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I probably will never not use an ad blocker just because that's my form of white-collar anarchism. But I tell everyone in my family to also use them and that will not change until ad vendors do a better job vetting the quality of the ads they sell. That means no deceptive "buttons", claims that "your computer is infected", or "people in _insert_geolocated_city_" type deceptive ads. And if the site owners complain about lost money, well it's your fault for cooperating with these con artists. If you can't promise that my grandmother won't be tricked into downloading malware when she visits your site then you don't deserve to earn anything from her.
As a Sidenote:

Microsoft Applications: “[...] and 0.5 defect per KLOC [...] in released product (Moore 1992).”

It might just be me, but I somehow have the feeling that hasn't been true for a loooong time.

Edit: Also, I somehow have the feeling that the quote about defects per KLOC isn't really helping.

From what I see regularly, the business side of things is almost never interested in the "0 defects per .5 MLOC" of the last part, especially if you're considering what the implications must be for the amount of time it takes to produce that level of quality (even more so if you assume some form of waterfall development, as it's attributed to 1990).

I really like what the author is saying after that (because he focuses on much more important factors) but that only makes this specific quote seem more misplaced to me.
Something being NP-hard doesn't preclude algorithms that solve or sufficiently approximate solutions for instances that occur in practice. SAT is also NP-hard, but you can download solvers that can handle most huge instances you need solved just fine.
>> The first ancestor of this comment chain is saying, that they were locked-in partly because they couldn't move media out. This contradicts you.

Sorry, you are just making things up. The first ancestor did not complain about moving media out. That is something that you invented.

Btw I do not know what your purpose here is... lying... to get what? Upvotes? Are these really worth... this? Just asking.
Taking the statement at face value, there were attempts to inquire what the seemingly superfluous ~20% of the people were doing--that means 1 of every 5 of people is seemingly doing nothing. The only plausible permissible explanation for people seemingly doing nothing I can think up is some sort of hot standby/on call work, but that shouldn't account for so much.

It really does sound like featherbedding, especially giving that these people are being paid ~$250k/yr to do nothing (skilled construction salaries you'd expect to see more like $100-$150k/yr) [1]. With people being paid that much, you'd really expect them to have good defense for why you're paying them to do seemingly nothing, and that motivation should be strong even through multiple levels of contractor/subcontractor relationships mid-audit.

[1] Source to validate these numbers: https://www.indeed.com/salaries/Construction-Worker-Salaries...
There are several fully-anonymous altcoins in use today. The crooks would use one of those instead.
HTML is capable of a dynamic interface, but it must be statically defined. With HTML5 we even have videos. The linked webpage including video work like a charm with JavaScript disabled. Furthermore I'd welcome a HTML6 as long as it stays non-programmable, and don't see why it shouldn't be able to be a low-latency interface. The interface of the linked video feels very snappy.

I agree that HTML-only GMail in the browser right now is a mess, but that's because a browser is not an e-mail client, and shouldn't be one.

People are trained for certain behaviours and often don't want to change from that. On the other hand they like new shiney software and things to try out. That explains in my eyes why for example Google Docs (seriously, office editing in the browser?!) is used. Also, Google has a good reputation for software.

I think most people are simply not aware of the dangers, downsides and alternatives of this approach. The behaviour was learned when people talking about a globally snooping NSA were called crackpots.

On top of that, Google has no business interest in offering a standalone office solution, so people either use Google Docs in their browser, or not at all. Supply creates its own demands.

How discoverability and ease of obtaining trusted code is solved, is a technical problem. I could imagine markup-only webpages which can call locally installed programs to appear in the tab, but the prorams are installed in trusted ways. That's just one spontaneous idea.

Mozilla is making it easier for people to use technical solutions that are suboptimal for them. This has a network effect and shapes the web to be a worse place. That is what I accuse Mozilla of, and I stand by it.
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Does the difficulty in diagnosis stem from the fact that it is hard to differentiate CTE from other degenerative brain diseases, or is it just hard to diagnose in the living altogether? I mean, is the presence of Alzheimer's-like symptoms a necessary but not sufficient condition? Being able to rule out the condition would be very valuable to former contact sport athletes worrying about the disease.
That kind of setup doesn't work.

They will keep it honest for the first 24 hours of rolling it out.

Then it will creep from "during those 10 seconds" to "the entire time".
they'd have to guess my password for sudo access.

SSH to your account, add an alias to sudo in .bashrc (or equivalent for your shell) that records the password in a hidden file before passing it to the real sudo.
The Chinese market is big enough to build very successful companies that never need to cross the firewall to provide their services.
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Yes. That’s the most prominent OpenSSL link on that page. And as someone pointed out elsewhere, “There are links to the documentation, but they're not labeled as such. They're labeled as though they're links to download the components.”
I've read a couple of your Smash Company articles now. I broke down in relative detail the indescribably huge problems there are with the one extolling the virtues of using one-on-one instead of group meetings. I'm not going to do that here...

I'll just say a couple things... First editorial stuff... The structure and flow of this article does not work. Much of it is unnecessary, there are entire groups of paragraphs that, more or less, repeat themselves, and there are anecdotes that are basically nonsensical. Also, "discretion" is too poorly defined, it is used far too loosely (an unfortunate tweet or a youthful blunder is pretty much incomparable to being vulnerable with your coworkers - it's honestly laughable to put them in the same category).

Second... The culture/gender thing... It's pretty much summed up in your final full paragraph. Just keep doing stuff the way we (i.e. I) have been until you inevitably shouldn't anymore because the culture expectations have changed? That's terrible advice, in absolutely any context, but especially this one. I'd be fairly confident in saying that any piece of advice that ends in that kind of qualifier should be thrown out immediately.

Third... The point... Honestly, I don't need to know anything else about your "2 years" with Lisa to know that you were better off for her willingness to be vulnerable (a huge plus when looking at a new hire, by the way). Would you have preferred her to be dishonestly confident (that would have been easy), or at least noncommittally vague (easy, but comes off as unsurprisingly insincere)? No. You don't want that in an employee. Knowing the limitations and concerns (actual concerns) is always better. Sorry, it is. The rest of your anecdotes aren't strong enough to make me even consider questioning that she did anything wrong. She did something that was hard, yes. She did something that could have cost her that job, yes. But she did something that improved her (and your) ability to do the job, and you were better off for it.

To be perfectly honest, it probably is a generational thing. And, to be perfectly honest again, I welcome the cultural changes (they are already getting here) that will come as the working generations shift. We, and our businesses, will be (i.e. are) better off for them.

P.S. You should take some time for a hard think about what "professionalism" means. Too often it is used as a crutch to support some archaic, and frankly harmful (across all possible meanings of the word), business practices.
All sorts of bitter griping in response. They are doing exactly what you suggest: https://www.afdc.energy.gov/data/10302
I prefer my public works to be infested with kickbacks and bribes from massive corporations.
That's mostly because the percentage of people who keep track of the SN of their electronics is close to 0.
Were I live buses do drive in traffic.
OBJ's "The Catch" is one of the most impressive things in the history of sports period.

Every sports record is hailed as the most impressive thing in sports ever. I think your enthusiasm for the sport might be leading you into a bit of hyperbole here.
Spend like 15 minutes reading the table of content and build a mental scaffolding for information.
This is a product of SF being extremely welcoming and supportive of the homeless and the poor.

It's interesting to me how so many people confuse the absence of poverty/crime/homelessness with a system that has solved it. NYC has less of these things because it has undergone extreme gentrification and has politics and police which treat the homeless much worse. This is the opposite of what most people consider to be a real solution, yet NYC is praised for it. It is praised for the ends, not the means.

SF actually employs more of the policies people claim that they want to see, and as a result, it welcomes more homeless, and as a result, has more homeless, and as a result, it is demonized.

It's so backwards.
That’s a highly cultural-specific viewpoint. For example Rugby union, league, AFL etc are all contact sports with huge followings - I can’t understand let alone (and probably because of my lack of understanding) stand NFL which I personally think culturally encapsulates an American approach to the world - this is the offence team, this is defence, let’s pad up and beat the shit out of the opposing side. Compared to the other three which display to my way of thinking a fluidity and flexibility that I believe to be more skilful and also a reflection of a deeper cultural flexibility. But now my cultural biases are flooding out heavily.

What is interesting however is that neither rugby union, league or AFL have anywhere near the level of concussive damage, maybe because the lack of protection leads to a different approach to bodily harm. Full disclosure, one of the products my company makes and is commercialising in Australian Rugby Union is a concussion monitoring system so this is a deep interest of mine both from the tech/commercial side but also the medical side.

You are right though, greater awareness of the risks is going to endanger these sports. A parting word of hope - we still allow boxing, and CTE is medically known as ‘punch drunk syndrome’ from the first reported cases of the medical literature.

Concussion management is a rapidly evolving field and my sister (for whom I built the side project which we are now commercialising) thinks that being able to have a biochem test like we do for heart attacks would totally change the field - big head knock, troponin-like test, then follow up and treatment as appropriate. It’s super interesting and we need to put players first whatever we do
ICEs release all kinds of toxic gases and particulates too, only they do right where people breathe. Coal plants can be build farther away.
Correct, I am aware. It generates pretty graphs, though.
"Challenge Evolution" seems to be a misleading title.

The actual title from TFA is "300,000-year-old human fossils found in Morocco challenge our understanding of evolution".

Could one of the mods alter the title please?
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The very first line of the story says what it is: Researchers have identified the degenerative brain disease known as CTE...

It's a newspaper rather than a scientific journal so I think they can be forgiven for not expanding the acronym, just as newspapers commonly report heart attacks rather than myocardial infarctions.
That sounds like a good experience.. /s
>Bitcoin Cash is closer to the original Bitcoin implementation in code

Because it's a 99% pure fork of BTC, sure. Closer than the "original" Bitcoin? That's not possible to say.

>>philosophy

Subjective at best. Unless, you know, Craig Wright actually is Satoshi, since he's involved in BCH and has claimed to be him. In which case, it absolutely is.

>>community

Also subjective.
I recently wrote a simple nonrecursive one in Python to see how many domains I could resolve per second. You quickly hit a limit when you try to use something like Google's 8.8.8.8 server too fast. If you do it recursively starting from root servers, can you go as fast as your bandwidth allows?
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I mean once you start getting into the upper price range for tablets you might as well start to consider purchasing a 2 in one laptop with a touch screen as well. But it appears as Google has bet on it's various chromebooks to fill the gap between tablet and laptop with providing the features most regular consumers want.
>The most impressive athletes in any sport in the world are in the NFL and when you think about the things that happen in any single game, they truly are spectacular.

That seems like a wildly opinionated statement in an otherwise good comment.
> According to the GAO, estimates of its cost range from $12 billion to $47 billion

I understand the desire to really drill home the waste involved, however when the cost range is $12 to $47 billion and the article chooses to put $47 billion in the headline, it's at the edge of clickbait.
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>>The BCH camp could have contributed their resources to helping Core come up with a long term solution.

While I think BCH is run by a bunch of nutjobs who are hellbent on doing unethical trash to ruin BTC, this isn't a fair criticism. Ver and others did try to help Bitcoin (I refuse to call it Core, it doesn't need a descriptor, Bcash does) through these methods, but BTC's developer pool is... something of a bunch of Internet arguers.

Roger Ver took his ball and went home. There's nothing wrong with that at all. He thinks he's right, and that's all well and good. What's not right is his ridiculous insistence that BCH is the real Bitcoin and the intentional methods to devalue BTC in conjunction with Jihan, and acting like a kid in public and social media going nuts.
I'm pretty certain society will look back on football at all levels, most likely the younger "tackle" leagues especially, and think how barbaric it was in hindsight, specifically with the information we have about head injuries.

This is sad, because I really enjoy relaxing fall/winter Sundays watching NFL games, but as you said, I'm starting to really struggle with the morality of it.

I remember thinking I had just watched a player die on the field with the Ricardo Lockette injury a few years back - not a dirty hit, or anything, just the result of a violent game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BEx1BqTlhI
> ...but compared to Bitcoin it sure seems fast and scaleable.

Every fully decentralized coin hits at an early point the ceiling and won't scale. Vitalik Buterin expressed this recently. So, why should XMR be faster?

Besides, the anonymity is nice but just pipe your <put any coin here> through some random exchanges and you have the same effect, so it's really not that killer feature to create a new huge ecosystem. I like XMR's tech a lot and I think it's not too bad to have XMR in your portfolio, the question is if it has the potential to be one of the next major coins in the long-term (3-5 years). There, I rather see other candidates with a much higher probability, there is just too much good competition which came up the recents months/years.
Last time I spent a week in SF for WWDC, I saw one car breakin (near Height-Ashbury) and one woman get her phone snatched and shoved to the ground so violently she hit her head on the pavement and started bleeding (Market street).

I've never witnessed a single act of crime like that in any other city I've been to on earth (I lived in Europe, now in Asia), so it was quite shocking.
> Nothing is stopping you from venturing out into the world and setting up a business, and making your way into the 1%.

Nothing except the 1%-ers who are pulling up every ladder behind them they can.
I don't think you can give a recursive query to a root server.
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"The QCLASS is another field from a time when people thought DNS would be used for networks other than the Internet."

Depending on how one reads the RFC, it appears that the "sophomoric"1 compression scheme, which has been the source of numerous exploits/vulnerabilities in DNS software, also related to this thought about other classes besides Internet (IN). In the section on compression, RFC 1035 says that "pointers can be used where the format of the RR is not class specific."

1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503120

But in practice, are the RRs in todays DNS packets class nonspecific? Other than IN and CH (sometimes used for testing), are there other classes that todays DNS software can be expected to handle? Do todays queries almost always fall into the same type (IN)? How many query classes are there?2

2 https://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters/dns-paramete...

Note even support for the "ANY" class has been the source of controversy.

Compression is what makes writing DNS software more difficult than it needs to be. However, according to one authors reading of the RFC, compression is only "required" in recursive DNS servers, not authoritative ones.3

3 https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/notes.html

"DNS, however, was not designed by experienced programmers."

This is another reason I prefer using local and remote authoritative servers versus open shared resolvers/recursive caches, such as the ones run by third parties such as Google, Cisco or various ISPs.

No (sophomoric) compression needed. Whatever the reason was for having a method of compression in DNS packets4, I personally do not need it.

4 The blog post: "QDCOUNT: An unsigned 16 bit integer specifying the number of entries in the question section. We'll be sending 1 question."

Take a guess what would happen if he sent more than one question. The RFC just says the qdcount is "usually" one.

RFC 1035 is written for a future that never happened. (For better or worse.)
I agree that sites should be more direct with what they're tracking, and would support regulation around that, but this thread is really about people claiming they're fully aware of what is being tracked and just don't want it to be tracked.

I think your analogy makes it easy to see why people support it if you take it a little further.

For free lemonade? A layperson would say of "Of course that's too far!". But now imagine a mall where everything is free. Everything. Suddenly laypeople start asking "Well can they at least tell me they're taking the picture?", "Can they write down the answers after I checkout instead of holding up the lines to do that?"

I think we need to sit down and seriously evaluate what content is worth. I feel like we reached our current predicament because people just seriously undervalue content, and advertising became the last bastion of value generation. It's similar to how IAP became the only smart way to generate revenue since people feel 5$ for a solid app with indefinite support is just too much. yet IAP ends up being a lot more intrusive than upfront payment.
> The most impressive athletes in any sport in the world are in the NFL

If you're going make such outrageous claims at least give some explanation? How do you measure how impressive an athlete is?
It seems like the netbook space was unfortunately so plagued by bad hardware that it lost all credibility as a viable alternative to a laptop-- but there are still very few instances in which I prefer a touchscreen to a keyboard. Even a not-great one.
Sites like Upwork publish skill reports as this one: https://www.upwork.com/press/2017/11/02/q3-2017-skills-index...

But if you should sell on sites like that is another question
> If 20 percent or more of your income is eaten by healthcare and 50 percent or more is eaten by housing costs, life will be pretty damn bleak and UBI won't solve it. This likely is a large factor in things like the opioid crisis and rising suicide rates.

Figures do seem to indicate an increase between 2001 and 2009 in health care spending as a percentage of income, but isn't most of this a difference in real after-tax income? It's hard to make heads or tails of post-2010 data because of the PPACA. As for SRO, do you have some idea of why these properties have been disappearing? Has it become a bad deal for aesthetic/cultural reasons, or is it a matter of excess liability for the landlords? The Wikipedia article for them seems to suggest that they just don't make sense anymore for landlords in San Francisco at least. It seems to me like a simple matter of places becoming more financially valued, and therefore no longer viable places to rent for anyone below the naturally matching income bracket. If you want affordable housing, you'll have to travel a few kilometres in any other direction (this of course being especially hard for coastal cities, where you're typically restricted to 170 or fewer degrees of sprawl which may or may not offer attractive employment.

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My experiences in Germany basically led me to believe that most of the restaurant profit is made from drinks and not food, so it's not surprising that they'd be especially sensitive to charging for any kind of drink. I've also seen the same beer vs coke cost experience you have.
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I also spent the corresponding amount for an X in my country but,

a. Good luck when you run out of battery on your AirPods, or you loose one, or you forget them etc. It sure is nice to have the flexibility (Not to mention the much higher audio quality with proper iems/headpphones)

b. My X is considerably bigger and specially, heavier than my 6s.
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"The most impressive athletes in any sport in the world are in the NFL"

What a ridiculous statement to make! Even probabilistically this makes no sense, since the players are selected out of 3e8 out of 7e9 humans. Check out socker players, marathon runners, climbers etc and you will see that every sport has their very own geniuses.