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I don’t mean at all to imply scipy and co are flashy but rickety pieces of software. I think it’s a testament to their quality that such libraries have reached a broad and diverse audience.

I think the foundational libraries of the scientific Python ecosystem are definitely well taken care of. I think a lot of that care comes from “brute forcing” the ecosystem to make it work, eg distributing native compiled C/Fortran code seamlessly on a bunch of platforms with entirely new (at the time) package managers like conda, or wholly new scientific distributions of Python. My observations are more to do what’s built atop them.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH).
There's a bit of overlap with Supabase because they are positioned as "open-source firebase". But you can just use Supabase as the DB provider for your Blitz app.

In general, I'm way more in favor of owning your entire stack, like Ruby on Rails and Laravel vs relying on a third-party service for the core of your app.
Who defines those schedules? If it's the employees, its fine. If it's the management who sets the timelines, management should take the fall. Otherwise, its forced labor no matter how management tries to spin it. A bunch of parasites and leeches sucking other people dry. If the paycheck says 'num of hours x per hour rate", that's what the company should expect.
I saw this a little ago and even though it's true that old ways have value, even in smartphone AR/VR era, I also have a feel that this revival was more or less a dead cat bounce and not something that will grow much more. Kids today live in the era of real time video + AR filters.. there's a chance that this represent their magic / zeitgeist.
Most security products are useless
Completely agree. My motto for work is that you want to care the right amount. It's hopefully obvious that caring too little is bad. But caring too much can also be a bad thing.
I love this service. I use it to subscribe to a few newsletters in Feedly that don't offer RSS feeds.

The paid versions of Feedly and Feedbin also offer this functionality directly if you prefer to pay for the privilege of consuming newsletters in your RSS reader.
Sure, but if you're a software developer with a few years experience then pretty much any job is going to cover that.
I like this idea, much like Windows N (that the EU fought years for boasting how good it was for consumers and yet nobody bought it) Apple could release a iPhone - insecure edition, offering no security features, just like how Microsoft removed media playback features. Let the actual consumers decide instead of heavy handed government.

But I guess most commentators want to eat the cake, sell it and keep it at the same time.
To be fair in the end it's down to a very small number of individuals a long way from Earth having to deal with extraordinary circumstances. That's hardly unrealistic given the circumstances.
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> I think all sane email clients block external resources in emails.

Of the major email clients, I believe Thunderbird is the only one that does so by default.
Turing of auto start tends to be an option and steam at least forgets my login so rarely that I have problems remembering my password.

You might want to torch your computer with thermite before whatever it has can escape into the wild.
Years ago Microsoft had some sort of Internet access plan monthly and you received a free computer. A court nullified it and I was able to keep the eMachine computer for free. I can't remember the specifics but I had at least two free computers from it.
In the article he says that whatever language he was using, HR was involved over it.

> I began racking up my HR complaints. I used a four letter word, my analogy was not PC, my language was not PG

He's not just swearing. He's an asshole. But he wants to blame the "PC brigade" for not letting him be an asshole, which he was used to when he had power over everyone else, including HR.
As seen from many comments this posts would be polemic to say the least.

Obviously the author is from a different time where tech/SV abundance did not exist and had to be created through huge personal sacrifice. He speaks as such person and is judged as any "nasty uncle on dinner table".

But in my view, there's certainly truth in the entitlement he describes. I'm not saying that WBL (as represented as yoga at 11AM) is not alright to aim for. But it's incompatible with many endeavours. And it's certainly incompatible with competitive/low-growth industries, markets and jobs.

The tech sector (still) enjoys high growth and large demand for HR, that's why such entitlement exists. But as growth plateaus I think entitled people will find it hard to find certain WLB perks
You have the choice to not go play a game if it isn't on a platform that you want to install.

This is somewhat similar to "I don't want to buy an XBox just to play this one game". Of course the barrier there is often a monetary cost. The software platforms are free to download so there's no real barrier.

But for instance, I don't particularly like Epic Games attitude around buying exclusives so I don't use their store. I have missed out on some games I might have enjoyed as a result, but I still have lots to play elsewhere.
MicroStrategy's convertible debt offering to buy Bitcoin upsized to $900M
He was/is one of the very few "open source luminaries" I actually think highly of as a person. Ted Tso, Jeremy Allison are a few others. Highly intelligent, highly thoughtful people. Working with them was a treasured experience.
Hard to align that perspective with his acknowledgement that Waze was allowed to operate independently, and the fact that Waze has been launching lots of new features for the last few years.
> How often do you get those 11pm requests that will otherwise get rerouted to someone else unless you respond before 8am? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? A few times per year?

Multiple times per month. 3/4 weekends per month. How’s that? Not uncommon in many small startups I’ve been a part of as an employee, founder, or advisor.

Your point is fine, except for the fact that it totally overlooks if an employee is actually already putting in that extra effort, and is just getting taken advantage of by their company.

What if I am already objectively going the extra mile? Who's to say I'm not? My boss. And they will say that. See: Tesla Skips 401k Match for Third Straight Year [1], while simultaneously investing over $1B into Bitcoin.

> and that this allows you unprecedented career mobility, including the option of easily quitting your job should you have the rare misfortune of having landed at any of the few bad apples that do not reward you for your stress with oodles of money that you wouldn't be able to make anywhere else with that amount of effort and work experience.

Ok, setting aside the fact that the money is relative to the value created for these companies (see: richest people on the planet and how they got there)...

You didn’t actually comment on the main point. You just said, oh if that happens, you are able to leave. Yeah - that’s the point. It happens. And if it does, you should leave. Not succumb to Stockholm syndrome and act like oh it’s part of “sacrificing for this awesome job”. Even you said it. Go find another job.

If you think this is just happening at "a few bad apples" then I'm inclined to assume you have not experienced a wide variety of startup and company cultures in multiple locales - not saying this is true of you but what it sounds like.

I only used the same comment because another person made a similar point which warranted an identical response.

[1] https://www.pionline.com/defined-contribution/tesla-skips-40...
Your consumer freedom entitles you to a choice, not to demand companies sink money to accommodate your specific use case. Just like you can't demand for Pepsi to ship Coke product on their trucks, you can't demand Apple spend millions of dollars to port Facetime or iMessage to Android. Apple has a right to decide what sort of features and platforms they support for their apps, so if they decide to not support Android, that's just a reason for you to exercise your consumer freedom of choice and use a different product. Meanwhile, anyone else that you want to Facetime with has chosen a product (Facetime) that only allows calling other users on the same iOS software as them, and that's them exercising their consumer freedom of choice. If they want to call people that are on Android, they can choose other apps which do support calling Android phones.

But that's talking about Facetime as if it's a product. It's not - it's a feature of iOS, iPadOS and MacOS. Effectively, Facetime isn't free - it's a unlimited use service that is paid for with your initial purchase of your Mac or iOS device and includes a perpetual, transferable license.
Re Citibank August 11, 2020 Wire Transfers [pdf]
Indeed, there are situations where you cannot convey your message using text.

One of the things I’ve learn doing e-commerce is that if you believe you can just use more text to compensate for short comings in you UX you’ll be very disappointed.

We had a subscription product, you where informed that you’d be sign up for a monthly charge seven times during checkout and people still complained. They just saw two prices and click on the lowest. No amount of text will fix people who are basically on auto-pilot.
> "attention disorder" is a thing and anything that distracts a reader could hurt.

This is true and I have ADHD so I can speak to it from experience, although not for everyone with ADHD of course. At least for me, motion is far more distracting than contrast as such. The places where contrast may distract me tend to be places where there are already accessibility issues for people with color blindness.

You’re right to say I’ve overgeneralized a bit. But for the vast majority of people with vision suitable enough for them to choose to read, the things I said tend to be true.

> I don't think that should be used as an argument for not trying to improve accessibility in the first place. But it certainly is something to continually improve.

Full agree here!
... what if someone inputs a random email address?
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Yes, they did all those things. They also set aside large parcels of open space, so that only half the surrounding area became a suburban hellhole.

In between the wilderness and Hoboken NJ there is a broad range of possibilities. Somewhere in between those two extremes is a nice middle-ground where things are not too sparse and not too crowded. The San Francisco peninsula has been close to that happy medium for a long time, so I'm pretty sure it could stand to lose a few people and still stay in the desirable range.

Yes, density has all kinds of societal benefits. The problem is, not everyone wants to live that way.
One of the alternatives is better. No app stores! The world simply doesn't need them and we should be pushing for nothing less than their complete demise.
It'd be nice if these companies could come to an agreement, but 30% seems to be too high a cut.
Swearing culture is definitely very different in the US compared to Scotland. I've noticed that people from the US have a tendency to say things like "heck" or "frick" because saying "hell" or "fuck" is seen as something that one ought to do. That's definitely not a thing in Scotland, where in my experience you're likely to hear far "worse" even in formal or professional contexts.

- An Englishman (England is culturally somewhere between the US and Scotland on this I think).
That's a futile exercise if the computation involves repeatedly combining random bits of data.
That’s nice, but this isn’t what this will be about. This will be a means of funnelling cash to party donors without oversight, nothing more. Hence the FOI exception.

I mean, just look at how they’ve fared in the last 18 months alone - how many unaccountable tens of billions did they pay out to their donors?

I had Tory ministers’ children approaching me about putting together business plans to help them get covid grants - same crowd who I used to help with R&D grants, which were also used to get high net worth individuals with money of dubious origin into the country. I anticipate I’ll be hearing from them again.

This kind of funding will not develop anything but the wealth divide.
There will be a few people, but companies like this will look for "passionate" people, or people who are good at pretending to be passionate to get paid.
Physicists could do the impossible: Create and destroy magnetic fields from afar
I think the problem isn't that it's unethical to intentionally put someone in harms way, but rather whether or not there can be an informed consent. When the virus first came up, it was completely unknown that the risk of long term impairment might have been, and now we know it was/is pretty severe.
Its going to be really unfortunate for society when white supremacists start talking about how much they like air and water
Why does every website landing page look like this now?
Regulatory evasion and/or regulatory capture - I never thought about it being called evasion but it certainly fits: get big enough with a large amount of the population now depending/relying/using the service, and then it causes a problem for policy makers - who aren't skilled or knowledgable enough to understand the intricacies of the business models in order to safely adjust policy to benefit society, society more than the profits of the business anyhow - that business who is lobbying and manipulating regulators as well to get policy to fit their needs, and coining the narrative for the users who benefit from the lack of regulations as well (e.g. Airbnb hosts who side-step worrying or dealing about the externalities on society of rents going up further due to higher pressure and less supply).
It makes sense to have a limited amount of funding going towards carefully selected, high-potential projects be exempt from risk limits. However, I do not believe it is a good idea for them to exempt it from public records laws, this will surely reduce public trust in the agency and if anything, high-risk projects need an enhanced level of transparency.
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Omg, thank you!! I should have googled it harder... The random YouTube re-uploads are all missing small suspicious chunks randomly anyway. Only highlight is that one of the accounts that popped up reloading them this week was named Kylie Minogue, which the real (*real*) Kylie Minogue hadn't taken somehow? :^p
This was actually one of the reasons Bitcoin Core devs were opposed to raising the block limit. Bitcoin requires very little bandwidth (around 1.5mb/10minutes).

You can actually get the Bitcoin blockchain from Satellite for free: https://blockstream.com/satellite/ However, as I understand it, it only allows receiving and not transmitting data.
They don't. I believe using this setting it is a good way to prevent tracking by pixel.

In addition, I think enforcing plain text emails would disable any client side tracking events.

EDIT: Well it looks like that setting in Thundebird prevents any remote connections. Not just pixels, so that be good enough. However emails often have a text back up that is going to be better formatted then a hampered html email.

EDIT: To prefer plain text in Thunderbird it is View -> Message Body As -> Plain Text
> It'd be one thing if it was up-front rejections

Well no because Apple needs to test the finished thing before it can decide whether it wants it or not.
Missing the tone. :-)
I think EA created a game store because it feels parasitic that Valve could take 30% of your sells, why not make your own store and keep the 30% .

What I would do is force EA to put their games on all stores, then on their own store they can give you a 25% discount because they don't have to pay the tax. Then people could decide if they want store A, B or C version.

If the store tax would be low enough there would not be such a pressure from the giant publishers to avoid the store, as a person that don't like giants I hope that this giants fighting each other will benefit us by breaking the monopolies and ensuring that all stores will play by fair rules and respect all consumer rights.
Historically, all theses had a specific meaning which got lost or turned irrelevant with time. Subroutine, for example, came from a computer that Alan Turing worked on, it had multiple slots for punched tapes; one for the main routine and the rest for subroutines. You could jump from one tape to another tape and then return.
Interesting, which OS? Can you tell some details? I am on Arch Linux, and my su version is: su from util-linux 2.36.1. With root and that command I can become http, git, what have you. :D
Emoji packs often take artistic license with the ideas they are trying to represent, including flags. It is fairly rare for flag emojis to be vexillologicaly accurate. For example, the Twitter emoji for the US flag is missing 32 stars, and the corners should not be rounded. I doubt ProtonMail made their own emoji pack anyway.
What a very accurate visual metaphor! Cover up the BS to see the bare facts more clearly.
Makes sense, thanks for the reply and congrats on Beta
And yet I can find toilets easily in any country with a simple logo but have to hunt for them if they are spelled out.

Images are wonderful if you don't live in a bubble where everybody speaks the same language.
Yeah, apple was one of the first to go DRM free for music. That was a big deal and a bold move by apple.
Its also prime for fraud and pork barreling without accountability. The press plays an important role in democratic accountability and without FOI they are unable to do that.
At a certain scale anything purporting to be as simple as a one-liner CLI program is suspect.

Larger organizations get messy, it's (almost) never as simple as "clone from S3 bucket X to drive folder Y".
RFC 2616 is long obsolete; the section you cited is now https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-6 and is substantially reworked. The chunk you refer to has been removed, because it no longer reflected reality in any way. Even as originally specified, as a SHOULD, it wasn’t ever practical to implement completely because of memory requirements. Since 1999, a lot has changed, and the fact of the matter was that the original recommendation just didn’t make sense any more, worded as strongly as it was. So instead they’ve switched it round to essentially say that you may redisplay an earlier-retrieved representation (rather than that you SHOULD NOT do the opposite).
>Yet more evidence to be used in the eventual US anti-trust case demonstrating a pattern of anti-competitive behavior

Little chance. Bezos has purchased his way into the class of decision makers in this country through acquisitions of media and integrating into the military industrial complex (in numerous ways). Amazon embodies the privatization of a centralized economy more than anything else. Needless to say: this is not good.
Medium paywall. :/
The "Spaceshuttle" BURAN ended up in a German Museum https://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/spaceshuttle-buran
North Dakota votes down bill that would have regulated app stores
Came here to say this as well. I can't say I've ever had a website make me feel that way before, so that's really something.
> Because I depend on a C compiler

But do you specify it in the Python build toolchain, e.g. setup.py? If I'm not mistaken, the binary compilation step happens independently, with the Python build packing everything up in a wheel.

> and have optional dependencies on Python packages which aren't in PyPI.

Such dependencies can still be declared in pyproject.toml, depending on the build tool - Poetry can add them by e.g. a local path, or git repo URL. I'm not sure what happens if you depend on them for the build itself, but it should be possible to add them to the build-system table in the TOML file.

But pyproject.toml doesn't change anything compared to the current system; for backward compatibility, PEP 518 assumes this default file if a custom one is missing:

[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools", "wheel"]

Which is enough to execute the standard setup.py.

In any case, as per PEP 517, you can define your own custom packaging backend using the build-backend value in the [build-system] table.
A more nuanced critique is to be found via the podcast "Sex Power Money", by Sara Pascoe.
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> Sure, the standard might be lacking, but then the standard should be fixed. As a website author you need something to refer to when you don't experience these issues yourself.

The problem is that it’s the wrong standard that’s lacking. WCAG does the best it can with the web specs, but it can’t just impose a perceptual color space on HTML/CSS, and it would be impossible for mere mortals to evaluate a perceptual contrast standard on RGB/HSL.

But you can easily find A11y articles pointing out where the contrast ratios which pass or fail are very flawed for even people with good vision.
Isn't there a place for this kind of fetish? It doesn't need to be in today's Google (but maybe in 5 year old Google).

> Google can on the whole accomplish its revenue goals without being a meat grinder. So why be one?

I too hope Google can prove that this state can be maintained after certain quasi-monopolies it holds start to vanish...
I tried to bring up FreeBSD in a (amd64) qemu/kvm VM a couple of weeks ago, and the same sendmail/DNS lookup thing happened to me. I think I just waited (how long I don't recall) and the installer just went on - I don't think I did anything because I wouldn't have had any great ideas about what to do, anyway.

So the install completed, and everything was fine as long as I stuck to command line stuff. But under xfce, mate, and even plain X Windows, the mouse had a jerky/laggy movement that I didn't know how to fix. I tried enabling/disabling moused but it didn't seem to have any effect. Maybe it was something about running in a VM, but I have no such problem running linux distros in a VM. Anyway, it was such a pain that I finally gave up.
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00101010010100110101001... is text too, but I agree SVG is just machine description, human sees the rendered result in that context.
And then there are services that require you to log in to unsubscribe...
The same place as everyone else thinking that Epic has a case.
It's not parasitic of Valve, though. Valve created the storefront and platform that has all of those customers baked into it. EA is not just paying 30% for the privilege of selling their game, they're paying for the customer base that they haven't had to work to establish on that platform.
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I often wonder about if I had joined the Army. I'm in my early 40s, I know a few people my age who are retired from service, have a great pension built up, great leadership experience, and generally are ahead of me career wise.

There are lots of reasons it is not for everyone, but I think military service is often overlooked, especially in tech circles, and can be a great part of one's career.
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It is now possible to use Python inside Mathematica. Take a look at:

https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/05/16/announcing-the-wolfram-c...
https://reference.wolfram.com/language/WolframClientForPytho...

It is also possible to run the Wolfram Kernel inside a Jupyter Notebook:
https://github.com/WolframResearch/WolframLanguageForJupyter
"When I was growing up in Tech in the ‘90’s - there was no such thing as work life balance."

BS. I worked for a large computer systems company throughout the 1990s. I mostly headed home by 5-6 and I would take month long vacations. (Of course, there crunch times as well.)

I also found his pissiness at apparently not being able to curse or whatever in presentations sort of offputting. Yes, general standards for language and behavior in the tech industry has shifted over time. This isn't anything specific to Google. And whining about it comes off as being tone deaf.
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