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> Good career prospects are not part of this value proposition

This is a relatively new situation. It wasn't long ago that having a degree humanities was sufficient to get an entry level position for a good middle-class job. Now college/university is seen as a necessity, that is no longer sufficient to stand-out career-wise.
So you just claim that everyone who prefers a nice ride and newer technological assistants etc is using their car for status symbol.

I bet you also use only sandals to get from A to B? Because proper shoes would be a status symbol and no one wants to steal sandals.

I am sorry but newer cars beat old ones in many points. Sure there is a point after your car becomes a status symbol, but being an old beater is not that point.
I would say it worked pretty well. We also had some pretty dogmatic rules that were revised once per project and people didn't argue about until the end of a project. This was good and bad. It made the devs who had been there 3+ years super effective with like no mental overhead. It was very difficult on new poeople to learn the system and the company AND fight with a lot of other rules at CR time. The company was biasing for lots of long term happy programmers who were super effective so I understand why they did it. The average tenure was 5+ years on the dev staff.

we wrapped it into our engine language. Even though we were a sony only shop we still just talked our stuff. For instance we didn't use any reference to any of the input apis, we just had a global input class g_Input and Input that did all of the input logic. It was pretty easy to make this work for direct input on windows vs the state machine polling system on PS3.
For many months now I have been bad at paying bills, filing tax etc due to anxiety and depression. It is like paralysis. But reality does not wait for you. There are consequences like fines and court orders. How have you overcome this? I feel I will be happier if I can manage my duties better.
I've found promising results trying this one out:

https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw
Ryzen has indeed seized AMD a lot of mindshare among people who build their own rigs. The problem is that people who build their own rigs are a vanishingly small slice of the overall population of people who buy computers.
OneDrive doesn't support dotfiles and thus can't sync Git repos.

This does not appear to still be the case based on testing just now (creating a folder named ".foldername", containing a file named ".testfile" then verifying that they've synced up to OneDrive). Several years ago it didn't support syncing folders with a . in the name, but that was resolved 3 years ago.

With Microsoft's relatively new focus on Git, I can't imagine that problems with repositories stored in OneDrive folders would remain unfixed.

I will note that there are names that Windows Explorer won't let you create - notably, names beginning with a ".". That's an Explorer issue, not a OneDrive or filesystem issue - you can create such files and folders programmatically or from a command prompt.
Ah, you mean like little bars that pop up at the bottom for like 10 seconds? I guess I have seen those now that you mention it.
On one hand, the connectivity is awesome.

But on the other hand, I haven't kept a phone in my possession for more than 3 or 4 years. And these are wayyy more expensive than phones.

I think there's a real market for "regular" cars powered by electric motors. Just take my truck, rip out the drivetrain and put in electric motors and battery. Same old door handles, same regular window buttons, same regular radio.

I'd drive that thing until the battery catches on fire (er, I mean the wheels fall off).
Yeah but if you live in New York or Washington DC credentials are more important than substance.
Mozilla is not one of the dominant players and Mozilla has a different agenda.

So they bring a bit of diversity to the table that makes us less dependent on one specific type of vested interests.
The fancy protocol gives you PFS by generating new keys for each messaging round trip between parties. Anything in flight is subject to decryption if you can grab the keys from an endpoint before they're cycled.

The upside is that users can communicate with each other without needing both endpoints online simultaneously (which is fairly hard to guarantee, given all the battery saving stuff in mobile OSes and lack of 100% network coverage).

The downside is the key cycle time is much longer than they would be if all communications were done with both parties online, but it's still much shorter than a conventional PKI (ex PGP).
The particular truths sought matter less for most jobs than the amount of research and critical thinking along the way.

Sadly, as has been pointed out, the humanities have become a monoculture of thought and encourage rote initiation into the groupthink, rather than independent research and analysis.

Of course, that won't get you most STEM jobs, but it would have a lot more practical application, and therefore economic value, for most other white collar jobs- at least compared to the current degrees.
A quiet media server at home and VPN is what does it for me. That solution is not for everyone but someone could start making pre-built images or media servers with nextcloud. I believe FreeNAS and the like already have nextcloud as an app option.
Most decent garage door openers use "rolling codes" these days. For example, Genie's "Intellicode"[0]:

> The Intellicode Access Security System provides state-of-the-art security for your home by automatically changing your opener’s access code every time you push the remote control button. This prevents an unauthorized person from stealing the access code to your opener system and gaining entry to your garage.

A quick Google turned up OpenSesame[1] which says this about "rolling codes":

> These are not foolproof from attack, but do prevent the OpenSesame attack along with traditional brute forcing attacks. Suggested vendors: current products from LiftMaster and Genie.

[0] http://www.geniecompany.com/garage-door-openers/retail_std-f...

[1] http://samy.pl/opensesame/
But that only works when real estate prices don't force everyone to park their cars on the street due to renting out their garages as illegal apartments.
Self-help is just a part of what he does; actually it is a recent part.

Years before the current controversy, Peterson has been publishing his university lectures on YouTube. They are quite fascinating, if you are interested in mythology or Jungian archetypes. Nothing political in the narrow sense of the word, just in general how people navigate between the "Chaos and Order", or less poetically, the eternal ambivalence of systems we create, which are both supportive and suppressive at the same time.

Among people whom I know which are impressed by Peterson, most of them found him through the controversy, but most of them stayed because of those lectures. That is his life-long work. The self-help is just a simplified extract.
I guess that this test is useful for managers who don't understand the details of the work that is required to accomplish the task. If you actually know what it takes to get the job done then you don't need an orange juice test; you can do proper due diligence by asking difficult domain-specific questions.

This article highlights the problem that managers today don't have sufficient domain knowledge to do their jobs properly so they're forced to rely on dumbed-down heuristics in order to make decisions.

The problem with such superficial approach is that there will always be people who know how to game it. There are a lot of people whose only talent is showing you exactly what you want to see.

Also, on the other end of the spectrum, such heuristics tend to unjustly filter out extreme performers/outliers. These kinds of dumbed-down heuristics are a big reason why our current economic system is so unfair and inefficient.

If you want to get to the meat, you have to crack through the shell first.
Why would any part of your identity or self-worth come from maintaining an account on a dying white supremacist message board? Reconsider.
I've had neighbors who are pilots (and 1 was a backup pilot who was always on call when someone couldn't show up).

They've explained that your hours count ONLY when the plane has closed the door and backed away from the gate. Then you are officially being paid for your time.

This explains the horror stories of "stuck on the runway". It's usually issues with weather/equipment/airport, etc. and it's not in the crew's best interest to just stay at the gate until the issue is resolved. If you're at the gate, the crew is not being paid.
$120k in SF is considered poverty level. And 60k Euros in Paris is nowhere close. 60k means you don't just get by you actually can live. I know because I have.
I'm pretty sure home-dir encryption was the default with Ubutunu 15.04.

I know that I installed Ubuntu with default settings, and was pleasantly surprised by that. Not sure about the exact version though.
It's somewhat absurd how insecure car computer systems are. It may not be hugely problematic currently (though as the article illustrates, it's not completely innocuous), but I wonder if manufacturers will improve this before self-driving cars start large-scale rollout; Otherwise, it should be interesting to see the first cases of people's cars driving themselves away overnight.
How does that differentiate this from a centralized system then?
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Couldn't agree more. Exhausting myself physically during work week some how makes me feel better about myself. Maybe because in process I achieve my fitness goals or maybe I am surrounded by people who do the same and appreciate it, so it gives me a feeling of belonging. What ever the reason, working out makes me happy.
I'll withhold comment about the religious aspects, but I think I would like to see more academic interest in what it means to "live the good life" in a developing era of high technology, with an anxiety-inducing attention economy, lower-cost material needs but increasingly tempting highly marketed material wants and positional goods (an economy in the style of Tyler Cowen's "Average is Over"). Teach people enough to critically understand whether progress is a treadmill, and whether the treadmill is worth getting off.

There is evidence (higher suicide rates, and depression rates, although depression rates may be influenced by underlying trends in clinical technique) that all this progress doesn't make us any happier. Keeping up with the Joneses to compete for status results in a pretty shitty nash equilibrium when there are a billion people in the world.

It feels like any and all effort that the humanities put into making an actual impact on modern day life is just lashing out at power structures. This can help achieve equality in the long run, but for student's who are studying these topics, it does not provide anything actionable to their own lives. Academic Philosophy is applicable to a student's current and future life, but the way that it is studied only rarely provides a grounding foundation for a personal lifestyle philosophy.
Commercial rsync... https://rsync.net/
I wonder if this is included in the SCOAP3 categories? (The vast majority of high-energy physics research is now open-access, due to collective negotiations between researchers, libraries, and publishers: https://scoap3.org/what-is-scoap3/ )
> There's plenty of metropolitan cities where no one has to drive

What percentage of the land mass of the US does that constitute? I bet less than 10% and that's being really generous.
I was stating that having to use the available E-ink displays is a reduction in quality of life because they are small (13"), expensive (~1000usd), and limited in function and performance which makes most web activities aggravating due to lag and ghosting. They aren't a solution, but just a more difficult workaround that shrinks life even more in my case.
Nice Portfolio.
Environmental familiarity can be a huge thing. It's something we don't really notice with our mix of technology and associated wide-ranging logistics.

I've got a little taste of it myself. I casually hiked and camped in the Northern Rockies for years. I didn't realize how many small bits of specific knowledge I'd picked up until recently moving to the midwest and doing some camping here. Different woods, that burn differerently. Damper conditions in general that make for all kinds of different prep. My knowledge of what is safe to eat (and what is not) went from fairly extensive to almost nothing. Different geography and climate that changes what you want in a campsite and what sort of site you are likely to find. A thousand little things that each make a difference.
With only stone age kit and knowledge base, moving out of your "home range" would have doubtless been quite challenging.
I have to say, it's really frustrating that Postgres is a second class citizen in the AWS ecosystem. Aurora in general is often far behind on Postgres support relative to MySQL. I hope this changes going forward.
They are certainly influential, but so are talk radio and the news media, should those platforms also be forced to broadcast content they disagree with? I don't see any differences between Facebook and any other private businesses that have built media platforms.
Mercedes-Benz's have a pop-out metal clip that can be used to lock the glove and trunk. It's designed to be extract with a simple press so that dropping you car with a valet doesn't require turning off the car to remove it.

Clearly the lock isn't meant to stop a determined intruder. It's more of the "Locks are for honest people" type thing to indicate that you shouldn't be opening the glove or trunk.
There are several conflicting requirements.

Generally we want only those eligible to cast one vote each and yet the votes must be secret, anonymous and repudiable. But we also want the counting to be auditable by the public and traceable by the individual voter.
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I did find all configurations that way.
How does it compare with CoherentGT? https://coherent-labs.com/coherent-gt-or-hummingbird/
Sure.. but we were also only a sony shop, so we had 3 platforms ever, and only 2 were supported at any time (during transitions). So it was more that moving from PS3 -> Windows (while ps4 was only a gfx card) -> PS4 had little impact on the rest of the code base. I'm not saying we were windows / mac / linux / ios / android / ooya / ps4 / ps3 / switch / xbone / 360. I have no experince into that.
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This comment was flagged. It's not, like, the most substantive comment on the thread, but it's not un-substantive. Patrick isn't calling someone here a neo-Nazi, as an epithet. He's pointing out that Torba is one. I think he's probably right. If he's wrong, make an argument; don't abuse the flag button.
There are three claims:

- The more people eschew identity politics, the more uncertain is the future of any political party (left or right) that builds its platform on it. That seems self evident.

- There is a significant, and possibly growing, number of people who eschew identity politics. No statistics are presented to support this, but considering the left's "It's Her Turn!" rhetoric failed to hold enough water to put "Her" in office, and actively turned some people against her, I don't think it's such an outrageous notion.

- Peterson is one of the driving forces behind the possible growth of the anti-identity-politics crowd. If you want numbers, just look at the statistics on Peterson's YouTube channel. Agree with him or not, his popularity is undeniable.

Pick apart those points if you wish. But calling the author a liar by pointing out that an image of a person folding laundry doesn't refer to a specific, literal person (you don't say?) is pure sophistry.
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Putting batteries in the fridge / freezer will dramatically shorten their life.
PBS did a piece, Frontline IIRC, about regional airlines and airlines like Ryan were discussed.

They essentially underpay employees by A LOT compared with the major airlines. It's how they keep their prices low. Pay little, charge for everything, but discount the price of the regular ticket by a lot.

And WHY would you take that job? Because it gets your foot into the door in the industry.

As a pilot, for you to become a captain (and earn more money), you have to complete certain thousands of hours of flight. And so you want to do that as quickly as possible. Regional airlines are a much easier to be hired into and you can get your routes on a very regular basis to make up all of your hours. Then, when you've completed your hours, you then apply to work for a larger airline with better pay and benefits.
Ask HN: Assistive Tools for Deaf and Dumb (Voice to Text)
I was talking to a friend who's cousin has been deaf and dumb since birth. They tried giving her "implants" to make her hear but the background noise made it intolerable. Given the breakthrough in Voice to text technologies recently, I took it for granted that she would be able to understand any conversation around but apparently she isn't able to make out anything people say and sometimes gets sad because of that (on quite a few occasions she can successfully lip read though).

Something even as simple as a continuous background voice to text converter, and when she wants to "talk" a text to voice converter should be much better for her than her current status (my assumption is she always has a laptop or mobile screen in front of her).

This should be as simple as integrating some Voice to text and text to voice APIs from anywhere (say Google cloud, assuming internet connectivity isn't a problem?)

This seems incredibly basic and I assume systems like this should exist! If not, I could hack it over a weekend. Could you please link me to the existing tools you know to solve this problem for folks with hearing problems?
It's not unique. I've worked in large teams with benevolent dictators (who were open to feedback and suggestion), and large teams where everyone wanted to be at the same level.

In the latter scenario, generating momentum is damned difficult, as everyone is trying to herd cats to their own priorities.

Smaller teams in that regard can be more flexible / nimble, as there are fewer total competing priorities, but that isn't to say that it is always true in either direction.
Love the work you guys are doing!
Thank you so much for the insight.
Contrary to the word from Washington, D.C., utility-scale renewables are not "badly behaved coal plants" that threaten grid reliability and national security, Seb Henbest, lead author of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance New Energy Outlook, wrote July 25. "By 2050, we're painting a picture of an electricity system utterly reshaped around cheap wind, solar and batteries."

Wind and solar were 8.2% of U.S. generation in 2017, with wind at 6.3% and solar at 1.9%, and U.S. grids are integrating record levels of renewables without disruption. Wind was 54% of Texas generation on October 27, 2017, and wind and solar together provided 64.6% of California's power on May 26, 2018.
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I do it on my current server stuff as well. Generally I don't talk to dynamo directly, I make a pretty simple wrapper that speaks the language of the project. This helps with mocking and with isolating the business logic from shifts in schema. Also makes it easier to use test dynamo db.
Hasn't it been reported that psychosis is caused by a lack of connectivity in the brain? I seem to remember someone saying that there had been a breakthrough in discovering that certain brain cells were pulling double duty as immune cells and overzealously pruning connections, causing psychosis.

If over-connectivity is the source of all these problems then isn't that a boon because it must be simpler to cut connections therapudicly than to create them
i just thought it was interesting if not just for the subjects it covers. information theory before shannon, Henri Bergson's time philosophy, thermodynamics/statistical mechanics, learning machines (neural networks?)

I'll try to get my hands on human use of human beings, probably give cybernetics another run through too
Do you have a portfolio? I have some colleagues in Paris looking for a full stack dev right now.
> A U.N. human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy”.

> Gay McDougall, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, cited estimates that another 2 million Uighurs and Muslim minorities are forced into so-called “political camps for indoctrination”.

One million in a single camp? Is that right? I always got the impression that the camps were smaller and more distributed.

If true, someone needs to publish the coordinates of the camp, there's no way such a thing could be hidden from satellites.
I maintain two browsers - a secure one, and an insecure one. The insecure setup runs in a VM, and the profile is on a disk shared from the host - where the host side symlinks the associated directory to /dev/null.

Seeing that anyone still uses Flash just makes me sad.
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Auto bill pay is a boon.

Hire a tax preparer. It costs more than doing it yourself, but I find we often discount the cognitive cost of just doing a thing when considering whether to outsource stuff.

In other words, build / use systems to minimize the impact of your own limitations on your responsibilities.
My ideal would be if AMD gives an HDL license to Apple, and they make semi custom chips with the ex-Intrinsity guys going to town with power micro optimizations making a nice AMD mobile chip. It'd be kind of the best of both worlds for Apple with an x86 mobile chip that they control. And it'd be a nice way for AMD to differentiate itself as I'm sure that Intel would never in a million years give full HDL to Apple.
> If you identified as a partner, husband, father, boyfriend, etc. then the loss of that feels like a loss of self. But if the person in your life was just that: another person, in your life, then you can still miss them, but nothing intrinsic to who you are was lost. You are not broken, shattered, or harmed.

But the whole thing about a good relationship is that it creates a new, third entity -- a we, that lives aside the old you and I. It's that feeling of creation that makes the relationship so fulfilling. And that's why the end of the relationship is painful; it means bearing witness to a kind of death. Even if your own identity comes out unchanged, you've still experienced a very real loss.
Only Fedora Server. Fedora Workstation, Cloud, Atomic, and all the spins, are using ext4 on LVM.
Well think about it, if you're unit testing or functional testing (full stack api based but mocked out downstreams) then you have at least 2 maybe 3 platforms to run against. The real, the mock and maybe the more fancy mock for the functional tests. So say you were talking directly to dynamo api for all of this, it's a lot harder to mock out the dynamo API than it is to mock out a simple 3 method interface.
Not disagreeing, but it can go both ways. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and broke the law, I'm sure that created some angry white hatred, but in the end advanced equal rights for African Americans.
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