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J. K. Rowling received twelve rejections before the first Harry Potter book was published.

This is expected in the publishing industry. even the best manuscripts get a lot rejections. this is because publishing houses are inundated with manuscripts, so they must reject most of them. If anything, 12 rejections is above average. Most aspiring authors get rejected 100%.

I think it comes down to talent. with talent, there is some hope despite a lot rejections, but without talent, you're doomed to be rejected 100% of the time ,so persistence is much less effective for those people.
> Your transmit power/range and your local environment (who else is using the spectrum locally) will dictate that for you more than any allocation rules alone.

I agree, but I think it's important to note that "long range" is the context we're talking about. If you just want to get a quick message out then I fully agree, there's not a ton stopping you, but if you want it be a reliable and/or medium to long-term solution, then the barriers are quite non-trivial. There's also the risk of prosecution, which the regulators are not above if they smell intentionality. If they think you're innocently transmitting they'll just ask you to stop, but if they think you're intentionally and/or openly violating the rules, they can bring some serious legal pain down.
My current job is unionized. It’s the first time I’ve had a union job, though I’d tried to generate interest at a different org in private channels.

I’m very happy for these workers getting language protecting hybrid work. We all know offices aren’t the only option. This is (part of) what collective bargaining does.
This woman was approved: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-chemical-sensitivit...

Edit: fixed link, was looking at two very similar ones and got them mixed up.
I liked it more than I thought I would, but the "AI fake" effect was a bit noticeable here and there. After watching the 4k UHD, I put in my Blu-ray from 10 years ago or whatever, sort of thinking I was going to prefer it's "less digital" graininess, but nope. Definitely found it more distracting than I'd remembered.

So of the two, I'd take the new AI version, though it's not perfect. But the happy medium might be the new AI release on regular Bluray. The lower 1080p image toned down the fakeness a bit I thought.
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I used to have a phone with a physical keyboard that had a ctrl key. I can't live without ctrl-z, ctrl-v, etc. This keyboard made it possible to go to a fully-touchscreen phone without being too miserable!

(Although some level of misery is hard to get out of with only a touchscreen.)

I have used this keyboard for over a year now I think and it's really good.
Basic income + population control?

At some point we should get past make-work that creates horrible lives for people, when we have the capability to automate that work.

Not automating something so that someone will have a job is bad reasoning and traps society in a local rut.
The same reason that pills come in blister packs and bridges have nets-if you add a delay to methods for ending one's life, a significant portion of people change their minds.
To be devil's advocate: if they didn't push this so aggressively, the news would be flooded with stories about how Google lost Grandma's photos, an iPhone users don't have this problem (because apple silently enables it, not even giving you a choice).
Roger Waters bloviating for 90 minutes about not having a dad.
gift it to me. it is the season after all.
FTA: Our localization approach combines open-source databases (OpenCellID [47], Mozilla Location Services [66], and CellMapper [12]) for PCI-to-coordinate mapping of cell towers with a trilateration technique based on relative signal strengths.
iOS isn't constantly recording. When it is you notice. It also doesn't have the battery life to do so.

On a VR headset multiple cameras are constantly recording.
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There are so many challenges with building a social app, especially around contacts... I'm not sure how they'll mitigate all this stuff, but fun to think about it and hope they do succeed in doing so anyway.

A few considerations off the top of my head:

- relationships are extremely fragile and can exist in all sorts of awkward middle states, outside of just "friend enough to notify when I'm in town" vs not. the risk of creating awkward meatspace side effects is extremely high with this kind of thing, with very large downside risk that human beings are very attuned to. for example: exes, former bosses or colleagues gone sideways, people you said something weird to once at a party, stalkers, etc. are all people you might have in your contacts

- relatedly, contacts growing out of sync organically over time is actually a feature, not a bug. it's easy to let contacts die when they die by themselves without having to prune them -- and nobody's delicate feelings get hurt by letting this happen

- existing on a mobile phone while not being an attention-sucking nightmare cesspool -- while also not /creating/ another attention-sucking cesspool, despite having all the social data necessary to do so -- seems like an impossible challenge. how do you get people to remember your little app in a sea of Trending Flamebait notifications? (others have noted this related to funding model, but that part feels surmountable, especially as a passion project from a billionaire)
There was a great documentary TV shown about this story.
PSA for those interested in trying jujutsu, but not ready to have it auto-track all files in working copy: you can disable that in ~/.jjconfig.toml:

[snapshot]
auto-track = "none()"
Assad's Collapse Is a Blow to Russia's Middle East Strategy
Tesla's leasing push aims to offset U.S. sales decline
Thanks for satisfying my curiosity and doing so graciously! I also found the discussion of the phonetics of the two words in other comments enlightening.
This map is really great for understanding world history, you can learn a lot just by scrolling back and forth and see how it all fits together.

I wish it would have other items though like wars and points of interest, inventions/discoveries, maybe ships on famous voyages, etc.
Making sure someone has actually done the deep consideration necessary for an informed decision of a certain magnitude is not cruel, authoritarian, or denying anyone their agency. It's simply making sure they're actually using their agency.

Requiring someone be of sound mind before making permanent decisions is reasonable and pretending it's not only makes it possible for people to make permanent -- and in this case, deadly -- mistakes because you don't want to inconvenience someone else.

Like you said, if you're 100% clear headed and you know you want to die, you'll be able to do it in two weeks just the same as you could in one. If you're going to have euthanasia it's more important to me that it be absolutely clear the people doing it are capable of making that decision in that moment than making it as easy and quick as possible. If you're not of clear mind to make the decision in the first place, you're not of clear mind to make the decision not to. Whether you said six months or a year ago that you want to die when your wife dies is irrelevant, you don't have the mental faculties at that moment to confirm you want to do it.

And this isn't choosing to end your life in isolation, this is asking someone else to kill you. They have the right to know that there is as little chance as possible you would regret this a week, month, or year from now if given the opportunity.
What are the mystery drones flying over the US?
I've been using this for a couple years now and it's been fantastic. Just the Compose Key support alone is a godsend. The swiping takes some getting used to, but with practice it now feels second-nature.
Actually was tempted to buy a Samsung Frame TV earlier this month when TV shopping.

Still, without the clicking and clacking, it's not quite the same :P
> reports of negative workplace productivity gains

Is this anecdotal or is there a source? I’d be interested to learn more.
explanation:
https://x.com/charles_irl/status/1867306225706447023
It could be worse! Back in college, I had the misfortune to decide to try to use sqlplus, Oracle's CLI to try to connect to their database. Not only did terminal shortcuts like Ctrl-W not work at all, but you couldn't even move the cursor earlier in the line, and there was no history navigation to get to the previous command, so any typo forced you to retype the entire thing from scratch. Entering a single forward slash would allow you to run the last command verbatim, but that didn't help with typos. Ctrl-L also didn't work for clearing the screen, but you could manually run `clear scr` to do it instead, because I guess having the command just be `clear` wouldn't be obvious enough.
I think the idea is that there are many factors that might motivate somebody's decision that their life is not worth living any longer. Each individual will have a different threshold for that, but if there are institutions that can alleviate the reasons for the people on the fringe, then there will be net fewer people that choose death when they otherwise may have.

Someone with advanced dementia may be too far from that threshold to change the decision for them, but that doesn't mean that better institutions wouldn't move the needle.
Please don't trivialize peoples stuggles by offering pithy anecdotes.
Delivery success rate is pretty much a random number generator here. Sometimes stuff arrives on time, sometimes it shows up 6 months late, sometimes never. For me it's either the physical store, amazon or mouser.
In a similar category we find also GKOS (uses chording to get the corner symbols) and I will always have a soft spot for KeyBee.

https://entropicthoughts.com/rethinking-text-input-on-touchs...
Yes, the luck can be being able to sleep well during this grueling event, or having food that agrees with you, or even which virii are circulating around and whether or not they get you.

As to Gukesh's faith, it brings inner peace and happiness, and if you observe the contestants' faces, the difference was evident. Gukesh isn't making a show of being prayerful, he's really doing it. It means he is doing what he is doing for a greater goal, which is always for a worldwide peace and happiness for all human beings, when really performed in harmony with our Creator. If one's religion's purpose is for dominance over others one can never gain inner peace and happiness from it. It must be for personal harmonization with peace and happiness for all human beings, or it is just more mammalian self-righteous warfare.

That's why Rumi says, "You have no idea how little we care for what people say." What he means by this is that a lot of people talk about religion, but what we do and how we feel as a result of our religiosity is the only proof that is accepted by God. Most people do not understand that such proof is evident on people's faces and in the tone of their voice, but you seem to have noticed the reality that Gukesh has it and, sadly, Ding does not.

Gukesh's victory is a way of demonstrating to folks that there are real gains to be had from seeking the peace and happiness of religion for peace and happiness's sake. No religion is superior to others in this respect. No. There are only true seekers and those who merely seek to justify their oppression of others by their religious affiliation.

I extensively explain how this works in my comments over the past week or two.

"The Way goes in." --Rumi
This is fine but Australian history seems to start in 1860! Completely misses about 60,000 years of history. https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/map-indigenous-australia
Prisms are Lenses through Options. They compose very similarly to Lenses and it is easy to convert a Lens to a Prism to compose Prisms from existing Lenses. Every Lens is a very simple "degenerate" Reducer (a Lens is just a getter and a setter from one "state" to another), but Prisms feel even more like "real" Reducers because of the optional states that can be involved. So Prisms and Lenses are very common composable Reducers in some styles of FP.
My point was more about the location of the machine. Having to do a quick pause and walk to your kitchen to prepare a cup of coffee, tee or whatever once in a while is not a bad thing for ypur body.
The app looks, ok… looking forward to seeing it improve over time when it comes out of test flight.

I will say, the only reason why I haven’t moved my private comms with friend over to Zulip or RocketChat, and this is gonna sound petty, is because their mobile apps don’t let you insert gifs from the keyboard in your phone.
Is it just me or has denial used in contexts like this a negative connotation? It sounds like there’s overwhelming evidence and people just ignore it.

Am I denying that aliens exist? I’m not a native speaker but it sounds weird to me.
who did they force it on?
It's Remotely Ham Radio
What is the steelman argument for why it's okay to help people kill themselves a la MAID, but not okay to execute murderers?

(Assuming the argument against capital punishment is that mistakes are often or sometimes made)
Removing someone as a maintainer is not equivalent to banning Russian contributions. Linux fundamentally cannot stop Russians from using, modifying, redistributing and upstreaming code to the Linux kernel.
Good tunes, though.
On the other hand get them to try and debug code. And then you might realize the redicilous amount of unwritten lore that software engineering has. OTOH software engineering has courses but you need to work with people to get good not just read books. Like math.
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> migrations won't be faster when you use a tool like this, they will be slower

That statement is conflating some things, re: "tool like this". In most cases, schema management tooling is a separate layer above online schema change tooling.

Online schema change tools (e.g. pt-online-schema-change) are designed to execute table alterations in a non-disruptive fashion, even if the table is huge and/or being written heavily. These tools are indeed often slower than running an ALTER TABLE directly in the database, because the non-disruptive design involves a more complex set of operations occurring in the background. No real way around that; it's a trade-off.

In contrast, schema management tools -- ranging from simple migration tools, to more complex services/daemons -- are focused on tracking schema information (either imperative migrations or declarative desired-state) in a source control repo, and executing SQL either directly or by shelling out to another tool. They sometimes include more complex components such as schema linters, verification logic, schedulers, shard mappings, web GUIs, APIs for checking whether a change has been completed yet, etc.

Pgroll is rather unusual in that it overlaps into both domains. That approach has pros and cons, but that isn't my point here; rather, I'd say it's best to avoid generalizing about "tools like this" when discussing a tool that works differently than most other software in the same space.

That aside, as someone who has spent most of the majority of the past two decades working on database infrastructure at a wide range of different scales and companies, I largely disagree with your statement about schema changes being a trivial part of the database team's day.

In my experience, that only happens in two scenarios, at opposite ends of a spectrum: either a company that isn't making many product changes and therefore doesn't have many corresponding schema changes; OR a company that has enough schema changes for safe self-service schema management automation to be a worthwhile investment.

Most "tech" companies do fall into that latter extreme though, and greatly benefit from self-service schema management automation. This is about product development velocity, not table size.
Russian actor Secret Blizzard using tools of other groups to attack Ukraine
Maybe less coffee :)
Surely you can see that we could apply that principle to either pro- or anti-euthanasia arguments?

Either way, the government is profoundly involved.

Either the government is in the business of telling us we cannot end our own lives in humane and medically-assisted ways, and that medically assisted deaths are equivalent to murder with all of the attendant legal issues.

Or they are in the business of enforcing rules about how those medically-assisted deaths can happen.
If you had to define one characteristic of Google, it is "they just don't listen". I think it comes from a viewpoint of social status in which "high status people talk and low status people listen" and they think they can maintain high status if they only never listen. (Wouldn't want to become a low-status company like Microsoft that listens sometimes)

I'd contrast that to Meta which has been through various waves of scathing criticism and often comes across as responsive, for instance they've listened a lot to devs about weaknesses in the Quest platform.
Microwave News (nothing to do with Microwave Ovens) covers the non-heating research.

https://www.microwavenews.com
Pompeii experts back Pliny's account of Mount Vesuvius eruption date
> Someone unable to move is unable to take their own life without assistance.

Denying this assistance isn't really "tyranny", though, even if you do accept that suicide is a right.
My first few programming jobs were in dBASE, the last of which saw the use of dBASE go on for 15 years or so. It was a weird language but still capable of quite a lot. I learned some assembly language with the help of Peter Norton and had a few neat little addons for my dBASE code.

I tried to transition my company to Borland dBASE 5 when it came out but there was too much to try to upgrade all at once. I was really excited about a lot of the language improvements, and the fact that it was now coming from a real language company, but it was too much too late. A few years later my company moved to different software altogether and dBASE was just a (mostly) fond memory.

My most productive use of it was with the Topaz library for Turbo Pascal from Software Science. They provided a much more powerful UI capability than one could get from "@ 1,1 say ..." with drop down lists and moveable windows etc. It was still all character mode DOS stuff, but we had the whole menagerie running in Windows for Workgroups for a good while. Those were fun days.
Anyone who has worked at a hospital can tell you how many people die in needless pain and suffering when nothing more can really be done for them. They just wait out the clock in pain or do increasingly horrible procedures that give them a little more time with terrible quality of life. 5% is probably an underestimate of that number.

Nurses/doctors don't like to speak up about that part and people don't want to confront it. But MAID is probably the more humane option in these cases.
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Yep. Absolutely correct all the way around.

It reminds me of the reproductive crisis that started happening in Japan some decades ago. The blame, as I recall it, was on the rigid social norms meant that it was super uncomfortable for everyone whenever a guy tried to talk to a girl. Guys stopped trying and switched to being absorbed in jobs and increasingly niche obsessions, further from the normalcy and reality around them.

Seems like we're not taking any hints from their example and instead saying "gee, society is bigger than me, woe is me, I'll just continue digging the hole".
Probably you could do a hack like finding the program at the other end of the pipe and looking at its open file descriptors, but lots of corner cases to consider.
And he never got the chance to spend a dime. What a pity. What a shame. RIP.

Before people inevitably speculate that this was a regular, planned sale, as the article states he sold north of $15 million worth, and this was his first sale since 2021.

Granted it's all moot now.
Ecosystem, Open Source, and Freedom sure are bandied about quiet freely by the same guy who says “WordPress.org just belongs to me personally", and then unilaterally gets to decide what plugins are available to WordPress users.
> you generally have as much time as you need

That's hilarious. I wish you had been my manager :-)

It reminds me of that quote by the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, about the wooshing sound deadlines make as they fly by him, or somesuch.

Nicely said, friend.
Well, all this petty mud-throwing has shown me one thing; I will always pick alternatives over the products Automatticc offers.
But, you're saying they did set deadlines, just that you feel they were "expanded". The article is suggesting setting a deadline is a fix by itself.
I'd name it "standard log."

That's what it is....a log. Of errors, warnings, informational messages, whatever to complement the primary output.

BONUS: stdlog fits nicely :)
My pharmacy seems to alternate randomly between the dissolving and non dissolving kind, which is a fun additional detail to figure out while trying to get the damn package open.
I'm sorry but I do not fully understand what you're trying to say.

I have used Microsoft products. I have a Windows VM, and an old Windows laptop somewhere. I have no love for Microsoft, and is perfectly aware they can do user-hostile things. Yet, when analyzing something, I'm trying my best to avoid biases and remain neutral and detach from my feelings (or propaganda/ragebait/memes/whatever you call it) when I'm thinking of something. And this particular time, for this particular feature, so far, I believe they did alright.
I agree it's a difficult subject.

To your point about "Some people worry that authoritarians will use it as a way to "purge" or, such as here in Canada, as a way to "reneg" on health care obligations that tax payers are paying for."

In another thread the Canadian poster talked about someone who decided to go through with ending their life and one of the things they mentioned was "They had to drive 100km to the nearest dialysis clinic."
Show HN: AI-powered 24/7 QVC-style stream
Hey HN! Wanted to show a proof of concept for an AI-powered shopping stream, similar to QVC.

Basically, an AI automatically pulls the top products from Amazon and pitches them to you, using AI-generated scripts and 3d models.

Tech stack:

-Sonnet 3.5 to generate the product pitches. It synthesizes data from product listing and reviews
-OpenAI TTS for the voice
-fal.ai for the 3d generation
-three.js for the rendering environment
-Amazon affiliate links

Here's the Discord if you want to chat more about it!

https://discord.gg/tvHSsmUJWA
How can you grep output if there's no output?

Can you provide a concrete example of such an application?
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