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There is a serious attempt to cancel America, that goes beyond holding America responsible for its past wrongs. Someone posted a link to this tweet elsewhere in this thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/arlenparsa/status/116818940954980...

I think this is not an uncommon opinion and it’s becoming more and more mainstream. And that sort of thinking is an attempt to cancel America. It’s not just saying that America has done certain bad things and we need to fix them. It’s saying that the founders were bad so we get to relitigate everything. America can always be improved, but you can’t just slap the label “America” on whatever grab-bag of ideas you want. America is an opinionated nation (in the sense of “opinionated software”). And there is an ongoing movement to cancel those opinions.
"White collar crime" means things like fraud and embezzlement. It overwhelmingly happens over the phone or the internet or in corporate offices, not in residential areas.
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doesn't work correctly for me, especially from 4th year - refreshers seem not to be accounted for correctly. And base salary decreases every year for some reason.
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Not sure why it was being downvoted, but saying "AES 256" is secure is both true and meaningless. It's a low level building block of cryptosystems, and there are countless examples of AES based systems being compromised because the system built around it had flaws.
Every author has their own motivations, but I will echo what the parent has expressed that often, if not the majority of the time, authors are making their papers far more difficult to read than they need be.

To that, I'll add anecdote. Some years back, I had a fight with a coauthor on a paper who wanted to remove the majority of the substeps within a proof. He believed that it was condescending to include such material and that any interested reader should be able to derive it for themselves. And, in fact, he asked a colleague in the room at the time who agreed with him. I stated flatly that as the primary author that I could not understand nor complete these proofs without these steps, so the material stays. I contend that at least in this one particular case a combination of exclusivity and arrogance led to an attempt at obfuscation.

Remember, publishing isn't just about sharing knowledge. It's also a way to posture, advertise, build a brand, and get grant money. Beyond that, mathematicians are still people with all the imperfections that implies.
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Yep, still using build 5666, the last build before Nullsoft got bought out.
I'm endlessly impressed at how good Synology's DSM interface is. The experience is so incredibly seamless in all the important ways. And it's not just a gimmick—all of the benefits of draggable, resizable windows are there: you can drag files between folders, you can open multiple settings windows at the same time, and so on.

There's a live demo:
https://demo.synology.com/en-global/dsm
Twitter used to have this 140 char limit. Maybe they should have policy that each user can only post maximal 140 tweet each month -- to provide some equality. When every tweet counts, the conflict will be reduced.
JHipster style templating for SAAS onboarding design patterns.

UX description language for forms that respects high level constraints. Compiles to desktop browser, phone browser, and Alexa layouts.

Solving the complexity of matrix matrix multiplication by brute forcing the lower bound with semigroup combinatorics.

DSL for linear logic.

Ending Iowa’s criminalization of “annoying” speech. (Iowa Code 708.7)

Exposing Polk County Iowa Sheriff Kevin Schneider torturing inmates with denial of basic medical care.

Exposing pure nepotism corruption between Iowa Attorney General Chief of Staff Eric Tabor and his sister Iowa Court of Appeals Judge Mary Tabor (mom of @ollie).

Exposing that the prosecutor on Tracy Richter’s murder trial had relations and ended up marrying the daughter of his star witness Mary Higgins - and that the blood spatter expert Englert is a known fraud who wrongfully convicted David Camm and Julie Ray Harper.
AWS liveMedia streaming dropping support for RTMP end of year
leaving HLS/DASH as only option. they seem to give up on low latency streaming. any news on thier alternative?
Norway plans to switch entirely from FM to DAB by 2022. Here's an article discussing how it has gone so far: https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/norways-fm-shut...
Today they serve control freaks who use them to dictate policy. Slap DRM on anything and then use anti-circumvention provisions to outlaw whatever you want because "breaking DRM is illegal".
Couresera HD Video Downloader
Right now, an issue with video downloads of Coursera is that it doesn't allows to download videos in HD. This extension resolves that issue by providing the video download in best quality available.
I looked at the city where I used to live in Brazil and most of it is red. It doesn't make sense. It's a pretty normal city not unlike a first world one. I'm not sure what they're really measuring there.
These days an ESP-8266 is scarcely more expensive than the ATmega128 and has a lot more memory, in fact the ESP32 is only a few cents/pennies/kroner more, even an ATmega328 would give twice as much memory.

I wonder if uLisp is portable to the ESP.
The occupation both gave the german language a word: "Amokläufer", and caused the US army to switch from .38 to .45 caliber sidearms.
That's a relief considering how bad DAB is. Most stations in the UK are stuck on DAB rather than DAB+, which means poor MP2 codec quality. Then they've gone for more identikit stations rather than higher bitrates. There's very little above 128 kbps and I believe they use mono for some. Then you have the problems with signal dropout, where the sound doesn't degrade gracefully in poor signal areas. Poor battery life is also an issue. If it wasn't the sunk costs of people buying these receivers and the loss of face after all the years of propaganda by the authorities pushing the standard, it would have been dropped.
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AM radio being useful in emergencies assumes AM stations are run by people, as opposed to automated, such that you can reliably break into programming with information about local emergencies. This has already been a problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot_train_derailment

> Because it was the middle of the night, there were few people at local radio stations, all operated by Clear Channel with mostly automated programming. No formal emergency warnings were issued for several hours while Minot officials located station managers at home. North Dakota's public radio network, Prairie Public Broadcasting, was notified and did broadcast warnings to citizens.

> The incident has been cited as an example of the physical dangers of media consolidation and the cost-cutting practice of not keeping overnight staff at stations. Even without activation of the Emergency Alert System, a live announcer would still have been able to warn citizens of the emergency via the traditional means of the broadcast signal and an on-air microphone. As local stations were running in automated mode, there was nobody on-site to interrupt programming and issue warnings concerning the disaster.

EAS not cutting in was a problem. Emergency systems need to be redundant for that very reason. Thinking analog radio necessarily means that redundancy is in place is wrong. Our thinking about this must be more careful than that.
Faking the data seems like more work than just showing the data they are getting from the rocket which is why I'm personally skeptical.
While FDR was instrumental in the USA becoming the superpower that it became, even without FDR, the United States would still have been a world power (due to its combination large population, high degree of industrialization with lots of manufacturing, and lots of natural resources) and would still have continued to have a democratic government. Even without FDR, the USA while maybe not developing into the superpower that it did, would still have been recognizable as the USA. Without Washington or Lincoln, the USA would either not exist or been completely unrecognizable.
Bioethiticists will have a field day with you. Also multiple angry mobs from left, right and center.
The film has very little to do with the novel, actually. Verhoeven, the director, hated the book:

“I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring … It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I just couldn't read the thing. It's a very right-wing book.”

The film is basically intended as parody of fashism, while the book is much more positive about the military and an exploration of an alternative society, where everyone has to do voluntary military service before having the right to vote and hold office (later Heinlein claimed that 95% of the Federal service is civil service, but the book itself seems to imply it’s mostly military).

Personally I find the book much more interesting than the film. While the film is a parody its message is actually not that complex and in my memory seems to me to boil down to “Fashism is bad, mkay”.

In contrast to this, the book is partly deeply problematic, but contains much more original though
and interesting world-building with a political system, which is somewhat orthogonal to the established political dimensions of thinking. Which leads to criticism, when people like Verhoeven lazily project it down to the dimensions, they are familiar with.

It’s a bit like a weirdtopia instead of an utopia or dystopia: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cWjK3SbRcLkb3gN69/building-w...

Personally in my mind I group this book somewhat together with non-fiction book “Shake Hands with the Devil “ by Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire. As a German the thought that you could have pride in being part of a military felt foreign and distant, for example routinely thanking soldiers for their service is still unthinkable for me and these two books in very different ways made me have more empathy with a perspective where being a soldier for a democratic society is something you can be proud of.

By the way, somewhat fittingly for the original blog post, the main character in the book is implied to be of Filipino descent (but played by a white in the film).
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> In a disaster, local cell towers may not be operational. An AM transmitter located somewhere that is far enough away as to not be suffering from the same local issues could still be operational.

Even if the AM transmitter is operational, it is useless to people who lack the ability to receive AM broadcasts.
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This.

The patent system has long been touted to help the little man, but today it's used by people who have legal fee money to bully everyone else. But why or how would this change given the political structure in the states or anywhere for that matter.

This is a byproduct of centralizing vertical power which is the very nature of most modern governments and their respective cultures. A distributed horizontally cut set of powers would be better and I think with the states, states rights argument support this.
Software compatibility will obviously be the main problem to resolve, but I'm an optimist.
Same as before, mostly, except I wake up an hour later and go for a walk after work instead of commuting. My daily schedule looks something like this:

7:00am - wake up, fiddle with my phone because I don't wanna get out of bed

8:00am - go for a 5K run

8:40am - walk the dog around the block

8:50am - shower

9:00am - start work, first meeting usually begins at 9am

12:00pm - break for lunch, might watch a quick 20-25 minute TV episode if I don't have a 12:30 meeting

1:00pm - back to work

4:00pm - last meeting usually ends around this time, spend the rest of the hour wrapping up work

5:00pm - walk the dog for a much longer walk than the morning, around 30-45 minutes

5:45pm to 11:00pm - dinner, hobbies, TV, etc

I've worked from home full-time in the past, though my current job was not a WFH situation pre-pandemic. It is now, though, obviously. I'm surprisingly (to myself) productive from 9-5, but I also try to adhere strictly to the 9-5 hours. It's probably the main thing that keeps me sane.

Some of my employees probably spend less time working than I do. I don't think I really blame them, as long as they're productive. And they are as productive, if not more so, than pre-pandemic. I consider their happiness and mental well-being to be more important than the job, so as long as they're getting their work done, I don't have much problem if they put in fewer hours than normal. My job, though, rarely ends before 5pm... But that's OK. I like it.

I'm interested, OP... what were you expecting from this question? Why do you ask?
The probability for a black person of being killed by the police in the US is approximately 0.0005%. That's the probability of being killed (most commonly because you pulled a weapon on a cop), not the probability of being murdered, which is at least an order of magnitude lower than that.

There shouldn't be anybody getting murdered by the police. It's totally unreasonable. But it is in actual fact extremely uncommon.
I don't think this is something to be concerned about. Unless you are donating a significant amount of money, your calls, letters, emails, etc. are simply ignored.
Ambani is converting his $21 billion debt into equity https://archive.vn/SL3Nb
Thanks, I enjoyed our exchange. Your concerns resonate with many people here because there's real truth in them.

People in companies like Facebook and Twitter debate and disagree all the time about features and their effects, and that has a real impact on how culture and ethics are defined in organizations. Part of the goal of this project was to empower them with ideas to advocate for and drive change. I'm a strong believer in thinking about value over longer time horizons (ala Warren Buffett) and find short-termism a real cancer on our society, and I hope we as a society can come to realize incentives need to be more aligned around long term value and effect. This does require a different mindset than some companies take, but if we can get people to think longer term, it will trickle down to individual product and design decisions that I think can have big impact.

I'll take a look at this article, I hadn't read it before. Cheers
Given that we are not caning each other on the floor of the Senate[0], I think we are not as bad as we were in the past.

In the past, we literally had a hot Civil War with American armies marching against American cities and laying siege to them and destroying them. Our rhetoric might be inflamed, which may be more noticeable due to social media, but I don't think we are at that point yet.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner
> Any other view is justifying stealing from people just because they're "well compensated."

That ideology hasn't worked to well in the past.

> If not then that compensation doesn't make sense and in effect is stealing from others who are producing that value.

While I admire the premise of this line of thinking, this is not how Capitalism works. It is also very difficult to quantify value also, how does person X compare to person Y doing the same job compare in regards to the term of value. If person X has more seniority, or maybe less but greater skills, produces more etc. Let alone person X and Y who are equivalent, but work on different parts of the machine. Heck devs are drastically more valued at the moment than receptionists but receptionist may work harder.

Now I sit somewhere between Ayn Rand and a Socialist, but I definitely believe in Capitalist ideals, that a person should be paid on their market value, and profits are made for those on top in regards to what value the entire machine produces. Those in the middle shouldn't suffer though, but that can never be attributed to theft (there are a few cases which escape this), unless you take on a more Communist idealism.
Also for Linux routers, OpenWRT ships a kmod package: https://openwrt.org/packages/pkgdata/kmod-wireguard
> No well known advertiser wants their brand associated with something unpopular or toxic.

That's pre-historic thinking. No reasonable long-term user of Social Media would think that a Frozen ad showing next to some BLM/white supremacist content means that Disney endorses violence/racism. It just means that you've liked Frozen (or similar things) before.

The dinosaurs will die out. They'll be replaced by social-media-savy advertisers.
Debian: Still dkms for mainline stable repo (Debian 10 buster) as it's on 4.x kernels. For native built-in you need to go with bullseye (Debian testing) or get a newer kernel through some other means.
You’re overly restricting the process of abstraction to making it conceptually easier to grasp for users. That’s only one use case for abstraction. Let’s call it dumbing down for your external callers.

There is also developing abstractions for south-bound APIs where it goes the opposite way. I declare that I want to be able to do operations X, Y, and Z but I don’t care how it happens. Then an implementer will be the one who knows all of the details specific to their implementation even though I’m the one who “abstracted” by defining the abstract API signatures.

> it is the process of creating an interface that is familiar and conceptually easy to grasp

Sometimes it’s not though. Often times the “familiar” and “easy to grasp” is the API burdened by legacy systems tied too much to one implementation. In this case the process of abstraction is cleanly separating the intent from the legacy crap and defining a new interface that captures the intent and nothing more (not leaking the details of the “how”).

An API that writes bytes to an arbitrary location on a disk is certainly familiar and easy to grasp. But without a filesystem abstraction on top of it, it’s not really useful if you want portability, multiple processing using a disk, etc.
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I've had something similar happen with Spotify. Sometimes it (used to?) invalidates downloaded content, probably to refresh the DRM.

I was at the airport for an intercontinental flight and wanted to quickly download another album, so I disabled Spotify's offline mode. At that point it started re-downloading everything over airport Wifi. Needless to say I was not amused.
It's quite telling that you have to go back to Timothy McVeigh for an example of this. That was quarter of a century ago, and it was just one dude, and his connection to the right was tenuous at best.
According to the uLisp site [0], there are actually already implementations for both the ESP32 and 8266 (linked to the 8266 page). It’s definitely awesome how cheap such powerful stuff is these days.

[0] http://www.ulisp.com/show?2CF9
I completely disagree with you and capitalism is an immoral system of economy. It might have been a necessary transition but as it stands right now it's ruining the world bit by bit.

It's also still theft no matter what system of economy you believe in.

If someone is taking the compensation of the value you're adding to the economy, that's theft.
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Paywalled! Interested if the GCHQ actually found something in their dedicated Huawei lab to warrant or if this is driven by something else.
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If you have a look at "legal immigrant that lived here their entire lives is a real <demonym>" the US goes say down in support.

It's clear they see it as a purely legal status, not necessarily as acceptance in a society.

That survey probably conflates ethnicity and nationality, as many countries use the same word for both. Like Hungary for example.

PS: There's no way 50% of Brits think gaining citizenship doesn't make you British, unless they don't speak English. That's what the word means!
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This year is becoming too strange.
After 2020 ends they should do 2020 S
> If putting the wrong text in front of people can make them attend large public gatherings in the middle of a pandemic,

Are you referring to people who attended the Trump rallies or the protestors against racism?

There are some things that people judge to be more important than the risk of Covid-19. Whether you find that reasonable or not, may say a lot more about your priors and priorities than about the logic of the people gathering.
best of twitter so far: "This simulation is getting so wild"
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It has a lot of historical baggage, most notably implicit interdependencies that make it hard/impossible to optimize and reorder stuff. We're entering an era of many-core processors, and IMHO we'll absolutely have to move to a RISC architecture, and the sooner we get that box checked, the better.
Good people on both sides...
The irony is that the little we might know about Arthur comes from written records. Perhaps king of some Britons, not king of all Britain.
>“Functional core, imperative shell”

IO by nature is an imperative phenomenon. Inputs, outputs and prompts happen in procedural temporal steps.

Due to this, you have to make the shell imperative. You have no choice because reality is imperative and the shell interfaces with reality.

Unless you're thinking about haskell, but even haskell has a black box that takes the IO monad and does imperative things with it.
Computer Game Music (8 and 16 Bit)
Hello.

I was reminiscing about old skool computer game music. Some tunes are still in my head, but alas I am unable to recollect many.

What I have so far is listed below. I was still able to recollect the names Tim Follin, Rob Hubbard, and David Whitakker, but the amount of work these guys did, it would take far too long to go through it all.

So, I thought I would ask the community here if you can share any tunes that struck a chord with you. Doesn't have to be by the 3 aforementioned wizards.

The tunes I currently have:

Firefly Speccy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G45St1ROMQw

Cannon Fodder Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiYuq6Ac3a0

Bionic Commando Level 1 Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO8CR1E0_5A

Harlequin Level 1 Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLWbiuMcuTc

Shinobi- Level 1 Arcade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMTTPtFdU_c

The Revenge of Shinobi: Mega-Drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ekCndckJfU

Gods Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN0VIgO3U0k

Xenon Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-KuR9CYZ7Q

Ghosts n Goblins C64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENVIoR2f-Qg

Ghouls and Ghosts C64 Stage 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZmVTWriqM0

Ghouls and Ghosts Stage 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU-ss4JXe2Q

Chronos Speccy (sounds like Agent X): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz46pCROkjM

Came across a C64 version of the track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shj1_T68SBo

Time Trak Mega Drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqyEbu8cmMg&feature=related

Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQSsq7HCNHw

The Chaos Engine Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH6cfRaXxXY

Listening to some of the Amiga music, it was very similar to stuff you'd hear on pirate radio stations, like old skool rave music early 90's (UK).

Anyway, tunes, share what you got please.

Cheers, Ace.
This kind of behavior is one of the things that kills me about grsecurity. They're completely abusing the spirit of the GPLv2 license but are probably following the letter of it.

If you choose to exercise your GPLv2 rights, your contract with them is terminated and you will receive no further security updates (considering this is a security product, it makes it pretty useless to you). You are then blacklisted from doing business with them ever again.
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