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Honesty, I’ve been using LastPass for years and lately the chrome and Firefox extensions have been really buggy for me. Especially the chrome one. So I’m not sure it’s nefarious.
I’m not interested in derailing the thread, so with apologies I must decline. I encourage you to read the original source material if you’d like to learn more.
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Huh, you reminded me that I used LastPass for a while and still had that account. I went and deleted any passwords still in there, and then had to do a web search and found https://lastpass.com/delete_account.php which worked for me. I just had to confirm 2 or 3 times and then it claims it deleted my account. This is in Firefox on Windows.
This thread just seems to be a promotion for BitWarden.
I've never been in hospital so I don't need to pay health insurance anymore.
I’ve had tinnitus for 25 years, and normally I also don’t hear anything (any more). Here’s the trick though: it’s my brain filtering out the frequencies of the ‘tone’.
Tangentially - it may be their problem, but I hesitate to say it's their fault. I'm continually dismayed at how spotty and superficial education about how to use an RDBMS can be. Even in formal education on the subject.
That's still unintuitive or at least strange because uppercase generally indicates constants.
That’s ridiculous. It’s the same thing. It’s just temporary until it’s not. I was nearly deaf from ringing for a week after my first Metallica concert. Then it went away, and now after more abuse it’s permanent, but it gets worse over days of using ANC, and better over months of not using anything.
Just use rsync via ssh, right?
So my DMT trips were real?
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This is Gell-Mann amnesia taking place before even getting to the end of the article. You just read an entire piece, where Cade Metz continuously quotes Scott Alexander out of context with a healthy does of guilt by association to create faux scandal. This was so brazen that it was done to writing on a publicly accessible blog.

Then supposedly he "viewed an email" containing a quote that looks suspiciously similar to the above. Do we have any idea what the context of the broader email is? Is it possible that Srinivasan added "but we wouldn't stoop to their level" in the next sentence? Do we know whether the quote is paraphrased or not? Do we know whether they confirmed authenticity? (Viewed implies that someone sent a screenshot from their phone.)

Frankly, the credibility that Cade Metz has at this point is about the same as The National Enquirer.
Intel ME drivers are only to allow access from the local machine. Normally, localhost access would go through loopback, but ME can communicate only via the ethernet or wifi network adapter.

To access ME on other computers, you don't need any drivers.
It's terrific right until you need multiple processes writing to the same database. It's no accident that SQLite is fast for many small queries; it's not doing a lot of the work required to, say, be a good database backend for multiple web frontends.
Consider adding your code directory to exclusions list for windows defender, if you haven't done so already. File metadata related operations are slower on windows, so it definitely feels worse with git.
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Speculation could be discouraged by having a fixed block reward, so that it takes all of a century to bring yearly inflation below rate 1%...
Ruby has two kinds of functions. Methods are functions attached to objects. Lambdas are functions that are not. Ruby lambdas are exactly like javascript arrow functions, or python functions.

There's a _reason_ for the difference, since it determines the implicit self, which is a meaningful part of how Ruby works. Because that difference is meaningful it is reflected in the syntax. `lambda`, or the shorthand `->` creates a function not attached to an object, and `def` creates a function and attaches it to the calling context (making it a method).

Perhaps you don't like this, that's fine. But to say "nope I want my methods and functions to be interchangeable and not to be called lambdas" is purely a subjective argument.

Objectively, Ruby has first-class functions that can be assigned to variables and passes around and returned from other function calls etc etc. They're just called lambdas.
To make meaningful amounts of money on BTC, you'd need to invest a significant amount. My feeling is, yes, maybe it go up 50%, or double, or whatnot, but mostly it can go down to 0 any time. If you want to bet a tiny bit and hope it tentuples, you still won't be rich.

I'm always tempted to make some kind of agent simulation, where all agents know they are in a bubble, but hope they can get out before everyone else. Then eventually the price pops and, pop.
To echo the sibling - I believe the most important skill a developer can have is reworking* code, and doing it readily and continuously. If you can do that, then you don't ever have to worry about what code MIGHT do in the future, you just design it for what it DOES do and then rework it later if necessary. It's quicker and the result is cleaner. Also, even if you tried your hardest to predict what was going to be needed, there are always things you can't predict and at that point you either rework your code or have bad code.

* I could have said refactoring, but some people have very specific definitions attached to that word so I use something more general here
Good to know, thanks. I'm on OSX. Maybe there's something funky with my account data then. I emailed their support, let's see what happens.
Can you remember what programming language it was in?
> So then the Aether was real for a while and stopped being real 200 years ago?

Yeah, pretty much.

> If we discover a new model that makes better prediction than our current spacetime based model, just like relativity was to Newton's theory, will spacetime stop being real?

In so far as Newtonian gravitation is also not-real. We still use that model for a lot of things of course. I don't know much about Aether theory or its predictions, so instead I'll use another long gone theory for my example: People used to model the motion of "heavenly bodies" using epicycles, complicated circles-within-circles patterns that assumed the Earth was the center of the universe and everything was taking a very complicated path around it. These epicycles were actually quite good at predicting the motion of planets and stars, so as far as anyone was concerned they were real. Some clever people eventually came around to the idea that all of that could be much more easily and more accurately modeled if we put the sun at the center. Of course we know today that that isn't quite right either.

We don't, and possibly cannot, ever know if the models we use to describe the world around us are the most accurate or not. They are real when they work, because we have no better metric to determine their reality.
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Modern physics is well beyond the point where I, as a layman, can really understand it.

It still doesn't make sense to me how gravity is put in the same bucket as the other three "fundamental" forces.

Since the universe is expanding, are we making more space (or spacetime)? If so, how does that work?

I'm not even sure if the universe is finite or not. I mean the observable universe is but how that relate to the actual universe? This seems like it would be somewhat unknowable.

Honestly, I'm still fuzzy on what the Higgs boson is and does and how it seems to be this redheaded stepchild in the Particle Zoo that doesn't really fit it anywhere else.

Speaking of the particle zoo, why are there (generally) three generations of particles/

The article touched on this but is space and/or time discrete or continuous? I'd learned that there was a concept of Planck distance, being the limit of how small a distance you could have. But is this the quanta of distance or just a limit on how low you can measure?

Is it just me or are we in a drought of theoretical physics breakthroughs? When I was younger, I guess I imagine we'd not be in the same position we were 20+ years ago. I mean there have been advances of course but we have things like the LHC pretty much confirming everything we already knew. Even the Higgs boson breakthrough was confirmation of a ~50 year old theory. A bunch of contender theories have been disproven, which of course has value.

But it seems like we're really no closer to reconciling quantum mechanics and gravity (other than eliminating candidates).
...and you know this for a fact how, exactly? Where's your data? Where's your research?
From what I've seen, ME updates are bundled with UEFI updates.
I think Airbnb is the wrong analogy. It sounds like it's actually Tinder for golfers.
It’s “low end” right up until you have no access to it. When it comes to national security, you don’t want to be in a position where the majority of your manufacturing output is at the mercy of a foreign country’s blessing. Your R&D is worth nothing if you can’t actually build.
That's not how this works. Journalists frequently don't provide public proof, because that is frequently impossible. They convince themselves an article is true (often by using sources they cannot reveal) and then publish whether or not they are able to find proof that they can reveal.
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I suppose OP was committing too often or even had autocommit on.

Then it wouldn't actually haven been a case of "bulk insert" at all.
Even cancelling the free plan completely would still be less insulting than this.
I think what changed significantly in the last 100 years is the abundance and composition of our diet. In particular the quantity of sugar added to everything, and the abundance of simple starches in our diets (in particular in the US where the "food pyramid" suggests that grain is the main thing people should be eating).
I agree with you on this issue, and I suspect education is at least partly responsible for the 'definitions first' approach.

When teaching a topic in math, it is usual to start with definitions, and this is often also the case with science, but that is not how progress is made: more typically, the definitions follow from learning more about what starts as a vague or speculative concept, or was not even imagined before the studying was done (entropy, for example).

Philosophy is not immune to the problem; it is not that uncommon for me to find an author basing an argument on an ontology or a metaphysical claim that I suspect could be, at some future time, empirically refuted, or where some thing is "in a sense" like something else, without establishing that the sense in which they are similar is relevant (for example, there is a sense in which learning how to ride a bicycle is like learning how to perform addition, but it would take more than this sense to conclude that riding a bicycle is, to any useful degree, just a matter of learning a set of propositions.)

As you say, definitions can be used to avoid an issue, and while I agree with Dennett on many things, I feel that he and his fellow compatibilists are doing this with free will, which I consider to be the true 'hard problem' of consciousness.
Until there's a power outage, flooding, malice, etc.

I think the main issue is that the cloud providers don't publish much about outages that don't affect the end-user. I mean a failed hard drive happens all the time, but S3 is never affected by that.
+1/ YouTube is the worst rabbit hole on the internet. Hugely addictive and yet full of so much valuable content. Good work.
Why does latency matter for any of these except the call where you're interacting with the stream?
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I'm not entirely sure why I thought I've done a count with multiple columns before because it does indeed seem not to be a thing.
As well as not going there on mobile any more (or hitting back PDQ if I do end up following a link that goes there), I use it a lot less on desktop. If you are not logged in some things (just browsing comments) become a lot less convenient, for instance. So unless there is a link that sounds really compelling (I sometimes get sent links by friends - though usually I just bounce through reddit and on to the actual information which is probably one link away) I simply don't go. I certainly don't go to subreddits unprompted to look for content any more (which I used to).

Yeah, old reddit still exists as some are fond of saying in these discussions. But other perfectly good information sources exist for what I want too (often better than reddit ever was - HN for instance).

Youtube is heading the same way: I'm visiting it less and less. The more adverts they pile in, the less of their adverts I actually witness because I'm not there to see them at all.

I should thank reddit, youtube, and their ilk, really, for saving me the time that I used to waste on their sites and can now enjoy wasting on other things instead!
Racist AND eugenicist? Wow! How could a plan to give money to everyone be racist AND eugenists! So many -ists and -isms just giving money to people. I had to look it up to see what was so racist AND eugenicist about it. I found his description of it here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-guaranteed-income-for-every-a...

I couldn't find any racism or forced sterilization or breeding of a super race in his plan so maybe you're thinking of a different plan?
See what you need to do is stand up a Redis cache cluster in front of your app, and then a cassandra cluster to cache the writes and compact them, before synchronizing the data with your single-page SQLite datastore as the master data.

Obviously for your SQL queries we crank up a large SparkSQL cluster.

- AWS architects

You can thank me later.
China reacts differently than the US. If you publicly bad mouth the Chinese government there are consequences.

Contrast this to a public showing of anger against the NSA which is beneficial to the company and to the NSA. The NSA wants users to feel secure and not take other measures.

Shareholders can sue for anything (everything is securities fraud), the act of exposing client details to the NSA without telling shareholders is no less problematic than continuing to lie to shareholders about dealings with the NSA.
It is. Go to Settings > Vault Timeout.
I've set it to 'On Browser restart' but you can set it to Never
I didn't intend to imply that truth would not exist--rather that we'd have no way to validate it, truth and reason being human concepts. If we invalidate our own faculties (I don't see any other way to categorize not having free will) then while there absolutely still is truth out there, we are hopelessly incapable of validating any of it.
I'm learning rails 6 right now for a work project, and webpacker is just broken so I can't even get hello world to work.
The article states that the twin was not directly associated to the beads (so no putting them on some old twine), but was from the accompanying bangle (probably item "o" in the image), which was dated 1397–1488 and "was subsequently affirmed through the testing of charcoal and caribou bones found at the three sites". This is a typical situation when dating items indirectly from their find context. The standard counter-argument is, of course, that the item was added at some other point in time to its find context. So in this case the counter-argument would be that the beads had been added at least a few decades later, while anything else that had been dated is from 1488 or earlier. (A few decades, to allow for some time for their journey from the Atlantic coast to Alaska.) How likely or unlikely is that?
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Chase announced by email today but may have launched a little prior. It also now supports Samsung and Google Pay.
This immediately caught my attention. I wouldn't say I'm a book lover (at this very moment). Rather, I used to be a veracious book reader, but then life, social media and the Internet got in the way. I'm lucky if I read one full length novel per year now. I regret that and have been actively wanting to regain my former interest/habit. Your site could help. But here's what I was expecting/hoping to find when I clicked through...something that would help me discover new books. After looking at the first several posts, all I saw were non-fiction, business-focused books. Is there a way to hone in on fiction and specific sub-genres? If I can easily see what, for example, other people who like science fiction are reading right now and actively discussing, then I've got a starting point. Further, I know where to go back to when I pick up that book and want to share my own thoughts.

I really like the premise/idea as whole. Good luck.
> Even though the environment of r/unpopularopinion encourages users to freely express their opinion, the dominant population of this community is young white males, and only the opinions representing them are supported by general users and brought up to the front page. Consequently, the minority opinions are neglected and it results in another spiral of silence phenomenon in the community

I don’t know if young white males needs to be said or if that’s just speculation. What matters more is the outcome which is actually just more groupthink.
Active discussion posted earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26153845
Not to sound like a Jocko fanboy because I think he does have his faults like anyone, but he addresses similar situations in his podcast while reviewing books like The Rape of Nanking, No Ordinary Men, and talking about the My Lai massacre. In all of those situations, EO would would have led the soldiers involved to question leadership and put a stop to what was happening. Giving up control and just 'following orders' was what in part, led to these horrific acts.
Ok, what's "staff engineer"? Reading the title, I thought it would be about managing staff in addition to engineers. That's clearly not the case.

On https://staffeng.com/, there is a further clue.

"The transition into Staff Engineer, and its further evolutions like Principal Engineer, remains particularly challenging and undocumented."

It would appear that "staff engineer" is a hierarchy level below principal engineer.

I've been a software developer for damn near 20 years, and I don't know what any of this is. Is there a flow chart with positions labeled that explains all the "engineer" modifiers?
I was previously a paying member but when they doubled their price, I realized the free tier worked for me and I move to it. Id gladly pay $15 a year for the service and not hassle with moving. But I might as well try out bitwarden for $10 now.

It would also be easier for me to recommend to less technical users like my family if I knew they could sync 1 mobile device and 1 computer. Its already hard enough to get any of them to use password managers to begin with.
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Salesforce also runs Heroku, which is one of the biggest AWS wrappers around. I'm really glad they're active in security auditing here, it's a real value add to customers of Heroku / Salesforce services to see evidence of their work to analyze security.
>(which they already have the ability to pay).

I guess I just find it questionable that all or most companies can increase engineer salaries to FAANG levels and remain profitable. I am pretty sure this is not the case for my last employer, for example, looking at their recent earnings report. Remote hiring might push up wages in most places but there could still end up being a bi-modal distribution of wages, between high-leverage companies and low-leverage ones, as long as there aren't enough jobs for every engineer at highly profitable companies. It's already like that in some cities.
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Lets say the cable catches fire due to high resistance/poor isolation (used at 40-50C or close to oven exhaust, causing thermal runaway) - is it broken? In that regard you can use a lamp cable to connect an oven - it will totally work for 5seconds, it might burn down later, though.
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Yeah, that's gotta be one of my biggest complaints after years of working with Rails. Eventually you sort-of memorize the conventions and can relatively accurately guess where a file lives, until someone decides to get clever and put things in a weird place.

It also implicitly discourages you from asking yourself if you should be accessing the thing you are. IMO a lot of the tight coupling in Rails codebases begins with being able to grab literally anything and use it with no one the wiser unless the read that specific line of code.
Well, time to switch it is. I can't justify more than a couple of dollars a year for a password manager. Also artificial limits, especially when companies limit existing features like this piss me off (cough google photos cough). Why not add new features and make them premium only?

Plus I recently changed my Lastpass password and they had added symbol/number requirements since the last time I had changed the password and it would not let me use just a word based password. Bitwarden let me without issues.

Checking out the extension now, it's also much easier to use than Lastpass. For me I don't care, but for my parents the Lastpass chrome extension interface is really confusing.
Pity there's no definition of Staff-Plus or even a definition of Staff Engineer.

Obviously I'm not in the bubble that uses those titles but an author who has an entire domain called staffeng.com should have a good definition.
I think it's a Serbian exclamation, possibly archaic, literally it's "hundred thunderbolts!" but in American slang I think "You don't say!" or "What the heck!" are the closest in meaning for me. The Serbian translation of Marty Mystere used it liberally to the point that if you used it in speech people would get you were making a comicbook reference.
Jane Street has an interesting podcast on this very subject: https://signalsandthreads.com/clock-synchronization/
I migrated from LastPass to KeePass + Syncthing when they got bought out by LogMeIn. Sounds complicated but only the initial setup is a little awkward, then it's smooth sailing from that point on, and no centralized server to ever worry about or your platform of choice going rogue. Keeping your devices secure is still on you, but that's true of any password manager.

It was absolutely the best choice to make and I encourage anyone to do so and never have to worry about your service going down or suddenly asking a "nominal" fee to the keys of your kingdom. Of course, should the need ever arise, it's not that hard to migrate to something like Bitwarden.
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Dr. Robert Epstein has done some research on this and has testified before Congress about it. Here's one article. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-google-search-bia...
> Why did this reporter have to go and publish Scott's real name when Scott requested him not to? It's just not a nice thing to do, simple as that.

As the saying goes, journalism is writing something someone else doesn’t want published, everything else is public relations.

That said, Metz’s claim that the NYT editors consistently require real names is inaccurate. Notably the NYT previously did a piece on Chapo Trap House and reported on host Virgil Texas using that pseudonym even though his real name is trivially discoverable.