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not really, color-based AA admission is the true racist, I'm just emphasizing merit-based results no matter what your skin color is, the equalize-every-result is going way too far.

Do you know each year how many of those AA students dropped out? I am sure we will have a solution soon, that is each college will give adversity-GPA-for-college-degrees-by-skin-color, all must be good.

But I don't want to be treated by an AA doctor myself! The richest and the poorest are rare, let the majority students shine by hard working, that's the best gift we can give them instead of cut-in-line because their skin color difference, which is truly racism.

Last, we probably should look into NBA, too few white and Asian there, how racist they are!
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No. I’m an MIT SB and Berkeley PhD and I will tell you engineers never made a living in the US until around 2000 (fiberoptics and Netscape boom). The “right” will snatch that right back.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the "#trashtag" movement from earlier this year was created and spread by beverage companies.
Harvard has need based scholarships. These need based scholarships directly reduce the amount of children of wealthy parents who get into Harvard.

Are need based scholarships denigrating the hard work of wealthy parents?
We aren't being presented any evidence that they are playing both sides of the table that brazenly. However, I can't see a situation where if the firm were in a position to stop the ransomware globally that they would actually do so.

Maybe an altruistic individual within the company, but not as a directed managerial effort.
Yeah. People with brains should be more united.
I wish I had stats, but I only have anecdotes, though a fair number of them. I’ve mentioned to 5 or 6 bloggers that their posts were behind a metered paywall and 0 of them knew or intended it.

This person’s screenshot of the UX (as of Dec 2018) seems like it could be easy to misinterpret. It certainly doesn’t say anything like “Medium visitors are only able to read X free Medium articles. If your readers exceed X, they may be shown a paywall and be unable to read your post”: https://twitter.com/SachaGreif/status/1069842296844120064
> People sometimes read "backdoor" as something intentionally left by an insider for later use by themselves or others.

And considering you can never know if someone else knows about it, that means you can never know if it was a backdoor.
California government is completely unable to run these types of projects effectively because the primary emphasis is on political benefits. The Oroville Dam debacle is another recent example. For another, look at the history of the 680/280/101 interchange, known as the "freeway to nowhere" for the many years it stood partially complete.
Leftists aren't, but Democratic Party partisans are. The difference is confusing to Americans.
Etsy is the first major online shopping destination to offset 100% of carbon emissions from shipping.*

*According to research conducted by 3Degrees.

The fine print[1] is interesting. This isn't some save-the-planet-from-the-goodness-of-our-heart-no-strings-attached campaign...if anything, it's a subsidy brokered through a for-profit carbon credit consulting firm designed to directly benefit certain for-profit companies.

[1] https://3degreesinc.com/latest/etsy-leads-e-commerce-towards...
How does this hurt the guy running the show?
That's not a good chart for banks. Their cost of capital is 8-10%, doing 11 or 12% is pretty shitty compared to the pre-crisis era.

And the smaller community banks have less onerous regulations than the big ones. Banks have to be much more capitalized and have less leverage because of Dodd-Frank. That's why the return on equity is mediocre.
Strong disagreement from me here. I believe that encouraging parents to invest in their children's growth is a good thing. Removing/reducing the benefit of this investment in the child is the kind of perverse incentive that's probably bad for society as a whole.

Simply put, parents are now forced to weigh the comparative benefit of a high-end university education over the child's development. I'm betting that diminishing returns on development investment will at some point encourage investment in gaming the adversity score instead.
Matthew Walker, probably the best known sleep scientist, has been critical of Oura and pretty much all the sleep trackers for sleep phase data. Unsurprisingly, it's difficult to guess at brain EM wave patterns from a band on the finger, wrist, etc.

I'm 6 months on Oura, and I don't think it's actually that consistent, i.e. I don't think you can say "Oura shows 50% more deep sleep today, so even if the base mumber is wrong, I must have gotten 50% more deep sleep". I wear a fitbit to cross validate each night, and the readings on both often contradict each other seemingly arbitrarily, night to night.

Overall I've found they're great for tracking overall sleep time (HRV, heart rate, temp too) but I don't read too much into the actual sleep phase data. (Day-to-day self asessment of cognitive performance is probably the best proxy.)
I hope they do, it would be a huge boon to sea glass enthusiasts.
> Well Cisco wrote the code so it has to be in some way intentional but it doesn't necessarily mean it was done maliciously though. It could a private developer key used for testing accidentally got pushed out in production code or some poorly thought out management "feature". Regardless it is an epically dumb mistake for a company like Cisco to make on an enterprise product.

That someone might not be the company, it might be a developer.

It's entirely true that the company says it's not a backdoor, the developer says it's a mistake, but he/she was approached from an external organization.

Unless you can provide either way it's impossible to classify it as a backdoor or not.
Whats the app you used to get so much history
I've said it before.

I'm negative because Tesla has a track record of killing people willingly.

AP1's entire sensor suite was in other cars at the same time it was in Teslas.

Other companies rightfully used those sensors for Lane Keep Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control and Automatic Emergency Braking.

Lane Keep Assist does EXACTLY what it says on the tin. It ASSISTS in keeping a lane. It will not automatically center in a lane. It will not let you let go of the wheel.

It WILL save you in 99% of situations where one may naturally be distracted, like drowsy driving.

Adaptive Cruise Control, does EXACTLY what it says on the tin. It is cruise control... that adapts to traffic conditions. It will not stop the car by itself. It will not lull you into a false sense of safety by trying to claim it detects stopped objects. It will not give you the confidence to stare at your phone in traffic.

Automatic Emergency Braking, does EXACTLY what it says on the tin. It's a backup that will only activate in a real emergency. It will precharge the brakes opportunistically, but it won't activate until the last moment possible. It instead alerts the driver BEFORE action is taken.

AEB from Mobileye alerted me to an overturned box truck on an interstate in pitch darkness and heavy rain before I could visually confirm it.

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Now you'll notice if you just take these building blocks, and increase how often they engage to continuous, you can lie and say you have a rudimentary self-driving car. I say lie because this level of autonomy is not what people have in mind when they say "self-driving car"

And of course no one would do that.

And certainly no one would do that and then call it AUTOPILOT.

Except Tesla did. And people died.

And they're still keeping up the charade.

And that's (part) of why I went from a Tesla fanboy to a staunch hater of Tesla and what they represent.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but web-socket debugging in FF isn't supported?

I ran into this last night, Chrome shows me what requests are going over websockets, FF does not.
I'd describe the situation as being that the core beliefs of the political left in the United States have diverged sufficiently far from the core beliefs of liberalism (including freedom of speech) to the point that being a liberal no longer automatically implies membership in or sympathy for the left.
While I'm not personally keen on him, Trump's admin rolled back CCAR to every 4 years, for small book every 6. Expect lower regulatory costs.
I think you are confusing the word "fair" with free.
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What is with this sentiment that we have to try to make people ashamed for doing things the right way and working hard?

Be proud of what you have accomplished. Fuck the people that want to tear you down because there's some poor wretch that "deserves" a shot more than you do.
Btrfs is reliable and stable - when you're running it on a single disk. That's what tends to the default mode for operating system installs that use Btrfs. I use it on all my single-disk installs to get checksumming, COW, and transparent compression.

It also seems to be pretty solid in enterprise-friendly RAID10 software mode. Anything outside of that should be treated with extreme caution and avoided for anything you can't afford to lose. For RAID5/6 in particular, as far as I know, little has changed since the discovery of a major corruption-creating bug (which supposedly was going to require a complete rethink of major portions of the Btrfs architecture). It's an embarrassing situation, but no one seems to want to work on it because it would require a lot of work to fix, and anyone who's paying people to work on Btrfs isn't going to run RAID6 in production anyway.

It's unfortunate, but the real best advice to anyone who wants software RAID and doesn't know exactly what they're getting into is "just use ZFS".
Interesting demonstration of a possible Harrison Bergeron future that leads from here.
You’re in luck, it won’t be boomers, but it could be gen-z’ers...

But, yes, there is no churn, no opportunity to have s change of the guard. If it becomes very, very slow.
So, controversial question here. Is there a racial divide by IQ then?

I'm not talking about the cause of this, whether genetic, cultural or others. But right now in the United States, is there a sizable IQ distribution difference across the various racial groups?
I use Dvorak, I'm faster in Dvorak, and have less RSI issues. As an adult that works from hardware I control I almost never have to type QWERTY anymore.

In the past things like computer labs, and locked down school computers would have pushed me to recommend QWERTY. Nowadays everyone has their own iPad, or laptop, so this is much less of an issue.

The only time I have issues is during computerized testing, or using someone else's computer. I have a USB dongle that I can put between the keyboard and computer that'll swap the characters I type Dvorak, and the dongle swaps the QWERTY input to the correct ones as I go.

For testing I can request they change the layout, but it rarely gets approved. For random people, they usually let me add another layout without issue.

I'm recommending Dvorak, but there will still be a few pain points.
Jerry Brown tried to build it the first time

Jerry Brown couldn't even get the Freeway to Nowhere" done.
If you stop rewarding "luck", where luck means inherent ability, then all the "lucky" people will voluntarily exile themselves into careers that are actually fun and which they can put maximum effort into, and stop working 8 to 6 designing hydroelectric power systems or writing biannual rice production forecasts or gently explaining how to write status update emails to software engineers.

Plus, to what extent is the capacity for hard work based on luck? If long hours give you clinical depression because you got 50 bad genes and experienced neglect as a child and lived in a house with lead paint, do you get sent to live in a slum with the rest of the "lazy" people?
At least to me, Microsoft's desirability has gone up considerably over the last decade.
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> There's a similar tradeoff for tracing GC vs. precise monitoring of ownership and lifetime (Rust uses reference-counting GC, which is generally less effective than tracing, in cases where ownership and lifetime are not statically determined), but this comment is already too long.

Rust doesn't use a GC. It uses a borrowing mechanism that ensures (theoretically) a single reference to any variable at a time. In the case of shared variables, you do have std::sync::Arc<T> (atomic references) and std::rc::Rc<T> (reference counted immutables), but I would hesitate to conflate those to the language as a whole as it's not the default.
Could these 30,000 reads be from bots/crawlers? Medium has all the incentives to boost up the number of reads, don't they? I'd wanna measure engagement metrics outside their domain instead.
Thousands Standing Around, now with added massage chairs.
can't tell if you are joking or not.

I highly suggest you read chrome's privacy policy on that password sync feature. Hint: when enabled on android the wifi password is unencrypted (or reversible, which is close to the same thing. they claim it must be so to work with wear)
The cycle of poverty will never be eliminated because it is human nature. Some people make wise choices and others make poor choices. It is evolution. No matter how many "adversity points" and other nonsense people come up with to make the system "fair", the family where the father is willing to break his back for his kids will win almost every time.
For me, I sync by plugging my phone into the USB port and copying the .kdbx file over. I've never needed anything fancier, let alone had a reason to send my password database out over the internet.
The most secure way, an app like WhatsApp but it is secured because of 2 people encryption

You can contact me with the email in the bio if you don't like it (not many people use keybase anyways)
You're going to be entering these passwords into a browser most of the time so if a compromised browser is your problem, no password manager is really going to help you.
Japan and Germany have long been known to have the world's best engineers.

That's how they won the war.
>But his point was developers could focus on a single api rather than having to deal with quirks in directx, opengl, vulkan, webgl, etc.

That is really an imagined scenario. An extremely tiny minority of games are targeted for such a wide variety of platforms. Real-time high-performance code is always tightly coupled with the hardware - if you want to squeeze performance out of hardware, you want to minimize abstractions to such a level as they don't hurt your productivity. If you're targeting consoles, you can maybe target the PC platform. But there is no way you're targeting the nintendo DS or a smartphone with the same codebase without major modifications to the graphics code.
This must be a US rural view (and indeed sounds like crap); I have lived in rural areas most of my life in different countries, currently deep in the mountains of Spain and these things are really not a concern. I have lived for a few years in large, dense cities in different countries as well, latest being HK.

Sure you cannot ‘order a pizza’ or anything else in this countryside (sometimes someone new moves in a few km down on another mountain who starts out delivering something, like pizza, but gives up pretty quickly), I can bake one in my homemade woodoven though, with friends who I met here and sound very different from the ones you met over there too.

If dogs attack you, they are not removed over there? They are here which is why that hardly ever happens. There have been none such incidents here for many years.

Radio beamed internet (point to point) is cheap and streams Netflix, Video conferencing etc fine and now everywhere is cheap unlimited 4g, so I can hike in the forest and take a rest with a funny cat video.

Water and electra are cheap and enough space to put solar for hot water and electric: waste is collected at waste points.

The only thing is that the ambulance comes late indeed, but you can have a chopper (for free) and the healthcare is excellent here (and free); but I would imagine a solid heartattack would kill me here, but it does so in most places, just here it is more sure. But in return for that I have clean air, a ton of space, and, opposite of your experience, far less stress; it is Spain, nothing is in a hurry here which is great once you accept it. Probably will save you a few strokes in the end. Everything is cheap over here as well, my neighbors live of 500 euros a month, something that can be picked up doing a few hours per month of coding for a city client while sitting in the garden.

The thrash also rings no bells and mobile homes are not normal (or even allowed long term), cars have to pay road tax even if they cannot drive until they are scrapped at an official scrapyard, so people have them destroyed etc.

I guess this really depends on the country; things like rural HK, Shanghai, Thailand (ChiangMai), France, Germany or the parts of rural Australia or New Zealand I have been for longer stretches are also not as you describe at all.

Also, a lot of people, including me, who grew up in rural areas, hate them after they leave for university etc but later in life start to long for them again in my experience.
Yes, this. I fly about 200k miles a year (mostly US, some international). I'm 50 years old, but I have an athletic build - very wide shoulders. I'm 6'2", but the width is much more important to me than leg room. I'm upgraded to first class a lot b/c of my status, and the only thing I care about is the seat width -- not the service, not the food, not the free alcohol, not the thicker upholstery.

My shoulders literally protrude into my neighbors' personal space, and I can't do anything about it. Even if I wasn't as athletic, my frame is built that way. Sucks for them, sucks for me.

As a thin American who observes many corpulent Americans flying, I would think seat width would be a big issue. but then I see large people squeezing into small seats and realize that my screams of protest are in vain.

Carry on. thanks at least for bringing up the topic, it's a real thing.
It is WAY less work than actually driving. You maintain your alertness, but it takes away much of the physical load of driving. It might even preserve your alertness.

It's the BEST THING EVER in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

Also you can steer yourself and let it maintain the distance to the car in front of you by turning on only Traffic Aware Cruise Control.

That said, you should be alert while you use it. If you're a text-while-you-drive person, the only positive thing I can say is it protects other people from you.
I agree. Whenever I have something strange going on with CSS Grid or Flexbox layouts, the issue is usually easier to find with Firefox than Chrome.

Let's see how the new JS debugger feels.
Are you truly comparing the scholarship need-based policies of one wealthy, private college to a fundamental change in the Scholastic Assessment Test used nation wide ? You have a choice to apply to Harvard - there is very little choice apart from SAT/ACT for higher education in the states.
So is it okay then to have poorly educated people in college? This incentivizes everyone moving to a negatively rated district and getting a worse education, because it wouldn't matter, according to the logic.

That's assuming they calculated their adjustments precisely. And if they didn't, then welcome to all sorts of artificial biases in the system where a few more people appointed themselves to determine the fates of many. Congrats on solving nothing at all.
IRS could help out Open Source projects and make it way easier for them to apply for grant money. But they make it very tough to get 5013c status.

I’m for quite strict tax enforcement but that should be changed.

Also of course private companies need to start stepping up and providing the often only small sums of money needed to fix these projects via bug bounties and fees to the maintainers.
> what if it simply comes out 100% effortlessly?
What magical world do you live in? Have you ever acquired any skill in your life?
This must be a result of pure ignorance of the victims.

As far as I understand, ransomware simply applies RSA on the victim's data. If the victims understood what that meant, they would understand that it is entirely unrecoverable. The data is simply gone without the private key.

If the data were recoverable that would mean RSA had been broken, and the entire world would know about that. Normal people would understand because the global financial system would need to stop entirely while they switched to a new algorithm.
How about "Litterers most common source of pollution on beaches"?
if someone get enough passwords to DoS the service or force you to do a password reset, that's actually a pretty good safety fallback.
Like I said - probably just general scummy behavior rather than criminal behaviour
All the worst projects I've inherited and rescued were Symfony. Developed by senior devs that overengineered. I'm sure newer Symfony is better and there's some good stuff out there but as a decade+ senior engineer I like Symfony components but not the framework. Love Laravel and Lumen and also some of the other microframeworks for some things. Enjoying Laravel Nova right now too.
It doesn't anymore, unless last time you checked was quite a while ago. But it probably wasn't such a dreadful thing even when they were doing it.
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I was excited for a second because this was the name of my EverQuest guild.

Different inner circle. Though to our credit we did wake the sleeper on Xegony. ;)
At a previous job, we were interviewing people, and my manager at the time came up with some interview question and would fail people who didn't get it. I don't remember what it was exactly. You would go through some data multiple times, and calculate some answer. If you were somewhat clever, you could do it in two passes. But there was a trick, where you could do it one.

About half the people tested could do it in two passes. I never saw someone do it one. I told my manager his criteria was bullshit and he should stop expecting a one pass solution for a passing mark. Of course, he got all up in arms and said I was stupid for saying that. We grabbed another person on the team, and him do the question. He got a 2-pass solution, and couldn't see the 1-pass solution. So my manager started to explain it, and his explanation was going nowhere. Eventually, we got the entire team around looking at a whiteboard listening to him to try explain this 1-pass solution. Fifteen minutes and seven engineers later, he succeeded, and unironically declared, "I told you it was simple."
> An extremely tiny minority of games are targeted for such a wide variety of platforms.

On the contrary, most games are targeted for most platforms, to increase reach and sales as result of it. Only some exclusives of console makers are not doing that, and those are clearly outliers.

> Real-time high-performance code is always tightly coupled with the hardware

That's not common at all. Unless you want to beat modern compilers with assembly code, you only will produce something worse. Sure, there are are rare cases when using hardware specific features yields extra performance. Codec developers do that for example. But for games? Not usually needed. Shaders are provided in cross platform fashion (such as SPIR-V) and that's compiled into GPU machine code by the driver. And actual game code is commonly using some high level systems language (C++, etc.) + a scripting one.

Good performance is achieved by parallelizing the engine properly, since modern hardware is increasingly multicore.