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I am much more likely to pay attention to someone who makes at least a token effort to communicate his beliefs to human beings (including ones with very different backgrounds or values), yes. Of course. When people don't do this, it doesn't just make it harder to find common ground with them- it's evidence that they themselves are not credible or motivated by reason. The more outside the norm their message is, the more of a burden they have to figure out how to communicate that message to people who might not have the context to understand it. If they don't even make a token effort to do this, they're narcissists, not deep thinkers. Nutty people writing manifestos and going out of their way to drive away everyone who isn't 100.0% in agreement with them are a dime a dozen and generally don't make positive contributions to the world (which is fine by them, because their motivation is to write manifestos and call people out, not to make a positive difference in the world). If you truly care about this stuff, trying to prop up RMS as a spokesperson for these views is counterproductive. If you care about this stuff, you should be focused on getting better messages out there, and not even remotely concerned with trying to rationalize RMS. If anything, you should be among his harshest critics. People don't hate on RMS because they're opposed to everything he stands for, they hate on RMS because they really truly care about this stuff and he trivializes it.
Instability is profitable to rich countries. That's a well-known fact. Those bad conditions were artificially craeted by colonisers. Colonisers who still refuse to exit Africa because the only way they know how to make money is through exploiting African countries.

'The best time to buy is when there is blood on the streets' - Baron Rothschild.
Despite some occasional competition between 3+ of them, all of the large cloud providers continue to treat 1TB like it's still yuge - and something that only a for-profit enterprise willing to spend hundreds of dollars a year (or more) on storage may encounter.
I tried installing it a few months ago, and... could not get any sound. Similar experience several years ago. I'm sure I could Google and fix, but for me, it did not "just work".

Don't get me wrong. For years, ALSA was a pain. But in the last 10 years, ALSA has always "just worked" for me. I think the only time I had to fiddle with ALSA in the last decade was to get the mic on a headset to work.
It's an estimate not a fixed point. Technology is continuously changing. It's complicated.
race. race is the problem. Where've you been?
> In contrast, there is no ad hominem fallacy if someone says: "Don't believe my opponent — he has an ulterior motive, and I think he has conflicts of interest as well."

That is absolutely an ad hominem attack.

It engages a feature of the person (their motives) instead of the actual substance of the argument.
You mean it contains copies of existing Linux functions which the Grsecurity authors have edited? That makes sense. A lot of the comments here seem to be about how tightly it interfaces with Linux, which is surely a different thing.
+1

Apple (and the others) controls how much they invest in writing secure code, and how they manage the trade-offs with, for example, investment in shiny new functionality.

So when they make a security slip up and write code that contains an exploit, it's a good thing that the market punishes them.
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It's been a few months since I tried it, but I managed to get it into a state where it couldn't find a peer on my LAN via autodiscovery.

The Android client can't back up many folders on Android 5+ where Resilio can - I get write/permission errors despite having granted the app Storage permissions.

The Android client is a thin wrapper around the web UI, but doesn't expose all of the options / status messages.

I should do a side by side comparison.
is this ironic?

what's next? wondering if they have left you tube ui to chance?
Why do you think that organized crime and governments can't afford $10 million per zero day?

There are amounts that they can't afford, but those amounts would stretch Apple's wallet as well.
Support from Play has been pretty good. I've used it a few times. I have gotten one person whose English wasn't strong, but they did manage to get me a workable contact. The thing they get right, when they get it right, is that their reps have the authority to solve problems.
The Vulkan graphics pipeline isn't any different than the OpenGL graphics pipeline (or DX11/12, gnm or Metal) although the details of how commands and data are sent to the GPU change. This article is pretty high level, so it applies equally to both APIs...
The curious thing is that America is just a fraction of North America.
Good write up. This was more interesting than the article.
I suspect it's because nobody ever really has to touch launchd configurations because Macs aren't commonly used as Internet servers.
That would be absolutely unreadable if not for firefox "Reader View" feature. Picture is still unreadable, of course.
Implementing optional drm isn't the same thing as enforcing drm. There is plenty of drm free content on steam, there is no drm free content on iTunes.
It is okay. Deleting a comment after it has replies is worse than an honest misunderstanding.
You are technically correct, but unless you are building something where the technology actually doesn't matter much (e.g. a relatively simple web app where most of the business is done in the physical world), it will mostly be technical managers who best facilitate engineers meeting the objectives of the business, because they have such a huge advantage over nontechnical managers while there's nothing nontechnical managers have over them.
Shouldn't this be a Show HN since it's his own project?
Party members are definitely not noble families. When the country's mass lay off happened at the turn of the century, the party members are the first to be laid off, as examples for other people. And planned birth is more strictly enforced on party members. The party membership doesn't really bring any good unless you're already well connected.

The Chinese people work wonders because they believe they can work wonders if they work hard. This is pretty much the American Dream as I understood it. That's why I always imagined that the Chinese government has much in common, and thus can work well with a GOP government. People are urged to work hard for a better life, not relying (too much) on social securities.

It's hard to tell if democracy is fundamentally better than whatever its alternative is. You know, no offense, DT can be elected. With enough manipulation, all Chinese government heads can be elected as well, even under a democratic system.
I think the other poster sufficiently deconstructed your argument one way, but I want to point out that you haven't made any case that slavery is a red herring. Like, at all.

If this debate were taking place just prior to the civil war, there would be significant debate over whether slaves had human rights, and many making the economic case for slavery.

RMS is trying to tell you the same thing right now: that DRM is a tool that takes away some basic human rights, and instead of taking a moment to think about it, you simply dismiss it out of hand merely because you can see an economic case for it.

So take a few moments to consider the worst possible outcomes of adopting DRM, and whether history will regard the economic case for DRM as harshly as it regards the economic case for slavery.
The demand in this particular marketplace is, at times, extremely high.
I think the sentiment he's trying to capture with that description is the enthusiasm with which stories about the tech industry being hostile to women are written, and how those stories tend to cast a broad net with respect to who gets blamed.

Increasingly, this is becoming national news. I read a story about the Binary Capital fiasco in the WSJ -- a few years go it would have been in Valleywag and probably not even made Techcrunch.

The problem is the narrative that comes with these stories is overly general. Most startups hire based on merit and require hard work but have a supportive, kind-hearted culture. Yet stories run with headlines like "Why is Google still so white and male?" etc. Stories like these overlook the deeper social problems that make it less likely for women and minorities to get hooked on building technology at a young age, and focus on the idea that it's backward-thinking male managers who are causing this from the top down. In other words, the lay reader is nudged into thinking that there's some sort of boy's club and that women and minorities aren't welcome. The public is sensitized to this at present after some of the recordings of Donald Trump. We're all ready to send a mob after the next male villain.

Teo himself has invested in many female founded companies and the female founders I know who have worked with him consider him one of their most valuable sources of insight and support.
Its nothing to do with "release early and often", its gems like this that they refuse to fix over ridiculous hubris.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237

Its going to end up exactly like glibc under Drepper, where distributions are forced to have a mile of patches because obviously broken shit isn't patched because the maintainers are too arrogant to admit fault.
The flip side is that it seems very difficult to find competent coders that are both competent at and interested in managing other people.

Good coders are expensive and rare; paying an even larger premium for a good technical manager is so painful for the bean counters that they inevitably push non-technical people into that middle management role.
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Most of those statistics are total trash created by and for the domestic violence industry. It's just like the drug crime industry. Most of it is arresting people who shouldn't be. In many ways it's worse because innocent people are constantly arrested, and a man is assumed to be guilty until proven innocent in court. Either they are arrested on hearsay (if girl says it man will go to jail period), or they are arrested for something small that doesn't need police intervention (such as causing a scratch, or grabbing the spouse by their arm. Literally anything that causes any pain whatsoever is domestic violence.

Cops prefer arresting people who aren't real criminals because they are not going to put the cops life at risk.

When it comes to true real batterers, calling the police may actually lead to more death due to revenge killings. The real batterers are out of control and the wisest thing to do is just get away.

This site has some eye opening insight into the situation.

http://www.dvmen.org/dv-10.htm

Another:

http://www.pseagles.com/Feminist_Abuse_of_Domestic_Violence_...
In 10+ years of going to conferences I've seen exactly three truly great presentations (which a measure by whether or not I can still remember them, their core fact, and if they impacted my work or my own presentations in any way). One by Netflix's Casey Rosenthal, one by Hashicorp's tandem of Mitchell Hashimoto & Armon Dadgar, and one by Erlang Solutions' Iñaki Garay.

I've seen a lot of presentations over the years, and some of been good, but have been ultimately forgettable over time. Most have failed the simplest litmus test I use... does it seem like the speaker would want to sit through their own presentation? Because usually it seems like they want the audience to sit through something they themselves wouldn't want to wade through if they were in their own audience.
Yes, tech debt is a real thing, and sometimes it makes sense to pay it down.
You are forgetting about monitoring for changed files to resync those quickly.
I call that the Google myopia.

the new users of a new, sexy product, usually free, are always in awe because they really go the extra mile and have the best team working on it. that's when everyone else is looking from far away and they see that everything is perfect.

then the team gets promoted, leaves, etc. and what's left is the real Google consumer product. and that is the crap they everyone sees up close. and every problem goes to support forum hell.
Because one is a piece of crap, the other isn't
There is definitely evidence for shared adversity being helpful for bonding, but I think it's a stretch to somehow say employment is adversity.

By that logic, pretty much every interaction we have is through shared adversity.

(It's true that I've had some amount of shared adversity with all my close friends though.)
The quote here in the title is missing the vital context -- the full quote is

""And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.""
How, exactly, has systemd "broken user space"? That's clear neither from the lkml thread, nor here. I'm not sure what this discussion even has to do with systemd; and I'm not even sure how you can "break user space" from a user space program, which init is.

You might be able to modify your descendants' environment, but the rules under which that can happen are maintained and enforced by the kernel. It seems to me that if user space programs can do undesirable things, that's the fault of the kernel itself. To be sure, setting those boundaries and rules is one of the kernel's main jobs.
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Mostly the same issues as BeetleB. It purports to pump audio samples. It does not. Another moving piece in between your app and ALSA, which seems to break down inexplicably when the crap that it's abstracting "just works" with zero configuration. Many times the solution to an audio problem on linux is to get rid of pulse. Still.

Also had issues with bluetooth, as you seem to have. I will permit the idea that this is possibly unrelated (bluez is garbage, yes), but bluetooth audio was working for me previously, and only broke when pulse entered the picture.

FWIW from an API perspective I still think OSS seems better than ALSA... Linux audio seems to be a repeated case of people confusing interface with implementation, and the interface only ever gets more complex.
Can confirm - failed 1st year university maths, concentrated mostly on nothing too "computer sciencey" for the rest of my undergrad IT degree.
Refactoring as a "yellow flag" is not only dangerous, it's the opposite of how you should treat it. It's not just about cleaning up code that might not meet the bar on quality. Sometimes it's about challenging assumptions by the developer that were completely valid when they wrote the original code that aren't now through hindsight, technology changes, etc.

It's possible for a developer to write all-star top shelf code only for it to be significantly improved a year later with a few line changes. To not challenge all code, even the good stuff, is doing your codebase a disservice.
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>probably aren't able to contact the customer yourself

AKA don't have the courage to do it.
Considering how badly Americans score on their English tests, I'd say quite a few Europeans speak American English better than Americans themselves.
Stunning. Thank you, very much.
Then Google support needs to tell him that and tell him to stop doing that, and if he doesn't like it, he can get a refund and go somewhere else. Not this five month garbage runaround BS support nonsense.
Trust me I am not a hardhearted bastard but from what I have seen in the world, despite being absolute subjective ,I can tell you that the biggest problem with population is caused by religion and old beliefs. And this ain't specific to third world countries, there are enough big families (4+ kids) from certain ethnic groups in Europe/US.

Your pregnancy point is wrong though, so you say you save resources due to not having them start another pregnancy? Well the kid uses resources too and it does that at a increasing rate throughout the years. Once that kid has its own kids....you get the idea.

Unfortunately there never will be a global population control so all is left is this: upon a certain number we'll have a massive humanitarian catastrophe, most likely ending in the death of hundreds of millions due to starvation or wars. Not only will the environment suffer heavily, but once again humanity takes a step backwards towards becoming brutes again.
without any cap it doesn't look fun for the unlucky person. Take a look at my other comments on this thread, there's a link to a gist that generates an animation with the same starting conditions as OP, but forcing the person with $0 to borrow and introducing an interest rate of 10%. At some point the system destabilizes and the debt of the unlucky person goes out of control.

TIL what an economic crisis is and how it happens
Yes it is possible Caldbeck is a cunning predator who knew exactly what he could get away with and used his clout as a VC to grope and harass many women, but it's far more likely that he is not.

I'm curious, why is that "far more likely"?

At this point I don't think anyone who isn't involved in these events knows enough to say one way or another. Yet you seem pretty certain.

My first guess would be confirmation bias, given you purport to actually know Teo.
Lots of complicated explanations why this doesn't strongly tend toward being very even. Here's my attempt to state it simply.

Every round, each person (except those who are broke) definitely gives away $1. They may or may not get a dollar. They might even get more than a dollar.

So it's not surprising that some get a bit ahead and others fall a bit behind.
This has almost nothing to do with the technical problems and everything to do with the fact your support is a joke. The fact that was not addressed in your post only strengthens the argument.
If contracts weren't around in 2007, the Neo 1973 might have done better, but the price point was still high and is too high today compared to a $50 phone from amazon. Wanted one, but never got one..
Never had issues with PulseAudio in the recent times. I use Linux for all my desktop needs, including gaming. Of course if you have specific audio needs that require more realtime processing, you can for example use Jack.
Is that surprising? Effective pickup is rooted in psychology.

Sales, romantic attraction, and friendship-building ultimately use the same skill set. Humans don't change huge amounts in different contexts, and the best tactics are often cross-applicable.
Upgrading shells to fully interactive TTYs
Pretty much. I wield my blue checkmark like a CS hammer on Twitter. Works well.
Very nice. Bookmarked.
I've been happily using macOS server at home for a few months. It's not a production-ready deployment, but I haven't had any complaints.

Aside from that, using it on my personal laptops has worked surprisingly well. Once I familiarized myself with the CLI tools, I haven't had any issues.
This is fascinating. I have for a long time been the introverted socially incompetent and weird (partially) one.

A lot of that has changed for me recently. Going to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for a year now and doing more yoga has really helped me to figure out a lot of traumatic issues from the past, especially with racism during childhood.

It's really reduced my fear of socializing with people. I'm now somewhere in between extrovert and introvert and I've noticed that self-disclosure happens a lot more and interactions have improved with strangers. Even small talk happens now and then. I've always hated small talk.

I don't like the extrovert/introvert/attachment type labelling though. Reading on them or discussing them with others has some kind of effect of boxing you in to self-limiting thought patterns. It can be a good starting point to figure things out, but I implore people to not think you're stuck in your ways.
You wouldn't want a manager working in finance who didn't understand a bit about finance.

You don't want senior programmers working in finance who don't have some domain specific knowledge.

Then why is it OK for completely non-technical managers to manage programmers? I get it, management is a separate skill set, but spend some time and learn your domain.
Number of new Bitcoins a day: 2063 [1]
Transaction fees in Bitcoin: 272 [2]

So transaction fees are not insignificant.

1: https://blockchain.info/charts/total-bitcoins July 6th data
2: https://blockchain.info/charts/transaction-fees July 6th data
The customer made a decision to use a particular storage platform due to the features that are advertised. One of those features is a desktop client.

If the desktop client is failing, then he's not getting what is promised "on the box" (or in the feature set advertised on google.com).

They sell that client pretty hard btw:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/2490101?hl=en

To use the full power of Google Drive, you should install Google Drive for Mac/PC, a desktop sync client. This synchronizes any or all your files to Google Drive on the web, making them available anywhere, at any time, on any device. It also provides secure, cloud-based storage for your files.
If this methodology is overused, you will have your PM/dev team rebelling or leaving in a hurry.

That said, I can see a trimmed-down of this used as an evaluation tool for more substantial product development decisions. Ideally, these questions would be posed to a PM or dev manager and not directly to a coding team.

I also believe that the article is a good training piece for new(ish) general managers that have dev teams reporting to them. Along these lines, the listed criteria are a good thing to keep in mind for those GM's who (like me) sit in on product meetings while remaining fairly inactive.

IOW, the GM can listen-in and try to passively assess whether the team has a handle on these points. If not, address surgically and offline with the right folks.
I emailed him, and got the following response:

"Sorry - had some trouble with the domain. All good now!
Thanks for pointing it out"
There are a couple of inits in common usage on Linux; systemd is now the most popular and ships standard on the most popular distributions. I can't imagine Linus would be feeling grouchy toward a nearly defunct init (that had been in use mostly unchanged since the 90s), so we're left with systemd. Unless you've got a better idea about what he means?

It is not a secret that kernel devs have a love-hate relationship with systemd, and have for years. That's why Linus said, "You all presumably know why." He was speaking with context that everyone on the LKML already knows.

First result when I google it (but it's been a thing for a long time and on many fronts with many interesting bugs and arguments): http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY1MzA

I don't really subscribe to the "systemd is terrible and is the worst thing that ever happened to Linux" theory, and I'm not trying to be one of those folks that takes every opportunity to make a thread about how much systemd sucks. I like systemd. I mean it when I say that. But, in this case, it seems obvious it is about systemd. I have a hard time coming up with another plausible theory.

Edit: Also, now that I'm thinking about Linus and Poettering butting heads...well, that's hilarious. A couple of brilliant assholes arguing is funny to me. I dunno how much it's actually happened (and how much happened through proxies), but still. Funny.