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> You example being about women runners weakens the argument.

Don’t know if it’s anywhere on the Internet but I remember an East German trainer saying something along the lines of: “It’s much easier to make a man out of a woman than it is to make a Superman out of a man”, all this in relation to East-Germany’s official doping policy. So I’d rather trust a professional in this matter (the East-Germans were truly the masters of doping) when saying that it is indeed easier to artificially increase the performances of female athletes compared to male athletes.

Not to end it all on a pessimistic note, there are also “happy” cases of naturally gifted athletes being at the right time and at the right place in terms of external socio-economic factors. The latest such example is the recent Tour de France winner, 22-year old Bernal, who won the Tour on its highest stage which I think reached 2700 meters, while he himself was born and grew up at 2800 meters of altitude. But he also won the Tour because he is a member of the infamous British team Ineos (the former Sky), which also gave the winner of last year’s Tour, Geraint Thomas, a guy born and bread in seaside Cardiff and who until last year’s victory had never had a Top 10 finish in any of the big 3 tours. He’s 32 now, if I’m not mistaken, cyclists much greater than him (like Pantani or Ulrich) were basically lynched by the public opinion for doing less egregious stuff (they at least were talented at climbing).
>you can't charge money to teach people things [...]

>Seems like a first amendment violation.

The key phrase here is charging money. Commercial speech has always been more strictly regulated than other forms of speech.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-globally-...
That's brilliant. That effectively allows them to put components in the middle of a multi-layer PCB.
We have to all make it happen. You won’t get it done on your own, and neither will I. But collectively we can.
I'd like to share a related theory I've been thinking about lately, which applies some of the ideas latent in this article to software engineering.

1. Code is a liability.

2. Therefore, adding new code to your codebase is adding liability to your codebase, at the margins.

3. Refining/documenting code at the leaves transforms some of those leaves liabilities into assets.

4. Refining/documenting code in the branch/trunk transforms some of that branch's liability into an asset, but usually undoes any progress made in the leaves.

5. We are paid to (a) create liabilities and (b) transform liabilities into assets. If you do too much of (a) and not enough of (b), you are a bad engineer.

The fun thing is that you can analyze a software program like this (module A is a leaf to module B). You can also analyze the whole stack like this (Redux is a leaf to React, is a leaf to JS, is a leaf to Chromium, is a leaf to Intel, is a leaf to the Van Neumann model).

This ties into the article, because engineers don't "just" solve problems (unless you're Van Neumann?). Usually, we first create a problem (which is usually the dual of problem we are nominally paid to solve), and then we very slowly and iteratively "solve" that newly-created problem over time.

It sounds somewhat Sisyphean, but that's life/evolution! It's a joy to see things slowly crystallize into highly-functional, specialized components. Even if those components will inevitably become obsolete one day, they will still make for interesting fossils (see Zork's source code, dinosaurs, etc.).
There is no conspiracy. Most homeowners who oppose further housing growth are far more concerned with quality of life issues (traffic, noise, crime, pollution) than with inflating their asset values. You can run for your local city council just like any other citizen but you're unlikely to win if you don't understand actual voters.
Or have one page with a single checkbox that says "I understand it is illegal to use human remains in dog food"
haha good one.
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They're saying they think every project duplicating code that could be a shared generic dependency is actually a virtue.
Yep, and yep. I've looked at Calendly, but there's a certain kind of joy to making your own, perfectly-fit solution to simple problems. I've also looked at Hammer.js and actually really like what they've done with the project. Again, I wanted something that better integrated with other libraries I've written.
Perhaps not in a good way:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/06/600217452...

"I am more worried about this spike because the profile of the people getting caught up in it is younger," he said. "The callousness of shooting into a crowd outside a cinema, shooting at young women, the normalization — never mind the ramping up by social media — all of that makes me alarmed and worried. I am pretty confident that we're not going to get over this problem unless there is a proper political consensus. This is not going to self-correct."

EDIT: formatting!
This is distasteful coming from the founder of this institution.
Hey there! I'm really very sorry to hear about your dad, but tell you what - I did not jiust think about this all on my own.

It's an outcome of reflecting off input from hundreds of other people with the same story over and over again.

Once I started to write on Quora, I had the fortune of getting in touch with thousands of people. It was like magic and I was able to live through the lives of these people all around the U.S. and a pattern started to emerge.

Back to your dad - you sound resigned about it

No. He's your dad. Help him. That will soon enable him to help others. Dont give up! It's never too late. otherwise you will really regret the outcome for the rest of your life.
It's not the machine itself that's intimidating, it's the consequence of being caught lying and the accompanying loss of freedom or job opportunity.
I tried to do the math one time of figuring out the volume of water we've pulled out of all of the world's aquifers, and how that translates to sea level rise (water ends up underground or in the ocean eventually).

I'd like to see someone with better geography skills repeat that experiment.
This is not limited to Chrome extensions. If you build and publish any kind of software, there is a high chance that someone shady will come along and offer you money for it, or to become an "affiliate" partner.
Fully agree! Development is about making things work, testing is about breaking things.
Sadly, some managers think that 'developed' includes 'tested' and expect flawless results from developers. It's like being a dancer and a painter simultaneously - possible, but has its limitations.
That sounds more Punjabi. It is "le ja" in Hindi.
Hacking extensions are underrated, your browser software is unbrowseable.
Manual review doesn't work. The volume is too high, and subtle trickery is too easy.

To first order, there is no permissions model for browser extensions. You should assume that an extension can see and do everything that your browser can see and do.

This is also a huge problem with mobile apps, but the problem is at least acknowledged, and there's some degree of permissions and sandboxing, even though it's not completely effective, and even though most apps ask for every single permission anyway. But in general, yes, you should take a similar approach to mobile apps, and only use the minimal set that you absolutely can't live without. Don't install games or stupid shit. We already know that basically every weather app on Android contains malware.

This is also a problem in free-for-all developer library ecosystems like npm, as we keep seeing. Popular dependencies get taken over or sold and then all of a sudden lots of servers are running malware.

Software may be eating the world, but it's really important to know what software you're actually running. You can't just build a house of cards and hope for the best.
Well the you in YouTube is becoming redundant yes. But a lot of people like me go there because I can't stand a lot of mainstream content.

Sure there is a lot of crap on there but there are some real gems on YouTube.
What's wrong with installing Lineage OS on your google phone? If you stick to F-Droid you're pretty good in terms of open source. There are still a few binary blobs that you can't avoid of course. Those may contain some backdoors or bugs that will make you vulnerable, however you will no longer send your data to Google etc. all the time. Which is a huge difference.
The future is INSANE.
Sure. But unlike Picasso, Hokusai has been dead for ages. How can anyone legitimately claim any copyright on his work today?
Gotta love the people who think they're real estate geniuses for buying cheap houses near an airport then realizing the airport is loud so they try to close it.

Don't buy a house off the end of a runway unless you want to listen to my 230HP of bug smashing power...
No.

Part of the work of a linguist is to try understand why people use one term rather than another, often this happens because a word is associated with a particular idea rather than another: a different speech may imply a different acceptation or a different nuance.

These linguistic differences are obviously related to the set of beliefs, social habits, routines of the individual or set of people in analysis.

I simply believe that it can be extremely unnerving to be criticised by a linguist like Chomsky, who in this step uses his skills to highlight the imbalances and logical internal inconsistencies (the wrongful usage of the word "populism") of the neoliberal political thought to favour his worldview (political activism).

It's a critical point of view that's difficult to find in other figures, and one of the reasons why I follow his ideas, because whether you agree or not he offers another perspective.
Talking just from the perspective of having work that contributes to society (as opposed to the economic aspects of work) I think volunteering is a good idea.

There was a man at the church I grew up in who was seriously disabled in an industrial accident who volunteered 40 hours a week at the local library. Similarly my grandmother volunteered at a hospital into her 90s. In her case it actually saved her life when she had an aortic aneurysm that almost certainly would have killed her if she hadn't already been at the hospital when it happened!
spew generalisations elsewhere. Churches do work with older adults. Church communities give older adults a way to connect with other people, especially for those who are widowed, or don't have families. For me personally, I have been able to connect to an older generation that I don't have in my family and those are relationships that I treasure. It seems to me that these types of connections are EXACTLY what avoids loneliness and isolation. Churches are a big family, especially for those who are needy and infirmed. Be it going to deliver food to someone who cannot get out, or making sure to call them every week and check in, or picking them up and helping them get to the decons picnic, i think this is just yet another internet athiest with a sharp tongue who should probably sit down and shut up. maybe go to church and see what goes on there. Did you even read the artice?
I'd guess retirements (in the US, at least) are gonna get a hell of a lot less comfortable, on average, as the years go on. And probably suicides will keep going up as a result.

I'm an early (the term I sometimes see is elder) millennial with excellent household income for my area, but if I ever retire it'll either be on a meager income or very late, because I had kids. Took me from probably a comfortable, but not extravagant, early retirement or a pretty good "normal"-timed retirement to maybe-never retirement. Those with lower income (so, most) aren't even getting that choice. Kids and lifelong near-poverty and debt struggles, or maybe, maybe a so-so retirement more or less on time, but no kids.
There's a number of stores on the internet that offer them. You just buy the diamond then have them set into a band of your choice.

I don't think large jewelry chains commonly offer them.
I completely agree with you.

The thing is, I might be able to see this "working" in very simple and limited processes[0]... But going back to your example of the nasty bug in complex software, I believe the post's idea is that you shouldn't fix the bug in the layer it's happening, but, instead, write a new b-thread that corrects that behavior.

Which might sound nice in theory but I feel it's much more likely that you won't be able to fix it there (the info you need might be lost in a previous b-thread) or become a piece of code so complex that negates any supposedly benefit that this system had in the first place.

[0] It might be just me and completely off-topic, but this reminds me a bit of rule-based expert systems, where the rules get activated by certain conditions and produce effects (that can activate other rules). The idea was always that you could model very complex (and emerging) behaviors based on very simple, human readable rules. The thing is that you could definitely add/tweak/remove the rules as needed.
> watching pornography as something immoral

Well, there goes everyone.
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There is https://www.anim8.io for animators and fans of animation. The community is much kinder and more constructive than YouTube and rapidly growing.
With scams like trump university out there are we really complaining about some paperwork? If a school isn't capable of handling that paperwork, perhaps they shouldn't be school.
Some statistics here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States

Generally trending upwards after 2000. Interestingly when split by race, Black, Asian and Hispanics are at a much lower rate than White and American Indian. I know in Asian and Hispanics (and probably Black) households it is common for multiple generations to live and take care of each other.
How about we calm down on the Jewish stereotypes and you try to write that again in a way that isn’t a word salad.
Media already profits off these disasters. Why shouldn't the victims themselves?

Ideally no one should be doing this, but if interviews are going to be given anyway, they might as well use an easy app and receive compensation.
I agree. There's no evidence that they have even a single prototype phone in the final form factor, let alone any tooling to make the cases etc.

I've preordered one, and I hope I eventually get it, but I think shipping in Q3 is just not going to happen.
This sounds like Monsanto seeds being blown in from the neighbour's field and getting sued by Monsanto.
"Commercial speech" refers to advertising, or more precisely, speech that "proposes a commercial transaction". It does not refer to speech that is charged for. Newspapers and books are fully protected by the First Amendment even though people pay for them.
Thanks - rats, I had it in my head it was 192, but that was Haswell.

The CPU won't look ahead 400 instructions! ;-)
You shouldn't conflate genetic factors with racial factors. Race has nothing much to do with genes, so the existence of genetic factors influencing IQ does not entail anything about IQ and race.
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Scrum, in particular, is a fascinating beast. Looking at how it was in the early days, you can see that a huge motivation was to try to get the non-development bits of the process under control. For example, one of the big ideas behind the whole sprinting thing was to limit the time during which the requirements could be changed to one day in, say, every 10. The whole idea behind "as a/i want/so that" was to try and make it so that a clear motivation and context were being communicated to the development team.

And then, over time, it became clear that, for whatever reason, management just wasn't going for it. So all these different bits and bobs pivoted and morphed and re-scoped into a process by which the stone tries to squeeze more blood out of itself.

IMO, the most valuable bit of Scrum isn't user stories, or story points, or sprinting, or having a Scrum Master, or burndown charts, or anything like that. It's the idea of having a single, designated person whose job is to tell people, "no": The Product Owner.

The dirty secret is, velocity is a crap metric. It unskeptically measures total things implemented, even though we all know that only a portion - I'm guessing often less than half - of those actually needed to be implemented. Meaning that the best way to increase a product team's actual productivity isn't to increase velocity, it's to maximize the average usefulness of features being implemented. Preferably by identifying the useless and less-useful ones ones, and deciding not to implement them. Or, equivalently, identifying the ones that seem most likely to be useful given the currently available information, and making sure those are always the ones at the top of the to-do list.

My suspicion is that, the better your product manager is at that particular job, the less need there is for any of the fancy ceremonies. Because most of those ceremonies aren't there for the developers' benefit; they're really only there to make it easier for the PO to scope and prioritize features.
Except that it does not. The 'why' would be explaining why the jit needs to be enabled to be able to load. As it stands it explains the 'what' and therefore is a bad comment.
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I recently purchased a moissanite[1] ring and was very happy that it was a choice. My disillusionment with diamonds started when I read this article[2] on how the industry manufactured demand. The argument against diamonds and for moissanite is succinctly made by http://diamondssuck.com/ (I have no affiliation. I am just grateful that the author made it, and I try to share it as much as possible.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite

[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/ho...
This reeks of the non-employee uber driver issue.
I guess we'll see what happens in a month.
True, when in isolation.

I'm thinking more of collaboration - when the solution isn't necessarily known and there's a lot of back and forth.
Another example is internationalization. Most of the reason why software is bad for people who don't use non-Latin text is that people keep writing homebrew text code instead of using dependencies. This has ugly cultural implications, and it's entirely because of the "copying is better than dependencies" philosophy.
When people talk about race, they are usually talking about a population or a set of traits commonly found within a population. For example, populations with a high degree of Irish descendants have a higher then average set of a few noticeable traits like red hair, pale skin, the O+ blood type, etc. These traits also exist in other populations and someone that has 100% Irish ancestry for the last few dozens of generations is not guaranteed to have all of them.

When using the more accurate definition of race, people are usually talking about different but highly related species. For example Chimpanzees and Bonobos are different races. African and Indian elephants are different races. The Neanderthals was a different race of humans. With this understanding there is currently only one race of humans.

Claiming the existence of some Irish race (and let alone white race) is at best confusing, but usually wrong.
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> The Platform vs Publisher debate.

Not really. If the discussion was about weather a video should be allowed to exist, or be taken down, then yes it would be publisher vs platform. But this is a case of monetization vs non-monetization. I think YouTube, Twitter, ect. should be treated as "Platforms" and that nothing should ever be deleted/banned/taken down unless it is strictly illegal. That said, monetization is entirely a different beast, YouTube as a business can pick and choose which videos to monetize and which ones not to. Restricting content is a violation of the 1st amendment, refusing to pay creators is a business decision.
Last time I tried using Basilisk II, I managed to get it to be stable (running System 7 in an emulated...IIsi, I think?), but if I ever tried to change anything beyond adding and removing disks, it just wouldn't run.

I haven't tried SheepShaver much, I admit, because most of the stuff I want to run was written for 68k and runs poorly or not at all on PPC.
i thought they have the option of muting audio now?
I don't think there's much fear of technology right now; certainly it's at its lowest in my lifetime.

There is some hysteria whipped up by the press and certain politicians against a few large corps, but it's no different from any other short-term hysteria. For the press it's understandable: FB et al challenge their position, an environment in which many had set their careers. S why not attack it? For the politicians it's the usual grab bag of short term points scoring.

What there isn't is fear of big corps; Boeing will be bailed out and ADM , Monsanto, Exxon et al get to do whatever they want and essentially zero percent of the people complain. Likewise most people like their phones and other technical devices (fans, air fryers, banana slicers and internet-connected sex toys).

There's little of the existential dread that annoyingly used to be factored into most decisions. The closest today are the utterly fabricated threats of terrorism, dope fiends, and rabid invaders. Which while widely discussed only seem to bother a few margins figures.
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I will say what I want about colonialism, and there's no bloody way in hell that world should have, or would have accepted a military campaign by the UK to keep Hong Kong British.

Let's also not forget that the entire reason that the CCP is in power in China today, is a century and a bit of colonial rape by various occupying powers, starting from the opium wars, and ending with the invasion of Manchuria by Imperial Japan. Unsurprisingly, this lead to two nationalist movements, the winner ending up on the mainland, the loser in Taiwan.
You basically cannot afford hobbies at 80% of American minimum wage
Overview is here: https://armis.com/urgent11/

And a detailed research paper: https://go.armis.com/hubfs/White-papers/Urgent11%20Technical...
Not that I'll be doing this, but...

The blurred areas on the ROV video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p8TH1tDvzk ) probably contain location data, among other things.

Considering that we have a nice, nearly black background, and access to the font used, it should be a piece of cake to figure out the censored data. Just blur numbers 0-9 and determine which fit best with the video. See e.g. http://dheera.net/projects/blur
Same reason as you just stated. Why give a loved one something that a lot of other people will have, try and be more unique.
It is extremely intimidating. My interviewer decided that he was going to tear me apart and that he knew I was lying about something (I wasn't). He said he could only help me out if I admitted I was hiding something and told him why. I stuck to my guns, told him that I wasn't hiding anything, that I was sorry that it seemed like I was, and that I would be able to sleep soundly knowing I had been honest on my test, even if it appeared otherwise. He didn't like that a whole lot, but I told him I'd rather fail the process having told the truth than pass it having lied on it. Ended up leaving that job shortly after largely because I didn't want to do the polygraph. Fuck that noise.