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My perception of Twitter as a communication medium has changed widely over time.
First I totally dismissed it as just a tool for celebrities and young people to share banalities, which it is OK but hardly transformative.

Later I started to understand the very useful cases: Subject authorities making interesting quips and citing sources, real-time updates of local journalists on trending issues in an easily consumable format, a very public and expedite channel to report serious issues to government entities and so on and so forth .I became convinced and opened an account to create my lists of people to follow.It was great and still it is but somehow I have become tired for several reasons:

1) Sturgeon's law and not only applicable to people tweets in general but to the tweets of a particular person.Few people kept a consistent quality(this is subjective I know).

2)Twitter insane way to present the feed.

3)Lately and sadly the extremely pugnacious political battle in the US. I know everybody has the right the publish to publish what they consider interesting and important but now sometimes reading twitter I feel I have a cable subscription to 100 CNN instead of the diversity I was used to.

These are still interesting time to the medium, let's see how it evolves.
How about this sentence:

> they silently declare war on existing tenants by demolishing their homes while they live in them

That's nonsense. You're clearly speaking with hyperbole but other people can't argue against hyperbole. You spent the whole paragraph detailing clever ways landlords mess with tenants to get them to leave because the tenants know their rights. Those rights are the problem. The rentee/render relationship should be mutually beneficial. At the end of a lease, perhaps with 3 to 6 months of warning, the person should have to move out. With weaker tenants rights laws, those tenants would have an easy time finding and getting approved for another apartment.

Your second paragraph details how market rate renters are harassed with lack-of-services which I just don't believe. I bet others don't either which is why which is another reason you are being downvoted.
You can become a homeowner by saving for a few years and then committing a healthy portion of your middle-class wage to a mortgage. You become landed gentry by being in the right place at the right time in a way that normal people who come after you can’t replicate (unless they’re your heirs), and then participating in a political system that keeps your inferiors in line.
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Those electric bikes are a nightmare. They are so quiet you can't hear them coming. Coupled with how recklessly the delivery guys ride them it's a recipe for disaster. These guys plow through red lights and gun it in the opposite direction on one way streets. Maybe it wouldn't be a problem if these guys didn't ride like assholes.
OpenGL ES on the PS3 was an extemely bad implementation of an already high level api that would make no sense to use on a platform like the PS3, due to how suboptimal it is in quality, and how it's design (as OGL ES) sucks for abstracting performance in comparison.

Vulkan on the switch isn't a suboptimal implementation at all. It's the same Vulkan implementation provided by Nvidia (this is indicated by Ryan C. Gordon, who ported SDL2 to the switch, and subsequently ported the Vulkan and OpenGL support). That is a first class implementation, in regards to features and support, unlike OpenGL ES for the ps3. Plus, Vulkan as a low level api works best for abstracting performance, even more so with the features it has for abstracting perf out of mobile hardware like the switch has (such as for example, render subpasses).
I appreciate the dialogue. We may have to agree to disagree on the final point. I'm not convinced that there is always a competitive market filled with alternatives that meet customer preferences. For example: I have to choose between iMessage and a headphone jack for my cell phone. There are other phones, but I don't have a totally ala carte menu - there are always trade offs.

This likely won't change your opinion either, but it's a good piece that adds color to this conversation about right-to-repair: Motherboard published a video about John Deere's tractor/maintenance lock-in that looks at the issue from the perspective of 6-figure industrial equipment. [1] It's worth a look.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8JCh0owT4w
Is someone gonna make an x86 simulator on Conway's game of life?
Not very ironic since the last thing you want is a bunch of amateur unsolicited bots bothering everyone and making the same mistakes OP made.
I'd suggest turning on Scam ID for a bit before turning on Scam Block. It still rings, but has a "Scam Likely" caller id name.

So far it's had three false positives: the robocalls from my kid's school related to snow days and bus delays, the reminder calls from my doctor, and a fraud alert from Capital One to confirm or deny a flagged charge.

I only caught those ones because the numbers were already saved in my phone as contacts. I would have never even known about these call attempts with the Block on, whereas with Scam ID they have the option to leave a voicemail when I deny the call, plus I can look up the number later if I feel like it.
"You either die young or live long enough to become that in which you hate"
Turns out that is not as true as you would think in practice.. you can reduce the search space significantly because of known IPv6 prefixes, EUI-64, a MAC address database and trying a few additional likely addresses such as ::1 ::fffe etc

Not sure what the original source I read on it was, but you can try this:
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2015/02/ipv6-security-m...
I get two or three calls a week where they hang up as soon as I make a sound, even a little clapping will do. If you call them back it is of course "my bank" with urgent info about my account.
So you don't have cable, but you have hulu, netflix and HBO? What is the difference?
A personal question to you: Why and in what particular ways do you consider Peter Jackson's renditions of the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit to be so awful, awful?

I have enjoyed by stories since I first came across them 40 years ago. I thought that Peter Jackson did an excellent job on retelling the story. In point of fact, retelling it in a way that keeps the essence but is a new variation.

When I first obtained my copy of Lord of the Rings (which I still have), I read it 11 times in 8 months. I still read it when I get the urge. I have found that Peter Jackson has quite a different imaging of the story of the story compared to my own imagining and no less entertaining.

I have had people complain about the "licence" he took in the retelling, about not being true to the original writing. However, a good story teller will add to and change a story to make it more effective for his telling. That is the essence of good story telling - how you choose to emphasise various elements.
To be clear, I'm not arguing that old, already-installed drivers should fail if not countersigned. This seems like an extreme, and customer-unfriendly failure case. However, I am saying that this appears to be the default implementation of Windows 10 build 1607+.

I won't argue it's right or wrong, actually. It's a choice, with different threat models driving different conclusions. Defining the failure modes with respect to security risks is a fraught business, and I hope Microsoft put a great deal of thought into it and has far more visibility into the risks than I. But it's what they appear to do, and we live in their world.

I argued elsewhere (in a late, top-level comment somewhere) that - if this is Windows's failure mode - MS should provide tools for devs to integrate into their build process that flags risky or mis-configured signature scenarios. This is too complicated, and used by too many non-security experts, with extreme failure modes, for it to be half-ass-able or easily done wrong.
Someone posted this the other day and everything it said hit home: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millenni...

Relevant pieces:

>Despite the acres of news pages dedicated to the narrative that millennials refuse to grow up, there are twice as many young people like Tyrone—living on their own and earning less than $30,000 per year—as there are millennials living with their parents. The crisis of our generation cannot be separated from the crisis of affordable housing.

>More people are renting homes than at any time since the late 1960s. But in the 40 years leading up to the recession, rents increased at more than twice the rate of incomes. Between 2001 and 2014, the number of “severely burdened” renters—households spending over half their incomes on rent—grew by more than 50 percent. Rather unsurprisingly, as housing prices have exploded, the number of 30- to 34-year-olds who own homes has plummeted.

>Falling homeownership rates, on their own, aren’t necessarily a catastrophe. But our country has contrived an entire “Game of Life” sequence that hinges on being able to buy a home. You rent for a while to save up for a down payment, then you buy a starter home with your partner, then you move into a larger place and raise a family. Once you pay off the mortgage, your house is either an asset to sell or a cheap place to live in retirement. Fin.

>This worked well when rents were low enough to save and homes were cheap enough to buy.

...

>Since the Great Recession, the “good” jobs—secure, non-temp, decent salary—have concentrated in cities like never before. America’s 100 largest metros have added 6 million jobs since the downturn. Rural areas, meanwhile, still have fewer jobs than they did in 2007. For young people trying to find work, moving to a major city is not an indulgence. It is a virtual necessity.

>But the soaring rents in big cities are now canceling out the higher wages. Back in 1970, according to a Harvard study, an unskilled worker who moved from a low-income state to a high-income state kept 79 percent of his increased wages after he paid for housing. A worker who made the same move in 2010 kept just 36 percent. For the first time in U.S. history, says Daniel Shoag, one of the study’s co-authors, it no longer makes sense for an unskilled worker in Utah to head for New York in the hope of building a better life.

>This leaves young people, especially those without a college degree, with an impossible choice. They can move to a city where there are good jobs but insane rents. Or they can move somewhere with low rents but few jobs that pay above the minimum wage.

>This dilemma is feeding the inequality-generating woodchipper the U.S. economy has become. Rather than offering Americans a way to build wealth, cities are becoming concentrations of people who already have it. In the country’s 10 largest metros, residents earning more than $150,000 per year now outnumber those earning less than $30,000 per year.
> My Nexus 5x cost me $250, lasted 2 years, expect this $150 Moto x4 to do the same. iPhone is $600+, I could still get another phone!

Huh? I see the Moto X4 as 350 USD without a service contract.

I think you're using carrier rebates on only one side of your equation.
I'm wondering if it was abandoned. It looks like it hasn't had commits in months.
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This is my nightmare. Implicit division of duties are natural, but they should definitely be combated. Otherwise, things fall apart when people go on vacation, or worse, leave the team.

The way to do that is to have a communal backlog of work that people pick up tasks from, and to have an on-call rotation. Both of those things are rudimentary software engineering best practices nowadays. No one should be quietly maintaining things in their own corner. Situations like the ones described in the original post should be made part of on-call duties, or, even better, automated away.
I liked it better when my former presidents just painted.
So they should ticket dangerous riders, not ban e-bikes outright.
There were, no doubt, genuine problems at her job. This was not a good way for her to handle it.

Setting out to prove you have bad coworkers is unprofessional and just not a good thing to do. I had a really lousy coworker at my corporate job. I hated being assigned his botched files when he took the day off. Management figured it out for themselves and eventually fired him.

If you have so little faith in management that you think they won't find the bad eggs themselves, you should be job hunting, not setting up little experiments to prove they are bad. If she was dissatisfied with always being the one doing this 30 second job, there are far better ways to try to address it. This is not it.

The post is several years old. Hopefully she now feels "Gosh, I was young and stupid and can't believe I did that."
filmstruck, as in the new site with critereon? That was one of Hulu's main attraction. How is filmstruck technically ? I checked it a few months ago, and it was flash based, and no support for linux. Still the case ?
Obama could create a gameshow about community organizing. We could call it Community Apprentice. Various contestants could attempt to start social movements and Obama could critique them. Every episode one or more contestants would be removed for failing to raise enough funding. He needs some sort of catch-phrase for when he removes a contestant, something like, "You're underemployed." But the show would continue paying them a universal basic income even after they stopped working.
We never consider connections between our favourite drink with things seemingly so unrelated, now do we ...
> C lacks the capability to describe fairly widespread functionality: things like fixed-size integer types [0], pointer lifetimes, arrays with lengths, functions with bound environments, variable arguments [1]. Keeping distinctions between binary strings and textual strings would be useful for languages, and tracking how to deallocate pointers would be beneficial as well. An ABI that allows systems with different GCs to pass GC information to each other would be amazing, if challenging.

Adding some of those features would mean that every language has to support them and that includes c if you wanted to gain any traction. Part of the reason c is the interop standard is because it lacks those features, the less features you have the easy it is for the rest of the world to inter operate with you.
Large genetic variation within groups does not invalidate that there are measurable aggregate differences in gene frequencies between groups. Which is why it is trivially easy to accurately identify people of African, East Asian, and European ancestry by sight alone.
I would not want to work with her and would not want her in my team.
> Maybe it would be helpful to consider what it means to have a crypto wallet ... on production servers.

Why would anyone install the Keybase app on production servers?
Many drivers are reckless and break laws consistently. They also often don't share the road with bikes very well. We don't ban them.
Some former presidents paint, some return to the Senate (Johnson) or become Chief Justice (Taft).
The ratings are gonna be huge I tell ya
There are a number of problems with this person's behavior.

1) Letting an incorrect configuration persist without either notifying the team or manager is irresponsible (and, no, her "chat" wasn't informing the manager; if anything the writing indicates it was deliberately light on information as part of her "ruse").

2) Engaging in a passive-aggressive experiment to "prove" laziness is demoralizing and hostile.

3) Failing to address a co-worker's concerns (however poorly or inappropriately articulated) about documentation by helping him over his issue or updating the docs is itself lazy and irresponsible.

This person passed an opportunity to exercise leadership by setting an example and act as a member of a team and instead chose to be aggressive and hostile toward her co-workers. If I were her manager I'd have dinged her in the performance review, possibly worse than she was dinged.
Resellers really aren't the problem.

The problem is manufacturers who "lock-down" their products to prevent repairs using things like proprietary software and DRM.

To make matters worse, Section 1201 of the DMCA makes it illegal to break DRM, no matter what the reason, effectively making it illegal to do repairs in many instances.

The "grass-roots" movement for "right to repair" legislation was started in Nebraska by farmers who are sick of being unable to repair their tractors without the assistance and permission of John Deere Inc. John Deere tractors are currently rejecting usable parts because the owner of the tractor cannot tell the software to use the part.
This is very common mistake junior developers make. My approach is to ask them only ask questions after 10 minutes of research.

If they have spent 10 minutes trying to find an answer, they are allowed to ask that question.
What's the value of this point-in-time, and inherently case-by-case, data?
The ratings will be distributed among all Netflix shows according to their need.
Duh of course. I can't believe the wholesale abandonment of IRC by so many open source communities for Slack. It's been so... so... horrifying to watch. Can't you see we're giving up critical data and history to an outfit that no one has control over whatsoever.

Slack charges you to search the history beyond a certain number of messages.

SLACK CHARGES YOU TO SEARCH THE HISTORY BEYOND A CERTAIN NUMBER OF MESSAGES!

Yeah, let's make everyone all across the world pay to access a software community's most vital resource regardless of their income or even means to pay. Let's actively make this information sit behind a paywall accessible only by those privileged enough to breach it, but only as long as they keep paying month after month.
Why is her standard for "adequate" superior? We're to assume it is, apparently, but it isn't clear that it actually is adequate.
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I don't know, it could be interpreted both ways. FWIW, in my current job, documentation is plumbing I tend to own, even though it really is supposed to be a collective effort to improve it. There are people in my team that will be quick to say documentation is "adequate", even if it's missing some implicit knowledge.

Rather than sulking and running sociopathic "experiments", I've found it to be more effective to keep advocating for more attentiveness to docs (by discussing it as a task prioritization item with the team, by setting examples, via code reviews, etc). If you continuously call it out when people drop the ball, and give constructive feedback when they attempt to take on the task in earnest, you gradually see better results.
How do those two things relate?
While governments back the base currency, most of the money in the monetary
system is created by private banks as "money on account". A bank uses neither
government issued money nor deposits from other costumers when writing up an
account. Money on account is purely a promise of future payment, and in many
countries these privately made money make up ~95 % of the monetary system
(there are multiple definitions of money). Note that as long as the money on
account are transferred to other costumers in the same bank, or can be cleared
with other transactions when transferred between banks, the promise of future
payment is deferred in perpetuity.

The main limits to how much money private banks can create are certain legal
requirements and costumer trust that the bank is healthy. The legal
requirements can be reserve requirements or capital requirements. Neither
directly put an upper limit on money creation. A healthy bank will always be
able to obtain more reserves. Capital requirements basically restrict how much
banks can gear their capital, and when the banking sector grows in worth over
time, it can add an equal amount of money into the system multiplied by that
factor. In Denmark (where I am from) the is no reserve requirement and the
banks are geared at ~20x.
Yeah I thought - Special Air Service or SaaS
In my experience this is the result of some weird contractual framework. Of the show's I've watched, only Marvel's Agents of SHIELD included it and it was almost always 15 second spot. Not really a big deal for me.
Sometimes having a human in the loop is a good idea. Taking down a master server probably one of those times, especially given that taking it down isn't time-sensitive.

Aside from removing the human completely though, agreed!
> You cannot buy software these days.

Correct, you have to rent it. Which, IMHO, is a tragedy. It's turning tools and craftspeople into walled fiefdoms with fickle landlords and helpless serfs.
If he didn't hate himself after drone bombing all those children, he's not going to now.

High level politicians are a special breed.
No, they wouldn't, they would eat lunch in the middle of their day, which would be centered around the times the sun rises and sets. Just like how days work everywhere pretty much. They just would know what those times are where they live naturally, and know that they can schedule a conference call with someone in London without getting the time off by +/-2 hours depending on if they do the time zone changes properly, know the time zone the other person will be in at the time, know if they are in or out of DST at the same time, etc.
What is the impact to gravity of bringing all of this to Earth?
I recently used the terminal/gpg method to update my keys.
Enough of the false dichotomy. Regulation is not inherently evil!

Absolutely no one wants to own a product that the original manufacturer takes active actions to disallow them from repairing. These actions are nothing but abusive and wasteful. They are also effective ways to make more money.

Monopoly is not a good thing, or even something that can be "wished away" by spending money elsewhere, because you can't. That's what makes it a monopoly.

These businesses are monopolizing repair, and that is not okay.
Go's "pseudo-assembly" is not a plus. Everyone ends up learning both the architecture's assembly and the mapping to Go's pseudo-assembly which isn't actually portable because each architecture has architecture-specific features.
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Entrepreneur from the start
For whatever reason, it seems like practically all studies about the benefits of fitness (for health, memory, etc.) test cardiovascular fitness in particular. I've wondered if that reflects a certain cultural bias[1].

[1] https://psmag.com/social-justice/half-lifts-workout-says-soc...
How many people have they killed this year?

Just two days Dorothy Bruns in Park Slope ran through a red light, killed a four year old and a one year old. A pregnant woman is still in critical condition. She hasn't been arrested.

Maybe the NYPD should concentrate on felonies before worrying about violations.
I kind of wish he just would have joined the board of dropbox as well and ridden off into the sunset. I dont want Netflix to become politicized. Entertainment is the one last bastion to get away from the world politicians have created for us.
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