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> X works perfectly for me, and there is nothing I would want it to do that it doesn't do now. Why should it change?

I'm not sure whether a program that works for you is a good indication that it no longer needs to change.

> When we have a software that works well and solves our problems, we should celebrate it, not complain it doesn't find new problems to solve.

I think anyone can agree that, at the very least, screen tearing and proper support for mixed DPI setups are problems that fall squarely in the responsibilities of X and yet it still didn't manage to solve them after so many years.

So it's hardly the case that X is just so good that users nowadays have to try really hard to find new problems for it to solve.
This is a classic "Damoclean sword" conundrum.

The ability to digitize and aggregate the data, and maybe even subject it to some kinds of AI, might result in massive improvement in therapy.

Mental health treatment has come an incredibly long way, just in the last couple of decades. It's even more amazing, when you look at how it went a hundred years ago. Some of the reasons are because of the ability to study treatment methodologies and outcomes.

But having the data in a place that can happen, is very, very risky.

People with mental health problems tend to be treated as "disposable people" by a lot of folks. I guarantee that the first thing the hackers did, was find a way to "dehumanize" the people in their data. Having the people as "data" went a long way towards that.

But people will die as a direct result of this breach. That's not hyperbole. It will happen. Some people will commit suicide, some will avoid treatment, causing all kinds of collateral damage, and some may actually kill other people, because of this.

I have a lot of close, personal experience with people suffering from mental health issues, and this is about as bad a nightmare as you can imagine.

It will reverberate around the world.
> On x86, large 2MB and 1GB __cannot__ be paged. The latency associated with a 2MB or 1GB read/write to disk is just too long to be reasonable.

Do you have a link where I can read about this? Couldn't find it quickly.
I'd encourage anyone doing embedded development in 2020 to give VisualGDB a try. I'm very happily developing embedded systems in VS2019 with C++17/20, and it has built-in support for every platform I would want to use.

I have no affiliation with this company, just a happy customer.

https://visualgdb.com/
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Different things for different people. Walking just makes me tired, I start with 50 thoughts in my head and end with 100 thoughts in my head.

There is no rush, and that is what makes my brain anxious.

Running, cycling, lifting, shooting helps me focus, and that brings peace to my mind.
Remember that guy who was doxxed and fired because he made what somebody thought was the (now off-limits) OK symbol?

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...

No, the GP's scenario is not at all implausible. To think otherwise is to be oblivious to the on-edge nature of our times.
Pragmatism is short sighted though. Don't exchange convenience now, with shackles, for freedom later on.

In any case, not being able to install whatever he wants, or being forbidden from sharing things with friends because of DRM is a very immediate limitation even Joe Average will notice and complain about -- unless we, the people who know better, "train" him to accept this is the way things are and there's nothing to be done about it. And we really, really shouldn't do this.

As for your second point, two thoughts:

- Free software has already succeeded. The tech world we live in couldn't exist without it. If you work with computers, your job likely wouldn't exist without free software -- or if it existed, you wouldn't recognize it or want to work in it.

- There's a lot already said, by better thinkers than you and me, about quality vs freedom. Because free/libre software is a philosophical point of view, quality comes after, not before freedom. This is precisely the kind of thing people like RMS pointed out about the differences between libre and merely "open source" software. Please consider what better thinkers have already said in battles already waged decades ago before rehashing the same arguments.
> I put an AND in my statement for a reason, please don't cherry pick parts of sentences.

As a non US-citizen, I don't really care if the US is democratic or not.

People have voted and continue to vote for terrible things. What matters is what a country does. So actually the US would certainly be on that list.

Unless your argument is, it's not evil if we all voted for it?
The constitution literally says the States shall choose the president.

Not the people.
IQ is a psychometric number derived by a standardized instrument to measure some form of intelligence. "Boring" is a feeling that has as much to do with intelligence as all the other feelings like sad, happy, etc. "Pointless" is a value judgment you're making right here that's extremely subjective, each person can find purpose in their job if they re-frame and tell themselves a better story about it.

I don't think IQ is a perfect predictor for basically anything. It's a very myopic metric that helps explain, but any statistician today is going to use dozens of variables in their model, not just one.
This is about the psychological benefit of exposure therapy "in the treatment of anxiety, social and general phobias, low self-esteem, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder", which happens to be applied via VR in this case. And with success.

I've repeatedly heard exposure therapy described as the single most effective treatment in psychology. If true, our approach to microaggressions may be backwards. Protecting people from them may be exactly the wrong treatment for people that are stressed by such behavior. Exposure therapy may be the best.

Imagine a therapeutic VR exposure therapy session that mostly consisted of subtle and unsubtle insults to the patient's various identities. It might be both politically incorrect and the most effective treatment available.

In the same way an unmoderated internet forum may be healthier than a moderated one.
Those are necessary but not sufficient to scoring well on an IQ test. Just as proper nutrition is necessary but not sufficient to growing very tall.
I can't shake the feeling that every discussion of IQ contains motivated reasoning: either someone doesn't want the idea of IQ to be relevant ("I can work hard enough") or because they do want the idea to be true ("Look at how successful I am, I must be special").
Why doesn't set -e (or set -o errexit, or trap ERR) do what I expected?
I just read the GitHub readme:

> How does it work? You make a request to a hostname with a unique prefix. All hostnames resolve to the same IP, but the DNS server records which IP address the query came from. The webserver looks for this record and returns it.

That's a smart way of detecting a user's DNS server - well done!

Is there a way to "fail" the first request and try to force the user's secondary DNS to kick in so that it can be detected too?
It takes 30-40 minutes to walk 2 miles. If I have to go to the grocery store to pick up ingredients for dinner, do you really think I should spend an extra 60 minutes walking there and back vs. driving?
“Which explains why IQ is unnecessary and using it is risky because you miss out on the Einsteins and Feynmans."

Einstein and Feynman would certainly not be rejected if you automatically rejected people with below average IQs, so I don’t really get this part of the argument. We have no number for Einstein and a supposed 125 for Feynman but he did extremely well (the best in the nation) on Putnam, so his nonverbal (or at least “quant”) score was likely very high.
I think you can go so far as to say Taleb is wrong about stuff without much argument.
Agreed, the parent comment is extremely defeatist.
Nice! I used to work on a similar project that was probably in direct competition for research grants back then. Compared to our failed attempts what I can see on wheelmap.org seems delightfully pragmatic in how it avoids unrealistic ambition for details. We got utterly lost in stuff like e.g. measuring/describing the steepness of ramps to document the quality of accessibility features, completely ignoring the issue that someone who wanted to pretend accessibility would just conveniently forget to mention the ramp (or step) at all. Similarly, you took a deep breath and decided to restrict scope to exclude streets and sidewalks (must have been a painful decision), we never did. In hindsight it almost seems as if we actively tried to fail (we didn't), congratulations for avoiding all those pitfalls.
Thank you for taking you time. It's good to know other people perspective.
> This issue can be solved with mandatory insurance and compensation structure. For this sensitive private health information compensation should be at least 5 figures per person, no excuses. A data breach involving 10,000 people could cost 100s of millions.

Cheaper to not worry about that and just pay the hackers occasionally then.

In market based economies, the state is not serious about fines and convictions of corporations because the state doesn't want to be responsible for making monopolies of the remaining companies in the country.

You can read more about this in the book "The Chickenshit Club"
The patient can keep the data and have the doctor sign it.
This should be in Google maps, and integrated with its navigation tools.
Contribute to the Lynx browser to download embedded video's to mp4. Add flags to the command line to download them.
Then it serves as an integral part of a web-browser and you don't break the Youtube TOS.

Edit: Add to firefox a right-click option "Save Video As".
As an aside, Sapper in particular is probably not the future, as there’s been an unofficial announcement[1] that it will be replaced with file-based routing built in to the Svelte app template.

1: https://youtu.be/qSfdtmcZ4d0
> Instead of trusting each company to implement their own billing system with some payment processor, just have the payment processors and banks provide "apps" that support these protocols

To me, this sounds dangerously close to the argument for the W3C standardization of DRM in the browser. I remain wary.
Wow, this is such a useful tool and a clever way of finding out the DNS server. Great job!
How do you link a person's medical history to a person without personally identifiable information?
> No, there are protocols to negotiate whether an app has server side decoration or not and the compositor has the last say.

The compositor can implement that protocol and just respond with "this compositor doesn't support SSDs". GNOME does this, so all toolkits must use CSDs if they wanna work on the most popular Wayland compositor.

Incidentally, that's hell for all the simple libraries out there which just exist to get a GL window on the screen. GLFW, GLEW, SDL, etc. all have to implement CSDs now if they wanna work with Wayland. It also means that it's no longer feasible to just make a Linux application which uses the windowing system directly; everything must use a huge toolkit now.

EDIT: To clarify, I don't think this is an issue with Wayland, but with GNOME. There's no reason it couldn't have supported SSDs like every other Wayland compositor. But as it stands, it hurts the Wayland ecosystem.
I'll never understand why professional embedded developers just suck this up

Here's my point of view: historically, software engineers didn't pick the ecosystem. The electrical engineers did. They looked at (in descending order) cost, I/O capability, manufacturing lifespan, and then finally the software ecosystem.

When things started getting too similar the chipmakers picked up on this and started selling the software as feature: "Our neato IDE has a Part Wizard! You pick the part and variant and our gizmo will set up a blank project with headers and mux already done. You can run Hello World with a mouseclick!" And thus we got things like CodeWarrior in Eclipse.

The dirty little secret in embedded is that everyone is lazy and they're behind. If that manufacturer-provided IDE does the setup and gets my code launched on the part then let's go. Hell, they even give me reference projects to steal from!

Look at all the work the OP does setting up a compiler and makefiles. Could we have done that years ago? Of course. But nobody wanted to make the effort.

A lot of us have moved on. I recently worked in an ecosystem built with Zephyr, ARM GCC (psst: get it right from ARM and skip Launchpad), VSCode (w/Cortex Debug plugin), Git, and CMake. The only thing I had to pay real money for was the JTAG debugger. It ran natively in Linux and it was sweet.
IQ metric is not necessary to make this assment, a regular job interview could weed out the two sigma below the mean candidates. I think it’s common sense at this level. On the other hand it really depends on the job. You don’t need a hugh IQ to be a supermarket bagger.

Low IQ people in low responsibility positions don’t pose much risk, I’d actually think high IQ in highly responsible positions may pose a higher risk: think of hiring a high IQ malefic narcissist who would ruin your business just for fun
Is there a confusion in question ? GitHub is centralized, the Git protocol is decentralized. I dont fully understand your response.
On the other hand the county has not paid anything for environmental services rendered by the tree, or any of its ancestors.
Well IQ is a quantification and operant conditioning is not. I don't see how you can directly compare the rigour of the two when IQ can be used to make quantitative predictions and the other doesn't...
Both frontend and backend written in Clojure. The code can be found at https://github.com/descryptors

Feedback and suggestions welcome!
> Examples of people being nice to each other in FLOSS projects is certainly something we could always use more of, sure. Is that what this is?

Yes. That's how I interpreted it, at least. (I think it's great)
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Or, "Look at how special I am; if I'm not successful it must be because I'm being held back."
I'm from a small town in North Carolina, and without the benefit of an IQ score my boredom in the classroom would have been interpreted as a condition requiring stimulant medication.

Of course these tests may be improved upon, but so far I haven't seen any solutions offered to account for children in my situation if quantitative measures of aptitude are eliminated.
It all looks relatively reasonable to me. They don't seem to make extreme claims anywhere in that page. There's a section that talks about some meta research regarding impact of non-ionizing radiation -- I'm not sure how accurate that is. But, again, they're not saying that you will suffer if you don't get their phone. Just that the radiation could be harmful, so they designed a phone w minimal SAR.
What a stark contrast to the debates you see these days. I really like the close up on the faces, feels far more personal. Also hearing Nixon agree with Kennedys assessment and then moving on to explain where they disagree was almost surreal when you compare it to the first Biden vs Trump debate. I'm not sure how the quality of these debates have been historically though if someone can enlighten me? Perhaps this year is just an anomaly?
Debian's hugepage docs are pretty good: https://wiki.debian.org/Hugepages

Windows has Large-Page documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/large-...

Linux kernel also has docs: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt

In my experience, most Linux distros have huge-pages enabled, but just doesn't use them unless the user sets some configuration flags in various locations.
That was my immediate thought, though I would caveat it as "IQ likely has a statistically significant effect on achieving the top successes of any field and therefore we'd expect the top 0.5% to have a higher than average IQ."

Otherwise, it seems like a strange dismissal. For one, the roles that an actor plays, and even the persona they have in public don't necessarily match their private persona where their intelligence might be more evident. For two, while luck and other personality factors surely play a significant role, it would make sense that IQ would be a differentiator amongst any group with similar characteristics.

So among good-looking talented actors/actresses with similar demographics, I'd expect IQ to correlate at least somewhat with their success. It seems odd to think otherwise.
> It's also rather complicated to set-up on the server side (xauth, magic cookie, etc).

you mean "ssh -Y user@host..."?
What's the tiling WM landscape like on Wayland these days? I know of Sway (i3-like), but is that the best game in town? I started with i3 but now love StumpWM (Common Lisp) and XMonad (Haskell), and can't imagine being without something very similar.
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Wlroots as a library for implementing a Wayland compositor has done wonders to help develop small-scale Wayland "desktop environments". Sure, you pull the whole wlroots things, but under X, you pull xlib, plus some X11 server.

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/wiki/Projects-which-use-wl...
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> Implementing a Wayland compositor requires much more effort than implementing an X11 window manager and each new compositor implementation reinvents the wheel many times, leaving users with less options for a desktop environment than on X11

At least if this helps to reduce fragmentation, so that we can have a decent desktop environment, instead of 4.000 half backed ones, could be something positive for Linux.
Gotcha. Most subreddits are averse to self-promotion, so you run the risk of a negative response from redditors. I can't speak to Facebook groups since I don't use them much.

It might be difficult to target ads to landlords on these platforms. I am not sure what targeting attributes might be available.

Maybe you could cold email/call property management companies and you might find specific people to email on LinkedIn. They manage larger number of properties and so this might be a bigger pain for them? Cold emailing and selling also makes it possible to get continuous and early feedback from engaged customers. It might not scale, but that's fine [1]

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
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hope these hornets kill lots of people.
They should take down all browsers and Internet we can use it too download stuff... this is so stupid. Don't want your stuff to be downloaded, don't put it online.
That's not possible. Medical records have to be kept for 12 years (IIRC).
Firebase also blocks Iranian IP's, which is why I don't use that service.
>“Zoom is committed to supporting the open exchange of ideas and conversations and does not have any policy preventing users from criticizing Zoom,” a spokesperson for the company said. “Zoom does not monitor events and will only take action if we receive reports about possible violations of our Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and Community Standards. Similar to the event held by San Francisco State University, we determined that this event was in violation of one or more of these policies and let the host know that they were not permitted to use Zoom for this particular event.”

>However, Zoom did not respond to questions about which specific policy was violated or whether other events have been shut down by the company.
Wait until they find out about heart disease.
I often use dnsleaktest.com for this; it runs multiple rounds so you see all the ones you might be using.
Agreed, the unique site prefix is one of those 'aha' ideas (im sorry not good with words)
their readme there states

> GitHub is committed to continuing to offer free public repository services to developers with individual and organizational accounts in U.S.-sanctioned regions. This includes limited access to free services, such as public repositories for open source projects (and associated public Pages), public gists, and allotted free Action minutes, for personal communications only, and not for commercial purposes.

maybe someone can confirm how this works in practice?
The biggest issue for me has been the need to install the namecoin daemon. This basically means namecoin can only be used by technical folk.
"Need to accept" vs "get stuff done" = "use Windows or OSX"

Fact is the people who developed X thought through multi user graphical computing.

That process has not really happened since.

It needs to, or we just won't see desktop Linux compete.
> It is VERY SPECIFICALLY addressing some of Taleb's claims about IQ and is VERY SPECIFIC that that is the goal.

Not sure this is the case at all. The conclusion states:

> Conclusion

> All the claims from the article that I looked at, that can be interpreted as something specific and tested in a real data set, turned out not to be correct.

It's true that Taleb's article is a bit of a rant, in his specific style, and that it might not get its quantitative claims precisely right. However, I think that his core points are valid and that the current paper, by focusing on relatively minor quantitative claims, doesn't actually provide relevant counter-arguments.
Cybersecurity insurance is presently about a 5 billion dollar market globally. There are quite a few underwriters getting into the game and vendors stepping all over each other trying to figure out how to get a piece of that risk reduction work.

Personally I think it's adequate just to fine companies for breaches and let them figure out if they want to insure or do better or both.
Great simple idea.

If you haven't already, you may want to check with an attorney to see whether there are risks to you providing the text or the waivers (even as samples). You almost certainly don't want to be classified as offering legal advice, which I could imagine would be a risk.
Even the historic US legal system was designed to have parties be able to reasonably represent themselves in court. Lawyers weren't a thing until pretty recently.

Earlier lawyers had fees capped at fairly low levels. Money wasn't a thing since lawyers were fixed-price for a type of case, by legislation.

If Biden is talking about serious judicial reforms, simplifying the court system to where individuals can represent themselves, and capping legal fees seem like the ways to do it. He'd never do it, though; the democrats are in the pocket of the legal lobby.
The article quoted doesn't even mention the data or the test.
But IQ research has actually been linked with eugenics throughout its history.
They haven't credited me for that either. Why should an arboreal taxpayer be given preferential treatment?
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Or perhaps just write a more capable terminal?
True. The method sends cards that are already memorized to the back (so to speak) where they are revisited less often. You could conceivably retire those cards forever and take them out the box.
Possibly. But I remember the time of Shareware, especially on the Amiga platform. It seemed that every little itty-bitty utility program on the Amiga cost some small amount of money. Meanwhile, all the popular programs on PC (DOS and Windows) and Unix (Sun etc.) were mostly GNU-style free software, and guess who won that development? I’m worried that the entire currently-free web will stagnate by all web sites feeling forced to adopt this pay-by-the-click model.

However, you are certainly right in that the current ad-supported model is driving engagement, or, should I say, “enragement” clicks, which is certainly not doing much good.
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