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just because someone is good at one thing does not mean they are good at (or care to be good at) another thing. Can most people be educated on $BASIC_SUBJECT? For the most part, yes. Are they interested in doing so? In many cases, no.

Some examples off the top of my head:

A teacher I worked with who previously owned his own business literally thought the screen/monitor of a computer could watch him. Even after going over how computers work, he looked shifty at his computer. He was unconvinced.

A teacher I worked with could not, after multiple sessions of helping her, understand how to sort outlook mail.

A former boss (owned his own business, made great money, very smart) double clicked _everything_, even when single click would work. Was not interested in changing.

A doctor friend using his patient software - if anything went off script, he had to call in someone else to get him back to a known point.

A former math professor neighbor needed to regularly send out mailers. I helped him set up the most simple solution I could come up with for printing the mailing labels. "Here, open the internet, go to this site, log in, and click the save link. Open this other program, import that data. Load your printer and press print." He needed help. Every. Single. Time. While he said he understands that he pays AOL for internet, he said he does not know what that means (this was like 5 years ago, still using AOL?!). Tried to probe his knowledge and help fill gaps. Never happened. If his internet browser icon moved, he could not get on the internet.

I'm a reasonably smart guy. Don't ask me to fix your car. Or paint. I'll make a mess. Also, basic medical/biology goes in one ear and out the other.

My best friend (granted this was back in high school) could not spell "girl" (literally, "hey, how do you spell girl? Uh, girle?") or solve two step algebra equations. But he could rebuild an engine and identify the type of aircraft flying overhead by the sound the engine made. Mechanical genius. Fast forward a few years, and he found out he really likes geology. Suddenly, he is able to write coherent essays and solve advanced chemistry equations. Amazing what _interest_ in something can do.

Any reasonably intelligent person can be taught a lot as long as they are interested. Many people are just not interested in learning new things, especially when it comes to computers.

Now, on the complete flip side, a service clerk I was talking to two days ago likes to scan in 3d wood models, clean them up in vector based image software, move the files to autocad, and use a laser cutter to make the same models out of metal, and uses an older version of Premier to edit drone footage he captures. My mom figured out on her own how to spoof her user agent to access media that was not supposed to be available to her - but still thinks I hacked her phone via an old computer tower of hers that I was unable to fix.
> "flatten the curve" etc had been a lie,

What? I guess you didn't see the body count in NYC and NJ?
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Google seems to be paying technical writers to build the free (growing) alternative to MDN, https://web.dev. It's not a generalized web resource yet like MDN, but just wait. Of course, you'll have to accept that the documentation here will likely have a Chrome-centric view of web development, further establishing the Chrome-only version of the web.

The loss of MDN will just result in Firefox becoming less relevant. MDN was not just a free resource, it anchored Firefox's relevancy in the web development world. I believe the layoffs of the MDN team is a fairly significant strategic mistake for Mozilla.
No, what I'm describing is a single .html (or .xhtml file, if you like), compressed and sent on its way. Editing it as a series of xhtml, css, img, and manifest files makes perfect sense -- it allows a human to craft a book using the level of tooling that makes the most sense for them (from a word document to raw html to markdown to more sophisticated tools) but all of those tools can then retarget to a monolith that is easy to define and consume.
Just use WASM. Should be a lot easier than porting to JS.
Beyond shitty. As if hiding behind Chromium will help them. I'm sure GOOG can't think of

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=62rAjp5Nr9g

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/02/21/google-wa...

Ways to mess with Chromium Edge. It's not like it's a company full of smart, engineers, capable of skirting around the law.
Most Jailbreaks today are "tethered" in some way, which means the Jailbreak disappears (to varying degrees†) once the phone is turned off. For Jailbreaks like unc0ver, this means you need to re-run a bootstrap app every time you reboot your phone, in order to return to "Jailbroken" mode and allow unsigned code.

This, of course, is a catch-22. You need to run an app to allow unsigned apps, but that app can't run if it isn't signed.

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† The community makes a distinction between "tethered", "semi-tethered", and "semi-untethered" jailbreaks. The jailbreak I described above is "semi-untethered". You really couldn't come up with terminology more prone to getting mixed up...
Usually the provider of a system or a standard also provides the documentation. Should my employer also pay to keep MSDN c# docs up to date? Or should that be the task of microsoft employees?
I agree with this, but would also add that it might not be STEM related. If one moves to an area with a cultural views different from their own, they may see some backlash, especially if they are pushing for changes or show support for those changes (like political bumper stickers).
If the developers are independent contractors, sure. If they are employees, no, the employer should pay

Just like lawyers and LexisNexis and similar tools.
> If you deny these skills exist by pretending anyone can do it, you’re demeaning the people who have actually taken the time and trouble to build up those skills.

See also: programming.
I have this shell script as `chrome-new` in my path for testing in Chrome and the rare site that is broken in Firefox. It gives me a totally clean profile each time to minimize the amount of Google spying that goes on and reduce my tendency to use the browser for anything but the current task. Sadly despite --no-make-default-browser, it still asks me with an infobar every time I start it.

#!/bin/sh
test -e "$(which chromium)" && CHROME="chromium"
test -e "$(which google-chrome)" && CHROME="google-chrome"
test -e "$(which google-chrome-dev)" && CHROME="google-chrome-dev"
TMPDIR=`mktemp -d /dev/shm/chrome-XXXXX`
$CHROME --user-data-dir=$TMPDIR --no-first-run --no-make-default-browser "$@"
rm -rf $TMPDIR
Many employers pay for reference materials like this. Universities and hospitals pay insane amounts of money to Elsevier, Springer Nature & Co for scientific journals, others to orgs like ANSI, ISO or DIN. All this stuff is so expensive that no one can be expected to pay it out of his own pocket.
Trump's tweet, referenced at the end of the article, suggests that the decision on whether to execute or support Snowden depends on whether the revelations are politically useful to Trump's campaign:

> In a 2013 tweet, Trump wrote: “Snowden is a spy who should be executed-but if it and he could reveal Obama’s records, I might become a major fan.”

I still hope there is a pardon in the works though.
Trump’s executive order for the latest stimulus. The stimulus programs are clearly legislative, and as such are constitutionally the duty of congress. He even watched congress debate and negotiate a stimulus package, didn’t like their result, and with an unconstitutional EO, spent a trillion dollars.

The choices to disallow religions institutions from congregating while allowing BLM protests seems like it’s a ploy to suppress religion and not an effort to protect people as well.
> how much faith do you have in the perpetuity of that benevolence

None! Literally none. This is a huge risk for our country, and we should thinking about what it means for the next 1000 years, not the next 10.

Bezos appears to truly, truly believe in Customer Obsession. The culture definitely softened while I was there though, and I can't imagine how it'll change in 200 years. I can't guarantee his great grandkids won't be dicks. I don't really want to live in the corporatist city state of Seattle By Amazon with its "benevolent" AI overlord and its drone stazi in 2234, ya know?
This is the problem with the whole industry right now.

How Google win - and they do it with many of their products - is that they bother to make their products just superior enough to the competition, that you basically have no choice but to use their product, unless you want a deliberately inferior experience.

It's not just Chrome vs. Firefox, which I'm very sad about. Another big example for me is on my iPhone. Google's GBoard is simply superior to anything else I've ever tried, and yet I know it's spying on absolutely everything I'm typing on the device (pre-encryption), at all times, and it even bullies me into staying online if I want the keyboard to work fully properly. (It's slower and the prediction stuff doesn't work half as well if I'm in flight mode for whatever reason.)
Neither do I, but it's convenient to use the same stuff in dev you use in prod.
You're right that GDPR doesn't use the TLA "PII", but literally the first definition is "‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person".

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/
Sure, great ! Do you also have a Python binding for nbconvert ? There are about a dozen places where we render and sanitize markdown can you go add hooks for asciidoc as well ? There also need to be an option for user to select the formatting they want, and likely store that in the notebook format ; I guess it will take you only a couple of hours to patch it and translate. The docs will need fixing as well.

Once you've done it for notebook, can you do it for Lab, VS Code, Nteract, Cocal, Colaboratory ? Thanks.
Also bring your own chair and desk while we're at it. Oh and you definitely want to buy some toilet paper. Felix always keeps a stock on those but he never shares.
That, and enough time has passed with Snowden in exile that it still carries the message the Intelligence Community wanted sent - ie. don't do this!

So, bringing him back to the US and pardoning him with "time served in exile", might be sufficient to make it more acceptable to a broader audience versus a 2014 pardon.
It's moreso that constitutional jurisprudence is more contextual to civic emergency than most people appreciate.
I’ve wondered why we continue to display URLs as painfully-long single lines of text. Tradition? Why is this helpful anymore? (e.g. On an iPhone it’s not easy to edit the end of a URL.)

If it’s so damn hard to display full URLs on one line, let’s display them on several lines (at least after tapping on them), broken on dots to wrap. Spaces aren’t valid in URLs anyway.
Not anymore: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368363/epic-google-fort...
I bet its about the “opportunity cost aesthetics”—-Apple thinks QR codes are butt ugly. See also the round App Clips codes recently introduced, and the very late (I bet teeth-grittingly reluctant) introduction of QR scanning in the first-party iOS Camera app.
>These business degrees are fake subjects...

I went to college late dropped out and then went to college again even later in life.

There are many more job opportunities available to me now. But funny you talk about business degrees I found out I lost a job I was qualified for to a person with a business degree. It was just Helpdesk but the business degree person had no IT experience. It was at a large well-known financial organization.

>I do agree the college format should change completely, go online, etc. I think efficiency should be a part of that.

When I went back to college many of the students younger than me had nothing but contempt for classroom style learning. Some of those people failed within the first semester or early second semester. There's also a strong belief anything can be learned by Googling it. I learned about Course Hero when my lab partner submitted a paper we worked on, I was almost expelled. Knowing something takes effort even if you are handed the answers. You can't shortcut learning because knowledge isn't given it's earned.
It'd be nice if there was a form of encryption where a user could provide a secondary password plus a unique hash associated with a file to check if that file is present without opening up access to everything.
I recommend Paul Freedman's Ten Restaurants That Changed America. The section on Howard Johnson's is very interesting.
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I agree about DDG, but not dev tools.

I used to think they weren’t as good, but they are good. And I think I’m a pretty serious dev tools user.

BUT, if you want to keep using Chrome dev tools that doesn’t mean you can’t switch to FF. Just de-personalize Chrome (clear you history, sessions, settings etc) and then you’ll stop using it. Say you’re developing and open a new tab to search something on SO: you won’t be logged in on SO. Same goes with any site. So you’ll instantly realize you’re using Chrome to browse and hop over to FF instead.

Seems like a lot of work but it’s not. Maybe I drank the kool aid but I now feel naked browsing with Chrome and try to avoid it as much as possible. I think the important thing is to stop using Chrome for personal browsing.
There's still plenty of room for creativity even with an extreme top-down approach, like this series does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8QDQmOoys

> Over a few months I designed an entire Factorio base without testing any of it. The goal is to create a mid-sized base capable of building a megabase. A secondary goal is to not break down or rebuild anything ever.

The challenge isn't that it's hard to figure out the ratios or math out the machines you need, it's in getting to having the production to make that base without falling asleep waiting on things. Continual bootstrapping towards that end goal is the gameplay.
The US has countless examples of covert operations that de-stabilised nations and killed other soldiers. Perhaps a cruise missile should be aimed at one of our generals, I'm sure you'd support that.

> We’ve just seen peace agreements begin to bear fruit in the ME —would that have been possible with that guy stirring hornets’s nests?

Syria is still a cluster, Palestine is more oppressed than ever, endless war in Yemen, slave labor in Qatar for the world cup. Kurds abandoned and slaughtered by Turkey. Iran has major instability issues, Pakistan and India have had a major skirmish (granted, not the ME, but it's close enough.)
excelent by a perl programmer.. and so many never try modern perl
If that was true, we would've had a totalitarian-style lock down back in late Feb or early March. That didn't happen, obviously. Instead, the lack of a decisive, coordinated response, and "we'll leave it to the states...." is what caused all of this to get much, much worse.
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The position is configurable. There is a setting that will allow you to move it back where it "belongs".
And if you aren't convinced, SQLite (and postgres) implemented MongoDB as a feature ;-)
I think it's fairly well-known at this point, but I find it interesting that the game will never be on sale [0]:

> We state it on our steam page, but people are still asking about it so I want to state it officially. We don't plan any Factorio sale. I'm aware, that the sale can make a lot of money in a short period of time, but I believe that it is not worth it in the long run, and since we are not in financial pressure we can afford to think in the long run. We don't like sales for the same reason we don't like the 9.99 prices. We want to be honest with our customers. When it costs 20, we don't want to make it feel like 10 and something. The same is with the sale, as you are basically saying, that someone who doesn't want to waste his time by searching for sales or special offers has to pay more.

I like their reasoning, and I think it helps to show how focused they are on the quality of the game (as well as, you know, 8 years of early access).

[0] https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-140
One thing which really resonated:

"But will you do the boring but necessary browser testing to figure out if what you’re describing is always true, or just most of the time? And will you repeat that testing once new versions have come out? Will you go through related pages..."

This. A thousand times this. The problem for me isn't the quantity of information any more, it's the quality. 10-15 years ago if you hit an even slightly esoteric problem you'd bottom out a search pretty quickly and be on your own. Now, you'll find dozens of blog articles, community answers, Reddit threads... and unless you're very lucky they will all be wrong, from subtle "works on my machine"-isms up to "just commit a god-rights CI token to your repository, it'll be fine" - the telltale sign often being nobody can tell you why this is the solution, merely that they bashed other random solutions to related problems together until a particular combination happened to work.

Authoritative sources like MDN are vital in this context, having something you can refer to that tells you how things actually work so you can verify whether the suggestion you or a co-worker found on a blog is a sensible solution or the kind of horrible mess you'd expect to find alongside world-writable S3 buckets and services that regularly time out due to being OOM killed.
Do you have these standards with all companies you pay for services? Seems like it might limit you somewhat...
> because he feels it was used against him

It's seeming like this is quickly turning from a "he feels it was used against him" into an unequivocal "it was used against him".
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Yep. The Internet is now "The Google."
If you remove the DRM from your browser, then you can't watch some content anymore. That's not the case with this code. You can remove it with no loss of functionality.
Great overview. the author says that it is for non-technical people, but as a tech-person I thought it was a great summary.
There's a third option, which is Taboo in the US.
I don’t think 20 year olds avoid this path because they lack your insight, it’s probably more that most people can’t get $200k from their parents to start a business.
It isn’t meaningful. It’s effectively a pointer. Pointers point to meaningful data but mean nothing by themselves.
The laws that would out Snowden and Manning in prison for life are unjust and there's nothing wrong with what either of them did. I don't blame Snowden for leaving a country full of idiots calling for his death
> When I made the switch, I also tried to ditch Google

> for DDG, but I haven't been able to make it work.

My experience has unfortunately been the same; I often need to click through pages of DDG results to find the results I want, while Google tends to show it within the first 3-5 results. I tried using it for several months as my main search engine (last time I tried was 2019), and I basically just ended up typing `!g` in muscle memory when working.

For now, I'm using StartPage [1] which works quite well:

> You can’t beat Google when it comes to online search.

> So we’re paying them to use their brilliant search

> results in order to remove all trackers and logs. The

> result: The world’s best and most private search engine.

[1]: https://startpage.com/
If the developer is being hired as a contractor, perhaps so; this could be negotiable as part of the contract.

If the developer is hired as an employee, then in general I'd say no. It's the employer's responsibility to provide the tools and resources the developer needs to perform the job effectively -- whether that's hardware, software, documentation, or working environment.
Fantastic idea. I'd be much more likely to donate to Mozilla if I could specifically allocate it to dev tools or MDN.
Good news, it's a great program.

It might be better to use the URL about the release: https://www.darktable.org/2020/08/darktable-321-released/ (rather than the "news" page)
That's a great idea! At this point, you could totally say that Larry, Sergey, Jeff, and Mark have all won at capitalism. Let's cash them out and give their shares to the people.
Just to be clear, I don't think anybody is arguing that you should use containers like you would a VPS, merely that you can. I would bet everyone here would agree that just because you can doesn't mean you should :-D
A newspaper editor was arrested for under the Sedition Act for accusing Washington of incompetence. The whole "what the Founders thought about the Constitution" thing has always been a bit of a stretch.
Wrong logic. Marketing didn't see the opportunity to mislead people till now.

Although in this case, it can be all about further abstracting the URL detail from end user, as I mentioned in another comment.
Won't this just encourage China to make their own system like they're doing with computer chips now?
Even desktop Safari does this by default! And yet no one was outraged.
One of the primary advantages for authors in contributing back code is to get their features/bug fixes incorporated so that they are maintained going forward and you don't have to maintain a separate code base yourself (i.e. saving work) If you maintain your own obscure fork, you lose many of the benefits of contributing code. This is particularly true for many for-profit companies: they want to forget about any driver work they contributed the second they stop making money selling it.
Sure, I agree with that. But the parent was talking about, well, the parents' motivation.

The parents probably recognize that, if their kid fails miserably at Harvard but manages to graduate with a questionably useful degree, they will still succeed because they'll still be able to flex their network to get a job of some kind with a salary.

Once you have a salaried position your life has a step jump in stability.
Something complementary -- because this article just takes a moment to talk about the different encoding schemes -- a wonderful, terse, very informative video describing how utf-8 encoding works and why (with a little history) by Tom Scott/Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MijmeoH9LT4
I always find I start running out of patience for the game once I get to fluids.
Yeah that was devastating this week but maybe it can somehow reverse itself, I don’t know.
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