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Gary Killdall tried to buy Terrapin. It was unfavorable terms and I didn't agree. He went away mad and wrote something in C an implementation of what looked like Logo but I don't know how he choose to implement it. I remember him talking about structs of various sorts at one point, instead of using lists so I assume he was concerned about efficiency. I never had a discussion with them about their interest in pedagogy so I can't comment.
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I see this all the time. Every single engineer starts off thinking "What should I study?".

IMO, it's the wrong question. Study whatever you want, it doesn't really matter. Get a lot of breadth, that's fine.

But go deep somewhere. How? Do a project! Something interesting, something you can't do today, and something you want to do. And don't stop. You'll hit walls, just ask people for help, find communities where they'll help you through it, read docs.

Even if you fail, so long as you really push yourself, you'll learn a ton. And soon you'll know which projects are "tough but possible" a lot better.

It's a meme at this point that developers have 1000 different projects they never finished. Don't worry about that. In my experience it's because about 75% through a project you hit a point where it stops being fun, you stop learning things, and now it's just doing the work to wrap it up, which can be a lot less valuable.
Not the poster, but you can see why gun violence is different. Free speech is different from material harm to others.

Also, you can keep pursuing greater good by education and protection of human rights. No need to sacrifice free speech.
I mean, there is so much wrong with this statement, and not like thorny philosophical problems to be teased apart with careful interrogation, but just basic definitional problems as well as issues that would make its implementation impossible that are so obvious a kid repeating the fourth grade could spot them toot suite.

Historic hypothetical: Do you think Nancy Reagan could have convinced damn near every conceivable jury in the country in that rap music and the views therein caused damage? What does that do your little draft constitutional amendment there?

I think it would not bebhard to find your view damaging, I'm fact your expression of that view gas already caused specific damage to me because you made me sad for you. As well, such pro-censorship expressions threaten the very core of America The Idea, which idea brings a great many positive things and clarity to the world, the loss of which would be obviously damaging to millions.

How would your subversive and damaging views survive in the dystopia you seek?
At a large Australian bank I contracted to about 10 years ago, it was suspected that they had upwards of 13,500 servers, including many mainframes. They had so many servers that there were more than a few just sitting uncollected and still packaged in the storage vault, abandoned several years ago when the project they were intended for was cancelled/put on hold etc. Nobody every claimed them.

Another part of the problem is that in the past they invested in every platform under the sun that ran the financial applications they required, so there was a lot of legacy platforms that they couldn't yet rationalize away (AIX, Solaris etc).

The other problem is that they are incredibly risk averse, and thus will build new platforms extremely slowly and only after immense testing will they cut over from the old platform to the new platform. They are typically averse to consolidation or rationalisation since the ongoing stability of the application is the most important factor to their business.

A virtualization umbrella project that I was working on 10 years ago for this bank that covered several "core" platforms (AIX, VMware, Solaris, etc) is still under way as we speak, with many applications still to be migrated from old platform to the new one, despite the original "replacement" hardware now being obsoleted by the manufacturer already, according to those I know that still work there. I wonder if they'll ever finish.
Guess it varies per bank. My main accounts are with NAB, and they seem pretty up to date.

Maybe Bankwest in particular are stuck in the past.
No, that's simply not true. The forums of pubic discourse from before do not exist anymore, the collective's attention has moved. If you lose the megaplatforms, you are much worse off than someone in 2000.
The point I was trying to make is that you sending the fax could be pdf > email > fax service > pots > fax service > email > pdf. The end result is a lower quality replication compared to email > email. There's no way the law says either the fact that it looks worse than the email or that someone can point to a contract that says it took place over pots makes the transmission more valuable.
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Yeah, but brachycardia wasn't the problem and that's easy to diagnose. What I want to know is if it is good enough to know that it wasn't actually brachycardia but was instead afibrillation with weak parts of the cardiac cycle.
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> flat earth (before Galileo)

Not only is what you meant to write (geocentricity) not actually in support of your thesis, showing your poor historical knowledge, what you actually wrote is Not Even Wrong -- it's a classic shibboleth for showing people you have no idea what you are talking about and should be ignored.
Wow !
Amazing concept and execution...loved it.
Would love to see more features supporting RF. Obviously the dream would be a 2D or 2.1D mesh/simulate built in, but would settle for less.

An easy starting point is better import/export of layouts. Designing an antenna in my RF-specific CAD suite is great, but when I actually have to build the thing, all I get is DXFs. Converting DXF to gerbers is a mess in KiCAD. Same goes if I want to reverse the pipe and simulate my layout.

Staying in the OSS realm, QUCS (open source ADS equivalent) has RF circuit simulation, just needs some help implementing auto-layout. This would make it trivial to e.g. optimize a simple transmission line circuit, and have it fabbed. That'd be huge for opening up simple microwave circuits to the DIY/"hacker" community.
> Some OSS projects suggest using things like pyenv to help. I don't know, it just seems to make things even worse for me because now even 'which python' doesn't tell me anything because it directs to some shell script shims that I can't parse or understand.

Quick tip:

pyenv which [python,pip,...]
pyenv help

The shimming of Pyenv can bite you sometimes, but for the most part it has the tools necessary built in to help you figure out your env.
Couldn't have said it better myself. To justify that financial models are a waste of time by saying "90% of startups fail" is aken to saying that professional athletes shouldn't train because "99.9% of athletes don't become pros".

Do you think that the remaining 10% of successful startups aren't utilizing forecasts and testing their assumptions? People love to be contrarian just to be contrarian on this site sometimes.
What forums are you talking about? Radio, mail, TV, and newspapers still have audiences of hundreds of millions. Internet forums are in decline, but those have always had completely negligible public reach (as in, down by more than 2 orders of magnitude) compared to the others.
Right now in France one doctor (professor Didier Raoult) has been mostly right about the whole thing (in my view), and he became popular thanks to YouTube.

Yet his views are in radical opposition to both the French government and the WHO. Should his videos be removed? He's one of the most published expert on infectious diseases, so who in YouTube has authority to decide that he is more wrong than the minister of health, who is mostly a politician?
The major value of doing this modelling is to be able to do sensitivity analysis on the key business factors [0]. You want to know what things really matter and what don’t.

There is also great value to be gained just from building the model as you are forced to estimate the various factors that will drive the business. Whenever I have gone through this exercise I have picked up at least one important assumption that I had missed.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_analysis
Last updated in 2014. Barely does a subset of Java 1.4.
No. Not unless it's outwardly threatening.
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Hacker News is fine with jokes that are actually clever. Cheap plays on stereotypes, not so much. HN has problems, but this is generally not one of them.
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As I write my reply, this comment is currently grayed-out from downvotes. I find this absurd. Anyone who has read Mill knows Mill was a utilitarian. He didn't support freedom of speech for dogmatic reasons but for practical ones. Mill didn't really care about the rights of the speaker to speak or write. He cared about the right of others to hear and read. From chapter 2 of On Liberty[1]:

> But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill's point is this: Every time you silence someone, you are preventing others from hearing what that person has to say. Maybe those people want to listen so they can entertain an idea and become convinced. Maybe they want to listen so they can better understand and refute the speaker. Maybe they just find the rantings of a crazy person amusing. Whatever their reasons, the "cure" of censorship is worse than the "disease" caused by letting people communicate. (Note that this formulation also makes it easy to distinguish speech from "speech" such as air horns designed to disrupt a speaker from spreading their ideas to those who want to listen.)

Moreover, censorship requires designating a censor. Is there any person or group who you would grant the power of deciding what you're allowed to read or hear? I certainly can't think of one. I'm an adult and I can decide for myself what is acceptable for me to consume, thank you very much.

Of course YouTube is not a government and they shouldn't be forced to host things that they don't want to host, but following the free speech norm is almost certainly more beneficial to society. Every once in a while, one of those crazy ideas that must be censored— one of those ideas turns out to be true. Just like slavery and the subjugation of women in the past, there are moral errors we are committing that future societies will condemn us for. Censorship prevents those ideas from coming to light sooner and impedes moral progress.

Warning messages before viewing something? Sure. Add links to rebuttals? Fine. Demonetize? OK. But deletion? I'd prefer you didn't.

1. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Liberty/Chapter_2
This hits the nail on the head. For a strong performer at mid-level stock+bonus should be equal to salary. For a senior equity exceeds salary by six figures.

Moving to the Bay area is still one of the best financial decisions Ive ever made. It helps that the work is way more fulfilling too.
The following may seem frivolous and/or uncharitable but I think you would find them hard to disagree with:

- booting people off platforms is a "bad idea" which you wish to "suppress".

- booting people off platforms shines a light on their "bad ideas"

I'm sympathetic to the spirit of your comment, but I think Mr Icke has plenty of other ways to publish his ideas, and I don't believe youtube is suppressing them in a way that necessitates suppression of theirs.
Where would this self-hosted gitlab be hosted?
Thanks for sharing! What a fun and scary video!
The audience of the things you've listed has shrunk dramatically, in terms of percentage at the very least. Just look at where ad dollars have been moving for the past 15 years.
Yes that is a good point. The link I gave mentions that study, and says it has failed replication attempts. I think the truth is more nuanced - there are ways it can be more effective and yes sometimes counter-effective. But that doesn't mean we should just give up fact-checking entirely. I think there are several ways we can make corrective fact checking more convincing to people and am working on building a collaborative fact-checker https://verifact.io to try to do that
Reddit has tons of right wing content. Even TOS violations were permitted on Trump subs for years before being quarantined.
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And Isaac Newton did a lot of work in alchemy, occult studies and predictions of the apocalypse founded in the period equivalent to the "Bible code". I don't know why people assume that the foremost scientists in recorded history did not benefit from an overall intellectually-open social climate and worldview. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
> works against the cascade built into the language and it's clearly just a inline css replacement with a new coat of paint (and I don't even like the paint).

If that's the only reason, then you should seriously re-evaluate it. [1] You can combine the utilty classes into your own component classes anyway e.g: '.my-button'.

The main thing that "utility css" offers is composition over inheritance. You're basically composing small styles to create component styles. You're not overriding the css framework, you're composing your own framework.

But it's not for everyone and that's cool too

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/docs/extracting-components/#extracti...
> I don't believe in fighting "bad ideas" by suppressing them, I believe in shining a light on them. Let the truth fight for itself.

The truth often doesn't get the chance to fight for itself on platforms like YouTube and Facebook. They are designed to keep showing you more of what they think you want to see because that drives engagement and engagement is what's profitable. You simply won't see opposing views. You go further down the rabbit hole and your existing ideas are reinforced, no matter how faulty they are.

Sometimes the truth doesn't have the resources to fight for itself. For example, this woman has been falsely accused of starting the coronavirus pandemic:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/27/tech/coronavirus-conspira...

It's a lie concocted by one of her fellow Americans. It's a lie that's now been spread all over the world resulting in death threats to her and her family. She simply doesn't have the resources to stop it. The police haven't helped her. YouTube hasn't helped her. She doesn't have the money to pursue a civil lawsuit. The best she can do is get in the media and hope that somehow helps.

Once a lie is spread far enough it will eventually find someone who believes it and is unstable enough to act on it. We've seen that before as well:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/us/pizzagate-attack-sente...

A contest of ideas presupposes a level playing field, a balanced presentation, equal voices, and a basic agreement of the facts. That is, unfortunately, not the practical reality.
My one trip to Molokai some 7 or 8 years ago. The main market had staples that were primarily split up bundles from Costco. So it seems like (given the other posts) a common model.
> So, for the simple act of logging in, three mechanisms are required (systemd, /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd). This is inefficient, and Poettering has decided to make a drastic change. That change is homed. With homed, all information will be placed in a cryptographically signed JSON record for each user.

10 years ago this would have been considered satire
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> now comes the classic counter-argument: that the evils of disinformation possess a virality that makes them spread far more easily than the truth, being that truth is nuanced and difficult to acquire whereas bad information is seductively simple

This is such a knockdown argument that I can't believe you just refused to address it!

The mirror image of David Icke is the genuine experts that are trying to get good, nuanced information out there, often fresh out of research papers. Most of these people have single digit reach, i.e. so little that they could spend their whole lives getting less reach that Icke gets in 5 minutes.

The asymmetry in potency between good and bad information is far higher today than at any time in the past, and I applaud Youtube for doing a tiny bit to stop the bleeding.
I remember feeling like that when I did not have clearer goals, it felt like I was drowning in the middle of a vast ocean and it did not matter which way I swam. What I needed was a glimpse of land to swim towards, that made all the difference.

I can recommend Richard Hamming's book Art of Doing Science and Engineering [0], that is what helped me put things in perspective. To quote a famous passage from it:

"It is well known the drunken sailor who staggers to the left or right with n independent random steps will, on the average, end up about sqrt(n) steps from the origin. But if there is a pretty girl in one direction, then his steps will tend to go in that direction and he will go a distance proportional to n. In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and large, a career with a vision will get you a distance proportional to n, while no vision will get you only the distance sqrt(n). In a sense, the main difference between those who go far and those who do not is some people have a vision and the others do not and therefore can only react to the current events as they happen.

...

You will probably object that if you try to get a vision now it is likely to be wrong—and my reply is from observation I have seen the accuracy of the vision matters less than you might suppose, getting anywhere is better than drifting, there are potentially many paths to greatness for you, and just which path you go on, so long as it takes you to greatness, is none of my business. You must, as in the case of forging your personal style, find your vision of your future career, and then follow it as best you can.

No vision, not much of a future."

0 - http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEn...
I, for one, welcome corporate censorship of the public discourse. Because if there's anyone I can trust its my local, multi-national brand. I love you brand!
Yeah, these still exist, though they're becoming more rare. I think what you actually want though is for processes to be killed at the end of class/lab period (even then, I think this should be done by students manually to avoid losing unsaved work). For example, say a student is running some big batch job as part of a lab. Now, if he wants to, say, go to the bathroom or go to the whiteboard to consult with other students, he has to either leave the computer unlocked (possibly leaving neighbors access to private student account data) or kill the running job.
This only helps much if the calibration is off linearly - in my case not only is the calibration off but the temperature flux up/down is more pronounced than it should be. I still make do, but it's definitely very easy for stuff to come out burnt or undercooked as a result.
Masks protect both directions. Some masks protect better than others. If masks don't protect you from getting COVID, why do healthcare workers wear them, and why should we reserve for them a product that doesn't work?

I understand wanting there to be enough for HCWs. If so, say that without the lie. If there aren't enough for HCWs, restrict purchase by the general public and say that they will be available to the general public when there are adequate supplies.

When the health authorities lie to the public, they lose credibility, and they need that credibility if they're going to ask people to do extreme things like not leave their houses for an extended period of time.

It's really just like a condom. They work, some better than others, but none are perfect. The general public can understand that.
> That's precisely what you want if you care about not harming society at large, especially in the longer run.

Please, explain: how do queer ideas harm society, in the longer run?
Have you not noticed that the most populous country in the world is run by a self-identifying Communist Party?

And the USSR, #4 was Communist until it collapsed economically, not intellectually?
but how
Wouldn't they have been easily observed by now, perhaps even making contact? Unless they are deliberately trying to remain unobserved, in which case being caught on video from an aircraft seems careless.
Have you tried `sudo loginctl enable-linger [username]`? This used to be well-documented, but I don't see much about it now. It's possible things have changed since the last time I had to deal with this?
It's nice that you can't contribute in a meaningful way to the discussion. Means I'm right.
This really is a "stunning" victory that I did not expect. In today's world, big money rarely loses a round to NGOs and the public interest. Maybe this happened because the circumstances around the selling were _that_ egregious.
As far as I know, most modern fax machines keep a record of things received and transmitted on them. At least the ones at my old work did. We could bring up a week's worth of faxes or something and reprint them.
This article points out that Bezos has been light on his giving (compared to the richest billionaires) but it also lists out who he has given to, which is a diverse set of interests as well as some princely sums:

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/307...
Also, spare me the asinine "you're free to speak on public property" responses. Public discourse has de-facto moved into private custody. There is no "escaping it".
I’m American but was living in Seoul at the time.

A couple friends and I took an overnight trip to Busan. We were having lunch at a small restaurant, and my friend asks the staff if she can order takeout and have it sent back to her home in Seoul. Mind you Busan to Seoul is 325km.

This was mind-boggling to me. I asked her, “How long is that gonna take to get there?!” She was puzzled, looked at me and said, “It’ll be there later tonight.” She then laughed and continued, “Hey, this is Korea!”

The delivery network of small highly developed countries is simply amazing.
Most planets don't have life.