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The Greeks tried it, and it ended in tyranny and the collapse of their civilization.

The Romans tried it, and it ended in tyranny and the collapse of their civilization.

The Americans tried it, and it’s ended in tyranny and the collapse of their civilization.

The fact that the body hasn’t yet figured out that it’s been shot in the head, now twice, isn’t hard to understand, given that the brain stopped sending reliable signals after it was blown out the first time.

Try something once, and it’s an experiment. Try something twice, get the same result, and it’s a trend. Try something three times, expecting a different result, and you’ve reached a popular definition of insanity.

Republican democracy clearly doesn’t, and likely can’t, work over the long term… we, as a species, need to, very carefully, rethink.

If we get the opportunity.
Damn, if Schedule II drugs are that bad, Schedule I drugs must be terrible. Let me go see:

> Some examples of Schedule I drugs are: lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis)

Oh damn, marijuana is worse than this drug? I hope they arrest anyone selling marijuana. What’s that you say? Legal? In California? Oh, in lots of states?
You can build your own antennas and test them, you can build transceiver if you really want.

Hobby is not about talking with people, that’s just convenient way of testing your gear and knowledge of electromagnetic fields to have person from the other side to tell you how well they receive your signal.
Wayland is a critical step in sandboxing everything on the Linux desktop up the ass. Flatpak is also part of this effort. This is where desktop computing is headed; and why what Drew DeVault called "anti-Wayland horseshit" is actually derailing a secure, easy-to-use Linux desktop.
The point is, in most of Europe it’s the richer folks that foot the bill for the poorer ones. That’s a system based on solidarity - you contribute to our collective ability to treat our sick and injured, according to your financial means.

EDIT: at least that’s how it’s supposed to work in theory. Of course the richest people don’t foot the bill for anyone but themselves.
How is that any better than the current system which is just “no cancer medication for you”?
SE in France, 10y+ experience. I’ve never seen a company choosing those tools with any consideration for privacy or security or for any given reason.

In all of the companies I worked, the "basic" tools (aka mostly GitHub, Google Workspace, Jira, Slack etc …) were all just default choices from the era when the company was fund and then those things just became the base bricks of thousands of internal procedures and scripts and once the company is at cruise speed, nobody will want to change any of those tools even if "better" (for whatever definition) or cheaper tools exists.

Because it’s just too hard.

And somehow, by some amazing magic I don’t understand, at some point, people are happy with the fragile stack of hacked things running on top of 4 or 5 extremely "shitty" (for whatever definition) products that you can’t cancel.
hello-world.py works out of the box!
That’s why there is the second program P2 which runs P1 on all possible solvers and checks if any of them succeeds.
A simple NULL check on a MIT repo is no deal at all. You'll also get it into a FSF project without any written forms.

The FSF prefers that a contributor files a copyright assignment for
significant contributions, i.e. > 15 lines of code or docs.

A null check is insignificant work. No dilemma
Taking selfies? Digital editing? That is literally what you are not supposed to do!

Even for a supposedly free product, isn't that tricking users into risking their applications and the time/money spent on them?

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app...
RE: portable HF station, you might be intrigued by the portable rig I've put together over the past couple years[0]. It seems almost "obvious" after getting it all together, but it took a lot of reading and planning (and trying out setups) to settle on this configuration. So cool to have a singular self-contained "pouch" I can just pick up and take wherever - with a many-hour-capable battery to keep it running.

[0] https://matecha.net/posts/yaesu-ft857d-off-grid-portable-kit...
Junk Science invalidates effective medication. I’m calling this right now, in 5-10 years we’ll be discussing how it counteracts the spike protein.
AFAICT it doesn’t matter where things are hosted, the US still reserves the right to access the data because if the company or the parent company are based in or want to deal with the US.

Or has this changed somewhere in the last 4 years since I looked at it?
Move? In this economy?

I'd also need more than two opinions on unknown towns before I'd consider that. Maybe they're both on San Francisco paying 3x in rent. Literally can't afford that move.
sweet, congrats! checked in on any local 2m nets yet? hehe :)
People can be pissed off as much as they want, but facts are not decided by majority opinion.
https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbDExYmM5Y3N0eHJ...
Jack Dorsey's Square to invest more in Bitcoin mining
>a lie built on the exploitation of former colonies and underdeveloped nations

This is the key. The West is no longer as relatively rich as it used to be. Large swaths of the human populace have moved out of poverty just since 1990, causing a sort of "prosperity inflation" where the old prosperous Western nations are no longer as far ahead anymore.

Just the top 10% of India, China, and miracle-on-the-river Asian countries is more than the population of the US, definitely better educated, lives in better conditions than Americans, and competes for the same resources including American jobs. An invisible America-sized country has emerged from thin air in the last 3 decades, and it's better than America.

I think this has already had a deep impact on the psyche of the West. E.g. the phrase "filthy rich" now conjures up images of an Asian international student with bottomless family money from mysterious sources, not an old white family living in Connecticut. The richest man in the world has a foreign accent. The valedictorian is never an unhyphenated American kid.

The past appears better than the present for America because, taking into account this "prosperity inflation", it really was.
It's actually very easy to understand.

Employee salary is fixed expense your company is always prepared to pay every month.

Buying new software is extra new cost, which needs justification and procurement process.
Please share your source code here. I love to play with my own sounds. Can we make it programmable?
A quick google and most of this seems to be lies (not exactly surprised after 4 years of left-wing govt).
I don't think the implication was about the precise color, but rather the lack of diversity.
BTW, 2/0.579 = 3.45, so if you are going to do any rounding, you should round down to 3, not up to 4 :)
They did great job exposing the guy.
Somehow I am not surprised, at all, that someone viciously fighting some idea accuses his opponent/target of being X, being X themselves.
Predictable.
You’ll be appalled. Germany has a notion of “Allgemeine Betriebsgefahr” which encapsulates the general danger of operating dangerous machinery. For a car/bike accident, the default minimum damages split is at least 20% for the car, even if the driver has complied with all rules. In the Netherlands, it’s even more strict: accidents between cars and anyone below 14 are automatically considered 100% the drivers fault for damages, unless you can prove that the accident was caused deliberately and maliciously by the child. For accidents with > 14 years olds, it’s still at least 50% automatic damages, unless you can prove reckless or deliberate behavior.

This is intended to reflect the inherent danger of driving a heavy machine in a public space.
that's what I mean, they haven't had any massive break in backwards compatibility for a while. I did get annoyed by it before and attempted to create my own language/platform - if need be, I have a basic setup of imgui/chibi/c-ffi that I could expand into something useful for scripting that isn't likely to break, but honestly it's such a massive amount of work compared to a conda env so I don't mind sticking with python for now. there's also micromamba which is a lot faster for the solver.
this is true. at some point i was so unfit that i probably was going to die if i continued eating and being as sedentary as i was. a single game of soccer changed my life. it was fun to chase a ball around and i got addicted to this "after glow" effect.
> This fits the Kamala voters well too

It does!

> and the left providing perpetual unhinged social media material

Well the right also provided such an uninterrupted stream of unhinged material, so
I have the experience of writing parsers (lexers) in Ragel, using Go, Java C++, and C.
I must say, once you have some boilerplate generator in place, raw C is as good as the Rust code the author describes. Maybe even better because simplicity.
For example, this is the most of code necessary to have a JSON parser:
https://github.com/gritzko/librdx/blob/master/JSON.lex

In fact, that eBNF only produces the lexer. The parser part is not that impressive either, 120 LoC and quite repetitive https://github.com/gritzko/librdx/blob/master/JSON.c

So, I believe, a parser infrastructure evolves till it only needs eBNF to make a parser. That is the saturation point.
This was surprising to me too.

I've also built a similar free and open-source tool gptme (2.5k stars), since the start of last year (GPT-3.5). It has been impossible to ignore the great work done by Aider.
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Try Kolourpaint for this use case.

If you want to annotate screenshots, KDE's screenshot tool, Spectacle, has this built in too.
Oddly enough I live in a very small town where it's a point of pride to drive in and about with cars from the 1920s, 30s and 40s .. tractors from the 1950s are in use on back market garden paddocks, etc.

It's a state "founders" town and there's a lot of generational wealth being flexed keeping old stuff running and in use.

It's modern John Deere's etc on the 4,000 acre farms of course, but still driving a "classic" farm truck to town because it was Granddad's first truck and renno'd when it was found at the back of the old barn.
>It is both factually right (let's face it, the vast majority of trump voters fit that description to a T)

Thank you for your kind words. Don't you think you're generalizing a VERY big group a bit too much?
>A careful, generous reading 'fine people' thing shows that he probably didn't _mean_ to include supremacists in the praise.

Not all. No need to be careful or generous. A very straightforward, plain reading of his statement makes it clear he explicitly excluded the neo-Nazis and white supremacists, because he explicitly did so in the same speech, practically in the same breath: "I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally." He said it that clearly, but you cannot find a clip which includes that quote from NYT nor WP nor CNN nor from any outlet to whom Team Blue is likely to listen.

... which illustrates my main point. A helpful answer to the question of why anyone would vote for Trump will simply not be found in Blue sources. Blue sources will only impart a conceptual model of Trump's victory that is frightening and the opposite of helpful.

> One has to think that this palimpsest property of his speech...

Support Trump or not, most of the controversies regarding his speech are similar deliberate misreading of his intent by people we had hitherto entrusted with the curation of facts to be used in our national dialogue.
If you're referring to Zicam, there's actually evidence that zinc gluconate helps reduce the length and severity of colds... and it's actually present in more than trace amounts in Zicam. They market it as "homeopathic" in order to get around FDA regulations, and they've gotten in trouble because zinc in your nose can knock out your sense of smell, perhaps permanently. (The lozenges don't appear to have this issue.)
Where Did the Joe Biden Votes Go?
Huh, violent crime in general is up [1].

[1] https://thehub.ca/2024/09/21/violent-crime-has-seen-the-most...
In Germany we have a two-prong system of public and private health insurance, so the richer folks actually remove themselves from the solidarity system, leaving the middle class with good jobs to pay for most of the expenses.

Is it similar in other european countries?
I would rather have competition in this space. Especially if I were offering the product Mergify is offering. I'd be shitting my pants that the functions that my product offers will soon be added to Github natively.
Guess it's not just "hillbillies" and rubes who don't know how tariffs work, it's also "very educated" people in hackernews telling us about "simple simple stuff"!
I was talking to my cousin about the temple yesterday. She grew up in Nepal. The blood, the gore and the animal sacrifice for the god is unreal, the temple steps awash with animal blood.
Err.. discussions at the time:

(68 points, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33573636

(108 points, 83 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33672924

And last year: (69 points, 74 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38131007
Inflation happened all over the world due to post covid and the war how is and government to blame for this?
But you said you haven't tried Aider, how can you say it's a "leap in UX"?

My own tool `gptme` lets the agent interactively read/collect context too (as does Anthropic in their latest minimal-harness submission to SWE-bench), it's nothing novel.
> That's just not possible to solve in practice.

It is never a necessity to drive so close to people that 10km/h is too fast to notice someone who may veer into the path of your vehicle without you having the ability to stop. Likewise to drive at a speed at which someone could appear from behind a nearby obstacle leaving you no time to react. It is a convenience that most people assume they are entitled to - largely due to it being codified in law (there are lots of things we do that are like this).

You may consider it to be a necessity, and I would have once too. But I never do this now. I gave up the convenience - something I couldn't have done if it was a necessity.

I understand this is not a choice everyone feels free to make. But it is a choice.
I second this. I have about as many (5) strings including colors, numbers, and shapes. I always select whichever string is most "opposite" of the expected answer (ie: your best friend from childhood: 78). I've run into some who are set up with criteria to keep the answers in-line with the question... not sure what logic goes into some of these "well-intended" security implementations.

They may as well just have had you create 2 different passwords - the Q&A was never good security in theory as it deals with a bad actor needing only to know a select few pieces of PII to bypass a user's legitimate password in the worst cases.
You can get your license suspended in many places from nonpayment of parking tickets or even something completely unrelated to operating a vehicle like child support. Its not just getting points on your license from a bunch of speeding tickets.
> GitLab auth is currently broken. I try to sign in via GitHub and am served a 422 Auth Error page

I think you are mixing up Gitlab and Github?
> Why is there a playlist by default?

Is there? I know the feature but I thought it was off by default and I think it's this way on my computers.
Yeah I get that, but if we're inventing magic infinite computers, why not invent magic halting algorithms?

> the halting problem was solvable, then anyone with a computer could prove Goldbach's conjecture in an afternoon.

This paragraph is essentially saying this - if we had magic computers then we could magic things we them, but we don't so we can't.
For some of us, "being stuck with Haskell" isn't a problem.
You use the dedicated hardware buttons for controlling car options on the steering wheel.

I don't see why in God's name would you ever need that as a hardware switch.
For sure, though I'll probably have more info after the study.

It's done by the same people as the second paper I linked, on people attending a 10-day silent meditation retreat. My understanding so far is that the participants will be "zapped" a couple of time over the 10 days, to explore exactly what you describe ie alterations of consciousness similar to what's found in long term meditators on retreat, except induced on people who are already on retreat instead of people who'll have to go back to work afterwards.

I'll have more to report in a couple weeks time!

(If you'd like to share, I'm also curious as to what interests you in that field of study)
In my home country (Italy) the "usefulness" of teaching Latin in non-technical schools (i.e. High School, basically) has been debated for at least one century now.

I do not regret having studied it, especially because I had good grades with little effort, but I came to the conclusion that yeah, maybe it would be better to devote more hours to general purpose stuff (think logic, statistics, basic accountancy and and stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow) which would probably be more useful for people who need to operate in modern society.

If you really want to study Latin or Greek (or anything like that) you can do it as a hobby, or choose a University track that includes those.
But as an average citizen I think that an understanding of the numbers published by media, or the ability to manage your own budget with a spreadsheet would be definitely a better investment in terms of time.

EDIT: forgot to add that I am talking specifically of high school in Italy, I do not know if other countries already provide more "practical" forms of education to their general population.
The FDA rule doesn't restrict the IDs but the phrase "that is considered acceptable by the seller" lets the pharmacy put any restrictions in place they want. They can tell you it has to be hot pink and glow-in-the-dark and you've got no choice but to deal with it.
> it's hard to move large amounts of money on the blockchain since it's public

This was a $1mm ransom. The attraction of crypto isn't that it's easy to launder. It's that it's easy to steal. Beat a crypto bro on the head and you know you can effect a verifiable, irreversible transfer. Wiring money involves many more steps and has all kinds of reverse options.
What do you think about having codebuff write a parser for javascript? Something that is specifically built to enhance itself that goes beyond the regular parsers and creates a more useful structure of the codebase to be then used for RAG for code writing?
This would be double useful as a great demo for your product as well as enhancing your product intrinsically. For example the new parser can not only build the syntax tree but also provide relevant commentary for each method to describe what it does to better pick code context.
>I don’t know what facts you’re basing this on but the US military action abroad is not correlated with higher standard of living in the US.

Wars lead to disturbed movement of people and goods, massive loss of lives, destruction of goods, destruction of infrastructure, destruction of production, and more. Wars are great for the military industrial complex and even moreso if you never have to take lead yourself, but it's hell for everyone else.

Pax Americana, the era in which we all live in today, is predicated on the US policing the world and maintaining or establishing the peace for everyone's (and chiefly the US's) benefit. The means can be either Soft Diplomacy or Bigger Gun Diplomacy, but regardless every single administration in recent history with the exception of Trump's first term has been a disaster for world peace and thus better economies and happier lives American or otherwise.

>High oil prices are not because we’re not drilling enough.

High oil prices are because we let OPEC strangle us all by our balls. Anyone paying even the slightest of attention to how oil pricing works will know that OPEC decides the price they want and then adjusts the production/supply to get it.

If we "drill, baby, drill" harder and harder then OPEC will be forced to produce less to maintain the price until they can't, at which point oil prices will come down until right before we also start bleeding red ink. We can crash that price even harder with government action to compensate the bleeding, too. Don't believe me? It's literally what China does with practically everything.

So I am going to sharply disagree with you: High oil prices are because we're not drilling enough. If Biden's actually drilling more oil than Trump, that just means Trump needs to drill even harder.
> Ten years ago, GitHub was behind on certain topics (hello CI), but they are now way ahead of the competition.

This is an absolutely wild statement to me. I find github actions to be really terrible for any reasonably complex CI flows; gitlab's CI is the primary reason we use it instead of github. If github's CI was worth a damn we'd certainly be there; as it is we mirror a bunch of repos to github just for discoverability.
Oh good, another round of "ADHD isn't real."
Yes, nothing will ever beat the old MMI when it comes to ease of use (especially once you got a hang of it and could do stuff "blind" without looking at the screen). Just wanted to say that this one still has more than enough in physical form; I also drive a 2022 A3 every now and again and I'd curse, for life, the person who figured out CAPACITIVE skip/volume/power on buttons are a good idea if I could.
I mean, this of course is just a casual conversation on an internet forum, so I don't seriously mean you should pack up right now and move to one of those two towns just because of dancing. But my larger point is that different places offer different things, and some places just aren't going to be very good for certain cultural interests (like dancing). America's a big place, and if you don't really like the place you're in, I don't think it's that productive to say "activity X is really bad these days" just because it's bad in your area, and some other areas that some article claims based on anecdotes. It may even be the case that it really is worse, on average, than several decades ago. But there's surely places where it's fine, so if the area you're in doesn't meet your expectations for cultural activities, perhaps you should start looking around for a new place.