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My teachers are also using Flash-enabled sites for their quiz and presentation :(

This is simply because the site owners haven't moved on yet for some unknown reasons.
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This is the virus that has probably received the most attention by the largest number of global experts in history, or close to.

If there was anything that showed it was in any way artificial it would have been detected by all mainstream experts by now and that information would have been publicised one way or another. Yet these claims and 'evidence' are only reported as coming from fringe people if not likely paid 'agents' (I'm thinking about that HK 'scientist' girl that fled and is in the US now, doing the rounds of all tabloids on the planet).

On the other hand, there are known virii extremely similar to it in the mild (90-95% similar and related).

I don't know if the hypothesis that it may be artificial is plausible to start with, but the facts seem to weigh heavily against it while the interests of some to create this "conspiracy theory" is pretty obvious as are the interests of some to expose China if they had actual evidence.
> In every company I have shares of, my ability to influence company policy with my votes literally rounds down to nothing because I own such a small fraction of shares, so I don't care about that getting diluted. 0 * 50% is still 0.

How is that not the same thing when you're dealing with companies that have thousands of employees and each individual's vote would also already be ~0%?

> and in such a system I'd imagine there'd be incentives for companies to remain smaller so each individual worker feels like they have more say over their day-to-day life.

That would only apply to companies that aren't already big. But then you're subject to the same dynamic as is already present where the larger company has greater economies of scale and undercuts the smaller company on price until they go out of business. Walmart didn't get where they are by buying all the smaller competing retailers.
Yea, I'm gonna get a condo for sure.
If you want, I can help you get the <blink> tag working again.
Not sure how many people are still stuck with flash, though I wouldn't be surprised. Either way, while it'll suck, maybe a lot, if there are businesses still selling/offering flash-based products, they need to change, immediately.

I'm sympathetic to people who want to keep flash around to play games or experience the "old web", but education and enterprise still requiring flash for <x> is beyond absurd at this point, as long as it's been deprecated and Adobe has been ringing the death bell.

Maybe this isn't a fair sentiment either, but I feel like both teachers and students would benefit from upgrading to a product that doesn't require flash. I know it's more complicated than that, but geeze.
Huh? There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Just because someone testifies that they saw something doesn't prove it. It's just hearsay. Please stop spreading disinformation.

Many people working minimum wage jobs don't have the ability to take an entire day off and spend the money to deal with the nightmare that is the DMV. Just because they aren't a fancy software developer doesn't mean that there vote shouldn't count equally as someone who can afford to take the day off.

Regarding needing a state ID to work, you can read on UCSIS' website what is required. One can use things like school IDs, voter registration, birth certificate, and SSA card. So, no, if you don't have a state ID it does not mean that you are working under the table.

In reality, there are tons of reasons why we shouldn't require more strict voter ID laws.
They'll never stop using Flash until it's taken away from them, because there's no financial pressure upon them to invest in ongoing maintenance and upgrades otherwise.

This is also going to break a massive chunk of the food permit and driver's ed markets overnight.
You forgot the 3rd option. Wait until the US hits about 85% urbanization. One party will predominantly control the government and the other group will be marginalized.
It's not like we didn't know it was going... whose responsibility is it then if some site continues to use it?

It has been a LONG time we knew this was coming, anyone still using it, I don't know what could make them switch outside breaking changes.
I have never written it down, but it's very simple. I don't use any external libraries. I converted the input databases to lisp and compiled them in, and the output is simple postscript. When I want to deploy I dump a core with the compiled functionality, then run sbcl with that core. At some point I was using hunchentoot[1] to provide an http point of entry (great library, as all the ones written by Edi Weitz) but I am not bothering anymore, as most of the processing time is consumed by ghostscript and convert in the post-processing of the images.

[1] https://edicl.github.io/hunchentoot/
Half my team do 4x10 hour days, I've done it in the past myself too, now I just flex my time over 5 days though. Perhaps helps that the larger department work shifts (the department we work most closely with are 16/7/365, but others are 24/7/365)
Pick your poison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data-serializati...

The big choice is whether you want a schema or not.
Thank you I have been looking for something like this. At one point I was going to build something like this using automated screenshots on a list if startups
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>> There was a general claim from the late 80s to 90s that the invisible hand of the market would eventually move Americans to higher paying fields while allowing low wage international competition in manufacturing.

A friend of mine was in business school in the 90s. She told me all that low end production was going to be outsourced to lower cost places, and that the US would be mostly management.

I was stunned that not just a person, but a school could be so stupid. What, did they think the Chinese could make shit but would never learn how to manage things or design them? Worse yet, they can now do design, production, logistics, and the US no longer knows how to make a lot of things.

I've even read that Krugman now sees that as a mistake.

Way to go, followers of Jack Welch.
I understand, but that's a one time payment (please do correct me if I'm wrong).

Training these people requires multi-year funding and commitment to their hiring as well.
That's a good point which I didn't consider when I read the top end of the blog post.
Really powerful experience that I am grateful for (though I wish my hair would grow back - lol). At the moment working on a much more manageable project with a great team (Iwahai.com) and maybe in the future there will be an opportunity to revisit the ZguideZ concept. I still love the idea, but managing a worldwide network of independent guides is more than I want to take on at the moment.
This is a very common myth in business.

Bonuses in most situations lead to a decrease in productivity.

https://hbr.org/1993/09/why-incentive-plans-cannot-work
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/bonuses-affect-employees-wor...
https://hbr.org/2017/03/research-how-incentive-pay-affects-e...

There's a ton of research out there on this. To simplify it basically if someone is doing mindless work like putting a cap on a bottle on an assembly line, then bonuses increase performance in the long term. But if they are doing complex work like writing software they decrease performance in the long term.
What are some of your favorite projects built with Python?
I don't see how your argument fits the situation, the government is clearly not focusing on costs if it's wasting millions of dollars on obviously not viable projects and paying consultants $200/h to sit around for months waiting for a security clearance...
Maybe the FreeBSD project doesn't care about getting more users? It's certainly not a big motivating factor for OpenBSD, but I don't know how FreeBSD feels about it.
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Well the line is pretty blurred. But you're right that what used to be called three-star hotels is now primarily a thing of the east, while the west calls them hostels.
I understand your view and I don't think it's wrong. I have a different set of values for code, and I do like to hang out with people who think like you for periodic reality checks.
Thanks, it's tricky to get the selection of diagonals working accurately like that. If you inspect the HTML, you can see each tile has an invisible 45 degree rotated clone on top of it that's used to detect when a tile is selected instead of the boundaries of the original tile.
This change of naming happened during the past two decades. You're technically correct, though. Note that you can get a private room in the hostel I linked, that's not universal - and I feel that moves it towards hotel.
"Mom, he hit me first!" That's what defense vs attack turns into, with Twitter being "Mom".
The scrolling does not work on iOS. I need to completely stop the scrolling to keep moving downwards, making it really tedious to try to read the site.
Typical day is 9-5 or maybe 9-5.30, with an hour for lunch, so I assume '7.5h/day' would be 9-5.30 with 1 hour lunch.

Personally I'm on a '7 hour day', lunch isn't counted (they changed it a couple of years ago, some shenanegans over overtime and extra holidays or something). My actual worked hours are somewhat different, it's outcome based and self scheduling.
"Because there's not enough Mac users to justify support," is the official tag line, but we all know that's bullshit.. the answer is, "Because we can't rake in cash hand over fist."
https://www.nslookup.io/

Why not a droplet? I created something to lookup dns records within a project and it took me a couple of hours

An I missing something about the complexity of it?
Why do you assume it'd not want to harm other very similar artificial intelligences, let alone meat intelligences?
Most EU countries have strong online id systems, either guaranteed by banks and two-factor (Nordics) or even national id card (Estonia). In fact you do not need a card, as SMS two-factor prevents 99% of fraud (India, AADHAAR).
In these environments you'd typically take special care to keep messages flat, I think - in which case there's no problem with multiple passes.
Like a third to a half of the country thinks the election was illegitimate depending on how you phrase the question.

I'd call that "a mess"

It doesn't matter whether there was or wasn't fraud in this context. A government is only legitimate because the people believe it is. The appearance of fraud challenges that belief. Challenge that belief enough and people die. The system needs to be sufficiently robust that the result cannot be disputed with any sort of credibility.

If I need to pay a hundred bucks to get permission to buy a gun, DHS can search people with no reason within a hundred miles of the border, cops can seize your cash without evidence of a crime (I can go on) and the and all that's compatible with the constitution, then everyone dragging their ass to the DMV and forking over $30 for an ID should be perfectly fine.
It honestly looks like a low effort scam website.
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We do know if we look globally. Many countries in Asia have real lockdowns, and they do have things under much better control.
On Windows, I was able to get gamepad mapping to work via JoyToKey[0].

[0] https://joytokey.net/en/
Eh... I'd actually argue that Protobuf's big advantage is all the languages it supports that Cap'n Proto doesn't.

If you're using C++ exclusively, I'd argue Cap'n Proto beats Protobuf. That "army of engineers" isn't necessarily the advantage you think it is -- rather than forcing Protobuf to be the best it can be, I would argue they forced Protobuf to get stuck with early design decisions that no one thinks were ideal (e.g. varint encoding), because it's too hard to change once you have a lot of users. Battle-testing is great, but you could argue that Cap'n Proto benefited more from Protobuf's battle-testing than Protobuf itself did, since Cap'n Proto was designed from scratch with those lessons already learned.

On the other hand, if you need to support a broad set of languages, Protobuf is more likely to meet your needs. This is where the army of engineers and Google backing is helpful -- in building out support for a wide variety of languages and platforms.
And that it didn't work at all until USDS took it over.
If you are expecting multi-MB messages protobuf isn't the best option as the author highlighted. Often you can combat this by breaking a large message into a stream of smaller messages but for larger amounts of data you will want something else.
>If you consider receiving state-hacked materials and leaking them in perfect coordination with a political campaign (see Roger Stone indictment) journalism,

As I don't consider Assange to be a Russian agent, I don't have any issues with them receiving state-hacked information. They are under no obligation to determine the source's motive. And they are free to coordinate with a political campaign, they have the freedom of assembly as well as of the press.

The Roger Stone indictment was for obstruction of an official proceeding, false statements, and witness tampering. His discussions about Wikileaks weren't illegal, lying about them was.

>Speculation no one can answer, ignored.

What? You're the one claiming the DNC leaks prove they are a Russian agent. I don't agree, but I understand that argument. Then stretching it to include "Assange's official relationship with Russian military intelligence years before he hid in the Ecuadorian embassy" makes no sense to me.

>. If you suspect someone of espionage and they are already sitting in prison of sex crime charges, you have no reason to expose the methods and sources you used to catch said person.

I am listening to what you are saying, selective enforcement of laws absolutely violates your right to a fair trial. Without exposing their methods, we have no idea of those methods were constitutionally sound. They may not have any reason that benefits themselves, but I don't care.

Further, Snowden isn't behind bars. Why didn't they expose their methods and prevent him leaving Hong Kong rather than block his passport while layovered in Russia?

>Funny, both Assange and Snowden fled their respective "fair trails" to hide from justice.

As Assange's extradition hearing and the numerous whistleblower trials over the past fifty years have shown, they had no expectation of a fair trial. Quoting Daniel Ellsberg about his case

>(my) lawyer, exasperated, said he 'had never heard of a case where a defendant was not permitted to tell the jury why he did what he did.' The judge responded: 'Well, you're hearing one now'. And so it has been with every subsequent whistleblower under indictment.
> The ACLU and local activists are currently suing the BPD in an attempt to prevent the AIR program, which was a six-month pilot, from starting up again in Baltimore or anywhere else.

I may no longer fully agree with what ACLU has turned into in recent years (despite their legendary past of unquestionable defense, which now apparently HAS conditions thanks to the social media whining era, which is sadly unsurprising in 2020), I fully respect what they are doing here.

This sounds like the police were caught in the act and a perfect moment for pro-privacy lawyers to nail them in court.
Lot of traditional liberal media including NYT have resorted to yellow journalism. This is probably because of advent of internet. But that doesn't absolve them from the wrong-doings. Lot of published articles are "technically true", but intentionally misleading. Lot of articles are very clearly politically motivated, but packaged under the guise of some good cause. The identity politics born in universities and made mainstream by Twitter has essentially ended ethical journalism and gave birth to activist journalism.
I have a degree in geography, and learned to do web development largely on the job. It took me about 5 years before I ventured into learning functional programming, and in retrospect, I feel I could’ve been 5 years farther ahead today. It makes you a better programmer, and while it might only make you marginally better at the tasks you currently do, it will open up a wide expanse of other possibilities you didn’t think yourself capable of.
Some data scientist should try that food triad exercise mentioned in the link.
I don't doubt they are hard workers and intelligent. But if OP is judging them by SV standards of talent then it's not exactly fair. Building a successful company requires a certain drive, risk appetite, and revolutionary zeal that are not easily found in government (and to a lesser extent, academia). There are smart people everywhere but most would never make a significant impact.
> South Korea's economic seemed to transform overnight, once they transitioned from a dictatorship into a democratic republic. Like it or not, the lack of free speech has an economic cost.

If you look at actual data https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locat... , you'll see that Korea has had high GDP-per-capita growth since as far back as the 1960s, with two years of shrinking: 1980 after the assassination of the dictator Park Chung-hee and 1998 after the Asian Financial Crisis, which was also the first time the ruling party let go of their power after losing a democratic election.

The economic cost of lack of free speech isn't as great as the economic cost of uncertainty (because it discourages investing). Not knowing who the next dictator will be and not knowing who will win the next election are both sources of uncertainty.
Joined today.

You could too, couldn’t you?
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None of my machines use flash nor do my 3 kids have flash-based apps.

I'd like to know what these sites are...
CO has been one party now for the last eight years or so - and it's beginning to show.
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The winter surge is fracturing
If you were the world leader in antique maps, you’d make a pile of money from that niche. Being able to search for authentic maps for anywhere in world, sorted by time period — that would be a big hit in certain circles. You could ask who would buy first edition printed books — but that’s also a pretty large niche with lots of passionate customers. For example, I’d be interested in old aviation charts or wartime maps from World War II or the US Civil War/etc.
And what about the victims of false imprisonment due to a wholly corrupt police department?

Sorry, working a tough beat does not excuse the malfeasance endemic to the Baltimore PD.
Exactly. With supply chain gone, so is the pipeline of training and producing world-class engineers, and of course the ecosystem of innovating in multiple industries. Looking back 100 years, we can see that the British thought that Americans were manufacturing low-end and low-quality stuff, and the glory of their British empire could last forever if their elites could control finance and politics. Well, it turns out what matters is productivity and innovation, and why on earth would the smart people in a country who owns end-to-end supply chains would ask for innovation another country who owns merely "management"?

Building a plane is hard, but possible. With large enough a market, a nation will be able to afford, and more importantly will have every reason to, conducting millions of rigorous experiments to figure out all the key technologies, be it manufacturing process, optimal parameters for air dynamics, or materials.

BTW, in case someone forgets, manufacturing at low cost is the hallmark of industrialization. It makes no sense for Americans to snort that Chinese could make things at a fraction of the cost, just as it makes no sense for the British to despise what American could mass produce 100 years ago.
Isn't Singapore more or less a democratic republic now?

Not much, no. Single party state, been in power forever, tame opposition parties allowed, ruling party never had anything less than a supermajority, individual leaders stay in power for decades, fines and jail sentences for questioning the independence of the judiciary.
The warning says "Flash Player will no longer be supported after December 2020".

Clicking "Learn More" takes you here : https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash...
Sure, there are plans you need to adhere to, so you can get quality you need (and you need to keep records of what, when and how much you spray and calculate if you are within limit, depending on country and form of agriculture practice you adhere to). This is already in the app.

Drones for spraying is buzzword for past few years, but it isn't going to work for many different reasons both technical and legislative. At the end the act of spraying is not pain point for vineyards: the current technology is dependable, easy and proven. (Speaking as a certified farmer)
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They absolutely could make a "safe zone" map overlay, but the political consequences would be PR suicide.
> I think the point is, if nothing changes, the costs will be very significant very soon.

The energy efficiency of machine learning hardware is progressing at a rapid rate. It's not accurate to assume that the energy costs will stay the same. Just look at how much it would have taken to train something like GPT-3 five years ago.
We should hire the Swiss or Dutch to do it for us- they at least have competent local governments.
Allowing cops to commit crimes doesn’t help victim-rights, it creates more victims and more citizens unwilling to assist police.

Did you read the article? Prosecutors didn’t make up the charges against this officer, they have documented video proof. There is no reason to arrest and assault bystanders, none.

I believe the vast majority of cops are doing their jobs legally and honestly. But you have to punish and root out those cops who aren’t, or you will never get the public trust necessary to really make a dent in high crime areas.
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This feels like a high class GeoCities throwback... Made me both nostalgic and motion sick :D
as an intermediate byte code vulnerability analyst, ActionScript sucks ... royally.

good riddance.
Stop using operating systems that don't respect software freedoms. I know it's a huge ask. But the best time to start dual booting is always now. Adobe abandoned linux flash long ago but I still can easily switch between multiple versions that are available on my whim.
I appreciate Firefox and donate to Mozilla. If you like open source, consider donating to Mozilla Foundation or any other group that helps keep the free open internet working, such as Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Free Software Foundation (FSF), Linux Foundation, etc.
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The way the article was written fits the common perception of Google. It was written for insiders who understood Google’s lingua franca. It didn’t offer any insight to the outsider other than to make them feel small for not being one of the cool kids.
Same here, but the vouch option is just not there fore some reason. Strange.
Almost, but not quite. The Vertex 3 was one of the best SSDs at that time. Had one of the better Sandforce controllers with proper MLC flash but, had to write compressible data to obtain these speeds.

It has no temperature sensor so it cannot compensate for temperature or understand its environment. It doesn't have a TBW rating (IIRC) and reports writes and reads in GiB. So it's somewhat limited when compared to today's drives.

OTOH, it's pretty dependable and stable so far.

[0]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/4256/the-ocz-vertex-3-review-...
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The anecdote is quite visible on any European shopping mall.