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>If you attend in person, you have to do tons of assignments, labs, exams

Exactly. Even as a self-taught developer, one of my biggest regrets is how little I appreciated the incredible resources I had available at university and didn't really take advantage of or appreciate.
Hmm, that particular system is up since 2008, so maybe it inherited some config from that time during upgrades. :)
One thing I've definitely noticed in CS is that having a TA sit next to you in the computer lab and help you debug your code is a huge value add, and if it's only to track down a misplaced comma in "Introduction to C".

Doing the same over $ONLINE_SERVICE is not quite the same experience, just like a terminal-emulator-in-a-browser isn't quite the real thing when you have slightly higher and jittery lag. And an async/await model (post code on forum, get back answer anything from minutes to hours later) is not the same thing at all.
Trump seems immune to blaming. To his fans, everything bad is because of unpatriotic traitors.
I appreciate the candid statement he has made about one of the things that ails Amazon's leadership.

> Only that’s not just Amazon, it’s how 21st-century capitalism is done.

I wonder if there's any future opportunity for him in the existing set of well known names or large enough companies. I can't think of any widely known tech company that doesn't do "21st-century capitalism" (treating people as disposable cogs). Seems like getting into some non-profit that also has a decent track record may be the way to go for him.
The quarantine seems to be complete BS:

"According to the company’s previous statements, the infected co-worker in question last reported for work on 11 March. (...) Smalls said Amazon did not send him home until 28 March, three weeks after the exposure."
> Having a public figure at your company that's willing to martyr themselves to push the knife in just a little deeper when you have a scandal is a dumb idea.

Having a toxic work culture in warehouses seems a dumb idea too.
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Maybe if you restrict yourself to programmers. Most office workers probably don't understand the implications of surveillance software and I doubt that many of them would go through the extra effort of using a separate computer.
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I wouldn't dismiss how hard it can be to quit a job you love, just because you're 64. I know people that love doing what they do well in their late 70s, and job satisfaction for them is way more important than any monetary aspect.
No, indeed this gets to the heart of the idea of class warfare.
I don't think we have any data regarding immunity against this particular coronavirus. AFAIR, the nastier the virus, the longer immunity lasts, e.g. SARS, MERS immunity can last up to 3 years.
IANAL, but I think he didn't write anything that would put him in danger; plus, if Amazon would sue him, it would be one of the worst moves from a PR perspective.
If we are still isolating to any extent in the fall, things are going to get real tough. Might not be any incoming freshmen class.
This is my hunch as well.
You need to distinguish between grocery delivery and food/meal delivery.

In Australia, the two primary grocery outlets, Coles and Woolworths, already had online ordering and delivery. The use exploded with the lockdown but they have ramped up.

The cost for a delivery depends on the value of the order for Woolies and on time of day and delivery window for Coles but is of the order of $10-$15.

A lot of people have moved to the services to avoid going to the supermarkets, and many won't return to physical shopping for the weekly groceries.

The food delivery services are a bit different, there's the widely spread existing services like Dominos etc, but then there's the Uber Eats/Doordash etc. For the moment, the Eats/doordash people are screwing the restaurants, but they're starting to also charge more to the customers.
Baguette vending machines are one of my favorite parts of visiting remote places in France.
>Why do we work five days a week until we're old and getting ready to die?

Capitalism requires us trade our labor for the compensation necessary to buy food, clothing and shelter until we're old and our labor is no longer worth anything to the market.

Also, because of the Jewish Sabbath, and later because of unions and labor laws, since the norm used to be a seven day workweek[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend#History
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I'm not sure he's radioactive. He probably saw some grey-area stuff being done, everyone who's had a position of responsibility in such a large organization for any serious amount of time has.

He didn't quit over those. He quit over what seems to me to be flagrant disrespect for basic human rights.

I want to hope most companies who can make use of a person of Tim's skills - and those are few and far between - do not condone that kind of behavior and would appreciate him for it, not pass him over.
What is the point of arguing that?
In places that do designate pro-LGBT content as extremist such as Russia, they already perform censorship.

Yet in places such as UK which does have censorship and hate speech laws, they don't.
Is anything recession proof?

I remember a blog post, I think from Tim Bray, about 15 years ago or so arguing that the people in IT who had great careers went into government during recessions or down periods and out of government during boom times to work on the things that they had specified during the down period.

So maybe Government is recession proof. Seems about right.
It seems like the Arab spring was mainly caused by a spike in food prices.
I love this writing style where the scientific method is laid bare so explicitly.
I noticed the ConsoleKit->logind change at the time being largely justified by support for multiseat but had forgotten about it. It seems like a rather extreme case of the tail wagging the dog but perhaps I'm missing something. How many people use multi-seat in large deployments? Where and why?
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It depends on how much control they have. You'll find no pro-free-market content on Kwangmyong.
I recently started using the WARP+ and found it does not hide your IP always.
It's tribalism and jealousy, and becomes loudest when one side perceives they have "lost" and don't have the skills to do anything about it.
And that was one of the sillier holy wars, since text editors have near-zero network effects and it's trivial for distros to ship both.

(FWIW I use nano.)
I had a similar experience, but I’m skeptical that it’s because KiCAD is wildly “better”. In the interim, I’d learned more (this is “just” a hobby) and the second tool tried benefited from that learning and Chris G’s excellent “getting to Blinky” video series because YouTube was now really a thing.

Describing KiCAD’s UI as “quite natural” could only be true with the “in comparison” qualifier, IMO.
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Nevertheless, he contradicted the orders of his employers, which seems a good reason for being fired.

(Edit, in response to the answer below: I doubt sending somebody home to be quarantined violates any laws).
sounds like sour grapes .
IT workers are partly to blame for it. By creating , embracing, extending, normalizing and advertising a culture where companies compete for office perks, they also allowed the creation of the underclass of unwashed workers whose businesses are not awash with cash and thus it's OK to treat them like wage slaves.
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You bring up David Huffman, but how many Huffman's and Feynman's are there out there?

Many postdocs who teach are just beginning their academic careers and are juggling running their analyses and creating their profiles that will bring them fame, against their less rewarding teaching duties.

My academic has peaked, so I put more of myself into teaching and training and often find it rewarding when I interact freely with a few keen individuals, but the majority of students out there aren't keen. They're there because they are forced to learn to my schedule and not theirs
I've heard of his name, after reading this essay I looked him up on Wikipedia; impressive resume (TL;DR: specced XML, ATOM, JSON). But Wikipedia also mentions him being arrested protesting an oil pipeline. It seems to me he's always been a man who's looking out for the environment, and for the community. Not just to maximise his individual dollar amount "ROI" in prestigious jobs.
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Unless those orders contradicted employment law, in which case it seems like a good reason for Amazon to be shut down.
Because he was fired for refusing to comply to the orders of his employer. Whether they seemed reasonable or not.

And he seems to have switched from worrying about his safety to campaigning against Amazon. Why should anybody be forced to employ somebody who has made it their job to damage their employers reputation?
Yes! I feel the same way re: ROI of that talk. I consistently say it was worth the entire price of admission. There were some other really good speakers that year, but she was incredible.
Payment processor could mean a number of different things. It could mean a tiny gateway operator. The sort of thing that can fail quite happily without impact transaction processing (most services you use will be backed by redundant gateways).

I carry some cash too. But the times I’ve needed it were for things like an outage of the internet connection at a restaurant, or an issue with a payment terminal provider (or for the very uncommon cash-only merchant).
> I believe in shining a light on [bad ideas]

You can bring megawatt lasers to bear on a bad idea from all angles and fools will not budge. Many people are not rational, it's impossible that you've not realised that yet you push this POV.

Saying we can deal with idiot ideas with rationality is itself disinformation because for some groups it clearly doesn't work.

> ...whereas bad information is seductively simple. I won't address that argument here

Odd that you won't, because this is the exact forum to address that argument. Please address it.

Someone I know has repeatedly told me that "they[0] added HIV to covid to make it so dangerous" and telling them for the Nth time there's no evidence of that has not changed anything, nor will it ever I suspect.

[0] Unstated who 'they' are but implication is the chinese.
This is what being a capital-A Ally looks like. I take my hat off to you, sir.
With a bit of satirical imagination you could easily read that from the article.

> I’m sure it’s a coincidence that every one of them is a person of color, a woman, or both. Right?"

"hmm, seems like most people who work in the warehouses must also share the same proportions of race and gender as those fired, meaning there are no white men working there"

To explain the joke a bit further: it's satirical and absurd as it's clear that the intended message is that those working the warehouse are diverse and that there are white men working there too in large numbers and who are also unhappy and that the employer fired them because of racism and sexism. To flip it and say, yes the employer was racist and sexist because theres obviously no white men being employed and therefore sacked is funny because it's absurd.
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For me, it rather was "I had so much to do for courses that I had hardly any time to make use of or appreciate the incredible amount of ressources."
Have you thought how do we define hard! As soon as you call something hard then it becomes hard, maybe it's all about our perception.
The problem is that when the older generation dies out, the younger generation is no longer young, and their attitudes have changed. Not quite to the same exact conservative/anti-progressive place that their parents and grandparents occupied, but definitely more conservative than they were when they were younger.

We'll see progress, to be sure (and that's good!), but it won't be as dramatic as you think. It'll likely be similar to the last several generations of progress.
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I have tried a few times to jump directly at the Linux kernel and I have always turned away after some time.

I have decided to go around it and start learning about core projects used in Linux systems. I would study and contribute to those projects (if possible on GitHub or GitLab) for a small amount of time, from 2 weeks to 4 weeks, to learn about how they work and how they are used. Hopefully in a year or so I would be able to start digging into the Linux kernel and have a lot of background on systems I use daily.

Another approach I had considered was to start writing drivers.

One of the projects I would go for is systemd - even when some people don't like it, it is widely used in many distributions. SELinux as well.

My main goal for the future is becoming a security engineer and I want to have a solid understanding of the internals, workings and abouts of Linux and core Linux projects, from boot all the way up.
Wow.. I was expecting random sexist comments, not lynching threats ( not that the former are good, but that's a whole different league).
I knew that I recognized the name "Kathy Sierra" from somewhere. A bit of searching confirmed that she not only started the amazing "Head First" series, but also the great book "Badass."

I had NO idea that she had been subject to harassment, or that it was so bad (not that it can be good) that she left the industry and removed her online presence.

How incredibly sad for our industry that brilliant, helpful people are pushed out because of such behavior. And how sad that we don't stand up to such bullies more, and stop them from behaving in such terrible ways.

Thanks for mentioning this very important aspect of Sierra's work and life. Her withdrawal from the industry is a loss, and a lesson, for the rest of us.
... which is as I recall, one of the main differences between the New Jersey Style and the MIT Style (per Gabriel).
6. Very reasonable systemd issues met with unreasonable hostility. There are plenty of linked examples in the article.
This analogy can still go either way. You ate half the meal. Then there they had to kick you out to finish at home with a doggy bag. You're losing out on some ambience, but the thing you showed up to achieve will be achieved.

Note that there are already refunds for at least some of the in-person stuff such as dorms and gym access. So were already in a position of compromise and partial refund. It's just an argument of what that number should be.
Alarming number of downvotes you're being hit with, when you're providing a real solution that isn't socialism.
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Yes, probably, I mean I come indeed from a Grande école but since I've never actually worked in France, it's never really been asked for. And the few times when ranking was important (visas for Japan and Hong Kong), the fact that it's not well ranked internationally means that I got no exta points.

In the end, I do think that degrees matter less than what people think and that it's completely possible to have a good career without the school name or university name having much of an influence (obviously it's anecdotical and probably depends on the field). I do strongly believe that being saddled with lifelong student loans is probably more detrimental than the positive aspects of a degree in most cases (maybe with the exception of lawyers but the only those who can cope with the lifestyle)
I hear he's 64, so this might not be a big deal for him going forward.
Do you really believe there are 15,188,406 racists in the UK and 62,984,828 racists in the USA?

If you truly believe that then I feel sorry for you, because you live in a really sad world. Is that really the experience you have living in or visiting these countries or travelling around them, that 1 in 2 people you meet are racist?

I think its a bit lazy and easy to substitue fringe views from within these two camps as the views of the majority.

If you agree that they are not the views of the majority of peoplpe who voted in these directions then clearly there are other areas that made them vote this way that could have been discussed and had there minds changed over but werent, because well racist. Everyone loves to complain that trump supporters and brexiters suffer from a lack of critical thinking, and especially conspiracy theorists, but come on. How lazy is it to say all these people are/were racists or that is why brexit/trump won.
A company that hires him signals that it has nothing to hide, so I think this might just work out fine for him.
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I don't think that's a particularly valid or accurate "read".

Here's what I understood:

Tim had just just written about 8,700 signatures on an open letter, and 3,000 tech workers participating in the climate strike. Then said "Fast-forward to the Covid-19 era." and "Instead, they just fired the activists."

Then he make the statement under discussion: "I’m sure it’s a coincidence that every one of them is a person of color, a woman, or both. Right?"

Then further down that post, he talks about a 9 hour long youtube video-chat, with workers from three different countries as wel as multiple locations in the US.

It's obvious (to me anyway) that this statement has nothing at all to do with "biased against white men", in fact he's pointing out exactly the opposite. Zero white men got fired for being part of any activism discussed here. 100% of the people who got fired were POC and/or women. He is making it clear that Amazon's worker intimidation policies result in sexist and racist outcomes. Because as he concludes at the end "At the end of the day, it’s all about power balances."

I'm really super curious - what thought process or line of reasoning led you to conclude he was accusing them of "being biased against hiring white men"?
I usually find that when I have to go "why is this the way it is, that's stupid!" I usually end up finding out that there is (sometimes was) some design constraint I wasn't aware of that caused to to need to be that way, and actually it makes sense.
This works for me as well. I'd add another point:

* Acknowledge that sometimes the book you're reading is repetitive or not very well written. If you're <10% in, read up on reviews and try to find a better book on the same subject. If ≥10%, commit and complete, acknowledging that you're not necessarily the best judge of a book's quality.
I did not understand this in the first 2 years of uni; I was in a very easy going high school before uni (this had something to do with my grades as well) as in, I did not have to attend classes, so I was used to just going to the exams. Which was great because I could make money writing software while others were sleeping in class. When I went to uni I just continued that pattern; it alienated me from my peers and as a result I did not like. Until (around 2 years in) I got bored and picked a graduate course (kolmogorov complexity) which could not be completed without attending; it was excellent; very small group (6) and the prof. That changed my ideas a bit ; I still wouldn't go to the auditorium stuff (I have/had (ex death metal band gitarist...) tinnitus; I cannot hear anything in full rooms with people whispering and sound echo-ing anyway, so what's the point). Well recommended; going to those gave me businesspartners + colleagues + funding for my first 'real' company as well.
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>That's why people work hard to acquire skills, to be able to work in better jobs.

I know it's a common mantra in these circles to 'acquire skills' and 'learn to code!' And by all means, if you are capable go for it - I know I did.

But it's really hard to do this when your priorities are your day-to-day expenses. When your uncertainties are whether you'll have a home or food. It's also hard when traditional means for acquiring skills, like going to college, no longer have the same returns they used to. All of my friends who work at Amazon warehouses have college degrees. So it's not even a call to learn fulfilling skills, it's a call to specifically learn profitable skills.
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I get what you're saying, but you're essentially doing the same thing as the person you're replying to: you're asserting, without evidence, that, if there's some group of people who want taxes to be more in-your-face, then it must be a small, vocal minority. I agree that the parent should provide sources to back up their claim, but you must do the same if you want to be taken seriously.
Margins are super low on pretty much everything that's not a B2B behemoth. And in a world where a good oscope is $30k, these companies can afford to pay their devs a bit more for the most part too; I've seen their budgets.

I think it's just a market failure where everyone already pays these wages, so no one goes out of their way to pay better. You can see this on the software side with China's "code peasants", or the UK salaries.
pretty sure "the underclass of unwashed workers whose businesses are not awash with cash and thus it's OK to treat them like wage slaves." existed long before computers were ever thought of
Many may disagree, but I think we need to throw out this concept of "disinformation" entirely. 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.

This argument reminds me of when the WWW first appeared. Everyone thought that at last Truth and Reason would be available to all and "win out" naturally.

And all that happened is that you can now find supporting arguments for any perverse or dangerous theory you are already predisposed towards online. They propagate and multiply because we are primarily emotional creatures, no matter how rational or educated we think we are.

So "shining light" on disinformation only has an effect on people if they are already predisposed to rejecting that disinformation, which makes it redundant.

There's a powerful argument about substantially improving educational equality, which I would wholeheartedly support, but in the intervening generation(s), removing disinformation from platforms that has been shown to be dangerous (ie endangered lives, which David Icke's videos have) is an acceptable compromise IMHO.
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I'm sorry to burst your bubble but the best protection is not free speech and studies have shown cognitive bias enables people to effectively ignore what disrupts their beliefs.

http://ubplj.org/index.php/jpm/article/view/974
In fact we've known this for some time
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fh0082790

And very likely you yourself are also affected, in this case by your very belief in free speech. You hold it so intimately that it has become a core of your own self.