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It's funny how so many Liberal minded types are overrunning Iceland gushing about how beautiful and stark the landscape is, when in reality they don't realize they are admiring just another devastated landscape of Europe. It's a general bias Europeans heavily have as they laud the beauty and natural state of Europe, while there is really not a single natural old growth forest anywhere on the whole continent and most "natural" forests are planted as is usually, easily indicated by the trees that are evenly spaced and generally lined up even in "old" forests.

In reality Europe is a landscaped stripped of snakes, barren of bears and wolves and deer and other fauna, while the forests and meadows are all artificial and man made.

The reason I point this out is that when you can start suspending prior conditioning, you can start realizing this bias that has led to the self-righteousness of Europeans, environmentalists, and the social justice warriors that are ravaging the civilized world.

Humans are a cluster of biases, ignorance, and blind spots; yes especially in the tech community that has a supremacist and self-righteous mentality about just about everything as it decimates the very society and culture that allowed it to emerge.
when a consortium of other state leaders can meet to enact legislation that is binding on my country it is not sovereignty, even if my leaders have a vote..

I understand this is by treaty currently so your points tsnds; my argument is that creating standing armed bodies such as this is a step down the path to a change in such arrangements (as basically all of history will demonstrate)...
Please keep in mind that RHEL / Centos 7 has changed the default firewall from iptables to firewalld.
English would be "mong". Probably because we got lazy with our abusive terms in the 70s and 80s.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mong#English
(Etymology 3)
Scratched that itch of mine for bash/zsh in 30 lines[0]. kd stands for quicKDir or worKDir depending on the moon.

kd foobar ~/Workspace/foobar # define bookmark
cd ~/some/where
kd foobar # goes to bookmark
kd foo # matches on string prefix, last entry wins

cd ~/Workspace/quuuuuux
kd qux "$PWD" # quick bookmark current dir

touch Gemfile # define project root
cd app/controllers/name/space/whatevs
kd # goes to project root

Turns out autojump doesn't work for me, too many projects in parallel. Since this one is manual, it can be very semantic. Those 30 lines saved me hours on end of tab mashing, especially in Go workspaces.

[0]: https://github.com/lloeki/dotfiles/blob/master/shell/kd
Which does not describe U Chicago...
JavaEE and Java are two completely different things. I don't know if too many people are shedding actual tears over JavaEE, but divesting from its management does indicate that Oracle plans to commit fewer resources to improving the standard and the reference implementations.
This is one of the coolest articles I've ever seen. The subtle high-res videos are a really great complement to the content.
Yeah, thanks to put call parity a covered call and a naked put are basically the same thing. (I wonder if it's in some more general sense similar-ish to lending out your long equity to short sellers?)

Having said all that, I'm an indexer at heart, and working for Bloomberg I'm not even allowed to trade the more interesting stuff.
Seriously, doing bulk emailing you find that mail services are often the dustiest, cobwebbiest things on the internet. I swear some of these things have been sitting untouched for literal decades.
That, or it could lead to well architected code that changes according to its requirements. YMMV.

The one thing that does never work is blindly following dogma.
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To be fair, Windows used MS DOS as a bootloader for decades.
In Zeal, typing "javas" and pressing tab causes it to autocomplete "javascript: " for me. Is this what you're referring to?
apart from megacorps where they seem to be universal

So factor out a huge part of the job market?

SV startups are a small percentage of the overall tech world. Legions of programmers are hired in traditional companies in finance, energy, tech, aerospace... And on and on and on.

And in most of those organizations, titles are common.

Moreover, regional cultural differences greatly affect the value of a title. A person in California or Colorado often sees titles differently than someone in New York or Boston. And many cultures outside the US often view titles as extremely important as an outward measure of success.
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No clear answers unfortunately..

Increased effort to fight corruption on a local level and dismantle the tax loopholes which facillitate such things would probably be the right path..
I agree. I thought this was a great article and don't have much to add. Is there any evidence there is vote rigging in action here.
This is correct. At Berkeley the GSIs are unionized at the GSRs are not. As recently as two years ago they tried to organise the GSRs and as far as I know it was voted down. GSRships tend to skew towards STEM and there seems to be little interest among the GSRs themselves in worker protections. Most of them arrive knowing they're there to work their asses off for little pay in return for a better life down the road. It's a very different mentality than in the humanities.
For what it's worth, I enjoyed the article.

Most start-ups aren't solving any huge problems, and sometimes market inefficiencies are there for a reason (see all the start-ups involving the field of law, for example).

Even for the ones that are solving a big problem (that people are willing to pay for), it's very uncommon to have no competitors.

So typically the way to make a successful company is to be better than your competitors, and the way you do that is through customer support, UX, etc.

So to your credit, I think for most start-up founders this is the way to move forward. But it's definitely a bit of a sunk cost fallacy - it's really hard to admit your idea will never be successful and to start over from scratch.

It's easier, and has more obvious ways to measure success, to adjust relatively minor things.
I'm the original author of DotNetAnywhere.

For all its flaws (and there are quite a few) it was a very interesting learning exercise, and it worked better than I ever really expected ;)

I don't really intend to ever do any more work on it, especially now that there are open source "real" implementations.
But it's been nice to see it used in Blazor :)

If you have any questions about it, please ask.
I started using Mastodon a few months ago, "just to see", and found great people to interact to there. And these days I'm using Twitter less and less.

Looking back, I feel like the short-messages limit is fueling flaming statements rather than good discussions. I also see how constant enabled-by-default notifications and dark patterns made me addicted to new tweets ; on Mastodon I feel less pressure to keep up with the feed constantly.

Also, the project grew from a few to 100+ contributors in a few weeks, and apparently managed this transition quite smoothly. Development is ongoing at a steady pace, including new features and major architectural changes. Congrats to the team and contributors!
> Yes, you're more or less correct. However, as someone who ditched Twitter for Mastodon, I don't miss Twitter. There's a vibrant community on Mastodon and you'll feel right at home.

I tried to quit twitter for Mastodon (because it felt more like an open effort than a facebook-esque megacorp) but I was immediately confused by the distributed thing. I thought it was going to be distributed in terms of how it operated, not in terms of the actual social networks being more or less separated. I understood I could follow people from other instances, but only if the instance was somehow connected to the other instance. This confused me even more. How do I pick an instance without ever running into the risk that interesting person X joins in the future and doesn't pick an instance disconnected from the group of instances I'm in?

Basically I just use twitter for news: I follow some big names and organizations and just read from the firehose of news coming out. I probably have a lower than 1/10000 read to write ratio.

Am I trying to use Mastodon like Twitter in a way it wasn't designed for?
As straightforward as mastodon is to setup currently on a server, my hope is that future versions are so very simple, and include plenty of automation, that even non-techies could setup and operate their single-user instance. Basically like installing SIMPLE software on a conventional desktop. And, that's not a simple task...but if/when that's done, then the barrier to entry and use will be low enough to allow for floods of users - arriving on their own single-user instance/server - to join the network.

So, for now, yeah it takes a little work in setting up your own single-user instance, but as another person posted already, mastodon supports that mode. Like all homesteading, it takes a little elbow grease. ;-) Cheers!
Mac book/iPhone, unfortunately.

I use them more than anything else.
It's good and all, but I'm not sure that this will give much better results. Investing this amount of money in old ed system will give the same output.
That's not an example of smart money.
P.S. I don't want to be hater or something but I think that he could do much more with his resources. Maybe something like Ad Astra of Elon Musk.
Rustc does, but it doesn't appear to me that holyjit does, that is https://github.com/nbp/holyjit/blob/master/lib/src/compile.r... and https://github.com/nbp/holyjit/blob/master/lib/src/lib.rs#L1...

Basically, it seems (and I haven't fully digested the code yet) that it uses https://crates.io/crates/dynasmrt for codegen.
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I used the automatic reporting tool. Reproduction is simple. Run firefox on NV44 (Ben used to have one. I have a spare with less RAM if anyone cares about nouveau on that any more). Bring up cookie clicker in the browser and let it run for a bit. It will crash.

More recently gnome crashes right after login, but then doesn't when I login a second time. I don't think the automatic reporting is working for this one.

I figure at this point I'll let it slide until I upgrade and then get more vigilant about reporting problems. Unfortunately the auto-upgrade didn't work for me this time, so I'll reinstall 26 or 27 from scratch.
With the death of Google Reader, I completely stopped reading feeds. It killed a part of the internet for me.
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> How is that doing any good to the female image, seriously ?

It's not actually about “the female image” at all. The ”say something” thing is, to the extent it's about gender image at all, about the male image, particularly what is normalized by and for men.

It's about the fact that a culture wherein for many male gender image involves disregard for female agency, consent, and concern is unlikely to be changed as effectively if the only condemnation of the manifestations of that attitude come from the people whom it disregards.
I admire how mozilla is so passionate about what they develop but still, in 2017, firefox needs restart every couple of hours for performance reasons. I kinda of feel like they have the proof of concept working but its never good enough for the wider audience.
This isn't a browser.
For reasons I won't go into the farming lobby is really strong in Iceland.

Sheep run free-range around the entire island, if you'd like to grow something that sheep like to eat you need to fence it in. It's not like pretty much anywhere else in the western world where people who own grazing animals need to fence them in.

Thus the sheep range far and wide and destroy Iceland's native low-lying forests. Iceland's native crooked birch hasn't developed resistance to grazing animals as mainland trees had to do, the sheep love to nibble at them and eat the seedlings.

The native trees and other native vegetation are generally much hardier than the foreign plants. But since the forestry service has lost the battle with the farming lobby they're desperately trying to introduce some trees that the sheep won't eat.

Reforesting the country is largely being done through subsidies to farmers, who aren't concerned with topsoil preservation beyond maintaining the desolate landscape they inherited, but they are interested in the eventual promise of a commercial forest on their land.

Which is something to keep in mind when reading articles like these and wondering "why don't they...", usually the answer is that they're planting in a field that's going to be full of grazing animals, and there's no way the forestry service is going to win that battle anytime soon, or that they're not really aiming to restore the topsoil per-se, but to do that as a side-effect of commercial logging.

This page has some more details: http://www.skogur.is/english/forestry-in-a-treeless-land/
Ah interesting, thanks! I'll be more explicit about "in English" next time.
Or North Korea, or Mao's China, or Pol Pot's Cambodia, or...

Until all the necessities are 100% automated there are only two options to motivate people to produce those necessities: through force, or through self-interest. The list above is where they tried force. Maybe it's not a natural law that such a system has so far always failed, but it's not a mystery either.
Battery life for one. I would happily take a cheaper smaller music player many places I wouldn't take my phone, as its more important that I don't loose or damage the phone. Plus I found the default Andorid music player a mess to use. No idea where teh files are stored on the device. I wanted to move music from main memory to the SD card i added later. Way more effort than it was worth.

My Sansa Clip years ago was a far better device for music and survived the washing machine a couple of times.
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> The plain email—which took no time to design or code—was opened by more recipients...

That's interesting. I wonder how this would have any effect on opening an email. In my mail clients on mobile and desktop, I cannot tell if an email is styled or not just by looking at the list of messages in my inbox. I have to actually open it to see if it's styled.
It does not satisfy all of the items on the author's wish list, but I have used and enjoyed Bazel[1] as perhaps the nearest build system in existence that provides a notion of package management to C++. It does not hold prebuilt binaries to satisfy dependencies. But it does cache builds.

Nor does Bazel use C++ syntax to describe the build, instead using a variant of Python called Skylark, but this feels (to me) much less onerous to pick up than the custom scripting language CMake uses.

Bazel also provides a notion of visibility of dependencies that allow you in effect to control which build targets are exposed to other targets as allowed dependencies. And allows the build tool to specify a toolchain (compiler, linker, etc.) and machine architecture. This information is used when building all the dependencies, which in effect satisfies the author's request for compatibility between packages. You might even argue that a (caching) build from source may be better than attempting to serve prebuilt binaries.

[1] https://bazel.build
It's just too narrow. 1200 lines is the bare minimum for my comfort.
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> If everyone started sending marketing emails like this, then they would start looking like advertisements

I’m not sure they would. They’d look more like 'normal' emails. Very few people, in my experience, apply any formatting to their personal emails whatsoever, let alone go to great efforts designing a layout, colour scheme, etc. Currently, 'html email' is almost a euphemism for 'advert'; plain text emails are more like product placement in that they blend in with the 'real' content.
C'est la langue la plus difficile, plus difficile en fait, que l'Allemand et l'Arabe. N'est-ce pas?
> So factor out a huge part of the job market?

I was just trying to exclude them from my question. I realize megacorps in all countries and all industries have titles. So they aren't interesting for my question.

> And in most of those organizations, titles are common.

I'm in a very traditional business and I don't have a title, or know many developers that do in small/medium organizations. Hence my question.

> the question you pose just illustrates how cloistered you may be.

I imagine I am. Hence the question.
True, but at least in the general case you control your adjacent VMs.
> The second is entirely the underwriter's problem. A company only IPOs once; there's no reason for them to take a hit to help the underwriter and friends make money for no reason. The underwriter takes a cut and a fee regardless.

Think of it as an additional cost of underwriting just broken out in a weird way and it might be more palatable.

If you want a lot of interest in your IPO then you probably need underwriters with big institutional relationships. The underwriters with the best relationships are going to be the ones who help their clients get good returns. You're just paying for better underwriters by losing part of the pop instead of paying them fees directly.

Companies are free to go to smaller underwriters in exchange for an IPO price that's closer to what the underwriter thinks the market will bear. And yet most of them choose not to.

Given that almost every IPO has a pop, what do you think is most likely

* CEOs & VCs taking their companies public don't realize that they are leaving money on the table by underpricing the IPO. You have two groups of sophisticated finance people and the underwriting side always manages to fleece the company going public.

* There are structural reasons and incentives for creating an IPO pop

You can't even accuse people of trying to fleece the low-level employees and retail investors. The employees are locked up either way and whether you have a pop or not, by the time the shares reach the retail investors they're the same price either way.
Have you tried the 57 beta?
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Same. I upvote all the time but rarely comment.
No one anywhere else gets to count hours being educated as hours worked, so that isn't a fair comparison. Also, if you were to pay for the degree out of pocket, then you are looking at something in the realm of $40-50k / year. That would be $60-75k / year pre-tax. Add a stipend onto that that provides basic necessities of room, board, insurance, and money for necessities like clothes, and you easily reach into the realm of $100k total compensation for someone in this field.

There is a lot of work to be done, but there are many people who work 80 hrs/week to be paid < $100k / year.

I'd love to see the numbers on what the all in dollar value of benefits provided to the students is, as I think that would shift the opinion of quite a few people here.
What's your point?

By the way, there are some very old forests still in Europe, I don't know if it makes them any better than ones that are only a hundred years old.
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Have you, by chance, read the "Three Body Problem" and its two sequels? I don't want to spoil anything if you haven't, but it addresses these questions and that possibility in particular.
> But we couldn't. In general, SETI couldn't even detect such a civilization even if it was in the star system closest to earth.

Your quote relies on us detecting re-runs of "I Love Lzcwwdrrr", but our telescopes can reliably do spectrographic analysis of faraway stars and planets these days. We'd likely be able to detect things like unnaturally high levels of hydrocarbons in otherwise oxygen-full atmospheres, and other industrial by-products.

If Alpha Centauri had a planet with an industrial civilization, we might be able to spot city lights.
In class there are at least 30 out of 40 people using Firefox on Ubuntu with no such issues. On my laptop I use Firefox on Debian with no such issues. Also previously on Windows XP, 7 or 8, both in virtual machines and on hardware, I never had such issues, but that's a while ago so not really applicable anymore.

You might want to submit a bug with your specific hardware to see if anyone can identify the cause, because that's not normal.
you can start realizing this bias that has led to the self-righteousness of Europeans, environmentalists, and the social justice warriors that are ravaging the civilized world

Well that was a bit of a stretch to make a political point.
Is ECC memory enough to counter this?
Going in to academia is always on my mind because I would love to be on the cutting edge of research, but I can never justify leaving my job to work twice as hard and get paid 4x less.

It's a shame that you need to be rich to continue your education past a point, but it just doesn't make sense to keep going.
As far as I understand the terminology, "bachelor" matches "undergrad student" and "master" matches "grad student". Is that right?

So this bachelor and master was just combined in one single 5-year program in my case.

Research, being teaching assistant, and writing papers was done by those who went for a PhD at my university, that is, after those 5 years, those who chose to do a PhD after receiving your master diploma.

Do you think it says something about the quality of the university, when master students were not teaching/writing papers/doing research, but simply doing exams as usual...? (Ok there was the thesis in the last year, but that was really more like a larger final project)

Most top universities in the world are indeed not in Europe, but in my country at least is was considered a good one.
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In my Walmart the meal kits are usually near the refrigerated meats or in the produce section. They have things like pot roast, meatloaf, spaghetti, salad kits, soup kits, etc. I've seen a few extra soup kits near the canned soup and/or near spices. At my Publix they have some area where they give out free samples of a meal idea now and then, and there is a fridge next to the booth that has the ingredients to make the sample meal and a recipe card. There isn't even an upcharge for that. And I live in a smaller town.

Personally I just look on allrecipes for something that looks good and follow the directions.
I don't know how I would have access to food, shelter, and healthcare if I decided to stop working and spend the rest of my life doing recreational engineering. Post-scarcity requires automation to the point that the cost of survival becomes a rounding error on the rest of the economy. When it's possible to survive without engaging in trade (or spending the majority of your life gathering food and shelter from raw materials), we'll be in a post-scarcity economy (and I will be first in line to take the offer).
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I recommend https://github.com/clvv/fasd It basically makes bookmarks automatically as you navigate your filesystem anyway.
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I thought one of the points of WebAssembly was to not create a second VM. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Concept...

> With the advent of WebAssembly appearing in browsers, the virtual machine that we talked about earlier will now load and run two types of code — JavaScript AND WebAssembly.
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This is either hyperbole or an example of the university punishing unionization, because I know of at least a half dozen unionized universities where grad students do get those benefits.