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> Open source participants are volunteers and owe you nothing.

I can't agree. Not for all participants.

Let's take Linus. He's in charge of the Linux project, which thousands (millions?) of people contribute to every day. If Linus suddenly stopped merging any and all patches—but refused to officially step down—what do you think would happen? Oh, the project would more than survive—someone would fork it and that would become the de-facto new mainline kernel—but there'd probably be a couple weeks of chaos. Does Linus bear zero responsibility because he's a volunteer?

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Every Saturday, I volunteer as an assistant teacher (they call us "facilitators") at a Girls Who Code club, a free weekly class to teach computer science to young girls. I don't get paid for it, but that's okay—the kids are adorable and teaching them is fun. The primary teacher is also a volunteer.

If we both decided to just not show up one week, and parents brought their children to the library and found an empty room, would that be okay?

Personally, I do think I owe something to those students, and to the primary teacher. I've made a commitment to show up every week and do what I can to help a group of children. My commitment is what matters, not whether it generates income.

Now, there's actually second GWC class for slightly older students which starts right after the first one. Sometimes I help teach that one, and sometimes I go home. I told the primary teacher I'll stay "when I can", which actually means "when I feel like it".

There's certainly a place for doing work without a commitment to continue, but your intentions need to be clear. Most large projects are not going to function without a commitment from someone somewhere in the chain.

One weekend in October, the primary teacher had plans to go traveling in Europe. She asked if I could cover both classes that week. I said I would, and I did.
Use start.duckduckgo.com to bypass that popup and all the other things. https://start.duckduckgo.com/lite/ also works, just adjusted my mobile bookmark to use this.

If you go into your settings, there's the ability to have your configuration as URL parameters, so that you can bookmark a specific way of using it without needing a cookie or session ID. From https://start.duckduckgo.com/settings open the "Show Bookmark URL on the right and it has the string to use in your bookmark to bypass all the random things and always visit the site in your preferred design/setup.
I love DigitalOcean too they have great tutorials. It's one of the best sites around for clear, well-written tutorials.
There are many used thinkpads in that price category. They tend to be easy to repair and upgrade. Almost nothing new in that price category will be repairable or upgradable.

https://www.bobble.tech/free-stuff/used-thinkpad-buyers-guid...
I guess not. I suppose I have more respect for a martial arts teacher than a scrum master.
Digital Ocean gives me peace of mind. Unlike Amazon or Google, I am confident I'm not going to get a $300k bill from DO overnight.
I seem to get direct links on this anyway. What are other people seeing?
A paper trail doesn't necessarily require paper ballets. Electronic voting machines can spit out a receipt to be reviewed by the voter in order to be counted in a potential audit while allowing the electronic tally to be used for initial results. With electronic machines with no paper trail, there is no way to recover from a failed or compromised machine.
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My pbp arrived a few days ago. The stock image it ships with seemed a little laggy, probably due to aggressive cpu throttling for power. Since I'm interested in encrypted disks I knew I would be installing a new OS from the get-go.

Desiring LUKS basically rules out image-based distribution, so to find a compatible installer this [0] page was useful. I opted for straight Debian (bullseye). This amounts to a script wrapping debootstrap that adds in the local firmware and kernel patches. I was required to use a sufficiently fast and large microSD card (16 GB+). As reported on [1] and in the dedicated thread [2] there are a few small issues:

* firefox does indeed crash in the way described, though I expect this will resolve itself after an upstream update

* The brightness up/down keys do not work, though they do in the base image

* I've encountered issues with the wifi getting wedged after resuming from sleep.

Still, on the whole it seems snappier than the base image, and the track pad latencies issues I noticed there don't seem to manifest here.

[0]: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebook_Pro_Software_Rele...
[1]: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebook_Pro_Debian_Instal...
[2]: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8487

edit: formatting.
I'm not quite sure I understand the context of militias around the time of the writing of the Constitution, but I don't see why a person would need the right to keep and bear arms if acting on behalf of a government organized militia --- if the intent was only to enable government organized militias, I would assume that power would have been enumerated to the states or reserved for the states.
Even the API and the docs are so well built that it feels like a pet project I found on Github. Where is all of the corporate nonsense cluttering up the API? Where is the overengineered factory templates where I have to set up a bunch of services using a totally different API before I can start my first VM? Why are the docs so straightforward and in one place in one format? This hardly feels like enterprise software at all. I don't even need to pull out the forbidden calculator to figure out what my bill will be at the end of the month, DO even has an API call that includes the price points for the various offerings.
Until companies have 3 managers and 2 normal employees.
Came here to post something similar.
Why jump through all these hoops to unfuck some inherently fucked system.

It's a bunch of work and time and effort to reverse engineer it just to get back to the point of still having a piece of shit legacy system.

Honestly this is effectively natural selection at play for businesses. They put themselves in this situation, if it dies and destroys the business ... good fucking riddance, the people who let this situation occur need to fail hard, it's the only way they will ever learn.

Just walk up to the machine and plug in a USB kill for 2 seconds, remove it, and get on with your life.
> But you should also be able to block 30 minutes in your calendar before the meeting so you can prepare – without having to switch over to your calendar app and add the events there. Hit ⌘K and type “Add 30 min buffer before event“. Done.

You should look at https://woven.com - which is doing much of this built into "templates" of events - which you can iterate off with a single click or keyboard shortcut.

I love Superhuman, but the problem with an inbox being the "center of gravity for productivity" is that it's inherently reactive. Real productivity comes from prioritizing your work before it happen - which means that some things are not prioritized. Superhuman might help you be very efficient, action-oriented and get stuff done - but it doesn't necessarily mean you're focused on the right things or getting deep work or creative work done.

Full disclosure: I'm an advisor for the company.
I've used Blazor for one project, and it was a true joy to learn. All the good parts of React, but without some of the clunky design decisions that come from having to work with traditional browser javascript.
it is entirely possible that you have been radicalized from a normal moderate folk to a "crazy libtard" by watching whatever channels you watch, and, i suspect, this is a broadly true statement amongst a very large swatch of the millenial generation.

(note: using "crazy libtard" here not as a personal insult, but because it is the right's version of "crazy consipiracy people").

anyways, take the speck out of your own eye before complaining about the beams in your parents eyes.
I believe VRBO is a similar service. I haven’t used them. Can’t speak to the ethics question either.
My understanding is that it's an ASIC for a modified simulated annealing algorithm, not a supercomputer. OTOH simulated annealing doesn't hugely benefit from parallelism, so the comparison is a bit of a snore.

Edit: my mistake, that's a different Toshiba offering. Sibling comment has a better description and a citation.
they will be understood someday, but only by highly advanced mathematical models developed through machine learning.

models which humans will not actually be capable of understanding.
The headline is bursting at the seams with the promise of low effort jokes. Let us throw those tiny fish back into the pond.

A human being should be entitled to accessibility, especially by this point in time where much of it can be machine generated.
What sews resentment is being repeatedly dismissive of serious problems, as we're seeing with this hackish use of 'unsafe' features - that's an attitude that diminishes the self-worth of others, if I ever saw any. If anything, a bit of irony and snark can be helpful in underlining a sharp, pointed critique, while de-escalating the sorts of petty, antagonizing attitudes that we've seen in this case.
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I disagree. I really think doing an intentionally crappy job is acceptable. Not even pretend. I think it is okay to really half-arse it. Or break it. Or be lazy. Or whatever. Except maybe intentionally harm someone.
Thanks for this comment - mirrors my thought/question. I think the understanding incentivisation is hugely important in understanding human behaviour and choices, and this seemed an obvious omission.

However, I was trying to process whether incentives are essentially part of your principles? i.e. if an incentive to do something against your principles is so strong that it wins out, doesn't that mean you've effectively abandoned (or changed) your principles along the way?
Wow, I didn't know that. So what exactly is a DDG then? Just a page to query Bing (anonymously?)? They don't crawl any data themselves?
Correct, all the assumed authority of the author flew out of the window as I read that sentence.
Huh? There have been tons of layoffs in tech in the past year or two. If this were what you consider the start then I suspect you haven't been looking close enough. Spending your time trying to correlate every event to something larger is only going to make you crazy.

We work in a volatile and rapidly changing sector of the economy.
I don't doubt farmers believed it and implemented jamming. But this story about drones spraying viruses is just propaganda to deflect negative attention away from the authorities and farmers themselves during this crisis. It's a nice catchy headline with absolutely no support.
I keep hearing that Japanese workers work very long hours, but every time I've been in Tokyo the rush hour on the trains is about when I'd expect it to be -- between about 5 and 7 pm. I don't see how that would be the case if everyone was still at work.
> If someone asks for feedback, sure, your points are not wrong.

If they're actively asking me to use their software, isn't that soliciting feedback? If I say 'no, it won't work for me', I've apparently committed some egregious microaggression right? If I just say 'no thanks', what do expect the very next thing they say is going to be?
Not to mention the negative impact on parallelization! Hundreds of paper ballot station can easily be setup in a room, but setting up an additional voting machine requires a ton of other things (budgets, purchasing, techs, etc).
That works if you're happy with the status quo, don't want a promotion, and are happy being bored half the day. The fact that the OP asked makes me believe that's not what he wants.
Today I learned.

For others reading, here is what I found:

> at a minimum, covers those officers and employees involved or engaged in transactional business or having the ability to change the official records of the institution

https://www.dfs.ny.gov/legal/industry/il960822.htm

> The New York State Banking Department considers it to be a prudent business practice for every bank, and branch or agency of a foreign banking corporation, to promulgate and maintain a written vacation policy which, at a minimum, covers those officers and employees involved or engaged in transactional business or having the ability to change the official records of the institution. This policy should also cover all other staffers who are capable of influencing or causing such activities to occur. The Department strongly recommends that all traders be covered by the policy.

> Employees in such sensitive positions should be required to take at least two (2) consecutive weeks of vacation (or other leave) on an annual basis. During such time, the officer or employee must be off-site and off-line. In other words, not only should he/she be physically absent from your premises, but he/she should also not be permitted to effect any transactions or other banking business from off-site, such as through an off-site computer link.

https://www.dfs.ny.gov/legal/industry/il960822.htm

archived at: https://outline.com/Y3dcgF https://archive.md/LJvbH
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I believe you've confused "fact" with "opinion", unless you're intentionally trying to deceive anyone reading this.
Agree. I had bunch of certifications but could not help me to secure better job. Therefore I'm no longer pursue any certification.
I wonder if its because I just destroyed that $5 droplet I had running
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Post offices are covered in security cameras. My branch has two by the stationary alone, ensuring every angle is monitored lest you steal a $0.10 mailer.
You're right. I guess DDG must have made that the default at some point.
If you don't think all big media news outlets have an agenda to push, you might need to take a closer look. That includes CNN, WaPo, Fox, etc. As an example, Bloomberg effectively told his news outlets they weren't allowed to investigate Democrats during the primary.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/24/bloomberg-news-will-not-inve...
miri is another good tool you didn't mention; it runtime sanitizes for undefined behavior.
Someone who has mastered or became really skilled at Scrum could be described as a Scrum Master yes. Or in another instance, he who has mastered the art of baiting, is the Master Baiter.
Absolutely not. We plan to get him music lessons too. I just want to make sure he has as much opportunity as possible.
Among certifications, the most absurd one is the Scrum one.

A random guy with no exposure to software whatsoever can spend a few hours become a Certified Scrum Master (tm).

Unlike CSM, there are certifications that matter, have weight and at least have basic prerequisites.
That is seriously cool. Does that reduce the need for protective equipment to keep dander and dust from getting everywhere or is this strictly in addition? My sense of how destructive dust can be in these facilities may be inflated. I'd heard that re-establishing a clean room can be a huge PITA and the first thing I could think of was powders getting in there.

If you're ordering your people to destroy equipment, you could turn off the air handlers first, right? You're not gonna be in there long enough for the CO2 to build up to harmful levels. Unfortunately I don't recognize most of those acronyms. Are they dealing with fumes as well?
Seems like this would be the final knife in the coffin for actual education in the US. At long last, college would be nothing more than credential signaling. Who cares what you actually learned, or that you finished all the coursework for your degree, or how well you did in those classes. All that would matter would be: did you pay off those loans?? And now you've actually created a generation of indentured servants.
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It's more than possible, it's expected.
While all of these things do happen, they are preventable and should not be treated as excusable, people need to be held accountable and systems / processes need to be put in place to ensure that these things don't reoccur.
My concern with promoting that situation is the game theory of it. You hold people who are not aligned with what you're actually supporting in esteem as though they were. Being aligned on one issue due to convenience is different than being aligned on an issue based off fundamental views. I can't predict how you will act in future circumstances based off how you're acting now.
> read the fucking license

> It sickens me

> I am disgusted

Almost sounds like you're... outraged? Perhaps trying to build up community outrage?
Following this logic, if a popular rust crate doesn't prioritize security, it can potentially change people's risk assessment of the rust ecosystem as a whole. So this maintainer's actions could have negative effects on other rust projects with no relation to his. He may not have an obligation to do anything about it, but it's kind of "not cool".
Unless DigitalOcean creates their own equivalent of a GovCloud region, they won't be an option in my industry. I do still like using DigitalOcean and Vultr for personal projects and the like.
At the lowest level this is how it works, so using ring buffers as the abstraction makes tremendous sense. Plus it can be done safely without requiring a context switch on the fast path, with a little care.

Its also easy to naturally batch things. When the load is low the batch size is 1, and then it naturally grows as more work gets queued during processing of the prior work.

I love ring buffers and queues.
There are issues with some of the earlier points, for example:

> We automate tasks, not jobs

We automate both. One popular example is trucking. There are 3.5 million truck drivers in the US alone. And of course this is an area where complete automation is on the horizon. The tech exists, it's getting close to ready for large scale deployment and big players are working on it.

The industrial revolution comparison is apt but only to a point. The rate of innovation in tech is speeding up and our ability to automate jobs away faster than we can adapt along with it.

That said the article goes on to focus on what I think is one of the key points in the automation conversation: wealth inequality.

If we don't come up with a way to share the wealth produced by increasing automation, the current system will funnel almost all of it to the top.
There are many ways to profit from the devaluation of your currency, if you know it's going to happen (enough) in advance. I'd be surprised if there weren't some people who campaigned and voted for Brexit for this reason, though I doubt it was a motivating factor for many.
The real value in certs is from a business partnership perspective. It's a measurable way to coerce your business partners into RTFM for your product.... and collect a bit of revenue as their operation scales.

I think too many people think certs are for them. Rarely are companies going out of their way to build a certification program for your personal benefit.
I see no difference either.
if a maintainer is a jerk to their contributors, that is of course their right, but...they are being childish.
I don't feel I am owed this at all. I feel only that it's being a good open-source citizen.

When you make something that people use and like and want to improve, you should at least have the common decency to tell them beforehand: "this is my show, not gonna accept PRs".

I don't think it's such an exhausting job to write two lines at the top of the README.
As I mentioned in the post, this situation has been going on for a long time. You'd need to read a few dozen pages to get the full context here.
I think it's a cultural issue, but I honestly don't see what's so offensive about this comment (I was expecting something far worse), especially if it's factual assumptions are true. Honest question, can somebody explain the issue here to me, and how one would express these concerns otherwise? I feel as if I just don't get American culture of politeness and niceness to appreciate it.
Patent troll
Very overblown. The trick with the color-changing lamp is more of a hack than a true BCI. It's reading your brain, but not something occuring in your conscious thoughts.

If it's implemented like I think it is, there's an observable signal in the brain from looking at a high frequency oscillating light source. What's not happening is an analysis of signals to recognize you're consciously thinking about green or holding the concept "green" in your mind.
WakaTime switched to DigitalOcean and we're loving their performance to cost ratio. Their compute droplet machines are much better than AWS ec2[1], especially if you need low-latency SSD IOPs. The only AWS services we still use are S3 and Route53, because S3's performance is better than Spaces[2]. Really hope this doesn't spell bad weather ahead.

[1] DigitalOcean Droplets > AWS Ec2 (based on our production metrics)

[2] AWS S3 > DigitalOcean Spaces (based on our production metrics)
I just got an AWS cert myself (Solutions Architect Associate) and while I don't have any experience with other certs, I do feel like studying for it helped me get a better understanding of what AWS services were available and how to better design systems using the AWS services. There weren't really any "memorization" questions, the questions were more scenario based - like a customer wants to do X, which one of these services/configurations would make the most sense given their needs for high durability/reliability/cost saving/whatever.

Are certifications a perfect way to judge someone's competence? definitely not, but at least in the case of that certificate I think it'd be hard to pass the exam without having at least some decent knowledge of which AWS services are the best to use in different business situations.
Cover Letters in Tech?
Yeah, saying no furniture kind of distracts from their point, which is that not getting frequently up and down from the floor probably causes our loss to easily do so as we get older.

As to being able to have a computer workstation that lets you work as you're sitting on the floor, the japanese seem to have many options[1]. I imagine newnewpdro is not against furniture like this. You can have good posture while sitting on the floor, too.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=japanese+floor+computer+desk&t=ffa...
Why do you think people avoided time off?
Perfect startpage for my Kobo eReader
>Neither google nor apple should be platforms to be dependent on.

Yeah, just like make phone to rival Google ($1 trillion) and Apple ($1.4 trillion) and you too can sell hardware and software without the fear of getting shut out. It's just that easy.
But entitled to damages? We are opening the doors to some very shady law firms to shake down tech companies based on laws that were written before the internet.