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> Growing up in communist Poland I remember having to bring to the store empty milk glass bottles to swap them for filed ones.

We were similar in Australia and I thought most of the first world (original definition). The milkman used to come by everyday drop off the fresh milk and pick up the empty bottles, the milkman was probably only necessary because of the awful urban planning though. Supermarkets and fresh produce stores also had huge piles of old cardboard boxes to carry stuff home in, when you came back you'd throw the old ones in there, now there's more cardboard and plastic packaging on everything but almost none of it is in a reusable format.
Unseemly – A Typechecked Macro Language
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> it was a complex application that is not intended to be used from a phone

I've heard that so many times and eagerly await the day they want a mobile version for same number of times.
Free: A terrible brainfuck-targeted programming language
While Catalina certainly isn’t perfect, the issues are a bit overblown from my point of view. I’ve been running 3 different machines on it since release (hackintosh tower, 2017 iMac, 2015 MBP), two of which are used on a daily basis, and they’ve all been fine. The permissions prompts were annoying for the first hour after install and it’s been smooth ever since.

But my use case is almost exclusively programming and Blizzard games, so maybe the problems are centered around particular types of software or something.
I'm getting the same thing (residential IP on a major home ISP, no weird VPN or Tor exit node / SMTP relay / any reason to have poor IP reputation). I have recently logged in to Google, so it's not that. I checked the console and noticed a warning about a cross-site request to a 3rd party Google attempting to set a cookie and that this behavior would be dropped in future versions of Chrome. I wonder if this is uBO blocking 3rd party cookies.
Super Bowl 2020: The madness and magic behind the game’s first 4K HDR broadcast
We used to have this in Slovenia. You’d bring bottles back to the store and they’d deduct from your next purchase.

Then some time in the 90s/00s that stopped. Instead we got glass recycling. And 5 other types of recycling. You’re supposed to sort them all and have some 8 trash cans in total at your house.

Oh and if you forget a cap on your bottles or don’t scrape off the paper label and make sure you wash everything before putting it in the trash then you’re a terrible person and you should be ashamed of yourself.

So everyone started throwing everything in the same trash. Making sure your recycling is recyclable is just too much work.

And don’t even get me started on the compostable plastic trash liners that start composting in the trash can so you can’t even take the trash out ...
Jesus what's next? "The 10 minute psychoactive experience of sniffing toluene/glue that cures autism."

Having used more than my share of psychedelics, extracted from Bufo Alvarus even, 5-MeO-DMT is not something normies or even people who'd like to remain sane, should ever fool around with. "vital mental health tool" my mental image of an asshole.
>I’m going to conflate happiness, pleasure, peace, joy, bliss, contentment, well-being and more. I don’t do it deliberately.

>But at the same time, this is not math. We cannot clearly bound these words. They mean different things in different contexts to different people. So try and get into the spirit of what I’m saying, rather than getting hung up on specific words and details.

Well, acktually... there's a trivial mathematical representation. Represent happiness as a vector. Then you can customize thresholds for each person.
>>Is there a good argument for why this will not inevitably transfer much of the money to landowners?

I regularly rent out the guest bedroom in my house. When I do so, I do not run complex formulas to figure out what a particular tenant might be able to afford. I simply look at rents for similar units in the area, and bump it up or down slightly based on the various features and amenities the room has. I don't charge a corporate executive higher rent than I charge a college student. Their ability to pay is not relevant.

You might be thinking "okay, but what if everyone's income went up in an UBI scenario?" Honestly, unless literally all the landlords in a city came together and colluded, you wouldn't see much increase, because we would have the same level of competition we have today.
Someone can finally implement multiline lambdas!
I said the same thing about Apples QA. I highly doubt they even do half the QA that the Ubuntu team does. It's like Apple is so cheap that they treat their users as their personal QA. They also don't like users who are a bit more advanced tech wise so they don't try to test what they may do. It's like they only want to sell to morons and suckers. Security wise I get that downloading something off of the internet is risky, but why the hell are you telling me that KNOWN gpl software downloaded from legitimate and verified sites could potentially be harmful? They treat their machines as a point of contact for the sake of making more money by channeling less savvy people through ways that require you to pay for something.
Not to be a Negative Nellie here, but when I read the title I expected a bit more substance to the article than a couple sentences rehashing the same idea.
Aren't most human emotions more like poetry than algorithms?
Huh. That is an interesting idea.

So you could have Tor exits that aren't published.

That would get around the CAPTCHA plague for Tor users.

Another option that I've considered is IPv6. Relays with both IPv4 and IPv6 must publish their IPv4, in order to get OKed for use. But as far as I know, there's no reason why they couldn't preferentially push exit traffic through IPv6. And indeed, use a different IPv6 address for each circuit.
OCaml: compilation of pattern matching
I agree urban planning in communism was better than wild capitalism chaos that replaced it in Poland in 1989.

But I think you overstate how good it was because you look from the perspective of Warsaw (even if it's not the best part of Warsaw).

It wasn't the norm to even have a computer club in your city during communism, never mind within 500m from where you live :)

Also communism in Poland wasn't concerned with ecology at all, when it was cheaper people did no waste (my grand-grandmother asked us to give her all the metalized wrapping from chocolate and sweets because she made christmass tree decorations from them for one example).

But for example energy consumption was wild and unchecked - there was no thermal insulation to speak of. Public buildings and private homes were all burning coal with abandon. In 1989 coal consumption dropped by like 30% year to year, half of it from heavy industry becomming unprofitable, but half of it from people all over Poland investing into thermal insulation as coal wasn't subsidized anymore. And now Poland produces much more stuff than in 80s (export grew like 20 times) and uses less power to do it :)

My parents used half the coal yearly in 90s compared to 80s. Air quality was much worse during communism, too, because of that.

Also it was common to have trash thrown on the streets in 80s. In 90s it became passe.

Also - on the subject of DIY - it was immensely important and everybody realized it - simply because there was nothing in shops. You wanted to have something cool you had to do it yourself. My uncle made a small tractor by himself in his workshop, and he haven't even finished high school and was a regular farmer in countryside near Lublin. He bought used engine from some crashed car and did everything else by himself. And it wasn't unusual - if you were a farmer you had to have a well-supplied workshop because buying anything was hard and unpredictable.

There were "technology and workshop" lessons in primary school for 3 years, and everybody learnt how to do simple electric stuff, how to work with metal and wood, etc.
Taxes are exchanges of labour just like any other; while it's true you aren't forced to work to pay taxes, even in modern societies you aren't provided with an allowance if you're not searching for a job (but you are if you have a disability).

Nevertheless, these "communist" economies were absolutely based off currency; the workers earned wages in money, which they could then accumulate or spend. The ruble was just as "money" as the U.S. dollar was. An economy based on labour (whatever that means) would likely not use money, but labour vouchers instead, which are non-trasnferrable and therefore cannot function as money-capital.
We have readable thousand year old documents. Hard drives not so much.
My housemate who is a ham is designing, building and programing a micro-computer based SDR portable transmitter.
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I once lived in a time where there was no (accessible) computer. I spent long hours trying to imagine how I could build one, including making memory elements with neon bulbs.
>Similarly, Katrina was where the semi-fascist US consensus under GW Bush went to pieces.

What semi-fascist consensus do you imagine existed, and how was it affected by Katrina?
Yes, I should have mentioned Whonix. It's the only sane way to use Tor.

And about the TorifyHOWTO, the dumbed-down website redesign has made that stuff even harder to find than it was before.
Myst was released in 1993.
It's interesting to consider the kind of user who's still running Windows 7 in 2020.

There are a couple of options, but I'm guessing the majority are non-technically savvy people who bought a PC (probably a laptop) years ago and don't use it for much more than writing the occasional word doc. I'm guessing many of them have probably bought some kind of tablet and/or smartphone and that is their primary browsing device.

In other words, most of them don't really need a full desktop OS, and almost certainly aren't going to upgrade to Linux (the majority won't even know what that is).
My 2017 Air crashed because it couldn't close Firefox. I just hit Cmd+q and it'd close...but remain open, drawing a ridiculous amount of power. I had to hold the power button down to keep it from running Firefox as if I was rendering a 4k video.
Can't help but feel heartbroken for the kids in the photo at the top of that article.
It's yours to define. If you consider it properly, and conclude that you would choose your life to be luxury and carelessness, then it makes sense to start steering things in that direction for yourself.

Some folks find satisfaction in raising then next generation. Others want a statue of themselves somewhere that lasts for a few hundred years beyond their own life. Some folks create, others are satisfied with minimal impact.

It's all personal, but considering it and then acting on it is the core idea. Otherwise time carries on regardless and you get to the end to look back over a pointless meandering. Which, if you consider that to be ok, is also fine.
Calling something Tolkienesque, and then saying that mankind has improved on the experience, is a contradiction in terms :)
>How do people magically get their hands on these various substances

Some people sell psychedelics in person. In my country they're incredibly rare and I've never seen anyone sell anything except mushrooms or LSD. So the fallback is the darknet.

>and know that they’re authentic?

If you're buying from the darknet, user reviews. Other people make good guinnea pigs. Otherwise, there are reagents you can use to test to make sure you've got DMT. But generally people just smoke it and see what happens. DMT is very unique, if the substance you have is something else it will be noticeable very quickly.
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Seems to be an ad for their platform for creating notebooks that mix plain text with specific forecasting questions.

Looks cool, but what I'd be interested in would be a rigorous method of combining the outputs from multiple questions.
There are work arounds on their way:

Ammonia—one nitrogen atom bonded to three hydrogen atoms—may not seem like an ideal fuel: The chemical, used in household cleaners, smells foul and is toxic. But its energy density by volume is nearly double that of liquid hydrogen—its primary competitor as a green alternative fuel—and it is easier to ship and distribute. "You can store it, ship it, burn it, and convert it back into hydrogen and nitrogen," says Tim Hughes, an energy storage researcher with manufacturing giant Siemens in Oxford, U.K. "In many ways, it's ideal."

More details:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/ammonia-renewable-fu...
I don't think it is particularly surprising that the best sources of Chinese rumours is in Chinese. I don't think this about censorship (in-fact it's the opposite).
It might be expressible with dependent types. I think what I'm suggesting ought to be able to express a superset of dependent types.

I think a lot of type theory tries too hard to have certain "desirable" properties, like being decidable (that is, type checking will always complete in finite time). IMO it's fine if there are cases that will go into an infinite loop, as long as the developer has tools for debugging and fixing them. After all, we rarely use programming languages where the actual programs aren't allowed to loop -- such languages exist, but they are far too restrictive to be useful for most purposes.

Maybe what I want is not even a theorem prover, but just a way to write little scripts that execute in an imperative fashion, which can iterate over the code and look for errors. Why does it have to be a fancy logic language that only academics understand?
Chinese tech giants open cloud computing tech to researchers amid coronavirus
Not exactly 'IRL', but many years ago I wrote a simple bash script to submit many entries into an online competition. Yes, I know... I did scour the competition T's&C's and they didn't have anything in there explicitly prohibiting it (its obviously implied, but I was young and bored...). Anyway:

Each entry required a unique email address, which then had a validation link you needed to click. I scripted this up using curl to submit the request using a randomly generated email address via a catch-all on my domain, reading the mail to extract the submission URL, and then using curl to hit that.

I actually ended up winning the 'random draw', but now I get ~18000 copies of their spammy newsletter! Unfortunately their unsubscribe page has the anti-bot protection that their competition page really should have had ;)
> When I was a pentester, out of more than 50 projects I was on, I always found at least a medium-severity bug

Perhaps you were a good pentester. More likely the code you attacked was rubbish.

I worked on a relatively important Internet-facing web application for about a decade, it was pen tested by a variety of outfits both when it was owned by a small start-up and when it was owned by a huge corporation.

Good design meant that we never saw any pen tester come anywhere close to "pwn the app" in either its public UI or the APIs which were (by my insistence) publicly accessible rather than wasting our time chasing endless "please change the allowed IP ranges" requests through layers of bureaucracy.

My experience was pen testers would bang on the predictable places, try obvious things, maybe trigger some alarms which I then had to pause - and get nowhere. We'd get back a report that said things like if I put in this nonsense email address I get a different error message than this other nonsense email address. OK, that's nice we'll put it on the backlog, did you find any actual security problems? No.

I'd say that using a memory safe language (Java) helped make that happen, IMNSHO as a very good C programmer for whom writing it in Java was not my first choice (nor was C).
My honest favorite is the use of destructuring object parameters so you effectively get named parameters. I find it super nice, especially in the absence of a first class enum system.
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I agree that malware means game over. But firewall rules at least protect against wimpy malware.

And yes, I really don't know why they haven't embraced Whonix.

What's funny is that Tails has more visibility, and it's actually less effective against malware. Because there's no isolation between userland and the Tor client.
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Justin Kan opens up (Part 2)
> Did they also have a bunch of bus drivers, or other qualified people with CDLs, sitting around on call?

You unwittingly demonstrate the cruelty of bearaucratic thinking that is inconsequential in the face of real human disaster, ultimately leading to tragedy.
"the more we do something, usually the more we like it"

That may be true for some, but for me the more I do something the less I like it.

I need a lot of variety or I get bored and burnt out on whatever it is I'm doing, no matter how much I used to like it when I first started.

In some cases an absence of years or even decades has not rekindled my interest in what I used to love but overdid.

Doing something over and over and over again eventually kills my passion.
> It might not be able to do anything else, but it should at least do that. LOL... :)

Thx - I never even took into consideration Nouveau.

Sorry, I have 0 experience with desktop & suspend (I have 2 desktops, both of them using nVidia, but they're basically servers running databases so I have never made them go to sleep).
Didn't Gary Condit get accused of murdering his wife too or was the prime suspect?
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Landlords come across more predatory to me. Take up all the land and make people send their money into a black hole their whole lives instead of getting to own.
It's all about the cost.

Cleaning is more labor intensive than recycling, and if the cost of cleaning is less than the cost of recycling, you'll end up cleaning it. This is only possible in developing countries where it's more economical to use low-cost labor than setting up an expensive recycling facility.

As recycling technology gets better and cheaper, you'll see fewer countries opt for cleaning over recycling.
Why do you automatically assume they got everything right?

It's pretty well accepted that better food packaging greatly reduces food waste (spoilage, damage, etc), and producing food is much more environmentally costly than packaging it.
It's interesting how quickly people are tempted by money. I worked for a store that decided that they needed to reduce staff so they got rid of the supervisors that supervised the cashiers when they cashed out. They figured the cashiers had been there for so many years so they were trustworthy. Almost immediately the cashiers started to cheat by skimming a bit of cash and within a few months, most of them were replaced because they had been caught cheating in some way.

The temptation is too great for many people. Checks and balances always need to be put in place no matter how trustworthy the person is.

This case is a prime example of that.
We need proper taxation to encourage this at scale. Reusable items should be sold at a premium that can be redeemed by bringing it back. The market will do the rest.

Depending on your income you can still "throw away" stuff, but there will still be significant value in that "trash" to make it worthwhile for other people to dig through it and bring it back into use.

Same with plastic bags and things we consider banning for the sake of protecting the planet. Don't ban, just price it in such a way that the item has a built-in reward for someone else to bring it back in circulation.
Copying files to my iDevice seems entirely broken in Catalina. not that it was all puppies and unicorns in itunes but it's gotten worse.

Devices don't show up in the finder. Devices do show up but no info is shown. Devices physically plugged in don't show up. Devices do show up but files tab is empty.

When it does work there is no indication it's working. Drag a file to an app and ... nothing, 100% silent. No copy progress bar, no spinner, no indication what-so-ever that it is or is not working.
> designs that are increasingly difficult or impossible to repair.

I wonder how much of this is due to focus on size/weight gone too far.

Or if Apple is going to tell you how to build a board with function XYZ to their specs, they may as well integrate it into the mainboard.
> The disaster made clear how morally bankrupt and technically incompetent the system really was, wiping out any remaining goodwill or trust.

I genuinely wonder if the current impeachment process will have the same effect. Will people move on from it thinking it's just a thing with the GOP, or will they take it as a greater systemic failure and give up on the government.
Another fun thing you can do is to write messages to those who study hot maps.
Current implementation is filled with bugs, which is a real shame because in many ways it is better than Lua: the language is better (for me), and the C API is much simpler.
What would you say is the most powerful psychedelic?
> Sigh. The apple ecosystem is becoming harder to use. But I really have no choice I do a lot of iOS and MacOS development, and its the only platform I can use for that purpose.

So, first off, sincere sympathy. I feel you, I've been there.

My current recommendation to people is: whatever you do in your personal life (Apple, Android, Windows, whatever), keep your Apple-related work environment completely segregated — that usually just means one dedicated Mac and the test iOS devices. Do not use any of it for anything else than work. Do not mix a home server with work-Mac-related stuff and personal life. Do not use the same AppleID. Do not mix anything.

It's generally a good approach anyway, regardless of one's development platform/target.

It then becomes natural to e.g. never worry about NFS and simply use the "recommended" Apple path — like some Thunderbolt drive, or whatever MacOS networks with these days.

The downside that it obviously induces additional cost is debatable:

- developing for Apple systems usually translates to higher income, and Apple is somewhat "fairly" (at least in their mind) forcing some extra burden of cost on developers, but it's likely marginal for said devs (although hostile to developing markets, at first glance).

- work-related machines generally fall under different tax regimes than personal stuff, and while we surely all dabble into the grey area, it's always better to have it 100% legit work or personal but not both. Insurances etc. may care too.

So... Yeah. I hope you can segregate and rationalize the work-Mac(s) to follow Apple's best practice (whatever they push as "This is the way" for MacOS).
An MBA (full or part time) would take years and it won't be cheap. You would grow your network and learn some things, and it would open up some PM opportunities.

Both seem about equally likely to lead to Director / VP level positions if you excel. Maybe EM slightly more, but it's similar. You can start one now, the other takes more interviewing or possibly an MBA.

Day to day they will be kind of different. Do you want to worry about how to manage a team of engineers well, help with their professional and personal development, and get them the resources they need? Or help your company figure out what to build, for whom, figure out if that's working, etc? Both require operating well cross functionally, product especially.

If you care equally, I'd do engineering management now. Less resistance, and you can always go into product and / or get an MBA later.