommended and executed for many clients,

- Hire a documentation guy. Start writing/drawing out all business processes your current third party system serves. Use BPMN if possible.

- Sit down with a senior dev to draw a High Level Design of this system. And find subsystems or funcitons which you can live with, vs things which absolutely need retrofit/rewrite.

- See how you can define a scope of work where what's good keeps running, and a new smaller better subsystem starts taking over functions you need replacement.

- rinse repeat.

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Strategically speaking,
Hiring is a bit painful. Depends on geography. Retaining someone beyond 3-5 years is difficult. People churn out of boredom as the work gets repetitive and they don't get to flex their tech stack itch.

Money wise, is the third-party company a potential acquihire target?
If its small, why not take it over and inhouse the team.
You would get the "catered to us" part sorted and you can still sell to other customers if you so desire. This has its own risk-reward. But I will let you be the judge of it.

And in anycase, get an independent technical consultant to cover your blind side.
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> So killing civilians en masse is fine, as long it forces the enemy to surrender with (probably) fewer casualties

Of course not. Startegic calculations for warfare should not be conflated with a moral justifications for military actions. We have to come to terms with the fact that it was a morally unjustifiable decision, regardless of the effects it had on the war. This is something that too many people forget today.

> Why even have laws of war then

I think laws of war (the ones that work) are only an attempt to change the incentives that are presented to the belligerents during warfare, in such a way that the confilct is less damaging. They are not much about making the belligerents more morally virtuous in any sense other than a consequentialist / utlitarian one.
x86 is an overcomplicated behemoth never intended for low power computing. It’s lipstick on a pig for mobile x86 at this point
>Given Android has 71% of the worldwide market share it’s difficult to make the argument Apple holds a monopoly on the smartphone market

That won't stop a hefty share of HN posters from repeating that same whinge.
I find writing a good way to learn and share. I write about my experience running a small farm. It's a process that helps me appreciate the death part of growing new life.

https://hedgerider.substack.com
There's at least one Soviet entry that happened ballistically, IIRC, with no deaths (they had other deaths on entry, but for other reasons like loss of air or tangling of parachute lines.) The peak acceleration on ballistic entry is independent of the ballistic coefficient of the entry vehicle (but is a function of the L/D ratio during lifting entry; even small L/D can greatly reduce the peak acceleration.)
I think the obvious one is that the Linux kernel is no small little project, and any tree-wide change is highly non-trivial. The compressed current source release is 138 MB. A 2021/5.11 lines of code figure I found was 30.3 million.

It's not impossible, but the Linux kernel is quite a complex project.
Modern XMPP clients have all of those: Sending media, using multiple devices, deleting messages, editing messages, read receipts, notifications when typing, group chats.

Your comment makes it seem like they don't.
Ah I see, thanks. Hm, I would imagine that it's not hard to make something that works with both (the surface area of the API should be fairly small, I imagine), odd that projects use the former and not the latter.
Security and privacy risks of public JavaScript CDNs
“Could” in headline

Put out by the PR wing of the researcher’s university

I give it a 1% chance
Thank you for your work. While looking for references of past artifacts, this website has been so valuable.
Dismissing others opinions by rolling them up into some faceless group of guys and refusing to discuss or consider your views is helpful to no one. You haven't get explained how speech online itself hurts anyone, I'd be interested to hear how that might work.

I only brought up the US because you specifically referenced voting and separation of powers. I can only vote in the US so my context is limited, and the separation of powers is very much an American idea that has since been adopted in various ways in other countries.
> I'm certainly not going to do elephant hill in canyonlands with it

Someone has, albeit with a slight lift.

https://www.broncosportforum.com/forum/threads/off-roading-o...

From their report of "the little three-, two- and (very occasionally) one-wheel-yeet maneuver", it sounds like the lack of suspension travel was the main issue. The details of your AWD or 4WD system don't matter as much if you can keep your wheels on the ground.

Still, just because they were fine doesn't mean someone else would have been. The main risk seems like doing a somewhat technical, off-the-beaten-path trail alone regardless of your vehicle's capabilities.
Man sues TikTok, Reddit, YouTube and Meta for being "too addictive"
Can you not give the transcript to an LLM to remove the umms and ahhs?
One solution is to partly outsource the development. You would try to build up a small team that deeply understands your business and the solution and and owns the system can maintain it long term, but cooperate with a specialized service provider for the initial development (which will probably require more developers than you will want to ratain long term). Such a service provider will also be able to support you with he generation of the initial project vision, requirements engineering and usability/user experience engineering with experienced teams, whithout you having to hire for such roles out of the blue.

While there are many such companies in Europe, I can recommend the one I just so happen to work for, mail me if you want to discuss it further.
Looks amazing, is there anything similar available for video? The official creative commons search tool (https://search.creativecommons.org/) is pretty poor.
I tried Supermaven, and while it is certainly fast, it is more distracting to me since I have to read the suggestion, find it wrong, and type by myself (Python). Our FE guys who are doing React find it much more useful, probably because of the sheer amount of repetitive boilerplate React and JS require.
From the article: “the researchers believe their approach will continue to reduce the cost of solar and also make it the most sustainable form of renewable energy.”
The First Google Doodle Was a Burning Man Stick Figure
Imo matrix is the better protocol, however the clients are still not great.
Element X is a big step up but element call is still in a kind of limbo where it's beta on desktop yet default on X.

The desktop client is capable but very very janky.
Doubtful real world experience,

Many stupid things came due to their work like "comments are bad" or ridiculous things like refactor of reasonably sized functions into very small functions - just a few LoC e.g 3.

Ive seen Uncle Bobs refactor where he modifies thread safe code and introduces static properties to make code look elegant, but actually changes it behavior in multi thread environment, so basically didnt perform a refactor, but just introduced bugs

But code looks better, so great thing to put into the book, right?

>Kent Beck's "make it work, make it right, make it fast."

How such a trivial thing can be even attributed to someone?
The new MacBook Air design is really fantastic.
Or “chai tea”.
Lazy.nvim uses mason to install some components.
If you expect this comment to be useful, this is where you offer an alternative.
thanks for that example, it really paints a picture of the impotence of the state, tho watching the video it's easy to blame the failure on the hundreds of individuals that didn't take action, but they are meant to be the vangaurd; we handed the monopoly on violence to these people and for what?
It's even slower than java compiler and jit combined! Java has never been know to be fast for command line programs.

My M1 MacBook: 1.716s for min.py AND 0.295s for javac and 0.067s for running the compiled code.

It is a straightforward conversion to java using long for i and r.
"could" = "news making" not "news reporting"

In other words this is pure speculation.
I certainly don't want AI to be as intelligent as humans. More intelligence won't help anything. More wisdom will, or the forethought to be cautious about our abilities.
In the article was expecting a screen capture video showing Copilot spilling secrets. Does it contain one?
>I'm still as confused as I was before reading the comments.

I agree, and I know a bit about this!

The reality is very few vehicles on the market are legit "off-road" capable. But, the other side of that is not every trail is legit "off-road", either. Just because there's no pavement, doesn't mean it's "off-road".

There's an entire spectrum of vehicles and trails where normal people can get off the beaten path.
Doom and DOOM II have been combined, re-mastered, and re-released
Not sure if I'm holding it wrong, but when I played with it I nowhere got results that are anything remotely like a proper search engine (thinking of Algolia, Elasticsearch, etc.).

It was good at finding the text I was searching for but in terms of ranking them, it felt like it needed a lot of post processing.
It’s a variation of the “thousand true fans” - https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

You do not need to be terribly famous at all to make a comfortable living; locally famous or historically know will get you to that level.
Loved having IRC at Red Hat from a nostalgia perspective but it was a total disaster from a business standpoint.

Also, at red hat, we’d complain to the whole company about paper towels vs air dryers in the bathrooms, so naturally the complaints about losing IRC would be expected! It’s refreshing to be at a place where I can make a decision without getting second guessed and derailed by someone totally unrelated to what I’m doing.
The Dying Web
I really like that it tries to be extremely minimal, but was surprised to read it didn't support eval/apply at the lowest level.
To answer your question, No they aren't.

Until the REAL scammers are brought down, people will take actions into their own hands.
I use XMPP and then Cheogram for people who don't want to figure it out.

That way for people who don't care everything just works and for people who do they get a rich experience with E2EE. Unlike eg iOS/imessage I don't force them to use a different OS for this and I can talk to everyone from my laptop. Everything is 100% self hostable.

I don't know why you would use Matrix. Self hosting is awful, the clients are a huge mess, and it was bootstraped by the Israel based company that runs US telephone surveillance (it's kind of insane that's done in another country.)
> Star Trek specifically takes Data without emotions and later his brother lore who has emotions

Lore came before Data in the Trek lore (no pun intended), which also helps GP's argument - they went all the way, then when it misbehaved they dialled back to a less "perfect" but much simpler and more predictable solution.
Probably? I think greater than 9” is considered high clearance, but the actual required clearance likely depends on the particular trail.
we need a new phone/text messaging infrastructure that prevent number spoofing AND force operators to filter out scams attempts.
Also: what do we know about the people and institutions developing and promoting these standards and implementations?

We've seen the appointment of people with biographies suggesting affinity with US interests, for example Katherine Maher to the Signal Foundation (and the departure of the Moxie Marlinspike.)

I see a members list for the board overseeing the spec for Matrix, but does anyone know who they are[1]? And the spec is one thing, but who controls the development of the actually used clients and implementations?

Please note I am not imputing anything w.r.t. Matrix/Element etc, but if we're bothered to put effort into E2EE then it is probably worth thinking about this aspect in addition to whether the technical basis is sound. The historical record is clear on government attempts to influence things from that end.

I have the same sort of worries about GnuPG (and the SPoF that is the hard-working maintainer.)

Maybe E2EE is not of concern to the OP, in which case disregard the above.

1. https://matrix.org/foundation/governing-board-elections/
> As for Japan, the US occupation was advised by leftist professors, who deemed that big business was bad and small business was good

What are your sources on this? The US occupation was led by Douglas MacArthur, who was about as far from a "leftist professor" as possible.

> When it was changed to allow big business to operate again, Japan became a huge economic success story.

I'm no expert, but the more common narrative is the Korean war was a stimulant for the Japanese economy.
Then society would quickly condemn the vigilantes. Vigilantism works precisely in those cases where the criminals being persecuted is obvious. It seems to me that there is an optimal amount of vigilantism and it's greater than zero in those rare cases where there is a person skilled enough to carry out the retribution.
In the same vein here.

Every time I see one of these posts and the ensuing comments I always get a little bit of inverse imposter syndrome. All of these people saying "Unless you're at 10k users+ scale you don't need k8s". If you're running a personal project with a single-digit user count, then sure, but only purely out of a cost-to-performance metric would I say k8s is unreasonable. Any scale larger, however, and I struggle to reconcile this position with the reality that anything with a consistent user base should have zero-downtime deployments, load balancing, etc. Maybe I'm just incredibly OOTL, but when did these simple features to implement and essentially free from a cost standpoint become optional? Perhaps I'm just misunderstanding the argument, and the argument is that you should use a Fly or Vercel-esque platform that provides some of these benefits without needing to configure k8s. Still, the problem with this mindset is that vendor lock-in is a lot harder to correct once a platform is in production and being used consistently without prolonged downtime.

Personally, I would do early builds with Fly and once I saw a consistent userbase I'd switch to k8s for scale, but this is purely due to the cost of a minimal k8s instance (especially on GKE or EKS). This, in essence, allows scaling from ~0 to ~1M+ with the only bottleneck being DB scaling (if you're using a single DB like CloudSQL).

Still, I wish I could reconcile my personal disconnect with the majority of people here who regard k8s as overly complicated and unnecessary. Are there really that many shops out there who consider the advantages of k8s above them or are they just achieving the same result in a different manner?

One could certainly learn enough k8s in a weekend to deploy a simple cluster. Now I'm not recommending this for someone's company's production instance, due to the foot guns if improperly configured, but the argument of k8s being too complicated to learn seems unfounded.

/rant
I worked on the logistics IT team for a global marketplace and can assure you that all software in that space is of subpar quality, because all players in this space have to rely on global shipping and logistics incumbents who do not care about how outdated their systems are and have essentially lost ability to understand their own systems. This creates an opportunity for you to create a set of products and services that you can build to improve your own operations and to resell to other businesses in your space.

However...

Software development always costs more than "civilians" (companies whose core business is not software development) expect. I would advise you to work with someone who has built systems for logistics before and can help you describe your current baseline in a way a software developer can understand, then define the target state and break down the journey into clearly defined deliverables. Then you can have a conversation about making it happen. Happy to help you as I have worked on and delivered national and international-level projects in the banking and shipping space.
I guess this is similar to english: "I ain't no snitch", which is a double negative but is equivalent to its single negative counterpart.
As an aside it’s interesting to note that by some metrics Weird Al is the most successful long-term musician alive.
Like most everything else, "success" falls under the Pareto Principle (aka 80/20 rule). That is, unicorns are rare and most are (naturally) bunched around the middle of the curve.

People knock one-hit wonders but that's not easy. Any band with longevity was at one time with only one-hit in hand.

Get that "hit" (product). Figure it out from there.
Anecdata here but I bought a thinkpad T14 in 2022. My colleague bought the same at the same time. We both have identical machines except for me opting for an intel processor and him picking an AMD. My laptop has heating issues and terrible battery life. His lasts an entire day and no heating issues. Forums research shows others in the same timeframe are facing the same issue as me so it is entirely Intel related.
User experience wasn't great.

Font quality with lossy codecs generally looked too lousy back when I tried it at various settings. Screensharing unlike videos is very text centric.

I'd be willing to do the right kind of lossy but jpeg discrete cosines back then wasn't it.
Last night I wondering if mDNS's .local could be used with HTTPS. Lokal appears to be a solution for that. https://lokal.so/#features
Unless you live in a city a bunker really isn't necessary. Just tape trash bags over any blown out windows so rain/dust doesn't get in and don't go outside for a couple weeks.
I think when you are at Figma scale you should have learned to keep things simpler. At this point I don’t think the (slightly) lower costs of EC2 weigh up against the benefits of Fargate.
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