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> The happy-go-lucky, flashy tone of the course is completely misleading. It is a challenging course, so much so that it’s been the subject of numerous cheating scandals from students caving under the pressure over the years.

It's hardly a "challenging course" by department standards, but perhaps to a broader audience. 161, 224, and even 124, 61 are much harder.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, but this is exactly the reason. Chrome on Windows includes "Safari" in the user agent and Chrome on Android includes "Mobile Safari" because if they don't add it, tons of websites will break.

Everyone does this, which is kinda why we need to get rid of user agents and replace it with feature detection (and css that works everywhere for people who don't want to run Javascript).
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I can agree with that. I didn't mean to derail the debate.
Welcome to all technical migrations ever.

The ease of mind of the current developer is far less important than software not breakly widely for users because previous developers made bad assumptions about version strings.
> Politics is increasingly being influenced by Internet movements and culture.

They are not. Internet users affect public opinion, but only to an extent that it may influence domestic policy. International affairs are run levels above and they rarely take cues from the Internet because, as I said before, the general public lack the nuance in discussing geopolitics. Case in point, America's relationship with the Saudis. People in the US have been complaining "Saudi Arabia bad" for a long time, yet the alliance is as strong as ever because public opinion simply does not matter in geopolitics.
The technique is also pretty good for acknowledging one's own personal decisions and being ok with them. For example:

What's preventing me from being richer, more powerful, more famous?

Perhaps you'd give up privacy, autonomy, free time. That might be all it takes to realize that happiness and performance are not always, or even often, the same.
And doing this encourages websites that actually need to detect this platform properly to introduce the next generation of horrible things.
On every Apple device I've owned, the thing that became end-of-life first has always been the software. The battery and hardware health have always kept on going, long after the device stopped getting OS updates. To the point where you had to either jailbreak or throw away perfectly good hardware because the software was hopelessly out of date and inevitably contained unpatched vulnerabilities.

I have a 20 year old PC sitting next to me with a Pentium 4 in it that still happily runs the latest Debian, but I can't get this coming year's OS updates for a seven year old phone or a six year old MacMini.
New funds will prevent emerging tech projects from falling into'valley of death'
Emergency open heart surgery, severe anaphylaxis from a previously unknown allergy to tetracycline that swelled all my tissues (internally as well) which had all the bad effects you can imagine (unconsciousness frozen joints/lockjaw swelled tongue etc after severe pain) with lumps the size of fists on my limbs, starving to the point of eating out of the dumpster (a year of living out of my car) multiple times (you can graze within grocery stores for so long), nearly freezing to death in an alleyway in new york city next to the hudson with my now wife, aggresive-yet-otherwise-benign tumor growing on my scalp (years later that has left a MASSIVE scar), etc. I count about 12 for just myself.
Not necessarily what OP is proposing. It could be a group if people fielding calls to the department who rapidly investigate all calls, and get the fire department there for real fires.

They could also provide some first responder care... maybe this is already what some fire departments do?
Peter Thiel was thinking about starting a university at some point too. He decided not to because it was too hard. Seems like it could be a great idea though. Government at all levels in the US has a lot of problems and getting smart, reform-minded people into it would hopefully help correcting that.
To the people downvoting this comment: By saying that 11 is what 10 was to Mac OS 9 implies the same substantial changes made to the whole system which is not the case here, at all. Mac OS 10 / OS X / macOS was a completely new system based on NeXTSTEP (or at least, completely different from Mac OS 9). It is still the same operating system, just in the usual upgraded fashion (although this time with more visual changes). By dropping the 10, Apple would have stated that macOS is just considered the successor to Mac OS (9) and the previous major "10" is already implied by the name. The 11 just makes no sense considering there has already been an 11th OS X.
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I remember some softwares were broken when macOS 10.10 came out. Because they all assumed that the minor version is a single digit.

Since TLS 1.3, the version number in Client Hello package has been permanently frozen as TLS 1.0 to prevent breakage.

There is also a story that the copyright string in some old software by microsoft is permanently frozen for the same purpose.
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Yea, that's fair. I should - I do! - commend the effort.

Some good things here:
(1) It's good to try to solve problems.
(2) There is a shortage of tech talent in the country
(3) Eric Schmidt is very smart. Sure as heck smarter than me.

Still - from my admittedly-limited vantage point, I can name a four people with degrees in public policy and CS (or similar) that tried and failed to get good jobs in government, so they took $150k+ tech jobs in the private sector instead. So seeing someone saying "the problem with government tech is one of pipeline" is jarring to say the least.
This is still the case... most CS concentrators enroll in 50, of vastly different background.
In fairness getting vc money for government contracts is the problem not the employees who start companies.

Long lead times don't go well with the pump and dump vc funding model.
Or 20.20 if the problem is apps checking for (minorVersion >= 12)
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I believe it is supposed to be a real college. I've seen it mentioned a few other places informally and that was the impression I got.
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It's been a bit since I looked at the overall roadmap, but I've really enjoyed what I've seen and used so far! I've been enjoying Hooks lately, for example.
math professors are incentivized to spend years of their lives writing a textbook they can then have their students buy every semester, and thus create a second revenue stream for themselves

Honestly, they're not incentivized by money. The vast majority of textbooks don't make the professors any money at all.

They may be incentivized by the tenure process/promotion at their university (esp. in smaller colleges), but that's an entirely different scenario.
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The A-12 and SR-71 are both considered Blackbirds. But the A-12 is a single-seater; only the trainer variants had a second sorta wedged in there.

Yes, I know it's faster. Yes, that makes it cooler. But even in this flight of fancy, I don't imagine myself skilled enough to pilot an A-12 solo.
Yes, big concern here, so vesting happens over time.
Serious question, what’s new in HTML 5 that would be useful in text mode? Even with image support <picture> doesn’t seem like it would be useful since that’s mainly about handling art direction and media queries and stuff that seems much less applicable there. Gotta say the idea of <video> implemented with libcaca does sound really funny though.
Yeah...I really don't understand the government's deliberate strangulation of research and positive advancement. Part of the prosperity of the 20th century was driven by a flood of funding into technological innovations of multiple fronts. It's a shame it took a war to bring it on, but it was so obviously beneficial it looks stupid not to acknowledge it.
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There are compounding gains from making "the right choice all else equal." This is one of those semi-mythical 10x engineer super-powers. Or it might just be experience. But technical choices need to be made and making slightly better ones will pay off even in the short term. The technical changes should just optimize for rapid change rather than stability or scale.
Agreed.

So... why does it?
Oh, I'm with ya, I've owned seven Mustangs over the years. Up until 2005 they were pretty archaic, using that chassis that dated from the 70s.
iPadOS Safari does the same:

"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/605.1.15"
Prestige takes a LONG time to build. You’d basically need your graduates to becomes titans of industry.

Bezos would be dead long before that happens.
Again, just substitute the words.

But the point of Olympic medals is to assess skill. If the available pool of talented athletes is larger than the number of gold medals, then there is a need for more gold medals.
It's July 2020, and your PC or Mac can be pwned by a dodgy Photoshop file
> Slow, heavily outsourced, bureaucratic beyond belief, and low paid, there is very little creativity and variety in which to build unique technology, and no reward for the BS.

Currently a public sector tech worker, although in Canada. We can recruit some great people as although the salaries are not FAANG, they are pretty good for people who don't live in cities with that.

Problem is, they don't give raises or if they do, the raises are tiny. I earned 10,000 more choosing a government job over other offers where I am. I have been in the role 11 months. Recruiters are consistently offering 10,000 more than what I make now. Guess how long the average person stays? Just over one year.

If I quit my current department and went to a different government, I could get that 10,000 dollar raise and if I quit after another 1-2 years there to another government department, I would probably hit near the maximum bracket for tech work in the government unless I took a lead position.

Government also doesn't recruit people out of school for tech unless they have a full slate of internships. You need at least one year of experience to join. So there is this narrow 2-3 year in your career window where government work can make sense.

So not only are you kind of forced out fairly early in your career, but they incentivize spreading your time among many different departments as that is the only time you can get a big salary jump.

Plus all the other things you say are true. Decisions take months for anything.
Its usually only finite difference methods that are not variational. But finite difference is dominant in academia, not in industry. And that is changing as well with methods such as the discontinuous Galerkin method. The more popular finite volume method in industry, can also be seen as a variational problem.

Yes, I exaggerated when I said that, but its still mostly variational problems.
A stable economy requires its healthcare systems to not overflow. It needs to be able to provide its citizens with healthcare. The US response has been the opposite of overreaction and the economy will pay the price.
I am not sure if it's still this way, but I think at least some versions of the Qt Commercial License disallowed you from having user scripting in your application - or at least, exposing Qt APIs to user scripting. So no bindings like PySide or PyQt and the like could be used.
Who in Silicon Valley thinks that? I've never heard anyone say it in my 30+ years here (until now).
Much appreciated! I'm only scratching the surface of what is possible but it was so surprisingly easy for someone with minimal starting knowledge to get something going.

I can definitely start to see that the nutrient, ph, light details are going to be important for more consistency and better yields but having had this simple setup work ok has certainly been motivating to expand my knowledge.

Will checkout that channel. Looks like a fun rabbit hole :)
Totally agree with you! I'm definitely not arguing that GPT-3 is necessarily the foundation; I'm arguing that it's part of the research process by which we build the foundation.
DoH also prevents my hosts file to be used, with Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04.

Without DoH, Firefox filters ad-networks and other content I don't want to see, so I have learned to never use DoH unless I want to see all the ads again.
But we should refactor it into a functional programming language with microservices running in containers because... resume-driven development.

I do agree that many organizations accumulate so much cruft they have trouble getting out of their own way. But the flip side of rewriting things for reasons isn't necessarily better.
It's the first time in the 20 year history of Mac OS X that the major version number has changed. They're simply protecting against the likely possibility that some apps don't bother to check the major version.

Going forward, expect the major version number to change each year, like iOS. But for apps built against older versions of the SDK, the major version will always be 10.
I am getting 44 Mbps as i type (checked in fast.com). I am in Bangalore. It not very fast in other places i have been, but better than other networks (varies by location and almost always better than state-owned BSNL). Jio revolutionised the industry and was a boon for traveling as well. I barely ask for hotel wifi as almost always Jio connected fine even if between 4-10Mbps - it was good enough for checking emails, office work and casual surfing the internet.
I'm also an ME, but I have a masters degree in Marine Science. The professors in my graduate program usually only taught one class a semester, some only one a year. From my experience it very much depends on the university. Some schools are much more focuses on teaching and others on research.
Only if you assume that "the common good" in this country isn't a mirage (which tech workers are more likely to see, IMHO).

That phrase is roughly equivalent to how large corporations thank "essential workers" during the pandemic. It's marketing. It's an excuse to underpay and leave workers without sufficient support.
The gloves you want don't exist yet but there is a safe table saw https://www.sawstop.com/why-sawstop/the-technology/
It is not a few things, but rather one of the core reasons governments cannot do technology well.
Well, obviously you don't always want to invert, since inverting twice will just get you back to where you started. In fact, you have to be doing worse than random guessing initially if inverting the problem in general makes it easier to solve.
A different but related approach is to use Safari’s Reader by default on all sites. You can then disable Reader site by site if needed.
Yes, user agents are a mess (see this comment for non-Apple examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23910637). They're not a good way to detect features as a web developer.
What if the world doesn't fall apart but the UK does, specifically, as a result of their political choices?
Sure, but that seems to be the default position of engineers. Do we need blog post telling engineers what they probably already believe?

I think posts like this are useful because many engineers like to push ideas to their pure form, and for some things a balance is what's best. I think process is one of those cases.
Why are you splitting sectors into different pools? Surely that reduces the diservification of risk, and increases the overlap between the companies, which creates blurred incentives?
This is a very good point. A university to transition Business Analysts into junior data scientists or HR reps into HR analysts, train managers in tech fundamentals, and upskill SWEs in security or new tech would be SUPER valuable.
These are graduate school enrollment numbers. Without breaking down CS/EE versus most other engineering disciplines, are MS/PhDs the "primary" talent source for the tech industry?

For comparison, GATech claims 61% of their students get engineering degrees and an enrollment of 14,142, thus ~8,626 undergraduate engineering students.

https://coe.gatech.edu/about/facts-rankings

Other school's engineering enrollment:

UT Austin claims 6,003 undergraduate and 2,101 graduate.

https://www.engr.utexas.edu/about/facts-and-rankings/program...

Berkeley claims 3,746 undergraduates and 2,357 graduates.

https://engineering.berkeley.edu/about/facts-and-figures/

MIT claims 2,451 undergraduates.

https://engineering.mit.edu/about/facts-and-figures/

Stanford claims 1570 undergraduate and 3603 graduate.

https://registrar.stanford.edu/everyone/enrollment-statistic...

I think the parent comment is correct to say there are many larger engineering schools than MIT and Stanford.
At some future point the frameworks that are getting the backwards-compat version number will be dropped, all those apps will cease to function on macOS 11.n+1, and it won’t matter any more. I think it’s a great solution.
I agree with you. And that's not even the only problem...
A big feature for our app is that it needs to work in spotty network conditions - especially as we've expanded internationally, and as students are now studying from home where they often don't have WiFi.

We have a redux store where we keep our data, and much of the "have you watched this video" or "have you completed this assignment" data gets persisted to disk, so if a network failure happens we can just try again when the user's device is back on!

(Does that answer your question?)
You misunderstood me, I never said passive lecturing was better than active, what I said is that it is useful (as opposed to your "doesn't help much") and as an "entertaining lecture" (quoting you again), not as a boring one as the second article states. Clearly an active one has more chances of sticking with you but don't you remember any particular scene in a show that for whatever reason you can't never forget?
Me too. I thought it could render all the elements, since it knows their size and layout, but just not retrieve the actual data inside unless clicked or enabled. A few rules would probably suffice to keep text content and necessary interactive items visible.
There are obviously two schools of thought here, but IMO a founder who is at least financially comfortable will make better long term decisions and take actions influenced less by personal stress.
India is 5th largest GDP and also a nuclear power, it is not a permanent member and does not have veto power on the SC. Germany/Japan are higher than both India and U.K. and still not part of council for obvious historical reasons. GDP and nuclear arsenal are just two aspects to power, lot more to it than just that.

When France and UK became part initial members the SC. They were still colonial powers controlling a lot of the world, and won the war, they are no longer have that kind of strength or influence.

If a new council were created in the somewhat near future it would be because power dynamics have shifted far enough that the current council is no longer useful, from the current members UK and France are most likely to ones for that shift and not enjoy similar rights. New powers at the table could be EU as a whole, India, Brazil perhaps Japan and Germany etc.
I a medium size vertical software company I worked at no more than 20% were software engineers when it reached the mature stage. Some were software support people like program managers, testers, technical writers, Training. Some were company support like executive, HR, sales, IT. And then were services side of People who used the software embedded within customer companies because the customers wanted to outsource that role.
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I don't understand what you mean about packaging code.

Do you mean to distinguish between setting up an EC2 instance or digitalocean droplet type of thing versus using ansible/chef/etc orchestration among the servers? Implying you would have to publish the configs for all your servers?

That would make no sense, both from a practical perspective (publicly disclose server configs? those can include sensitive information), and a theoretical perspective (what does that have to do with the source code at all?).
As is tradition, we managed to get all the downsides of both shutting down and not shutting down, with none of the benefits of either.
You are confused. If you try spending bitcoin cash on bitcoin network you will fail, because bitcoin cash utxos are not bitcoin utxos and bitcoin cash is not bitcoin. There are no additional 42 mil bitcoin, there are additional 42 mil of some other tokens spendable on some other networks.
Browsers will almost certainly begin to phase out user agent strings anyway: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-phase-out-user-agent... .

In the vast majority of use cases, these values should not be used to detect platform features - actual feature detection should be used instead.
> what do I use on a daily basis as an American that's a valued EU-based company?

Booking.com? Adyen? (they're worth more than Stripe)
Links isn't a text mode browser - I think it will display videos and pictures.

Form controls would be an obvious example of something relevant I think.
Yes. What do you pay for the flooring vs the work? I pay $100+ per square meter for the floor (aroud $10 per sq foot) and sanding is 1/10th to 1/5 that ($10 to $20 per square meter or $1-2 per sq foot) with the costlier ones having a better finish that more resembles the factory one.
In business, I believe this translates to always protecting against the downside.
I've heard that EV motors need to be guardrailed to keep them from snapping the axles.

The axle strength on this thing must be crazy.

7 electric motors must be able to crank out torque.
People don't go to these universities for prestige's sake, but for what prestige gets them. It's not really about the gold medal (for the vast majority), it's about being an elite athlete (i.e., being generally healthy and physically capable of impressive feats) and having the security to practice the discipline you love. Knowing that, you would build a network of schools that meet the full need of potential elite athletes, rather than rely on a handful of clubs and coaches. Which is exactly what we (and China, and the Soviet Union) did.
Congresspeople aren't paid a commission on tax revenue. The have no particular incentive to raise funds via text enforcement vs raising rates vs raising debt.
My definition is more mathematical:

gambling - where the odds are against you

investing - where the odds are in your favor
Doesn't Windows usually just use a .pdb file next to the exe/dll, containing the debugging information? So stripping debug information on Windows is just deleting (or not distributing) that file.
People derive value from a higher education beyond just prestige. A 100% prestige item like a medal is different.
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Notice it also identifies as "Mozilla", because User-Agent strings are more about not breaking shit than actually reporting what's going on.
Founderpool is based on peer selection. The belief is people are better able to pick companies in their vertical better.

But it is true that larger pool across sectors is more diversified
Passive lecturing is awful in general, but I'm not sure what the alternative is. At least with an online course you can pause, rewind, rewatch. With an in person lecture you are at the mercy of your note taking ability and the book. MOOCs were just becoming a thing when I was in graduate school and I really think my undergraduate experience would have been much better if they had existed then.
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