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It was recently found to be unconstitutional by the supreme court, no? This seems to be asserting a stronger claim that it was also illegal then, not that it has since ceased.
About the "apt upgrade". In major distributions, that's safe. They won't introduce major package versions, only minor (and security fixes).

It should be totally OK to upgrade the packages.

Also I don't get that it's advised to use "apt update" when you can't do "apt upgrade". What's the point??
If a show takes a few seasons to hit its stride, there's no way I'm going to start watching it and dedicate hours of my life just waiting for it to become good. Netflix + others are trying to bankroll TV series that will have a long lifetime in their archives, and a slow-opening series would work against that. Better to reap them sooner and spend the money elsewhere.
Athletics is one way high schoolers with less than stellar academic records can navigate past college admissions departments and get accepted at a school where they might not otherwise be qualified. Most people already knew this about scholarship athletes, but the recent college admissions scandal involved non-athletes being listed by college coaches as recruited athletes. It's basically the coach telling the admissions department that this student might play on their team and therefore should get preferential treatment with admissions.
I don't think I've ever seen a home with AC in the UK - certainly not here in Scotland.
I think people's belief about 'government not needing true accountability' is one of civic mindset, and a kind of naivte to how inefficient things can truly get. The word 'incentives' triggers the socialist crowd with 'capitalist speak'.

I for one value good governance, and I don't think it's all about incentives, but that's definitely part of the issue and we don't have any popular measurable accountability for the bureaucracy.
> If an attacker gets through your walls (network access), why do you think you'd stop them at the keep?

This whole analogy is bad, but to work in the context of it, each of the castles defenses is impenetrable (Wolverine went back in time and taught them to make adamantium). The only way to get through is to discover and exploit flaws in the design of the defenses.

If they breach the walls, they still have to find an exploit a flaw in the keep, _before_ you notice they made it through the first wall, rebuild the first wall without the defect and then send your wolverine-knight automatons to clean up the survivors. In this scenario, IDS/IPS systems are your scouts watching for invaders that breach the first wall.

Importantly, the designs of these walls change all the time, so the attackers need a window during which both the keep and the walls have a design flaw. And unless the flaw is in something common to both the keep and walls, it is unlikely to be common to both (OpenSSL is an example of that).

> small attacks aren't worth attention, big attacks are SLOW AND VISIBLE

This is not true of castles nor infosec. A huge enemy force against a well-defended castle meant they likely mean to lay siege and starve them out of the castle. Not a significant concern so long as you have food and water; especially so if your resources would outlast their supply lines.

Small forces on the other hand are exceptionally dangerous, because it's probably a sapper party that's going to try to tunnel under your wall and detonate explosives (or just collapse the tunnel if this is pre-explosives). Sappers are almost infinitely more dangerous. You can see the same pattern repeat in World War I. Trenches with machine guns are nearly impenetrable to attackers, thus No Man's Land. So we went back in time and re-created sappers to dig tunnels under their trenches. Having the other side come over their trenches at you is far less concerning than hearing sappers digging under you.

Infosec is the same way. Port scans and attempted DDoS attacks are common, easily noticed, and unlikely to lead to anything threatening. Your real risk is being targeted. Someone interested in you specifically because of the data you have, or money, or whatever. People that will poke around your stuff in ways that are hard to notice, like analyzing your auth flow for vulnerabilities. Those are your digital sappers. Large DDoS attacks are bad, because they can knock you offline, but it's like a seige. All you have to do is outlast them, at the end of the day you lost some productivity but the castle is still intact. If the sappers get in, you go offline _and_ they'll steal your data.
It seems to me that the U.S. is ripe for an updating of its consumer protection laws. Particularly w.r.t. shrink-wrap license and other attempts to impose unwelcome terms that the buyer didn't know about at the time of the sale.

I imagine our existing consumer-protection laws were passed over the opposition of monied interests. If so, I wonder how close we are to having the political will do to do that again.
> How to distribute secrets if not by env? (which I agree! Honest question)

You'll want to use BuildKit (`docker buildx`), see https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/build_enhance...

[edit] My bad, that works for secrets needed at build time, not at runtime of course.
The Famicom used a 6502 clone from Ricoh in part because that’s the only thing they could find; every other chip manufacturer had too much backlog. They had already used the Ricoh chip in arcade boards, and just went with that one.
Yelp isn't the problem here, it's free speech without accountability. Citizens obviously have an interest in hearing the history of conversation about any institution, and that includes hearing whether your taxis cheat, whether your AirBNB rentals spy with hidden cameras, or whether the institution or town has a history of racially conspicuous odor.

The problem is that people aren't held accountable for their speech, and if anything, there's a movement toward not wanting to be held accountable for the things you say. You can't have it all ways.
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Bush and his crew had the Patriot act written before 9/11 and were simply waiting around for a circumstance to justify enacting it.

Honestly I'm surprised this is even a controversial opinion at this point. This is exactly what Snowden exposed. That these programs were as if not more focused on internal spying than anything else.
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It's not so much that the browser can do it, as it has been able to for a long time, but that an app in a sandboxed environment, with an abstraction between itself and the host machine, can do it in decently fast times.
Read the comment again pls.
I took this course, from Larry personally, 30 years ago. It was one of the best courses I ever took.

Prior to that, my writing was abysmal. My high school English teachers were helpless. And I even managed to get through Princeton barely understanding the mechanics of putting together a coherent argument. Start a paragraph with a topic sentence? No one ever told me that.

It was so bad that I sought this course out. To the best of my recollection, it wasn't offered in the business school, so I had to make a special effort to take it.

It paid off. I wish I could take it again, just as a refresher.
> Python is now sufficiently powerful and complex, that many proposed additions are a net loss for the language due to the additional complexity.

This should be made into an automated response.
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Gatsby uses a lot of JavaScript but, importantly, the pages render without JavaScript enabled. It's just the transitions and prefetching which require JavaScript.
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So true. I don't get why American TV shows always need to be ran to the ground.

It's a side effect of the weird way TV show syndication contracts (used to) work. Basically for various historic reasons you could charge cable networks more for showing re runs of shows with over 100 episodes than you could shows with less than 100 episodes.

So it often made long tern economic sense to push your show over that 100 episode line even if the last season or two where terrible and got terrible ratings on initial airing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_episodes
Is this the same number of terrorist attacks the TSA has stopped?
> "a letter in which Niccolò describes “his ‘desperate rut’ with an old and atrociously ugly prostitute” while on mission in Verona. Lee gives the full story: tricked by low light and a bawd’s wiles, the Florentine envoy did not actually see the woman until, after sex, he lit a lamp and “nearly dropped dead on the spot.”"

sounds like a scene out of the fast-forward around Goldstein's Theory and Practice. I guess that EA Blair chap may have made a shout-out to his influences?
Even if that was true in the needlessly inflammatory way you stated it, it has nothing to do with this.
"X was Y" doesn't necessarily imply that X is no longer Y: for that, English has "X used to be Y" construct.
Totally agree. I have a Quest 1, before the forced FB integration. I'll be waiting until something better comes along before upgrading my VR setup.
I found practical use for this when working on a modified version of pokemon red. It’s a fun toy. The disassembled pokemon games are a wonder. Make local copies because they won’t be around forever.

https://github.com/pret/pokered
I agree. It's still a gimmick. It's like the WII basically. Hardcore types chant it's praises and families love to play it for a party game once a year.

Other than that, it collects dust compared to your other better mediums that exist.
AFAIK, neither did TSA. Sacrificing privacy for security is overrated severely.
Even the Conservatives in the UK are backing wind, with a goal of 40 GW recently announced.

Meanwhile in the US, even though conservative voters show majority support for clean energy in polls, conservative politicians sabotage clean energy policy, and work to convince voters against their clean energy views, because their campaign funds come from fossil fuel interests.

This leads to much less certainty for investors that policy will stay consistent long enough for projects to come to fruition. When a bought and paid for election destroys policy, like was recently exposed in Ohio, it keeps investors' money away.

https://www.energyandpolicy.org/utility-corruption/
> A coach can correct mistakes without yelling.

Are you a professional coach or just think it would work this way?

The athletes we are discussing are already selected as fit for the specific sport. All of them are very tolerant to stress from the training and competition. Unless stress of not doing exercise (correctly) is higher than stress from doing it (correctly) there won't be progress.

What for an outsider looks like abuse, for athletes is within tolerable limits.
Spotify has access to this information, so isn't that also a concern?
completely false, privacy coins command billions of dollars in market cap, Monero alone is currently worth 2.2 billion and will likely continue to grow.
Notable exception: The Wire.

5 seasons, each covering a specific topic (politics, drug dealing, media) beyond telling the story, and when they ran out of topics and told the entire story they had, they just wrapped it up... they could've easily milked it and made 5 more meaningless seasons but luckily didn't.
The article is missing the key factor that people will accept some level of crap (in their computer, or it their car) to obtain value, and that minimizing complexity strictly for its own sake is almost no one's goal except monks.
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yes, same as all the other one, you can cancel out of login in and it still installs. I never logged into the microsoft store
Many people don't wear the mask properly. Wearing the mask as a chin diaper is not effective. To get the maximum protection from wearing the mask you have to don and doff correctly, fit the mask properly. You may need to shave the beard or trim it so that there is better fit.

If wearing the mask correctly decreases the changes of getting covid-19 40%-60%, doubling the time spend in risky areas because one feels protected increases the risk back to normal. Its still beneficial, but the risk does not change.
I recently made the mistake of buying an iPad because I was excited to use Side Car with the Apple Pencil to draw in Mac apps.

It turns out I can't use the advertised features of the Apple devices I bought because Side Car requires 2FA with a phone number and my phone service is data only.

Given that I connect the iPad to the Mac via a USB-C cable, it's not clear why iCloud is required at all. They're just intentionally crippling their expensive devices.
AIUI the German solution is to make their cars so difficult to repair and maintain, and require so many specialised tools, that nobody who isn't an authorised dealership will want to touch them.
Yes, you can only test the carry and zero flags with JR.

Note that JP takes one byte more but is a bit faster than JR when the condition is met.
What's the average use case for WP these days?

Shopify has probably eaten all the WP ecommerce sites.

Blogging has probably moved to Medium, Substack, static sites, etc.
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The question your posing for the author is how thorough s/he would have to go into the details to capture his/her audience. I don't know exactly the audience but I know that the argument (s)he makes is more than enough for me. As I've followed the news especially regarding US, UK, Sweden and [as a good example - for now!] Germany and just nod along when I read the quote. It has been pretty clear to the avid (real) newsreader how much impact letting it spread has (and going out of lockdown when the R0 has not sufficiently subsided). We can currently watch in awe how the second wave manifests in Europe because we did not react fast enough when the numbers shot up again... I mean the pattern is always the same. It's not exactly rocket science...
Personally, I've always thought this letter was the plainest proof that Dijkstra's pithy quotes (and those that parrot them) should not be taken seriously, no matter how entertaining they are. That list covers most the major languages of the day; what he would have to say about $(YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE) would surely be equally unkind were he alive today.

That isn't to say that he did not have valid reasoning for his dislikes as a language expert and a mathematician but those reasons are not ones the bulk of practitioners would likely agree are valid.
Why? If they drop their free tier or do something evil, I'll just start pushing my static files elsewhere. Why is that a bad thing?

Even their serverless functions api and DB can be connected to any serverless provider.
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> Between 2014 and 2017, 13 Islamist terrorist attacks took place in Europe after which 24 offenders were convicted. All 24 of them - one hundred per cent - were already known to the authorities prior to the attack and had been classified as violent.

Right below:

> What we do need is better trained and better equipped police officers so that they can identify potential threats faster.

If the violent offenders are already known to police then how is training cops to identify threats going to help? The threats were already known by police to be violent.

The article doesn’t really provide any new developments. The company also claims to be the next Google with private security in mind. To me it feels like marketing blog speak.

There are not any new developments about PRISM as related to Big Tech but having it in the title will make sure it reaches #1.
> PRISM is a phenomenal waste of trust and money.

Only if you believe its stated purpose is its real purpose.

I suspect it's actually a huge success if you measure it against its real purpose.
I was moving recently and needed to plan out the furniture stacking in a U-Haul truck, https://www.vectary.com/ was perfect for this, given I grew up on Blender I appreciate how much simpler the UX is (similar to this app).
Is it? More mass means more kinetic energy. If the core of the satellite is extremely heavy, it only has to lose a tiny percentage of velocity to send a lightweight piece off at 90 degrees at extremely high velocities.

Taken to the extreme I'd rather hit a feather than a bowling ball at 14 km/s.
I just looked.

There's no way I can afford a T480.

FOSS developers really should be using minspec machines to test.
I’m not going to buy a bunch of toothpastes just to compare them. I simply tried toothpastes till I found one I liked.
I mean anyone trying to tell you that it doesn't work and they have some magic shortcut for how to lose weight is lying to you. Their method for weight loss might work for you but not because CICO is wrong.

I would argue that CICO does not imply easy. The rendering equation really just says light in == light out but that doesn't mean writing a renderer is easy. People who say CICO doesn't work are usually trying to sell you an "easy" way to lose weight. Take this proprietary fat burning pill. Don't eat carbs. Don't eat fats. Eat 6 small meals a day. Eat 1 meal a day. Don't feed your mogwai after midnight.

If one of these strategies works for you, great. You've found a way to get calories in less than calories out.
> I don’t understand how engineers can read the actual text of the Question and think this is a good idea...

Because engineers are generally capable of understanding that law is law, and not a computer program.

> Remember this is a legal requirement, not a spec

Yes, this is a basic principle of how laws are written. You've supplied the rebuttal to the rest of your comment. All the terms that you singled out and put scare quotes around are meant to be applied by the courts to ongoing industry practices - the point is to avoid needing future revision based on details. If the lack of specificity offends your engineer sensibilities, then you need to work on developing other modes of thinking.
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I do. But how do I filter never-been-among-the-top-30 titles out while keeping the list sorted by date rather than by rating?
Totally. Think of the timeline! By the time the writers have written the cliffhander endeing to the season, the actors acted, the directors directed, and the footage cut down into an episode, and then the episode aired, the writer at the beginning of the pipeline is so far removed from the end product that, while there's some notion of having the next seasons, the failure of the show doesn't hinge on the writer. Bad writing can sink a show, but good writing doesn't mean that a show will succeed. Thus the writer can't really A/B test their script like you can for a good/bad email campaign/website copy.
Really annoying bug where it acts as a remote control for my laptop, setting the volume on my iPhone to max. Then, the next time I use headphones on my iPhone, my eardrums get blasted out.
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Says here it's about oil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism-week-in-life-straig...
No, because again, adults generally don’t have to clarify this sort of thing in their communications. False advertising laws are predicated on the idea that a reasonable person could misunderstand the advertised claim. It would be a burden on society if all communication was required to be as exact as legal or technical communication. If a person wants the legal or technical details they can read the relevant controlling legal documents, which a company must provide before selling a product that has such documents. And which, in this case, made clear that the plan was not “unlimited”.
Funny, for me it would be the reverse. I recommend Lost, even without a strong ending. GoT I believe it’s not worth to anyone due to its horrible last season.
The supposed targets (terrorists) use tools and technologies that are invisible to PRISM and similar programs. No security expert with an interest in being truthful could have made a strong case that PRISM and similar programs would have a measurable effect on tracking down criminals and terrorists.
I have, maybe naively, always believed that the U.S. operates at a level of secrecy and complexity where dozens of terrorist attacks are thwarted every year, and that this surveillance plays a hand in it (but to admit that would hinder its effectiveness).

Is it really possible we only have <5 terror plots against our country in a given year, considering the population of our country, the amount of ideological extremism domestically and internationally, and the States' interventionism?

Maybe it is possible, in which case the U.S. has been very successful at convincing my generation it's a larger issue than it really is (I was a toddler when 9/11 happened, so it's all I know).
Beat Saber, Half Life Alyx, Boneworks...

Practical: Mostly, particularly if you already have a gaming computer. It's easy to spend more money on a good quality monitor. Enjoyable: Abso-effing-lutely
Agreed about the length. 70s show and how I met your mother are good examples - they should have been at least 2-3 seasons shorter. Its painful to watch in the end.
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This seems to be an algorithmic implementation of cancel culture. Due to human nature, it can't be not buggy.
I simply can’t recommend a self-hosted Wordpress install for most users.

The vast majority of users that WP caters to are better served by Facebook Pages, Wix, Squarespace and Webflow.

Large and high traffic sites aren’t a great fit for WP either as the codebase was never meant for scalability and still maintains a painful developer expierence.

There are plenty of options, “JAMStack” included, that are still a much better fit.
While I'm absolutely opposed to PRISM and similar programs, I think it's a little disingenuous to suggest that the only potential value was from stopping terrorist attacks. Look at this leaked powerpoint slide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism-week-in-life-straig...

If you want to argue against PRISM-like programs, it would behoove you to tackle their actual purpose. We shouldn't just argue that PRISM isn't good at catching terrorists, we should argue that the total value of intelligence gained from it is not worth sacrificing our privacy for.
I'm very much against government (and corporate) spying, but as a mental gymnastic, why was this program a flop?

Assuming it didn't stop one act of terror (as this article assumed/the judge ruled), why?

We know that in the hands of corporations and political machines all of this data can be used with pinpoint accuracy. Is sussing out "who's likely going to commit an act of terror" categorically different than "who's likely to buy a massage from a local spa" or "who's likely to vote for party X"?
William Binney and Thomas Drake, two of the people who gave Snowden the insight to understand how well "normal channels" work against any whistleblowers.

Binney's thinthread program juxtaposed against what replaced it is a prime thing to start reading up to understand gp's point.
I saved my paper route money and was trying to decide between an NES and an SMS. I think I chose the SMS because it was different. Everyone had an NES. But as time went on, I wished I had an NES. Way more games and cultural relevance.