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Google Chrome has built-in public keys for Google's websites.
> "got fired overnight by having a Youtube channel on tech and tech interview tips"

How is that even remotely a valid reason to fire someone? I'm really glad we've got laws for that. Had it happened here, the dismissal would most likely have been rejected.
>That's not what they're talking about at all. They're talking about learning how to learn a language.

Huh? I acknowledged that at the start of my comment:

>Some of what you're saying (knowing one language in general helps you learn to learn other languages) is true
> If you aren't familiar with Ruby, how long would it take for you to decipher what that does?

Why would I not be familiar with the language of the code base I'm working with? This is a fallacy.

Secondly, I don't use Ruby, and from what I can tell, it's finding if any two non-equal elements in a given array sum up to a given number n.

I worked on several golang projects. It gets tedious and messy very quickly seeing code bases littered with one-use functions with what basically amount to map/filter calls being expanded into multiple line for loops. Not to mention it makes exploratory debugging much more tedious.
Nice straw-man you present here. Or did I anywhere imply what words you try to put in my mouth?

Someone could for example give them the same working protections offered by a German contract. The same work hours. Same wages?

Someone would not have to let them go.
This is not guilt by association. He didn’t happen to be around when they took the photo, he’s clearly enjoying having the Pepe flag in it.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vkSEmNoqhZY/maxresdefault.jpg

I wasn’t going to mention it because sometimes I think it’s just 4chan trying to have a laugh by making everything appear controversial, but the guy on the left is doing a pseudo white nationalist symbol (even though again, I’ve heard it’s not, but sometimes yes? I don’t know everything is confusing now.)

I judge people by their actions as much as their words. And this, to me, is a very strange photo.
Surprised to not see Albums included. Every time my camera roll updates with photos from my phone or compact there's another notification about this new album that Windows created for me.

I. Never. Look. At. Their. Albums.

Writing this makes me wonder if there's a way to turn it off and why I've never thought to look...
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Most people addicted to opioids started with legally prescribed meds. Those meds may not have been prescribed to them, but that's the problem with the fucking stupidly large numbers of opioids being prescribed in the US: there are very many meds lying around to be diverted to recreational use.

So far almost every point you've made in this thread can be directly sourced to Purdue propaganda. Doesn't that worry you?

There was "The Letter that Started it all": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40136881

That caused the VA to say "pain meds aren't addictive if used to treat pain": https://www.va.gov/PAINMANAGEMENT/docs/Pain_As_the_5th_Vital...

Here's the paper that rebuts this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1924634/ (and note this is more than 10 years old)

Here's Purdue Pharma saying, as you are here, that pain meds aren't that addictive and don't we need to use opioids to treat pain (they are addictive, and they don't work for many types of pain): https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/ipham/conference...
It's a game, not a vernissage in an artsy-fartsy gallery.
Not sure why this got downvoted, it's obviously true. Rich people are more likely to have cars than poor people.
Yeah, they probably meant specifically auxlangs
I mean the entire conversation, not just this particular subthread.

Basically, what if doing something different would have impacted the reach of the discussion to the point where none of us would have heard about it. Is that better?
What I want to know is why the hell did Google ever think this was a good idea? I hardly even use Google Calendar and yet I had a spam notification about an "iPhone X" delivered direct to me.

The most amazing thing about this is only that spammers didn't exploit it earlier. Or maybe they did but kept a lower profile?
Only OTC medications seem to be advertised here in Eastern Europe. This includes NSAIDs. They are more harmful than opioids due to the risk of virtually everything, such as: myocardial infarction, stroke, erectile dysfunction, gastric ulceration/bleeding, kidney failure (incl. hypertension). They also cause raised liver enzymes, and so on.

None of the aforementioned side-effects exist for opioids. The only major concern is constipation (especially in the elderly), nausea, aaaaand euphoria. Yes. That is it. Respiratory depression and other severe adverse effects are not really an issue if you are taking therapeutic doses, especially if taken orally. If you are taking it intravenously, then you are properly under medical supervision anyway. There is a reason for why the elderly usually receive opioids instead of NSAIDs. It is more effective, and it has a better safety profile. The issue is with questionable products with adulterants and unknown purity. Harm reduction policies, and the end on the War on Drugs can improve the situation tremendously. Portugal is a great example of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsteroidal_anti-inflammatory...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid#Adverse_effects

As for addiction: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/addiction-and-choice...

An excellent book, it is worth reading. According to my experiences many people have lots of misconceptions regarding addiction.
There are namespaces, you just don't see them. That's why there's python and python3, cmake and cmake2 (IIRC) etc.

With functions it's worse. In a flat namespace you will inevitably run into a problem of two people coming up with the same name.
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That makes a lot more sense than my assumption (based on his next paragraph) that he just didn’t like chained ‘if’ statements. His mention of “nested ifs” threw me off tremendously, considering that code block doesn’t contain any nested ifs (chained if/else is not the same as nested ifs).
> ended up in the trash

Disposing medicines like this is irresponsible. You should always use a drug disposal service. Local sheriffs can take narcotics off your hands.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/disposal-unused-medicines-what-you...
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For a windshield on a new car I would prefer OEM. The material, tint and cutouts might interfere with the sensors causing safety issues. The tint colour may also not match the side windows. The UV protection could be less. The strength can be less which will interfere with airbag deployment. The smoothness of the glass might be off causing suction mounts to operate worse. The fitment could be worse causing rust around the windshield in the future due to glass rubbing against the body or due to water ingress because the window is not big enough.

Insurance is usually paying for it, might as well go OEM.
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Real world innovation and who runs to the patent office first are often two very different things.

Yet many, often very rational, people defend the process as necessary for innovation.

Much like minimum wage laws there's a lot of sub-industries where it legitimately helps (studies show fast food mega corps don't have lower employment rates after small bumps) and many where it hurts the very same people it claims to protect (unskilled youth and disabled people who just want to work in the summer/after school/part time for cash strapped small businesses for experience and pocket change, and don't benefit from a 'living wage' or nothing arrangements). I'm a big proponent of having these laws be specific to certain fields where it makes sense like biotech and not presented as a panacea that's pigeonholed onto every industry and easily exploited by companies who contribute little more than hiring good lawyers.
As the article lays out waymo has accurate data on where the cars glitch out. Take that data, put it onto a public map, make that available for resdients to browse so they have accurate, data driven insight into what they need to look out for when they encounter autonomous vechilces. There is absolutely no reason not to do this, the amount of effort is trivial, and it would enhance the safety of people living in those areas.

If waymo wants to have the privilege of secrecy they can run experiments somewhere not open to the public. That should be the standard we apply to these companies.
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Idk where he was going with that, I think he either doesn’t know what nested means or he was referencing different codez
Because nothing says living in the moment than writing down what you are thinking into your smartphone for later!
This is such a common phenomenon with some very obvious answers...
Unfortunately, patent offices think the courts will sort it out if they mess up, and courts think patent offices probably did an OK job vetting, and they both defer to each other more than they probably should.

That said: there are only a handful of successful patent defense strategies, and some of them merely prevent bad things from happening to you (e.g. arguing noninfringement), others invalidate the patent (e.g. showing prior art). So, just because the process stumbles sometimes doesn't imply that patent can not encourage progress and it does not imply patents can't encourage progress in general. But it does lead to expensive lawsuits that even bona-fide in-the-right actors will settle to avoid.

To take the counterpoint: we're not seriously suggesting GF is a patent troll right? (Though a recent court case argued "patent troll" can't be defamatory because no-one knows what it means and so it must be opinion ;-))
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True. One caveat though. Before someone rushes to purchase bagfuls of these chips on Aliexpress/Ebay/Amazon etc, it should be noted that the sellers are perfectly aware of those chips popularity among guitar effects builders, therefore they're among the most faked items over there. If you're extremely lucky you get the real thing, which doesn't happen often, or if you're moderately lucky you get a smaller version or a rebadged clone (resulting in shorter delays or louder noise, or both). If you're totally out of luck you get common cheap random chips relabeled as BBD delay chips. This happens very often with pricey chips when shopping online on those platforms.

However, the BBD sound can be almost easily emulated in digital. On the "wet" return line of a digital delay put a N dB low Q high pass filter before say 200 Hz, a N dB low Q low pass filter above 6-8 KHz, add some gentle clipping and some noise, compress overall wet dynamics and feed the return back to the delay input. Then adjust delays, feedback and filters amount to make it sound like a real one. The trick is simulating the progressive way in which the sound when going through a BBD device will lose in fidelity while getting more distorted and noisy, so we filter and add those artifacts inside the feedback path.
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I'm reading a book about the Vietnam War, A Bright Shining Lie, and it's making me realize how many problems are born out of how complicated large human organizations are.

I mean, it's obvious when I write it like that, but I think we have this platonic ideal of a company (or a government, or the military) somehow being this omniscient creature when instead it is filled with flawed humans who are seeing the world through various soda straws pointed in different directions.
For the sake of argument; are you sure getting those secondary projects done is really a net benefit for the company? Compared to, let's say, doing more uninterrupted work on the primary project?

Im uncertain myself so further reflections on this would be interesting to hear.
Here's a direct link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1165493206441779200.html
Sorry, ironically I didn't mean to imply openness in any legal sense (although the foundation itself is publicly accountable in terms of what they spend their money on).

Open companies was probably a bad term to use because it might imply something beyond most/all(?) of their products being developed in the open, but I think the point stands well enough regardless.

I won't edit now, but please read my original "open" as "open source".
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Am confused by this whole thing, As someone who grew up in Australia I've never seen drug advertising, the closest would be supplements / vitamins that you can buy over the counter

Is the idea that a user sees a drug advertised then goes to their doctor to ask for that specific one? Wouldn't the doctor give you a yay or nay for needing it then perscribing it?

Do doctors in the US let the patient decide whether they should be perscribed the drug despite not agreeing with it?
Great. Let me know when that fancy sandboxing tech works for applications I actually use though. Or when UWP catches up with the 1990s and supports portable applications.
You could use something like uuids for naming functions and attach meta data (including e.g. human readable names and/or namespaces).
Moving to other cities might be difficult if one has a family. But generally speaking I agree that there are other places that are cheaper and still have access to a lot of talents.
What text processing?
You mean templating?
Those a rather well solved problems, although the Go templates are a bit odd.

But Go, Rust, Scala and the like blow those dynamic typed languages out of the water when it comes to APIs.

For example.
If you want a number to be a positive integer you would write a Go struct containing a uint.
That's all.

Want it to be optional Rust or Scala have an optional Type.

If someone submits a negative number or a float the framework automatically generates an error message.

In ruby for example you would have to write a bunch of validations per hand and a bunch of tests too, to check if those work.

Writing APIs in Go is like half the work compared to Ruby or god forbid PHP.

Have not tries Node yet but i assume it to be on a level with Ruby.
Of course, back in the day people did make better operating systems than Microsoft, and Microsoft deliberately broke their other offerings to put them out of business.

And seriously, Apple’s no better. iTunes didn’t survive because it was the best way to put music on your iPod, but because they sued the competitors out of existence.

Microsoft and Apple make good products, but most of the money comes from locking you into inferior products.
Nice theme, move it to Publii cms too.
On this topic - Oswald Spenglers observations on the topic of civilizational collapse are an interesting read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West

> Spengler's model of history postulates that any culture is a superorganism with a limited and predictable lifespan.
"Great if you trust Google, not so much if you don't. Too bad Mozilla made that choice for us, and imho, the wrong one. Google has proved itself time and time again that they cannot be trusted with privacy."

I believe this to be a lazy and ignorant opinion, and I think you are hoping no one will call you out for this.

"Google has proved time and time against they cannot be trusted with privacy". This is a contract between two businesses, which carries legal weight (and in some countries, carries more legal weight than just contract law), so could you source for me perhaps 2-3 (you said "time and time again", so 2-3 should be quite easy!) of your most iconic times that Google openly violated contract terms with major organizations regarding privacy controls?
I followed some 2x reboot windows components uninstall magic some while ago to remove ie and some other "features" i don't remember.. then recently edge was auto installed and made default, Autologin stopped to work, start button got redesign and has an annoying delay. It's a total shitshow by now again until I sacrifice an evening to fix most of this.

I was venting to a friend. He told me he'd deactivated autoupdates some years ago. The foresight, i'm envious. But it's too late now and I think I can never have that.

I also remember some time there was an anti trust proceeding against Microsoft for shipping IE with windows as default. WTF happened to that and how is all this not a 1000x worse.

I definitely don't >want< to put up with this.
This is one of those ideas that sounds very tempting at the small to medium scale but will definitely fall over at the large scale. Zooko's Triangle is one obvious problem as the namespace gets full.

It also looks like this is only suitable for functional languages, and possibly just non-OO languages?

What about the type signatures of these functions? What do they look like? How well can different types be substituted? Do we have to version the types as well?

How do we handle testing in this scenario? Every version of every function? How about combinations of functions?

How about deprecation? This is hard enough to do with standard library functions; how long has gets() been deprecated, for example?
my point is complaining about JS does not prevent people to build amazing things with it. When products are great, you do not care about the underlying technologies.
Is there any news on whether or not it worked?

I read the article (albeit quickly as I'm on lunch break), but I can't find anything reporting on whether or not the experiment resulted in healthy children, or if they are immune to HIV (if that can be tested without infecting them, of course - I don't know anything about immunity detection either).
Windows 10 Debloater is a pretty cool script which strips a tonne of cruft from Windows. Worked very well for me:
https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater
I've tried to explain my point and provide some examples of how the problem manifests in the ecosystem of the language. While my writing skills may need work, I would not call the post random.
I actually like the idea of parking minimums. But two parking spaces for a 2 bedroom apartment? Or a 1.5 for a one bedroom? That seems crazy.

I know there are exceptions (maybe someone running a business) but in general anyone living in the city shouldn't require more than one car per household.
How does Chrome get delivered to all these platforms?

It's not exactly rocket science.
> How often do you need a whole collection of string manipulation functions?

All the time. It’s called a standard library and most sane languages have one.
You are right about it, didn't pay attention to his github picture.
You can actually just grab the same window and make a corresponding "up-down-up" movement and it'll bring everything back. On personal machines I turn it off but if I'm doing something for someone else, this is a good thing to know.
>sheer number of websites that explain what card you should get to maximize which reward and bonus

These sites are mostly blogspam that push referral links.
It actually is quite humanly possible. The fundamental issue is that while replication of information is effectively free, generation of (valuable) information most certainly is not. Which takes us right back into limited resource allocation and value decision territory. And markets are the best tool we've found so far for societies to use to perform generalized efficient resource allocation towards societal goals. It's also often quite possible to keep information secret for a significant time period, but efforts to do so (and efforts in turn to gain that information) are themselves examples of the "economic inefficiency" you complain about. However, generalized efforts to restrict information require the cooperation of society overall and costs to society in a way that real physical property does not.

"Intellectual Property" is one possible way to try to answer all these points, a hack to try to couple market allocation to the information generation issue while also recognizing that it's not real property and is funded by and for the public. It offers a chance, not a certainty, to make money off an investment on information generation through convincing other parts of society to pay for it piecemeal during a limited pseudo-physical-property replication stage. In exchange, it shouldn't be secret, shouldn't cover basic facts of the world or certain other areas where additional generation incentives are unnecessary, and should have limited times taking into account the ongoing and ever increasing societal cost.

I think it's very foolish to mistake implementation issues with fundamental ones and throw out the baby with the bath water unless you've got something better to fund information generation equally effective. And I have yet to hear any proposed scheme by total-anti-IP folks to take its place, merely complaints about the current implementation. I think it'd be far more productive to first direct efforts towards fixing mismatches in historical IP in each of the 3 areas above vs modern times. On the secrecy issue for example, encrypted source code escrow should be a requirement for having copyright protection for everything that isn't open or available source already, and have-your-cake-and-eat-it Trade Secret laws should be eliminated. Patent protection for mathematics (all software patents) should be completely eliminated, copyright is more then enough already for software and better aligns incentives. And new, better ways to reflect ongoing and increasing societal costs, and the divergence in areas of generation, should be added rather than mere fixed times. Ongoing yearly renewal beyond an initial short period at non-linearly increasing cost (either fixed or an increasing percentage of revenue) would be one possible approach.

But all this seems far more useful than anything else I've seen. Total command and control at all levels of the economic stack hasn't proved any more effective for information generation than it has anywhere else in economics. IP has overall worked fairly effective, and it seems to me that the problems it has caused are more down to warts and rust that could be fixed.
Firefox also has a huge pile of spam on the new tab page by default.

I wish they would just kill it already...
Was having the same problem. Fixed it by disabling the adding events from Gmail automatically according to the Google instructions. I would rather choose what hits my calendar anyway.

https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/6084018
Almost none of these are an issue with Windows 10 LTSC
For that to happen our current civilization would have to be defined as every civilization on Earth.
"In United States you can buy 8 Big Mac's with $50"

Followed by ten burger emojis..
>No law can prevent a thing, no written agreement can prevent cheating. Law can only set out that such cheating might be illegal in the sense that it can be argued in court that penalties should apply.

This is asinine stuff. Contract law is one of the oldest parts of the legal system and contracts are protected. Violating contract terms leads to a discussion of damages. It's not about illegal contracts, it's about liability and damages.
Please stop the insanity called software “engineering”
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Perhaps varying the lengths of the paragraphs will make it look much better, without actually changing the design.