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Why do people think that software engineering is the ultimate job in the world ? Sure it pays well and is generally a good job but other jobs are important too. Our modern lifestyle isn't solely built by software engineers. The meme is that everyone should learn to code is as silly as saying everyone should be an astronaut.
No, it should be clear that however they're calculating wealth is obviously wrong. Augustus Caesar has the wealth of $4.6 trillion? There is simply no way that is true.
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We're looking for a DevOps engineer to help support the build and deployment of our system's backend. We are heavy users of Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and automated deployment of our application's builds. We need a team member to maintain those builds, support our integration & query system (written in Python), support the system in operation, and help with Operational support issues as they arise.

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Everyone knows immediately when the line is down, and which line it is.

If the ship is ready it seems to take a day or so to get to the site. There's not always a ship though, not sure how it's organized.

Another day at the site and it's done. But any weather blows up the schedule seemingly.

I've never received anything other than emails about this so I'm not actually an expert.
Actually, since EPEL is often backports from Fedora, many people elect to keep them up to date with what's shipped in Fedora, so it tends to do better than other counterparts.

The closest counterpart is SUSE's PackageHub, which is often seeded by stuff going into openSUSE Leap that isn't part of SLE itself.
I'm the OP, and I agree that the situation in Gaza is beyond reprehensible. I see where Gaza is today, I see how it got there and the Israeli / Egyption hand in it, and I only wonder if it could have worked out differently.

I wonder if it can even ever be resolved.
> > Different releases tend to vary greatly in terms of stability.

> Second that. Had great and worse times with Kdenlive.

Agree also. Two elements of hope regarding stability :
- The timeline refactoring is nearly completed
- A nice fuzzing system has been added, which should really help : see https://kdenlive.org/en/2019/03/inside-kdenlive-how-to-fuzz-...
> Considering Estonia's history, paper voting isn't exactly amazing either.

So, could you point to any one election in Estonia's history where electronic voting would have been any better?

> The Soviet era showed that election fraud happens anyway.

That's just bullshit. Just because a solution for a problem is not perfect, does not mean it's useless and that every non-perfect approach is equally bad.

> The problem with paper voting is that mistakes in counting happen very often.

Which is irrelevant to the discussion of security. Mistakes are a very different thing from intentional manipulation, both in how you can prevent them and in the effects. In particular, mistakes tend to average out, which is why they usually don't matter for elections as long as they happen at a reasonably low rate.

> In the 2016 US presidential election officials basically typod the election results in the town of Hazelhurst in Wisconsin, where almost half the votes went missing until a citizen volunteer noticed the mistake. The party officials nor election officials caught the mistake.

... which is why we should employ a voting process where only the election officials have any insight into what is going on, so we minimize the chance that a citizen discovers any errors?

> If mistakes like that can happen then how often do they go unnoticed? How often are these mistakes deliberate?

... and how would an election process that is completely opaque to the public possibly help with any of that?
Occupy their land, then accuse them of hate.
Isn't the end goal convincing the population at large to reduce their consumption habits, even in the face of a competitive culture where success == greater and better consumption? I mean even if we dismantled Apple, Samsung, Intel today another company would gladly step in to sell to people who are addicted to convenience, novelty and find meaning in purchasing things.
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Well, old people do tend to start sleeping poorly...

(citation needed, just got up, not looking for one.)
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> Freedom of updating and installing newer versions of software without waiting for maintainer/distro half of year to build new package (outdated next week because it's STABLE package).

You have this freedom. It is known as "compiling from sources". In fact GNU/Linux is the only big OS/ecosystem where you have this freedom.

But like all other freedoms, you have to work hard for it.
Interesting. Since Mellanox is a big player in the HPC world, this means Nvidia wants to get more serious there. Due to Nvidia's bad Linux support and pricing (compared to AMD), I know quite a number of academic computing centers which like Mellanox hardware but avoid Nvidia hardware like the plague.
You're not wrong. There is a loyalist majority in NI. But those that would refer to Northern Ireland as "the north" would generally be among those that definitely would refer to the six counties as occupied.
Except the sysadmin can update the database of valid signing keys as well?
Cool advice, for me the analogue would be Raspberry Pi's. And indeed, I find it a great way of understanding most parts of the system.
> or to perform a test flight with him and two pilots attempting a deliberate reverse thrust deployment mid-flight

Reminds me of the scene in "Battleship" when Liam Neesons character tells the gov big-wig he will fly into the barrier-like thing as soon as he would come down to strap himself into the co-pilot's seat.
There's split keyboards that have a trackball in the middle, like the Ultimate Hacker Keyboard[0]. There's also the KeyMouse[1], which is two wireless mice with split mechanical keyboards built into them

[0]https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
[1]https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
Well if Mali has 2000 ships, that would have been “technologically superior” to what the native Americans would have had, since they had boats, not ships.

But Mali also had guns so I’m not sure how Mali couldn’t have been seen as more technologically advanced. I’m asking out of actual curiosity.
The amount of sarcasm in this thread already is really endearing.
Flash boys is a pretty bad book that contains downright false information. How do you think that you can get free equity trades on RobinHood? HFT massively helps small investors, while (arguably) hurting bigger institutional players.

HFT is "stealing" from the big guys and giving to the little guys.
I think he means he wants Linux to be like macOS or Windows where this is ONLY one distro. Which to each their own, but that misses the point of Linux and (s)he should probably stick to macOS or Windows.
Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley | TEDxMaastricht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc
When I had the need for a video editor a few years ago, i was quite happy with OpenShot. I have nod idea how it evolved though, but back then I found it was the best balance between being easy/efficient and not crashing with the hours and hours of raw videos I had.
Correction: "Decided to become a therapist".

>Shortly after beginning my Hakomi training, I applied and was accepted to the professional mental health counseling masters program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I'm studying and training through 2020 to get my licensure.

Going through schooling is not the same as becoming something. The title implies that there was success found here, but so far it's just aspirations.
The "Learn to Code" meme in its current evolution, i.e. as thrown back in the faces of journalists, is pointedly in defense of the value and difficulty of software development which the article espouses.
The problem of PCA is that it is very different of the metric you put on your feature space. Divide/multiply per three the coordinate of one feature can move from one important axis to a small one.

In most case where PCA is used for ML algorithm, it is a very important thing to take into account since you can lose a feature which is quite discriminating but that you'll squeeze in a discarded axis if its coordinate is too small.

There are obviously methods to avoid this like whitening the input data but it doesn't cut it completely.
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The faster a market maker can trade, the smaller spread they can offer. This is clearly a good thing.
The pilots indicated a difficulty controlling the plane before it went down. We certainly can't rule out a cargo hold fire severing control avenues, but it's hard to shake the possibility that the flight software did something goofy after the Lion flight that went down.
Linux has a GREAT video editor, though it is not open source. Davinci Resolve is fantastic and my favorite video editor over Premiere, Vegas, Kdenlive etc. by a large margin.
> I push a lot of CS students to get jobs as servers at local restaurants and bars.

One summer holidays while at uni I got a job as a door to door salesman selling internet packages.

I'm not a small talk kind of guy. But after doing this job for a month or so I noticed I was having all these conversations everywhere I went. I'd order a drink and be having a chat with the barman etc. I seemed to connect with people everywhere I went.

I'm a small sample in the world, but at the time I decided if I was struggling to get a job I'd do door to door (or some kind of similar commissions sales job) again while I was looking, not for the money, but for the interpersonal skills it seemed to bring out.
It's because money is something that can persuade people to do things they don't actually want to do. Persuasion has a better track record of sustainability than force. The easiest way to facilitate change is to make that change profitable.
This is exactly what I was looking for all weekend, great! Thanks!
Thanks - that's the article I was thinking of.

Off Topic: I hope the whole Fog Creek blog hasn't gone away.
But this story is from the point of view of humans, reported for humans, so "infest" is appropriate.

If it was reported by the crocodiles the humans might have been described as "disappointingly out of reach"
There were some dark pools that were offering sub-cent pricing. But the SEC fined them and made them stop.
Happy to let someone else address this false equivalence in depth. All I will say is that substance use is a personal choice, there's no evidence that the legality of a substance makes it more/less likely the use thereof will impact oneself or others in negative ways (indeed, alcohol is probably one of the worst substances in terms of addictive potential, anti-social effects while intoxicated, likelihood of eventual physical/biological damage because of frequent use, etc), and indeed all the evidence we have so far shows that making substances legal and also making resources to help those that have substance abuse problems widely available decreases negative personal and social effects of substances while also, from a moral/ethical standpoint, allowing people the freedom to alter their consciousness and body and way they want to, so a win win.
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Out of the 11 hull losses, only 3 resulted in fatalities, one of those was a test flight, one was the famous Air France crash, and one was probably due to the pilot being surprised by somatogravic illusion during go around. All of this in the past 25 years.

The 737 MAX crashed twice in the past six months, I supposed based on this track record we should just close Boeing down altogether?
I guess that's what I'm sad about.

Manual memory management feels like how early automobiles allowed you to adjust the fuel/air mixture by turning a knob: Why are you making me deal with this?

There are documents from the US Airforce's computer security group in the mid 1970s talking about buffer overflows. How years and many units of significant digits of precision do we need on the concept that human are fucking terrible at managing their own memory.

Yes [insert argument about garbage collection stalls] and yes [insert argument about guaranteed response times], but for the vast majority of programming projects those simply don't apply.

The fact that is 2019 and we are still dealing with this is so depressing.
This doesn't look good
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX#Accidents_and_i...

> The 737 MAX's Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) has come under scrutiny for faulty angle-of-attack readings in the Lion Air accident[126] and the apparent similarity of the Ethiopian Airlines crash.[127]

> On March 11, 2019, in response to the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) ordered the suspension of operations of the 96 Boeing 737 MAX 8s operated by Chinese-based airlines, citing the similarity between the two accidents. A number of airlines and regulatory authorities around the world followed suit, though some airlines still continued to operate the type as of this date.[128] On the same day, in response to the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes, Indonesia ordered the temporary suspension of operations of eleven Boeing 737 MAX 8s operated by Garuda Indonesia and Lion Air.[129][130] Inspection is set to begin on 12 March, 2019.[131]
There is currently a test for the adoption of a KDE instance of Gitlab CE (like Debian and Gnome) : and that should really help onboarding new contributors

https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdenlive
>which is why I think it faded away
You do realise trackpoints still exist on all new thinkpads and some Dell and HP laptops?
the reason they never became popular is that they are ont easy to master as soon as you first use them. the muscle patterns take a fair bit of getting used to before you get out of the awkward stage. However once you do they are as precise (if not more so) than touchpads with out having to move you hands into an entirely new position (much like this touchpad keyboard) however I think for this new keyboard to be effective, the activation force on the keys is going to need to be too high to resist accidental keypresses while using as a touchpad.
I think I'll stick with the trackpoint thanks.
Not that bad - intel already has an arguably strong networking department and recently purchased Altera for their FPGA tech. This is why above comments mention the benefits of nVidia purchasing Xilinx - one of the only other serious producers of cutting edge FPGA hardware - which happens to be what makes or breaks most high-throughput networking tech.
This isn't a court of law. People have died on this aircraft twice in 6 months. Fact beyond reasonable doubt is not the threshold for taking actions of prevention while make sure nothing is wrong with that airframe.
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I'm a musician and Linux user, so I have to lean on open source for recording and production. I use Kdenlive to do basic video creation; background music to a picture. It works really well for my purposes, in fact, I've had much fewer problems with kdenlive than with Audacity or Inkscape. Inkscape locks up my entire machine (AMD card most likely to blame) and I can't get through a recording project without Audacity crashing (been using it for years with different machines/configs, never had good luck).
I don't think you realize how much freedom Linux has. You can absolutely install anything you want at any rate you want with Linux. As soon as that new version of Gimp is out just go build it from source if it is not in the repos for your version of Linux yet. Seeing other comments you have made it really just seems like you want easy over freedom.
And from the other side of the aisle, "Why I Quit Being a Therapist":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Fi32LbXHA
The chance of getting in an accident when calculated by per mile driven and not by per drive is quite low.
The last new TILE architecture chip shipped over 5 years ago and Linux dropped support for the architecture completely last year.
I knew there would be some relation with drugs in the text.

People who think psychedelic drugs (even Cannabis) are just about 'having fun' or 'getting high' are skipping past the biggest ability these compounds have: to make you change some already hardcoded aspects of your life.

Someone who isn't me started working out and eating properly after having an epiphany on cannabis which prompted him to openly evaluate his relationship with food. After seeing truly how he ate, it disgusted him. This person is now 50kg slimmer and away from obesity BMI.
If you don't want to worry about distros just use Ubuntu. Argue amongst yourselves about with distro is "best" but Ubuntu has become a de-facto standard by this point, especially if you don't care about "Linux" and just want something that works.

[Awaits inevitable flood of comments along the lines of "I tried x on Ubuntu and it didn't work but it worked fine on y"]
Wow! Can I ever see some parallels with the inverse correlation of my own inward search for meaning and my lack of contentment with life.

They say that happiness is found within, but the more time I spend looking inward, the more and more sure I become that it's not.

Happiness, at least for me, is found in friendships and relationships, in human connection. The search inward may lead to many profound and philosophical insights, but so far, happiness has not been one of them.
Most of the story is ripped from the Wikipedia article. But then...

> Lucy Duran of the School of African and Oriental Studies in London

It's the School of Oriental and African Studies - SOAS. Not SAOS.

Yikes.
Great idea! I want this feature in all news paper.
The Airbus A320 alone has had 35 hull loss incidents.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incide...

Whatever else you think about this topic, it’s utter nonsense to say only Boeings crash.
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Pixar would like a word.
Not in hash tables. There the smaller, the faster.
The selection criteria is:
not bad (not failing any test), small and fast. Esp. it needs to be inlinable.

There will always be collisions on dynamic workloads. Otherwise you would choose perfect hashes. In the usual programming language case SPOOKY32 has the least collisions, and is pretty fast too. But it has no chance against the small hash functions.

The smhasher speed test doesn't tell you which hash will be the fastest in a hash table with small key lengths, only when used as digest. e.g. for bigger files, db or network blobs. The icache footprint in comparison to all the hash table code is very important.
It's like Bitcoin:

If you had 3 million BTC, you couldn't sell them all without the value of BTC plummeting.
You're right to be worried. They're not profitable, have never been profitable, don't look like they're ever going to be profitable.

Be smart with your money.
Maybe not 1%, but it really is not a significant portion. At least not in the circles where I am found:
1. I'm "a settler" in the West Bank.
2. I work in Israeli high-tech.
3. I work with mostly religious Jews.

Note that the polls suffer from "survivor bias", the people answering the polls are those who feel that they need to should their opinion to the world. I don't answer polls, and with elections coming I get several SMS polls per day sent to my phone.

30% feel hatred when they hear Arabic? Who are they polling?!? There is absolutely no way that is true for the general population. You cannot go anywhere in Israel and not hear Arabic.

50% would refuse to work under Arab supervision? Again, this is ridiculous. I don't think money-sucking Jews would refuse to work under Hitler.
Until you find another species capable of writing, good luck finding anything to read that isn’t human-centric.
> but that misses the point of Linux

Linux is kernel - I talk about good alternative for macOS/Windows, alternative desktop system, that can do much better than other two.
> My understanding is that intermediate CAs can be limited to issuing certificates only for specific domains.

Technically, X.509 allows for constraining things, [1] but from a practical perspective [2] it's not really implemented.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.10 [2] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/31376/
maybe they will finally opensource their gpu and cuda drivers and remove all the headaches from my life
ggplot2 also have excellent defaults. I'm really in Visualizations but I'm from the Python world. I had to teach a class using ggllot2 and was really impressed. You can easily make excellent graphs.
Please congratulate that person on my behalf. Even though it may be the result of an epiphany, self-restraint is still hard to achieve and a noble goal in itself :-)
kdenlive is horrible. Really.
If you ever worked with professional video editing you know that for a fact.

That said: Kdenlive is, by far, the best option OSS available on Linux. openshot is trying, but is pretty unstable and not reliable for big videos.
I'm so jealous he got to work with Bret Victor on Dynamicland! (in a positive sense, I suppose envious is a better word)

I've met 2 types of computer science students at uni: (1) the ones that love programming and love the mechanics of it. (2) The ones that love making music or similar forms of media.

The reason the second type gets into computer science is because they love media and they love it so much they're willing to go through the ordeal of learning how to program in order to create it. In my experience, I like programming, but I love the end to end process of empathizing with the user, designing the media/app and then implementing it.

It is these people that I call "Bret Victor" type of people. I'm one of them.

I am absolutely jealous. If anyone knows "Bret Victor" type of workplaces, let me know.
how about feeding a white noise signal into a microcontroller and have it sample the random voltages and convert it into a string of numbers.
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Sooner or later mass scale technologies become commodities accessible to all. The question is can competitors stay solvent for longer than tech takes to commoditize
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