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> I'm really starting to despise most OS's for having such an overbearing security policy. I think it's really why I've stuck with Windows for so long. For sure Windows is not as user-stupid as something like macOS, iOS, Android, etc... but for me as a power user it's just about as powerful as I need to be.

> I'm not even considering *nix distros here because honestly the market for every day users for something like Ubuntu or Mint is really small, and those are possibly the most end-user friendly.

Like, I sympathize, I really do, but you're complaining about OSs restricting your freedom while avoiding the OSs that don't restrict your freedom. Yes, Darwin and NT should behave better, but they don't. It absolutely sucks that the options are "supports most commercial software" XOR "lets user control their own device", with some options splitting the difference (ex. ChromeOS possibly with developer mode, Android rooted or with a custom ROM), but the option is there.
Well, freeing it up to compete. I expect some of the bloat is just so that someone can't work for a competitor.
>But then when I apply for jobs and just keep getting rejection after rejection, it wears me down and makes me feel like an imposter who isn't cool enough to join the club you know?

I've concluded that we aren't going to fix this. When even PhD's appear to have this same experience, you know it isn't a matter of education. For a long time I thought perhaps licensing / certification like other professions including engineering, but there are too many economic forces against that happening.

So, we're going to continue to bifurcate into companies that have the means to interview, hire, and manage software development and those that are essentially a cargo cult version of those activities. You have to basically accept that a large segment of the market for tech workers is going to belittle you, mistreat you, and it's up to you to either jump through their hoops or work really hard to find places that aren't like that.
This title is misleading for a few reasons:

- Android 10 is not killing anything. Targeting API level 29, the native API level of Android 10, prevents the mechanism Termux uses, but you can target a lower API level and run just fine on Android 10, and in fact Termux does run just fine on Android 10.

- API level 29 blocks a specific mechanism that Termux happens to use to run arbitrary code. There are other ways to do anywhere from most to all of what Termux wants to do, with some tradeoffs. It's not as good as the old way, but it's hardly "killing".
Yeah, that's what makes it funny!
It looks like this is their github repo. Link is broken at the end of the article.

https://github.com/HAIRLAB/Pre_Surv_COVID_19
Remember that anything that is harder than setting the date and time is unlikely to be done in practice, since we're looking for something easier than that. Routing cabling out of a room seems unlikely.
What do you mean by OS libraries here? Open source? Have you profiled the library to see where it is slow?
I love the terminal theme. I've been trying to do something that looks like an older terminal for a configuration page, and this version almost does it.

Why almost? The theme totally screws up wide tables. They bleed off the edge of the page, and there's no vertical scrollbar. Furthermore, widening the page just moves everything, including the table, to the right. The only way to see a wide table is to have a giant window with a big empty space on the left.
> The bsds are actually less stable than Linux.

> Stable meaning changes, in this context, right? freeBSD changes ABI compatibility with every version.

Every major version, right? From becoming -Stable to ending its support lifecycle, I'd think a FreeBSD version and its ABIs are supported as long as many Linux distro LTS releases.
A lot of Tesla's customers came to it because of the politics of buying a car that doesn't use gasoline.

Now that other companies are finally catching up (or at least I hope they do), those same customers will have choices. Tesla has really been the only long-range choice, so of course they are going to dominate. They also make a really good car, that makes their customers happy.

Marketing and branding have huge impacts on a lot of car purchases. If Musk narrows his brand appeal by contributing to the US's partisan divide, that has a lot of potential to dent his consumer base. How many of those expensive trucks out there are ever used for truck things? So many car purchases are about image! (Though obviously not all.)
"Developers at unicorns:" Prato principal crystallized. Look at any big repro or any large company. There is usually about ~5 ish people that know wtf is going on. I think uber could be ran with 10 people.
Pretty sure they were aware of the East India Company (both Dutch and British), and other powerful mercantile organizations.
I depend heavily on Termux when travelling without my laptop (i.e., vacation). With my smartphone, a bluetooth keyboard, Termux, an impressively full-fledged emacs, a well-crafted ssh config, and my 2FA card, I can solve most or all emergency work-related problems remotely. Hopefully there will be a solution here.
I'm not calling Tesla vaporware. They make the best EVs on the market and I do like them.

Having said that, they have a bad habit of announcing products with _unbelievable_ specs that are just a little too good to be true and then delaying them constantly. For examples, see FSD, the Semi, the Roadster, and maybe the Cybertruck as well. Obviously we do not know for sure if the Cybertruck will be delayed, but it would be an amazingly fast program if it were to be produced in volume by the end of next year.

I still love the SX3, and Y, though. They are great products, IMO.
Yes, but having some already is usually required for an investment.
Are you forgetting that US hospitals are marking people who are dying of alcohol poisoning and heart disease as Covid deaths? Even when they are not tested! (https://www.foxnews.com/media/physician-blasts-cdc-coronavir...)
I love Grafana so much!! Keep up the great work!!
The question is whether it would squash 90% of those concerns or blow them up 900x. I don't know the answer to that, but I fear the latter. Everything we do as moderators is defensible—it's our core principle not to do things that we can't defend to the community, with confidence that the majority would support it. But that doesn't mean that everything we do explains itself, and therefore that a moderation log would be a good thing. On the contrary: it's all prone to misinterpretation, accusations of sinister manipulation, secret communist or nazi sympathies—I mean, you name it, we get accused of it. The bottom of that barrel is large, and at any moment there are hundreds if not thousands of readers raring to go there. Posting explanations as I've been doing in this thread is by far the highest-energy-expending thing that we have to do. We don't have the capacity to do significantly more—that's a recipe for burnout.

Moreover, the litigious sort of users who would post most of the meta complaints are also the least likely to ever be satisfied by the explanations. Why would it be a good idea to give them more material to work with and a single place to go get it? If, on the other hand, the goal is to keep the majority of the community satisfied—well, the majority of the community is already satisfied: the clear majority, and clearly so. If that weren't the case, believe me, we'd know it, and we'd already have adjusted. That's how we keep the community satisfied in the first place.

This doesn't mean we don't want to be transparent. But we take an ad hoc approach to that by answering questions as they come up. There's no specific question you can't get an answer to.
I was most likely going to stick with and AMD CPU, the intel power consumption and price per performance is a bit high for me. I’m mostly developing javascript and gaming so ultra high cpu performance isn’t as necessary.
Would like to see this from a reliable source. Looks a lot like clickbait to generate attention for their new publication.
> No, landlords do not provide land.

They provide access to their land, which is the same thing. This debate is not about who (or what) created the physical dirt. It is about the economic value of the property, which only exists as a result of human action.

> as evidenced by the fact that you are calling the land good or bad prior to having been developed by the landlord

You misread. The land is known to be good or bad in retrospect. At the time it was developed that classification was only speculative. This particular landlord thought the land would be good and thus worth developing. Others disagreed and didn't bid as highly for it. The landlord is rewarded not for others' efforts but for the fact that they were right when they predicted that this would be a good location for their development.

> All the gains generated by improvements upon the land – or enhancements in the "usability" of the land – will be retained by the landlord.

To the best approximation either of us will be able to come up with that is 100% of the market value of the land. However, you are speaking in terms of ideals. In practice only the cost of building physical structures on the land will be counted as "improvement". There is no need to guess; this is the legal standard which is already applied in the rare situations where improvements must be valued separately from the land. However, it severely understates the property owners' contributions to the overall value.

> More importantly, it is a disincentive to speculating on that land (or withholding it from the market/withholding it from productive use).

The fact that you fail to see the economic value of speculation is a depressingly common failing among LVT supporters. Putting land to a lower-value use now prevents it from being put to a higher-value use later, which destroys wealth. Speculation holds the land ready for the higher-value use, which is why it is rewarded.

Here's a hypothetical example: Say there's a plot of land which could be used for either warehousing or family homes. If you simply put it up for auction right now for a term of perhaps 50 years you'll get $100M from the warehouse representatives or $80M from family home developers. Whichever way you go you'll be locked in to that use for at least 50 years. However, trends show that the warehouse industry is in a decline, whereas demand for family homes in that area will likely increase to $150M within ten years—meaning that if you just take the highest offer now then you will be losing out on $50M of value and those families won't have enough homes. In the best case there will be a significant cost incurred to demolish the warehouses and rebuild. The correct answer here is to speculate based on the trends that a higher-value use will come along and allow only short-term, non-destructive uses of the property in the interim rather than auctioning it off immediately. Or even leave it vacant for a few years if there are no such uses.
YouTube has multiple competitors.

One of them is even a heavyweight - Facebook. Did you not realise that Facebook hosted videos? Maybe you're unaware that Instagram has Instagram TV section...
I hate this headline. But i like Jaron Lanier. And there's a lot of truth in this article.

"BUMMER platforms [FB, twitter, etc. — Behaviors of Users Modified and Made into Empires for Rent] are more than just a bummer from Lanier’s perspective—they’re eroding health and happiness and political and social discourse, curbing our free will, and turning us into, well, 'assholes.'"
>Issues

>Android 10 does not allow free access to /sdcard (at least file system based).

Yeah that is kind of an issue, with plenty more apps than termux I'm guessing.
I don't think Carmack ever worked for Apple. The XQuartz release notes say Carmack ported XFree86 (X server for x86 machines) to OS X; my guess would be that he did a limited port to get what he needed to run the Doom/Quake engine?
Saudi Arabia buys $7.7B shares in world’s best known companies
So now your argument is that Alameda County's health measures worked and we should listen to medical experts when it comes to infectious disease management. Seems like you're trying to have it both ways.
Yeah, there's really no reason for them too. If they are able to do interstellar travel, resource harvesting (from asteroids, comets, moons, planets, and suns) is relatively simple.

The thing is, I don't think it'd matter technologically. I don't think a kardashev 1 civilization could ever catch up to a kardashev 2 civilization.

Maybe once they've reached a "technological plateau" it becomes mutually assured destruction? But instead of nukes, it's targeted gamma-ray bursts? Who knows...
On the flip side, it’s common for teachers to time pregnancy so the due date will be (end_of_school_year - maternity_leave_duration) so that they’ll get an “extra” three months leave.
> I take it you have never had to try and correct a system broken by seemingly innocent-looking aptitude or RPM package upgrades. :-)

Keep in mind that on Win10 you don't even have to click a button, and the updates aren't even avoidable.

> I’m really not sure the registry is any more “dangerous”. For many everyday users, I would guess that the perceived complexity of the registry and of configuration files scattered throughout the system are really about the same. Both can appear cryptic and fragile.

I dunno, once they are in the registry, it's like putting every config file on the whole system into their home/documents directory...
It looks like the comment requesting a link to the fork was deleted.

I haven't kept the fork up to date with the latest patches as I haven't need anything yet, but it's here: https://github.com/FreedomBen/termux-api

You have to both `termux` the app and `termux-api` to get SMS functionality. I build both at the same version so there aren't any compatibility issues. Then make sure you don't have automatic updates turned on otherwise the Play store will "update" you to a non-sideloaded one that does not have the SMS ability.
What sorts of web pages do you do this for? What if the pdf version is difficult to read?
This reads like a very good example of how not to behave if you actually want to be happy
Right, so back to the question - why not just monitor front line cells for activity, which i think can be done without making calls?
I see that you just haven't done it yet.

"Allocation" in this context just means open(), mmap(). A "shared memory pool" is a thing I would have no use for.

But I can assure you that you can have excellent, non-trivial parallelism with separate processes and chosen shared memory pages -- much moreso than with threads that must battle one another for access to locks, queues, and "pools". I routinely get order-of-magnitude performance improvement by reorganizing this way.

The single-writer ring buffer is the component that makes it all work. The environment might seem stark, but in exchange you can have exactly 0% concurrency overhead. Not wasting 90% on pool management and thread contention means other optimizations become meaningful. And, you can start and stop the processes independently.
I am still surprised Google gets almost no flack for this. Chromebooks are particularly bad offenders. They're basically disposable laptops with an incredibly short lifecycle, where even browser security updates end when Google decides a laptop has left support. It's ironic Chrome is supported many years longer on any given Windows PC than any given Chromebook.

Google loves claiming to be environmentally friendly, but disposable computing is practically their default mode now.
> Prato principal crystallized

You're wrong, and not just about the Pareto principle.
Torch and best-selling author Kim Scott launch “The Radically Candid Coach”
Hi, I used Grafana in my last company and absolutely loved it.

How do I convince my current company to get the hell off Datadog?
> Because of how quickly these are captured and priced in, the sentiment is that true arbitrage opportunities rare exist and aren't worth looking for. The joke is taking that to the logical extreme, but it doesn't make the general sentiment wrong.

Yes, it does.

The EMH suggests that markets move extremely quickly to capture and price based on all available information, and that market disruptions and failures are temporary and mostly inconsequential.

The real world suggests otherwise. As it turns out the concept of "perfect information" is literally ridiculous, because the concepts of all available information and rationality can't even really be defined in the context of a complex adaptive system, and when you look around the world you see examples of inefficient markets, unexploited arbitrage, sheer randomness, misplaced risk, and chaotic behavior or complex emergent properties all around you.

The EMH proponent says oh that's not actually happening because it can't be happening because my theory says it can't, so there. Just like the person in the joke.
> to keep insecure and abusive apps off of the majority of users' devices.

I don't know, but we have a small android tablet with a bunch of games. If you ask me - Play Store is a cesspool of ad-ware ridden junk with some of the games showing you an ad after every single screen (5-10 clicks / taps). After installing more than 10 games the tablet starts showing full screen adds spontaneously at different times and in different screens. And I haven't installed any "shady" apps, just games with "4 stars" or more rating on them.

Somehow that is ok, but running GNU grep in a terminal is now a crime on Android. And you can review grep's code, while these games run amok with spyware.

Google is "fixing" security in all the wrong places. Which means security has nothing to do with what Google does. It is locking the android appliance to ensure uninterrupted consumption of ads. Anything else, be that development, tinkering, etc. which interferes with ad consumption must be restricted, limited and removed.
There is some very odd marketing speak here. "Vercel's impossibly fast cdn", taking about how hosting on Google is somehow unethical? This whole thing is weird for some basic default CSS.
have you seen any implementations of internal tracing like APM being used with Grafana? I think lack of a good open source alternative to New Relic or Datadog APM kinda killed OSS monitoring for my company.

The Jaeger integration is a good step in the right direction though, kudos!
Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?
With a 55" screen you'd have to be within 3.5 feet to be able to see a difference with 4k. So no eye test needed. Your brain is either lying to you or the 4k screen you tested with is better than the non-4k you used.

http://carltonbale.com/does-4k-resolution-matter/
The first time I got in an Uber and saw a Lyft sticker in the window and a driver with two phones on the dash is when I knew for sure this whole “new economy” was doomed.

Both the user and the supplier we’re just gaming multiple apps to find the best deal with no loyalty whatsoever. It basically just boiled down to which VCs wanted to subsidize the transaction the most.
The difference being that we've already gotten past the point of thinking that Darwinian theory should dictate human lifes. A lot of political energy is invested in keepingn them the way particular theories say it ought to be based on certain economic theoretical criteria.

You wouldn't kill the baby of a Tiger/Lion simply because your textbooks say it's not genetically feasible (glossing over the fact that it's simply not been observed before).
Thanks for leading the Grafana project!

As a color blind user, I find it difficult to read the dashboards created by others. How can I help any efforts to increase Grafana's accessibility?
The webm file is broken
Marijuana legalization polls well but it’s still a controlled substance that can get you jailed in most parts of the US. Try to find out why.
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Planning on not returning, but not telling your employer so they keep paying you on maternity leave is shady as fuck.

A good reason the leave pay should be provided by the state.
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Youtube also removed several videos from a youtube channel MedCram.com. Its a channel run by a medical doctor who discusses updates from medical journals in technical detail.

The following videos have been removed from youtube.

- Coronavirus Epidemic Update 10: New Studies, Transmission, Spread from Wuhan, Prevention (2019-nCoV)

- Coronavirus Pandemic Update 43: Shortages, Immunity, & Can a TB Vaccine (BCG) Help Prevent COVID-19

- Coronavirus Pandemic Update 57: Remdesivir Treatment Update and Can Far-UVC Disinfect Public Spaces

- Coronavirus Pandemic Update 60: Hydroxychloroquine Update; NYC Data; How Widespread is COVID-19

- Coronavirus Pandemic Update 71: New Data on Adding Zinc to Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin

Watch their latest video to see that they try to stick to the facts and avoid politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UANgon3Umns
They should honestly consider outsourcing the legal work on their platforms to various law firms around the world. There's clearly no will within the company to do legal heavy lifting and trying to develop tech solutions for this is a band aid at best
What about the "discourse" where commenters submit ideas to the effect of "This should be illlegal."

Do they realise that, like government regulation, that would leave discretion over enforcement to a third party, e.g., a prosecutor.

It is possible to have a regulatory framework and a criminal code aimed at Big Tech that is, in practice, never enforced, rarely enforced, or enforced arbitrarily.

Giving users a private remedy against tech companies, letting them initiate actions in response to wrongdoing, does not mean anyone has to forgo democratic government, government regulation, law enforcement, and so on.

It is just something that as far as I can see is not getting any focus in popular discussions about the evils of Big Tech. We watch as people bring factually-supported cases over large scale privacy violations but they always fail in the courts because there is no law that is truly adequate to bring them under. The existing law requires actual injury. It reflects a time before the ubiquity of computer networks, let alone the widespread practice of using them for dragnet surveillance on the public as a business model.
>> You have man-years worth of work going nowhere as projects get scrapped mid-development.

That's better than seeing man-years go into features that get deployed. I witnessed one successful control system company spin up a team of new hotshot UI engineers, all right out of the best schools. After months of work the team "updated" the product. Withing hours the call center was hit with hundreds of "You changed the g-dam menus!! Put them back NOW!!".

The trick is to squeeze your long-term UI project in the same update as some routine security fixes. Then the clients are forced to learn the new system.
Serious question, I am a total noob when it comes to investments. But let's say I want to bet on another ".com" implosion, what can I invest into to make that bet?

I feel like these unicorns are so ridiculous that they will surely fail sooner rather than later, is there a way to bet on this eventuality?
Dicom gets a lot of flak, but as you say, the thing that makes it bad is shitty implementations and shitty vendors. After a while, you realize there aren't any nonshitty vendors in the medical field.

And then you count your blessings that at least dicom gives you the beginning of interop.
Perhaps you should speak only for yourself and not others?

I don't have a car and hopefully never will.
I never used an Uber or any similar service.
I used taxi maybe 2 or 3 times in the past few years.

It is extremely easy to live without a car if the city / country accommodates for it.
Reproducibility is one of the issues mentioned earlier in the thread. And being able to audit the code and understand what it actually does seems rather important too.