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>Moreover, Russian attempts to manipulate the 2016 election

As a non American, I always found this Russian manipulation stuff funny. America has no problem manipulating elections in other countries, overthrowing elected leaders with political coups and even assassinating foreign politicians within the borders of other nations, but Russia posting facebook ads to sway the people dumb enough to be swayed by them is oh so terrible.
I'm not convinced federation is immune to corporatization. The article claims that "it optimizes for a self-governing system of human beings talking to human beings, and not for corporations to push their products." Replace "corporations" with "people", how does federation stop people from using the platform to sell products? Especially when in the same breath, the author admits that operators may be pushed to "solict donations" from their users. Or maybe, ads?

Again, you end up with a system in which money is correlated with user experience, and the operators who most efficiently monetize their userbase will be the most successful.
Is that true or did the Clinton administration just look the other way? Regardless, it should have been blocked on anti-trust grounds, and subject to approval from Congress. At least, Ralph Nader thought so:

https://nader.org/1997/01/02/boeing-mcdonnell-douglas-merger...
> Wireguard doesn't answer anything during port scanning, or when it receive unauthenticated packets

While I agree that UDP port scanning is harder than TCP, since you cannot just batch send SYNs on every port, it really depends on how you did setup iptables and the sophistication of the port scan.

Most scanners will consider that not receiving an ICMP/port unreachable is a sign that some UDP service is listening. This could be prevented by a default DROP instead of REJECT to confuse scanners, but it has other annoying implications. I bet most people out there do use REJECT so a UDP service such as wireguard would be immediately spotted because of its lack of response.

Also note that if the attacker is willing to invest a bit more time on the map, they will most likely have a Wireguard probe.
I'm sure they'd appreciate your pull request to fix that: https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle
Even with key auth only, which I have, you're still getting many attempts, wasting CPU cycles.

Most scans are smart enough to give up as soon as they see publickey as the only method, but some keep trying to connect hundreds of times.
This is really, really good (in particular the composition). So good I envy you for not thinking of it earlier! :)

Keep on the algorhythm <3

(I have hacked together scripts in python for a few incomplete compositions and experiments with harmony. I even make the samples from scratch using basic math and waveforms -- I encourage you to try deriving the raw samples as well! waveform shape and phase interactions are surprisingly complex)
The range doesn't have values. A range defined by Rust has a start point and an end point, and no other semantics. Some additional functions then add behavior if the types contained in the range can be compared via greater-than, etc. Vecs in Rust can be compared if their contents can be compared. For a range of two vecs, foo and bar, to ask if a third vec is "contained" in that range is to ask if it compares greater than foo and less than bar.
I _work_ on chrome and today I learned you can buy extensions.
> Remember when the media didn’t lie?

No, but I'm old enough to remember when all the major media told approximately the same lies so that they were part of the shared, accepted “truth”, which is probably what you are thinking of.
Everett is an hour's drive from Seattle, and afaik its population is not included in the "greater Seattle area." While many commute, that 30k is nearly a third of the population of Everett.

And Boeing contracts a lot of components that feed that plant. Many of them local, small businesses, spread throughout the region, with that one customer.
Not only Qatar, the US Navy was not accepting those either since a while back. Don't know if that ever changed.
Well isn't that convenient? Whenever it's a commercial problem it cannot be a speech problem, according to you.
Some people will have a slight accident.

You can't destroy Golden Geese without some sort of MIC blowback.
It's hard to believe that the current Boeing leadership will turn things around with even less focus on quality and talented workers. Feels like they should be moving back towards engineering driven approaches.
Acronym expansions for those not-in-the-know:

∙ BDS = "Boeing Defense Systems"

∙ LCOL = "low cost of living"

(I'd hate to have to maintain your code, V_Terranova_Jr.)
That's a classic Google move.

Tried to deny some google apps access to fine location, and it would ask at every single opportunity, it was so easy to accidentally enable it as well, which I guess is the point, wear you down until you press the wrong thing or just give in.
The problem is they just start way way too many things. Almost everything on that list I have never heard of and probably had very few users. Most other web companies are careful about starting a new service or adding a new feature because it means committing to supporting it for a long time. Google just starts 1 billion projects a year and kills everything that isn't a smash hit meaning you can't depend on anything they release.

Although about 70% of this list was rightfully killed. Stuff like youtube for 3ds and then it includes things that were simply renamed or updated.
From the [archived] contemporaneous articles I've read it was Boeing's CEO and Chairman, Condit, who pushed heavily for the merger. Condit engineered the exit of Boeing's CFO, a skeptic, as part of an unfolding strategy to replace much of Boeing's original executive staff with those from McDonnell Douglas.[1] And he had the board's support as the Boeing board was enamored of McDonnell Douglas executives' financial engineering strategies.

So while it may have nominally been McDonnell Douglas' culture that ruined Boeing, it was also very much an inside job. Boeing's leadership had already been fatally infected years prior and invited McDonnell Douglas in with the intention and purpose of adopting their culture.[2] The demise of Boeing culture was a fait accompli before the merger.

This notion that Boeing was a victim is revisionist. To the extent it was a victim, it was a victim of the wider business and finance culture. There's no need to spin conspiracy theories about how it happened; it happened in the normal course of things, unfortunately. While Condit was clearly the immediate driver, the choice of Condit as CEO years earlier wasn't accidental.

[1] "The exit by Givan, 62, who has held the post of Boeing finance chief and senior vice president since 1990, stems in part from disagreements with other executives over the conservative accounting methods used by Givan, say people close to the matter. For example, some officials believe he was too stringent in assessing how Boeing would accumulate charges for problems incurred in the course of its commercial-airplane order boom." https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19980715&slug...

[2] "'When people say I [Condit] changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it's run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.'" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing...
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I'd say this reflects how problems in the physical world are hard in general. The robotics industry does have common platforms in the form of robotic arms used in automotive manufacturing. But they take away all the messiness and noise of the physical world by locking humans away and only allowing the arms to manipulate carefully designed prefab components. It's a similar situation in the world of computing because our silicon chips don't make full use of the analog design space. Rather, they stick to digital circuits with clearly defined voltage levels and clocking margins. By not pushing silicon design to its absolute limits and sticking with artificial restrictions that improve reliability, computer programmers don't have to worry about analog voltage drops across the chip and focus only on ones and zeros. Creating this same artificial environment for robots would involve turning the messy world we live in into a factory floor.
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> America has no problem manipulating elections in other countries

Yeah, but the targets always have a problem with it, except for the entities in the target nation that are in league with the Americans.

So it's not so surprising that Americans have a problem when the roles are reversed, except the ones in league with the attacker.
> Traveling these days is really that much simpler.

Maybe, but I'm not totally convinced the "simplicity" has really made my life any better?

I have personal experience of travelling both pre and post smartphone era. I've spent reasonable or large amounts of time in San Francisco, New York, London, Bangkok, and Singapore (from Sydney), and a day or a few days in many more places. None of the "pre smart phone era" travel I did was onerously difficult without a smartphone, and I don't seem to have started doing additional travel since smartphones "slowed" all those problems you list.

I was comfortable enough travelling using taxis, printed maps, travellers cheques, and travel agents. I would happily enough fall back on those (well, these days I take advantage of credit card/maestro ATM availability and don't even know if travellers cheques are still a thing.) I will admit the stress levels travelling in Thailand, where I don't speak the language or even read the alphabet, are lower with a globally networked supercomputer in my pocket, but I never avoided going there (or anywhere else) because "It's too hard".

(And given current climate, I'm quite likely to arrive in the US next time I visit without a phone, or perhaps with a minimal burner. Sure, my phone makes a bunch of stuff "simpler", but it also carries a fuckton of intimate personal information, and it makes for a very tempting target for badly behaved or overly invasive border control staff...)
Correct!

Interesting point you make: there is definitely selection bias going on because of this, but I've honestly never thought about it that way before!
I did but forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me!
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As others have said, hand tools generate chips or shavings and less dust than power tools. I strongly suggest doing your sanding outside if at all possible. If not, The recommendation other folks have made for Festool is on point. Their dust collection is excellent. I own a Makita random orbit sander and it leaves a film of dust on the surroundings when I use it. I've used other people's Festool sanders with Festool dust extractors, and it's outstanding. You pay for it, but you really do get what you pay for.

Part of my strategy for keeping dust down is to do as little sanding as possible. I generally try to get a good surface off of a cutting tool (a plane or scraper), and then sand once at the grit I want to end at. Squirrelly grain, or tearout around knots sometimes requires pulling out the sander. Still I try to limit my use of it. If I can spend 5 minutes planing, and 5 minutes sanding, I'm a long way ahead on time compared to spending 5 minutes each sanding at 4 different grits to get the same surface (numbers from thin air, but the principle applies).

Noise is a challenge. You're right that chiseling is not a quiet activity. Anybody who thinks hand tool woodworking is a quiet and contemplative activity should spend a day in a room full of people chopping dovetails and then maybe reconsider their opinion.

All that said, there are a great many woodworkers who work successfully in apartments or other tight confines. Some of them are even married :-)
So, just like their version of good American FIPS?
Local shops can ship parts to Boeing's other plants and there are other aircraft that will still be made there. For things more tangentially related like restaurants the most threat would be to the ones right there that depend on work lunches, outside of that very local area are at much lower risk because as big as the factory is (and again it's not leaving just losing one plane) it's a small percentage of the local population.
What if you don’t work at a “big tech” company?
LCOL could also mean Low Cuality of Labor
Also the crane probably can't reach 90% of the trees in an orchard (or is it grove?).
I am a decently paid (by local standards) sw engineer.

I fix my clothes not because I cannot afford new ones but because I strongly dislike that my jeans fail after a few months of use and because I prioritize differently.

I make patches from worn out pants, apply fabric glue and stitch them in place using thread with a matching colour. After doing it a few times I feel I can now make it next to impossible.

There's no reason people in middle management cannot do the same - if they want :-)
I largely only text my partner and that's through Whatsapp. My friend group has a Discord we all use.
Heh. that's all the fun in traveling... Even in the good olden days a travel agent would book you accommodations no problem. You'd book a car if you wanted one. I've done lots of trips without being online ... the world was aligned to support that.

I did spent a little bit of time in SFO trying to figure out where the rideshare pickup area was last time I was there, more time than I spent finding the train the previous time... But it did get me exactly where I wanted to go which was nice...

There are still plenty of places where the phone doesn't really give you much today. Lots of places without ride sharing...
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I was being perhaps a little tongue-in-cheek when I referred to the "northern hinterlands of NH". Folks in Boston generally consider anything west of 128 to be "Western Mass".

I'm not far from Lebanon.
The KGB moved the target's upstairs neighbours and took over that apartment, so probably they made holes to peep through.

Talk about power though, imagine getting a knock on your door and being told "you're moving apartments, and don't ask why or who we are.".
sorry, but your grandmother doesn't have a few hundred thousand to a few million followers.

media organizations, pols, and public sector institutions do. Your grandma doesn't need to use Mastodon and it's not about her. It's about those who will be followed and have something important to transmit.
The post above was in response to a post that claimed the BBC tends not to post regarding a “trial”, and showed a counter-example. Shows that it is not as simple as the original poster suggests but not very clear exactly what criteria the BBC are using.
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So let's see that first. But get in line behind DC residents and Puerto Ricans.
Well sure, I just mean, I dunno, I guess what i'm trying to say is, 'he who casts the first stone, 'pots calling the kettle black'...'don't dish it if you can't take it'...etc.
Holy goddamn. I never heard of that.

This is one of those moments when I started to feel shock and horror shifting towards disbelief, and then remembered that this is the CIA and of course they did stuff like that because who would stop them?

One of those little examples of how journalism really is one of the last bulwarks between the country we want to think we are and the country we very easily could be.
Starting out of school with a BS in computer science or computer engineering was GS 7 or 8, so around $40-50k/year. The salaries are public for each level.

Additional degrees do not move you off the GS scale.

Reaching the equivalent of executive level can mean moving beyond GS to the senior executive service (SES).
Dan frequently seems to parallel my thinking on his episodes, but this one latched right on to the anxieties I've felt rising the last couple weeks. God help us all the next few months...
Do you take joy in starting threads like this? You keep doing it.

Just let it go. If you don't like the comment, down vote it.

When you reply, you just create an irrelevant pointless subthread that has nothing to do with the actual post.

Yes, this applies to the parent comment too...

...but the parent comment wasn't being a dick about it.

Your comment is creating a pointless thread and being inflammatory, which is just flat out trolling.
I don't think it's because of tech jobs. But it is true that there is serious shortage of coconut harvesters in South indian states. The job is not very well paid compared to risk ( coconut market itself is not very stable and rewarding). Not sure if there are any good occupational accident insurance policies available to them.
I donno, you're leaving out the DC-10, which was a pretty n notoriously bad airplane.
From a raw sales standpoint Overwatch has done better than most of those games. The only Blizzard game that beats Overwatch in terms of raw revenue is WoW. I find that tech people that used to game in the 90s tend to way overestimate how popular and successful those early foundational games were in comparison to modern games. Overall growth in the game industry (especially PC world wide) has been massive
I love the table! Nice minimal design on it.
yeah, I've made my money back so I'm not as concerned about the $25, but there goes any chance of growing the revenue in any meaningful way.

I am getting a kick out of all the people here saying that "no one pays for extensions". I've consistently made $50-100 from mine with no marketing whatsoever.
but... "guaranteed to appraise for double!"
From that simplified model, it sounds like the focus on functions than value, and constant negotiation with unions, helped Boeing survive.

I wonder what makes it possible for said management to continue union busting if literally the opposite is proven to work...
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I thought the West is open to criticism, but it looks like I'm wrong. The West is open to criticism, if and only if the criticisizer also critisizes the West's enemy. How open minded it is.
As far as i know training this monkeys takes time, the robots will do the job right away if you put this in the long term the robots is cheaper than keep a monkey. But of course they should make it simple in the way that a non specialized employee can operate the bot without any problem.
> My biggest gripe is that you’re reading an interpretation filtered through the eyes of someone else. You will never form the kind of tacit wisdom needed if all you do is listen to things other people have done with their lives.

That's not entirely true. If you read 10 books and do nothing, you are right. But if you read 10 books and tried once, you would understand your experience in 11 different ways. Books gives you perspective.
> What I saw in the V8 post was a simple, straightforward statement about a small change they made.

I also saw this:

> The team joined a Chromium-wide effort to follow Google’s commitments to racial equity by replacing some insensitive terms in the project.

So this affects the entire Chromium code base. Not just V8.

As for their 'diversity progress' according to their 2020 report, it has made quite frankly, little to close to no change as a whole. [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ruthumoh/2020/05/05/google-dive...
I consider the lack of notifications a feature and use the Twitter PWA.
If you want independent coverage of American events look at, say, Al Jazeera. Russia Today isn't any better than Fox News.
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I'm 35. Luckily I'm now running my own manufacturing business where I get to work on a much wider range of stuff!
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Are you implying South Carolina workers are less talented than those in Seattle?
I noticed the issue in May 2018, so getting my data in February was just in time for 2019 reporting (I had mixed up the timestamps when I originally wrote I got the data in April).
> I get a strong sense of Rust demanding that users subjugate themselves to all the choices and opinions of the architects

I don't know why you feel that way. Any major language or standard library change goes through an RFC process, where anyone in the community can submit feedback, and from what I have seen, the official teams are very responsive to concerns.
I hope all the people who work at Google and Facebook see this and know that this is the goal of their jobs. Not "solving hard problems" or "bringing the world closer together". It's to gather incredibly fine-grained data on every person possible and use it/sell it to people who will use it to influence and change the behavior of those people in a way never imagined, as well as hand it over to governments at the drop of a hat to enable surveillance Orwell couldn't have dreamed of.

Pleas reconsider where you work and what you enable.
This is one of better critiques I've read. I still think as a matter of market and solutions for same rust will continue to be a player. But I'm not game for rust to learn at the same time while I make, say, a distributed system. Frama-C with c++ I still think is the better combo
Care to elaborate? How many lines of code do you think were written for the release of WoW classic compared to the original release?
(author) Good point. I'm not sure how competition would net out. If you're the only game in town, you can set the rules. On one hand, you can get away with bad things if you want to. On the other hand, you're less susceptible to competitive pressures so if you want to keep things clean, it might be easier.
Godot, Blender, itch.io, Krita. Nobody forces you to use walled gardens. Games are entertainment, not something mandatory, so I wouldn't worry too much. If there's too much of an lock-in from the major vendors, it will simply cause the indie scene to explode.
> Today, though, it doesn't matter. I get as many login attempts on my non-standard ports

That is weird, I dont see any login attempts on my non standard ports on my multiple servers.
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While what you said is true, puts are offered by market makers who have the expected price action priced in and so they have huge premiums right now to the point where it's just a -EV gamble. While shorting will still be able to sell to irrational investors.

Puts also have a risk that if there is a trading halt, and your puts expire within them, they will expire worthless if you cannot short the stock to exercise them.
Fascinating. I didn't know coconut farming was still done so traditionally. I figured they were harvested using machines like an apple shaker or rolling platform.
I have been lucky enough to work with a lot of great people, and I definitely found a lot of enjoyment in a lot of the work I've done, but I definitely wish that time had been spent doing work with more of a positive impact... Luckily there's still lots of time and I'm working on more impactful stuff now!
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I have to wonder about the extent to which the CIA really believed this was possible, or if it was more along the lines of "well sure, it sounds batshit, but the Soviets are doing it and if there really is something to it, we don't want to be behind in the game."

When one has infinite funding and no ethical oversight, the pit really is bottomless.