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I want people who think this is good to do a mental experiment.

Forget that this particular drug is LSD. I want you to imagine you are reading an article about a previously unknown drug made by a new company that is touted to have great efficacy in treating mental illness.

However, you soon learn that the side effect of this drug is serious hallucinations every time you take it, often serious enough that people recommend that you only take it in the presence of a licensed professional able to deal with the fallout of a hallucinatory episode going bad.

Not only this, there is the potential of long lasting and fundamental personality change from it. Not just getting you back to a functional state, but changing who you are as a person. To the point where recreational users take this drug to find quasi-mystical experiences and make themselves a better person.

Would you guys really be gung ho about this drug if it were not called LSD and was made by Pfizer in a lab?

I'd honestly be scared enough to only even consider it as a last resort to cases where it was impossible to function otherwise. But LSD gets touted way too much as a miracle drug here, even though if any other drug had these side effects, people would try everything but it first.
To play devil's advocate, isn't it a little bit generic to just name a few instances of abuse of censorship, rather than working with data to determine to what degree misinformation rather than truthful information was targeted? Because just from a bird's eye view, if one plots the press freedom index against the covid-19 death rate, I don't think you'd get a plot that the author would expect based on this article.

I don't think the article tackles hard and serious questions around speech. Banning the doctor in China from speaking out was extremely bad, but say, what about a potential effect of stopping a panic in Wuhan and people from fleeing the region and taking the virus everywhere?

I don't necessarily mean this as a defense of censorship but rather as taking a genuinely critical view of failures in our systems.
If there's going to be a change, I suggest just switching to the other link.
As I often say, "Growing old sucks, but it is better than the alternative."*

*I can't take credit. I got it from someone else, but I don't remember who.
"Software product overhaul" is a terrifying term because there really is no such thing. The program you have already might be able to be modified to have a different user interface (which is what I think you might be asking for), or it might be entirely replaced by something new.

Unless you have lots of time and money to throw at this, most architect-level programmers will vote for the first solution, change the UI to make the user happy. Not a being a programmer yourself, its impossible for you to know if it's really "built on sand." It might be great under the hood and have a terrible interface; that's very common.

A real architect would need to weigh-in on the technical deficits that would be incurred by rewriting or discarding parts of the existing system, including thinking about all the switching costs of getting everyone over to the new product. Its possible that your dev team might vote for that, but more likely that they will put your feature requests in the "feature request bucket" and get to them as time and tech allow.
I can also mirror this general guideline. I've run 250+ node erlang clusters just fine in the past. There were some caveats to how some built-in OTP libraries behaved but they were easy to replace or workaround in the past.

That was many years ago as well. The distributed erlang story has improved with more recent releases (better performance on remote monitors for example) which might push the number a little higher than 300 if you are careful. Keep in mind the default style of clustering is fully connected so there is some danger in managing that many network connections (quadratically scaling for each node added) during network partitions which can be a problem if you're not tuning things like TCP's TIME_WAIT for local networking conditions.

Even better, these days there are great libraries like partisan (https://github.com/lasp-lang/partisan) which can scale to much larger cluster sizes and can be dropped in for most distributed erlang uses cases w/o much effort.
Ah, it seems we are following the Google way then! I was wondering why my manager had some 100 direct reports. I guess it’s just to prevent meddling.
> The delta between Postgres an SQL Server instance pricing per hour doesn't take much to add up to a salary for a mid range DBA.

I agree with you, leadership didn't shrug. Keeping to as few technologies as possible is a more pricey, but also more conservative choice.
Thank you. Agree 100%.

I'm not doing a good job of making a distinction between "educational technology" and access to technology and broadband.

Schools just suck at technology. Generally speaking.

Access to broadband is a human right. Along with food, clothes, shelter, etc.

We should be gifting a new iPad w/ cell service to every kid every year. I just don't think the schools should be responsible for those devices.
Does the OpenCATS license create substantial business problems?

Is OpenCATS missing important business requirements?
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I clicked this link expecting to find obscure ways to start an Apple Xserve.
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Motion sickness is much more likely when people can't see the horizon. This might be mitigated with forward facing monitors for each passenger.

But I'd pay for a six hour Six Flags experience. Turbulence and G's are fun for some.
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You can blame the software, but you can also blame the organization for not having a backup system.
> For a recent confirmation of this, witness the enormous amount of effort expended on GPDR compliance.
None of it could have been done before computing power became so cheap that it needed to be wasted on doing it.

Everyone complains about useless procedures, but I think the real culprit is that we have no framework for discussing value.

We do - money. That's why GDPR breaches cost lots of money - to make sure organisations don't allow breaches to happen.
> In an ideal world, the reading experience of a Kindle book is the same as the physical book. So someone might argue that ratings should be aggregated across all version of the product. Would you expect different ratings for hardcover/paperback versions of books? Probably not, at least assuming people review the content of the book, not its appearance.

Right, the issue though is that there is a much larger gulf between the eBook and print book than there is between the paperback and hardcover. And the delivery mechanism can greatly affect your enjoyment of the book. It's about more than just appearance. Source code in particular, does not often work well on a Kindle's tiny screen.
What a tragedy. Assange is a hero if an imperfect one.
Wow, it sounds like an apocalyptic story that comp.risks has warned in the 1990s. (From those who don't know: comp.risks was a well-known Usenet forum on the systematic risks of computing technologies in society, and they publish a newsletter since the mid-80s.)
It looks cool and sounds cool but I doubt it will get popular.

You have entire companies, organizations, groups, standards, certifications, training and employees built around the current airframes. Its not going to be easy to change all of those overnight.

Not to mention, current airframes are the way they are because its what works best. Ever wondered why engines are always on the bottom of the wings, never on the top, or almost never on the back? Because its close to the ground and easy to maintain. Ever wonder why the wings are pointed upwards and swept back? Because those are the most fuel efficient and stable configurations. Flat fuselages like in the V plane means less heigh clearance which means passenger planes will have less space and freight planes will have trouble carrying certain shapes of cargo. All in all, that makes it hard to sell for any airplane manufacturers that want to make it

The current airframes are the way they are because of decades of incremental improvements and selections of which designs work and which don't. The entire industry or even a good enough chunk of it wont just drop that overnight
Pyro II
I agree that it's missing stuff. I only had a quick glance and I could not find the Sherlock Holmes books in those playlists but the audiobooks are definitely on Spotify. I think it's a tricky problem to solve without better Spotify support.
Every time I think about using Phoenix, I get scared off by warnings about how not knowing BEAM can result in serious problems. I’m not sure if that conclusion is justified but it’s where I end up every time. It’s odd and unfortunate that Elixir and especially Phoenix seem to have invested heavily in being approachable but the rest of the ecosystem seems to have warning signs posted all over the place.

Is this a fair impression? Or is it possible to run Phoenix in production and gradually learn more about the BEAM, leveling up as you encounter new challenges?
Or you use a power saw to slice it after taking out of the freezer?
Well it likely is stale. Warming the bread in toaster will reverse the staling process. The the article mentions this.

You’re spot on about the mould.
Great resource, thank you for curating this list!
To play devil's advocate, they should be merged because they're mostly the same product. If I'm contemplating buying a paperback novel, I might read criticism from reviewers who only had the hardback edition. Maybe occasionally this will make me buy some books with poor-quality printing and binding, but mostly I'm interested in the content of the book. And if I did care about the presentation, I might be better off reading reviews for different paperback books by the same publisher.

In the same way, an e-book mostly has the same content as its paper source, and most of the time the publication process will be of an acceptable quality and what I care about is the content.
> "People in Finland have the right to disappear.

Really? In most European countries there is a requirement to register your home address with the state. See https://www.norden.org/en/info-norden/notifying-move-and-pop...

So you can hide your location from family but you do not have a general right to hide from the state. The same applies in all the Nordic countries.
You think it's possible to treat mental illness without "the potential for long lasting and fundamental personality change"?

Doesn't everything have the risk of causing "long lasting and fundamental personality change," including traveling to another country? It's just a shift in perspective.
Probably but you're on their site at this stage, buying from them. Yes, they are pushing you to a product that (I assume) has a margin higher profit margin, but this is not like a neutral product comparison site.
I don’t think that’s quite true. I probably write 10x less code than most of my colleagues, but where I write code it impacts (and hopefully improves) everything.
FUSE for macOS: Why a popular open-source library became closed source (2019)
Outside of big cities, you're looking at <50k EUR gross. Granted, software wages outside big cities in Poland are significantly worse, but you can live pretty grand life in Warsaw for the same amount as simple life in Germany, while saving more.
Ask HN: Is Alternate DNS Down?
It seems Alternate DNS servers don't answer anymore.
Frankly, a flying wing would at least have placement of seats in a non-roller coaster configuration.
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You wouldn’t need good speech to text. The purpose would only be to establish synchronization between audio and text, and where you don’t have synchronization you could assume that the speaker is carrying on at their normal words per minute.
I'm not the only one who thought this was going to be more of a Genghis Khan situation rather than a PewDiePie, right...?
> but [in Rust] I'm also worried that I'll be less productive worrying about lifetimes all the time

I'd avoid getting too concerned about this! Explicit lifetime annotations are nowhere near as prevalent in 'modern' (2015+) Rust as they were in the early days, and it's somewhat rare to need to think about them.

The most helpful advice I had on this was to avoid passing references in Rust beyond simple cases unless there is a real need - owning data is much simpler, and clones are generally fine until you get to optimising a program.

If you're interested in Rust for web dev, now is a great time to jump in - while not as mature as Ruby or C# in terms of ecosystem, Rocket is now usable with stable Rust, and Warp is (IMO) a close-to-best-in-class library for building HTTP servers.
Sliced Bread Was Once Illegal in the United States?
I believe that is exactly why companies like EPAM exist, to contract out the engineers left idle after the collapse of the USSR.
Yees we had a "modding community" in our small village exchanging mods via floppy disc, the "clonk script" language was my first programming experience.

Playing this game in local coop was probably the best way to use your family pc.

Am still impressed by how well the voxel based physics are performing (water flowing, earthquakes, sand) compared to modern 2d games, which often can't handle stuff like that even on multicore systems.

Always felt a little sad for this legendary shareware dev to have missed the era of the early indie-games boom on steam.
Well admittedly when you get older you tend to forget these things. :)
an early game by Mike O'Brien (Guild Wars, WarCraft II, WarCraft III, Diablo and StarCraft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_O%27Brien_(game_developer...
I would say for Phoenix, with 90% of the magic... if you don't like it it's relatively easy to cut and paste your way through an override, so there's that. A lot of it is there for your safety, it abstracts things that "you are likely to get wrong if you try to write it yourself".

The only thing I couldn't figure out how to override was streaming uploads.
Hiya,

Sorry, I was wrong. According to the spec you definitely have to send the access token back in the response body[0].

However, a client can store them as cookies (or, as you mention, other places, such as a service worker[1]). This is useful if the client is a single page application (SPA), which may need to present the access token to other resource servers.

RFC 6750 has something to say about how to store the bearer token [2]:

> Don't store bearer tokens in cookies: Implementations MUST NOT store bearer tokens within cookies that can be sent in the clear (which is the default transmission mode for cookies). Implementations that do store bearer tokens in cookies MUST take precautions against cross-site request forgery.

So, I apologize. The authorization server wouldn't send the access token as a cookie. Instead, there'd be a server side proxy which would request the token and then send it down as a secure cookie. Again, best practice would be to keep the access token on the server side proxy and just send a session id down to the client, but that sometimes doesn't work. Here is a diagram illustrating that path (with the 'store' entity acting as the proxy mentioned above)[3].

0: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-5.1

1: https://gitlab.com/jimdigriz/oauth2-worker

2: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6750#page-13

3: https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/authentication/web...
Elliot Dallen said: "Life is for enjoyment."

True. In other words you shouldn't do the 32 body parts contemplation if you are not yet ready to drop attachment to life enjoyments.
Although maybe it does if you read it on a full-size tablet. In general, I mostly avoid buying books I know aren't 95% text in Kindle format unless they're very cheap or are from a known publisher for things like guidebooks. They can work well but it's definitely hit or miss. (I also just don't like ebooks for certain types of references where I want to stick post-its etc.)
how does that boot taste
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And it's possible to earn far more than 40k EUR a year in Poland as well. Google Warsaw starts at 45k EUR for new grads, and you're looking at 80k EUR for senior software engineers. There are a few high pitching companies that try to match that. I was rather pointing out the typical case that covers most of the workers.
I recently came across a quote that was en eye opener.

"Its better to be grateful than to be regretful."
> so the reader instantly feels like they're smarter than the targeted group too

This seems to be a very popular playbook these days. Jordan Peterson, Shapiro, etc. Glib points, flowery language, and helping the reader (or more regularly the watcher) feel superior.
The novelty will probably fall off quickly.
That seems excessively prohibitive to personal growth.
In bocca al lupo! At least you already know all about the factions in the firm, and aren't being courted as an ingenuo.
> There are 20 billionaires in Africa, you’re saying they had an advantage of race and country of origin.

You conveniently skipped over the part where the comment you're responding to said "family or nation of origin". If anything, more billionaires in 3rd world countries got their wealth through corruption and family connections. Take the top billionaires in Africa:

1. Aliko Dangote: see "Family and Personal Life" on his Wikipedia page, which includes "He is the great-grandson of Alhaji Alhassan Dantata, the richest West African at the time of his death in 1955."

2. Nassef Onsi Sawiris: His Wikipedia entry starts with "is an Egyptian billionaire businessman, the youngest of Onsi Sawiris' three sons". Onsi Sawiris was a billionaire.

3. Mike Adenuga is more self-made, but even then, "his mother, Omoba Juliana Oyindamola Adenuga, was a businesswoman of royal Ijebu descent."

There are other more notorious examples from that list of billionaires, like Isabel dos Santos.

I'm interested to see how you re-evaluate your argument "when put against facts".
As a daily user of Elixir since 2016, having come from a Python/Django background, I can assure you that you can know very little about OTP/Beam and still be immensely productive. But once you learn the underlying concepts that gird Elixir, so many solutions that normally require queues/caching/back pressure/state machines/distributive architectures are all possible with Elixir itself. I can say this honestly that Elixir is the most powerful I’ve ever felt as an engineer in any language.
Spotlight is great but by default it will only do extensions it knows about, and will ignore text files like .css and most source code files.

There is a plugin called qlstephen that allows you to spotlight all text files (but it's a bit of a pain to install on Catalina due to permissions issues):
https://github.com/whomwah/qlstephen
> Any backup 911 call centers that could have helped with the bottleneck never did, because they themselves were suffering from the same problems everyone else was, according to the FCC.

Go figure.
I'm thoroughly disappointed.
The GDPR does not limit the possibility of schools sending out emails to their alumni, it just imposes requirements for doing it right. The GDPR recognizes the risk of the school or someone with access to the school's email db spamming, selling the addresses or harassing students / alumni, and the risk of someone hacking the school servers and stealing the data or targeting students. These are not theoretical risks... they are things that happen, and become more frequent as more of our lives move online and our emails get tied to critical processes.
highly relevant: M. Scott Peck "The Road less Traveled", in a nutshell the relationship to ourselves is what gives us the ability to be in a fulfilling relationship with others. I wanted to emphasize this because too many I know (including my former self) would rather be with somebody else ("to fulfill them or -worse- "make them complete") than develop a good relationship with our "self" first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Scott_Peck#The_Road_Less_Tr...
Yeah, I prefer just denying the philosophical coherency of death (only experiences exist and being dead is not an experience), or alternatively relying on a quantum multiverse or other levels of the multiverse that imply one cannot die because they'll always live on somewhere.
For anybody who would like to sample this interesting sounding book, there appears to be substantial preview contents available on the publisher's site with a nice audio version as well.

I don't know the limitations; it appears to be constrained by viewport access only (ie. you can read it all without signing in but not offline; it scrambles text when you scroll).

Example:
https://livebook.manning.com/book/classic-computer-science-p...

Nice presentation work by Manning/Livebook.
TLDR: An old person does a thing that other people do, somehow this is newsworthy and is presented with factually incorrect title, even on printed media as "She Has 900,000 Grandkids and Fights Big Spiders"
Are the carbon emissions that big of a deal? Every house in North America has at least one freezer. What scale are you envisioning when you say "mass"?

I've sometimes fancied that the discovery of immortality might be good for the environment, it changes the incentives for the biggest abusers. With that said, I'm not entirely confident of that in practice.
I've never really liked platitudes like "family is everything" and "nothing matters without relationships" -- they don't seem to come from a good place. People who lack these things may enjoy their lives every bit as much, what's the point of denigrating their life?
> but changing who you are as a person

That's what everybody should be doing as they experience life. Anyone who doesn't can never grow, improve.

> Would you guys really be gung ho about this drug

who is being?

> I'd honestly be scared enough to only even consider it as a last resort to cases where it was impossible to function

Anyone who has deteriorated to where they can't function will try what they can. I've been there.

I'm not comfortable with how you're presenting it but I like your thought experiment though, it's a good new perspective on an issue.
> there is a great sadness in him and how he can’t really share that experience with most people. People, who’ve never played around with LSD tend to become super condescending with him like he’s damaged

Maybe he really is damaged? Happy and sad states are required to be in some balance for a person to in a relative state of equilibrium.

I don't know your friend, maybe he is balanced and people who are at the other extreme (always need to be or to present themselves as happy) make fun of him.

But I do know drug users who can't enjoy anything any more.
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