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I'll represent the other, unpopular side: the man did as much if not more damage than all the glory he had.

As a footballer his career was finished pretty much 30 years ago. He left the '94 World Cup testing positive for drugs in what was a national embarrassment. His career as a manager was a disaster that existed purely off his prior fame. It's an embarrassment that we are unable to move on past things that happened four decades ago.

As a human being, he lacked morals, never recognized his uncountable illegitimate children, had no care for his body or self beyond the most infantile of desires, and his irrelevant words on a myriad topics were taken as gospel in an astounding display of hypocrisy.

I did not live to see his plays in the 80s. I remember his infamy of the 90s, along with the infamy of many, many public figures of Argentina of that time (along with the coked-up failure of a president Menem and the parade of similarly dubious public figures, all good friends of his too).

I remember being in elementary and my classmates emulating, respecting and excusing the horrible aspects of his character, and I certainly remember how that made dents in the morals of a generation that excused cheating as long as it got results done.

Having later on lived in more developed countries where that stuff just didn't fly, I'll go out on a limb and ascribe at least part of the failures of Latin America to these kinds of attitudes.
It's unique to Trump. The only nuke related programs I'm aware of that were going during the Obama admin were the new fuse research program and the very beginnings of the ground based strategic deterrent program, which is going to be the replacement of the Minuteman III ICBMs.

On the other hand, Tillerson famously referred to Trump as a moron after Trump asked why the US wasn't working to expand our nuclear arsenal.
Yeah.

I'll be honest: I've taken myself off of social media. HN is about the only one I can stomach, barely. I appreciate having a source of brief distractions, and toxicity is exactly counter to the point. Even as it is I need to keep myself out of some areas. (Holy cow does discussion of dating bring out the sense of entitlement and misogyny.)

I don't really want to depend on an AI to screen things, and if nothing else, it's a good reminder that I really should limit the amount of time I spend in the kind of vapid extemporanea that social sites bring. But I don't want to reduce it to zero, so I'd probably use a tool that made the vapid extemporanea less unpleasant.
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Well, in direct comparison Pelé seems a bit deficient in tragic dark sides. That makes him greater in many ways, but also less of an attention magnet. On the list of Roman emperors people can name, Nero will rank quite close to the top.
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Good advice, local newspapers also have a hard time financially, and a small amount of potential customers (who can -and, arguably, should- be interested). It does depend on your interest in a subject (COVID-19 in this specific case). One way to gauge it is asking yourself: "how is this beneficial for me any my loved ones?"

Thing is, that's why I was interested in COVID-19 in the first place. I lost my father 5 years ago. Difficult. My mother is in 3 risk groups for COVID-19. I really, really don't want to lose my mother as well. That's where my COVID-19 anxiety stemmed from.

Pregnant partner? 2 y.o. daughter? Unborn child? None of these are in risk groups. I wasn't worried about them, at all.

And that's a problem with irrational fear. Perhaps it isn't irrational. We are convinced it isn't irrational. How do we know for sure if it is irrational? How can we bring it more in line to reality? [1]

[1] I am not a psychologist, but if you have that with a lot of things in life, you might wanna say hello to GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder).
This is affecting all of us-east-1, not just a single availability zone.

Over the past few years, it's become easier to host an application in multiple regions, but it's still a heavy lift, requiring a lot of thought not just from site reliability engineers, but application architecture.
I'm the original author and current maintainer of blight. Happy to answer any questions that people have about it, or about build instrumentation in general!
I think you might be confusing accuracy and reliability. But I'm not here to argue about semantics, you can use whatever definition of accuracy you want. IP addresses are large attack vector for deanonymization/tracking, and people should be thinking more about how IP addresses get leaked and in what contexts. Whatever definition of "accuracy" you want to use, I don't think that changes the overall point that IP addresses matter.

To your earlier comment:

> Why would you not interpret this charitably as them not actually trying to spy on you?

I fully agree with this. I think Apple's intention is not to spy on users, it's to A) stop malware, and B) exert more control over their ecosystem in general.

I have a problem with point B, but that's a separate conversation.

To your later point:

> It is not possible to accurately connect an identity with an IP address.

This is just plain wrong; it is possible to accurately connect identities to IP addresses, people do it all the time. Reliability is a separate conversation. If you're working off of a different definition of "accurate", then, whatever, I don't care. But I stand by the point that IP addresses are a privacy risk and that they can be used to track/identify users in the real world, I don't think that's a disputable fact.

The privacy worry here is twofold. First that these requests are (currently) sent in plaintext. To their credit, I think Apple is fixing that issue. Which is good, because plaintext payloads allow adversaries on the same network to potentially sniff which applications you're using.

The second privacy worry is that regardless of whether or not Apple is trying to spy on users, they still might be storing that data, and we only have their word to go on that it'll be stored in a protected way or deleted regularly. If a court order comes down asking Apple to reveal that information, or if it gets hacked, that data increases the threat model for Apple users.

An adversary with access to Apple's data (whether that adversary is a hacker or a government) could theoretically tie app usage to real-world identities if the IP addresses are logged, especially if they can match IP addresses with logging of other data being sent to Apple's servers. That's the point m463 is making in his original comment -- the data here doesn't just exist in isolation, it's IP addresses that an attacker could correlate with other real-world identifying information.
Updating the status dashboard is pretty low priority for operators trying to resolve this issue. It requires escalation up the management chain and careful wording.
Cable nodes work on a round robin frame structure, so it would make sense that fiber has less latency.

All bandwidth is going to be shared somewhere, but cable is often heavily over subscribed at the node level, which is going to matter more when you are suddenly given more DOCSIS channels but the node is left unchanged.
I meant I used to believe that a language should be designed to be used notepad first. Now I believe it should always be usable in notepad as a fallback, but the design of the language should be heavily influenced by what capabilities IDEs/LSPs can bring.

So IDEs first but never violate the rule that it's easy to fix something in vim or notepad in a pinch.
They clearly lied to protect their professional pride.

And I think calling these ‘unique documents’ is fairly undervaluing.

It’s pretty clear the people in charge now recognise they should have been reported stolen straight away.
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I had a notification on Instagram the other day explaining that, for now on, all messages can be read if reported. Instagram never claimed to have e2ee, but it shows they are aligning the policies across the 3 apps.
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I've used both and I don't find a huge difference. I'd sit in front of both options for a little and see what you think.

The top quality I look for in a programming monitor is contrast ratio. For me a good contrast ratio has a huge effect on text readability and eye strain.

Panel type matters for contrast ratio. There are really three types in common use: IPS, VA, and TN. I've had great luck with VA panels which are not as well liked by gamers due to somewhat slower refresh but have great contrast ratios. I don't personally notice good VA panels looking "slow." High-quality IPS panels are good too of course. TN panels are very fast and usually are the cheapest but they also tend to have the worst contrast ratio. I'd avoid them for programming.

Beware of over-exaggerated contrast ratio numbers. Look at reviews and third party measurements if you can find them.

I have a Benq 30" 4K VA panel monitor right now for my primary and it's pretty good. Had a Samsung curved VA panel monitor a while ago that was also great but I don't think they make them anymore and mine broke (due to being dropped, not burning out).
That's a rather tenuous link. Because a famous person said the same quote in a different context doesn't mean it actually has bearing and what we are discussing. If you don't like the first hypothetical, maybe focus on the second hypothetical, as it is extremely relevant for today.
Yes. It just acts like a web cam; does live video interpolation of yr actual cam and so Msft Teams can't tell the diff.
fair enough, thank you for taking the time to explain.
Did not know about that one, I added it to the list!
Would you say the skills learnt from this book carry over to Elixir app development? I've been really interested in Elixir, Phoenix and OTP lately.
Not so much older hardware is moved there as it's just the oldest region with the most baggage
For years they enabled the AMA to cap residency spots and created an artificial scarcity & drive prices up.

Now they are whining that they are a scarce resource?
At least the comet hypothesis has some actual data to back it up, and the data matches the Wow! data. This current one assumes the signal must be from intelligent life and found a candidate that might possibly have intelligent life that might possibly have caused the Wow! signal, with no explanation for why said (possibly existing) intelligent life has not caused any additional signals since then. At least the comet explanation offers an explanation that fits the facts.
I had a curved monitor at one of my previous companies. To be honest I didn't find the experience substantially different than a non-curved monitor. YMMV.
Epic violated the Terms of Use for their developer agreement which applies to all platforms. They knew that and they violated it willingly. The court order only prevented it temporarily to reduce the damages that may be incurred and until a determination was made in the initial case.

That is not anti-consumer.
> Probably the same people that include emojis in business emails.

Probably the same people that would include emojis in IRC messages.
I somehow don't think FB's world class engineers would fall for the cryptographic doom principle, so this would imply MAC-then-Encrypt-then-MAC, no? :D
I think it's more about the energy level needed to get over the learning curve. Like learning a new language, if you aren't really serious it isn't going to happen, and going at it slower makes it take disproportionately longer, making it disproportionately more likely you'll get frustrated and give up before you succeed at it.

As for younger versus older, I'd say this is a screening process that filters young people out even more if anything. When it comes to students in a MS program, older students are much more able to handle it in my experience.
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I don't buy conscious effort all that much. It's reassuring to believe there are some evil actors in control over the narrative. Such people could be identified, and eventually removed from their positions of influence. It's much scarier, and much closer to the truth, that we're dealing with a system of incentives that's stronger than any individual or group. We're not being led astray by the few with an agenda; we're all just flowing down the optimization gradient.
A lot of people in my country also like/dislike him for his political opinions. A lot of people do claim he was a good person. Others hated him or mocked him. He had transcended football.
I operate StatusGator, which is a service that aggregates status pages so I'm ALL TOO familiar with the AWS status page.

The main change they made in 2017 was the ability to post a message at the top of the page that is independent of the status of the individual items below. IIRC, it was the items they couldn't update. So that is kind of a hack, but it works.

It would be ideal if it was host entirely on completely separate infrastructure, and even a separate domain, but I won't hold my breath. Theirs is still more reliable than, for example, the IBM Cloud status page which was hard down during their epic outage back in June.
It's more that just the protocol though. TFA links directly to the IPFS Desktop Client, which certainly can have an attitude e.g. if a future update blocks this project. That risk doesn't really exist for any mainstream torrent client.
> One issue: Some users get confused over streams and topics, often posting anything in whatever was the last topic they accessed rather than going to the correct topic or starting a new one

This has been a problem ever since email: many people reply to the last mail they have from a list, sometimes changing the subject, and then get surprised when the mail is threaded under the mail they replied to.

I've seen this occasionally on Zulip instances, but a reminder and a suggestion that the topics are like email thread subjects or forum thread subjects tends to help.
Actually I haven't, though I probably have ingested his ideas by osmosis at this point.
We've lost our ability to produce content with simplicity, decency, discipline and sophistication: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLByTa5duIolYRtq45Cz_G...

Engagement metrics, click ratios and all this fricking noise - I want us to go back when watching the History channel on TV was actually about History. There are a handful of video content producers on the internet that I can watch without getting my blood pressure out of control.
No, this guy is actually correct.

The supply of medical doctors is kept artificially low in order to keep salaries artificially high. I ran into this firsthand. I was actually a pre-med student in college, but as I really dug into how the whole system works and found out that physicians' groups and lobbies work to prevent new medical schools from being established, to keep spots in existing medical schools scarce, to keep their salaries inflated, I got disgusted and instead finished my degree in biological sciences with a focus in evolutionary biology.

The system needs an enormous overhaul and reform. There are some workarounds being implemented to address demand, notably nurse practitioners, who have almost the same powers and privileges as M.D.s, but not quite. That's even changing though.

But the core of OP's post is totally correct. A huge part of this situation we find ourselves in right now is due to good old-fashioned greed and protectionism.
Anti-CCP propaganda like rule of law, free elections, not having a dictator run the country, right to clean air and clean water. That propaganda sounds extremely dangerous to the first-degree relatives of CCP becoming billionaires off the working masses. I live in a western city, full of 18 year old students driving Porsche's, whose parents are in the CCP. Every time I see that, I feel bad for the peasants in the countryside toiling away in the countryside.
Thanks for mentioning this - that's a nasty failure mode.
This is why I don't watch videos on my laser printer.
I've been really happy with MXToolbox's service https://mxtoolbox.com/c/products/deliverycenter

I also tried the Mimecast one but it was no better than MXToolbox and significantly more expensive.
People are downvoting you because you are making blanket generalizations that don’t meaningfully add to the conversation, and then doubling down on them when challenged. I thought maybe you would like to know what’s happening, but if it’s not wanted sorry to have potentially upset you further.
Sounds like modern-day SAP. Pays well if you're willing to wade in and learn the beast.
I don't agree with the article's statement that this is necessary.

I'm sure it serves a purpose. But it should be more transparent to the user what's going on, and it should be possible to switch it off if the user decides they don't want this.

And really, the article also mentions Apple used to do this with a local cache but stopped doing this in Catalina. The question should be asked why. A local cache arguably offers better protection as it will work even without a network connection whereas the OCSP has no alternative other than failing open or stopping the system from working.
For anti-abortion vegans/vegetarians, quite possibly.

If you're already eating meat, you're already demonstrably OK with the killing of an animal.
The only app that virtual webcam tools won't work with is FaceTime on macOS (supposedly for security reasons).
> What we really need is a societal mechanism that somehow forces (or persuades) those on the extremes to compromise

This isn't how social change happens. The extremes stay planted. They define the Overton window. The centre is the bulk that moves. It's the part that decides. The extremes effect change by persuading the centre, not by talking to other extremists.

This is the problem with partisan-fueled premature dichotomization. It creates lots of immovable people. The only solution to that system is to punt the problem for a generation in the hope that more people drift to the centre.
I just tried to start X11 on FreeBSD 12.2 with all these configs removed and it started with accelerated graphics.

Only Synaptics touchpad had 'tap to click' disabled.

I create these configs to be sure that X11 will start the way I want it to start, not that all of it is needed.
It would be more valuable to write many fewer, simpler policies, but transparently document the why when it comes to decisions by stakeholders. For example, the only difference between getting something from the government (say, a California Public Records request) and a court is (1) cost and (2) the court almost always has to write a defensible opinion for why something happened some way, but a government agency does not. At the end of the day you wind up with the same possibilities of results.
What you are interpreting as personal/emotional attacks, are people shocked and responding to OP's lack of empathy and disregard for human beings and our hospitals being staffed with overworked emotionally drained people, which affects us all but the OP is shifting the focus to, well at least some workers are making 10,000 more.

I mean, I guess some people just need that spelled out to them due to their lack of ability to empathize.
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Yeah; Apple claims 128 "execution units" and 24,576 concurrent threads (I assume something analogous to SMT going on there, though I don't know enough about GPUs to be sure).
regex suffers from the same problem that inlined code does.

For example, if you saw this in a code review, what would you say:
log_and_return(rank_by_time(compute_recommendations(get_data(client_id,date), find_nearest_neighbors(client_id))))

You'd tell them to create some intermediate variables. But when it's a regex, apparently we're all fine with this:

/((([A-Za-z]{3,9}:(?:\/\/)?)(?:[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)?[A-Za-z0-9.-]+|(?:www.|[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)[A-Za-z0-9.-]+)((?:\/[\+~%\/.\w-_])?\??(?:[-\+=&;%@.\w_])#?(?:[\w]*))?)/
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> The second thing that frustrates me is the sheer number of people that I have interacted with that have pulled the ladder up behind them once they make it out.

Could you expand on that?
1 Hiroshima atomic bomb (15 kt TNT) is 37,500,000 ham sandwiches (at 400 kcal/sandwich).
They generally don't care because it's not humans being killed. You'd need to ask an anti-abortion vegan.
I didn't believe the 22 MiB download but it's true. 156 requests and 26 MiB with an empty cache.

Oh my.
Well you did amplify it by commenting on it...

I don't really get why the other comment was so bad though. And it sounds like you're saying a better thing to do is just quietly feel empathy and express some vague generic words of acknowledgement. Which will inevitably be followed by promptly forgetting about it and going back to our normal lives, like 99% of us reading this thread will do. What good does that really do?

And what harm does it really do to discuss/debate different aspects of this situation, and learn more details about what's going on?
Yes, that was why I was referring to internal politics and incompetent management.
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I’m trying to find a doc on running cognito using multiple zones and I can’t find much. Anyone have a multi-az cognito deployment running right now?
Linux is the only unix OS that gets traction

Darwin (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS)?

And I guess that technically Minix is one of the most successful Unix-like systems. [1]

[1] https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
You can easily make a small fortune being a Salesforce dev/consulting shop.

Medium to large business will easily pay $200k-$400k for Salesforce implementation projects.
> Phone records and intercepted calls show that (Trump and his crew) … had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/politics/russia-intell...

> Even Strzok dumped on the Times’ story: “We are unaware of any Trump advisors engaging in conversations with Russian intelligence officials.” [1]

[1]: https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/07/21/howie-carr-alt-left-...
What would Salesforce gain from this acquisition?
Well guess what, if enough people vote against guns then we'll get to decide that there's no gun for you : )
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Ontario Society of Professional Engineers did a study on engineering labour maker in Ontario 5 years ago. Their findings show that this is not the reason behind the majority of people with engineering degrees doing non-engineering work. I don't know how the results compare to those in the US or UK, but it certainly is an eye-opening data point. Some highlights:

- According to the 2011 NHS, only 29.7 per cent (67,045 out of 225,490) of employed individuals in Ontario with bachelor’s degrees or higher in engineering were working as engineers or engineering managers. A further 37 per cent (83,365 out of 225,490) worked in professional positions that normally require a university degree. In other words, only just over 65 per cent of employed Ontarians with engineering degrees were gainfully employed in professions that normally require or benefit from having a university degree.

- Those who were not working as engineers and were working in positions that don’t necessarily require a degree made up fully 33.3 per cent (75,090 out of 225,490) of the total.

So, as an engineering graduate, you are more likely to work in a job that does not require a degree, than in a job that requires an engineering degree.

https://www.ospe.on.ca/public/documents/advocacy/2015-crisis...