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I started running UNIX at home with 386BSD 0.0 and used it pretty much until i was able to get UNIX Empjre (now Wolfpack Emoire) with Linux. Initially BSD had better networking and was just more complete than Linux.
Why would they accuse her? High dose? I hope she complained to pharmacy board.
Summary: we got an automated enforcement email about bandwidth overage (late, after enforcement took place), however unlike with various other firms Cloudflare managed to have a functioning escalation pipeline monitoring social media to garner a response and override within the hour, which is remarkably amazing given it being early on a Sunday.
Viruses depend on the existence of complex structures (the machinery in cells) to replicate themselves, so I don't think it's valid to point to one as an organism in the same sense as a prokaryote.
Are men not allowed to do this as well?
I do wonder about US roads. Is it a reliance on the oil industry to build asphalt based roads?

Are they intentionally not meant to last?

Also, with regards to the US interstate system - why is it designed in such a way that any maintenance required a dramatic decrease in travel throughput?

Could it be designed to be functional in ‘maintenance’ mode?
beside what point ? I think it's exactly the point op is trying to make
Related article from the same blog, A Completely Dissected GZIP File:

http://www.commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?ar...

The author has a three-part set of articles about Knuth and reading The Art of Computer Programming:

http://www.commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?ar...

When I first gave a serious look at literate programming, I felt that what Knuth & co. could (should) have done to best demonstrate it is to write a program to describe/output the PKZIP file format. The CWEB sources themselves might be good and all, but most examples of literate programming I've looked at, including (and especially) the infamous article opposite McIlroy, don't really do anything for me. I checked around, thinking that surely someone realized this and that it must exist, but I didn't turn up anything. It's the same today, as far as I know. (I did find a DEFLATE implementation in JS run through one of those documentation tools that purports to produce a literate program, but it's not a literate program in the sense that Knuth uses the term.)
I'm hesitant to say that there were explosives used to intentionally bring down the tower.

Just stick to the facts: the NIST simulations are flawed, and they've admitted that, yet they've refused to revise them.
That's a good point. I drive high mileage Toyotas because I love their legendary reliability. I've never bought a new car. I suppose the advancement of the technology is a bigger / faster factor in tech.
I see more people saying "if you don't believe in easy abiogenesis, you must be a creationist". That's also invalid.
*“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it...

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”
> Whether or not things should be reused / resold is beside the point.

Its not beside the point at all.

The reason is because, even if we say that the current behavior was against current laws, knowing what should happen tells society how we could change the laws.

Furthermore, if Apple is doing something that society doesn't like, individual people can talk about that, condemn Apple for it, and encourage others to take actions that negatively affects Apple or Apple employees, in retaliation for the bad behavior.

> why shouldn't the company sue for breach of contract?

The reason is because, as a society, we want things to be reused. So maybe we could make a law, that makes this reselling behavior legal, and removes Apple's right to sue anyone for this.
wow!! another "COULD" is adding to the hundreds of thousands we already have...

what a joke!
There is a part of the leaks that talks about how the US was spying on a new terrorist group... which made it more difficult to spy on them and ended up becoming what became ISIS.

Snowden didn't expose it but the newspaper he coordinated with (the guardian) ended up not correctly redacting that portion.

I don't have an opinion on whether this is a bad thing or a good thing.
There's a reservoir near where I live (SW US) that was nearly filled in from erosion after severe fires. They had to go in and clean it out with equipment. You can see the large scale erosion on the hillsides. This was 100% caused by the fire.

But, it was a massive uncontrolled fire. A lower temperature controlled burn may (probably?) not have caused that. Also if it had not occurred on such steep slopes maybe erosion wouldn't have been such a problem.
Herbs can kill you. Powerful enough, isn't it?
That doesn’t give the company a free pass on anything else. The drug helped some, it hurt others. In an effort to increase sales, Purdue misled doctors and broke acceptable marketing practices in an effort to indiscriminately increase usage - good and bad.

The claim is not that oxy didn’t help. The claim is that it also hurt, Purdue knew this, but ignored it for the sake of profit.
How would you describe modanafil vs dexedrine?
I tried it once. I was in that state for only 2hrs. It doesn't kick right away, it almost took 2hrs to start that mode. It really helps you focus on whatever you want to do. Feels like you have control over your thoughts, times starts to run slow.

Side effects : Spiked diabetes for almost 3months.

So had to throw away the entire pack of tabs.

Similar state I have gotten while drinking 4shots of whisky(enough that nobody can figure out you are drunk) and start working at night. Problem is with drinks I start to get headaches after an hour of working, so I go back to sleep.

Both has its drawback. Modafanil lasted longer and gave up on both. It's not effective in regular basis.
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Trustless Manifesto
US govt did that to him. He was trying to get to Ecuador from HK when his passport was revoked mid-route.

Russia gave him asylum, for reasons which are not related to him helping them, purely because it antagonises the US.

He still openly criticised the Russian government, and has expressed strong desire to come back to the US.
> I can’t name a tech company this applies to though

It definitely applies to professional camera equipment, where the cost of buying all your lenses, filters, flashes, and everything else every couple of years is actually beyond almost everyone's budgets. Professionals and serious hobbyists usually upgrade their camera bodies every 2-5 years but often keep lenses around for at least a decade or two if not more.

The entry-level cameras are another story though, and are littered with plastic trash lenses that usually malfunction a month or two before their warranty expires.
>We've had sprawling suburbs in this country since at least the 50s. In that time we haven't really seen any municipality go bankrupt from infrastructure or have infrastructure costs come to dominate the budget.

Most infrastructure is designed to last decades, and many cities have stretched infrastructure - from bridges to sewers to more - decades beyond its original expected lifespan. The bills are starting to come due now.
You make a lot of fair points, but I think this is off the mark:

> Proprietary connectors that change every couple of years?

Is there any connector in particular you are thinking of that has been cycled out in just two years? All the ones I can think of lasted at least most of a decade. Some such as USB and the 30-pin connector lasted much, much longer than that (the 30-pin connector honestly lasted a long time for how crappy it was).
A big part of government function is managing externalities (pollution, food safety, roads etc) -- things that are not economic when purchased individually. They suffer from a free rider issue: I benefit from clean air whether I pay for it or not.

In addition I don't know enough about traffic safety to figure out what the best speed limit is for certain roads, nor how the road should be constructed (especially given local environmental conditions, estimated use etc). It's cheaper overall to outsource it to people who know. Otherwise how can I decide if I want to subscribe to that safety rail at the edge of a certain roadway?
Apple sues recycling partner for reselling 100k devices it was hired to recycle
If you want to artificially limit the conversation to only one aspect, you are right -- everything else is beside the point. But I for one would expand to say that this type of destruction should be illegal. We should not be mass destroying usable devices. Force the company to ship them to a developing country or somewhere else where it won't hurt your sale of new phones as much, but stop destroying the planet for $$$.
For "offline" speakers, just buy some (used) Bang & Olufsen speakers (with built-in amplifiers) and a Bluetooth receiver to connect your mobile device. Done.
Maybe he’s assuming a dystopia run by an all knowing and always consistent computer?

A legal system that no one in a functioning society can live without causing offenses will lead to a non-functioning state, if enforced.
It’s also a statement that sometimes requirements conflict. As a business owner, I’m required to keep proper books. That means every invoice needs to be on the book for at least 10 years. But invoices contain personal info - a name and address at least, possibly other data. You can’t require me to delete those invoices on GDPR grounds and violate the bookkeeping requirements.

And unlike data collection by random companies, data collection required by law is subject to public and judicial review. Laws are known - what data companies collect not necessarily.
The History of the Microprocessor and the Personal Computer
True, no need for a controller (phone).

But the sonos speakers themselves are little controllers, in theory they can perform all necessary actions, store the needed data and talk to any streaming services. Why is there a technical need for a cloud service?
I think what's actually happening is that we're eliminating all non-STEM pipelines for building a career. The truly adventurous can go start their own businesses, but STEM has become the default pipeline for everyone because it's the only thing that pays well. Everything else, even being a lawyer or doctor, is much more of a "calling" than a career play. Other necessary professions like teaching or nursing are considered lower tier, when the really shouldn't be.

Because everyone is pushed into STEM, I believe that the bar for engineering has been lowered. I'm a SWE and over the last few years, I've realized that more and more of my coworkers don't have any idea how computers work. Most can't use a shell, don't understand unix, never wrote a line of C, are unclear what a pointer is, that sort of thing. It's no longer a requirement to understand computers and computer culture to be employed as a developer.

I think a lot of older SWEs probably recall stereotypes of women and minorities not being able to do computers because most of them didn't grow up with the culture. In the 80s and 90s, it was much less common for those demographics to have a computer in the home and to have internet access. We tried to fix that by promoting diversity, especially in the STEM pipeline. In reality, that diversity just killed the culture by sinking it to the lowest common denominator, which looks a lot like leetcode.

> I should have dispensed with all that and started out as an artist.

Then you'd be poor, which is why you didn't dispense with all of that.

> Maybe women leave STEM because they can.

I can't wait to join them.
Hey man! I hope you're doing well! Maybe I'll paint the next one green and white!

(For the rest of the world who's confused by this: college fraternity colors.)
I never thought I'd be a programmer. I actually took HTML in grade school (late 90s) and C++ in high school, but they didn't stick. (Of course now I wish they did!) I originally went to school for TV production, which I had worked in at a local news station all through high school, but wound up getting into a band, took some time off to try that out, and then went back to community college for music.

I started hacking around with windows mobile circa 2006, not really programming but taking the OS apart and making custom ROMs and whatnot. A while later I decided to take a networking course as an elective, because I had been getting more interested in tech. The teacher was all about networking as a field that you didn't have to get more than a two year degree plus some certs for, and I thought hey, I like this enough, they'll be plenty of jobs, and it's not much school. So I changed my major.

The next year my mom (who teaches at a college) said "Go see if they have any internships", so I did. The lady at the department checked what she had and said "Here's something at (a major media company) as a web producer, is that applicable to your major?" "Sure!" I half-lied immediately, because it sounded very cool. The internship was great, but beyond just CMS/production stuff, they throw Javascript/JQuery at me. I got hooked immediately. I guess I was always a tinkerer and problem solver, but I hadn't realized how much fun solving all these little problems and getting to see what I built come to fruition was for me. I bought some books, started teaching myself web dev and Linux (which had always intrigued me, and by '08 I had a server running FreeBSD serving up my music collection for all my friends out of my parents' house. When I graduated with a network admin degree in '10, one of my teachers immediately got me a job at a liquor store doing web and IT.

The great postscript to this is that today, after working in a few different places across the spectrum of web and hosting, I'm back at the media company as a software engineer.
The DOJ threw the book at him in part because he wrote a manifesto called "Guerilla Open Access". It wasn't deemed a one-off offense, but possibly part of a "plan". Still complete bullshit what they did.

You can read it here: http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamju...
"the big players are already fuckers, flaunt the law, and will eat competitors' lunches if they don't do same" seems a rather sad outlook. if we can't ask companies not to be horrible because their predecessors are already horrible, and that we should instead just permit everything after to ramp up the horribleness in the name of competition, the endgame seems rather bleak. we can't just demand that companies be better?

given Sonos' track record with the "lol, can't have anyone using an OLD PRODUCT THAT STILL WORKS FINE" thing i'm rather unsure we should really give them the benefit of the doubt here

ref https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21895086 for "recycle mode" fiasco
Not quite. You now end up with an extra battery in the trash. Though you were able to get more life out of one item, you reduce the likelihood that it’ll be recycled again. So the metal parts like antennas, aluminum, that could have been reused for future devices, are now sitting in the trash after the device dies. There is a slight chance the device could be sent to recycling again after it completely dies. Let’s say Apple had assumed a 15% recycling rate, and 3 tons of aluminum in return, you now have a much lower return rate in materials than anticipated because the devices were essentially “stolen” and resold. Seems like fraud to me.
Wouldn’t that merely create an incentive to work around the “no third party” rule by doing everything in-house? Like Google, for instance.
Apple sues recycling firm for reselling 100k devices
Apple doesn't appear to be suing for breach of contract. Apple is suing for damages due to decreased sales from GEEP's theft of 100,000 devices.

Apple filed that suit in January, and GEEP filed a suit against Apple in July that GEEP didn't steal the devices but three rogue employees.
> I'm pretty sure that if you re-read your comment after some time has gone by, you'll see that it wasn't just "bringing objectivity to the conversation".

Perhaps objectivity may not be the most precise word. Maybe "another point of view". Or better yet, the middle ground. I was trying to counter her extremism the best I could.

> It's easy to understand how DoreenMichele's post could have triggered a defensive/offensive response.

Because it was flamebait. It was intentionally divisive and toxic extremism. It's no different than what racists, chauvanists and all kinds of extremists do. By now, it's obvious to most people who aren't ideologically blind. Replace "men" with "women" in her comment and you'd spot the hateful sexism right away. I'm sure of it.

> The difference with DoreenMichele's comment is that she was speaking about her personal experience.

No. It's not. There was no personal anecdote, no mention of personal event. Just generalizations like "if you are a woman ... " and some bizarre projection about "what men think". That's the point. It's an obvious exaggeration. The easy tell is that she ended her diatribe with a defensive "No, I am not exaggerating.".

Even if her experience were real, her sexist comment is clearly not what HN is about. If you are truly sincere, would you allow people who had negative experiences with "jews", "chinese", "blacks", "gays" or "women" to freely express their views here? Can someone take their personal negative experience and then extrapolate that to most jews, most chinese, most blacks, most gays or most women? Of course not. It would be insane to paint millions or billions of people with the same brush.

> You've unfortunately been making a habit of posting in the flamewar style and/or including harsh swipes in your HN comments:

Yes, I made a mistake here or there, but then again, it was mostly in response to flamebait from an obvious bigot and trolling throwaways. I've never went out of my way to attack a certain gender, race, religion, etc like DoreenMichele.

> ...and we already asked you to stop doing this. That's why my reply to you used stronger language this time.

And it's why my response to DoreenMichele was far tamer than my response to the throwaway. And it may be personal bias, but the more I read her comment and mine, the more it feels like hers is extremely biased and hateful while mine is relatively benign.

> That is in all of our interests.

Fair moderation. That's all I ask for. I know it's a tough job but honestly, if I felt that the commenter would have been admonished, I wouldn't have wasted my time responding to her in the first place. Because her comment is like all hate speech - they all follow the same pattern and hit the same beats. It's boring. But if left unchecked it'll fester and grow. Still shocked she hasn't been reprimanded and her hateful comment hasn't been flagged. But I'll try do better and I'm sure you will try to do better and hopefully DoreenMichele comes to terms with her hate and has a better life both on and off the internet.
It’s a shame that along that same line, “Cash for Clunkers” in America destroyed a lot of great cars.
And why shouldn't the media widely publicize how Apple goes the extra mile to ruin the environment?
That is awesome! Honda, you rock.
That user base basically looks like Voat. As in, not pleasant.
That is a myopic position because cities are not independent and don't live in a vacuum. Cities exist because it is in the interest of the country to develop areas with high industrial or services growth. The investments in infrastructure are a shared concern that benefits the whole country, not just the cities. This TFA theory is just another facet of neoliberal ideology that tries to compartmentalize profits and evade public investments in a large scale.
Illegal punishable by fine or?
This one is well worth a try: https://www.amazon.com/Remote-Control-Alternative-Replacemen...
Please go advocate strongly for your position and get lawmakers to act. I am of that same opinion, for the good of our natural resources.

What I don't support is when people think that existing laws and rights in contracts should just be suspended or ignored because the outcome favors their side.

Go put what you want into laws. Don't take pleasure in having laws ignored. It will come to bite you sooner than you think.
Half way into that article it suddenly opened another window and loaded another seemingly unrelated article. A way to get more page imoressions?
If I pay a killer to have someone killed, and he breaks the contract I can sue him?

This is turbo capitalism gone wrong. Unfortunately destroying the planet is only morally wrong, but not legally in many cases. It just tells me that I am right never buying any of Apple's products.

In France they intended to make it illegal to destroy new products. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/04/france-to-ban-... No idea whether that is still current, I am not from France.
I think your post comes from a non-academic viewpoint.

A research prof’s concerns are about research, their scientific progeny (phd students and postdocs) and pressures to succeed in the related publish or perish/grant writing games. In this context the blog makes perfect sense and I agree with it. However, you write:

>Athletes getting easy courses

A prof doesn’t care about athletic admissions (those are undergrads anyways?).

>there are ridiculous projects, bias, and people getting paid in “non-standard” ways.

I am not sure what you mean about “ridiculous projects”? The university generally doesn’t control or fund a PI. Funding is nearly always external (in the US).

>Backroom deals with private industry and government.

I am not exactly sure whose research or publications this affects but I bet the number is tiny. This is not a concern I’ve actually ever seen play out in real life (again, I am sure you can find news where it happened, but it just doesn’t reflect the lived life of most PIs).

>Universities should work more with private industry like they used to many years ago, government money should be poured into research more openly,

I mean, I don’t think PIs are against working with industry, but industry usually wants IP, doesn’t want to publish, and wants RoI. The government funding process is already pretty open (at least NSF/NIH) but of course can be improved.

>tuition needs to rise, then they can hire the best from private industry that are also excellent teachers or researchers.

Most PIs are funded effectively from research grant overhead. Tuition is usually a smaller budget line. Increasing tuition will both not overall increase budget by much and add hardship to students. I do agree that more gov funding would be nice.

>To do that, administrations and staff will need to be gutted

I don’t think this follows from your previous statements but I do agree there is an explosion in administrative overhead that should be curtailed.