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This is a very minor frustration, and I'm screaming into the abyss, but when searching for JavaScript topics, blogposts from LogRocket pretty often come up top of the search rankings, above more authoritative sources. Often under slightly misleading titles (such as this one) that seem chosen to capitalise on common search terms, or else the articles are packed with keywords. Sometimes mildly useful but mostly they're shallow and not particularly contentful, and LogRocket seem to absolutely churn them out. Seems to have gone down slightly since moving from Medium to Hosted WP, but not much. Nothing doing, it's just SEO and getting the name "LogRocket" in front of more eyeballs, but just...urrgh
The Only Way You Can Delete This NSA Malware Is to Smash Your Hard Drive to Bits
Yea, I remember when PowerMacs could be had at a wide variety of price points. That was nice.

If Apple doesn't want to serve the "I need a decently powerful machine but don't want to waste money on what is basically a status symbol" market, maybe they should license MacOS to someone who does. Something like that might actually bring me back to the platform. As it is, I stick to PCs running Linux.
I believe Jack Dorsey when he says he wants to improve the quality of discourse on the platform, but I'm not sure this step will help anything. If people are being harassed, Twitter should deal with harassment. Adding the ability to hide replies simply allows people to handwave away discussion or criticism that they don't like, which seems detrimental to rational and reasoned discourse.
Most men at MIT are not RMS and nobody create legends on them.

Because nobody knows them.

But if it is creepy for RMS, it is for anyone else who did it.

Where is the outrage?

Half their age is perfectly legit if one is 25 and the other is 50.

You should be more precise.
Like in any modern analog car, the knobs are free spinning and therefore remember their settings. It’s a tactile version of tapping a screen that is a better UX IMHO. When my significant other uses my car, they hit #2 on the preset settings and everything slides and turns into place. This is a well solved problem and has been for many years. Note: I am a former P85D Model S owner.
> I have not actually addressed the comments RMS made about the use of the word "assault" - I haven't used that word in any of my remarks. And I don't think that in any of my comments, I have denied any quotation you have attributed to RMS.

OK, sure? I guess in that case I'm just confused about why you replied to the comment you did. My comment was that what RMS said [about assault] was simple and straightforward. You replied, saying, "it's actually not so simple". If you weren't actually disputing my claims about RMS, I guess I'm just totally lost on the point of what you were replying to in my comment.
Yes, I think that SS7 architecture was used as some design criteria when it came SCTP. Just about everything in the telco world has (at least) an A- and a B-side for HA.
The ebbing language: living in Dutch and English
Let's be honest, virtual world games have always appealed to people who are not doing so well in the real world. From a pure business perspective, that is the problem, and virtual worlds are the convenient solution.
> Somehow I missed this, so a person literally working on helping the government kill people was the one asking to remove RMS?

Yep

https://www.linkedin.com/in/selam-gano-089895ba/
Stallman wrote that statutory rape laws are morally absurd. You cannot possibly defend that. Age is an element in consent.
I would say our unscientific backward sense of aesthetics requires us to iron. Let's recall Veblen's ideas, and move society forward by questioning all the wasteful status-signalling rituals.

Update: your comment is more reason for me to buy Linen. I originally preferred it to cotton since the fabric tends to be more well suited to my warm tropical environment.
What do you all use for Office365? I tried the thunderbird o365 plugin but it failed to send and was requesting 2fa every time I restarted
Requests are not equally probable, they'll follow some sort of power law distribution. Caching will work well enough in that situation: common queries will remain hot and rare queries will fall out of the cache. The net effect is faster.

SQL databases often have query caches for this reason.

I agree about DoS, but I figure that's going to require the usual defences around throttling. Ideally in the database, but most databases of any kind don't have workload partitioning.
Man, I read your entire thread of comments. You are all over the place. Your insistence made me repeat my reading of the RMS email and I think you should just drop this.
if it is a good design, this is a positive feature.. constantly breaking a good UI just to be hip and cool is not.
I'm not against new designs if they bring improvements to the table, but mindless bandwagon jumping is a waste of time.
Yes. All we need now is the timetable for Tesla opening their network to all EVs that can charge via CCS.
True at this point I find clients not offering much more than what I get from a browser.

But as far as clients go, Thunderbird works pretty well for me.
Yeah.

This prompted me to google "SecondLife VR" and this came up
https://www.sansar.com/
I encounter this impression a lot and find it a bit confusing. I suppose this is what it looks like at a distance, because at a distance you see news and headlines, not practical realities. In point of fact, I think the VueJS boomlet is over, and I doubt its uptake got anywhere near ReactJS. The community has by and large settled on Webpack for building and bundling, and Webpack itself is quite stable after a few years of finding the right API and its proper place in the stack. Finally, the community seems to be converging on TypeScript, an eminently sane compile-to-JS language, and an increasing share of the ecosystem has increasingly robust TypeScript support
If you like CLI MUAs, give https://aerc-mail.org/ a look..
There are checks and balances with the gov though. A sitting member of parliament can't decide to freeze all my assets: A judge must do that after due process.

FB (and by extension any private entity) can ban my account for nothing if they like.
Not only that, but anything that can happen on a mattress can happen on a couch. Lots of offices have couches.
And if that's the case, are they more dangerous in water, where they might enter digestive systems, or in air, where they might enter lungs?
Smallish cash transactions aren't actively subjected to scrutiny.

For instance, if someone buys drugs with cash, there's no automatically generated electronic record of that transfer.

That's different than if you Venmo your dealer or whatever.
> That's not a crime. Just a disrespectful way of behaving that generates antagonists instead of friends.

That goes both ways though.
"inverted spectrum hypothesis " - it has a name! :D
> The fact Stallman doesn't understand what assault means

he knows very well.

He meant, and it's obvious from the emails, that the term is slippery if used to accuse someone.

It would have been better something like "statutory rape"

because it's not disputable.
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Yes, I agree. I should have written "never" in quotes.

One way to think about this is: which companies would you never work for without feeling you have relinquished some part of your identity?

I'd risk saying that most people here are quite privileged, and losing a fair chunk of that privilege (and, for example, ending up homeless) would be a significant hit to most people's day-to-day identity.

Not that I think this state of affairs is good, or being homeless makes one less of a person (I don't). This is more of a statement of fact.
> I would not recommend to use Gatsby in a project if it requires a frontend with complexity beyond static-scrollable content.

FreeSewing.org runs on Gatsby. It generates made-to-measure sewing patterns, so I think that qualifies as beyond static-scrollable content.

While it's not magic, it is a powerful platform to build your frontend on. JAMStack is a godsend for small open source projects like us since you can just deploy to Netlify and walk away.

We do have a backend (using Express) but it's very minimalistic. Most things are simply handled client-side which means scaling up is a non-issue.

Obviously there are downsides to pushing such an amount of code to the client, but going with JAMStack isa choice we made that we can hardly blame Gatsby for.

I've since written 2 plugins for it for specific needs I had, and contributed some code left and right.I think that's testament to how it's not that hard to wrap your head around.

I've used other static site generators (Jekyl, Phenomic, and brief encounters with Hugo and Hexo) but Gatsby is the first that made me feel I wasn't fighting against it.

Gatsby makes sense for us, as it makes sense for others too. I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a way to use JAMStack and is comfortable with using React.
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Check also derived frameworks from VueJS

https://superdevresources.com/vuejs-mobile-frameworks/
I would enjoy an explanation of your thinking.
Dell will ship you a dual socket workstation with either RedHat or Ubuntu, even better is you can get it with an Nvidia GPU.
Yeah its a clever design decision, which is hard to appreciate with the intensely bubbley (frothy?) lady talking way too loud for what seems to be 9am on a Sunday.
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I agree there should be real people (founders, c-levels, engineering managers, etc) taking responsibility for things like this.
Another place to look at is the insurance companies who sell cyber liability policies to basically all (even small) tech companies. Those policies provide near full coverage for the most expensive parts of breaches like these (including a set dollar value, often $100-200k in policies I've seen, to hire a PR firm to recover from the media fallout). These policies are often surprisingly cheap (you can get very good coverage for $10k / year)

Edit: A common complaint with these type of announcements is the lack of owning the mistake. Just wanted to point out that this is almost certainly a result of the company contact their insurance carrier about the incident, and the insurance carrier instructing the company how to respond to the event (in order to remain eligible for benefits under the policy). It’s not a great excuse, but there is a reason that’s slightly outside the control of management.
You can use HackerRank problems to flex C++ out
Of course it doesn't. Come on.
I moved from Mailspring to Thunderbird because it was possible to integrate message filters with desktop notifications (via FiltaQuilla, which hasn't been updated to T68 yet), so I was getting notifications only when message was coming from certain email addresses or had certain keywords. Then I just got used to this program. To my eye, Thunderbird got a lot better in the last few months - faster startup (though still a bit slow, but I'm restarting it maybe once a week), better responsiveness, no "action interrupted" popup when using it while a folder is compacting. Search is still meh, though.
Burn it to the ground" is obviously metaphorical language

In that case everything RMS is alleged to have said was obviously metaphorical too.
This is not how it always goes, especially in India. You were incredibly lucky.
FWIW, I fully agree with your interpretation of RMS's argument here(to be fair, I think his argument as presented was worse, but giving him the benefit of the doubt, I arrive at your interpretation). However, I don't see how that argument can be "beyond the pale of responsible discourse". This is a legit legal defense!

From what I can see, it would be an admissable defense in the Virgin Islands(strict liability for only under 13), and irrelevent in Massachusets(age of consent > 16), etc. But I don't mean to wade too deply in the legal correctness - it's quite possible I'm wrong(not a lawyer), my point simply being that I can't see how this argument is out of line, given the controversial[1] nature of strict liability, and the differing statutes from state to state and country to country.

[1] - Here's a quote demonstrating its controversial status:

> The Supreme Court proclaimed that "[t]he contention that an injury can amount to a crime only when inflicted by [mens rea] is no provincial or transient notion. It is ... universal and persistent in mature systems of law ...." Morissette v. United States, 342 U.S. 246, 250, 72 S. Ct. 240, 96 L. Ed. 288 (1952). See also United States v. United States Gypsum Co., 438 U.S. 422, 98 S. Ct. 2864, 57 L. Ed. 2d 854 (1978) (offenses that do not contain a mens rea element have a "generally disfavored status").

(Taken from https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2336454/francis-v-gove...)
>so make sure it's the right people

I'm sure Putin would like to see you try. Sometimes a political solution is not possible (e.g. Russia, China), so a technological solution is the only option.
Telegram is primarily Russian so it's unlikely they would heed American regulators anyway.
Don't let the title fool you - 90% of the advice given in this book isn't specific to Clojure, and boy is it good advice.

This book contains some of the deepest programming insights I've encountered, to be put on the same level as SICP or the Pragmatic Programmer.

The discussions on naming and abstraction are particularly illuminating, exposing some fundamental tradeoffs like synthetic vs natural names, or principled vs adaptable systems of abstractions. Were these notions more widespread, a lot of the pointless rants and debates we hear in programming circles would disappear.

I would not recommend this book to beginners - this book is most useful when you are experienced enough that your struggle is to make choices, not to get things to work.
Unfortunately any such community tends to start out with starry-eyed tech idealists but converges towards a teeming hive of the least scrupulous market manipulators, pump'n'dump bot army generals, ICO fraudsters, etc.

And of course at the fringes of the community with no power are the retail investors who bought the thing during a bubble peak 10x higher and now spend their days harassing critics on Twitter because all the promises of the technology are coming true Real Soon Now.
Also also just in: You can not drive a Tesla without using the touchscreen on an almost constant basis. You have never owned a Tesla if you think this is not the case.
A good sales force is the richest source of market and product information that you can ever find if they are good, and if you can get them talking. But they know why/not what they sell sells. The caveat is that if the answer is "cheap" then that is the thing you will not hear...
Your vision isn't based in reality.
Have you seen the growth of vetur and vue browser extension weekly active users?

https://youtu.be/zB3HOejXqwk?t=302
In the 'free-market' capitalist democracy most of the western world lives in, you can have some (varying degree of) influence on what the government does but not a whole lot on what private companies do.
If you are afraid of the government you should be terrified of Google/Facebook/etc.

I put 'free' in quotes because complete freedom for one person is slavery for another, so it is never completely clear to me what people actually want when they talk about free society or free markets.
They're not being entirely honest with you. That's not what the law says. However, you are an at-will employee, and if they document that you make another employee uncomfortable for not respecting their preferred pronoun, you can be fired.

It's not un-lawful however. If you asked them during the training for a specific law and a pointer to why they thought that it was un-lawful, you'd see pretty quickly they didn't actually have the force of law behind them.

I've been through a lot of training both at UC and in industry and a bunch of what is said simply isn't true. WHen I challenged the instructors, it became pretty clear they were just reading a script without any understanding of the actual laws and rules behind what they were saying.
Ask HN: What is wrong with today's media landscape?
Just curious what HN thinks, reddit is not the place for a question like this if you want thoughtful and well-reasoned answers.
>The great thing about the touch screen is ... the flexibility when it comes to updates that also include new features

That's the main problem. Change is good only if it's optional, by choice. Forced redesign only makes designers happy, because they can now stop looking at that old version that they released some years ago and want to sunset it.
TIL > erudite

educated, cultured, cultivated, learned, literate

In case you wondered like I did :-)
The email is extremely clear, and in fact I'm not all over the place. I keep repeating myself so much precisely because no one is bothering to respond to the same, repeated point, which has never changed since my first post in this thread.

Do you have any dispute with my characterization of RMS's comments? Can you defend any alternative reading to the plain meaning of his statements, as I set them out above?
Emacs is the answer; what was the question again?

It's nothing specifically to do with the Kernel pr operating system. I use Gnus after starting with RMAIL on SunOS and using VM for some time. I often use it in tty mode, typically with emacsclient. It would work OK with relatively recent Exchange IMAP at work if it wasn't for the VPN required to access it. Gnus is obviously good for mail lists via Gmane's NNTP.
Good counterpoint, definitely an issue. When the police find macroscopic quantities of bodily fluids, however, it would seem to be madness not to use the evidence.
> ... I switched to windows ...

Some people do not want to do that.
Meh. The company I'm at is in the exact same situation as the 'self serve' company described, taking the low end of the market while a larger company fails to do so. The way we approach enterprise is uncannily similar to the way they described the other company doing so: use our API which does the hard domain specific stuff. Except we're the opposite of self serve.

Virtually every customer pays us for technical support, and our developer (I'm effectively the only one), talks to customers practically every day about what they need in the product and to our services staff about their challenges. The insight this provides is invaluable.

Companies in the market with dozens/hundreds of developers are worse at deploying new features than we are with a single developer (yes, I write tests and use industry best practices for my stack, extra work up front, but development is waaaay faster years later). Think ViaWeb's Lisp advantage, except our real secret weapon is just that 1 developer who talks to all their customers and their services department is as good as 20 who don't (I'm using C#/Vue for web [with an erlang like actor framework I built] and C++/Lisp for embedded).

There are certainly challenges scaling, and dear lord am I underpaid (I'm more interested in autonomy than the 3x-10x money I'd get from moving to a competitor), but self serve is orthogonal to our customer appeal. (Others in the market might actually think we're self serve though, just because our software is user friendly and self serve is actually possible).
What about a protocol regulated by mathematics and well-designed economic game theory, controlled by no one party or group, which only gets stronger security when attacked?
Memories of my early career in relativity physics
Have you ever tried meditating? The first time you do you probably think your mind isn't wandering, it actually takes a bit of practice to even notice quite how much internal dialogue you actually have. It's non stop for most of us.
When the F are we going to hold people accountable for piss poor security posture.
Handling of a SUV, usefulness of a hatchback. It's like the worst of both worlds.
Instagram Stories Read API
Were people editing Marvel movies really waiting a decade for this though? Pretty confident they've moved on to PCs years ago. I struggle to find the target audience for this, now that they are alienating home users.
I considered mu4e, are you concerned with security at all? I feel like an email client would be risky in emacs for some reason
If you test for average pilots, then you've still got approx 50% of pilots who aren't capable.
Whatever happened to testing for the lowest common denominator - especially in life and death situations?
In Python I might do something like this.

class Source(str):
pass

class Dest(str):
pass

def helper1(a, b):
assert isinstance(a, Source)
assert isinstance(b, Dest)
copyFile(a, b)

if __name__ == “__main__”:
# obvs use argparse instead and store
# directly to Source & Dest objects
# but here to be quick:
a, b = sys.argv[1:3]
a, b = Source(a), Dest(b)
helper1(a, b)
> And really can you imagine Satnav without a touchscreen keyboard

If you've ever sat in a recent upscale European car, you can. Unlike touch-screen keyboard solutions, entering destinations via scroll-wheel keyboard (like BMW does) or via guided voice entry is easily and safely possible while driving.
Taking disagreements off-list is now harassment instead of good form?

It wasn't disagreement, but aggressive harassment including legal threads.
> “We do not possess any specific information on TON. That's why we cannot comment on this app.”

That's basically it. Marketing of financial services is regulated. TON hasn't been heavily marketed yet. So there's no marketing to criticise.

Does anyone have any detail to add? Are the tokens "free floating" or are they supposedly pegged to real money? Are they for a utility purpose or purely for speculation?

(I also wonder if they're delaying the launch given the disappointing Bakkt launch and the implosion of Kik)
My browser. And if I want to do multiple emails, Gmail on my phone unfortunately
does white mean something besides color of skin?
> Yep, it's that far.

It'll be handy when the zombie apocalypse occurs though: it'll be quite the swim for any ghouls.
They wouldn’t say this, but I’m guessing it’s a sly reference to Sleepy Joe (Biden).
Does anyone have a few ideas or pointers how one could move across the world for 6-12 months as a single parent to two children under age 6?
". My understanding is that a supervisor having a low completion rate is a black mark that can hurt them, especially if they're chasing tenure."

Normally, during tenure decisions, the grad students and postdocs will be interviewed by the dean. If you work for a pre-tenure prof, and decide to leave, meet with the dean and let them know your concerns before dropping out. Make sure to include lots of physical documentation, such as emails requesting you to do inappropriate things.
it should be harder for predators
Faking the News with NLP and Transformer Models
The flip-side would be that we allow crimes to go unpunished to protect civil liberties and yet erode civil liberties by allowing crime to be perpetuated.

It's a fine line and from personal experience - can be more devastating when criminals can abuse and game the system to use such liberties to evade capture and punishment. Alas I can not elaborate as ongoing, but dam. Criminals sure know how to play the system better than the system I have found out the hard way.
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As you say, checking out or bisecting.

If you don't think this intermediate commits will ever have value, in my opinion you may as well squash them.

I have, on some occasions, run at least basic tests on all commits in a rebased branch but few people bother (and with github, where someone merges a PR by rebase, it would be obvious there was a problem until it was too late).
> Government can just declare your cash worthless, or devalue it though.

That's the entire point of crypto, the government has nothing to do with it. Bitcoin was being used for years before any laws came out.