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I'm going to be honest, that seems somewhat naive and poorly thought out. Take both the rule of law and certain laws we have regarding employee rights. In many places, you can't fire someone because you don't like homosexuals and in other places you can't fire people because they have cancer. Both of these are in fact a restriction of freedom to ensure social justice, there by completely contradicting "social justice can only follow freedom". When in our society it is actually the restriction of freedom that allows social justice its place in society (at least in my example) -- and rightly so in my opinion.

I would suggest not using one-off examples that you gave if you're wanting to paint a broader picture, or use it as a basis for a set of foundational principles.

But regardless, I would like an example of what "SJW's" words and statements are being used as thought-terminating cliches in true Orwellian fashion. I'd also like to know why you consider using such terms as "SJW" to be exempt from that (presumably). If "SJW" is politics of language, and you say it arguably is, then why did you employ such terminology in a post about not employing such rhetoric?
I don't consider this a bug in TCP, it's a design mistake in the BSD socket interface.

Nevertheless your point is a good one: even old and heavily-used systems will harbor latent bugs. There are surely unfixed design problems in TCP as well!
> I've been thinking off and on about how to start a channel since it's clearly a great way to pay for kids' toys based on the one show we watched where a kid and his dad assembled a gigantic Spider-Man drivable car.

There's your self-licking ice cream clone. I wonder why it's so pleasurable to watch these kind of unboxing vids. Mirror neurons?
This looks very neatly done. Congrats.

Do you have plans for a theme engine ? I would to see a dark theme, I am using golden layout [0] for some projects.

[0] https://golden-layout.com/examples/
Yes, exactly. My argument is the opposite, if you reason from evidence that vanishes from time to time, then you will have a very hard time to build a reasonable sound argument.
Yeah it felt like a superficial reflection the author wanted to concretize in words. It certainly prompts discussion but it provides only fragile arguments.
This would be why Orwell said to break his rules rather than write something insensible. I think they're best understood as a toolbox for spotting when people are telling us certain kinds of lies. The passive voice is a tool, but it's important to look at why the writer decided to change the camera angle to avoid looking at who actually did the thing.

We certainly don't need to care about the agency for every trivial matter, but we certainly should know when clever 'camera angles' are being used by the author to hide an agent in the shadows.
What killed the trees? Was the water acidic from the CO2?
The Tigris/Euphrates basin (Mesopotamia) was flooded regularly, and given that it was a cradle of our agricultural civilization 5-10K years ago i, being an atheist who sees Jesus story as an alien visit record, read the Noah story almost as just a real ship's log :)
> I doubt that the $3000 would have covered all necessary refurbishments to last every single component another 150,000 miles. Small bits here, small bits there accumulate over time (and have even higher labour cost overhead than refurbishing everything in one go).

Depends on the car. I have 240,000 on my car, and so far the 150,000->300,000 jump is on track for about that. Tires for $500, Some AC work for $500, some brake work for $500. (I did a bunch of work myself, lets call if $500 for radiator hoses) There are some scratches that I'm ignoring but they are cosmetic. If you want to keep your car like new it will cost a lot more, but if you accept imperfections that do not hurt functionality the costs are lower.

Note, I'm assuming a good, honest mechanic. I had one quote me $4000, but the second opinion came in at $500 for the sensor and the brakes which is why the brakes were so high above - I didn't mention the other work done at the same time.
Except Lyft is on demand; I don't have to be waiting in my driveway exactly at 7:45 every morning, lest a coworker have to wait for me and hold up everyone else as well - and I'll never be held up waiting for them either.
"" is actually true in C, but that's also because it represents something in memory. Consider how C encodes strings: an empty string is a _pointer_ to a 0 (or a '\0', if you want to think of it as a char). However, the pointer (being an address) is non-zero (since the address 0 is NULL).
The problem is that a study of the correlation of wine drinking with obesity would find an inverse correlation, as people who drink wine are more likely to be affluent and thus less likely to overeat. I think that when we get down to it the obesity epidemic in the US is a consequence of people not having enough time or money to buy unprocessed foods and cook them, and not a consequence of their lack of control.
Dunkey dissects this game very succintly. As expected, generated universes are not that fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgfxo3CLdNM
Those suckers were incredibly heavy too. It felt like the chassis was made of cast iron or something.
> outside the US Academia is mostly supported by governments, not gifts

Inside the US, too. Many of our academic institutions were founded on the strength of such gifts, but that's hardly where their money comes from today.
Sounds like the next format that pandoc should support :)
What's your point? Are you saying intelligence is not a positive personality trait? Or that all people are equal? People are different, even if it isn't politically correct to say so.
I don't disagree, but maybe part of what's trying to be communicated here is that systematic study of the world is not what's happening at times.

When I say this I think of the anecdote in the article about how "intellectuals" prescribe more education as a panacea for social reform instead of the ideas offered by the author. This as a possible case of their own biases precluding a systematic approach.

As I write this, the "frankly crap" part comes to mind again. There's not much substantive here, just a bunch of opinions.
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Curious what has changed since previous submission.
The "idea of study," as you put it, is exactly what's left out of the equation. Bias is, of course, inevitable. But it makes it sound as if a sociologist studying poverty consults their "worldview" and then writes an article. That's not the way anyone does research about anything.

If someone who considers themselves a "citizen of the world" (a very old idea in Western culture, going back to the Stoics) cannot understand why anyone would hold a different opinion, they probably shouldn't be in academia. This article makes it sound like unless you're a patriot, you cannot understand patriotism; unless you're poor, you can't understand poverty; if you're educated yourself, you cannot evaluate whether education is effective. If that's the case, then academics aren't "out of touch." They're incompetent. Or else very basic ideas about epistemology are wrong.
Did the Starbound devs get their bugs and performance fixed now?

I stopped playing it after they included a game-in-game instead of making the game playable...
When I set up my Deep Learning rig I intended to run Linux, but ended up installing OS X and have had a great experience. Really no other way I could get a Mac with these kinds of specs:

Titan X, 32GB Ram, 6-core i7-5820, hot-swap SATA bays, water-cooled CPU/GPU.

Would definitely build another in the future, especially given the status of Mac Pros.
Lol'd at "(Alphabet better be careful — if things get even better, no one will work there anymore)"
What are their political narratives?
That's a whole lot of words to say almost nothing, and to confuse unrelated things (like market cap and revenue, as in: "Wall Street seems to appreciate the Alphabet structure. In the last year, the stock price has risen over a hundred points and reached a record high this year, at a market cap of almost $550 billion. These revenues virtually all come from the Google division, of course.")

[EDIT: The article has been edited to make the particular paragraph quoted above less nonsensical.]
I remember reading about this.

You are right. But to our defense: at this point we are again beyond the passive eavesdropping scenario I think we discussed above.

When you own the networking gear it is more or less game over for the victim anyway, isn't it?
Science News [1] is a small, bi-weekly publication that is much less heavy on advertising and dumbed-down articles. I have let my paper subscription lapse (along with most magazines I once took), but it is a good alternative.

1: https://www.sciencenews.org/
But the capacity (utilization) factor is potentially much higher. If a lyft driver takes 10 people to and from the train in a day, 1 car is used for 10 trips versus 10 cars and their corresponding storage costs. The variable costs might be similar, but the fixed/capital costs are much lower.

If the lyft driver picks up more than 1 person, the costs start to drop precipitously.
Title makes it sound like people are still writing extensions for PostgreSQL 1.0
> That, and the man pages were kept up to date and didn't suck.

I think OpenBSD was released on the same date and they kept the man pages up to date, too.

The sad state with documentation with any GNU/Linux distro beside GuixSD cos GNU Info, is alarming.
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Redhat was one of the first distros I used and I have the same sort of trust partly for this frivolous reason.
I disagree about the point of the first paragraph. Orwell
made a bad translation (which was Orwell's point)

"Competitive activities" sounds like it refers to artificial, structured activities made for the purpose of measuring ability, so just like you say the correlation should be strong. In those activities, people work hard to make sure the competitors don't cheat, that the rules are fair, and so on.

However, the first paragraph is not about artificial competitions but about natural, chaotic situations. It's about victory in a chaotic battle or acquiring wealth back when capitalism hadn't been invented yet. Basically it means "life is unfair, sometimes".
YES! I love that also. I can deal with power on the left but when the hell do so many device makers put the damn power on the right side where my mouse will be?! The only ports I want on the side are USB and only on the left side please.
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I think the idea is rather: get up off your chair, move away from your screen, and interact with other people. Or dont interact (your choice), but do something that takes your mind off a problem and simultaneously off the "work" aspect.

More to the point (at least in my case) is to ensure that your priorities remain ordered correctly. Basically, ensure that you spend sufficient time with family, friends or others, and make time for hobbies that don't involve code. Time management is important in this regard... committed to providing 8 hours a day? Stick strictly to that. Your own personal project? Define a time restriction on the hours spent on that project, and keep strictly to it.
You soon realize how much time those distractions during the day take up. By reducing those, your productivity increases. But importantly, relationships become stronger and those hobbies help expand your mind. Both are extremely beneficial to you and your growth as a developer...
If you have a Mac you can use AppleScript to delete things programmatically by simulating clicking in Safari.

I also found this upon a quick search, no idea if it is fully functioning: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/reset-your-facebook-account
Props to CloudFlare for putting out high-quality case studies. I consistently learn at least one new flag/command to add to the quiver every time I read one of these.
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I'm not claiming that I know anything about other people's lives. In fact I might go so far as to say that when it comes to understanding the world as a whole trying to do so by enumerating the personal experiences of all the members of the human race might not be the best way to do it. Our brains create the world for us, they tell us things and give us imperatives that even the smartest of us often don't realize. Most importantly the lie to us, all of us. Reality is not a matter of experience, when an intellectual makes a statement from his experience he is just as likely to be wrong as anyone else. What tends to set some intellectuals apart is that the occasionally apply data to a situation. I will grant you that because they do this on occasion they are far (infinitely some might argue) more likely to think that explantations that actually come from their limited (fallible) experience come from data.
When I don't lift for a few days my muscles get "itchy" and antsy until I lift again. It's a really uncomfortable feeling to stop if you lift weights regularly.
Comparing an educated crypto investment with a negative EV gambling game seems a bit too farfetched. I'm quite considerate and picky investor, and did extensive research beforehand.

I do get what you are saying, but I think this is over-simplifying things. There were a lot of interesting facts and conclusions available to be made early on about the possibilities.

Again, extremely hard to say what the odds of failure still are and were in the past. And hard to say what my stance would be had I lost the initial investment. It's easy to rationalize the investment in hindsight.
From the article:

> Although leaves of plants produce oxygen (O2) from CO2 during photosynthesis, their roots need to absorb O2 directly. The high CO2 concentrations in the soil on Mammoth Mountain are killing trees by denying their roots O2 and by interfering with nutrient uptake. In the areas of tree kill, CO2 makes up about 20 to 95% of the gas content of the soil; soil gas normally contains 1% or less CO2.
tl;dr privileged, circle-jerking elitists think they're smarter than the rest of the world and don't know what it's like to be a stupid, poor person.
Couldn't I just as easily state "the french-fry cook doesn't know anything about the life of a philosopher"?

Everybody's view of the world is limited by their own experiences. Does that mean everybody therefore misunderstands the world?
There are a few well-read would-be intellectuals stuck working at a fast food joint simply due to not knowing how to do otherwise.
The boot speed was the main reason I even considered switching full time to Fedora. I had a windows 7 dual boot. I'd tried dual booting other machines in the past, but the boot up into fedora is just so quick that I've used my windows 7 partition to do my taxes, and once get a adobe illustrator file saved as a svg so i could work with it in inkscape. That's it.
The whole project is in C, there is a planed Lua support for the future versions that can help to filter/modify records, more news about it in the incoming weeks ;)

The decision about "why C" is: flexibility, performance and adaptability (note that it was originally designed for Embedded Linux targets, but now going everywhere). In order to make things easier for output plugins, every time a set of records needs to be flushed through some output plugin, a co-routine is created so any plugin can yield/resume at any time. For example out_http, out_es and out_forward relies on network I/O, having an event loop and a coroutine associated allows to simplify the plugin development and state management: connect, write, read, etc. This model is the foundation and allow the next step to integrate scripting more smoothly. For environments without co-routines support (old compilers), a POSIX thread model exists.

What are the specific "fragility"/concerns you see in Fluentd plugin model?
Agreed! I installed it a long time ago and always forget that it's there until I run across a substitution, and can't help but chuckle. Yeah, it's sophomoric, but it makes me laugh and I like that.
Looks like the author wanted to write something, anything about Alphabet since today is the one year anniversary but there isn't much substance in here.

I would agree with some of the assertions that yes Google is still Google and Alphabet seems almost non-present but I don't know if they have finished their integration / breaking apart of groups or really much of anything. I still think Android and some of the other parts of Google should probably be split out but I have no idea if that's the best choice for them or not.

I would love some more information on the whole formation of Alphabet. This, unfortunately, is not that article.
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Not worked with them directly, but have followed the pg-hackers mailing list and they are have a bunch of contributions back to core Postgres, and have some core maintainers on staff.

They seem very open with everything they do, as opposed to EDB, which do contribute back but also have a bunch of closed source tools and their own closed source Postgres fork.
Awesome! Donated.

Daniel, who is mentioned as the person working on McCLIM, is also the maintainer of ECL[0] - a neat Common Lisp implementation with good C interop, that can be used both standalone and to e.g. replace Lua in your new video game :). He did some great work both for the ECL itself and the community, so I do believe McCLIM is in good hands.

[0] - https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/main.html
> I don't disagree, but maybe part of what's trying to be communicated here is that systematic study of the world is not what's happening at times.

If that was the problem the piece hoped to address (and it certainly is a problem in, e.g., media punditry -- though I'd argue that's not because of any general problem with "academics" but with the process by which media pundits get selected), one would expect that it would say so, and that the solution would be some better scrutiny to assure prescriptions come from systematic study, not a solution unconnected to the problem like suggesting that "every professor, opinion journalist, and foundation expert, as a condition of career advancement, had to spend a year or two working in a shopping mall, hotel, hospital, or warehouse."

EDIT: Additionally, if this was the issue, you'd expect that the author would actually support the argument with evidence from systematic study supporting the nature and source of the problem and the utility of the recommended solution.
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Yes, it's still Google. Who actually calls it Alphabet in everyday speech?
That's exactly where I stopped reading.
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Unless the hard drive holds data in the petabyte area, I think it just might be more cost effective today to use SSD. Although the SSD route might exceed the cost for the options you mentioned, SSD has other advantages including being future proof.
"...operating at a level of stealth unusual even for the normally secretive firm."

I chuckled at that. When I worked there I participated in no less than a dozen "super secret" projects. Stealth was the standard operating mode. In engineering I attributed it to the somewhat interesting way in which recognition and promotions were handed out, which was to say if someone else got word of your idea/project and executed on it more quickly they could declare victory and take the glory. So keeping things secret until success was assured was the "smart" play. And it didn't hurt than when things went south you didn't have to take the blame since nobody knew you were working on it. A win-win situation as they say.

Levy makes it sound like a big deal they were being super secret but really? I suspect it was keeping things that might, or might not, happen in the future from becoming part of the questions at a TGIF meeting.

What the re-organization has done has put a spotlight on how much Alphabet is a one trick pony. It's a good trick, and a strong pony, but it doesn't translate into other markets. And several other organizations have been training their ponies hard and are taking away that specialness.

The current road Alphabet is on doesn't seem to me to end in a happy place, so I continue to watch them to see if they will find a way to turn off it.
"1.2 cubic kilometers" is a ridiculous unit, because it obscures the cubic power on the kilometer. "1.2 billion cubic meters" would be much better.
It's here you might benefit from the book:

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness

To explain further the unique situation that mental health drugs present. You might benefit especially from the notes section, to which his citations refer.

Am I saying there is a conspiracy between psychiatrists and pharmacuetical companies? Were it only so simple! There are a myriad of complex reasons why we're in the situation we're in -- but claiming that the situation is not unique, that my discussion of my personal experience and the research behind it is somehow a 'demonization' of an otherwise unremarkable industry belies both the thesis of the article and experiences of millions of patients.
Can't you just use a faraday cage, sound matting, and add some filters on the mains power coming into the power supply and any USB/monitor cables coming out to decouple any potential crosstalk? This is a solved problem in very sensitive equipment like electron microscopes, where the smallest signal or vibration can leak (from a USB keyboard or another machine on the same power line on the other side of the building, for example) and effect the electron beam.

The other alternative would be to raise the electrical and auditory noise floor to the point where the leaked signals get lost in random noise. Then you'd have to perfectly synchronize the external sensors with the internal clocks to be able to extract any useful information.

Obviously these solutions aren't perfect (what is?) but short of placing a spatially filtered passive radar in the same room, you wouldn't get any usable information leakage.