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I'm the author of the article. I'm struggling with that myself. I don't have any solution tailored to everybody, because I think everybody is different on that. I'm the type of developer speaking loudly when I try to defend my idea, and I improved a lot over the years, but others won't have any difficulties to argue in a calm fashion, and there is a whole spectrum between.

The only things which helped me was meditation and trying, again and again, to breath and trying calm done when I see myself too passionate. But again, I think it's really personal.

Thanks for your comment on the formatting! I'll try to justify the text see how it goes.
>I used to roll my eyes reading how academic researchers and librarians would discourage using webpages as resources.

While this is true in general, I am amused that this is not true for citing wikipedia. Wikipedia can be trusted to remain online for many more years to come. And it has a built-in wayback machine in the form of Revision History.
You can read a different take here: https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/09/07/the-us-government-form...

(edited to remove editorializing)
1. More of a CompSci aha: Hard problems are hard. Sometimes I get frustrated over getting stuck in a bad local optimum that I can't easily get out of. But then if I take a step back, I notice that the problem is NP-hard, that I'm not gonna solve it by throwing random heuristics at it and I need to either change the constraints to make it P, lower the input size, or lower my expectations.
Simplest example: Deciding what goes in which shelf in my home is NP-hard.
Solution: Get rid of stuff more liberally -> (n' < n) -> f(n') is much easier than f(n)

2. Doing NAND to Tetris the first time. It taught me not only how computers work, but how powerful recursive layers of abstraction can be. I had absolutely no idea how my system looked on RTL, but I was still able to build it.

3. Also Lisp. I wish Nand to Tetris had picked something more lisp like in the second half to show how simple and powerful it is.

4. When I'm just coding something- alternating writing and testing - is much quicker than writing a bunch and then debugging it. For bigger projects, setting up CI/CD early can similarly save headaches.

5. The functional big three (map, filter, reduce), but for me even more so closures. I had gotten stuck trying to hardcode coefficients for a polynomial until I noticed I'd end up with a lot of duplicate code, which was what I was trying to avoid with FP in the first place. Then I realized I could just put the polynomial function itself in a closure and call it with the coefficients I wanted, when I wanted.
and yet, bitcoin use is still negligible.
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Streaming didn't kill the album, but something did.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-sales/

Looks like piracy did it in.
This is simply basic differences between how different justice systems operate. He was as formally charged as you get in Sweden until the investigation was dropped, only using different words.

Assange was arrested in his absence and wanted for questioning in relation to accusations against him of rape and sexual molestation. This was the first step in the criminal prosecution procedure in Sweden, and only after the questioning would the prosecution authority be able to formally indict him.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...
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>With Netflix, their catalogue is small enough that I can find what I want regardless of what they suggest.

How is that even possible? They barely have anything!

> Their profile of me is probably very confused because I listen to a lot of different things and what I listen to is mostly dependent on context and what I'm in the mood for, which spans 5 decades of music and quite a few genres.

This is not unique. Probably most people are like this.

If you add shared devices like Alexa into the mix then it's even more all over the place.
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People communicating openly and freely over the internet doesn't seem like much of a problem to me. The one thing he does get right IMO is that if you want to make real progress on this stuff you have to dig into root causes. The fact that people are rightfully distrustful of institutions isn't Facebook's fault and. It can't be solved by censoring Facebook.
I think you're right :) You can't really convince someone without listening to what they say.

I personally wish I could learn to do the reflexive listening thing more. Maybe I should practice with everyday conversations so that it happens habitually during heated conversations when your attention is on something that truly matters.

I also remember reading a book about camping. It had an interesting introduction, that talked about family camping. Although it talked about equipment and other important details, one bit talked about communicating with them. It basically said you should be saying "what do you think?" throughout all the planning and preparation. I saw it as the difference between hauling your family to the woods, and having a lot of participants out camping together.
I've kitesurfed near the Broomway. Really nice stretches of flat water when you get it right, but the tide comes in at a scary speed - or you have a 45 minute walk to get to the water - if you're there at the wrong time. I've also had some hairy moments where I've jumped high and realised I really had to stick the landing as the water was only a few inches deep.

As with most dangerous tides, it's not the height of the tidal change that's the problem it's the fact that it's very flat that means it comes in so fast.
Could also be Holosseum?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holosseum

I remember my local AMC 6-plex had one.
Does it say it is unique? In any case, the path/track in the article is no causeway. Tidal causeways are indeed found in many places but this is a bit different. Causeways tend to go somewhere. This just a safe path through the flats.
Sure. You're not like most consumers however, and a business cannot rely on consumers like you in order to stay alive.

Services like Patreon are also different in that the product is not the rewards, those are just the bonus, the product itself is giving support to the creator. Imagine if you'd buy a service like Patreon that just takes your money and gives nothing to the creator, I'd assume not, so you can see how the product is creator support.
Not only that, but it's such a young form of cultural expression that saying it isn't what it used to be is kinda pointless. For thousands of years, we had people singing songs badly in pubs. Maybe someone could afford an instrument.

And then someone invented the wireless and the record player. According to the myth, it quickly reached its optimum time when some fashionable person was in their youth. And it has been degrading ever since.

Now, as for me, I would think all commercial music is worse than all traditional music. If you can talk, you can sing. But here someone in this thread has suggested that perhaps as little as 1% of the population can sing well enough to be autotuned! (This is insane. The proportion of the population who can sing well enough to be autotuned is much closer to 100% than to 90%.)

Someone else might say that commercial music has done quite well, and it keeps doing better. Certainly there's more and more detail added to it.

But the fashionable story is that at some point, probably in the 1960s, music became brilliant, and then all these grubby gen-xers and millennials got their grubby hands on it and turned it all into the most dreary computer driven sounds imaginable.
That's not how extradition works. It doesn't matter to the court in this hearing if Assange did it or if there is good evidence. No extradition court cares if there is good evidence.

The only thing they care about is A) is the crime a crime in both local and foreign law and B) will the extraditee receive a fair trial or is there an ulterior motive.

Section B is what you will have to prove to the court if section A is true.
I use a podcast downloader/player daily. I paid something like £5 maybe ten years ago for it.

Around a month or so ago, one of my feeds had weird description text that caused the download button to be bumped off the visible area, meaning I couldn't download that episode. I took a screenshot and reported it to the developers.

When filing the bug, I wondered about that £5 all those years ago and I imagined we'd both be happier if I had taken out a yearly subscription instead. The developers would be motivated to keep me happy because I'd stop paying if I didn't get my bug fixes done.

In the end, they promptly fixed the bug and pushed out an update by the end of the day without taking any extra payment, so I'm not sure what point I'm trying to make.
Yes, that's a downfall. I bought a large sheet of whiteboard material for about $12 and cut it into quarters. If I have some subject that's really important, I'll leave that one stay for a while.

I probably should transfer the really good findings to a notebook, or maybe take a photo. But I haven't yet.
I use linkchecker for this on my personal sites:

https://linkchecker.github.io/linkchecker/

There's a similar NodeJS program called blcl (broken-link-checker-local) which has the handy attribute that it works on local directories, making it particularly easy to use with static websites before deploying them.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/broken-link-checker-local
I am now unfortunately in a location where it is non-trivial to befriend a person to shadow like that (language barrier etc.), but thanks for thoughtful advice. Pizza/beer point noted!
You're being a bit harsh.

There are some good lessons in what you shouldn't do, perhaps not intended so, but still interesting.

We don't have many forest fires here in Norway, but we do have very harsh winters. Every year a family or group of people are trapped in a blizzard and die. And most of it could have been avoided by following the "Norwegain Mountain Code"[1], which I imagine is similar all over the world. Turning back before it's too late, seeking shelter, and not exhausting yourself when you realize that you're in trouble. I'd be very worried if people in my group started getting nauseous. That's when you start making those deadly mistakes.

[1]: https://english.dnt.no/the-norwegian-mountain-code/
My goal in an argument is not to win or lose.

My goal is to come out with a plan that works best. That almost always involves taking criticism and advice into consideration, and sometimes involves not doing things my way. Sometimes I'm even completely wrong. But sometimes I'm completely right. There's no way to know before having the "argument".
Is there a name for making excuses that are deliberately implausible, but more ironic than euphemistic? Asking for a friend.
Why do you think people look like fools when they change their mind based on evidence?

We never have all the information, so we create opinions based on the available information we have. You can do this without being arrogant.

To me, changing your mind when presented with new evidence shows humility.
Because Clojure comes with a platform that supports AOT/JIT compilation out of the box, has several state of the art GC algorithms and in the near future even value types, while offering the same dynamism as Python, with all the capabilities of a Lisp in code manipulation.
For multiple reasons. QUIC or HTTP/3 is going to be the next web standard widely deployed. Getting mandatory encrypted UDP traffic that looks like web is a big benefit. TFO recommendation primarily because torrenting is big, the feature is not super well-known, it would be a chance to increase its adoption, need for its support and that would benefit the web in general.
That's fine. You are entitled to buy what you want as a consumer, just as a seller is entitled to sell to whom they want. Typically vendors should sell to their target market, and not everyone is in their target market.
The examples you're listing, I don't use those very often at all. If I did it's much easier to just grab a lib, then to carry all my tools with me for every script. Even the libraries that are included can be cast aside if you want a slim build. Not every language does or should strive to cater to those looking for quick hacking or rapid prototyping. I like that Lua is slim and loads fast. I understand your perspective though.
Why is it that they cannot resist the temptation of editing?
Normally, I wonder, do they commission 8 separate op-eds and then merge them "to capture the different styles and registers"?
GPT-3 is a major achievement in how well it can locate and regurgitate relevant material that appeared in its training set.
But let's be honest in how we present the technology to the general public.
Show the actual output, not a version edited by a human.
Tfa is by Craig Murray whereas the edit history of the wikispooks piece [0] at least claims to be by Patrick Haseldine. What makes you say to the contrary?

[0] https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Vanessa_Baraitser&a...
There's a fairly public trial now though, and this is what the US was trying to avoid with the Sweden route.

Sweden has provided it's own police to assist CIA operatives in black bagging it's own residents against it's own laws and process and sent them to an Egyptian prison clearly to be tortured and then blamed it all on a dead politician.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...
Not sure if I can offer a good take, as I don't 100% remember. We didn't have much resources to tackle OpenCL, as it was already hard enough to compete against the other frameworks on the CUDA side alone, so that's where our focus was until our company shut down. IIRC we had all the basics working with OpenCL 1.2 (with an Intel CPU and Titan X as test devices) and were looking into transitioning towards 2.0, as the abstractions used there were much closer to those in CUDA. I remember particularly the memory management in 1.2 to be a pain and difficulties around async RAM<->VRAM copies and subsequent async kernel execution. The latter in particular accounted for the biggest performance differences when profiling the same tasks on the Nvidia GPU.

I'm not really informed about what happened with OpenCL 3.0, but I would count any 2.x features as essential when trying to compete with modern CUDA. I don't think the support for OpenCL _the standard_ was bad, but there wasn't really any comparable tooling for OpenCL, and a set of good cuBLAS, cuDNN, etc. alternatives was missing. If OpenCL 3 is really reverting back to 1.2, that sounds like a big mistake.
WBM is like a content snapshot. You can't go back in time and change anything. That's why it is better than linking to the original.
I agree highly with the point you're making and I would put it by rephrasing the famous words: "Nobody gets fired for arresting a black person".
For me it did. ISTR something in Spanish, so I'd guess Mexico at least, and I've definitely seen Asian scripts on road signs sometimes, while having a German IP.
The idea of being able to access the URL once it is gone is good. However this also means that any updates made to the original page are no longer seen.

Not all updates are about "begging for money" as the example in the article.
That sounds like a nice way to play it, but in practice you can't unlock Stage 2 of the game without triggering the "Release the HypnoDrones" event:

https://universalpaperclips.gamepedia.com/Release_the_HypnoD...
I was just thinking how the app icon is more than enough to identify each window and thumnails don't make sense to me. You can disable thumbnails in the configuration.
It would prevent reaching the page, and still give your contact to trackers - you might just prevent one of the last ones from running.
Snowden’s leaks were about a conspiracy that involved many more than a 1000 people and it lasted for years. You get reports about one government program or another that’s been kept secret for decades. These are conspiracies.

Statistically improbable is different from mathematically impossible. It’s also much less improbable when the people involved have to join through rituals like government classification designations.

Again, government programs regularly involve much more than a 1000 people and are known to be kept secret for decades. These programs are clearly conspiracies.
I think the goal is slightly different:

“This is not quite the same as data types in a programming language (e.g. bool, double, float) although everything with the same prefix should ultimately be cast in the same type. Instead, these data types imply both a type of information and appropriate usage patterns [...]”
I think there's a lot of room for programmers with deep domain knowledge about some topic. If writing software for lawyers or law-related issues, I'm pretty sure experience as a lawyer can be very useful.
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That's an interesting take on my analogy.

I don't know if they advertised it as a low power drive, but if they did it would be surprising in a negative sense.
Refresh/F5 worked for me.
I think they mean pop music lacks musicality, most of what they listed were to do with sonic tricks that are not really tied to musicality or musicianship. Anyone with even a vague understanding of music can write a song on the same level as a pop song. Every now and then a great musician makes it into the pop scene, and you get interesting chord progressions, melodies and rythms. So it's not the pop style that's bad. But most of the time it's the same four chords, a riskless melody, and four to the floor percussion.
"97% of companies have data leaks and other security incidents exposed on the Dark Web" - Bold claims. Do you have any proof of this? Such as redacted screenshots or examples of these leaks?

The article shows lots of stats, but no real evidence.
Considering only the loops, I think it's actually the same topology, just with two loops instead of one. Assuming I understood the end of the video correctly :-)

I think it's also required that the two loops be the same circumference, unless something really tricky is happening with the fabric to allow them to be coiled concentrically but with different centers.
Yeah, I'm going to call shenanigans on that claim. I think you were fed misinformation. Sun suffered just one quarter of loss until 1999: that was a $20.3 M loss on $431 M in revenue for one quarter in 1989. I suspect the turbulence Sun experienced then was blown wildly out of proportion in the EasyNet echo chamber.
The difference is that in practice, most "pro-capitalism" individuals are actually okay with the state taking on a wide variety of tasks on some level: military, police, roads, public schools, environmental regulations, labor and health codes, zoning, etc. Sure, GOP-controlled (or your local right-wing equivalent) areas tend to have less of these things, but less isn't the same thing as none.

In contrast, anarchists are usually opposed to having any state whatsoever. The ideology tends towards being far more extreme and uncompromising.
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One of the reasons CUDA wipedout OpenCL is due to its polyglot support, no need to get hands dirty with C++.

Fortran, Java, .NET. Julia, D, Rust and anything else able to either generate PTX or integrate with CUDA LLVM backend can be used.
Everything he says in his article is more or less true - most of which we all already know.

Maybe the insight is that we forget what's important too frequently, and need a better mechanism to be reminded?
What can I say . In general, it is not entirely clear which part of the dark web is meant https://utopia.fans/networks/dark-web-vs-deep-web-what-is-ea... and what could be safe there? No matter how you look, it is nevertheless an undetected part of the Internet, and for the most part there are all sorts of illegal things.
Oh I see, it makes sense, thanks.
It looks like most are thinking 3080 might be the sweetspot for value?
Well, I think I actually had some dreams in that regard, because there was also a second encounter with unexcpected approaching foresters and this time in a dramatic setting, with a strong thunderstorm approaching and we generally were quite paranoid, because we were in the border area of germany and Czech and we were really scared of the high wildcamping fines that exist in theory and we did not know at that time, that usually you get away with a warning and mostly not even that.

So we felt a bit like hunted ...

(ah yeah, also because a hunter was shooting close to us, without noticing us)
"who" doesn't matter. We are just meat bags passing on good ideas and thoughts.
I will have to read more into this. I don't know if it is as Craig tells it, but it certainly seems to stink to high heaven.

Having a quick browse of his site I am seeing a few other items that I had not heard about elsewhere, like this guy jailed for 72 days for not changing the start time of a peaceful demonstration :(

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/08/manni-singh-...

Craig may be a crackpot but I am now aware of several facts that I had not seen reported elsewhere - I can ignore his analysis as I see fit.

EDIT: to be clear he doesn't really seem like that much of crackpot to me, I have never met anyone what doesn't hold some odd beliefs and from what i have seen so far he is asking reasonable questions.
>>"Humans are not dogs."

This could be a whole forum. In the most important sense (the moral sense), we are not. It's a bad road to go down, thinking of other people this way.

OTOH, we are very much like dogs... a lot moreso than we usually think. It's very useful to remember this and "train" yourself. We tend to assume that we are rationally driven, and sometimes we are. More often, we (me, certainly) are impulse driven and rationalize ex post. The neurochemistry of learning, habit forming and such is something we're better working with rather than against.

Re: onboarding...

I agree with the author that this is important, and usually badly done. I disagree on the particulars.

First, HR and boilerplate management stuff tends to do a pretty bad job onboarding.

"Endless HR videos, slow security processes, a mountain of fragile technology setup"

This stuff sets the tone for culture, and it should be a lot better. Considering how many people these days are explicitly responsible for this stuff in a modern company, it should not suck like this.

I disagree about the "social, light hearted, get-to-know-you stuff." We need more, not less of this. People need to know who they're working with and have as little barrier to asking a wide range of people a wide range of questions.

I do agree that the initial period needs to be taken advantage of. One reason is the "dog training" aspect. Habit forming and such. Good advice in general, not just for work. Build your habits intentionally, especially if you (like me) struggle with bad habits. More specifically for work, use this very limited grace period to ask dumb questions, sit in on stuff and such.

If you (as a manager) put newbies onto boilerplate stuff for 3 weeks, you are wasting the opportunity (of the newbie) to encounter real problems while that grace period is in effect. It's a lot easier to ask "where do I see bugs" on day 8 than day 80. These inevitably come up once real work starts.
Any icebreakers you liked?

I run a fully remote team and am always looking for ways to make a new member feel comfortable, and the existing team comfortable with the new person... or at least less-awkward.

Also, anything to specifically avoid?