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Actually a lot of large companies are not compliant with GDPR on many levels and while in some cases that's not true, in many it's not necessarily due to malintent. A ton of data is collected by thousands of developers in their products all across the globe and the data is never really cleaned or checked in any way. And in some cases the data that is being collected is so enormous that no one can really answer for certain what goes in there. I know dozens of companies which have thousands of products and each one of them has at least one database behind it. I doubt anyone in the company will be able to tell what a product with 2000 users called Xx developed by two people in Sri Lanka for instance complies to all GDPR guidelines. Frankly most of the people in the company would go "Xx? What's that?". But that product could very well be storing users' location, IP address and so on without their explicit consent in /var/log/debug_connect.log on a server somewhere.
Sweat * leverage = equity.

Time used wisely is an investment, but time used poorly is an expense.

Being able to tell the difference is key.
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When I think of American sports teams there's usually an understood "The" in front. "Patriots are winning" works fine conversationally but, if you were being a bit more formal or writing it down, you'd say "The Patriots are winning." On the other hand, the city name is singular. "Boston is winning."
Tried this on win10: it seems to crash without an error message when I try and open a repository.
I doubt the names would change, personally, but even if they did it would presumably be to 'United Kingdom of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland' (ordering up for hot debate, I'm sure, here I've just replaced GB with consitituents, alphabetised, and removed Scotland ;)) - still a UK.

But I don't think that would happen because I don't see why Scotland would want to leave the UK but cling to 'we are still in GB -- no-no, it's geographical guys'. You don't hear the Republic of Ireland self-descring as 'in the British Isles' much, that I'm aware of.
How about if you don't save state it's easy to implement the GDPR. My blog is covered but beyond that ...
seconded, I used the general design ideas of QtCreator as a baseline for my own stuff and it's been great
Oh I love that reply. Thank you for that.

Great food for thought. You do in effect widen the topic so much, the very axioms underlying my assumptions, and that's extremely valuable to me. I think I see your point, now. you took me off-guard, I wasn't expecting this direction and failed to see what you meant.

I will yield to your logic (in particular the last sentence). I may deplore that it makes the whole topic kind of moot, but that's my feelings, not an argument whatsoever (my bias shows I suppose).

Now, I will just reaffirm that I'm parroting much more expert views. Such topics are one of my pet peeves, been thinking about it quite deeply since I was 12-ish (37 now). Lots of reading over the years. Lots of discussions with 'experts'. I've no professional qualification in psychology however, that's true.

All these questions, "did we cognitively think differently?", "did we feel differently?", "were we in any way significantly different that a modern psychologist couldn't do their thing on a Classic Roman?", "have we changed so much that someone from the past would be lost in the modern world if they were raised in it?"... they all met a resounding "no".

That's what I was trying to express. Based on this unanimous, quite consensual view, how could something as "simple" and common as PTSD not exist back then? It's a really extraordinary claim, thus the burden of proof falls on the claimant, I reckon.

Whether or not we are zombies (I think we are, to a much larger extent than we'd be comfortable admitting for now), that zombie today is exactly the same as all zombies prior, and yet to come, for a long, long time (year 10,000 is too soon, 50,000 might be a low threshold unless we dramatically sped up genetic mutations and selection).

I don't have much more to say. I could probably write a short novel, but what's the point. I'm not even defending the point, just stating consensus. It is, as you correctly imply, not my place to put forward or argue such ideas with authority. But you'll have to go against the whole field of psychology to counter it (I will be eating popcorn as you drag them to reason ;-) )

Hopefully, this tempers a possibly exaggerated authority I may have suggested in my OP. I'll blame my writing style now and learn my lesson, I'll be more cautious and reasonable next time.

(I also stand corrected about the downvoting, so that's on me, my bad. Much respect for your approach, then.)

Now, I'm off reading all these nice links. Thanks again (upvoted both your posts, for a solid contribution to discussion, regardless of my opinion).
This is a no-brainer. I am a health 46 year old male. I have a living will, do not resuscitate order, all my organs are to be donated, and the leftovers will go to my local medical college. If it were a part of a well organized medical study whose findings would be accessible or open source in some way (aka not for a pharmaceutical or university's own profit) then I'd gladly get be exposed. Where do I sign up?
The Dancing Monkey left the company, after that Microsoft got better.
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Coquitlam Lake actually has a tunnel leading to Buntzen Lake for the purposes of supplying it with water for power generation. Pipes then carry the water down to a generating station on the ocean shore. https://curiocity.com/vancouver/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/p...
It's also important to do this because old disks tend to lose their data over time. To the point where folks will take raw magnetic flux images from old media, just to have a higher chance of getting some data back.
So, we maintain labels `prometheus_replica` which prints the pod name of the Prometheus. Since the operator deploys it as a Statefulset, the pods are ordered, so the naming will be like prometheus-k8s-0,-1 and so on. Having these labels help to deduplicate the metrics on the ingester/federation level.

Although yes you're right, it was a bit difficult to get it running out of the box with native Federation capabilities. A secondary long term storage like Victoria/Cortex/Thanos is something you can check out.
Why do governments favor bailout of companies rather than issuing new shares?
Isn't the public market supposed to offer public companies a way to recapitalize whenever they need it? In recent years public companies have been spending huge amounts of cash buying back their own shares. Wouldn't a functioning economy/financial system promote the issuance of new shares as the main mechanism to raise cash? It's obvious why public companies would prefer a bailout than issuing new shares but why government acting in the interest of its constituents would be so prompt to bail out public companies rather than having them raise cash through the public market? At the minimum wouldn't it be sound to condition a bailout amount to a fraction of cash raised through the market? Is there a way to explain this other than incompetence or corruption?
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>Its further biased by how many iq tests the testee has done before.

For a population studies this does not matter at all.

For individuals, practicing for IQ test might help a little but there seems to be a clear limit IQ limit that individuals can't overcome with practice.
So, Why Do We Call It Gotham, Anyway?
Doesn't everyone have a stash of old 10base2 cables? The idea of running a network over them is strangely appealing.
I didn't read the article, and I know it's more about math than an actual plan, but as a tangent I wanted to say that there's a cost to preventing rain from reaching the earth - even if we eventually returned the water there and didn't pollute or reduce the water. I think by altering this age-old cycle, we would lose some of the impact on the soil, and plants, the way it rolls downwards into increasing rivers.

We've caused a lot of damage with pavement and structures. The benefit of the power generated would have to be weighed against this cost.
>Since individuals can't bring GDPR lawsuits themselves

They absolutely can:

Article 79

Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor

1. Without prejudice to any available administrative or non-judicial remedy, including the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority pursuant to Article 77, each data subject shall have the right to an effective judicial remedy where he or she considers that his or her rights under this Regulation have been infringed as a result of the processing of his or her personal data in non-compliance with this Regulation.

2. Proceedings against a controller or a processor shall be brought before the courts of the Member State where the controller or processor has an establishment. Alternatively, such proceedings may be brought before the courts of the Member State where the data subject has his or her habitual residence, unless the controller or processor is a public authority of a Member State acting in the exercise of its public powers.
"let's look at it" could be anything. this is an sms android app, the place where google does not mine your data (like gmail) for it to recommend duo it needs to know context, "join zoom" could be a trigger, but "let's look at it" would lead to to many false positives to be a real option.
Another one line NPM package breaks the JavaScript ecosystem
Good. Zoom needs a competitor, especially given their very shady practices (backdoor servers, routing traffic through China, etc.).
ROCm is only officially supported on AMD Instinct GPUs. For others, it’s a best effort thing only:

“ AMD ROCm is validated for GPU compute hardware such as AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs. Other AMD cards may work, however, they are not officially supported at this time. We appreciate your feedback and we will consider it for future versions of ROCm.”

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/887#issueco...
It seems to me that death in WW1 and later might be experienced as much more arbitrary. Instead of engaging in hand to hand combat with an enemy they can see, a shell just falls out of the sky and someone happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I suppose there could also be a sense in which, depending on the culture, a death in hand to hand combat might be viewed as glorious in a way that getting shot by a sniper or blown up by artillery wouldn't be.
We've put example here: https://medium.com/getamis/hierarchical-threshold-signature-...
I think that’s the easiest way, to basically translate it to pseudocode and back. Kind of a micro-cleanroom approach.
The US has a history of breaking up monopolies. Think of Standard Oil or Bell breakup. Usually when they react they react late, but when they do it, they make sure they don't have to come back again, as in they are very thorough with their breakup.
Yeah it's a model, there will be exceptions because reality is more nuanced. My problem with working for a big company despite it allowing more time for doing stuff outside of work is that I just don't connect with the people there. Because on average more people are low openness I find we don't see things the same way and don't have the same sense of humour.
If a vendor was happy with OpenCL 1.2 but wanted a couple of extra 2.1 features, for example, then to be compliant with the specification they’d need to implement the entire 2.1 core specification

Right; from that point of view OpenCL 3.0 is a good move; also IEEE should consider such a strategy with SystemVerilog.
The gold standard ended in 1975. Since then, we have "virtual money", which are effectively made out of thin air at the time a bank borrows them to someone. Once they started this system there is probably no way back. But what effects has that done, are them all positive? I don't know. Some say it helps prevent the situation when rich would buy all the gold supply - banks can make more money for others. But - rich people can use stock markets and funds too. And look at one thing - the Appollo program started 1961 and completed 1975. I was quite shocked to see from the documentaries what technology they developed and had during the Apollo era. What US built during cold war. UNIX development started in 1970, right? So many awesome airplanes and technology around. It looks like what we have today is mosty (a great) improvement of many inventions developed before or around the end of Apollo and the end of gold standard. Now, that money is virtual, it looks like there won't be any major stock market crashes as they can intervene relatively easily. But why the space program basically died? NASA has just been talking about SLS for many years... Is it because politicians or bankers don't want that to continue? They could print money for it in minutes, couldn't they? Or would it be far more expensive than we think? Would printing so much money skyrocket the inflaction and bring the whole economy to its knees? Isn't by chance the "real value of work" now much higher than what inflation suggests? I read here about a year ago that some smart people are not working in scientific R&D but instead making AI to improve marketing for online e-shops selling products people don't really need. Despite many startups claiming breakthroughs daily in the news, I don't feel it that way. Those are small pieces one by one. It looks to me big human progress has stagnated somehow. Maybe the smart people are not motivated enough to do the real big things, or maybe it is because there is no need to compete with Russia anymore. But hey, there have been talks about helicopter money recently - giving people money for no reason. Does that look like a great way to improve things? We live in peace - thanks for that - but it seems to me that somehow there is no motivation to do big things anymore. It seems better to just pour the money in the stock market, consume goods and services, watch Netflix and play games. Consume gas and limited Earth resources with virtual unlimited paper money. Taxation probably doesn't make sense anymore, it is there just for historical reasons, from the time bank notes were backed by gold.
You can be excused for being uneducated but dismissing an author you don't seem to have read just seems absurd.
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I have just set up my Rust environment on a new machine and installed RLS. Even on a new Ryzen 3600, RLS isn't the greatest experience. I'm very exited to try rust-analyzer now.
He also gave us the brilliant BBS: The Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddbe9OuJLU

GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary (shot in 1080p)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU

and (apart from his many talks) his podcast "Jason Scott talks his way out of it" which is just gem after gem of documented tech ephemera.

https://textfiles.libsyn.com/

It's baffingly hard to quantify how many people he (and all the other great people at the Internet Archive) has affected with his bullheaded conservation efforts.
This was helpful.

I've been frustrated with failing multiple frontend interviews recently. Generalist SWE & backend interviews have the benefit of question banks like leetcode to practice, as well as tons of general information resources. Frontend does not have anything like leetcode, and general information is scant too.

I'll admit the problems I've been seeing in frontend interviews are arguably more practical than leetcode puzzles. At the same time, they also cover scenarios and edge cases not likely to have been encountered during day to day work or even most study.

Leetcode at least lets you encounter and grind for these kind of "tricks and patterns".
There are humans who foam at the mouth when they discover a new algae on a rock, in particular, people who study algae. One might imagine there will be a some aliens who study new sentient species and be very interested when they discover humans. It's a question of whether they have access to enough resources to reach us.
Reminds me of Temple of the Screaming Electron. Spent lots of time reading text files on there as an early teen.

Thankfully I didn't blow my face up/go to jail for terrorism.
> startups that merely survive

Yep, startups that merely survive this are going to be mean.
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Not that different from Windows 10 proposing to use the new Edge version when starting a browser (it also happened with Firefox & Opera) via the start menu.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPD13_oX0AEnhTb?format=png&name=...
This is a very privileged view coming from someone living in a first world country. I see this argument repeated every time and i have been following Hans Rosling from a very long time. I would like you to invite and stay in India for < 2$ a day in a slum to have your world view changed.

Firstly i am not against humane response, but this is such a simplification of the problem created for a a circlejerk in Western academic circles. It is too late anyways.
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For a hobbyist, you definitely don't want to use the cloud, buy yourself a good GPU (I got a great deal 2nd hand in eBay) and you'll save a lot of cash.

What you need the cloud for is parallelism. If you want to do any sort of hyperparameter tuning doing it on a single computer is going to leave you waiting for days.
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> If a child under 2 dies, you'll often see reuse of that name for the next child.

This is apparently the backstory as to why the musician Richard D James called himself "Aphex Twin"
> [0] https://technology.ie/data-protection-commissioner-double-wo...

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> The other Commissioners are becoming more and more upset with this and planing to institute a board to overrule Ireland's Commissioner. But all of this is very slow...

Interesting, do you know of a news article or something similar about this?
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I had to read up on it, the gist of it is (these are example domain names I made up for illustration):

1. Domain like "abcde.teams.microsoft.com" has a CNAME that points to a domain like "abcde.microsoft-teams.com", but "microsoft-teams.com" is no longer registered to or controlled by Microsoft.

2. Hacker registers microsoft-teams.com, gets a LetsEncrypt SSL for it.

3. Send a message to someone with a GIF that was uploaded to "abcde.teams.microsoft.com". Teams thinks it's legit because it's a subdomain of "teams.microsoft.com", and SSL checks out, so it sends the user's auth token along with the HTTP request for the GIF. Problem is, it's sending it to the attacker controlled "abcde.microsoft-teams.com".

4. Since the hacker controls "abcde.microsoft-teams.com", they now have your auth token, which they can use to impersonate you.

Et voila, account takeover.

I'd bet that plenty of whitehats and blackhats have bots automatically crawling domains belonging to tech companies searching for subdomain takeover opportunities.
auto completion works before you complete something, this is offering alternative to zoom after you typed the whole thing and send it.
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I can't speak to the author's workflow but I also do ML research and I often need heavy bursts of computation with long stretches of nothing in between. So I might spend a few hundred bucks in a couple of days by using multiple very powerful instances at the same time. Even if the cost ends up being the same as a workstation over a year, when it matters the cloud gives me results faster than a workstation would and this enables fast iteration over ideas.
It's a common pattern with container and cloud platforms. Configurations are passed declaratively through whatever yaml interface they expose as environment variables. This way you can have a higher level config that glues all the components together.
They're most obviously a bad design because now any part of the code in your entire program can change the behaviour of any other bit of code. It means you can't understand code in isolation.
Brideshead Revisited is only funny in places, and much better than Decline and Fall.
I pay for the 'Ultimate' edition which means the different language support is available via plugins. At my day job I toggle between GO & Typescript and some JAVA side projects so setup works well enough for me.

I can't speak to CLion. I use the Go debugger daily and I don't have 'GoLand' perse, just the plugin.
I second the thought that for a lot of folks, the hassle of setting up and maintaining their own mailing list server has driven them to use commercial, hosted solutions such as groups.io.

The major disadvantage that comes with hosted solutions is that you have no control over the service. Consider Yahoo Groups, which deleted all of its mailing list archives last year. I was one of the project leads for the Archive Team effort [1] to make a copy of those groups before they were lost forever, and although we saved several hundred thousand groups, we lost a lot more. Many millions of groups just vanished. Many of them, despite being long abandoned, were basically the only evidence left of that community, containing vital archives and information that is now gone.

I'm not saying this doesn't happen with self-hosted groups, but if a self-hosted group decides to shut down, it's their choice. (Rather than Yahoo emailing you to tell you that everything will be gone in a month).

[1] https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php/Yahoo!_Groups
Wifi over coax could have usage for trains.

You would connect wifi access point to fibre from the ground. Wifi signal is output to coax cable running along side with the power lines or from the ground next to the track. Wifi is beamed into the train. Local Wifi access points spreads the wifi signal in the train.
He kinda goes into a blind rage though, which could still fit. Further complicating things — they drink wine relentlessly throughout.
This is amazing! So much nostalgia looking at the BBS List.
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