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Surely he understands the interplay between the usd being the world reserve currency and the importance of allies and military bases set across the world and how this aids US prosperity
Are we talking about the current case fire talks or the original peace talks that were on the table back in 2022?
Because those people around the world are smarter than him and look down on him. He's plenty interested in being involved with places that flatter and pay him money.
Why no Django?
Heh, was looking up the wiki on the Baader Meinhoff phenomenon only to find out it sends you to your link. Guess that's an easier name to know it as :)
Serious question?? Of course he doesn't.
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Anecdotally the climbing gym is the only semi-public place in which I've walked past someone browsing HN; without material stats I would still guess developers and people in tech vastly outnumber other fields among climbing gym members.
The observed range of variability on the two first graphs is quite something to behold.
Exactly. "uncommented academic modeling code from Matlab" is something very few people ever do, and the importance of that work is negligible in isolation. Meanwhile, "run of the mill micro services" are like most of what the software industry is doing these days; in aggregate, it's also how the industry delivers most of its value and how it makes most of its money.

It's the CRUD thing all over again.
I don’t have the exact numbers, but for every billion not invested in healthcare, infrastructure, or clean energy, countless people will end up suffering or dying unnecessarily.

Take this study[0] as an example: austerity measures in Greece led to 10,000 avoidable infant deaths. Plenty of other studies show similar results, cutting social spending costs lives.

So how many deaths will come from shifting €800 billion from social programs to military budgets?

It’s a sure thing that this will cause suffering and death, while the idea that we need all that money for defense is just speculation, especially when the EU’s combined military budget is already far bigger than Russia’s.

- [0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17084
The thing about "first world" countries is that the people who build and maintain things expect to be paid first world wages. We've started to find some workarounds to this (eg teleoperated food delivery from developing countries with low latency) but it's an ongoing process.
The grigri in particular is a bit of a mixed blessing. Because it has an auto brake, it's harder -- though not impossible, as you indicate -- to just totally fail to brake the climber on top rope. If you let go of an ATC, there is no braking and the rope just runs through, which is obviously very bad. By contrast, if you just let go of an grigri it will lock, arresting the fall.

However, when lead belaying, you need to pay out rope, which means disengaging the auto brake. If you do this buy holding the handle and the climber falls at the wrong time, it's easy to react by just holding everything tighter, at which point you're holding the grigri open, at which point the auto brake isn't doing anything. By contrast with an ATC or other tube-type device you never have to touch the belay device and so you always can keep your brake hand in the brake position, so if the climber falls, your reflex action -- assuming you have practiced -- should be to pull harder with your brake hand, thus arresting the fall.

Aside from belay devices, some other practices I've seen gyms do to try make indoor climbing safer:

- Captive grigris on top rope so that you (1) have to use a grigri and (2) can't screw up putting them on and off.
- High friction toprope anchors (e.g., wrapped several times around a pipe) so that even with no belay device at all there is still some friction.
- Requiring people to tie in with a trace eight rather than a double bowline on the theory that the trace eight is harder to screw up and easier to check.
It's pretty crazy if you look at how much the US is/was spending on NATO in pure dollar amounts.

Since that's going to be cut back Germany and to a lesser degree France are the only countries left to take up the slack.

I don't have a really strong opinion either way in terms of what's happening in the US or in Europe, but the argument claiming that there's no real reason to spend money on the military seem pretty disingenuous re. Russia.

What's the real chances that Russia would do something like a land invasion of Europe? Really, really small.... But military spending is the thing helping keep those chances very small.
We need to invest a lot of money to stop climate change. Renewable energy projects are very capital intensive compared to fossil fuel equivalents.
This article is idiotic. If there's a WWIII in the making it's going to be between the current superpower and the emerging one, China. It certainly won't be started by Russia, a country that is barely able to take on Ukraine. A few episodes of retaliation from Russia against the West for its support of their adversary in a regional war (if not a proxy war) has nothing to do with WWIII.
> Presumptive Chancellor Friedrich Merz has decided that now is the moment for Germany to invest in its military, on levels not seen since the Cold War

Now? After spending billions funding Putin’s war with gas money. Especially after watching him annex Crimea in 2014, or taking Ukraine’s NATO’s membership off the table after Bucharest summit.

Now they finally see how dangerous he is! Better later than never I guess…

In perverse way they are also doing Trump’s bidding who chastised them for not investing enough in defense.
Losing the EU as an ally against China is disastrous for US chinese containment policy. Trump wont be able to bribe Putin either if China starts a war.
Russia might not be able to invade Germany in the near future, but the much more likely and concerning scenario would be Russia nibbling away at EU countries in the east like the baltic states. If that happens and the NATO/EU states hesitate to defend that would almost certainly shatter these alliances and bring a much more uncertain future.
the simplest way to stop climate change would be a massive transition to nuclear power, ideally fusion, but until the technology is there for fusion, fission. nuclear power, great though it is, costs money, huge amounts of money
That’s fair, and it definitely helps clean up the feed experience.

But the core issue we’re trying to solve isn’t just the feed — it’s how hard it is to stand out when applying for jobs. Resumes and LinkedIn profiles all start to look the same, and you’re often just another name in a pile.

From what we’ve seen so far, people who include short videos or unique showcases of their work get 3–5x more interviews.
7% drop in CO2 emissions in 2020 [1]. I think we'd need one extra covid per year if we wanted to reach Paris agreement.

[1] https://sustainability.stanford.edu/news/covid-lockdown-caus...
What I hear from europeans is that it sucks to be there if you're ambitious.

https://x.com/DouglasCarswell/status/1893374276327137367
>> To me, all these heroes, and above process people, just strike me as difficult to work with narcissists who are poor at communication. We are not special, and we do not sit above every other department in our organisation.

Exactly.

Looks to me like Tim was really good at hiding his incompetence behind other people's backs. Also looks like a problem of the others, particularly senior others of not telling him "Fuck off, Timmy" when he sat uninvited beside them to "pair program" together.
It's not wrong, but I find the underlying corrolay pretty creepy that actually trying to understand those problems and fix errors at edge cases is also a fool's errand, because why try to understand a specific behavior if you can just (try to) finetune it away?

So we'll have to get used for good to a future where AI is unpredictable, usually does what you want, but has a 0.1% chance of randomly going haywire and no one will know how to fix it?

Also, the focus on hardware seems to imply that it's strictly a game of capital - who has access to the most compute resources wins, the others can stop trying. Wouldn't this lead to massive centralization?
The personal project linked in the article is so beautifully done. A joy to interact with
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Europe has been benefiting from being friends with the US, which allowed not spending so much money in its own defense capabilities. Money that could then be destined to welfare. Now that US threatens to cut such good terms in their relationship, EU finds itself with decades of accumulated underinvestment, and the need to get up to speed in that front for yesterday.

We're still not behaving collectively as much hogher than idiotic monkeys fighting in a cage. Defense from our neighbors is still a primary concern. We'll all die burnt with a heat wave.
First we just need to decide if it’s worth it, or how much is worth it.

The costs of remaining at +2C are several orders of magnitude higher than going back to +1C.

And in all cases the most impacted ones due to climate change effects or climate change fight expenses are the ones at the bottom.
Honestly the response to climate change has been "We need to secure water and food for ourselves. Who has them and what's our invasion plan?". Or "We have water and food. What's our defense plan?"

Having less mouths to feed is a positive (if viewed from this selfish point of view) side-effect.
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Yes, fogstar: https://www.fogstar.co.uk/collections/solar-battery-storage/...

I’m no expert - is there any issue with fogstar?
Nice work left a few patterns under the cloudseer moniker
Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days
I don't understand the angle of remarks like this. Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany pulled back money going to Russia, and Germany is now investing where it's appropriate.

Are we expecting them to re-litigate this problem until the end of time instead of addressing the problem?
The technique with Grigri is easy to learn compared to some other tools especially during its initial release, and TBH I don't recall ever saw anybody using it incorrectly since it would always prompt a strong reaction from anybody else just passing by. But it has to be learned, it doesn't come somehow magically on its own. Its not fully auto-blocking, if angle of outgoing rope is 'right' it doesn't block at all.

What that guy did on the video looks absolutely ridiculous from first second. Zero visual contact, too much slack (so that he doesn't have to look up), very little safety even without actual accident. When in practice there should be 100% visual contact, or at least 95% and fully covering all non-easy parts. It strains the neck massively but for that there are those cheap periscope glasses, I got mine for 10 bucks on aliexpress and they work fine enough for 10 years.

The basic technique means rope is 100% held by either hand at correct angle regardless what you need to do apart from holding it.
I like looking at lines removed and, in context with, lines added or PR count. Someone more experienced will be refactoring and removing old stuff while adding new stuff and will have some balance (barring vendoring or moving file trees between repos)
The killer feature of a chorded mechanical (not on-screen) keyboard for me is that one can use it without having to look at it. To literally touch-type (not necessarily text).

This is why such keyboards are used where this advantage is material, e.g. in jet fighters.
At my California apartment building two years ago, the internet lines for AT&T were run underground into the building, unlike every other building in the square mile, and the city has permitting regulations for underground conduits on multifamily properties that are currently excluding any other ISPs from providing service to my building. The apartment building also has a deal with AT&T where the fiber modems are preinstalled in-unit and the minimum service price is $50/mo. No low-income prices or services whatsoever are offered to residents of “AT&T Connected Communities”. I expect the building owners get a kickback for this outcome.

I sincerely hope this bill is made law.
Name and shame. Blame Trump. The most corrupt greedy lunatic ever in power. It's his doing. Germany isn't arming up for nothing.

And then maybe Putin.
of course he does but he doesn't care
I think we should normalise talking about average (median) working hours, not the extremes. I probably worked 100+ hours on paper deadlines, but working 60 hours in startups is about my sustainable limit, and when coding it’s more like 45.
People lie about their average working hours so much. If you listen carefully, it usually becomes apparent that their claims are physically impossible, eg they mention that they went to the gym each evening when the hours imply they should have been working. Generally, anyone who states above 55 hours should be treated sceptically.
The funny thing is that EU already spends 3 times as much as Russia in defence. Rearm EU is clearly a huge gift to weapon manufacturers and not much else. If we really cared about our defence we'd focus first on making what we have more efficient.

If we need to spend more than a trillion € to keep up with Russia's measly $145 billions, then we've already lost.
You also need a proton pump inhibitor taken one hour before the antibiotic and before food for a more effective treatment.

The chronic duodenum inflamation could also be linked to gut microbiota depletion. I had mild lactose intolerance for years until I took probiotics for a few months and started eating whole milk youghurt (as unfermented milk the question) as part of my regular diet. It needs to be real yoghurt, not the phony sweeter one with corn starch, sugar or fruit added to it. Also UHT milk might screw up your gut microbiota. Make sure you take probiotics during and after the antibiotic treatment.
> I would argue if you're trying to chain middleware or communicate between middleware, you're already holding it wrong.

I haven't kept up with Next.js idioms but in generat that's what middleware is for. It's implied in the name. Middleware-chaining is a common idiom.

It's the littke details that Next.js middleware intercommunicate over HTTP headers (?!) that makes it a different pattern.
Once a year huh? Let me call the Wuhan Virology Lab...
The world needs a united and strong Europe for stability and many other advances …
Tim Minchin! (about 4 minutes in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtYkyB35zkk
Then there are the celebrities who are famous entirely for hawking products on TV: Billy Mays and Vince Offer (aka "the shamwow guy", aka "the slap chop guy")
European countries are going to "wait and see what happens". You think Poland, who are only free from Russian occupation for about 30 years, is going to wait and see if they are going to be occupied by Russia for another half a decade?

Putin has proven time and time again he will exploit any perceived weakness. He did so in 2014 with Crimea and when Europe (and the US) failed to react it provoked him to try it again in 2022. There is zero evidence Putin is going to wind down after Ukraine. He has stated multiple times publicly he thinks the biggest tragedie of the last century was the collapse of the large Russian empire.
Europe was also principally buying American weapons. That’s now changing.
Ex-US Attorney Jessica Aber Investigated Russia, CIA Leaker Before Death
In a way it is his very openly stated goal. He has mentioned that it's a national security issue, since Russian and Chinese ships are passing through the arctic route, and as the ice melts greenland and canada will become increasingly important.
The agenda after WW2 was to not allow germany to militarize itself again and to keep the soviets out. Now it seems that germany is allowed to take it's safety in it's own hands again. Maybe there is more trust (western values?), maybe americans want to pull out? I still find it an astounding development. Maybe because it is an european project. Becoming adult. And the US has a bigger fish to fry.
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This is already happening and people are becoming more discerning with their news sources. Look at Joe Rogan vs CNN viewer numbers.
Europe has plenty of time for its militarization. If it had done it before then they wouldn't have to be doing it now, but it wouldn't have deterred any of those events.

Delaying was a reasonable choice given the information at the time, hoping that Putin was not a moron and that he would not take control of the US. They are reacting adequately, at a deliberate but not reckless pace, in response to the new information.
Yes. The biggest win (that you may already do) is recording branch positions, so when you hit a `[` or `]` knowing exactly where to jump through rather than going left/right. My interpreter above isn't the most advanced (it was a few hours while hungover because it seemed fun!), but try throwing it at your thing and I suspect it could help.

```
cargo install --git https://github.com/john-h-k/rustfuck

rustfuck <source> --lir # or --jit if you are on arm64 and don't need to read from stdin
```
The point of deterrence is that you spend the money so the chance of Russia doing something like a land invasion of Europe is decreased.

The much more likely scenario that Europeans are wanting to prevent is a limited invasion in the Baltics or Balkans in order to politically divide and damage western democracies.
Nah. Has not happened.
There's a 1990s Alan Alda video interviewing Thad Starner with these elements: https://youtu.be/X7DM1mT8r7c
The idea of making your profile feel more like a personal pitch makes a ton of sense. Honestly surprised something like this doesn’t already exist at scale.
The reason to lift the debt limit is actually, so at current times it becomes not an either or option.

Unfortunately, Russia seems a very real threat to many European countries (particularly those with Russian minority population). Germany needs this this money e.g. to actually setup a NATO brigade in Lithuania.

While all this military spending indeed is lost money, it seems that cost would need to be split and this is not even consensus inside the EU.

Germany has already become the target as its physical and digital infrastructure is under constant attack while feeling unable to defend ourselves. This is not about WWIII, but actually to prevent it happening.
This is the plot of the movie, ‘The Beekeeper’.
The Supreme Court has ignored the constitutions’s age limits. Why think that they will enforce term limits?
> What makes you think this hyperbole is true or useful?

The EU is explicitly called out as an enemy of Russia and America by its ruling parties’ elites.
Do you suggest not doing it then?
> much more likely and concerning scenario

Based on what data? Or is this just speculation as usual?
The actual quote (from memory, but I just listened to the monologue a minute ago): "Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been scientifically proven to work? Medicine!"

In other words, the quote is exactly referring to your "pipeline."

Tim Minchin's "Storm" monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtYkyB35zkk
> Russia is also paranoid, but at least it has historical reasons

From retaining most of the historic Russian Empire?!
Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Jessica Aber, who was found dead at the age of 43 by Virginia authorities on Saturday, was at the helm of high-profile investigations into intelligence leaks, allegations of war crimes against Russian-linked individuals and people suspected of providing sensitive U.S. technology to Moscow before she stepped down at the start of the year.
They lower the grade by cca 1 level by pulling you up, at least till 6a/6b in french scale. In higher levels I can imagine they also interfere with careful balance and body weight shifting training you away from actual skills, thats why I never saw them on anything harder than maybe 7b and even there it was like 1 or 2 routes in whole gym.

But for easy grades and cca beginners, if you lack a good partner for whatever reason, they are great IMHO.
You still need to be careful. I'm an avid climber. Most autobelay accidents happen because people don't clip in properly. However for me the auto belay cable broke after catching me. Resulted in five minor spinal fractures.

So from my experience I would say at least Google what are the common auto belay manufacturers and only use gyms that have them. True Blue and Perfect Decent are the only auto belays I will touch now.
Climbing, especially bouldering, requires solo problem solving. It’s the closest thing to coding in athletic terms.
The funny thing is that if you listen to Trump and the MAGA folks, they explicitly do not believe that the world would be screwed without the US and USD, and further do not believe that the US should care if they were. Trump's whole schtick with NATO is that Europe should be defending itself, not relying on the US.

So while the left and center of the US largely views this whole saga as a catastrophic loss of the US brand and foreign policy aims, this kind of rearmament is exactly what Trump promised his base he'd make happen.
When I read this, as an American it really strikes me what a trade-off the implementation of social democracy is. It does seem like they are correlated.

I wish that the USA did better on taking care of people, (because it sucks right now) but some on the left act as if there are no consequences to deciding to implement these things.
For the record of everyone, having multiple kids (3 in my case) is a thrill, and it helps much that they can play with each other instead of having the parents as a sole source of attention. Go have kids, they’re awesome :).
That’s my take as well. They used high quality cables from Belden when I bought mine, not some cheap Chinese knockoff. They’re also not focused on nonsense like “ethernet regenerators” for audio signals or “HDMI cleaners” for video.

They’re just good, simple, solidly built cables that fulfill their intended functions. No snake oil, no BS. 10/10 will buy again when I’ve got a home and a rack for a bunch of fixed-length custom cabling.
Plausibly someone else in Engelbart's lab, or a group of people, invented it. He always complained about people assigning him credit for the whole team's output.
Training a Transformer
Remember:

1. Why did you pull me over?

2. Am I being detained or am I free to go?

(If detained)
3. I plead the 5th.

4. Shut the fsck up

5. Continue to shut the fsck up but otherwise comply with lawful demands.

6. If you need to deny a request to search, clearly state that you do not consent to a search. Don't answer yes/no to the question because they might try to weasel word you.

7. Fight your battles in the court later with a lawyer if they do something wrong. Arguing on the street rarely works in your favor.
If you get a chance try out the NEOX. It's basically a GriGri with smoother rope feed, so you almost never have to defeat the cam when lead belaying with a proper dynamic technique. They've been polarizing to some people but it really feels like a "fixed GriGri" to me. You still need to mind the brake side, but at least feeding doesn't have an intrinsic design flaw where you have to temporarily disable the safety device.