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Well, exactly. It's not for everyone.

You also seem to be conflating companies (sure, it is easier to start a company in a place where you can get finding for almost anything, no matter how harebrained it is) and innovations. The way I see it, Web was an innovation (not from SV). A first browser that a normal person could use and would want to use was an innovation (flyover country). Showing that the Internet could be safely and reliably used for commerce (at least for a time)? Not SV either. These were world-changing innovations. Stripe or AirBnB? Not so much.
Ah, I see. Good point.
We've updated the title from the submitted “Dental flossing linked with higher levels of PFAS in the body”.
I think they meant using a controller, probably from playing a console version ( Game Boy / NES )
The phrase you are looking for is "strict liability offence".
Package management is a hard problem, but we know that good and adequate package managers do exist. I'm not sure why more effort hasn't been expended by the Python community, particularly since it's often the first thing a new user will encounter when picking up a language for the first time.

I use Pipenv currently, but only because it's the best of a bad lot and would jump in a heartbeat if a serious competitor came along. It has its own set of problems (slow, young and idiosyncratic) but offers me at least two things its predecessor didn't: separation of production/dev dependencies and seamless integration with different versions of Python, both of which have been available in Ruby since I started programming in it.

This is a perfect exemplifies my experience with both languages: I have found while Python might be better at a lot of things, the user experience is invariably superior with Ruby efforts and I wish the Python community would put more effort into this area.
The New Sincerity and Meta-Modernist trends offer a refuge of sorts. The naiveté of modernism (and disastrous effects of grand narratives in the 20th century) led to post-modern deconstruction and questioning of what they considered truths which were too easily accepted.

Unfortunately, that led to cynicism, "analysis paralysis" and other forms of intellectual and (for lack of a better word) spiritual exhaustion.

It's hard to believe in anything that, when you really break it down and analyze it is wrong in so many ways. And that applies to virtually everything, in all honesty. There are no perfect answers.

It's important, though, to believe in something. You're right that we are seeing that cynicism turned from apathy to destruction and hate.

I think a great case study in how to ask questions while still believing in building something positive is the show, The Good Place. The specific episode, "Jeremy Bearimy" deals with how you pick up the pieces from realizing that nothing matters, everything is a mess and humanity is deeply flawed.
While a different situation, I had a pretty rough childhood and felt very similarly (feeling of disaster always looming). It took a long, long time to reprogram myself from constantly thinking "yeah alright, I got a promotion... But I know my new manager is going to fire me any minute". Or while I was still in school "sure, THIS test went well but I know something stupid will ruin my big project". All of the anxiety would also cause disasters! e.g. Over-studying and staying up too late leading to being late for tests in the morning. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy!

It took a long time to just let myself be successful without worrying that it would all fall out from under me. Let yourself be happy: you're financially stable and in a good marriage which is better than A LOT of people can say. Bad shit will always happen, but at least you're in a position to deal with it! Be prepared (savings, insurance, keeping your marriage happy) and roll with it rather than being terrified of it.
This was my main complaint with OSX until I tried nix. When I ditched homebrew and reinstalled the same packages with nix, I don't think a single one had problems. The CLI has some stupid pitfalls though..
I am not a cryptographer; perhaps someone who is can comment on my thoughts here?

The flip side is that standardized steganography is far less effective. If you write "FooSteg" that can embed messages in jpeg files, I can probably write "FooStegStripper" that can remove messages encoded with FooSteg.

A counterargument is that it's trivial to write a steganography program if someone doesn't think you're using steganography, but it's much harder to not leave a statistical signal if someone is looking for (an unknown) stegnanography. Tools that are sufficiently good enough to defeat generic analysis are hard enough that the ease of which known steganographic tools are defeated becomes an issue.
Easy enough to test them with moderator uploaded material that only they can see.
That's not the point at all. The point was that their wealth was in assets that do not depreciate, and are hard to take by force.
I read it as: Lichess came out with a good engine for analyzing games, which helped get to 2000. They were on Lichess the whole time.
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Utter nonsense. Whilst Ruby/Rails may no longer be cutting edge Indeed.com/USA currently has 302 Rails jobs by title search compared with 567 for Node, 204 for Django and 142 for Laravel. That's a long way from the “COBOL of Web 2.0” by any stretch of the imagination. Rails also maintained a high score in the review of last year's Who Is Hiring:

https://letstalkalgorithms.com/analysis-of-2018-hacker-news-...

As for Ruby outside Rails, have a look at Metasploit, Puppet, Chef, ROM, Rhoda and dry-rb to name just a few.
> * Make lots of mistakes, because mistakes mean you're trying new things, but with 2 caveats:

This is all well and good when they're in school and still dependent on your financial support. Once they're on their own (say, at age 22), and start making mistakes, the stakes are a lot higher and the margin for error a low narrower.

Let's say you majored in something but did poorly overall. That's mistake #1. You won't have as wide of a berth for mistake #2, because you are likely still suffering the consequences of #1.
I nominate you as leader of the free world. How would you put the released convicts to work?
For some cool Linux desktop setups, checkout r/unixporn on reddit. Some of the desktop setups on there approach the level of art.
It's pretty great. Does anyone know a similar website for backgammon?
Are you referring to the dossier that a court found was in the public interest to publish because it had so much merit? The same dossier that two presidents were briefed on and was a subject of an active government investigation? That dossier is now, provably, not fake. It seems like you might be unintentionally spreading fake news yourself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/12/20...
Two things:

one) Article should redact search terms if it is illegal to try them - we can't even verify findings are real. Also, I predict a number of people (likely low but still a lot), searched the terms to verify.

two) A lot of pornographic websites will advertise "young", "girls", "teen", and maybe even "kid" but all persons will be of legal age, some though do dress/look much younger.
A) Maybe the people doing the investigation can't tell / have poor judgement.
B) How would Microsoft Bing know whether the young "stars" look young, or are actually young?

My vote would be to ban the whole damn search keywords altogether. Let investigator find and prosecute those in the darker corners of the web but just ban searches for keywords like those in the article.
I have a theoretical question: Since events horizon is not a real object, can the tangencial speed at the equator be greater than the speed of light?
I don't think adding a little padding to be careful is going to hurt anyone in this case.
Since when is the argument about systemd vs sysvinit??

How about systemd vs daemontools?

How about systemd vs s6?

How about systemd vs OpenRC?

How about systemd vs SMF?

How about systemd vs upstart?

It seems that the distro maintainers (and not the users of those distros) picked the new an shiny instead of investigating what would be the best for the future of these projects and picked a crappy solution. Soon a mayhem followed and no we are dealing with DNS resolution issues because of it which where not in scope at the time when they decided the cut over. Kind of how drug dealers get new customers.
you might think that, but it's really the other way around. you have to provide (very rigorous and thorough) evidence that toxic masculinity is harmless.
Selling isn't just the monetary transaction. It's research, outreach, CRM, pipeline, working on the descriptions, marketing text, blog posts.

All of these things can be done while making the product and will inform the production process.

But.. I need to take my own advice. Too easy to retreat to building. Or passively reading and thinking that is market research.

That's my safety zone, hidden away from scrutiny and judgement.
Good question! When I worked at the Rails shop, we had a standard Gemfile which we started with. It had way too many things in it. Some of the absolute requirements would be to start with 'better_errors', 'letter_opener', 'haml-rails', 'simple_form', 'devise', 'cancancan', and (probably controversial, but my favorite) 'cocoon' (i.e., the thing that makes nested models take so little code). You can probably throw in twitter-bootstrap too, but...

Also, I'm still using RVM. I never made "the switch" to rbenv; I never saw the problem with RVM.

MySQL vs PostgreSQL doesn't matter to me. I've done a lot of both. And Oracle. And SQL Server. I've never seen a problem with using any database with ActiveRecord.

Starting a new project, I just install the latest, stable Ruby, install the bundler gem, then grab the latest, stable Rails, add the basic gems, bundle, and start letting rails generate the basics.

I'm bootstrapping my projects with Vue support, because I think that's the JS framework that fits most-nicely in Rails, and there's always a presentation-heavy page that needs that kind of treatment.

(I'm assuming a Mac or Linux here. I've done this on Windows for a time, but WSL has changed the game there, and I've not actually tried to use it in anger.)
Really dope - excited to see this project come out!
I will say, why you need open phone if you install Facebook and WhatsApp into it?
Unfortunately, that project doesn’t yet support key-based auth.
> The wormhole library requires a “Rendezvous Server”: a simple WebSocket-based relay that delivers messages from one client to another. This allows the wormhole codes to omit IP addresses and port numbers. The URL of a public server is baked into the library for use as a default, and will be freely available until volume or abuse makes it infeasible to support. Applications which desire more reliability can easily run their own relay and configure their clients to use it instead. Code for the Rendezvous Server is included in the library. (o)

notably, you can run your own

(o) https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html...
The truly evil business model would be to offer this as a free service. The company would be set up for a very profitable acquisition just by their placement in their customer's data streams.
Did so many people use SpatialOS?
Thanks. I checked meetup again but there are no groups where I live (Belgium).
As someone who moved from the US to Europe, I agree with you wholeheartedly. Unfortunately Europe seems to be trying to become more like the US, and my adopted home (Ireland) is an eager student.

I can't imagine going back to less than a month of PTO a year, and even that feels skimpy.
What do you think of https://xenko.com/ ?
We no longer fear nuclear annihilation because we have a functional global society. Climate change is already causing huge damage to this.

Syrian drought -> refugees -> anti-immigrant sentiment -> populist leaders -> ++boomLikelihood
Great puzzles
Honestly, if heroin is so bad, why so many addicts?
According to GitHub's 2018 stats, the two fastest-growing programming languages last year were Kotlin and TypeScript. GitHub explicitly pointed out that "type safety" appears to be one of the biggest factors influencing language popularity in 2018. And even Python, the fastest-rising dynamically typed language, has been adding new static typing features in every release for the past three years. The last new Python app I wrote was fully type-annotated and typechecked, and the new data classes feature actually requires type annotations.
> Why should init care if your logger crashes

It cares in the same way it cares about all the other processes. There's nothing systemd-specific here. Journald service is configured to restart of crash, same as many other services.

It's not taking down init when journald crashes either.
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Agreed. I should say installing Ubuntu way back in 2007 really helped me discover a whole world of CLIs that I never knew to exist in my Windows / Notepad++ comfort zone back then
The search given at the start of the article, "porn kids", now returns that they have nothing matching. Unlike other two word searches, where if it doesn't find something matching both words, it looks for similar things, "porn kids" is a flat out statement that it has nothing, suggesting that they explicitly special cased it.

"porn teens" returns plenty of results, and I doubt that they are all teens who are legally old enough.

One of the two word phrases that should not have had any matches that I tested was "porn isomorphisms". As expected, it gave me a lot of porn that had nothing to do with isomorphisms, and a small amount related to isomorphisms that had nothing to do with porn. All the porn involved women.

I then tried "porn homomorphisms", expecting similar results to "porn isomorphisms", except maybe the "homo" in there would lead to more male porn. To my surprise, there isn't any porn in the results! It's almost all math stuff, or word stuff.

Bing is weird.
what if you're on a team where your responsibilities are divided and you only touch ActiveRecord sporadically?

What does ActiveRecord consider the plural of "fish"?
You'd be surprised.

The exact line gets blurry with various media. Kim, the female protagonist in the Broadway Musical "Miss Saigon" is a 17-year old whore. There's implied sex, as well as multiple stripper-dances throughout the musical to hammer in the sexual issues that Kim faces.

Something like Miss Saigon is allowed and not CP (despite being below the age of 18) because of cultural significance and whatnot.

There are clear cut cases of CP of course. But when musicals / movies / various media toy with the idea of 16-year-old or 17-year-old girls who are exploring their sexuality... where do you draw the line? What should get censored?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita

Lolita the novel + movie also gets brought up a lot. As it is explicitly a story about a middle-age man exploring sexuality / erotic elements with an underage girl. It toes the line and never becomes sexually explicit, but its clear from the context what the novel is pushing.
The solution, for your friends and for the economy, is more immigration. If the USA could some how get itself 5 million immigrants a year (an ambitious target) then the economy would grow so fast that your friends, lifted by the overall economy, should have an easier time paying off their debts. And also, higher levels of immigration would help the USA avoid any of the negative effects of falling fertility. All 4 of my grandparents came to the USA at a time when the USA still had open borders and I’d like to think that they and my parents made a positive contribution.
Somehow I always had the impression Unity was a heavy C# moloch and Unreal was a fast C++ racecar.

Interesting.
Definitely- though, arguably trying to decompile something which was never Python into Python is a bit of a fool's errand!

Didn't think of for/else and friends, yeah, that's tricky.

Definitely using doms/idoms is the right approach.
Ah, well that's certainly true. I'm from the UK, and it's been more or less impossible for young people to buy their first home before they're 30.
I would use cancer like architecture but yes.
Python's libraries come as eggs, wheels or source packages. Ruby has gems.

Rust inherited that characteristic, what is not great. It's not a big problem either, but it's there.
It's bugged me that this whole song and dance of wifi portals; unencrypted wifi, dns spoofing, and sign in pages have been around for over a decade and none of the wifi revisions formalized this. It's been a kludgey cat-and-mouse where the OS checks captive.apple.com and gives you a modal pop up, some wifi networks let you send iMessages and gmail, but wont let you browse without paying. In then end you're still using unencrypted wifi.

I've heard there is finally some future wifi spec formalizing open portals that negotiate to an encrypted connection.

https://xkcd.com/1865/
Yes, the axiom fits pretty nicely here: "Jack of all trades, master of none." It's extremely rare to find someone who is a master of all, can keep on top of current tech (in all domains), etc. Web development is becoming like the medical profession, where every single subfield is specialized. Yes, there are people who can do that, but they are far and few between. Most back end devs are typically not visually creative types like are typically needed for the front end, and vice versa. How many good back end devs are also good graphic artists and at layout (beyond adding a background image to bootstrap)? How many front end devs are good with SQL?
middle button paste works almost everywhere, apart from when webdevs do clever things.

as for consistent keybindings, I feel you on that. However your example is a bit flawed. home/end keys do what you want, and ctrl left/right does word skipping.
Time machine is really a consumer gadget, I'd be surprised if IT departments were deploying it within organisations. Crashplan would be more appropriate, but I'm not sure how smooth the restore would be. IMHO not having a swappable SSD really sucks.
I wish more of these people knew you can escape the bay. Escape California. Move somewhere cheap. Make your own life. You won't have a fancy car but if you're clever enough you'll be OK. Hell, start a homestead. I'm increasingly suspicious that we've managed to make modern life _worse_ than sustenance farming for a not-tiny percentage of the population.
My post had nothing to do with 'inherent' differences. While the asian education system (which is certainly not inherently asian) may seem less creative, I often see this 'fact' bandied about with no supporting data.

All i ask for is proof that the intense asian education system stifles creativity. I argued it does not by pointing out the success of certain asian coubtries against all odds via innovative business and industry.

> But it is true that east and south asian schooling systems are typically value memorization over creativity

Perhaps, but the burden of proof is on you to show that 'valuing creativity' leads to more creativity. It is certainly possible that emphasizing sheer technical prowess leads to higher creativity. That this possibility is not even considered says more about the writer than asian pedagogy.
My 2012 Retina Macbook was on its last legs. I was deeply uninspired by both the regressive functionality and excessive price of the of the latest generation of Macs. So after almost 15 years in the Mac ecosystem, I bid it adieu and got a Dell XPS 9560, with dual-boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu.

I'm regretting that now.

Ubuntu was a breeze for setting up development environments, but a nightmare in basically every other sense. Keyboard drivers misbehaving, randomly disabling system shortcuts in certain key applications (like Chrome). Mouse wheel working horribly and requiring many hours of hacking to fix. Fans spinning out of control in some kind of fight with the BIOS that I still haven't been able to win, after more than 20 hours of working on it. And you want to connect a second monitor with a different resolution than your primary? Fuck you, no. Just no. You absolutely, positively, cannot do that. I spent days following red herrings on forums before giving up.

On the Windows side of thing, it's much better. Most things Just Work -- except that getting the mouse wheel to work correctly is a 15-step registry-hacking process followed by a reboot[1], and this needs to be repeated each time Bluetooth forgets it knows this mouse -- which is every other day or so. Oh, and also, it's so difficult to set up as a development environment that my CTO has told me not to bother.

So, yeah, after a month, I'm having regrets. I still think that Apple is taking the piss, but after all the time and frustration I've sunk into Linux -- and, to a lesser extent, Windows -- the Apple Tax is beginning to look like relatively good value for money.

1: You think I'm exaggerating? Honestly I'm not: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...
Are there children inside coal mines? There better fucking not be. So throw them into coal mines, and may black lung take them.
It's a reaction to the very common criticism that public education teaches kids things they'll never use and doesn't teach them practical things like how to get a job and do taxes. Both sides have merit, I think.
There are GPL and MIT licensed engines to be had out there.
Should we censor all links with the words marijuana in? That's illegal in most jurisdictions. What if someone is trying to find a medical dispensary for it in a medical state and can't because -censored?

Obviously cp should be censored... but then SE's could start censoring political stuff or anything that does or doesn't support fascism or socialism depending on their mood and political leanings. Not that censoring fascism is bad, but people should still be able to make up their own minds about things through research.

Hopefully AI will become good enough to accurately 'age' and block under-age pictures of minors altogether regardless of whether they're nude or not, honestly I think minors should be protected a bit, although not sure how that would work w/ minors in the public image like child actors.
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Intel is compatible with MSVC++, using binary libraries is quite common on the PC world since MS-DOS days.

Plus there are DLLs and COM libraries as well.
Nope! Looks like I was wrong. I was never able to get it working on Gnome without the upscale/downscale workaround suggested in your link (resulting in terribly degraded image quality), but perhaps that is the fault of Gnome/GTK. It wouldn't have occurred to me that the fault could lie in any other layer than that which controls the resolution/DPI, but I'm certainly no expert on the Linux graphical stack.
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Yeah, that's basically it.

Not that we need analogies (yet) in this discussion, but if someone dies in a plane crash, their autopsy report will probably say something like "blunt-force trauma to the brain" as cause of death. That is absolutely correct, but it's also absolutely true that the person would still be dead even if the Flying Spaghetti Monster had intervened and prevented the blunt-force trauma to the person's brain.

Delete Facebook/Instagram from the world, and kids will still be anxious.
I’m saying your interpretation of “rude” is overly sensitive.

If I say “The USA needs to get its act together and fix its broken immigration system”, I don’t see this as particularly rude. By criticizing the immigration system, I’m already saying that it’s fucked up. The fact that I use the phrase “get it together” is irrelevant to both tone and content.

And again, the subject is a large group. The idea that particular individuals should take offense at such a mild blanket statement feels kind of ridiculous.
I thought QuickTime Player is only available on Mac OS nowadays.