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Ding, +1. Schools spend their vast income on administrators, marketing, and marketing gimmicks, such as sports and very expensive new buildings. They are in competition with other schools to bring in more students and manage more students (thus bringing in more cash), so they optimize for that goal.
The article makes this out to be more complicated than it is. Apple makes it very difficult to use 3rd party kernel modules. That is the whole thing.

The open source thing is a complete red herring for everyone except the current maintainer who just happened to use some code that might be open source in a different context. The source for the module that could end up in the Apple kernel was never open to begin with. No one else could actually use the result of compiling the code. So the source was not ever open in a way that made any practical difference.

The only moral here is that it is sometimes possible to prevent the use of open source code in some contexts and that Apple sometimes does. We already knew that.
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> Perfectly joined the dots between a complicated but secure thing (you had to store sensitive state in S3 with server-side-encryption, which made it way too complicated to have sensitive data in a small side project) and the throwaway easy but very insecure thing (store the state locally/in a private git repo).

I use git-crypt for storing secrets in git repositories.

In the future, I'll probably switch to this, though: https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets
I don't think this answers the question?
> I can understand the perspective that homeless people are better off with some sort of home than the street. But the reality is homelessness is complex, and a flophouse doesn’t provide the support that people need to get back on their feet.

I suspect your argument stops at not wanting to live next to SRO's, and that the rest of it is just post hoc rationalization to an emotional reaction.

Seriously it breaks down after that. Your first sentence above for example should clue you in. It's not exactly dripping with magnanimity.

Homelessness is complex, but who says that you can't house the homeless and provide them support?

In the US, with it's byzantine medical and legal environment, where even 'good people' can end up owing six figures unexpectedly, nearly everyone is in danger of becoming homeless.

It's especially true now that our society is so fragmented, with everyone leaving behind all their social support to go make a buck elsewhere.
I can pay FedEx to get my shit somewhere faster than my competitors.

My customers are delighted by this and in turn they spend more with me and less with my USPS shipping competitors.

Data packets are just digital shipped goods. The same rules should apply.
If it was GPL from the beginning, wouldn't it be a "ZFS on Linux" like situation?

I don't think you can legally distribute GPL kernel modules for non GPL kernels. Even if you linked the module to the Darwin code, which is released under an OSS license (APSL), the two are not compatible and it's not clear if redistribution is fine (see "Darling: macOS compatibility for Linux")
>Why do people feel the need to standardize these things?

Really? Because standardization leads to automation.
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IA WBM: https://web.archive.org/web/20191210130453/https://www.wired...
"cost of school" oh but wait, it's not the cost of tuition as in the people and materials actually involved in it. Just ask any professor.

It's the cost of the administration. The cost of facilities. The extortion racket that are mandatory latest editions textbooks.

Universities are becoming less about teaching people and more about capturing grants and "selling the experience"
> You can disable Bluetooth by default and enable it only when used.

You are missing the point.

Ever heard of secure by default?
You can disable all of those checks by booting from the recovery partition, opening the Terminal and use `csrutil disable`.

Then you can do with your machine whatever you want.
I think university education also makes more intelligent, socially and self aware members of society. Even if it doesn't directly lead to a career in a chosen field, it produces better people who hopefully make better employees.
That is why you are under pressure. You have to get by with very little money and it causes stress.
While there are publications that predict job growth, perhaps real statistics with what workforce is presently training for would also help. Maybe fields without growth should have limited spots for people to get a degree in. And fields with high need whose demand is not being filled could be subsidized. Most of this is already happening to some extent.
I agree - people are likely to already have stands.
And for a mere additional $199 Apple will sell you a VESA mount to let you attach your standless monitor to your stand
I’ve spent years building Flash and Flex apps. Some really complex ones. Adobe had this big bets in RIAs (Rich Internet Applications). Turns out RIAs are simply SPA (Single Page Applications) now.

Typescript is really nice and close to Actionscript3. I’m glad Flash died.

The new open ecosystem with tc39 and wc3 is pretty awesome.
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Right. Only people with money should get an education.
Difficult to find reliable numbers. This one claims about 43% taxes in Sweden vs about 26% in the US https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxe...

Another question perhaps is who pays taxes - another source I found said 2/3rds of voters in Sweden get their money from the state, either because they are government employees or recipients of welfare.

So an average tax rate might also be misleading, if many don't pay taxes at all.
What’s so fascinating about history is there is truly nothing new under the sun.

Any ideas or issues that are discussed today were discussed in the past - or at least similar ideas.
Are they reliable only when installed properly, or even when they're installed incorrectly?
It's not clear to me that they are using the third party fork
But multiplayer games are indicative of an increased consumer demand for stable, synchronous connections.

So are video calls. Live streaming, etc. You're missing the forest for the tree you don't like
I use CashNotify.app it seems similar
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I don't think spending 150k on a degree makes you more intelligent. What makes you intelligent is the desire to further yourself in the first place. The ability to minimize the investment to get to maximum profitability is a sign of intelligence.

“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”
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I've never heard the IKEA metaphor before but it makes sense to me. There's really only one way to put any two pieces together. If they forgot to ship the right bolts, you're SOL.

Lisp is like a wood and metal shop. It may take a little more time to become proficient with the basic tools, but once you do, anything is possible. You don't hear Lisp programmers complain they can't do X with Y, and you don't hear builders complain they don't have the right piece to attach X to Y. If you don't have one sitting around, you take a few minutes and make one.
This. Wow! More websites and apps should do this. I’m gonna add a banner to my personal website.
It's pretty well disguised
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What’s wrong with Perl?

Also, with no C macros there are no C generics. I wish the author luck in maintaining that mess.
Except that the marginal cost of each "shipped good" is only a very small handwave away from zero. Which, as I understand it, is fundamentally different from the cost model of shipping physical packages.
Desert sand is rounded, river sand is spiky.
That's cool, we should meet up and share our experiences! Send me an email at chris@roomerator.com
As someone raised in a small town that moved to a big city, I'm very skeptical of small communities as a solution to anything. Anonymity inside a big mass of people provides freedom from nosy neighbors and relatives. It does has drawbacks, but so be it.
Someone without means but with demonstrated ability would be able to get a private loan.
There are a number of feasible things which are not permitted by law. There are significant advantages to ensuring net neutrality exists and is maintained.
But one extra FedEx plane shipping priority goods doesn't knock a USPS truck off the road for a day.
Surely this is preferable to the trivial circumvention of your proposal where you just ask a friend to post something for you. A trick that basically silences all Redditors that would otherwise complain about “ads”. I’d rather people just post their own stuff and we judge the content on its own basis.
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Banks already reject that, because they aren't getting a guarantee. The issue is the loans issued by the Department of Education, which are the non-dischargeable ones.
In my system of value (which is of course subjective and you may not share) I do consider that these open source projects suffer a sort of tragedy of the commons where some companies benefit immensely from them (think how expensive it would be to build and maintain something like osxfuse from scratch) but don't contribute anything back to it. It's like big corporations managing to pay little to no taxes in the countries they do most of they business, is it illegal? Probably not in most cases. Still unethical in my personal opinion.

But instead of just complaining about it I could try to be more productive and offer an alternative. Maybe there could be a nonprofit dedicated to centralizing these donations and redistributing them, for instance by polling the donors to figure out what they use and then split the cake based on the results. I'm sure in many situations it's not so much that the company doesn't want to give anything bad, it's just that they can't be bothered or don't know how. I don't know how realistic that would be though.
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This is just a fancy https://opendime.com/ with its own shitcoin instead of Bitcoin.
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Also, scullery maid. As best I can tell from the article, it just means “low ranked maid”. Some of the traditional job functions they list don’t exist anymore, but maids do.
Wish I had US$5000 FPGAs to just have fun with like this!
Sounds like a bad start for 5G
The question is: is this thing inherently complex or is it more complicated than it needs to be?

In software there are many things that are more complex than they need to be.
Do you mean the condarc file? You can do `export CONDARC=./project_condarc`
Still, I think that the kind of people who become programmers like complexity, and without a specific concern for simplicity will create over-complex systems.
> Is it even possible to do as a licence?

I guess you could draft it as some kind of exclusivity licence "this work will only ever be available under this licence". You would still own the copyright, just contractually bound not to exercise it.

But even that wouldn't be very convincing. If the author republishes under another licence this isn't in violation of copyright or any criminal law, it's more like "I gave written agreement not to do something I have the legal right to do, did it anyway, and nobody can demonstrate any damages. Sue me"
I remember watching City of God with someone and afterwards asking about the subtitles. "What subtitles?" He hadn't noticed he was reading subtitles. Raved about the film, though; aware that they must have been speaking Portuguese, but with genuinely no memory of the non-English language or the subtitles.
> `unwrap()` is "handling" errors by crashing the program, so it shouldn't really be used

This isn't the right advice to give, and is only going to confuse beginners. Panicking via unwrap/expect is perfectly fine, whether in a library or an application, only when the panic represents a bug. For example, accessing an element of a Vec with an incorrect index because of a logic error. If a panic occurs, then it should reflect a bug that is intended to be fixed.

Stated differently, it should be impossible for an end user to cause a Rust application to panic. If they can, then it's a bug.

This advice permits use of unwrap/expect anywhere, so long as its occurrence is never expected.
> IIUC, panicking via unwrap() or expect() IS graceful error handling. It unwinds the stack and releases resources.

AFAIK, only with the default panic=unwind mode. With the panic=abort mode, it aborts the whole process instead of unwinding.
Yeah, but the floodgates opened far worse when it wasn't limited to developer focused websites. I feel they should've shutdown the way for new Keybase users to join the airdrop. Stellar would've benefit from a large number of developers having their crypto and potentially developing software to use it, and Keybase would've been seen as rewarding their loyal users.
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I am not sure. It really depends on all small prints when you install their extensions I guess. All these extensions ask for permissions to work. It is very likely to be legal in my opinion.
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How does the servicer affect this? They're just the intermediary for the DoE to get their money back.
This was my first intro to Keybase as well. I believe it is still limited to the AWS provider (Google provider maintainers are dead set against it last I checked) but for resources like `aws_iam_user` you can specify either a GPG pubkey or a keybase username and upon creating the user the Terraform provider will generate a random password and encrypt it so you can store it / share it safely.
I have a young acquaintance who is a working cartographer.
I don't think it's just the language. Do an image search for "debugger icon" and you'll find it's all beetle-like creatures.

Though, I'll always think of this classic: https://jr.co.il/humor/humor007.jpg
> it would make way more sense to try to get your language recognized as an official eu language instead of critizising a finnish project for limiting their selection to official eu languages

I agree 100% with this. My intention is not to criticize the organizers of this course that made a very reasonable choice. The problem here is the rather absurdl (in my view) selection of official EU language. It would make more sense to me to declare English the sole official language of the union. This would not favor any big country now that the UK is out.

> With that said, if catalan was added, would you actually use that instead of english for a course like this?

Of course! I use all my software localized into catalan, even vim! Now, for technical documentation it is rare to find much in my language, almost everything is in english only. If this (quite serious) course was translated I would be even happier to follow it (but I might do it anyway if it was english only, as I'm used to it).
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Well, you can overhear conversations and talk to your remote teammates spontaneously: clarify requirements, solve problems, share ideas, etc. on the fly. There's no need to make a call or wait for an online meeting.
Seems to me Troy Hunt (the independent developer of https://HaveIbeenPwned.com/) and Cloudflare's Junade Ali deserve at least a mention in the Google announcement. They're pioneers of this database of pwned passwords and the ability to look up candidate passwords securely.

https://HaveIbeenPwned.com/

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...

Mr. Hunt personally paid to operate these services for quite a few years. Then he got sponsorship from 1Password to defray the server costs.
I love what ARCO does. Pay with cash it’s cheaper. That’s what most businesses should do. Cash is 5% cheaper for businesses than card.

Give that 5% discount. Customers love discounts.
> Most of the zoning laws were not written recently, and they do carry a heavy burden of being both anti-poor and racist.

It's not accidental either, they were written that was as a neutral way of implementing racist policies.

Just like the war on drugs was a smokescreen for Nixon to attack the hippies and peace protestors.
The SX1276 will do 9380 bps at its lowest sensitivity, so it could be boosted, depending on range. FSK mode will go much faster. I wonder if these disaster radios will auto negotiate rates.
Thanks, but this very quote names a browser that he uses?
>remember that performance changes are indicated by a lightning bolt.

Tbh that's a very weak consideration, as it's ingrained through standardization throughout the codebase. And if this is for codebases you're not familiar with, then PERF is hardly gauranteed to.produce useful results (it certainly isn't standard in my own codebases).

Much more dangerous is people expanding on emoji-tagging with things like COLOR and similar VARIANTS, or an explosion of tags like being suggested in this article, making it even harder to use/memorize the system

But worst of all is that emoji are ugly and ruin the aesthetic of anything they come in contact with
As a sidenote, I've been thinking about instituting an internal styling guide to discourage `unwrap()` in your scenario, in favor of `expect("impossibly missing")` or etc.

The message helps a bit more, and I also want to avoid debug unwraps that were forgotten about.

Though, the more I think about it the more a macro makes sense to me, purely for code search. If we used a macro, something like `impossible!(streams.pop())` then I can code search for `.unwrap` and `.expect`.

Hmm
I thought it was principally sorting and setting type - the metal letters had to be physically arranged (mirror image) in a small rack and screwed into a tight frame. Tedious.
But it does means the USPS truck is less than optimally full, but still costing about the same to run, meaning tighter, if not negative, margins.

These tighter margins will (if they weren't government supported) eventually mean that the USPS should reduce the number of trucks they run to better optimize their costs.
It's still sort of doing what the extension says it is going to do. On the extension page it says

"Keep your searches private by redirecting searches that may be tracked to Search Encrypt, a privacy-focused search engine... For your privacy, Search Encrypt intercepts the requests if it's on our list of sites"

So it says it hijacks right in the description.

On their website for their "search engine" it says

"The Search Encrypt encrypts your search terms between your computer and searchencrypt.com. Search Encrypt is supported by sponsored ads featured on our search results page."

Which obviously (to you and me anyways, not to others) is also done at Google so there is no actual benefit other than Google doesn't get your data.

My conclusion is that, yes, they are scummy and taking advantage of fears of people to make a buck. But is it an outright scam? Not so clear.
Though the New Yorker is an eminent institution, their usage is pretty uncommon. Definitely not “widely used.”
It's too slow in comparison with asking questions on the fly. Especially when you want to ask the whole team or share a quick idea.
What is it like to work at NSA? What are the culture, people, and benefits like?
I am glad I am not the only one against this. Especially iOS developers seem to love to put Emoji in their tooling and git repos, but that's just my experience.
No judgement on this particular opinion piece, but just for sake of clarity in case people are unaware, the Washington Examiner has a rather pronounced conservative and Republican bias.
My wife claims 'Editor' should be on the list. When word processors got invented, editing tanked since everybody now thinks they can compose and edit for themselves. Leading to the appalling state of printed literacy we have.
Thank you for your detailed feedback. I really appreciate it.

I've been thinking along the same lines as many of your suggestions, just haven't gotten around to them yet.

The color-coding of strings comment is interesting. It's obviously not hard to do, but it never occurred to me that this would be particularly valuable. (To be fair most of your suggestions are interesting, but this is one that surprised me.)

I guess this is academic from your perspective, but as it happens FATpick does support sync'ing with original audio recordings in addition to the synthesized per-track audio that it generates. But that feature is not exposed right now due to some challenges with the auto-synchronization logic. Maybe I should add the recorded audio to some of the existing tracks just to demonstrate the feature. That's definitely a more compelling experience.

Thanks for keeping FATpick in mind.
> Likely the best outcome for the project barring company sponsorship that pays him to continue working on it as OSS.

The project page on github mentions two sponsors though, Boxcryptor and Editshare. I don´t know any of the story behind this though, just tought I should mention it.
Sahara sand is different from beach sand. It's very fine and when it gets wet it feels more like paste then sand. It's why the UAE has to import sand for construction projects even though the cities are literally built on top of it.
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Yeah I heard you, this is also why sometimes I just go and use Go. I think D is perfectly nice in regards to the language itself, but it could use some polish and a few minor additions.

I love that with Go I can do systems application development (think web, mail, etc). I wish D would just have a built-in web module / package. Vibe.d is nice and all, but built-in is better.
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The universe is built out of simple things but there is complexity behind how those simple things are constructed and can interact.

Abstractions are a way to create contexts where contexts might not apparently exists and the main objective of these contexts is to provide simple models at every contextual layer to understand the infinitely complex environment where everything exists.
No, in my area the public school system offers cosmetology school for free.

I'm sure there's some fancy for profit private schools that cost $30k though.
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That reminds me of the Paradox of the Court. Obviously not quite as straightforward but such a payment model does encourage at least some degree of sandbagging.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_the_Court

On another note the idea rubs me as immoral in ways that loans don't for reasons I am not quite able to articulate. Like viscerally seeming too far too similar to indenteture.
China’s ability to fire the CEO of Cathay Pacific shows how irrelevant it is to ask who technically owns Huawei. What matters is whether the state has effective control, not legal control, and we know the answer to that for any company in or even near China.

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Up to a certain point, yes you pay per physical unit.

You get a lot better rate if you can fill a whole intermodal container. You get an even better rate if you buy that containers capacity for an agreed upon period of time.

There's a huge industry built around optimally buying space in shipping containers and transportation.