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I know it's not science, there's no data or anything. But, i've almost been hit as a pedestrian just under 10 times. Every single time it was by either a Mercedes or BMW sedan. My sister was hit by a BMW sedan driver, her back's been fucked ever since. Almost everyone I know that's been involved in an accident as a pedestrian has been hit by either a Mercedes or BMW sedan.

ETA: Seeing as I'm getting downvoted, might as well keep going they've also always inevitably hit and run, or been incredibly rude and scream at you as they almost kill you with their half ton of plastic and metal when they're not paying attention to the road.

>Bourke Shire Council, in the state’s north-west, killed the dogs to prevent volunteers at a Cobar-based animal shelter from travelling to pick up the animals last week,

>A source who is familiar with the arrangement said the shelter volunteers are distressed and had COVID-safe measures in place to handle the dogs, one of which was a new mother.

>According to NSW Health, there have been no recent locally acquired COVID-19 cases in Cobar,

So, it was too dangerous to travel in an area with no covid cases and bring dogs to a shelter with full covid protocols and the only alternative was to shoot the dogs?

This is just getting excessive, there's being safe and then there's I don't even know what you call that. There definitely had to be a better way to deal with that situation.

>The Office of Local Government Minister Shelley Hancock, who has previously faced questions in Parliament over the shooting of animals in council pounds,

Although, sounds like the council has had issues with shooting animals in pounds before.

>but this began with gang affiliation lists.

An old coworker of mine was on a gang registry because of people he associated with when he was a teenager. He was in his late 20's-early 30's when we worked together. Really nice guy, super hard working, spent his free time gaming or hanging out with his girlfriend, got really into his puppy and being a dog owner. Hadn't been around gangsters for at least a decade.

He'd regularly get pulled over and hassled by cops just because when they scanned his plate he'd show up as being on the gang registry. Ended up losing his license for several months because his friend who was his passenger one time had a very small amount of weed in a bag in his pocket when he got pulled over.

Pretty much any time cops are around or even whenever he drives, there's always a chance he's going to get pulled over and harassed randomly.

Not because of anything he ever did, just because he chose the wrong friends when he was young.

I have not posted this rant before. You can search every comment i've made on HN I rarely comment on Apple products period because I don't own them.

I was genuinely curious. I've learned my lesson.

Never question Apple.

Thank you for actually giving a good objective, non emotionally driven response. I appreciate it.

I really was curious to hear some perspective on this that wasn't just because I like it. Thank you.

It's this thing you keep saying where endless tweaking is necessary. That is not true as I have stated multiple times. If you feel the need to constantly tweak things when you have the option to and can't help yourself that is purely a personal behaviour thing and nothing to do with any technology.

Can you provide some details other then just 'because we like it'?

That's not really explaining things at all. That's just an emotional defensive response with nothing to back it up.

Gotta be honest, the last mac I ever used ran OS8 I think, maybe 9, it was one of the classic Mac os's either way.

I know this is just a UI recreation and not the actual OS but as a long time KDE user, like over a decade, I can't help but think meh, why does this UI get so much praise?

I can make my desktop look, act and behave literally any way I want, I can modify every single aspect of every single thing on my desktop to suit my work flows and everything I do on a computer exactly so my computer does exactly what I want, when I want, exactly how I want it to in the exact way I want things to be done.

I haven't changed much over the years, i've copied my configs through every update, even brand new computers and everything always just works how I want it to.

Why do people pay the premium for this UI Apple forces you to use?

I've always considered TOS's an abberation of contract law myself.

I've had many professional contracts with both private and commercial clients. In none of those cases was I ever allowed to provide a contract where I could just decide whatever I want, whenever I want and the customer is forced to agree otherwise...fuck them...and I still get paid.

>attempt to, or assist, authorize or encourage others to circumvent, disable or defeat any of the security features or components that protect, obfuscate or otherwise restrict access to any Content or Google Play.

Am I reading this correctly in that, this seems to me like just telling people about something like Aurora is against the terms of services and can get you banned whether you use it or not?

As in, even the gp comment technically breaks that rule just by posting that Aurora FAQ?

That's fairly intense if so.

I find D's implementation of pointers not only to be fairly easy and straightforward to understand, but quite powerful and useful. They basically fix most of the problems with C's pointers.

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/d_programming/d_programming_p...

The toy virtual machine and language I built in D uses function pointers heavily to implement the machine's opcodes. They made it incredibly simple to program the 'CPU' of the virtual machine. The opcode functions are setup as an array of function pointers.

Whenever a byte that represents an opcode is read, it simply calls the function being pointed to at the corresponding index in the array. It allows for additional opcodes to be easily added without hassle or breaking things. Every other way I tried without pointers was convoluted and didn't work as expected. Using an array of function pointers just works.

I apologize for my comment. I posted thoughtlessly while in a bad mood after a rough day. I wasn't trying to start a flame war. I really didn't mean to start such a huge thing. I felt fairly ashamed seeing all the responses it generated. It wasn't productive and isn't accurate and doesn't even really reflect my beliefs.

If anyone who was offended by my attitude and comment reads this I apologize. Anyone who works hard for someone else should be valued, whether you work with your mind or body.

My comment was ignorant and just not true.

Yeah...I'd say so. They're a bunch of people with lots of money, trying to make more money, that's reality.

All this wishy, washy feelings bullshit the world is focused on doesn't really matter when it comes to making money when it involves people with lots of money. That shit doesn't actually matter to the people in power. That's just for the peasants to distract themselves with so.they spend more money making the people with money more money.

All that matters to any VC providing seed funding is, 'will I make money?' That's it. That's the only thing that matters. Who you are, your story, your bullshit...Nah...that's just marketing you use to make those rich fucks invest in you in the hopes that you all make money.

That's the truth of YC or any other person offering money to your company in exchange for future profits.

Who you are only matters as far as 'will who you are make profit?'

If it won't well, you're shit outta luck buds.

I dunno, for a group of people who seem to believe you're worth a ridiculous amount of money per hour, think of what your time is worth. You folks that make a living programming off exceedingly decent wages.

You don't break your bodies every day, you're not forced to spend all day moving wood and metal, filling bags full of garbage, hauling shit that weighs 50+ lbs all day every day.

You just gotta sit and think and come up with solutions to problems.

Having done both, I'd fucking far rather receive large amounts of money to sit in front of a computer all day than break myself for $20-$30 an hour.

If there's one thing I have to say about computer programmers and their entitlement.

Suck it up, take a pay cut and take your free time, you're already overpaid for shit that's not going to kill you and now you get the option to sit at home and work for slightly less money, still more than someone who kills themself every day for a pay cheque.

I wasn't implying Shodan did this. Shodan just lets you find things. Google reveals default passwords quite readily though. It's alarming how often they work to login.

I'm kind of surprised Facebook's downloads are actually so high. 2 out of the last 3 phones I've bought came with facebook pre-installed and it was not removable. My latest phone came with Facebook pre-installed, but it is removable.

All I'm going to say about Shodan is...

Too many people leave the default password on internet connected devices.

Seriously, anything is better than the default password.

Both are in the Vaccinium genus. European blueberries are Vaccinium myrtillus. Red huckleberries are Vaccinium parvifolium. Alaskan blueberries are Vaccinium ovalifolium. Then there's evergreen huckleberries which are Vaccinium ovatum. There's also blueleaf huckleberries which are Vaccinium deliciosum.

All of these species look fairly similar.

The one mentioned in the article is Vaccinium parvifolium.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_parvifolium

They have red berries that taste fairly different than most of the other species I listed. Most of the blue ones though taste fairly similar.

>But there isn’t a single commercial huckleberry farm on the continent.

>After early colonial settlers failed to bring the berry to Europe, serious efforts to cultivate the plant began in 1906. More than a century later, the stubborn shrub still hasn’t yielded to captivity. When they’re grown from seed, they are mysteriously devoid of fruit.

I always wondered why there was no commercially grown red huckleberries. It never really dawned on me they would be so difficult to farm.

That being said, a few weeks ago we were out on a walk picking some huckleberries and my cousin pointed out that every single huckleberry shrub we came across wasn't actually growing out of the ground, every single one we found was growing out of a nurse log. Even the ones that looked like at first glance they were growing out of the ground were actually growing out of rotting wood. After he pointed this out, we tried to find just one growing out of soil. We couldn't, every single one was growing out of a dead tree or some other rotting wood.

Yeah making CBD isolate in one's backyard is pretty unfeasible. It requires a distillation column on top of the vaccuum chamber, oven and solvent recirculation equipment required for typical cannabis extracts made in large quantities.

The process essentially involves blasting the material with solvents, evaporating the material inside a pressure controlled vacuum chamber oven then, collecting the various components in a distillation column as they're evaporated away at different temperatures.

It's a dangerous process that requires high quality equipment and a proper environment to do safely and produce a product you'd actually want to use.

Not the, 'average person can make Willy nilly in their kitchen after growing a few plants' kinda thing. It's more of a requires a trained team of technicians and a certified lab kinda thing.

I've got a specimen of one of these preserved in a photoalbum from a school project from 10 years ago or so. There was no idea at the time these were in any way carnivorous.

For all our knowledge, there really is so much about all the other life around us we just don't understand.

I've never applied for YC funding, or any kind of seed funding, I don't know much about the world of startups but

>YC evaluators are explicitly biased. There is such a thing as unconscious bias. We know and understand this in the racial domain.

Yes they are, everyone is, it's the way of it.

Yes they know who they want to give their money to. In the end like anyone else, whether it's a job interview or applying for grants, which I have done, or applying for seed funding, who you are compared to the values of the people you are applying to matters.

You can be 110% qualified and not 'fit the culture' and be rejected. It's just the way of life and something everyone really should just accept because it will never change.

You can and will be rejected from things in life because of things you cannot change and sometimes you will have no idea why and you will never get an explanation. Or, if you're lucky, you will get an explanation that essentially amounts to 'I dunno I just don't like the cut of your jibe.' That's life for ya though.

>This and you can (and should) build roller coasters.

Last time I really played minecraft years ago, me an my old roommate would compete to see who could make the most epic ridiculous minecart rollercoaster track.

It was pretty fun, we'd turn entire mountains into a giant roller coaster or build floating islands or have it go down to the center of a lava cave or something.

Parallel Space should solve that problem for you.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lbe.parall...

>Probe them and they’ll cart away. “Forest officials in Maharashtra have tried to spy on them, but it was futile,” Dr. Nimbalkar recalls.

I dunno, geologists might. They can be real passionate about their rocks. Trust me, once you get one of them on the subject of glacial errata, good luck getting them to stop before the next glacier comes.

It's name is Chamberlin Rock. It wasn't given the other name, it was called it one time in a journal article in 1920.

Damn, it sounds like you guys need a new place to live. That's just fucked up, no other word for it.

>It was referred to as a derogatory name in a Wisconsin State Journal story in the 1920s

>In a statement released Thursday, the university explained, “[r]emoving the rock as a monument in a prominent location prevents further harm to our community

>Chamberlin Rock, which is believed to be over two billion years old, was described by the university as a large pre-Cambrian-era glacial erratic. It was named for Thomas Chamberlin, a geologist who served as university president from 1887 to 1892

So, a 2 billion year old glacial erratic was removed because some time 100 years ago someone referred to it using a racial slur...and its existence was causing harm.

I can see why people get upset about things like Confederate statues and such...but this, I mean really...come on...it's not like it was officially named after a racial slur, the article doesn't seem to imply there was problems with people today referring to the rock by the racial slur. This just seems so ridiculous at this point.

They are claiming a giant rock causes harm because someone 100 years ago used a terrible word to describe it in a journal article.

If you choose to be offended and upset because someone used a word 100 years ago to describe a rock, that's probably on you at that point.

>Barely more than half of all pot sales today are conducted through the legal market

When the government won't pay more than $850/lb no matter the quality of the weed, what do you expect?

The weed in legal dispensaries is straight trash. It's dry, usually packaged months before in containers or bags, costs more than the old medical dispensaries or literally anyone else selling weed.

There is zero reason to go into a legal dispensary, spend between $25-$40 for 3.5g of weed that's going to be pure garbage when I could get high quality weed for $15-$20/3.5g from pretty much any street dealer or delivery service.

Why would I spend more money on 10mg edibles when I can spend less money on 100mg + edibles.

It's completely mindboggling how badly the government fucked this up. It's hard to believe it wasn't intentional.