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Context matters.

Firefox is significantly more trustworthy than Chrome (the outrage over Mozilla's occasional screw-ups exists because that behaviour is decidedly not the established norm for Mozilla whereas the same behaviour from Google surprises no-one).

The context in this thread was "Switch to Firefox. It prioritizes privacy, unlike Chrome". In other words, "Firefox is more privacy-focused than Chrome".

Piling on Mozilla for past screw-ups creates the impression that this statement is wrong and that both browsers are equally bad at privacy because neither of them is consistently perfect.

Even if the criticism is technically correct, piling it on like this creates a skewed impression that if you care about privacy you might as well use Chrome because even if you switch to Firefox your privacy will be invaded anyway.

This normalises the level of invasiveness of Chrome and equivocates its consistent and intentional behavior with a series of exceptional missteps.

In case you think "But I never mentioned Chrome", well, Chrome and Firefox were the only options in the original post so anything negative about Firefox implies a positive about Chrome and vice versa. If you wanted to call out specific behavior, either present an alternative (Brave? Ice Weasel?) or clarify that you're addressing the behavior categorically and not just that instance of it specifically.

If someone says "Don't use A. B is better because it doesn't do $thing" and then you respond by "I've seen B do $thing" that implies equivalence between A and B even if B did $thing only a few times out of carelessness whereas A intentionally does $thing all the time because its business model depends on it. It doesn't matter that you didn't mean it that way, it doesn't matter that it's true and it doesn't matter that this is a mistake on part of the audience. Humans are flawed and communication requires you to take those flaws into account -- unless you just want to express yourself.
Agreed. I think it's a very good to have a social security to back you. In place where I live very few percentage of people who go for govt. jobs are lucky to get pension directly from the govt., which is always adjusted for inflation so you can have a comfortable life. People outside of that social security are constantly worried and in pursuit of having a decent retirement income option. Wish a system like in Europe becomes a norm in other parts of the world too, though sometimes I feel it can make people lazy, but why are we working so hard for anyways!.
SPA is not a panacea for anything.
It's also quite possible to integrate an SPA framework with a backend framework, they are orthogonal.

An SPA framework generally executes on the frontend in the users browser as Javascript. There may be build tools like webpack and browserify and babel, or one may y a simple spa.min.js file to include. Polyfills may be needed, even for such simple things as Object.values, as Javascript support varies across browsers and version.

The 2 backend frameworks you mentioned allow for front-end templating, which you really SHOULD use in lieul of the SPA-centric solution of "server-side-rendering" which basically takes advantage of Node.js running Javascript by hacking a client-side JS "template" to be processed by Node.js, which, unless your backend is ALSO Node.js based, requires an additional process and a totally different set of server tools than either Rails or Django.

There are a whole crop of app designs that basically use whatever backend with whatever SPA front-end in a more minimalist cohesive fashion. The basic idea is this:

1) server-template-rendered pages (NOT an SPA blob) that already have data affixed in them delivered as a response to a request on a given route path

2) judicious usage of Javascript on the front end only where needed, usually following the pattern of

A) the template assigns templated data to a Javascript object
B) a Javascript virtual dom is created and mounted based upon the data in A
C) normal XHRs or wss are used to send/get data from the server, with the response callback in an XHR setting the returned data into the Javascript object again, causing the Javascript virtual dom to redraw, as the data has changed.

Best of both worlds...

the main takeaway is to avoid making people wait for an SPA blob to download and then load it's data if the person is actually just interested in checking the contact info page, etc. SPAs serve a specific purpose, as a kind of interactive brochure that one is prepared to wait for initially, but later should move around quickly amongst it's various pages. I would go so far as to say that an SPA only really works best when the concept of "pages" is thrown away.
“it's easily possible to get into situations where the hospitals and society are "functioning", but civil society has decided not to give you any medicine.”

We are currently in such a situation in the United States.
I practiced judo and boxing for two decades, and I still have low-confidence and anxiety. At least in my case, it's totally unrelated.
Just to add a (far?) more extreme take on this:

I use a 48 key keyboard (an OLKB Planck) which massively cuts down on hand travel and typing strain. Arrow and navigation keys, a numpad, all the function keys, every symbol I use whem programming, and various OS controls (volume, media controls, screen brightness, etc.) are all easily reachable without changing the position of my hands. I also chose to program all the modifier keys to work both as normal when held down and in a similar fashion to sticky keys when just tapped. For example, holding down shift and typing a letter works as normal, but hitting shift followed by a letter accomplishes the same result, meaning that capital letters and punctuation don't really interrupt the flow of typing or require chording.

I also have rather resistive keyswitches (nominally 185g, ~170g in actuality) which was of ergonomic benefit to me. I wouldn't expect it to help most people, but it helped me learn to type without bottoming out the switches. Starting out, the heavier springs caught me before reaching the bottom. Now I type in a much gentler fashion, even if peak force is greater than on a standard keyboard.

Moving down to 48 keys can seem intimidating, but I adjusted rather quickly. It only took me about a couple weeks to become comfortable with the layout changes (staggered keys to a grid layout and Workman instead of QWERTY). I believe that part of the reason it was such an easy transition was because I changed the layout whenever I had trouble adjusting to it. I had wanted to place the underscore on the same key as F in a QWERTY layout to make typing snake_case identifiers easier, but kept hitting the adjacent equals key instead. I could have pushed through it, but I embraced what my brain clearly felt was right whenever a similar thing happened and picked up the layout much quicker than I expected.

Another common concern is losing competence with a normal keyboard or standard layout, but at least in my case that hasn't been an issue. I can switch back and forth between a 2013 Macbook QWERTY keyboard and my customized one with no issues, and I often switch from QWERTY to Workman on my laptop depending on how much I'm writing. Occasionally I'll switch layouts mid-sentence when I realize I'll be going into more depth than I expected.
This read a lot like an Onion satire, I sincerely hope that only a handful minority of people would be susceptible to such wants inflation. These wants honestly sound like desperate ways to distract yourself with toys and experiences until you die.

Also, your analysis on having maximum freedom of will at $3B is flawed in that money can only buy so much. For example, you can be the world's wealthiest man but that won't buy you healthy body, good looks or a charitable personality.
Why would there be a need to a 'account for differences in behavior?

Here is a very hypothetical scenario, I am struggling with:

A parent shows a pattern of drinking an driving under influence. As luck had it -- nothing bad happened.
Then the child, does the same (when already having a valid driver license) -- and a horrible accident happens.

Is there some moral responsible that the parent carries? Is there criminal responsibility?

Just as in my initial comment, I do not know if this line of thinking has any merit at all.

Perhaps it is a 'bunch of baloney' as you put it.

I also have no idea on how to detect, that there in what instances there is an implied accountability of a parent (or a treating phycologist/psychiatrist).

I am hoping that some folks reading this thread , have historical, or even literature prospective that explores this angle.

How far the accountability of a parent or a treating phycologist goes/overlaps with the accountability of the perpetrator of a heinous act.

I can see that out of all the feedback on my comment so far -- there is 0 overlap of accountability suggested.

Thank you for your feedback.
I like it how iOS displays this arrow when location services are or were used, and how one can see in "Privacy -> Location Services" a brief history of which app did what, and enable or disable location access at all per app.
You can always make a bogus reservation on a cheap refundable hostel, and cancel it as soon as you get through immigration. That's exactly what I did when I applied for a visa and they insisted on seeing full hotel reservations.
I've never heard of Elena Ferrante either. I read quite a lot but most of my tastes could probably easily be derided as 'genre fiction'.

I would absolutely argue she has a right to her privacy and anonymity, if that's what she wants.
It's not like GCHQ wasn't hacking networks before. The law just says they need to disclose it now, so they use the encryption as an "excuse" to do it, while also making encryption look bad (something we ought to get rid of).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/21/british-spie...
Maybe but boosting requires real talent, and the vast majority of the players good enough to do this are in SK.
Tackle climate or face financial crash, say world's biggest investors
> I do not understand a mindset of 'My only purpose is to amass a pile of wealth so large that I don't spend any of it or do anything else ever, merely use the mechanisms of finance to subsist unproductively off the leakage from my giant pile of wealth, literally forever'.

> You're going to die having made no use of the hoard you seized, despite having taken it from others who need wealth of their own to survive. Rethink these assumptions.

I would encourage you to rethink your assumptions. What you wrote goes completely against how economics actually works.

You are not "seizing" a hoard, and definitely not taking it from others. Unless you are literally a thief, that's just not how things work - you are making it seem like the economy is zero-sum, whereas it absolutely is not.

Also, having a pile of wealth that you don't spend is something that no one actually does - almost everyone invests their money, which means it is put to good use, as an investment - the wealth that someone created out of thin air, is turned into the building blocks for new people to create their own wealth.

I highly recommend you read a little about economics, it's one of the most rewarding and eye-opening things I've ever studied (only as an amateur, I'm not a professional economist or anything.)
I haven't used Quora much over the years, so maybe it has an actual reason to exist, but I was under the impression that it's a site with fake/barely real questions, with answers by folks trying to sell something. I don't think I've ever had a search result where I clicked on a Quora link and there wasn't an attempt to sell/market something in one or more of the answers. Then you click on other questions, and you're supposed to register. I've always assumed it's a junk site.
No idea why you've been d/ved, as you say, there's so many potential, but low risk, scenarios. Even in America and the EU we've all got a 0.5%, maybe 0.1% every year that something could go very wrong. Most likely is that it doesn't spiral, like the 2008 financial crisis, but there was a real, but small, chance that could have gone much worse.

His comment not only is ignoring real-life examples that have happened within his life time (Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Venezula, Katrina, Puerto Rico, etc.), he's also postulating that these new governmental structures would magically spring up over night, rather than taking years or even decades to emerge.

I'm no prepper, but I do feel that I am knowingly taking a risk, albeit a very small one, by not being one. If I had a family to care for, I would definitely be more prepared with 3 months food and some emergency medical supplies beyond a first aid kit. It's a small enough risk that it will probably not happen for my generation or my country, but it does happen.

I also often don't buy insurance for things I think aren't worth it, but it's still a deliberate choice rather than sleep walking into it.

It's almost on the same risk percentage as Home Insurance, so if you're insuring your home, why aren't you 'spending' a little time each year prepping? Just because it's socially unacceptable, but home insurance is regarded as socially acceptable?
The ‘pissing fly’ urinates faster than cheetahs run
Rails has also influenced an entire new generation of frameworks in other languages like Amber, so the principles and concepts DO translate. there are active-record implementations in several other languages circa 2018
That's right. I don't think there was any gag orders or anything. The trial wasn't secret. I certainly didn't have to sign anything committing me to secrecy, which is why I'm willing to mention it now. My contact at the police just asked me not to blog about the details, as a friendly courtesy. It just didn't make it to the press. My guess is that court case -> media transmission is not 100% reliable as we might imagine.

The police wanted it kept quiet for the usual reasons. There's some amount of luck involved in foiling any crime, especially before it happens, and when the details of a trial are broadcast it necessarily implies teaching future criminals how their predecessors were caught. The police don't like that, it just makes their jobs harder.
but Youtube also has very low quality suggestions, so in practice it ends up proposing the same topics over and over again. And god forbid you watch anything political.
> I care about my finances. But I don't worry about them.

I think that is the key to understanding much of the disagreement here. Some people seem to concentrate on the possibility that something catastrophic could happen, which admittedly, is true. But I think it's possible to be comfortable in life, with that risk. Most people don't have a choice but to bear that risk, and many would still, I believe, describe themselves as happy and comfortable.

I think by "comfortable", some people mean "immune to any possible threat", in which case, I begin to understand their point of view.
Thanks. That is something that will be added soon. The push notifications already work off a similar idea
Does Melbourne resolve to Melbourne, Australia, or Melbourne, Florida?
How does this effect compare to old fluorescent tubes? Where I live we still got a lot of those around (specially in government offices, which is as cheap as you could imagine, and then some), so LEDs seem like a win, even when horrendous.
PGNiG, PGG and Orlen are government owned so I wouldn't say they have their own agenda.

But yes, Polish government doesn't like the idea of giving up coal.
That's a list of eight names, of which I only recognize four (Trump, Jackman, Musk and Winfrey).

I think the problem is that the world is much more fragmented than we assume it is.
This is great. I'm a big fan of anything that makes memorization and learning fun and iterative.

Is it appropriate if I share one of my own creations?

https://ablakey.github.io/state-machine/index.html

The State Machine is a little geography game I made that I think can be addictive due to its simplicity.
I am a bit late to the party, but I also dislike how Quora blurs the text if you are not logged in. Sometimes I am incognito mode so this is a problem.
> Nearly every major online service has had a security breach: Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, Tumblr, Uber, Evernote, eBay, Adobe, Target, and Sony... Security breaches like these are a strong argument for using a password manager...

I don't recall a major password manager security breach, but I am afraid it is only a question of time. And the consequences will not be just compounded, they will be multiplied.
Google acquires Sigmoid Labs, developer of popular Indian app Where is my Train
IMO, by setting desired outcomes and incentives, not by mandating specific solutions and certainly not by creating a government jobs program to create the solutions that the government dictates are "the winner".

I don't want ocean levels or carbon levels to be the next Joint Strike Fighter...
This reads like 19-th century engineer arguing we need articulated wings for heavier-than-air flight because our current methods doesn't work and birds have them :)
Why are people being so antagonistic in this thread? Personally, I'm ignorant about this author. If you know their work, could you let me know what I'm missing?
The next Star Wars movie will be published as a sequence of five second GIFs on Twitter.
> I literally know nothing about the details. I didn't understand the problem statement to encompass [real problems]

Perhaps saying "it's trivial to solve" might be the wrong approach then?
Right, had forgotten about that. Was thinking about more substantive changes like Australis though, the look of tab corners seem pretty trivial.
This is the most obvious use-case. Try to send any amount of money outside of business hours from an account in one country to any account in another. You can't do it! You can't even send funds from an account in one bank, to an account in the SAME bank, if it's across a border.

I had this problem one time over a long-weekend, and the only solution I had was to use Western Union. Because I didn't warn my bank that I wanted to use my own money, they disabled my account until they were open again (3 days).

> relatively fast

Maybe 5 days is relatively fast to you, but it's not to me. 1 horsepower was relatively fast to people before cars were common also.
Nothing you said is relevant to Dragonfly, or any other of a number of bad decisions by Google.

Not everyone is willing to give them the benefit of the doubt any more. I'm sorry that bothers you, but that's reality. You can be mad about it, or you can attempt to understand and mitigate the issue. That's on you.
One of the two AR15s is for propulsion.
>your social status get raised and you would need 100k a year to live comfortably

Haha come on. You know that is not true. I live a pretty good life where I get to move country every few months (in Europe), have expensive hobbies, ski 100+ days a year and after currency conversion make closer to 50k.

For what it's worth, I only work 2 days/week, if I "needed" 100k USD I could go to a full time position but I don't see why I would ever "need" that. Especially if I was choosing to live in 1 location and spend less time on hobbies.
It can be torture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvyakoiU0zA
Why would you want to develop "intellectual mental toughness", how do you define it?

Edit:

Okay googling a bit, I think mental toughness is an incredibly poor name for the concept. I'm this close to put that "mental toughness" name into the "toxic masculinity" box.

My advice would be don't be afraid to make mistakes, and be kind to yourself when you make some. I've noticed that when facing failure the best pattern would be to pardon yourself and allow yourself to learn from it. Take a step back.
I'm in Germany and France shows up as 11 to 11 hours behind me. That's not quite right, just wanted to let you know that something about the time differences seems fishy.
I’ve learned the hard way from years of experience that if I am the only person that knows a system, that means I will be stuck on it forever and can’t move on to the new shiny.

When I was a team lead, I made it part of the “definition of done” that you had to have documentation and knowledge sharing. Now, I still have both an overview of my proposed architecture before I start just to make sure I didn’t miss anything, Visio diagrams,Powerpoint slides, wiki documentation, an “architecture review”, etc. I hold myself to the same standards I held anyone on the team to.

From a career development standpoint, software developers are a dime a dozen. It’s the people who know how to communicate effectively are the ones that get ahead.
Kubernetes for workstations and appliances
I believe they do spend a lot of money on R&D. Someone came along with a new idea and applied it to their field.

Now that Alphabet has sown them a better way, money should pour into the new technique.
> It’s going to seem incredible, almost magical, but be assured you there are no tricks involved.

The trick involved is: BitSequence.find is a naïve brute-force search, but the predicates only check n bits (for some n), and laziness ensures that at most n bits are generated.

We run into the expected problems if n is large, or there is no such n. For example,

func evenNumberOfOnesAtStart(_ s : BitSequence) {
return (s.atIndex(0) == .zero ||
(s.atIndex(1) == .one &&
evenNumberOfOnes(BitSequence { s.atIndex($0 + 2) })))
}

evenNumberOfOnesAtStart == evenNumberOfOnesAtStart

will never terminate. (Disclaimer: I don't write Swift.)

While it's nice to try smuggling in some mathematics at the end, I think a better conclusion for the article to draw is: if you ask a computer to do a brute-force search on some fixed number of bits, it will do it, even where has to compute this number of bits itself along the way.
Why is this a goal? Perhaps consider instead increasing your ability to have empathy, as toughness implies lack of caring about what is happening around you.
What I've learned by analysing 9 years of side-projects
Yes on the visa point - can't be totally random. The rest you can.

I'm about to embark on a 3 week trip through south east asia. Aside from my liveaboard where I'll be living on a boat and diving (which I have to book in advance), I haven't booked a single accommodation. It can be done; hostels all the way.
PhpMyAdmin security release pre-announcement
I shot skeet competitively when I was younger. I competed at a high level. Unlike many other sports where competitors affect your play, the only reason you fail in skeet is because of you. The target will fly the same. The gun and ammunition will perform.

The outcome of any one event is Boolean: you hit the target or you miss. Feedback is instant.

You have to learn to put your mind into the zone. You do that through repetition. While competing, if you worry about your competitor, or the next shot, or how you look, you will miss. Coincidentally, you learn to turn off your brain from trying too hard. A relaxed brain and body are quicker to react, and more powerful.

I leaned mental toughness through a game with small Boolean feedback, which rewards focus and rejects excessive effort. It is like instant feedback on meditation.
I agree with this 100%. Though I only do grappling and not any striking (BJJ and Submission Wrestling).

When I did my first competition, locking eyes with my opponent knowing he will do everything he can do to choke me, break my joints and knowing I voluntarily put myself there, it changed me :)

I especially like how you frame your last sentence. Since martial arts can sometimes be uncomfortable physically, like you I have noticed is that things that used to be uncomfortable are not as uncomfortable as being pinned down by someone much larger than you. I consciously remind myself of this if I ever feel nervous about something, and it works almost every time.

I've also read the book by Goggins (loved it) and martial arts really build up your "cookie jar".
It's possible your emails are malformed or contain weird headers, that gets them flagged very heavily as well.