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This is a common and misleading description. I encourage you to read the decision and at least part of Stevens's dissent (which is twice as long as the decision itself). I know it's a lot of pages, but it's got big fat margins.

Now.

(Reposting a comment I made elsewhere)

Before Citizens United, any US majority-owned corporation or union was allowed to make political contributions from a segregated fund. The money in that fund could only come from employees and shareholders. This was, in decades of previous legislation and case law, considered sufficient to protect the 1st Amendment interests of associations of individuals. They can pool their money together for political purposes, put they can't pool it with other people's money.

Before the ruling, Citizens United was allowed to spend money on political activity. They were allowed to spend money on political activity close to an election. They were allowed to spend money, close to an election, to broadcast issue-based political advertisement (e.g., for or against a ballot initiative) on TV. They were allowed to spend money distributing their documentary in any way other than broadcasting it on TV. They could show it in theaters. They could put it on the internet. They could print DVDs and mail them out. They could distribute it to PACs and campaigns for them to spend their own money distributing it, including broadcasting by on TV. They could pay money, close to an election, from a segregated fund, to broadcast their documentary on TV. All they weren't allowed to do was spend money, close to an election, on broadcasting something expressing views for or against a political candidate, on television or radio, to an audience of at least 50,000, close to the election.

Corporations were not banned from electioneering before Citizens United. They were restricted. The laws imposing those restrictions went back until at least the early 1900s. There was a century of case law find some such restrictions constitutional. There was a decision in 2003, just 7 years before Citizens United, upholding the very restrictions that CU struck down. The majority's argument rested on the idea that no "identity-based" restrictions on 1st-Amendment rights are constitutional. But there are such restrictions, e.g. against prisoners, students, and employees of the executive branch. These restrictions remain in place today. The majority invented a 1st-Amendment principle and then selectively applied it to corporations. They did so with no fact-finding in the record of the case on whether the provisions they struck down actually chilled free speech. Fact-finding that the government wanted to do before Citizens United (the organization) dropped the issue.

The majority in Citizens United flipped the table on decades of election law that had survived scrutiny several times before without even claiming that any circumstances had changed. They did it solely because they didn't like the outcome. And they bent over backwards to do it.
Can someone name this fallacy for me? It sounds like the slippery slope fallacy, but I'm not sure.
#4 was more to avoid being noticed by someone like me before they’ve had their morning coffee. That being said, if anything does go wrong, and you’ve ramped up slowly, at least it gives autoscaling time to respond.

Generally, though, unless you screw up badly, submit forms, or blend in with a more problematic crawler, nobody’s going to care (or even notice).
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Here in Australia the state funds most medical care. In this case the blackmail vector, if we use that interpretation is the taxation system.
Thanks for your input. I was thinking about a way to have it powered by ambient energy. It is hard to integrate the solar cell in a way that it does not distract from the actual picture, though.
The most compelling argument for dark mode, is simply the fact that so many people seem to love it and choose it
Shell is simultaneously wonderful and horrendous. Did you know that the left bracket ([) is actually not a part of bash syntax, but instead a binary that lives in /bin? Run “which [“ if you don’t believe me!
I suspect that decent bug bounties, and therefore engendering more competition between white hat and black hat activities is probably the best way to go.
> That's a rare state for a lot of people, who have spent a lifetime trying to be anyone but who they really are.

If you do it enough, who you "really are" is someone who doesn't enjoy letting their guard down. Who's to say that's not your "authentic" self at that point?
That’s the opposite of what I said. We need people to think of themselves as all part of the same people at some level requiring them to have basic civility and respect toward one another.
> rule on what the law is, not decide what the law should be

That’s just, like, your opinion man.

What is the law? A bunch of words. What do those words mean in combination the the surrounding words? Uh oh, we just hit subjectivity.

“Originalism”, “Textualism”, “Absurdism”, etc. are all pure nonsense. Judges, and most particularly Supreme Court judges are definitively expressing their unique opinions as to what a law is, which is identical to “what a law should be”. Someone could attempt to argue that a judge’s opinion of what a law is may not align with what that judge actually believes it should be, but the evidence of consistent partisan split votes makes such an argument particularly weak.
According to less(1), the key is: “G or > or ESC->”.
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I get that this is smothered in PR. But isn’t this one of those “win/win” situations? Providing people with a path into the profitable tech industry that otherwise wouldn’t have one is likely a net positive for their future prospects. The fact that AWS stands to gain from this in the long term doesn’t take away from that. Is it only nice if someone suffers?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25364140
Planes... I remember those...

I can't imagine someone saying a wireless headphone with noise cancelling is "studio" anything. From the delay to the processing to everything, if I want to use a headphone for studio work, I'll want the flattest wiredest analogest of headphones because I don't want them to changing whatever comes in at all.
There was a really cool moment in an Nvidia RTX demo (rtx = hardware accelerated raytracing effecs), where they created and showed a camera obscura in the game Minecraft -- https://youtu.be/opCDN2jkZaI?t=432 (7:12 if the timestamp doesn't work).

Supposedly this was something the Nvidia devs were not necessarily expecting to see but happened to stumble upon it. In other words, it arose naturally from their treating light as physical rays rather than being programmed in, and if so I think that's pretty neat.
Thanks for the blog post. Ep383 of the Linux Unplugged podcast [1] also went into detail with CentOS members.

What CentOS gave you until Stream was (with some delay) the "same" set of packages that RedHat released in RHEL, which was (hopefully exhaustively) tested by RedHat QA, including making sure that packages interact in a sane way. That's what earned RHEL (and by extension CentOS) that designation of stability. By virtue of being upstream, CentOS Stream could have a lot more updates (the kind that would previously be internal to RedHat). I doubt same level of QA can/will be invested for each update state (if it could be, RHEL would probably be a rolling distro). If you don't have a QA safety net of your own, the risk is higher with Stream vs 8.

You could hack point releases into Stream: wait for RHEL release, then dnf versionlock Stream packages to the same release versions as RHEL (assuming you can map versions of modular packages).

[1] https://linuxunplugged.com/383
I think twitter hit the sweet spot in dark mode palette, there is no harm in trying it I hope they do haha
Does PG not already define earnest as

> interest in the problem for its own sake. That is the root of earnestness
Moderation and censorship are not the same thing. Look at email, for example: heavily moderated, yet mostly uncensored (and entirely uncensored if you wish it to be).
Sounds like a standard Catch-22.
Canonical has not, to my knowledge, ever dropped 8 years of support off a release - even the non-paid ones! Redhat has. In some people's minds, that changed the risk assessment significantly; not "well it worked on this RHEL-family OS, so it should work on this other RHEL-family OS", but "I need to replace my OS - should I use one from the same vendor that just screwed me over, or should I switch to literally anything else?" Honestly, you've got people seriously suggesting Oracle Linux over anything from Redhat; do you have any idea how much trust you have to burn to get people to treat Oracle as a good option!?
Many years ago, I used to have a Mayflash TX4000 dance pad [1]. It had a simpler sensor construction, similar to how regular gamepad buttons work. Each panel flexed very slightly upward at rest, and had a foil layer on the bottom, which would make contact when the panel was pressed down. This worked surprisingly well, even for "heel-toe" playing (and didn't seem to deteriorate over a few years of quite heavy use). Though, for really fast songs the "stickiness" would become a problem, and you'd start getting a few errant misses. But below, say, ITG difficulty 11 it was fine.

I remember reading about more expensive pads like the Cobalt Flux using more sophisticated sensors, similar to (or exactly the same as?) what you'd find in an arcade machine. Are the sensors in this design similar to what that pad used?

1: http://www.mayflash.com/Products/DANCEPADS/TX4000.html
What is the metric governing the size and geometry of spacetime? Gravity??
Reading between the lines, I assume that it's because Red Hat / IBM own that trademark and they've decided to stop using it for that project.

In principle, there's no reason why another-CentOS couldn't come about in the same way as CentOS came about originally.

...but now that CentOS has been professionally funded for so long, the bar is higher than it used to be.
Isn't it troubling that the videos are not created to inform, but to keep the audience paying for them?
FB will buy them up of course.
Looks like the Vogon Constructor Fleet is just about here.
I think you might have looked at the wrong statistic when googling this. According to this site[0] (which is one of the first hits for "computer science graduates per year"), there are 2 million computer science people in the workforce _in total_, which seems far more realistic. Actual number of graduates per year seems to be 65000.

With your numbers (assuming linear growth) after those 40 years, about one third of the total US workforce would now be CS graduates.

[0]: https://datausa.io/profile/cip/computer-science-110701
I see this often on twitter. Some account with dozens of thousands of followers, if not more, and very little reaction to their tweet (less than 10 per tweet). It’s obvious to the trained eyes that they just bought followers. I can’t be mad honestly, it’s pretty cheap to signal that you’re a big deal by doing this.
>Stop streaming

And if it's your livelyhood, go where? The next two most dominant rivals in the area of streaming are literally the two you call out later in your post, Facebook and Google. You're not going to make money by trying to get people to get people to switch to your niche streaming service that no one has heard of and will close up shop in a year.

Individual action, especially consumer action, has never been a driving force in effecting change. If it were, companies like Nestle, which you hear about the despicable practices of almost weekly on commenting sites like reddit, wouldn't still be market leaders. Legislation, litigation, and most importantly, collective action are the only ways to change things like this. Don't tell people to boycott a service, get them to unionize their de facto employees.
How do you think assemblies of people get together to speak who can’t all be in the same place at the same time? They have been paying spokespeople since time immemorial.
Also, in my opinion:

1. The elite will still hand down a superior education and social connections to their progeny, so their children will still be privileged, just not ridiculously so like they are today

2. This will incentivize parents to invest more in their children's soft development, rather than just handing down their wealth and calling it a day
The bottleneck is almost certainly decoding the image (PNGs are zlib compressed, which will be going at something like ~300 MB/s plus the filter stuff PNG does), not comparing raw pixels (which you should be able to do at memory bandwidth, so something in excess of 10 GP/s).
I know nothing about this so excuse any potential ignorance:

They say:
>COVID-19 mRNA vaccines give instructions for our cells to make a harmless piece of what is called the “spike protein.” The spike protein is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19.

So from what I understand the vaccine itself does not contain the spike protein but is simply RNA that is injected into the cell and then the cell goes through its usual process to translates* the RNA to amino acids which then gets churned into protein (the spike protein)?

My first question is how did they make the RNA? Is it the exact same RNA as in the coronavirus or is it artificially generated by them? Does it do the exact same thing that the RNA in coronavirus does and is the spike protein the exact same spike protein found on the surface of the coronavirus or is it different (even if subtly so?)

Can anything go wrong at any point in this process (can the body misuse the RNA, or the spike protein, or anything else) and if so what?

*edited
My first impression of the dark mode was, how beautiful it was, and how much better it was than the dark mode userscript I was using. Different opinions! I hope they don't "do better".
I always see posts like this, but I’m wondering at what amount of money would people feel like it’s fair?
Ok. So your view of what was wrong with it is that the search terms might change.

And it seems like he has removed the word ‘whiteness’.

Is he still ‘denying the existence of white supremacy’?
>"evidence of consistent partisan split votes makes such an argument particularly weak."

There are a number of judges who 'break the mold' by taking 'unconventional' positions in certain cases. Gorsuch, and Scalia before him are known as a criminal defendant's beset friend when it comes to evidentiary rules, even though nobody would say they were 'soft on crime'. On the other hand, there are judges and justices like Alito, Breyer, and Sotomayor who always find a way to decide cases in favor of their preferred litigant.
The majority of my service is a compiled C++ server with html/js front-end, so it runs on practically anything. I do need to run ffmpeg/firefox/pulseaudio to record sessions, which has been problematic on Ubuntu in the past, but it seems to work reliably on Ubuntu 20. I also have many customers running my service on their Ubuntu servers, so it shouldn't be an issue.

From what I've seen, Ubuntu 20 is probably going to be simpler to set up than Centos 8, as (I think) it has many of the required packages such as ffmpeg without needing to add epel and various other third party repos. It also doesn't have selinux, which I generally need to turn off on Centos (after spending a lot of time trying unsuccessfully to get everything working properly with it).

My only issue with Ubuntu LTS is the shorter 5-year lifecycle.

Perhaps by this time next year there will be some alternative repo that we can simply switch to in Centos 8 so that it just continues as-is, without us needing to take the risk of upgrading everything to a completely new distro.
Why radio receivers won’t tune 800-900 MHz
Isn't poetic abstract expressionism essentially Beat poetry... Allen Ginsberg / Jack Kerouac / Bob Dylan?
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> You only learn the tool once. Every subsequent time you visit the man page, the information you're probably looking for is frontloaded. Just scroll to the bottom if you want examples?

This is false for most tools we don't use daily. It's false even for tools we do use daily, in some cases (I have to google git commands every month or so for commands I use rarely).

Most people are and remain perpetual intermediates: https://blog.codinghorror.com/defending-perpetual-intermedia...

The experts are the exception.
And other things which you'd expect to be commands are both commands AND builtins! And they behave differently depending on which you call! Some examples are time and pwd.
This feels like a long “water is wet” article.
Speaking of dinosaurs that aren't dinosaurs, and fish that aren't fish, there are the Ichthyosaurs. Marine reptiles that lived alongside the non-avian dinosaurs, but were not dinosaurs. Being a reptile, it wasn't a fish either. They did however looked remarkably like dolphins, which is interesting because like dolphins, ichthyosaurs are tetrapods that returned to the water.
Are not symmetries necessarily the transformations which conserve quantities

A priori, a symmetry is a transformation that, when applied to any valid trajectory, yields another valid trajectory. It is not obvious to me why (certain types of) symmetries necessarily yield conserved quantities...
At least when you go to Stack Overflow or read the man page, if you find an answer, then it is likely to work. In contrast, if you go to Stack Overflow to find out how to do something with a GUI program, there's a good chance that the answer you find is for a different version than you are working with, and does not help at all.
There’s fundamentally no difference between a large corp with thousands of employees (who can either use best practice and the secure rails given to them or go wild in their implementations) and a one person company.
I once had a discussion with my friends about this. We ended up concluding that liquid fuel is so power-dense that it would take building a new 110kV transmission line to replace three fuel tank trucks a day.

I suspect that swappable batteries are the future, at least partly, e.g. for big trucks. Not only do they help to refuel in minutes; transporting them to an installation with high-power electrical infrastructure could be the only way to efficiently recharge them.
> CentOS will no longer be downstream of RHEL as it was previously. CentOS will now be upstream of the next RHEL minor release. This is NOT a “RHEL Beta”

That's... what beta means.

EDIT: Let me reframe it this way: If CentOS Stream is just becoming RHEL, then why does RHEL exist? If it's truly just as good as the old RHEL was, then explicitly merge them - either give RHEL away 100% freely like CentOS and charge for support, or discontinue the RHEL brand and sell support for CentOS. The fact that you have a downstream RHEL says that that is more stable, because that is what you're willing to sell for money.

EDIT2: Actually, thinking it over more and trying to be charitable, I can see a way for that to make sense: If you believe that CentOS is moving to RHEL's spot and RHEL is getting even more stable/slow/tested, then you can say that CentOS isn't getting any worse and ... sort of object to calling it RHEL beta. Except that it still is RHEL-beta, just moved up the scale of stablity.
On iOS there’s an option to “reduce white point”. This way you can get reallly low brightness and low contrast on your phone. I’m using it often during night. I suggest to add a accessibility shortcut to the triple click home to toggle it
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Steak dinners don't get it done anymore.
Oh, yes!! She is now fully communing with nature at Newington Green Park, though some locals disagree with the nature of her commune.
> or so said Scalia when I asked him

When you asked him about it? That piqued my interest, what was the context? Why'd he seem embarrassed? The name drop begs for more details :)
It's a "forever project". [0] If you look at a lot of luminary careers, they also involve forever projects that happen to produce a digestible result. There's an element of needing a bit of direction and structure so that you don't go full "mad scientist" and lose your grounding.

For me, the actual forever project, if I had to put words to it, is something to do with studies in the cybernetics of creativity, or in ELI5 terms: "why is making games hard?" It's not really approachable just by making a slightly better tool, or a great tutorial, or a magic algorithm, or by organizing a great team for a single project - and the scope is multidisciplinary, making it less legible what I'm doing or why. But if I examine all my attempts there is an orbit to it that is gradually getting tighter.

With respect to examining low level issues in computing there's a huge pull to engage in forever projects because everywhere you look, the solutions being built on are rough-and-ready ideas rushed into production decades ago and then examined only occasionally afterwards. My own efforts started getting sucked into the gravity well of "perhaps I need to write a language, an operating system and a runtime environment to properly express this" - I managed to climb out again recently by focusing on formats, data portability and conceptual specifications instead of concrete ones with actively maintained production code - it's always the maintenance that is a killer and I can see that being an issue for Piet's current strategy too. Our ability to conceptualize always outstrips the daily grind, but we need to have one to stay in that grounded mode.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24917834
It is indeed the opposite, one might even say we disagree. As swell as it would be for people to be essentially decent, they aren't and they won't be ever. But hey, it would be awesome if I'm wrong! No doubt we need better.
Did that. Ran an internal APT server for years. Was a fantastic system for doing remote installs on field installations.

Like, you create a folder structure that mimics the final installation inside one of the two toplevel deb folders. The other folder had a manifest or two. Worked easy, and did not take long to figure out

https://blog.knoldus.com/create-a-debian-package-using-dpkg-...
I assume project handed from one person to another, one of them kept notes outside the code, maybe got fired.

Or an intranet app originally and devs not expecting it to be exposed to the internet?

But i’d bet it wasn’t a mishap but an assumption gone wrong (or stale).
I once looked into the Swedish law back a decade or so ago when Wikileaks did their first big publication.

As it happened there were a few court case back during the cold war where classified military information were published by news paper and the paper ended up in court. Recalling what I read, they made a few tests in order to confirm their conclusion.

1: Did the leaked information exist publicly before the publication. It make no sense to continue demand legal protection for information which is already public.

2: Did the leaked information cause any harm by being leaked. If it can not be demonstrated to have caused harm then the information should not have been classified from the start and thus do not deserve legal protection.

3: Was publicizing the information in the public interests?

This has made prosecuting news papers for publicizing classified information almost impossible.
The problem was not Fedora per se, but GNOME and especially Wayland. Wayland is slightly above vaporware and infested with bugs.

Had you chosen Fedora with KDE you'd probably have 0 problems. I'm using it without any drama for 11 years and I keep suggesting it to co-workers and friends.

Wayland has done so much harm in the Linux ecosystem and that gives me a lot of grief :(
It’s almost like it could have been spelled out instead