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Hi there,

This is a post about my experiences dealing with depression and one of the methods I used to cope.

It's my first such blog post and while the topic is something very personal, I am trying be more open about things, especially if my experience can help others. I would very much appreciate hearing your thoughts, feedback or relevant experiences.

Thank you in advance!
> it may not discriminate against a subset of the people for any reason that isn't a direct result of due process procedures

Except...it does. How else do you explain affirmative action? Or, for that matter, social security, medicare, medicaid, welfare?

Not that I disagree with your points in general, though.
Any plans for a male version?
That's not very far fetched.
How does it compare to Port Talbot?
> I've seen quite a lot of criticism against the social credit system. But to me it it just crime history and (financial) credit history mined from big data and combined into a centralized system.

> What's particularly bad about the system per se,

Tightening everyday social control that's at least partially designed to serve the political goals of an unabashedly authoritarian regime that's self-consciously opposed to things like "universal values of human rights." [1] [2]

It might be easier to understand it this way: in China, you're a de-facto criminal if they judge you to be in some way opposed to the regime.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lea...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/magazine/the-lonely-crusa...

> without getting into the arguments specific to Chinese politics?

That's almost like asking what's bad about something without getting into its bad aspects.
> We recommend that all mobile device makers do the same.

Kind of insencere when the biggest competitor has been doing this since 2013 (the feature is marketed as “secure enclave” by Apple)
I hadn't decided who to vote for, this helps. There is no more urgent problem in the bay area than housing and there is no way to fix it other than by building more housing.

London Breed for mayor it is.
And I really hope it stays that way. I have rejected jobs because they use Microsoft tools.

I dislike the Soviet-like brutalism of Windows and all the bloated software built on top of it. Interoperability is mostly non-existent and if it exists, is limited. Sames goes for configurability. That limits the amount of automation you can achieve.

You have absurd nonsense like software taking 1 hour to install (Visual Studio). That is unheard of in any other OS unless you are recompiling everything on your machine, which is optional.

Since everything is proprietary and closed source, if some dependency is discontinued you are on your own. And this happens often with Microsoft's own APIs.

On top of that, now you have all the telemetry fiasco, ads and nagware integrated directly in the OS.

Good job acting in your own self interest. Here's another great idea as good as investing on Microsoft: invest in a patent troll, or tobacco products for kids.
They do among people who actually vote, but not among all people able to vote.
With HGX you can have all chips as one giant 'card' with unified memory. That's something you can't really DIY. Even with Quadro you can hook up two at a time via NVLink and that's about it.
> something they cannot prove even happened

You just implicated yourself, and in a public forum no less. Alone this wouldn't be enough for legal action, but it could prove very useful, especially for showing intent for criminal prosecution. In any event, you never know how information can be used, and used against you.
> at the end of the day sometimes you literally have no practical way of knowing if a review is fake or not

Can't you check the account itself? If the account's behavior over time shows signs it's an actual human user instead of a bot.

This can't filter the owner's brother in law, but if bot accounts can be filtered then they cannot leave lots of reviews either, because the owner does not have hundreds of relatives.
Hmmm. I'm still using the dongle that I bought two years ago - and I use it every day. I don't even have to use a dongle, my phone is an iPhone SE and it has a 3.5 mm audio port. So why do I use the dongle? Because the rest of my family has iPhones without the 3.5 mm audio port and so all our audio devices utilizing a 3.5 mm audio jack all have dongles on them. So it's easier to use the dongle rather than take it off and have to keep track of it.

I do use bluetooth headphones while working out and mowing the yard so I don't have the continual distraction of the wire. Though they sound pretty good it's a drag to have to keep them charged and they have a tendency to cut in and out when working outside. So I'd say bluetooth isn't quite there yet.
> Should we not teach kids the best programming languages because most teachers really aren't very good programmers?

I would argue that a bad teacher teaching a good language can do a lot more harm to a novice programmer than not learning it at all.

My band conductor was fond of saying that practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent. It can be harder to replace bad habits with good habits than to instill good habits from the start.
Drunk YouTuber Banned from Disney World After Fake Shooting “Experiment”
No. The poverty _rate_ declined since 1960 and has held steady since. That is a per capita measure and scales with population growth.
I think that "everyone is interviewed in the same manner" thing can eventually evolve into better hiring process - because it will overtime produce data that can be learned from.

But, I also think that it will end up split into different kinds of interviews for different positions. The older I am the more I believe that there is no single "good in tech" aptitude and that such notion is nonsense. Rather, different tech jobs require very different amounts of abstract thinking, logic, patience, memory, aesthetic feel, detailed knowledge of some sub-area, ability to communicate, self control, punctuality and so on and so forth.

You can be quite crappy at assembler and heavily talented for enterprise java for example. You can be good at smaller projects and completely fundamentally fail in large codebase many people situation.
I used to joke that some of my classmates couldn't point out Russia on a map of Russia.
> you’re only really committing to git

You don't use github just for git.

You use it for issue tracking, pull requests and code review, CI hooks, wiki, github pages, kanban boards, bot integration, and so on.

That's all stuff that locks you in to Github, and is non-trivial to migrate to another provider.
If you attempt to identify a canonical "you" which ignores the basic fact that your particles are entangled with virtually every other particle in the visible universe, you're starting with an assumption wrong enough that of course you're eventually going to run into some absurdities.

If you create a universe which is indistinguishable from our own, even in a quantum sense (i.e. you recreate the quantum state that our universe is in), then you'll necessarily have created a universe with an indistinguishable copy of yourself in it. But in fact that's the only way to create an indistinguishable copy of yourself in the first place! You can't reduce the problem any further than this.

In other words, this entire "paradox" boils down to a vague understanding of the word "identity".
> There's a bill currently pending that would roll this back, introduced by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in December. H.R. 3608, the "Stop TSA's Reach in Policy Act" (yes, the "STRIP Act") would prohibit any TSA employee who has not received the federal law enforcement training from being called an "officer" or wearing a badge or uniform that resembles what a real officer would wear.
Likely the same thing that very expensive private universities do with "low income" students. They just have a massive profit margin and can cut it back as needed
The difference between urban and rural America is that in urban America you have the juxtaposition of wealth and poverty and in rural America you just have poverty.
And it applies to other fields in the so called 'knowledge economy' as well. How many people in a given developed country really can actively participate because they have the required aptitude, geographical luck and resources for education? 30- 40%?

The Atlantic addressed this in an article a while ago. Just waving away the disenfranchisement of large parts of the population because they're unable to work mentally tasking jobs erodes human worth.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-war...
Ah, excellent, this demonstrates rampant confusion created in this area very well.

> Mueller investigation and investigations undertaken on FB, Twitter and Reddit posts/ads from russian based accounts

Ads most definitely happened. Though the valiant effort by Mueller's team is mostly wasted because a) publicly speaking about US politics while being Russian is not a crime, neither is astroturfing or failing to disclose vested interest (both are routinely done in advertising and politics), and trying to imply otherwise would run straight into the 1st amendment, which SCOTUS still has pretty healthy respect for; and b) even minor financial irregularities, that are crimes, which Mueller inevitably discovered (I mean, can you imagine a campaign run by thoroughly corrupt Russian government that won't have financial irregularities? even many US campaigns are full of them if you look close enough...) are not prosecutable since none of the perpetrators are anywhere US law can reach them.

However, the ads definitely existed. Moreover, it is also a definite fact that there were multiple hacks of both DNC and RNC computer systems, some of them might have been perpetrated by Russian groups. As a result of those, some dirty laundry definitely got aired.

> what exactly are you saying did not occur?

"hacking elections". Which is a commonly used phrase, and it is both vague and misleading. There is no indication that any component of electoral system per se was hacked, so direct meaning - implying the genuine voting preferences of Americans were subverted - is definitely false. We may only talk about persuasive effects of the Russian actions, but even then there's not much.

There is no indication that a minuscule-budgeted and hamfistedly-executed (I mean, have you seen them? they are hilariously bad) Russian ads changed anything in relation to the elections. The airing of dirty laundry that followed the email hacks may have had some influence, but it is in line of long-standing tradition of leaks and whistleblowing that has existed in US politics since forever - a lot of secret things become public eventually, to the major embarrassment of people who would rather not have them published. I haven't heard any of the leaks referred to as "hacking the election" - in fact, many are lauded as valiant efforts in informing public about the misdeeds of the powerful.

So summarily, nothing is left from the claim that "Russians hacked the elections" in any meaningful sense. The most one could claim is "Russians tried to influence the elections, mostly without success, but it is possible they uncovered some dirt on some of the politicians that may have influenced some voters".
It depends on the task. Some tasks require a bunch of GPU processing where it churns for a while before getting new data, while others process data streaming in. The DGX-2 has 8 100Gbps NICs, so you can load data very fast.
If google really wanted a fair and objective hiring process, it would be easy. They don’t. The coding interview is one of the most subjective processes I’ve seen in hiring. The interviewer reviews the resume, and then gives a vague problem that has many answers, only one of which they are looking for. Then they either let you flounder or straight up tell you what they want. At the end, code is erased, and interviewer gives subjective feedback. If they wanted a good process, it would be double-blind, consistent, and adjusted for efficacy. The stats that they do share show the opposite: Google’s top performers were massively over-represented among those that had the lowest interview scores. Steve Yegge himself interviewed 6 times before getting an offer. one question you might ask is whether Google even wants top performers. I don’t think so, honestly, and they say as much with their focus on culture. They want people that will go along to get along and not cause conflict by disagreement or doing things their own way. This type of cohesion is much more important to google than individual performance. The idea is that the interviewer is the expert and you are the Padawan trying to learn by exploration. Be humble and take hints. If you disagree with an interviewer, you’re done. If you do something they don’t understand, don’t try to explain, just undo it. The interviewers are randomly chosen among volunteers, and the ones that volunteer the most were shown to have the worst performance in assessment. So the lesson here is that it’s a social game. You don’t need to learn every algorithm, just know the basics of any programming language, and I’d say even prefer things like for loops to functional maps because most likely, they won’t follow. The social game, however, is an unlimited liability. You need to make the interviewer feel like the expert in their problem, and feel like they taught you something profound. This is not your performance; you are just the magician’s assistant, acting out their will.
The CADT model strikes again!
Piezo sound recording app moved off from App Store successfully, if memory serves. Why can Telegram not run its own update servers?
It's not about the lack of features. It's about the features that fit 90% of the use cases (sometimes 95%, sometimes 99%, etc), without the software being bloated.
> From other travelers I heard when you travel deep into South Central US, you can find full-on third world scenery.

Respectfully, the people who told you this were either vastly exaggerating or had zero sense of perspective. You're not finding houses in "South Central US" (not sure exactly what that refers to anyway) without running water or dirt floors. I actually grew up in the small town South and knew plenty of people who commuted into town from the country. Some were poor, sure, but "full-on third world scenery." Come on...
Google's APIs make it easy to audit your groups, and if you don't want to write your own program to do it you can use the GAM command line tool. https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/wiki
NIMBYs are not the sole problem. Vancouver and Seattle, and their suburbs have had a lot of construction happening for the past decade, yet housing costs in both cities have spiraled out of control.
And yet if everything was a pay service we would lose all anonymity and poor people would get locked out of everything.

Doesn't mean advertising is unproblematic. It clearly isn't. But it's not completely one sided either, not even in terms of privacy.
Hearing a kid struggling to read Shakespeare is even worst that reading it in your head. Acting is hard. But most kids can't even read out loud a newspaper add decently.
The as-configured vehicle they examined was sold for at least $49,000 (but probably more likely $54,000 with Autopilot), as they're only selling large-battery and high-trim interior now. The headline lumps material and labor together, but materials was reported as $18k, which is a surprisingly exact 1/3 of $54k.

The base model would have to have $12k of materials for the same ratio. I don't think that's likely (since much of it's invariant and especially since the $54k figure includes the Autopilot upgrade, which is only software) but it will have 1/3 less battery, which is a decent part of the cost of the car. So the base model will probably not be as profitable, but I think that's true for most cars.
Don't worry, those'll be cleared up in the next rewrite.
I don’t think it matter that the 28k are paid by the employer and not from the 60k salary. Perhaps this person could be making 88k instead?

Also, while you’re inbetween jobs, health care still costs 28k.
Why are those people not on your watchlist? I'm not wathcing the people watching you (unless they also watch me)
They're all metal on the outside, but certainly not on the inside. Not that that's a bad thing.

But the tactile experience is a long way from the old actually-all-metal cameras and lenses. I was sorely disappointed the first time I held a Fuji X series camera.
People decades ago said exactly what you're saying and that's how we got local regulation. It turns out local regulation just entrenched the problems more deeply.

I've yet to hear a good reason why recursion is going to solve the problem instead of entrench it at the next level up.
If you want a software monopoly trolling everyone with patents, by all means invest in Microsoft.
You're close. The number is currently 86% and has been falling over time.

https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2018Q1_alphabet_earnings_releas...
The Hawtch-Hawtcher bee watcher.
The comparison between Phabricator and Gitlab is quite interesting: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/DevelopmentInfrastructure
Makes you wonder why there isn't something like Rack or WSGI for front-end components. If there was one interface that all frameworks adhered to, you could, in theory, use components written in one framework from within another framework. Elm sort of does this. Not sure about others.
All scripts are on Cloudfront except for when someone shares a YouTube video or Twitter tweet. Google Analytics and Typekit are the only third-party scripts that are always loaded. I do need to add UI to allow users to disable these.
There was a good chunk of time where my ISP (Verizon FIOS at the time) was having some kind of DNS hijacking attack happening where many CDN IPs were being replaced with an IP of a server that was adding some ad-injecting javascript into many pages (and god knows what else, I still have the payload laying around somewhere as I saved it for future curiosity).

At the time my only real recourse was to pump my whole house through a VPN, as even Google's DNS (8.8.8.8) was being hijacked, but ONLY when it was coming from my home IP. (Full disclosure, i'm not very well versed in the networking stack. I know enough to get myself in trouble, but not much more. This was what I understood to be happening, but I could be way off base. However it was happening on multiple devices, multiple OSs, multiple verizon IPs, multiple DNS servers, both with and without a router, and would stop instantly if any of those machines were pointed at a wireless hotspot, or a VPN was turned on. At one point I even sent my router's WAN connection through my phone's hotspot and the problem went away)

After talking with verizon many times and each time having to spend an hour or so trying to get through to someone that knew even remotely what I was talking about, all they were able to do was reset my IP, which fixed nothing.

Now that DNS-over-HTTPS is becoming more common, i'm going to use it everywhere I can. Yes, DNSSEC might be a "better" solution, but I can use DoH right now to protect myself on all sites and (hopefully soon) all devices.

Just the other day I discovered Intra [0] a (still unreleased) app by Google for android which has your whole android phone use DNS-over-HTTPS.

I've been running it the last few days and i'm quite pleased with it. Does anyone know of a way to force all DNS queries in windows to use DoH?

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.intra&hl=e...
Adding as of 31st, the above has a real 26.1 candidate to be promoted to main site in a few days.[0]

[0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-05/msg00...
OK, so urinate first into a toilet, then defecate into the container. The point is, it's pretty hard to urinate with an empty bladder.
Will You Ever Be Able to Upload Your Brain? [2015]
This is a great idea. I work in clinical diagnostics at a large academic health care center and the prices billed to patients are absurd once you see the actual costs of the testing. What’s your strategy to decrease the testing cost compared to reproductive endocrinology clinics? Is it simply a lower markup?
It's not like gnome was utilizing bugzilla anyways. They had one bug that was 11 years old.
Airports don't even HAVE to use the TSA.
This seems really obvious. Why do you think nobody else does this?
ℑ 𝔞𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔶. 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔦𝔰 𝔠𝔢𝔯𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔱𝔬 𝔤𝔬 𝔱𝔬 𝔤𝔢𝔱 𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔦𝔠𝔢𝔡.

𝔓𝔩𝔲𝔰 𝔦𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔟𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔑𝔞𝔷𝔦𝔰. 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔬𝔫’𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔩𝔬𝔤𝔬 𝔦𝔫 𝔞 𝔣𝔬𝔫𝔱 𝔰𝔲𝔭𝔭𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔑𝔞𝔷𝔦𝔰, 𝔡𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲?
Well, unfortunately, having running water and having drinkable running water are not synonymous in the United States.

Also, third world countries are not just countries without running water and dirt floors...
All Of this has happened before and will happen again:

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

Makes me wish I had seen JWZ's writeup before spending so much of my time filing the damned things.
> By committing to use GitHub, you're only really committing to git.

Make sure you also tell your users not to use GitHub's comments, issue tracking, pull requests, release system, favorites/watches, or authentication.

So you're suggesting that the new home for the GNOME project's code be GitHub, without the GitHub.
Or a very good understanding of where it fits in today's (or 2015's) linguistics. It's technical, and vague, perfect for a piece like this, where the author can say a lot of pretty "profound" stuff without actually saying anything at all.
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Yes, but they require you to fill out a long, detailed form about what project you're affiliated with, exactly what resources you need and for how long, an IBM advocate (?), and so on.

This is quite inconvenient for someone just wanting to do a little bit of experimentation before committing.

For instance, I was interested in experimenting with AltiVec on POWER for the Rust bug bounty. I wanted to get an idea of the scope of the problem, see how things work in C and C++, do a little bit of quick microbenchmarking in C and C++ to see how it compares to SSE.

If it turns out that it was something I was interested in pursuing further, I might try to work with the Rust project to apply for this kind of access officially for a CI system for the Power architecture. But that's a lot of trouble to go through if I just want to do some quick experimentation before deciding on whether the scope of the project is worth it.
"But do landowners have majority voting power in SF? If not, then maybe some people aren't voting to their interests."

It is implied (and sometimes expressed) that "NIMBY" outcomes in elections like this are illegitimate and not "true" democratic outcomes.

I reject this notion. I am very much in favor of urban in-fill in San Francisco and increased density in many parts of the city - but not at the expense of democratic processes.
Well but I bet you've read a lot of prolog and its familiar.

Also fizz is only 0.3 I believe. Syntax is an easy change to make that early.
Only political will will fix its problems. And I don't think the proposed leaders have that.
To be clear, despite this announcement being posted to gitlab.com (i.e. the "hosted GitLab", which can and will remove you/your/repo any group at any time), the GNOME project is self-hosting their own gitlab instance. So they are indeed insulated from such hypothetical damage.
Instagram is still there. Facebook has been declining for a while, all the privacy stuff is just making everyone more aware.
I don't think so. Reading is just consumption. You don't have to do any critical thinking, just have an imagination. Though even that's optional.

Critical thinking comes from problem solving, something a book certainly lacks.