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I was running Lineage on the tablet and I am usually very careful about what I allow. I have no idea how it got set to take over main screen at charging time.

Btw, all these distributions (Lineage and Cynogenmod before that) don't benefit from automated updates. So that is another headache to remember to manually reflash/upgrade.
Interesting point you raise about everyone knowing JavaScript. Thank you for responding!
For some of us, having a locked down, reliable, secure, and pure phone is a great solution.

I don’t want iOS on my random experimental project laptop, for that I have Linux or windows, or vms. But, cellphones are not something I need to hack around on.
Yeah when I read that passage I realized the article is no good.

I do agree that you can develop stronger skills by staying in a role longer. The problem is that as your value and productivity for the company grow rapidly, your salary and other compensation will not fairly grow with it, and you’ll get stonewalled, with meaningless title bumps and 3-5% raises.

A company that actually values you will give you 10-15% raises per year, and offer significant bonuses and equity awards.

If they don’t proactively try to retain you because they are unable or unwilling to afford that, then just leave. Do 2 year stints every time. You have to teach your employer that it costs significant increasing compensation every year to retain you, or else you will get that compensation in the open market.

This whole article should be completely flipped around.

It should say, “Employers, stop forcing talented workers into a situation where repeated 2-year stints is their only rational choice due to your failure to give significant regular compensation increases.”
The moat with the Red Hat model is the trademark. Someone else can build an alternative (such as CentOS), but they cannot call it Red Hat and they have to do their own brand development.
Also heavily used in software testing, including DejaGnu for Linux binutils.
There are other... issues with the movie. At the end, Katherine Johnson is shown running between her office in Virginia, and Mercury mission control, which was actually in Florida. This has to do with her checking computer calculations of orbits for John Glenn's flight -- something she actually did do, but it's depicted as being done in minutes, and it actually took her more like a week. (Computers of the time were damn slow by modern standards, but they were still faster than that!) It was not a big secret that the Redstone rocket (a souped-up V2) couldn't put something as heavy as a Mercury capsule into orbit. And so forth.

The movie's a good story, but if you want actual history, read the book.
I think what those people mean when they say that is that it hasn't materially changed anything for most people, unlike what some reforms (or revolution) could do for people. They see it as a form of tokenism which they think historically hasn't helped much.

Personally, I see both sides. I think this is actual progress that will indirectly have positive material benefits while also recognizing we can obviously do better than this.
While you are technically correct, that isn't the spirit of what was being said.

Only 240 letters for a words alone that offer a nuanced, carefully crafted, fully informative message? Sounds unlikely to me.

A link to some other richer media; maybe.
Even the platform specific issues aside, they're all "A Mark Zuckerberg production" and many people may not wish to use the products of a sociopath
“There’s something so true about this genre when done correctly that I will fight anybody that gets in a true practitioner of this art form’s way, because I know you’re wrong. This is the truth and you are obstructing it. I’m not talking about the content, I’m talking about the art form.”
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They like clicking and talking to someone real in a chat like application, and like having the option extremely clearly marked.
So, if it were true as the author says that "24-monthers" never develop the next level skills in the company, would it not also be true that the people who did in fact stay longer would have also become managers who didn't hemorrhage staff every 18-24 months?
> Ang and a team of international colleagues turned to fecal samples. Animal scat, Ang says, is an underutilized resource for scientists: It contains a wealth of information ranging from an animals’ DNA to evidence of its diet, microbiome, and parasite load.

The future is autonomous PoopBots that can non-intrusively locate and collect samples. There are only so many reclusive primate species to discovery but bat viruses and the nocturnal mammals they co-infect require constant surveillance.
I think you hit the nail on the head with both how Facebook and Instagram has an effect in my mind.
If I may add to that, WhatsApp is going strong due to a similar pattern. It strictly controls your circles. Your experience is only affected by the people and groups you're in. They did not go crazy with feature creep and even more importantly, the design and ux has largely been the same without needless rewrites to justify a paycheck.
This consistency is how they managed to get both the younger demographic and the elderly in a single app.
> My preferred approach when optimising is to go for size first

Agreed, in my experience, more often than not, size is speed. Small memory usage mean less cache misses, smaller memcpys, more chance of having data fit a single word, etc...
People who come to surface are either genial or narcisistic prize seekers. A lot of white people worth mentioning were forgotten because others trampled on them.
Don’t be so sure it’s so meritocratic, thats just a myth
Why is this trending right now?
this is self-righteous “protectors of the world” nonsense
> You don't see how this is the same thing?

No.. but feel free to explain.

With my friend that left for google, I was annoyed at him somehow thinking python was advanced just because he was using stuff you could do in any language only he thought more highly of it because of the names. He saw the light of having a clean syntax, I did not, but now I do.

If you look at the history of python, it is an "engineered" language. It was based off of ABC which was a product of a large team of engineers in the early 1980's. Also some of Modula-3 as well. ABC was based off of ALGOL 68 and Pascal. The point is, a lot of money flowed into the design of these languages and python borrowed largely off of that base.

I used to know perl's history quite well, but I'm fuzzy on that now (and stopped caring). I know Larry was quite skilled at whipping up compilers and parsers from scratch, and he was heavily involved in linguistics, but I feel he sort of just did his own thing. The reason to make perl6 in the first place was to make a "proper" language. All of the lexer and parser code in perl5 are purely custom and intertwined. There's no way to change the parser or add an AST without just starting from scratch. That is what perl6 tried to do. But with python, these steps were from the beginning in proper "layers" and that helped the language to evolve with the times better as well as just having a cleaner VM source code which was easier to work on (the trade off being it was slower than perl in many cases).

The end result is python is "syntax with training wheels", you can't deviate too far before it fails to compile. While perl will compile just about anything as long as your semi-colons aren't missing. For me that made python harder to learn. You couldn't just write anything and expect it to work. For me, I looked at the python docs a lot more than perl docs when learning it. There's no reason why you can't do while y = t.pop: ... in python other than it won't let you. That was something that made me put it off for a long time as it felt it was just full of more rules than syntax. I see the light now though. But the point of my rant here is not that python is beautiful code (which I've always found as an annoying "advantage"), but that the perl community it self if just out of touch with what the current market wants (and needs). And that was the point about the 50 year old perl dev I was making. You can certainly code like it is 1995, but it is not what most people want to pay for (and it certainly is not something we need more of).
> The majority of things are named after white men to the exclusion of everyone else.

That's because the majority of scientific achievements to date, have been by white men. I'm not celebrating that fact, I'm just pointing out the source of the statistic you've pointed out. The things weren't named because the person was a white male, they were named because of a tremendous achievement that happened to be made by a white male. When the majority of engineers are white men, that's when you get that trend. As we see more black men/women achieve great things, we will see more things named after them.

Unfortunately, the rate of scientific and natural discovery in my opinion is slowing down. There will never be a black Christopher Columbus because there are no continents left to discover. There won't be a black Thomas Edison, because we already have light globes. Going out of our way to inflate other achievements just for the sake of naming buildings after minorities is a ridiculous thing to do.
> If Pix is better, people will choose Pix, if WhatsApp is better, people will use it.

Yes, let Facebook and Apple invent their own internet too, with no compatibility between them. Let's also allow Ford / GM to create their own roads exclusively for Ford / GM vehicles. /s

This is not businesses we are talking about, it's public infrastructure. And banking is a public infrastructure.
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> That's not exactly true. Assuming you didn't mean TVs completely without any internet connection whatsoever

It’s way too early for this to be a reasonable assumption. The fact that they made that comment implies they are aware how widespread the is.
I'm sorry but you misunderstand the situation. Set theory, type theory and category theory can be used for metamathematics [1] whereas real analysis and number theory cannot. They are foundational theories whereas real analysis and number theory are not. The reason for the difference has to do with the expressiveness of the formal languages and how they themselves can be expressed without a prior language other than formal logic itself.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamathematics

[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics
The fun part is that whatsapp is actually preventing people like from communicating with friends and family.

My phone happens to a smartphone that's not running windows/apple/google so whatsapp never bother to release for this phone.
Whatsapp being a walled garden it prevents everyone from the outside from reaching people jailed inside.

As you do not have a data plan, I have no internet access with this pocket computer we use as telephone.

Whatsapp is utterly pointless and useless to me, and coherent with facebook way of doing things it actively prevents me from contacting other people, which is shocking to me who grew accustomed to thing like email, jabber or sms .
What’s alt+tab without a physical keyboard?
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The intro content suggests that this site may have a political bias. Otherwise I would find the data interesting. However the map only has data up to 2016.
Let's start with CDC:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/cdc-coronavi...
Most Nobel prize winners to date have been white. Would you say the majority of them sought out the prize? I've read about many of them, and most seem to have just had a great discovery that was awarded on merit. There will always be outliers that do things for the awards, but it's not a generialisation I've seen in the sciences. Should we start giving more Nobel prizes to black people just because of the color of their skin, or should we continue giving the Nobel prize to objectively high achievers?
> That's because the majority of scientific achievements to date, have been by white men.

That's because everyone else was excluded. To overcome this pervasive and hostile environment takes exceptional ability.
Any software developer will tell how the marketing and sales departments will say or spin ANYTHING they can get away with to sell the product.
> Technically the software isn't killing anyone, irresponsible users of it are.

Sure, but at this point, we know how irresponsible users often are, we know this to be a an absolute fact. If the fact of user’s irresponsibility isn’t the centerpiece of our conversations, then we’re being incredibly irresponsible ourselves.

The material manifestations of how these tools will be used has to remain at the center if researchers place any value whatsoever on our ethical responsibilities.
You sound like a man who thinks they diserve recognition yourself and seem to be jealous. Check out your ego, you might become a more beautiful person if you shed some of it
> The mask of anonymity completely removes accountability on forums.

Accountable to whom? What accountability? Why was this necessary? Accountability wasn't necessary, as most forums were never big enough to really matter. Facebook, Reddit, Twitter are now forces of nature, especially in politics and matters of public opinion.

> Pseudonomity

This has varying degrees of anonymity - you need to further express what you mean by this, because on its own you could support anonymity through pseudonyms.

> and ultimately, a community committed to civil discourse. But the quality of commentary on any forum is a fragile balance, as the evolution of HN has demonstrated.

Yep, something much easier to do on the old forums of yesteryear - they were much smaller, much easier to moderate, and much easier to remediate if they were unfairly moderated.
I assume this is the same defective water slide case:

https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/civil-procedure/civil-pr...

Here, the issue was whether the defendant manufacturer could amend their pleading to deny manufacturing the defective water slide after they had initially admitted it. The court found that they could. Subsequently, a special jury found that the defendant did not manufacture the water slide and the judge granted summary judgment for the defendant.

If I recall correctly, it was the installer that had gone out of business or was otherwise unreachable and the water slide was unmarked as to the true manufacturer, which left the plaintiffs (or their insurers) out of luck.
I agree. I am very surprised Apple started with a notification. This absolutely should be permission based like location or anything else. There are zero cases where TikTok or facebook should need my clipboard.

A notification that they’ve already done it is not enough. It should tell you every time even if you approved it.

The only explanation I can come up with for why Apple isn’t making this opt in like location is it is so widespread it would break many apps. I just can’t understand how, or why they wouldn’t announce a transition-by date like with Sign in by Apple.
Then solve the exclusion problem. Don't pretend it has already been solved by naming things after black people. It's like taking a painkiller and thinking your broken arm is fixed. Fix the problem, not the symptom.
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I suspect the point was that brevity is harder than it looks.
I agree. I am very surprised Apple started with a notification. This absolutely should be permission based like location or anything else. There are zero cases where TikTok or facebook should need my clipboard.

A notification that they’ve already done it is not enough. It should tell you every time even if you approved it.

The only explanation I can come up with for why Apple isn’t making this opt in like location is it is so widespread it would break many apps. I just can’t understand how, or why they wouldn’t announce a transition-by date like with Sign in with Apple.
Your mileage might vary, but where I live WhatsApp is the de-facto messaging medium.
Nobody does not use it. That made it somewhat possible that eventually the whole population got to use it - because there were a lot of people available to help elder people learn to use it.
I agree with you 100% as to what has happened to it. Except a few changes (Voice messages back then, groups and broadcast messages closer in time).

The features are kept in place, and that's a good thing.
> Since the pixel 2 is still updated there is no reason other than privacy

Features.

- The ability to run Android without Google.
- The ability to change the location of your clock.
- The ability to have some apps open with the status bar and navbar and some not.
- The ability to change your WiFi network without opening settings (yes, I'm still upset they removed that. I use an Android 8 tablet daily, so I'm unlikely to forget).
- Adding invisible left/right dpad buttons and a menu button in my navbar.
- Change the number of quick settings.
- Change the screen dpi (this is implemented these days, I think, but only with 3-5 settings available)
- use adb without first plugging into a computer. Maybe I'm going somewhere and I'll need to restart my phone.
- run Linux in a chroot (far better than proot)
- install Fdroid privileged extension without losing access to security updates.

You can say full well that you don't care about these, you don't have to care. However, these are all things that you can't do without an alternative ROM (or without rooting, which loses access to updates).
While you're voting this up, consider that for years people have sniped at privacy tools, most notably Signal, for accepting OTF grants, claiming that doing so compromised them, or even indicated collusion with the USG. That was always, bluntly, a horseshit argument, and OTF is probably an unalloyed good thing. But, still.
Not at all. I have achieved very little in my life, and will mostly likely spend my life reading about the great achievements of others. I enjoyed my time at university seeing the success of others and helping where I could, and I enjoy my quiet job where I can come home and forget about it and spend time with family.

You made a very big assumption about me, based purely on my preference for working environment and social environment. There is nothing jealous about wanting to see people rewarded based on merit.
As an actual scientist, no, science is not particularly meritocratic or objective. The current scientific world is highly catered towards people that can afford to devote their 20s and 30s to a low-paying job. Because of in-group dynamics, it also maintains the existing population make-up, which is predominantly white or Asian.
From the link I posted in another comment:

> The bill is so broadly worded that I think it might apply to individual contributors to open-source projects, such as, say, the Linux kernel, but I’m not sure and I don’t want to scare everybody.

But the bigger picture is that this bill is part of a strategy. It's meant to make EARN IT look less unreasonable by comparison. A unified strategy needs a unified response.
Yes, it was a massive pain in the ass and for me, personally, I wasn’t compensated enough to make the transaction/relationship worth my time. So I stopped renting.

Landlords can opt out of the rental market if they aren’t earning enough. Tenants have no such luxury.
We have been using these micro-apps in China since almost four years ago...
Also heavily used in health care information management (Infor Cloverleaf).
Because many people see the prevalence of the cultural phenomenon know as “cancel culture” to be a new means of societal control in opposition to the values of Liberty Mill espouses. That’s my guess at least. Can’t say for sure why anyone upvotes anything.
a lot of Nobel Prizes in the sciences just go to the high-profile Professors that lead projects, and not to the grad students that do most of the labour.
I just follow SF hospital mortality data a couple times per week (flat for months.)

The news is simply noise, and there's no science yet on corona as a pandemic.

Go for a daily walk to maintain your cardio health.
Maybe it wasn't clear. I do already know what the added value is, and that what I want to spend my time on, not use more time needed on the group chat infrastructure part.

Again not a slack/teams replacement.

Very confident I have something unique.
One word of warning about this approach: it becomes one in a set of red flags about you if you are ever being investigated by any entity at the national level. Not having a facebook is viewed as an outlier, and hence will contribute to some unknown weight of your other red flags that once triggered will put you into national security letter, warrant-less wiretap type areas. Beyond that, facebook retains shadow profiles on people even if they don't have accounts, or have deleted their accounts...

...so my suggestion is to keep the account but start clearing the data out and poisoning it. Be especially careful about the IP's you log into it from (and randomize that MAC!).
Without having done any of my own research, I’m initially skeptical of Crystal’s binary size. I initially saw something similar with Swift, but that’s just because the runtime is external to the binary.
>they could convince non-technical users to switch to an unofficial app-store

They could, but they're absolutely not going to. Every barrier you put between and user and installing your app is a percentage of those installs that you're losing. Doubly so for "non technical" users, who can barely work the app store in the first place. No company of that size is going to lose that many downloads just to steal a few more downloads.

>then I realised that probably most Android users have those horrible carrier and OEM locked-down devices that make it harder (if not impossible) to change system settings or add other app-stores.

Stock android makes you jump through hoops to install third party apps, and for good reason. No, it's not because "OEM locked-down devices", the reason you don't see it on android is because it doesn't make business sense.
I agree with you.

Even if there might be some people willing to make the effort of re-sharing certain posts, the chain is incredible weaker.
They aren't proxy'd because advertisers want to ensure they control the domain and can verify requests are going to it, without having to trust the content provider.

Some content providers don't allow you to view content if you block the advertising hosts.

Then it becomes a matter how you want to deal with failure, do you want the site to break if your ads don't load?
Oh and I forgot to also say when comparing the languages, you have to also look at the authors too. Guido from the get go was more of a "software engineer" type whereas Larry seemed to be more involved in sysadmin and/or systems programming. I think the languages show that as well.
That is one important way you fix the problem, by honouring again and again the few examples of minority success.

Stop trying to prevent black people from receiving praise.
Actually, that's Mason 2. Amazon use(s|d) the OG Mason - https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-Mason
As a white person who has experienced imposter syndrome at times in the tech world, I think I would have had a harder time overcoming it if I looked around and never saw another white person. Obviously that is not the case. I suspect giving young black girls someone to look up to is more powerful than people realize. If naming a building helps with that, why not do it?

Also, if we are really going to suddenly be meritocratic above all else, we must immediately remove a lot of names from things. I don't want to get too far removed from engineering, but it's a great argument for getting rid of Confederate names.
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