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> It takes a long, long time for agriculture methods to change

My relatives, corn farmers in Iowa, have been preaching no-till for three generations now. I asked my uncle why it's not been universally adopted after all this time.

He said it's partly lack of awareness, which was astounding to me. I learned about the loss of our soil and the importance of no-till in the classroom in middle school in an urban area, of all places! The evangelism is occurring, but maybe it's just not reaching the right ears, or it's reaching deaf ears.

The other factor, he said, was that you'll suffer lower yields for a few years after you stop tilling, while the soil builds up a proper layer of decomposing matter on top. Or at least, farmers are afraid that could happen. And it's not a risk worth taking in their view.

There is a role here for government incentives to accelerate the transition. I think they already exist, but they should step it up, since we have been moving so slowly. The government is quite accustomed to tweaking the economics of farming to stabilize such an important part of our society.
Port workers are at war with automation
Video games are particularly egregious because even if an old game is currently sold under the same name, it often is not the same game:

* it’s running via emulation or has been recompiled for a different architecture with noticeable changes from the original (control latency, graphical differences, fixed/new bugs)

* content has been added or removed (often due to licensing)

* an EULA has been added or modified

* it’s not playable on the hardware where it was originally released

This is unlike books and music, which rarely change, or movies where it happens but is certainly not common.

Video games are different, though. The Genesis version of Sonic 3 has a different soundtrack than all others and hasn’t been available since 1997. Symphony of the Night had the most similar rerelease in 2006 on XBLA, but everything since has been a version with many big fixes and additions based on the PSP version. Final Fantasy VI has had many “enhanced” versions, but surprisingly the original ROM was available until the Wii U eShop shut down last year. Also aurprisingly, new old stock of the PS1 version could be bought from Square Enix up until a few years ago.

There are countless other remasters or ports that replace the original which is then never sold again.
I agree. But at the end of the day it's not rationality that controls the fate of large groups of people, it's emotions. Nuclear power is a very emotional topic in Germany, and you can't argue with people who believe they'll die next week if that power plant keeps producing energy.
I'm surprised the system accepted this nonsense in the first place. I tried to register "Capital Investment Advisors" in Romania and motherfuckers rejected it, they realized it abbreviates as "CIA" and denied it.
Lots of comments here remind me of another rms quote: "They seem to have learned the habit of cowering before authority even when
not actually threatened. How very nice for authority. I decided not to
learn this particular lesson."
A measurable ratio of a continent is not a garden or a city park. Even just using this metaphor seriously is, yes, straightforward hubris and vanity.
There's actually a page on their site under resources for that: https://www.neotokyo.com/anime-cel-dealers-and-resources

Yahoo Auctions is more popular over there and proxy services (I use Buyee) make it pretty simple bid/buy and not too much more expensive if you wait for their (Buyee) coupons.
If you have a dynamic IP it was probably banned because of someone else who had it in the past.
Depends, on Linux you can call set_nonblocking on a TcpListener and get a WouldBlock error whenever a read would block. That's called non-blocking.
There are multiple ways to set things up in Linux. You can use sudo, or you can have a separate root user.

I have not used Windows enough in recent years to know, but there may be differences in what you need to enter your admin password for, which may make users less suspicious when asked. On Linux distros I have used the only regular operation on a desktop that requires it are software installation and updates updates, which has a well defined UI and comes after a specific user action.
How to upgrade from previous version in macOS? Edit: nvm I just need to delete previous version.
This is posted about once a week on Reddit.
One example that I found is that some libraries/databases don't allow DDL statements to be parameterised - so if you are managing tables and columns from code and those names came from end users then you should be checking them.
No-till conservation cropping systems produce better physical soil health and higher soil organic carbon, but they do require higher herbicide use:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360507198_Are_No-Ti...
I worked at a McD's franchise 20 years ago that had hired a "retired" ice cream machine guy to work for the franchise full time. With only a half dozen stores, he would still almost always be too busy to make it to our store the same day and sometimes we'd have to wait as long as 3-4 days. Flaky does not even begin to describe how awful those machines are.

I'm not sure if having that guy employed by the franchise was technically kosher or not with McDonald's, but you have to imagine the smart franchises all do this.
There are a wide array of problems from plastics to herbicides and pesticides related to consumption. There's also the sustainability issue as laid out in this article. It's unclear what your contention is other than you might not like general statements about "chemicals". It's not possible to enumerate every issue. You're statement isn't contributing anything.
A major problem of the US 2 party system is that there really is someone specifically you can point at to villainize. With multiple parties its much harder to say "everyone except us is a villain" (unless you kinda wanna be seen as crazy), in the worst case it's calling out the extremist parties, which still leaves room for many other parties.
If you want to include anyone with an android device as a linux user then most of them are not.
My understanding is that Silver's model has been more favorable to Trump than 538, by virtue of 538 having Kamala up just a little while Silver had her up less or Trump up a little. In the past couple days 538 shifted a little toward Trump; I'm not sure Silver's model did the same. His updates have been saying "small moves, still basically tied" for a while, but like you I'm outside the paywall.
do you have the same reaction to people telling you how to pronounce their names or others telling you what pronouns to use?
Oh, I know people who spray holy water all around the house as a "possible remedy".
Okay, let's call them "IP packets with protocol 6 (TCP) in the header." Does that make it clearer?
How to configure an Ethernet connection between iPad and RaspberryPi with USB-C
So what? That's an incoherent irrelevant response that doesn't address any of the points I raised. Are you just trying to pull off "The Weave" by emulating Trump? You do realize that's just a lame excuse for incompetence and dementia, not an intentional debate strategy, don't you?
We already have that. Why are you commenting here?

In the end, the real service social networks offer is moderation.
NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory
Thanks, I had been wondering about that! Lots of good info in this article.

Edit: The article is about Debian's packaging and distribution process.
You’re probably making so much money that don’t care about your Database bill or query performance.
ORM is basically a no-code tool for databases, if that solves your problem great, but that’s not something that would scale beyond basic use.
> Where in the framework is this?

Appendix D: Course Placement and Sequences (https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/documents/mathfw-appendixd.p...):

> The California Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CA CCSSM)
represent a tight progression of skills and knowledge that is inherently rigorous and designed to provide a strong foundation for success in the new, more advanced Algebra I and Mathematics I courses that are typically taken by most students in grade nine.

And:

> Prior to the development of the CA CCSSM, “Algebra I” was taught in grade eight to an increasing number of students. That same course name will be the default for grade nine, as most students who move forward will complete the CA CCSSM for grade eight—and the new version of Algebra I is more rigorous and more demanding than previous versions of Algebra I.

Page 833 shows a diagram that by default gets students only to Precalculus in 12th grade, passing through Algebra I or Math I in 9th.

If CA is right that the new Algebra I is more demanding than the old then this could just be a question of semantics and definitions (though with calculus not an option by default it's still pretty clear that they're not covering as much material by default), but Conrad definitely didn't invent the idea of Algebra I being moved to ninth grade.
This is not true and you know it. Re-read Linus' comment if you think this is about sanctioned organizations.

And in any case, the leader of an open project should do everything to keep the project open, including defying an immoral and unjust law, or at the very least doing bare minimum compliance. They certainly shouldn't happily jump on the bandwagon.
How long before a "prompt engineering" company name is registered?
Ask HN: Escape from TCR? Family shared SMS
My wife is a bit particular and when we moved in together want there to be a household phone. So we signed up with a VoIP service and things worked. When we bought a home together, life got more complicated. There were utilities, contractors, service people, deliveries, etc. One day we realized that some of these folks would frequently send texts to our house number instead of calling, which we would never receive. So we upgraded our VoIP service/plan with a SMS option, and it was great. We could both just keep up to date on all the various things and either of us could respond as our schedules allowed, on any of our devices. We could even send images as MMS would allow to make communication clearer ("See this is exactly where things are going wrong", etc.)

And as with many things in life, human nature has pretty much ruined it. To combat SMS spam, as far as we can tell, all business SMS usage needs to be approved through https://www.campaignregistry.com/ now. And recent years, it has been brought to our attention that the service we are paying for is really intended for businesses. We are increasingly hitting weird blocks on messaging due to being grandfathered in before TCR. It has gotten to the point where we are on the verge of registering a business just to keep our functionality. Except even just having a registered business may not be enough because TCR requires all kinds of detailed information about your business and its practices.

So we are at a bit of a loss what else to do here. We could concede and one of us gets the responsibility of the "designated" cell phone number to handle everything household related. It is further complicated by my being an Apple fanboi and her a Windows/Android zealot. If we both used Apple devices we could maybe finagle something out by buying a dedicated iPhone for the house number and then take advantage of the cross-device Messages interoperability. There is Google Voice, and even ignoring my dislike for them, I don't feel they can necessarily be trusted not to drop the product or ban us for arbitrary reasons. Additionally, when it comes to actual phone calls, while Google Voice can forward calls to a number, I am not aware of any option to use it directly with regular handsets like many VoIP providers offer.

Are there really no companies in this space serving personal users? If not, that would be an excellent business niche for the entrepreneural folks in the audience.
I’ll check out your project - everything you say here resonates with me, especially the rootless nature.

What we probably need, long term, is a content addressable store, local first, secure, and freely shareable. Layering this on top of POSIX filesystems feels awkward and difficult to trust. But this is the fundamental building block of Nix-like systems and would make the move from rootless to system-wide a mostly trivial exercise.
It's an opportunity to meet people who have a higher likelihood of successful careers, who in turn also know many successful people. That makes getting meetings and fundraising much easier.

I simply wasn't able to meet those kinds of people as a mid 20s person transferring to a commuter university from a community college.

Existing wealth likely helps, but even the poor kids with scholarships have better outcomes at those universities.
The Problem of Terroir in the Anthropocene [video]
As long as there is creative expression involved in the translation, that may be accurate.

That’s effectively what the decomp community is doing. Instead of PDF and interpreter it’s git and compilers. (Though music and visual artwork must be excluded for different copyright reasons).
I upgraded my iPhone 12 mini to a 13 mini the day the 13 mini was discontinued. My plan was to use it for as long as humanly possible. However, since it was already a couple years old when I got it, the battery and hardware limitations (most ram) started to become a problem within the first year. I ended up getting a 16 Pro a few weeks ago.

I’d love a phone the size of the mini, but a Pro model with triple cameras. I would be perfectly fine with them making it thicker to accommodate the extra hardware and a comparable battery. I think I’d actually prefer this, as a thicker phone would mean they could eliminate the camera bump, or at least shrink it.

I don’t think my wishes will ever come true. Personally, I’d even go smaller than the mini. I think they got the size right the first time. I would be happy keeping it the same size and moving to an all-screen design. But I’m an oddity these days, as I still think the computer should be the center hub, and the phone a utility device for on the go. The overall market has moved to mobile-first, where the phone isn’t just the center hub, its many people’s only device.
I'm happy to complain about Windows, but I will say their progress in converting their ecosystem to user-by-default with elevation prompt warnings has been impressive.

Especially when they had to drag their developer community kicking and screaming to it. (in Windows Vista ~2006)

Afaicr, there's also a neat bit where the lock screen and UAC prompt actually run under an entirely different, privileged and restricted session (than the normal one the user is interacting with and running programs in).

Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...

Apparently now termed the "secure desktop", it's transparently overlaid on top of the user desktop whenever you see a prompt.
Haunted IPs are a thing, same as the haunted domains article also on the front page right now! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41951131
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Humans altering the landscape enables civilization. Personally I'm more biased towards that than ecological conservatism.

We should maintain a balance of course. I suppose the real problem here is agreeing on what "balance" means.
This is a fantastic idea and a problem I've had, too! Thank you. :-)
Well the demo is showing a crossing of something that ms has defined to not be a real security boundary: "Administrative processes and users are considered part of the Trusted Computing Base (TCB) for Windows and are therefore not strong isolated from the kernel boundary." [0]

Another recent case:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-exploited-w...

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/windows-security-servic...
Virtually all of Europe used to just be forest. Large swathes of East England used to be uninhabitable swamp, much of the Netherlands used to be underwater.
As a life long resident of the American West, I can imagine few ecological crimes more horrifying. This is one of the most unique geographies on this planet. The life here is thoroughly adapted to a fragile balance of long want and occasional abundance. Everywhere you "terraform" would obliterate that balance. The application of the word itself is obtuse. How can you make more Earth like what the Earth itself made? I suggest that you take your infrastructure projects and apply them where people already live. The damage has already been done there. And those places have an elasticity of life due to the high amounts of water that let them bounce back at some point. Instead I suggest for the West we take a page out of Edward Abbey and simply marvel at its incredible uniqueness and beauty.

Desert Solitaire https://a.co/d/16MZLfL
Basically right, where I worked the parts were set in trays to air-dry overnight. There was a spot on the tray for each part, o-ring, and gasket so you could easily see if any were missing.

The machines were reassembled the next morning. So the closers only had to break them down, wash, and sanitize.

Once a week any dairy mix left in the machine was discarded, this "breaks the cycle" of any bacteria in the mix. So on that night, you tried to let the machines run very low to minimize waste.

It's sort of complicated the first few times but it becomes very routine. Like everything at McDonalds, there is a detailed step-by-step written procedure on how to do it.
BuildWithIt
For folks using Things (by culturedcode) or org-mode, these offer something similar!

- Org-mode allows you to annotate tasks with DEADLINE: and SCHEDULED:, they will show up twice on your agenda. The deadline will have a countdown date.

- Things tasks don't appear until they are scheduled (⌘S), but you can additionally specify a deadline (⌘⇧D), and they will appear with an "X days til due" label.
Free AI sales agent for a whole year. But I want feedbacks
Hey Guys,
I create an Ai chatbot i'm keen to give it away to a few real business owners for a whole year and get constructive some feedbacks in return. It seems to generate a few more leads and gives more context for a sales call. If anyone is keen DM me.
Running a Costco Warehouse
Maybe a lot of farmers don't want to drastically increase their herbicide use?
> Or do they somehow adapt to the operations supported by the user's CPU?

This is called runtime dispatch. You can do it manually or use a library, like Google Highway. GCC supports multiversioning where you write separate versions of a function and the right one is selected at runtime.

https://github.com/google/highway

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-9.1.0/gcc/Function-Multiv...
The big deal is that it can’t be over the Internet, even if restrictions are in place to ensure only one user can access one copy at a time.

Zediva and Aereo had the same issue, albeit in a commercial application. I was hoping libraries would be given a little more freedom since their purpose is educating the public.
I had the same experience working at one in US from ages 15-19.

The thing that stands out about that job that makes it unique in my perspective is decision-making. Every other job, from dishwasher in a sit down restaurant to engineering team lead, works best when I make good decisions and my coworkers all do too. Everything runs most smoothly when everyone is on their game and consistently making the right choices.

At McDonald's, everything ran most smoothly when no one made any decisions at all.

Their system was literally that good. No one else's has ever come close. And you're right that there's a weird freedom and pleasantness to that: your job requires literally zero brain power most of the time and your sole responsibility is to keep up with the person behind you and not overwhelm the person in front of you, which isn't usually something you worry about. So all that energy every other job has got from me, I still had (and so did everyone else) which made it the most social, most fun workplace too.
> I'd like to see the population trending downward,

oh that wish has already been granted. the world fertility rate is 2.3, and it has been falling precipitously for decades. once it gets to 2.1 we start depopulating
an ageing population without a growing workforce (assuming no AI takeoff in the next decade) is going to be a lot of fun. you saved in your pension fund? too bad you can't eat numbers on a computer.
What is there to believe in observable reality ? The debate is over, whats left is storms and refugees and idiots who believe that a messagebringing shaman in a lab coat has the power to revert bad news or other idiots that belief that propagating a fast &repent cult will undo the bad news. Meanwhile the news is just bad wether we refuse delivery or won't .
Maybe you should be banned from this discussion forum? After all, you are from the same country that dropped atomic bombs on civilians and remains the only country in history to have done so. Any lesson on ethics from an American is by definition facetious, right?
It allows it's users to actually use their computer as a computer instead of a glorified phone.

MacOS nannies you left and right, preventing you from doing things you want to do because Apple says no.

Windows historically didn't have such restrictions because it's a desktop operating system and not a gimped phone. They're slowly being added, but it takes time to overhaul an entire architecture while maintaining backwards compatibility (which MacOS also doesn't care about at all).

Linux is of course far more "hackable" but there aren't as many computer illiterates using it.
Texts Behind Your Background
You are standing on the hills, beautiful mountains are in your back showing nature. Your want to write 'Enjoying' but it looks nasty when you write on your front of photo, instead you opt to write those in-between your back and mountains. I have created a mini app that has AI, which automatically identify your body and your background and you can place text in-between, with any font and size you want. Prototype is small, anyone wants to test it?
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Just a quick look at 2024's CVEs, 0days for Windows is a security nightmare. Not singling out Windows specifically, but they have a lot.

Browsers only just recently patched browsers being able to be served javascript that scans local devices on 10.* and 192.168.* etc hitting IoT devices with exploits and payloads, hell even hitting open listening sockets on localhost and 0.0.0.0 -- that's cross platform, how many years did that go under the radar?

And now Windows is getting 'Recall' which will monitor and scan your every PC action to remember it for you using ML; I don't see that going back at all /s
Banks have extreme requirements on that ratio though, and have been regulated to death (for good reason) for a hundred years
Ok, so if he wins (seems likely even to WaPo) and those thing doesn’t happen, are you going to think “I was wrong” or double down on “he really wanted to do it but they didn’t let him”