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You don’t know how this game works. Of course the devs come up with the _initial_ estimates - they have to, or else it wouldn’t be possible to blame them when they end up delivering “late”. But those initial estimates are always “negotiated down” to whatever looks best on the manager’s quarterly bonus review - they might not be brilliant at designing products or scheduling, but they’re geniuses when it comes to re-stating things so that they sound different but are actually the same until you finally get tired of arguing with them (I mean, it’s tricky to argue with somebody who decides whether you get paid or not) and agree to whatever they say and just disappoint them later.
Also conspiracy and obstruction of an agency proceeding. She settled with the SEC on civil charges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Stewart#Sentence
I got approval to put the data on GitHub. I need to collect it from a bunch of Calc workbooks, and dump it in a text file. I also need to write up the methods in more detail, and that involves collecting stuff from multiple VMs on multiple hosts. So it'll take me a while.
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> So bandwidth from Hetzner to USA isn't any worse than to Europe?

Europe is always going to be better by some margin.

And, as I said, I've had some complaints with German-based providers (like Hetzner) from users in NA. Not enough to be a serious consideration though when weighted against cost.
Without a passport, probably, that’s true, if you contact country officials. But without customs clearance and border security check it can be a criminal offense.
In Norway it is not illegal to cross on red. What's illegal is to cause danger in traffic, which might be the case when cars pass.
> As Linux Kernel 2.6.36 does not support NX

Does the Model S really run 2.6.36, first released ten years ago? I'm sure they're using a stable branch and keeping up with security patches in general [1], but that's still shocking to me.

[1]: although not 100% of security patches are going to end up in the stable@ queue or have their effect on 2.6.36 considered.
GPS provided elevation data is bad, like really really bad. Often tens of meters out of sync. Unlikely this would work well in practice without additional location data sources (barometer, camera based tracking, etc.).
> If estimates were all accurate

then every level of management between the devs up to the CEO could be replaced with a spreadsheet.
I'm always amazed by comments like this... I've traveled to cities all over the US, wandered around streets late at night, hung out in seedy bars, and generally look pretty scruffy and never once has anyone offered me drugs.

Maybe they think I'm a narc.
What made you go to grad school and why X concentration?
and what compelled you to choose the concentration you're in?

I'm thinking about going to grad school, my company doesn't offer higher education benefits so I may need to jump ship at some point but I'm still figuring things out.

I can see myself teaching but I've only been in industry for ~2 years so I'm not 100% sure.

I'm not super excited about the prospects of research papers either, during school I did research with professors, and while it was fun the most tedious part was writing the papers and articulating my thoughts and ideas.

would grad school be the right path for me? I'm interested in a variety of disciplines, during hackathons I did some ML, CV and NLP stuff. And while those probably compare nowhere to the rigor of higher education I did enjoy learning those concepts. I don't suppose there's a general PHD in CS?
My professor told me to choose grad schools based on the professor as opposed to the pedigree of a school. If you want to become an expert on X study with the foremost expert on X.
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Yes, relativistically, you can travel anywhere in the Universe and only have seconds pass for your frame of reference. But I thought that Vega was the furthest star that you could travel to and from and then still have people you knew here on Earth that were alive. Also, I was totally wrong about Vega. I think that was my reading of Contact that gave me the thought. There are a LOT of systems that are inside of 30 LY from the Sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_star_systems_within_25...
Things are not always black and / or white. The rule of law, in reality, is rather a continuous variable then a binary one.

And even if: A kill switch can simply hide / erase some things and present some weak evidence..
Too right. And don't let the thought police shut you up
Hmm, I see it somewhat oppositely. I find that most books are bloated and spend most pages regurgitating information I already know, where blog posts tend to present only the novel information, using hyperlinks to link to information required to understand the given post.

If I know nothing about a topic I find books to be really valuable, but for topics I'm already knowledgeable on, they are terribly inefficient.
The world is made a better place with adversarial interactions. Its true even in Machine Learning.

Dont expect better from other people if you cant fight for your own ideas.
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I am happy to leave it to third parties to decide for themselves whether you have stated a coherent position.
Thank you, I stand corrected.

I am pretty sure it didn't use to be like this. BBC was one of the few sites that didn't show ads even without ad blocker.
I've seen people connect the seat belt and then sit on top of it. Probably thinking it's their own business, whilst at the same time making themselves into meat projectiles that could strike other people in case of an accident.
Oh yeah, and the Japs never attacked Pearl Harbor. The Japs have prostitution houses everywhere, they have never done anything criminal . . .
For what it's worth, gathering dust isn't universal. Pretty much every day mine gets fired up for half an hour of Pistol Whip or Beat Saber.

Other games get longer sessions, like Shadow Point which I just started yesterday. Neat game so far, puzzles based on perspective, light/shadow, mirrors/reflections, that kind of thing. It reminds me of The Witness in a lot of ways.

Also has some unusual spaces where rooms connect to each other or back to themselves in a ways that they shouldn't. Nothing new about that in games, but it's weirder to experience in VR than on a computer screen.

My favorite trick so far has been where they'll make you lean in close to something, and then when you step back you find yourself in a totally different space. Nothing changes on screen, they just pull the whole environment out from under you while it's outside your field of view, leaving only the part you'd been looking at unchanged.

Narration by Patrick Stewart is also great.

A friend was telling me last week that a 3D space strategy game is what he was hoping to see in VR before he jumps on board. Then last night I stumbled on Eternal Starlight, which will be right up his alley: https://twitter.com/e_starlight_vr/status/121164647988401766...

It's still early days, but I think VR has a lot of room for different kinds of experiences for all sorts of demographics. Very excited to see what we can do with it in the next couple of years.
Not first the first time, I'd like to point out that the people that instituted and cared for the amazing cultural values of Google in its first ten years are loooong gone.

They're all rich beyond belief and completely burnt out from carrying that torch (Jeff Dean maybe being the exception).

Unfortunately, before they bailed, they didn't take the time to select their replacement properly, as in: handing over the reins to people with the same kind of ethos, moral values and more importantly, the same kind of backbone.

Instead, they left the superb thing they had created in the hands of a new gen of execs who either don't even understand how one can say "Don't Be Evil" in a business context or - Sundar being a prime example - strictly don't have the shoulders, charisma, leadership or vision to run something like Google.

Google has turned in yet another faceless corporation run by a bunch of greedy execs who are only in it to make as much money as they can. Given how much power Google has concentrated in the hands of a few, this is pretty terrible.
Definitely. That's phase 2 of the world's worst game. Phase 1 being "Please give us an unbiased estimate, but we will yell at you until it's the number we like." Under those conditions, working weekends is just feeding the beast.

I do think it can be ok to work extra hours to seize an unusual opportunity or deal with some truly unexpected problem. (E.g., the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 required a lot of tech people to scramble.) But that has to be balanced by something good for the workers and painful for the business, like an equivalent amount time off or significant overtime pay.

But workers shouldn't have to spend their spare time making up for managerial incompetence and malpractice.
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I am just telling about the article, not saying it is true or not. Just sharing info.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bombings

> The area was crowded with shoppers. Witnesses said that shoppers fled from the first explosion into the path of the second. It was later found that the bombs had been placed inside cast-iron litter bins, causing large amounts of shrapnel

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1991/feb/19/northernireland.d...

> Forty minutes later, a bomb hidden in a litter bin on the main concourse at Victoria exploded as police were carrying out a search, and while the rush hour was at its height.

> The dead man, a commuter, was the father of a 16-month-old child. He was killed by a shrapnel wound to the chest

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/two-young-boys-murdere...

> Hundreds of pieces of cast iron shrapnel from two litter bins, which had been blasted apart by Semtex, littered the shopping precinct
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Thank you for saying. It's like we can't even mention these frustrations sometimes
In my household I'm the English nerd, although I have no degree behind it. I'd correct my wife when she wrote "would of" but then I listened closer when she talked: She wasn't saying "would've" she was saying "would of".

That's when I gave up. There are a million other reasons to love my wife, and her proper use of 'would've' wasn't one of them to begin with :)
Yep. Same effect, really, and in fact this is more likely to be secure because there's a chance that pulling power will damage something or scramble data on disk.

The article's solution is amusing and "cool" but not really secure at all. If you're worried about physical security of devices, don't take them to coffee shops.
Japan has taken steps to remedy confessions being forced under duress.

As of last year, all interrogations for serious crimes (i.e., trials that will have lay judges) must be audio and video recorded, as well as any interrogations of suspects that might have mental disabilities [1].

Of course, that doesn't address issues of lengthy imprisonment before charges are filed, but it's a step in the right direction.

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/01/national/crime-...
Three or more countries can participate in a Mexican standoff. If you want to visit them all, you can't show the same passport twice. Is there a limit on how many passports you can have?
> Nobody complained because why would you want to walk miles to the closest grocery store anyway?

I've been guests at a few different suburban neighborhoods in the US. I realize that some of these are so big and remote that it really is too far to walk to anything significant, but those I visited did have grocery stores and such within a walkeable distance, but that's not always the case, and still there's not much if any sidewalks. One did have sidewalks, but using it to get to stores was a detour compared to other roads. The other did not have any sidewalks. I walked anyway (didn't have a car) and I felt like people looked oddly at me for doing it.

In Norway, almost all suburban areas have wide sidewalks now, even if grocery stores and such are far away. Kids generally use sidewalks for biking, and many kids bike or walk to school, even for a mile or more (3 for my high school, although there was school bus that I used in winter). People take walks from just outside their house to.. wherever. There's usually some park or just a patch of woods within walking distance. Maybe a shared playground or soccer field for kids.

There are generally walking paths between houses at regular intervals, so houses don't act as impassable walls. If there are steep slopes and hills, there's often stairs you can walk down.

I'm really astonished that Americans don't do it the same way. My mother in law house could've been a 5 minute walk from a lovely beach and supermarkets and cafes if there was just a path/stair that went down a slope from their house between other properties. Instead it's a 30 minute+ walk, along a long and winding road with an extremely narrow sidewalk, where a 100m stretch of the road for some inexplicable reason is missing sidewalk altogether (if you ask for directions on Google Maps it'll avoid this stretch, which gives you a 1 hour walk instead)
> My intuition (that I have no data to support) is because the average level of skill of software engineers is dropping.

As someone that has been in the industry close to 20 years, my guess is that the constant churn is getting in the way. Around 2000 when I started, we had 3 tier apps, people knew how to optimise relational databases to get their application to perform.

These days we need to add Kubernetes, Docker, Nosql to cloud platforms in order for it to scale - despite never needing this stuff 15 years ago. Instead of mastering our craft we are encouraged to forget everything and use this new technology instead, as it will be the silver bullet to all our problems.

It's closer to a fashion show than engineering.
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Martha Stewart in fact did not do any type of illegal financial transaction. After the Fed's case fell apart (that even if what they alleged what happened was true, it was not prosecutable) they got her for "lying" to them when she voluntary met with them to explain her trades. Fun fact is that the expert witness they used to show she lied to them was later charged with perjury.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/07/weekinreview/ideas-trends...
The biggest point of skepticism in my mind is the combination of two totally unrelated qualms in one article. "Google ignored human rights in China in pursuit of profit. (and therefore Google is evil)" AND "Google isn't nice to women, minorities, and other groups. (and is therefore evil)"

These two issues are not related at all. It's easy to imagine a company which didn't kowtow to China, but was still not treating minorities properly. And of course, it's easy to imagine the reverse. (and, I'll bet that latter scenario happens quite often.) The only real point relating them together is the author's personal grievance.

It's also the case that the James Damore memo suggests the opposite problem the author complains about -- diversity policies which are too progressive. I'm not suggesting Damore is correct, and the author is incorrect, but instead that this line of argument is not a given.

Further, although I completely agree with the complaints with regard to China, the author has said very little which was not already publicly known. That's a fine thing to do, but he muddies the water by mixing these large geopolitical problems with his own personal grievances.

Lastly, I find it surprising that he does not know how HR works. As I mentioned above, HR prevents lawsuits. They only help you if helping you will prevent a lawsuit.
He could have left Japan on a boat, but if not that then it was probably a private plane.
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New York has been dirty for hundreds of years, often with organized crime or corruption involved. Read about the 1890s turnaround of the sanitation department for some interesting history.

But, despite that I think it's totally fixible. Either just change the law to force setting aside some ground floor real estate, or put bins where parked cars used to be. I think the latter is more politically feasible.

Nobody likes the filth, but the litter won't stop until the buildings lead the way with the bulk of the problem.

Oh, and I think food delivery caused tons of pointless trash. We need some system to return reusable containers to the restaurants. Very sad their is a restaurant loophole for the new plastic bag ban.
So this exploit is not specific to Tesla but rather any Linux 2.6.36 (and maybe up) that uses the 88W8688 (and maybe others), which could be a pretty common combination. And all that's required is an AP running the exploit, everything is automatic. Very impressive.
It's a late 2013 MBP, 16GB RAM.

I've only given Linux 6GB RAM at the moment, and it's working out fine. Currently running Ubuntu 19.10.

I picked VMware Fusion originally because it was reported to have good-ish support for GPU emulation that was compatible with Linux desktops at the time. Without it, graphics can be a bit clunky. With it, it feels smooth enough for me, as a desktop.

My browser is Firefox on the Mac side, but dev web servers all on the Linux side.

The VM networking is fine, but I use a separate "private" network (for dev networking) from the "NAT" network (outgoing connections from Linux to internet), so Wifi IP address changes in the latter don't disrupt active connections of the former.

My editor is Emacs GUI on the Mac side (so it integrates with the native Mac GUI - Cmd-CV cut and paste etc, better scrolling), although I can call up Emacs sessions from Linux easily, and for TypeScript, dev language servers etc., Emacs is able to run them remotely as appropriate.

Smoothness over SSH from iTerm is a different thing from graphical desktop smoothness.

When doing graphics work (e.g. Inkscape/GIMP/ImageMagick), or remote access to Windows servers using Remmina for VNC/RDP, I use the Linux desktop.

But mostly I do dev work in Linux over SSH from iTerm. I don't think I've ever noticed any smoothness issues with that, except when VMware networking crashes due to SMB/NFS loops that I shouldn't let happen :-)
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> That's the legal construct that underpins the oligopoly, though.

The durations of copyright protection in the US are too long and that's probably the fault of big corporations, predominantly Disney.

The goal of the copyright policy should be to balance incentivizing creativity (by providing rights and protections) and having a rich public domain. And every time we extend copyright duration, we starve the public domain and we should stop doing that.

But copyright as a construct is very democratic. If anyone creates anything original that can be reduced to a medium, they have rights over that thing for as long as they live (and then some). Those rights include the ability to sell it to others, including big corporations, I guess, but the rights begin with the creators, and that's very democratic.
> begs the question

I normally wouldn’t be pedantic about this but because this is a discussion about philosophy I have to point out that it doesn’t “beg the question”. “Begging the question” is an informal logical fallacy where an argument’s premises assume that its conclusion is true so it ends up being circular. I think you mean it “raises the question”.
Think he’ll get another manga but this time about his escape?
"presumption of innocence until proven guilty" is a Human Right (article 11 of https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/)
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Sometimes it's like politics was designed in a divide and conquer way. It definitely gets people hating each other over hardly anything
There’s an old saying: “people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” It’s supposed to be inspirational, but it’s actually depressing because it’s so accurate. How do you put it into action as a dev? Never argue. Ever. If you argue, you’ll lose the argument anyway (you have no power), and they’ll just remember you as the person who was argumentative.
If they say, “can you add AI to this product by Friday?” You say, “yeah, sure, let me look into that.” In a sane, rational, just world, everybody would be working together on a shared, common vision, and they’d realize that by giving you herculean tasks with impossible deadlines that nobody could achieve they’re actually hurting themselves as much as (if not more) than they’re hurting you, but the grim reality is that that isn’t the world we live in. If they add scope, just shrug and accept it. Don’t kill yourself with nights and weekends trying to meet their deadlines either - just say, unapologetically, “I was able to do ___ and I’m still working on ___”.
> the goal for the government is to make everything illegal

I've heard this line before, but never heard any evidence supporting it.

I work with government regulators in the US regularly in my day job, at the local, state, and federal level. I have never gotten the impression that they are trying to hoard infractions on people that they can later use to strong-arm compliance.

Rather, modulo some personality issues, the vast majority government officials I have ever worked with seem to be interested in achieving the best result for the people in the jurisdiction they oversee, and they tend to take "the will of the people" as expressed in elections and public forums very seriously - if that means letting technical infractions slide, that's what they do.

In fact, a lot of times, the people running the government (again, in my particular areas of experience) have expressed that they wish the laws or regulations they are tasked with enforcing were less onerous, but they know it won't change because the people don't want it to.

Of course, it could be different on the criminal justice side of things.

Could you cite some examples that support your accusation?
From a legal standpoint the country you're entering wouldn't typically consider that an aggravating circumstance. Lebanon and Turkey aren't responsible for enforcing Japan's laws.
I'd argue that that's definitely the case for Dwarf Fortress.
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>as long as you can prove who you are

How can you prove who you are without an ID? Biometrics? Is logging in to Facebook enough?
The US isn't exactly known for it's fair and perfect legal system (particularly if you're brown), so the fact that Japan's numbers are even higher says something.
My dad uses Linux as I installed it on his computers. He only uses the browser anyway and are very concerned about security in general. So the choice felt very natural.

Otherwise, he basically tells every "seller" to eff off so he probably wouldn't be scammed anyway.
I loved seeing the kid do this. When I was 12 my dad gave me math problems (including long division) in all sorts of bases (he started with hex, octal, and binary but went on to 3, 7, 27, etc). Sadly this was pre IEEE 754 -- I could really have benefitted from that!
From what I've read, the 99% conviction rate in Japan is from only prosecuting winnable cases ie. propping up the conviction rate.

The US does some related things:

1. The DoJ mailed letters to large employers to not provide legal funding for company officers because they were out-gunned. Those letters were laughed off.

2. The conviction rate for prosecutors is their "score-card" which creates all kinds of perverse incentives, especially for those elected

3. The SEC is very selective about who they will prosecute and avoid defendants with deep pockets
How does this compare to Redis Pub-Sub or RabbitMQ?