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> Because it makes state-level or national-level advertising of prices impossible. Or even local-level in many cases

Hardly impossible, just slightly less easy ("available for $X* (pre-tax)" / "starting at $X").

And are seriously claiming that ease for advertisers takes precedence over ease of use and pricing transparency for consumers?

> and Ctrl+F for "informal" or "negotiation". There are a lot of indicators of developing vs developed countries, but your idea is most assuredly not one of them. Also, sales tax vs VAT has nothing to do with an informal economy or price negotiation either.

Thank you. What I meant was that the only reason it might not be the standard in some developing countries is that they might have more informal economies with more negotiations involved. Literally the only legitimate excuse. But when that's not the case, from Morocco to Sri Lanka to Uzbekistan, price is shown upfront, everything included.
You can dispute debt in collections by requesting proof of the debt. The consumer protections in that area (debt collections) are quite a bit more developed than any consumer protections about intentional procedural inefficiency when cancelling service.
> pair attempted to use a new instrument landing system for the first time

This is the real root cause: insufficient training. They should have both used the system before in training situations on a nice day when they can look out the window if they don't understand something. Unless they are test pilots for the maker of the landing system (which they were not because this was not a test situation) they should have had a qualified trainer teach them how to use the system and plenty of hours of in the simulators using this system in situations much harder than the one they encountered.
i do my best. but one of the meanings of "man" is "person".

or we should a it decided by politics that we dont use this word in this sense. these things are happening. that's okay.

and some will resist, which is also okay.

there should not be a PC police (this is an old theme, there's even a South Park ep about it)
I mean, I agree that Khan is the best possible option, but I disagree that pro-market isn't ideological.

Where the free market fans see child slavery and sexual slavery and rejoice (free to make any contract you want to after all), the pro market people believe that if you just put enough guard rails on it, greed will magically turn into a force for good.

Obviously I also have an ideology, but at least I'm honest enough to not pretend that capitalism (or communism/anarchy) are naturally occuring, instead of simply a choice we make.
I actually recently unexpectedly broke my phone. Getting back into my Google account protected by passkeys was pretty simple though, I just logged in to my new phone with a passkey stored on another device. Which is fine, because I've got several different devices with passkeys on them.

Same thing with logging into my mail provider which I use passkeys for.

A few accounts I did have to go find a backup passphrase for, but none of those accounts are the kind of accounts I'd normally be trying to get into while on vacation or something.

I don't travel very far or very long without a couple of different authenticators. If its farther than a bus fare and I'll be gone for a while, I'll probably have at least two, maybe three authenticators on me. For example, my phone, my laptop, and a yubikey. Its only a few dollars for the public transit around me, so if my car explodes on the other side of town with my bag containing my keys and my laptop in it and I had to jump out into the river to avoid the explosion and debris and it broke my phone I'll still be fine to get home with a few dollar bills in my pocket. Or hopefully those other physical security tokens commonly called credit cards will also still work. And there I'll probably have my desktop at home and another yubikey. But honestly that kind of thing doesn't happen to me too often so I'm not too worried.
Check out the North Paw Directional Anklet. It’s basically a compass that vibrates whenever you face magnetic north. From what I’ve read people seem to develop a sense of direction pretty quickly.
Looks like a "let's spend our cash/equity on something good while we still exist" kind of situation.
Simple anecdote, but when I paid a medical bill and they still came after me and sent it to collections, I contested the bill and told the collection agency that this is not my debt. Never heard from them again.
IMO, WLB is least valuable immediately after getting out of school. Now's the time to put your head down, get some work done, and advance your career. The difference is only 15 hours a week, but after a year or two you'll have put in several thousand more hours than the version of yourself with better WLB. Especially if your goal is to get into a major tech company or FAANG.

"Enjoy life after uni" - you've just started, welcome to the real grind. There are real rewards to be had out here, in any way you desire, if you "work" hard. The fun part is, you can define what "work" means if you play your cards right

This is probably one of the few comments you'll get like this, most people will tell you "enjoy life, etc", so just keep this in mind whatever you decide
Lookup FICLONERANGE ioctl
You have about 20 minutes depending on the plane and it being upright. The Hudson plane stayed up for 24 minutes.
Of course it's controversial.

They do this to increase profits.

A certain portion of the population is pro-profit at virtually any cost.

It might seem like Dish employees wake up every day and say, "What can we do today to screw our customers even more?" But usually they're just trying to find ways to make more money.
Well, let's not give you any medication for any disease you are afflicted with. It's an easy way out. Get a bacterial infection? Should have been cleaner. Get a virus? Why you expose yourself. Develop cancer? We know there are millions of lifestyle choices that push the needle towards development bit by tiny bit, why didn't you avoid all of those? All of these are nature's price for not doing the work. Why are you taking the easy way out to discuss this on the internet? Why not go talk to someone about it in person. But don't drive, or wear clothing made by others, or live in a home constructed with modern methods using modern materials.

Or... This could be a ridiculously awful take. Convenience or the "easy way out" is one of the biggest drivers of technological advancement in human history. The fact you are able to make this post at all means you have been a beneficiary of the "easy way out" in countless ways. All you're actually doing here is moralizing about fat people.
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Two blatant ones: 1. conditional compilation (typecheck and use these apis only in some environments), and 2. being able to compile "hello world" in under 1 second. I know I keep finding more but these ones I can't even write trivial programs without running into.

I've been trying to emulate conditional compilation using multiple directories, but that runs into problems with each tool using different path lookup logic.
The book is being worked on here https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Saint-Simon_-_M%C3%A9mo... already (volume 1 of 20). Not the same edition as what OP is working with, but it's a start.
You can probably avoid this—or, rather, cover your ass legally—by doing something like sending them a letter registered mail informing them that you are cancelling and will be blocking further payments.

It's far from a good solution, but it should at least put you in a better position vis-a-vis the courts if it comes to that.
Republicans have made the term ideological a negative one. Sure, the dictionary definition is to relate to ideology; but in practice (especially when talking politics) it implies one is picking a worse option because it aligns with their ideology. So their claim above is one is picking free markets due to ideology, whereas another would pick pro markets because it's actually the best solution.
I helped a family member set up an account on a state website which involved also creating an account on id.me. The amount of text message codes and email codes and usernames and passwords was ridiculous and incredibly difficult for them to follow. Passkeys would make it impossible
Yes, I have literally done exactly that thing and ended up with the dealer eating the price. The dealer has time and effort sunk into closing the deal, too, and they’ll almost always chose a bird in the hand.

And also-freaking-lutely would I walk instead of eating a BS charge. Sometimes it really is the principle of the thing. My principle is I’m not paying a penny for something I didn’t ask for. A dealership I’d be caught dead doing business with will eat the bogus charges instead of losing a customer forever. Conversely, next time I need a Toyota, I have the business card of the guy I’ll buy it from and he doesn’t even know it yet. He treated me well last time and his investment in that deal will keep paying him back.
trofaf – super simple live static blog generator in Go
The most epic refactor would be throwing it all in the trash. The best code is no code.
no, I was reacting to user "tomp" (his message is now flagged).

I'm actually saying that saying women here is good, as it is special and you want a title to peek curiosity, right?
Yes bc in the EU there is national VAT. In the US there is state and local sales tax. You can and will pay different sales tax between cities in a given state.
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I have two different but reinforcing memories that support this.

1) I remember being in a Requirements Review meeting and spending an entire hour debating the meaning of a word. Don't remember the word, but it was something like "includes".

2) I separately remember being in a Requirements review for a feature that concluded successfully. Then later in a Design Review for that feature. And after that, Code and Unit Test reviews of the same feature. Then, months later, the feature was presented to the person who asked for it in the first place and then said, "that's not what I wanted. I wanted xxx instead."

Yes, this person was at the Requirements and Design reviews!
Safeway, Walgreens.
> I hope they transition to talking about using LLMs like one uses gambling - a little is fine here and there but if it’s all you do that’s a problem.

If I hire someone to manage my money, I don't want them to do any gambling. Although given that investing is somewhat of a gamble, I at least want to set the terms and have them to disclose to me exactly how they're gambling.
> banning it should not be controversial

for many people, any kind of regulation that restricts companies abilities to make money, regardless of the consequences for average citizen, is "wasteful and discourages innovation". Elon would like to get rid of the FTC altogether for that reason, as well as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was set up to help protect users from scammy behavior like this.

so yeah, don't hold your breath for the next 4 years (or longer if Elon manages to buy the next election too)
> The rule would require service fees, resort fees, and other charges commonly added to bookings to be included in advertised prices.

Sounds like that's what will be happening if the rule sticks.
The price part is essentially the same all over the world except for America, where you’re not entirely sure how much more you’ll have to add for taxes and tips.
"build your own tools" is also known as "the ecosystem is lacking"
> estimate it based on geolocation and say "more exact will be available once you enter your address".

I appreciate this can be done and countries in Europe do it, I just don't see how this is any better at all than status quo:

* Current State: we all know the quoted price doesn't include sales tax, which will be added to make the final price in checkout after we enter our address.

* Final State: we all know the quoted price will likely change during checkout, when we see the final price after we enter our address.

So we make things more complicated for vendors, and we make it not just acceptable but required that vendors use our IP addresses for geolocation, only to give us a maybe-right-maybe-wrong final price. Does anyone feel scammed by not having tax included on the price in the listings of Macy's online store?
It is far less productive for complex anything, not just UIs.

The only way to do home-spun stuff in JS/TS is to narrow the use-cases and components down religiously. The moment you'll require more than 2-3 bits of the website to interconnect... take one long hard look at the future and avoid the headache of writing your own JS boilerplate.

I love eschewing JS frameworks as much as the next man, but I also love my free time. Too much to waste it debugging problems coming from hundreds of different user stories and approaches. React's mature enough, as are most of the big libraries commonly leveraged on it.
Non-opt-out resort fees and facility fees and the like are especially annoying. They're also (presumably deliberately) a small enough portion of the total amount that they're not really worth getting into a big lather about.

I think we're agreeing. While a lot of airline fees are nickel-and-diming, they're also over and above transporting people from A to B, in many cases for as little money as they want to spend as possible.
We have a very nice little island of sanity up here :)
not why storing, but why does storing produce much co2?

even low efficiency (e.g. hydrogen) is tolerable when renewables otherwise would go to waste
> We get these types of headlines when people want to really promote how cool it is a female is capable of doing something - and we're all supposed to be amazed

I think you're reading way too much into it.

Maybe they're just a women, and they did a turn on the phrase "one man team" to acknowledge that they're not a man?
Do restaurant service fees next! "Here's the bill, with a 10% service fee added so we can pay our staff more without raising menu prices."
Whoever invented this is evil and is destroying happiness.
> I think I've heard that the passkeys providers have an option to force it to be hardware, but I've yet to encounter that, and it would also make me quite cross without a very good reason. I, personally, do not want my accounts tied to any particular bit of hardware, I want it tied to the single (very!) strong password I use for everything.

If the functionality is built in, don't be surprised when they alter the deal and force it on you. What are you going to do if no one lets you use or migrate back to a username / password at that point?

We've seen the same thing thousands of times from big tech. They give us a system that's tolerable, but designed to leverage us into a bad position in the future. Once there's a critical mass, they'll flip the switch and we'll all get screwed.
Let's not forget the second person negative and the wonderful contraction of "you all are not".

y'aint.
learn programming before using devin it doesn't make websites but just simple instructions, you need to know what you're making.
Amazing how we've come full circle. Type II hypervisors treat VM guests as processes, so is it any wonder we've developed ways to develop them as processes? A paravirtualized VM is just a process with a different (and arguably better) system call interface.
I am sooo close to getting MAME to run Tek4404. I have been tracking down a timing bug in the scsi emulation for months, but getting very very close.
SeleniumBase is free, open-source, can bypass CAPTCHAs with a few lines of code, and it works from the free tier of GitHub Actions.
eh... so far Typescript hasn't saved us from any bugs, but YMMV.
The other issues compounding this is that to make all this work, as the police grow they grow asymmetrically on the administrative side. So every dollar spent is slowly but surely less effective at performing basic police functions.

>Managing police by statistics

Thats the crux of the whole problem isnt it? The cops in the UK face the same issue as any tech business that cant scale. They are spending more effort measuring statistics and less effort on the business. To the point that, they gamified policing to ensure statistics are collected.

>If you treat them as permanently unsolved crimes, you'll turn them into pointless counterproductive arrests/charges.

Ok but the administrative detections skewed things away from serious crimes. Why detect 1 murder when you can detect 42 drug crimes across 3 people? And then the administrative overhead of recording the 42 drug crimes takes that guy off the beat for the rest of the day. And because they spent all their money on the people who will process and analyze that paperwork, they don't have another guy to replace him.

Like the general thought the guy presents is that, 42 drug infractions letting you bust some kids balls and shake him down, but then removing you from the act of physical deterrence for the rest of the day is the fail state. If he wasnt incentivised to shake those kids down, he could have deterred some incalculable other crime. Perhaps those kids seeing the cop would have moderated their behavior, but now they are up on charges and the next group of kids on the same street corner are able to act without the cops watching (And this is when we leave the book and start talking about how many damn cameras the UK installs)

I disagree with him but I understand the impulse to admire something constructed like a Sheriffs department in the US thats fairly divorced from a huge hierarchy.

I wonder if he has similar complaints about policing in canada.
The part of your insurance that pays the medical bills for a person you smush (third party liability) is entirely separate from the part that rebuilds your car if it gets wrecked (collision/comprehensive damage). They should be priced separately on your binder, but you can call up your insurer to price compare relatively easily.
If Denmark has just one sales tax rate or VAT, then maybe that can work OK for Denmark.

But this isn't about Denmark -- it is about the US.

In the US, there are over 13,000 different sales tax jurisdictions, and each one of them may have a different tax rate.

I wish the best to anyone who would ever be tasked with sorting that out with any semblance of accuracy using IP geolocation databases.
Goodreads is owned by Amazon, and Amazon does not make products - Amazon makes product purchasing pipelines. Welcome to the funnel.
I don't think it would be less or more appropriate. Gender is not something to hide or be ashamed of - the opposite! Any progressive movement here is on acknowledging gender, and de-gendering when unknown or mixed.

I think everyone making it out to be some big thing (which, the [dead] comments are bringing it up in a negative light for one reason or another) is the 'remarkable' thing.
All you said is that it worked for you, you even emphasize that your usecase was different because you have several devices. This doesn't relate to my question.
Of course it matters! AI doesn't automatically absolve you from your legal responsibilities...

I'd bet there's a person somewhere that receives money in exchange for sharing the AI's analysis, which would fall squarely into the second half of the definition:

> [any person] who, for compensation and as part of a regular business, issues or promulgates analyses or reports concerning securities...
Just came to the same conclusion with my professor father in law. If AI can actually do a good job at writing some assignment then people shouldn't be bothering with that thing. If it can't it will not matter that it was written by AI it will just be bad.

Also our universities are failing us if the only thing we get at the end is a boolean piece of paper (or even one represented by a floating point number).

This is like servers at McDonald's complaining that the customers are cheating with trash cans because they aren't eating the meals they buy, just throwing them in the trash. Why would they do that?!?!? Because someone told them they need to go to McDonald's "for the experience"?
Dish knows their satellite TV business is on the way out. Their strategy is to maximize the present value of that business by retaining and squeezing as many of those customers as much as possible, slowing the decline and pulling as much money out of that vertical for as long as they still have it, so that they can reinvest that cash into new verticals with more promise.
s/under seige by/on the payroll of/
There was a crazy british guy who made a smaller candle version of this, no?
Discussed once on launch:

Introducing Stack Overflow Trends - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299731 - May 2017 (10 comments)
Find your phone: https://www.icloud.com/find/

-> I have that turned off

Scanning a QR code:

-> My back-camera lens is shattered. Using the front is dodgy at best. I don't feel like I need fork out for an to upgrade as I use a digital camera if I want to take pictures.

What about those don't use smart phones?
Don't forget the inevitable "Nobody could have predicted..." lie, also (despite a great many folks giving sound and clear warnings).
I didn't dive into that but yes, Tek4404 runtime seems to trash d2 and a2 so I had to cross compile with those marked as scratch registers.
Except 100 yen stores which are actually 110 yen stores.
It really depends on what you mean by “complex UI.” In you mean a UI that needs to handle real-time user input, then it is extremely difficult to get React to be performant once the complexity reaches a certain scale.

As an illustration, try to make a website that has 1000 drag-and-drop elements that you can drag around the page. Getting it to render at 60-120 fps is hard and fragile.
I'm told you can just write the account number to cancel on a brick and throw it through their window. Might be worth a try.
ha, nice story. I can relate to it.

but the US practice of a contract thing for phones seems to me to be a scam, kind of like a lock-in scheme. in fact i am sure that it is that. because then they have you by the balls, financially, for their gain and your loss, and you can bet your ass that they will exploit that position, if not now, then in the future.

It is highway robbery, IMO.

I wonder why people in the US do not understand this.

Or is it related to what I have heard, but not sure whether it is true, that a lot of people in the US do not have much savings, and so live paycheck to paycheck? and is it also related to the constant desire for consumption, which I've also read about?

Fuck, that's pretty bad, if so. I can understand that there can be many historical reasons why a lot of people are now in that state, due to past and current oppression, non-level playing field, etc.

I am not judging, just commenting and asking.

In at least some other countries, including India, mobile providers or mobile phone sellers trying to lock in people to such schemes, would be laughed out of court, so to speak, by the vast majority of consumers, IMO, although I have have heard of some such schemes that do exist, and some people probably do go for them, for short term reasons, due to being cash-strapped.
The discussion of this topic five days ago received 128 points and 174 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400008
I tried this for a while using adhesive medical electrodes attached to a grounding strap, in turn attached to an earthing point in my house. I didn't notice any benefit or disbenefit, but I wasn't paying particularly close attention. I'm still open to the potential benefits of 'touching grass'.
A higher price is more accurate than the pretax price
This is really cool! Thanks for sharing both the process and the results; I learned a ton as someone who also has not personally trained a model yet.
Pretty cool way to turn x86es into embedded machines.
This is the correct interpretation.