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> What you are missing here is that the adjustment is not low usage users subsidising high usage users, it’s OVH margins.

I did not miss this, and it was part of my point: the only reason this makes any sense at all is because these providers are ripping people off on bandwidth, which is how they have a margin so large that they feel a need to hide it from people under this kind of ridiculous pricing abnormality.

What is awkward is just accepting that and helping to make it worse by advocating for making it easier to kind of hide that fact: bandwidth is a commodity product, and these pricing games aren't pro-consumer because they somehow help people not have to worry about one month getting ripped off too much... they are anti-consumer because they enable the perpetuation of the state of affairs wherein people get ripped off in the first place.

The bandwidth providers know this, but they--of course ;P--like their excessive margins... but, if you just stopped claiming this was pro-consumer and realized what was actually going on here, the idea that a margin so excessive as to be able to essentially make the usage for the median user irrelevant should indicate a nigh-unto-ridiculous level of market distortion.

Like, we shouldn't sit around and just tolerate these margins. And that this particular pricing trick helps make these margins a bit more stomached by people really sucks! And in some sense I get it that it does make it easier to stomach... but... only because I think people are just buying into the idea that this must be a reasonable price :(.

And--even then--it doesn't fix the other problem I talked about (which I explicitly hedged as being in the world where the price wasn't set up to gouge everyone): when Facetime came out, it overnight was going to cause everyone with an iPhone to suddenly need more bandwidth, and so network providers temporarily needed to ban it or charge more for it; we see the same thing with the step up to video streaming services from basic web browsing, leading to providers feeling a need to zero-rate.

The reality is that bandwidth IS a limited common resource being shared at that provider--the same as any other product where the price isn't being distorted: this is the whole reason we use markets for this stuff in the first place--and the pricing of it at different providers should encounter market forces to drive it down closer to cost... except we are trapped in a local minimum here by people who refuse to understand that unlimited schemes cost more, not less.
> And if you're still not convinced, go to the smooth version and try to tell me it's better.

It's a demo of why it's bad and how not to do it.
https://developer.gimp.org/core/submit-patch/
Well, now imagine a mark on a boulder that means ‘danger’ (left there because, say, a tiger lives nearby). Same thing. (And it would not be unreasonable to suspect that that’s how writing began.)
I hate this buttons-in-the-title-bar thing with a passion. It takes ages to find a safe place to click and drag a window around without accidentally causing something else to happen.
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Self proclaimed facts, are taken as opinions by other readers… unless actual arguments are supplied, or some proof from a credible source is supplied, etc…

Hence why it would be desirable for you to write down the relevant arguments.
This is only relevant because the cost of bandwidth is excessively high--much higher than it should be--and so people essentially need to pay for this gouging-insurance.
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Many supermarkets had fast chargers in their car parks on my route, as well as chargers along highways, and in cities.

Charging overnight as far as I understand is a bonus proposition of EVs but given I could charge the car in about 10 minutes in a fast charger and have more than enough for a day staying in some cities I don't see much difference from ICEs stopping to fill up gas. It's a tad slower but not that much that bothered me and would make me choose an ICE car instead.

Even with paying fast chargers' fees it was still much cheaper than paying for petrol.
https://app.electricitymaps.com/
> Proper preservation of where every folded token came from for byte-perfect reconstruction of the original code.

I wonder if you could cheat by insisting the original code must have been run through an opinionated formatter so there's a One True Represenation of the source and you can restrict the problem to byte-perfect reconstruction of -that-?

(I have the same dream too sometimes and keep wondering if that would, at least, be a more tractable goal for a version 0.1 if I ever get a round tuit)
the only place where people care enough about imaginary internet points to comment "stop karma farming" is reddit...
Looking at the order messages sent to and received from another trading system was not uncommon when I worked in that neck of the woods
Attention building requires work and discipline. It’s really hard to build it up and so easy to lose it. This is just more idiocracy. More and more. Oh well.
I would prefer to have a client side compression tool except for large files
What do you mean pseudoscience? I don't think Derrida's deconstruction as ever claimed to be scientific or even the best method for literature analysis.
And while you can disagree with him that words and meanings evolve through time and culture, hence you can't rely on your current definitions to understand a book and have to understand through other means, I still think that his method of resolving that through finding internal contradictions is clearly a very good idea. If you don't think so, well, it's your opinion, but why would it be unscientific?

Also, it's not critical theory. They use the same name but it's two different things. Derrida's 'deconstruction' is largely influenced by Heidegger (ps: now I get why Sartre and Derrida were put in the same sentence), while critical theory is inspired by Marx.

I'm not saying Derrida wasn't into new-age bullshit, but he is mostly known as a linguist, grammarian, and litterature critique,and on that I think he's ok. Mostly wrong,but those were new fields at the time. And I haven't read any arguments against his deconstruction,so if you have one,I will read it.

[Edit] and to be clear, ni idea who is Langley or the other one. The most recent book I've read on an adjacent subject is Eidolon from Shoumacher, and I doubt someone who call 'hyperreality' 'pseudoscience', showing that labels do sometimes take over what they are describing originally read the same books I do :D
The Russians hate this and will do sneaky stuff to counter this.
>conducted by Russia

Conducted by everyone, including the US and the west (in fact, I'm positive that we are the best at it).
> Oh, and as an external consultant, I'm not allowed to know some of the trade secrets in the documents. [...] I need to smuggle these trade secrets back into the company, so that the internal side can handle them. They just have to make sure they don't accidentally repeat them back to me.

he's not supposed to know things he made and left behind. this all gets me thinking about the difference between the employees and "the company"

the employees are always the company, they embody it, like he used to. but as soon as he retires he's supposed to suddently not-know the secrets of the company? best to laugh at the absurdity
The highest profile things in crypto are Bitcoin ETFs which are institutionally run, so I guess you’re not wrong there
I run everything on Longhorn, including databases. Not the highest iops but definitely worth the hit for the easy of migrating.
> In a study that wouldn't be permitted today, rats swam in glass cylinders filled with water, eventually drowning from exhaustion if they weren't rescued.

Who permits studies? Why would this study NOT be permitted today?

edit to add NOT.
Isn't it more plausible that it was an accident? Anchors cut these cables all the time.
What I understand they’re doing is storing the salt in one place, a set of hashed IP addresses in another place, then daily trashing the lot after counting the number of elements in the set and storing that.

Information-theory-wise, this is no different to just storing the actual IP addresses (and deleting them daily after tallying, as before). It does mean that you need to obtain two things instead of just one, but if you get access to it all, it’s straightforward to reverse the lot (though computationally a little expensive), and easy to check a single value for a match.

The technique may be considered reasonable effort at protecting against casual abuse, but it’s not technically effective of itself, and it doesn’t stop the data from being PII. The important aspect is that the PII is deleted within 24 hours. My personal opinion is that the hashing part should probably be considered snake oil and whitewash, at least for what they’re claiming—I don’t say it’s useless, but it definitely doesn’t do what they’re touting it for.

Unless they’re actually keeping the hashed values for some reason after one day, and associating them with other records? In which case, disregard part of what I say, it’s obviously better than persisting IP addresses long-term! But also it’s extremely dubious to call that anonymisation as they do, because you can so often tie things together, behavioural patterns and such, to deanonymise. It’s frighteningly effective.
That's interesting. I have used and enjoyed a ton of software in different domains (from nothingreal shake to gnu ed) and so far gimp still wins the gold medals of triggering me. A rare feat.
Paying the captain of a cargo vessel to damage an undersea cable by dragging his anchor for 160km isn't exactly a conspiracy theory that requires Russian "omnipotence".

Most people I know think the Ukrainians blew up Nordstream.
It's just Photoshop addicts needing the UI to be identical to
Photoshop because when they use GIMP their muscle memory is
broken.

Nah. Sometimes I just want to edit something without having to do the export song and dance.
Yeah it uses exactly those endpoints that are being deprecated for the feature that the parent comment is referencing.

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...

https://github.com/jpochyla/psst/blob/69314f9fe8e86d57a678ab...
Here is today's news piece on hybrid warfare Russia is doing

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-behind-staggerin...
> nuclear power is super expensive

That is debatable, nuclear power can be really cheap when managed correctly. See for example Ontario, Canada or France during the 70s-90s.

Many nuclear power plants can have life times of more than 8 decades and only the initial build and licensing is the expansive part, so if you average the cost over the total life time it is rather cheap.

https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-el...

> relies on finite uranium resources

https://whatisnuclear.com/nuclear-sustainability.html

> there is no safe solution to store the waste

If its so unsafe, why has there not been a single major accident with used fuel from civilian nuclear power plants? We have been using hundreds of NPPs for decades, yet not a single fatality.

The truth is, nuclear waste can be and is managed safely.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBS-3
Also don't mess with scroll bars. Seems to be a more recent trend to make them about 1px wide on everything
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Russia has already anticipated this problem and updated their nuclear doctrine to include nuclear first use also against countries that would "isolate" Russian territory (Presumably thinking of Crimea and Kaliningrad).

Edit: Not sure what the downvote is. It's factually true. I don't think that necessarily means it's a bad idea or that it's a red line that should be observed when all other red lines are obviously illusions.
What big explosions are you referring to?
I fell for this before. Wasted a few weeks' free time adding thumbnails to the GTK file chooser, only to find out that the library itself has bugs which they refused to fix that make it difficult to do. Now I just have a patched version installed locally. The only way to improve these projects is to change how they're managed, which you can't do with a patch.
Perfect timing!
Seems to suit (some of) my needs, thanks.
And +1 for mentioning sonobus - that's a lot of fun, too.
I was about to leave this as a top-level comment, but it might be more appropriate as a response to your question.

"They" are a handful of maintainers doing relatively thankless work. This is not a well-paid full-time job for them.

Take Øyvind Kolås, the maintainer and lead developer of babl/GEGL, which is the technology underlying GIMP 3.0. He's barely being paid for this work. Nowadays he has a patreon, which also is directly linked from the gimp.org website, encouraging you to directly support him[0][1]. Right now those patreon donations add up to about... $1300 a month. And the number used to be much lower when I first started donating.

A lot of people here complain that we cannot directly give money to, say, the development Firefox. With GIMP you can directly support its core individual maintainer, and almost nobody does.

[0] https://www.patreon.com/c/pippin/membership

[1] https://www.gimp.org/donating/
OP was referencing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The total deaths from those two atomic bombs is estimated at 150-240k.
Most people subconsciously don't want to discover new music, they want to listen to songs that remind them of the world and feelings of freedom and discovery and experience they had in their late teens.

They want nostalgia. They don't want cognitive load, they want enjoyment with no strings and no effort.
I feel this. I tried using GTK4 a little while ago and almost immediately switched library when I realised it's simply incapable of doing certain things I needed, usually because either Wayland can't do it or GNOME doesn't need it.
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It's a Chinese-flagged ship, not a ship operating at the direction of the PRC. While one doesn't want to assign guilt too quickly, it's extremely reasonable that they just took a contract to sail a bunch of Russian around and not ask questions. Or even to rent out the whole ship to a Russian crew

I mean, this is spy stuff here. It strains reason to expect that Russia would use only clearly identified Russian government vessels for its clandestine sabotage operations.
I'm curious about the economics of this machine.

Wikipedia says it could be rented for $1485/mo, and the average salary in 1956 was $3600 or $300/mo, so it would have to replace 5 people (engineers must have earned more), if you don't count the extra cost of software, power, and maintenance.

I remember from a book on Richard Feynman that a classroom full of bright students was about as fast as the computer the Manhattan Project got, except, of course, the computer didn't get tired.
“Super expensive” for who builds them, or "super expensive" for the end user paying their electricity bill?

Also, there are safe solutions to store nuclear waste. They are not 1.0e31% secure, but many other kinds of power plants carry significant risks [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmington_Mine_disaster

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Connecticut_power_plant_e...
> The Russians

I know it's a mental shortcut and if we wanted to be precise it would quickly become unwieldy so just a quick note, also to self, that the Russians I know don't have and don't want to have anything to do with this, are fed up with what is going on and just want to live in peace.
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If you are trying to reinvent parts of banking, you could maybe start with what already works as a thought experiment.

Here's an example of a core banking deposit transaction schema that has been extensively battle tested in many small & mid-size US institutions:

https://jackhenry.dev/open-enterprise-api-docs/operational-d...

You may note fields like "Effective Date" & "Affects Balance/Interest", which imply doing this correctly may involve exploring some interesting edge cases. Wouldn't it be cool if you could just cheat and start with an approach that already considers them?
Blender started ad in-house 3d modeling back in 1994, was open sourced in 2002, and continues with very active and sustainable development today. I used it most 2010-2012, and it has been incredible to see how much has happened since then.

https://www.blender.org/about/history/
I’ve been to the System Source Museum many times and it’s well worth the visit if you are in the area. The G15 is a fascinating system, small and compact compared to the huge mainframe-sized contemporaries of the era.
ah. ok. I apologize for misinterpreting. You're saying that because these scams use irrational techniques, there is no point to expecting "reasonableness" to work?
I'm referring to the ridiculous concern about young minds being exposed to one sort of content, yes it is about content, whilst another sort there's no concern about in the slightest.

The choices are bizzare. I assume that discord channels relating to specific pieces of software will also not be allowed anyone under 16. So very clever young kids trying to build software will be disadvantaged now as well.
And yet you still continue buying.. Can you blame them?
100 miles of anchor dragging is a lot.
How will age verification work in Australia's new social media ban?
No, because the ship was zigzagging over the sea cable.
I would guess most of those deaths are cause by collision with a car. So getting rid of the cars would solve that problem.
I would be happy to see any links to evidence of this
It's legitimate to track entry and exit on national borders though. A tax exception based on entry/exit times is doable and better than constant geo tracking.
Probably on moral grounds, encouraging researchers to find alternative ways to design the study rather than slowly drowning their subjects.
This is kind of a ridiculous expectation. Next we’ll be expecting an Apple Store to be built in the lithium mine where they get their batteries.

The reasons to hire in a locality are almost entirely detached from the reasons to sell a product there.

And we can complain about tax avoidance we want, Ireland is getting exactly what they wanted out of their tax policy.
I usually hide them. I try to not use overflowing content, but when it has to overflow I hide the scrollbar because scrollbars disrupt the design and the standard ones are extremely ugly.
The sum/product dichotomy is very confusing. Sums and products are operations in muggle math (functions), but in the example a product is a data type? It feels off.

It's not intuitive at all and so far removed from normal programming practice, the terminology doesn't help.

It's the overload of concepts that makes it harder to grasp.
A ranfom thought, that probably won't cover all cases: a second LED or a colour LED. One LED/colour indicates the camera is active, the second can be on for a longer period of time (and perhaps dim as time goes on). I prefer the second LED option since it is better for us colourblind folks, though I suspect there would be more resistance to the idea.

And, of course, covers are an option.
> So for every $1 deposited, I can lend $0.90 but must hold $0.10 as my reserve?

The GP is completely wrong on how modern finance works. Banks do not lend out deposits. This was called the "Old View" by Tobin in 1963:

* https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cowles-discussion-paper-...

The Bank of England has a good explainer on how money is created:

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

See also Cullen Roche:

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/132
It feels really meaningless to talk about "Russia" like this when in reality it's just Putin and his personal discretion, not "Russian nuclear doctrine". It's a dictatorship not a republic.
Russian ships got away with doing the anchor drag sabotage multiple times already such as in Norway in 2021 on a remote research station
https://youtu.be/pw2lO4sxZn8

There was a NYTimes article that said Russian GRU agency has turned to recruiting petty criminals to do arson and shootings across Europe because most of their spies have been kicked out. And the main side effect is they are sloppy and easy to catch unlike professionals.

Very likely in this case.
> How is competition better?

Here's a CRTC article on how they're improving competition (regulation requiring the big companies to provide wholesale access to their networks) https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/phone/mobile/indus.htm

Here's a government press release from earlier in 2024 noting an 18% decrease over a one year period https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-develop...

And if you want an anecdote, for about a decade I used to have to pay $60 monthly minimum to get any useful amount of data. Over the last 2-3 years, that dropped to 55, 50, 45, and now I pay $34/month for 20gb of data with free roaming in the US. The government's statistics seem borne out by my experience.
I've similarly found the combination of pandoc + typst to be quite exciting. I've found it particularly useful for typesetting academic papers - I'm quite averse to word in general, don't require extensive mathematical typesetting support, and find latex to generally be quite unapproachable (just look at the size of the default pandoc template!), and so it gives me a method of making a decent pdf whilst simultaneously producing a .docx for my collaborators. Being able to track changes with git is also a huge advantage, although never had the chance to work with someone who is comfortable using git :(

The recently added support for PDF/A is also quite exciting, as I've never found a satisfactory solution to this with latex. Now I just wish journals would support markdown submissions...
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I'd say this also includes fancy landing pages where scrolling influences what is shown in the background or is used to segment the page itself. For instance: https://webflow.com/made-in-webflow/website/Translate-Webflo...
Seems done https://www.cinia.fi/en/news/cinias-c-lion1-submarine-cable-...
> There's nothing in your link that contradicts my assertion.

The illusion (as opposed to mere illusion) in action.
It wasn't a sailor, it was the maritime pilot from the port it departed. He left the ship before the incident.
I love vanishing scrollbars. The moment I move my mouse, they're there. When I stop, they're gone. Want to see progress? Nudge the mouse.
Or the escape button, Squarespace!
Absolutely. Plus there's content available 24/7 and it's a lot more addictive than anything on television.

I was a kid in the 80s and there wasn't that much content for kids back then. At least in my country.
Nice, does it work with images? Like can I render images and place text on top of them, well positioned?