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>My 2013 MacBook Pro Retina recently died too, but anything worth keeping or working on was stored in free-tier Dropbox, which has multi version history too.

Except Dropbox has stopped supporting encrypted linux filesystems, and Box doesn't support Linux.

>It seems absurd to me that anyone with half a technical clue wouldn't use some kind of off-device / off-sit backup.

For most technical people I know, having data on an unencrypted disk is unacceptable. They wouldn't accept a scenario where a thief steals their laptop and simply has access to all their files. They wouldn't accept that risk just because a convenient "backup" service suddenly stopped support. They'll simply back data up another way.

I don't know what the lay of the land is for Mac/Windows users.

As I say, these services are as useful as the services they replaced 15 years ago from my perspective.
> I can't help but wonder if things would have been different if the US had different leadership - actually interested in furthering the cause of freedom and democracy throughout the world

What US leader in the past fifty years has been interested in those ideals?

Certainly not Obama, with how he handled events in Yemen, Libya, and Syria, not to mention the assassination program. And his predecessors weren't any better.

This idea that the US has ever been a force for "freedom and democracy" is ridiculous Cold War propaganda. We are an empire, and our concern for Hong Kong has always been about maintaining our interests there.
You don't need funding for focusing on ease of operation, it's a mindset. Either you're user-centered, or you're not.
Not having a full explanation when there isn't yet one is ok. Genetics is clearly and obviously a major predictor of developing myopia. Any explanation not taking genetics into account is likely very wrong. Or we're goipng to be amazingly surprised! (And maybe in a good way! But sadly, I doubt it.) Genetics explains why being tall is much more prevalent in the Netherlands now. Always had those genetics, now with better nutrition. Eh, hopefully we'll find out.

(Now we've had the relevant part of the conversation will you please humour me as I whinge like a 3 y.o. about how much it s&%ts me on some of the days I can't see straight? Good. Thanks. As you were...)
"While dollar stores sometimes fill a need in cash-strapped communities, growing evidence suggests these stores are not merely a byproduct of economic distress,” the brief reported. “They’re a cause of it.”"

Then kindly provide some of that "growing evidence", rather than a bunch of anecdotes.
Here I am. What they are doing is less harmful than when a larger network does it, due to their smaller market share, but still harmful to the spirit of free speech (even if legal), and more than that, it's hypocritical. Any users of the platform should take this as a cue to ditch it for some alternative.

Perhaps there would be more outrage if Parler was more than a rounding error in terms of user base?

As for your cheap dismissal, let me counter by suggesting you go defend Zoom's banning of Chinese activists, if you have such a dim view of free speech.
The only right way to do 'great engineering' is by not having any middle management.

The only right way to do great engineering, is by first asking what we ought to be engineering, not re-implementing the same shit over and over again, like we do web frameworks in every new language.

Great engineering is completely unrelated to scrum. It is only in the delusional mind of a middle manager that his existence and thoughts are at all relevant to the success or failure of any project on this planet.
I think CRDs will be big part of enabling the extra stuff too.

Argo seems like a good option to add to your CI section. I know several who are highly interested in trying this when the time is right (higher priorities...)

Like all the links to more information too.
If Rust is to be taken seriously as systems programming language, it needs to cater to a use case that is very important for a large set of C, C++ and Ada population.

Apple is doing this, because Swift is their next-gen systems programming language.

Swift supports static linking just fine as well.

Really, it is all a matter of which demographics Rust wants to be present.

And with Rust now being adopted by Microsoft and Google, I just see this need only increasing.
The US should at least consider banning TikTok for its predatory practices as well as other apps on its level posthaste.
Retail has terrible margins. It's financials are public, see the single digit margins:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DG/dollar-general/...

It obviously is economically infeasible to make the stores safe. Any store in the neighborhoods where the dollar stores are would find it economically infeasible.
In fact there’s no point in being “agile” in an organization that has no appetite for change (unless those are topdown, consultant-driven, marching orders).

When you’re given the false hope optimization is possible, only to bump into 2-3 layers of middle management and just as many half-broken, Confluence spaces about the “one way of work” for the org... you just content yourself with features and tune out.
A lot of the results of this analysis are a consequence of actually good UX in dependency management.

In NPM publishing a library is really easy. To compare with java, I recently had to follow a [three part medium article](https://proandroiddev.com/publishing-a-maven-artifact-3-3-st...) to publish. NPM: one login, one cli command and you're done. That lowers the bar to create a library, there are a lot of low quality libraries, but there's also much more diversity and really cool libraries. In java I've seen a lot of copy pasting. In Node you just create a library. You can worry a lot about 1k dependencies, but a lot of those will be one liners.

In node, it's basically impossible to have conflicts with dependencies. Again if we compare to Java. In Java namespaces are global, if there are two libraries sharing the same package name they will collide. That makes deep dependency trees actually a liability. I've seen recommendations of not using guava if you are writing a library, because they change the api so much that it will most certainly give problems if your user wants to use it as well, so much for a library. In Node, in contrast, if there are two different libraries that require different versions, they will each have their own dependency version. That has the cost of space, but there it saves hundreds of hours on conflict resolution. You can even have two different versions of the same library with different name, in case you need to partially migrate a project.

Making it easy to create and consume libraries has of course a clear consequence, more deep and big dependency trees.
The poster was being downvoted because it was pushing what-about-ism deflection to U.S., and because despite what it may seem, the right to protest, fly other flags, etc, remain strong in the U.S., not just one year, but since 1776, although I'm sure there are counter examples of where it failed,it never collapsed. The passing of this law in Hong Kong is not a single failure but evidence of a total collapse the free speech and Democratic leanings from a mainland centralized power.
> "When XP was launched we heard the same grumbles [...] By SP3 people were loving it"

Well, that's because they fixed most of the issues in SP1 and SP2.

Also is there a specific reason you skipped certain versions such as Windows ME, Windows Vista etc? Maybe it's not only "people just can't take change" and some products are legitimately bad?
What a nonsensical belief.
Absolutely false. It means more of them have been banned, not more of them are participating in that. You're assuming equal enforcement of the rules, with absolutely no evidence to support that.

Reddit after all developed moderation tools like shadow banning and deranking and used them exclusively against right-leaning subs, including stealth editing from the CEO.
(a) not a medical person so can't answer this

(b) unlikely, monitors work by essentially filtering out undesired colors from white light. I don't believe that >650nm light is within the color gammut of monitors. That's quite a long wavelength and close to infrared. To give you an indication, the Helium Neon lasers which used to be very common in schools etc for laser demonstrations have a wavelength of 632nm.
Even if the monitor could display this, the brightness would likely not be strong enough.

(c) Could be, but it might be quite annoying to do.
Are fake users really a problem or is the business model fingerprinting users?
Yes, this is Java: Length distance = 100 MPH * 3 hr;
you can also use a local cross-platform static analysis tool like : https://github.com/xfhg/intercept

If you fancy regex ofc, but needs no changes into your codebase or internet access from your pipeline.
Why wouldn't the UK or US tolerate that? And what's wrong with identifying as a Hongkonger?

The UK supports the right of self-determination -- often to its own advantage, as in Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands, but also to Scotland just a few years ago.
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> whereas Gitlab/Github are source-code hosting applications

I would amend that to "source-code collaboration applications". The hosting is not the important part.
We almost have a duopoly in browsers as well - you have Firefox, and everything else with market share are forks of WebKit.
Not a huge fan of this
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> It's totally ok to allow that because it's a private organization

First of all, you're ignoring Section 230, which was supposed to defend free speech on these sites: if they're taking the position of not being responsible for what is said, they don't get to curate it. That's the dividing line between publisher and platform. Reddit et al are trying to have it both ways, and it hurts anyone who doesn't play by their Kafkaesque rulebook.

Second of all, you're pretending Reddit is smaller than it is, or that its role is more replaceable than it is, both of which are untrue. These social media giants have become the public square, doubly so since we are locked down, and the corporations that run them have the potential for an incredibly out-sized amount of power in controlling what people see and read, which turns into controlling what we say and think.

There's no reason we need to afford them editorial control at this scale. I'd sooner see them shut down than allowed to continue further down the path of editorializing discourse.

> And what about the contributions of my ancestors? Or is that not relevant?

Did your ancestors fight against freedom of speech? Or for it? If they fought against it, then we have a different conflict here. If they fought for it, then I hope they spit on the attitude of people like you from the afterlife.

> Reddit is free to amplify whatever speech they want, or not, that's exactly what those freedoms you claim ownership of are promising.

No, if they choose to be curators of the content, they become liable for everything that is posted, which is hardly something they can afford to handle at scale while still allowing people to post without everything going through manual approval.

> Please do note that these banned subreddits immediately were able to register domains.

We have seen registrars kick sites off. More importantly, we've seen payment processors totally lock out entire sites and alternative platforms. Even if you can set up a site, you can be locked out of any practical, scalable ability to actually keep it running via donations or paid content.

> I'm comfortable with my beliefs and my ability to introspect and change. And I am comfortable with the inherent conflict.

Good for you. It's easy to be comfortable when your beliefs are basically copy-pasted from the Google HR department's handbook.
If you are running Kubernetes, happen to be a fairly large organization and use microservices, you probably have many databases. Hundreds of them. Most of them are going to be small, using few resources of any kind.

In that context running postgres on K8S makes a lot of sense. You already have K8S and experience running it. Running postgres there makes it possible to share resources between databases and other applications. That improves utilization which means you can reduce costs significantly.

Another advantage is that unlike managed solutions such as RDS, you can use a more recent postgres version and postgres extensions that RDS doesn't support. Extensions such as PgQ or TimescaleDB or ...

Having said all of this. In a large organization, you have the benefit of economies of scale. Large fixed costs (such as developing the expertise required to run (postgres on) K8S reliably) can be amortized. It's possible for this to be a good idea, even a best practice for large organizations while at the same time a terrible idea for smaller ones. Most of the time, using a managed service like RDS is probably a better choice. In other words: You are not Google. You are not Facebook. You are probably not even Zalando. Figure out what's right for you.
This "reinventing the wheel" concept has to die.

Writing your own code is not "reinventing the wheel". It's what we do. A lot of times writing a new implementation is faster in the long run (more focused, less obscure, easier to maintain).

Open source code is often not "battle tested" in your environment for your use case. And if there is a problem, getting it fixed can be a nightmare.

It's like I'm making a go-cart, and making some nice appropriately-sized matching wheels for it, and someone comes along insisting I don't "re-invent the wheel" and use these four mismatched truck wheels instead. Yes, I'll save time making the wheels. But the rest of the project is screwed.
Yes I agree for the general case and I have seen this problem many times where management refuse to see the problem with anti-social loners holding too much of the competence in a team.

It can also depends on what kind of software you are working on. Some parts might require a 'brilliant mind' to push through a spike solution for certain areas. This individual should not really be in a "normal-happy-scrum-team" though, that would be a punishment both for the team and the individual...
I could totally be wrong still/if was at first, but I still read it as more restrictive.

under 'asking permission to track' this line "Displaying targeted advertisements in your app based on user data collected from apps and websites owned by other companies" seems like it would apply to a large amount of Facebook advertising.

They would have to get rid of a lot of targeting (and also the attribution parent mentioned) and maybe even more if using gdpr PII definition

"Sharing device location data or email lists with a data broker" the location data would apply to most SSPs/programmatic. Kind of a question of the comma too. If sharing any device location dat [period]. Or if the location data must go to a data broker to apply to that line. And depends a bit too if they use CCPA data broker definition (and ccpa definition of 'sale' is super broad any exchange of value). Even more if you count IPs as location.
I think it depends on your family.

Once when I was a child, my father found a stack of my drawings and proceeded to tell me which ones were the weakest and what was wrong with each of them. Another time, I can remember showing my sister a drawing I'd made that I was extremely proud of. Her response? "The arms are too long".

Funnily enough, I ended up devoting years of my life to artistic pursuits.
Although exiting, IRC was/is a whole different world! :)
I tend to agree, though as an engineering manager, the brilliant loner poses an interesting challenge. Can you actually work to turn that person into a team player, see the value of collaboration and transparency, etc. Sometimes there's some insecurity or simply lack of understand behind their behaviors, and a behavioral shift is actually possible.

That being said, I've tried this a number of times and most of the time it doesn't work out.
I really like the cartoonized photos of detailed landscapes.

I think human faces and bokeh could use some improvement.

The former seems especially tricky; showing or hiding certain lines might change the perceived emotion and result in a different image.
Also keep in mind that the first strike was probably the annulment of the 1995 LegCo on handover, because it was too open to public influence so the Chinese dissolved it and created a new one in 1998.
It's not a problem if your platform is not profitable. Or the crowds is not worthy to spam.
> <close> is equivalent to golang's defer [...] except at the block level.

Does that mean it’s the same as C#'s `using` and Python's `with`?
I didn't read this very carefully, caveat emptor.

Just a thought of mine that popped up: This reminds me of branch-and-bound problems because time could be treated as a dimension and polygons are linearly bound spaces in the sense of branch-and-bound.
Humanity, eh?
I am not trying to pick a fight. The quote you provided, in and of itself, doesn’t seem certifiably insane. It seems like statements of fact that can be easily verified (or disproven). But assuming the statements are close to accurate, then it doesn’t seem “insane” to conclude that the current system has failed and should be replaced.

Can you help me understand what I am missing?
Are the poor worse off now than they were during "baby-boomer growth mode"? Also, what is "baby-boomer growth mode"?
Ironically overpriced homes and high wages effect Newyork
which is filled with

Commies
Socialists
Jews
and blacks

Yet in Japan , dollar stores are doing well
and they actually sell stuff made in Japan for Japanese
and dont stock 100% of it with cheap plastic junk from China made by USD$1-2 hour slave commie labor
Ah, so 2020 is the year of Linux on the desktop.
I also learned how to juggle from your book as a kid. I tried to find somebody to teach me, but I didn't know anybody who could juggle and this was before the internet! What really broke it open for me was the instruction to first learn to juggle two objects with one hand, I had actually never thought about trying that. I remember after practicing for a while my Mom saw me juggling the three bags in our backyard and she asked me 'where did you learn that?' and when I told her 'from a book' she thought I was fibbing and bragging! Thanks a million! I have totally positive and favourable memories and impressions of your books.
This makes me think of Bulletproof Executive's self-improvement blog. He was always talking about mitochondria and hacking cells with certain light wave-lengths and lasers. I thought it was very far-fetched at the time... but maybe he was onto something.

Related links: https://www.bulletproof.com/sleep/sleep-hacks/light-hacking-...

He talks about the red light idea there and the crazy laser idea I'm remembering I think was "low-level light therapy." Appears to be based on science: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4355185/pdf/nih...
Have you considered building a company around the open source to fund it?

To get started on the best current thinking, that I know of, check our https://costs.media

JJ, hey guy who put that together and champions COSS, has a great interview with the CEO of GitLab. Highly recommended if you'd like to learn about their learnings about building open source and companies. I think the prevailing idea to squash is that by building a company you no longer serve your base users (scientists for you / developers for COSS more generally). There is a great middle ground. Maybe also consider a trademark for selective enforcement of who can make money by offering this as a service. (I personally think the MongoDB strategy around TMs might be the best model right now)
And why is that? It's a beautiful example of regulatory capture that led to credit cards gaining advantage over other payment methods.

Such protections should either be scrapped or extended to cover all methods.
There's a lot of assumptions here. I'm not sure they're true.

(1) Cities are getting richer and richer. More and more rich people are living in the cities, in dense urban environment. This is why America's urban housing stock is so expensive

(2) Most poor people in America have cars.

> Why does it end up translating so poorly here, even in larger cities where we have public transit (though significantly worse) and we have relatively high density, relatively walkable, cities?

In large cities there are convenience stores everywhere?
Not really - I had to do multiple steps of 'prune a bit, train a bit' to be able to prune to 99%. If I had done all the pruning in one big step as they do, I don't think it would have trained well, even if I had been able to see the future and remove the same weights.
The problem is disparity, a symptom is dollar stores, the cause is greed, classism, and racism. The cure? Democratic socialism and separating money and state.
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A belief upheld by the supreme court:

Warren v. District of
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Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzale...
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This is something I think a lot about because I'm working for a small startup [0] building an issue tracker and trying to take on the likes of Jira. We discuss a lot about exactly how much scrum we should support "natively" in the tool (sprints, story points, etc.) because we've seen scrum go wrong and turn into a mess of micromanagement and misaligned incentives a number of times. At the moment we've opted to make it very un-scrum and our early adopters aren't complaining. Teams need to work hard to find a process that actually works for them - tools and scrum master trainings can't dictate that for them.

0: https://kitemaker.co
By the way, a car with electric propulsion and regenerative braking should be able to "know" its weight quite precisely (from the amount energy that is needed to accelerate or the amount of energy that is returned when regen-braking).