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Google it you lazy fuck, yes they repeatedly say it's a hardware disconnect
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The Groovy compiler feels like a half-baked product, just as the language. It cannot decide if it wants to be a statically typed language or a dynamic one.

It happens all too often that I have to manually cast stuff because the compiler cannot deduct the type of an expression. Seriously, it feels like writing Java pre-1.5 (before Generics).

At the same time, your code might just compile, and you'd get a runtime error because you forgot to rename an attribute that you referenced, and due to some dynamic wizardry Groovy tries to retrieve it anyway.

It is the very opposite of the Erlang universe, where the more time I spent the more impressed I got. So really no comparison between the two, forget Groovy if you have more than a toy project. Java on the other hand... will soon have it's fibers thanks to Project Loom...
If you're just learning, I'd highly recommend that you stick to the toolchains supported by the manufacturer of the chip you're using. The various open source toolchains are very cool, but they have sharp edges and limitations that won't be obvious to a beginner. Many of them also focus on high-level synthesis, which isn't good for beginners, because you really need to learn the ins and outs of digital logic to be able to debug the output of a high-level synthesis tool.
Honestly they can afford a staff with a smaller window of experience. They wouldn’t be able to afford a competent agency of 20 or more people.
It's really an opportunity to talk about the craziness of wallstreetbets
> So are aren't defending Intuit but, you are just saying that ProPublic must reference other material before focusing on Intuit?

No, I'm saying ProPublica shouldn't make the situation sound like it's all Intuit's fault.
It appears this guy actually profited 5k, he started out with 5k and withdrew 10k before his account was closed.

As it appears that RH isn't going to go after him for the negative balance, that's free money.

So maybe it is foolproof? Even if you lose, you still win :)
Firefox performance has been a joke on mac for years with "fixes" supposedly happening every few months but it's still horrible. I'll believe it when I see it.
YC isn’t a slam sunk. It’s funded 1000s of companies and ~100-ish have made it big.

So you can say 9/10 times they get it wrong but 1/10 is worth it for them.

So if YC gets it wrong, that’s their loss. There is no rule that says to build a great product and a great company you need YC or insane VC money.

So kudos to you sticking out and building a great product.
> Well, the general horror story that is being told is that intelligence and the ability to use it go hand in hand. As soon as machines surpass our intelligence, all hell breaks loose and there is no turning back.

In literature and popular culture people conflate concepts all the time. :) The way I always understood that horror story was that generic AIs get schooled pretty brutally and quickly and they learn to use anything they have access to -- thus materialising that popular horror story. I think that's not far fetched, having in mind that the organisations that are very serious about obtaining a true AI are mostly corporations and military.

> Here is where I need some more convincing.

Maybe here I got influenced by popular culture. The books and movies I've read and watched mostly setup the generic AIs in situations where they have to be either parasites (Hyperiond / Endymion books) or commandeer a lot of tech and personnel (entrusted to them, like Skynet in the Terminator franchise) for their own ends.

But to me, the mere fact that a future generic AI doesn't have body and emotions like our own already means it's not going to be at all motivated by the same things as us. And we might even serve some pretty grim purposes to it, like the robots recharging themselves with organic matter in the PS4 game "Horizon: Zero Dawn" (which of course leads to consumption and thus extinction of all life).

Meaning, an AI might just view us as a natural resource to be exploited, and nothing more.
Doesn't this defeat the purpose of the entire automated phone system? An agent time is precious the automation is there for simple tasks that doesn't require any intervention. If everyone starts requesting an agent it'll clog up the system for everyone.
Oh yeah. When it would change colors it would run over to the pen holder and pick up a new color. That was fun to watch.
Vulgar Latin vs Classical Latin, I suppose.

>common people

Thats the definition of vulgar that I meant, not the modern vulgar definition of vulgar :)

Just that scientists and philosophers wanted an in un-ambiguous form of communication that wasn't subjected to the whims of popular culture.
I remember a similar Mike Cook "Beeb Body-Building" article from Micro User. He used a similar layout and two potentiometers to build a "radius-arm digitiser".

A little bit of calibration and some trigonometry and you can work backwards from the pot positions to Cartesian X/Y co-ordinates.

A little bit more work and you can enter line points from a paper drawing into the rudimentary CAD systems which existed on the BBC Micro at that time.
That's one marketing person per 3 million active users.
Link to a summary article: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-reveals-collapse-protein-drive...
Technology always leads to new norms and standards of living. We have medicine that cures infections that would have absolutely killed us a hundred years ago. We have machines that can route blood around your heart while doctors replace it with another one. Here we have a technology that has the potential to reduce the occurrence of SIDS(sudden infant death syndrome) at a cheap cost once the tech is commoditized.

I understand your hesitance in promoting anything that can exacerbate the anxieties of people unnecessarily(our society is already bad enough at this), but as a parent, that anxiety was already there for me, and I think it's there for most other parents too. I used to wake up and check my daughter in the middle of the night because she hadn't cried in a while. This would have brought me peace of mind.
Credit karma tax is (actually) free. I’ve used for past 3 years.

Why is it free? Because credit karma uses your financial data (including tax returns) to make better credit card / loan recommendations to you. So it ultimately benefits me as well, that’s why I share my return with them.

BUT you don’t have to share your tax return with CK to file. There’s a box you can uncheck when starting each year.
I thought calfile was the go-to place for cal state taxes? I use it every year and I think it's a fairly nice tool
> If you don't know whether the compiler assigns something to be evaluated lazily or eagerly that could lead to a lot of nasty debugging issues.

If the compiler only forces values that would be forced anyway, there shouldn't be a problem. Which is why GHC actually does it: https://wiki.haskell.org/Performance/Strictness

Strictness analysis is good and useful... and difficult and not magic.
I agree with this, but think that faces face the same issue. If anything, we leave our faces more places than our fingerprints; fingerprints smudge over time, but faces are big enough to capture at sufficient detail using cameras that are already widely deployed. iOS is betrer about facial recognition than Android (and I'm not an Apple fanboi), but it can still be hacked with some patience and enough video frames of the given face at different angles. I would really like biometrics to work, verifiable proof-of-human would be great, but I can only buy into them as an additional requirement for authentication; a piece of privately known/held information is still our most secure authentication mechanism for competent users.
Yet back in the real world where children aren't spending hundreds of dollars to fuel their 25c toy machine addiction, parents are parenting by saying "this is bad". This also effects adults, let's not pretend this is an issue isolated to ten year olds. It makes our games _worse_ across the board.
>• The most obvious: People who need to be chaperoned: children, the elderly and people with disabilities.

Children don't need to be chaperoned. In Japan, children as young as 4 go on errands to the local store to buy things for their parents, and children as young as 6/7 walk themselves to school.

>• Following on the previous point: Going out with the whole family as a single unit, with provisions for taking care of infants etc. right there.

A family can easily walk together in a city, take a subway together, etc. People in other countries seem to have no trouble carrying "provisions for infants" in a bag with them.

>• Privacy for groups of people, with group activities (e.g. playing music, making out) confined to the automobile's enclosure.

I don't see how privacy when making out is some kind of urgent need in society. Get a room. Or go to a public park. Seriously?
Yeah, basically that happens. I ran into this in school as well, as some professors accepted the current models as reality, which is what made me so sad in grad school when I realized how untrue this was.

I think of physics as a program. That program is built internally of the various models/equations, and that program takes a set of inputs, which are observables, and a time index. The output is the same set of observables, but with their values at the time index input. That is, physics essentially predicts (forward and backward) from a given set of observations, a new set of observations.

So to me, whenever the output observables do not accord with actual measurement, I first assume there must be something in the program that is wrong. Dark Matter is the equivalent of assuming that there must be another set of missing input observables into the physics program. It's possible, but to me the most likely first cause of the inconsistency is the program itself, as that is, as you said, how science works.
It's more like your boss would rather have someone who doesn't need your special treatment, but since they have you, they've got to invent ways to deal with your special blend of crazy (office hours).

Further, you have no clue what my policy is regarding instant messaging, don't lash out at me because you're feeling vulnerable.
The theory some are claiming is that the reader is restringing the adhesive patterns of a screen protector rather than your fingerprint.
I think we need to be looking at this from the side of biometrics. There are already privacy laws in some states which protect that kind of information about individuals. It's scary to know that if you collect a lot of what may seem like harmless information about an individual in one place, and analyze it through an algorithm or AI, then you're able to accurately predict a lot of extremely intimate details about a person. Just look at the classic example of Target predicting a teen's pregnancy before she even knew it herself, just by observing her buying habits[1].

Imagine if AI advanced to the point where a human brain could be simulated in a computer. If you collected enough data on a person, you could create a virtual clone with their exact same beliefs, opinions, intelligence, etc. Just imagine how easy it would be to exploit someone if you could simulate how they'd respond to anything with perfect accuracy. You could literally enslave people.

And while that's currently scifi, the amount of money companies like Google and Facebook are pumping into AI research means we could land somewhere pretty close to that eventually. If we're still not protecting peoples' data by then, we're all fucked.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
You have all valid points, I admit the second part of my comment is an ad hominem fallacy In reply to ad hominem fallacy, so I’m not proud of it.
I’d stick with the first part, the illness mention I think it’s beyond those other legit appreciations you pointed out, which you also dislike.
I take note of the holy trinity of stupid concept :)
Gabe from the Azure team here.

You nailed it. We think that microservices building blocks enabled by extensible side-cars has a lot of potential. We’d love you to take it for a spin and provide some feedback on GitHub. :)
"You do not need covert communications for things like banking or corporate email. You only need a safe way to perform authentication."

Agreed. However, the building blocks of that authentication (and other security protocols involved) are the same building blocks used for covert communications.
> If it's a business I inform them I'm recording the phone call. Much of the time, that ends the call. The business was going to record it too, but now that they know I'm going to record it, they tell me they'll have to end the call and schedule a time to call back when neither of us records it

Why go out of the way to inform them? Whenever I hear “this call may be monitored or recorded,” I figure I’m being given clear consent to record the call in a two-party consent State.
I think the problem is that building any new abstractions is a pretty big lift today, and so innovation is slow moving. Something like this can make that innovation easier, eventually giving way to some simple YAML files.

Unfortunately, it seems like every app eventually has its own pet requirements as it matures, meaning that building new abstractions might be important as part of the UI.

But generally, I agree, tools like this are needed because existing abstractions aren't good enough. I'm just not sure they will ever be good enough when everyone has custom requirements and app-specific architectures.
At a 15% rate, that's only 140k in capital gains. Significant, but hardly "balling" if it's a one-time event.
Man, why should those people be allowed to meddle in your life?

What is your point exactly?
I bought a kit called the EleksDraw and found it for $140 shipped. It uses G Code and didn't take too long to put together maybe a couple of hours at a slow place.
I don't find that I expect more privacy at my home than when talking to someone at work, or while walking in a park. I'm aware that someone can overhear in public, but I'm not constantly aware that a microphone is following me.

And in many places, people take their phones out of their pocket. And women's pockets often don't have good pockets at all, so whenever they sit down the phone is also put down (or in use).
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Biometrics are not secure to use for both a username and password combined.

At best, biometrics are good as a username to identify who you are, but not that you consent to login.

At best, todays biometrics are a trade off in security for convenience, partially because most can be faked.

I look to modern banking startups for biometrics use because money and personal data are similarly valuable and sensitive. If they aren't using it, it's not secure, or ready.

We are somehow ok with touch and faceid without some form of 2FA.
Seems similar, I think I remember a podcast about DoNotPay though and part of the vision was that they would put a bunch of these services into the single app to make it more useful/used more frequently I assume. Maybe that's the core differentiator but not sure
I used GetHuman once a couple months ago, and they spammed me for weeks after without any ability to unsubscribe.
You are right. But note that I never said that faces where any better.
Or you can use sensible alerts and ads.

Good taste hasn't died and never will.

And there was never effectively an “ad-free internet”, if by internet you mean Web. We had ads on the Web in 1994.
You are right but as you say all those things apply to your smartphone and the smartphone of every person you are in range of. Also, smartphones have cameras front and back. An Alexa in my bathroom only has a mic and speakers. The future will also be powered by cameras and microphones in public and you will be tracked. Amazon is actively selling software and hardware to enable dystopia today.

I imagine that if governments start to use Alexa, et. al. to crack down on dissenters, those whole business lines disappear as people dump them all in the trash. I think we have to depend on capitalism and whistleblowers to shout if things change. If someone wants to listen in on the sounds of my bathroom, help yourself. I personally draw the line at cameras. No camera, no Ring doorbell and my phone is usually in my pocket or in a shelf with no visual access.

The other thing that I'd point out is that a lot of people publicly shout their political and other positions voluntarily. This is great for free speech but is an even easier and richer target for government crackdowns.
True, just nearly all.
Yes. It’s more a story about wallstreetbets and Robinhood.
In Germany, it's actually similar. You can opt in to include the data submitted for you by various sources and include them in your tax declaration. The only drawback is you need to select each one (salary, basic info, church tax info) to import it into your declaration, and that you need to wait until end of February since that's the deadline for third parties to submit your data.

Also, some things, like capital gains, you don't even need to declare if you used only German brokers, since they are legally required to submit it for you.
> The flurry of downvotes is telling.

Im not sure I understand the comment?
Ultimately the problem is that the tax code is altogether too complex. I filed by hand up until a couple of years ago when I had to start accounting for things like capital gains and dividends from stock sales, and at that point it became too difficult and I started paying for TurboTax. At the end of the day they solve a problem that is entirely manufactured by government.

The main area where the system seems to be gamed from a software standpoint is that the federal government provides software if your income is below a certain threshold. More than that and you’re on your own. _That_ has lobbying written all over it.
Remember when Snowden released all those documents and nearly nobody changed the way they behave because it turns out passive, ubiquitous state surveillance wasn't the end of the world it had been made out to be?

Good times.
There is https://everything2.com/title/The+similarities+between+VMS+a... which looks quite detailed. But this one seems more reliable, since it's written by Mark Russinovich who is more or less the authority on Windows internals: https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vm...
Ed Boyden's work is fascinating. He has been involved with many things I'd expect to directly impact the future of the brain on a consumer level. https://mcgovern.mit.edu/profile/ed-boyden/
This is the internet, though, so people like me will always exist.

We bought a fairly cheap wearable monitor early on, and it works. Both in the sense that it has given us a couple of false positives when it got out of position, and in the more important sense that it has only done so a handful of times and the rest of the time I sleep much more soundly because I know it would go off if our child stopped breathing.

Honestly, this is not a truly hard problem to solve, and I'm kind of amazed that the APA hasn't figured that out yet. On the other hand, obviously the effect on different parents may vary.
I don't quite follow this. You can create (very complicated) immutable objects that encapsulate their state, and provide methods that return new immutable objects with different - and still fully encapsulated - state. Vavr is a good example.
The painful bit is having to fill out anything at all. I lived and worked in the UK for 11 years and I didn't have to fill out a form once in all those 11 years.

My brother who had rental income only needed to fill out a small form for this additional rental income.
Simplifying the Data Pipeline
> In any case the point is this: I had some straight imperative code that was doing the same thing several times. In order to make it generic I couldn’t just introduce a loop around the repeated code, but I had to completely change the control flow. There is too much puzzle solving here. In fact I didn’t solve this the first time I tried. In my first attempt I ended up with something far too complicated and then just left the code in the original form. Only after coming back to the problem a few days later did I come up with the simple solution above.

There are two kinds of people, I guess. To me, this description simply encapsulates the process of being a programmer. Boo hoo, you had to think a little bit and come back later to a hard problem in order to figure it out.

I'm sorry, but that's literally how every profession which requires engineering skills plays out. And like other professions, after you solve a problem once you don't have to solve the problem again. It's solved. The next template Gabriel writes in that flavor will not take nearly as long.

Seriously, all of these points he raises against FP are entirely contrived, and come across as the meaningless complaining of an uninspired programmer.
BTC can survive if the price at lest doubles before or after the halving. This is what happened in the past. It can happen again maybe even multiple times but certainly not forever.
Good.

In a more general sense, we as a society need to take a long, hard look at limited liability. We cannot call for more personal responsibility in society with one hand while with the other hand letting malicious decision-makers walk away with their personal fortunes while workers and shareholders take on the cost of their actions. People need to be held accountable for their actions, and this is especially true for people in positions of power whose actions can affect millions of people.
Language is useless if we don't set boundaries.

In this case, as you already know despite wanting to twist its meaning, "State target" refers to someone whom the state is specifically, actively expending resources in order to target. Target being the key word. Being part of a giant nation-wide dragnet doesn't make you a target.
Got it thanks, good info for me!
FPGA accepts "variable program"s. What you are talking about are peripherals. A CPU with certain peripherals can also be completely inflexible. That is completely outside the scope of what a CPU or an FPGA are though.
Thanks for the references. As you say they seem clearly metaphorical, but I guess I can see how they could have contributed to the misconception, especially when American evangelicalism decided the whole book was literal.

I have read several of Chesterton's books, but I don't think I have ever gotten around to The Everlasting Man. Someday.
Or they might not even be friends. Walk down a street filled with Ring doorbells. You are being surveilled by strangers who have been fear mongered because a pedophile will steal their Amazon delivery.
Why on earth are they spending so much? Are seats going unfilled? Are the "best" students that more profitable for them?
Automated phone systems are completely useless after the advent of the internet and the smartphone. Anything on any company's IVR is more accessible on the app or the website. There's no way I'd call my bank from the bank's app to have my damn statement and balance read out to while I'm looking at it. If we call someone these days, it's to talk to a human.
Gabe from the Azure team here.

The sidecar pattern is shared by a service mesh, so I understand the comparison. However Dapr is focused on enabling in-IDE experiences versus intercepting and proxying networking traffic like a service mesh.
Nobody's stopping him from speaking. The FSF, MIT, and portions of the GNU maintainer community have simply aligned on the meme "He doesn't speak for us." As they may.