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> pindab0ter's idea, as I read it, is that no, CoCs are not inherently weapons to exclude people for no reason. They typically language about what constitutes bigotry. In the OP, yes, the CoC was weaponized, but it doesn't reflect a necessary fault in CoCs in general.

I don't think pindab0ter would agree with this interpretation. @pindab0ter, if you are still following the thread, can you clarify this with a yes/no answer: do you count the OP article as an example of CoC weaponization?

> I'm not sure what is even meant by "weaponize." Is the implication that somebody at the conference had vendetta against OP?

Yes.

> It's clear that CoCs give people more power, which is a weapon, in a sense. Would reporting someone for CoC violation for sexual misconduct at a conference be an example of weaponization?

Well, if you dislike someone's political views, and then you hatch a plan to make up fraudulent sexual misconduct allegations with the hope of "canceling" someone, I would describe that as "weaponizing" the CoC. But if the allegations are genuine and without ulterior motives, then I would not use that terminology.
... and humans, tbh.
I'd agree with all of this, with the caveat that at lot of what your saying is both called out in the article and in a lot of advice around writing a code of conduct (example: https://adainitiative.org/2014/02/18/howto-design-a-code-of-...), so it's not even clear to me that this is a problem with the majority of the CoC organizations/enforcement.

Even here where part of the problem in the vague requirement ("be kind"), the biggest problem is they didn't follow their own processes of having an actual dialog. It's a bit like if you walked into a US court and the Judge immediately says "I talked to the victim and your clearly guilty", it's not the process that's the problem, it's that the process wasn't followed. Maybe like the court system there should be an appeals process (not sure what that might look like).
Yes, or, do I want to be on point to maintain this until the end of days? If no, use Excel.
Many laws are silly and useless. Many laws are ambiguous. Sometimes you read a law and think you know what it means but it turns out it applies where you don't expect and doesn't apply where you do expect.

The law is complicated and expensive and painful. You need lawyers and judges and juries. People are, as you observe, severely hurt by the law.

These are reasons why we don't need some pseudo sub-law drafted quickly by amateurs. The real law still applies and the fake law is arbitrarily enforced.
Hardware like this often uses FPGAs because there’s a need for highly parallel processing that is difficult or even impossible to do on a off the shelf CPU, but the volumes are too low to justify a custom ASIC. Being able to fix bugs or add features after shipping is a big bonus too.
It's in a similar category as "LAMP stack" or "MEAN stack", but more vague on details: JAM = Javascript + APIs + Markup. APIs tend to perform the role of a CMS (sometimes called "headless CMS"), and Markup tends to refer to declarative templating languages rather than code. The final output is compiled into static HTML+CSS+JS, which is obviously highly performant, compared to dynamically generated PHP/RoR/etc.
I had forgotten why the number 1001 mattered in video (it's been too long since I worked with NTSC circuits), so I looked it up. It has to do with avoiding dot crawl in color analog video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate
Organizing my HTML into pages is the easy part. The hard part is the rich client-side experience: things like building a sortable/filterable table with a rich datetime picker where the data is displayed dynamically in a chart with zoom/pan capabilities. That's why I build SPAs: I've already bit the bullet to get highly dynamic client-side code, it's just as easy to construct my pages client-side as well.
If you have skills outside engineering too, the job title for this is "product manager".

I formally switched to product management in my last job. I have background doing startups, and this combined with jack-of-all-trades engineering, makes for a perfect technical product manager.
We are spending plenty on space, just see SLS.
People that work in finance aren’t stupid, they look at cash flow to determine rents and property value.

The discounts are there for the same reasons as the grocery store. It’s better for sellers as a negotiating tool and for price discrimination.
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Kind of like flying in the 80s and 90s vs. the post-911 hellscape that our domestic airports have become.
Could you recommend any resources for learning more about what you've discussed here?
> I have never seen it happen in my 10 years in open source

Seems like a very generous reading of what the person I'm specifically responding to said
Pizza is not fast food. And every pizza place makes their pies differently. They're not completely commodified, at least not for people ordering regularly.

As for actual fast food, while the process is optimized to the extent possible, that optimization usually involves the restaurants having their own supply chain of specific ingredients. Grubhub would have to gain access to the same ingredients to successfully impersonate chain restaurants.

What I can see them doing is just launching 100 different fast food brands selling the same food cooked in the same dark megakitchen, because why not, DDoSing consumer choice with fake brands is par for the course these days.
GrubHub is a review company though. Part of their supposed value proposition is that they act as a marketing platform, and the restaurant reviews are a large part of this.
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And what proportion of 18/19 year olds goto university?
>What's the mechanism that forces restaurants to partner with these food delivery services? Threat of competition if they don't?

The mechanism is the ubiquity of folks using "apps" instead of contacting restaurants directly.

It used to be in NYC that every time a restaurant made a delivery, they'd leave paper menus for the residents.

Now, you either go through an "app" (read: an inferior interface to a website) or a search engine to find restaurants.

Aside from the fact that a low/mid-priced restaurant likely doesn't have the tech expertise to set up an online ordering platform, or the financial resources to purchase a point-of-sale system that includes such functionality or to contract with a developer/hosting provider to do so, getting on these sites may seem to be the only way they can maintain their business.

And since GrubHub, et. al use SEO spam to get themselves at the top of search listings, have contracts that forbid restaurants from charging less if orders don't use them, and then take all the profit (and then some) from the bulk of transactions, the deck is stacked against such restaurants.

I suppose you could argue that if a restaurant can't compete in the market, it should fail. And most do. The average lifespan of a restaurant is just five years, and the vast majority fail within one year[0].

But those aren't the restaurants I'm talking about. I'm talking about neighborhood institutions that have been open for decades being forced to close because all their profit and then some is being taken by services like GrubHub that aren't even providing delivery services, just listing on their site (which runs from ~12-30% on every single order).

The insertion of the middle man here, taking up to a third of the revenue on every single order which provides just a listing service (they actually charge the customer for delivery service if the restaurant doesn't provide it -- not the norm here in NYC), has put many wonderful restaurants out of business.

This increases prices, reduces the diversity and choice of cuisine and quality, without providing any value, except in listings and credit card processing.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/restaurants/2018/08/09/...
My argument for colonizing other worlds has nothing to do with finding a "new utopia" and everything to do with not having all of our eggs in one basket.

Earth is going to get annihilated at some point. It would be nice if our species didn't go with it.
But buying those search terms on an ad network is okay?

Today's calvinball economy confuses me.
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Relative to the cost of purchasing, it does. Buying in major cities in Canada simply does not make any financial sense unless you were counting on continued insane growth (fueled by local speculation as much or more than foreign).

Most people are unaware of the specific bet they are making, and buy just because Canada has a crazy cult of home ownership. From my own experience, it is far more intense than anywhere else. Paying anything other than a mortgage is widely seen as "throwing your money away", even with the above financial realities.

Unfortunately, although people are unaware of the nature of the bet they are making (unbridled speculation fueling price growth), they have been right for a long time, even through the housing collapse in the US. But the music's gotta stop at some point.

Though locals may talk about how young Canadians are "screwed" or that no one can afford a house anymore, the reality is that home ownership in Canada is higher than it has ever been in history. Young Canadians simply need to accept that, for now, owning a house shouldn't be their one goal in life: they should opt-out of the cult of home ownership, and just wait until buying makes financial sense (i.e. the bubble bursts or deflates).
Came here to say this - this has been the difficulty with things like science and research since the dawn of time... you study one thing and then hopefully if you have a lot of people studying multiple things one hugely amazing thing eventually falls out when one person gets lucky.

It leads to a very delayed gratification despite very real near term costs. So it’s easy to attack the costs and focus and prioritization...

But if you don’t invest in science as a whole, eventually you start running out of new things that improve life generally.

Space exploration is one of those areas where we learn and continuously bring back learnings to the rest of society.
I think the 0 longitude most likely is accidental.

Yet, here is another thing to think about:
Zero longitude is the longitude of Greenwich, i.e. London, a significant city through the ages. Cities and towns, especially ones with old age, aren't positioned randomly but in geographical suitable locations: valleys, rivers, coast, etc. Since the position of London is not random, the 0 longitude isn't totally random as well.
Still seeing no connection to this 26s pulse tho.
They'll probably replace it JS, seeming as that seems to be the way forward for Office and SharePoint Add-ins, or at least it was the last time I ever looked at that stuff.
This is precisely backwards - especially in the US. Anyone with 'generational wealth' effectively guaranteed by investments and trust funds is in effect an aristocrat. However their income came - whether through their parents or their own work, they no longer have to take employment, can travel the world freely and don't share the concerns of the vast swathe of the ordinary population.

By contrast, the median government salary in the US is 51k. Notably many government sector employees like teachers are paid at about the same level of other industrialised countries (although with enormously worse paid vacations, and less autonomy than in most EU countries).

Source: https://work.chron.com/average-salary-government-employees-7...
https://www.businessinsider.com/teacher-salaries-by-country-...
You _can_ negotiate with tech transfer offices, but it might not lead to much.

We have been fighting with ours for ~8 years now. The terms keep getting worse. I think all told, and if I were to repeat it, I would certainly scrap the IP I made in those early days and start fresh when starting the company. Like they mention in the article, chances are you'll pivot a number of times anyway, making the IP largely irrelevant, but you'll still have given up significant equity for it, and likely have a difficult shareholder onboard for life.

(edit: at least this is my anecdotal evidence, and what I gather from some other people having interacted with my particular tech transfer office...)
I agree that for every resource we need, getting that resource on earth (if it exists on earth) will always make more sense than seeking it in space. Humanity should always seek to fulfill its needs from terrestrial sources. We shouldn't mistake space exploration for infrastructure building.

At the same time - this doesn't mean we shouldn't explore space! Just that we should understand that exploration as low-to-no-return investigations, not investments in the foreseeable future. I also don't think we've reached the limit for that kind of research. Our society could safely tolerate much higher levels of investment in space exploration (as long as it remains a very small proportion of all investments). We have many other "pure research" fields which are key to long-term health, but do not meaningfully contribute to our current survival.

Like Roko's Basilisk, this is a good reminder of the dangers of using resources that we have today to try to reach a future we may never see. The human ability to plan for an imagined future is key to our humanity, but so is our ability to deceive ourselves.
I think the trick is that you're using the same word for two groups. There are a ton of law school graduates, but not enough lawyers. Between the two, there is a gating function of bar associations, getting hired at a law firm, etc. If that gate is too small, then you get the effect you observe where there are too many "lawyers" (graduates) looking for work while simultaneously not enough "lawyers" (working lawyers) available to drive down prices.

Sometimes these artificial gates are good things. They can protect consumers from low-quality products whose quality is very hard to evaluate. The market you use to "buy" a lawyer is not efficient: lawyers are no commoditized and you don't buy them frequently enough to have a good skill at evaluating them. An artificial gate like a professional association can help ensure consumers get access to a quality product, and that shitty products are prevented from entering the market and driving down the reputation of all producers.
In my country, "Political Correctness" is a dog whistle used by Daily Mail readers. It doesn't mean anything. I don't shape my thinking by what some talking head thinks.

Why do you think I asked for a concrete example? I notice that you didn't provide one either.
I don't doubt Wes' upper bound for Pandas OOTB, without optimization. The context was web applications. If you're seeing 10x on a web app, either something is wrong or you probably shouldn't be using Pandas.
We just bought a 2018 Corolla (first car in over 10 years that wasn't the city bus...) but I am going to keep that in mind because at some point we'll need a second, and something like that is just perfect for moving some gear around.
Until the relatively recent rise of cancel culture, I unthinkingly failed to realize how little -- in the US, anyway -- free speech has to do with the government. The government is rarely the problem. The problem is with mostly left-wing activists who would destroy those who don't embrace their secular religion.

Daniel Suhr wrote a great editorial in the 15Oct2020 issue of the Wall Street Journal entitled, "Justice Ginsburg and the Value of Anonymity" extolling the late justice for her work defending anonymity for donors for political causes. That is perhaps the best way that government can protect freedom of speech.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-ginsburg-and-the-value-... (paywall)
If it's not subject to DRM, that doesn't mean you own it either. Even if Amazon just downloaded an unencrypted mp4, legally you would be guilty of felony copyright infringement under 18 U.S.C. § 2319(b) if you were to sell it to someone else.
This is the crux of the issue, especially when these services are happy to pass the buck when the delivery falls short and blame the restaurant.
I recently noticed that LibGen has started using Cloudflare as one of its download options. I was somewhat surprised that Cloudflare would allow use like this.
Nine years ago, I stumbled across this book and finally learned enough about programming to be able to make useful things. It really levelled up my life, and was a great onboarding experience to the language. The book takes on one concept at a time and has some exercises at the end of each chapter that you can do in your command line. Because it focuses on concepts, I felt like I could immediately branch out to other languages (which I did). If you have friends or kids who want to get into programming, I'd put this on the list. What are your favorite intro to programming books?
From my experience, the doctors that own the providers and private equity have the same motivations and resulting actions.
Is it just me or did anyone else find it hard to read the article with the text alternated by those large looping animated gifs?
One line hit me right in the gut.

> “If you get a piece of information in the hands of the right American, it can absolutely spin out of control and make the national news in a couple of days,”

We laugh about Chinese censorship, but our reliance on a few outlets to get our news has made us no worse.

At what point is it Okay for people to start to die? History has proven (With a few caveats i'm sure) that real change happens with force. Has America lost it's ability to rebel against tyranny?

America was built where small pox had a much higher death % - Were they forced to wear masks and stay inside? People die, it's a fact of life. Now we the people are forced to deal with the economic backlash that any idiot could have told you was going to happen. The media blocked any 'misinformation that relates to corona virus' and labeled them 'Anti-maskers'.

Alot more people are going to die than the corona virus could have ever killed. The amount of mental health problems exacerbated, jobs lost, lives ruined is immesurable, but the one KPI we can all rely on is total number of coronavirus infected. It's a joke and we haven't even gotten to the fun part yet where we have a 34% debt surety rate based on the two massive stimulus' that are going to be passed.

America was built on free-press and if say some entity tried to bury a story, it'd result in people dying, publisher being burned, or boycotted.
That site isn’t working on my iPhone. Does it work for others?
MDN has never been "authoritative reference documents". It's a wiki. Anybody can edit and republish pages, change examples, do whatever. I noticed somewhere about a year ago that it was a wiki, and have made minor changes to a couple of pages since then, when something was missing an example or something.

I change, I publish, it's done. And if my change was wrong, or opinionated, or bad, it's just like that until somebody else catches it and fixes it back.
youtube-dl -U would be challenging without a download server, but, the issue here is collaboration. Many people have copies of the youtube-dl repo, and many people can build the youtube-dl binary if provided the up-to-date changes. But to develop youtube-dl, they need to be able to continue to collaborate, which is currently at risk due to the DMCA takedown.

If they can continue to share patches over distributed mediums like a mailing list, they can continue to collaborate, and share improvements to the youtube-dl code that many already have copies of.

Possibly not a fantastic long-term solution, but certainly worth attempting whilst fighting it out with the RIAA.

Another important point is that many projects use GitHub as their general communication about issues, support, roadmap, etc. When GitHub suspends a repo, all of it goes away. Whereas Sourcehut is selling the point that your collaboration tools would survive even if they were required to remove your code.
Anonymity is part of the censorship resistance. You can't censor something you don't know about. Along the lines of "Can't Be Evil" vs "Don't Be Evil"
In my experience when I worked for a medical image analysis startup some major vendors such as Philips,
Siemens, and GE are developing analysis tools in house as value adds for their existing customer channels and there is no reason for them to open themselves up to competition by increasing interoperability. Hospitals are happy with waiting for your next startup idea to become a feature in their next MRI purchase from the same vendor they have had a relationship with for years.

One way I can think of to disrupt this process is partnering with a new medical device company which is accelerating sales to hospitals. Last time I had this conversation the promising ones were all Chinese, wanted investment solely for development of algorithms under Chinese jurisdiction as part of terms of investment, and carried all the usual IP theft and legal risks you can imagine. Israel has some med tech startups too but they wanted to source talent from within their country and their due diligence seemed to be more of an intelligence gathering operation.

I moved on to working in finance. I don't know what ended up happening to that startup. I left after the paychecks stopped coming.
The analysts I knew at my last job would use Excel to prototype huge, incredibly complex business logic and calculations, and then have programmers (or the skilled ones would do it themselves) implement this stuff in SQL or whatever language made the most sense when it came to analysing billions of rows of real data.

It's an exceptionally powerful tool for prototyping.
Totally agree. I'm not a "networking" person in the sense of deliberately cultivating/expanding a network, going to networking events, etc. It's also true that all three jobs I've had over the past 20 years were through personal contacts. (And the only tech job before was right out of grad school via an on campus interview.)
Does this work or other bases too? Other than 10?
I think almost the opposite. Excel is useful for quick exploration or entry of data. If I need data entry from many people, a web spreadsheet can be useful, too.

At the point that others will be dependent on the output, I want version control and tests. You can make that happen with excel but it's not easy.
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Thanks for making the post. Focusing on creating a clear thesis at the start of your blog will help your readers understand the purpose of your post.

The first paragraph communicates you've struggled with writing in the past, the second para says writing advice is often low quality, and the third paragraph explains the characteristics of good writing (hints at the thesis).

You could make a single thesis like this: "This post explains the characteristics of good writing and how I was able to improve my writing skills."

You could continue with "learning to write well was a great personal struggle, especially because writing training materials didn't help". That could also be considered a separate thesis for a different post.

Paragraphs like these can be made more concise:

> Most writers struggle to write well when the subjects use technical terms. Technical terms are confusing when they are not introduced properly. This technique is helpful when communicating complex information that requires technical terms. When you introduce complex information, design the sentence that it appears in, so that you can locate that term at the end.

Here's how you could reword it:

Technical writing is difficult, especially when the terminology is not properly introduced. It's best to introduce technical terms at the end of sentences.