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Another aspect of culture: how one-sided the
communication is.

Yes, absolutely this! I worked at a company where the engineering culture was IMO very dysfunctional.

We had a lot of fulltime employees working in other countries. The company paid pretty well, and we were essentially paying US salaries to folks living in countries where that would be considered very, very good money.

This, combined with the cultural issues you mentioned, resulted in management mistakenly thinking it was doing a good job -- privately, the foreign engineers shared my concerns, but they were not willing to "rock the boat" and bring those concerns to leadership.
Which also explains why they keep trying to classify encryption as prohibited munitions, making users of it automatically criminal.
And the Communists of the 50s.
Posted because the commentary is by a lawyer who practices in DC rather than a pundit or journalist.
Self acceptance and forgiveness is one of the greatest gifts a person can give themselves. It allows you to actually be okay with who you are, and if you don't like something you now are allowed to focus your efforts on self improvement instead of self doubt or even self hate. It's been a long road here, too.
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I don’t find it particularly odd or hypocritical that the danish government would prefer to avoid a situation where they have to forcefully quarantine people
The original developer (Squad) was bought by Take-Two who then contracted Star Theory to develop KSP2. Take-Two then screwed over Star Theory.

Or in other words, same people who dicked over the original team, now dicked over another team, and probably have enough content done to still make a financial killing in the process. Given the pandemic I suspect they'll hire on the rest of the Star Theory team at a steep discount as well.
Difficult, but not impossible, but yet still practical. It is done quite frequently.
No no, those are hypothetical. What's happened to you?
I had forgotten how good Adam Serwer’s piece, which you linked to above, was.

The clash between the Times authors and their historian critics represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of American society. Was America founded as a slavocracy, and are current racial inequities the natural outgrowth of that? Or was America conceived in liberty, a nation haltingly redeeming itself through its founding principles? These are not simple questions to answer, because the nation’s pro-slavery and anti-slavery tendencies are so closely intertwined.
Its Chrome codebase. Same websites on now ancient Opera Presto (12) flew at 1/10 the resource usage (not an exaggeration, you could open 100 tabs and still fit in 1GB ram usage).

We are paying for abstraction layers added to smooth web development.
I'd say yes. It's not that long, and it's not so much a single story as a series of related episodes. Also, I think it shows Steinbeck at his best and at his worst at the same time. He really wants to hit you over the head with the dogged bravery with which people pursue even their hopeless lives. When it works, it works, and when he tries too hard, it's bathetic.
> And they don't as far as we can tell.

That's wishful thinking which you have no evidence for. But let's assume that you're correct - eventually they will have a way to analyse it en masse.

There are, then, two things we need to bear in mind:

- is the time horizon likely to be close enough that data currently collected will be relevant then
- if we allow the collection now, will it be easy to roll back that collection later when the threat is on the horizon

The answer to both of those questions is yes. Similarly, we use high strength encryption now, even if we think 128-bit is fine, because in time it won't be.

The above is theoretical. The next bit isn't - they will _always_ be able to decide that agent A should look at video B from N years ago.

They can't do that for a letter on the hypothetical table, or a message stored with strong encryption that stands the test of time - it won't exist in N years.
Handing law enforcement the keys is functionally the same, from my perspective.

And what reassurance do I have that they won’t do that to me, a paying customer? All I have is a little icon that says “encrypted” and Zoom’s word.
I think the scale of the products also plays a big part. A $500 hair dryer is really expensive (and for a hair dryer!), but $500 is the kind of money a lot of people have around, or could pull together if they wanted to. If you have a car that's 10x more than a 'normal' car you're looking at $200k+ which is not a price that's accessible to a huge majority of people. In other words, the dyson model of 'make something better and charge way more for it' doesn't seem to fit particularly well to cars because you end up with no market.
> I don’t think it’s possible to have a democracy where the courts can’t change things in this way; the law never covers everything.

That’s an odd way to put it. In Ireland, for example, the law does “cover” abortion: both before, when people wanted it to be illegal, and now, when they decided it should be legal. In both cases democracy (rather than courts) decided what the law should be.
Quick recommendation: add a focused style on form inputs so it's easy to see which input is active. A bright border color would help.
I haven't done as much reading on the subject as I'd like, but I thought "Policing as a causal factor" by Axel Klien (2011) to be interesting. The basic idea was that underlying societal issues are necessary, but the actual civil unrest is usually precipitated by a specific case of police over reach
> Desai, through the spokesperson, also said of the company’s work with patient data: “We use a great deal of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate this process as much as possible, which is the only way a task like this is even possible.”

I wonder if we are heading for an AI winter soon. AI has been heavily hyped, but is having a lot of real world failures and is becoming associated with a bunch of fraud. At this time, I am less inclined and I believe a company if they invoke “AI” or “machine learning”.

Sure, businesses will still use machine learning for problems where it makes sense, but the hype of AI will die down and funding will dry up.
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> To be fair, they didn't have the resources to do it any other way.... For example, lack of gloves etc led to spread of covid in elderly care homes.

That doesn't make sense. Social distancing (which includes lockdowns) is a mitigation for the lack of other means of infection control (like PPE and treatments). If you don't have PPE, then you have to social distance more strictly to reduce transmission.
> I've found that explaining my point of view, that as one who follows the teachings of Christ (I'm not overly religious but it's a discipline of love towards all other people and I'm down with that, plus it keeps my religious family happy), I can't in good conscience find pleasure in the suffering of others, seemed to make some of them stop and think about their own prejudices and biases.

How do you think this would have gone if you hadn't claimed a religious exception? So rather if you simply said that you couldn't find pleasure in the suffering of others, but with no references to Christ?
Operators must go to the premises and covertly install the equipment needed to monitor the target. This fact alone limits the scope of surveillance operations. Usually there's a lot more oversight.

Unencrypted communications will be intercepted by default with no warrant, no oversight, no limitations on its processing and on a world-wide scale.
First, being smart has little relation to riches. It can be a liability. Why? Because there are dozens of other factors that are way more important. Other people have listed many of them. By framing this the way you did, says a lot. I have been there too though so don't feel bad. Getting rich is a bit of a mystery and an art.

Here's some qualities or skills that can be key based on my experience: emotional intelligence, team building, strategy, understanding people, networking, solving real human problems, marketing, desire and determination, risk taking, timing, luck, commitment, likability, confidence, purpose, leadership, finance, understanding markets and trends, design, branding, execution (endless work and crazy hours), speed, connections to people with money... it goes on and on. You can't really have all of these so in the end, you have to work with people that do and figure out which you need to develop.

We all have ego. Ego tells us how smart and great we are to ourselves. It discounts other people, their qualities, blinds us to where we really need to improve, etc. It is the enemy of progress 80% of the time. We all really know a lot less than we think. The world is complex, changes, and moves fast. Starting out with average intelligence, but a commitment to learning aggressively and meeting people and treating them well is 1000X better place to start. Doors open for that person.

There are multiple ways to get rich. But most revolve around business. Businesses are almost never run or created by smart engineers or super technical people. It just so happens that most of us are in technology so it seems like it. But in reality, there's millions of businesses out there that make unbelievable money that have nothing to do with tech. Even tech companies need a lot of people with different qualities other than engineering or simply smart people.

Other ways to at least do well while working a regular job: investing, real estate, side hustles, saving money, etc. In the past 20 years, if I put more aside into stocks and real estate I would easily have $1.5M to $2M. Hitting base hits consistently is often the way to go.

I always have wanted to get rich to solve the money problem. It won't happen until I focus on adding real value to other people. It can't be about me. Which also means it can't really be about getting rich. That can only be one underlying motivating factor but primarily it has to shift into focusing on others.
Just one idea here not mentioned: software is essentially just business logic run by computer.

In that sense, you need customers for software, and wealthy countries have it.

Silicon Valley might skew more toward global software products, but I’d take a wild guess that most software is actually more local in scope.

That banking or insurance software you wrote in Indianapolis might not work at all for non-US companies, or it is perhaps internal and company-specific.

So, in that way my unscientific guess is that the USA has a huge number of corporations that need internal software or locality-specific software.
Mostly agree. We live in the era of Jim Crow 2.0 and the media are blind to it.

Incentives for politicians exist to keep percentages of felonies High in these communities to keep the people from voting.

Drug war is a war on the poor and people of color.

If we want change we end the drug war. Make drugs legal and treat addiction as a medical issue.

That means single payer healthcare needs to be the law of the land.

Doubt that any of these protests will do anything to solve the issues though.

Way too much money at stake.

Expecting small concessions like police being stripped of their military gear.
>youtube HD, word processing, chess

so like a 9 year old $50 thinkpad x220.
You raise an excellent point. You should torch your own home in protest and give away anything valuable that you have to the peaceful protesters. It's only stuff, but destroying racism is forever. Just think of how awesome a person that would make you, helping to destroy racism by sacrificing your own home and all your easily replaceable stuff.
author is using the wage data from last decade or less it seems. It s an overinvested market and I don't think programming value is correlated with pay at all , at least judging for the overall bad quality and incredible bloat of software coming from america in the past decade , as compared to 1 or 2 decades ago.

And obviously the money thrown in programming is at an all time high. As other markets like biotech begin to make big profits the monetary value of programming will equalize and go down everywhere.
>but not the absence of backdoors.

This is patently false. Binary code can be completely analyzed and understood with respect to back doors.
Specifically, Zoom is selling Abetting as a Service. For a fee, Zoom will take active steps to shield criminal activity from law enforcement.
Property can't always be replaced, especially when it's peoples livelihoods. Unfortunately while Target may have full insurance policies, locally owned businesses (especially those owned by minorities and people of color) probably are either very underinsured or not insured at all.

When you try to burn down someones business or especially their home, they're going to respond with violence. They're also going to suddenly go from being sympathetic to your cause to extremely antagonistic. There are two ways to achieve peace, and everyone putting down their weapons and agreeing to talk it out is the more recent of the two. We must always seek civility.
https://www.voanews.com/press-freedom/police-shove-make-ap-j...
Looking forward to how this product compares to other project management tools.
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You are mistaken. Pygame depends on CPython, as it is a C extension. Under the hood, even this window manager is mostly C.
This is the first thing I built during quarantine—I wanted a way to listen to music with my friends, but wasn't keen on everyone having to pay for something like Spotify. Enjoy!
>Really depends on where you are, and who you interact with.

And that is emphatically not true for straight people: they are accepted everywhere. If you have to be careful about where you go and who you interact with because of your sexuality, then -- even if you take those restrictions on your life for granted by now -- it's still a demonstration of the continued power of homophobia.

I get what you're saying, but I think that attitudes to homophobia are sort of where attitudes to race were in the 90s. People are tempted to mark eliminating homophobia as 'done'. But if you look beyond more privileged folks, there's actually still a ton of homophobia out there, with real consequences. For example, it's been estimated that around 40% of NYC's homeless population is LGBT.
With access to shaving technology, a beard is something you can control. I don't think a beard is absolutely mandatory to be stoic, is it?
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> "it simply doesn't matter now"

If the OP is talking about the general public's perception, with most of them not being photography enthusiasts, I tend to think this rings true.

If you're a photography enthusiast, then yeah, not true at all.
Despite the helpfulness of quick exchange of laboratory results via preprint, peer review is clearly going to remain central to the scientific process.
-1 Strongly Disagree. Sort of :p

When somebody tries to talk sports to me, I feign stupidity but in a silly way. For example if somebody tries to talk Football (American) I say "Oh, that's that thing where sweaty guys chase each other around and people talk about it, right?" and they laugh, realize I have zero interest, and we move on to a more relevant subject. It's all in how you go about it.
In Teslas the battery container also is structural, or a stressed member of the chassis as you put it.

There are many aspects here copied from Tesla or coincidentally the same, although he conveniently leaves out mentioning that fact at any opportunity. For example the lowering of the car at speed... copied from Model S.
Their design mantra seems to be "plastic everything".

I could understand if they did it to keep prices low... But they aren't cheap products.

I could maybe understand it if they did it to keep things light or eco-friendly, but dysons structural plastic parts are thick and heavier than a metal equivilent part.
Yes I referring to the CDC [0] page that says:

> Riot control agents (sometimes referred to as “tear gas”) are chemical compounds that temporarily make people unable to function by causing irritation to the eyes, mouth, throat, lungs, and skin.

I think we all agree that "gas/chemicals that cause tears" is "tear gas". Anyone saying that tear gas was not used is splitting hairs and their motivations should be questioned. This is not the time to be "technically correct" when police are using things like this on peaceful protesters.

[0] https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/riotcontrol/factsheet.asp
Newer cameras can do this- ironically by connecting with your phone. My Sony A7III can use the phone to geotag, and you can send them to your phone easily too so they can immediately go on the gram.

I will agree this is a really nice to have feature though and one of the main drivers for me to upgrade from my ~2009 Canon.
This argument is a purposeful distraction by the administration's supporters. The focus should be on the fact that a protest was cleared so the president could do a silly photo op. A blasphemous photo op.

This "tear gas" argument is a red herring meant to distract from the real issue. And the media is falling for it.
One of the most popular cameras on youtube is the g7x line from canon. Which is a ~$500 pocket camera with fixed 1.8 lens.

Judging by youtube alone, this camera has made the careers of countless beauty youtubers and probably made the equivalent of millions of dollars for them.

Its probably the overall best camera for filming yourself indoors. The 1.8 aperture, canon colors, and flip out screen, small size, can't really be beat by anything else.
Why? because it makes faces look beautiful!!!

Getting the skin tones correct in low indoor lighting, is something that cell phones couldn't do over the last decade, and can't really do that well even now.
Why is this? Shyness?
Decent Espresso makes a great machine to control espresso brewing parameters [1]

My favorite feature is the ability to give it different target curves to follow for different parameters during successive phases of the extraction. You can for example ask the machine to pre-infuse for x seconds at a given pressure and then switch to flow profiling and have the machine try to adjust the pressure to follow a pre-set flow curve.

It makes it a powerful platform to isolate experimentally the contributions of several brewing variables.

[1]: https://decentespresso.com/overview
Excuse me? I'm not actively shielding abusers who I have witnessed.
>Your perception of the availability and competence of good experts may be skewed by the fact that you probably know most of the good ones

This is a bit disingenuous.

The fact that he knows them means that he can comment on the feasibility of that analysis.
> If I hire a consultancy company to build something for me, would I normally be able to directly hire the employees who did the work?

In my experience, this is one of the main points that legal counsel argues with every contract.

If your company is being contracted to do work, your legal counsel will want to add a non-solicitation clause to the contract to prevent the other company from recruiting your employees.

If your company is contracting with a smaller company to do work for you, your legal counsel will want to strike any non-solicit clauses so they have the option to hire people out of that company later. If the other company is desperate enough for the contract, they might allow this. Otherwise they'll refuse the work.
I don't, in fact. Principles are important.
"you don't need CSS classes, but instead need to add aria-tags overriding the accessibility semantics" kind of invalidates the point of something like this IMHO.
>They've led us all to believe that it's just McConnell and a couple of other shitbags but that the rest of the Republicans are mostly OK.

I have never, ever believed this.
Realistically how long can one expect to keep using a retina Macbook pro? I've had my mid 2015 since.. Mid 2015 and now I'm getting paranoid it'll up and explode on me out of the blue

I have a new OWC SSD upgrade so that should be alright.. Trying to keep it running cool without heavy software but the battery is at like 500 charge cycles and 70% capacity man it feels so scary getting old
It is a sentiment that is shared by many:

https://www.ianbicking.org/where-smalltalk-went-wrong-2.html

For some people living in an environment/IDE works, other people feel locked in. It is certainly unusual if you are used to the Unix approach.

Since there are so many languages and so little time, I would think that many people haven't tried Smalltalk at all because of this hurdle.
This statement from Zoom makes me believe that even for encrypted calls they may give authorities a back door (i.e. something that Apple and others have been very vocal about not doing).

Do enough people care about privacy to warrant a "Signal for video conferencing" Zoom competitor?
Pretty much anything that isn't body text. Headings. Words on posters. Book covers and spines. Advertisements (unless they're very wordy ones). Street signs.

Of course these don't all want the same sort of treatment, but they have some features in common: you're not going to be reading a lot of whatever-it-is at one go, and there probably aren't going to be multiple lines of text. So you don't care so much about things like how comfortable it is to read in bulk or whether blocks of text look good in overall shape/density, and being quirky or distractingly eye-catching might be a feature rather than a bug.
Out of curiosity if I may ask, in which country did this happen and to which profession did you move after?
Ah - I see what you mean. In that case, for Nikons at least, the answer is 'no'
... in a vacuum
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I wouldn't say "most". The small local restaurants that you really want not to get taken by predatory schemes are the ones least likely to have a web presence.
For societies that viewed this as a crime, anyway. For instance, many don’t consider military engagements to be murder but others do, and regardless whether or not you might consider it a crime depends deeply on your geopolitical beliefs.

Anyway, there are even cultures (now extinct I think) that eat their own dead as a form of mourning. Ritualistic cannibalism is a whole thing that is not criminal and it’s been found on every continent where humans naturally live. Many societies don’t even have states to define or enforce crimes.

So yea, I think most cannibals were probably not criminals.
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I think the social contract for many were broken during lockdown, however the lockdown protests were allowed to continue peacefully. There was no major attempt to forcibly end them and no major case of loss of life or injury to propel the protest into true rioting.

My current mental model is that rioring both needs a reactant, but also a catalyst. Imo there was plenty of reactant sitting the lockdown protests, but no catalyst.

My thinking on the matter will likely change as I learn more.

And to answer your question literally: no, I wasn't really thinking about riots then
No, it's not too harsh.

I have a T440s, bought with the wrong (rtl8192ee) wifi chipset, and their support has been practically nonexistent.

If you're a big company, you can test the hardware before letting all your employees adopt it (and I know that my colleagues are quite happy with their X1 Carbon), but if you're a consumer and you find out that the hardware doesn't have (good/reliable) Linux drivers, you need to be prepared to return it... or to find a replacement FRU yourself (good luck with that!)
WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company
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No, they walked away from a buyout deal, they had a contract with take two to develop KSP2.