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> When the government subsidizes student loans (which I think they should in order to promote an educated/skilled society) there must be cost controls on the school (no NE private school art majors costing 100k+) and underwriting on the part of both the school and the student (the student doesn't successfully complete a degree, the government gets money back), in combination with monitoring.

If the government really wants to get involved in this (which I really wish they didn't) they should build and operate more schools. Make them either at-cost, heavily subsidized, or (my preference) entirely free for anyone to attend. Forget income requirements, residency requirements, or anything else. Just make it entirely free to anyone that wants to show up and learn.

This would force the private sector to actually compete against something meaningful and that would lead to lower prices. The current system of the government handing out loans to anybody for anything is what leads to $100K 4-year tuitions.

We've already got a decent baseline of community colleges throughout the USA. If they closed off the student loan spigot and poured that same money into there we'd all be much better off. If someone wants to go to $EXPENSIVE_SCHOOL then fine, let them figure it out on their own or get the school to use their $N-billionaire dollar endowment to subsidize it.
When drug lords decapitate people, I don't call it a war crime. Just crime.

If soldiers wage war and then decapitate people (like Daesh does) then that's a war crime.
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> You can't write serious applications in vanilla JavaScript without hitting a complexity wall.

This somewhat annoys me. You can definitely do it.

Sure, it's easier, more comfortable, safer and quicker to use something like React. But you can still do some modularization that scales reasonably well without it.

I've been working on an app and spent a lot of time looking into frameworks to handle its complexity but ended up sticking to vanilla JS to keep more control, especially for detail optimizations.
This explanation reminds me of a concept in ASL (American Sign Language) called Classifiers:

https://seattlecentral.edu/faculty/baron/Summer%20Courses/AS...

They are "class" modifiers that modify different nouns in different ways.
I'm gonna pull my hair out. I saw this:

>> The researchers analyzed a diverse set of 153 galaxies, and for each one they compared the rotation speed of visible matter at any given distance from the galaxy’s center with the amount of visible matter contained within that galactic radius.

That just smelled like they think Keplers law applies (which I've been arguing against for ages) so I googled "radial acceleration relation" and found this paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05917v1.pdf
The opening paragraph is this:

>> The missing mass problem in extragalactic systems is
well established. The observed gravitational potential
cannot be explained by the stars and gas. A classic ex-
ample is that the rotation curves of disk galaxies become
approximately at (V=constant) when they should be
falling in a Keplerian fashion.

To say the gravitational pull at a given radius depends solely on the amount of matter inside that radius is utterly bogus. It is entirely dependent on the distribution of that matter. It is valid if the distribution is a uniform sphere (or a sphere of concentric layers each of uniform density) but that is not the distribution in a galaxy. Likewise, you can ignore all the matter at a larger radius IF it's distributed as a shell (or series of shells) of uniform density - but that is not the case when dealing with rings instead of shells. In my mind, this whole debate has wreaked of a misapplication of the Divergence Theorem from day one. If you thing galactic dynamics have anything to do with Kepler I have a nice bridge to sell you.
Are you sure? I think most of the port work was done by a couple of Google developers.
I don't think most therapists publish much, is the short answer. For a more meaningful answer you'd want to ask a practitioner, I would think.
Here's a perspective from having progressed into management from technical roles, managing engineers and now back to doing engineering.

My employees used to call me 'meeting attender' since that was what they saw me do day-to-day. That was a big part of it - attending meetings with other teams, departments, etc. that want work done. Then prioritizing that work, and figuring out who on the team can get it done. Distilling large bodies of work into smaller chunks is key, but leave room for implementation details to be decided by your team.

The delegation aspect is most important when transitioning. Setup a feedback loop after assigning work that is short enough to make sure an employee is on the path towards completion but not too short that you are micro-managing. Get out of their way and let them do work.

Your best bet for staying hands on is to pick tasks nobody wants to do that are not on a critical timeline (probably the opposite of what you are thinking right now). Your role's primary contribution is organizing and managing work, building relationships with other teams and your customers (internal or otherwise).

Managing engineers is a different job than engineering. Once you get a handle on delegation, coaching your team comes into play (which helps with delegation later).
>> When the government subsidizes student loans...there must be cost controls on the school (no NE private school art majors costing 100k+)

I never said that they couldn't. I said that when the government pays for student loans they should enforce price controls and underwriting of the loans.
On the plus side, people can burn the old ₹1000s now instead...
Depending on your use case, that may not be such a great idea. Unless Red Hat have back-ported it, 1.10 misses several important security advances that have come into Docker in recent versions...
Wasn't it just last year during the holidays nearly all Linode hosts were offline, for like days? I'm a DO customer and there is absolutely no way I would consider switching to Linode.
PlayOn is on sale for $50 right now: https://www.playon.tv/playlater

Browse/download any streaming service (that you have access to) easily - I love it.
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If anyone is interested, this is has been implemented in a backwards-compatible way in the latest version of python-dateutil's time zones, so it has been effectively backported to python 2.6+ and python 3.3+.

Release notes: https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil/releases/tag/2.6.0

Documentation: https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tz.html#dateutil.t...
From Wikipedia on MDMA:history (and a true story AFAIK -- go see their citations):

> Perceiving a business opportunity, Michael Clegg, the Southwest distributor for the Boston Group, started his own "Texas Group" backed financially by Texas friends. In 1981, Clegg had coined "Ecstasy" as a slang term for MDMA to increase its marketability.

Mind you, this was before it became illegal.

Much like Marijuana, that stupid (but successful) name was probably one of the main reasons it did become so popular, and then illegal, in the first place.
I have a hard time foisting the responsibility for all $108 billion onto the borrowers. There's something more at play here than personal irresponsibility.
Working from home, presenting in meetings, working in a different office, impromptu group coding sessions. I guess you could have desktop and a laptop, but that seems like overkill and you just know you'd forget to git push something from the desktop one day and be stuck.
Are there not caps on student loans in the US? In Norway student loans are given by a government body and there is a capped amount per year of studies. This effectively caps the private schools tuition too.
TL;DR: The author conflates "capitalism" with state controlled economic systems.

The author commits the cardinal philosophical sin of not defining his terms. What exactly is "postcapitalism?"

"Capitalism" is simply the description of who owns the means of production (regardless of the good). Namely that individuals without legal means of physical coercion control production rather than a state with the legal means for physical coercion. So anything that is post-capitalism by definition means that production isn't held by individuals - which is the opposite of what the author seems to be advocating for.

Markets exist irrespective of whatever the formal mechanism of trade is sanctioned by the state. So even in the most socialist/communist of systems, there exist markets. It just happens that in those systems the state has the plurality of pricing controls (ie. controlling supply and demand). In fact the more top-down controls there are in a market the more there are non-sanctioned, non-connected markets (black & grey markets as an example).

The author seems to be saying primarily that there is an increasing number of grey and black markets that are forming and being utilized because the official sanctioned markets are "failing." Ok, nothing new here really other than speed and scale.

This is how capitalism works. Markets will clear eventually, and it will probably be really bad for a lot of people. There isn't a "solution" to this. People will need to adapt to the demands of the people around them, as has always been the case.
Linode is the best hosting company for the money I've ever used. $20.00 a month earns me thousands.
An Objection to ‘The ecosystem is moving’
Why should we try to be amazing?
As some others have said, it all depends on how the debt is forgiven. If the government uses tax payer money to repay the loans, then you are correct. If the government makes universities and/or loan providers eat the cost in cases where it can be shown that they should have known the debt would not be able to be repaid, then the loan providers will not have an incentive to give out as many loans as possible to people who will be unable to repay them.

The party in the best position to know who will and won't be able to repay a particular loan is the lender, who has all the historical data and statistics about previous loans.
To further complicate matters, enter C++/CLI , the GC version of C++ present in Visual studio 2005 -> 2015
I believe the increased costs stem more from administration bloat.

For state schools in my state, capital funds for school buildings come from a different pool of money. And for any "student initiative" buildings, such as a rec center, current students vote to increase their student fees to help pay for them. Which is stupid. The are sacking their wants onto future students and increasing the costs for them with "non-education" related things. Most of these student fees are outlaid for more than 4 years. If you want a gym to workout in while a student, get a membership to an existing local fitness center. Don't force all the students to subsidize your wants.
I think Rollup already took time away from Ractive. It's really too bad, I think Ractive has some great ideas and I really enjoyed working with it. It was the best way to build web UIs I've come across. But I feel its future is uncertain so it's hard to recommend others begin using it.
No, because what I really want is a proper desktop. NOT a laptop. That's the whole point of this article.
Topaz was started in 2011, completed in 2014. There have been double digit percentage cost efficiency improvements in solar with every year that has passed in that range. You're comparing apples to oranges.
>mainly targets people with debt who can't pay it back - like people who are seriously disabled and can't get a job - you would likely be subsidizing people less privileged than you, which is a good thing.

So if I become disabled, will you be paying my mortgage?
> Why on earth would I restrict myself to a stationary computer when I can have a portable one that I can take everywhere I want with no hassle?

A couple of reasons come to mind.

1) Price and value. With the exception of all-in-ones and the 2013 Mac Pro, desktop computers can be upgraded, repaired, and you get a lot more for what you pay than a laptop. Also a desktop machine usually lasts a lot longer than a laptop.

2) Flexibility. Laptops are now more than ever closed systems with soldered parts. Which means that (like an iPad) you don't usually have many options available.

3) Power. This is an obvious one, but to get performance you still need a huge laptop or a desktop.

I recon none of these points will make much sense if you absolutely need mobility, but as someone that has both a desktop and laptop I see value in both form factors.
In the past, I used virtual-dom. It works fine, but it's discontinued and doesn't address the problem of encapsulated component state. Now using this: https://github.com/AlexGalays/kaiju/
Mullvad
What's unjustified about the statement they issued?
I think it's one of those things that makes short-term economic sense but can break a key feedback loop that leads you into long-term economic danger.

It's sort of like the software industry dynamic of having a QA department. In some places, you have QA and they catch the occasional bug. The engineers take that seriously, work hard to improve, and avoid having the same kind of bug again. But in other places with QA, QA is expected to catch the bugs, so engineers just throw stuff over the wall. In places without QA at all, most engineering groups learn to self-manage quality, because when they don't they feel the pain.

In effect, QA breaks the feedback loop between making a bug and organizational pain, meaning that the upstream organization loses its incentive to get and keep its shit together. This can happen in Hollywood, too, with "fix it in post"; people get sloppy.

So my concern is that yielding to the short-term economic imperative could lead to an undisciplined hardware organization. Then you get long-term economic harm because you waste a lot of resources (and worse, lengthen your cycle time) due to having to fix a bunch of stuff in software. And that lack of discipline eventually leads to quality issues that you can't fix in post, or don't fix in post because they're too busy chasing obvious bugs to catch the subtle ones.
Correct. Almost everyone I meet who is hanging her own shingle, or promoting a startup, uses moo.com for business cards etc.
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That’s kind of inevitable, considering that the website is pretending it’s being displayed on a Newton MessagePad 2100, which was made back in 1997¹.

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¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePad#Newton_device_model...
I meant DNS.
"A lot of the recent anger and anti-establishment sentiment seems to be centered around jobs disappearing. That collective anger is easy to exploit - savvy leaders and politicians can direct it toward things like immigrants and outsourcing, because I think it is easier for people to conceptualize their job disappearing because another person took it, rather than disappearing because it was automated."

It's easier to manufacture consent for trade agreements and austerity if you can convince people that a robot took their job instead of a Chinese or Mexican worker and that fighting back would be pointless.

"outsourcing to a low cost country are contributing factors right now, but they're becoming less so as technology becomes less expensive"

If the last time 95% of (agricultural) jobs were automated and it didn't end up causing 95% unemployment I can see reason to be skeptical of this idea.

I can definitely see why our ruling classes would like us to feel insecure about our jobs and powerless to fight the various trade agreements and austerian measures which hurt us, though.

Beware the magic robots!
My wife is a mental health worker - a therapist - who works with people with severe needs. The jobs in her field are almost always state funded either via the criminal justice system or counties providing services for adults with severe and persistent mental illness. Therapists get paid less than a fast food restaurant manager and many times and have student loan debts that quite large compared to the expected earnings. In my mind, this sort of work is exactly why the public service 10 year program was created and is a form of the Federal government subsidizing the state government efforts to care for the least and the last.
Do you think that technology has the potential to take the power away from politicians and companies and put it back in the hands of the people?

I'm by no means a technological utopian. But it would be nice if we could develop to the point where technology helps make things like health care inexpensive enough that we don't have to ask questions about whether it is a right. It'll just be something that everyone has access to, and it would seem weird to think otherwise. Of course, right now the primary reason for people and companies have for developing that kind of technology is the potential for a financial return. I'd personally work for less money for an organization with a goal like making health care, or clean water, etc. available to everyone at low cost. But I'm not sure how such an organization would compete against the massive corporate incumbents in those fields.

Along those lines, cheap and powerful technology can also be used be groups who are already powerful (mainly large corporations and governments) to consolidate their power. I think we're already seeing that happen.
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Also, government should not subsidize zero-sum games. More people go to college and suddenly a college degree is not a comparative advantage anymore, it becomes a baseline. Nobody benefits.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidies...
This should be possible and fairly easy to do, I guess - it's just forward and backward pass with your favorite model through the net and collect the loss for all octaves. You will have to port a few image utility functions (like roll, zoom, etc.) if not available. I ported the basic Deep Dream example to JavaScript [1] and it was not that difficult.

When looking through the code I saw that BP for LRN is not implemented yet, so you cannot pick a model using LRN (or you have to implement it).

[1] https://github.com/chaosmail/caffejs/blob/master/docs/assets...
Piping to jq and sed is just fine. I'm not sure where sh comes into this...
The headline is somewhat clickbaity and sensational.

Yes, it is bad that there are clerical errors in justice system.

But, if information is lost due to faulty software or user errors or even user error helped by bad UI design, it's still fundamentally just a clerical error. Those errors should be fixed and perhaps some people should be eligible for compensation for being mistreated due to error, but there is no sinister "software is putting people in jail" plan here. Just errors.

Embarrassing ones that should be fixed at a priority.
They said it wasn't going to be available for every title yet.
Right so you have a few options there. 1 being getting rid of the incentive to work for a non-profit or another being to increase the size and number of medical schools. I know which one I'd prefer.
Are these consenting adults going to accidentally harm/kill other non-consenting adults/children when they decide they can drive a car, for example?

If yes -> that's what some people have reservations not necessarily about legalizing drugs, but about making them more accessible (i.e. buy it at CVS or a gas station)

If no - > what about alcohol? That's a legal drug that impairs people and even though driving drunk is illegal, it doesn't stop thousands of people from doing it and killing tens of thousands per year
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Too bad they couldn't make it a chrome extension or something at least
> If the government really wants to get involved in this (which I really wish they didn't) they should build and operate more schools. Make them either at-cost, heavily subsidized, or (my preference) entirely free for anyone to attend. Forget income requirements, residency requirements, or anything else. Just make it entirely free to anyone that wants to show up and learn.

By financing loans, aren't they already trying to do this? Building and operating more schools just adds more cost.

IMO, when you have a functioning government, this is what makes a single payer system (like is often seen in healthcare) so great. If schools can't come to a reasonable price/agreement with the single payer, they don't get paid. And it also leverages a central tenant of Capitalism... there's always someone out there willing to work for less.

I know people see this as a bad word, but if we leveraged the best of both Socialism and Capitalism in situations like these we would be better off.
docker - rock-solid - v1.10 there is something odd in that sentence.
What's Upcloud?
You can if everyone in the team is at least pretty good
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It might be a good proxy for quality. A company that used such devices, that they made, would almost certainly have a problem with the eye-melting brightness of the LEDs. A good company would be expected to correct it.
pkg_add -Uu won't address a single update under https://www.openbsd.org/errata.html , i.e. the very most important ones.

Also as far as I know pkg_add still doesn't know about restarting services, so vulnerable processes will be left running.
The idea is to not change the window size at all from the default. If this advice is followed, you minimize the possible information leak. In your example, 1583x1176 tells us that your system is capable of rendering at least that size. Given the unusual numbers, we further suspect you're not maximized on a system capable of an 1176px tall browser (much fewer of those than 1920x1080). While not uniquely identifying, it's a piece of the puzzle.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7255
> Why on earth would I restrict myself to a stationary computer when I can have a portable one that I can take everywhere I want with no hassle?

I don't see this mentioned often but the ergonomics of a laptop are rather poor, you'll end up with RSI much quicker that with a desktop. And this can become quite debilitating.

I don't think this is an issue for a couple of hours usage a day, but I would not want to spend all my computer time on a cramped keyboard with my head down.
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That reasoning quickly falls apart when you throw a cache in front of your backend.
I'm not sure what you're advocating for. Most of what you're doing in React/Angular is exactly that -- grabbing data from the backend and displaying it in some view, then handling interactions. If you're building an application and not just a website there's not really any other option.
"The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer." — Cunningham's Law

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham's_Law

:)
IMO go is all about simplicity with a decent stdlib. Fast, single binary to distribute... Can't go wrong really.
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I have blue, red, white, green power LEDs pointing at me now. Green is my preference for fully powered on indication.
The glibc runtime required files is about 4MB total (uncompressed): libc, libm, libdl, ld.so (the runtime linker), libnss*, libcrypt, libidn, libpthread, librt, libresolv, and a few others.

The gcc runtime files by comparison are 12MB total (uncompressed): libstdc++ (7MB), libgcc_s (0.5MB), libasan (optional; 4.5MB).
Capitalism is not dyying. Capitalism without state intervention, one person to another, is the most pure form of capitalism.
How is this substantially different from Backbone/Marionette? I feel like we're regressing.
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