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A bit more on the Maxwell book: it's a real textbook rather than "pop physics" in the usual sense, but written for people with only a high-school level of math (algebra and geometry). Wonderful explanations -- for one, iirc, the derivation of Kepler's conic-section law which Feynman later rediscovered and presented in "The Motion of Planets Around the Sun" -- although the prose style is rather stuffy and Victorian, and Feynman has him beat there.
Haha! Thanks, I did! Sometimes I think I have a mild speech impediment; other times, it's probably my brain's internal autocorrect before it comes out of my mouth (or out of my fingers, as it is)
I wonder what would be the downside of dumping them in the ocean or deep bodies of water and letting the fish go at them.
I had a friend (super sharp guy, very very good in programming) long time ago - whenever he is bored, he'll schedule an interview with some company, clear the interview, and start negotiating the salary, just to see how much he could get. Once he gets an offer, he'll use that offer to drive up the offer from some other company that he interviewed with. Mind you, he had no intention of joining any of these companies, it was just a hobby/time-pass for him.

I used think he is a jerk for doing this, wasting everyone's time. After reading how companies treat the candidates, I am not so sure ...
His mother was a writer. He most likely has been nudged into the right direction if only by being around high quality literature.
Doctor no, owner yes.
I know nothing about Citadel, but it may be unfair to generalize from one experience. For example, that particular group may be bad but other groups may be fine and don't know about the bad group.

If you're feeling particularly bold, the ideal is to report that bad group to Citadel. Then, after sufficient time for an internal review, follow up and ask if anything has been done, and if not, then conclude your generalization.

With that said, I wouldn't be surprised if our bayesian priors about the morality of financial institutions are correct, but it helps to empirically validate this and publish findings so that, over time, these institutions are validly, publicly shamed.
This is the way we "deal" with most problems. We say "butwhatabout" [insert something else here], which is a great excuse to do nothing. It's callet "whataboutism" and will quite likely eradicate humanity within the next hundred years or so, as we destroy our planet, all the while saying "butwhatabout" and pointing fingers.
The San Jose Mercury News launched its Newshound service in late 1994 and closed it down about 5 years later under the direction of its new owner, Knight-Ridder, who wanted to be a pure print play versus embracing news online.
https://archives.cjr.org/feature/the_newspaper_that_almost_s...

I'm not a lawyer but my understanding is that a trademark must be in active, continuous use after registration to be valid. https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-maintaining-trademark-regis...
I work as a professional mechanic for a small chain of truck repair shops in the midwest. This reminds me of a customer we had who owned a cemetery and was having a hard time with their front end loader...specifically, the tires.

About once a month they were spending a few thousand dollars on new tires for this brand new Kubota LA525. The tires would show excessive wear and, curiously enough, enormous golf ball sized holes that look like they were burned through with a torch. we all figured it was vandalism.

We'd recently unmounted one of the tires to replace it when a golf-ball chunk of white rock fell out and shot across the shop floor with a startling bang. Curious, I took it to our OSHA office and our inspector nearly screamed, 'Thats phosphorous!' Turns out the cemetery was built on an old lot used by a chemical transportation company. It also explained why the sod was being replaced about twice a year.
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This is a pretty absurd connection that has zero evidence to back it up. It's an extraordinary claim so where's the actual evidence of it? Your NY Times story simply talks about the Chinese spies and doesn't actually prove what you said.

So from the FWIW... what is it worth? It doesn't really seem like it's worth anything so why mention it?
Yeah but here's the thing: if your math skills are good enough to write and maintain a 3D engine, quaternions are not the problem. They are super easy to work with, and material that explains how to use them is readily available.

Is "what they do" unintuitive? Sure, but I couldn't care less about whether someone can conceptualise _why_ they do what they do, I care about _that_ they do what they do, and that I can trust them to do that. If someone can't understand what geometric operation an non-geometric transformation might map to "in between the start state and the end state" then that someone is focussing on the wrong thing twice:

1. quaternion maths is not geometry, it's algebra. It has some nice geometric analogies when performing specific operations, but trying to understand them _as_ geometry and expecting them to make sense across the board is ridiculous, and
2. if you feel you need to understand the "intermediary" results of a 4 dimensional algebra before you're willing to write or maintain code that uses it, maybe you're putting your foot down in the wrong spot: this is a 3D engine. It's not "easy code that we over-complicated by using quaternions", it's stupidly complex code that we simplified by working with quaternions.
right, that's the main point. Why switch to POS at all? Suppose for a second ETH POS solution works as advertised. really fast and scalable. Then, there will be economic activity as a result of that speed and scalability, that would not have happened otherwise. At least that's the idea - may not ultimately work out.
Reminds me of https://www.simple.com/features/expenses
Ada absolutely can tell. Divide by zero throws an exception and buffer overflows are caught by essentially every modern compiler.
That reminds me of itself a highly dysfunctional old system of private prosecutors. Especially with double jeopardy given that not having it turns it to a clear way to harass anyone. One obvious flaw is that trivially the best defense strategy isn't to hire a good defense attorney - it is to hire the absolutely worst prosecutor - against yourself.

Infamously prosecutors with conflicts of interest - often seen in cases of outrage over police misconduct. The prosecutors proceed to obviously present the worst possible case in what is an /unopposed/ hearing for a crime. There is a reason why the saying is 'they could indict a ham sandwich' - the standard is low enough that they just need to be able to present a very initial case to begin the process of proving guilt officially.
> And people wonder how the hell do they get away with p2w and gambling mechanics in games.

Because that business model is profitable, and entertainment is a business like any other. If you don't like it, you are free not to play it. Besides some potential for gambling addiction (about which state lotteries are a far more important target for your ire if that is your concern), mobile games produce no externalities whatsoever.

I continue to be completely mystified with the concept of outrage about video games. If you want to be outraged about corporate behavior, there are a multitude of examples of corporate malfeasance with actual negative externalities, such as the coal industry's contribution to climate change.
Really cool! I'm also big into playing around with budget apps and seeing what works.

Few suggestions I have from playing around with it:

1. It's not clear when I click the "add a budget" what it's for. There's the top-level "November 1-15" type of budget and then those budgets have categories, but the terminology could maybe use some work here. The term "budget" to me is usually synonymous with how you're using "categories" - e.g. we have a grocery budget.

2. I wasn't really expecting the ellipsis button to be a delete. I usually expect it to be like a context menu. In general it seems like the ellipsis button does different things in different locations, which is a bit of a bad pattern IMO.

3. There's a few spelling errors, e.g. "ammount" in the "add a budget" overlay

4. It's a bit weird that when you start a new budget it's immediately in the red (color-wise, at least). I feel like $0.00 left to spend should still be in the black.

5. "Track Spending" is only available for the first budget, but you can imagine that I might make next week's budget before this week is over, so it's a bit annoying that there's no "Track Spending" button on the previous budgets. I realize you can still click into the old budget, but still.

6. There's no way to edit expenses in the budget if I mistakenly add a wrong number, or if there is it's very unclear to me.

7. Negative numbers aren't allowed but you can imagine that this would be pretty useful for things like rebates or if I get a refund on something (though this is pretty related to the last item).

Anyway, love the idea for sure! Short-term budgets are pretty helpful and not something that Mint really provides, so excellent idea.
> The genetic instructions for making the antibody were packaged up inside a harmless virus, which was then used to infect the noses of mice.

That's interesting. I didn't realize gene therapy could be so localized.
> Ugh if you read the article, you would know that the UB described here is the same in Rust.

Ugh, if you took the time to learn Rust before criticizing it, you'd know that Rust only allows undefined behavior in unsafe blocks.

> Without better generics support

So you have no idea what generics are. Templates aren't generics, they're fancy code generators expanded at compile time, which means they're incredibly loosely typed and allow you to do things like have scalar parameters like size_t n (because they're basically macros). C++ templates are essentially a form of duck typing that has led to an increased need for specification, hence concepts in C++20.

Rust's parametric polymorphism and type classes (aka generics) follows in the ML and Haskell tradition in that the type checking is like a constraint program that is run at compile time. When a generic item is invoked, the specification of that type is immediately checked for consistency at the call site, otherwise the typechecking fails.
The part that scares me that management could held legally accountable for a mistake of a developer.
I wonder when "wait to have kids" starts to become bad advice. It was one thing to wait until high school, then college, but it seems like a _lot_ of people I know are waiting until they're financially stable and then discovering they're not there at 35 years old and looking at a hockey stick curve for likelihood of autism, etc. It's part of why my wife and I had a kid at 34.

Not to mention that if having kids is so great (and so far I do quite like it) we should logically want to maximize the time we have our kids in our lives, not minimize it.

More generally, though, I think this is a problem of how in an age of plenty we demand a huge chunk of your waking hours just to produce enough income to live whatever we've decided is a decent life, though a lot of this time is spent making other people - be they landlords or people who bought a house in the 80's or 90's, rich. Working half the hours generally means far less than half the pay, and many women see that their careers are destroyed if they take time out to raise a kid (perhaps some men do too, but it usually falls to the mom).
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Would you if developers start going to jail for leaks?
I couldn't find a breakdown of purely business vs consumer. I would be interested in seeing one if you were aware of one.
Reminds me of how when xkcd looked at which days of the month were most common, the 1st, 10th, 11th, 21st and 31st were more or less common than they should have been due to OCR error: https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/
Still not buying it.

1. You'd have to know that 10 000 votes is missing.

2. You'd have to know how to target those 10 000 missing voters (criteria).

3. You'd have to craft very specific messages based on your criteria to determine who they are.

4. Now, hoping that those criteria are fit you have to hope that the message you crafted is going to be seen and noticed by your prospects.

5. Message noticed ? Good, how did you craft a message that would make up many voter's mind without being obvious ?

6. Who cares, you just have to convince the team running the campaign that social network marketing converts. That's the real skill.
> It’s appalling how one-sided many orgs see the interview process. Instead of treating the candidate as a partner - someone to work together in making a decision - the candidate might as well be a box of staplers to them

With maybe 1 in 5 on-site interview candidates making it, and the amount of interviewing individuals at Amazon do, it can often get to the point where it's really hard to see interviewees as people. I tried really hard, especially as one of the more limited-pool of systems engineers (I specifically put myself out there for other teams to leverage, so that systems engineers didn't end up with a full dev loop). The number of interview loops done is only exasperated by Amazon's inability to hold on to engineers for more than a few years. One team I dealt with regularly would lose a sizeable chunk of their syseng staff every 9 months or so.

I can't even begin to imagine how hard it gets for the bar-raisers, who might interview 4-5 candidates a week or more.
So, are you saying it's been difficult to get Ada or Free Pascal or Java up and running on a Unix system in the last 10 or 20 years?
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These are different kinds of agents.

Those described in the above comment were US nationals in Russia operating under diplomatic cover, and are not subject to Russian law. They would be deported. Russian nationals working for the CIA would not be found by that search.

The agents in the story were Chinese/Iranian/etc. nationals working for the CIA. They had no diplomatic protection, which is why they were killed.
Neat. Has anyone tried visualizing code before and after refactoring or other transformations? Maybe code smells cause visible differences.
At least we can explain it away in terms of backwards compatibility.

Here's a quirk that's harder to explain: open a powershell window in windows 10. Hit alt-enter rapidly to switch back-and-forth to full-screen mode while looking at the min/max/close buttons. You can see flashes of windows-vista-era buttons. Is the new look just painted on top of the old one? That's crazy!
Amazing...and they have essentially unlimited budgets. Protecting their spies is #1 in any agencies' book, otherwise who would tell you secrets?

The saddest part: The "decider" probably got promoted as usual.
It's going to be an interesting conversation, and I fear: a bit messy. One of the ways that you illustrate value in say, a Wilderness area or a National Park is by allowing visitation, so people can see first hand how unique an area is. If merely getting to the area is hard to do, these places won't be seen as so valuable to the general population (higher classes will have no problem getting to them, so it because a class issue all of a sudden).

At least in the States, what we desperately need is a lower impact mass transportation system. I've heard all the arguments against railways (etc), and I don't disagree there's good points in those arguments. But it's not something I see pro-environment special interest groups that are around the outdoor industry really push. One such is,

https://protectourwinters.org/

I actually don't know what these people do - they seem like they want to be lobbyists, but I think it's just grass-roots call of action type stuff to get people out to vote. Which I think is a fine idea, but there's so much more we can do.
Why a telescope with eyepiece is not necessary?
That would end up using money against law enforcement or prosecution as a proxy for lack of fairness/effectiveness, and we already know that money is a bad proxy for morality. That’s why this law has prison time.

If the blockchain could send people to prison, then we’d probably have other problems.
Problem is, tech is the easiest thing to get started talking about with a candidate. It's the one guaranteed thing you have in common.
The FTC already has quite a lot of authority over privacy regulations (in the financial sector at least) and does next to nothing with that authority. They spend zero time affirmatively looking into regulatory compliance and only take (very limited) action after receiving numerous reports about egregious violations. I suspect this far more of a "look at how much we're helping consumers" that will add some teeth to the few enforcement actions they do pursue but won't do much by way of removing their head-in-the-sand approach to consumer privacy.
TrustDNS is one in that space. We won't know for a while what actual, security record is. We do have some evidence from fuzzing where it led to panics vs worse effects in C. I think an objective test would compare effects of fuzzing Rust and C libraries to see how often Rust just panicked. The study should use different types of libraries that use the language in different ways. If Rust's claims are true, most problems will involve 3rd-party libraries that aren't Rust, unsafe Rust, and/or compiler errors that break safety. People doing the study could just grab popular C apps vs similar stuff in Rust on Github that's actually maintained. Also, look at amateurish and unmaintained stuff to see if those still have minimal vulnerabilities.

That's how I'd do it anyway.
> Do you think that newspapers, radio, or TV have decided elections in the past?

Newspapers, radio and TV believe they have that power (we have been studying that since the 30's) but it's really not that simple. Last I checked it's still word-of-mouth and close IRL peer influence that works.

> And do you understand microtargeting?

Unfortunately, yes.
Basically:

* Normally you can't access Chrome's decrypted cookie storage unless you're in an interactive session and you've unlocked the keychain.

* An attacker running code on your computer (nefarious NPM package, etc) can spawn a headless chrome session with remote debugging enabled and then slurp out all the decrypted cookies through the remote debugging socket

Chrome is very frightening to me. It's just this massive God program that has a huge attack surface and a lot of really valuable goodies like this that attackers would love to get at.
Yeah, we follow each other on Twitter. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here, but I'll ask what he thinks about Gab.

Gab isn't a site that respectfully questions orthodoxy regarding trans issues. It's white supremacist Twitter. If it were me in his shoes, I'd find the comparison a little offensive, and also feel like it affirmed and amplified my critics.
What injustice has been dealt to the subset of "the players" who are outraged about this?
The vitriol expressed by the gaming press against fans far exceeds the gamers anger.

Gamers: "Is this a joke? We don't want mobile Diablo"

Game Press: "Gamers are whiny, entitled, toxic babies"

You can see it here for yourself: https://i.redd.it/6mgpttba94w11.jpg

It's been this way for a long time and was the reason Gamergate became a thing (see "Gamers are Dead"). The worst part is that because the journalists in the game industry are friends with the journalists in the mainstream media, their take on "toxic" gamers gets spread beyond the industry and their own actions never get called out aside from grassroots movements.

In the end, people who don't have time to research the topic themselves, believe the narrative they're told thus empowering the journalists to continue to attack their audience.
Consider Parkinson's law... Compare git to mercurial... Consider how many successful Java command line programs are there?
Yet they still seem to find a way. That tells me the regulations aren't as onerous as some businesses would have you believe.
You're not the only one. It seems like paranoia has taken on this new-ish meaning over the past few years of just being afraid of something that is totally valid. It seems the previous usage of it has kinda died out somewhat.
You're mystified by it because you probably aren't a dedicated gamer. To lots of people, including myself, gaming is a huge part of their identity and lifestyle. It's a hobby like any other such as repairing old cars, painting, craft beer, etc.

The "but climate change" is just whataboutism because gaming isn't important to you, so why aren't people paying more attention to what is important to you.

edit to clarify: This may sound a little hostile but it isn't intended as such. I'm just explaining that some people really do care about this stuff just as you really care about your own hobbies or pet cause.