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I work on two machines - a 'dirty' one and a secure one.

The 'dirty' machine is used for day-to-day tasks. I write code, download libraries, research things on the internet, but the machine doesn't have access to any of my production systems. In other words, if the dirty machine were to be compromised, the attacker couldn't take over my website with it.

All code is pushed to a private fork of my website, which is the 'staging' branch. A separate GitLab account and SSH identity is used so that there is a clear separation of privileges.

Then, when I'm ready to deploy to production, I turn around and log on to my secure machine. I create a merge request to merge the dirty 'staging' branch with the clean production branch. Before accepting the merge request, I thoroughly review the diff of my own code in order to make sure that an attacker didn't sneak something in without me noticing.

If I need to make minor corrections before merging (e.g. if I notice a spelling mistake at the last minute), I can commit this straight to master from the secure machine and then pull the change back down to staging afterwards.

Doing it this way does take slightly longer, but if you have both of the machines physically next to each other (but with separate peripherals and isolated network connections of course), then the security benefit massively outweighs the extra time requirement.
Wow this is a real treasure trove, thanks!
I'm not the GP and think we probably should have more socialized hospitals.

But suggesting people who oppose publicly funded freeways should boycott publicly funded freeways is silly.

Imagine an office Christmas party where everyone is told to chip in for refreshments and then the refreshments will be whatever the boss ends up buying with that money. I may not like that arrangement, and may prefer to keep my money and bring my own food for myself. But, given that I have to pay in, I feel no need to abstain from eating the salad that the boss ends up providing using everyone's money.
Sorry about that, I made it too difficult! I've updated the last puzzle to remove any gradients and transforms, so it should be much easier now.
I've never engaged with anything by Jordan Peterson, but that assumption sounds perfectly reasonable. Taking human nature to mean "the way people tend to respond to stimuli as a result of evolution", then I don't see that changing in a short time scale like a single lifetime.
To what extent is this an exclusively American problem? How much of the health care “tech” opportunity is tied to managing the complicated multi-party bureaucracy of the U.S. system?

The article highlights how docs are spending too much time doing “desktop medicine” related to paperwork and billing. There’s a whole layer of adminstrative staff at every hospital doing this stuff too.

If we get Medicare For All someday, what will the impact be on the healthcare tech startup space?

For example I met someone at a bar the other day whose startup was all about managing medical bills. Consumers can scan their bills and they’ll look for optimizations and payment plans and budgeting or something. This would just go poof under M4A.
I'd say the zero is where you don't do anything. There's no gain and no loss. Once you decide to do something, you have to spend to make it happen. The dice example is pointless when the roll is assumed to be zero effort and you get a random number for it. Where's the gain?

> No experiment could ever possibly hurt scientific knowledge.

Sure could. An experiment might yield a false result. You might get a false negative and abandon a promising discovery. You might get a false positive and waste more experiments on an impossible setup. It's all about opportunity cost.

But overall I couldn't follow Taleb's writing. It's not accessible to me anymore.
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That is searx. Self hosted and fully randomizing. I use it, and it works very well for general web searches

Image search is subtly broken in the packaged releases tho, so you'll either have to hit up google image search or use the git version
Falsification is something that you do to hypotheses, not data. Experiments that Aristotle performed to demonstrate classical elemental theory are still valid and useful, his incorrect interpretation of the underlying mechanisms notwithstanding
This sounds like you're having the wrong conversations. With all your experience, why are you still going into companies through the front door? Where's your network?

Fundamentally: Why are you having the "Can you code your way out of a wet paper bag" conversation instead of the "How much value can you add to this company" conversation?

Perhaps my experience as a consultant/freelancer is breaking my perspective. It's been several years since I last had a coding interview as an applicant.
This is about loans from Square. They started the same year [1] PayPal began doing the same thing.

"PayPal Holdings Inc. has extended more than $6 billion in small-business loans since 2013, using data it collected by processing payments for Internet retailers."

Others are following suit:

"Intuit Inc. started offering loans to businesses that use its Quickbooks software based in part on the data contained in their accounting statements. First Data Corp. now lets businesses that use payments devices from Clover, a Square competitor that it owns, take out loans based on their sales history."

[1] "A team of techies at Square dreamed up its lending program, now called Square Capital, in 2013 when Square was around four years old."
I've seen a video which made a lot of sense to me, but what I think is happening is the American government is better there will be an oil glut in the future. Not only have more countries found large supplies of oil, but with electric cars quickly become a huge market and tech adoption being high they are betting this will lower oil demand.

That's not even mentioning that we are only one valid solid-state battery breakthrough from making large vehicles electric too.
The article says that Guido thinks that taking specific action to encourage more women to participate in open source projects, and the Python project in particular is a good thing. I will assume that Guido as a public figure isn’t just overtly signalling his subscription to the diversity zeitgeist, but also has some sort of quantifiable reason for thinking this.

There are two broad categories of questions which can be asked about diversity in open source projects: one is about the effect of diversity on the project and the other is how the project members’ behaviour effects diversity. I would like to ask a couple of questions inside these categories which should be easy to answer in terms of hard data:

1. Can anyone name an open source project which has taken measures to increase diversity of gender and has had a measurable effect on diversity of gender?

2. For any such project, can anyone point to a measurable increase in quality e.g. commits, lines of code, increase in market share, which has resulted from increased diversity in gender?

3. What portion of female developers have experienced frustration with the behaviour they have seen from the members of open source projects and have decided to use their time on other things?

4. Of those female developers, what sort of behaviour has caused this frustration, and what portion of male developers have been pushed away by this same behaviour?
Thanks for the feedback, and sorry about that! But if you can make it to the final stage, I think you might enjoy that one.
I second ipe, used it together with LaTeX for my theses. It looks great, gives you many options while being an easy-to-use WYSIWYG tool and integrates with LaTeX typesetting (you can typeset in the diagram). The PDF export makes it also usable in other contexts.
To me it's less about making gorgeous diagrams and making shared collaborative diagrams. IF other people working on or reading the document can't tweak the diagrams easily then they're not useful to me or make me do a lot of extra work. So I prefer things like Plant UML or Lucid Charts for docs / diagrams / arch stuff.

I also have gotten to the point where I care more about speed / consistency / access than pretty. you can spend HOURS just tweaking color schemes on diagrams. If we're going to take the diagram to print in marketing material, sure spend that time. If I'm trying to get an idea across to others, nah, not worth it. To me it's a parallel to the go formatter argument.

Also auto-layout tools like plantuml mean I spend minutes on things insead of endlessly tweaking things.
I think you need to be a bit more specific
> This is an extremely flawed initial assumption.

that was not an initial assumption but (presumably) the subject of the essay. its not clearly stated in the text though

> you can certainly win on chance in the long run

No you can't ; both casinos and insurance companies make choices that give them an assymetry in gains, and thus they benefit from the randomness of events. Chance is by definition centered around the mean.

The question of scientific research directions is interesting , but i m not sure that research is a random walk. There are biases and "hunches" that guide scientists.
I'm not sure why the most cited article couldn't be called a follow-up or at least summary of intention to follow-up.

"A comprehensive concept that connects NAD+ metabolism to the control of aging and longevity in mammals has been proposed, and the stage is now set to test whether these exciting preclinical results can be translated to improve human health."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155041311...
Or just learn how to craft search queries on DDG (instead of google assuming it for you). Nothing wrong with DDG. Lot of people like it. Why shouldn't anyone suggest it to others?
That iPhone was a 5C which doesn't have the Secure Enclave Processor and is a huge jump in hardware security. There's a reason the FBI rails against Apple even in their public speeches and I assure you it's not because they are insecure.

https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....
Nope, but Aspirin, Ibuprofen and Paracetamol yes, since they are considered "staple" medicine.
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Which is what HVDC transmission lines are for to other countries with disparate low/zero carbon energy sources.
It might be obvious but worth saying anyway. Giving something a name can help you use it as a unit of work, or reason more effectively/accurately/mechanically.

A lot of arguments are built on abstractions like "competition" and "chance", and having a short list of common exceptions to those heuristics on hand is pretty useful. Now when discussing federalism in the U.S., I'll not only wonder whether there are free-rider problems or economies of scale missed out on, I'll also think about whether local decisions are effectively "locked in" forever.
Not quite understanding this. Seems like the second reason warrants the first.
In fact I worked on a new retail/mobile product for Target a summer ago and convinced them to specifically focus on mobile web for this exact reason.
I once did an experiment: I tried to get an appointment at a local clinic.

(Note: This anecdote was ~15 years ago. Things seem better now.)

Having failed to get an appointment the normal way, because they didn't have any slots available, I decided to test a theory.

I woke before 8pm and continuously dialled during the time slot from 8am-9am when it was, theoretically, possible to book an appointment. I'd wait for the busy tone, then immediately hang up and dial again. For an hour.

I did not get past the busy tone for the first 2 weeks.

After 9am I'd get through, and they told me there we no bookings available and I would need to call back the next day, and they recommended I call between 8am-9am...

In the end I got an appointment but it took 2 weeks and literally hundreds of call attempts to get one.

Apparently this was because the clinics keep statistics on how long people have to wait between making an appointment and attending.

To keep this number down, they set a limit on how far an advance it's possible to book an appointment.

Unfortunately, it had the side effect of preventing people from making appointments when all slots within the limit were filled.

The _true_ waiting time was therefore grossly hidden from reported statistics. And for many, it was enough to make them give up trying to get an appointment at all, further distorting the reported figures.

It took quite a long time before government, which had set the reporting requirements, learned how they were having the opposite of the intended effect.
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Gliffy is awesome! Super intuitive and easy to use.

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It can[1] but most people including Peterson himself do not care. He alludes to this in his book's introduction.

[1] http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/sundry/floggedmisconceptions...
I never really had a strong opinion on mining until I drove through Wyoming and northern Nevada. I knew it wasn't ecologically friendly, but it wasn't happening near me so I never saw much impact. But after driving through there and seeing entire mountains halfway destroyed as the mining crews work their way through it... in a few more years, that mountain won't even exist anymore.

Watching humans take an entire mountain down rock-by-rock is a humbling experience.
I agree you do not want to be running half baked operators on your cluster, but clouds like Amazon’s and Google’s have shown it is possible to harness open source software like ElasticSearch and successfully run it on behalf of customers.

It will take time for these to harden, but it eventually will since the primitives are all there.

That said, a very significant issue that the public clouds don’t face is the team creating the operator in aws / gcp’s case is the one running it and they fully understand exactly the configuration the operator will be deployed to.

With helm and operators designed for public consumption by other companies, the amount of generality needed will be higher, at least until the conformance tests for a kubernetes implantation get more detailed and there is ci/cd between the operators and charts running on clusters that better mirror various Kubernetes deployment choices.
The restrictions were intended to make sure America was energy independent. Since that goal was accomplished, there isn't really a reason to keep them.

Increasing American exports hurts countries that depend on energy exports. America can manage both with and without exports, but other countries can not.

The next step in my mind is increasing non-oil American energy and exporting even more oil, this would further destabilize those oil-dependent countries (most of whom are not friends of the US).
I will say the traffic along the main highway and series of strip malls is not fun though. Nor is the lack of any mass transit to the airport. However rental cars are dirt cheap there.

I was LUSTING over this place though (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9679553,-83.9199396,3a,60y,4...) was for sale at $2.2M when I was there last year. If only I could sell my house for 2x and I could think of a business to keep that place maintained would be about as dream of a place as I can think of.
AFAIK, when they were all made to compete against each other in MMA it quickly became obvious that Brazilian jiu-jitsu was top dog. Although modern MMA definitely takes in the best techniques from each martial arts style.

Is agile the Brazilian jiu-jitsu of software development?
Thank you for your reply. Do I understand correctly that the biggest issue is the fact that containers won't run on the same node and you'd thus have storage issues? Would these issues be (partially) mitigated if you'd run postgres on a single node?
Except the phrase was not "investing", it was "investing money and earning a return on it." Maybe you should reread the thread.

In the context of a government or any other large institution this is most certainly understood to mean the financial markets. That is not "opinion" but rather common understanding in English language business parlance.

You have resorted to cherry picking words and trying to play semantic games. You have added exactly nothing to the conversation. In fact it's worse as resorting to "that's just your opinion" type remarks just degrades the level discourse. It's just slightly above name calling.
I saw Taleb's name at the top and stopped reading. Can we start a thing that we put Taleb's name in brackets at the end of a post title (Like NSFW) so I don't have to be sick in my mouth?

It is statistically provable that Taleb has the world's biggest ego. I have no time for his rampant mysogyny. I know he might say clever stuff, but it's not worth feeling unclean for.
If you still want to solve it and you still have the page open, here's a hint: `transform: rotate(*);`.

But if you refresh the page, I've made this last puzzle much easier by removing the `transform`.
A lot of people have researched this (http://gettingstronger.org/2010/07/improve-eyesight-and-thro...). I've personally experienced it, slowing reversing my myopia over the course of many years. It took me a decade to develop so it seems fair to me that it also takes a long time to reverse.
To be fair to those who add Garage's to houses, you can't do that with 100% predictability either. Nothing slows down an addition like digging the foundation and hitting a unknown oil tank.
My life's motto is: "Let me think about it, I'll get back to you."
I don't understand the conclusion; perhaps the NAD+ is the thing connecting the diseases?
I'm going to try working on open source projects and applying for software developer jobs.
> Following a software methodology is therefore an act of trust

That's the key point from my reading. After working with the same people on multiple products at a startup, I came to trust the product research and design steps preceding development and the marketing and customer success. Even if not wholly believing, I at least came to the conclusion that it was closer to an efficient process than I could come up with.
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I think the point is not that the core domain can't fingerprint you, it is that 3rd party JavaScript is blocked by default, which makes those domains less likely to track you. Not impossible, just less likely. For example there is almost never any reason to allow Google Analytics JS.
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You still have to go through a standard interview loop at Google/Facebook/Netflix/etc... even if you get in via a recommendation. The recommendation (and your cv) helps you in getting a serious phone screen and in getting a good choice of the team you want to join, but isn’t considered very much during the interview itself.
Here in Denver we get full 1Gbps for $75/mo, every provider has outages and this was the first partial outage we experienced with the service (pages loaded just slowly most of the day)
You shouldn't have to only be able to go through your network to get a job. We should judge based upon the same criteria every other damned job judges ...how well they did their last job.
Is it possible to know if it’s morally right to take & share photos of a person in such a state of starvation and without real permission from the person.
My perception thinks it’s cruel as if the existence of the person is for the benefit of human existence to progress but this person was to suffer so harsh for it if so and without any choice in the matter of wanting the photo shared.. if there was any benefit in the end.
Also if there is potential positivity for humanity that overrides personal permission, maybe all human dread should be forever documented by some type of medium forever. Seems impossible to know and justify whatever side. Someone could have taken a photo or video of the suicide of the photographer and shared it online. I can assume that would be upsetting but maybe bring awareness more so than what did happen or is writing equivalent?
Reader mode is an alternative which provides even better readable results.
I used to do that job for Reuters, while I didn’t do Africa, I did cover a lot of the Texas death penalty cases in the late 1990s as well as various natural disasters. It’s a tough business. But you have to be detached enough or the world never knows the truth. My good friend Adrees Latif (multiple Pulitzer winner,) covered the violence in Myanmar, the migrant caravans and a bunch of other tough stories and it can definitely take its toll, but it’s a vital profession. One photo can change the world as Eddie Adams proved in Vietnam.
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I interviewed at Facebook and the tech part was completely sane and appropriate, the technical task was a bit fizzbuzzy but not something you'd need to spend nights digging into obscure algorithms book, but rather simple task which required some thinking, but not too much of it. No experience with Google or Netflix.
As of looking at CV, I've seen people with great CVs that proved utterly useless and of course the opposite too. CV can be very misleading, both unintentionally and intentionally. You need to speak with the person.
I was mostly joking.
> Funny, when I posted bake on reddit, I got the exact same reply:

TBF the comic is very appropriate and spot on.
Similarity really is only the name. Web crawlers scrape web pages and follow links to find additional pages to scrape. A tool like this inspects your database and determines your schema, relationships, etc.
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If you apply for a full-time software engineering position at a large company today, you will be run through the all-day series-of-hourlong-interviews, even if you are a referral. It is possible for the hiring manager to work closely with recruiter and recruiting coordinator to craft a more customized interview process, but that's rare (and, impossible at a place like Google, which decentralizes hiring). The value of network is the candidate wasn't subjected to the usual resume review weeding-out, but their info went straight to one or more hiring managers for consideration.
Thanks for the confirmation. I was not able to find it, either. Strange what use cases are called „production-grade“ nowadays...
Someone has to keep breaking windows for the good of the economy.
I recalled a short story "Watchbird" by Robert Sheckley:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29579