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> This is specifically targeting an individual front-end engineer at FB, which in my own estimation crosses the line from criticism of executives or general policy, to specifically trying to instigate public outrage against a co-worker.

More importantly, it sounds like he was bullying colleagues to force them to comply with his personal desires on how to do activism by proxy.

Worse, he was trying to force colleagues to risk losing their job in the process just so that they could cater to his whims.
I think (as an American in Amsterdam) —

Low-end: LIDL, VOMAR

Lower-middle: Dirk van der Broek

Middle: Albert Heijn, Jumbo

Middle—high: EkoPlaza, Landmarkt

High-end: Marqt

I buy my bread from Vlaamsch Broodhuys—an upscale bakery chain—as there’s one by my home.

Diverse good breads are easily accessible in the Netherlands, I find. Back in the US, getting good bread is requires research and a drive. In my college town, both of the only two good artisanal bakeries were started by Europeans who were too fed up with American bread culture!
You can easily find yourself dragged into situation where activists at your workplace demand you sign a letter, or else you will be branded <all kinds of crap>. If you depend on these people in any way, you will be in trouble. And it's the social media that turned your coworkers that way.

These days you don't have to go to social media to find trouble - the social media comes to you.
I seem to remember Dell doing something like this a number of years back -- an x86/ARM windows/Linux hybrid. The idea was that you could boot instantly into a Linux/Arm system, do things like take notes and email and get good battery life, and boot into Windows only when needed. I don't recall if it was just a concept or if it was eventually sold.
... the community being the world? Not just the "tech community" as it currently stands.
> But you are aware of journal articles as well, dont't you?

Yes.

> And how standardized and comprehensive the peer selection is? (it is not, in general, with huge variations)

Yes.

So what?

My point was you can accept whatever papers you want. You can't make or stop someone else accepting. Seems like a fine situation to me? Anyone can recognise the papers they want to.
It is not actually that hard to do, we just have a rushed culture that ends up encouraging people to pick the fastest option. A lot of us are too lazy to cook properly.
If that were true, bail would be adjusted much more aggressively to match available resources.

Instead we see people who are very poor getting five digit bails, and instead languishing in jail because they can’t afford bail.

Pre trial detention should be based on the public good, and that is clearly not what we have today.
Which is really a shame indeed.
They made a space shuttle though, and it was pretty capable. It could even fly autonomously.
It's about time. SSDs have been around a very long time, and without a supported way of swapping out the internal hard drive, console gamers are penalized with long waits vs PCs where SSDs have become fairly standard.
I blame julia
Ah yes - my bad, too late to edit :)

Ad discovery is more Facebook and Google’s business.
Though it doesn't prevent Presidents from getting elected by pandering to the mobs living in Oklahoma and Kentucky.

The issue with fighting mob majority rule with minority rule is that there's no reason a minority is itself any better or non-moblike than a majority. It's trivial for me to select a different minority whose votes are allowed to count that gives totally opposite results than what exists now. The one advantage of having government be determined by a majority of all people is that you can't slice and dice "all people" to be a particular biased subset of people to get particular outcomes.
Indeed, it comes from Latin “mobile vulgus”, which means roughly “easily swayed common people”. “mobile” is of course the origin of the English word “mobile”, but the thing being easily moved here is the crowd’s feelings and opinions. “vulgus” is source of the English word “vulgar”, but less pejorative - the masses, the crowd, the common or ordinary people, the non-elite
Acknowleding someone’s opinions and feelings can be as simple as being quiet, letting them speak, giving them room to express themselves without interruption, objection objection or reprisal. You don’t need to automatically alter your course of action just to merely recognize and acknowledge something someone’s said, sometimes just shutting up and being deferential is enough.

“Thank you for your opinion but I’m going another way” is no more of a failure than establishing any other decent and respectable boundaries between peoples.

Manners maketh the man (or woman, or however an individual chooses to self-identify).
> and now moving to Swift seems like a message that all my work in Objective C will be thrown away by Apple

Totally.

Cocoa, Objective C, OpenGL, etc, are all going to die some day and Apple will announce it a year or two in advance like they usually do with major breaking stuff. Any serious company would announce these EOL 4-5 years in advance.

With Apple the only safe strategy is to keep investing dev time to update everything to the newer stuff or let the project die because in 2-3 years max it will most likely stop working.

It's no coincidence all big Mac apps (other than Apple's own stuff) are actually cross platform projects. No wonder Apple is trying to bring people over from iOS with Catalyst.

I was going to start a macOS product this year but with the transition to SwiftUI I decided it was a really bad idea to invest in a Cocoa project.

And Jesus don't get me started on having to update the OS to get the latest Xcode version every year with their half baked macOS versions.
He's a "Level 9" PLA officer (apx. Major officer), if he spilled that out easily to CBP, definitely there's something more suspicious than just copy-cat labs design.
One really good example of an Xbox One game that has grown to truly bloated proportions is Destiny 2. The loading times are multiple minutes per map section now. Total game is about 105GB on disk.

People have even resorted to using external 256GB SATA3 SSDs in USB3.0 enclosures, which are faster than the internal 5400 rpm HDD in an Xbox One S.

I do think we will still see a lot of people connecting USB3.0/USB3.1 external spinning drives to their new-generation consoles. 1TB of SSD space is enough for maybe 12 or 14 games, maximum. "Serious" console gaming people buy many more games than that...
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It bugged me because that isn’t what would happen to your iOS devices if the App Store went down, to my knowledge. I don’t know what would happen but likely nothing at all immediately. Apps don’t suddenly disappear if you’re in airplane mode indefinitely. Even app revokes wouldn’t affect you if you’re not online, and there are degrees of app revokes. Some just remove the app from the App Store, but preserve the ability to reinstall for those who already have the app. More strict are those which remove the app from the App Store entirely, with no ability to reinstall. Those are extremely rare cases, but I disagree with the concept on principle except in cases of malware or other abuse, as determined by me. Currently, Apple decides.

Still, all those apps disappearing ground my gears.

/rant
> Agree. It's endemic of the political and cultural climate we're in right now, where mob rule is becoming the status quo.

I'm not sure we should mark this down as a political and cultural climate thing. I'm more convinced the guy was simply an asshole and it so happens that he felt strongly about politics.
Passwords usually get hashed in app layer so DB never has the key. In the same way encryption is usually done entirely outside DBs as they tend to leak or get breached. So the ciphertext without any potential access to keys is generally acceptable for storing in a DB, ideally isolated for one purpose.
The CEO of the company is famously gay and traditionally gives the bulk of the keynote.
There's no official one, but this one is pretty good: https://wwdc.io
Nobody's going to spell it out. If you announce someone doesn't support <popular movement> as much as you'd expect them to on a public forum, that will likely cause backlash. In that case either you did it in purpose, or caused it by not thinking of consequences of your actions.
My experience at UoPeople has been nothing but a positive experience. The tuition-free aspect is the whole reason I could even go to a college. I am so grateful for this opportunity and even admire the diversity this higher-education opportunity brings, I have met the BEST people and honestly the best professors.
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I'm your age so I don’t have any direct experience — but I often waffle between whether I want to be an IC or do more management myself, so I understand your concerns. I’ve run across a number of ICs who have been at my BigCo company for many, many years who all seem to be very happy where they're at and what they are doing, so it’s definitely possible.

I think the challenge - and this isn’t unique to engineering — is how you define/value your career progression and growth opportunities. At my company, there are a small number of ICs that can have the impact/get the same pay as a CVP or EVP, but the options are much more limited. And you know what, I think that for many people, management or not, that’s OK. Many people I talk to are happy to stay at the same level and do the same work for an extended period of time.

I’m not like that. I’m highly ambitious and have an internal need to get to the next stage/goal, and the truth is, that probably means I’ll need to assert myself more to take on management — even tho I don’t enjoy the procedural aspect of that — I love to mentor and I’m considered a leader on my team, but I don’t currently have direct reports and honestly, I prefer that. I feel like I can get more done when my time isn’t taken up with the administrative stuff.

For now, I still have a growth path that I can definitely continue for a few more years. And if I’m honest, I don’t worry about being able to remain in that sort of role for the rest of my career. For me, the bigger worry is when that growth path dries up. When you’re high enough up the chain, most of management really is delegation and decision making and setting the tone/direction. The problem is that to get there you have to do middle management, which is where most people get stuck.

Historically what I do when I feel like my growth options are expired are switch teams/companies or even careers. I'm definitely open to that continuing.

If the question is, “can I remain employed as an IC for another 30 years,” then I think the answer is yes. If the question is, “will I have career momentum over the next 30 years if I eschew management,” then I think the answer is a lot more complicated. And again, a lot of people aren’t like me and don’t have the same aspirations or needs.
Me neither. I find myself struggling to trust any large company. Older and wiser or just jaded I don't know which. These organisations entrench themselves in our lives that even when we dislike then intensely we sometimes don't have easy alternatives.

Size seems to corrupt. Any examples if shining, upstanding, beneficent megacorps?
I firmly believe this model is the future, and really, the only sustainable way forward.

It's the only solution so far that doesn't lock customers into a subscription that may stop giving them value commensurate with what they're paying, while giving developers a recurring source of revenue that incentivizes continuous improvement.

I've seen it work wonders for Sketch, which seems to have increased its pace of development after switching to an update-subscription model (as a side note, the lack of a clear, standard name for this model may be its greatest disadvantage). I use an active subscription at work, while I have a slightly older version that I've currently let lapse on my personal machine because I only need it occasionally. Between subscriptions and major-version upgrades, it really is the best of both worlds.

The maddening thing with Apple is that this model would slot neatly into the App Store. All they'd need is a new type of subscription that gates App Store updates. Apple already keeps old packages on the server, as one discovers if they download a purchased app on a device stuck on an old version of iOS – the only thing missing is the will to implement this model.
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But you presented the theory as a causative link between family formation being unavailable for young men and civil unrest.

It's a classic case of correlation is not causation. Yes, there have been societies where men couldn't form families that were violent (like the Wild west in the US) but that doesn't mean that that was the cause of it.

Similarly, many on the left have long thought that porn viewing causes sexual violent crime against women. And there is ample evidence showing that men who view porn are more likely to be sexual offenders than non-viewers. But then came the internet and the amount of porn and porn viewers skyrocketed - but the amount of sexual violence against women didn't - therefore busting the theory.

In the same way, evidence from Japan, China, South Korea and even India means that there can't be a causative link between family formation being unavailable for young men and civil unrest.
>The US has ludicrous prison sentences. Lie on an application = 10 years in prison.

How would the Chinese respond if it was an American stealing research funded by the PLA and was sent by the USA to study the Lab so he could bring back the know how to replicate it.

I wonder why the Chinese don't take the same approach you advocate for the USA.

Here are some current examples of how the Chinese Gov deals with supposed spies and whatever...

From what I understand they have tortured a British National recently.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/china-tortured-detained-...

Here is the case of two Canadians still in prison on some kind of drummed up charges...

https://globalnews.ca/news/6270013/canadians-detained-china-...
This was linked elsewhere in this thread: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/sexual-pa...

Non-causal and uses marital happiness as a proxy for actual happiness though.
> When I gave a demo of Kaleida ScriptX DreamScape at WWDC in 1995, the rule was that if your demo crashed, you had to do push-ups. Is that still the case?

Have you not paid attention to the WWDC in 25 years? If so, one, why are you asking and two, the answer probably doesn't matter anyway.
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That demo was pretty cool! I remember the wonder of that era well, and your demo captured well how hard it was to get to those magical ‘wow’ moments, and how worth it that it was, as least the times worth remembering well.
Letting people essentially pay their way out doesn't seem the fairest way to do that. Surely it should be based on risk to the public, not ability to pay some arbitrary amount.

Also, person A _might_ be dangerous is in some way putting at least part of the punishment before conviction - IMO that should be very carefully considered, and I don't see how monetary means is a large part of that.
He was caught at LAX but this is typical Silicon Valley BS.
I've not heard diversity presented as looking like the world. For hiring and executive boards and the like, the argument has always been that our companies should resemble our communities more.

If you really want to represent the world's developers more accurately, you would still end up showing more white or east Asian males since most developers are white or east Asian males.

Strangely enough neither of those two demographics are represented in the graphic at the provided link. Strange.
Alright, but that's not a feature, right? Stack limitations are just a natural limitation. Timeouts are something that you'd intentionally introduce, when you don't necessarily need it. And if possible, I'd like to minimize dependency on specifics of the machine as much as possible.
In terms of overall console failure rates and unhappy end users, it has to be a huge relief to the xbox and ps5 hardware dev teams to remove anything with moving parts. The long term reliability and failure rates for rotating 2.5/3.5" HDDs vs NVME SSD will be very different.

The limiting factor for SSD endurance is volume of writes, which can be very carefully controlled in a walled-garden console OS+app design. Ordinary consumers are already very unlikely to run into write-endurance issues with something like a samsung nvme m2.2280 512GB-1TB SSD in a desktop PC.
I wouldn’t read into that tweet because Electron doesn’t even support iOS, so saying they “do not use Electron” is equivalent to saying nothing.
OK, I think I'm getting this a bit more. I believe this is a healthy way to think about these topics. I just wasn't sure if you were encouraging people to participate in active listening or passive-aggressiveness. It's clear you're focused on the former which I find commendable.
Short answer: iOS Safari isn’t macOS Safari. Not sure if a more recent document like this exists to explain differences between the two.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2010...
>It's like the Soviets copying the space shuttle and concorde.

they didn't though, please try again.
I'd say we think of the "Midwest" because it's flat and the "South West" because it's sandy and hot. These clearly are geographic regions, like Pacific Northwest, (which has evergreen forests and mountains). If your point is these regions would have different cardinal names if borders looked different, that might be true, but that's not exactly profound and it's certainly not a matter of a "politico-cultural fascination with that border in particular."
You just have to open with something deeper than making it clear you want to be in her pants. At best that's boring from being tried by ten other guys that day.

That's why the bookstore example is neat, it gives you an insight into what she cares about. Speaking in broad strokes, women (well, really people in general) want to be treated as individuals with unique, hopes, dreams, and intellectual frameworks.
Personal politics, and hopefully politics in general, have nothing to do with the policies that result.
For all their anti-fraud measures, they still couldn't figure out that those 3 simultaneous $500 transactions with a West African gold mining company weren't actually initiated by me, and need 3 weeks to resolve it.

Anyone using PayPal today just hasn't learned their lesson yet.
Is it really surprising? China has been wholesale ripping off American (and other) companies and government for years. Do you expect the government to blindly let this theft continue without a serious response?
Science might tell me that on average, most people prefer beer to wine.

That doesn't mean I preach to someone that they shouldn't be drinking wine because beer is superior.
Better to apologize than ask permission, as the saying goes...

The principle st play is everywhere in the legal system: the penalty for lying on a tax return is much higher than not filing returns; the penalty for buying something with counterfeit bills is much higher than that for simply stealing it; using a fake ID to buy booze (if under 21) carries a higher penalty than buying it from a clerk who forgets to card you; lying to sn FBI agent in an investigation is infinitely worse than saying nothing; etc., etc.
What violence? How many serious injuries or deaths have occurred?
Looks cool!
I have been using Docusaurus[0] for this same exact use case for a while and although the primary use case is for documentation, the experience of writing notes is great too. You can write your notes in either MDX or Markdown. Search can be added using Algolia DocSearch[1] and deployment to GitHub Pages or Netlify or similar static site hosting platforms is a breeze. The only thing it's lacking is tags which I'm sure can be added with a little bit of work.

[0] https://v2.docusaurus.io/

[1] https://github.com/algolia/docsearch

Notes: https://rsapkf.github.io/notes/
The difference is there arent random natural sources of liquid radioactive materials all over the place that could cause a large scale leak and have humans randomly tapping on them and hoping they don't cause it to blow.
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My Nintendo Switch.

I hadn't bought any sort of console since...well never... the other closest console was an N64 from my parents. I had huge buyer's remorse walking out with it and a game for more than $300, but the value I've gotten out of it has far exceeded what I paid. I knew nothing about Super Mario Odyssey and the nostalgia struck me like lightning. I teared up during the city-level-whatever where you turn 2D and jump past Donkey-Kong-style barrels while the music is cheering you on.

My Late 2012 MacBook.

This has been, by far, the best laptop I've ever used, period. Its battery is awesome. I can do any task I need to with it. It connects to wifi instantly. It has a MagSafe connector that has saved me at least once. As far as I'm concerned, Apple could have just iterated on this design for life and I'd be happy. I think the 2015 model that pg mentions in this tweet are an upgraded form of this laptop: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1157084442365534208

Kitchenaid Food Processor.

I've had this thing for 10+ years and it has been phenomenal for me. Only small problem is that I'm noticing discoloration in the handle after a decade.

I'm sure there are more, but those items come to the top of my head.
Perhaps you mistakenly believe I said all the people who missing out on human interaction are defective. This isn't so. Lets review context.

the parent poster

>> “Incel” terrorism is already much more common than class terrorism

My response

> Them being defective is a problem we can only address by making mental health services more available

The subject is people who literally commit acts of terror and murder because they themselves collectively blame women for not having sex with them and instead collectively gifting their virtue to higher status men instead of concluding that they are failing at the mating game. There is NOTHING that society needs to fix about itself in order to avoid mutilation and murder. The perpetrators of such crimes are defective in the literal not pejorative sense in the same fashion that a leaky gas line that is liable to blow up and kill people. Suggesting that resources be devoted to help such people before their actions harm themselves or others is the opposite of gross.