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> Do c/c++ for 10 years, like the author, and then you're qualified to comment about the topic. If you're new to this, try to put your time into actually learning about these topics and not just blindly repeating other peoples opinions. Please don't say things like "c/c++ is unsafe and should not be used" without understanding it first.

I don't think you need 10 years to understand enough to be qualified to comment. Like it or not people make mistakes, even the most seasoned coders do. C does its best to turn every little oversight into a potential entry in the CVE database.

> And try to consider for a moment that a humongous part of the critical software in the world is written in it. It is the industry standard for all things embedded and low level.

That is a valid excuse to use it but it doesn't mean that shouldn't be changed. What you see quite often is people defending using C less because of leveraging the existing ecosystem but because "it's so beautifully simple" and this "experienced coder can do it right" elitism.

> This is how stupid cargo cult gets made, guys. It's easy to repeat some talking points that you found on the rust homepage or another internet forum, but doing that does not make you an enlightened programmer!

> The thing is, I'm not even saying the author is wrong (I don't think he is). I'm just saying that circulating these kinds of opinion posts here and then applauding each other for being such brilliant rust fanboys is not helpful.

Nobody talks specifically about rust here, it's just a new promising language which is designed to fit inside the territories where C/C++ are prevalent and seems to have some traction. Rust is simply a non-theoretical opportunity to shift to something better.
I would like to present to the court exhibit 1: The EU/ or UK "Cookie Laws" AKA "ePrivacy directive."

In the months before and after its implementation there was a lot of discussion around the (vast) grey areas in the laws. After some months, the internet has coalesced on answers. All sites need to implement a nag screen for unknown users, in order to get "informed consent". This consent will be stored as a cookie and users should not delete cookies, or we will have to nag you next time you visit. We will also create a cottage industry of "compliance" specialists that will help you with the language of your nag screens and TCs.

Websites got slightly more annoying. Two-bit consultants made some money. User privacy was not improved in any way.Legislation regulating the internet is tricky business.
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> I imagine this is good advice in some places, but as a line manager, if you pull this on me I'm more than likely to shake your hand and wish you luck in your new job.

A fool and his employees are soon parted.
>Mr Hancock said: "All this means that while we can enjoy the freedom of the web, the UK will have the most robust internet child protection measures of any country in the world."

This had me chuckling - I grew up in the Gulf region - they have the "nobody gets access" policy - way more robust.
Sounded odd to me, too, so I checked. Conde Nast since 2008, privately owned until then, per Wikipedia.

I think it's optimistic to suggest that Ars Technica, a site with no qualms publishing e.g. a great big steaming pile of baseless AI scaremongering under a banner photo of a movie Terminator, is concerned that being under the same umbrella as a snake oil peddler might damage its brand.

What other purpose might the mobilization of your contempt at this time serve?
1% or more is a better phrase. Add to that, if the merchant is charging higher fees then you would have to get everybody to collectively stop using credit cards at the same time, or otherwise every time you use cash you're paying extra on your purchase.
We might not be able to avoid proof of work, but we could make the work useful in some other way.

Primecoin is an example of this, where the mining process produces prime numbers which can be useful for.. something?
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One of the reasons I prefer Soundcloud is that it's trivially easy for me to enable listeners to download tracks for free.
For a large category of stuff: no it doesn't, unless it's patentable. Simply because there's no drive and funding to get it through the trials. It's "not invented here" on a societal scale.

And for a lot of alternative medicine, the hit rate is quite low; it seems there are elements of matching the treatment to the patient that the RCT has trouble with.

This is especially bad for chronic low-level conditions that conventional medicine is bad at even bothering with. Minor aches and pains, fatigue, that kind of thing.
The funniest part is you're probably right. After all to most people it's what the Internet is for.
No matter how they do verification, the scheme won't have the intended effect as there are massive numbers of non-commercial sites which make porn available, including pretty much any site that allows user generated content.

And on the other side we have a load of personal information given to a load more sites on the Internet, with all the potential for problems if/when they get hacked (e.g. Ashley Madison)
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> Call me naive

I'd call you principled. The people scrambling for free money are treating the cost to the rest of the world as an externality. They'll chime in here to say "But what about other terrible system X?", but that, I'm afraid, does not absolve them. You're all terrible!
They think audiences don't overlap.
Is this really addressed to minors? Because making identification mandatory is going to affect everybody behaviour.

It also makes a perfect excuse to control what is accessible and that could be expanded to other kinds content.

Also, it's frequently the case (I can't think of exceptions) that the people in power always try to control the sexual behaviour of others. I would like to know the reason for politic and religious authorities to be so obsessed with sex.

In other gregarious species, who can reproduce is decided by the high status individuals. Maybe is related to that.
or just going to non-commercial sites for their porn...
> How could that not be the key to happiness

Happiness isn't always about scale.
When your log file is 100GB..
Funny that the British conservative party that came up with the term "Nanny State" is literally behaving like a nanny now.
Anecdotal evidence (myself) suggests that those effects, if there is any at all, would not be significant :)

I do wonder though, how do you scientifically analyse that? Ask people if they were exposed to porn as a kid to pick your evaluation candidates? That'd be unreliable. Expose some underage people to porn (horrible) and evaluate them after tens of years? I don't think so...
> I think given the people involved, and that they are all essentially security zealots with provable records. messing this up doesn't seem likely.

Speaking as one of those people, even with driving ~2000km across Canada with the compute laptop in a faraday cage, I can assure you there's a lot of ways we could have screwed it up... See https://petertodd.org/2016/cypherpunk-desert-bus-zcash-trust... for some of them.
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When I was a teenager there always were a few used mags that we swapped or gave each other. If kids have smartphones, they'll resort to video sharing, and there are few ways to avoid it.

I'm not sure that's a good way to spend the taxpayer money.
> The developed economies were already mostly "cashless." Very little cash has run though most malls, hospitals, schools or even supermarkets for decades already.

Cash share of payments in Germany and Austria (by volume) were still >80% just a few years ago, see p.38 of https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp1685.pdf
They are having troubles blocking ThePirateBay. Good luck blocking ALL porn websites that don't implement this nonsense.
I'm talking safe as in Rust's memory safety guarantees.
This sounds silly, but the existing situation is also silly. Kids aren't allowed to go to pornographic movies in cinemas. What's the point of those restrictions, which people have been happy with for probably 100 years, when they are allowed to do all that online?

It sounds like the law should be harmonized one way or another - open everything up or close everything down, otherwise it's pointless.
without the threats

I wouldn't dispute that seeking offers before a request for raise might not go over well (depending on the specific business), but I think calling it a "threat" is needlessly weaponizing salary negotiation in a market where everyone acknowledges salaries have been flat for a long time.
How so?

It's pointless to randomly reduce the fine because he's a single person.

They get to garnish his wages forever. They get to take any inheritance or any other windfall he ever gets.
"When was Ars Technica owned by Gawker?"

Never. Parent is mistaking them for Gizmodo, or is just wrong.
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I absolutely guarantee you miss some wanted calls in cases where people don't understand your unusual rule.
In EU you have a pin and you also have to sign the receipt. In supermarkets, cards (debit or credit) queue up the checkout line.

Cash is way faster, hands down. I bothered to compare the difference once, since cards here are not the norm. We're talking between 5-10 seconds (cash register) vs 30-45 seconds, most of which are dead times (waiting for confirmation).
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Yeah, eccentric works best in english, I just translated "eclettico" from Italian, that actually means eclectic, but it is used with a slightly different meaning.

Thanks
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This is an awful piece of legislation and will pretty inevitably produce dangerous side effects whilst not in any way meeting its goals. It's a shame to see this kind of uninformed law get introduced in a supposedly advanced country.

It won't meet its aims as the targets (teenagers) are well aware of how to geo-shift their access using Proxies and VPNs and also it doesn't (AFAIK) cover non-commercial sites, so imgur, reddit etc don't count and they've got a load of porn for anyone who spends more than about 5 seconds looking.

On the flip-side there are significant downsides here. One UK adults will need to give their identifying details to commercial sites if they want access. In some cases those adults will not want it publicly known that they use those sites.

When they inevitably get hacked, we'll have an Ashley Madison style problem again with the possibility for blackmail as a result.

Also I'd imagine even more sites will mirror the content of the commercial porn sites and these less reputable sites have a rep. for hosting malware, so we'll likely see more devices gettting infected...

So far from coverage I've seen on the "mainstream" UK media, none of these issues gets a mention...
yes but if you hold cash they don't come and take 1% out of your wallet
Or perhaps the Financial Advisor was also a friend or advisor to the venture capitalist, hence if they got them a really good deal they would have solid well paid work for the next few years.
Thankfully there's absolutely no porn on peer-to-peer services.
This has probably very little to do with porn and is most likely the first step in the UK's government attempt to track more closely who is accessing what on the internet and even have the power to blacklist and make inaccessible areas of the internet they deem inappropriate or inconvenient.

The enforceability of this is hugely questionable (they have heard of VPN right?) and the societal benefit of less porn is also hard to quantify asaik. Porn is not like hard drug use, cancer or drinking-and-driving where there is a definite and significant cost to society in terms of measurable harm etc.

The UK has a lot of issues to address currently with Brexit looming, so focusing on porn could also be a 'clever; political distraction from the pending mess Brexit is shaping up to be.
I don't have a specific solution for you, but you can narrow down your search by taking into account whether something(be it a framework or component of a framework) is focused on accessibility.
Yes. Like the Bruno Mars song says "I want to be on the cover of Forbes magazine...". At one time that was a big deal.
This is also close to my experience. Improving, but not there yet. Unfortunately, it will retrigger the same job with the updated version of the resources. With other CI tools, it was possible to replay the same job, with whatever inputs they took by the time they ran, with concourse it does not seem t be possible.

A practical impact of this issue is that we cannot simply reprocess a previous deploy step, with the old artifacts and inputs in a middle of an outage.
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In a weird way it may be a good thing to teach our offspring how to deal with and work around censorship on a small, non-political scale. Also, this topic assures they learn the lesson thoroughly, both because a lot of self-interest (unlike with 'boring' politics) and because of the obvious stupidity of this censorship.
Doesn't work with robocalls though. The recording doesn't get pissed :(
Regulation, no matter what you think about it, is and will always be a great source of business opportunities.

Hard to implement? Business opportunities (aka money) don't come freely ;-)
As a general rule, you shouldn't threaten to do anything you aren't willing to do. So you shouldn't threaten to take another job offer unless you are willing to do it.

If you value staying at your existing job more than a raise then you are right, you shouldn't do this. But if you are okay with walking and talking about offer them this can be beneficial. I have even heard managers state that certain raises are not possible without another offer that they can bring to HR/whoever to prove that they need to pay someone more to retain them. Doesn't mean the manager necessarily wants to replace you, but it could be a sign of oddities within a large Corp.
AFAIK it's commercial sites only, so you're dead right this legislation has failed before they even try and implement it.
'"Placebo" doesn't do it. Not for this level of change.'

Really, why do you say that?

The placebo effect has been confirmed and measured many times, and can be very effective. Any clinical trials of new treatments must be designed account for it. Normally about one third of the control group being given sugar pills for instance will see improvements and some will be cured entirely. Theres even quite a bit of evidence suggesting the placebo effect can cause death.
Read a bit about it, its very interesting.

How is actually works is not understood afaik, but sugar pills, acupuncture, homeopathy, or just being told that something will happen by your local witch doctor can all cause the placebo effect. I think that salient fact here is that all the above fit into the same category.
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Have to ask, why are you building this in house? Most accounting packages (quicken/quickbooks/sage) have this built in already and your accounting/bookkeeping people would already be familiar with it.

Or, if you're a smaller shop, maybe something like stripe? Or even a Google Doc/Excel. They have a bunch of easy to use templates these days.

If you really have/want to build it, this architecture is simple enough that i don't think its really stack dependent. MEAN would handle front end and a diverse invoice structure; Django/Postgress have some great admin-form features and handle multi-table queries gracefully; and .NET with windows forms would make short work of a desktop UI. Just go with what you know and focus on speed.
They don't need to, because they can take the 1% out of your wallet by printing more pieces of paper with dead politicians faces on it.
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So why do the phone companies allow the number to be spoofed? Now I have not worked on phone related software for twenty odd years but back in the nineties we used ANI data provided by the phone companies to track where employees logged into work from. Being part of a guard services company with operations nationwide it was the easiest and best solution we found. Guards would call in from a phone at the location being served, enter their employee number or SSN#, and log in to out of work. It served the purpose of us knowing they were on site and enforced the requirement that guards had access to land lines at all sites increasing their safety.

So am I to understand that the phone services don't see the spoof attempt? I know its a separate information that is passed along but the number should be sacrosanct and if not from a physical location that the phone company can verify should be represented as such on the end call. The name and text I know isn't simple to deal with but none of the robo calls I am getting provide it.

I have found that waiting for the real person to pick up and asking for company name so I can report them does tend to cause the calls to drop off for awhile. Still I would prefer them to not be on my cell. they certainly do not respect any do not call list.
It's not about hitting a nerve, you are making extraordinary claims and for some reason you think other people should compile your source and disprove you instead of you showing any evidence in the first place. Why would you think that?
If you wrote it on paper, whether musical notation or just the lyrics, that would give you songwriter copyright.

If you then gave a performance and someone recorded it, the copyright in the recording would lie with them - but they would not be able to distribute it without also having your permission.

(People forget that these are different and the songwriter royalties are quite lucrative - famously e.g. the Beatles almost all the songs are joint copyright Lennon/McCartney, not the band as a whole)
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As a back-of-the-envelope calculation, cryptocurrencies are [over]valued with a market cap of ~$70bn (from https://coinmarketcap.com/) of which BTC itself constitutes just under half.

World broad money supply is estimated around $80 trillion (not including many other stores of wealth and financial instruments which are not money). So the first conclusion one could draw is that cryptocurrency is also a surprisingly high proportion of currencies in circulation, at around 0.1% (treating cryptocurrencies as equivalent to broad money and exchange values as accurate)

A second would be that cryptocurrencies which apparently use 1% of their capital value in energy per annum to function even at low transaction volumes are unlikely to be a viable long term solution to the problem of exchange.
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> This is so horribly naive that I worry about your ability to survive in life ...

Don't worry for me, I'm probably way older than you and I survived just by not fighting lost battles

They resist and then they die

I'm from Italy, I know very well what resistance to change is
Everyone around me does just that and they are literally starving with no jobs, while I'm enjoying (almost) valley level salaries, while also enjoying Italian life style.

> Even if it's a superb idea. Even if resisting might get them fired.

So you prefer to be like them and waste time convincing suicidal maniacs that you're right?

What's the point?
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Yes, structural typing of records (and variants and recursives) has been very valuable to us.

There are a couple of type constraints (ala type class constraints) that make most of this work.

There's a constraint that looks like 'r={lbl:h * t}' that decides if/how a type "r" can be broken into a head field of type "h" (with a field named "lbl", this type variable gets the field name and can be used to e.g. relate one record type to another, like for deciding structural subtyping conversion), and a successor record type "t" (this bottoms out in the unit type).

There's also a constraint "r.f::x" (or we write "r/f::x" if "f" is a type variable) which decides if/how the type "r" can be indexed by the field name "f" to determine a type "x".

(Field access can also be overloaded, and we have some pretty awesome use-cases for that, hopefully I can put up some examples of that shortly.)

So e.g. we can use the destructuring constraint to make a generic print function for all record types, like:

instance (r={lbl:h*t}, Print h, Print t) => Print r where
print x = do{putStr(lbl++":");println(recordHead(x));print(recordTail(x));}

The field access constraint makes basic function definitions trivially "duck typed". So e.g. if I write ".jimmy" (shorthand for "\x.x.jimmy" or if you prefer Haskell syntax this would be like "\x -> x.jimmy") then it will select the "jimmy" field of whatever type it is given, however that is done for that particular type.

There's a lot more to say on this point but maybe it should be turned into its own doc on the site...
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That point of view seems rather uninformed, because industrial and residential pricing of electricity, gas etc. are virtually unrelated, and the former doesn't include new extra taxes for renewables in any country I know.
> I think this is considered bad advice.

I agree, but for a different reason. Not only would this behaviour annoy your employer, but it shows that your employer doesn't care to pay you market rates or what you're worth.

So why do you keep working for people who don't pay you what you're worth?

Accept the outside offer and move on.
I want to add to that that this opens door to wholly different types of services: vending machines with no buttons to get vandalized - if zhifubao is the only payment method, it makes sense to let users to only select products on the smartphone; restaurants with no waiters - you scan QR code on your table, and make order online (quite a few of such places are out there already); and online shops that are no more than a banner or a picture of a display in a populous place
Personally, I think attacking spammers directly feels like a losing game. They're pissing in a sea of piss at this point. What I'd rather have, is more positive assurance that a call is legitimate. Spammers will try to use it too, but in the modern age with feedback systems, you could at least raise the costs and time required to match a legitimate caller, and make it easier to lose that status, too.

Same goes for "legitimate" robocalls. I don't want to take your customer surveys.
Where is all this anti porn stuff coming from in the UK? I thought as a civilization as a whole we were moving away from that medieval thinking.
Because it's major market is disenfranchised poor, alcoholics, etc, not casual drinkers who appreciate the occasional taste of fine liquor.

Take advantage not in the sense that it doesn't provide them with the product, or sells it more expensively to them, but in the sense that it feeds on their problems.