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> intention is everything

I'm sure the people that received Google's millions of dollars would disagree with that statement.

> If these companies truly cared for the people they are helping, they wouldn't even bother with the PR side of it at all.

Why? Does getting good PR from helping someone diminish the help that said person receives?

> if they intend to aid their own purposes, that is what will see the most benefit from their efforts.

I have not once disagreed with this statement - companies primary goal is to make a profit. However, they also provide a tremendous amount of help to those who need it and I don't think people should dismiss that so easily.

> They don't seem to be helping the little people like that Tanzanian hospital the way the developers did who found a free software solution.

It's easier for us to grasp a situation in which a few developers help out a few people who need it. It's not easy for us to parse "$150 million in charitable donations" in the same way, but I assure you there are thousands of "helping the little guy" stories you can craft out of $150 million.
Why are they buried with clothes on, often in a literal black box? Their possessions are generally controlled by an executor, privately. The dead expect, again literally, their will to be followed.
A good customer success team can patch sales up that might have promised features that won't be to spec. But that bandaid only lasts for a short time.
You are free to slow down as much as you want as a developer.

Why is there this call for all software development to slow down? As if the bad actors will also listen and just slow down trying to attack...
It's part of the ESLint organization, which is what I'm referring to being compromised, not the exact package.

What you're saying is anyhow wrong as far as I can see. ESLint-scope is included by ESLint. Current version uses ^4.0.0 and shouldn't be affected, but versions from before May has the affected ^3.7.1 dependency.
This version is also included in webpack, making it a big target anyhow.
It is not unreasonable to ask people to move to an area where people aren't trying to work, even if the event is live. Many people do not care about <x>ball and would like to work, and typically an office is the place where you are supposed to do that. Having the game on in the common work area is incredibly distracting with people cheering.

Many people who are trying to work do not care if the event is live. Even as someone who also enjoys watching rocket launches, I wouldn't cheer loudly when it took off, and I'd probably go to some kind of common area to watch it to begin with.
... And yet no one did anything. I do not ask for some kind of anonymous hero but if you see a thing like that you should at least try to block them from running.
> That’s isn’t a matter of smart vs dumb.

It was a reference to the quote above which is saying the reason individual people loose is not because they are dumb but because they are unable to match their opponents resources.

> “Well I just don’t get why the baby didn’t defend itself from the bear."

How can individuals defend themselves when the system and corporations subvert their rights.
They are linked as HTTP referrer, so they can get the tokens out of the stats page later on.

It's using a popular and well known domain to evade detection.
Is that the royal "we"? :P

Personally I always use my MacBook Pro set up below my external monitor. I always use the built in keyboard and trackpad because I find a small, short travel keyboard with a centrally mounted trackpad more ergonomic. I'm pretty sure this setup might only relevant to me though, so horses for courses.

I haven't upgraded because the new macs don't seem to match my use-cases and I can get by with my old 2013 model for now.

I agree about price though. The new MacBook Pros seem poor value to me. You have to decide whether to max the RAM/SSD upfront, get the new dongles you need all while Apple are nickel and dimming over things like the PSU extension cable which is no longer included despite the price rises.
> Would you like newspapers (e.g. that very NYT) be governmentally regulated...

Specious argument. Internet providers are not content providers. Regulating content is not what's proposed. Those who provide access to content most certainly SHOULD be regulated. They're a common carrier, and no one with a profit motive has any business constraining access to content provided by others. That attitude befits each castle independently taxing passer-by river traffic.

If we're going to allow ISPs to tax us arbitrarily, we'd damned well better have more of them to choose from than the monopoly most of us 'enjoy' now.
Aren't the devices connected to some iCloud account or an equivalent software device lock?

Unless they gut the existing hard drives, can they really even flip these devices? Find My Mac might foil their plans.
This is the right path if you're a lead on one team of many in a larger org, you don't want to risk needing to find another job, and you don't have a burning desire to make a difference and build a track record of change.

If you're in a smaller company, and you have clout due to being closer to the top of the food chain, and you have a vested interest in the success of the operation, to the point that it's worthwhile cutting your losses and moving elsewhere if the outcome isn't positive, then the higher risk strategy of pushing for change makes more sense.
Sounds like a good way to put oneself in harms way for no good reason. Isn't this what insurance is for?
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more likely a simple anonymous email signup that will receive the payload and present the data in an anonymous and easily accessible way. in this case, it just present the keys as the list of referrers (albeit formatted as urls).
The npm ecosystem is the "worst" in this regard, definitely, but it would be foolhardy to assume that this is not likely to happen to you just because you're not using Javascript, or that slowing down to the level of other ecosystems would prevent this from happening to npm.
Really disappointing to see a 16GB RAM on 13" MBP continue to be the max.

HP and Lenovo have no problem offering 32 Gb in a similarly sized machine.

It seems Apple is more interested in forcing people up to the 15" for 32 GB - it might just be time to look at windows again for development / vm purposes. There is zero practicality in lugging around a 15" laptop compared to a 13" after having owned both.

While 32GB of ram makes sense for a 15" discrete GPU laptop, 16G will limit the number of vms or services that can run locally.

+1 for CPU updates
"Move fast and break things" leads to breaking things, it's a shitty and reckless attitude to take towards software development and it puts innocent and vulnerable users at risk.
Of course the dead expect nothing. But the living expect that their wills will be respected after they are gone. To preserve confidence, we must (make a show of) respect the dead.
One guy near the exit did and he got plowed over.
We're moving to an open office soon. I think I'm going to request some VR googles so I can run a VR office app.
It won't spread further... for this specific package. There's nothing to prove that the virus isn't self-replicating and used a different pastebin/source or mechanism when affecting all packages of authors who've had their credentials compromised, and then authors that install the packages that depend on those packages, etc. When publishing credentials of other package authors have been compromised, the scope could be nearly the entire npm ecosystem.
It's easy for people like us to set it up. I've set up Letsencrypt many, many times.

Now, imagine you are Joe Blow hosting his blog on some small web host that barely supports Wordpress. Logging into CPanel is confusing to you. How do you deploy SSL?
> integer shifting and overflow behavior are hardware dependent, stack issues and exploits are hardware dependent

Those are hardware-dependent consequences of incorrect code either producing or failing to handle erroneous values.

This is a different class of problem from that of correct code being turned into a security problem by the hardware.
Is talking like Trump starting to become a thing now?
Late 2013 mbp crew represent!

I think this is the longest i've held onto a computer.
Cool! Very similar to MHRD -- give that a look if this is your thing.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/
> but got tons of porn

Sure hope you're not googling it in an open-plan office...
Take your estimation of the work to do, multiply it by 2.

Surprisingly, it works relatively well to estimate how long the project will actually take.
If it's any help, I found this tool useful: https://www.haptictouchbar.com/ (I'd be surprised if Apple doesn't build this into the Touch Bar at some point.)
To throw some more anecdotes in with the rest of the comments, I love open offices.

I've had my own office and found it lonely and boring. I never got less work done than at that job. Everything took longer because I had to stand up and walk to talk to my team. Instant messaging sort of worked, but if they didn't respond immediately, you didn't know if it was because they missed the message or they weren't actually in their office.

Because I hardly ever talked to my team members I never felt any real friendship or camaraderie with them. That made it harder to get help when I needed it and made my day a lot less enjoyable.

I find that I thrive in open offices. I don't even need headphones to concentrate. Everyone is different I guess.
I guess that unpredictable battery life is way worse than short battery life, in terms of battery anxiety.
It really depends.

I work mostly from home but I do have a cube in the local office. If we got tight for space, it would absolutely make sense to give away my space to someone who would use it more and have me just grab an open chair for those times I have meetings or other reasons to be in the office.

If I had a private office, I would still work from home most of the time. A private office doesn't eliminate a commute.
For $27k? Of goods that doesn't even belong to a natural person? That's nuts.
That's true, but doesn't it also place their fate in the hands of the owners of StatCounter and HiStats?

(Of course I am just speculating - there's definitely still ways this could be abused. I'll update my comment.)
Haha, 32 gb is enough for me at the moment, but I am sure that the engineers at google are doing their best to make sure that chrome consumes record amounts of ram per tab, so soon 32 will no longer be enough.
An aspect that is often left out of the discussion: language support is way better on osx/windows. In particular japanese IME was still very primitive in comparison on linux (tried last year).

That's the same situation as for ios/android really, it's not a deal breaker, but the quality of life difference is clear.
Are you arguing that's communication, or somehow driven by a tree's desires?
I consider a set of bluetooth headphones a part of any office now. I got a really good pair for personal use and work provided one set at work.

Wouldn't be necessary if we had actual offices, but there you go.
I'm fully on board for creating leaner websites and writing less code, but if we're measuring energy usage, then doesn't streaming video pretty much dwarf all other internet traffic? With perhaps blockchain syncs in a distant second place?
When I worked for apple they would simply deactivate the devices and that'd be the end of it. Were never usable again.
There's always someone that's powerful. If it's not tech, it's media or finance or someone else.
The touch bar is an ergonomic nightmare.

Apple's soul truly died back in 2011 with the loss of Steve Jobs.

Their computers are now appropriate funeral attire. Lifeless, fragile and gaunt. The operating system, a pale reflection of the past, reminds me of disney movies and EA games these days -- forumlaic, unimaginative, designed to take your money. iTunes sucks the soul right out of you. It's Apple's laboratory and you're the experiment. Welcome to an homogenous, sterile prison of an operating system. You're no longer unique, nor empowered with an Apple computer. When the shallow keyboards make your fingers sore, when you need to replace the $600 display of your 12" macbook because you pinched the screen for the first time, you'll lose your love for Apple. Something like this will happen to you
If you watched the video or read the article you see a man trying to block them from running and getting knocked over.
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You're probably referring to this story which got a bit of buzz earlier in the year. https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/ikea-bullied-a-potted...

Since it was conceived by an ad agency to promote anti-bullying (and furniture giant IKEA) there's a fair chance it wasn't the most scientifically valid experiment ever conducted.

Mythbusters ran their own test in the past and found that both insulting and being kind to plants stimulated them more than allowing them to grow in silence, but they liked death metal even more (their conclusion was that the basic theory of sound vibrations mildly stimulating growth was plausible). There's more serious research going on into plant bioacoustics: the theory some plants have evolved to respond to specific sound stimuli
ask for some Zenbooths and create rule that calls must be taken in them. It makes the open office workable. www.zenbooth.net
(I'm a founder there)
Send it to Louis. Could just be the backlight.

https://www.rossmanngroup.com/

One of the things I think and hope is going to start happening is an aftermarket parts economy springing up around these particular Macs.
we have dogs in the office. they're quiet and most people love them. in any case they are the least of the distractions...and usually only if you made the miserable decision to eat lunch at desk (which in an open office can be even more of a nuisance)
I tried all the above suggestions for extended periods of time. Ultimately the most productive thing for me was caps lock as control, and Ctrl-[ for escape since it works everywhere in the system.
I would disagree. You're definitely risking violence because these people have a high need to escape. And the price of goods at stake? $27,000.
So... did you read the article, mr. top-voted comment?

> The Nevada auction also included a number of projects that link up utility-scale solar with batteries. Mastering solar plus storage will be critical for renewables to truly overtake fossil fuels, since they only generate power when it’s sunny or when the wind blows.

> “Three years ago you almost never saw batteries as part of a new solar or wind project,” Naam said. “In 2018, we’ve seen battery storage frequently show up as part of these bids. Energy storage is becoming the new normal with solar bids.”
it's going to need to be a lot more than $27,000 worth of stuff that doesn't even belong to me on the line before I'll risk bodily harm for it
Me too. I have an old ThinkPad that I use for car diagnostics. Cheap Gumtree buy, with Win10 and a standard HD. Put a spare 120GB SSD in it, and it's now really usable - previously it was like thick treacle. Win10 seems to be very heavy on drive use?
e.g., Google didn't beat Altavista because its employees were 20% more productive with their office time.
I agree with your first statement, but apple products have always been too expensive. Eventually you just learn to live with it.
It's not just technology per se. We are dumb when it comes to understanding the behavior of any complex system with lots of emergent properties and feedback loops. I doubt the Roman Empire was understandable by its leaders either.

We are also fairly dumb when it comes to understanding things like ecosystems, genetic regulatory networks, the climate, the brain, etc. Those are all systems that have similar properties.
I'm a developer and I love the touch bar.
That does sound pretty awesome, but only in a room where you aren't working.
Some people are hyper-reactive to certain types of information. Whether you want to call it a preference or a handicap, I don't know. I personally have PTSD. I will nearly instinctively read things into faces that I can never be sure is there. This is perpetually confusing and often overloading for me, not to mention a useless waste of thinking cycles. It's taken me years to learn how to be less reactive, but it's always a process of reducing information down to a minimal set of what is most consistent, structured, and true with respect to the social environment. Which often does reduce down to pure language, the direct translation of a statement and the direction it aligns with.

It gets labeled many things, like social anxiety, aspergers, many other stigmatized disorders - but this is often my root problem - being overloaded with the amount of information present in social environments.

I have greater clarity when I can think separated from people physically, most often through text. I've gotten better with audio, but in person communication is still something of a struggle.

I'm not being argumentative either. Just people have differences, and they aren't always easy to notice, identity, or correct.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other. The outcome is the same as far as I can see. It's an interesting distinction to make, however.
That is how you get stabbed/shot. There is a reason most police departments advise to give up property and not confront robbers
I take advantage of Apple's no questions asked return policy for stuff like this:

Take my laptop in to be repaired, buy a brand new MBP at the same time. Load everything onto the new laptop using a time machine backup (takes about 2 hours), and use that while they're repairing my laptop.

When my laptop is fixed, I pick it up and return the one I bought at the same time for a full refund.

It's a bit of fuss making sure I keep the 'free-hire' laptop completely pristine, but it's fun to use a brand new machine every so often.
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Hurricanes and early in the year snow storms (trees fall down on power lines), cause these things to happen.
In America, people tend to watch any of the games, or at least that’s been my experience.

I don’t begrudge people their entertainment, but surely it’s polite not to foist it on others? I don’t play Minecraft let’s play videos for hours at the office, after all!
The menu on this site is essentially what a website's index page used to be, back in the early days of the WWW. It was, generally, a listing of a website's contents, modeled after the default directory listing that a web server produces.

So this menu felt very normal to me, but it may be off-putting to newer users of the web who are used to contemporary conventions such as slide-out hamburgers (not to be confused with slider hamburgers :-) ).
It does vary within teams but overall team roles are a reasonable first cut. You probably don't want to sit software developers right next to your recruiters or inside sales groups.
I work in a place with younger developers, who basically run things themselves with management's blessing. They love the open-plan office layout. I think a lot of this is generational: younger programmers are much more social and like noisy environments where they can chat and banter endlessly.
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It's a perfectly fine example! It doesn't have to be academically rigorous, it just has to demonstrate the basic idea of proving a thing without exposing the thing. Yes, obviously it's not actually a formal ZKP, but analogies are imperfect.
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It is very interesting indeed that tech companies who proud themselves in making decisions that are purely "Data Driven" completely ignores data in this case. Majority of developers hate Open Office and study after study shows that its bad. Yet they can't make decision to have offices. Very strange.
Cubes seem to be very much a US led thing. I've worked in and around London (UK) for over 25 years now, and have worked in small offices (~10 people) up to massive 2000+ people trading floors. Not once have I seen an office split into the 'Office Space' or 'Dilbert' style of cube working.

Given the choice, and as a 100% remote worker now, I'm so glad I don't actually have to choose, I think I'd take the cube over an open trading floor environment any day.
Try getting in the habit of typing escape with Ctrl-[
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Apple will have a record of all of these devices. The mobile devices will just get blocked from the networks by their IMEI, rendering them useless, and it would be trivial for apple to locate the devices based on their serial number at time of registration.
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> What if a worker needs personalized space, like certain lighting, ergonomic chair & keyboard, works on a special desktop station not with a portable laptop, etc.?

They would set their stuff up in the space that best fit their needs or even work from home.
Thanks for sharing this!

I am a IC and I love open offices.

Also agree that privat offices feel lonely and are a hassle.

I think like with many things there is just a vocal minority that bitching about open offices...we need more people speak up about all the benefits of open offices (besides the economic ones for the company that get cynically cited every time).
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A complicating factor here is that when a child is separated from their parents and put into foster care a guardian ad litem can be assigned who have been known to argue that it's in the best interests of the child to remain in the US regardless of whether the parents have been returned to their country of origin.
Mods, please fix the title - It's IPsec, not IPSec.

Kindly, the pedantry department.
Doh, you are correct about selector - the decoder should no be available here (and is not needed). And the bus definitely needs an introduction.
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Just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean that slowing down would prevent it. There's plenty of reasons why certain projects could be a target and some others are not - the sheer size of the npm ecosystem could for example be an important factor.

That said, Debian is an interesting example, because they have indeed slowed down significantly (i.e. not "a bit") compared to e.g. Maven and npm, and have significant more manual checks. I do believe that that helps them a lot in being less vulnerable, but I also believe that that approach is far more viable for their use case than for e.g. Maven and npm.
I thrive in hybrid environment. I go to office for half the day, while other half the day I either work from home, or in a coffee place or somewhere else where I can be in the zone for hours.

But the downside is I’m a workaholic. I spend too many hours working.
This is interesting - what are the typical use cases where you need to write more than 2-4 letters (e.g. "FBI" or "NASA" or something like that) in all caps ? It seems like quite unusual domain of writing - is it legal documents or something like that?
The usual convention for logic gates is to draw them so that information flows from left to right (or, less usually, top to bottom) and they're connected in the direction of information flow. Is there any reason why these conventions aren't followed here?
Maybe software developers should create a union or something like that? Maybe the fact that unions have been destroyed since the 1970s has something to do with the wages not increasing that much anymore?
That is why it should be a mix. I get zero coding done in an open office. Networking, sales etc yes, but programming nope. None. So a courtyard office works best for me.