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Then there's James Watson who was given a Nobel prize medal twice. First by the Nobel Committee, and second by Alisher Usmanov, who had purchased the medal at an auction in order to give it back to Watson, who had put it up for auction.

"Feature creep" is hard to characterize. If the project needs and uses it, is it really "feature creep"?

Or, from Wikipedia, "The definition of what qualifies as "feature creep" varies among end users, where what is perceived as such by some users may be considered practical functionality by others." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_creep

Hipp (the original SQLite author) also developed his own parser generator (Lemon) and his own editor (e). The former is also used by other projects.

Where do you store the different attributes? In the file-system? How do you manage consistency? Why put up with awkward cron solutions when you have a fully ACID database system right there to work with, which is portable across OSes, including ones which don't have cron?

If it helps any, don't think of it as a VCS but as an SCM system - one which includes version control.


He deliberately planned to travel via countries which were unlikely to extradite him to the US on his way to a country which offered him permanent asylum.

Do you have a suggestion for a better routing? I surely can't. How should he have gotten to Ecuador? (Which, btw, is not a US adversary.)

As for your "drop off" conjecture, we have no evidence that happened, and unless you are attached to the "Snowden was black-hearted liar" fabrication, we can all read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden where he says he did not do that, and explains why:

> In October 2013, Snowden said that before flying to Moscow, he gave all the classified documents he had obtained to journalists he met in Hong Kong and kept no copies for himself.[110] In January 2014, he told a German TV interviewer that he gave all of his information to American journalists reporting on American issues.[57] During his first American TV interview, in May 2014, Snowden said he had protected himself from Russian leverage by destroying the material he had been holding before landing in Moscow.

I take it you believe he lied, and during the last decade-plus his nefarious actions and additional secret files never leaked.

Would you care to explain the basis for your belief?


According to their docs, they have a "have high standards for overall reliability and security in the operation of a supported Identity Provider: in practice, this means that a home-grown or personal use IdP will not be eligible."

If you think your setup meets those standards, you'll need to use Microsoft (TM) GitHub (R) to contact them.


In other words, it is a clear centralization drive. No two ways about it.

PyPI is already centralized.

Back when I started with PyPI, manual upload through the web interface was the only possibility. Have they gotten rid of that?

My understanding is that "trusted publishing"[0] was meant as an additional alternative to that sort of manual processing. It was never decentralized. As I recall, the initial version only supported GitHub and (I think) GitLab.

[0] I do not trust Microsoft as an intermediary to my software distribution. I don't use Microsoft products or services, including GitHub.

Yes, this makes contacting PyPI support via GitHub impossible for me. That is one of the reasons I stopped using PyPI and instead distribute my wheels from my own web site.


npm is centralized to start with, so how is this a problem?

There are two large pharmaceutical companies named Merck, because of WWI. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_%26_Co.

> In 1887 a German-born, long-time Merck employee, Theodore Weicker, went to the United States to represent Merck Group.[8] In 1891, with $200,000 received from E. Merck, Weicker started Merck & Co., with headquarters in lower Manhattan. ...

> After the U.S. entered World War I, due to its German connections, Merck & Co. was the subject of expropriation under the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917.[10] The government seized 80 percent of the shares owned by the German parent company and sold it. ... Merck & Co. holds the trademark rights to the "Merck" name in the United States and Canada, while its former parent company retains the rights in the rest of the world; the right to use the Merck name was the subject of litigation between the two companies in 2016.


A wide body airliner doesn't carry "up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles".


It also does so in a medium where the main drag force is induced by air rather than water, which is probably a comparably significant factor


It also needs to beat up that air enough to make the resultant forces overcome gravity acting on the airliner whereas the ship just gets to float there.

Apples to orages.


Yup.

Or to structure it a the earlier comment: for comparison, it takes me about 0.000065 MWh to cycle 1 nautical mile.

That's a couple of apples.


You also aren’t doing so while carrying 2100 passengers sms 225 cars, I imagine.


Plus they are going to get very waterlogged cycling that nautical mile.


Some dedicated cyclists will cycle in any weather.




Also, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-this-is-what-hap...

> In 2008, Sears CEO Eddie Lampert decided to restructure the company according to [Ayn] Rand's principles.

> Lampert broke the company into more than 30 individual units, each with its own management and each measured separately for profit and loss. The idea was to promote competition among the units, which Lampert assumed would lead to higher profits. Instead, " ... the divisions turned against each other — and Sears and Kmart, the overarching brands, suffered."

See also the 2013 Salon article "Ayn Rand-loving CEO destroys his empire" at https://www.salon.com/2013/12/10/ayn_rand_loving_ceo_destroy...


By Ayn Rand standards, Lampert did an excellent job with Sears. He personally made over a billion in profit from his original investment.

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2bsxn8l0u5yr6z...


FWIW, I dropped my phone in the Chicago River. Crossing a drawbridge, I pulled out my phone to check the time. It slipped and fell - right into the gap in the middle. I peered through the gap to see if was there, and was able to see the splash it made.

Neither SIM nor eSIM would have helped.

In that case, I waited to get home (I didn't live in Illinois) and got a new SIM by mail.


Because pip contains decades of built-up code and lacks the people willing to work on updating it.


Are you referring to the violin plot? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_plot and in Matplotlib as https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot....

It's in essence a histogram for the distribution, with smoothing, and mirrored on each side.

It looks nice, but is not without well-deserved opposition because 1) the use of smoothing can hide the actual distribution, 2) mirroring contains no extra information, while taking up space, and implying the extra space contains information, and 3) when shown vertically, too often causes people to exclaim it looks like a vulva.

In an HN discussion on the topic, medstrom at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40766519 points to a half-violin plot at https://miro.medium.com/v2/1*J3Q4JKXa9WwJHtNaXRu-kQ.jpeg with the histogram on the left, and the half-violin on the right, which gives you a chance to see side-by-side presentation of the same data.


Histograms aren't necessarily a true depiction of the distribution. Bin count or width has a large impact on what details get shown.


Sure. Very few distributions have lovely square edges, which otherwise indicate some very high frequencies in the distribution, or quantized values.

But that also means we are used to seeing histograms and their bin count and widths in order to estimate possible variances from the true distribution;.

While it's much harder to do the same with violin plots.


You could plot the cumulative distribution function to avoid these problems with histograms.


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