jameskilton

Trust is hard to earn, and easy to lose.

Turns out the easiest way to destroy the greatest nation in the world is to fail to hold the rich and powerful to account.

No-one should trust us anymore, and if Europe doesn't step up and do something, this will be China's world to run for generations to come (Russia unfortunately is working on committing suicide).

My daughter will not get a phone at all until she's at least 16 and probably finally actually needs one.

As for the Switch and Nintendo Online, I didn't find it confusing or difficult at all to set up a child's account, make sure they can't buy anything without my permission, and then I make sure my daughter knows what she can and can't do, and I keep an eye on it to make sure she follows my rules. I don't trust parental controls to do everything for me.

Now that said, Minecraft on the Switch is one gawd-awful frankenstein amalgamation of permissions and accounts run by Nintendo and Microsoft. I got that working but it's by far the worst experience I've ever dealt with to play a game, even single player.

Probably best to link to the repo itself, this is not meant to be used yet. https://github.com/rue-language/rue

This is the dumbest timeline.

But, but this is what they vote for. "Government is bad, we can do it ourselves!"

You've already thought about this more than anyone in the administration has.

This is about keeping the non-whites out of America.

> The PR was opened, the workflow run, and the PR closed within the space of 1 minute (screenshots include timestamps in UTC+2, the author's timezone):

It's an unfortunately common problem with GitHub Actions, it's easy to set things up to where any PR that's opened against your repo runs the workflows as defined in the branch. So you fork, make a malicious change to an existing workflow, and open a PR, and your code gets executed automatically.

Frankly at this point PRs from non-contributors should never run workflows, but I don't think that's the default yet.

There's a lot of research on this, particularly from Robin Dunbar, who gave us "Dunbar's Number" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

Betteridge's Law of Headlines: No.

I remember the freak-out of the 90s. The world was going to be at 10 billion humans and unsustainable, leading to world-wide famine.

Now we're at the other end. It will cycle, the human race will continue.

Americans today are incapable of envisioning a better future and incapable of envisioning a worse one! We as a society are now only able to focus on what problems exist now, and to demand that they are fixed tomorrow.

There are a lot of problems that can be solved over decades, but we can no longer even fathom such a thing, much less put together the will power to see such projects through.

As Matt Levine has said multiple times in "Money Stuff", Tether has found the perfect business plan. They hold billions of actual USD, and get to keep all of the interest for themselves.

This is just beating around the bush. The only reason anyone even knows about RFK Jr, much less his current job, is because of Trump.

The actual solution is that Trump must go. But America voted for this. Get RFK Jr removed, and Trump will put someone just as bad, or worse, there. And the cycle continues, until Trump and the Republican Party are finally dismantled.

But I don't see that happening for quite a few years yet. The economy hasn't crashed hard enough for that to happen.

My favorite: 9 5s.

55.5555555% uptime!

I couldn't help but notice almost immediately one feature that is not human oriented, but most likely exists because it's easier for a machine to parse: single (":") vs double colon ("::"). This is not human-friendly. A human wants to write "key" "is" "value", and YAML has for a very long time supported a single ":" for "is" regardless of the actual type of the value.

I shouldn't have to care about what the type of the value is when writing out effectively YAML. This double-colon feature will do nothing but lead to bug reports from people confused as to why their document is invalid.

I invert (Clair Obscur most recently) because I'm controlling the camera. If I want to look to the left, the camera has to move to the right. I can't play third-person any other way and I have tried!

The only reason we look at the 2nd Amendment as we do today is because of the NRA.

The founding fathers had vastly different ideas for drafting the 2nd.

Software's job is to tell other people what the computer is doing.

Article has been hugged so commenting more along the comments here.

Pharmacy school teaches Calculus. Why would that be? Do you need to run derivatives and integrals to fill prescriptions?

No. Teaching maths, particularly calculus, teaches people how to 1) not make mistakes and 2) catch your own mistakes quickly. Vitally important skills for someone filling out live-saving medicine.

What?

The U in "UFO" stands for "unidentified". It has nothing to do with aliens. Were there intelligent enough species out there to have solved space flight and found us and visited us, we would know.

Having just (finally) read "The Three Body Problem" though, I think I agree with that premise that even just knowing that other species exist would probably be a net negative to current human society.

The Trough of Disillusion. Though we definitely aren't down there yet, it's coming.

To be clear, Stripe is one of multiple payment processors OnlyFans uses. I don't know what the other ones are but they do have a processor that is more favorable for NSFW content, and all related payments go through that/those processors. Safer payments go through Stripe, at least last I checked.

Given things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TON_618 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Cluster#Supermassive_b..., probably not. Seems like you can just keep shoving mass into it.

No, I think we all have a pretty clear interpretation of that ruling.

If no-one is going to uphold the legality, or lack there of, then there is no rule of law.

SCOTUS is not going to hold POTUS accountable.

Therefore, Trump is above the law.

The last decade has seen an increase push in what Google started calling "Zero Trust"[0] and dropping VPNs entirely. The issue being that once someone got into a VPN it was much, much harder to prevent them from accessing important data.

So everything "internal" is now also external and required to have its own layer of permissions and the like, making it much harder for, e.g. the article, to use one exploit to access another service.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/learn/what-is-zero-trust

I dealt with this kind of thing for years growing up, and for the most part grown out of it but it can still strike me out of nowhere.

The feelings of the walls of the room suddenly racing away from you, or the feeling that your hands are suddenly 10x as big and everything you touch is tiny, are terrifying for a growing kid. Heck even talking about it now tingles those fears just a bit, but now I can for the most part logic myself out of it.

I slept with a light on in my room for many years, that was the only thing that helped.

Because for probably the vast majority of Republican voters, this is effectively a religion (identity politics). It doesn't matter what the Republican party chooses to do, voting Republican is a part of who people are and to do anything else is simply unbelievable.

Facebook / Meta and Mark in particular are an amazing case of someone who is, at least at this point, incapable of learning from past mistakes, or even recognizing the mistakes they have made and are continuing to make.

Facebook's mission of "connecting the world" turned out to be the absolute worst thing anyone should ever try to do. Humans are social creatures, yes, but every connection we make costs energy to maintain, and at a certain point (Dunbar's Number) we apply the minimal amount of energy and effort. With Internet anonymity, that means we are actually incapable of treating each other as people on the Internet, leading to the rise of toxicity and much, much worse.

Mark has never understood this, and as his fortune is built around not understanding this, he never will.

There is nothing good that will come from Meta's "superintelligence" and this vision is proof.

So here's the actual problem: People. People want to escape Earth because of people. But escaping Earth is impossible alone, so you have to escape with other people ... which means you're bringing along with you every single problem you are trying to escape from.

We'll never escape each other, we can only learn to live with each other, wherever we are.

Incidentally, The Expanse is a fantastic sci-fi book series and tv series that covers this beautifully.

> That is like asking how we can make our cities better for cars, or our workplaces better for the furniture (emphasis mine)

I love this analogy and am going to use it.

This is a fantastic article. In the end, everything is still, and will always be, about people. We ignore and forget that at our peril.

Thanks!