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The default kernel settings should be secure. So if the current STIBP is too expensive and SMT-disable is less expensive, I have no issue with disabling STIBP provided that SMT is also disabled to make sure that the default kernel is safe.
Safer bash scripts with 'set -euxo pipefail' (2015)
Here's the ether guy again. It's all he can talk about.
While I don't like this ~guy's~ woman's disdainful, superior tone, I do think his complaint has merit. Physics is notoriously bad at having curiosity about strange, unconventional, or truly novel ideas. I just finished reading What is Real? by Adam Becker-- a history of modern physics-- and am astonished at how aggressively physicists resisted and suppressed "unconventional" interpretations of quantum mechanics (like the many worlds interpretation) in favor of the obviously-wrong Copenhagen interpretation. There was a taboo for decades around even discussing quantum foundations, and people's careers were ruined simply for trying to publish papers about it.

Physics got stuck for a short while on the understanding of QM, and then promptly went into sour grapes mode and decided that it was meaningless to ask any deep questions about what QM actually meant. Since then it has been focused on mathematical formalisms and smashing particles instead of deep questions about what it all means.

The stagnation is real, and it's the physics community's own fault.
What was the overall feedback from your group/ concerns etc?
Martin Crevald has a book on the USMC reading list (https://grc-usmcu.libguides.com/usmc-reading-list/intermedia...) "The Changing Face of War: Combat from the Marne to Iraq". Interesting that he uses that battle as one of the fenceposts.
Also, it's hardly rare for boards to make self-destructive insanely stupid decisions for what must have seemed like good reasons at the time.

Boards are not infallible, nor are the people on them. They're not even infallible at maximising profit - never mind trying to handle challenging cultural problems without being eaten alive by them.
You don't get to do it right until version 3.

You write version 1 quick and dirty to get it out the door fast. Version 1 is written to acquire customers. You write version 2 to patch over all the problems of version 1. Version 2 is written to retain customers, but it ends up as an unmaintainable mess.

In version 3, you finally get to throw out the old code base and take the time to write clean, architected, maintainable code. Version 3 is written to attract and retain developers. Once it reaches parity with version 2, you can do the "Big Migration", and then start adding features. Version 4 and up are all built on 3, but barely anyone ever gets that far.

Note that this won't match up with the version numbers written into the software. You can't do anything about those, because marketing and management tells you what they have to be. Anecdotally, most software projects never progress past version 2, no matter how high their marketing numbers go. This is because version 3 does not directly add to the bottom line. It adds to developer productivity, and if the company cannot measure the value of developer productivity already, there will never be a business case for it. We all want to work on version 1 or version 3, because version 2 is a never-ending nightmare slog of one problem after another, but version 2 is that gaping hole that businesses will just keep throwing their money into, forever. And version 4 is easy and boring, where the only hard work is in upholding the process that is keeping the less experienced coders from cluttering up the place.

OP's mistake was in writing version 3 before telling management why that would be a "Good Idea That Saves Money" and seeking their mandate, and in not owning the successful completion as a major accomplishment. OP's current manager always understood that people run the company, not the code. That's not incompetent; it's a competence OP doesn't currently understand.
I sold around $14k after holding for years, and I was thinking about placing a short at $6500 but decided not to, the best traders in this space make money on the way up and down
Sounds like Axure (https://www.axure.com) might be worth a look
That's a plastic shopping bag. Try swallowing a plastic shopping bag.
Maybe on YouTube. Or the children of Russian/ Chinese mobsters
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> And most importantly, large & impactful countries like US and China shouldn't waste their time on petty issues like trade-war & focus on big issue here!

Agreed with much of what you said, but this is a bit irrelevant for Indian environmental policy, no?
Also see The Circle[1] movie for a glimpse into a reality where everything is recorded.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4287320/
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This reminds me of the old YouTube art project "Surveillance Camera Man". Since taken off YouTube, but you can still find mirrors.
https://archive.org/details/SurveillanceCameraMan18
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please check for duplicates before submitting... this is even on the front page already! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18494027
Seems like a pretty big stretch to apply that paper to lawsuits.
"...Heinlein never achieved stable and consistent recognition either during his lifetime or posthumously. His prose and ideas lacked the signature stylistic and thematic hallmarks that were to distinguish peers such as Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, and Isaac Asimov..."

I really dislike these sorts of remarks. Heinlein is down in the records as one of the "Big Three" authors in the golden age of science fiction. Any Science Fiction reader knows how much of a giant he is. Just because The Atlantic, didn't decide to declare him a singular hidden gem, or HBO didn't make a series based on his works, doesn't mean he wasn't recognized or appreciated in full.
Banking uses eventual consistency all over the place. Unsurprising given they started with letters going by ship and courier.
This guy right here is one of the few comments in this thread that "get it". OP seems genuinely interested in the success of the team, where as who he's talking about, seemingly at least, is interested in his own success - this isn't bad, but it generally goes against the grain of building a team of happy campers.

As @eriktate said, you either make some noise because you care, or you realize that the people above this person don't understand what makes great technical leadership actually great, and you leave.
I don't think it's a "slippery slope of pornography somehow leading to cp" but rather once people realize that there is no moderation and no rules and no one will shut them down, it turns into the Wild West. If criminals learn that there are no police officers anymore, they know they can get away with committing any crimes without punishment.

Since tumblr will host things other sites won't, eventually someone will push the envelope and if they don't get shut down it will get pushed further and further. It's not about "any porn -> child porn", it's a progressive furthering of what is/is not allowed, and once you learn everything is allowed and nothing is banned, child porn (and other illegal content) is an inevitability.
I just created a gmail account you can contact me at ( anongraddebt@gmail.com ). I'll give you the syllabus, assorted materials, and a bulleted list of take-aways that I've written up for others in the past.
I'm trying to manufacture a theory that better fits all the facts. Intimidation is a simple theory, and acceptable as a fallback, but if that's all that was going on, then it raises some questions.
Aha!

That makes sense. Thanks!
I agree the movie is more interesting than my above comment implies, for the reason you highlight. That said, I dont believe the novel is about authoritarianism; it critiques universal suffrage, suggesting that only members of an in-group who have demonstrated sacrifice of the individual for the collective can be trusted to make decisions for the collective.
Hot dog or not hot dog?
I suspect Apples defence would always be "we only have 15% of the smart phone market".
So much this. It's actually kind of mind-boggling how many people think you need a mountain of evidence to make any legal claim when the reverse is largely true (you made a decision, we think it was done in violation of the Constitution and through discovery want to see if that's the case).
I guess that's a risk, opaqueness was not my intention, thank you for the heads up.
I’ve been doing some research on headless CMS options.

Two other good options are:

https://www.netlifycms.org

And

https://docs.ghost.org/api/gatsby/
Not OP or in this chain, but I'm surprised you say this (Rarely see snakes.)

I have nothing to complain about. I've done very well career wise, and have no reason to beef with any of these people. But at the same time, I've concretely seen individuals lie outright, blackmail, threaten, insult, and bully their way to success. That you say you rarely see this makes me raise an eyebrow. I've gone through the "maybe I'm just seeing evil where there isn't any" thought process many times, but after watching multiple instances of negative actors take advantage of others while I was a disinterested third party, I can't but have conviction. People will abuse others when it serves them and they think they can get away with it, and in situations where power dynamics, visibility and relationships (so soft, highly non-fungible elements) drive your career, someone in power can get away with a LOT, even via only subtlety misaligning incentives.

Let me be clear, this is not some dominating majority of the population, and one should not start seeing enemies around every corner, but I've seen enough that instructing a junior engineer to watch out for those who would seek to take advantage of them seems very pragmatic to my eyes.
Who invented the internet?
Quite the paradoxical statement.
Tech founder charged with voyeurism for secretly filming tenants and friends
'Enemy combatants' is a horror built into the system. IME, most people have forgotten that is how collateral damage was hidden.
>How did their support of sexual misconduct in the past further the goal of maximizing profit? Is there a known metric that shows how profitability increases after a given percentage of harassed workers?

To look at the issue from the amoral, profit-maximizing perspective...

It's not that the harassed workers are a benefit; they are indeed a cost, in terms of lower productivity and legal risk.

Rather, it's that the difficulty of pushing back against the high-paid harassers is a cost, and insta-firing them (or even reprimanding them in a way that makes them want to leave) can hurt profitability because of the difficulty of replacing them.

And, though I shudder to say it, "being able to harass underlings" -- to some executives -- functions as a kind of non-monetary compensation.
The film is a straight up criticism of the book's pro-fascist (or at least pro-militaristic authoritarianism) undertones, honestly.
I thought it was Al Gore?
I worked at a fortune 500 where IT was a support role and we had lots of people who were not that technically proficient. I really did have to deal with people who were incompetent programmers. Rookie mistake all over the place. Global variables in JavaScript. Check. Not using version control. Check.

What you describe is not incompetence at all. It just sounds like this person has aspirations for management and you don't. Personally, I believe that it's best to lead from the front meaning that one should demonstrate to the people he/she is trying to lead that one really knows their stuff.

That being said, it sounds like now this person actually is responsible for managing you now so it appears their tactics paid off. Unless this person is asking you to write bad code or implement designs that don't make sense, there's really no issue other than your resentment towards this person. you got to let it go. That stuff is poison.
Yes, and I've said as much. But the user-agents can't construct this without JS.
They needed a way to bootstrap adoption and spread BAT tokens out into the wild. If they didn’t generate them they would have had to pay for something else and they didn’t have the money to do that.
Ethereum’s dropping too, maybe I can afford a new GPU next year!
You can look at backpage as a very similar example, and in fact if Tumblr does have child pornography on it and they are not actively taking it down and taking measures to prevent it and report it then it should be shut down just as backpage was.
A building collapses, you're trapped in the rubble, you have just enough range of motion and strength to move your hand, and the dust has clogged your throat so you can barely breath, let alone yell to rescuers. How can you let people know you're there and alive? Tap out SOS.

Even if the people searching the rubble don't know SOS, they will still recognize that it's not a natural noise.
Is there any evidence of MPEG showing a bias in favor or patents? The different standards they define seem to have fairly well defined goals and then, to my casual observer's eye, they've had fairly concrete technical reasons for their decisions.

As it's constructed and the different patent pools involved, I'm not sure that a patent holder could benefit more than others by having MPEG use their patent.

That being said, patents are still annoying when you bump in to them. MPEG is remarkable in terms of the amount of interop though, you can watch video on your phone, laptop or your 4k TV all made by different vendors with different parts.
Aparently Bitcoin is emo now.
Thanks!

It does support all the merging feature that GitHub provides. There are features request already to support even more merge methods. :)
> And the level of contempt for people riding subways? Where do you get off? Not only are they better for the environment, they're one of the great equalizers.

I don't have contempt for people riding the subway, I have contempt for the organization that perpetrates that fraud on society.

> Any person can ride the subway for the same price as anyone else and get around the entire city 24 hours a day.

At what cost? As it turns out, at great cost. Misallocation of capital: making it easier to commute into downtown areas via rail only induces rail demand and increases cost of housing. If end users were forced to pay actual costs of transportation, businesses wouldn't be able to afford keeping down town offices and would move towards worker populations, otherwise they would have to pay higher wages to maintain their labor force. Subsidizing transportation is nothing but subsidizing corporate labor.

If you think NYC is fantastic, that doesn't make my opinion any less valid.
>One year ago it was at 8K and a month later at 18K.

And two years ago it was at $600. Everyone who jumped on the bandwagon last November during the $18k pump completely misses that fact. BTC has been the single biggest wealth transfer from institutions to individuals of our generation.
It really is one of those game changers that makes you realize the way we've always done things isn't necessarily the right way.

We're so used to being abused by marketers that it's hard to see any other way to use the Internet.
It doesn’t help that Tumblr had no way to flag posts on mobile (both mobile web and in-app). There was too much friction involved in sending a report which is unlike every other social network I use.
For anyone wondering about the meaning of "JAMstack": https://jamstack.org/
I disagree. From my experience, I was shown porn with what appeared to be underage actors, which I reported, without looking for it. The format of sites like Reddit, Imgur, etc. do not lend themselves to discovering images you’re not looking for from my experience. Reddit, for example, is divided into sub-Reddit’s that are moderated as well as some being marked NSFW.

What I don’t understand is why multi-million and billion dollar companies can’t try harder. On many sites a simple search will find forbidden content that they somehow can’t find? Gimme a break.
I think the guideline applies to apps with user-generated content.

Now, I'm sure you can come up with an argument about why this still applies to Safari... but it's also easy to come up with an argument about why it does not.

Certainly, the relationship between the content and the app is much more tenuous for Safari -- where the content is everything published on the web by anyone -- and the Tumblr app, where the objectionable content is hosted by and for the Tumblr app.

In the end, you can argue Apple should have drawn the line about responsibility for content in a different place, but clearly a reasonable line can be drawn that allows Safari but doesn't allow Tumblr (with a broken child-porn filter).
I think that's one of the problems with Incredibles setting that 2 only makes worse: the films don't seem to be set in the 50s/60s, they seem to be set in a world that never grew out of the 50s/60s. There is too much anachronism for it to be the 50s/60s. It's maybe the case that Incredibles 1 started in the equivalent of our 50s or 60s, but the time jump of "no supers" and the births and ages of the kids would indicate that most of the Incredibles happened maybe in the 80s/90s.

The timeline is probably a mess, but the clear point is that it can't be set in the 50s/60s so much as a world trapped in the 50s/60s idea of a future. It's retrofuturist nostalgia, at best. (Which between Incredibles 2 and Tomorrowland is perhaps where poor Brad Bird is trapped mentally and needs help escaping?)
His?
I do not very well understand the algorithms used for this purpose, but I imagined that they are somewhat resistant to easy circumvention -- otherwise what use are they in trying to filter CP? The folks who are trafficking in such things would probably be very interested in workarounds if they are easy to accomplish.
Thinking about this with my engineering hat on -- If I wanted to guide the behaviour of such a system, I would have to influence the prediction somehow - and then the system would act to change the state of the world to match that prediction and/or update the prediction with more information about what is actually going on (by actively making observations etc...). This seems like quite an elegant and neat little lever for high-level control/objective setting. A bit like a Picardian 'make it so' button...
It is "her" complaint, not "his". This is Sabine Hossenfelder, a well known theorist (mostly for her outreach/popularization work).

And you are misrepresenting this"taboo" you are talking about. Thinking about what quantum mechanics "means" is how we got breakthroughs in quantum computing and theoretical computer science. Similarly, there is plenty of exciting deep theoretical work in particle physics beyond the smashing particles together type of experiments.
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> We hear it all the time. “Don’t worry about the Internet if the grid goes down. The Internet was designed to survive thermonuclear war.” Unfortunately, the original design of the Internet was based on conventional, hard-wire phone lines that were surprisingly resilient to catastrophic failures. Today’s Internet is different. It’s a swamp of wireless modems, ethernet cables and numerous other devices dependent on a stable infrastructure that is both complex and fragile.

Is there any truth to this? There's a bunch of obvious technical errors (surviving nuclear war was never a design goal of the Internet, backbones have been fiber-optic since 1987, not clear why ethernet cables are supposed to be less reliable than telephone cables). Wireless is of course easier to interrupt than wired, but in most places last-mile links are still hardlines.

The real issue is that you need power and a functioning service provider, but that's always been true.
If you want to convince people building software enabled businesses to keep their source open and free rather than closed, a better rationale is needed than "I've never seen it happen so you should definitely bet your business on it never happening to you."
The OP never made the case that the person was incompetent though. I'm not seeing any red flags other than the OPs resentment. I understand where he's coming from. It's a struggle that many technical-minded folks go through in a business environment. When "I just wanna build cool stuff" clashes with "How do we manage resources efficiently to meet the deadline?"
I'm the worst type of bootcamp web developer you can imagine.

I only knew it was Assembly because i once looked at the apollo guidance computer's source code.
I have a vague idea of why this may be useful, but I wish people who upvote a new(ish) tech would take the time to put it in context as to why they upvoted it, why it is interesting, and why anyone should read about it.

I am kind of sold on "static" sites, but why is this particular stack and set of solutions so exciting? (As opposed to using, say, Rails on Heroku (which I use as a default baseline), or even the alternative setup (Vuejs version of Gatsby -- I am sure there is one by now, and whatever competes with graphQL).
JAMstack

Javascript
APIs
Markup

Coined by Matt Biilmann, Co-founder of Netlify
Sabine Hossenfelder is a woman.
Could that possibly have anything to do with the fact that cars today are only a shadow of what they were back then.

They are all the same roundish blob of mass, with no particular shape at all, no angles, HUGE and all around cheap and plasticky.
If you like the approach of just diving into the deep end: Toastmasters. https://www.toastmasters.org
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> Regardless, I struggle to be emotionally invested in a situation where I decide 6 billion people die.

6 billion people will die. Heck, 7.5 billion will die. Everyone dies. The question is not when, but how, and how do they live their lives.

I think we should pursue a solution not of genocide, but one of mass sterilization. We should choose about 100 million people from all over the Earth that will represent the genome of the next generation of humanity and sterilize everyone else. And contrary to the closet racists' wet dream, this should be done in exactly the opposite way: we should strive to maximize genetic diversity and make sure that everyone has a pretty close relative represented. It would have to be massively automated, driven by genetic data, and highly, highly scientific.

That's the only non-morally-horrendous depopulation solution that I can think of. It would solve our population problem in ~60-70 years, naturally. Humanely I would say.

To some, it might be liberating even. The need to not ever worry about supporting children, or really, about the future at all. They don't have to live with a lower standard of living (by much). They don't have to figure out how to compete with 8, 9, 10 billion other people trying to claw their way up to the western standard of living. The childless could focus on bringing meaning to their lives in other ways, can invest in the next generation in other ways, and can transcend their biological destiny, which seems to be a cruel joke programmed into us from the very first bacterium.

It'd be like creating a living ark within humanity.

And the resources left over, designed to support 8 billion, need only support 100 million. There'd be a plethora of energy and real estate. A lot of the Earth could be turned back to wilderness. And humanity would take a smaller role. By choice. Instead of it being forced on us by the system collapsing on our heads.
or even further, "what is making these parents make the choice to not vaccinate children?". Is it education? is it distrust of the system?
>You're right, a "store of value" product being down almost 80% in the past 11 months is completely normal and not at all newsworthy.

It's not "down 80%" for anyone but dumb money who jumped in at the peak last November. BTC is up over 10,000% since 5 years ago.
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