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Framework was the tits back in the day. It was basically Emacs for the office. It built on the core concept of a frame the way Emacs built on the buffer -- except frames could contain other frames, which is how Framework composed spreadsheets and documents with multiple subsections.

Like Emacs, Framework was programmable in a Lisp-like scripting language called FRED. In fact you could attach FRED macros to any frame, and they would be saved along with your work.

All this on an 8088-based PC (or 80186-based Tandy 2000).
It should be obvious that my point is that it's one organization with a unified purpose regardless of what unit they are part of.
Using taxes to change public behavior only work for things that are completely optional, ala alcohol or cigarettes. A tax like this on essentials like fuel just leads to people wearing traffic vests burning down your capital.
Ahh... Facebook again.
That is a poor example. Rust and Python are vastly dissimilar, and one could easily be recommended over the other for various reasons. Python for portability, Rust for system oriented programming. To say you don't use rust because you don't know it is an excuse, and a terrible one at that. i would say the learning curve of Python is similar to Rust, why not learn?
From my personal experience, there is a large overlap between people who like to play PC games and people who are interested in and curious about computing technology, and would otherwise be inclined to use Linux.

Although the trend appears to be changing with the likes of Proton, the lack of Linux compatibility for games keeps these people tied to Windows, and keeps them from adopting Linux.
> I suspect the new way of doing psyops is to buy multiple smartphones which all have separate IPs due to a GSM/4G network, and have different and distinct useragents due to different Android versions in use.

That seems like a lot of enormously expensive trouble to do something that probably could be done a lot easier and cheaper: user agents are trivial to spoof and a sufficiently sophisticated attacker can probably just steal any needed IPs from legitimate organizations using BGP (I understand the hosters used by spammers already do this).

The only benefit I could think of for using actual smartphones is that they'd provide different, legitimate device fingerprinting results.
I'd say we are making big breakthroughs in technology that will make greenhouse gas machines obsolete, and that's where we'll get eventually. But getting there will take decades, because we have to obsolete out (and/or buy out) existing fossil-dependent infrastructure - heating in cold climates, and international shipping are two big ones that come to mind. But do what we can.

That said, I'm not convinced this is going to lead to a global population reduction. In modernized economies, food isn't the boundary on population growth (all modern economies are at near-zero growth or even negative growth, and developing nations are modernizing to low birth rates at an astounding pace). Barring any huge changes, we're looking at the global population growing maybe 50% over the next century, and being completely level or shrinking after that, and most of that growth happening in the next few decades.

So for the population to shrink significantly, it would require billions to die, of famine or resource wars. So what's going to shrink the food supply that much? Enough to induce famine at a global scale? Keep in mind that global warming moves more slowly than harvest cycles. Farmers and nations can make decisions on what crops to plant and adjust their farming practices based on new information and reasonable predictions. Next year's weather won't be much different than this year's was, even if it will be significantly different than the weather in 20 years.

We are also on the cusp of two massive technological changes that will impact our farming abilities - IoT, and GMO. IoT allows plant-by-plant management of crops, reducing tilling and chemical use. GMO allows adaptation of crops to growing conditions more quickly than hybridizing does.

It just seems to me that the concerns about feeding everyone, in the wake of a previous century that absorbed a quadrupling of the population while making more food than ever and a future of at least two key technological breakthroughs, is more doomsday than solid reasoning.
If you need an engineering analogy, think of it as defence in depth. Punishment is part of a package of measures that seek to reduce criminality. Doesn’t stop everybody, and it’s not the only thing that stops anybody.
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What kind of implications does that have? Is molybdenum very expensive to use in batteries?
Sounds great. Just by the way, I started something like this (free / free of adverts) earlier this month, on a small scale, to scratch my own itch, basically: the "Tech Aloud" podcast → https://blogs.sap.com/2019/09/18/tech-aloud-podcast-an-intro...
>, on the front page right now [...] "We help you get answers to your toughest coding questions, " -- Clearly that is something very different from building a "Q&A wiki" which you allude to.

That text blurb on the landing page is relatively new. It may not accurately reflect Stack Overflow's long-standing strict editorial focus. The new SO landing page appeared less than 4 months ago around June 27, 2019.[1][2]

In contrast, the following "wikipedia" intention is from the SO launch 11 years ago back in September 15, 2008: "Stack Overflow is a _collaboratively edited_ question and answer site for programmers"[0]

So from September 2008 to June of 2019, it has been ~11 years of endless confusion from users because Atwood/Spolsky's intended editorial purpose of Stack Overflow has been poorly explained -- and I would also contend that it's non-intuitive for most users and hard to understand. E.g. The following is too nuanced to explain to drive-by casual SO users: I'm not just asking _my_ particular question to get _my_ particular answer but actually seeding _a_ question that's also also a _helpful_ contribution to the _community_ to build a repository quality answers to questions.

>I guess the impedance mismatch [...] So individuals go on SO and think the site is about helping them, and then get confused about what happens next.

Yes, I totally agree why the confusion happens and why the same complaints about SO have been repeated for over a decade. It's because SO's editorial purpose is basically invisible and only manifested in the powers given to moderators[3] to downvote/close and for the tradition of fellow users pushing back with X/Y dissection instead of simply answering the question.

Does the June 2019 landing page mean that SO has changed and they want to be more of "Siri/Alexa" type of resource? I'm not an employee and I don't know.

[0] 2008-09-15 launch: http://web.archive.org/web/20080915103343/http://stackoverfl...

[1] 2019-06-26 old: http://web.archive.org/web/20190626143412/https://stackoverf...

[2] 2019-06-27 new: http://web.archive.org/web/20190627173410/https://stackoverf...

[3] footnote about "moderator" powers : a Stack Overflow user only needs 15 points to flag a post as "duplicate". And voting to "close" only requires 250 points.

Those thresholds are so low that SO is basically asking non-hardcore users to also exercise moderation powers. In other words, the "moderators" are not an elite cabal; they're your fellow users voting to flag questions as "duplicate". Why are my peers flagging questions as duplicate?!? I don't know. As the old saying goes, "maybe we've met the enemy and the enemy is us."

List of reputation scores required for various "moderation" privileges:

https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges

https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/privileges
So you'd be in favor of the question "What's the best regular expression for parsing HTML?"
Thanks for this breakdown, very helpful.
> Also is there a reason for using Metal rather than MoltenVK for macOS?

Let me ask it the other way: is there a reason to use MoltenVK if we have a Metal backend?
> If your entire existence is justified by creature comforts and an unyielding demand that nothing ever changes, then isn't technological progress just as disruptive to your ethos?

I said that I wanted each generation to live better than the last. From what did you draw the conclusion that this means stasis, or is contradictory to my ethos?

Over the past several thousand years, on average, each generation has lived better than the previous, and technological progress is the main reason for that.

Since you didn't really grok my basic thesis, I think the rest of your argument is against a strawman.
>yes hello site's creator here

I like your way of greeting
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Exactly. The public is waking up and VCs are stuck holding the bags of shit. Good. Fuck them for trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public to get rich. They deserve what they are getting.
Unfortunately that is impossible as much as I wish it was possible. Russia, US and China will never risk falling behind in the field.

Maybe we are about to hit the great filter...
At times I feel, if there's no recycling programs, people will automatically buy cheap products with plastic because it'll guilt trip them into using less plastic.

When a country like India is taking steps to ban single use plastics (I think from October 2019), why cant more developed countries / rich economies do the same?

Cities that implement 10 cent bag fee have succeeded in reducing the use of plastic carry bags.

Similarly bans on single use plastics will go a long way.

But the more such articles I read, I feel like an idiot when I segregate recyclables and trash
why can't you use linux instead?
Because I'm familiar with Docker
I think it is. You are making the puzzle more difficult to solve by obscuring what the object of the puzzle even is. If you don't even know what the goal is, how can you start solving it?

If I gave you an AES-encrypted cipher and told you to crack it, you would at least know what the end goal is (break AES). But if I just said, "crack the following cipher":

a13908x91827p93892a...

Where would you even start? You could randomly try things, but the layer of obscurity wastes your time such that you don't even know what goal is other than some vague, nebulous "find the hidden message" goal.

Then I reveal that the cipher is actually just AES but with a layer of obscurity on top of it using a quirk of the Afrikaans spoken language to transform the cipher into a baffling string.
Telling people to eat less food is entirely counter-productive to the goal of building democratic consensus on policy and tax changes which will reduce pollution and drive innovation in cleaner production.
I'm trying to use Vue in a secure web app, and Webpack is a nightmare. I have to trust hundreds of dependencies to use it at all. Trying to avoid this and use some other method of compiling multiple .vue single-file components into a larger single js file is proving tricky (to say the least). How did the JS ecosystem end up in this situation?
I don't agree. Before the internet, people went to the safe/reliable/consistent chain restaurants much more than they do today, and I think it's because the internet made it easy to discover new places while also providing some predictability of whether those places would be enjoyable.

It used to be when we were on a road trip and hungry, going to the Applechilibees/Olivelobster brand we recognized on the side of the road was a no-brainer, now I pull up yelp or glance at Eater a few minutes before arrival.
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan.
Scaling will continue in conjunction with packaging, but whether that’s Moore’s Law is debatable. The economics of traditional shrinking are gone. It now costs more per transistor at each new node. And the power/performance improvements have sharply diminished from pure scaling, probably into the range of 10% to 15% versus 30% to 50%. However, by combining architectural improvements (neural nets, moving memory closer to processors and vice versa, faster interconnects) and by stacking memory on die or embedded them in the same package, it’s possible to achieve orders of magnitude improvements in performance and power. This has been called More than Moore, and TSMC is now calling it More Moore.
Snapchat content so things like posting screenshots or advertising their Snapchat handle.
> And why do they assume that the DMCA applies in other countries?

The company is on the US, so it would be illegal for them to keep the answer.
The real "support" comes with the CTS coverage.
What law is being broken? This is their platform to do with as they please. Nobody has a contractual agreement whereby Facebook agrees to host any and all content. They can be as partial and capricious as they desire. That is the price for abandoning open protocols.
Not at all. You should look up the definition of negative reinforcement. It doesn’t operate as social demonstration, the way prison is supposed to work according to those who advance the deterrence myth. Now if the claim is about recidivism that may apply to negative reinforcement. But as others pointed out that’s not usually what’s meant by deterrent. We mean a deterrent even to those who have not been incarcerated.
Maybe not production ready but there's https://github.com/bettio/AtomVM (BEAM on a ESP32)
There are hundreds of thousands of people who live in caves. China and Turkey leap to mind.

The article I read about it in Turkey showed it as a kind of cultural heritage thing, not a poverty thing.

The article I read about it in China was about the Chinese government forcing people who live in caves to move to cities, where they have no social nets or coping skills. Apparently there is some huge number (hundreds of thousands? millions? I forget) of people in China who live in caves in the western part of the country, and Beijing considers their lifestyle an embarrassment.
as the paper notes, ios itself doesn’t send much to google. it’s primarily installed apps that send data to google, and that’s primarily advertising related. google apps will additionally send all your location data to google.

moral of the story: don’t install any google apps and limit the number of apps you install.
> I think making it a brand-coloured tick conveyed too much of a positive message so people took it as an endorsement

YouTube's check mark is a tiny unassuming grey thing, and they're going through the exact same process right now where they claim it's being construed as an endorsement.
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To me it seems like there are features of the site or certain subs that essentially shitlist you until your account is of a certain age or upvote quota. You're not wrong that posts by brand new accounts seem to be invisible sometimes.
You’ve seen one too many movies, mostly they are doing about the same job as brand influencers just their brand is HMAF in this case.
Conterpoint: the AV industry has always been an embarrassment. At least since we moved pass standard OTA & radio, it's been nothing but competing propietary formats, connectors, DRM, etc. The current HDR battle is just a little bit worse since any version is just advertised as 'HDR' leading to extra confusion.
How do people self-hosting gitlab CE for the open-for-all projects fix the spam problem?
And to clarify further, the next wgpu-rs version will not have features for backends. Vulkan/Metal/DX12/DX11 will be automatically exposed where appropriate, so there will not be a requirement to have Vulkan.
Meh, there’s a small but dedicated community for mods, but they can affect system stability and that’s not a compromise Apple wants to make.

Not having root has never affected my almost ten year iOS dev career.
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original point doesn't dispute that it is a 'narrow view', however, but that they are playing on ambiguity within the wider connotations since the nominal meaning in a tech context is 'support techically' rather than 'morally','ethically', etc.
> Punishment? This clearly was less harsh, or he would not prefer it.

The fact that it was less harsh does not mean it was not harsh enough; meaning that chineese concentration camps might be disproportionately harsh to the crime (although his crimes were among the worst, so...)

> Protecting society? He roams free.

That's an exaggeration, I highly doubt that he could roam free. His maximum radius of travel must have been severly limited, given no access to transportation, plus it looks like so, as he did not move away from that, high risk area.

> A deterrent? Leaving him there would send the message to others that escaping and evading capture is a viable route to freedom.

Nonetheless, it is a viable route to freedom. It would be enforced/promoted if they left him though.
Photos also help against a trick where sellers replace the product name, description and pictures to basically transfer the positive reviews to other products they want to sell and know are garbage. Customer photos make it more obvious at a glance.

And at least for German I can say that fake reviews are probably not more expensive...they seem to just have lower quality and range between barely understandable auto-translation to almost passable if it weren't written like an advertisement.
>The pursuit of "happiness" is just about the best way to ensure you remain unhappy.

I strongly disagree.

We may agree, however, that the route many people take in pursuit may be somewhat... misguided.
As sort of rude as this is I have to agree. If your life can be fundamentally ruined by this then there's a major blindspot in play.
Interesting, apparently it's because of "passive radar" which I'd never heard about before...

"Passive radar equipment computes an aerial picture by reading how civilian communications signals bounce off airborne objects."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_radar
> As far as I’m aware there is no simple, low level, software based, portable, 2D graphics stack.

Wasn't SDL supposed to be that? What happened to that?
It's kind of a shame. Some issues just create a lot of discussion. This one is controversial, and maybe you could call it a flame war, but I'd prefer it stay up.

I'm finding these threads by googling "Hacker News Stallman" every couple of days.
"it is forbidden by law to arbitrarily discriminate consumers"
(in many countries with a sane legal system)

It is a common and stubborn misconception that laws like these somehow do not apply to big (international) tech companies. It is more the product of cultural acceptance of a reality that has existed for long time. Maybe you are right about this, within the USA. But than that would say more about the legal reality within the USA, rather than globally.
A phD will help you get a visa/GC. I think that is why you see a lot of foreign candidates doing a phd.
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Seems weird since he's not working at SE/SO since 2012:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/02/farewell-stack-exch...
A PhD is a research degree. It teaches you how to do research. If you do not want to do research, but rather, build things, I would recommend forgoing it.
A Bittorrent client is a pretty good one. The protocol is fairly well-documented, and the domain is very well-suited to the language.
The book was written in 1987, which is before Kahneman and Tversky's experiments were popularized (at least outside of academic Psychology.)

That said, bias is a general term, and "intellectual phase lock" as described here is a more specific example. The modern terms would probably be "anchoring", "confirmation bias", "courtesy bias", which slice up the space in a slightly different way.
Aldous Huxley swore by the Bates Method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Seeing). I went through a period where I tried it and it did seem to help, but YMMV, not scientifically-proven, etc. etc.

I will say that the people with the best eyes I know (one was a fighter pilot, and still has great eyesight into his 70s) spent a lot of time outside tromping through the woods and read a lot -- so had a habit of switching back and forth between close-reading and far-gazing.

Whether it helps or not (and I believe it does, when I forget for a few days, my glasses seem too weak), it isn't the worst idea to look up from the phone or laptop and focus faraway a few times an hour.

I don't know if you can fix presbyopia, though...I think that's something that just happens like clockwork at 40. :/
The main flaw in your argument is that not all repercussions are legal.

Would I try heroin if there were no negative consequences? I'd certainly be less averse.
> You will need at least one machine anyway to do basic testing on.

You wouldn't if Apple didn't prohibit using VMs. If you want to test compatibility with the actual hardware you probably should have more than one machine anyway.

> This suggests linux is more problematic per sale than mac.

Or that Linux users are more likely to report their problems. IIRC there recently was an article on HN by a game developer who supported Linux in part to get quality bug reports.
Perhaps this is why the mainstream news sources are considered by many (most?) to be disreputable now.
We had twins too (and one older sister). I _was_ amazed that, despite spending less than 48hrs apart in their first couple of years of life, they were _completely_ different. I mean, their personalities are chalk & cheese, and neither of them are anything like their sister. They're really very individual, all of them.

Basically, this is just echoing what the rest of people say on here. There's no "one true way", every child is so different, you have to just trust your instincts. Lots of people will give you advice, you basically have to just nod your head and ignore it 95% of the time.

The only thing I can suggest as preparation is get as much sleep as you can for the fortnight before the little one(s) due. You'll need some in the bank!
I think you've illustrated the grandparent's point perfectly!

(in a pleasingly condescending manner too - I might add!)
So if the British military has a man on the inside, wouldn't that make the job orders of magnitudes easier for them? They wouldn't have to figure out how to game Twitter's algorithms themselves and would instead just ask Gordon MacMillan.
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That comment was saying that technical support is the natural understanding, and that this lack of clarity makes it a weasel-word. This is especially true since there are more straightforward alternatives such as the one that was given.
The conventional wisdom states, if you have a burning passion about the topic you're going to research on, go for it; otherwise, no, and I agree with that. I don't think it will add much to your life except 2-3 letters of a title, especially if you have written a thesis for your MSc which you probably are going to do since you mentioned you are doing research.

Mind if I ask if you have had any experience working as a software dev? That's what everyone else does (including me, even after my masters), and it is not bad because so. Can you elaborate on what you are afraid of if you transition to the industry?
Clearly there can be a conflict of interest when working for international tech firms. If Russian PSYOPS reservists were heading up an American division of Twitter, surely people would be screaming bloody murder (and with good cause).
Gravity is also a theory. The word "theory" scientifically, does not mean "idea". It means a rigorously tested and researched collection of co-related ideas that reinforce each other. Do not use it to dismiss something's value.
Perhaps more significantly: there are around 1.3 billion PC gamers out of a larger 2.5 billion video gamers globally. Around 35% of Americans are PC gamers, although the largest market region is now Asia-Pacific.

Amongst people most likely to care about the concerns raised here, the proportion is likely even larger.
The solution is nuclear-powered ships.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-30/wework-wi...
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