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Getting hold of a linux machine is the easy part, between VMs and all the hardware I have, that's not a problem. Learning how to use the OS is the hard part. I did try previously but my attempts were frustrated by the lack of UI (self-discoverability) and the variety of alternative tools to solve the same problem, which also means the documentation is very fragmented. The breadth of acronyms doesn't help either.

I am sure it is just stuff to learn, and I have the feeling I will need to force myself to go all-in if I ever want to do the jump (rather than having a linux laptop on the side I never use). What I wonder is if soneone who has done it before knows of good resources to help with the process.
3549*5000 = wonder if he keep it cause it's worth like 18M today.
Perhaps he read the articles about his memo and refused to work with those media organizations that took his remarks out of context and ignored his clear statement that:

> Many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.

The Guardian misrepresented the memo, why would Damore trust them to publish the interview honestly?
>How would the raw concrete metaphor relate to UX / Web design?

I'd say it would be making the page look like bare HTML. Black on white typography. Blue anchor links. Monospace fonts (or arguably default serif font would be more raw).
> Given that there is a fair amount of incompetence in tech; that there is also a significant number of women in tech; that you are not a junior person and that men and women have similar abilities, I find this statistically implausible.

Why is this statistically implausible?

There is a fair amount of incompetence in tech; there are a significant number of women in tech; I am not junior; men and women have similar abilities; many men seek tech because it's high-status instead of because of intrinsic technical interest (Damore 2017); many men have a sexist bias towards men.

The natural statistical result is that while both competent men and competent women get hired (as they should!), incompetent men get hired much more often than incompetent women.

Is this logic flawed?

> Please consider the possibility that you have a subconscious sexist bias against men.

I am certainly considering that possibility, and I know exactly why I might have that bias if it is in fact a bias: every single person I've been frustrated at working with has been a man. I don't want to be biased, and would definitely appreciate being talked out of this, if it is in fact a bias.
I'm using polymer - so i guess that applies too.
What I personally do is have views that use global styling from bootstrap/material depending on the project, and individual views are built from components that have their own styling, that can be overriden by app-wide one whenever needed.
So far i never had problems with wrong styling caused by top level stylesheet.
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I wonder how many "git client libraries" in various languages are also impacted by this.
I tried Chocolatey a while ago. Does it still install things all over the place by default? I with it could have some sort of install prefix, I'd use it then.

Edit: it seems to have one.
> Cloudflare does support IPv6 (has since 2012), but requires that you actually set up the AAAA record

No, we don't. We operate a v6 to v4 gateway for you.
I haven't used bootstrap 4, I've actually kinda moved away from Bootstrap (which I've used in a couple production products) for Semantic-UI.
Me too.

At first blush KDB is orders of magnitude faster, especially if using a GZIP card.

But Timescale is open source and not core locked.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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But maybe we both miss a thing here. Maybe this is less about file storage and market place, but more about having an alternative way to mine cryptocurrency, which has its own value as long as speculation is ongoing. Well, maybe that's a bit obvious given the hype around the IPO.

That would mean filecoin is less about the use of decentral file storage, but more about giving people a different way to create something that looks like bitcoin that does not involve buying sold-out gpus, unlike ethereum, and storing files is more comfortable than having a gpu make noise all the time anyway.
Mining bitcoins alone is on par with Ireland for electricity consumption.
That's a rather ridiculous reductio ad absurdum.

The euro/USD exchange rate has varied between roughly 1 and 1.6 over the past 10 years. That's including the 2008 crisis.

Meanwhile over the last year alone the BTC/USD exchange rate varied between about 500 to 3400.

My 10 euro bill is extremely unlikely to suddenly massively increase or lose in value. That's the difference.
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Equating 4chan with any political movement is asinine.
SpaceX is launching a supercomputer to the International Space Station
People aren't offended at the way he presented his views but at the content of them.
Amazing that after all this time it remains inedible.
According to https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/inves... they hardly have any code yet anyway.
Go google!
Almost all linux distros that use the concept of a "release" will stay on the version numbers they originally released for. Security fixes are backported but no other functionality is imported, thereby keeping the feature set fixed to the version numbers in the original release.

If you are maintaining or developing any kind of server and services where you need an uptime guarantee above 0%, you will appreciate this. Otherwise you will need staff on standby 24/7 being ready to develop fixes for breaking backwards compatibility changes. Imagine if you had to deal with funky errors like these every minute of the day - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/36028

For Ubuntu, you should follow their "usn" security notices and you would stay informed: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/

For Debian, likewise there is a "debian-security-announce" mailing list https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/

Also for Debian, you can check up on the status for known vulnerabilities on their security tracker. For example, for this particular git exploit, you could look up https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8386
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> Some kind of cultural apocalypse? I doubt it.

I don't believe there will be a cultural apocalypse necessarily, but I am afraid there will be a gradual degradation of our culture. I'm afraid we will move away from a society that tries to be meritocratic towards one that accepts all sorts of norms so nobody gets offended. That lack of social continuity would lead to everyone walking on egg shells all the time to avoid offending everyone, thus destroying any chance of a sense of community forming.

I'm also afraid of historical wrongs committed by my grandparents being used to further legitimize racism against whites and sexism against men, simply because of "white privilege". I'm afraid of a culture forming that says they're for "diversity," "equality," and "multiculturalism" while completely suppressing any person who varies culturally in the wrong way, or who questions diversity systems that were designed in a different time when blatant racism and sexism was much more commonplace.

> Social consensus actually determines most of how we react to it.

At one time, it was a social consensus that blacks and whites were segregated. At another time, perceived socialists were pushed out of the labor pool just because of their viewpoints on what a society should be. Social consensus is a terrible metric on whether or not something is right or wrong, and people who raise legitimate questions on the current social consensus(that only seems to reflect the cultures of the east and west coasts of America, btw) shouldn't be fired or forced out of the labor pool for discussing those norms in a polite, rational manner.
Small functions are certainly more pleasant to work with in languages that support first-class function composition. Context switching is less of a problem when you can build large functions with only a couple lines of code, just by stitching together multiple small functions.

One big reason why Unix's "one thing well" philosophy works so well for Unix is the ability to chain commands together cheaply, with pipes and redirects.
> Imagine a theoretical scenario where they have 500 female applicants and 9,500 male applicants, but desperately want a 50/50 workforce.

I agree with your conclusions from these stats, but why is this theoretical scenario relevant? Do we believe that this more closely resembles the actual scenario than one where there are, say, 4,000 female applicants and 6,000 male ones?
You should look at I2P.

I fundamentally believe you should run your encryption over the network, and not try to bake it in.

RPKI and BGPSEC do need to happen but we're an eon away from it being a reality.
Can anyone tell me how they arrived at the $186m figure? Are they just multiplying the last traded price by total supply, and forgetting about market depth/slippage?

I mean, if I sell a plastic cup to someone for 10 cents, and then go produce 100 million of these plastic cups, do I have $10m in plastic cups? Or could it be that I’m unable to find 100 million buyers each willing to pay 10 cents for a cup, even though that’s the last traded price?

As far as I’m concerned, the amount of USD they’ve raised equals what they could earn by executing a limit sell order with a price of zero into the Filecoin/USD market (thus eating up all bids).
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Why aren't there more rental apps for renting personal items?

I have some DJ equipment sitting around that I would like to rent out to fellow DJ's. I did some googling, and only came up with peerrenters (which I cannot find the US App Store) and Zilok (which has no app, and is online only). Then I found frntal which seems promising. Then this article (with a clickbaity title), but has some good information on why renting personal items isn't a thing.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3050775/the-sharing-economy-is-dead-and-we-killed-it

Thoughts?
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That’s as much a vulnerability as <script> letting me pipe user input to it. Should I? Of course not. Can I? Yes. Is it a flawed feature for this reason? No.
I think this whole claiming that being a victim as a self-fulfilling prophecy is flawed. It's hard to say a trans woman who's been murdered or raped had it coming. Or to say that an effeminate gay man is responsible for the actions of those who assaulted him.

I know that might not be what you mean but that is what violent perpetrators will use when it comes to court. They'll argue they panicked or that they felt an overriding urge to murder as if they went insane. This has been the common defense tactic used in criminal cases under the gay/trans panic defense. I don't know of a case where it's been entirely successful but it has mitigated sentences. So I think I'd rather have to deal with people perceiving themselves as victims but are not truly such than deal with mountains of corpses of true victims of our inherently violent cultures.
I'm not saying there aren't users. I'm saying that it's getting absolutely mauled by its competition. Obviously it's hyperbole to say it's dead, but it's definitely dying unless it can do something drastic. It's got no redeeming features that would make me want to use it over Messenger, Messenger/Facebook Stories, or Instagram Stories. I used Snapchat myself up until its competitors were released - so did many of my friends.
My theory is that the small functions motif appeared with practitioners of languages where the function is the only tool introducing a new scope / block for variable definitions. Languages like Python or Javascript. What about Smalltalk?

In language where blocks can be introduced at will (stricter Algol descendants like Pascal/C/C++/Java) or are introduced by control structures, then the need for such rule is much less necessary, and only the harm done (friction, readability) by fragmenting and obscuring logic remains.
> Because start-ups like Google

Excuse me, what? Is Google still considered a startup?
Latency, jitter, not wanting to go via country X where national security agency Y will see it......

Mostly your right though.
A common approach we find for storing devops-related time-series data (as you'd find with influx), is to not denormalize the "labels" or "tag set" into the main metrics table.

This obviously saves significant space just by avoiding denormalization, ignoring the indexing overhead as well. You can see that in our Prometheus extension, btw:

https://github.com/timescale/pg_prometheus#user-content-norm...

Regarding performance against Influx, it really depends. We're working on releasing more complex benchmarks soon.

But overall, they have a performance edge if it's a single column scan that precisely matches their particular architecture (e.g., WHERE clause or GROUP BY by a very specific label set). But, we've found that Timescale actually gets higher query performance across a whole set of pretty natural queries (sometimes ridiculously so, as Influx doesn't index numerical values). Plus higher insert rates and full SQL. Not only is the latter point important for enabling many more types of complex queries, but it means that any viz or reporting tool that already speaks to Postgres should just work with us.
Hah, it claims that my email address is invalid, even though I've been using it for at least a decade.
The phone number is so you can get SMS notifications.
Political labels in general aren't very meaningful. But "alt-right" (as I remember it) was a more sinister term denoting support for extreme beliefs like racism, etc.
I am a 10+ years male developer and I experience all those you said below too: "Getting passed over or ignored or bullied or silenced hurts no matter what the motivating factors"

I have been bullied so much that I avoid walking through the section where a particular guy sits. I have pointed out technical issues in projects many times, nothing happened. Thinking I am not good at speaking, I started emailing them. Still I get ignored. The only time they seem to think of me is when there is some travel required that would require several weeks of stay at a hotel.

I am thinking of leaving the software profession altogether. The only reason I haven't walked out till now is the fear of unknown.
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Would you say https://www.technologyreview.com/ is brutalist design?

If so, I'd say it's one of my favourite brutalist websites!
From the section I quoted in the very comment your responded to:

"A company too far to the right may be slow to react, overly hierarchical, and untrusting of others."

Just above that he has a table of "left biases" and "right biases", and both are equal in length.

But yes, as a centrist who thinks that Google has too many left biases, he criticizes those left biases more.

Which is something else that he states explicitly:

"Only facts and reason can shed light on these biases, but when it comes to diversity and inclusion, Google’s left bias has created a politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence. This silence removes any checks against encroaching extremist and authoritarian policies. For the rest of this document, I’ll concentrate on the extreme stance that all differences in outcome are due to differential treatment and the authoritarian element that’s required to actually discriminate to create equal representation."
I bought a PlayStation 4 and couldn't be happier, and I keep Win7 around for old games.

The "new Microsoft" sucks big time, and they drive the company against the wall - Win10/WinPhone10/Xbone crash.
Does this vulnerability affect Windows? I don't even think it has an `ssh:` protocol handler.
Film nerd, want to trace inspiration between different works. Some find it useful, but I haven't bothered monetizing it in any way.

Currently reworking the scoring algorithm, will probably replace the awful UI at some point too.

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This goes for just about all "social media", and just one of the factors for my removal from them. The other being toxic communities.
TempleOS is one of the strangest projects I've ever seen, and the creator is likely a schizophrenic, but I'm incredibly impressed that he managed to make what he did all on his own. I can't claim to have made a compiler from scratch while on the run from my own hallucinations
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I think part of the problem is that there is no easy way to tell apart the two possibilities you describe, and corrective measures are not uniquely warranted when the "correct" ratio is 50/50. In fact (perhaps counter-intuitively) corrective measures are probably most warranted when one gender is better than the other. I don't mean what you might think I mean: I don't say that because the ratio ought to be brought to 50/50. What I mean is that if the "correct" ratio is, say, 60/40, you need corrective measures to make sure it does not increase.

The reason why is that this is not a problem with stable dynamics. If you know that Xs are better at Y than Zs, then upon meeting an X you will mentally assign a higher prior "competence" to them than to Z. As you evaluate them, the prior will eventually be replaced by a fair assessment of their skill, but it will never disappear completely. The end result is that at equal competence, you will hire more Xs than Zs.

Now, if, at equal competence, you hired as many Xs as Zs, you would have a ratio of 60/40. But your knowledge of this ratio gives you a prior that favors X, which means you do not do that. Instead, you will get a more skewed ratio, like 65/35. Seeing the discrepancy, Zs will believe that they are being discriminated against, and this will disincentivize them a little from pursuing Y. The Z applicants' quality will decrease, and the gap will widen. So the only way to really get the 60/40 ratio, paradoxically, would be to make sure that evaluators believe that it is 50/50... but then they might feel compelled to compensate for what they believe must be their own bias!

Anyway, it's a really complicated problem, and every side seems to be hoarding their own spherical cows about it.
The "preference" of wanting to fit in isn't unique for women, especially not in your teens. I've read a number of stories about how geeks, maybe primarily in the US, felt ostracized in high school. But even though I was a geek in high school that didn't matter much for what you did. Since playing sports, socializing and other actives were not heavily associated with school. I seem to hear plenty of stories online like "I didn't think exercise was for me, but now I've started biking, weightlifting, climbing etc". Would you say that geeks who don't do certain things in high school in the US were "self-discriminating"?
It's better to have a competent "second group" do the backport job rather than every single user of a distro having their rug pulled out under them every time they patch. New versions of software can quickly break your environment. For example, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/36028 . If you have to re-test every script and web service to ensure compatibility with the daily churn of vulnerability fixes you would get nothing done and you could almost never be sure your service is stable.
Speculation sure but I don't see how leverage can get too high with a hard limit to the number of bitcoins floating around. Not like option contracts for example where you create as many as you want out of thin air.
I can't tell if you intentionally passed over the point, but this kind of circular investing is not sustainable. If something has value only because people buy it, at some point there are going to be more people taking profit than putting new money in. That's when the price starts to fall.

If Bitcoin's price history is anything to go by, when the prices start to fall, they will fall fast and hard. At least in Bitcoin's case, there's a core value proposition that's actually worthwhile, so it's able to recover. With most of these ICOs, the core value proposition isn't actually valuable. When the price finally starts to collapse, the floor could be very low, and there may not be a recovery. See the old tokens Quarkcoin, Primecoin, and most of the rest of the top 25 altcoins from 2013
Seems really redundant/invasive for a secure communication system! How about at least making it optional??!! What if I do not trust my phone to handle such notifications? So many points I can come up with why this is a bad idea.
We found 30+ year expired food in my mother's pantry not long ago. I doubt that's particularly rare in the West.
agreed. the "brutalist websites" linked on that page aren't brutalist at all. they're just the same crap we were producing in 1995 before we knew what we were doing or had any good tools. They are almost all completely devoid of the simple practicality of brutalist architecture.
Or if you are on a fresh install of OSX or don't have git installed

brew update && brew install git
We could look at the legal definition of affirmative action that German courts considered illegal:

Affirmative Action, or illegal discrimination, is given when a company bases its hiring decisions in any way on anything but the employees merit. If age/gender/race/political beliefs/religious beliefs/etc have any influence on the hiring decision, it is illegal discrimination.

And he argues similarly, that affirmative action in any way is bad, and Google shouldn't do it - then he argues again that Google should do it, but only for the benefit of conservatives.
I can have that resolved. This is still in beta so I appreciate the feedback.
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While by and large I agree about most ICOs, I think the value proposition is a lot clearer for something like Filecoin.

Does that necessarily mean it is worth what it is valued at? No, but comparing the IPFS folks with total snake oil is a bit unfair.
But if the stuff that needs to change is abstracted, it only has to change in one place.

IMO, the point of "prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction" is that "all the stuff that needs to change" is a partially-to-totally unknown quantity. You can either guess at the time you have the minimum possible amount of knowledge (when the code is initially written) or wait and make that decision later with more evidence.

Even good tests won't save you from premature abstractions with the seams in the wrong places when a change request that cuts across them comes in; they will help as you try to disentangle multiple use cases that go through the same code paths that now need to be different, but it's still a mess. Or worse - you might not disentangle them, and wind up with "generic" code littered with 'if special_case' fragments.