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145,000 people voted for this governor, 125,000 people voted for his opponent. Now all of those people are going to be impacted by these huge cuts to the university system. "They voted for this" ignores that many people voted against it and will be harmed nonetheless.
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Analog TV is also massively less spectrum efficient. You can fit 4+ digital channels in the same spectrum as one analog TV channel.

And don't forget how low and inconsistent the quality of analog TV was compared to what we can broadcast digitally.

The real story here is that latency isn't actually important to live TV, so it's a no-brainer trade-off to make. If you look at other transmission technologies where latency is more important, like cellular data transmission, latency has only decreased over the years.
You can look at any major natural disaster and find good examples.
I can't speak for my fellow operators but I resent the accusation (since you did name me) that I took part in any such behavior.
That's a bit like saying programming is solved because package managers exist.

Just like NPM packages, blueprints just let you get into much more trouble much faster!
>You only have the current benefits because some sort of union fought for them.

I think that is a bit of a grand statement don't you think?

I've worked non union jobs and I'm pretty sure the benefits I get are not directly due to a union... I wouldn't associate ALL benefits with a union, nor would that necessitate forming one simply if you thought those benefits were related.

I've worked for some nice people, I do belive they seriously want to provide their people benefits...

>Is that true? You can't negotiate even further by yourself? I think you do.

Negotiate what exactly? The Union and corporate relationship generally lays out what the lay of the land is, the the areas that the employer gets to decide are usually pretty obvious and the union isn't likely to call a general strike because an employer made a choice.
But not all tech workers are programmers. To compare to another union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) represents machinists from Boeing and Harley-Davidson, distribution center workers at IKEA, and also wood, pulp and paper workers.

> https://www.goiam.org/
They don't have to use dollars. I'm sure Norway would accept Euros. They may well use dollars for convenience as it's the most common currency for oil trading.
Sadly it is hard to get a new C201PA these days? It is a 3 year old machine that has been discontinued.

But it is truly unique as you pointed out, it can be run almost binary blob free or totally free if you replace the wireless chip (simply plug in a tiny Atheros USB adapter).
Most saudi students just come to party.
Nearlyfreespeech.net is a great dns and hosting solution for simple sites and applications. They got a nice bump back in when godaddy got mixed up in SOPA back in 2012.

I've used them before and they offer a great service for a good price and I support their general philosophy in regards to privacy and free speech.
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Like everything else, it's complicated.

Africa is even more diverse than the EU in terms of languages, cultures, size, climates, and histories. So, you'd think that a single currency union would then be even more difficult to pull off.

However, Africa is set to grow by 3 Billion people (~300%) in the next 80 years or so, and their standard of living is set to be on par with ~2005 Europe as well.

Africa has also had a series of very brutal wars in the past few decades that have devastated the countries and their peoples.

As other commentors have pointed out, though Europe has had a lot of troubles with their economies with the Euro, they have thus far avoided wars like the ones we saw less than 80 years ago.

If currency unions help avoid wars like the few we've seen in the Congo (sometimes termed the African World Wars with 2.7 to 5.4 million deaths) then I'd think all the countries would be very much for such a union.

Setting up a good system right now is not unwise.
It's hard for me to envision unions in a white collar environment when there's a pretty high likelihood of individual contributors being promoted to management. In factories, there's usually a separate management class of people who are engineers or college grads who are brought in to lead, so the whole worker vs management dichotomy is much clearer.
Diffie-Hellman is what you use if you trust that the public key belongs to who you think it does. In many cases, that's totally fine. It'll either be hosted on their server, or even hard coded into the client application you're communicating from. RSA + DH is the attempt to deal with an untrusted public key.
Canadians will use it liberally along with thanks.
Then people should meet at the town hall and talked, this kind of stuff got done before facebook. And people where just as busy, bringing kids up going to work etc.
You have NO IDEA how tempted I've been to add that! I've literally had printed this out and pinned to the wall of my cubicle for years!
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Yes, of course. It uses X25519 which is an elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman exchange.
Facebook posts are lightweight, asynchronous forms of communication compared to phone+voicemail.
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it's just fearmongering pointing the finger at facebook. If you're that worried about eaves dropping then you shouldn't have an apple smartphone or an android smartphone or any kind of smartphone. I think the chances are pretty remote that they're recording you.
More than one consecutive space is very frequently used for alignment. Converting on open and save would be simple otherwise.

The author calls for more websites to support adjusting tab widths. What editor doesn't?
If you want to get a visit from the power company as urgently as possible, just call them and say the phrase "floating neutral" (of course, they'll be mad at you if it's not true).

Our neighbor's (poorly-attached) service mast came down a few weeks ago, causing a short that burned out the shared wires that connect both them and us to the transformer. After the initial event (complete with loud pops, sparks, flames...), our power actually came back on; but I insisted on keeping our main breakers turned off until the power company made their repairs. Turned out to be a wise move, as we indeed had a floating neutral.
It depends on the specific industry in tech.

Do programmers in general tech startups have enough power? I’d say yes too. Do programmers in the gaming industry have enough power? Definitely not.
So, to be Devil's Advocate, does libsodium also provide an RSA implementation?
That's a weird place to put your goalposts (why isn't it at video calls? or phones? or cars? or walking barefoot to your house?), but subscribe to whatever idea lets you feel superior, I guess.
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Or you can try Mattermost-LDAP: https://github.com/Crivaledaz/Mattermost-LDAP
Please take a step back and look at this again.

What is the cause and what is the effect here? Is Google's solution making it better or worse from a practical privacy point of view?

(Also, don't buy Google's explanation that this is just to inform users of potential misuse - they actually log your location and even wait for a GPS lock when you pair a new device)
Oh that's great, my mistake!
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I often tell myself to "just start" rather than to "just get it done," especially when I suspect my anxiety is driving.

If I tell myself I'm just going to sit down and pretend-work on the thing that's making me anxious for five minutes, just to get a feel for it, and if it ends up being crappy, I'll just toss it and start over later, I'm usually able to short-circuit the anxious "everything must be well-understood and perfectly optimized before you even start, or you're going to fail, because this problem is crazy hard" part of my brain.

Usually five minutes turns into 45 minutes, and I either finish, or conclude that it wasn't so bad after all.
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The sibling response from fulafel is definitely the central argument. I would also add that Clojure has excellent production-quality "interop" with all of its host languages, such that end-to-end ergonomics are relatively painless e.g. CLJS<->JS<->Graal Polyglot<->Java<->Clojure

There was briefly (now deleted) a response to fulafel's comment which essentially pointed out how JavaScript itself should be considered a production-quality language that is up to the task. After all, JavaScript can also now be used to build JVM applications thanks to GraalJS ...except I wouldn't bet on that technology direction gaining much traction at this point in time (unless maybe Oracle has a trick up its sleeve).
Honest, but leading, question in return: Offensive to whom? 90% of the population? Wouldn't that block out the Church of Satan's distributed materials (that is, coloring books)?

To 80% of the population? Wouldn't that be the Book of Mormon?

To 60%? The Quran?

I think this part of their answer is a great response: "Of course, the simplest reason is that it's not up to us to decide what the rest of the world should or shouldn't see. Bad news, it's not up to you either. Worse news, it's still true even when we agree. Which is probably most of the time."
Why not have polarization if you can get it?
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There are signs that there a lot of Ryzen laptops in the pipeline. For example: https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/662113/computex-2019-...
Actually just wrote an edit to address this but I'll repeat here - I think it's a generational thing. It's not really about keeping up with specific people - when I want to do that, I just message them like you say (side note - in my experience people in my age group don't tend to have many people's phone numbers). Basically, I grew up using Facebook, which meant I've always had these constant life updates from people I know. So I've gotten used to it, and feel like I'd be losing something without it. Objectively, I think my life would be unaffected if I really were to delete Facebook, but I enjoy having those updates nonetheless. To be clear: these updates are usually information I wouldn't bother to find out otherwise.

It's sort of like watching the news - realistically a lot of news doesn't affect our day to day, but it's just interesting to see things happen. Like yesterday USA won the women's world cup. Did that have any impact on my life? Not at all, but it was nice to hear about. In that sense, Facebook is like a more personalized feed of news that always features people I at least used to know. It feels a bit like a mild addiction since it's not totally rational to care about these tiny updates in the lives of people I'm unlikely to ever meet again, but at this point I only check Facebook a couple times a week so I don't worry too much about it.
Before inevitabile anti-XML comments appear: the hole is due to Microsoft making it possible to execute VB code included in what were supposed to be stylesheets. It’s like blindly eval()ing a json field: a bad idea regardless of format, and not part of the spec (if i remember correctly).
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The problem isn't that the democratic party is doing what's best for the democratic party. The problem is that The New York Times is doing what's best for the democratic party. They claim to be journalism but more and more, they are clearly biased political activism (as is the case with this story).
> So basically, they can't read your location, but they can read other things that contain your (previous) location

Yes, and I think we could make a good case that the Android platform did a poor job of clarifying this to the user. I would guess that the typical android user thinks "location permission" means location data of any type as generated by any subsystem on the device.

To whom would a reasonable user assign responsibility for this protection failure -- app developers or the Android platform?
The aggregation of local events on Facebook is second to none. I tried leaving that behind and found I was missing out on a litany of events not broadcast elsewhere. As long as that holds true, I maintain a spartan, unconnected, minimal account there.
Well, yeah. First of all, tech is a threat to established media. They were asleep at the wheel in the 2000's and most of the 2010's and missed that many people started getting their news from online sources. Secondly, established-leftist-media such as the NYT is anti-tech because their belief that tech helped elect the current administration. You will see these calls to action dissipate when a new administration gets elected.
The author, Ken Shirriff, is an important personality in the retrocomputing scene, who has involved in the restoration of multiple vintage computers. As a programming exercise and entertainment (mainly, it's just about the implementation of SHA-256), he has attempted to mine Bitcoin on various platforms, including pencil-and-paper (7.75e-6 H/s) [0], IBM 1401 (0.012 H/s) [1], and Xerox Alto (1.5 H/s) [2].

And now it's the Apollo Guidance Computer (0.097 H/s)! I think it's particularly hilarious, as the slogan says, Bitcoin to the Moon!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dqhixzGVo

[1] https://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old...

[2] https://www.righto.com/2017/07/bitcoin-mining-on-vintage-xer...

Edit: fixed all incorrect H/s numbers, thanks for spotting that.
==We can form a union when we need to form a union.==

In my 35 years of life, it has become harder to start a union, so it isn't out of the question that it becomes harder and harder to start a union when software engineers "need to". There's no guarantee that what exists today will exist tomorrow.
This won't last. The bubble will pop.

A union is forever.
Well gee, wouldn't that be great.

But a couple people leaving Facebook isn't going to lead to it.
I think this behavior is covered by existing criminal law. If not, the law needs to be updated.

Replace “phone“ with “web server”, and you will find legal precedents showing that much of the behavior is criminal.

In particular, it is clearly not legal to walk the file system tree to obtain access to private data you were explicitly denied access to, and then directly profit from the data you illegally harvested.

Failing to strip exif location data, even though gps access was denied? That’s a gray area, at worst.

(I am not a lawyer.)
Riak convinced me that any language pretending that it could magically create better products was full of shit.

Riak is not great. It performs well, but doesn't scale well. It has tons of operational overhead, a lot of bugs (and it didn't help that a slowly disintegrating company left less time to fix those bugs "until next release"), and any changes to the cluster while it's being used heavily leads to instability/unavailability. And many of its features were not implemented great; the SOLR functionality is a pig, for example, and "enterprise" replication is flaky.

On our team, we had a few engineers who could write Erlang, but they slowly moved to other teams, so troubleshooting production issues became a black box of pain. I'm so glad the product we had using it was sunset.
He did a lot of things to piss off a lot of people. It's hard to pick out one particular one.
The problem is that the people who voted for this are adults, not the children who aren't old enough to vote but are the ones getting screwed by this.
You talk as if this were an unforeseen consequence of the way our legislature is set up. It is not. Giving the people who live in sparsely populated areas an equal voice with those who live in densely populated areas is the whole point of the Senate. It was designed to work this way and it is doing exactly what it was meant to do.
There's still the weak performance of RSA though, especially on mobile devices.
"Mediate" and "journal" are two specific solutions. The general answer is "figure out what's stopping you from getting something done and take steps to mitigate or reduce it."
LiveView is great for writing form validations or simple admin stuff. Even though the examples show that you can do 60fps animations, it is not the intended use case, you're not going to write anything that needs small latency or that needs a ton of processing using LiveView, front end developers are fine.
Option 1 was referring to the attacker tricking a staff working into handing control to them. Maybe by claiming its abandoned?
On the other hand, the 230,000 that didn't vote....
Unions could help in each of these case, so you haven't answered the question or provided any evidence.
I know that POSIX doesn't meet the expectations many of us have, but I don't see how it isn't relevant anymore? I mean, if you want to write portable shell scripts it is still a good reference on what you can expect to find on many systems (and which are options introduce by GNU and the likes).

Yes, ultimately you have to test your scripts on the actual systems, but that is something you have to do anyway. For example, when you run scripts on MacOS and you run into old Bash bugs because Apple refuses to ship an up-to-date version, those are issues a standard can't solve.

However, I have no experience how much you can count on POSIX when it comes to C APIs and the like.
The idea that unions exist only to get a larger slice of the static profits pie is, itself, a zero-sum view :)

When employees feel represented and empowered, when we have real ownership in the company - not just a few thousand $ in stock grants while billions are spent on dividends/stock buybacks, but an actual seat at the table where decision are made - then we want the company to succeed. We will work harder and become more invested in our product than any corporate morale-raising initiative could ever hope to achieve. This grows the pie.
This is why I love code review tools with a "task" function (e.g. BitBucket). Adding a task blocks submission until the task is marked completed, but anyone can do that. So, you can approve a CL but add tasks for nits or non-interactive suggestions (things that can be done without needing a response from the reviewer).

Then, the author can implement the tasks they find reasonable and ack the rest and not be blocked on submitting by a bunch of back-and-forth over style details.
You're also constraining yourself to updated from people who use FB. What about the rest of those people? If you want to get updates (and update) multiple people, why not create an email list and blast all your friends and family? Or maybe a text message?
Still struggling, if requests from X were slow, caching their responses would only drop or maintain p99. If those requests were fast, p99 might increase & alert... but if you were caring about performance at a user-level, you can imagine you're dimensioning on users too, and you'd see the p99s for each user hadn't changed, and would shrug and bump the alert threshold up.

If it were me, I'd probably start by caching the slow requests (that are above the p99) first & adjusting the alert thresholds to match the new performance.
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Tech unions are a way for bureaucrats to take a tax off the backs of hard working tech workers with no benefits.

I am well off, have a flexible work life balance, and I enjoy my job. There is nothing that a union would bring to the table for me.

If there was a union in Silicon Valley in the early 80s, we would be no where close to where we are today. Look at the stark difference between a Silicon Valley worker vs someone working at Boeing or other unionized shops.
excluding #44, do you see much cultural differences here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Unit... ?
Nextdoor comes to mind, but not necessarily a local online town square which I agree with your comment that a source like that is invaluable to keep up with local issues.
If you don't push yourself outside your comfort zone you wont grow - Oh and you will get taken advantage off and have worse career progression.
I found this story interesting, but unsurprising knowing the author. I'm amazed he got that thing to work - but if there were anyone who could do it, it's him.

Unfortunately, I didn't find an answer to something I suspect, but I don't know for certain? Maybe someone here could shed light on it?

He mentions that the AGC was the first computer to use integrated circuits, in the form of 5600 NOR gates, built into custom "logic modules", each set then wired together using a backplane or something like that. But take a look at those ICs - are they thru-hole, or SMT?

I seem to recall seeing pictures of the AGC - of other parts of it - and that it used a form of SMT in its construction; does anyone know if this is true? If so, would that also make it the first time SMT was used in a computer? Or were there other prior examples.

It seems also curious that if it was SMT being used - that such a thing was chosen for this critical piece of hardware, mounted on a rocket undergoing tremendous strain and vibration. I would think in that case DIP would be the better solution, ideally with extended pins for wire-wrap, then everything embedded in conformal coating after test - but while the DIP vs SMT question is up in the air, I've never seen any pictures that suggest wire wrapping was used, and nothing that showed anything like conformal coating.

So - can anyone shed any light on this?
Not asian-american but i have read about their thoughts on things. From what i gather atleast socially, asian americans feel like second class citizens in western societies, no matter how hard they study, they can't rise in management positions (bamboo ceiling), men are emasculated in the media (leading to a lot of their women favoring people of other races) etc... I think this is what the op meant, in chinese soceity, they would be the default, and so wouldn't face problems in areas which they feel are out of their control.
It works really well if you find a motivated candidate and have a lead developer that is both good and capable / interested in teaching others to become better developers. However, they aren't experienced in any sense of the word. Simple, small tasks, with extensive code review and time built-in to let them fix their own bugs, is necessary.

Your expectations need to match the reality and you have to be willing to invest.
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How come the NY Times doesn't push for unions for Wall St? Surely these guys slaving away over spreadsheets for Silicon Valley level pay should be unionized too, right?
IMO the question is--given the capacity for corruption and mismanagement in a union, is that better or worse than an individual negotiating with a corporation? Does the potential for a bad union outweigh the potential for a bad company?

I'll just say I don't think unions or the concept of a union needs to be perfect to generally have a positive effect. Maybe I'm naive.

I can see your point about premature unionization, but I do think we need to think about the future. I think there's a sense among tech workers that this period of high demand won't last. Maybe not unions now, maybe not unions in a traditional sense, maybe we do need to think of some kind of new paradigm better suited to tech work than say, a carpenter's union, but something.
Maybe they should. And maybe people should handwrite letters like they used to. But even if it might be what they should do, it's not what they are going to do.
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