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>the term "In Group Contrarian" makes me bristle immediately against said contrarian... I wonder if this reaction is specific to me or if its more general. To brisle against a person who identifies (or in this case is identified) as "contrarian" absent the necessary context (perhaps because absent context...the "contrarian" is describing themself as contrarian just for the sake of it). Fun semantic games.

Usually the IGC doesn't label themselves as a contrarian, they merely are contrarian (but also, in group, e.g. contrarian but sharing the groups premises and ideas as a starting point).

But regardless of that, IGC sounds better than In-Group conformant...
Impressive. I'm guessing it's not long until this is used for live sporting events and concerts with virtual tickets available for those with VR headsets.
Except in truth Protobuf, Thrift, Avro, etc. all support doing the same "schemaless" decoding as FlexBuffers.
Not OP, but I fully agree with them. Incoming ballpark figures I and hand waving. If, today, with our current technology, we decided to explore/colonize every star and planet in our galaxy, launching 3 ships per day that travel at single digits percent of c, we could investigate every planet in our galaxy in about a billion years. That's pretty much worse case technological scenario, because at some point in the next thousand or million years we'll have even more incredible technology to build more and fly faster. Probes that can constantly accelerate at 1g will reach other galaxies on the order of millions of years. If they self replicate, or have pioneers that can rebuild civilization on the order of a few thousand years and continue exploring, we're still within that 1 billion year limit to colonize at worst the entire galaxy, and realistically the entire universe. Earth has been around for 5 billion years, and the greater universe for 15. Humans have only existed for 10,000 years. ET should have been here long before we even came into existence.
Herein lies the basic problem: you are an expense to the company and will be paid as little as possible for the output the company wants and the cost of replacing you. Usually this means of course the going market cost of an engineer at your skill level, seniority, etc.

The negotiating power is on the company’s side, save for some wiggle room. You can indeed negotiate that you provide more value than you’re being paid, and may successfully get a raise, but the cost of replacing you is always a factor.
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Hey, thx for reply. I’ll email you later on today.

Regarding the sort, unfortunately, no. I am pretty sure this feature is disabled.
Programmers can partially test their own code, but may miss stuff, I think. Same probably applies to other testers too. Programmers should test their own code, but other people should probably also test it.

(My own projects I pretty much write it by myself, and test it by myself. Although, I would like other people who are also interested to also test it, but currently it isn't.)
Well, but the IGC is not contrarian without context.

It's an In Group Contrarian -- so contrarian in the context of the group.

This means that

(a) they are not just contrarian for the sake of it (then they would be contrarian to the ideas of every group, not just one)

(b) they are not opposed to everything the group believes (in that case they wouldn't be in-group contrarians, but mere ideological enemies of the group)

(c) they share some beliefs and core tenets of the group (hence the in-group qualifier)
What's the difference between a link to a paywall, and an ad?
> > OpenBSD has an even stronger security culture.

> BIG citation needed.

While it may be debatable how much of an effect the OpenBSD security culture has on real world security outcomes, it is pretty obvious to most people I think that OpenBSD has a culture of security (or a focus on it) that Linux simply does not have. Security is practically the entire branding of the project. Just go to its home page, literally the first sentence is an advertisement for its security record. The culture is very much there, regardless of results.

Now, if you did want to argue that the security culture does not necessarily result in better outcomes, 1) that intention should probably be made more clear, and 2) why not at least provide an argument or some amount of evidence for it?
You're right, let's go back to punchcards.
Agadmator is just absolutely fantastic. I love it when he says "and it is at this move ## that we have a completely new game".

Oddly enough, I find them surprisingly easy to fall asleep to! (In a good way!)
Then rolling forwards and backwards is a whole deployment away, or mucking about with infrastructure, vs tweaking a percentage flag somewhere.

If you want to get fancy with changes (and I've seen it done) you have something else capable of controlling that percentage setting that is tied in to your monitoring. Start out low, say 1% of requests hitting the new path. Automatically ramp up over time to full 100%. If you see failures, automatically drop back to 0% until it can be ascertained that the failure didn't come from the new code.
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The guy who wrote this did a talk about it, this website was to list sources etc. I’m an OpenBSD user and I did not personally feel like he had an axe to grind, and overall thought he was fair and had well made points. I’ll be the first to admit a lot of what he said was rather too technical for me, but if I’m remembering correctly I never saw many counter points to his claims.

I personally feel that OpenBSD is more secure for my use case, but I’m happy that people bring up points like this as humans make mistakes and not even OpenBSD is perfect.
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Now they need a bidding market to determine who gets to choose whether to send a 1 or 0 in the next available slot.

And another market for which bits to jam and prevent either value from getting through.
Is it better to have a market for lemons, or not?
How to be alone https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs
I tried it. Performance was awful with the standard XQuartz client, especially scrolling, so I tried some alternatives: TigerVNC, X2Go, NoMachine, RDP. NoMachine had the best performance by far, RDP was decent. VNC and X2Go were too fiddly to setup for my.

Even with NoMachine the overall experience was clearly much worse than a native browser (mostly due to worse trackpad-scrolling).
It will be interesting if Apple does announce a move to ARM for (at least some of) their macbook range. Not surprising though, as Intel has refused to remove the vulnerable backdoor [1] (Intel Management Engine) from all their new chips, companies like Google and Apple want more security and privacy for their platforms.

While ARM is not perfect, it does allow companies like Apple more control over the secretive firmware that boots these chips.

1. https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme
US soldiers (who haven't carried out a defensive war since, what, 1812?) are also taught not to obey immoral orders.
(see recent memo from the JCS)

As to war crimes, these days there's the ICC.
Why not just send copy written code as part of the payload?
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I’m giving GP credit for the joke :) it’s hard to mistype 201X as 1986.
Google’s true origin partly lies in gov grants for mass surveillance (2017)
I’ve studied this a lot but it’s been awhile. Drake et al we’re doing this during the Cold War and were definitely aware we could wipe ourselves out either with weapons or through ecological disaster. The L term is specifically about civilizations destroying themselves (although it can also be advances in technology which end radio-as-we-know-it).

The great filter is an attempt to explain the Fermi Paradox. Fermi was there, but the paradox necessarily came after the Drake equation.
This is certainly a good effort but I've yet to use a web ui to manage web server configs, especially these days when we're moving most of the configuration to code and version control. We usually deploy changes to a test server to test the changes and then move on to production.
Starlink might get as much for denying access to specific other parties as for selling access in the first place.
Amen.

I like the role of "advocatus diaboli" (the devil's advocate).

Not for the mere sake of argument, but because I find elements of truth in all sides, and want to balance the sheepish behavior of most groups to fully side with one side.

To the group-mind this makes it appear like you are contrarian for the sake of it and contradictory, e.g. "but you where anti-colonialist in yesterday's argument, why are you pro-west today" or "you like Apple and MS, why do you say OSS is good now?" and so on...

But that's just judging each case both on its own merits and in general context and thinking for yourself - not just taking some given side...
maybe it will produce recipes such as in this book https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/10/les-diners-de-gala-da...
If reading even the first part of this series doesn't help, read this beginner tutorial I recently wrote: https://yasoob.me/posts/reverse-engineering-android-apps-apk... It starts you off with the basics and uses smali.

After that you can explore this tutorial on frida: https://securitygrind.com/bypassing-android-ssl-pinning-with... These two techniques will give you some more basic knowledge of how app reversing is done. :)
Is it just me, or the background in the link is killing my eyes. Request the OP to change it. On other note, I Completely agree with this. I would recommend online games to many students and even professionals to learn critical skills (Insert Leadership and planning).
The Shezen contact study found the same risk of infection for children as for adults(https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20028423v...).
According to the results of Fundan University, school closures led to a 40%-60% reduction in new infections (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/28/scie...).
Surface Pro X is not a smaller/cheaper device, either.
I think it's sad to spend real money and time on ads, yachts, golf clubs and fancy suits. Uncountable bucketloads of money and time have been wasted on absolutely nothing of importance. If you think SETI is bad..
Thanks so much. I have a little email list on the site if you'd like to stay in touch. Haven't used it for much just yet, but hope to make it a starting point for good email conversations.

I think Facebook is great for posting specific kinds of thoughts/content. I think a blank canvas worked best for Being Alone though.

You might enjoy these thoughts I wrote some weeks back about personal sites: https://twitter.com/ankitshah/status/1263129158386765824
The first SETI-specific NASA grant in over three decades was just awarded so there is still hope we will see something in our lifetime.

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2020-12
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You should absolutely read the Waypoint NDA. There is no substitute for reading legal terms.

But once you have read Waypoint, there is no reason to read the same terms, or functionally the same terms, every time you want to do the same deal. That is the waste Waypoint avoids.
Other parts of the world ended slavery (when?) without civil wars, which strongly suggests there were other ways to end it.
Both are ways of getting paid. The website decides that.
I haven’t looked at the OpenBSD code but have built a system that uses a separate server to actually perform the certbot http challenge. The server needing the certificate just forwards the port 80 acme requests to the certbot server

CSRs were sufficient for that, at no point was it necessary to ship private keys. And this was using just the standard ubuntu certbot for the actual requests.
Related talk at Black Hat 2019: "Implementing the Lessons Learned From a Major Cyber Attack", by the Chief Information Security Officer of Maersk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ8HIjkEe9o
I know oceans and caves are relatively unexplored parts of Earth. Are there any land surfaces that are similarly unexplored?
If you don't want to take responsibility for overreaching due to personal ignorance, that's fine with me. Blame Google. I just don't see why I need to link you a news article to convince you that there are some black people named Karen, and some black people who act entitled, just like any other race or ethnicity.

The black Karen I know personally assaulted me while I was disabled and then told all of my friends that I assaulted her in order to further hurt and isolate me and bury the truth, if that's not a Karen move I don't know what is.
Plenty more. I've written maybe 200-300 questions over the years (and asked thousands more).

I'm thinking to publish more of them in a neat and useful format soon for easy access and use. Should be ready in the next 2-4 weeks.

If you'd like to be notified when I do, my email list on the site might be the best bet (or just following me on twitter @ankitshah). Not sure I'll remember to come back to this thread to post.
Ditto! Digging through Diku and the derivative Smaug codebase was my gateway to programming and I am forever thankful that such software existed and was available for a young teenager to dive into.
I really like the "TIL" format. I tweeted this a few weeks ago and it seemed to have really resonated with people.
Check out reviews of Surface Pro X for the current state of affairs wrt x86-on-ARM in the Windows land.
>The size of the actual universe is irrelevant for this discussion since anything outside the observable universe does not have any casual connection to us.

I don't see how causality plays into the question at hand.
The parent post didn't bet that we could interact with alien life, but if it exists at all. If it can be demonstrated that the actual universe is infinite, it will follow that alien live exist, independent of if we can interact with it.
This is not an autopen, this just writes something out in your handwriting.

There are, in fact, softwares to create fonts from one's own handwriting [0].

From my understanding of the Wikipedia article, the autopen is for signatures.

[0]: https://www.calligraphr.com/en/
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He should focus on the postal servers. Half of them are aliens, and the other half are retired man in black agents.
That sounds a lot like enterprisy Java programming. I'm not always thrilled to work with the results of that. :-)
I don't know what you mean by "narrowly taylor", but if you mean "fill in the purpose for which information's being shared", read Waypoint. The first page has a blank for that. Along with governing law, forum for disputes, and term.

Waypoint implements the most common, two-way, commercial form of confidentiality agreement. There are more specialized forms, like pre-acquisition, that aren't covered.
You will be scared to find out that a lot of Fintech has webscraping as an accepted part of their stack...
Nothing like having your pick of nice holes to plunder
> incomprehensible errors

Maybe incomprehensible if you don't know C++ or don't bother to read them or carve them entirely out of context (like you've done here). Every error tells you both where the error occurred, how the compiler got to that file location, and what the problem was. Literally what more do you want?

But, yeah, everything is incomprehensible if you don't comprehend it.
For a 3rd party this changes nothing: the master key is still under the control of some corporation.

Both AMD and ARM have something similar to Intel's ME. Let's not pretend this is by accident.
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Off topic, but "for eg" is like saying "ATM Machine"; "e.g." already means "for example": https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exempli_gratia
what I'm thinking is just the opposite. need civilian bodycams / car cams that can be triggered to record easily and directly store to the cloud over a paired cell phone connection. perhaps in a loop so you only have a few hours of recording.

If something happens that matters, you can have it be saved more long term, but to prevent voyeurism, the record would only be available by subpoena (i.e. you couldn't view it directly, but would have to request a subpoena for your own record)

i.e. one needs to create a world where cops know they can always be recorded.
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Agree - original comment was on the meta not the specific.

So where there is no specific group or context in which to place said "contrarian" - just a description of what was felt/instinctive. Would change immediately once we get into a specific example.
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I can't listen to classical music and do something else at the same time. It has to be onw or the other. Minimal techno, on the other hand, I can work to that.
One of my favourite conversation-deepening questions is "What's something you like about yourself that other people usually notice, and what's something you like about yourself that other people rarely notice?"
Just, like, not really relevant.
I think you're onto something here ;)

An earlier draft of this essay had a whole section about communing with nature and what it meant to go for a quiet walk by yourself.

At its core, this whole essay is an ode to paying attention to yourself, and part of paying attention to yourself is paying attention to the environment that you are a part of—the space around you, the sounds you hear, the stimuli affecting your thoughts, etc. etc.

You might enjoy this little idea I've started called the Silent Hike Society. It's exactly what it sounds like, but here's an explainer: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/180405719200378...

You may also resonate with this meditation on walking that I made a while back: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/178469900116070...
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone have any details on how the new ARM-powered MacBooks will perform compared to the Intel-powered MacBooks? According to this[1] article, "the new ARM machines (is expected) to outperform their Intel predecessors by 50 to 100 percent". Can anyone shed some insight into how this is possible?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/21/21298607/first-arm-mac-ma...
The certificate is an actual certificate. Not a cryptographic metaphorical certificate.

Have a look at the form itself, at least the first page.
Sadly there is not open-world equivalent of education-by-gaming. I feel every learning path is preset with fixed dialogues. I can not explore the topic I like, it's too easy to hit the boundaries of human knowledge.

I feel game design technics can be applied to know-how and know-what learning, but for know-why learning, we need more advanced AI.
As someone who is trying to run a vaguely similar service (streetmates.net) I'm wondering how communities can be guided to be constructive and pleasant.

Or maybe people are just people, pleasant and unpleasant and everything else, and it can't really be helped?

It seems like putting something on the front page like "hey don't be a racist busy-body" isn't really enough. And at the other end of the extreme you've got Facebook employing organisations that filter sensitive content - with fairly horrific outcomes for the individuals who do the monitoring.

HackerNews is a pretty good example of getting a certain standard of behaviour out of people en masse. I wonder what the secret sauce was?
Yes, that would commonly be called circular wavegguide. The issue with using waveguide is that it is very expensive to run over distances. WR-75 flexible waveguide, for instance, costs roughly $1k/ft.
Means the world to read this Jack. Thanks so much for the kind comment. I'd love to know what parts of the essay resonate with you, what stuck, etc.

Please feel free to reach out to me on email (ankit@teawithstrangers.com) or twitter.com/ankitshah
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> * iirc, I got the Coral USB Accelerator to do about 180 fps with this model. [edit: but don't trust my memory—it could have been as low as 100 fps.]

Just dusted off my test program. 115.5 fps on my Intel NUC. I think that's the limit of this model on the Coral USB Accelerator, or very close to it.

My Raspberry Pi 4 is still compiling...I might update with that number in a bit. Likely the H.264 decoding will be the bottleneck, as I haven't set up hardware decoding.
AMD does have a similar backdoor, called the PSP [1]. Both Intel ME and PSP are second chips that run separate from your main CPU, and can turn on/control/intercept the main CPU without the owners knowledge. ARM does not have this technology. The closest thing is TrustZone [2], which is a different process zoning/ring restriction, and can be completely turned off, depending on the manufacturer.

Alternatively, if you want to write your own TrustZone (for example on a RockChip CPU), you are free to write it and use it.

You can not run any firmware on an Intel or AMD chip that has not been signed by Intel ir AMD. All signed Intel firmware contains the Intel ME backdoor.

1. https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd-platform-security-process...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_execution_environment
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It certainly doesn't seem like either private or public ownership is optimal for this situation and something much more democratic involving all stakeholders would be beneficial. Interesting case study. I appreciated the article highlighting the debate.
Thanks for explaining! I entirely agree. We all have many versions of ourselves, and they are all still us! I'm of the mind, however, that who we are when we are alone serves as a starting block around which our many other facets form.
I use the excellent Ulysses writing app that allows me to take notes in multimarkdown. I use it as a slide over app so I can just slide from the edge of the screen while reading and never lose sight of the book. I create a sheet for each chapter.
I'm suspicious but for the pain it's going to cause it better have some real benefits
I'd be very surprised by that figure unless it's multicore benchmarks. Many macbooks are still around the 4 CPU/8 thread marks, so there's a lot of space to improve there with multiple cores.
The rest of the PC world includes a lot of desktops, and the cost/benefit analysis there is very different - power consumption matters little, and games demand top-of-the-line performance. So I don't think it'll move to ARM wholesale anytime soon.
How would you prevent an anarcho-capitalist devolution back into 19th century child labor?
Maybe we should wait for it to actually be announced?

Otherwise it's just fantasy sports.
So I created this blog to show parsed articles from all over the Internet. This one is just a list of top articles on category "Future"
Not just risky; it's expensive.

Our radio waves are much, much quieter as all the networks switch from analog broadcast to digital and from low-density-long-range to high-density-short-range.
You might enjoy the Authentic Relating Games collected by Sara Ness at https://www.authrev.org/. I've played a few and they have been deeply connecting.
We are like a beam of light which changes depending on the lens through which we project ourselves. The final form changes based on the situation (lens).

I think I would say we project different aspects of ourselves into lower dimensions (thoughts and words) depending on the transformation function (context into which we are projecting ourselves).

You get a twofer of analogies today!
Great question (and thanks for commenting!)

I think I hit on the point in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23596448

I aimed to make this essay as easy to digest as possible, and part of that effort involved eliminating labels, ideas or phrases that might have a lot of inconsistent associations across different readers' minds (e.g. "mindfulness")
Reminds me of Chef Watson, the recipes and directions that generated were supposed to be plausible https://www.welcome.ai/tech/food/ibm-chef-watson