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I'm not quite sure what's rubbed you up the wrong way here, but I'll address these points in order:

> This is true. So stop trying to pull apart tens or hundreds of other people's work hours on some attempt to create some frankenware.

I'm not involved in this, so I'm not entirely sure what you want me personally to stop doing, but I definitely appreciate the efforts of distributions to create systems that work together as a whole, and don't spontaneously fail because an upstream author has put out a new release and is now forcing me to choose between carrying a vulnerability and breaking compatibility.

> The rest of what you wrote doesn't make sense.

I beg to differ. Perhaps I should simplify my language.

> Of course it would get tested whether they backport or not.

By whom? There's a reason Debian Stable has a painfully long release cycle, and it's partially because they're taking that time to make sure the complete set of versions you get when you do an `apt-get install <whatever>` works together, as a coherent system. If you change `libfoo-1.0.0` to `libfoo-2.0.0` and just push that out to everyone, the combination of `libfoo` with any of its dependencies or dependents is now untested.

You can make a separate argument for rolling release distros if you like, but the problem doesn't go away.

Again, this is why the concept of "distribution" came into being in the first place: because throwing together arbitrary versions and expecting the result to work is madness. Or, if you prefer, Debian Unstable.

> The current state is that we don't get much cross pollination as the version being pushed by RedHat isn't the same as the version being pushed by Debian, so bugs are introduced and resolution doesn't help each other.

Correct. And if upstream authors took responsibility for their previous releases and backported patches themselves, they wouldn't have divergence in the first place. But that's not necessarily workable, so we've got the next best thing: other people keeping the lights on for them.

> Your distro doesn't live in a vacuum. Stop acting like it does.

I'm not claiming anything of the sort.
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> I also know that the iPhone and Macbook are not particularly difficult pieces of engineering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Do the feds still attend DC? >:}
Arendt and the "banality of evil" is the often-quoted exploration of this question; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/hannah...
Thank you for posting, glad to hear I am not alone (tried it years ago, cannot unsubscribe).
Lawsuit Against Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Reinstated
That's not a workable solution for the vast majority of the population.
> using graphical programming (by connecting nodes)

I use Octane Render [0] whose materials editor is based on graphically connecting nodes which might be materials (diffuse, specular, etc), image files, mappings, colours, procedurals, emitters and many more. Compared with conventional languages the Octane shader language lacks any sort of conditional or iterative constructs, which obviously simplifies the 'programming' required.

I'm happy with graphical node editing for this shader use case. However, I sometimes really miss the ability to do a global textual search and replace across multiple materials, e.g. to change the file name of a normal map that is used in a node in multiple materials. I suspect that there would be similar frustrations when maintaining and updating a complex system configuration using a 'no-code' node-based mechanism.

[0] https://home.otoy.com/render/octane-render/
How Memoirists Mold the Truth
Dex is an important part of a first aid kit for high altitude mountaineering as it's somewhat unpredictable who will be afflicted by various issues related to altitude or when.
Spaghetti code has more negative connotation than I’d attribute to our insanely adaptive, flexible, and efficient organism.
The Wikipedia page on the history of the StrongARM [0] makes the following claim:

> According to Allen Baum, the StrongARM traces its history to attempts to make a low-power version of the DEC Alpha, which DEC's engineers quickly concluded was not possible. They then became interested in designs dedicated to low-power applications which led them to the ARM family. One of the only major users of the ARM for performance-related products at that time was Apple, whose Newton device was based on the ARM platform. DEC approached Apple wondering if they might be interested in a high-performance ARM, to which the Apple engineers replied "Phhht, yeah. You can’t do it, but, yeah, if you could we'd use it." [1]

Regardless of the degree of DEC's contribution, the ARM phoenix arose out of the flames of the Apple Newton.

Further irony is that Intel acquired StrongARM from DEC as part of a legal settlement, then sold StrongARM/XScale, then created Atom for this market, while in parallel they developed a low-power 386 for the RIM Leapfrog/Blackberry but later concluded that this market was not large enough (forcing Blackberry to switch to ARM with the introduction of their Java based SDK)[2].

Intel has made some magnificent missteps.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM#History

[1] https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...

[2] Graham Tubbs "Harvesting the Blackberry" https://books.google.ca/books?id=oSaoNQcFTzMC&lpg=PA25&dq=Pi...
Also a PoC non-rich kid. My wife's students in an inner-city school serving a mostly immigrant populace are not going to write fine-sounding essays about their time volunteering in Haiti, because they're working at Starbucks instead of volunteering in Haiti. Hell, their parents came from Haiti.
Programming isn't necessarily the best way to get better at programming, there are a bunch of related skills that also need to be improved. Thinking about how you program and behave as a human will unlock many doors
As a software developer I consider the most important part of my job to be evaluating new tools and techniques. This craft is in its infancy and our profession borders on complete incompetence when it comes to predictably building usable tools at a reasonable budget. Nobody can afford to miss out on productivity enhancements and that means following trends, but with a critical eye. If someone is "tired" of this process it might be time to consider another profession.
No reasonable person thinks "woman" when she encounters the word "gash". I'd wager there are fairly few unreasonable people who think that, but of course it only takes one to kick off a spriraling pointless bikeshedding thread. It's good that we've got this inanity flagged to the bottom, but when I commented it was at the top.
Once you've read enough philosophy and psychology (both academic and pop), articles like this start becoming repetitive. You realize Jean Beaudrillard was right, and in the post-modern world there truly is nothing new under the sun, everything is just a variation of a variation of a variation of something that came before. A better use of your (professional development) time is thinking about and writing actual code.
I'd say Taipei for a "big" city. Hualien or Taidung for smaller ones
Are there any other American companies the government could even realistically support?

Micron is perhaps a candidate, though not sure it meets all your criteria.
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Scientists are building a machine to recreate fusion inside of the Sun’s core
I love the introspection and positive attitude in this post.

One thing I would add is that intrinsic motivation seems to be framed and activated very differently depending on one's personality. I find myself performing best when I'm on the edge of failure, trying to catch up to the high performers, and when recalling past times when I overcame failure or adversity. Comparing myself to the group described as demotivating in the post is the best motivator for me. And then there are little tweaks to one's environment (for me it's coffee, exercise, occasional travel, specific movies and music) that I find end up making an enormous difference in motivation, focus, and overall mental state. I suspect this has a lot to do with personal physiology and the environment in which you grew up.

With that caveat, the post is incredibly thoughtful and helpful, and I really enjoyed reading it.
I don't suppose you worked at a large digital agency in the Northern Quarter in Manchester for a while before leaving for the BBC did you? I think I might have an inkling who you are if so, the hobbies and professions line up with what I assume is a manipulation of the name Steve as a username!
Some filter addons perform complex logic trees based on properties other than the hostname(s) being loaded by the browser, and therefore take up more CPU and RAM for more wall-clock seconds to meet the needs of their increased complexity. They end up able to block more content than others, but that comes at a cost — which, as this page notes, can be much higher than anyone expected.
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I previously worked for a Dutch fintech company that operated in the same way, but from my understanding they were (probably still are) really quite effective, profits hugely increasing year-on-year.

But this Dutch company also makes use of some kinds of SWAT dev teams that help customers on the spot with issues, making sure the product lives up to the clients’ expectations, even if this means modifying a product delivered by the core dev teams. I.e.: if some feature was promised, but not yet part of the current release, the SWAT team might hack something quickly, often on the spot in the clients offices. Later on, such a hack might be replaced with a proper solution.
I did some investigation into the performance impacts of using the _Generic keyword in C11. It was a toy example so not necessarily broadly applicable to real world code, but a good 70 or 80 percent of the speedup from generics seemed to come from inlining.

https://abissell.com/2014/01/16/c11s-_generic-keyword-macro-...
> If the narrative was mostly about economic status, we would hear more about that and about universal programs

Like.... Universal healthcare? One of the most (perhaps THE most) discussed topics at democratic presidential debates?

Just because neither Bernie nor Elizabeth Warren didn't win the nomination doesn't mean that their ideas aren't part of the left.
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There isn't one American Left. The liberals do as you often say. The socialists often focus precisely on "universal programs that would eliminate the largest absolute amounts of poverty and suffering."
Non-complacency is totally different from "with us or against us" mentality. Like the Bush example, you can simultaneously stand in opposition to terror and extremism, and also be in opposition to the invasion of Iraq. You don't have to agree with 100% of the principle of someone who you share _some_ principles with.
AI-vending machine startup “Stockwell” (a.k.a. “Bodega”) shutting down July 1
Borg or Restic are good for off site backup, but if you want basically an untrusted storage server Reslio does support "encrypted" folders. The UX is a little hard to figure out sometimes though, it's not open source, and is not free. But very good software.
does it have to high volume ? lots of semi-conductor companies in the US, some of them flying under the radar. the us stimulus will help these companies invest more capital, talent. hell, I will say any country needs to be manufacturing and designing their own silicon. and like said by ben, not all silicon has to be for pc's.
Graphviz and Golang: The geeky tool combo for technical brainstorming
EU launches two antitrust investigations into Apple practices
We must establish the new customs, new culture, new habits, new ideas of the proletariat.
For me, the key thing about hooks is that they both make it easier to write everything idemopotently and mostly force you to write everything idemopotently, both of which are great for future code maintenance purposes.
> If the device depends on write-once ROM that was written in the factory, is that also anti-consumer?

That depends on the intent.
Get an enterprise router/firewall.

Also most of these vulnerabilities (as the article points out) are in the web server. If the web server isn't exposed,it isn't of much practical security concern.

I've also run DD-WRT for years with excellent results. Per the usual benefits of open source and active maintainers, it is generally going to (a) have the trivial stuff already addressed (b) keep up to a reasonable extent with security patches.
I find it hard to imagine that you'd sneer in "disgust" and accuse people of "destruction" and "chaos" if they were knocking over a statue of somebody who murdered your family. This accusation is extremely easy to make, and it's always hypocritical on a long enough timeline.
Honestly I don't think it's true to say it's about politics. The WHO tweet from 14 January was very misleading and no doubt caused things to get worse:

> Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳.
> I believe it's a symptom of some deeper issues and it won't go away from alone. [...] Simple things start to become complicated and you are in a constant negative feedback loop.

+1

I neglected this, thought that I could force myself to work, instead of seeking help. I did 100h weeks after all, I'd always get stuff done. I quit my job, started looking for more rewarding things to do, finally had time to do things right.

And, one day I ended up crying on the floor, hurting myself and spending 3 days on a task that was supposed to take 5-15 minutes. Then a simple coding exercise (2-3h) took me a week, because I couldn't focus, I couldn't accept any solutions because they weren't perfect. I ended up not sending my job application because I lost my shit, even speaking to the recruiter was too intimidating. The whole situation was ridiculous, surreal.

I felt embarrassed because I went throught some difficult (arguably waaay more stressful) situations when I was younger and just couldn't cope with the fact that at the age of 32 my brain gave up on a high school grade CS task. It still perplexes me.

> At the moment doing pomodoro and putting everything in kanban charts and devide&conquer seem to work somewhat. I don't really have any clever advice beyond that, it just sucks.

I'm not sure if you're the same but I used to hate routine. I'm learning to enjoy it now, because I realised that it allows me to deal with the previously neglected parts of my life (exercise, meditation, sleep, food) with less friction. I hate self-help books, but Atomic Habits was surprisingly helpful.

I'm still getting to the point where I enjoy things around me (instead of constantly solving problems), but I hope this will go when the lockdown ends.

I used to have much, much more control over myself. I feel that what I did to myself was reckless, because now keeping my emotional health at the level allowing me to work can be really hard.

I wish I was brought up to care about myself, because now even though I slowed down and made some changes in my life: 1) I don't feel like a better person 2) I'm not better to anyone around me. I'm just tired. I can find a nice 6-figure job, but can't guarantee that I'll be strong enough emotionally to support my partner.
Please consider this a warning, so you don't end up like me. Making small changes and taking care of yourself is easier than damage control.
The last I knew:

SAT: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia.

ACT: Alabama, Arkansas, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

Also, the implementation of SAT prep is spotty at best. As with most things, whether the schools have test prep is pretty reliant on how well funded the individual district is. At least that's my experience.
In general, beating a rival and/or winning a league championship in a popular sport leads to higher alumni engagement. In addition to being good for the overall social health of the alumni community, it also leads to higher donations.

At Harvard specifically, beating Yale in football is a big deal within the community.

At large state schools, sports can function as an incredible arm of marketing. In addition to benefits for the alumni community and donations, it also can impact recruiting to undergraduate and graduate programs. Case in point, check out the change in the quality of the student body at the University of Alabama since Saban has been coaching the football team. It has improved not just the profile of the undergrad student body, but also the profile of the law school student body (among other grad schools, I’ve been told).

I will also add that being a varsity athlete puts the student in a totally-not-a-club club that makes a difference in certain social circles (especially in the northeast corridor).
If you have no ability to choose banks that support the tooling you want to use with them, that's a problem with the banks, not Apple.

Also: Android has their Card Emulation API that allows banks (and other developers) to implement their own apps that do what Google Pay does, and yet banks broadly support Google Pay, suggesting that's maybe not as much of an issue as you'd think.
I'd start with monitoring: performance, error logging, general infrastructure. You can't fix the problems if you don't know what's actually happening.
I was wondering the same. Also wondering if a new fab was required in order to scale up for the potential new demand from Apple.
Can you share the link for OpenBSD?
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No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_particle#/media/Fil...
Interesting that this is not the case in Canada. My partner is the main visa-holder here, and is tied to her employer in the same way a H1B would in the US, but it also provides a full 'open' visa for her spouse, which allows me to work anywhere without restrictions. It seems like a smart move, as it definitely tipped the scales in Canada's favor for us.
"This is ego distraction. It’s about putting off uncertainty till later to buy temporary relief. To protect our ego from a perceived threat. Things like hard problems, the possibility of failing publicly, or negative feedback all become threats when they’re linked to my identity."

I disagree with this [at least for me personally]. Being a good programmer is just straight up not something that's part of my identity. There's millions of people who are much, much better at it then me, and that's totally fine.

The reason that it's hard to work on hard problems is because they're hard! Sometimes, programming can be a really difficult or a slog of an activity. It's same with mastering any skill. Learning to play guitar, becoming an Olympic athlete, whatever. You can't Zen Buddhism your way out of the fact that you're going to spending years and years practicing until your fingers bleed, or until you're completely exhausted, etc.
This experiment has actually been done, measuring the precise rate of diminishment of gravity over very short distances. So far as we can tell gravity does follow an inverse square law, and the precision of the experiment means that if it does deviate from inverse square, the extra dimensions can be no bigger than around half the width of a human hair. Any bigger than that and the experiment would have detected the deviation.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/string-theorys-ex...
I think it depends on the school how important this is, I kind of doubt Harvard needs to raise awareness. But there are other benefits of sports that will also depend on the particular school.

One factor that comes to mind is location- Notre Dame is in the middle of damn nowhere, if they did not have the appeal of the football team I think they would have a harder time attracting students to actually go there (regardless of name recognition).

It also will probably depend on how much the rich alums care about sports, so again for a school like Notre Dame that has always been big on sports and is also very big on legacies and promoting alum community and what not, it makes sense.

To be honest I don't see why it matters much for today's Harvard though, at least none of the benefits I can think of really line up. Plus Harvard can never attract the truly best athletes because no Ivy scholarships/the generally lower level of Ivy competition in most sports. Maybe they just care about being better than Yale.
If I may egregiously misuse the famous quote, "those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."

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> Because they are a political organization first and a medical organization second, and not a particularly effective political group either, combining the worst of bureaucracy with questionable alliance and motives.

Please expand with some sources if you can, because I keep hearing this as a particular political talking point, but have never seen any real backing to these claims.
You can just email us with a list of sites you want to exclude. Or, alternatively, by disallowing PostbagBot in your site's robots.txt.
To the average person AI makes everything sound more modern, "smarter". So it gets sprinkled in everything. Things that have been using the same logical algorithm since the dawn of computing are now called AI. The worst is hearing people in the field calling every piece of automation and single purpose code that does one thing the same way every time as "AI".

Everyone does it just to attach their old or boring tech to the fancy new trend and have some "cool" rub off on them.
I don't understand, isn't this whole conversation about using these ARM chips for the next desktop macs ?

> I don't doubt that it could run at 4.5GHz in a desktop package, with a proper fan and heatsink.

well, I don't know at all. I'm pretty sure you can't take a, say, 2.something ghz U-series intel i7 CPU and make it go a lot beyond 3ghz
> An entrance exam is a measure of intellectual horsepower.

No its not. What are neurons? What are networks of neurons? How do the wiring of neurons affect the way an intelligence output answers? Can neurons be cultivated in certain ways? If so, can you cultivate a network of neurons to output answers with the most efficiency and correctness?

If so, what is the difference between one network optimized for standardized testing and another optimized for political upheaval? Do the neurons fire less quickly in the latter because they can't pass the answers to a test as quickly?
Doesn't Samsung have a semiconductor fab in Austin? I guess they don't count as a US company ...
I agree with your perspective. Harvard is a brand name and that's what you pay for. The education is great, but then most accredited universities in the US will give you a quality education in your chosen field - especially the 4-year bachelor.

In fact, paying $85k/year is not worth any bachelor's degree if you are paying out of pocket for it (and God forbid you took out any student loans). If you have a full scholarship, go for it! If you are affluent enough to afford it, go for it! For the rest, go for a less expensive but still quality university - and the US is blessed with tons of those (heck you can even do a 2-year community college degree, which may be free in some states, and transfer credits to an affiliated university - and that still will net you a quality education in the US).
Basically, go check if Bernie Sanders supports it. If so, it's probably a universal program. Not a guarantee, but a very good heuristic.
That data would be nowhere near sufficient to imply any causality in either direction.