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the assertion being made here is not that Mandarin will become a dominant text-based language; it already is one. rather, the argument is that the ascendancy of China, abetted by its economic strategy in the developing world, will force Mandarin into a more central position on the Internet, like it or not.
For what so that my content get censored behind the great firewall of ccp china
CS Professor here: Depending on the institution, it's possible to get a PhD without an undergrad or meet alternative requirements to get an undergrad along the way.

The trick is you need to get admitted to the program. This is harder but doable. To get into a very good PhD program, you typically need some demonstrable track record of research and/or a letter of recommendation from a professor vouching for your interest/ability/potential. Of course, others do get in just on transcript and test scores, but it's rarer.

You could get a job as a programmer in a research lab and then leverage the relationships from there. Or you could try working with a professor informally (perhaps starting with software engineering for some project) and go from there.
Once someone knows you and knows you have interest and aptitude, the lack of an undergrad degree should be solvable for at least some universities.

Finally two pieces of advice: Ph.D.s are supposed to be paid. Not that well (think 25 to 30k a year for a low cost of living area, 45k for say NYC), but if not it's a major red flag. Second, the quality and trust you have in your PhD advisor is way more important than the institution. A Ph.D. is almost an apprenticeship under someone. It goes badly if that person treats you badly
It’s always frustrated me how it’s not possible to set a quota and turn off services at quota.

Logistically I know this is hard for water or power, but it should be feasible for cloud computing. But I think this is an area where it’s not in AWS’ interest to set up that kind of billing control.
Tim Ferriss changed my life about 6 years ago. This is an embarrassing revelation for me because it was a bunch of somewhat trite and unrealistic advice from the book, 4 hour work week. The reason it changed my life is because at his core, Ferriss challenges people to stop doing things because of inertia and because it's how it's always been done, then seek a better way. I was ready and capable of this, I think I just needed someone's permission and example that this way of thinking would work out in the end.

For my own story, my work, location and daily activities were not aligned with the life I wanted to live and weren't ever going to get me closer to what I wanted. I'd spent my 20's figuring out how to fit in, be likable, be a good employee. But the American dream is quite dead for most people and it was dead for me. Following the crowd was never going to even get me a white picket fence in my city, even if I'd wanted one.

The result has been the 6 most fantastically awesome years of my life. It's taken me to a new career, new locations, and new ways of doing everything. If you've read 4 hour work week, you'll know that Ferriss had years of adventures that most will never experience. It's been like that, but better.

If this is speaking to you. DO IT.
AWS is an amazing service and in our past been very accommodating for surprises as long as it seems we know what we are doing and are going to mitigate the cause. I’ve rarely seen this allegiance to the “customer” by an enterprise company. They really do care and they figured out the recipe to make caring scale.

What’s odd is the touch points are cold. Ticket system support, phone call back etc. it feels like it’s going to be robotic canned replies but they figured out a way to make the people on the other side smart enough to understand the issue, empowered enough to do something about it, empathetic enough to want to resolve things “fairly”.
This is the nightmare scenario with a personal AWS account. AWS billing setup makes it impossible to know that there is a giant bill until after the fact. I wish there was some way to limit the bill and just have everything shut down at that point for hobby projects.
No, renewables are public goods as they have positive net externalities, that is, a substantial share of the benefits of their use accrues to people outside the transaction. Well, relative to fossil fuels, at least; it's more accurate to say that fossil fuels are public harms with a substantial net negative externality.

Government action in the form of subsidizing the former and/or taxing the latter is necessary to internalize the externalities so that the relative net cost (benefit) is born by (accrues to) the participants in the transaction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
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Project Zero, their general position in security-first¹, and nice hardware have me sticking around, even though I can't stand their methods and mission (ad dollars by any means).

¹Watch out for your privacy, though, if you don't remove Google "services" from your devices.
TL;DR: Don't leave 10+ GB VM images open to the world on S3 unless you want pay everybody's bandwidth bills when they spin up a new instance using them. And set up billing alerts!
It’s only because I have a lot of respect for the Clojure language and ecosystem as a whole, but I often see non-Clojure developers or only hobbyists refer to the community as pretentious and get put off by that, so I like to call out those things that are unfortunately adding to that impression. Sorry if I overdid it.
Yes, we will certainly rectify those mistakes.
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Your complaint was about use of public money:

> they are currently building a church to the tune of 100 million euros.

> 70% or more of that came from public funding, essentially tax payer money rerouted to build this monstrosity, something the country really can not afford.

In Tesla's case, $428m of public money contributed almost one third of all profits made by the company in a single /quarter/, at a time when the dollar's future as a reserve currency is being called into question due to panic spending to support a system on the brink of collapse.

The trick will likely qualify it for inclusion in the S&P 500, making it further eligible for more of that sweet public money over winter, as the current administration discusses that index's performance as an explicit target on an almost weekly basis.
I'd add trail running to that lisyy
> I was the first employee

Remember that you are an employee unless you have any equity or something more than a normal employee. If you dont just dont sweat, focus on building skillset and move on. IF you don't have the time in your current organization just quit and focus on building your skill. I can't stress this enough.
I'm just surprised that the U.S uses such metric units as Watts and Joules, rather than foot-pounds or calories
Adding my own story to the article... I get where they are coming from...

I had to deal with the Facebook developer platform support recently, it was (still is) a nightmare... We only have 100 or so Facebook users, but dealing with their app approval process, review process, and repedative re-review process, has probably cost me 4 weeks of "maintenance" work in the last year to keep OAuth working for them.. And here's the best part: we request no additional scopes! We get first name, last name, email address, profile picture, the minimum to OAuth... No post read/write, no photo permissions (aside from profile picture), no friends access, nothing. We are literally the lowest risk app to end users that you can make on Facebook's platform...

They started a review on us a few weeks ago, we reported saying we needed more information (their wording was unclear)... They acknowledged the request for information, then a month later banned us without ever providing the information. We had an outage for Facebook users for 2-3 days while we waited for their support to read or appeal again asking for information. It's now been 7 weeks, and both requests for the same information has not been answered, I'm afraid they are going to ban us again in a week it two still not working with us...

Facebook is a nightmare to work with, we have no developers that actually want to keep working with them. It's offensive to most our developers that we have to link personal accounts to our work Facebook application.
Did they have newspapers that depend on 24/7 crises and ‘breaking’ disasters to survive, and had the reach of today’s online outlets?
Everyone is forced to pay for it because polluters created the problem.
Google App Engine used to do this (maybe still does?). Turns out that for most production services, having everything come to a screeching halt at the very moment your site suddenly goes viral is not desirable behavior.

What you want is billing alerts, so you can be notified if usage is suddenly (say) 2x usual.
> Renewables that are popular now, like solar and wind, are weather dependent, which means the grid needs to handle variable input, which it's not designed to do and would need major fixing.

Non-renewable plants have variable output even if it is not dependent on weather, and the grid in fact deals with variations in total and per-plant inputs whether or not solar or wind is attached. If there are problems with that, the need to address them is independent of the use of solar and wind.
Ocean algae, or more properly phytoplankton, produce 80% of the world's oxygen.[1] We are experiencing a slight decline in phytoplankton[2], which if it accelerates could become catastrophic for life on Earth. It's not clear why, but some theories exist suggesting that climactic change is resulting in the release of acidic substances sequestered in the oceans. As acidity of the oceans rise, they become less hospitable to phytoplankton.

How are humans contributing to the decline of the oceans? Over-fishing, whaling, plastics pollution, acidic rain... these are all directly caused by humans, and they all damage the ecosystem. Plastics are breaking down into microparticles floating in the oceans that cannot be cleaned up, and we are only beginning to understand what and how much damage it may be causing. Studies suggest that plankton eat plastic particles, with deadly results.[3]

The second largest producer of oxygen is the Amazon forests and jungles of South America. This vast region is shrinking by thousands of acres a year, as loggers and farmers develop the land. Unfortunately, this is reducing carbon sequestration as well, though farming does counteract that trend to some extent.

Also, destruction of the Amazon rain forests is reducing biodiversity, with unknown but likely significant effects on the continent, and on the world.

Humans have grown so numerous that we are literally destabilizing the planet, and we need to rein in our excessive industrial processes before we reach a point of no return that will take the planet millions of years to recover from.

1. https://eos.org/research-spotlights/worlds-biggest-oxygen-pr...

2. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-shows-oceani...

3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00456...
PineBook Pro can support an NVMe SSD with a cheap adapter that fits inside the case.
I wish there was photo management software which catered to non-enterprise multi-user environments.

ie families, or small organizations where the photos (and database) would reside on a computer, but other users on their computers could access it via the local network.

At the moment, this middle ground doesn't seem to exist. It's either single-user only photo management software or full-blown multi-user digital asset management software with enterprise-level pricing.
The digital wellbeing app is pretty much spyware. If you disable Google Play Service, the Wellbeing app (which cannot be disabled) will constantly complain that it won't work properly... The app has, among other permissions, the requirement to have full network access.

Similarly, if you use the default Gboard (keyboard) on Android, it's constantly trying to call home to Google servers, as with most other stock apps.

Android is just increasingly becoming spyware and best route is installing AOSP without GApps. Unfortunately, Google seems to be keen on limiting this behavior and increasing their lock-in with recent changes to Android, making it harder for the open source community to have control over the OS.
Which does not address the question of whether all the people detained and put in unmarked vehicles are listed there.

It just demonstrates that some people detained in Portland have been detained by officers working under those entities.
Cloud services need to have cost caps, plain and simple. This isn't cloudlflares fault, it's Amazon's, and it's the authors. Cloudflare should be detecting overall data transfer, but there's plenty of cases where terabytes of traffic is entirely expected. We know Amazon won't fix their service, so perhaps cloudflare could impliment bandwidth limits.
Yeah, this line I thought was hilarious because most Windows machines don't have an encrypted disk by default. (It makes data recovery and repair work harder for users who largely don't care about security.)
Ok there is a misconception in here:
legitimate basis is a broader term which is defined in recital 47. E.g.
"The processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes may be regarded as carried out for a legitimate interest." - Sentence 7 of recital 47.

However ever data processing based on legitimate basis is to be checked against the expectations of the data subject and its rights. This rational has to be explained to the data subject in plain words and the data subject has the right to object.

Also I am wondering, why are the recitals quoted and not the articles. The recitals are in fact part of the GDPR with the same value as the articles, but this is well, unusual.
To the best of my knowledge, I have ever dreamed. The abstract speaks of the dangers of not dreaming from lack of sleep and I wonder if the same thing applies to naturally not dreaming at all?
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The popularity of the word “irregardless” demonstrates a property of human thought and socialization that’s very important to most people here: that the majority of people (at least those that speak English) are perfectly happy copying other people’s behavior without asking why. More complex examples of this come from studies where people struggle to communicate the difference between Boolean operators (specifically OR and XOR.)

My point is that this is a reminder of why we have software engineers and why cheap contractors, AI, and easier to use tooling (such as “graphical programming languages) haven’t been able to replace them: people think and speak too imprecisely to communicate even just software specifications correctly let alone implement them.
PSA: This infographic applies to regular surgical masks. If you wear a properly fitted n95+, the mask will protect you, even if others are not wearing masks. Since n95s are in short supply, if you can get your hands on one they can be sterilize for re-use by leaving them out to dry for 3-4 days.

https://www.acoi.org/covid-19/n95reuse
Wow. Never before has an abstract felt so mind blowing to read
It’s far more likely that you just don’t remember your dreams.
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From the article:

> Cloudflare was the least helpful service I could have imagined given the circumstances. A long term user and on and off customer thinks they were attacked for two days and you don’t lift a finger?

> File this under, “Things I should’ve known but didn’t.” Did you know that “The maximum file size Cloudflare’s CDN caches is 512MB for Free, Pro, and Business customers and 5GB for Enterprise customers.” That’s right, Cloudflare saw requests for a 13.7 GB file and sent them straight to origin every time BY DESIGN.

I don't really see how Cloudflare has much blame here. He's an "on and off customer" which I'm guessing means currently "off". They only cache a limited number of file extensions (qcow2 isn't one of them), and it's all documented.

AWS always seems pretty generous in resolving these cases at least.
You don't set caps low enough to stop if you want that kind of traffic. You set them higher to the point you're not willing to pay and can't be affording.
>I think carbon emitters should be the ones paying. Otherwise you privatize the profits and socialize the cleanup expenses. .

Isn't that exactly what the parent comment proposed?

>Is it a bad thing to force people who use a commodity to pay for its cleanup?
Thanks, I'm going to play with it as it is the closest thing to what I think can function well even though I did not mean using a web browser as an interface.
Seems to be Windows only, no?
I had never heard of that, but the idea of it makes me think of all my neighbors growing up in the 90s who were spending tens of thousands of dollars cleaning up contamination from leaking underground heating oil tanks. It was a major issue for people buying and selling older houses...sellers hiding knowledge of leaking tanks, surprise discoveries etc. In the worst cases the soil decontamination could cost over $100k. I can only imagine what fun these end-of-life home nuclear reactors would be causing 50 years later!
> It’s always frustrated me how it’s not possible to set a quota and turn off services at quota.

Which services you want to turn off or alter use of as you cross various thresholds vary, so what you probably want is a billing information services that sends alerts at configurable levels that trigger programmed actions that are more complex than a simple shutdown.

It would be easy to stop all spend at a threshold, but that means your entire set of apps stops working and all retained data (which usually has an associated periodic cost) vanishes irretrievably, which might be okay for an account being used for only toy apps but is going to be a business-ending error for any serious account

There's a good reason why cloud providers don't provide a simple “nuke your account at a particular spend threshold” option, and the fact that people who haven't thought things through think that they want such an option is actually a factor in not providing it.

If people can't keep track of spend with alerts to know that they need to take some kind of controlled restriction of services, they are going to regret unexpectedly having their whole set of services and data nuked more than an unexpectedly large bill in most cases.
Yeah they are also directly subsidized.
Even if you read the ToS, do you really expect people to remember this? CloudFlare blends into the background when setup properly, and you don't have to think about it. If you upload a big file to your site as part of some other work -- especially personal -- most people are not running through the ToS of every service that might be involved thinking about compliance.

Terns of service are also legal "CYA" documents. If CloudFlare was actually serious about that restriction, there'd be a technical limitation in place that would, for example, serve a 503.
While all of this may be true, the science around all of this is much less settled than the tone of your comment makes it sound.
I tried the app. Why isn’t the animation quality as nice as the web version?
German android user here. This is absolutely wrong. I suspect you are misinterpreting the permission message on Android. The app does not turn anything on. I suggest you to learn how androids permission system works before throwing out wrong accusions.
There is not a single good “mobile os.”

Trash all of them and just put GNU/Linux on your devices if you really have to have a smart phone.
Interesting.
“But then there started to be curious sightings, all around town: Rats, alive and healthy, running around without their tails.

It turned out the hunters would rather amputate a live animal’s tail than take a healthy rat, capable of breeding and creating so many more rats—with those valuable tails—out of commission. There were also reports that some Vietnamese were smuggling foreign rats into the city. And then the final straw: Health inspectors discovered, in the countryside on the outskirts of Hanoi, pop-up farming operations dedicated to breeding rats.”
> The only real solution I see is nuclear, but that's a naughty word for some reason.

I am sure that if you put your mind to it you can think of some reasons people might feel uneasy about nuclear power. It’s not like incidents involving it are that far in the past.
They've only now started to roll out. Our corporate IT is now putting them in the default config for everyone's laptop.
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Is this a reasonable estimate, or are you trying to dismiss something by hyperbole?
There are some pretty wild solutions to this out there, like building large floating power plants in shipyards. Assembly line style. This was highly developed by a joint venture between Newport news and Westinghouse in the 1970s.

Also, an important true fact is nuclear economics today are on par with system economics of all other hypothesized low carbon energy systems. Though wind and solar generator prices will fall, grid integration and storage will add $40/MWh. Nuclear is already right where other options will end up.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.08.006
Solar gets lots of love. But when planet-based its down 50% of the time - at night. Not very useful for life support.

I don't know why orbital solar isn't discussed more. Folks cite efficiency losses when transmitting to ground, but does it rise to 50% like ground-based?
I'm really curious about your career change (since I'm thinking of the same!) - if it's not too personal, could you please elaborate a bit more?
Cuelang is an example. It's for configuration where we really need a dedicated and common language, because Yaml is being abused at this point.

Golang is an interesting example as a language which decided to be minimal, opinionated, leave out fancy language features. It was built to be "in the service of software engineering."

Largely, the world evolves, tech evolves, and so will out languages for translation between the two.
But that is exactly how language evolves. People say stupid shit often enough and it eventually stops sounding stupid. See also: ain't, firstly, cisgender, etc.
I think the title should be "GitHub Profile Readme Templates". I was confused why every one was a person's resume instead of what I was expecting, a template for documenting a project.

The ones I saw all shared the sensibility of something written in Comic Sans MS using the <blink> tag.
Since we know the programs have bugs, photo formats evolve, some of the files are intentionally broken by "evil things" should not we write complex programs taking that into account rather than think that everyone else is an amateur and our code is so state of the art it will just handle bad conditions flawlessly?
After 2 centuries of indiscriminate replanting? I seem to have a better grasp than most on this topic.
With interest rates being low, the return on equities is still attractive.
Off topic but on the same line. One of the most annoying things about being a consumer in the US is the ubiquitous unknown-until-last-minute pricing.

You rent a car, you don't know what the total is going to be. You go to the hospital, you don't know how much you're going to have to pay. You book a hotel and don't know the total until you check out. You go to a restaurant and even if you order just one thing and saw the exact price on the menu, that's not going to be the total. You go to the grocery store, see all the prices on the items, add them up, and then when you go pay, surprise!
This would make me move more work stuff back to AWS. I want everything to stop when I hit that limit.