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Thank you for sharing your personal stories - appreciated.

I, also, lived in what might be described as a pseudo SRO for about nine months in 1998/99. I witnessed similar things.

I'm not sure where these (SROs) should exist or how many of them we should have but it is completely reasonable and judicious to heavily regulate them and keep them out of neighborhoods where personal and familial status has reached a higher level of development.
If your bank supports it, get an ATM only card, or disable debit transactions while keeping ATM functionality.
> part of China's larger Belt and Road Initiative, which is presented as investments into smaller countries, is to ensure non-aligned countries (in a manner of speaking) are beholden to China.

Not really. The most prominent case where that happened is a shiny new port they built in Sri Lanka, but which turned out to be impossible to run profitably, so the Sri Lankan government handed them the port for a 99-year lease instead of paying their debt. Now China has a port in Sri Lanka they can't run profitably either.

What the BRI is is a great opportunity for Chinese officials to earn kickbacks from Chinese companies for helping them land government contracts abroad. I assume that's what happened here: someone working for Huawei really wanted to close this deal and receive a fat bonus, so they offered the ambassador a cut for intervening on his behalf.
Note that bicycle helmets are not very useful at improving outcomes. Especially for cycling within cities, MTB or something completely different is likely to have a different risks and helmets may be a clearly good idea there.
Did you tough about removing the account creation at the start. This seem to me as unnecessary friction to try it out.
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Or if it was "discovered" that bending the Z80 pins inward a bit and stacking them 16 high over each other actually works, and would have worked even back in the 70s. That would be surreal.
Cool, thanks. Pricing looks good. I'm not able to check out your product because your service appears to be down right now...?

$ curl 'https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/styles/alidade_smooth.json'
<html><body><h1>502 Bad Gateway</h1>
The server returned an invalid or incomplete response.
</body></html>

Tried from multiple locations to make sure.
I have so much empathy for your situation because I was there about 3 years ago. I had a job with a fortune 500 company and would have everything finished by 9AM everyday (with one task at 4PM that was laughable).

I wasted most of my time and regret it.

It's not that easy to sit there and learn something with the stress of having a manager walk over and "catch" you doing nothing. In the last 6 months on the job I stopped caring if I got fired and spend all my time developing a few small C projects (I set up a complete developer environment). No one ever noticed or cared. In big companies, they want people in chairs.

Anyway, good luck!
The bills are intended to be spent hand-to-hand in meatspace with cryptographic validation. See section 2.1 [1]

The innovation of Bitcoin was decentralized electronic peer-to-peer cash. Kong does not remove any of those elements and makes the overhead of the peer-to-peer bit easier.

Physical cash is still the dominant form of payment. The advancement here is figuring out how to issue physical cash without needing a central entity.

I like Bitcoin but it is anti-privacy by specification. For small transactions I prefer cash. I would like the best of both.

[1] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRNRCocj4PwKMXrd1jeUGw7ASQSuEk7BDJu5Ks...
This is a good point. There are too many confounding factors. I recently finished my PhD and reflecting back, it was hard and a lot of work, certainly not what I imagined as an undergrad. I worked most weekends and holidays and have a few projects that failed and grants I couldn't produce the results, subsequently losing funding. It was a bit debilitating watching friends and family enjoying the 9-5 lifestyle.

Honestly, what kept me afloat were my Chinese and Indian colleagues that pretty much lived in the office but were candid about the experience.

I'm not staying in academia because physics AP's don't make that much compared industry positions (I want a cybertruck :) ).

However, I'm glad I finished, because it's opened quite a few doors in industry to work on cutting edge tech with problems I want to work on.
>$2s are automatically assumed to be fake

Steve Wozniak used to keep uncut sheets of $2 bills that he perforated and would tear off to give tips to people. He has a great story about secret service agents detaining him and accepting his fake ID ("Laser Safety Officer" - it showed him with an eyepatch on) and generally having no idea $2 existed.

https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n36a40.html
Based on news reports in other countries it's a pretty consistent stance for Chinese diplomats to make the claim that if Huawei is allowed to compete in a free market manner it will be beneficial to trade relationship or if Huawei is banned for security reason it will damage trade relationship with China. The article did provide a background for such security concern from Danish defense ministry.

It's still entirely in the realm of possibility that the Chinese diplomat in question asked for unfair non-market advantage, but I find it quite unnecessary because Huawei's technology is already competitive on its own, why spend political capital for such minute economic gains? A more probable story, as has already happened in many other countries, is that local ISP chooses Huawei based on price and competitiveness and is blocked by government on security grounds, then Chinese diplomats step in to remove that block based on other stick and carrots.
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In this case it appears Facebook held the person accountable only after journalists started asking questions. That suggests Facebook either didn’t know what was happening or (less likely) didn’t care. Any system that relies on reporters to identify policy violations is weak to nonexistent.
Which happened earlier today with Microsoft teams for linux
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You are confusing different concepts of frequency/scope and comparing. All air travelers being individually searched vs a single individual case of private investigation into property are 2 equal cases, for the purposes of law. The number of people affected may eventually normalize the acceptance of behavior, but is otherwise a singular legal situation.
I hope that pedantry about cycling safety aside, my point is clear. Feel free to swap out "cycling without a helmet" for any other risky activity you might observe day to day if you pay attention to the world around you.

Why do people break the speed limit on wet roads just to get home a minute sooner, when they could slide off the road into a ditch and never make it home at all? Obviously, because they think that won't happen.
1. Adobe is/was on the standards groups and stnadardised all the photoshop blend modes into browsers a long long time ago.

2. Alpha composition? Are you sure that's what you mean? we've had that universally in browsers since IE7.

I am continually stunned at how little most developers know of what browsers are capable of.
What are you afraid of Apple? Rising salaries?
What would you do with a terabyte of ram on a mac?
Could you elaborate a little on how this is different or better than past projects like BitBills?

Also what do you mean by "after a period of several years"?
A bit off topic, but is Common Lisp still a good choice?

I spent a lot of time learning and coding CL during the last decade. I love lots of things about the language. Overall, it's great it's true multiparadigm. Few languages achieve that.

However, the implementations are too fragmented which makes the standard quite stagnant. And libraries are falling a bit behind.

I love Clasp is putting CL on top of LLVM. I wish we could have something with the best ideas of Racket, Clojure and CL on the LLVM.
It seems they do try and solve this, but potentially not completely depending on what triggers your file load. It seems to be able to simulate HTTP traffic.
It's a very common misconception, there is no requirement for Scottish banknotes to be accepted as payment anywhere in the UK (including Scotland!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterlin...
Don't do it, you'll hate every other language after that (I do).
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Why are $2's assumed fake?
Just as a point of logic: even if we are 100% sure that there is no funny business going on with ownership of Huawei (which we don't know), we should just assume the govt interferes because the incentives to do so are strong and the mechanisms do so already exist (presumably, Huawei has a "red machine").

Believing the Chinese govt don't interfere is attributing some fairly superhuman levels of self-control to the govt...even in a system with controls over govt, that would be unlikely...in a system with no controls, it is a little ludicrous.
They're encrypted with a key that's shipped on every processor they ship. A combo of classic espionage and electron microscopes means that we should assume state actors can know the exact mechanism of microcode update changes.
> Your entire approach smells like a very manual process that doesn't work for teams any larger than 1 person.

You may be misunderstanding the concept. Automated declarative schema management (AKA diff-based approach) has been successfully used company-wide by Facebook for nearly a decade, to manage schema changes for one of the largest relational database installations on the planet. It's also a widely used approach for MS SQL Server shops. It's not some newfangled untested crazy thing.

I have a post discussing the benefits here: https://www.skeema.io/blog/2019/01/18/declarative/
I've been in this situation in that our team had a stated goal, but it became obvious our manager was doing jack shit to enable us to accomplish the goal, and no one gave a fuck if I or the team was doing anything. In fact, the organization we found ourselves in seemed to be actively opposed to what we were trying to achieve. It's extremely toxic to your mental health and detrimental to your career long-term if you stay put.

I treated it as a paid job-search opportunity and put in my two weeks as soon as I got a good offer.

If you don't have that option, try to find anything you can build that would improve the lives of your coworkers and get them to use it. Put it on your resume and start looking.
Apparently, it's also an issue with MariaDB.
"a Constitutional Convention would be a powerful engine of change, with a better-than-even chance we'd end up with a better system than we have now"

What makes you think that? I would put the odds of a better system at approximately zero.

We had a rare, special moment in history that created our Constitution. The Bill of Rights is amazing and radical even today.
>Please stop accusing everyone of being biased and having an agenda. Not that there is anything wrong with that, since everyone is biased and has an agenda (including you), but the way you're saying it makes it sound like you think it's an important component of other people's comments but not yours.

Ok first of all. There is no universal law that says everyone has to be biased and have an agenda. There's no logic to it. This false notion comes from the fact that most people (not all) people are biased and that when people are biased they are unaware of it. However this does not mean that people can't be unbiased or have no agenda.

Second: Examine the sentence in reference to that phrase. It is literally word for word referring to "engineering" and Not a specific set of engineering projects.

Literally what you are doing is inserting your own opinion onto what that "engineering" is referring to and I am taking it at face value. So I am not wrong when I say that your observations are biased. There is no accusation here, just observation of events.
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve used Pixlr in its various versions including as a browser extension for nearly ten years.
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was it zuckerberg ?
I thought this was saying "public health grad programs are worse than STIs" and I was so confused...
Speak for yourself. We've got a small yard. The kid loves it -- when I get stuffy about screen time, he gets bored and unless the weather is awful, he'll go out and play. There's other kids on the block, and they'd be friends (well, or enemies, but there's valuable life lessons there either way) by now if there were shared spaces.
Unfortunately I do not have any handy resources. I would look at some of the SQLite implementations you saw to confirm if they are just using the builtin SQLite. This seems to be mapping to SQLite code itsef instead of a more higher level driver.

Edit:

Did find this topic on the D forums:

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/sqrkjhzafvrycgdrzlxq@forum.dl...
They are so rarely encountered than many people don't think that they are a denomination actually issued.
Already happened: https://www.copperspice.com
Yes it very much is: it adds support for per-app, per-directory permissions, like Little Flocker did. It’s a huge security benefit (stops ransomware, for example) and is the main reason I updated to it.

Relatively unsurprising, considering that the developer of Little Flocker now works for Apple.
Why is this garbage fire of a language still alive is one of the big mysteries of the universe
You seem to be exhibiting signs of learned helplessness. You can absolutely learn how to automate something, if you try.

If you want normal, boring work to do why are you complaining about having nothing to do? The most normal, boring work of all.
> Is that any different than anything else?

Yes. In practice test coverage tends to be well below 100%. This is fine if you're just running tests but if you're deciding which part of your package should be pruned based on this sort of analysis then it's very likely that this will cause problems.
That's fair.

Full disclosure: right now FATpick will import gp3, gp4 and gp5 files. The "import song" button both enforces and mentions this, as does the user manual IIRC, but it's not something that's called out in any way.

If you have a gpx file (produced by Guitar Pro 6 or 7) then you'll need to convert it to gp5 to import into FATpick, at least for now. If you're using the GuitarPro app itself you can just save it that way. If you don't have the GuitarPro app TuxGuitar is free and handles this well (it works for editing GuitarPro files too).

Obviously it would be better to support .gpx directly, and for that matter things like MusicXML, too. But the GuitarPro format has to be more or less reverse-engineered, and gpx is unlike gp3, gp4 and gp5. Most files in the wild seem to be gp5 (or after that, gp3) anyway so that's where its at right now.

It seems like one could probably use some headless form of TuxGuitar on the back-end to convert gpx to gp5, but other than a cursory scan to see if that's a feature they already provide (it isn't) I haven't dug into it much more deeply than that.
What does Kong bring to the table that a gold coin does not?
Well if you have some colliding neutron stars you can make more gold!
I agree completely. I merely wanted to point out that your reply that the problem is really hard was in reply to a person who solved the trust problem using the tools signal provides by having a simple problem (will always meet people in person first) and doing some work (verifying safety numbers).
The Fourth Amendment prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures," which the Supreme Court has broadly interpreted to include things such as warrantless wiretaps [1] and even certain types of cell phone call metadata [2]. Effectively, if a person expects their conversations to be private, and society views these as reasonably private (e.g. not taking place in the open, where anyone could overhear), warrantless covert government access constitutes unreasonable search and violates constitutional rights. To quote Supreme Court Justice John Marshall II:

"My understanding of the rule that has emerged from prior decisions is that there is a twofold requirement, first that a person have exhibited an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy and, second, that the expectation be one that society is prepared to recognized as "reasonable." Thus a man's home is, for most purposes, a place where he expects privacy, but objects, activities, or statements that he exposes to the "plain view" of outsiders are not "protected" because no intention to keep them to himself has been exhibited. On the other hand, conversations in the open would not be protected against being overheard, for the expectation of privacy under the circumstances would be unreasonable."

Note that this statement was in agreement to a court decision saying that government wiretapping of a public phone booth was unconstitutional, because when you're in a phone booth with the door closed, you don't expect people to overhear you, and thus it's an unreasonable search and a violation of constitutional rights for the government to record your conversation. Note that this doesn't depend on notions of "trespass" or specific areas, and rather depends on a person's expectation of privacy:

"For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected."

OP is almost certainly correct that dragnet, warrantless searching of private message data by the government is a violation of constitutional rights, although it'll take a Supreme Court case to make a real ruling on the subject.

[1] Katz v. the United States (1967) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katz_v._United_States

[2] Carpenter v. the United States (2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States
MIT offers a few courses that you can audit for free and or get a certificate for a minimal fee.

Not so sure if they offer any on Java but they offer a few Python courses so you might want to consider that.

If your already proficient in C# its mostly just a matter of syntax to learn a new language anyways.
And the roots are socioeconomical. The only lasting solution is targeting the roots that motivate/force people to steal in the first place, but this is obviously a more complicated and long term endavour, which depends on a political will that is currently nonexistent.

In other nations with a better social system this worked quite well however.
Kong? I'll stick to Dong, thanks.
Thanks! In that case, they seemed to have a good point: if it was an open source CPU, it seems like security might be an issue.

One way to do it: ship security updates using the same technique as intel, and don't release the source code for the fix until much later. I think I remember an open source project doing something similar. But of course, it seems pretty hard to manage that complexity: what if the fix introduces code changes that future commits depend on?

Interesting problem...
> But it doesn't mean that 2A is narrowly scoped to that rationale alone - the journals from the debates over the meaning of the amendment, and other correspondence between the participants (which are referenced by the Heller majority opinion, by the way, so they're not just inventing this interpretation) makes it clear that RKBA was seen as applicable on the broadest level:

> "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials." - George Mason, Virginia Convention on Ratification of the Constitution

This quote is consistently taken out of context to support a radical position on the second amendment. The quote is made in the context of class inclusiveness — he's not suggesting every member of the population was a member of the militia. Furthermore, Congress would define the militia as free, white males 18-45 in 1792 — hardly a broad application.

Here is the full quote:

"Mr. Chairman, a worthy member has asked who are the militia, if they be not the people of this country, and if we are not to be protected from the fate of the Germans, Prussians, etc., by our representation? I ask, Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor; but they may be confined to the lower and middle classes of the people, granting exclusion to the higher classes of the people. If we should ever see that day, the most ignominious punishments and heavy fines may be expected. Under the present government, all ranks of people are subject to militia duty.

Under such a full and equal representation as ours, there can be no ignominious punishment inflicted. But under this national, or rather consolidated government, the case will be different. The representation being so small and inadequate, they will have no fellow-feeling for the people. They may discriminate people in their own predicament, and exempt from duty all the officers and lowest creatures of the national government. If there were a more particular definition of their powers, and a clause exempting the militia from martial law except when in actual service, and from fines and punishments of an unusual nature, then we might expect that the militia would be what they are.

But, if this be not the case, we cannot say how long all classes of people will be included in the militia. There will not be the same reason to expect it, because the government will be administered by different people. We know what they are now, but know not how soon they may be altered."
I have no misconceptions here - I know Scottish bank notes are not technically legal tender, and thus, technically, nobody is under any compulsion to accept them.

But in the real world, they are absolutely defacto legal tender - as above, every bank in the UK (and even many beyond) accepts them.
These aren't at all comparable unless the employee can use the employer's time, money, and resources to search for a better job.

Beyond this, I find it ridiculous that you're comparing humans with thoughts and feelings and limited time on this earth to wholly inanimate corporations. We should err on the side of giving humans more freedom and liberty.
Luckily if a big browser makes this the default, these things will probably be fixed.
Management jobs are different. You're paid a premium to, essentially, be above employees; both in terms of freedom and pay, but also responsibility and loyalty.
> I don't even know if this experience is transferable anywhere else

It's not (doing nothing productive and pretending to look busy when your boss knows you have no real work isn't experience that's going to open any doors elsewhere), and the more of it you have the worse off you are. So you should be looking for something else, if you can't make it something else.
> I am continually stunned at how little most developers know of what browsers are capable of.

I guess it's because developers don't always need to know everything.

The browser platform has turned native computational capabilities into a "hodge podge" of functionalities that a developer needs to pick from, so programming becomes more like shopping than like building things. Not every developer likes that mindset.