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strongly agree. I love the extra clarity type annotations bring to the code, though going back to the start of the file every time I want to add an import is slightly dissuading.
UK's disused mine shafts plan to store renewable energy
Middleboxes like to drop any data they don't understand. No doubt there is one out there that is checking that all data on the dns port looks like dns and when encrypted dns is used it gets dropped. Using https for everything means middleboxes can't tell what is going on and just allow it.
Apple iOS 13.1.3 Is Causing Serious New iPhone Failures
If you were to encounter a crow out in the wild, it would be considered irrational to believe that it is the only crow out there in existence. The same goes as you scale up the chain, if you encounter one human in the wild, the odds are high that there is another human out there somewhere. The evidence that intelligent life exists out there is the fact that humanity exists.

I think it would be more arrogant to assume that we're somehow special or unique in what is an incredibly massive universe where we exist as mote of dust upon a mote of dust. Right now, humanity is in the stage of tossing messages in a bottle into an unimaginably vast ocean, while using a hastily built telescope attempting to see over the horizon.

This isn't to discount the incredible efforts of those people exploring the cosmos, but rather that to demonstrate just what we're working with.
No, oftentimes they will intentionality constrain the scan to a specific area that they’re interested in. This limits the time and cost. However there are pretty consistent scan procedures, eg they might order a “sacral MRI” for lower back issues.

As others have mentioned, full body MRIs may be used for cancer that they’re concerned may have metastasized. The reluctance of people to do this is that it’s kind of “going fishing”. If they spot something weird, they may wind up having to follow up on it even if it’s probably benign. They don’t want you to come back a few years down the road and hold them responsible for not looking into an ambiguous blotch on an MRI that turned out to be cancerous rather than benign. It’s not really scalable.

Someone on here did mention the idea of starting a program of doing full body scans of everybody and then building a database of what things turned out to be an issue to build a better automatic early detection system. It’s an interesting idea.

That being said, having an MRI really sucks. You put on ear protection and have to lay still for dozens of minutes or hours while the machine clicks, beeps, clunks, and buzzes at ear-splitting volumes (hence the ear protection). And since an MRI acts as a huge magnet, you can’t take headphones in with you. There was one or two places I went that had non-metallic ear phones, but this seems to be exception rather than the norm. Contrast means getting an injection partway through. And even if you’ve never had problems with claustrophobia, MRIs can still trigger it (there are open MRIs, but these may compromise on resolution).

So it’s very understandable that a reasonable amount of effort is made to minimize MRI time.
For a copy of this article unredacted by paywalls: http://archive.is/biXCu

Here are some photos of the papers: https://twitter.com/i/events/1186056563900858369
I'm not an expert in accounting but I assume there's a legit way to write it off as some exceptional loss and offload it, maybe even to customers; what's however certain is that if you get audited by fiscal authorities, you better be able to prove it's not fraud. (and yes, it'll be subjective, ultimately a judge's ruling I guess)

But don't quote me on that part, it's been a long time since I've worked in retail (10 years). I just know that as a brand store (Esprit de Corp) we would simply send unsold items back to the mother ship and they'd deal with it. I think the maximum allowed sale discount is around 20% outside of the bi-yearly governement-decided national sales (called "les Soldes" in French, and a high time for shopping amateurs, mostly women historically).

This all feels so 19th century / communist, I'm appalled just sharing it. But it was true as of 2008.

But hey, we get e.g. Black Friday online like everyone else, and Amazon does their Prime Days too, so... dunno what's up with that. I just know street retail is dying big time here, more than in most comparable European cities in my anecdotal experience.
Don't get it. Why not get a real computer?
Other countries define "what they legally deserve" that pretty much as "what makes sense, medically"...
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They could do that already. There is nothing requiring that your app uses the OS set dns server
One of the ways you earn and fight for those rights is by not claiming they don’t exist. There are already enough people in the world who think you don’t deserve those rights. Best to keep the goal posts far away and convince as many others as you can that that’s where they belong.
> What does it mean to play chess without repercussions

Play 100 games where you don't care about the result, where nobody else in the world will even know the result, and where you can freely try out ideas without any downside?

You can do it right now, and you can play anonymously without signing up: https://lichess.org/
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How does that deal with the problem of the "social contract" of having to maintain a software project and engage with its users?

This seems more like a recipe for people who want to have an open source project but don't know what to do.

I'd wager most open source developers do not have that problem. The more common problem is that you want to scratch another itch, but your last itch based projects are still keeping you busy because they started to scratch other people's backs.
I have some roots for migraines to stop.
Are you so blinded by your pattern matching of what you think he’s saying that you can’t even read the second half of his post??

If there are significantly less women applying for software development jobs then statistically, assuming women are equally good software developers as men, aiming for 50/50 representation necessitates lowering the bar

This does not mean that it’s not a worthwhile pursuit to aim for equal representation

It’s an argument for working towards more women in STEM (we want bigger application pools!)
Exchanges on one end and cold storage in the other are not the only options.

A wallet in the mobile phone and backups in a couple trusted computers seems reasonable for me.
E.g. §5 UWG [1], the law against unfair business practices (“unlauterer Wettbewerb”). See also [2].

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/uwg_2004/__5.html

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlauterer_Wettbewerb
Anecdotal, but I’m seeing a bit of the opposite.

Those near retirement don’t want it and 1 person is taking a lot of it for the extra pay.

I hope it doesn’t make him burnout.
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Encrypted SNI is on the way. Alternatively, if the site is on a CDN or hosting platform you can usually send any SNI you want and it still resolves to the correct site.
My current setup (2019 edition)
I wonder why they just didn't get rid of normal job interview questions and let a natural conversation unfold. Surely they want to at least meet the person and get a feel for their character.
Firefox users can enable ESNI from about:config. If the web site supports it then it will work.
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Korean apartments are tiny
There is a big difference between prejudging a person and their possible behavior from a known trait of their appearance, and judging a person from their observed behavior (often without any knowledge that the person is neuroatypical).
To be fair, I don't think that its only big companies that discriminate (e.g. too many are agist, classist, or have a bias against parents). Though, small companies vary. And even if one is biased one way, it's likely that there are some (as in "any") that are not.

For social awkwardness - there are many kinds of that. For some corporate interview process may be not an issue. For others, a road blocker.
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America is caught up in a long-running debate, but most civilized countries have gotten past this, or at the very least does far better.
I think you missed part of the point of what the article was trying to say - or rather, what they hoped to do with this strict python. One of those things being some form of hot code loading. A snapshot of the state can't be incrementally rebuilt - it's very much all or nothing; whereas if we know or modules are side effect free, or at least some useful part of module loading is, we could cache that part and get faster start up times on incremental changes.
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How correct are they - are these mechanisms effective at stopping some amount of casual piracy and converting that into purchases?

Yes. Contrary to popular opinion among the geek crowd who tend to be very hostile to DRM, the people using it are not in fact completely ignorant and stupid. I write this as someone who used to believe similar things myself in my younger days, but who has now seen both sides of the coin and has moderated some of those views in light of that experience.

One thing that a lot of people don't seem to realise is that piracy often isn't about the price, but rather the convenience. If it's easier to find a ripped copy of something online, for example because it's not available in a certain region from legal sources, then people who want that content will go looking and they'll find the illegal sources. If it is available from legal sources, then to some extent DRM doesn't have to stop someone from being able to find a pirate copy, it just has to make it more inconvenient than finding a legitimate one. Given that any pirate content found online comes with a certain degree of risk, from malicious payloads pretending to be something else, poor quality or incomplete content that frustrates the person who gets it, and in some cases from honey traps that can result in legal action, this isn't entirely unrealistic.

One specific but very important instance of this, briefly mentioned already elsewhere in this discussion, is that if DRM can delay the widespread availability of some popular new work via pirate channels for a few weeks or even just a few days, that can make a huge difference to profitability. There have been AAA games where the DRM has been cracked but not for several months, and that might have saved the developers and legitimate distributors many millions of dollars.

At the other end of the spectrum, there is lots of content that is going to be many orders of magnitude less profitable even with a good run, simply because it's aimed at relatively small markets: niche music genres, software for running some specific type of shop or leisure facility, a documentary programme about an obscure interest, and so on. There is much less desire from the kinds of people who would be able to crack substantial DRM schemes to spend time on these things, so even simple measures can be quite effective in preventing that content from being trivially findable online, thus preserving the limited market for these kinds of products.

And finally, there is the simple but still relevant issue that some people genuinely don't realise piracy isn't legal or that what they're doing is piracy. "If it's on the Internet, it's free, right?" Even the most basic DRM schemes mean people probably have to do something that is clearly not the intended way of getting hold of the content, and that itself can be a useful deterrent for the "unwillfully ignorant" crowd.
More than a few ex-Cisco staff would pour fuel on any fire under chambers' pyre. I never quite got why. Clearly he has loyalty and antipathy but in different proportion?
We should finely differentiate between eliminating a source of bias, and adding a new bias to try to counteract a bias we think already exists. These are not the same thing.
> and not actually providing any kind of evidence

You might want to live up to your own standards. Looking at your posts so far, you point to no evidence that hiring 'based on intuition' (for whatever that means) ends in positive outcomes for either group cohesion, or even that fuzzy end-goal: productivity.
I've always felt like people after 60 calm way the fuck down. They're done, over it, just trying to take it slow and enjoy life.

I had a job selling newspaper subscriptions door-to-door when I was young (like 15ish), the thing I noticed was that grumpy people are normally in the mid-30s to mid-50s range.

I worked that job for 9 months (it was awful) and I would talk to upwards of 30 people a night, 4-5 nights a week. What I noticed (and this is all anecdotal), 30's-mid 40's women were always very polite and would make time if they had it, men in that range were extremely rude and had little patience for a solicitor. Mid-40's to 60 the roles reversed, women would be a lot ruder, but the men would be nicer and almost had an appreciation that I was hustling and would make some time for me.

Over 60, most women and men were pretty laid back and accommodating if they had the time.
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Aha... so you know. Hopefully my long piece will be useful to someone else, then.

"Red flag", that's the expression I was looking for indeed.
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What is this obsession with diversity, who wants so much diversity? what is it good for? what's wrong with having people who are more or less like you working with you and everything is nice and rosy. I am not going to try hard to get autistic people or women or black people or whatever is the flavour of the month I just want some people who i can get along with and produce enough work to make my 9 hours in the office worth while and not too hard. If they happen to be women or black or autistic fine, but I am not going to put so much effort into it just for the sake of diversity. Straight white males is fine by me.
> have I heard any coworkers or friends express this belief.

You don't seem to value diversity of opinion that high, and expressing such opinions can be disastrous for one's career.

> Being unable to view female coworkers as you do any other coworker is misogynistic.

Sure, now what? There exists misogynistic people in the world, a lot of them in the workforce. That would imply that comment saying "men and women still don't work together" is at least worth consideration. You can't solve social issues by assigning a label.
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You are right to some extent. Which is good for the copyrighted works but it is also sad. People, with all this beautiful technology are uncapable to understand or use it. Everything today goes down to "simplify usage even if you remove some features as people wont be able to use it".

I still remember days when I was kid, smuggling c64 under car seat into Slovenia (former Yugoslavian republic). All the sofware was sold on flee markets by known pirats. No internet, no manual. But still we were more than capable to grasp software usage, learn to develop in basic, even asm (after getting some book from Austria, german and translated line by line with help of dictionary - I was 12).

It comes down that resourcefullness is coming from lack of something. But today everything is available and no one tries to be resourceful. Probably the decadent part of human evolution.

Anyway, piratebay is part of known torrent scene, but there is also less known part, at least to the public: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Private_trackers#Wh...
Other providers can provide DNS over HTTPS. It doesn't affect client side ad blocking. You can still point your browser to a regular DNS server (like some kind of DNS-based adblock solution), just the default changed.
I don't know who downvoted you, but it wasn't me. I'll look at the papers you cited.
The problem is that you can't have a natural conversation with someone where there's high stakes. Job interviews are incredibly asymmetrical conversations, where one party has very low stakes (often they're choosing between several candidates who all have met earlier qualification hurdles, and only one candidate is needed to fill the position) and someone has very high stakes. There is no way to make the high stakes candidate behave as though the conversation has low stakes, and so that will always shift the conversation.

Also, people can often let biases influence them:

http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/why-job-interviews-don...
You're discussing from a position that puts team efficiency (and company efficiency) above any other value. You may in fact be right that certain kinds of diversity can hurt team efficiency (for an obvious example, if you already have a team of white power types, hiring a black man on that mteam will lead to morale issues).

However, in practice, and especially for large companies, optimizing only for efficiency is simply not acceptable behavior. Since the ability to find a place to work is so important for any individual in our society to have a chance at a decent life, companies' social responsibilities must have them potentially sacrifice some efficiency to prevent discrimination of large groups.

Note: I am not in any way claiming that disadvantaged groups are less efficient at work, there is absolutely not evidence of that. I am claiming that sometimes, to accept disadvantaged groups in a workplace may create some discomfort to the people who were already in that workplace, since statistically they were likely to hold biases against that discriminated group.
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“My current org's obsession with enforcing PP for its own sake as a measured performance metric has conditioned me to squirm when I hear the term”

That's just bad, imho, I would have the same response.

And thanks a lot for the kind words, much appreciated!

“This could be a blog post.”

You can't imagine how many times I thought this too, and yet here I am 10-15 years later still writing comments... Ha, it's never too late I guess.
> Her husband is legitimately allowed to ignore the card thing, and so is she.

The difference is that husband not writing does not cause other people to be hostile to him, while she not writing them does. Her husband effectively belongs to family whether he writes them or not, she does not.

And the difference between people being hostile or not does actually makes difference in your level of loneliness and happiness and what not.

> But its also true that we somehow raise girls to be more sensitive to societal expectations than men. The whole thing is deliciously complicated.

We raise them that way for example by being snippy at them for not writing cards, but by being still friendly with men who dont write them.

And now of course,there is also the part where men are more lonely in united states.
Well, since I generally don't care about your gender identity, I would be quite satisfied if I use the grammatical gender that corresponds with your gendered name. BTW in my native language all nouns are gendered, even the surnames, and it would be grammatically incorrect to refer to a feminine or masculine name with pronouns from different gender.

I disagree that personal gender is often relevant in that kind of discussions (SO, or similar general topic forums), and when it is, then it's perfectly normal to share it. The same goes for dick size. But why to mention it if not necessary?
To me, this screams: Vendor affected by cryptojacking ransomware.

Who the heck is contracting voicemail for these giant telcos? I am honestly quite surprised that telcos contract out such a critical service! Could anybody before say 1990 have been capable of even contemplating this??
I've used UML activity diagrams on a project to document how some high level aspects of a REST API were expected to work, but mostly I've been using sequence and communication diagrams for the same effect.
you can also port forward from/to unix sockets
Pet peeve: there is no such thing as a "neurodiverse person". Individual people cannot be more diverse or less diverse than others. Diversity is a property of a group.
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Anyone capable of working 5 days 16h productively is unlikely willing to give away 5 week worth free time.
Not opensource but works good: https://www.cloudberrylab.com/remote-assistant.aspx
On C++, inertia is a wonderful thing. Java has the benefits of extensive dependency injection and JVM/ecosystem tools that lower the risk of deployment of code. .NET also provides the controlled "managed code" environment of CLR.

Why any enterprise would use C++ for standard "business" or "large scale" programming makes no sense to me.

Enterprises want stability, not speed to market. Most of their infrastructure changes slowly (as in features deployed once or twice a year maybe). They have stable support mechanisms for this, including long and complex processes of approval.
> Let's face it: for neurotypical people, a lot of autists are very hard to get along with. Their behaviour is not always predictable in the way that we need behaviour to be in a workplace; and when more pronounced, their specific needs are not something that we want to have to address in our coworkers.

They say if you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person. As the term 'neurodiversity' implies, it is not restricted to any particular phenotype, but speaks of a plurality of diverse behavior types.

> It's good that small companies are often able to accomodate folks like yourself

Their are many high-functioning autistic people all through-out the start-up scene and across the tech industry. I'm certain it isn't just small companies that employ people on the spectrum. Some mask so well, you can't even tell - and the distinction between neurodiverse and neurotypical is not as binary as you might imagine.

You might want to give pause for thought.
Hey karmakaze,

Is not my product i just posted it here because I thought it could be useful to some.

I cosign what you said, it needs more information.

Have a great day.
You all are operating on the assumption that people listen to what one says, but while some do, many many don't. The "just talk with them" school of argument works in some situations, but requires listening. Especially when dealing with people who feel themselves entitled to something it does not work.

In particular, old people are very unlikely to change their ways no matter how much you talk about it. Also, people who dont have same experience are way more likely to not care about issues they never lived through. Also, people for whom not understanding is more comfortable have easier time to not understand.
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