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I don't believe it's weird, in fact, I think it's natural. IPv4 is better (because every single machine and server has IPv4 connectivity, unlike IPv6) and available addresses are getting scarce. Therefore, IPv4 access with no CG-NAT is turning into a "premium" service.
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I have to say that the mobile experience on this page (after initial annoying confirmations) is exceptional. Not fancy but very out of the way in both portrait and landscape. Stands out not because it's hard to achieve but so rarely done.
How to enter into ML?
I have a couple of years kf experience as SDE and I’m working towards my part time masters in ML. I find it very difficult to get into ML roles as almost no one hires inexperienced ML folks. How to break into it? Is doing a full time masters the only way?
This is awesome, I tried to read and understand the 754 float spec before, and I didn't really get it.

Try playing around with half precision, it makes things a lot easier to understand.
You could, but does your device actually do so? Are you confident that 100% of the devices you own use privacy addresses and do not leak non-privacy addresses?

The nice thing about IPv4 NAT is that you plug a single gadget in to your ISP's connection (cable modem, ONT, whatever), you connect your devices to that gadget, and it works out of the box and has all the security properties you'd expect, even if you're a person who hasn't ever thought about security properties and doesn't know what IP is and is still running Windows XP because your word processor still works fine. It might be unclean, but the benefits of this model are immense.
This seems to imply that we can't improve hand off procedures.

That is, what about the hand off is so risky? Are we fixing that?
Anything that requires a security clearance.
There really is no good reason to treat others negatively.
People get upset that floating point can’t represent all infinite number of real numbers exactly - I can’t understand how they think that’s going to be possible in a finite 64 bits.
How does this compare with garden.io, skaffold, draft, microk8S etc???
What features from Django are you missing and in which frameworks?
Comparing Django(admittedly, from few years ago when I worked with it) with Spring, I'd say the latter is more feature-rich and way more customizable because of its modular design. Unfortunately, it's also much more complex and setting up a new project properly with all can be overwhelming so if you want to play around with it I'd recommend to start with JHipster template - it generates a React/Angular SPA with backend in Spring.
The thing about NAT that for network operators it is a negative externality. For them it often simplifies their job. They do not feel the searing pain it inflicts on network application developers. It's hard to come up with a carrot to convince operators that NAT is wrong because from their perspective it isn't, even if it harms the internet as a whole.
> Angry mobs can execute people too, and did so frequently in the US not so long ago.

Yes, that's why we have government and law in an attempt to protect you from things like that.

So the fact that some other government or law is intentionally doing that to other people doesn't seem like a rationalizing argument to me.
That's hardly the point. Point is, blanket statements are harmful and usually wrong.
Thanks, it's nice to be wrong! For some reason I had it in my head that you couldn't get the token as a char const* for floating point expressions...
You don't post political views which threaten the US regime. The fact that you don't fall under the eye of Sauron just means you're a good citizen, just like the Chinese guy in the article. For the love of god, Facebook employs former Stasi agents to police people's comments.

Again, US colleges definitely engage in ritual denunciations of the bad old days. So do the Chinese. US colleges engage in political indoctrination that talks about problematic issues in the modern US which the US regime wants changed. So do the Chinese.

The only real difference is the US doesn't have to be as brutal and obvious as the Chinese to police thought. It does occasionally look a lot like old Maoist struggle sessions, but somehow people never make that connection.
Sweden would be a better comparison, with a GDP per capita of $53,442, which is about 50% higher than Italy's. Sweden is culturally very similar to Norway.

I have no doubt that certain cultural aspects of Southern Europe have a huge impact on their countries' GDP, long lunches and a more relaxed attitude towards labor (not to mention taxes and corruption!) among them. In Scandinavia, the Protestant work ethic is still deeply ingrained in the culture, and this shows.
Privacy inequality exists, and it goes the other way, at least in the west. In practice, the richer and more famous you are, the less privacy you have.

If you are rich, you are a target for everyone who wants a part of your money, from criminals to opportunists. Stars have their paparazzis. And even in their inside world, the rich typically have many people working for them. If you don't drive by yourself, your chauffeur knows where you are going, your accountant knows how you spend your money, your cook knows when and what you are eating, etc...

It has serious consequences. It very famously killed Diana for instance.

And think about "the fappening", where celebrity nudes leaked out. It is not the king of things that happen to average girls. I know someone who "revenge porned" his ex girlfriend, it didn't go far. She is pretty but average, and no one took interest. That's what protected her privacy.

The author mentioned things like targeted ads, where only the rich can opt out. Sure, but if you aren't rich, where is the big deal. Advertisers aren't after the money you don't have. Maybe some company have a lot of details about your life, but no one will really care. OTOH, the rich and famous have actual people tracking them constantly. The fortunes they spend for their privacy and security only gets them what we naturally have just by being average.

It is interesting to note that in 1984, the ones who enjoy the most privacy are the proles, the lower class.
Exact real arithmetic is an open research problem (and slow, as well). Arbitrary precision has its own can of worms and is slow, too.
If this triggers you, you kind of missed the fact that Roche was an investor in 23andMe hears ago. Plus 23andMe is located in the Genentech/Roche campus.

Which is the funny bit given GSKs takeover.
Thanks for this perspective! There are few things as dangerous to learning as just accepting things that "sound right."
The whole idea that a country like Finland could create and maintain talent without a domestic market is completely silly, if not entirely unsupported. Which is also true for much of the US. Arguably even the Soviet Union couldn't.

And if you actually had to choose between "top talent" and "mainstream appeal" the latter has orders of magnitude better returns. A larger part of the modern economy is built on that fact, including much of Silicon Valley.

If you could just invest in talent many countries would pass the US in no time. But unsurprisingly those investments mostly yield handshakes and cocktail parties.
Where does your “should” come from? To my understanding, that’s very close to the current level[1]. So are you saying “here but no further” (and if so, why here rather that, say, 1980 levels?). What would be your preconditions for significantly higher energy usage?

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
That is a very interesting stack. Thanks for pointing to statik and mithril, I didn't know about them.
The inventors of the Pill decided women should still bleed every month (2017)
I'm stupid but when I used to smoke as a teen in Netherlands it was NORMAL to throw them on the street and sometimes step on them. I imagined back then they'd biodegrade (eg rot). Obviously they didn't.

Don't smoke anymore so that's nice.
> IPv6 firewall that gives at least if not more security than NAT provides

That's just not true. NAT and firewall both achieve what little security they provide through simple blocking of packets based on state information. Firewalls generally provide more robust state information, but NAT is what lets you redirect sockets. They work together.
Never underestimate the a ability of people or systems to fuck up.

When I had back surgery, due to a miscommunication in the nursing staff turnover I wasn’t given any pain relief 3 hours after a major surgery until late the next day.

My grandmother was given PT on the wrong limb. Again, poor handoff.

A friend got a big congratulations from the OB doing rounds when she was in the hospital. Small problem: she was there for complications of miscarriage.
Brawl Stars is a hybrid arena game with a Bomberman type mode, but its really a last man standing. It comes off as Bomberman since you can collect power ups during the match.
Cool quote.

But it's not the same discussion . To make it relevant would be to ask :

Once China works the same way at the same scope (Somehow assuming they don't) Will they drop the censor ?
> That’s an 8 year lag in money making compared to a comp sci grad who goes into tech.

I'm a comp sci grad and my wife is an M4. She's a smart cookie and likely could have found a job right out of undergrad getting paid more than I do.

When my wife finishes residency, we will be nearly $1M behind where we'd be if she had simply started working as a professional.
https://play.golang.org/p/_EkSHUIrg1y
I use the Tinkerboard S and I absolutely love it. It’s so much faster and the dedicated EMMC storage helps a lot. Try it. The ecosystem is much better than it used to be.
> Literary, every modern ISP

This is either factually incorrect, or else you're using a definition of "modern" that excludes a substantial portion of real world isps.
The transPacific and Pac Rim routes do seem interesting if the range is there. For a lot of those routes even flying in comfort on an A380 or 787 is still just a long time to be mostly sitting down even if the food is great and you can sleep in relative comfort. And they're routes that a lot of executives and other highly-paid business people routinely drop >$5K on today. At least from my perspective, it's a lot more interesting than US East Coast to Europe where the flights are short enough that it's not that big a deal so long as you're comfortable.

I have no idea about the economics or practicality of this particular effort. But one place I agree with the criticism of the criticism is that I do think it's silly to operate from a premise that supersonic commercial flight will never make sense. In fact, it seems almost obvious that it will some day even if it takes a long time.
I think in the head of moste of them this distinction is yet to be discovered. This will hopefully happen with increasing maturity.
I was one of those people today! This intrigued me enough to learn more about IEEE 754.

Thank you for the relevant xkcd!
I regularly support the idea impeaching our leader in public and participate in a democratic process of electing representatives to enact policies that I want to see change.

EDIT: As a matter of fact, we just had a Muslim congress-woman openly discuss goals to impeach our sitting president. Things work differently in a democracy with representatives than they do in an authoritarian dictatorship.
I like that idea too. A lot of geeks like that idea. But ordinary people couldn't care less. All they care about is that their latest instagram photo gets a lot of likes. They neither know nor care what goes on under the hood. Unfortunately, that ignorance and apathy is what drives the market.
By calling it a choice you misunderstand what the word addiction means. It's like blaming an overweight person for being overweight because they could not make the choice to put the fork down. It's a choice, right?
Nurses have the handoff issues as much as the doctors if not more, and yet they work strict shifts.
I have the same experience with Sinatra and Rails. A small app in Sinatra grew larger than expected so we added gems basically recreating Rails... Lesson learnt, going with rails new now!
True, but that implies that someone here is after the money of these users, rather than educating them and providing them with the best (safest) options.
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For many real world examples of minimalism and simplicity, see projects such as st or dwm from suckless. http://suckless.org/philosophy/
As a network application developer I haven't felt much pain from NAT - I need to run a central server to relay connections, but that's about it. And oftentimes I need to run a central server anyway for discovery or authentication. (A few years ago I worked at a startup that enabled secure remote access to corporate networks, as in you could connect from a roaming laptop or mobile app into the network, browse the web, access network file shares, etc. We had a straightforward and uncomplicated proxy server with access control that we asked people to install and forward a port on their NAT for; it worked fine. We prototyped a relay server that customers could run in AWS, where our proxy server would connect outbound. I don't think any customers absolutely needed it. And we definitely preferred having one of our servers involved somehow as an intermediary so that customers weren't exposing Windows file shares to the public internet and hoping Windows authentication was enough....)

What do you find as searing pain?
If NAT is wrong, then firewalls that block incoming connections by default are also wrong. I think you'll have a hard time making that argument.
Do any of the languages mentioned give a compiler warning? To help educate?
With both my personal experience is: "leave me alone, I'm here to solve a problem, not migrate."

For new projects I use ipv6 where easy and python3.6 where possible.
It's less a redeeming quality and more the entire reason why we bothered to switch to a new system. So yes, that is the point.
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Tell me you don't work for them...
Laravel even more then rails and django comes with pretty much everything you need for modern web dev built in. Full auth system, feature and unit test infrastructure, background jobs, push notifications integrated with a scalable third party websocket service, integrated with vuejs, webpack wrapper and more. It also has a prebuilt development VM that has supporting services such as mysql and redis or you can use various docker solutions for that. There is also excellent laracasts video course platform with free series on getting started with laravel and there is also codecourse video casts that has examples of full blown websites built with laravel
But, https://play.golang.org/p/naE55o3_xFP

I guess the first link is converting the float constants to ints at compile-time?

(edit: oh, it's actually mentioned in the article. I should read more carefully)
When you're 40% through the piece and the author still hasn't gotten around to the point mentioned in the title, you've got yourself a badly written article.

Don't waste your time. Author should have incubated this thought more.
Former smoker (who still smokes occasionally) — I think there’s also some hive mind with it as well. I started smoking as a teenager and never really considered the effect of throwing butts on the ground. It’s just what I saw everyone else doing. If I smoke now I always put my cigarette out and throw the butt away.
What is their motivation to release this? It's not like SELinux where improving general security can be seen as a national security objective.
Take a look at COBOL in our daily lives. The switching cost is horrible and lets face facts, developers don't seem to want to develop the next cool version of COBOL. I sometimes wonder about switching costs when you have two or more groups that have different beliefs, practices, and views of the daily grind.

Infrastructure & Software costs money and time to switch with no real personal benefit and requires a change in knowledge. Both your examples require a hard switch and don't have a nice easy transition plan. Add taking away things that are familiar to the people in the field and you have a bad, long transition.
For anyone who just can’t connect to this book, or doesn’t “get” it, maybe this quote will help. I read the book as a kid and liked it, but when I reread it as an adult this passage stopped me dead in my tracks and I cried; damn near sobbed. In my view, it’s the very center of the entire narrative.

> My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. He was left-handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up at bat. He's dead now. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946. You'd have liked him. He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He was terrifically intelligent. His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class. And they weren't just shooting the crap. They really meant it. But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair. I'll tell you what kind of red hair he had. I started playing golf when I was only ten years old. I remember once, the summer I was around twelve, teeing off and all, and having a hunch that if I turned around all of a sudden, I'd see Allie. So I did, and sure enough, he was sitting on his bike outside the fence--there was this fence that went all around the course--and he was sitting there, about a hundred and fifty yards behind me, watching me tee off. That's the kind of red hair he had. God, he was a nice kid, though. He used to laugh so hard at something he thought of at the dinner table that he just about fell off his chair. I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don't blame them. I really don't. I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all the windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and everything by that time, and I couldn't do it. It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it, and you didn't know Allie. My hand still hurts me once in a while when it rains and all, and I can't make a real fist any more-- not a tight one, I mean--but outside of that I don't care much. I mean I'm not going to be a goddam surgeon or a violinist or anything anyway.
> Does the Constitution apply to those outside "the land"? Often not.

The Fifth Ammendment begins with “No person” not “No US citizen”
Then, given that CG-NAT solutions have proven to work well and they don't bother most end users, it's no wonder the transition to IPv6 has stopped.
This 75% number is not from a formal study. The number supposedly comes from quotes from 3 different psychiatrists who quoted the same 75% number.

The author verified the 75% number by asking her Facebook followers.

Do most med students require psych drugs for day-to-day
survival? I turned my question over to Facebook: “75% of
med students and residents are taking either stimulants
or antidepressants or both. True or false?”

She cherry-picked a few Facebook responses to include in the article, but even some of those don't support the author's claim:

but I have no idea if it’s 75%…I don’t know enough of my
class well enough to have that info, nor do I think anyone
does…there are usually cliques of up to 25 people, but for
people to say they know for sure details of 75% of their
class would be hard for me to believe but maybe…there is a
lot of it, I agree with that.

And

Being completely honest 75% seems a bit high, but I wouldn’t
be that surprised if it were true

The author's real point is buried at the bottom: Medical licensing requires doctors to disclose their psychiatric history and medication use. Admitting previous psychiatric problems on your licensing form requires a detailed explanation of the condition and treatment. Doctors know this, so they have a perverse incentive to hide their treatment or even avoid treatment at all for fear of risking their careers.
This is very cool and certainly unique compared to some of the other responses. How much have you used this in production? Have you worked at companies that do?
I was given one of those "portable ashtrays". A little padded pouch that felt somewhere between foil and plastic.

It worked, in that you could put out a cigarette in it and store the remains. But it stank to high heaven. I don't recall it seeing a lot of re-use.

Most of my butts went in the gutter, but I'm still not sure I could explain the mindset. They feel fluffy so you don't mentally associate it with plastic, and they're the part that's painted to look like a natural texture.

So I made a point of flicking them in the gutter rather than the sidewalk, so they'd be either washed away by rain, or taken care of by the street-sweepers.

I can see in retrospect that neither is actually a solution. I can't really explain it. There's a lot of habitual behaviours around cigarettes besides the addictive substances. When I quit, I found the hardest part wasn't the lack of chemicals, it was missing that 10 minute break where it was somehow socially acceptable to leave my desk to stand outside and have a chat with the usual crowd.

Smoking isn't a habit. It's 20 or so habits that all reinforce each other. I quit about 18 months ago, and I still have the continual feeling that I've left something behind that I shouldn't have, because my pockets don't have the expected load-out. So I have a short mini-panic that I've forgotten my keys, or my wallet, or .. and then I realise I've forgotten my smokes & lighter.

I recently found myself making a mental note to stock up before Christmas because the stores would be closed. There's a lot of practiced behaviours that look nonsensical in isolation.
Coffee is quite stimulating by itself, an addiction can probably ruin your life via sleep and anxiety. I’m fine with it being classified as a stimulant, although I wish they pulled caffeine out into its own category.
Edit: revealed

Floating point numbers have X digits of accuracy based on the format. (Using base 10 for simplicity) Let’s say .100 to .999 times 10^x.

But what happens when you have .123x10^3 - .100x10^3. It’s .23? x 10^2 but what is that ? we might prefer to pick 0 but it really could be anything. We can’t even be sure about the 3. If the numbers where .1226 x 10^3 and .1004 x 10^3 that just got rounded the correct number would be .222 x 10^2
And Portugal.
You probably didn't mean to be correct, but it happened anyway. A virus is immortal. The macro-organisms we're all familiar with will age and die even under ideal circumstances; there is no fundamental reason for this to be necessary. But we evolved to do it because it offered advantages over the more traditional ageless immortality.
Nice find, hadn't seen that.

Note that while he does propose one, he does it contrary to the spirit discussed here (of getting desktop OS X parity), even adding: "Even if users expect a mouse cursor when they first see the trackpad, they’ll adjust quickly when they realize it isn’t there. If they wanted a MacBook they’d be using a MacBook. By definition anyone using an iPad is not expecting it to act like a Mac."
I'd be surprised if it doesn't vary by area/country. Where are you a doctor?
Not just medical students. Surprised how many of my friends are on anti-depressants.
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