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You're talking like the current president of the USA came out of nowhere, and was not at all a public expression of dissatisfaction with the status quo.

The president doesn't need to accept dissent from his staff. Just hypothetically, if Obama's health secretary said that being transgender was largely a mental illness, or his head of domestic policy said that we need to close the southern border, does he need to tolerate that? Just to be very clear - those are completely hypothetical - I am not sure what actual "dissent" caused Trump to fire his various staff members, but it is unrelated.
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Today we learn that basic Computer Security practices aren't a joke.

Just like washing your hands, patching your software and checking occasionally to make sure it's not doing something stupid is, in fact, critically important.
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This feedback presumes that all writing is intended for a specific, professional audience. Good writing is not limited to a single audience, and good writers will consider their audience when making choices. If a writer goes against the 'rules' you've just shared without much thought into whether or not they apply to their current goals... there is a problem. But there is likewise a problem in blindly following rules.

The rules change based on what you are writing, why, and to whom.
Your website mention that friendlycaptcha is open source but looking at the license in the repository, it is a custom license that can't be defined as open source. Can you change it to source available?
well we're talking about the tooling, but point taken, swing wasn't perfect (totally grid bag 2007 short https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLaxbFKAcc )

but it's not like it was that worse than flex bugs ( https://codepen.io/sandrosc/pen/YWQAQO still does render differently in chrome than firefox - which one is wrong is immaterial)
Someone doesn’t like the idea of people being able to save unapproved content before it is scrubbed.
The Problem with (All) the Tech Hearings
Are these people actually dumb? You have the economic crisis of a lifetime and you decide to put hold on the free circuses.
DirectX 12 Ultimate support, nice catching up.
Unless they franchise it I sort of see your thinking. Games like that are commoditized more it these days it seems.

Games like Pokemon that were popular in the 90s might have vanished from popular thought had they not created a franchise out of it... it's as popular as ever if I'm seeing things straight.
> .Net

Not a programming language. (And you seemed to have missed the point; a "fast language" is essentially a nonsense term.)

> Anything that makes an actual attempt at optimising for performance.

So something like any of the modern JS engines...?
But so, so worth it to subscribe.

Seriously, if you only subscribe to one newspaper, the FT is well worth being that newspaper.

It is very expensive, but the coverage is pretty robust and not at all hysterical (which I really, really appreciate).
The effect is the same though?

It’s not as if a code of conduct ever contains anything that sane people don’t already know.

And like some other commenter said, it basically boils down to “don’t be an asshole”.
Bottom-left of the article linked in the OP, not the linked SVG image itself.
Point taken about the amount of code - my point was more about how far you can get with the core structure before having to dive into code. Whereas any React tutorial starts with code. You don't really start by laying things out and connecting the dots as such, you start by typing.

It wasn't so much about art-driven games (I found Gris super boring which would be a prime example, though many loved it), but more about people from different backgrounds bringing new ideas. There are all kinds of programmers, or course, but as a whole I'd say artists or musicians or writers are into different things. As someone who has played games for a long time I usually appreciate something fresh or interesting. IIRC Stardew Valley and Undertale are two examples by people who didn't identify as programmers.

> But it's absolutely true that you can teach artists to code - within the limited domain

I think this is the promise of computing that we've failed to reach yet. Any person has a problem, and with a little effort, they can code up a fix. Coding as a skill like putting up some shelves, rather than engineering an entire house. Some tools get some of the way there (like Zapier, IFTTT, or AutoHotKey) but I'd love to see how far we can go.
I have sent something to "{name} Somewhere near the brewery {town}" and it reached the destination. They will often try and deliver these kind of incomplete addresses.
Starlink might solve the issue of providing internet to far-flung places, which is great. But I'm skeptical they'll be able to massively undercut all of the telecom providers. Building, launching and maintaining a satellite constellation isn't cheap; it's still a question as to whether the economics will work at all.
Here in .it I have 30gb/month in LTE for 5.99€/month (fixed price).
Why Google’s new logos suck and how I fixed it
> I bet they could have talked this through without OP getting emotionally fucked up to the point of swearing off giving talks altogether.

There's also the reality, or at least noted possibility that his opportunities or ability to give talks will greatly diminish as the result of this. Submit a talk to a conference, they search you, and oh, what's this, "Was keynote speaker at a conference that then removed his talk from the conference archive over a CoC violation"? No thanks, we can find another speaker.
I too dislike that sentence. It's as if they are missing the depth of reality in the issue. However I think there can be something in that. Consider:

>Anthony Bourdain had the greatest job that show biz has ever produced. This man flew around the world and ate delicious meals with outstanding people. That man, with that job, hung himself in a luxury suite in France.

I think the point either case might be making is that you can be living the best of life and still have mental health problems. If not more likely to have mental health problems.

The even more valuable lesson might be that trying to obtain this luxury or fame isn't the source of happiness.
> we want to be able to tell those people to either stop acting like jerks or go away.

Why do you need a CoC to do that? Just write exactly that quote of your comment and post it as the rules of your chat server/conference/etc. It's simple. All the multiple pages of CoCs for everything these days is just an argument waiting to happen. What is and isn't racist, sexist, mean, etc. multiple people aren't going to agree on.

Just write in the rules, don't be a jerk, I and the mods/admins/volunteers decide who is and isn't a jerk. Done. Why do you need a CoC? With a CoC you are begging for this kind of trouble. Eventually someone will performatively complain that your CoC isn't enough. You can't just have a code of conduct now you need a Covenant of Conduct or some other thing. And you didn't include this ism and that phobia you only mentioned sexism and racism and you're not being intersectional enough and this is exactly why tech isn't diverse, blah blah blah. Why open yourself up to this at all?
Have we ever questioned killing chickens? Robots, however, will win our hearts like dogs and cats, we will be generally good to them, but we do frequently put down them when necessary (or unnecessary?)
It's a very low-contrast sun in the bottom left corner.
The gaming industry and the RIAA are in an interesting situation regarding compound works. Some games license music for their soundtrack, and the games developers want to license streamers to broadcast their games. But the streamer is not covered by the terms of the music license, so their content gets DMCA'ed. But even if the terms of the music license were to be adapted to allow for live streaming of the game, how could one detect that a song is being played as part of a game stream with the right license?
Got into writing Gameboy emulation recently and went looking to buy one to compare output. there's definitely a u-shaped curve in prices for old consoles with the bottom currently at the ps2/xbox/wii. Its not a entirely quantity related thing, the ps1 and game boy color had plenty of owners but are climbing up the "retro" side of the price curve. But on the other hand the GameCube is a bit more pricy locally, largely because no one owned it at the time, but the Wii/Switch has brought levels of Nintendo interest that wasn't here for non-handhelds in the 90s/early 00s.
That article has to be one of the most bewildering things I've ever read.

I have not seen the term "SJW" used so many times in proximity to Orwell and 1984 references before; well, at least not outside of a gamergate board
For every story about Pokemon cards there's 20 stories about Beanie Babies collecting dust in the attic...
Andy Matuschak makes a similar point. If I understand correctly, his perspective is that the notetaking is the work.

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6cFzJWgj9vZpnrQsjrZ8yCNREzC...
I'm sure we could write a whole social theory around this.

Arguably, the spanish tradition continues under more modern institutions with the British and Dutch trade monopolies. Nobles and wealthy commoners could go off and stake their claims in the colonies. A more diverse elite.

Instead of being a knight that can either farm (limited number of hides) or crusade, you could also be a textile merchant. You could be a ship captain, VOC clerk or mior Raj.
Taleb taught me how to protect myself in the face of uncertain situtations, the idea is not to take risks for the sake of taking risks. The problem with bureaucrats is that they are exposing others to huge risks and they don't feel it on their own skin. They are pushing the consequences of the risk on other people.
What are you talking about? That's exactly how it works for VHS, DVDs, CDs, Blurays, books.

Once I buy media, nobody is coming to my house to prevent me from watching it just because there was some legal issues between unrelated parties. That's up to them to solve on their own, in courts.

Just because we have ways to revoke users' access to legally bought media doesn't mean it's ok to do.
Those are some substantial assertions. Do you have references to back up those claims?

The Mayo Clinic page on vitamin D lists a number of positive effects, for example. https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-vitamin-d/art-2...
Many of them have added DirectX backends in the mean time, and they will eventually had to either rewrite or contend to use OpenGL on DirectX 12 work Microsoft is doing.

The old ICD interfaces that OpenGL drivers rely on, might not be around forever, and so far Windows doesn't support them in sandboxed processes.
>hope to all artists that are being exploited by labels

The article mentions targetted tracks by Beyonce and The Killers. Are these artists speaking out against the RIAA, or are they onboard? If it's the latter, it will be hard to fix.
From the article, the alleged harassment was two phone calls and a zoom call, all of which the recipient answered and participated in. That's not harassment.
But the downsides outweigh the positives. A CoC opens you up to allegations of not having drafted a proper one, not being comprehensive enough, not thinking about this and that and those groups or how people can still be "mean" without violating it. Eventually you'll have to add more and more and more and then you're not going to be able to follow the outlined resolution procedure anyways
I'm glad I'm more of a language descriptivist instead of prescriptivist because none of your examples bother me.

>It's "lessons" not "learnings". How much have you eaten How many eatings have you had? Ugh.

Does the word "drinks" also bother you? (As in "How many drinks have you had?") (My previous comment about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17020434)

And what about everybody including today's English PhDs incorrectly using plural "you" as singular you? The word "thou" was already the correct word for the singular and intimate relation. The famous song title should be "Thou Art My Sunshine" not the incorrect "You Are My Sunshine". :-)

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9780/did-english...

Does a language get to change and evolve at all? If yes, who should decide? A language committee or bottom-up crowdsource language speakers? When does the previous "incorrect and criticized" usage become "correct and accepted"?
Obviously (hopefully) this is a very complex topic and our analogies are both lacking in nuance and inaccurate on certain levels. However...

In the middle ages the nobility were effectively the government (and the church provided checks and balances, kind of) as well as the investor class. In addition to financing productive capacity they also did all the administrative things governments do. Obviously administrative bloat ebbed and flowed over time. Today we have both government investment in capital project (e.g. a road, or a bus terminal) and private investment in capital projects (a new factory or whatever). Both groups can get very rent-seeky and non-productive if left alone with no reason to not do those things. It's really hard to make generalizations that are more accurate than not.

I think comparison to the pre-industrial world is more effective for understanding that time than it is for drawing conclusions about our own time. All the details are so different you really need to squint to make things line up and when you're talking about big things like macro-economics it's the fine tuning and details that make all the difference.
It's the peck peck peck of the planet-scale baby bird almost ready to emerge from the Earth's crust.
Seriously. They also want 8 dollars every 3 months to stop their obnoxious, intrusive ads. This despite the fact that the official mobile app crashes _all_ the time...
I don’t know real estate value is a lot bigger than global tax collection.
A couple of my Gmail tabs (but not all O_o) just switched over to the the new colorful M icon and he's right, it sucks. His proposed design seems a lot better.

On the plus side, I have another new example to explain to customers why I don't like to change things.
Beside the knowledge-base aspects of obsidian, it is also an awesome markdown editor, for two reasons:

a) it blends source-view and render-view very well, I almost never use the actual render-view. Almost as good as Mark Text or Typora, and I wish VSCode would move in that direction either.

b) its BSP-style layout lets you make best use of your screen estate

c) (more of a gimmick, but I love it): When you want to change the theme, it randomizes the order of themes in the list. For any new vault I just pick the one that is on top, and have a different style for different projects.
I use the text to speech in my articles as a 'read it out loud' exercise.
And? Either you tell the user to remove Frank from the address book or if that is not possible (ie, autocompletes use addresses from all emails and there is no way to exclude addresses) and then you have an actual bug report.
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Huh, TIL I’m a sexist and/or racist.
Thank you for the library tip!
> Where is the proof that “real stuff” is growing slower than the population?

In the US? Government debt is at or approaching an all time high relative to GDP. Corporate debt is rather high although I don't know how it compares historically and there is a massive amount of student debt floating around. There are a lot of people out there who, by the numbers, are consuming quite a bit more than they are producing.

US primary energy production has basically flatlined since 2000 [0]. That isn't the be-all and end-all, but it just seems like an easy prediction that long periods of growing population and flat energy consumption is going to lead to problems. The people who can't convince Asians to give them stuff are not going to be rolling in a surplus of stuff, is my read of that chart. I haven't heard good reports about the state of US infrastructure either, but maybe it is better than I think.

The States might make it work, but the political situation is developing pretty much how I'd expect it to if there is a large group of people being squeezed out by lack of access to real stuff. There is a big body of people who just aren't producing as much as they are consuming, and the background talk of "we don't need energy to be wealthy!" - I don't see how that squares off against the growing relatively evident growing instability. Trump in particular is not a sign of a thriving economy. Nor is the Democrat rhetoric in response to Trump.

Population growth is ~.7-.8% per annum, and real GDP growth is estimated at 2% per annum. Given the expansion of the money supply, and the gossip that the US is a 'service based' economy, it is entirely plausible to me that real stuff is growing more slowly than population and the measured growth is some sort of complicated feedback loop that nobody has tracked down.

> Malthusian arguments are outdated by atleast a 100 years.

Hopefully. But it is worth being prepared for a world where obvious trends play out to their conclusion.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/energy#energy-production-by-regio...
Do mid level YouTube channels care about this? I’d like to hear what the upcoming generation of creators think.
Native English speaker here. For me, any sentence with more than one comma is telling me that it's not one sentence. It's two, three, or four sentences. And to be clear, I'm talking about sentences that are very long, not sentences that contain a list of items such as the previous sentence. Example:

-----------------------------------------------------------

The more I write, the more I realize that sentence structure matters, as does grammar, and even spelling, and also choice of words, which affects some readers for whom English is a non-primary language.

As I write more, I realize that sentence structure, grammar, and spelling matter. My choice of words is important because unnecessary complexity may negatively affect some readers.

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It wasn't always this way. 50 years ago, it was common for sentences to be much longer. I often read stories to my wife that were written in the 50's, 60's, and 70's. They are personal accounts, not professional writing. Life stories. They quite often include sentences that take more than one breath to read aloud, because they are so incredibly long that they deplete me of oxygen before I can finish reading the sentence, which I do find quite difficult to read since I am now concentrating on my breathing instead of on the written word, which is not just awkward but also distracting.

YMMV.
Well, the download video helper has still escaped it for now. Good news given how useful it is, but for how long?

This is were a decentralized internet would shine, but youtube-dl is already not so friendly to use for the average joe, so I'm not expecting him to be able to browse IFPS any time soon.
It should be illegal to use "own" in an online service if that is not true- if you can't download the content and keep it.
The important to thing to realize about cancel culture, CoC enforcement, and various efforts like this, is that it's very occasionally about making the world a better place, and very often about people who want power doing everything they can to seize power.

Even the "Black Lives Matter" movement is distracted from the goal of making black lives matter with a laundry list of progressive demands like dismantling the "Western-prescribed nuclear family structure" that are tangentially related at best. (Indeed, the entire premise of contemporary intersectionality demands one surrender the possibility of delivering meaningful reform on an incremental basis, in service of forming a bloc dedicated to seizing power wholesale.)
Yeah, Canada is definitely behind the times. Some of that can be attributed to our vast land area making infrastructure buildout expensive, but some of it is also due to our telecoms having a government supported monopoly. It's getting better though, at least in my opinion. I'm paying less today than I was just a few years ago, for far more data.
I was thinking Godzilla, but that's more likely.
NSA learned its lesson after foreign spies used a backdoors
have you tried alternatives? I don't like react as well, angular is even worse for me (personally) to work with, but I really love Vue.js. And the market is growing year after year for Vue developers!
I for one...
Independently, no.

Assuming generously that you are right about this, why (for example) are viruses crossing over in the other direction - from humans to animals - never considered important?

We might only care about the part of viral evolution and epidemiology that we closely observe or are immediately impacted by, but that does not mean the other aspects of evolution are independent.
Not entirely on topic, but: I would really like to see how DeepMind or another sophisticated task-specific AI would approach high level scrabble. At the highest level, constant rearrangement of slamming 7 letter words onto the board seems to dominate all other concerns, seeming to dominate the strategy of trying to close the board up and choke the opponent out. It would be interesting to see what other strategies emerge, or if a dominant AI simply has great statistical foresight in how to minimize the time between bingos!
From your link:

“ Least of all is an indulgence the purchase of a pardon which secures the buyer's salvation or releases the soul of another from Purgatory. “

One might associate it with helping move an individual from a smaller circle to a larger circle of ethics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanding_Circle

“ Singer discusses the relationship between biological capacity for altruism and morality. He argues that altruism, when directed to one's small circle of family, tribe or even nation, is not moral, but it becomes so when applied to wider circles. “

E.g. charity where you sacrifice your individual goods for the larger community is good for the soul.
What is meant by “quickening”?
What I have seen in the companies that I have worked in

- Initially every engineer does everything

- Growth gives birth to independent
SRE teams. Now we have engineers who does only SRE

- We realised SRE is bottle neck for product teams. SRE teams are removed and all SRE are embedded into the product teams to do dedicated work for them.

- Other team members are now required to learn SRE stuff, especially now that terraform etc are there so we are back to everyone is a SRE

note that FAANG level companies go back to independent infra, SRE etc maybe because of niche and custom softwares they have.
I did horribly on a test in high school once and went through my closet throwing out most of my favorite toys, in particular things from Nintendo:

All my pokemon cards (I had a few pages of some pretty rare ones)

My GBA (the thing I learned programming on)

About two trash bags full of other various things
including SNES games

Often I regret throwing out the Pokemon cards, lots of people I met in college loved the game and I feel like that could have scored me a bit of reputation (but maybe that's a childish thought.) Then again, maybe if I didn't have that kind of attitude I wouldn't have made it to college at all.
The phrase didn't care in this context means that he was OK with his opinion being called wrong, not that he literally doesn't care either way.