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It's clearly possible to do pretty well without a university degree, and I think there's a few slam-dunk cases where you shouldn't get a degree:

1) You don't actually want to do the work to finish a degree,
2) your only options are to get an extremely mediocre degree, or
3) you will have to go into savage debt to get a degree.

Then there are the exceptional folks who could do well anywhere (who, presumably, would also be the high-flyers if they went to a university).

For everyone else, getting a decent degree should almost be a no-brainer. It will be useful. HR will like it, pretty much forever. The "lost years" of work experience will rapidly converge to insignificance (a point that seems lost on the folks who think that it's only university degrees become less significant as you get older).

You can do a range of subjects - some of them, shock horror, not narrowly vocational (a lot of the discussion here seems to imply that the sum total of what we should learn after high school somehow begins and ends with "programming and computer science"). Further, you can do these subjects at a much higher level and with greater intensity than the whole "hey, I read a couple books on Philosophy or did the first level of Duolingo in Spanish" or some such.

It should be a pleasant time where you get to try some new activities, meet a lot of people - maybe including a life partner, but maybe just good friends and some "early-adult romantic" relationships (which IMO are likely to greatly increase your chance of learning what you really want and how to get along in the real grown-up world).

The whole tertiary sector is pretty messed up right now (even pre COVID), so buyer beware. Don't do a crappy degree.
Every submit for this site is just an ad for Amazon affiliate linked books (tag=itbook.store-20)

There is no "store".

Even the descriptions are ripped from other retailers' pages.
As rewarding in many ways as the computing field is, you should know that you are self-selecting for a narrow understanding of people, history, and economies. You will need to find the time to condition yourself to be a thinking, compassionate human.
It all depends on your goals. Is it to earn a decent living? I know millionaires who never went to university. They started a practical, blue collar business, and enjoyed that path. Is it to experience a broader culture? You could do the 100 Rabbits approach for a lot less money, and get something more interesting out of it. Is it to learn from one of the best minds in a particular field? University is probably the best fit.
Also want to point out: I'm seriously going to college just for the name + network. I can easily learn everything at home via MIT open courseware or the syllabus many Stanford courses put online nowadays.
"Zabriskie Point" (1970) — what a wonderful movie

https://youtu.be/XPmPvsPrvL0

https://youtu.be/rK0g_J1hhDc
Facebook is a data breach.
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why does the package you want to split out need to remain part of the monorepo? in my mind, if you open-source packages, you should treat them just as you would external packages that aren't maintained by you - either install them with your langauge's package manager, use git submodules, or add init scripts that git clone them into the correct path (git-subrepo seems like it's facilitating this).

> Even if there are two public monorepos out in the open you can have similar problems trying to collaborate, because to modify one line of a package, you may need to pull a huge monorepo and its tooling down.

in my experience this has never really been a problem.
> Nuro for example had this open house that exclusively invited Harvard/MIT students

Man, I thought this sort of discriminatory bullshit was limited to incestuous fields like law. Sad to see it infected the tech world as well.

Then again, it's a sign that the field is "normalizing".
ASCII PPM supports comments, so it is possible that EXIF or other identifying information would get written into the comments by some tool.

I have only ever observed PPM comments right at the start of the file, so you could open it in a text editor and remove the comments from the start. Maybe check the very end of the file as well.

Binary PPM does not support comments, so that would be a better solution. PPM documentation here, you want possibly P3 or more likely P6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm#File_formats
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Few years back Jeff Atwood on coding horror (which I can't find now) had a "guide" that partially match this data. The poster, and everyone else, must know see the original post and the reason it was moderated so the rule is clearer for everyone.

I think in Reddit, like other communities, the problem still is that most users still don't see moderated content because only upvoted/popular content is seen.

Maybe that could be future analysis comparing communities where moderated content is regularly visible by the overall community vs small set of the community vs only the poster.
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I wouldn't be so sure. I did a load of gardening over the weekend, and it involved heavy things. I'm sure I got more exercise to more muscles in my body than I would if I had gone on a bike ride.
In my experience it's generally based on the Stallman concept of software freedom, in which the freedoms Free/Libre software is intended to respect are seen as rights, and the power that a proprietary software vendor wields over users is fundamentally unjust. This is the basic philosophy on which the Free/Libre software movement was founded, so it's not just a peripheral view. He outlines this pretty clearly here:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-impor...
You better read the whole article.
I recently rewrote a small toy project from Preact to Solid. It went from spinning my fans and consuming over 25% of my cpu to practically idling. Solid is legit. I could have optimized my Preact, but I didn’t have to think of it with Solid. Same is true of Svelte.

Edit: I see the author is here, and lots of typically negative comments are being thrown at him. Ignore them and keep up the good work! We need people like you to push performance forward.
> It also enables me to do my job, I’ve never seen anyone without a good education do it well.

You apparently didn't learn to have a better look at those things at the university, it might surprise you some time.
ALLEGEDLY trying to scam $20.

Its certainly also never the police's role to decide who is guilty. For all those police knew, at the time of arrest, it was Mr. Floyd who was the victim of a false accusation.
That's a really interesting idea. I'm not sure what the commercial value would be, but the artistic value (and gain in privacy) would be huge. I'm not sure what you'd do about identifying marks like tattoos, but perhaps that isn't the biggest concern when compared to faces.

Could you train a model with your own face as a start, and then run your photos through an existing consumer face-swap app? Or perhaps use a celebrities likeness? I wonder how much the visual 'likeness' of a stranger is worth.
You might find this Harvard study on the issue illuminating: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/empirical_anal...
Yes, I would expect much more from a "Pro" model, at least 8GB, preferably 16-32GB personally.. Running VMs and containers is quite necessary for high security & software development work..
Not to mention he got the Thiel Fellowship. That right there would make a good majority of undergrads drop out (I would at least). Thiel Fellowship is basically security in the valley because of the network it gives.
From reading the title, I though this had something to do with golang being used in university classes. Is there a point to the custom of capitalizing most words in headings in English? It doesn't seem to improve legibility and you can normally tell it is a heading from the size and weight of the font.
Meh. Email address, date of birth, names, phone numbers aren’t private. Some of these we even willingly disseminate publicly.

If these pieces of data are used for authentication for some other service (cough healthcare), that is a flaw elsewhere - not with Facebook.

If we are gonna be upset about this we should still be upset about Equifax, which we totally forgot, didn’t we?

I’m now under the assumption that some kind of data breach of mine is inevitable. It’s not worth stressing out about in a lot of ways.
> This sort of comparison is unacceptable. For one thing, "committing a crime" is insufficent justification for onsite execution by a police officer.

Nobody said it is. Every police killing is unique and justified or unjustified based on the particular circumstances.

> For another thing, the table you linked is arrests -- not convictions, not even charges filed.

Suppose you are about to arrest someone who presumably committed a homicide that carries a severe sentence, are you going to take any chances? Suppose you were to be arrested for that crime, are you not likely to use any means necessary to avoid getting arrested? Under these circumstances, the chances of a lethal altercation rise dramatically.

Therefore, whichever population cohort commits more homicides is going to skew its share of police killings upwards. African-Americans accounted for 52% of homicide convictions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_S...
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What constitutes a crime is largely decided by the police, who can create this statistic by disproportionately stopping and searching black people.
But then again, the practices you mention in your last paragraph have literally nothing to do with the subject of this article (not saying that I do or don’t agree with you there).
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If you would read it you would see that killings have little correlation to violent crimes.
Twitter admits that the White House tweet it censored doesn’t break its rules
Damn op that's addictive as hell.

Some of the things you read can be incredibly sad, to be followed by something inspirational.

Excellent job, I'm interested in just how long it lasts!
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> I will explain why.

But you didn't.

I do not think that the fact that there are many people who can make a wonderful job without having gone to any university implies that there should be an anti-university sentiment. I think academic careers are necessary, not for everyone, but all that people working without any studies are building on the work done by lots of academics. That should be respected (by the way, I don't think it is not, but if it generally is not I think that it is a problem).
Good comment that I was going to make myself. I hope you won't mind if I translate for people (perhaps non-native English speakers) unfamiliar with the jargon:

Large investors have stock in many companies. Some are low-risk, some are high-risk. Ideally, these will balance each other out. In theory, this allows large, publicly-traded companies to do risky things. Amazon was a great example of this for years.

The problem is that some companies are perceived as risky or not-risky by different investors.

If 30% of their shareholders want a conservative strategy and 30% of them want a risky strategy, the conservative shareholders will always win because it's easier to build a coalition around "don't do anything" than it is around "do something". "Do something" can mean any one of a billion different strategies, and it's very hard to get a large group to agree on one.
You were also lucky to have an understanding employer who was happy to invest on your growth. A lot of people can't get approval to do a one-week, job-relevant, practical training course, let alone sponsor years of higher education.
My university education was... varied.

I have two bachelors' degrees, one in Mathematics, and one in Japanese. Those two programs were night-and-day in terms of rigor.

The mandatory "general education" classes were an absolute waste of time, and accounted for over a third of the cost of my college education.

It would have been more productive to spend that money on Pokemon cards.

The reality is, for a lot of people, university is massive waste of time and money. It largely was for me. We would be better off following the German model, with tracks outside University for professional workers and artisans.

Moreover, there are some excellent self-taught programmers out there, who work in the industry, and learn the mathematics and the physics and all the rest because they are passionate about the subject.

I'll take that kind of drive any day of the week.
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My bad, I think I confused words from your comment and your comment's parent comment.
Fringe nonsense, get this off HN.
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Oh come on. Ten is terrible because someone might be reading out an alphanumeric string? You can say that about other stuff already on that list. What if they're just reading out names? Then Charlie and Mike will be confusing. What if they're reading months? Then November will be confusing. What if they're reading countries? Then India will be confusing...

The particular choice of words wasn't even my point, and of course I get the dissimilarity thing. If "Ten" bothers you then just choose "Tom" or whatever. I know I've never seen anyone say jigga instead of giga, but if you have, then just pick another word. My point was about having a common theme to help make the list intuitive, not that "Ten" and "Mega" are inherently better than "Tango" or "Mike".
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True, but it also forces civilians to defend from terrorist attacks themselves, even having to resort to use of improvised weapons like narwhal tusk or fire extinguisher. Both US and UK are extremes which shouldn't be taken as role models.
No, it’s a fact. Although things are improving, here’s an article from a few years back providing more insight:

““You can get online today and figure out how many tickets were sold to ‘The Martian,’ which I saw this weekend. . . . The CDC can do the same with the flu,” he continued. “It’s ridiculous — it’s embarrassing and ridiculous — that we can’t talk about crime in the same way, especially in the high-stakes incidents when your officers have to use force.””

“In New York, state officials now require a special prosecutor to investigate any death at the hands of police. In Texas, lawmakers recently approved legislation requiring local police to report shootings by their officers.”

“Until now, federal officials have relied on local police to report officer-involved shootings, but reporting is voluntary and typically occurs months after the fact.”

If you consider what happens in other countries, what happens when a citizen shoots someone, what is required of American police when they shoot someone and the accountability police face when they shoot someone unreasonably — it’s pretty clear “indiscriminately” and “with impunity” are valid descriptions of the current situation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fbi-director-calls-l...
Avalonia is showing promise as a cross plattform UI kit and has an active and friendly community. The caveat is that it's based on dotnet core, which is a put off for some Linux users. Linux support is a priority in Avalonia and is not being shelved like previous efforts for cross platform UI support on .NET.
I've been to a Rio Tinto mine in the Pilbara and talked to some people there about a large doughnut shaped piece of work they were doing avoiding some aboriginal site. They do more than just pay lip service to the idea of preserving this stuff.

I'm obviously a bit biased, but I don't expect 40,000 year old sites riddled with artefacts are actually that rare in the Pilbara. It isn't the sort of place where things change quickly. It is much more likely that this is one of the few they've found because it has a mine on top of it that was paying for an archaeologist to fly out and look.

As can be seen from the article - the aboriginals have no idea how old these sites are or what is in them when the mine approvals are negotiated. It makes sense, nobody is keeping a 4,000 year inventory of what practically amounts to buried junk of no value to anyone outside of one small tribe of people. Possibly not even them if I let my usual cynicism seep through.

It is easy to see Rio shouldn't have blown the cave up. It is appropriate to change the legislation. It is reasonable to pay the locals money. If the reporting is accurate that the site was historically rare then it is a loss to the historians. But it isn't international news or an international loss - if it hadn't been in the path of an active mine even the traditional owners wouldn't have known what it was, or cared about its historic significance.
It's disgusting
You provide a link that directly contradicts your claim.

First of all, the Geneva Conventions (plural) are about treatment of prisoners of war, not agents or munitions used.

Your given link refers to the Chemical Weapons convention, but its scope is specific to wartime use between combatants.

The Hague convention has munitions provisions, but the USA is not a signatory.
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It never, or at least not for a long time now, has been safe.

Data breaches are not even the main concern. The main concern is, how FB itself acts with your data in its pockets. Do not trust the a millimeter far.
Even the veggies with a very high carb content (potatoes, corn) are low (~15-20%). Bread has about 50%, maccaroni about 35%, while other veggies (broccoli, carrots) usually have less than 10% carbs.
How do you advertise yourself or how can companies find you? I'm asking because I found Eastern Europe to be surprisingly underrepresented on the hiring websites that I use.
The rules about who gets engaged and for what seem to vary. The most astonishing thing is the number of black people who've been killed for maybe having something that looked like a gun, then a bunch of armed protestors occupy a government building during the "war on terror" without so much as a single teargas round being fired against them?

https://www.businessinsider.com/michigan-open-carry-laws-leg...
People say things like "I've never seen anyone without a good education do it well", which can only mean they live in such a bubble that they didn't get to meet any. That's certainly possible, but "I live in a bubble!" is nothing to be proud of. Such proud but ignorant proclamation is the reason why there is anti-university sentiment.
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I'd say money isn't very relevant here. Uni can give you better start, but all depends on you.

You wanna go to university to be a coder/designer? Don't do it.

You wanna be a researcher/scientist/politic/etc? Yeah, go.

P.S. I obtained a degree.
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Version without paywall:

https://www-ft-com.baldwinlib.idm.oclc.org/content/d0d1f288-...
It's a culture and people rooted in efficiency. For them, function comes light years ahead of form.

For example, I remember reading an article, a few years ago, about the cup holders in Honda / Toyota cars sold in America. The author noticed a small, hinged notch, deep inside the cup holder. Initially thinking it was some loose part. But then he realized it's function is to automatically drop when the car is on an upward slope and hold the cup in place. The notch automatically retracts (due to gravity) when the car is on normal roads.

The attention to detail, at such a small level, is prevalent at every level in their society.
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You’re correct. Contrary to characteristically similar protest efforts in the US during the past decade, the protesters on the ground this time care very little about race. That is only the media narrative. Class consciousness is increasing fast.
> For one thing, "committing a crime" is insufficent justification for onsite execution by a police officer. For another thing, the table you linked is arrests -- not convictions, not even charges filed.

I believe police killings are caused by racial and inequality factors, but I can't tell to what extent.

What do you think? How have you concluded that, taking into account confounding factors?
I disagree with a lot of what you've written.

Occupational therapists and nurses are not qualified to diagnose autism and there certainly is a "somewhere on the spectrum" vaguery to autistic symptoms. If I recall correctly only 15% of autistic people fall under the banner of "high support needs", these are the people who are obviously autistic. Many of these people also have another learning disability (undiagnosed or not) which obfuscates the severity of their autism somewhat.

The remaining 85% are much less obvious. A lot of these people aren't even aware that they're autistic. These are the people that are "somewhere on the spectrum" and they all have widely varying support needs.

My parents had no idea I was autistic, at no point did any school suggest an autism diagnosis. I left school with two C grades and nothing else, because I was struggling with undiagnosed autism and thus received zero support.

When you are in this situation it's gutwrenching. I had no inclination I was autistic at the time because I had that same false belief that autism is only the severe cases. So instead I assumed I was just incapable of doing the same things as other people. This caused severe depression and a lot of imposter syndrome.

You don't need to put your child on medication (there aren't any for autism anyway) but avoiding diagnosis seems reckless to me.

My parent's avoidance to diagnose lead to unnecessary hardship and horrible uncertainties, it was only through going to therapy at 26 (mandated by my workplace due to autistic symptoms) that I was eventially diagnosed. This is a common refrain, plenty of autistic people fall through the cracks and don't get diagnosed until well into adulthood.
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Good question. In Larry Niven's Known Space stories a common drive system is the Gravity Planar, which simply tilts the gravity field around a vehicle so it 'falls' in the desired direction.
Google’s internal OpenSource releasing policy is actually public: https://opensource.google/

It’s written from a more process/legal viewpoint but you might be able to pick up some ideas in there.
> for a lot of people, university is massive waste of time and money.

same story.
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> Cops do not have the authority to decide who is guilty, let alone what their punishment will be.

Cops do have the legal authority to use lethal force on people resisting arrest if there's probable cause for injury to themselves or others.
Best bet is probably just using a normal looking facemask that is highly reflective in the spectrum the camera sees.
Yeah I can see how that could be a problem. Maybe it should be enforced that at least one officer in every pair should live in the community they're policing? It's not for me however to decide on rules/solutions
It's a really old game by now, but I still sometimes play Medieval Total War 2. The siege battles are a lot of fun but perhaps a bit too easy. I hope the game gets a sequel someday.
Isn't this a good time for a new UI framework (e.g. Flutter) to conquer grounds. Especially if it would be possible to automatically translate large parts of the Qt UI to Flutter?
> if you have proof that you are actually smarter than most of your classmates

That's easy in the first year or so. It's harder to get proof that you're as smart as your professors. If you are Robin Williams and a Juilliard professor tells you that he has nothing to teach him, by all means fuck off and do your thing. Otherwise, chances are that you should stay in school.