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Here’s an article from as late as 1997. “Why Human Cloning Is Immoral” https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?rec...

2001 - "Catholic Church Condemns Human Cloning" https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2001-11-26-22-catholic-6640...

1998 - Churches Condemn Plan to Clone Humans https://www.csmonitor.com/1998/0113/011398.feat.feat.2.html

I never spoke as an authority, just made some remarks.
While GPUs are still used for some mining, a lot of miners have moved past them. Bitmain, the company that makes most ASIC mining chips, is valued at $12bn..
> Google's leadership has done far more good for the web and we should be grateful

Only time will tell.

Personally I'm not that grateful to Google. Like you said, it all started out as a good thing - rather innocent. And of course it turned to "profit at all cost" soon after that.

IMHO most people not quite understand the trade-offs involving technology choice. Large companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple (in no particular order) take advantage of that in the interest of their stakeholders. Violating their user's freedom and privacy along the way.
The EU is a massive body and like any organisation sometimes the stuff they do is good and sometimes it isn't. Trying to assign some deeper hive mentality to it's inconsistencies, like you have, is really just the realm of conspiracy theories.
* https://www.windowscentral.com/how-view-and-manage-diagnosti...

* https://pixelprivacy.com/resources/windows-privacy-settings/

And even more controls have been added with the recent Spring Update.
Before throwing around accusations of political correctness you should consider that questions like that are not new, they have just received more attention now that algorithms decide much more things in life than in the past.

For instance, US law has "disparate impact" provisions at least since the civil rights act (a time which was probably not dominated by political correctness), which requires outcomes to be not too different between races or other groups.

(Though disparate impact is not a particularly good metric of fairness and doesn't seem to be used so much in algorithmic fairness nowadays.)
In my local market, the slowing down of the crypto fad is showing. Used GTX 1080 GPUs are no longer hawked at $800 and there are various ASICS generally available. Even new retail cards are coming down in price, but are still way too high for technology that’s been available for a couple years now. Unfortunately, I believe that Nvidia is going to keep the prices high so that they can position the upcoming 11 series at the $700 mark just because they can.
I'm a Chrome user so I don't really know, but doesn't Edge have an import function for all that? And isn't there a mobile Edge on Android as well?

If Edge truly did become better than Chrome (has a long way to go) then I don't feel like it'd be too difficult to switch.
Better to spend 4 days working up a prototype than spend 4 days trying to persuade people to let you work up a prototype
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When i used to visit online forums, all of them made you register and put in your birthday. I think April 1st was the easiest date to choose. So every April 1st, I used to get tons of emails from forums telling me Happy Birthday.
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The privacy controls of Windows 10 are insufficient. In order to make Windows 10 usable, at least by Windows 7 standards, for people who actually care (you sound content with MS's worldview, that's fine for you), this is the latest version of all the crap you have to do: https://github.com/adolfintel/Windows10-Privacy
I don't think this discussion is worth continuing as our basic definitions of decency, privacy, control and discourse are so far apart that it makes no sense.

You ask "how is this a dark pattern", I give citation and reference, and your response is "they should be happy?" Seriously?

> The basic telemetry is just harmless diagnostic data that's on every modern mainstream OS. MS isn't snooping on you.

The only modern mainstream OS in which there is no way to turn it off is Windows 10; you can on Android, you can on MacOS, it doesn't even exist on Linux.

Let me decide what's harmless and what isn't, and which updates I want and which I do not. MS is snooping on me, and its worth it a lot to them or they wouldn't be so adamant about doing it.

> https://pixelprivacy.com/resources/windows-privacy-settings/

Did you actually read what you link to? This does not apply to desktop apps. Which are, I guess, 99% of the apps people use out there? Maybe only 95% by now.

> what are you talking about?

https://gizmodo.com/why-the-hell-is-windows-10-sharing-my-wi...

Based on your previous replies, I anticipate an answer of "but they're your contacts, you probably wanted to do that, you should be happy". So, pre-emptively - no. I do not want my passwords shared by default with anyone.

GDPR encodes in law the fact that everything like that must be opt-in, including telemetry and stuff. Unfortunately, it only applies to websites and not to the operating system. But it should.
Just because something is "natural" doesn't mean it can't be ethically wrong. We have another word for things like that--they're called "amoral" and it literally means there is no ethical choice being made. The concept of "natural" is orthogonal to this.

Lots of things we consider "natural", we also pride ourselves on the ability to choose not to give in to.

Vice versa, there could be things that are "not natural" which--oh wait, no there aren't. To be "natural" is one of those really stretchy concepts that can include anything if you argue it the right way back.

For instance, this discussion is about a copyright bill. Is that natural? Is copyright natural? Is economics? Politics? Rationality?

We also have a word for such terms in an debate: inconsequential.

Not to speak of the idea that anything that is "efficient" must be amoral. In my opinion exactly the opposite is true. Most things which are "efficient" read pretty damn strong on my right/wrong moral compass--either I think they're pretty cool, or I think they're pretty terrible. There's really very few efficient things that make me feel "yeaaaahhh, it's efficient sure, but meh. you do you".

Things that are efficient you need to consider extra carefully exactly because the efficiency can swing the needle on the moral compass rather dramatically!
Worse, it's in most toothpaste.

> Titanium dioxide found to cause pre-cancerous growths in 40% of mice

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/toothpaste-additi...
Note that there's not only a potential selection bias problem, but a feedback issue as well. For instance, if the algorithm is biased toward assigning higher criminal activity risk to black people, the black people will be more likely to be checked and, as a consequence, the future versions of such algorithms will be even more biased in the same direction. Debiasing in such situations is a very tough endeavour.
Nice.

There are still many things to be fixed on the internet, though:

- social media

- trust networks, moderation, reviewing, discovery

- openness of OSes/devices, native programming frameworks

- open implementations of ML/AI applications such as speech recognition/synthesis, NLP, web search

- decentralization of services, like IPFS

Any chance Mozilla will be working on these problems or funding research/development?
Same here.

If I need to learn something technical (new language or platform etc.) I build out a Word document with proper headings and dump all the keep info into that. They are not tutorials per se, but they make sense to me and once written I end up knowing far more about the subject in less time, than if I'd just read about it online. The sheer act of re-writing down the information helps me commit it to memory.
Surely not an Android nor ChromeOS user I would guess.

Where are the telemetry setting again?
... especially since the tip is immediately followed by an explanation of how the author backs up a known good configuration file. The recovery mechanism should surely be to restore that known good version, as you say.

It also seems overcomplex to use sudo from an unprivileged user's crontab rather than just straight execution of the target command from the superuser's crontab. I infer that your # prompt is implying this, too. (-:
Write all the tutorials you want -- teaching is a good way to verify and refine your own understanding -- but please don't feel compelled to publish them! As other posters have said, this is how we end with thousands of low quality tutorials and bad StackOverflow answers.

Publish if you have something new to say, or a new way to say something. The (very very few) articles I've published fall mostly into the second category, and have been extremely well received.
> Bureaucracies will keep themselves alive by inventing new rules constantly and the EU is no different

The flaw in the EU's design appears to be how easy it is for the EU to enact new legislation versus the public's ability to stall that process through hearings or a court.
it is hard to deny the vast workflow improvements that come with languages that utilize a REPL

I’m using cling, part of ROOT, for that https://root.cern.ch/cling
There’s a big difference between understanding how calendars work and gathering the date of birth on whole populations of people and positively identifying each one.
Edge on Android is faster and smoother than Chrome.
I believe that the EU overstepped their mandate pretty much at the point when they went from industry regulation (ECSC, etc) to a super-governmental government.
Yeah, but that would rather involve being on the other side of the airtight hatchway (having root).
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But that merely moves the question on. Why are garbage tutorials more popular than good quality tutorials?
> If they think they're being taxed too much, they can move themselves and their business somewhere with lower tax rates

A different way of looking at it would be if they did move themselves and their businesses then we'd be in a worse position than with how they are now. We'd get zero benefit from the business being located in the UK and also we'd also collect less tax.

I can clearly see how the lack of fairness can be taken, but implementing your suggestion would be much worse.
I paste my bookmarks on a TXT/YAML file and organize them by categories as simple lists.

Choose categories wisely (not too narrow, not too general), be stingy on your bookmarking and tree-shake them often. Be consistent and it will require low maintenance.

It might help: https://github.com/galfarragem/superfolder
> GDPR encodes in law the fact that everything like that must be opt-in, including telemetry and stuff. Unfortunately, it only applies to websites and not to the operating system. But it should.

Yep, Android and ChromeOS would be the first to go.
I also have a slow 8 year old laptop, and Edge is also the most resource efficient there.

That said, Firefox still has the best performance with hundreds of tabs open.
Yep. You can't use google hangouts without chrome. I've seen other websites (non-google) doing the same. Chrome is the new IE it seems :(
Both at home and for work at 100%.

I don't use any social network, rarely use my phone and emails are the easiest to note, sort etc.

Even with family, I exclusively use e-mail.
Maybe instead of altering the Internet globally, the EU should be regulated to modified browser clients that expose hooks into EU mandated policies like GDPR, link tax and elimination of memes? Address the problem where it is being consumed in the EU instead of pushing the solution upstream where it would feed many different branches.
Is a REPL nice to have? Yes, absolutely! It's a nice quality of life enhancement. But in terms of development cost, it's _barely_ a blip.
Yeah, that's very true. It's an interesting talk as well. One of the examples is highly codified in Japan. If you offer someone something, they must refuse. Then you must offer it again. Then they must accept it. Any variation on that leads to one of the parties being really upset :-).
One of the cool things about this is that regifting is completely accepted in Japan. Because you must accept what's being offered, it is considered normal to make a gift of it to someone else if you don't actually want it. This is one of the things that I trip over often. Quite frequently if someone offers me some food, I'll think, "Oh I have a lot of food in the house. I can't eat that." But you have to be thinking, "Who can I give that to". It's weird, but I also like it because people are constantly giving gifts (to the point where it's rare that I don't receive something almost ever week).
Oh, that's not hard. First, Firefox doesn't squeeze tabs past certain limit, so you don't have these tiny-tiny tabs that you can't click. You get the scrolling, but it won't bother you after a while. Thus, visually even with 1000 or 2000 tabs browser UI stays clean.

Second, when you type stuff into the address bar Firefox searches through opened tabs and suggests switching to that. This minimizes the number of times you'd open a new tab.

Third, there are many addons that help you organize your tabs. There are ways to search for tab content, group them into containers, find duplicates, etc.

How to start having many tabs open? Just change your MO when you use the browser. Want to search for something? Hit new tab and go. Researching something? Open every link you find somewhat promising in a new tab. When you have 200+ tabs opened, another 8-12 won't be a big change. Done with your research? Why close tabs? Just keep them open in case you'll need them later.

Often when I work on a project for, say, half a year I don't close tabs at all, and keep getting back to stuff I accidentally stumbled upon 2-3 months ago. It's very helpful at times to be able to dig stuff up one tab away. One could argue that bookmarks and history could be as helpful, but in practice when you switch to an old tab you see the context around it. What else I was looking at at that time, often information in the neighboring tabs is relevant, yet bookmarks and browser history don't have a good UI to surface it if front of you.

Yes, your browser becomes a memory hog, but as people noticed Firefox has means to compensate that. At 200+ tabs it consumes significantly less memory than Chrome (even with Chrome's load on demand turned on).

It takes time to get used to, and ones or twice a year you'd be doing tab cleaning, but I've being using browsers like this for 15+ years and really see benefits in this workflow.

For context: right now I have 330 tabs opened, Firefox consumes 1.8 GiB of RAM
Waaaaaaaitaminute--aren't parasites "natural", too?

Problem solved. Shall we talk about the copyright bill, now? :)
I thought the USA would, but Net Neutrality was fortunately repealed.
Doesn't this only happen when huge preorder(s) get cancelled? Any big players in bitcoin mining bankrupted lately?
This has happened very rarely to me, but when it has, the head purser would usually be carrying the manifest or an iPad and clearly referencing it. That takes the creepiness out of it. It's a nice, but ultimately not terribly important, touch that they make a bit of an effort to personalise the greeting.

On one or two occasions (flying to a short stay at an outstation, and catching the same crew on the return), the attendant clearly recognised me, and made a point of saying hello, welcome back (not by name though, that would have been creepy). That's rare, and not really to be expected, though.
> the EU overstepped their mandate pretty much at the point when they went from industry regulation (ECSC, etc) to a super-governmental government

The Maastricht Treaty explicitly formed a supranational organization [1]. We can debate whether the expansion of the original EEC was wise. But the expansion was mandated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty
Speak for yourself, Firefox has been good to me, and without phoning back home to Google. Facebook & Google Containers are great.

Browsers are like text editors, opinions and (pardon my French) like assholes, everyone has one, but nobody likes anybody else's...
> GDPR was about telling the consumer what is being done with their data and about transparency, so at least it was for the people.

If you say so. Seems to be more about threatening small players with risks well beyond anything reasonable.

Their intention doesn't mesh well with the law as created. I'd say the biggest outcome is the number of services the EU has lost from the GDPR.
These particular pieces may not be dangerous, but some other pieces people could find could be with a higher level of contamination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsymmetrical_dimethylhydrazin...
IMO Firefox is much better without extensions than most browsers with extensions. Chrome (chromium) being the one exception I know of.

Then I find Firefox better than Chrome when both run with or without extensions.
90% of the time they are spot on. But watch a few historically accurate videos on WWII and it'll start recommending videos from Holocaust deniers. Or watch some moon landing documentaries and you'll start getting videos peddling moon landing conspiracies. It's infuriating.

See also https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...
Indeed. Which is, according to some quite convincing arguments, one reason Arabs have not done too well in modern conventional wars. Especially when going up against e.g. the Israeli military, which takes junior-officer autonomy to an extreme even by Western standards.

See "The influence of Arab culture on Arab military effectiveness", Kenneth D. Pollack (https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11219). Pollack pulls up examples that don't even involve materially superior Western armies, such as conflicts against ill-equipped Iranian, Kurdish, or Sub-Saharan African forces.
I'm pretty sure from recent research that black neighborhoods are under policed relative to white neighborhoods from some recent work I did.

We looked at a lot of research and came to conclusion that the "racial profiling boogeyman" is actually a convenient cultural myth to perpetuate "oppression stereotypes".

Don't take my word for it, but it is worth looking into.

Since you made a claim and did not substantiate and just took at as given.
This is not happening in a vacuum, it's driven by lobbying from the publishing industry. Just as previous rounds of problems were caused by the EU copyright directive demanded by the music and video industries.
As a sidenote, I aboslutely hate it when they make you dial all the digits of your credit card and then when you reach a human being, you have to tell them the digits again.
> let me get to a prototype more quickly

The nice thing about gradual typing is if you get to a proof-of-concept, you can then layer in types for static analyzers to make it more robust. Sure it's not Rust-level safety, but it works for very demanding projects. Heck, all of Instagram is built on Python, and they use the static type analysis in their workflow just like this.

It's just a compromise everyone needs to find on their own or for a specific project.
Thanks Matt, appreciate note on the homepage images. they are just for search engines to pickup content. Sites not really geared for browsing like McMaster but more focused on searching and faceting using the input boxes in the table headers. So it's really for users who have specific paramaters they're looking for.

It is early so all this feedback is good. Seems to have the marmite effect at the moment. Some users loving it. Some users not.

A few people have said that a key feature of faceting by inputting paramaters is not clear enough and needs some guidance for the user. May revise that a bit.
In the utopian world that C developers are all 10x, have 100% control over the complete source code of their applications and don't depend on third party C libraries.
Well, try to use iptables by hand and not via wrappers like ufw and you will quickly realize that it's the other way around. pf's syntax is already very much like ufw's command line arguments. I guess what arguably may be missing if anything is a good, simple, thoroughly commented template to work from when first starting off.
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“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.”
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These are great rationale, but I think they belong in the feature marketing and UI, not just the FAQ.

As publicized (by Keybase and every other platform), exploding messages appear to put control of post-receipt management in the hand of the sender. This is especially credible coming from Keybase, since you guys are educating a lot of people about possibilities with careful crypto (e.g. forward secrecy). This has risks... you mention the Snapchat user who was protected from bullying, but what about the teen who wouldn't have sent that pic in the first place but felt safer because of SnapChat -- only to be bullied over a screenshot anyway?

Your description here is that exploding messages make it easier for both sides to announce and abide by a social contract about deletion. A name like "flag messages for auto-delete" (I'm sure someone can do better) would set the right impression.
Perhaps they deleted the information to comply with the GDPR.
One announcement I'm waiting to hear about in all honesty is Microsoft open sourcing Edge, they don't have to reveal Cortana specifics (though that would be fund to read through if they'd allow it) but just EdgeHTML with Chakra in a way that compiles nicely. I would love to see what would happen if they allowed the community to contribute back to Edge if it could become much more competitive as a result of them welcoming contributors.

A few years ago I'd sound like I'd be tripping on bathsalts but I think it could happen, just a matter of when they choose to do so.
"Irrelevant" is a strong, dismissive word that comes with a certain arrogance that I don't think fits the facts at all in this case.

The author said FF became irrelevant after 2008, which is false. It was popular for a long time after.

The answer to the question "how popular is a browser" should not be answered by anything other than stats for your own sites. Global stats don't interest me.

While Chrome certainly did rise in popularity and overtake FF, it was absolutely not in 2008 that happened according to the browser stats of the network of mainstream popular sites I worked on for a few years at that time. I do remember seeing a discrepancy in the "global stats" vs the actual stats from Google analytics I was accessing on a regular basis, which told a different story.
Pretty much any page with paralax scrolling or great ammount of images - and you can barely scroll the page. It's gets better with 62, but Fx still struggles with pages like https://www.hellomonday.com/
That's cool, but it's hardly the idiomatic workflow for C++. Maybe that will change; it should!
This is a different and refreshing take on the services set that is AWS
I run my local apache server with a wildcard certificate for *.captnemo.in. Works perfectly. I forward `$port.in.captnemo.in` -> localhost:$port via Apache for some common ports and can access all my local servers easily over HTTPS.

I can expose some specific service by changing the DNS to my local WLAN ip address (have a script for this that updates the DNS entry in cloudflare).
> And both support uBlock Origin, the ad blocker recommended by many security experts.

Finally a big media outlet with the right advice, the only extension you need is uBO. And a wrong one - using 1Password [0]. KeepassXC is safer, but hey, baby steps, right? :))

Chrome is snitching to Google, IE is Windows I stopped using, Safari is best, if you're rich :) Other browsers are too rare - easy for fingerprinting.

[0] www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/flaws_in_password_management_apps
But this is something which could be changed.