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that's this guy https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workwe...
Exactly, it's not like he can walk in and just let everyone go.
It’s all relative. You own a cheaper house now so if prices went down your absolute loss in selling would be less than someone who sells a house that’s worth let’s say 10x more than yours, maybe the next house you want to buy. Also, not everyone is in the market for a new house in the 10 years, so sure you want houses to be cheap because you’re going to be buying, but it would be the opposite if you were looking to downsize. Home prices going up means personal net worths going up - most people like that.
The article does say gender discrimination and foreign discrimination but it doesn't mention racial discrimination.
If i want everyone else to limit himself in ressource consumption, want myself to face no such limits and want to escape any harassment and responsiblity for the limitation i inflicted, what ideology does everyone recommend?
To avoid lawsuits from rejected students? I foresee a few of those in their future.
I did most of this in Access.

Also, I wasn't allowed to install version control of any sort, so that's really the bigger problem.
If you prefer to live in wide open spaces, then move to a place that's conducive to that life style

Many people did exactly that, back when the Bay was half orchards and no one knew tech was going to explode.
> hypocrisy

that is just the PR side of things. you also have to think of the students.

Stanford lied to potential students and told them that they did not offer merit based scholarships thus inducing them to pay full price. That is an intentional misrepresentation of fact for financial gain on Stanford's part at the expense of students who paid full price.
Why is the idea of a meritocracy pushed in the US? For the same reasons.

If you can convince the people who are getting fleeced that their situation is because they haven’t worked hard enough, they won’t struggle when you steal the coat off their back.
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If you want to look at it that way, all of human civilization is a giant Ponzi scheme. Exponential growth cannot be sustained indefinitely on a finite planet, or even in a finite universe.
Sure, why not? The objective is "trustless, scalable, secure", not "using the blockchain at all costs".
What WiFi problems would those be? I'm sitting on Sierra for now, but my laptop has been refusing to connect to a network automatically 95% of the time on wake. Now I'm wondering if it's worth braving High Sierra for a fix to it.
That is perfect description of what happens.

The other quote I had was every 5-10 years management gets the idea to either outsource or insource to save money. Just switch back and forth every time you get a new CEO.
Two others: They are big, and they are expensive. That makes owning a 3D printer something that still doesn't make a lot of economic sense for me. I'm not certain it ever will.

I'm waiting for the equivalent of a Kinko's for 3D printing. That will make 3D printing much more accessible to me, and I assume it would also get me access to 3D printers that can do much higher quality work than the at-home models are capable of.
ssh2-promise is a promise wrapper around ssh2 client. It supports all the ssh2 client operation such as connection hopping, exec, spawn, shell, sftp, open tunnel, open socks connection etc.. in promisify way. It also help in caching the sshconnection, to reduce time, during hopping connection. It also have reconnect logic, so that, once disconnected, it can retry the sshconnection.
Compiler optimization is a tricky business, where every vendor does all they can to beat the benchmarks game.

What gets documented on the standard is what compiler vendors that bother to seat at ANSI C meetings agree to document as such.

By no means does the standard forbid compiler vendors to take advantage of situations not yet documented as such.

Eventually new cases of UB might get added to the standard.

The current set of about 200 scenarios of UB in C11 weren't all there in C89.

Another example, is that you can have code that is perfectly valid, UB free, but thanks to PGO and code re-writting rules on the optimizer stage, gets rewritten with UB side effects at a later stage in the optimizer pipeline.
Instead of need-based aid, try need-blind colleges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need-blind_admission
The article discusses this and says that citizens should not have to find technical workarounds. The government can’t make it more difficult to receive communications in this way. Private citizens on rooftops is different than government communications.
Agreed, but if a public company makes stuff to last 10 (why not 20) years then they'll go bust because capitalism requires profit and sustainable ideals are contrary to profit.

What we need is a privately held cellphone company that will forgo profit in favour of creating long lasting, repairable, maintainable devices. [I've been working on this thesis for the transition from capitalism to communism]

Meanwhile I'm wearing a 25 year old tshirt, whilst tshirts bought much more recently wear out and get holes in.
How large of a place are you looking for? $4,000 rents a three bedroom in much of the bay area.
Sure, I think we are saying the same thing? It's easier to lie about diversity and inclusion now that it has become popular. Maybe even mandatory because many people want to attend a school or work at a company that values diversity. I remember during orientation they showed a Pride video. I thought it was unrelated but my co-workers teared up. Previously, companies wouldn't have bothered or knew how to.
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What are some examples of those?

I can think of only one: UCLA is a popular transfer school for folks with 2 years of CC.
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Whoa there, acknowledging that the FCC might not be purely an agent of corporate propaganda and might actually be stating what it believes is in everyone's best interest?

Watch out for the downvote brigade!
Stanford is just being passive-aggressive.
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Dear customer,

As you are surely aware, the browser makers distrusted StartCom around a year ago and therefore all the end entity certificates newly issued by StartCom are not trusted by default in browsers.

The browsers imposed some conditions in order for the certificates to be re-accepted. While StartCom believes that these conditions have been met, it appears there are still certain difficulties forthcoming. Considering this situation, the owners of StartCom have decided to terminate the company as a Certification Authority as mentioned in Startcom´s website.

StartCom will stop issuing new certificates starting from January 1st, 2018 and will provide only CRL and OCSP services for two more years.
In my town, extremely rich people or banks never seem to have problems getting the necessary permits and even exceptions.

The cops will even close a major street for the food catering trucks for the private parties they throw on public lands and in public buildings.
We see a lot of back-of-the-envelope math about total costs. Eg FastCompany has a post [1] that suggests total costs today [with more-or-less publicly available equipment] would be about $300k.

I think if it remained north of $200k, it would be viable for kind of specific applications [eg truck driving] where you're replacing modestly compensated workers over many years. [truck drivers have a median compensation of $40k by a quick search, and hopefully the equipment would have an average expected lifespan of >5 years with nominal maintenance]

However, multiple companies at this point are claiming very inexpensive LiDAR units [2] [3].

If you assume costs drop to $100k [including maintenance] for a self-driving car, now three years of driving a truck would pay for itself [and taxis wouldn't be far behind].

In [1], analysts estimate costs will be down to $10k total by 2025. At that point, car ownership will be dramatically different. Analysts discuss the confluence of electrification, servicification [of rides], and self-driving cars to be kind of unpredictable. Each of these would be a massive shakeup for the industry, and the combination will be pretty interesting to watch.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3025722/will-you-ever-be-able-to...

[2] "Reduced cost of LiDAR by 99%" https://medium.com/kylevogt/how-were-solving-the-lidar-probl...

[3] Waymo claims <$10k: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/01/googles-waymo-invests-i...
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No one is suggesting they should only have diversity related scholarships.
This is a civil, not criminal, proceeding. You will be required to collect evidence that may be against you. If you have done something criminal you can try to claim fifth amendment privilege but then you are certainly going to lose the civil lawsuit because that can be used against you there.

I understand the rules here quite well, being licensed in four states, many federal courts, etc.

"And how are they supposed to record phone calls if they use "dumb" phones or personal smartphones".

I said if they record, they would have to turn it over.
Otherwise, yes, I will subpoena the records, including any relevant records from personal phones, if the relevant people use personal phones for business.
I will then depose people as to the content of those calls if they are possibly relevant. Most will not lie. If they do it will go very badly for them.

Your plan of trying to hide stuff and lie in court is not going to go well for you.

You seem to desire a very adversarial civil system.
It is mostly existing to resolve disputes.
That requires getting all the evidence out on the table, partially in the hopes that both parties then decide to resolve it themselves. Which they mostly do.
I was thinking about this myself. In addition to the PR benefit when soliciting alumni donations ("This money is helping needy students") I think there could be a more immediate business reason: I bet a lot of finance types (or otherwise wealthier applicants) don't apply for financial aid (and don't feel bad about not receiving an offer) because there's this myth about it being need based. Now it seems like everyone might as well apply for aid and play coy, especially if they have other offers
We would like to outsource backup of our KVM VPSes. We have a few requirements:

1. Access to snapshots of the last 30 days with single day granuality.

2. Backup has to be encrypted.

We have 7 full servers with over 100 vpses.
How does APFS prevent bitrot? I thought it doesn’t do checksumming and error correction, and instead passes this task on to the SSD’s memory controller.
> I don't doubt that children who are being cuddles more could have their genetics changed.

Looks like actual experts in the field disagree with you. [1]

Also, deny a child affection and you have a mentally ill adult. Sadly, there is now an entire generation of parents who have been advertised things like the "cry-out" method. [2]

[1] http://developingchild.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/0...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192222.Solve_Your_Child_...
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Rails is definitely more convenient to prototype, but the magic issue is real. You never know where a variable or a function comes from by reading the source -- you'd need to run a debugger to do that (in Python you can just follow the import statements). The overall Rails architecture feels convoluted and unnecessary complicated (Railties, Engines etc). I also dislike the fact that there is no single source of truth for data in Rails. You have schema.rb, but you can't edit that directly, it is generated by running `rails db:migrate`, so one might say that migration files are a single source of truth, which is inconvenient: I need to generate a migration, then edit the migration file to add any modifications not supported by generator script and finally add accessor and validators in model file. In Django we have a model definition as a single source of truth (data model, validations). Also, once I've created (or updated) a model definition, I run `manage.py makemigrations` and all necessary migrations (which capture the current data model state + what's necessary to do to perform a database migration automatically) are created automatically. I also like the fact that in Django data integrity is enforced by default.

Though, when it comes to prototyping, I think Rails is a much more convenient option. In Rails I can launch a working CRUD app with authentication in 10 minutes, literally. In Django I have to manually create directory structure, manually specify each route mapping, create and program controllers (views), etc. Django doesn't even have a built-in authentication templates, only controllers (views), so I end up writing this boilerplate over and over again. The other thing is that the authentication requires a username and password, which feels kind of clumsy, when every other authentication relies on email and it is not very trivial to modify that (built-in admin dashboard relies on built-in authentication for example).
To paraphrase Brecht:

Who fights for XYZ must be able to fight and not to fight,

to say the truth and not to say the truth,

to render and to deny service,

to keep a promise and to break a promise,

to go into danger and to avoid danger,

to be known and to be unknown.

Who fights for XYZ has of all the virtues only one:

that he fights for XYZ.
Historically, mothers were blamed for causing their kids to have autism by being "cold" towards them. "Refrigerator mom's" was one name for them.

With modern insight it seems more likely that moms somewhere on the autism spectrum themselves were being blamed because they seemed odd to neurotypical medics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_mother_theory
I have ethical hangups over telling people to get out because I want to urbanize their property & neighborhood, and that they should have moved to a more rural area (it was when they moved there). Smacks of the old sins of colonialism to me. We roll in, decide it's all ours now, and the original inhabitants can take a hike if they don't like it.

I don't mind converting neighborhoods so much after the original inhabitants have moved on, but there are still countless people around who moved there & bought when it was all peaches and single-family homes were entirely reasonable. I'm not really OK with evicting them.
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Also...

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/sexual-misconduct/not-just...
Just ran across this, this morning.

https://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/
But that is also not always the case. If you are first to market you don't need to be executing better than the competitors since they don't necessarily exist.

It's way more complex and subtle than the "execution is all that matters" or the "my idea is secured in a password protected powerpoint" camp.

I have helped over a 100 startups and at least in my experience, it's not more correct to say execution is all that matters than to say ideas are all that matter.

Plenty of well-executed ideas don't ever go anywhere because the ideas were wrong, to begin with.

In the context of this otherwise fine list by Patrick this is just particularly problematic because it's wrong in a non-obvious way but sounds right.
Parks and recreational areas aren’t really NIMBYist, more like “this should be everyone’s backyard.” Regardless, I should be more specific, NIMBYism is bad for society when it effectively locks people away from economic opportunity. If you want an exclusive resort town in the wilderness, knock yourself out. (As long as your staff have somewhere to live).
Don’t enforce an arbitrary annual release cadence.
More public beta testing. Have canary branches that users can install on a regular basis.
So what? I'm not trying to claim they're bigger than Bulgaria.

If somebody compared the distance traveled by some object to the length of a football field, you could similarly object that the football field is stationary, the object isn't as long as that, etc., but none of those things are the point of the comparison, right?
Agreed. Cool find, though.

Clever =/= robust or reliable, many times, and that's what they pay us the bucks for.
Does anybody know if there is better support for WebSockets?
If I remember right, with Django(1) it is not easy to do it. And is it possible to use GraphQL?
I've never participated in a class action before, but I would gladly participate if someone ever starts one. I honestly wonder why no one is doing a class action against Apple.

If some lawyer decides to stand up against Apple and start a class action suit for breaking so many people's phones through iOS 11 to the point of being unusable, I'm sure they will get a lot of supporters.

I really don't care for another iPhone and I don't like being forced to upgrade because my current iPhone which used to work perfectly fine and is not even an old phone is completely broken. All apps take more than ten seconds to boot up. And I know I'm not alone because I've seen other peoples phone in person.

There should be a crowdfunding platform for class actions like this.
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Users are for example protected from ISP injecting ads or tracking in the website.
> I’m not sure this is an issue with Babel per-se, but maybe a more meta topic of the cost of polyfilling.

The overarching problem is that the web platform itself is so fragmented, with different levels of support for various features, that polyfilling and transpilation are important. Strictly speaking, if every relevant browser supported for..of natively, there should be no need to transpile.

You could avoid the whole for..of problem by writing ES5 JS code, but for many people that's apparently a worse option than dealing with Babel.
The funny ( ok it is not that funny ) thing is they use cryptos in the same way they use banks. What is the point of using cryptos if you put all your Bitcoin/Ethereum/Monero/Litecoin/etc... in a web wallet?
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Nice work everyone! I’d be curious to see what a “Python 2 deprecation” page would look like (although deprecating Python 2 support shouldn’t be the goal of course)
Yep, because for the largest group of people it is substantially more convenient... even on the point of security, because they couldn't keep it safe either. Of course both are vulnerabilities.

Somewhere I had 7 BTC on a flash drive. Haven't seen it in years... maybe I'll find it one day.
I really wish they merge Django and DRF.
It also lied to donors. Naively it seems they'd have legal cause to sue for their donations back. The claim that Stanford give aid based only on need is an important part of the pitch.
One day I would like to get good at this as well, but so far, with job and wife an daughter and attempts at still having a social life, thing that helped most was making it part of my job.

My manager knows that from time to time I will be working on a talk or a workshop during work-hours. I even have it as part of my career plan :)

So far, I have presented to ~100 people total and half of those were my colleagues on internal conference. I still like it, and one day I might have something worthwhile to say to a bigger crowd :)
That was by far my favorite quote too.

Thankfully, I remember it was near the very beginning.
forced to upgrade?
Say it is possible to calculate future of a sufficiently complex physical system like a person on a Turing machine by knowing the current state of the system.

Then, according to this idea, the calculation can not be simplified by using some kind of formula that predicts the final state, and one needs to fully compute all the intermediate states, which means your computation is fully equivalent to that person living for the time for which you want to calculate the final state.

So time here is the internal time for the system of your calculation, and not related to the time you take to calculate. This internal time is nothing more than a counter you use, and You can actually stop your calculation, change something in the initial state and calculate again.

I find this fascinating because it kind of explains the universe being predictable, and people having free will: everything is predefined, but only way to know what the choice of complex system will be is letting that system to make the choice!

If the view that consciousness can be explained without requiring quantum physics is correct, then this is true independently of specifics of simulated/real universe, and is just the way information/computation works.

But then maybe Penrose is right, and consciousness can't be calculated on a Turing machine, and we still have lots of interesting science to discover.
In my experience, High Sierra is pretty much the same as Sierra. There isn't that much difference between the two, but I've run into three annoying and consistent bugs: pressing command+space doesn't always open Spotlight Search, meaning sometimes I have to press it twice; there is a memory leak in WindowServer that causes OS instability over time (my WindowServer currently says 27.94GB in Activity Monitor); and, using QuickTime in fullscreen sometimes causes weird fogging issues in the video, making it look washed out when anything besides the video is on screen (like the QT controls, mouse cursor). The only one that really causes me major problems is the WindowServer memory leak, because it sometimes randomly cause freezing in the entire OS, sometimes not unfreezing and requiring a restart.
Probably because we've all signed away our class action rights in some TOS somewhere. Thanks Congress!
So, given the chance of a graceful way to walk back your implication that people from different places are analogous to different species of animal, you are choosing to double down on that? It is not a political perspective that people are not like different species of bear: we can talk with each other, understand each other, love each other, marry each other, start families with each other. Not only can we do these things, we constantly do. If you're making a different point and just chose a particularly ... inelegant analogy, then please do clarify.
With Django Channels there is great support, with some quite interesting things you can do. GraphQL can be handled by a third party package, there are a few out there at the moment.
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Your comment reminded me of UTAustin. The university IT group explicitly didn't hire CS grads (from anywhere) but preferred to train their own. Also, a weird fondness for the NATURAL language.
Yup at this point there is no reason to not use Python 3 for new projects. What I'm finding actually is that some companies that have their codebase in Python 2 have actually started migrating to Golang rather than Python 3, because of the increased performance benefits.

I'm kind of sad about this, but I think that Golang will eventually replace Python as the go-to back-end server language (maybe even data processing).
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