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You're talking about legal liability; deogeo sounds like they're talking about social liability.
Gross profit: https://twitter.com/shl/status/1083805607201669120
I really wish we had more of that culture. Unfortunately we've sort of bought (excuse the pun) into the idea that you have to give loads of presents as some sign of affection.

In our case it isn't like the presents are all really expensive, it's literally the number of them that is the problem. I'd actually be happier if our families spent the same money but on fewer things. Like one decent present would be better than three pieces of plastic crap from the same person.

My wife's extended family also really struggle with the idea that I would rather have consumable things (nice beers, a speciality cheese, a treat etc) than some random thing that they think I'll like. I'm no minimalist, but I really don't need or want more stuff in my life and would be far, far happier with something simpler and less permanant.

I've been asked before what I would like for christmas, only to be asked to come up with something "better". So frustrating.
I've always appreciated Windows's animations for minimise
and restore. I hate animations that don't do anything for
you, though.

Brian Kernighan's COS333 page links to a goodui.org that
recommends animations (in moderation) but also a bunch of
horrible stuff.

So there's that.
Towers are connected through fiber.

Mobile companies in general don't compete with each other at all and just continuously raise prices until too many customers starts leaving or regulators and politicians start to notice.
I spend a lot of time in Delhi myself. My Airtel sim often gets 10-15mbps down nearly anywhere in the city.
Not sure which audience you are targetting but I would love to read more on modern compiler design. There is very little information on the web on how to design a compiler to provide good error messages and code intelligence features even in the face of incomplete or incorrect source code.

A good starting point would be some of the themes touched towards the end of this article: https://blog.adamant-lang.org/2019/dreaming-of-a-parser-gene...
The health insurers have been relatively "smart" (more accurately, subtle) about this by this separation of the tracking/privacy implications into separate "Wellness" programs. In many cases these Wellness programs do seem to be firewalled from insurers with the only information passing between Wellness and Insurance being the simple abstracted metrics of "Level" or "Points", and that by way of presumably only the Benefits coordination aspects of corporate HR.

Though there are still questions of how strong the firewall is in cases where the Wellness programs and Insurance providers share parent companies or even just C-Suite members. Arguably, the separation allows corporate plan buyers to pick and choose Insurance and Wellness program separately, allowing for some competition between them on things like privacy. Yet, being employer-driven "benefits" first and foremost, it's hard to say how much the end consumer/user/employer's privacy is always prioritized, as it is an indirect need of the market.

(Also, every employer I've seen the Wellness program didn't define HSA contributions but rather "discounts" on Insurance premiums, which does seem to indicate that Insurance companies are probably using the Wellness program for risk pools, even with what little data they supposedly are being fed across the firewalls.)
Infrastructure and regulatory costs are definitely NOT insignificant. Not at all.

Planting antennas all over a country and bringing optical fibre to them is EXPENSIVE.

Winning an auction on radio spectrum is EXPENSIVE, especially in developed countries.
Operating systems reflect the cultures that created them. UNIX was a reaction to the enormous overcomplexity of Multics and other operating systems (OS/360) of its day. One file type, one record type ("THE BYTE"),one device driver model, NFA research (~1 pattern language vs zero in other operating systems) and a way to plug together pipeline programs on the command line not seen before.

UNIX succeeded precisely because it was powerful and yet so simple a person could read any part of it and change it.

However, the kernel of UNIX is now beyond ken for most developers precisely because the developers pursued complexity and marginal features for marginal benefits, something very common in European governments and a part of that culture.

The shell commands went from maybe 50kloc to millions of lines precisely because the Linux developers were desperate for contributions and let MIT bloatware people control that part of the source code, strangling Linux with MIT culture.
So now "took money from VCs, tried to do the fast growth and over hiring but learned the hard way, and now still on it work with a small team" counts as indie hacking... Who knew? Taking money from VCs is not bad if that is the path you are choosing, I'm just pointing out it is disingenuous to get featured on a site which is all about an alternative slow growth but higher ownership path.
> which facts to use?

That's easy: the ones that are confirmed by experiments.

Feyerabend was correct in calling science "anarchic" in that there is not one "scientific method" that will always point you at the right facts. Scientists do whatever works.

But Feyerabend was wrong in thinking that, because of that, "all facts are alternative facts". It is possible to establish facts. You do that by experiments. It's just that there's no rule that will tell you in every case which experiments to do. You have to figure it out each time.
The article is scarce on details but the first part: "Climate change is already affecting oceans, fisheries, and the livelihoods that depend on them. Some local fish stocks are declining, while other fish populations are shifting their distributions, forcing fishers to travel farther to make their catch."

Already has me thinking that they are blaming the effects of over-fishing on climate change. A nice way to shift the blame.
Does he need to? It's his own body.

If I burn my hand on a stove, am I obligated to to do a blinded A/B test with N=15 before I decide, for my own personal case, that the hot stove caused the burn mark?

I don't get why you're putting people on trial for noticing their own individual reactions to food. The article itself admits some people are sensitive to MSG.
> Especially on mobile, I'm not a big fan of navigating through often crappy web sites and potentially having to provide a bunch of info to find there are no reservations available at 7pm.

Me neither. That's why I call the restaurant instead of using their web page. The whole thing is done in a couple of minutes.
A tangential point ... but power cuts in Himachal? I grew up in Himachal in the late 80s and 90s, and power cuts were extremely rare. Himachal was one of the few states that was power surplus and boasted of 100% electrification. Has this changed in recent years?
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> This is just complete BS, drug tests are mostly required for mid-to-high paying jobs, not your typical low income job.

I'd offer a different take: they are required often for skilled manufacturing jobs, like for people operating precision or dangerous machinery.

I've seen many anecdotes where factory owners say that they can't find workers for machine operator positions who don't test positive for meth or opioids.

It's also possible that some of those employers are using drug tests as a sort of "morality" bar, but I'd bet they primarily want to protect their expensive capital equipment and their other non drug using employees from potential drug-use related accidents.

But I doubt there is a lot of drug testing for burger flipping or grocery bagging type jobs, especially not in a tight labor market as exists today.
I think your parent comment is alluding to the attempts by certain groups to massively expand the use/scope of the word "violence", e.g. the "speech as violence" idea.
Any reason you didn't consider Google Fi? I've been pretty happy with it.
I know in the particular example that is something that's good advise and more or less easily done.

Do you think it would be good to extend said argument to say scp / ftp clients?
The article doesn't mention anything at all about technology or infrastructure. Are we really to believe that wireless data is orders of magnitude cheaper, purely because of price fixing in USA/UK? How much of the price difference can be explained by infrastructure, technology choices, labor, quality, etc?
If we're throwing anecdata on the pile, my experience is completely opposite. I've never had to take a drug test for a software engineering position - and I would flat out refuse to if a company required one - but I've had to pee in a cup before Kohl's would let me unload their trucks.
> This limitation isn't at all technological. You just can't accelerate or decelerate much faster than today's high speed trains without causing discomfort to your passengers.

Will electric cars change people's comfort with longitudinal acceleration? Imagine people's family SUV does 0-60 at 5 m/s^2 (Tesla Model Y), and sedan around 10 m/s^2 (Model 3 and S). Then subway's ~1 m/s^2, shinkansen's 1.2, or TGV's 0.5, may seem very last century. A generic Honda Civic looks about 3.
Yup, sounds familiar :)

I often think that many of life's problems come down to an issue of asymmetry. From the giver's perspective it's just a couple of presents, but from the receiver's (or their parents) its an avalanch.
Does anyone know of any good refactoring tools for Python? I've been casually looking for a bit and haven't found anything that I really like yet.
OK, I see what you're saying, and I have to partially agree.

You could say there are two parsing challenges: knowing that you are inside a declaration (as opposed to an expression, statement, etc.), and parsing the parts of the declaration once you know you are in it.

If you have a (required) keyword like "var", then the first challenge is solved in any case. (And that is the challenge that was actually mentioned in the above comment.)

But yeah, the second challenge exists, and since variable names are exactly one token long (in any language I know of), it's easier for them to come first. Sometimes. It depends on the language, though: if the language has a separator terminal symbol ("var int : x"), then I don't see how the order matters. Some languages do and some don't.
I could stretch it to say that climate science exactly 'defines the structure of existence (metaphysics), explains how humans in their "base state" are deficient within that structure, to their detriment and that of others, and finally establishes elaborate practices for addressing the deficiency' - except that the practices, so far, don't actually address the deficiency adequately.

I will agree that I don't see this structure elsewhere in science...
Technical capabilities strongly interact with politics. It's not unusual for people to deny a problem with full strength and suddenly accept it after somebody comes with a desirable solution (see climate change). Dialog techniques (including propaganda and communication media) have a great impact on ideas. Success breeds trusting, even on unrelated issues.

At the end of the day, as usual, those things aren't as much independent entities as classical ideas leads one to believe.
It seems like they're typically jobs where the employee has a high chance of either being injured, or causing a lot of damage.
I'd use this too :)
Unlikely due to how they're implemented, or their semantics?
> As a result, they feel fully justified in taking it wherever they please.

Which is 100% abusing the relationship I have with them.
2GB per day for $3 even at 4Mbps is like a dream to someone in the US where plans are more in the range of $45/month for 2GB per month. Speeds are better, but useless because you'll smack directly into the cap if you actually use it.

The lower speed in India is at least partially due to it being heavily used instead of sitting idle because people don't want to blow out their cap. IMHO this is more egalitarian. They aren't keeping the poors off of the system just so the elite can download their cat videos faster.
You must not have read my comment all the way through, because I explicitly said:

"I get that restaurants have to protect themselves against no-shows, and I have no problem handing over a credit card number so that they can charge a no-show fee."

> It's not at all about whether you can pay or not.

I never said it was.
Computer languages are called languages for a reason. They have syntax, grammar, vocabulary, and are used for communication. People who don't speak english for example but who read python can often read code you wrote and understand it. Math is a similar thing and sometimes called a universal language.

These are different sorts of languages from day to day spoken and written languages for general communication, but they can be reasonably put in the same larger umbrella of language.

Whether they should be applied to a graduation second language requirement is certainly debatable. Some school systems may reasonably say yes, others no.

Of perhaps no doubt though is that at the present time, complete fluency/competency in a computer language is far more valuable to an individual than mastery of any language other than english.

Given this, perhaps schools should instead consider dropping the foreign language requirements entirely and replacing them with requirements for fluency in at least one computer language.
Depends on the company/tower. Quite a few use high gain RF links.

My local WISP uses AirFiber[1] for all their backhauls, mobile can be different but nothing is an absolute.

[1] https://www.ui.com/products/#airfiber
"That's another thing we have in our defence, there's plenty of water on the planet."

so that's what planetary defence people do :D since it's unrealistic to prepare to defend the planet actually, let's just point at things :D and call them out for being in our defence! :D we have mountains too! they are also in our defence!
Fantastic article about writing fast DL code.
Sure your cool valley startup with a flip-flop wearing CEO isn't going to require a drug test (and probably not a formal background check), but buttoned up corporate America absolutely does as well as government and most companies who does business with government. So basically most non-small-companies outside of California. Employee drug testing got popular in the early-90s, it was even the topic of a Seinfeld joke. Though I hear its becoming less common in the last few years, and some have stopped testing for marijuana.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/employment-tren...

>There is no definitive data on how many companies conduct drug tests, though the Society for Human Resources Management found in a survey that 57 percent do so. Nor is there any recent data on how many have dropped marijuana from mandatory drug testing.

>After the Drug-Free Workplace Act was enacted in 1988, amid concerns about cocaine use, drug testing spread to most large companies. All Fortune 500 companies now engage in some form of drug testing, according to Barry Sample, a senior director at Quest Diagnostics, one of the largest testing firms.
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Sounds like what’s happening at a larger scale =(
Anybody using webauthn in production app?
I'm considering to use webauthn in a new system. Who is using it in a production environment? Is there any severe issue or gotcha? Do you have any recommendation?
What climate change? :P
I'm making this post because OctoberCMS (OCMS) really helped simplify the development process for me. After nearly 10 years away from web development, I was looking to get back into the industry. The last time I worked with PHP we were using header/footer includes to stitch together everything from e-commerce to blogging sites. Fast forward to 2017-2018 and frameworks had really blossomed.

After researching different platforms/frameworks to learn, it became clear that Laravel would be a solid choice. Needing to put together a somewhat straightforward community driven site with user authentication and blogging, I started looking to different packages that would help me when I discovered OCMS.

Not only is the OCMS community extremely friendly and helpful, does OCMS make it relatively painless to implement many of the common features modern websites/apps require: user authentication, CRUD functionality, email handling, etc.

Where OCMS really shines is in its extensibility. Nearly every aspect of the system/plaform can be extended with custom functionality. Furthermore, because October is built Laravel, we have access to many Laravel packages and features that any other Laravel application can use. This makes it painless to integrate an OCMS project with other services and projects, something that is not always easily achieved with WP.

As long as October maintains a healthy and vibrant community and continues to push updates, I will be using it as my primary framework/platform of choice for most of my projects.

Thanks for making it possible for me to get back into development and quickly learn the important aspects to modern web development!
No, not any more than math or statistics are. Replacing a foreign language with a programming course is like replacing a music class with a math course; you may think it's a good idea, but it's not because it's replacing the same type of thing.
Is that obvious? Using AWS you delegate access to KMS keys to other accounts.
if it shows people that VC is not the optimal path, then it has value for IH too
More and more of this has been delegated to the manufacturers themselves.

They simply assert to the FAA that the aircraft meets the type requirements.

To assert this, but also change such a critical emergency procedure, which is made more critical by a decision motivated primarily by economics -- this just sounds bad.

Basically, we've set up a situation where short term thinking is eventually, over many thousands of iterations of such decisions which go into producing such a complex product, going to override long term safety thinking.

Unfortunately, substituting regulations for good thinking has the potential to nonsensically stymie progress if done incorrectly.
> Bad drivers are already a part of the risk calculation.

That's a weasel statement. "bad" "part" "calculation" are all soft terms. You can always tighten the metrics, which a GPS would allow for, given time and rigor.
Not all roles require the same level of audit. In general for simplicity, an entire firm will use one system that just applies the same policies for everyone, but a dev building a web interface for an internal risk tool will not be under the same requirements as a sales trader talking to clients and taking orders to execute in the market on their behalf.
I'm completely biased obviously, but I feel like this article's author has a lot of experience building WordPress sites but hasn't had the experience of building a site in OctoberCMS yet.

OctoberCMS is an incredibly powerful yet simple tool that can handle all manner of websites. I've built everything from your basic web brochure type sites to complicated web applications that are used for a wide variety of functionality to multi-tenant SaaS type offerings.

I recommend just trying it out for yourself and playing around with it. See https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KRj0LAnbC-Fgl392-Hz0MnJgih... if you would like a developer's introduction to the platform.
Enterprise customers want the ability to pull their keys and walk away from a platform, sometimes with very little notice.

A made-up example: assuming Brexit occurs, EU customers of a London-based SaaS chat service may no longer wish to keep that data outside of the EU. The easiest way to wipe it out quickly? Pull the key. Or perhaps your government is trying to compel you to produce data that you believe they have no right to. Some companies would rather have the option to destroy it and face the consequences, whatever they may be.
Even with all their problems, they are still the best and often only solution. They move on your schedule, they stop on your schedule, they make it easy to move more stuff than you can otherwise carry from your house to wherever you want to move it. And their cheaper than public transport, too.
Now I don't understand. I'm clearly talking about other people (everyone else but you), not the nerd running irssi on a VPS nor thelounge.

In other words, IRC isn't worse than Slack/Discord in this regard because you have to opt-in to these things. It's worse because everyone else has to, and they clearly don't.

For example, that I pay $50 to irccloud but nobody else does still makes IRC a poor experience for me because IRC is about communicating with other people, not masturbating over my irssi config.
> It's funny because C opted to leave the number of bits machine dependent in the name of portability, but that turns out to have the opposite effect.

That depends on what you consider the portable part. In the era of proprietary mainframes operating on proprietary datasets, data portability probably didn't matter as much as code portability to perform the same sort of operation on another machine.

C's size-less `int`, `float`, etc allows the exact same code to compile on the native (high speed) sizes of the platform without any editing, `ifdef`s, etc.

(Side note: That's what bothers me a lot about the language wars -- the features of a language are based on the trade-offs between legibility, performance, and the environment from the era they were intended to be used in. Often both sides of those spats fail to remember that.)
> No.

The first sentence literally confirms Betteridge's law of headlines.
>Again, it wouldn't be acceptable with an adult; just apply the same standard.

And that's pretty much the key point. You cannot pretend children are adults.
Those don't serve as good examples since e.g. for hurricanes by the time the evacuation order is given the weather itself is causing issues for the evacuation.

It would still be a logistical nightmare, but other things being equal should proceed in a more orderly fashion than a hurricane evacuation, especially since the exact time of impact would be known in advance.
The race thing is a complete red-herring. The only question that matters is "How does it make me personally feel after I eat it?"

It really doesn't even matter how it makes the average statistical sample psychology students feel.
My experience with Tumblr was generally that a large part of the content, especially larger media content like videos, failed to load most of the time. Makes me wonder if that's related ...
I use Gumroad for some stuff and it has been great, easy to use and better than alternatives.
I'm just looking for any/every way to make the technical interviews I have to do as painless as possible.

Putting a project on GitHub that I spend real time on and believe demonstrates my skills as an engineer feels intuitively like an activity that might do that.

But you're right, it's not really about filling up time that's otherwise empty, it's really about making trades with the other time-filling things I'd like to do because the value of having a side project temporarily outweighs the value of spending time with my family.