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That reminds me of the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody" where Freddy Mercury splits off from Queen to write music independently.

But he returns saying:

"I went to Munich. I hired a bunch of guys. I told them exactly what I wanted them to do... and the problem was... they did it. No pushback from Roger. None of your rewrites. None of his funny looks. I need you. And you need me."
Because there are people out there looking for work. It's not trivial for all programmers to find a job. I am in particular really awful at the entire applying and interviewing process (except funny little algorithms problems, I can kill those). It's a stressful, amorphous blob of everything I hate.

What the parent of your comment describes sounds a lot like a specific kind of contract-to-hire, which if it's done well can be really effective. I get to show off that I can actually develop software well, a company gets to judge me on more than just an hour (or maybe a day) of questioning.

Unfortunately it can be pretty exploitative if done wrong. It's easy for it to become an unending period of low-paid work where you're just hoping that one day it'll turn into a real job.
It is made of people
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They don’t appear to be blaming him for the controls. They are saying you should protest his attempts to intimidate and build distrust towards journalists.
I read a great paper talking about this problem once, which made the point that the only actual measure of data security is the bandwidth of possible side-channels vs useful size of the data.
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Healthcare in the states is asinine, no doubt. But when I see articles like this I have to ask, "why aren't these people making 75-100k using HSAs and FSAs"? They would eliminate many of these scenarios that people are seeing.

There's the elephant in the room that many people are absolutely terrible with money, buying entertainment goods and completely skipping on savings, HSAs, etc that could prevent these media sob stories.
You could extend this criticism to all small talk. It’s the same with the dinner table (or card game or water cooler) conversations about the latest Sportsball game and which team sportsed really good last night and which athlete’s stats are getting better and so on. Or how great the latest Game Of Thrones was or how awesome the Avengers movie was. Zero value besides the shared interest/connection.
Flamewar? Only in some self serving interpretation. These same rules disagree with you on your comment.

Free speech is a right, I'd argue a human right. Inalienable, guaranteed, innate and hugely important. Yes, you can live without it.

But so you can live without the right of free movement, without equality before the law, without freedom, without right to being alive, and this is actually how most of our history was. These rights are a rather recent innovation.

But should you? Should we? Eroding human rights only leads to dystopia. Human rights are an innovation of civilisation, of progress.
Ok, but when was the last time anyone ever went to jail for wage theft? Once you look at which crimes lead to arrest and the racial/economic background of those arrested, this quote quickly stops making sense. It's the broken windows theory, plain and simple.
his teacher was trying to do him a favor.

he literally said something like 'that's nice but it looks like a bomb. don't show anyone else.' -- it doesn't seem to me to be unsupportive, just worried. I don't think a teacher would say something like that in confidence with a student unless that student had a certain rapport with the teacher.
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I've wanted to make timesaver for quite some time now.
“hot water bottle recall” gives me several examples of unsafe water bottles.

It also gives me https://www.productsafety.gov.au/about-us/videos/hot-water-b..., which says:

”Every year, around 200 people are admitted to hospital with serious burns related to hot water bottles.

These are not just superficial burns. Some burns can even require skin grafts and weeks of hospitalisation.”

And that doesn’t even talk of faulty water bottles, just of faulty use. Among the things it suggests are to buy a new hot water bottle at the start of each winter, and to only use a hot water bottle to heat the bed – take it out before you get in.
It's dumb that we're here, but knowing the history suggests a possible solution.

What if the government was able to pass legislation banning employer healthcare? I imagine the issue of healthcare coverage would resolve very shortly thereafter.
They're fast, but I have to scroll and zoom around a lot.
It's not like people always keep their residence up to date though. If you are still able to receive official correspondence at your previous address (e.g. parents' home), why would you bother changing it? Even more so across a border -- it's trivial to have multiple residences at the same time and they are not guaranteed to be unique, nor are they necessarily considered tax residences. That is, you can be tax resident in a country where you don't have permanent residence even if you have permanent residence in another country.
I read a description -- sorry, don't remember where -- that finally made me feel like what happened made sense. Though who knows if any outsider will ever understand what happened.

Reading between the lines, Gardner basically claimed Angwin -- who was the EIC -- didn't do the job. Angwin wanted to do journalism, but that's not the EIC job. Her job was to hire people to do journalism, and to set up the (prioritization, themes, etc) in which journalism was to be done. Angwin did that poorly. [1] Her job also was to set up technical infra. It was claimed she didn't. etc.

From another article, "Angwin acknowledged to CJR that 'meetings are not my favorite thing.'" [2] . That makes me believe the firing of Angwin was justified; the EIC job is literally meetings.

This is a pattern that is repeated in startups: a technical founder often doesn't understand the job is not to be the best engineer on the team, but rather to hire managers, set priorities, coordinate with the rest of the business, etc.

[1] > "Hiring was slow. Recruitment was slow. Even as of this month, we didn’t have stories banked. We didn’t have editorial processes in place to accept and develop pieces. We hadn’t developed areas of coverage. We still lacked an editorial..." — Jeff Larson https://link.medium.com/oPwISQSD9V
https://medium.com/@jeff_larson/about-the-markup-6adc6a77810...

[2] https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the-markup.php
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I don't think we're disagreeing much about the background. But as for results: I've known both - the sociopaths were much better in my experience. More repetitive, granted, but with far fewer obvious misfires and much less strain.
Do explain how it's falling flat? It's exactly a point against what OP argues, that trading (human) rights for "security" (theatre) is a good trade, which it absolutely is not.
"right now I could put some stuff not liked by Russian or Chinese government (maybe entire website) and give a direct s3 link to https:// s3 .amazonaws.com/mywebsite/index.html. Because it's https — there is no way man in the middle knows what people read on s3.amazonaws.com."

Chinese government will just ban the whole s3.amazonaws.com domain. Same as facebook.com, youtube.com, google.com, gmail.com, wikipedia...

However letting them banning sub-domains will actually make S3 a useable service in China. It's a huge step forward.
> You can make it harder to do on accident, or to prevent someone from doing it for convenience

Why are you discounting these as valuable use cases?

In my experience, they're far more common than the determinedly-malicious actor. And they're far, FAR more common than the malicious actor who also (a) knows that the exfil monitor is there, and (b) has the technical prowess to circumvent it. (The analog hole is only _trivially_ usable for certain kinds of data.)

(I am continually frustrated by the number of people who claim that protection is worthless if it's potentially circumventable. In most situations, covering 90% of attacks is still worthwhile.)
Would encrypted SNI fix this?

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-sni/
> I'm really not seeing meaningful solutions proposed.

Stop jailing people for nonviolent crimes. Give the turnstile jumper the same treatment as the embezzler. Reduce the ridiculous US prison population!
Wanna explain that stance? I specifically argued against losing (human) rights in a trade for "security".
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Well, CRDTs were born to simplify reasoning. You can't really claim that OT is simpler. And performance of both is implementation specific with similar theoretical bounds. But, of course, CRDTs are much more general and foundational.
Right, a limit on how much the insurance company will pay to cover your healthcare expenses
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That's a search engine problem, not a hosting problem.
Again, should your users understand the code you present or should you use the language you feel more comfortable with.
Reading FORTRAN formulas is a pain (just reading for example a Prime factorization function implemented in parallel written in Fortran takes 10-15min to understand).
Hence, I see a large advantage of OPEN_MP & C++ here.
Originally there were AcroForms, part of the PDF spec. That's supported by pretty much everyone.

Then, Adobe saw an opportunity make some enterprise money and introduced XFA (XML Forms Architecture). The XFA spec is associated with the PDF spec, and you can put XFA content inside of a PDF, but the XFA spec is actually larger than the PDF spec. It's utterly insane.

I know that Adobe of course supports XFA, and there are various enterprisey things that support it to varying degrees, but I don't think it's well-supported by anyone outside of Adobe's implementation. Not only is it huge and complicated, but it also requires pulling in a JavaScript interpreter, which is a big ask for a feature that only exists because at one time Adobe thought they could turn it into another revenue stream.

It's noteworthy that the PDF 2.0 spec specifically says that XFA is not only deprecated, but that any PDF which contains XFA content is considered out of spec for PDF 2.0. 2.0 goes back to AcroForms for all of that stuff and ditches XFA entirely. Likewise for JavaScript in general. Anything with JavaScript dependencies in PDF 1.7 is verboten in 2.0.

In general, if you get stuck with a PDF with XFA content (not AcroForms), your best bet is to just use Adobe Reader to fill it out. Hopefully PDF 2.0 will take over the world eventually and everybody will be 100% back on AcroForms.
Or pay the fare. Up to you. I don't see why I should pay somebody else's fare, or, for that matter, the cost of keeping them in jail if they insist that I pay their fare.
Neither do cows, pigs, or chickens. Should I feel sorry for them as well?
I would add TPG and OnSemi to the success column. It was painful working there when TPG was keeping things lean for a sale, but they did eventually invest in the business an OnSemi was much better for it.
In that scenario, Marc has far more options and freedom to escape his instantaneous debt state than John does.
Now that you mention it…

[√] absolute dependence on authorities for food, shelter, clothing, transportation, money.

[√] curfews often in effect for you and your social circle, especially if suspected of deviance.

[√] 24/7 electronic or in-person monitoring is possible and largely accepted.

[√] social circle often molded by authorities.

[√] not allowed to vote or generally exercise political agency (and when allowed it's dismissed).

[√] not allowed to leave your workplace or home without permission from authorities.

[√] possible to flee and seek asylum but it means leaving everything behind for an uncertain future.

[√] indoctrination is so effective you're extremely likely to continue the system when allowed to be an authority.

Good thing it's a benevolent regime.
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60 years is time enough to exploit it for minerals and deflect it at the same time - catapult hollow reentry shells made mostly of valuable minerals into our atmosphere from it. Do that enough times and it's got a new trajectory.
If I'd never heard of Steve Jobs and NeXT, NeXTSTEP or how much it influenced everything from Berners-Lee's ideas about the WWW, object-oriented programming or a dozen other things, um, still no.

I learned to program on an Apple II. OSX's embrace of UNIX got me out of the Windows world, etc.

So I strongly disagree.
They charge for data transfer. They don't charge based on the level of complexity needed for their internal network operations.
On the other hand, many games simulate lens flare too.

I kind of wonder if there are not other "actually realistic" avenues that haven't been pursued. For example, simulating floaters.

I also found it funny playing some first-person shooters in 3d and/or VR. Although it would make sense to have these effects when using a sniper rifle, you can use a sniper rifle without closing one eye! ha!
Ok, now make the same argument for those guilty of wage theft and see how much push back you get.

(Estimates suggest wage theft and shoplifting both cost the US economy ~$40 billion/year. But one of these crimes results in virtually zero jail time.)

What is behind the US love affair with jail? It's perverse.
Yeah, but... the sentiment exists for a reason. Look, I’m all for growing programming talent, but I’ll leave the toy visual/drag and drop interfaces to those who are interested in using them to build intuition (absolutely nothing wrong with that).

But beyond that, I’m going to use the grown up tools to build real things (and get paid for doing so).
This will break software updates for so many systems, probably even some Amazon devices.
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Not allowed to bring your own? You think this is a good thing? God forbid I make some food at home. Sounds like a protection racket to me or a social equality experiment gone crazy.
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So what you're saying is, that The Guardian is pushing an anti-creationist agenda? Why are they not representing creationists in good faith? Every time they have an article on evolution, the Guardian must also push an article on creationism in order to ensure that they are not pushing an agenda.
Nigerian here.

What this kid is doing is pretty impressive especially when you consider the dismal state of public school education in Nigeria (private school isn't so bad)
For some context in case anyone is curious, here is a photo of part of the front row at Aretha Franklin's funeral, featuring (in order) Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Bill Clinton: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/aretha-franklin-funeral-ser...
> it doesn't matter how hard you try to sabotage it. It won't do dick.

Sure it will. It will help cause more bad policies to happen, at the margin.

There would be lots of controversial laws, and 10% of people voting here to mess things up, would effect something.

That's my revenge on the 90% that forced me into this, because of their "support".

> Surely they can bloody negotiate

Why do that, when we can just sabotage things? You don't get to force me into this, and complain when I fight back.

People do not have to react the way that you want them to, or that you find fair. Burning everything to the ground, in whatever way I can, is a perfectly acceptable retaliation to slavery.

Sure, there would be collateral damage. But there is always collateral damage. No matter what political stance a person is fighting for.
I don't think "never change" is customer obsession. Improving products is customer obsession.
You're probably thinking of Stanislav Petrov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
She's one medical emergency or expensive treatment (cancer) away from bankruptcy anyway, which can wipe out her savings in an instant. No matter what, there will always be debt collectors looming over her head.
Can I try giving a non-IDE example?

I rarely use IDEs, but compile-time checks are super useful for me during refactoring.

Sometimes I need to rename a class, a method name or a method signature that is used all over the program. I could use tests, but the compiler is much faster and much more comprehensive. So I change everything in one go and then only run the tests after that.

The speed in itself is great, and helps me get much faster feedback than I can get with tests. It's also great during explorational programming, or during the prototype phase: some errors can be detected during compilation, so I'm not greeted with an easily avoidable runtime error.

As for an example of a bug that would have been prevented by compile-time checking, I had one happen just last week. It was in a project with 100% test coverage, but we had undetected refactoring errors due to a lack of integration testing: there were (good) unit tests with mocks, but we missed them during refactoring, triggering a runtime error in production. We fixed that by writing a few simple integration tests and fixed the code. This happened just last week. No biggie, but would be avoided by a compiler.
NYPD has a long history of implementing the "broken windows" theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory#New_York...
I think you make a great point, but that’s a bad example. Google shows the champions in response to that query, separate from the results. They show the results as well because of some combination of inertia and users wanting more info.
While true, I don't think backwards compatibility forever is the right solution to the old code problem.
Have them spend a shift cleaning garbage. Done.
I don’t understand the distinction you’re making.
This is a false economy though - part of being able to participate in society is having a range of acceptable small-talk topics to engage with people on, and celebrity culture is a very easy one to stay sufficiently versed (literally just scroll a newspaper frontpage once a week or something) which provides a very safe in if someone wants to talk about that.

It's the same reason you should (though it is harder) have some passing knowledge of local sports teams, because its a big shared cultural touchstone.

It's the reason I'm really happy I started experimenting with vegetarian food, because it gave me something interesting to talk with and a possible point of shared interest as well.
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It's a balance between how inprocess stores bring instability to the main application vs cost of n/w & marshalling. Out of memory errors crashing the application, instead of providing a degraded experience etc. Answer as usual is, "it depends".We moved from inprocess to remote, because we valued application stability more than raw performance.
> but DMA controllers will understand physical memory

Yup, this is what I’ve found on many embedded SoCs. It’s unfortunate. The fact that they need physical addresses makes them not worth using in many cases (mainly when trying to move user buffers around).
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> Hikikimori is not synonymous with introversion.

Hikikomori sure as hell isn't extroversion. It's going to encompass a lot of introverts. And it is considered at the level of an offense against society.

> No one there is considered strange for being a bit stiff and un-expressive.

While you may not be expected to express your emotions, Japan has lots of public "rituals" that you WILL comply with or be labeled "strange". (The late evening salaryman drinking party, for example.)

Maybe it's not "extroversion" toward strangers, but Japan is extremely uptight about your interactions within your "in-group". You will interact and you will show proper deference, etc. Attempting to duck these public rituals or not interacting at them with gusto will very quickly get you approbation.

That's extremely hostile to introverts--probably more so than even the US where there are areas where people will simply leave you alone.
Even if the mounting is standard it's problematic to make the steering wheel control buttons work correctly with aftermarket units.
Agreed. I work on databases where column names are capitalized throughout our source code, and it’s annoying when sql like “SELECT FirstName FROM ...” gets output as “firstname”.

This is one case where MySQL seems a bit better.

Note if I could I’d change to lowercase underscore naming conventions, but it’s impossible to change now.
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>It's so strange that we've collectively lost this skill in what seems to be less than one generation.

Yeah, super weird. Similarly, people talk on the phone less these days and are losing that skill, too. I’ve been increasingly hearing people say this in recent years.
I haven't heard of this "new ACM format", but for years I've wished for a PDF2 that incorporated lessons learned from PDF and web pages for print, ebooks, web on multiple screen sizes, and non-visual readers (for the blind but also for anyone who would like to "read" a book or paper while driving or jogging).

A "multi-view" format that could be viewed as full page layout (both scrolling and paged), small screen linear, audio-only linear, or machine-readable (full, deterministic text sequence, tabular data, alt-text and tags for images and charts, etc.) All pages, images, fonts, etc., would remain encapsulated within a single file.

The closest I've seen is the latest ebook format, but that doesn't have anything close to the power of PDF to lay out a proper textbook or magazine article page.
Yes. BUT the insurance companies knew that you had hit a lifetime limit with another company and would refuse to insure you. You couldn't jump from AETNA to BCBS to CIGNA and get a fresh million dollar limit.
Play stupid cloud provider games, win stupid cloud provider prizes

Amazon waving its dictatorial wand about is exactly why it's better to take ownership of your infra. It makes me so sad to watch the tech world become Amazon's bitch
I have been in the same room with other people, listening to a person speak in English with a heavy accent from wherever, and I will be the only person who understood what was said.

“What did they about X, I couldn’t understand the accent?”

I have also seen native English speakers, turn on subs on English movies, with the volume at a perfectly normal level to understand things.

The only thing going on is that people really like their subtitles.
http://drudgereport.com/

The zeitgeist of the country. A much cleaner web page than most things he links to.
> I am continually frustrated by the number of people who claim that protection is worthless if it's potentially circumventable. In most situations, covering 90% of attacks is still worthwhile

People are saying that because it's misguided and potentially harmful.

Doing so is security theater, where the solution is scoped down to something incomplete but easier, and then everyone walks away happy they solved 90% of the smaller problem they chose to attempt.

Particularly with things like data exfiltration, this is potentially harmful because then you've organizationally blinded yourself.

Nobody wants to poke holes in their own solution, and so they stop looking.

But, hey, we're catching the odd employee accidentally sharing confidential documents via OneDrive.

Fast forward a year, and an entire DB gets transferred out via an unknown vector, nobody finds out about it for a couple months, and it's all "Oh! How did this happen? We had monitoring in place."

Go big, or run the risk of putting blinders on yourself.