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The movie, Rebel Ridge, does a decent job showing just how bad this can be in a small town. It's not exactly realistic for how the former Marine depicted chose to try to resolve the situation... It does give room to consider just how corrupt it can all be. Consider if you live in a town with only one bank.
Clearly the bank and the police have a relationship and in a small town, odds are they all know each other quite well. Say someone withdraws money from the bank. Then the teller sort of rats you out to law enforcement or someone adjacent to law enforcement. They manufacture an excuse to pull you over just as was done in this Nevada story. The movie Rebel Ridge goes into the difficulty in even getting your money back in the first place. At one point they explain a large part of the police departments funding comes from this. Then again, it isn't just small police departments getting kick backs, it's everyone involved to run up the cost for someone who had their money stolen.

At some point, civil forfeiture laws will lay the foundation for having any amount of cash being a sort of assumption of criminality. Consider too that smaller banks and even large banks have reserve requirements but not enough to cover all of the deposits. When most money exists in digital form in a database somewhere, over time, the concept of real paper money gets that assumption of wrong doing. Almost like it is the financial equivalent of "you must have something to hide, or else you would be using your credit card".
Related to scene.org, https://www.pouet.net/ is also a nice resource for good music.
> Multiple functional languages have been created in Europe

Which ones? just out of curiosity, because is totally irrelevant for the discussion: The car was invented in Germany, and for long years the best cars were German, but right now the industry is falling down non-stop... So there may be many people inventing whatever languages, when you search people to program, you just do not find good candidates.

I'm not arguing that people in Germany does not know functional languages. I just say, if you search somebody, is hard to find. The pay was damn good 80k/year. I was in a company in south Germany, maybe that is the difference?
Storage in UTC is generally wrong for future events and doesn’t make sense at all for unbounded sequences.

Edit: better approach will be to store event as it was defined and include processing hints, e.g. when next UTC time of occurrence can be reliably established.
Yeah, Coventry is rough. This is a good anecdotal overview for anyone interested: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Watch-My-Back-Geoff-Thompson-ebook/...

Having said that, your experiences weren't a million miles from mine in the 80's in the crap end of Hampshire. Most of the violence there though was from other pupils, rather than teachers.

However, speaking to my daughter schools these days do tend to be kinder, gentler places than when I grew up. Fights seem to happen never rather than on a daily basis.
We _had_ a balance bike, didn't get used much.

It only took about half an hour or so of effort to get over the "I'm going to fall" fear and get the feel for how a bike actually works.
You have to be quick if you want to disable the feature, as the scan starts on OS install, and disabling requires you to actively open the Photos app and turn it off.
Yeah, I no longer bother with insurance but that which is legally mandated. I honestly wish I didn’t have to insure my vehicles either, as the policies are just hopeless.

For instance, our home flooded to the roofline and our car was washed away to god knows where five years back. Home insurance covers floods - but not floods caused by rivers. Car insurance covers floods - but only if parked on public land, and again excludes rivers.

Two years ago we had a wildfire. Luckily, the houses did not burn, but all of our infrastructure - tanks, solar panels, electrical wiring, etc. - and our truck, did.

Again, our home insurer informed us that they could only provide coverage in the event of total loss. Damage or partial loss, not our problem. The truck insurer informed us that the policy only covers fires which originate within the vehicle.

It’s a grift. Every probable event is excluded in one way or another, and only highly unlikely sets of circumstances remain, like your vehicle spontaneously combusting on a rainy day, or your stone home burning down to the foundations.
I used to self-host email. I'm not a devops specialist, I'm not an email specialist, and I had to solve issues on a weekly basis.

I ended up moving to Fastmail, too. And if I'm moving email to FM, might as well move calendars.
I loved public school (class of 99). I still miss the style of learning. Can you imagine going deep on a topic for 50 minutes then switching? AP classes got double periods. I found it so refreshing and I learned a ton.

Eg, science, math, study hall, lunch, Spanish, History, Art, English… in a single day?

I loved it. What worked for me was studying for tests — and the harder the classes you took, the less homework there was (or it wasn’t required). I had a great history teacher, occasionally good math & English teachers, a great art teacher, and mediocre science teachers. The science TEXTBOOKS were fabulous — you could just read through those things and become a genius.

No more textbooks these days — it’s all some pdf segment to download. Bummer for my kids.

These days, there are way fewer tests, so my kids always freak when they have tests. I thought tests were great! Just one focused period to perform and then move on. Homework and projects were a big problem for me, because I could never start early enough — it was always a last minute dash. Maybe that trained me to produce fast output, though.

Kids were sometimes awful, but there was no way I was going to be popular so I just did my nerd thing. There were enough of us.

They had a great drama program which I loved — I did every play and musical I could. And they even had a speech and debate club — so I competed at “extemporaneous” speech—when I went to state competitions, they got the students all together to clap me out like they’d do for the football team. That was unnecessary and funny for the nerd.

My kids don’t get these kinds of opportunities, I fear. I was pretty lucky.
Discussed with many responses on Reddit r/books and r/writing, to give just a couple of examples.

Who can say what counts as important. That doesn't describe a quality of a book, but rather a cultural or personal judgment, and a measure of relevance over time.
Not for me, this time; they're "December, 2024", "Dec 18", "Dec 17" respectively.

Recently someone shared a link to one of their chat sessions here, and it reliably 404'd for me but not others.
I agree with you, or rather I think the barriers to farming are becoming lower, so maybe we should reconsider that homestead?

If this no-code stuff isn't a bunch of malarkey, it might be lowering the barrier to self-hosting that we've all been waiting for.

And self-hosting of email isn't quite "doing everything", it's doing one or two things.

It would be, to use your analogy, like growing your own tomatoes because Walmart's suck (and they do). Homegrown tomatoes don't have that "red leather" skin, a mysterious past, and may be quite inexpensive.

You can still get your Chinese made shirts, shoes, pants, and other inexpensive Chinese made goods at Walmart. But skip the Tomatoes.
Please take into account that this list is not final and may vary : some people may need to enter additional info. With a spreadsheet, this remains easy to do (you are in full control of the document and can add sheets, columns, rows as you wish), but with a webapp, it's possible only if the webapp has the feature to allow adding custom info.

Then, also essential (if not already there) , is adding or mentioning a way to retrieve /store /note down all credentials for websites, bank apps, ID card, ID/auth/esign apps... For example encouraging the use of a Keepass file, even if new, just to note down all remembered credentials.
Well, not vouching for automated scanning or whatever, but the advantage of homomorphic encryption is that besides the power usage for the computation and the bandwidth to transmit the data, Apple doesn't learn anything about what's in your photos, only you can. So even if you don't use the feature, the impact is minimal for you
By the way, I wrote this article just last week - https://ownerofhappy.org/encrypted-email-bad

I actually agree, and personally I don't love how they advertise such foolproof security. It's dangerous especially when their non technical users don't understand the consequences. I've had multiple friends using Proton who think it's 100% private even when emailing a gmail user.
UTC storage is standard practice, but not the best practice nor something that solves all the major issues a good application should be dealing with.

I'd qualify it as "good enough to not get fired" grade of decision, for people who don't care that much about calendaring in the first place or have the luxury ignore complex cases (we're back to "why are calendars so hard?")
> At some big companies at least, I think it is a policy to have to post the job publicly even if the person who was waiting in line inside the department for a few years already has it.

Yes, and that is a BS posting.
This does prepare you to life though. More likely than not you will go to office. You will find yourselves with bullies, and again you can become a victim. Rather than feeling sorry about yourself, school prepares you to fight with bullies, to find inmates, to find friends. I think you could have not understand the life lessons.

You will also enter other communities, where again, you will find bullies.

God how I hate idea of "safe spaces".
it is just plain wrong
> I guess it’s hard to imagine new features or even incremental quality updates as a viable business idea.

There is market for privacy; but the missing piece, after so many years, is how to synchronize calendars in a seamless way.
the 90th percentile of what?

sport?

english lit?

maths?

music?

socialising?

being the mother hen?

being a jock?

teaching everyone else things in the library?

class clown?

being the wacky one?

skateboarding?

acting?

rebelling?

looking after someone who has just been picked on by all the other kids?

schools introduce us to a wide range of children who are representative of the people we’re going to have to deal with later on in life.

not saying there aren’t alternatives.

but specialising for only the 90th percentile of one thing seems like a way to isolate someone later in life because they may not have learned how to deal with people who aren’t in the 90th percentile of that one thing.

and i say that as someone who hated my time at school and has struggled with the repercussions in later life.

i still learned a lot near the classroom tho.
I turned out OK in public school, but I was held back at different points, particularly in math, because I (and a few others) were too far ahead of the other kids. We literally had to repeat an entire year of content at one point. Kudos to the teachers who enabled & fostered that, but shame on the school system for not continuing to support. I'm pretty sure one of my classmates gave up on academics at that moment (he never really excelled again like he used to).

I'd like my kids to be free to follow their curiosities. It's definitely work to homeschool but for us, it may be worth it.
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The devil is in the proprietary details though.
But summertime is a (at least here) a separate timezone, e.g., CET vs CEST
Literally less than two years? In the EU you are probably eligible for a replacement, especially if some non-moving part (like sensors you mention below) fails.

I would prefer of course if producers made their products more sturdy (less e-waste).
You're delusional. Revolt always came from people with an empty stomach, not from the comfortable leisure class.

Plus, an "educated" populace is as easy or maybe even easier to control, it's willpower against all odds that characterizes the truly ungovernable.
Timezones change.
Yet another person here who agrees with OP. I think you're vastly underestimating how common our experiences were. Vastly.
TIL3!!

>Einstein told him that he should first make his mark on the world, for then people would listen to him

Bad Einstein :(

Ahhh major phew & thnxses for not getting deevoted for that one!!

(Smh how did I miss the en.wiki?? Maybe it's that I'm not a programmer xD)
The problem with escaping (like with using quotes) is often that you need to know through how many parsers the string goes. The shell or editor, the language you are programming in and the regexp engine each time can strip off an escape character or a set of outer quotes. That and of course different dialects of regexp makes things complicated.
I for one did not make that connection. Only thing I thought of was https://simplex.chat/ (which is fortunately not marketed as a dating app)
Nargaroth is fash, here's a good one without that taint: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mutilation_Rites/Live_on_...
I never even knew images could be searched this way on a phone and the iPhone users in my family don't either.

A huge privacy-bruising feature for nothing in our case.
Well in the model of General Relativity. Laws of physics are human descriptions of how we think nature operates based on current observations. It's not like we have a wormhole available to test time travel, assuming wormholes actually exist in nature. We don't really know if nature "conspires" to keep things consistent like that. Physicists do have a desire to come up with consistent theories though.
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Yes. Ultimately I'm attempting to show up the underhand meaning of the term "woke"; the definition given towards the start of Graham's essay is distinct from the way it's being applied here and later in the same essay.

It's important because conservatives will use different definitions to support different aspects of their arguments. For example, when woke means "performative and meaningless", then you can argue that it's malicious. However, when woke means "doesn't fully reject progressive causes", then you can argue that it's widespread.
Isn't the room saying H1Bs are going to be protected from the very top regardless what a few malcontents have to say?
I'm probably getting old, and I'm not a frontend dev, but your post makes no sense to me.

I looked at your site, and if that's anything more than a single static HTML file with some resources, served by a web server, something strange is going on. There is nothing complex on your site that requires more than a handful of lines of inline JS (to shuffle the letters).

The site also scrolls slowly, especially noticeable on phones. If this was just plain HTML it wouldn't.

It feels like the baseline for web developers has become that you MUST first add a ton of extremely complex dynamic stuff, and only then can you even think about putting a single line of text on the page. There's 200kB of code being loaded for this website, what is it doing?
And it’s not just trees. Ever heard of “justdiggit”?

They found that digging holes in the desert functionally accumulates enough water to promote diverse plant life. It’s apparent an ancient practice. They organize groups to do it. Ecological stewardship is, I hope, a key shift in mindset from the current totalizing view of global warming.

https://justdiggit.org/
Browser -> show source -> inspect element

You then see that it uses highlight.js
Some were. Some would have made major advances whether they'd had a lot of formal schooling or not.

And many who had a lot of schooling learned to repeat, obey and sit still for 12-16 years.

And maybe had less initiative than they were born with. Maybe they learned to not question what they were told.

1. Thomas Edison
Minimal formal education; mostly homeschooled by his mother. Edison was a voracious reader and learned through experimentation.

2. The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur Wright)
Neither completed high school. They learned through self-study, practical work, and their experiences running a bicycle repair shop.

3. Henry Ford
Left school at 15 years old. Ford learned engineering and mechanics by working as an apprentice.

4. Michael Faraday
Minimal formal schooling. Faraday worked as a bookbinder and educated himself through books and observation.

5. Benjamin Franklin
Left school at age 10 due to financial constraints. Franklin was self-taught, primarily through reading and experimentation.

6. George Eastman
Dropped out of school at age 14. Eastman learned accounting and photography on his own.

7. Elisha Otis
Had little formal education and learned mechanics and engineering through work experience.

8. R. G. LeTourneau
Dropped out of school in the sixth grade. He learned engineering through hands-on work and experimentation.

9. John D. Rockefeller
Dropped out of high school to take a business course and learned through practical experience.

10. Philo Farnsworth
Learned electronics and physics by reading and tinkering, despite being unable to afford college.
I use NixOS, and it simply updates to the latest kernel that supports zfs, with a single, declerative option.
I think a lot of home schooling is a culture war issue as well. A quick look at Libs of TikTok will show some of the teachers that some parents would like to avoid.
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That's still nice, especially considering that it’s somewhere between Haswell and Broadwell from 2014.

Maybe not the kind of progress or initiative that gets headlines, but neither is it trying to push as far as what Intel has been trying to do for the past few years.
I don't even know where to begin with the pretence that you can compare HTML with JS and somehow conclude that one is 'better' than the other. They are totally different things. JS is for functionality, and if you're using it to serve static content, you're not using it as designed.
The point here would be that after N years, US workers at the site would gain enough insights to replicate the processes with American companies? Because otherwise what's the point? Will TSMC allow that? Because to just have more internal "normal" jobs in the US is a small gain. There is a big ST site here in Catania, while they produce many chips most of the workers are blue collars.
Thanks, Brian! Big kudos to you and Sonatype for the service you provide to the Java community.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Musk is concerned about getting his fill of:

1) "hardcore" engineers, who I suspect aren't necessarily h1bs, but h1bs are the cudgel to motivate his workforce, and a safety net if they all tell Musk to go fly a rocket and quit.

2) inexpensive engineers; Musk is notoriously cost-conscious. I remember a humorous story about his left-wing anti-establishment wife who complained that she had to eat peanut butter sandwiches in a modest home. I guess she figured if she was selling out she deserved a palace and caviar. But to the point, Musk is incredibly frugal and cost-oriented. H1b satisfies his need for cheap talent, provides a safety net (point 1) and downward cost pressure (point 2) for non-h1b engineers.

Now if we could only start out-sourcing our CEOs....
It is more attitude. As in - people in the UK seem to have a vendetta against pedestrians in the road.

I know the laws surrounding cycling and pedestrians changed even recently, but no one in my experience actually cares and carries on as before.

If you are crossing a busy road, no one will stop for you. Maybe parts of the UK that are more rural are different, but in cities this is the case. You will always get across at a crossing, and cars are generally not trying to run you down. Though, Zebra crossings have started in recent times to be more problematic, and I see people driving across them whilst people are still on the crossing regularly.

Anecdote example: When I was a kid I got clipped by a car because of this (the heel of my back foot got struck by a car who was basically giving nothing and driving at me, despite me being over 50% across a road that was only 2 lanes and not particularly wide.) In North America this doesn't happen. Cars will drive at you, but they will generally stop and let you go. In the UK you are made to feel like a criminal for daring to cross a road most of the time.
The planar footprint can be relatively easy be mitigated by just using a mirror and sending the next layer back to the same plane a few nanometers higher?
I think I have dealt with such organization thrice in my life. 3 driving tests. And on all times it was as pleasant experience as possible.

Only complaint I really have with that system is them caring too much. Why does my car need "type certificate" sticker... It is all online and tied to VIN... Replacement cost like 200€ and then tens more for showing them paperwork new one was ordered...
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I'm grateful for sites like this and these days LLMs too. ffmpeg is awesome, but I can never rememeber the right incantation. The sites/tools get me the right ffmpeg answer, but I still needed to remember the answer next time (or look things up again). Now I save them as reusable commands: https://lmno.lol/alvaro/how-i-batch-apply-and-save-one-liner...
I checked the docs, and you are right, I mixed something up. Bluetooth does not need "precise location". Bluetooth has its own permission dialog since iOS 13.

I confused it with the "Access Wi-Fi Information Entitlement". If an app wants to scan for nearby Wifi networks, it needs the "precise location" permission [1], because the names of Wifi networks can be used to determine precise location.

Maybe the Sonos app wants to scan for Wifi networks?

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/n...
Do you think Tiktok reflect reality?

Then we need to ban social media altogether...
I don't particularly care about "designed for". If you've got to serve something to make the browser display the static content you want it to, the least unpleasant way to do so is with JS.
This is unpopular but I don’t gives a shit:

1. Children don’t need a cell phone until high school.

2. Block social media at the house with a PiHole.

3. When your kids get sad about how unfair is it they aren’t popular or don’t have access like other kids remind them they aren’t paying for it.
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Good grief, if the lack of caring for the kids, the indifference of the educators is now reframed as a virtue and core function of the failing school system I guess we are in deep trouble.

Nope, if I have to share an office with an ethnic gang that attacks co-workers because of their different ethnicity I will certainly not "deal with bullies" but leave the place.
One option is HR compliance with some kind or procedure.

One other thing I've seen (many times) is to pacify an over-worked team: the team is working crazy over hours, demotivated, asking for help. The manager knows is impossible to hire (head count / budget limits) and so they open a Job Offer, where they can show "we are searching for help, but nobody comes". How do I know? once I was in such over exploited team, so each of the team made a fake resume that was, of course, like a glove for the position. Nobody got a call back. When we confronted the manager, he had to confess. [in case somebody asks himself, 6 months later the whole team was gone]. Then same company, I applied for a job, where my resume was really perfect for the position. As I received the canned response, I called the manager, pressed a little bit, and also said "we had to do as we are searching, but we are really not".

Yet another one I know of, because of reasons: HR consulting companies and also some HR departments want to test if they are paying too much/too little, want to have some "market measurement". They fake jobs, fake interviews, and they would inconspicuously ask "how much are you earning now" and/or "how much do you want to earn" and that is all they want from you really.
The point is redundancy in case China follows through on their threats to invade.