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> "Reading meaning into a text" is pretty much the definition of redefinition.

What changes about the definition of "impressive" if I think someone uses that word to refer exclusively to rich people?
The thing is, even “proper tooling” is a nightmare.

Tons of consistency issues in APIs, poor documentation, boto3 is atrocious where services names are passed as strings and why not use ‘args’, ‘*kwargs’ so you don’t know how to use the method by looking at the signature.

I had to implement s3 presigned URLs generation as we had no access to SDKs, the documentation is littered across their website, you literally have to go through dozens of pages to compile enough information.

Their quota system is borderline frightening, there is so much individual limitations that you may really never know if some limit is not gonna blow up in production.

Not to mention their voluntarily incomprehensible pricing. You may brankrupt your company just doing a few API calls and anyway, I generally found the overall quality of their products so poor that their premium just kills it.

Every time I know I’ll need to use one of their service, I prepare for the pain.
> Increased focus on racial and sexual minorities to the exclusion of working-class interests

Are these actually in conflict? Are they also not part of the working class? What sort of policies do you think should have been enacted against this?
So you made it up and then downvoted me for asking for a source? Oh well.
I have a similar problem. I’ve found some of it can be fixed by overquoting and then leaving money on the table. You quote twice what you think you’ll need, then make them pay what it actually took. If they push back on the quote, shave a fourth of it max. If they still don’t budge, walk away - if a customer is bent on short-changing you, there will be worse issues down the line. After a couple of iterations of “I quoted 2x but it took 1.5x so here’s an invoice just for that” they should have no problem trusting your quotes as “worst case” scenarios and letting you free to manage deadlines as it suits you. In the event of it actually taking 2x, just make sure you overdeliver in some way - be it in the documentation for the delay, at worst.

The thing is, it’s ok to haggle and say No to a customer. A lot of them expect your first quote will take advantage of them. There will be no hard feelings after the negotiation, it’s just business.

Obviously then you have to manage yourself. That’s a bit harder, and very much down to individual preferences and inclinations. Daily meditation in the morning helped me in that area, but everyone is different.
I have done something similar, more hours but in less time.
. You are already noticing a problem, that's good.

Taking your holidays shouldn't be a problem. Talk to the partner company and mention the European holidays.

There are different ways to do this, the honest one is telling upfront.

If your partner is not understanding, mention that you are going to work only from a co-working space, because of trouble working from home.

The co-working space isn't open on European holidays.

If all else fails, change endeavours. You are in Europe, not China. Plenty of IT-jobs here who respect work/family.

Ps. The elephant in the room is not finding work, it's for your partner company to find trustworthy/skillful contractors.
I don't like to downvote comments, but this one is particularly bad.

First of all, BSOD where not that common, and for sure they are not what all of "us" remember about Windows 95.

Secondly, Amiga and Mac had their own version of the BSOD, there were just far less Amiga and Mac around.

Third: Windows 95 bootstrapped the PC gaming era, having the GUI code in the Kernel (for performance reasons) and not having the WHQL to test third party drivers yet, made BSOD popular, because many saw them when they were kids playing some game on their parent's computer.

Of course you can do what Apple does, forbid third party drivers and give up to Nvidia cards on your OS.

It is not a big deal, right?

I'm assuming you also never used a Mac with Mac OS classic and never saw the sad Mac...

https://regmedia.co.uk/2015/11/17/sad_mac_face.jpg
Paul Graham had it right in his "Cities and Ambition" note:

Does anyone who wants to do great work have to live in a great city? No; all great cities inspire some sort of ambition, but they aren't the only places that do. For some kinds of work, all you need is a handful of talented colleagues.

http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
This reminds me of when I was a kid and I was trying to make WordPad save documents in WRI format by adding a 'save' item in the right context menu for the WRI filetype.
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C is easy to learn but not to reason about. First of all, C is really C + macro-C, two separate languages that don't know about each other. Second, all the damn UB. Third, weak typing and fourth, memory errors. So no, reasoning about C is far from easy.
That's fine. Normally when I get a PR to update dependencies, I go ahead and update them myself, thank the submitter, and close the PR. No need to merge it directly. Similarly, if it adds a new dependency, I can ask them to put that in an isolated commit, cherry pick all the other commits, and update the dependencies myself.
Probably this?

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/fact-america-actu...
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I always thought the hacker in hacker news is the Velley interpretation as a company that gets something live as quickly as possible, hacking it up as it were. Not the traditional interpretation as someone who breaks apart systems to examine or access them.
I get the impression that Valley culture is an antagonist towards antifa organisations, so traditional hacking is anti-corporate in Valley eyes.
C3 are great presentations though, and truly give an excellent insight to modern tech.
> To use a perhaps extreme example: there's lots of injustice happening right now in China, and not a lot can be done directly to fix it.

Well, that's fundamentally the tradeoff that China (and quite a lot of the other Asian states e.g. Singapore) have made; their ruling class picked stability over freedom, and hoped that the economic growth would keep everyone happy while at the same time preventing organisation outside the party.

I agree that needlessly destabilising situations is bad, but also that very large injustices can persist in the name of stability. It's not a simple problem.
If the local grocery store or the local farmer was using the following 2010s tech buzzwords of the decade like AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Tensorflow, AI, Blockchain, TPUs, Quantum Neural Turing Machines, etc in their pitch to investors to scale their local shop to 100 million customers in a month, then they could sort of qualify as a 'tech company' in the 2020s and raise their series G. /s

Everyone and their camels is somehow now working for a 'Tech company' because they are using someone else's tech and immediately think they can scale like Facebook or Google. When the cloud waiter/waitress gives you the final balance sheet for your AWS/GCP/AZ kubernetes buffet, you will be so disappointed to call yourself a 'tech company' only for you to kamikaze your startup shop into the ground.
It's surprising how easy it is to perform a deauth attack, you can also gain some information just by scanning the airwaves about the devices connected to a particular router.

I created a little tool as a test of this a while back: https://github.com/dom96/deauther
"the onus is on you"

I don't see why.

"there's a wide array of reasonable measures"

I don't see how they address the problem.

"They're much better tailored to limit the value of the Chinese nuclear deterrent than yours"

I don't see why.

"I wish your military invested in better early warning capabilities"

Your wish is granted [0]

"Your existing arsenal easily suffices for credible deterrence"

Only if it survives the first strike.

"joining NATO as well"

Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland joined NATO much earlier than EU.

"essentially a Russian provocation, by the way (a position I don't entirely share)"

And the report of the official EU investigation doesn't agree either.

"If you're dealing with an unstable country with political, economic and social issues of such a magnitude that it cannot be regarded as a reliable partner, yet one with most of the world's nukes, at some point you're going to start viewing it as a potential threat."

I don't see why Russia couldn't be regarded as a reliable partner despite of its internal problems. Take gas and oil, for example.
And I don't see how Russia was a threat to the EU countries.

"Russia has created and continuously maintained a number of "frozen conflict" zones"

Why do you think that Russia created them? The newly independent ex-USSR country are run by nationalists, their treatment of minorities within their countries is uncivilized, to put it mildly.
Or is the problem that they are frozen? That's because Russia doesn't do things the NATO way - bombing a problematic country into stone age and achieving a regime change.

"directly interfered into the political systems of virtually every ex-Soviet state"

As did the US and the EU, including meddling in Russia's own elections[1].

"weaponized its gas exports for political aims"

Or the transit countries weaponized their monopoly on the transit routes?

"both sides squandered it"

I don't see anything in Russia's actions even remotely comparable to NATO expansion. You've listed numerous internal problems in Russia, but how you jumped to the conclusion that they made Russia a threat to the EU is beyond by understanding.

[0] http://www.russianspaceweb.com/eks-tundra-kosmos2541.html

[1] http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html
The definition of "impressive" does not change, it's you who believes the author didn't use the correct word, based on reasons that have nothing to do with the article.

Since neither one of us can read the author's mind, it's not a productive avenue of discussion. A text should always be taken at face value. Otherwise, we'll be no longer discussing the text, but each other's imagination.
There is quite a bit of variation here. Linux and, AIUI, quite a few microkernels, have a defined ABI at the user/kernel boundary. BIOS, a bunch of hypervisors, and some RISC-V M-mode interfaces are similar, albeit with “user” and “kernel” replaced with other execution modes.

OpenBSD and, very notably, Windows instead have a defined library interface. Windows has somewhat stable “system calls”, but only through NTDLL.dll. The real stable interface is kernel32, etc.

There are arguments in favor of both approaches. One significant, if rarely appreciated benefit of the user/kernel approach is that it enables user programs that don’t use the C ABI at all. Go on Linux is like this, and Go and the vDSO have interoperability issues because the vDSO is a bit FFI-ish in Go, and Go’s FFI is not very fast.
US, Russian troops brawl in northeast Syria
Here comes the first ever fist fight between US and Russian soldiers. I am really really curious who had won

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/US-Russian-troops-brawl-in-northeast-Syria-report-612168
My use case was doing a metaball animation using procedural scribbling[0], because the scribbles are random each frame, I needed a much slower framerate (10 or 15fps, IIRC), otherwise they'd look like a twitchy mess :)

[0] https://www.instagram.com/p/B3FWPi4o4Vq/
Nowhere bevause the modern hardware is only developped to be accessed C-like.

Of course that cripple it, but that is what the market ask so it is the only one produced.

Or you could look at HPC. Ever wondered why they use Fortran?
We call the cafes. They can serve coffee, tea, etc, have people talk, listen to music, etc.
If I could do this at home, I would. Otherwise, I dont feel like losing an hour of my life a day, for something that's going to minorly improve my life a year+ out. It's a flaw, but I cannot get motivated for anything where the reward isnt short term.
Death penalty: How many countries still have it?
I have a C2 rowing machine and an olympic barbell sitting right next to it. After rowing sessions (perhaps every other one), I will do strict (overhead) press and/or push-ups. Occasionally, I will also drive to a commercial gym to do bench press since doing something like this at home can prove to be hazardous.
ahh, I did think that first student "quote" seemed made up by someone who doesn't listen to students.
Very unlikely.

1. The probability of some paradigm changing breakthrough in AI over the next 10 years - the kind that can potentially give you the massive market returns - is extremely low.

2. The breakthroughs that will happen will most likely come from the big companies with massive budgets and talented research teams.

AI startup are fighting a losing battle.
Eating firmented foods or near rotten fruit is definitely an evolutionary advantage. I have some birds that get apparently drunk off my end of season berries in my garden
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/carnivore-diet
My primary goal is to make more environmentally conscious decisions whenever possible. I'm thinking along these lines:

- buy minimal necessary amount of stuff in general

- choose local, seasonal and less-packaged stuff when buying groceries

- choose independent and environmentally conscious producers over large multinationals

- drink tap water and loose leaf tea instead of drinks packaged in plastic bottles

- consume minimal amount of meat/milk/cheese/fish/eggs

- walk and run

- take buses and trains instead of a personal car, cab or plane
“Hacker” “news” is about corporate boot licking.
If you go to /r/esp8266 there are far too many posts from kiddies asking for help with their deauther projects.
Not following the recipe risks experiencing recipe anxiety: the fear that you are going to eat something gross. Ok, maybe it only applies to me, but I actually am scared about not following the recipe.

My husband modified a recipe to make it easier to read, but in doing so had also corrected a "mistake". He's not a pastry chef. He changed the butter cream recipe from "until the syrup is at 238 degrees" to "until the syrup is at room temperature". It wasn't too bad, but it was off. I got upset when I realized the modified recipe differed from the original.
I’d say even if you are working for the Church. Account for it as pro-bono by all means, but it’s still work commissioned by human beings, no matter how divinely-inspired they might be.
You just realise that if you worked for someone else, then you’d be paying for these holidays in one way or another. It would be factored into your salary somehow. You just just need to do the same for yourself.

Also, taking breaks can feel uncomfortable if your not used to the feeling of freedom, start small and work your way up to taking longer breaks. You will find the rest will make you more valuable as you’ll likely be more effective if you’re rested.
Further from the same article:

You don't have to live in a great city your whole life to benefit from it. The critical years seem to be the early and middle ones of your career. Clearly you don't have to grow up in a great city. Nor does it seem to matter if you go to college in one.

The Impressionists show the typical pattern: they were born all over France (Pissarro was born in the Carribbean) and died all over France, but what defined them were the years they spent together in Paris.
Only on OSes written in C, because C ABI is the OS ABI.

On Windows any language able to speak COM can use it, regardless what language was used to create the COM component.

Same applies to mainframes and their language environments.
They Russian troops are likely mercenaries, ex-soldiers. US soldiers have no backing from their Trump in Syria but my money would be on US soldiers...due to better training, age and discipline.
The fewer calories are part of the idea...
You have no access to hardware schematics. You have no idea what hardware defects are present that may compromise security no matter how much code you write. FLOSS means shit here.
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You seem to have missed his point, though, that calls for moderation and tolerance from an oppressing party are often just a means to defend an unjust status quo, and by extension, unjust power. I'm sure there are plenty of Chinese who wish Uighurs and Hong Kong protestors would just calm down and understand that civil order is more important than "justice." But doing so will never work out well for those aggrieved parties.

To use another example more directly relevant to MLK, if African Americans had to wait until it was convenient and comfortable for the white establishment to tolerate and accept them as equals, and the civil rights movement only ever worked within the bounds of the law, they would still be picking cotton. Maintaining order for its own sake without regard for the justness of the society being defended is tantamount to fascism.
> One of the good things about phones is that almost any information can be found almost instantly almost anywhere.

If you need to constantly look up informations, it means you have no long term knowledge of anything.

Hence you can't verify that piece of information.

> Also learning to remember to complete a closed book exam is not a useful skill anymore

The long term knowledge, AKA "your expertise" kindly disagree.

You can't look up informations when you are at a meeting with the client. You should already know what you're talking about and know the answer to the most probable questions.

Prior knowledge gives you confidence, without building a "memory only" information storage you can't be sure of anything.

What do you do if you disagree? Engage in a google battle? Or, even worse, use Wikipedia as a baseline for the truth?
Remember Blaise Pascal's divertissement (meaning: diversion, systematic distraction, etc)? He was alive in the 1600s, and he was making the same exact case we are making today! So I wouldn't be too quick to imply the ol' days were the better days.

I argue the better days are when we become piercingly aware that we have been alienated from our true selves and consequently err in the opposite direction of worldliness and more in the direction of peace, silence, and solitude as a means to live the good life. As naive as all the above may sound.
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COM is a (distributed) object model. It's mostly about structured object lifetimes. I don't think COM offers any solution for replacing bad use of preprocessor in APIs where we couldn't simply use plain C functions instead.
>For many people there's no snacking or eating outside regular meals

Just not many people in the US...
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> Passing dieharder doesn't mean anything at all with respect to cryptographic security.

Technically, doesn't not passing dieharder mean something with respect to cryptographic security, though?
> My experience with education is that you are often forced to write in order "to please" the teacher

It, honestly, doesn't sound true.

Teachers have ego, yes, but they also can recognise value in student's work, even if it doesn't please them.

Of course the wrong answer is wrong, even if the student put a lot of effort in it.
I am NOT a laywer, but I checked how much of what the article describes is illegal in Germany. The answer is just about everything.

Installing a doorbell with a camera that looks into the hallway is illegal. You may not record what happens in public spaces on security cameras. And even inside your home, you still have to ask for consent to make an audio recording. Otherwise, this constitutes a crime.

Also, sniffing Wifi for data not aimed at you is illegal. The law is quite broad and covers unencrypted data. Sniffing MACs of devices that don't communicate with your own network falls under that. Sending deauthenticarion packages using those MACs proves the intent to deliberately obtain that data. Thus might even result in a prison sentence. Deliberately interfering with the operation of a Wifi network may also constitute computer sabotage, but the bar for that is higher.

EDIT: I also forgot: creating the program that is intended to specifically interfere with the doorbell is also punishable. This is one of the rare cases where the preparation of a crime constitutes a separate crime in itself. The same goes for the distribution of such tools.
Alcohol's track record in my life thus far:

Relationships created: 0

Relationships destroyed or severely damaged: 2

To clarify, I was not the one affected by alcohol in those 2 cases. So thanks, but no thanks.
Yes, I told the people about this precedent. And the FCC. Not really my place to get them to call.

I think people don't believe a technical glitch is a real world problem. I've tried to tell them that it is definitely impacting their business (restaurants and cafes) and so there is in addition, a monetary impact, just as if someone was causing damage to their business that drove away customers.
Yeah, good luck integrating this with Adwords, YouTube, Facebook, etc. I understand why this is good for personal projects, but if you are spending lots of money on advertising (which probably goes mostly toward Google anyway), Google Analytics is the way to go.
I agree wholeheartedly. It should be a much bigger deposit, and then bottles should be reused rather than recycled (which is the worst of the three things we should be doing).

On Ontario, Canada it's simply a way of life that you bring in a box of empty beer bottles and put them on a rack on your way into the beer store in replacement for the box of full beer you're about to pick up. So in that way you only ever pay the deposit once.
Yes, and I'm not totally comfortable with their trade-offs. I feel they're on the side of "too much order, too little justice". So this already establishes a ceiling along some dimensions.

> I agree that needlessly destabilising situations is bad, but also that very large injustices can persist in the name of stability. It's not a simple problem.

My point exactly. And I bring this up because I see the MLK quote you pasted, along with Popper, used to rally people to actions seemingly promoting justice, but in practice just turning people against one another, and overall making things worse. I don't like seeing either of the quotes being used as a glorified "if you're not with us, you're against us" line by people extreme in their views.
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Plenty of ideas on milk alternatives, but I'd suggest you start fasting and initially keep the milk in your coffee. Once you've built the habit, you can figure out the milk situation.
Doesn't seem unusual to me. I could have written the same thing myself. Most of my doctor colleagues would be similar. Maybe you live in a different part of the world where doctors jump on every latest trend/study, but I'm not sure where that would be. Most of us like to let the water settle first.
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Agreed. But evidence? I've tried to convince the businesses to talk to the police. But, what they heck do the police/businesses do? How do you prove that there is a crime? They probably would believe me and would probably knock on doors and probably get a warrent. Then what? I'm not a professional cyber security person so how do I prove that device if found is causing damage?

Also, the device is intermittent. I can collect traces, but who do I send them to?
The source of this news is highly questionable. SOHR has no local presence (it's located in London) and has been caught peddling fake news on a number of occasions - https://www.globalresearch.ca/professional-news-gathering-th...