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I know that's what TV says, but my anectdata is the opposite of that.

I've known multiple attorneys in the public defenders office in three different courts. One rural, two very urban. They absolutely had relationships with both street officers and leadership in the precincts of the city and town.
Would you be interested in moving to the Czech Republic for a better salary?
All we need is native Excel support, and HTML5 web support. In web browsers it should be the default copy formatting, and if you’re writing an HTML document these characters should be an alternative to using TD and TR tags.
> The correct thing would be to let customers come into store with an existing plan and handset, and give them a new phone and bill that back to the government so there's no interruption to services for them.

I’m not sure I agree. Why is that the right thing? It’s a politically popular approach but not clear there’s a right/wrong here. For example, people might buy second-hand 3G headsets to get brand new ones on the government’s dime.
>for some reason, Indians were never officially called "slaves" by the British

I suppose it's because they weren't. It's sort of fashionable to compare hard conditions to slavery in many fields, but back in those times the difference would be obvious.
The title of this HN article is ambiguous; I had to read the article to understand what the article is about. I suggest "Wikipedia adds Gaza to list of genocides".
> Indo-European languages: a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Widely spoken indo-european languages includes English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish, etc.

> Indo-European languages typically use the Latin alphabet

After the first sentence, "Indo-European" seems to have transformed to just "European" in the author's mind. Hindi and Bengali, languages more widely spoken than half the language in that list, seem to have been forgotten, along with their Devanagri script.

(Over the course of the article, it's seeming like the author just wanted to say European languages, or languages using Latin script, and for some reason chose to use Indo-European instead, despite clearly stating the definition themself.)
While trying to read this, I find this better description of the original 2 photon vision stuff; fun!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004269892...
It’s sad that only Google can (and honestly a bit surprising that Google hasn’t) use multimodal video models to index the semantic contents & transcripts of these videos for search. Huge long tail of unique content.
Does anyone use Typst for multi-page documentation website? This is the most common use-case of mdbook.
https://archive.ph/KNLDB
Is “totally normal guy does nothing out of the ordinary” a headline in Australia?
from evidence it seems to be to enrich the CEO and high level management

and not to annoy the patron (Google)
I agree that the issue is desperation; you can’t worry about 40 years from now when you’re barely making rent. What I really don’t understand is why you single out the fact that we have an inflationary currency as the cause of this desperation when there’s a million other factors.
Actual failure is not trying
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OZEPbyIA8XI
> Use whitespace more. In both directions.

What does that mean?
James is doing an incredible job of documenting this issue.

Everything except for his incredible documentation has either been minor anecdote ("my phone doesn't work"), or Industry & Government spin- usually misrepresentations at the least.

Bravo James.
I doubt everything is equal. AVs are likely driving many more miles on the road each day than the majority of other vehicles.
A real mechanical turk. Needs to be able to handle captures / castling too. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't see too much practical purpose for this, but as a piece of the scenery it could be very cool.
Feel like you need to read the article. Many of the devices affected do not fit any reasonable interpretation of the term “legacy”. It turns out 3G is in many ways superior to 4G and 5G.
agree but be sure to check for microphones in the flowerpot
I have a small tin box that something or other came in as a gift. It stored concert tickets and other small memorabilia (like the movie ticket from a great first date) for every event I'd gone to for well over a decade.

Gradually, as physical tickets got phased out, I had fewer and fewer items of memorabilia to add. At this point, I have no physical record of shows we see. I feel like something has been lost. But I suspect far fewer people kept these tickets for nostalgia than threw them away, so I guess I'm not mad; I'm just disappointed.
Art Garfunkel "Cried at Reunion Lunch with Former Musical Partner Paul Simon "
Australia has a rich tradition of overarching, arrogant and authoritarian behavior towards the little people.

Possibly a hangover from the early days of European settlement, when the majority of settlers were convicts who needed keeping an eye on and dealing with with a firm hand.
Looking at the SSH actions, the "brute force" attack is just iterating through a list of usernames and passwords from an external file. Wow. Much impress. So Hacker.
Same. Bought this immediately for that exact reason.
I don't know, I've seen Americans stereotype people up and down, but the moment you mention an American stereotype, it's always "this is a big country, there are lots of people here". Just notice how "Chinese people" and "IP theft" go hand in hand here.
My dad came to drink with me once in college. He never went, and we share a birthday. So he came up for my 21st. It was super fun.

He got to see what college life was like, and I got to see what he was like as a friend instead of just parent.

The problem is that a lot of folks just use these kinds of weekends as a way to either relive their glory days or live vicariously through their children.

I have worked in colleges and universities for a few decades now, and this phenomena is growing because more parents have gone to college than in prior decades.

It's very, very, very cringeworthy. The amount of second hand embarrassment I feel after these weekends is enormous.
With the manifest v3 debacle they have a golden opportunity in their hands. They can promoting the fact that they work for you rather than advertisers, they could explain what true privacy looks like, regardless of what device you're using.

Firefox on Android used to be a really good product--it supported basically every popular extension there was for desktop, then in 2018-2019 they appeared to start a new revamped project for some reason. I downloaded the beta for it--it was rough around the corners, it had a quite short whitelist of extensions, most of the functionalities were absent, but there were a few improvements here and there. And out of nowhere, a few weeks later they made it the default.

It's been way too long and the app still feels unfinished. It crashes way too much and I can't even move around the icons for the websites in the start page. They've enabled the list of extensions recently but it's a mess. I only use it since it's where I can have uBlock origin.

It feels that every couple of years they have a golden opportunity, but somehow they never seem to know what to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPlTz-3estM also looks at some experiences

There's also now a tool for looking up IMEIs although as described in the video the results are wrong https://www.telstrawholesale.com.au/3G-Network-Closure-Block...
A fix without finding the cause cannot be called a fix

As the comments say:

> Now waiting for the war story from your successor "you'll never guess what I found when I took apart this one server that wouldn't wake-on-lan"
This has been handled differently in the UK from a regulatory point of view from an earlier time in the rollout of 4G/5G networks, so things seem to have worked out better.

In the UK, carriers are only allowed to provide coverage in any given area to a phone if it is able to make an emergency call (999/112) in that area.

i.e. if the phone says you have a signal, you must be able to make an emergency call.

So, for a phone to actually show you as being connected to the network:

a) There must be 2G/3G coverage available for a CSFB call to take place.

or

b) The phone must support VoLTE (including for emergency calls).

Newer LTE (and 5G) spectrum deployments, like Band 20 LTE (800MHz), are being used to provide coverage in rural areas - even in places where there is no 2G/3G coverage, therefore these newer bands are often only made available to devices that support VoLTE.

If you have an old phone, that doesn't support VoLTE (including for emergency calls), then it will only connect to 4G networks in areas where there is still an overlapping 2G/3G layer.

This approach means that the carriers have had an incentive to make all devices support VoLTE with emergency calling. It has also been possible for the carriers to promote the 800MHz coverage as only being available on newer phones with VoLTE.

Thus much of the problems that Australia is having have been avoided.

Also:

Data-only devices aren't included in this requirement, as they can't/don't make emergency calls.

Roaming devices aren't affected (as far as I know).

UK carriers support VoLTE roaming in the USA, given the lack of 2G/3G networks for CSFB.
I used "amen" in the sense of "hearty approval"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amen
Particular = Deutsche Schule. Pseudointellectual = hegelian. Hegemony = of which he was a king crowned by contemporary ruling class.

Hegel dominated the area by being a Kanzler, not by merit.
Media in general, but American media especially, is hyper optimized for clickbait. Informing people about news and current events is useful, but inducing outrage is _profitable_. Newsrooms across the country have realtime metrics dashboards showing what stories are doing numbers, and its not meeting minutes of local PTA meetings.

All incentives drive journalists to search out stories designed to light up your monkey brain, and a byproduct of that is every stereotype under the sun is magnified and distorted into a caricature.
It works the other way as well. More or less everything I know about the UK I learned from watching "Spitting Image", both the original as a child and the more recent revival.
From what I know of UK and Australia, I'm pretty sure you have parents who would do Jell-O shots at 10am too.
And it made sense for you to then call it “freedom units“ why, of all possibilities?
Wikipedians were weighing the evidence on whether to call the Gaza thing a genocide or not. They decided to call it a genocide, as the academic evidence/consensus was so far in favor of that, that it wasn't even close.
You go very very far with a scooter before having to fill up the tank. Motorcycles are in my opinion the best and most realistic option for reducing car traffic. E-Bikes probably second best.
On Android you can use NewPipe for a similar experience. For obvious reasons it's not on Google's Play Store, but you can get it from F-Droid or Github.
Venn diagram of helicopter parenting and alcoholism?
Not all roads are created equally or have equal weight ratings. I'm sure you've seen signs depicting restrictions on certain roads. These smaller roads tend to be owned and maintained by smaller municipalities who are less able to afford upgrades or maintenance.

In any case, point still stands, you're more than "one smart decision" away from having electrified the American fleet of vehicles.
There’s a thousand things waiting to be written once… because they’re each coping with something else that was written once.

Write it twice, then you can use it a dozen ways, and now you’ve got a hundred things to write instead of a thousand.
This reminds me the trick to make recent text-to-image model generate highly realistic (but amateur) photos by adding "IMG_XXXX" into the prompt. Although these videos have nearly zero views on YouTube, they may be part of the training data behind these models.
'British Wikipedian, Stuart Marshall, made the final ruling in September, decisively supporting the [Gaza genocide] article’s inclusion. “Based on the strength of the arguments … and it’s not close … I discarded the argument that scholars haven’t reached a conclusion on whether the Gaza genocide is really taking place”, Marshall wrote in his decision. “The matter remains contested, but there’s a metric truckload of scholarly sources linked in this discussion that show a clear predominance of academics who say that it is.”'

From this, maybe it is clearer (but not shorter) to say: ‘It’s not close’ - The inclusion of "Gaza genocide" to Wikipedia's "List of genocides" ends editorial debate

Alt phrasing: Wikipedia's editorial debate ends with the inclusion of "Gaza genocide" to "List of genocides" page

(I'm trying to not repeat "Wikipedia" several times.)

Somewhat related Wikipedia article regarding parsing sentences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
Yup. People often don’t take this into account.
> Try to imagine being in a flow state without actually doing anything other than observing. It's something I experience at times when I'm in a beautiful natural environment. I try to bring this feeling into my everyday life.

I think you explained this very clearly and beautifully. I think I know exactly what you mean.

I used to find a lot of comfort in being able to get myself into this state of mind easily, usually, like you, by just calmly observing natural surroundings in environments that are special to me.

That was in my late teens and early twenties. I'm now about 15 years older and find it so much harder.

I think it has something to do with living a hectic adult life, and I really hope I'll be able to find back to that some time.

Part of me really believes that to experience life in this way is what we're here for and modern life's way of distancing us from this experience is something we need to be very wary of.
It’s surprising the things that have been caught offguard by this.

In Melbourne, the ticketing terminal in 200 trams and 2500 buses is now broken.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/free-ride-as-myk...
This is better than my suggestions. It doesn't include the debate aspect though (...?)
Which social problems? I think many people do understand this and problems directly resulting from a lack of this understanding aren't actually that present in the real world, but by the same reasoning, people think others don't because that's the poison you see on the Internet.

In day to day life, it's fairly acceptable to just acknowledge that some contingent of whichever population is made up of lunatics and move on with your life. It's only other lunatics, typically also only on social media, that can't do that, but normal people just don't bother paying attention to them. and hope they burn out.
I fully agree with you about the solidity of the VM. The others I am not so sure about.

> Bottomless resources of developers with Java experience.

With Java experience, but what fraction have a systems outlook? What fraction have an experience with other languages to ensure that the code they write is simple and understandable and direct? My own experience is that too many come out addled by Enterprise Java idioms, and when you actually write some code in Erlang or Go you realize systems aren't as complicated as they have been made out to be.

> Managing very large codebases ...

I wonder if this is self-fulfilling. My theory is that these codebases are huge because their designs are enterprisey. The primary drivers of complexity are indirection: factories, dependency injection, microservices, these are all part of the same malaise.
It is! I've often wanted to search for something that happens in a video instead of just the title, description, and keywords.
> I kind of wish the upstream devs got billed for all the extra work they cause.

This is actually very easy to do!

Surely you’re already donating generous sums to these open source projects - you can simply let them know you’ll reduce your contribution until the problem is fixed.

This is a snarky reply and I’m sorry for that, but seriously why do you feel entitled to anything? Receiving any free software in the first place is more than sufficient.
Standing desk might be as bad as sitting all day
you've been around, you're absolutely right.

>not worth it to put in much effort to be a star employee

it isn't even possible at the places like i'm currently in, at least for me. I mean, i'm still rated as high performing employee, just a regular one at that. You do your components in a very large platform product, make sure that they aren't source of pain, and just coast under the radar.
> You just see the sunset.

I see this with some people and other animals. I can't speak. Sometimes I want to shy away because it's like seeing someone naked without them knowing they're being watched. I can see their souls. It's not every animal or even every person. I really strongly disagree that all people are equal. Everyone is different, everyone has a different path, and I feel like people are so vastly different that it's overwhelming at times.

I don't think of it in terms of ego. That's because, I think, there are different kinds of transcendence, and it's easy to think that up is only one direction.
This is just an anecdote, but I'm seeing more ads than ever for chegg, and I'm not in school. Wondering if it's coincidence or a last ditch effort to boost metrics.
Classic bullying.

We know now that while these laws have local impacts they clearly also have global impacts and they are not always positive.

Attempting to use the local success of the EPA Clean Air Act to justify a flat 16%+ increase in the price of a widely used and important commodity is inappropriate.
This dismissal doesn't do justice to the content of the video. There are a lot of other points made, including:

- Self driving cars are not a pipe-dream, the tech is developing and will be in every city in the future, this can't be ignored

- There is a real danger that they will destroy the fabric of our cities

- They will increase, not decrease, the number of cars on the road and the use of road space

- As cars shift electric, gas taxes will be less effective at "charging for usage" of road space, and other means will be necessary, or else AVs will treat the cost of occupying road space as zero, and circle endlessly.

- Despite hype that AVs won't need parking space, they will, because people will still want to own private cars and need to park them, and robotaxis will compete for response times and so will need to stay available close to high-demand areas

- As AV companies gain adoption and become more available, city design may warp such that AVs may even become required to use roads or get around at all. There's a strong potential for the AV industry to lobby for changes to road infrastructure to favor AVs, including banning human-driven vehicles and increasing speed limits or removing them altogether. This may even go to the point of fencing off streets from pedestrians, because otherwise it would be too easy for people to step in front of vehicles (forcing them to brake). This is not unprecedented based on how quickly the auto industry reshaped laws, standards, and infrastructure to favor automobiles in the 20th century.

- AV companies are likely to spread American driving practices and road culture to other countries, because AV tech is mostly developed in the US.

- AVs may make it more difficult for cities and countries to update road rules, because of the burden it would put on AV companies to keep up with rule changes, and AV companies might successfully lobby against this. Cities will come under pressure to become more uniformly like Phoenix AZ, in order to be more AV-friendly, rather than AV companies putting in the work to localize their tech to work in every city.

- There is a risk that AVs will displace other forms of public transit which are better for the environment, for pedestrians, for land use, and for the surrounding areas

- By reducing the perceived cost of spending time in traffic, AVs will encourage people to commute longer distances, resulting in more traffic, infrastructure costs, and emissions overall

- The AV lobby has suggested that AVs help mobility-impaired people, but public transit and walkable streets would help these people better than AVs would

It's a long video, but I do think there are a lot of points that are worth deeply thinking about, especially for anyone here who might be involved in developing this technology.
What was your parents' reaction when you quit drinking?

Congrats on being in recovery. 400+ days myself. Also drank a lot in college but didn't have parents pressuring me. They looked the other way.
What exactly would change ? Only thing I can think of 'normal' users using is ctrl-c/ctrl-v which already work in KDE (even ctrl-win-arrow for virtual desktops could be configured without a fork.)? Different icons/shortcuts wouldn't require forking KDE...Not sure what else you'd change?
Not medically necessary is a statement about cost vs utility.

Many vaccines such as for rabies fall into that category for the general public. Rabies is one of the deadliest diseases on the planet and the vaccine works just fine, but not enough people get infected each year to be worth it without some other risk factor.