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I think i disliked it then because it was written in Java, and if i remember it performed poorly on most machines compared to Compiz Fusion.
To me an interrupt is a signal. They can be as complex or as simple as one desires. I'm unsure that concept can ever be replaced. Interrupt controllers, on the other hand, are very complex, which may warrant different abstractions someday.
Which is why these choices should be fairly simple, if you're confident of your own ethical stance. Most tech people's moral sacrifices are made for convenience/a few thousand dollars, not to put food on the table.

If you work for a high-status SV company and you have a lot of moral qualms, you should leave your job and find one you feel better about.
RMS seems to deny the role we free software people play in the demographics of our communities.

You're making a major assumption that any such role is played. There's no reason to think that is the case. The free software community is in many ways highly diverse, as measured by things like the countries they come from, their ages, their life experiences. It is dominated by men because women generally don't volunteer to write any kind of software at all. If there was really a widespread problem with GNU maintainers excluding legions of open source devoted women, we'd see open source projects crop up that consist entirely of women and a general separation of the community. That doesn't happen because women simply don't turn up to start with. That's not the fault of men anymore than the dominance of women in primary school teaching is the fault of women.
Can you recommend some material on this and how to design the incentives properly?
Companies rarely hesitate to pile on more work or responsibility often with zero conversion. If I can provide data and examples of work I’ve recently finished to support my request for a raise, the flip side of that is the company is already getting that value, and is happy to continue receiving that value without paying for it. It’s absurd that companies try to justify not giving out raises because the employee is not making their case. If a company gives me more work and responsibility, they have already made my case for me.

Plain and simple. It’s the asymmetry of power in the relationship that is causing all this. The power dynamic is in the employers favor and the employer exploits that. Historically. Currently. Systematically.
This is really cool, and I'm excited to see how this goes. When people first hear about automatic differentiation, their first reaction is "that's cool, why isn't it everywhere?", and the answer has been "it's really hard to use in practice".

Until recently, AD systems only worked on restricted subsets of languages, or required extremely cumbersome template usage throughout the code. ML frameworks like TensorFlow pushed AD into the mainstream: they are essentially AD-compatible runtimes, but they are cumbersome to use (you have to use their functions instead of the language-provided ones) and they miss potential optimisations.

So it's become increasingly clear that the next step was to actually embed AD as part of a language. I work on Julia, so I hope Zygote.jl (https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl) gets there first, but it's always good to see others moving in the same direction.
Sure you can focus sound waves. But they're still subject to the inverse square law. And the tightness of the beam is proportional to the size of the emitter: you need a huge array to maintain focus over any reasonable distance. Plus there's no theoretical way to entirely get around the efficiency or safety concerns.

So not literally impossible, but totally impractical as a commercial product.
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Your first two links don't contain any technical information about the "fbclid" parameter. They can be read to understand why Facebook does it, but not how. I see how it is useful to get this info when I'm paying Facebook for views. But that's something different from understanding how it works. So articles like this are needed to piece together what is going on.

Now the interesting question will be whether "fbclid" can be tied to individuals. And I couldn't readily find this info in the links you posted. Maybe I'm bad at reading?
Thanks! Have always disliked it when people request an email without showing the value first
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Your premise aside, a grant is not a handout.
Something about that image in Wikipedia makes it very easy to understand. Why are vintage graphics so good? Is it the nostalgia or the limited amount of color usage? Or is it the use of arrows and and telling the user exactly what they need to know from the image? I can’t quite put my finger on it.
>but I've yet to be employed at one using 3rd party hosting for source control without an on-site mirror.

For me it's actually the opposite, except for one company that had only an internal SCM and no cloud stuff.
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> anyone who cares enough about the subject can investigate

So you cared enough about it to post a comment framing them as an attacker on Linux, but not enough to verify your interpretation?
How does detaching my comment from the person I was replying to and removing all context of the conversation help?

There was nothing generic about my comment nor was it a tangent from the topic at hand. It was a direct reply to an individual in favor of "diversity as a goal" policies as a means for correcting biases.
Why settle for two, when you can have them all? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1011501232197
So, I've read some literature, and my understanding is that there are ways to structure it, just that they can be subtle and slightly difficult to understand.

Suppose you want to buy a house. The idea is that, you'll agree on a price of the house, which is greater than current market value. Suppose listing price is 100K. You agree on 150K with the lender. Each payment is expected to pay as part of 150K.

This however creates two problem. Lender's profitability depends on accurately determining the future price. Either lender or applicant can suffer from imprecise price.

An alternative I've seen is, the notion of rent. Suppose, at closing the lender buys the house for you, with the intention that you'll reside there and pay market rent.

Suppose the price of house is 100K, and rent is 1000/month.
Now suppose, there's no down payment, you'll have to pay above 1000/month to start building equity.

After first payment of 1100, you have equity of 100$, while the lender has 99.9K. So, when the 2nd month payment goes, you can get to keep 0.1% of rent as equity OR use that to build more. Over time, you'll eventually pay it off. This part likens it to interest, except because rents are market based, they don't fly with borrowers.

So lenders have come up with "Administrative" fees, which I equally think are BS. Hence traditional mortgage still are more accessible.

I would love it if there was a rational product out there.
>If you had an offer from Slack, would you seriously turn it down because they have Saudi money via Softbank if it was otherwise your top choice?

Of course not. The Valley runs on greed.
Agreed. I've seen this position before, with the attendant "SO isn't hostile, the users are just wrong", and I don't buy it any more now than I have in the past.

It's way too common to see exchanges like "The manual for X is factually wrong, so how do I really do it?" "RFTM!" or "I want to Y, which is not covered by similar question X for reasons A, B, C." "Closed, dupe of X!" Or for that matter, "How can I X?" and "I'd like to X, help please?" each closed unanswered as a dupe of the other.

Building for the future, not solving for the moment, is a perfectly reasonable sentiment. I can understand using that argument to close "what's the bug in my code?" questions, or for that matter "how do I X under these self-imposed restrictions?" But in practice, it's frequently wielded like it would be on a nasty mailing list or Usenet group, to tell people that they shouldn't do what they're doing and therefore don't deserve an answer.
Not all. Felons don't, either in theory or in practice.
This is a bit offtopic, but I find that autoprefixer gets us about 95% of the way there when it comes to flexbox, in case you aren't already using it.
Companies should not be relied on to make these decisions. If dealing with Saudi Arabia is immoral, that is a topic of diplomacy and the country should be possibly embargoed. What industries are allowed to do business there should be left up to a nations people to decide.
The promise of hedge funds (the original one at least) is that they provide bond-like volatility with equity-like returns.

Of course, hedge funds nowadays are just defined by a compensation scheme (2 and 20, though today more like 1.5 and 15).

Hedge funds are exactly the kind of investments that pension funds should have.
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> What exactly is Facebook breaking, in your opinion?
>
> Would Facebook also break things if they were instead making an async request to the destination and appending a custom header to it, something like "X-Coming-From-Facebook"?

Extra headers are typically ignored, not only since different clients send different headers since the beginning.

I know multiple systems which however decode the query string and complain about unknown options or don't accept a query string at all for some resources. On the later case it is ignorance on the other case it is intensive input validation.
In the heat of the moment I’ve had to delete comments because I got so upset at that kind of over the top rules lawyering. I’m not quite ready to burn my SO bridges, even if 90% of my usage is read only.
>How much damage have Linus's snippy emails really caused

Don't downplay how he acted by using words like "snippy." There are contributors who have either left the project or actively avoid directly talking with him. There is a reason why Linus admitted he had a problem. It wasn't productive or useful.

https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...

>But more importantly, I'd actually put some blame on a certain circle of folks that play a major role in kernel development, and first and foremost Linus Torvalds himself. By many he is a considered a role model, but he is quite a bad one. If he posts words like "[specific folks] ...should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?" (google for it), than that's certainly bad. But what I find particularly appalling is the fact that he regularly defends this, and advertises this as an efficient way to run a community. (But it is not just Linus, it's a certain group of people around him who use the exact same style, some of which semi-publically even phantasize about the best ways to, ... well, kill me).
> but it certainly is not a job for everyone and the rub is the folks who WANT to do it the most are often the worst at it.

This is correct.

As someone who has run forums for a number of years, I can honestly say I've fired 70% of the volunteers for exactly that reason. They wanted to impress their clique and use the power. In reality, it is more about using that power as little as possible except for things that might create a legal issue. (i.e. DMCA)

The other 30% I got rid of were due to activity. (i.e. Would go inactive for 30+ days without notice)
I had that initial reaction as well, but I think it was a reference to Russia being recently "in vogue" in the media for these actions - basically the "fake news/facebook/DNC" label applied post-2016.
> In a disaster recovery scenario

That's not really enough. You need more than "all the code is around here somewhere" you need a plan with specific steps that have been tested.
"wergild" is the unambiguous term for "money paid in compensation for an injury".
Is your talk or similar online anywhere?
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I appreciate your candor. Thank you. If you're unwilling to vet a source due to safety concerns, I completely understand. But please consider next time if it's then safe or responsible to use that source. The cognitive bias and mechanics of memory in humans is such that even if it's discredited, humans can often retain only trace aspects of the discourse which can strengthen later disinformation. We see examples of this in research around the "Mandela Effect" and it profoundly affects how communicators approach establishing truth in the face of fiction.

Your story here is an example of this effect in play in a more dire situation, when someone presents deliberate (as opposed to accidental) misinformation. You were manipulated, and subsequently passed that manipulation forward. Now everyone here will be more likely to believe the misinformed story, even me if I'm not careful.
Kind of cool but also the type of wasteful project that gives "3D printing" a bad name.
> 3. Seamless integration of drafting/drawing surface and display.

A current analog is pairing an art display tablet with normal screens. But people arrange them variously, and not-infrequently on separate and movable arms. So seamless physical integration might not be the right thing. Another analog is the new Lenovo Yoga Book C930 (2-in-1 with keyboard replaced by an e-ink touch/pen screen).
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I have a hard time letting go when I feel like my input was dismissed out of hand, or not understood.
The altruistic people who genuinely want to help tend to be squeezed out of the system by the power hungry authoritarians. See: pretty much every communist revolution ever.
I once believed this as well, via one of my degrees (economics). It turned out to be contradicted by reality.

Ricardo and Adam Smith argued that the consumer surplus gains of free trade for the higher labor market would be greater than the losses sustained in producer surplus in the same market. I.e. that American consumers reap more $$ from imported foreign cars than American workers/business lose.

However, since then its become obvious that the population that loses jobs cares a LOT more than consumers do about their cars being a few $$ cheaper (e.g. Donald Trump won Michigan and Ohio).

In other words - political differences DO matter. Perhaps economics should return to its previous name - Political Economy - in order to actually describe the real world again.
TEDx talks are mostly just feel-good nonsense. It's really disappointing how many people take them seriously.
> So, both sides of the ocean see that change... But not Ladino elsewhere in Europe, much closer to Spain as the crow flies.

Guessing it was one of constant contact, the Spanish were active sailing back and forth busy looting the Americas, while the Bosnians had lost contact. In the old days, sailing was probably much more efficient than horseback across a mountainous continent. Why didn't they sail over to Croatia? Not sure, perhaps Ladinos weren't active at the coast? Also, religion probably divided them from most Spanish.
I'm still sad that it was cancelled. She's a great presenter and I was really excited about the series they were planning on category theory.
I use Neat URL[0] with Firefox to strip things like that from URLs.

0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/
It's not just a requirement to use old plugins. There are still serious drawbacks to upgrading from Win7 to Win10, and Edge is not available on Win7, while IE11 is available on Win10 (because Edge wasn't viable yet when Win10 was pushed out.) So the Win7 users that won't use FF/Chrome are stuck with IE11, and many Win10 users continue using IE11 for various reasons. (Familiarity, corporate policy, plugins, etc.)

I think Microsoft has made a mistake by stopping the addition of standards-compliant features to IE11. They should keep supporting it and modernizing it until the userbase has moved to Win10 on its merits, instead of trying to use IE11's aging as a lever to force Win10 adoption.
Do you work in finance? That's just not true at all.

Hedge funds are a very diverse group (see my above comment about how they are defined by compensation schemes nowadays and not strategies).

The original idea of hedge funds was to provide low volatility (like bonds) and high returns (like equities).
The employees are not full time and work very minimal hours. Check out a bit later in the interview he talks about it more.

The founder also addressed more on this in this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/EntrepreneurRideAlong/comments/9pbf...
Diepvriesgroenten zo gezond als verse groenten of toch niet?
The intent message is the pre-signed JSON of the transaction details, I'm assuming?

How do you get that into the Trezor? Using USB OTG? I only see two buttons there.
But the spectrum of harshness is like the spectrum of spicy food. While I may be content with spicier food than my mother is, if I forced her to eat some of the food I find palatable, she would cry.

So if I want to have a pleasant, welcoming, and accessible meal, I should probably cook it to her spice level instead of mine.
> While there are some shady services to buy fake Github stars, with this exploit a company could just pay someone and get their repository with real user stars.

Is that a thing?

That link to duckduckgo doesn't return anything relevant.
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I've been working on some algorithms I think can identify fake news easily and reliably.

The key part is you have to have a massive dataset of historical information.

With Datastreamer (my company) we have about 1PB of news, blogs, and social media from the last 4-5 years.

I'm curious if it would make sense to ship an open/public API that would allow people both to report AND check on whether something is fake news.

Sort of like Hacker News but a browser extension that allows you to flag whether you think something is fake.
I once read that "sharia finance" is just a buzzword and those banks are doing business as every other bank, just with different naming of their processes/products.
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In order to objectively assess their level of professionalism, you'd need to know what happened, and what's going on in there right now. Think about it this way - can someone break things where you work right now to cause an outage of this magnitude? For all places that I've worked the answer would be "yes, of course".
Here's a new Terminal emulator that appeared this month - https://blog.lxsang.me/post/id/24
I believe Samsung is using EUV now https://www.anandtech.com/show/13496/samsung-starts-mass-pro...
Well sure, you can treat being online as an advanced form of roleplaying, but then that just limits your ability to really engage in serious discussion, because you're just talking to other roleplayers.

And that's fine for most topics, but when you talk about certain issues, I feel that speaking in an honest manner (and assuming everyone who isn't obviously trolling is doing the same) is the only way to really have a discussion, otherwise it just makes all online discourse totally meaningless.
Propeller microcontroller uses dedicated cores instead of interrupts.
Let it provide a certain reasonable (enough to license a humble number of themes, not enough for a big business to run for a long time) amount of service free forever, not for a 7-day trial period, 7-day trial periods are almost useless.

And/or add a killer-feature everybody would quickly realize they can't live without and spread the word.
That sounds utterly trivial - why was Sal/Sally so upset by an attempt to be polite by not using a short form/pet name. That must happen to her all the time in formal settings.

As for "voicing concerns with current practices", what were those concerns and practices? Technical?
On the plus side, this disastrous calamity by Github really made me try out Gitlab and in the process, I will now set-up a second remote on my repo's:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11690709/can-a-project-h...

Quoted:
"Try adding a remote called "github" instead:

$ git remote add github
https://github.com/Company_Name/repository_name.git

# push master to github
$ git push github master

# Push my-branch to github and set it to track github/my-branch
$ git push -u github my-branch

# Make some existing branch track github instead of origin
$ git branch --set-upstream other-branch github/other-branch"

Actually, I don't know why I pay for Github private repo's.. I might as well set-up two origins, one at Gitlab and one at Bitbucket, for all my privates. Then keep Github as a public front-facing portal.
But you are ignoring a huge component of using github. If you only use github as a central, shared repo, sure you lost almost nothing. Their git infra seemed to be operational throughout this, but if you use the major features of github: issues, PRs, review, webhooks for CI, etc, you probably did lose out on developer time.

Me and my team pushed tons of code to origin today (JST btw), but we were almost at a stand still as far as merging to master and closing out branches. Github being down had a huge affect on the process -- review, merging and CI success. Merging was our big one since we have protected branches via github -- master; CI was second since we received no webhook events. So either we wait it out (~8 hours) or we throw out our process and do something different until they fix it. The later didnt seem like a reasonable course of action.

github != git

Its easy to say, "well they are down, that doesnt affect git", but the reality is that a lot of orgs dont just use git. They use github. That fact envelopes a lot of process, routine, infra, schedule, money, etc. Luckily, its only been one day. But developer time has definitely beem lost. You cant reasonably say otherwise if you use github.

edit: I will say I dont fully agree with the GP. Blaming the downtime on MySQL is silly and coming up with dollars lost is over the top. Things happen. That comment was a weird attack on a reasonably stable database. Github had a bad day; it happens.
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says that this varies state to state, with Maine and Vermont allowing people to vote even while in prison.
A wedge towards... what? Polite and professional behavior isn't a bad thing.
He totally nailed New York being worse than California. The entire east coast is a joke.
@intelnews https://twitter.com/intelnews/status/1054397715071651841
“Media reports published today that Intel is ending work on the 10nm process are untrue. We are making good progress on 10nm. Yields are improving consistent with the timeline we shared during our last earnings report.”
I've been experimenting with the idea that good code/design/whatever technical is RARELY more important than good work environment and professional relationships. My intuition tells me that you'll end up with a worse off product being developed more slowly if you focus on good code at all costs. That's not to say you should become a team that focuses on feelings.

I had a manager once entirely shut down code reviews because he felt it was hurting people's feelings. There's a right balance to strike and I really don't think that was it.

My thought is that when you're somewhere near that balance and aren't sure, lean towards good relationships, over good code. This generally happens at the moment when I have to decide just how nitpicky I should be about something, often minor.

The problem is that I'm no industry veteran. I don't have a lot of experience or hard facts to back this idea. But I just "feel" that it might be true.