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> Try Gopher if you like the feeling of tech nostalgia. Gopher is part of a bygone age on the net. The simple fact that Veronica used a database of every Gopher archive to search points to a time when the Internet was small and personal, and it can bring that feeling back in a small, carefully curated and distributed Gopher network. Retro can be fun.

This is exactly why I love Gopher.

I was born in the mid-90's. The first computer I can remember using ran Windows ME. My formative computing years were spent on Windows XP and Windows 7, chatting with my friends on AIM and occasionally breaking my computer by trying to dual boot Linux or OSX. The only programming language I used before I switched my major to computer science was TI-BASIC.

I feel like I missed the time period where computers and computer programs were simple enough to actually understand them, instead of just having a good enough approximation in your head. When the internet was available but not yet mainstream. Before everything became so commercialized and homogenized.

I know that the time periods I missed out on weren't actually as awesome as I think they were. I'm sure I would feel differently had I actually lived in them, but there's this sort of nostalgia for a time period that I never experienced that I feel about a lot of things. As far as I know, there's no word for that feeling but vaporwave music is a pretty good example of it.

Things like Gopher help me satisfy that feeling. There's no logical reason for me to use it over http and there's hardly anything available on Gopher nowadays but it makes me feel good in the same way that using a linux terminal and vim instead of an IDE makes me feel good, listening to a cassette tape makes me feel good, and watching War Games makes me feel good.
what about the iphone demo was hacky ?- just curious
> It shouldnt be difficult to determine when it is that a wealthy person hired a less wealthy person to do the unsavory thing in order to exploit the lower fine.

How? You would have to prove collusion between them rather than just a normal contractor-type relationship where the contractor does something unsavory entirely of their own volition.

> Say we return to a robust progressive income tax system where if you make over say, 10 million dollars a year, you get taxed 90%. The arbitrage loophole doesnt work because, what, are you going to split up your 10M/Year income between 20 different less wealthy people and have them spend your money for you in order to avoid the tax?

Of course. That's exactly what happens in those types of situations. As soon as you hit the 90% rate, the next thing you know the spouse is on the payroll, or the kids, the parents, brothers and sisters, in-laws, cousins, friends of the family etc.

> What am I saying, of course the rich would find a way to skirt taxes. It's like, their whole shtick. I loathe the whole "Of course I'll do every shady, up to and including illegal things, to pay less taxes because if theres a loophole I want to exploit it". No, in fact you are acting being an anti-social cretin who neglects to give back to the society that produced the material conditions that allows for your wealth.

Right, which is why you need policies they can't avoid instead of ones like this which they can.

The best way to do this is a UBI funded by a flat tax. The rich can't arbitrage a flat rate and the UBI makes it progressive (meaning net transfer from rich to poor).
It very much implies it. It just doesn't guarantee it.

Imply (verb): indicate the truth or existence of (something) by suggestion rather than explicit reference.
FWIW, I think the multiple desktops feature in 10 is a good quality of life change. Past that I’d probably agree. Give me any other modern OS before Windows.
The once great dreams of the Internet uplifting all mankind and moving us towards some kind of massive sharing on knowledge in order to gain truth has been hijacked by a bunch if idiot fucking shills. It's the same reason these a-holes bought the WaPo.
You seem to be assuming that lines of growth continue in one direction forever. They do not.

In 1900, the population of Sweden was about 5M, and the birth rate was 4.02 (which was already falling from its historic average of around 5.0). In the 19th century, 20% of the population fled to the US to escape famine. Today, the population is around 10M, and the birth rate is 1.79. Sweden was pretty typical of Europe, pre-WWI.

Would you have said "What could go wrong?" when talking about Europe's birth rate and population growth a century ago? No? Then why be afraid of the same pattern in Africa?

Population growth today is mostly a function of increased life expectancy and drastically reduced child mortality rates. Low child mortality has led to reduced birth rates everywhere, to the point where most industrialized nations have negative growth (discounting immigration). The birth rate has already leveled off globally. It will level off in Africa, too, and the population will stabilize. A century from now, Africa will have zero population growth.
I don't think that's the case. I work at Amazon currently, so I can see employee profiles. One of the Twitter accounts with a unique first name is the only person with that first name in the company, and she works at the FC in Florida, as her profile says. Her title is normal for an FC associate as well.
Amazon has a "we don't like to overpay" attitude about everything that makes it hard for them to increase wages in their fulfillment centers.

They want even their white collar employees to have blue collar mindsets in terms of work ethic and cutting costs to benefit customers. If they could magically increase the wages of the FC employees and have no adverse consequences other than a slightly smaller profit margin, they might consider it, as it would be great PR for them. The problem would be that it would encourage employees to complain about working too hard and how they "deserve" to be paid more. The risk of employees trying to unionize might even go up.

Amazon cares a lot more about customers than employees, and the truth is most customers don't really care about where their products came from. When people go to a restaurant, they don't ask how much the line looks or dishwashers get paid, they just want good food.
Isn't coffee and doughnuts a very classic combo?
Some countries do much better than others.
resume-driven development?
They post facts about working conditions. Quoting someone else:

"Tweet: Hello! Amazon does pay their employees minimum wage - any less would be illegal One thing that often gets overlooked are the employee benefits that Amazon provides for all employees - Health insurance, 401K, career/financial counseling.

Amazon pays minimum wage is a factual statement. Minimum wage is not a good wage for the job but its still factual. You either offer them health insurance, 401K, counseling or you dont. I would say that's also a factual statement. Whether or not you agree with it is your decision but actually having transparent facts is refreshing these days."
Think about the scale of 2.2B users. Imagine how difficult it would be to moderate just America. Now imagine handling 6.8 x America. Or 1.6 x China or India. That is a massive undertaking for any centralized entity. Probably bigger than many countries national security efforts to feasibly implement. Is it really worth it to Facebook when their primary concern as a corporation is their bottom line?
Like those times you just say "FTW, I'm gonna spew as much unburned fuel out the tailpipe as possible".
For some reason, probably coincidence mangled with early-stage dementia, I found this article remarkably similar to https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-desperate-q...
I'm in my 30s and most of my friends use snapchat for instant messaging, that is the primary purpose of snapchat.
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To add to your point, nobody actually trolls in person or in real life because 1) the body language gives them away immediately and 2) they're risking getting punched in the face for their effort.

The problem with online debate is that it's too easy for people to purposefully poison a discussion that is already on shaky ground by acting in bad faith.

Usually when people on opposite sides of a discussion engage in good faith, they might not agree on everything afterwards, but it won't give them a terrible view of the opposing viewpoint and humanity in general.
is this your side project? Sounds like a main one.
What are you implying here? That the violation isn't as bad because the data was already being collected by other agencies/companies?
That would be just emotional marketing in the other direction (the one you want). Not any more obviously correct.
...and for those who don't have grandma and grandpa or don't live in close enough proximity to make that feasible?
If you get a weechat instance set up, you can then connect to that via the glowing bear app.
Perhaps.

Another one is coffee and cigarettes.
Maybe if Apple didn't charge many times more than credit card processors to handle payments, developers wouldn't be trying to avoid getting robbed.
Community college is not absurdly expensive.
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The problem is still the context in which cinebench would be ran. There are so many variable on a complex system that "the microcode killed cinebench perf" could very well be an over simplification of "the microcode in conjunction with this particular motherboard and this version of the kernel plus this particular Nvidia driver lead to a bad interaction that affects cinebench performance negatively".
I have seen something similar. A spectacular display in the mid-90's in February at Big Trout Lake Ontario; I watched it from the lake on the winter road. The entire sky would react to waves of energy, and there was a dark hole - as you described - in the middle of the sky. I have never seen such a dramatic display of aurora, with such strange patterns (vs the typical whisps of light) before or after.
Tesla can SSH into a customer's car? What could possibly go wrong?
This was the most intense and compelling piece of writing I've read all year. I love hearing this gnarly warts & all reporting from the front lines. Guy sounded really smart, able to wrap his head around so many types of systems and roles in the company.
Ubuntu Linux has millions of testers, your custom version has only been tested by you and your customers :)
There are more important things than money.
This is their business model that leads them to where they are now. Open source market is very tricky, you work for others and if you don't know how to earn money, you are done.
Automotive ADAS systems generally require ASIL-D certification, which is much easier with an RTOS than Linux. I don't have much experience with real-time embedded Linux, but my understanding is that it is very difficult or impossible to certify to ASIL-D. Can someone correct me?
I dunno, and it doesn't really matter for this conversation.

After all, why would tech workers choose that pay scale when putting together the rules for their union?

(And, if they did choose that, whose place is it for anyone outside the union to tell them that's wrong?)
Intel reportedly convinced Microsoft not to choose ARM for Surface Go
I used IRC (a lot) in the early 90s. I built the first online texas holdem poker game hosted as an IRC bot around 1994. There were a few hundred players, many of them asked to play for real money. People created graphical clients and another guy extended the code to add tournament rules.

Apparently poker pro chris ferguson first started playing poker on IRC.

I definitely missed a huge opportunity to monetize it.

IRC these days is a bit of a mess with custom authentication protocols that make it too hard to use. Slack is extremely easy to setup for an organization and just works.
Community college generally will get you a maximum of about half of a bachelor's degree (and far less than that by market value.)

It helps, but the other half isn't as cheap.
So an S Corp is too much bother? A friend of mine suggested looking at that.
> Rust is nothing but a slapdash C style copy of its semantics.

Rust is a copy of Ada's semantics for dealing with memory unsafe code? Could you provide an example of what you mean?

> Ada does, and has better and more clear conventions for "unsafe" programming (pointer arithmetic, conversions, etc)

Can you give some examples here of what you mean? I found Interfaces.C.Pointers, but I don't know enough about the language to know if that's what you were talking about
I have a Model S, and Tesla pushes buggy firmware to it last week. It causes the entire instrument cluster, including the speedometer, to disappear periodically while driving. Tesla knows about the bug and it’s apparently a “high priority”. It’s not entirely clear to me that they are capable of rolling back the update.
That’s good to know. Indeed, the Pathfinder’s OS (VxWorks) had priority inheritance but it wasn’t enabled on a particular mutex and enabling it was the fix.

Priority inversion had been known about since the 70s. Priority inheritance seems to have first been proposed in 1990:

https://www3.nd.edu/~dwang5/courses/spring18/papers/real-tim... (Priority Inheritance Protocols: An Approach to Real-Time Synchronization)

The Pathfinder engineers were apparently unaware of the priority inheritance option available in VxWorks until they had to debug the issue live from a few hundred million km away.
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I like it. I'm a big fan of cars that look very unique, even if they are also hideous.
I'm not sure if your argument holds, because convenience is important to criminals too. Analogy: phone taps; criminals could easily use encryption over the phone to avoid eavesdropping, except it turns out that phone taps are still useful.
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Facebook also obviously thinks of themselves as a tech company first and foremost, so the question of moderating and scaling moderating is considered almost solely from the standpoint of it being a technical problem.

The problem is a social and human one. Newspapers have traditionally handled it with editors and people and human policies. Facebook isn't inclined to explore editors and people and human policies, not because they don't scale or we don't know how to scale them (Wikipedia has scaled relatively okay, for what that is worth as an example; Newspapers have used editors and researchers for a long time), but that it's not an interesting technical problem to scale people.

Facebook even had people hired in some of these moderation roles for a while, but it was sexier for them to use essentially blackbox algorithms that turned out were easy to game by malevolent entities. Now they only seem to question "fixing" the blackboxes rather than finding solutions that use smart or trained people.
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I'm not seeing what's inherently wrong with Africans to be honest. In fact I feel like these malthusian arguments often have a racialized tinge to them
Best part of the FPGA class I took in college was writing a processor from scratch. ALU, program counter, control logic, all in VHDL.

Wish I'd taken the followon course about writing peripherals.
Thanks for the correction. I just assumed that the other article was about the same transition and I forget to check the details.

PS: If someone else wants to know why the 1S-2S and the 1S-2P transition have almost the same energy, but no exactly the same energy, it's an interesting weird story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_shift
Depending on where you were, it might have actually been the Earth's north magnetic pole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Magnetic_Pole

Edit to add that the aurora happens in the upper atmosphere, so its interaction with the magnetic pole would be visible over long distances of the Earth's surface.
I've done this, 100% tested documentation for a complex project, and it was a nightmare to maintain (eventually abandoned).

Maybe it makes sense for simple projects, but for my project it was an utter disaster.
As someone who previously worked for a Dialogic customer with a single-digit customer number, I didn’t realize Dialogic had sold its hardware business off (again; after the IBM acquisition and subsequent spin-off). About time.

That said, I never really saw Dialogic as in the SMB space, certainly not their hardware division.

We must have had over 300 D480SC-2T1 boards in service at peak. Absolute workhorses. Their cPCI offerings were never as stable but 16 T1s or 1000 SIP ports in a single slot was extremely attractive. I recall them having issues with their supply chain for the high-density SIP boards in conjunction with field failures that pushed us towards their software product, HMP.

Dialogic’s HMP product was more stable and ultimately cheaper at scale (for SIP anyway; never had good luck with their T1 interface boards on HMP). Funny they didn’t sell that division off. Perhaps it’s still profitable or maybe Sangoma was simply uninterested as it isn’t really aligned with the Asterisk/FreeSWITCH ecosystem.

Wonder how much of that stuff is still running. You left a year after me so I suppose you wouldn’t know ;)
Awesome, reminds me of my day's working in telco, doing automated testing of our DPI based billing by having a laptop on my desk connect > download file > disconnect > repeat and checking for discrepancies in the records. Was it ever hard to find the AT commands at the time to automate this from the spec sheets on the modems.
You have to get a warrant for phone taps
If that's the standard, then almost everything becomes safety critical. Drivers can easily get distracted by malfunctioning smartphones or apps. (Or, for that matter, properly functioning smartphones or apps.) Yet the prior discussion was based on the idea that things like iPhones and Facebook aren't safety critical the way this is.
>We found that in some cases the "charge-only" USB mode may also fail to block AT commands.

wow that is embarrassing. This needs to be added to CTS like 5 years ago ..
That is such an over-generalization that I don't know where to begin... no, not all communication is in the mold of paid PR.

And, paid PR is not how you correct falsehoods. How about independent research? For example, if Amazon actually was interested in transparency, they could let a 3rd party survey a representative sample of warehouse workers and make public the results. That would be true transparency.
I've been learning WPF, and I want to shoot myself. It looks pretty, and is very flexible, but it's just so much damn typing. Plus the errors you get out of it are often pretty useless.

Maybe my brain just doesn't get it, but the documentation makes me crazy too. I just hate everything about it.
> You have a right to have my phone etc etc

What? Nobody has the right to look at my phone.
They pay out the ass for child care if they're rich or they find the one mother in the neighborhood who runs an under the table daycare for everyone's kids if they're poor, same as it's always been.
In my experience a lot of people are very bad at paying attention to what it says about session difficulty in the program. I was on the program committee of a tech conference for a number of years and saw a lot of feedback forms from people who clearly don't understand what words like "introduction" and "deep-dive" (and their numerical equivalents) mean.

We tried a lot of different approaches and you still end up with some audience members whose expectations are seriously out of tune with the content of sessions.

Of course, sometimes there's fault with the presenter too.
People are working on the pure JS version of BLAS: https://github.com/jacobbogers/blasjs . Hopefully that work leads to best practices and a standard
Of the various ideas you could come up with "only the rich should be allowed to have more than one child" doesn't strike me as "the right thing to do."
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Agreed. Personally, I think car design peaked with the Volvo 240.

It's just so majestic. Especially in bright colors like orange.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/19...
this is very good point about generational differences based on how fast it's country developing

when I compare household of my Chinese parents in law with my parents households it really seem like we skipped generation, because their household it's closer to my deceased grandma's household with few exceptions and same can be applied also about opinions and thinking even when i compare my wife with them and even she has to admit the have really old school opinions closer to generation of my grandma than my parents and these are quite educated urbanites which are almost middle class (and didn't object their daughter marrying foreigner it expecting some money from me as happened to many of my colleagues in China), not some poor uneducated farmers where the difference must be even starker
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There isn't actually that many sap/oracle like packages in .net

Even dynamics isn't .net
It means they are so underpaid they need food stamps. It means the taxpayer is subsidizing Amazon. It just another example of corporate welfare at the expense of the public.
I don't need F# for ML.NET and still get to use it on the above scenarios where F# gets a no entry to play allowance.
Definitely seen this first hand as well, as well as seen change happen!

While I agree you should not attempt significant rewrites right away, and spend time to develop your knowledge of system...
don't just sit back and wait. That won't help solve the problem.

1. Be up front about your opinions and rally the group around the long-term goal to improve code quality. Do it in a positive manner where it's clear that you want to make an impact and help make changes for the better! (not just complaints)
2. Explain your reasoning clearly (testing, code quality, engineer happiness, etc) and ask for input / get buy-in. Open up the discussion.
3. Bring this feedback up consistently as an important part of your experience at this company (in 1-1's, and other team meetings)
Good ways to do this are when discussing OKRs, retrospectives, etc.

Believe that YOU have the ability to spark a change and develop real pride amongst the team!
If you don't feel this is possible, this is not the right place for you.
Could be a single electric motor driving the 2 wheels through a differential.

This site has pictures of 2 motors that would fit in in the transmission tunnel, leading me to believe they would attach to a traditional drive shaft.
http://www.nedra.com/build.html

Cursory search didn't bring up any undercarriage images to prove my theory.

This is a concept, I'm not sure the engineering for 4 motors to work in unison is as easy as using some conventional drivetrain stuff and just swapping the power plant 1:1.
Same. We had/got to implement a keyboard controller and VGA output as well and the grading was based on our system running prof's C programs, taking input, and producing correct output. Lots of late nights, but great fun when it worked.
I'll get back to you with my decision about whether to read an entire book to make heads or tails of your obscure comment.