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A lot of people have declared the US republican party to be on its last legs, but it keeps stumbling onward.
We're all standing on top of a Jenga tower, and "that guy" thinks it would be fun to knock out blocks underneath us.
How large are the DBs?
Do you store the DB too, or rebuild it from your records if the client loses their DB?
HN mods/leadership appear to have taken the stance that this is a non-political site.
Why it's being flagged? People hiding behind the non-political rule are suppressing information and discussion.
This site is owned by ycombinator, who have a motivation to "not rock the boat", so such suppression is ignored.
I guess in time we'll see whether that's a good decision for them or not.
A large part of the USA, for a myriad of reasons, lives paycheck to paycheck.
It sounds like a few software projects I've worked on. Incorrect base assumptions and not swapping out the components that were made unwieldy by those assumptions not reflecting reality.
I was thinking that the US marshals need to be the enforcement arm of the courts. But I am not sure if that would help much in the current situation.
Maybe police and federal enforcement agencies should be solely under Congress? At least then senior people can actually get fired for obeying unlawful orders from the executive.
They are enabling him because his grass roots supporters threaten anyone who "steps out of line" with oligarch-funded primary challenges.
I was surprised to learn that there doesn't seem to be a way for people to recall congresspeople or senators.
There needs to be a patch for the constitution of the USA to fix the vulnerabilities/bugs exposed by trump and his supporters.
That feature where less powerful plugs can be inserted into higher rated sockets but not vice versa is very cool.
It could be a little smaller, but compared to the USA plug and socket it's pure perfection.
USA plugs have prongs that are so thin they bend. The prongs act as a hinge that lets the plug pivot away from the wall to expose the live prongs! And most USA sockets don't have ground on top to block anything resting over those exposed live prongs.
I was curious whether Kagi would get it right:
https://kagi.com/search?q=how+Emma+Goldman+was+deported+desp...
But you're right, I'd have to check the sources cited before I'd trust the answer.
Yeah I think people that complain about git should try running a project with CVS or subversion.
The amazing flexibility of git appears to intimidate a lot of people, and many coders don't seem to build up a good mental model of what is going on. I've run a couple of git tutorials for dev teams, and the main feedback I get is "I had no idea git was so straightforward".
One thought exercise I've had fun with in the past:
We already control dogs' sub-species, so let's say we decide to uplift dogs to human level intelligence. How long would it take? At what point does it become unethical to modify a species that is on the way to intelligence? What does an evolved dog look like at different stages of their human-forced evolution? A modern dog is what (very rough) equivalent to which stage of human evolution?
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James Hornfischer. The amazing courage shown by the US Navy sailors as their tiny 2,000 ton Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts faced a Japanese fleet of Battleships, Cruisers, and Destroyers at The Battle Off Samar. Inspiring and horrifying, the DDs and DEs of the US navy were protecting "Escort Carriers" which were smaller aircraft carriers made from cargo ship hulls. Warning, may inspire you to learn a whole bunch more about world war 2.
And 2 books that sort of go together:
Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway by Walter Lord, and Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully. Read Incredible Victory first, learn about the luck, good and bad, that led to a much-needed victory in the Pacific. Then read Shattered Sword and get a fuller picture of events, especially from the Japanese side. Learn about how hubris and dogma led to the Japanese Navy's defeat. Then learn about how saving face led to history not being accurately told by the witnesses on the Japanese side.
All 3 are great books that are well worth your time.
Others that I've enjoyed:
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (near future post-apocalyptic sci-fi).
The non-fiction Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson (more WW2 non-fiction, nice details about North Africa through Italy, then France to Germany).
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham.
Most Secret War by RV Jones (nerdy, funny history of one scientist's world war 2 experience).
The Discworld City Guard books, starting with Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett. Fantasy fiction satire, hilarious and comforting. Highly, highly recommended!!
Peter F Hamilton sci-fi adventure books: Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained are a duo of great space opera stretching across multiple planets and people. Don't spoil yourself by reading any descriptions of Judas Unchained before you read Pandora's Star. Also by the same author, The Night's Dawn Trilogy: The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God. Fantastic big canvas space opera with lots of threads, great world-building, and amazing situations. Both sets of books are highly recommended escapes from reality.
You have to be wrong to learn. Sure it can be frustrating to try to make or do something difficult. But you've never done it before, of course you're not going to know all the correct answers! It just makes it all the more sweet when you do make progress and start to know more about a subject.
Especially since he seems to ignore those children except the one he drags around with him.
Maybe he has some dream about being a patriarch of a giant family.
Actually, considering his "pay someone else to play video games" actions, it makes sense that he's paying others to raise his kids. He seems to want the appearance but none of the work behind it.
Thank you for sharing! I'm currently playing Discreet Music while there's lightning and thunder outside. My dog shivers with fright during bad storms and this is helping me to calm down, which in turn helps my pup.
For those making the inevitable comments on flagging: use this page instead of the front page.
Alternatively, raise taxes on billionaires to pay down the debt.
We need a FairTV, like Fairphone etc.
Apologies at not thanking you earlier, I really appreciate your comment, thank you very much!!
This is fantastic and I want to build one. The UI is delightful, and as other people have said, the multiple modes for different tasks is a great idea.
I'd like to see whether the perceived rightward direction is new, younger people joining, or older people changing.
Determining that scientifically is going to be near impossible.
Kinda like convincing people to adopt Slashdot's moderation and meta-moderation lol.
What footwear brands do you recommend?
Generally, when someone reaches 80, they tend to live another 7 or 8 years.
Whether he declines before then, to a point of uselessness for the republicans, is a different question. Also I'm assuming someone is pumping him full of every drug available to prevent his decline as much as possible.
vance seems to think he's next in line, having been anointed by the billionaire class, but he's all hatred and no charisma. Although saying that, he may just shuffle into the top spot when it's impossible to dislodge him. Or he may just get accepted by whichever bot farms drive the rightwing social media frenzy.
I'm personally hoping that their general fascist incompetence will fuck their chances of an everlasting reich.
Use https://news.ycombinator.com/active as your starting point. It's not linked from the front page.
Or use https://news.ycombinator.com/active
It's not linked from the homepage though.
I got access to a NextCloud instance as part of my Hetzner storage.
Setting up access for my wife was easy. Adding "apps" to my nextcloud instance was easy. Sharing storage, playing with a Kanban board, editing documents, it all just works.
I'm very impressed with nextcloud, I had no idea it was so good!
what about my comment led you to state that I pretend "every issue is russian propaganda"?