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Please do not be disrespectful toward others.
Separate the commenter from the comment.
Smart commenters still make dumb comments now and then. And vice versa.
Consequently, the "identity" of the commenter is not a reliable predictor of the quality of the comment.
Shared accounts such as this one can address this problem.
Each comment must stand on its own, apart from identity and historical karma.
You should want to correct it regardless of the outcome of that "if".
The fact is, (a) you are carelessly speculating about details when we are right in the middle of a mess that was caused by rampant speculation—the fact that contradictory testimony and video happens to exist is not what made the claim unkosher—and (b) even if you weren't wrong and were recounting pure facts, you are derailing the discussion.
You (and by now, others, too) are derailing the thread from the topic at hand by trying to make it one, but no, that's not what this is.
this thread is about the meta issues of epistemology in the age of social media echo chambers and the contributions of traditional media to it, and we're best served by staying on that topic
There is no shortage of places to discuss the night of the Kenosha shooting. This is not one of them.
This is a nonsense sentence. It's not even clear what you're even trying to say here, but it's certain that whatever it is you are making even more bad assumptions about things that you don't actually know to be true.
> please show it [...] I was not able to locate any other claims for where the unspent round came from
It's like you ignored the entire message and homed in on the sweet temptation to muse further about the events of the night of the shooting itself, as if this were exactly the sort of trial-by-Reddit thread that I said I would not take part in here.
After the response you just received, do you really expect that the person who wrote it would meet your challenge, which would require an about-face, throwing everything just said out the window, and willingly contributing to derailing the discussion from the topic at hand?
In other words: no, and furthermore, since you're all over this thread trying to turn it into exactly what it shouldn't be: please stop.
It doesn't imply that. It would be nice if, in a thread about the media misreporting the facts of the case and feeding the biases of the folks who are supposed to be benefiting from the coverage, we wouldn't make other assumptions. You might think it's reasonable to make this assumption, but (a) the people leaping to conclusions—many of which turned out to be wrong—and repeating them ad nauseum over the last year also thought their assumptions about Rittenhouse were reasonable, and (b) as it turns out, the source of the ejected round is knowable/known since it was also caught on video (and it wasn't Grosskreutz doing as you said).
[I'm not going to actually delve into the details on that, since as far as I'm concerned this thread is about the meta issues of epistemology in the age of social media echo chambers and the contributions of traditional media to it, and we're best served by staying on that topic and not straying into the details of the case, which provides us a vehicle for the discussion but other than that is really just a tangential third rail.]
The term of art is ‘increase engagement’.
What
Why aren't you equally as mad at the personnel at your child's school? It's one thing for a national or semi-national rollout of broken enterprise junk, it's another thing for your child's instructor to go along and demand that you use this broken system instead of providing reasonable affordances (e.g. low-tech, paper-based notices/forms that get sent home with your kid).
For that matter, how do your school systems handle the situation where no one in the household is able or willing to install the damn thing because e.g. you don't own an iOS or Android device, or you have no smartphone at all? Is there an actual legal requirement for you to contribute on an ongoing basis to the bottom-line of select tech companies like Apple and Google in order to participate in public life—as if it's on par with the necessity to pay for e.g. renewing your government-issued ID?
I have contradictory anecdata on this. Two modifications to your premises, though:
- I did it all in the US, in an "expensive" area (Austin)
- For me, it was closer to 7 months of saving, but it was also closer to a year off than half a year (between 10 and 11 months, rather than 6)
Some more facts behind these numbers:
- I went out to eat during this 10.5 + 7 month period about as frequently as (probably more than) a normal household in 1970 would have, which is to say not often but also a not number that is zero, and I also splurged on craft beer and (cheap) wine and convenient/tasty food and unhealthy snacks from the store often enough
- There was no inherited property or parents' money or someone else otherwise taking care of me or any other tricks up my sleeve involved here (all different types of safety nets that I just didn't not use but that don't exist, so I wouldn't have been able to use it even if I wanted to)
- I was single during this time (so no "other half" to subsidize expenses)
- I cancelled my car insurance a few months into lockdown and was at the disadvantage of doing all this with no car
- I rent, and I have roommates, but I cover my share (I'm usually subsidizing e.g. their utility usage)
Saving 10k was difficult, but I was also bleeding money for other reasons during this time of savings, so anyone not subject to the circumstances I was in should actually be able to fare better. I also wasn't making "extremely good money". The I-hate-my-job company I was at hires for some-college experience to do monotonous, stressful work at <$20/hr. That's less than $45k per year, which is greater than your individual contribution to your half of the gross national average, assuming a two-person household, but it's nowhere close to even being a six figure job, let alone $200k or $500k.
I agree with everything in your final paragraph.
Delegation is the cornerstone of civilization. <https://sandstorm.io/news/2015-05-05-delegation-is-the-corne...>
Have you considered exploiting work-from-home by outsourcing your job (not necessarily overseas, but to another eager body that you're able to vet face-to-face)? If you're replaceable to your company and you can find a replacement more easily and competently than your employer can—something that has to be true if the truisms that most of HN accepts are actually sound—why not replace yourself and benefit from it at the same time by skimming off the top?
The reason small websites prefer YouTube embeds is because they want to avoid bearing the storage and bandwidth costs of serving it. And the logistical costs of transcoding it to N different resolutions times M different codecs. No amount of improvements to HTML alone will change that. (Not that the changes are entirely worthless, but they still do not and cannot address the real issue.)
1. Or at least to the extent that it is currently a (small) thing, it's the wrong thing.
What I’d like to see someday is a theme with a kind of remastered Windows 3.x/9x look: icons upscaled, cross-hatch Bayer dithering smoothed out into flat, solid surfaces, dotted lines replaced by semi-transparency, bitmap fonts remade into vector fonts while maintaining all the character shapes, so that they maintain the look and feel while taking advantages of high-DPI, high-colour screen. That would be a joy to look at, kind of like watching an episode of Star Trek TNG in 1080p.
Recommend taking an additive approach—to enhance navigability with new methods, not throw out the stuff that already works (and works well) as a consequence of reasoning that this is A New Thing and New Things are supposed to replace what already exists. Casualties here include stuff like clickable hot zones for navigation if in the given moment one's hands can provide higher bandwidth that way for a desired action, operating on e.g. a link by context menu e.g. to copy it, mouse scrollability, etc. Unlike the poorly reasoned bickering below, it does not follow that these interaction concepts are at odds with one another. Keyboard and mouse accessibility are not mutually exclusive.
> We currently walk all metadata at mount time (multiple times, in fact) - on flash this shouldn't even be noticeable unless your filesystem is very large, but on rotating disk expect mount times to be slow.
Has there been any progress on this front? Most of my disks are spinning rust, and I don’t expect that to change soon. Also, any other reports on how production-ready this is?
So never? Because systemctl by default triggers a PolicyKit prompt when run without sufficient privileges. sudo is entirely unnecessary.
It's not obvious whether any of the comments here that "they didn't feel it was worth it" are actually informed, or that's synthesis (guessing).
Re-rendering source material for a different resolution is trivial.
Whether it happened or not doesn't change that even if the original theatrical version was 1536×922, re-rendering for higher resolutions is trivial.