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What % of them do you think get feeds from these russian actors that make it to their main feed. FB has said they filter 99% of the 1000’s of posts happening that you could be following due to overload, so that would be a couple hundred people.
Which isn't exactly "rock'n'roll".
Not trying to be a pedant, but wouldn’t “[...]it’s far from clear[...]” be (more?) correct?

If it’s ‘far from unclear’, it would seem to imply things are rather clear, IMHO.
I've been in IT (mostly the "Legacy" kind - Oracle/PeopleSoft ERP) for about 20 years now, and I fully empathize with the article. I've subconsciously, then consciously, had to keep "moving up" on the value scale, partially due to outsourcing and partially due to automation. From sysadmin type to infra architect, but then made a curious curve that still catches me by surprise into tech lead and now find myself in basically management.
I struggle to understand what will give me better skills and career for future: developing people and org knowledge and experience, as I do in my current role, which just feels generic and not particularly useful to somebody who used to gobble technical manuals for fun (but apparently market finds value in technically knowledgeable people who can manage and communicate); or go back to my love of technical and get back hands-on... understanding it's an uphill battle at my age and may be a losing one with the amount of automation and "AI being around the corner (forever;)".
This reminds me vaguely of when a provider automatically unsubscribes users from newsletters they don't read.

Does anyone remember which company this is? Twitch?
There's clearly some variability in how people respond to these pressures, but an overall increase in pressure would be expected to cause more people to exhibit the dysfunctional behavior.
> you couldn't legally obtain US dollars anywhere, you could only get them if someone sent them to you for instance or if you had legitimate business with the West

This reminds me of a funny story.

A friend of mine lived in north America while his parents in lived in Yugoslavia. This was during the war.

He would spend hours on the phone with them. He would often call them, and hang up right away, and they would call him back and talk for hours.

I finally asked him if it wasn't crazy expensive for his parents back home?

It turns out his father had a job that paid him in Deutch Marks. When the phone bill would come it would be a ridiculous sum: millions of dinars!

They would just wait for the second notice for the local currency to devalue even more (war was causing hyperinflation) so now those millions of dinars would cost pennies in DM.

They would pay it and repeat the process next month.
Not to mention Francis Crick
A comment on one episode of Hoarders stuck with me: "I'm saving all this for my grandkids."

It was a mangled way of protecting him from death and the indifference of future generations.

But all it takes is a visit to a local estate sale to realize no one wants 99.9% of this junk, even your descendants.
Yep. We have started having our toddler press the start button on a timer when we need to transition to something else, primarily bed time routine. She presses the start button, goes back to playing, and then when the timer goes off she presses the stop button and is much more inclined to get through the transition without protesting.

Really I think a lot of the “my kid got mad because X” comes down to setting proper expectations. Whenever we set expectations with her, and especially when she gets to participate in the setting, things go so much more smoothly. Not to say we’re perfect, far from it, but the contrast is striking.
I like watching Hoarders because it motivates me enough to get up and clean my room Peterson-style. Lingering and non-useful junk feel like tiny weights in my mind, so its a relief when it's gone. When you watch the show you always end up seeing a rush of fear in their face when people start removing their junk, like they have some sort of emotional attachment to the garbage. There's a stark contrast between these people and people who've just been lazy for awhile.
Also BTC.
Phasing out is the same as sunsetting, i.e., terminating: https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/sunsetting

From the first post, I assumed the commenter meant something like, "in Qt 6 QWidgets will stop working", which is insane.
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I'd love to discuss more on this topic with you since I am currently working on implementing a proof of concept for the same. Since I've just had almost 1 year of software development experience (2017 grad here) the task feels too daunting to me. Also it's just a one-man team since its a proof of concept.
I'm tall too, and noticed the same thing. I drove a fox body mustang in the early 90's, but every styling change since has reduced the amount of interior head/leg room. A couple years back I had a hard time even as a passenger in one. I couldn't even get my legs under the dash due to the angle it was positioned at relative to the seat.

I suspect at least part of it has to do with fuel economy standards which are partially being met by reducing the frontal area of the car. The easiest way to do that is to take a couple inches off the height of the vehicle.

Safety standards similarly are affecting the driver position and the crash test dummies aren't 7' tall. I noticed this a few years ago when the headrest standards changed and I now have a piece of headrest that doesn't raise high enough but sticks forward 8" pressing into the middle of my back in cars that would otherwise be ok to sit in. (I have the same problem on airplanes).
I use IntelliJ for just about everything I can. It started with Java but with the Ultimate edition I've been able to do Scala, Clojure, Python, Bash, Markdown, SQL, Cypher, PlantUML and more. It is one of the best pieces of software I've ever used.
My dad was brought up relatively poor by modern standards, food was on the table but would have went to school barefoot. Never eats less than five large potatoes for dinner and has a large shed(20mx20m) full of mostly metal scrap. He does use it for projects like making trailers/wood splitting machines etc but has accumulated more than he could use in a lifetime to the point where the shed is unusable.

I definitely believe this behavior comes from his don't waste anything childhood and to be fair he probably earned as much from his tinkering as he did from his main job which would have come from the same strong work ethic childhood.
And when Big Daddy Government keeps you on the dole, but eventually falls? Life is a Trap - we all die.
What is the purpose of your side project? Mine is to make me happy. If that is the same as yours, then take whichever route makes you happy. Are you more happy launching an “imperfect” product. Or are you more happy striking for that “perfect” solution.

IMHO a side project should make you happy.
There is nothing wrong with PHP, any developer that is not too lazy can have any number of PHP version on the same host without any problems, a PHP "install" is basically unzipping in a separate folder and configuring the php.ini for specific needs.
There may be something wrong with some IDE's where you cannot easily configure and switch between various PHP versions when you do any task that is version specific.
Oh, this is awesome: it works for both of my phone’s cameras! It’s a OnePlus 6 — I wonder how many other phones have this ability in both cameras.
Oh man, rereading the comments above made me realise i replied to the wrong comment. Doesn't matter though.
Oh wow, that makes perfect sense, thank you for writing the long reply. So you're basically telling me that it's only "authorisation" that checks the balance, and "settlement" doesn't? (I guess that also makes sense, now that I think about a few other things I noticed).

How about the case I mentioned? If I told the bank "I did not authorise Avis, would Avis have been able to somehow "prove" that I authorised the transaction (I obviously didn't; the card was expired when they charged it; but I did have a signed contract with them, is that enough to directly take money from my account? Feels like it shouldn't be enough, not without a court getting involved).
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UV radiation from sunlight is terrible for your vision.
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I can't really find a simple explanation of what this means. The warnings in the EDNS compliance tester aren't really helpful either. Is there a simple explanation somewhere?
> What we're NOT willing to do, at least not yet, is to slam those people with more arrests and more trips through the criminal enforcement system prior to having services in place that will cover a high percentage of needs.

Frankly, you just sound uninformed here.

Look at the Northgate encampment — 100% were offered services, 90% rejected them to remain dangerous vagrants spreading disease.

Until you accept that a component here is willful vagrancy and criminality, the problem will get worse.

No amount of money can fix your denial of the problem, and your position isn’t one of compassion — it’s an abdication of any responsibility: in blindly throwing money while abandoning the rule of law, you’re not helping the vagrants, you’re not helping the non-vagrant homeless the vagrants prey on, and you’re not helping the regular citizens that are getting assaulted or stuck with needles (such as that lady at a Northgate).

You’re the problem.

I want you to answer me honestly: when I was homeless, did I deserve to be assaulted by other homeless people while the police refused to do anything because you personally feel bad a vagrant might get arrested?

That’s the system you’re advocating for.

And it’s the definition of immoral baizuo policy.
Hmm. I can't say I can see the utility of doing that.

But if they're enjoying themselves doing it, that's utility, in a way, all on it's own - I guess.
Many, many companies have blanket bans on AGPL software because they'd rather not take on the risk of accidentally violating it. It might be silly, but it's true.
Nice. Next they should fix the yearly renewals. It's been couple of times where I'd subscribe for a service for a year, use it couple of months, then stop using it and forget about it.

Suddenly a year later they take $100 or whatever without any prior notice. An email like "You have an yearly subscription with us. We will charge you $100 again next week." should be a standard.
It depends on how well established the market price is. If I sell you a $300k house for $150k, I've given you $150k of value. I'm either incompetent or purposefully gifting you $150k. There's a price that should be charged based on similar houses.

If I do that on behalf of a company by selling THEIR house, I'm either incompetent or embezzling money. If it turns out I sold it to a friend, it's clear I was embezzling. If I don't know the person (i.e. "arms length") I'm just incompetent.

In this case there is a market price for advisory services that you can figure out by looking at all the other similar advisers out there. You could make the argument that there are not enough similar advisers to establish what the price "should" be, or that it's not sufficiently below them to establish how much of a discount there is.

But mainly no one cares to go after the 401(k) balances of millions of middle class Americans on a technicality, so it's a non-starter.
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Thank you for clarifying the timeframe. I read original OP's question and thought he had been sitting on the lego for like +10 years.
The utility is that instead of throwing away your old phone every two years, you can reconfigure it into become something else useful.
This definitely sounds like a recipe for never-ending conflict.
I completely agree. Maybe this was the mental model:

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This is why I have to laugh at people who deride older non digital technologies: film cameras (negatives last hundreds of years if stored properly), photographic prints (archive quality non acid paper last ~100s of years also.

I have 40 year old VHS tapes that are still good, vinyl records last a long time too.

Think of all these pictures we snap with our phones.

Most of them will probably be lost from disk drive failures, accidental erasure, hardware failures making them too expensive to recover, software obsolescence (pictures are on the device but they don't make the software to connect to the device any more)...

Meanwhile I have a box of family pictures, some of them from the 19th century (a few tin types), but most of them from the 20th century, that are still good most with negatives intact. I could print a brand new print of any of them anytime I want.
Don't forget PHP on Windows IIS (like I must live with at my job, because we have lots of enterprisey COTS, and the sysadmins don't want to have to administrate two OSs, and I don't want to sysadmin, because I don't want to get the 2 AM phone calls).
Planning your network is something everyone has to do whether or not they are using AWS. I think its unreasonable to expect to just throw stuff in AWS without thinking about it and then complain when something comes up unexpectedly.
Do you have your service working? Is this something public I can see?
It's UX failure.

PayPal and Apple's Store show me a list of all services that are authorized to pull money from my account.

CCs don't. You may have to do a nontrivial amount of research (or at least worrying) to ensure that everything is accounted for by the next charge cycle if you were to switch CC numbers without charge forwarding.

If CCs did have a paradigm of services authorized to re-bill you, then we wouldn't have people changing CC numbers to "reset" their re-bills nor to avoid future pulls from their account. But since CCs offer a UX clusterfuck, people will often find the need to clean the slate.
>the new hash rate

would be 0
"The city is also getting ready to use the parking data to help people find a parking space. "

I can see the "real" conversations between the sales person and city officials. "We can tell you when and where exactly the parking violations is happening and guide enforcers directly to that car. This is not an expense, it is a revenue generating machine."

Every $1000 investment generate $xxxx ARR ticket revenue - easy math.
Are you a lawyer? A great deal many lawyers have reviewed the AGPL and labeled it too risky for their companies. While I tend to agree with your interpretation of it, I still am extra cautious and avoid AGPL software when I can for infrastructure products like this. I am cautious because of the lawyers opinions on it, and I am also cautious because many companies that adopt an AGPL license turn out to be not very good open source stewards, and they put up roadblocks to community contributions that weaken the project and make having a real open source community behind the projects nearly impossible. There are some exceptions, but they are rare, so I exercise extreme caution around AGPL licensed products.
From the article: "The rule change will require merchants to gain cardholder approval at the conclusion of the trial before they start billing".
> just because it's inconvenient for you doesn't make it their obligation to stop

Yeah, the thing is, having to cancel services tends to be inconvenient by nature. Usually when someone signs up for something it's because a) they're trying it out to see if it makes sense for them or b) they intend to be a paying customer.

It seems like MasterCard is addressing "a" here which is massively commendable. Companies don't need to auto-charge after a trial period ends, and it seems dishonest to do so. Services like Pandora will just take some functionality and inject advertisements after the trial payment ends or you miss your monthly payment.

Regarding "b", churn is a massive problem for businesses and if my company is doing something to alienate my customers, I would be trying to figure out how to reconcile the issue and retain them instead of trying to force payment on a single month of service and potentially drive them to file complaints against my business.

It sounds like Twiddla might be the exception to the rule and is commendable for that - I've never heard of a company offering to refund months of service fees, but most businesses aren't like that. And to a consumer, that unexpected $5 charge might include $35 of overdraft/NSF fees from their bank that they have to reconcile - to people on a budget, that might be a lot. And some companies will try to recharge the account again and again. I know from experience that DigitalOcean reattempts charges every 2 days for a missed payment without any reference to that in the TOS, even if you have emailed them agreeing to pay the full balance before their account suspension deadline and request that they stop the arbitrary recharge attempts, which can end up costing hundreds for a missed $10 payment.

And these sorts of practices don't generate any extra revenue for the service provider, but they may generate needless churn. It ends up turning into a massive headache for something that was totally avoidable - and it usually ends up hurting the people with the least money the most.

The current government shutdown is a perfect example of why we should be careful about our billing practices.
"Starting February 1st, 2019 there will be no attempt to disable EDNS as reaction to a DNS query timeout.
This effectivelly means that all DNS servers which do not respond at all to EDNS queries are going to be treated as dead."

So it basically means that authoritative DNS servers are now required to support the EDNS protocol. If not, it is no longer guaranteed the domain will resolve on DNS resolvers.

This is a performance improvement, because the EDNS fallback method requires a timeout.

Edit: My answer isn't correct, see the comments below.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... ?

It's part of Android 9, I believe. (I have a Nokia 7 Plus)
Most of my points above are personal opinions, so I don't know how I could be spreading misinformation. I'm describing things through my own perspective and I may or may not be categorically correct.

Maybe Qt is full of potential in your country? Perhaps Qt is booming in your industry? I haven't had those experiences. If my sentiments are misplaced, just inform me with reasonable arguments and I'll gladly change my view. Telling me that I'm just wrong doesn't help anyone.
> (Alternative unique identifiers could be SSNs or ID cards or physical mail addresses. But these are all non-starters. And phone numbers and emails are free for all practical intents.)

Can you speak more to your comment that phone numbers are essentially free? I know with something like Google voice you can get one free number (which still needs to be associated with a non-GV number). How would you get many phone numbers for free?
Such a great, fast and easy to use system. I love it for many years and with version 3 it got event better. I mean, look at the many fantastic showcase examples as well to see which companies and who is using Kirby already.
I thought the AGPL was corporate-friendly, RMS-unfriendly. Doesn't it allow for the "nonfree" distribution in SaaS/API context?

(Am I allowed to describe an API business as SaaS? My [technical, without a business background] partner says no.)
Wait, what? Who is this even written for?

Jobs in other countries? Interview every 3 months? You'll have to move locations constantly if you keep doing the latter, because you're going to get known as the person who wastes everyone's time on interviews you likely aren't taking seriously. Also, word will get out and it's going to be obvious that you're not at your current job half the time because you're in interviews, doing tech challenges, etc.

Also, who even has time for this nonsense? I may have in my 20s, but the market was different then. Now I'm 40 and married with a small child. Pretty sure this isn't going to go over well, and doesn't fit for a whole slew of other folks who are even less privileged than I am with my legit career.

Some places are great for job security, but yes salary compression and lack of employer loyalty is a thing. Job jumping here and there is fine if it works for you and you're not burning bridges, and promotions work well for some and not others. Note that you can also change specialities (sideways move), and improve in your technical track OR go into management. You can also just sit at a Staff/Senior Staff/Senior Consultant type role for YEARS as a technical expert that continues to grow but doesn't manage people or projects and get FAT bonuses as long as you keep your basics relevant.

If I didn't better, I'd think this article was trolling, and not just the lunacy of someone who had a bad experience and lives in a bubble. Even then, I'm not sure anymore because it's too hard to tell in 2019.
This kind of change has also impacted me. It shows up when I'm trying to give students advice about starting their careers, and I realize that the first jobs I had (system administrator, SOC worker) have been replaced by robots. Especially in the SOC, I was a "Tier 1" analyst that would do monitoring (watching a bank of green lights waiting for one to turn red) and first level triage and analysis. This has been replaced by ML driven data processing systems.

So I think the apocalypse is double-bladed: while automation kicks a bunch of current workers out by making them immediately redundant, it also freezes out the next generation by removing entry level jobs and not really replacing them with anything equivalent. Meanwhile, universities and vocational ed programs won't get this memo for another ten years so they will continue to happily propel waves of students onto a set of closed and locked doors.
"... like they have some sort of emotional attachment to the garbage."

They do. That's why they're hoarders. Everything they own represents a piece of their identity- their past (childhood memories, toys, etc), their present (current hobbies and interests), their future (belief that objects will be useful someday). Removing these objects is an attack on the person's identity- and calling it trash is calling their identity, hopes, and dreams trash.

Severe hoarding is a serious mental illness.
Wouldn't they have to train someone using your web site though. So I wonder what happens if you change your site.

I don't know if there is an actual working product though, their Twitter is only 16 hours old.
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I appreciate your comment about how the market works, thanks for that.

You certainly have a point about our not working with the OSI prior to issuing the SSPL. All other things being equal, we would like to have, but as a publicly traded company it's just not responsible to announce "we will be changing our license... to... something... we'll get back to you on what that'll be... sometime."

We weren't happy about it, but we're doing the best we can given the constraints. We're all grownups, and accept that one of the consequences is that some in the OSS community feel betrayed by that change, but we ask that you let our actions going forward, not the worst suspicions of those most predisposed to judge us harshly, determine what you think of our dedication to OSS and our community.

As for non-employee contributors to the MongoDB codebase (who account for about 3% of the codebase), I think we should credit them with the same adult responsibility for their actions as we hold MongoDB to. Their contributions were made in full knowledge of the attribution requirement, and we have no reason to believe -- and no evidence -- that they resent anything MongoDB as a company has done.
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