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> The biggest problem is communication. No one fucking communicates.

Elon Musk says something interesting about this here:

"Product errors reflect organizational errors."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ36Kt7UVg&feature=youtu.be...

He's specifically talking about how the product subsystems are effectively mapped out by the product departments and that they should try to interface with each other with minimal constraints.

But, my take was that there needs to be a LOT of communication between departments and an ongoing debate between them as well.

Edit: The more that I think about it...

This might a big reason why Musk companies defy the odds, and why it is so difficult for incumbents to catch up.

The over the air updates of Tesla are a good example of hardware & software departments working together to make something very difficult to compete with (if you're a regular old school siloed company).
My update experience for Catalina was like so:

1. Download 8GB on Australian internet.

2. Wait 7 hours.

2. "Sorry there was an error".

3. Download again.

4. "You need 1GB more free space".

5. Clears 1GB of space.

6. Ok installing, restarts.

7. "You ran out of disk space". Only one button: [restart].

8. Restarts.

9. "You ran out of disk space". Only one button: [restart].

10. Search for solution, find dozens of others with the same problem. I had to do a time machine backup restore. Cleared 16GB of space and it worked.
I did this with Anki when preparing for my last round of interviews.

After completing a question (working through on a whiteboard while imitating a coding interview session), I would make a card for it. General pattern and general algorithm to use to solve, then review it whenever Anki told me to. I found that it was better to focus on higher level concepts than worrying about exact algo implementations (though I did the exact implementations when first working through a problem).

I think this worked well, but I also probably have confirmation bias.

I’ve also used this technique for math/CS problems, and it has seemed to work well.
Being Busy Is Eliminating the Joys of Shared Free Time
I don't know, why would you want to give a specialist different tools from people who do a different job? Why would you let a carpenter handle a power drill, or let your electrician access the fuse box?
Isn't this mostly due to the huge redundancy? All trillion cells of that mammoth carried duplicates of the encoded information, and recovering that information involves a lot of matching incomplete degraded strings against each other.

The estimated half-life for DNA is apparently 521 years [1] (still quite a bit longer than 50 years).

[1] https://www.livescience.com/38150-dna-degradation-rate.html
Building Qt apps on windows is trivial if you use Visual Studio as a first class project with a few Qt specific msbuild targets, there are a few floating around. Then moc'in a header is as simple as using <MOC> element in vsxproj instead of <Include>, similar for UI and RCC, etc.

Does mean you have a platform specific build system though.
I really did not intend to misrepresent Gruber's complaints. Gruber enumerates his complains quite clearly, and I believe I addressed them quite plainly and fairly.

I also don't think that Cook's claims are extraordinary or at all difficult to believe, so perhaps that's the more fundamental disagreement you and I have.
Is it abstract, or esoteric?

Conversations like this remind me of the phenomenon of books that people say have a lot of re-reading value. There was either too much going on the first time through. So you reread it many times and see things you missed.

When you watch a professional athlete or a master of anything, you can only 'see' the things that are within your horizon of comprehension. If someone is narrating they can expand that horizon. Someone who is more advanced than you will always be learning new things, but if you see them doing something new, odds are reasonably good that it's you who changed, not them.

Sun Tzu comes out of a culture that values intuition highly. Allusion and understatement are tools in that toolbox. You are meant to be spending time unpacking things, instead of being beaten over the head with them. If Lego came pre-assembled you wouldn't appreciate it as much.
The cynic in me agrees, but by that logic we wouldn't be surprised to find Beige Corp selling heroin or guns to schoolchildren if it "gives them profit". What stops them? Regulation is part of it, but also having at least some interest in keeping their good name...
You should advise Trump. That sounds like the kind of depth of analysis and rigorous process that he looks for in an advisor.
I get not wanting a JVM (although all else equal I’ll take the JVM dependency any day over CMake), but how is CMake _more_ reproducible than Bazel? The latter builds in a clean room, Make does not.
It's not in settings, it's an option that appears when you try to share an image.
Reminds me of Earth Overshoot Days [0]

[0] https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/past-earth-overshoot-d...
at one point I decided to disagree with the idea that the mind is just the brain.
Censorship at CyberCon 2019 in Melbourne
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Anxiety as an emotion is very similar to excitement. Sam Harris discusses this a lot. I never got from him what exactly the difference is, but the other day in the car, I felt excited and started really analyzing why.

What I believe now is that the difference between anxiety and excitement is: perception of outcome.

If you have a positive expected outcome, you are excited. If you have a negative expected outcome you are anxious.

The next step, is to convert anxiety into excitement. I'm still working on this part. I think this is where "little victories" come into play. If you have a series of successes that can change your perception of outcome from negative to positive it might work over the long term.

In the short term, "happy thoughts" might work. "You can do it!!" Encouragement. Confidence.

Of course all of this is very new to me, so these are mostly just my hypotheses, but I plan to examine the ideas in more detail and see what I can do with it...
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one can target individual officers using email. Are we now getting rid of that too?
Oh? Zero blobs, so no ME or PSP? No FSP or AGESA? No EC firmware or integrated GPU firmware?

Sorry, I call BS on that unless it was a long time ago, as in Core 2 Duo era.
Could you elaborate on how blockchain would make more sense? I am failing to see how it does.
I agree. I hope this will be enough of a disaster in terms of optics that it renders him unfit and forces this outcome.
1) For the record, all my Linux machines came preinstalled with Windows;

2) I don't think it's at all unfair to macOS / Mac hardware. Macs used to be great, hardware and software-wise, for development and other "making stuff" type work, and they used to be stone reliable. There's been a real qualitative change in Apple's approach to 'pro' users [for lack of a better term] -- OS updates having more unexpected / unwelcome effects, number and type of physical ports on systems becoming smaller and less practical [not even one single normal USB port on this year's MPB!], user-servicability + upgradeability of hardware diminishing over time to practically zero -- the situation is well bad.

I was a devoted macOS / OSX user, but as I mentioned in the earlier comment, I got fed up and jumped ship due to these reasons, which reasons had real impact on my productivity and contentedness-as-a-user
> opening an inquiry into whether Chinese producers of hot-rolled, stainless-steel sheets and coils receive market-distorting government aid.

The elephant-in-the-room wrt all of China's heavy industry is the utter lack of regulations and controls (human and environmental) that put them at an incredibly unfair position - without needing any additional subsidy from the gov't. Their production costs are a fraction of any developed country.
This isn't well informed -- Mirrors are a substantial source of increased drag. Something like 5% of the air resistance of a vehicle comes from the outside mirrors -- over the life of a car, that's worth several hundred gallons of gas, and across the population of cars, several billions of dollars in savings to consumers. I fret about the longevity of the technical solutions (mirrors on cars from the 60s work as well today as they did when they were installed) but it could be a huge boon.
Their only mention of China used the word 'repugnant', so I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion.
This seems to be the crux of all of the scientific issues with psychiatry and studies of personal and social behavior more broadly. Strict definitions of what is being measured and ways to go about measuring those things without administrator or self reporting bias don’t seem to exist, or at least they don’t seem to be employed that often.

There are clever ways to get around those issues and tie theories about behavior to observed action in the real world, and there are a number of psychological theories that come up with a plausible sounding evolutionary history to certain thoughts and behavior that seem correct, but a lack of good measurement instruments seems to be a very big problem preventing more concrete answers to a lot of different questions about the mind. When talking about things other than motor or perceptual related studies of the mind (bionics related stuff), the most common measurement tool seems to be self reported surveys, and although I think there are tricks you can do when wording questions and statistically analyzing results to try to account for patients trying to answer in ways they feel like they should that aren’t necessarily accurate/make sure people don’t misinterpret questions, that whole way of investigating claims seems to be very very shaky.

It’s a common complaint about the field, and I’m sure a lot of psychologists and psychiatrists are sick of hearing it, but I haven’t felt like I’ve ever gotten an adequate response about why it’s not a valid complaint.
An interview with Thomas Drake & Sulette Dreyfus on their deplatforming: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/...
Isn't the entire idea of "being mean" an abstract and intellectual idea? Furthermore that thought process would have a number of complex implications. Do whales equate eating another animal with "being mean"? Does that mean they view hunting as "wrong" in some way? Do they have guilt over continuing to hunt? Are there some whales that morally object to hunting? Is there some orca out there that feeds on plankton because it is the whale equivalent of a morally motivated vegan?

It is much cleaner to isolate the motivation and equate it with something more animalistic like "it is instinctually initiating a preemptive attack on a predator and the seal was just a lucky but coincidental bystander".
Just wanted to give a shout out and say my new System76 machine is awesome and the customer support has been top notch so far. The hardware support and updates have been great and the PoPs distro is great. Thanks for a great product.
Would love to see a blog post on building it some time, I think the last vaguely similar (but serious) rundown in this vein was “One process programming notes”.

https://crawshaw.io/blog/one-process-programming-notes
It should be noted that there's an extensive history[0] of octopi being used in propaganda posters dating back to 1877, depicting countries such as: Russia/USSR, England/Britain, Prussia/Germany, Japan, America (by both the Nazis and various communists), not to mention more abstract things like imperialism, landlordism, oil companies, company directors, etc. The Nazis didn't even coin the depiction of Jews as octopi, as there's a late 19th century example depicting the Rothschild family as such[1]. Hell, the same year as the crude and anti-semitic Nazi example you have Americans publishing books calling Hitler an octopus in both title and artwork.[2]

It's understandable that a German class on Nazi propaganda would focus on the anti-semitic element, and I sympathise with those that are going to have a stronger emotional reaction to such images, but it's important to remember that it's minority of anti-semitic examples compared to numerous examples without such connotations. Perhaps especially so when it's an org depicting itself as the octopus.

[0] https://hyperallergic.com/375900/the-map-octopus-a-propagand...

[1] https://atlanticsentinel.com/2017/08/the-octopus-in-politica...

[2] https://www.flickr.com/photos/120380035@N05/13567332414
You can’t rigidly define your first term out of nothing, so in the end, all of mathematics is built on _some_ common understanding that isn’t defined at all.

For example, if mathematicians say (https://www.britannica.com/science/Peano-axioms):

“Zero is a natural number.”

they don’t say what is a means. Even before that, the statement there’s a concept called ‘natural number’” builds on shared understanding of what there’s* and concept mean.

Mathematicians have worked hard on minimizing the amount of common understanding needed, though.

Certainly, the fairly complex concept “set” gets a clear, unambiguous definition.
can you give a source?
Just playing around with this data set, I can't understand why What3Words is so exciting. The dataset includes words with plural versions, different tenses of the same word, and words that are combinations of shorter words that are also in the data set.

If I'm listening to an emergency responder at ship.wreck.shipwreck, or was that at shipwreck.ship.wreck

There are probably a lot of ways to accidentally get confusion with such poorly groomed word combinations. Maybe they've come up with a clever way to make such combinations exist in the middle of the ocean, which would be a great place for a shipwreck.ship.wreck anyways :)
I had a history teacher whose thesis was that advancements in information asymmetry attended nearly every major military upset in recorded history. Often that was improvements in, or exploits of, communication technology.

See also Alan Turing, or radar (wasn't the carrots and nightvision myth started as misinformation to conceal the perfection of radar technology?)
None of those answers have anything to do with answering the question of "Is there a real risk of them hurting anyone but themselves?"

Let me rephrase, to make this more explicit: why shouldn't people be allowed to commit probabilistic suicide by non-rigorous experimental protocol, if they want? People do things that could kill them in home machine shops and home chemistry labs all the time, just for fun.

Note that I completely understand why people shouldn't be advertising that they do this, any more than people should be trying to talk other people into building nuclear reactors as a hobby.

I'm more saying that, if the point is just do something for your own sake—with a chance of improving your life, and another chance of killing you—and nobody else is involved or will be involved—then what has anyone else got to do with it?
> Why should users believe that (closed source) iMessage encryption is free from backdoors when we know that Cook will dance around sensitive truths?

At least in China, you can probably assume iMessage is back-doored given that iCloud content in mainland China is operated by a Chinese internet company. Apple quietly posted this last week on their support page:

"iCloud services in China mainland are now operated by Chinese internet services company Guizhou on the Cloud Big Data Industrial Development Co., Ltd., (GCBD). This allows us to continue to improve iCloud services in China mainland and comply with Chinese regulations."

It goes on to say:

"iCloud services and all the data you store with iCloud, including photos, videos, documents, and backups, will be subject to the new terms and conditions of iCloud operated by GCBD."

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351

EDIT: After some research, it looks like the iCloud handover actually happened last year (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/11/icloud_china_goes_t...).
Nitpick: The talk by Dr Cliff Click is dated February 2007, closer to 13 years ago than six years ago.
I see the rule you listed under Oct 3 in the current FAQ.
Depends on the unicorn. Some can spin up the full stack, put it under source control, wrap a CI/CD pipeline around it, and have it deployed to a TLS-encrypted public website in under an hour.

I think you can actually find the above level of developer - what many would classify a 'unicorn' - in approximately 1-2% of the workforce.

That doesn't mean they understand your business or products, know how to work well with other individuals, etc. There are a lot of other factors beyond just the productivity angle.

Now, the above developer also with the ability to fundamentally understand the business, as well as interact with all of the key people while performing said productivity stunts on a consistent basis... I think you are getting into the .1-.01% range.
While I agree... I do think there's something to be said for experiencing at least some negative interactions growing up. In the end, life isn't meant to be fair, but having the skills to work through, interact and negotiate in less than advantageous or fair scenarios is an important life skill.

I've interacted with enough millennial that are excessively entitled with a lot of ignorance to how free markets or capitalism works in practice.

edit: I'm not supporting persistent bullying, I experienced a lot of it through Jr HS and into HS.
The overall bias of this article is apparent from the very beginning. This is probably a good time to refer to https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings, which lists The New Yorker as having a far-left bias.

The caption below the image next to the headline:

> Bezos, reportedly worth a hundred and fourteen billion dollars, has donated less than three per cent of his wealth to charity.

Why is this caption relevant to the topic that the article purports to speak to in the title? And why is the opening paragraph just an unsubstantiated rumor about Jeff Bezos snubbing Bill Gates in an apparent act of vanity? Why mention something without evidence, except to influence the reader in bad faith? And again, why is it relevant to the title?

A significant portion of this article is based on the opinion of one former employee, Ian Freed. Other quotes are similarly anecdotal, without representation of opposing perspectives. And the focus shifts from topic to topic abruptly, without pausing to critically question the points that are hastily presented. For example, Biden's comparison of Amazon's corporate taxes to tax rates for firefighters/teachers is nonsensical. It would make more sense to compare the personal tax rates of Amazon employees to firefighters/teachers.

I will note the article isn't all bad. I thought the story about Birkenstock was fair - counterfeits do threaten the value of brands. The bit about the positive side of warehouse jobs for workers left behind in other industries was also surprising. And I think anti-trust concerns were presented well.

But a lot of this very lengthy article seems to be an unfocused spray of information that presents one side of the story on many different facets, without much of a cohesive narrative.
I've used some easter eggs to enable developer features. Like the konami code would prevent session timeouts so we could test things over a longer period, etc. Haven't introduced any fun ones yet though (may do so now!)
A foreign country is imposing companies to self-censorship according to their thoughts. It's also not the first time, by a long shot.

Fun part Blizzard "has" a motto, "Every voice matters".
Good point about ankle cartilage, here is a detailed study about how ankle cartilage is different:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5154419/
>In light of that, "tough and mischievous", variations of which 99% of these patches seem to be, doesn't have quite the luster. On the extreme end we have stuff like calling children "fun-sized terrorists", which is clearly not dark humor that expresses humanity, but cartoonish dehumanization.

yes, i suppose when you bring up something totally unrelated to the subject at hand spoken in a different context by unconnected people, it does seem pretty bad
It's not a comparison I can do. I haven't used ionic extensively enough to put out a well-thought out comparison that can expose the layers of complexities and the pros and cons of how we can benefit from each technology.

I have yet to use electron tho... I haven't done a personal project in a long time to play with it.
This isn’t consistent with my experience. Imo the fish rots from the head.
Thank you for your detailed explanation, this helps a lot in my understanding!
I have one.

How are you claiming open source firmware when your hardware requires signed, closed source binaries to even begin to boot? I refer specifically to the Intel Management Engine, which incidentally is why we gave up on x86 many years ago.

How did you solve the GPU closed, signed firmware problem for discrete GPUs? How about the WiFi card firmware?

I understand your decision to try to keep compatibility with games and Windows, but the result is only partly open source, and that is not what these headlines read.

I know we would be interested in assisting System76 (or other prebuilt system OEMs) to start offering POWER products as true open source, owner controlled alternatives to Intel and AMD. For instance, we currently manufacture and sell mainboards that would be a perfect fit for your existing Thelio cases, that work very well with (optional) powerful AMD GPUs -- there's also a 2D HDMI graphics option for true blob-free operation. All you need to do is qualify our mainboard in your devices, and offer software support -- it's a very low risk investment all things considered but would allow System76 to sell truly open source systems vs. partly closed ones.

Is there some possible room for collaboration here? The GPU, WiFi, etc. firmware questions are honest questions -- the firmware is potential issue, and the more OEMs/ODMs that work this problem simultaneously in collaboration the higher the chance of a solution being found that will allow even those devices to be freed up and made secure.
I can’t speak for books, but I’ve had music vanish from my library and videos I purchased cease being available for viewing. The music admittedly I noticed was missing, emailed support, and it reappeared.
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It could simply be: starve predators who could harm your young.
Culture is one of those things where once it's broken, it's usually easier to let it die than to fix it. Go join some smaller organization that doesn't have a broken culture and help it succeed. Once enough people do that, the small company becomes a big company, the big company rots on the vine and eventually goes bankrupt, and the cycle starts again.
Even without snow, within a day or 2 of being washed, my RVC is unusable when there is any "above ambient" light source shining on it. During the day, that means the sun is anywhere in the 180 degrees behind my car and at night it means anyone has headlights pointed at me.
It's good to hear you've made great improvements. If it makes you feel any better, part of your retention may just be a product of being older heh.
I'd like to encourage people to read this website for news about China and also to listen to the Sinica podcast, which is partly made by the same people (Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn). Supchina also has a newsletter
Arm brings custom instructions to its embedded CPUs
> many of my all time favourite photographs

i'm particularly partial to this one:

http://www.paglen.com/img/87web.jpg

i emailed him to ask about buying a print but never heard back
Related: there's a codegolfing answer to draw the biohazard symbol -- in Microsoft SQL Server. It has graphics! For real. https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/191323/7733