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> I'm often critical of Linus Torvalds (in terms of communication and behavior, not technical ability), and he's got the same cult of personality around him that many abrasive CEOs do.

The pudding is judged by its taste. To me it seems that Linus manages to crunch out great results. His communication style makes headlines and many people don't like it, but can it be proven that it actually makes the results worse? There are loads of open source projects and I'm not convinved that having superior communication style is the key to having a succesfull project.
I agree - it's as good an apology as it gets. Let's honour this and react more positively than had Triplebyte send a non-apology apology.
This sounds like the best response they could have given under the circumstances, and it's not like they can undo the announcement or the initial response. I deleted my account, and I'd be hesitant to have anything to do with them in the future, but I'm open to having my mind changed if the company winds up placing a higher value on business ethics as a result of this whole thing.
I honestly tried to use org-mode tables and formulas to record and process student grades and it was a huge failure. I am very comfortable with emacs, but this particular aspect of org-mode took 10x the time a simple spreadsheet software would have taken. And I don't see this time decreasing with repeated usage.

I am back to using org-mode for other stuff.
I agree. If the compiler authors make some additional "magic", they are also responsible to "unmagic" the code which checks: "if memcpy is defined as having no arguments, and then a call to it is compiled (the call is never executed), will the memcpy routine from the standard library (which must be linkable only using the name) be successfully linked?"
The drug was not illegal in Britain.

"Prior to 1916, there were no restrictions on the possession and use of cocaine, opium and other psychoactive drugs in Britain; the Poisons and Pharmacy Act of 1908 stipulated only that pharmacists had to have been introduced to prospective buyers by someone known to them, and must record their names and addresses in a poisons register."

http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/drugs-and-do...

I don't think that British traders selling opium to Chinese buyers in the 1800s was inherently more deplorable than Canadians selling liquor to Americans during Prohibition. What was deplorable about the Opium Wars and the Prohibition era gangs was the use of violence. If it had just been the era of Opium Smuggling instead of the Opium Wars I wouldn't fault Britain's behavior. But Britain did, deplorably, use military force when Chinese authorities prohibited and confiscated imported opium. That was inexcusable.
Treason is when you aid a foreign enemy or commit sedition,the NSA did not do that.

I have seen different polls that favor the FBI regarding backdooring iphones (to contrast with your poll).
It sounds like the overall feature was delayed because the eng work for the profile toggle landed late.
> This e-mail (which I also got) seems like a heartfelt apology.

Even if it is heartfelt, I'd argue that if no alarm bells went off internally when they were discussing this feature, they are not the group of people to entrust with information such as this.
I think so yes, but the effect would be very small
Agreed. But I did enjoy watching the podcast more when they actually showed the videos they were talking about. Now they still talk about videos, but never show them due to copyright concerns. That can be a bit annoying, although I know it's not JR's fault.
Lmao!
There's an entire legal process for solving the fact that a city owns too little property: they can simply buy it with eminent domain, and that is precisely what they should be doing. They can ED single-family homes, rezone the properties for multifamily dwellings, and either auction them off or build on them through the housing authority. Everyone would win: the city could clear out lots of under-assessed junk, people who need housing wil get more supply, and even the owners who get bought out in the ED proceeding will get a huge paycheck, and the city needs no additional powers nor deliberations to do this, they can simply decide to do it at an ordinary supervisors' meeting. That they have chosen not to exercise such powers for the last 40-plus years tells you everything you need to know about why this problem persists.
Wow, I'm stupid. Won't remove my comment, let it stay as a monument. Thank you!
How did this happen in the first place?
You lose 50% of the energy relative to the bottom of the water tanks (actually, the level you're using the water to perform work). If you did this with two 20 foot high tanks, but on towers 40 feet off the ground, then you retain 45 / 50 (the ratio of the changed center of mass) == 90% of the energy.

The oscillation bit happens, but it doesn't dominate. Water analogies can be misleading because water has intrinsic properties (eg turbulence ~= resistance) which aren't always significant in an electronic circuit. To make the equivalent of an LC-dominant circuit with (open) water tanks, you'd need something like a high-momentum turbine in the transfer pipe.
For me, it’s the realization that having achievements as an aim in life is overrated. To be content with what’s there (or not there) is an achievement by itself. It’s not easy, and I haven’t seen many “young people” achieve this. They’re usually pressured into achieving something so that they can have more self esteem as a reward. That’s so twisted.
You can hurt the internet tracking industry by just using uBlock and uMatrix
It looks pretty much the same as twittering.el - the Emacs package that lets you tweet from your editor. So if you enjoy that kind of aesthetics, the Church of Emacs extends its invitation ;).
You use the tools you know best.

The blog author worked for TI on their Lisp Machine and for Lucid.
A super interesting piece of history is how the British ended up selling their Rolls Royce jet engines to the Soviets.

https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/ussr-won-jet-engine-b...
The bit the piece touched on was that the couple it followed came to SF because it has a support system for drug addicts and the homeless. What it didn't say is that any local solution will just improve the conditions in SF, attracting more homeless and drug addicts.

SF and NYC would be better off finding those cheaper cities that need workers and showing them how to run services for the homeless. They might also want to connect the marginally homeless with these cities early.

That said, I doubt there's much work for the SF homeless. Between addiction and mental health problems, most aren't employable.
You're just full of misinformation, aren't you?
He certainly spent a great deal of time saying "I'm sorry you feel that way" (a classic non-apology... there's no better way to make a bad situation worse than by starting off with those words).
But this makes no sense. Why would you legally need someone's ID to delete their account, but not to create it?
The vast majority of the homeless are not such because the rent went up just above what they could previously afford but because they're unemployable and no one will rent a place to them usually due to a comibnation of substance abuse and mental illness, so they panhandle or do odd jobs and need to be in a place where there is a strong foot traffic of relatively well-off people and a thriving street economy, between those cities SF and NYC fit the bill the most and also have the most homeless-friendly laws and also most shelters, charities etc.
Is it possible to look too kindly at somebody? I think so. Clearly the CEO is backpedaling now that there's been a public outcry.

He's not sorry about what he did. He's sad he got caught.
And due to popularity of ESP in hobby circles, there are many good open-source firmwares for those devices, such as ESPurna with its very impressive feature set: https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna

The final product is better than almost any "professional" IoT device. I'd rather risk with higher odds of system failures (the Atom bug showed that not even Intel is safe) than suffer daily with slow, buggy, expensive, restricted and privacy-hostile cloud-connected trash from the likes of Logitech.
sending code is considered as not safe
Wait til you hear about Jay Z and DMX's rap sheets!
One thing that's pretty interesting is how much the OS X/macOS aesthetic drifted back pretty close to the original MacOS 8/9 aesthetics (although since Yosemite it's been a little closer in brightness to 7).
I'm not aware of one. As @eyelidlessness pointed out in the comment above, it seems to change back randomly, so I think it would be hard to detect when it changes.
Stop building client-side forms
To say that the energy of the water is mgh is a simplification. It's really 1/2 * h^2 * A * mass density. The water at the top has more energy than the water on the bottom. The energy in the water is square to the water level, but the amount of water is linear.
It's the same with a capacitor, the energy is square to the voltage, but the number of electrons is linear.

It works out to the same 50% because the analogy is just very good. Dividing over two barrels/capacitors means halving the potential level (amount of water/load doesn't change), which means 1/4 of the energy in each barrel.
2 TB per day up/down is the limit I hit backing up some raw image files from my DSLR. This might vary based on your overall usage as well (they more than likely penalize frequent uploaders of large files in some fashion).
Kudos for owning up straight on this.

I think LinkedIn is a massively privacy violating service, and alternatives are a very good and important thing to see. I would add one comment though perhaps helpful in the future:

One reason people here take such a vigorous stance against startups doing these kinds of "dirty tricks" is because they want real alternatives that treat them as more than a number of a row in a database. The incumbents will use opt-out techniques and consent walls, and dark patterns to grow.

But at the end of the day, they're being valued by the number of rows in their database. It seems there's a real potential to have lots of (but fewer) rows in your database, but for them to be actual valued users who get value from your service, and you make money from. Hyper growth scaling doesn't always have to be the only way. A curated network of a focused and high value verified demographic is likely worth orders of magnitude more than the incumbent, without any data selling or shenanigans.
This person directly funded a violent criminal gang with his music revenues. Not just having sex on the side.
I've been using docker swarm on Hetzner for my fledgling business and am quite happy with it. The main feature I use is rolling upgrades that make it very easy to deploy changes.

It's simple, and has all the features I need for the stage I'm at. Once I have a more demanding infrastructure I'll probably switch over to a managed kubernetes, but those platforms have a significantly higher unit cost.
That appears to be false. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/05/amazon-pr... Unless you mean that union organizing is Trump-aligned political expression. I also wonder what the "communist slogan" was that you saw? In all places I've worked at wearing a shirt like that would be taboo.
I already do, but I can hurt it even more by always using Tor Browser. Heck, it's even fast enough these days to watch Youtube and handle torrents.
You might think that's a good thing, but that's not free speech.
I can't tell how serious you are. COVID-19's death rate, even for at-risk people, isn't high enough to get close to that.
My disappointment when the article wasn't about the demo/cracking-scene group Skid Row. :/
K8s v1.19 release cycle extended, Istio 1.6 better yet simpler Cloud Native News
"The new profiles will be launching publicly in 1 week" It means a preview was already available in a limited way.
Seems like a good reason to go down that path, to discourage more people from doing it in the future.
Given that interviewing is a skill unto itself which needs to be practiced, what happens to candidates who need to take a few interviews before they start hitting their stride. For me, I can see that using Triplebyte once the candidate is "warmed up" makes sense.

If TripleByte was the only game in town then a new candidate would fail their test and then it is game over. No more job search.
Well, I can tell you that if 5% of the parts on a reel are out of spec, that reel is being returned for a full refund. Everyone treats the datasheet as a contract, whatever the small print may say.

This is also why parts can often perform well above their specified performance levels, and often have undocumented functionality; the manufacturers are happy to design in this performance, but they refuse to test and guarantee it.
Google Chrome finally rolls out a long-awaited feature to cure ur bad tab habits
You might find this spin-job entertaining.

https://apnews.com/afs:Content:7064410002
Thanks! Not really, just basic vector shapes and an isometric projection grid to make sure perspective is right.
His position revolves around his own claims about his revelations. I think a future administration might convict him as a traitor and pardon him. But I don't think he can avoid a trial if he returns.
They have editorial independence. At most they have financial dependence.

And Trump's attack on VOA is failing because VOA is protected from him by law.
Would you feel comfortable linking to the paper? I haven't shifted entirely to accept the "Capitalism requires industrialization" idea, but irrespective the paper sounds interesting and contextual
`whateverYouNeedToDo` needs to have knowledge of the application's state. Spreading application logic around event handlers is problematic. In sufficiently complex applications, we're better off simply 'passing messages' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing). Perhaps I'll start on a follow-up post which better outlines those benefits :)
I suppose that money isn't spent only on housing but on social workers salaries, vaccination campaign, STD prevention campaign, food distribution, etc., right ?
again, all assertion, no rationale.

besides, the british didn't need to be in the interior of china en masse to induce demand.
You have reached the edge of the Internet. Please go back.
>> The result is less code.

Maybe, but that code tends to be extremely bad quality, because it is always written by "consultants" who know just enough programming to be dangerous and do the bare minimum to get the integration to work, without any concern for or the ability to follow software engineering best practices. And that introduces its own costs.
They're undoubtedly going to have to do more to make things right in the future for those who have been following this issue, but it's at least refreshing to read what seems like a genuine apology. If we can take away anything from this, it's that Triplebyte actually understand why people were upset over this. I've read lots of apology emails where those in charge clearly either didn't understand the problem or they were dismissive towards their consumers.
> I don't know how long you've been running a company

Since 2007.
There are lots of features I don't use in org. In fact, in the beginning I only used the most basic feature of keeping a foldable hierarchical text file of notes, which is basically the same thing as your Notes files, but with some nice structure editing and folding keybindings built in. But I have been slowly integrating org features into my system when I think they would be useful to me.

First I started scheduling things. With org, you can schedule items and have them show up in your agenda regardless of what org file they are in. Org agenda gives you an outline of your week, and your current day, and it says how many days you have left until certain items are due. This has replaced my calendar, and feels superior to a calendar to me.

Then I started using org-drill, which lets you drill org notes, emulating the spaced-repetition behavior of Anki. You could just use Anki, but it's nice to have all of your personal information management in one place, and have it editable from your text editor.

I've also started using hyperlinks to make links between my org files and also to any other file on my computer, to web URLs, to executing a script, to mailto links... This has been helpful.

I still don't use plenty of features, like the literate programming stuff, tables, tags, capture, etc. But I don't need to. They're there for me if I feel they would be helpful. But they're invisible to me otherwise. Org isn't "insanely complicated" because it's mostly just a text file, and the features are there for you to use if you need them, but there's no cluttered UI that actually adds any complexity.
Does it support markdown when tweeting
>>They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

So your point is that instead he stated that the Mexicans that are arriving next to you are bringing drugs, crime, and are rapists.

Ah but among all the criminal rapists selling drugs... some might be good people.

Got it.
No it doesn’t. It means they finished a feature and were making it live in a week. Nowhere in that statement implies that there’s a limited beta.
NPR is an independent nonprofit organization. Most of its funding comes from member station dues, as well as donations, grants, sponsorships, etc. 2% of the parent organization's revenue comes from government grants. Member stations also receive some government grants but most of their funding comes from listener contributions, sponsorships, etc.

The situation with PBS is similar but a bit more complicated to tease apart. The majority of PBS's funding comes from member station dues, but it also does receive some tens of millions from the federally-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) each year, and the CPB also supports those member PBS stations. PBS and the CPB also work together on program acquisition and development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS
I sent an email a couple of days ago for them to delete my account permanently - because I did not want my info to become public. Glad to see it got changed
Retweets are always off and cannot be changed, so it should not show retweets in home timeline. It could be a bug I missed. I will take a look. Thank you for the heads up.
I'm all too surprised when people fall into ambiguity holes and give the benefit of doubt over these situations presuming there's some underlying candid motive or attribute ignorance (Hanlon's razor referenced far too often).

A business saw an opportunity to make more money and took it. A large portion of consumer interests no longer aligned with their interests and we were caught in the crossfire. Fortunately, enough people shared the same concern that the risk for the business (Triplebtye) was now high enough that they had to mitigate fallout.

That's all that happened and all that typically happens. Perhaps Triplebyte management didn't see the risk or misjudged the backlash and expected only a few users to complain. I find it hard to believe this side effect wasn't at least a considered risk brought to to table and ultimately ignored by management looking purely at growth.

Yes, sometimes a shift in a business's goals cease to align with our interests and isn't necessarily meant to be malignant move against us directly, but there is certainly no concern for us in the process unless it is ultimately perceived as more net profitable.

This is why we should be quite careful as to what we allow business ownership over/access to and remember that profit seeking cost optimizations are only useful to us while they're aligned with our interests. Whatever behaviors we allow businesses to pursue without enough repercussion to care, they will pursue seeking profit: a proverbial "cost of doing business."

When a business's profit seeking interests are misaligned with ours or run counter opposite to our interests, we're in for a fight against a resource heavy entity we're likely lose, especially when certain behaviors are allowed to normalize across entire industries and accepted by culture in large segments.
Nothing to see here. Ammon has tried a bold move to chase big money, used a few common tricks (release on Friday night, opt-out and other dark patterns), it didn't pan out and now he's doing damage control. When the dust settles, he'll give this idea another try.

This is all from a corporate playbook, but it seems Ammon hasn't read the entire book. There's a chapter there that tells how to systematically manufacture situations where all the blame flows downwards while all the rewards flow upwards, so when a bold move like this pans out, credit for it would go to the top, and if it fails, blame goes to the bottom. Basically, he should've created a clueless VP of business relations or something of that sort, manufacture the situation where the only way that VP can get a fat bonus is by implementing this shady move (the idea should be delivered via another channel to have plausible deniability later) and watch the action from his armchair. And when it's failed, blame that VP for too much eagerness and fire him with a golden parachute.
I was one of the most vocal critics in the original thread, justifiably. I lost a little sleep over how it could potentially affect me at my current job.

I feel bad for the company because I think the original decision meant the would lose a lot of trust in the community for what is otherwise a great service. Indeed, I had a wonderful experience interviewing with startups after having passed the TB interview process. However I also feel bad because I feel like it may indicate that the company is perhaps doing poorly financially.

However, I will say that I am very happy with this apology. It's direct, takes responsibility, and gives clear action on what they're going to do. Classic good apology. I am happy with it and it goes a long way to earning my trust back. Thanks, Ammon.
Arista's EOS is open source and up to the task, it would be awesome if there was a fork of it supporting whitebox gear.
I sent an email to them a couple of days ago, requesting my account to be permanently deleted since I did not want my information to become public. Glad to see it got reversed :)
As one who develops IDS/IPS for 23 years, it isn’t a “dangerous” issue, per se. It’s a “muddle” issue that runs contravenous to that “be liberal in what you receive, and conservative in what you send.” Like “exec” is for JavaScript.
One strong point of prolog is that all outputs are prolog terms themselves. So in terms of ease of use and reuse of results, prolog is much better.

It all depends on what you are looking for.
Eminent domain is much too slow to address the current crisis. What they're trying to do is get hotel rooms, but they can only source and staff them so quickly.
The Hardest Problem on the Internet
Sort of, but not exactly.
I think he meant this.
https://www.scottadamssays.com/2019/04/30/the-fine-people-ho...
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It can't be that much of a stretch to get AMD to release their source so we can LibreBoot... They could gain $ from this decision.
This feels like a case of being easier to apologize than to ask permission.

Also it doesn’t require any amount of thinking to know that taking private data you were given in confidence and making in public is immoral.

It should also be illegal.