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I am curious; what exactly do you mean by "religious curriculum" ? As a Hindu myself, i know of only the traditional "Gurukuls/Patashalas".
> The CAA makes it easier for non-Muslims to claim citizenship while Muslims slip through the cracks; that is the point of contention.

No it doesn't. Here's the relevant part of CAA(http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2019/214646.pdf) that mentions non-Muslims

> Provided that any person belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, who entered into India on or before the 31st day of December, 2014

If you are a non-Muslim who wants to get Indian citizenship under CAA, you must prove (1) you are a citizen of one of these neighboring countries and (2) you entered India before 2014. It is just not enough to not have papers to "slip through the cracks".
caste system would have no problems. Caste discrimination is the problem. Every religion and Entire world has caste system in one form or the other. otherwise there would be no fights.
I had to switch on my camera for a video call for the first time yesterday. (I can usually get around it and do audio only)

Removed the piece of electrical tape I had over the camera to find the image was completely blurry from the glue. Good to know if it ever falls off and I don't have tape to replace immediately.
Are they hiring 1 billion people for a month?
Yes, I think one primary difference is that mob rule is classically considered to be the primary form of government. It's a direct democracy with no tools to prevent immediate populist sentiment from controlling things.

Cancel culture exists as an alternative tool that, in my opinion is generally only used when normal power structures break down. It's not really comparable to mob rule because it isn't "rule".
Chinese people are also relatively intelligent. That is relevant, I think.
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Is there actually a difference between asking politely for money from the states and "requiring" it?

When a state doesn't pay up, what's the union government going to do?
I guess I'm in that minority of people that left me when it went through the boondoggle of the early super broken 4.x releases, and started using gnome 3. Gnome 3 is distraction free to me. I don't even notice it most days.

There's a few forks and there's always elementary if you want to pay for to truely support folks.
I've seen these projects on github. I don't remember the names, only that waifu2x upscaler has an NN filter for JPEG artifacts.
> Time and time again these massive government-run software project collapse on their face.

Which is why I said "I wouldn't bet on the management of that project playing out like that." I also completely agree Microsoft is way too entrenched to start something today.

> In the commercial space, government just cannot compete with private industry ... at all.

I kind of think you're overstating what I was suggesting (likely, I stated it poorly). Instead of paying Microsoft $x annually for MS Office, I think for less money they could write and maintain something that fits their own needs. Since it was developed with tax dollars, release it publicly. I doubt
businesses would adopt it unless some independent companies popped up to facilitate it (like Red Hat does for OSS).

The goal wasn't to replace Microsoft Office in society, just to fulfill its own needs.
"Even God himself couldn't sink this ship", said the captain of the Titanic
*imploding in the USA. East Asia, India, etc can't get enough of it. No doubt the Indian ban will be temporary while they evaluate it.
Sure you can - it does not work through speech but through actions.
Either it's a big corp that fires the victim to appear more woke or it's a small business that is forced to fire through review bombing. It's only possible because victims cannot sue even though both, and especially the latter, seem like a tort. If I were an entrepreneur I'd make a fund to litigate both kinds of cases. Get money from the big corps, take loss on the review bombers, make the country better for everyone.
I think it might be a smart move by facebook to buy something similar and put it under their umbrella of companies while TikTok fades. Clearly it can be popular with the crowd that they're losing in droves.
>> As an alternative to a camera cover, use the camera indicator light to determine if your camera is active

I don't care because I don't use Apple but I still feel very offended as a human being.

WTF? How can they give such a disrespectful fuck-you response?
> that they have to give up law of excluded middle

They have to give up the law of the excluded middle because the law of the excluded middle is false. Counterexample: "This statement is false.". You can pretend it's true by trying to outlaw self-reference, but Godel proved that that doesn't actually work if your logic is useful enough to support arithmetic.
I don't think it is dualist, or at least I didn't get that impression reading Dreyfus. It is more that knowledge is part of a system as a whole and cannot be captured piecemeal, which is how we'd have to do it if we created AI by hand.

But, I don't think that argument is especially strong. Knowledge doesn't seem to be tied up in the system, otherwise we wouldn't have abstract subjects like math. Additionally, if knowledge is a function of a certain process of developmwnt, we can at least in theory reproduce any physical process computationally.
I guess I could do all of that...or I could not. And utilize a far superior system without the effort and for a redicilously low price.
Foxconn employs about 1.2 million workers in China. In Shenzhen and Chengdu, a combined Foxconn workforce of 500,000 provides labour for Apple Inc. Daily wage is ~$5 per employee. [https://www.facing-finance.org/en/database/cases/working-con...]

Napkin math if you were to move 500k workers to the US and paid them $100 a day instead of $5 a day it would cost you $17B a year.

Would be interesting to see how labor per unit is trending to determine if manufacturing is actually getting more automated and at what rate.
I don’t really understand this article. When the New Jersey government came out asking for Cobol programmers, all I remember was them talking about the strain on their system due to a demand spike. But this article spends its whole time talking about the UI? Unless I’m missing some context, this reads more like an ad.
Apple doesn't get it. The reason for a camera cover is to prevent snooping EVEN WHEN the camera is on.
Would be interesting to see the politics surrounding this in light of the recent border conflict between India and China and the Indian government's ban on 59 Chinese apps and government contracts to Chinese firms.
The only case where elections aren't accurate for this is if the state government is non democratic. The state is just a bunch of people -- representation of the state is covered by how many representatives are sent per state. To my knowledge, the general population of the colonies and so on don't get representation in the Senate, only people that live in states
China has shown has had a track record of mining data and corporate espionage, so it's not just a "bunch of old men". It's a serious concern. There is no reason for them to be prying into citizens' information like they've been doing.
If you notice that the light is on, you won't be faster than the speed of light when you run to cover it.
More accurately, their first one-hour drama. They produced original content as early as 1976, not including sports programming or comedy showcases.
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100% agree. The problems with these systems are usually the crap built around them. The IBM, Univac, Grumman, etc or state people who built this stuff 40 years ago knew their stuff. The operational processes are mature and don’t break.

Usually in a government agency is a layer of VB, J2EE from circa 2003, powerbuilder or some other array of old junk that is responsible for some business processes and is a make work program for hundreds of developers. That is the problem.

Whatever CIO is whining to the governor about COBOL need to be gone, now, and New Jersey needs to find somebody who can get the stuff around the COBOL reengineered and implemented quickly. Then start hacking the COBOL bits apart.
The person who responded had a bunch of good points, but one thing they didn't specifically respond to, is how members of my caste (Brahmins, top of the heap) would know how someone is NOT a brahmin.

So if you aren't a brahmin, you probably haven't had the same childhood experiences of temple-going and specific rituals. If I really want to ferret your caste out, I might casually quiz you on this background, maybe even in the context of innocently joshing about, "hey, wasn't that weird our moms would make us do blah blah blah." And if you didn't respond right away with a story about how your parents did that same thing, I'd maybe start to become suspicious ...

If you ever let slip that someone in your family got a job because they utilized an affirmative action program (called "reservations" in India,) it'd sound weird, and I'd get suspicious ...

If I started a joke about how some brahmins are better than other brahmins (yep, that exists. I know because I am the best Brahmin.) and you seemed clueless about the typology, I'd get suspicious ...

You do this enough times, I'm gonna cross you off my party list.
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Maybe all these "devloping" nations need to set a standard of min wage to $5 dollar per hour
- India
- Mexico
- China
- Vietnam
etc
FWIW - "America's passport is now as weak as Mexico's" cnn.com
Moreso, people deserve the government that they have, thus, there's no reason to make this change
One of the real gotchas in old systems is the data limits. So systems working fine, all working with say a name field that's locked in at 40 characters as that when original designed was enough and storage wasn't cheap then. Or a comments field, 250 characters felt generous back then, today - that's the first sentence just about.

So you get old fine working do the job systems, then you get what I call bolt-ons to those systems, web front-end and the like that all distill the input into a format the old working system can take in. Which is fine, but the data limits of the back-end really do start to stand out more and more then and seen many a case of a front-end allowing more input only for it to get blindly truncated before it is fed into the backend. Things like that can and do create interesting issues. Though as true today as it was back when COBOL was born - garbage in garbage out.
Although I never had more than 3 devices connected to Dropbox at sane time; but Dropbox Camera Upload used to rename all the photos to time & date it uploaded; I will have same photo with it's correct time n date took as name in my phone, & it's copy with a different name in Dropbox. I used other sync apps to connect & sync my Camera folder to Dropbox, like FolderSyncPro. Apps like that can connect from any number of devices.
If the student outperforms their peers on coursework, then they won't be punished, they will have an estimated score higher than their peers.
We all know why they haven’t used it.
Acquihire? How do these usually work? Who approaches who?
The parent painted a picture of a one-sided, contemplative genocide when it was far from it. Neither was it a conflict uniquely faced by the United States - read up on the history of Mexico and the Apache for instance. If you want a short biopic version just read about Geronimo's life and what he thought about Mexicans.

> The US often didn't honor the terms of these concessions.

I agree, not in all cases. But before we could talk reasonably about this we needed to swing the conversation back from the idea that the US gov't was operating a land-stealing, genociding steamroller (and for apparently no reason at all, no less).
There's an interesting philosophical question raised here, which looks like this:

User Privacy Vs. Troll/Bot Protection

If you want stronger privacy (weaker browser fingerprinting), then you must equal-and-oppositely accept that that allows Trolls and Bots to flourish on the network...

On the other hand, you can have less Trolls and Bots on the network -- but this means that you must give up some of your privacy via stronger browser fingerprinting...

So, the next logical question is, is there a way to have the best of both worlds, that is, more privacy (less browser fingerprinting), and less Trolls and Bots simultaneously?

The answer I come up with at this time is:

"No -- UNLESS Reddit were to call up every single user that registers, and voice verify them and/or make sure they have a credit card or other valid ID on file... and then they'd have to take extra steps to validate those..."

So yes, it could be done... but then Reddit might lose its automated registration process -- and possibly casual users, who didn't want to provide all of that information as well...

It's interesting, because all online user commmunities represent various types of compromises between the different factors I've outlined above (there are more factors, of course)... in the future, I should create a matrix of all of them, and see where other various famous online communities exist as points on it... I think such an exercise would be enlightening in some way or other...
All around sensible, though I guess nothing that would deter the people who sneer at Cobol on Twitter?
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> So the main argument is that humans have intelligence that is impossible to express through reason or codification

I think what it means is not about codifcation, but that to achieve GI machines would need to go through human experiences that are not possible to a machine.

I don't agree, but I think that's the point the paper makes.
I remember Merlin Mann had a blog post a decade or so ago where he considered Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac the perfect podcast in that each episode was five minutes and it came out daily.
For example, nothing the Senate legislated would apply to D.C. or Puerto Rico
There are many different types of activities depending on your interests. I write a lot, so if you're not keen on reading, check out the included YouTube videos.

One common type of activity is attempting to make direct contact with a distant station. This could be using a voice mode, digital mode (text), or CW, which just means using Morse code and a keyer to communicate.

Operators can make contacts all over the world using the Earth's ionosphere as a mirror, to reflect signals, and send them further than any method of terrestrial propagation can achieve. This is called skywave propagation as opposed to groundwave propagation, which is like how cell phones work.

The caveat being that skywave propagation appears to have a degree of randomness to it. It isn't totally random but we collectively do not understand it enough to fully predict when and where our signals will end up.

So there's an opportunity to make direct contact with another station somewhere else on Earth, depending on the propagation conditions.

So to now actually answer your question, there's novelty in getting your station working, and then using it to have a brief conversation with a random person at least hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles away. This is known as a QSO.

At different times, for example, with my station being located in North Carolina, I might suddenly be able to reach stations in Europe around sunset. Usually, it's more limited to random areas within the United States with a basic antenna, but not always.

If I announce my presence over the radio (call CQ), and someone comes back to me, we'll exchange some basic signal quality info. Afterwards, if the other person wants, you can ask about their radio setup, and talk about common interests, while avoiding some topics like local politics, etc.

Here's a video of someone doing this:
https://youtu.be/tXIbSGX2SvU?t=3m40s

That's only one activity while there are many others. Another activity would be pointing a beam antenna at low earth orbit amateur radio satellites to make as many quick contacts with other operators as possible while the satellite is above the horizon. This is a very physically and mentally challenging activity. Here's a video of that:
https://youtu.be/QWtdyT4PYMw

There are also digital modes as well. FT8 is a common digital mode for making contacts with much less personal interaction using a PC. This one is easier to just watch and see than to explain:
https://youtu.be/bSpyYV-xz5c

Hopefully that gives you some ideas about what it's like to make contacts over the radio. Some people like the social aspects and others (like me) like the technical and experimental aspects of making contacts and seeing where and how far my signals will go.
> News flash: the C programming language is the most popular language in the world and it’s nearly as old as COBOL. SQL is the backbone of database programming, and it was invented in the 1970s. The age of a technology is no indicator of its viability or appropriateness for solving mission-critical problems.

The big issue with COBOL is developer availability. I can easily find a lot of C programmers to fix and extend my complicated C code base. I can easily find a lot of programmers familiar with SQL to help me fix and improve or change my queries. Finding COBOL programmers is a much harder task and C and SQL programmers.

And it is not about the age of the programming language. My guess is that it would be harder finding PL/1 or Algol 60 programmers even though both of those languages are newer than COBOL.
I was just trying to make a joke. I've actually been very happy with working on my MBP, it was easier to re-paste than a Dell XPS from the same year. The interior of Macbooks I've seen have been laid out remarkably well.
Why doesn’t it just flash the digits (eg. 5:58 would flash 5, then 5, then 8?) it would always be able to tell time with 3 flashes (assuming 12 hour mode not 24 hour mode). This remainder math seems unnecessary and just takes longer.
The article links to https://www.wired.com/story/cant-file-unemployment-dont-blam... which has more background.
I think it's a bit overstating that it destroys the secondhand market. I still see non-working Macs on ebay for hundreds of dollars. The resale value of a well-maintained Mac continues to be much higher than any other brand. These kinds of changes have also made great strides in reducing the incentive to steal phones. There was a specific update that the NYPD pointed out reduced iPhone thefts significantly.

But, I do wholeheartedly endorse right to repair. I'm very bummed about the recovery options for newer laptops with non-removable drives. I was also bummed to hear that ARM-Macs won't have Target Disk Mode.
> I believe the Precariat revolt is imminent.

References article about event 10 years ago.
What's your opinion on educational games?
The Church-Turing thesis only states that the lambda calculus and Turing machines can compute the same functions. It has nothing to do with materialism or dualism and it certainly doesn’t state that the universe is a Turing machine.
I think it has more to do with the culture around emphasis on education rather than pure intelligence
> The problem is often that they’re using code that wasn’t designed to meet the needs of people who use it.

There is an important word left out here. It wasn’t designed to meet the needs of people who currently need it.
Constant double standards from Comifornia

This is the same place that uses state force to force business's to hire X wamans or non whites as management/ceo roles instead of hiring on MERIT and letting companys choose who they staff
SuiteScript has improved, there's now intellij plugins and they've recently upgraded the supported JS version which runs on Graal VM. It's still a little clunky but that's just ERP for you.

I'm seeing some customers pay around 50 - 80k AUD per year on 1 - 2 year terms at the moment. What would you consider expensive?
There are 5 prayers, before dawn, just after noon, couple of hours after noon, just after sun sets, and couple of hours after sunset. These varies by time of year and times get closer during winter times and far apart during summer time. Each prayer takes about 20-40 minutes most, except the Friday prayer which is probably the most crowded time and is about one and half hours. It replaces noon prayer on Fridays.

The Blue Mosque just across Hagia Sofia Mosque also allow visitors even during the prayers, except probably during the Friday prayer since it is really crowded. I never had the change to attend Friday prayer there so I am not sure, but I did at other times. Tourist are allowed to visit during prayers and even has the opportunity watching the prayer.

I think it will be very similar if not exactly the same manner. No worries about the visitors of any religion or of no religion. You can experience these majestic structures. I recommend Suleymaniye Mosque, which is much larger than then Blue Mosque but not as big as Hagia Sofia. The mosque at Edirne is from the same architect (Sinan [1]) and bigger than Hagia Sofia.

Current Hagia Sofia is actually the 2rd rebuilt of the original structure. Original was like the churches in Europe and more rectangular than this one, and did not have a dome. The last structure had dome initially but collapse couple of times and was rebuilt. The reason that it collapsed each time is due to the rectangular shape of the base and did not have enough support of half and quarter domes around it. Sinan the architect is actually the one succeeded to keep the dome from collapsing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimar_Sinan
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If a piece of tape acts like a bevel and cracks the display, use a sharpie instead. Problem solved.
Old Apple iSight cameras (the stand alone tube shaped cameras) twisted an aperture closed to block the lens. It was also how you turned it off and on.
My pitch to help: you can probably replace the GPU-intensive ML model with some incredibly dumb linear model. The difference in accuracy/precision/recall/F1 score might only be a few percentage points, and the linear model training time will be lightning fast. There are enough libraries out there to make it painless in any language.

It's unlikely that your users are going to notice the accuracy difference between the linear model and the GPU-intensive one unless you are doing computer vision. If you have small datasets, you might even find the linear model works better.

So it won't affect revenue, but it will cut costs to almost nothing.

Supporting evidence: I just completed this kind of migration for a bay area client (even though I live in Australia). Training (for all customers simultaneously) runs on a single t3.small now, replacing a very large and complicated set up that was there previously.
No one said that.
It's more than just Communion. There is ceremony, listening to the Bible, the homily, the readings. What we do comes from the Bible, and helps us reflect and position our minds and hearts towards God.

Yes, 5-10 minutes is quicker, but it's not about spending _less_ time with God, that's not the point of mass.
If the circuit turns on when the camera is on, how does it have always-on True-Tone? Is it a different sensor or is Apple just full of shit?
I'm also Hindu. It's quite obvious that caste and lineage are immanent within much of our cultural patrimony. I don't mean to get into an ideological debate but there is no point to this pretense.
Oh this is very welcome and good news that computer exploits have been solved.
In German, Knödel can be both a generic term for some class of dumplings or mean something more specific. There are regional differences and a lot of context.

Lots of dumplings also have multiple names in different regions.

One of my favourite names is Dampfnudeln. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dampfnudel The names means steam(ed) noodles, but they are a kind of dumpling.