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Why wouldn't they do this? It's good marketing, you can tally it up as a recruiting expense, same way/reason companies sponsor conferences and send people to speak. These days I see the term "developer evangelist" bandied around a lot -- it seems like they basically get paid to hang out in the dev community, make cool things with the product (tm), and then talk about it at conferences. These days I also see more and more ~1 hour informercials for product X at conference Y.

One, two or ten projects cannot possibly reflect people and decision making processes of an entire culture -- The best it can tell you is about that team inside the organization. You could only tell the culture of the company in aggregate, and companies where the F/OSS output is anywhere near the total of what they produce is pretty low.
> These things can be life threatening

Hallucinogens aren't 'life threatening'
So the forum is missing a section for support or criticism by mistake or is intentional, sorry your fair complains are off topic, please go to reddit (though you will probably get downvoted or deleted there too)
It's interesting. Where I live, I was thinking about vice versa situation. We have good developers who are paid quite bad salaries. I'd love to make company that can bring good projects and pay good salaries. But I'm not good entrepreneur, so it will likely remain a dream.
I don't think that is a reasonable question.

To use an extreme example: I can ask for a examples where someone has committed murder, but it would be unreasonable to ask for examples where someone hasn't committed murder.

There's an asymmetry to showing morality or immorality. Exhibiting a sense of morality is the standard case, and it's hard to show it. Being immoral, however, can be trivially shown by pointing out the mos or law being broken by a specific behavior.
Why not address all readers, instead of only men?
"If you can find access to a psychedelic like LSD/mushrooms, it is more likely a far more effective treatment for anxiety & depression than any SSRI's available."

That's a horribly irresponsible thing to say.

Even though psychedelics look like a promising therapeutic regimen to some people, they should be administered in a therapeutic setting with the supervision of a psychiatrist or therapist, in the least.

Given depression patients have limited energy to do anything, the energy reserves would be far better spent in finding a good therapist rather than sourcing illegal substances.

"As long as authenticity of the substance can be proven, generally psychedelics are very safe, especially at microdose levels."

Please stop.

The most important thing a depressed person needs to do, is to find the professionals with whom they can begin the healing process. Finding a good psychiatrist and a cognitive behaviorial psychotherapist would be my first prirorities.

I'm not denying your claims. But most western societies have primary care pathways to deal with depression in a competent and effective way.

This is not a 100% guarantee, like you could give in a trivial medical matter. Mental illnesses can be really difficult - hence you will always find individuals from whom nothing works. But lot of people get help through the "official" methods - hence that should the first strategy for anyone suffering from depression.
Some Samsung models https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5613-TAD...

It’s an app you can download
Except the government and the police, just like every other country.
I'd second this recommendation - it's incredible.
When I read the title, I honestly thought this was an official LEGO thing. This is exactly why it's important for a company like LEGO to protect its trademark.

I realize this is just an homage to LEGO and I'm sure they know and appreciate that. But they still need to defend their trademark. If they don't, anybody could just use their name for whatever they wanted - even things they DO NOT want to be associated with.
I'd definitely enjoy cycling more if I didn't live in central London, which makes it more of a "death wish experience with lungfuls of toxic shit" than I'd like :)
I don’t want that, though. I actively want a dumb tv and a bunch of boxes — My smart tv is unplugged from the internet and I’m using it as a dumb tv, because the software just sucks. Hopefully steam link will show up on iOS soon.
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Linus Torvalds new *calm* mood
> does not collect client data

If you have Google as a default search engine in Chrome, then every time you open a new tab, it is loaded from Google's servers with cookies. So Google knows how many times a day and when exactly you open a new tab.

This works even in Debian which usually cares about privacy. Google doesn't warn about this (maybe they have a clause in the Terms of Usage, I don't know).

You can see this yourself using Developer Tools on a new tab page.

By the way, adding a new search engine named, for example, "Gogol" instead of "Google" and using it by default fixes this problem. Or at least fixed two years ago.
One obvious benefit of open sourcing the code, or at least important parts of your code, is to identify developers who are really interested in that part of your product. This goes both ways. As a developer, I have a list of open source software I use and have used. Some of the software I selected because I had a specific problem to solve at a time, but a a large part of that list is software I keep reusing across projects and which I am actually fond of. So, if I were to look for a new job, of course, those software packages would make their main maintainer very attractive to me as a potential employer. And for the employer, who is better to hire than an engineer who already took interest in the software before even being paid for it?
I think there's a bug in this page, I'm not seeing code snippets that are referred to in the text. Shame, because I want to point coworkers at it.
If they told you that you wouldn't have taken them.
Great use of NewSpeak, but the absence of a tax is not a subsidy.

There is a pretty big subsidy for the non-Saudi companies that are part of ARAMCO, though.

The Saudis wanted a bigger slice of the pie when the company was formed, but instead of just splitting the revenue along those lines, they worked out a deal where the Saudi government would tax the non-Saudi companies to an amount that would split the pie the way they wanted it. The American companies can write off that foreign tax. So American taxpayers are subsidizing the arrangement.
Seriously, the Dropbox client? I mean, I never used it but I can hardly imagine anything that makes it so special. I use Nextcloud and from what I can tell, there is nothing that sets the Dropbox client apart from the Nextcloud sync client (which is 100% open source).

In addition, some parts of the Dropbox sync client are open source too: https://www.dropbox.com/de/help/desktop-web/linux-commands#b...

Sure if your business model depends on selling the software then open sourcing it might be a bad idea. But if you are selling software to other companies they most likely are not interested in the software but in the service you provide, so they will require Service Level Agreements which should be the base of your business model.

However, with consumer software that doesn't work very well, since nobody gives a about service levels (even if it would solve many of their problems) ;-)
A slightly more ethical alternative is to add sponsor messages to your commits.
ha, love it!
I think your comment is close to the truth but not quite there. Companies don't open source their core business, basically an extension of "don't outsource your core business" (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...).

Google: Search engine? Closed source. Ads service? Closed source.

Facebook: yes, the network is important, but still: Ads service? Closed source. Data science stuff they use for harvesting relevant data from users? Closed source. Dropbox: agreed.
There is a lot of value in reading (a large amount) of anecdotal experiences with withdrawal, as a distressingly large amount of doctors either doesn't remember or for whatever reason doesn't care that it is the case. That being true, it's easy to find yourself in a situation where even your second opinion says that you have nothing to worry about, when in reality you do.
Israel developed highly maneuverable combat robot
You are right! I notified the editors to learn why the code got lost during editing.
Same here. I had a Smart TV for a year and it was absoutely abhorrent. I sold it and got a 40" monitor for my PC instead. The PC actually boots faster than the TV did.
Composing AST Matchers in clang-tidy
That's exactly how I did my thesis ^^
No worries, Starbucks is the desk of last resort.
What a shame, I was looking forward to picking one of these up the next time I went back to the US. Seems like I may have to bite the bullet and accept that my Raspberry Pi, while a fun gadget, is not a substitute for a full fledged HTPC. Any recommendations on a HTPC which I can use to dual boot Win/Linux?
Silicon Valley potheads in charge of IT security.
Yeah Vivaldi is pretty nice, and is updated frequently. I use Firefox and Vivaldi as my main browsers now. I don't have the energy to completely de-Google myself (yet) but this is a start.
Many commuter cyclists do maximize speed, although on less fancy bikes.
Don't worry, this is simply made for tracking users, first one creates few drawings then his unique drawing style is assigned to profile and voila! now you can be recognized anywhere and everywhere by simply drawing a cat. (-:
Compliant, with lots of “free” time...
Extra Credit in their series on the history of science fiction did a rather good episode on his influence, for good and for bad: https://youtu.be/Ctpvd2VvukQ
Sacrificing material for positional compensation is hardly a new concept
My work right now is more at the research/prototyping end (and often not deep learning), unfortunately. I will say though that your product is exactly the sort of thing I was referring to, and deeplearning4j is a great resource. It's cool to run into the author!

Would you be willing to characterise the sort of system that you end up replacing, what your customers were doing before using your service?
> Want to Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code

Know this as YSFlight[0] (free flight sim) dev drama aka "New things from Soji"[1]

[0] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/main/e2018.html

[1] https://forum.ysfhq.com/viewtopic.php?f=167&t=6036
I'm taking SSRI:s and going to therapy due to a diagnosed major depressive disorder. I'm feeling a lot better. I have no idea would I have responded equally well with or without SSRI:s, but the most important thing for me is that my symptoms have eased considerably.

I don't really care if there is a withdrawal period at this point. I'm feeling so much better.
Will look at it, thanks!
Welcome to fiverr.
I'd only been taking it for ~4 weeks, then tapered off over 1 week.
Or, better yet, thank the author himself by downloading it straight from his own website : https://first100.yobenlee.com/
The irrigation controls have a direct and significant impact in yield. Other tools raise profitability by contributing to greater efficacy and less waste. The pH meter, for example, pretty much payed itself the first time it was used.
Same for me, but because I had a lot of TikZ images and pgfplots, I made it so that I could compile each chapter individually to reduce the compile time during editing. Basically, each chapter file would look like:

\ifx\ispreambleloaded%
\relax%
\else%
\def\isstandalone{}%
\input{preamble}%
\fi

% ... content ...

\ifx\isstandalone\end{document}\fi%

and the preamble.tex would look like:

\documentclass{scrbook}
% ... all the other stuff that goes in the preamble ...
\begin{document}
\def\ispreambleloaded{}%

(Note: Recounting this all from memory, so I may have gotten some stuff wrong.)
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you'd probably consider me a dogmatic liberal, but i actually watched this video. even beforehand, i agreed with the moral premise -- yes, totally, our use of fossil fuels has been a boon to society, has lifted many people out of poverty, has reduced hunger, etc...

i think there are also undeniable harms as a result of our energy policy. for instance, it has enabled oppressive and murderous regimes like the saudis, and pollution associated with fossil fuels have poisoned people and ecosystems.

so, the question, i guess, is -- on balance, are we more likely to benefit or to suffer from the continued use of fossil fuels? i think you and i would probably differ in this assessment. the question is, why?

the answer probably comes down to epistemology. my tendency, in areas where i'm largely ignorant, is to defer to the consensus expert opinion. it seems like you follow a different algorithm. i'm curious, why do you believe alex epstein (who, in the linked video, says "i was not trained remotely as an energy expert") vs, say, james hansen (who probably has more relevant credentials as well as a powerful history of successful predictions)?
There is an app for Android TV https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.valvesoftw...
As much as I love unix philosophy and tools that follow it, I would point out that using the build tool that comes with the language is usually the better option.

Nobody would use make instead of maven [1] with Java for example. Ruby uses Rakefile instead of Makefiles. You will probably confuse lots of developers
that work on your project if you do that.

On top of that Makefiles are known to be generated these days ( CMake ).

1 : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2209827/why-is-no-one-us...
Half of the companies on that list are even worse. Don't make me do a n-hour bit of homework without paying me for it.
I'm surprised there's "a dozen" that are one step above, "walk-able" - absolutely! I'm used to 1 or 2 absolute beginner/warmup problems set.

I do believe my gym has a V15 set at the moment. I was watching Dave Graham unsuccessfully work a tricky V12. Pros winter over and live in the parking lot of this place.

What gym do you go to?
"personal engineering brands"

You do not want to hire engineers with "personal brands", in the same way that hiring celebrities for anything other than showbiz, normally causes problems.

At a previous large company with massive opensource scheme, "personal brand" engineers blocked many attempts to increase security, specifically filtering git commits for keys, PII and other expensive mistakes.

the "personal brand engineer's" solution? everyone singing a pledge to stop committing PII & keys to git.

The argument was: "well, committing 60,000 PII records to github was done by an idiot[1], not one of us, there is no way it could happen to _us_. We can't work on private repos, because that means we can't collaborate"

[1]They are not an idiot, they weren't in the trendy department.

If you want good engineers, don't let your tech department be run by penises. Let me put that into a list:

o hard limit on work hours(rota for Out of Hours support, if needed) no more than a 40 hours week, ever (averaged over a month)

o Solicit feedback from everyone, more importantly, action it.

o Pay well

o only use data for decisions (HR or otherwise)

o keep no secrets

o Balance empowerment with maintainability

o aggressively kill legacy

o correct or eject bullies

o allow differences (live and let live)

o don't all look and think the same

o Train the next generation

o don't allow silos (rotate at least twice a year, bonus points for feature teams)

Its really that simple
^ this. Furthermore, one can really make progressive, social-democratic policy within the confines of fairly traditional economics, certainly without much reference to Marx.
Sure. But I think one of the keys in fighting depression is to find primary caretakers you trust. Healing process is really complex, and the patient-caretaker relationship - especially in mental illnesses - is a non-trivial component.

Hence, it's important you can trust the caretaker.

My advice was given in this context - it's not as important to find a withdrawals symptom expert than it is to find an expert that you can trust.

This is not to belittle withdrawal symptoms, but just to observe that in many cases they are not the most important concern of the parties in the healing process.
Apparently you can use 'guys' now instead
The key word is ‘entirely’.

One may derive benefits from creating something that does not depend on monopolizing it.
What Makes Good Program?
By the way, here's a video of Alan Kay presenting Grail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQhVQ1UG6aM
Well, information overload has never been an issue with my doctors - quite the opposite.

My doctor has no idea how the meds he prescribes me actually work. You talk of information overload, but my doctor provided no information about the meds, their effects, side effects or withdrawals. For one of the tricyclics he said "these will kill you if you take too many", but that has literally been the total information conveyed.

Regardless of information overload, doctors should at least understand the basic mechanics of how the drugs they prescribe actually work, and understand the body's mechanics of tolerance and withdrawal - and be capable of having a brief conversation about them with patients.
Import AI: https://jack-clark.net/

Less Wrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/

The Azimuth Project: http://www.azimuthproject.org/
The idea is like open source software: you create something because you need it, and you benefit from it existing. What other people do with it may or may not be important.
Proven right on what account? The article only says China affected negatively more than the US is affected negatively. Both still are still being hurt, and nobody is 'winning' anything. The article only compares consumer prices increases, and fails to mention whole sectors needing government handouts (soybean farmers) or business moving out.
That’s literally why I said we shouldn’t trash regexes. It’s not thenidea that sucks. It’s the syntax. The abstraction of the state machine. That’s what sucks. Shorter is not better. Something wordier that’s easier to understand would help alleviate the maintenance burden.
> The thing is, out of ignorance a lot of doctors simply deny it's possible. This kind of thing infuriates me - when doing pharmaceutical trials, the manufacturers must have come across instances of patients going through withdrawals upon cessation, but somehow that information never makes it to the papers, the leaflets or the doctors.

My take on it: nearly everyone is hyper-focused on abuse of drugs, meaning recreational potential, and it distorts everything else in health care.

We severely overstate the side effects and negative outcomes that occur when a particular drug is used recreationally, and trivialize or ignore those very same side effects and negative outcomes when the exact same drug is used at the same dosage in a medical setting.

And we do that because side effects / negative outcomes have essentially become our way of automatically punishing and imposing a sort of moralistic judgement on people for abusing drugs. If bad things happen after you abuse them, it's your fault and you deserve it. If you weren't doing anything wrong, you don't deserve punishment and therefore those very same side effects somehow won't even happen.

We have so thoroughly conflated "recreational" with "dangerous" and "bad outcome", and especially with the concept of discontinuation symptoms or withdrawal, that the mere intent of the user is effectively being treated as the determining factor for whether something bad will happen, rather than the substance itself.

As a result, even the possibility that those kinds of problems could occur with other medications that have zero recreational potential, is routinely ignored. Those are things that happen when you abuse drugs, not when you take them for medical purposes. After all, you weren't doing anything wrong.

You can see that in action when people have a moderate injury that requires surgery and a lengthy recovery, along with several weeks or months of opioid medication, people who have no real awareness of what physiological opioid dependence is. I personally know people who developed severe withdrawal symptoms after they stopped taking their medication, who were told by their own doctor that they were addicts and must have been doing something wrong, because those symptoms occurred.

And on the flip side I couldn't even count how many people I know who have stopped taking SSRIS or SNRIs, hit an almost immediate wall of insomnia and serious psychological symptoms, and were told that they were imagining it.
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I would also add a very significant figure in Just War Theory (another useful term) is St. Thomas Aquinas (as I'm sure you know but maybe others don't).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory#Jus_ad_bellu...
Who would use maven if they could use buildr? It's much faster and the build files are much easier to understand.
I don't really care about any of those things. The reason I want to create open source as part of my job is it means I can take it with me when I leave. What's the point in building up deep expertise in something that you just throw away and never see again if you shift jobs? When I'm working on open source I see myself accumulating a lifetime resource / skill compared to something that is relatively ephemeral.
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XHTML actually decreased interoperability with seldom anyone able to produce conformant strict XHTML. XHTML was a huge mistake, the W3C obsoleted itself with this one.
Where in that story did the robot ask for surrender?
I do not think it does overlook that research: those papers generally assume that once those things are controlled for, the remaining variation is as good as random and thus we indeed recover the causal effect of X on Y. Many papers are probably _wrong_ on this, but they still use "causation" in the first sense and not in the second sense.
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LGR – Half-Life 20 Years Later: A Retrospective
Nobody has mentioned "This is water" from a commencement speech [1] at a college yet, so let me do that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhhC_N6Bm_s
I can generate works with market value. In pseudocode:

i=0

while {

write_to_file("%s.bin" % i, i)

i++

}

Of course the effort is in discarding the dross.

How are we to determine "market value"? And let's not forget, the copyright crowd don't want to claim rights over just 1 specific number, but any number that happens to render (when run through a movie player) anything that resembles e.g. Star Wars. I don't think this argument is as absurd as it first appears...
I'd just ask the name, that should be a strong clue. If not then wait for someone to talk to or about the child.
There is a prize in the Tour de France for 'combativity' and it means some competitors end up powering off on attacks that have minimal chance of success, so you're maybe not as far off as you'd think!
The environmental and human costs represented by that figure are overlooked. How much pollution was created to make that $85 million fighter jet? When a government of the future spends 500 billion to make a field full of robot trash fighting with another government, what are the externalities of that?