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Part of security entails being "more complicated and less capable"; and Wayland and WebExtensions have in common that they are both secure replacements for systems that have a near-nonexistent security posture. Being simple (as if X11 is simple) and letting you do arbitrary things with it are not the dominating concerns anymore. Security and being easy for new developers to support are arguably more important.

Beyond that, X11 development is moribund and Wayland has the lion's share of developer mindshare. Software is considered deficient if it does not natively support Wayland, hence the push to get support into the stragglers like Emacs and Wine. Eventually, we'll reach a point where software devs will tire of maintaining an X back end and insist their users switch to Wayland or not use their software at all. Wayland and systemd won because their developers engaged with the wider community and successfully convinced them of the advantages. In other words, better marketing. It's an iron law that if you do not have good marketing, people will not adopt what you have to offer and you will fail.
Yes, it’s acknowledged as the main inspiration for Devs. IMHO short story is much better. Devs drag out the same amount of ideas over many hours.
I’d wager that only very progressive and liberal countries would have this degree of openness. Think Switzerland and Holland. Most countries will distribute their own apps (which may also spy on you) and/or use preferred technology partners.
> If they do anything that scares or abhors the people above, they could be turned off.

But maybe also if they are too boring. :(
As someone else who has been happily running a small business on dedicated hardware with a managed hosting service for years, I share some of the GP's scepticism about modern cloud hosting.

Modern platforms should remove most of the complexity of operating routine infrastructure and allow you to focus on your business logic, but it doesn't always work out that way.

Just the fact that your VMs have a significant chance of being forcibly shut down with little notice is a significant downside, for example. As a solo operator, you now have to arrange all the automatic scaling and failover configuration on your cloud host as well (possibly at considerable extra cost for capacity you might not be using 99% of the time) and you have all the 24/7/365 monitoring problems that OP was asking about.

Cloud services are also notorious for obfuscating their pricing so it's hard to work out the TCO. In my experience, arguments that cloud hosting works out much cheaper overall tend to be based on rather optimistic assumptions. It might be true if you lease some VMs at carefully chosen sizes and then set everything up yourself including scaling things down again any time you don't need them. However, once you start using the automatic services that actually do something for you beyond supplying a machine on demand, the prices might jump 3x or more (sometimes much more, like orders of magnitude) compared to ordering the equivalent basic resources and setting the same functionality up manually.

Then there are the security and compatibility updates. The basic cloud services tend to be provided as-is and it's up to you to ensure everything gets updated when it needs to be. Or again, you might be able to get a more automated service that does some of this for you, but it will come with a pricing premium.

Meanwhile, a solo operator using a more traditional managed service probably doesn't have to worry much about any of this, because those services will often be happy to take care of things like setting up your redundant database servers or monitoring the security mailing lists and applying emergency patches very quickly so you don't have to. That's the level of individual service and advice they tend to offer to distinguish themselves from the generic cloud hosting services. Obviously you do pay extra for that management service compared to just a basic hosting arrangement, but whether you pay more than you'd have paid trying to do all of it yourself on AWS or Azure or even DO is another question.
That sounds like a really great way to handle it. Find and learn the best comebacks possibly and make everyone feel good about the situation while showing off your positive attitude and wit.
The trouble is that it is behind your security perimeter once it is on your home network. It can start discovering other devices, monitoring traffic, enumerating ports and services, etc.
MLK named "the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice" as "the great stumbling block in [the] stride toward justice." I'm not expanding a thing.
Agreed. As for the reason I’m on the comments here, it’s because this place selects for slightly more intelligent than average commenters and a community that does a good job and maintaining a reasonable tone.

Everywhere else I run a plug-in that removes all comment sections from the web and I don’t use social media.
Not really, Rossberg’s 1ML / F-ing modules provides a way to elaborate such type to plain System F types, i.e. existentials, but not dependent types.

The type of such monoid would be:

exists[T] . (M : [= T], f : T -> T, e : T)
I definitely had too many users before we hired more developers and support staff.

Maybe 400 businesses each with 10+ employees and 10,000+ customers (who also had access to the platform). It was too much and I regret not hiring sooner.

Another thread mentioned here that hiring someone you trust enough to own problems when you’re unavailable is daunting. I concur with that.
Oh, that's not the scandal at all, and I don't know why people think it is.

The scandal is that Google, already one of the most powerful entities in the world, is building an AGI and doesn't even want the slightest veneer of accountability for it. Nobody who isn't on Gebru's old team has any realistic access to know what they're really building. All we know is that the AI keeps outsmarting humans.

And now they've fired the manager in charge of the "AI ethics" team.

What are they doing such that they felt obligated to hire an AI ethics team and then ensure that team could not criticize Google?
By that definition literally all investments are ponzis. You buy something hoping that someone else will be willing to buy it from you at a higher price. Oops the cryptocurrency bubble popped. Oops the company went bankrupt and your stocks are worthless. Oops a natural disaster happened and the house and land lose a lot of value. Oops pokemon is no longer popular and all the TCG cards you have become worthless. Oops the government is no more and your treasury bonds are worthless.

Realize that there is always a bubble and take advantage of the bubble while it lasts.
Yes, fairly simple.
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That's not science in the strict sense, but interpretation (so more philosophy).

AFAIK, so far nobody has come up with a way to devise a test that could falsify any of the interpretations of quantum theory, which really is required to be a valid scientific theory.

Moreover, there has never been much dogma around interpretations of quantum theory. A highly recommended read is Ghost in the Atom by Paul Davies, which consists of interviews with many physicists about their quantum interpretations. It shows that people have had a wide variety of interpretations for a long time. The many world interpretation has become more popular, but it was already around in the 80s and certainly not being ridiculed.
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Seconding IBKR. I've always viewed them as the most ethical broker and also the one with the highest skill ceiling. They do not sell order flow, they offer programs like the above so you can earn interest when they loan your shares out to other individuals or institutions, and let you get very granular about things like your exchange routing.
You linked to a very long legalistic webpage which I don't have time to read; please link to a concise neutral reference that specifically points out she was fired because I've googled and can't find anything other than biased opinions either way.

The fact remains she threatened them with resignation; using words like "proposing for discussion" runs the risk of portraying her as an innocent victim in this for anybody who hasn't read about the original case.

For those people also, the title remains opinionated without a clear reference to a formal description of the exit that is generally accepted.
What is the relation between F' and cFS/cFE?
Well, that's true. But you're still having to give your employer notice that you are talking to a lawyer before the lawyer has seen anything. This seems seriously unfair, and I hope that NDAs are not enforceable under such circumstances.

[edited to add ] Also it seems like it would be a big waste of the courts time.
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> I think your experience with migraines can hardly inform a typical person's experience with blue-light filters

I would guess it's the opposite--because I'm extremely sensitive to light in general, I'd think if blue-light filters were effective, they'd be even more effective on me, which they aren't.

> Also, flux is aimed at sleep regulation

People seem to equate "less blue light" with "better" and yet when I make my screen dark orange/red, it does nothing.

Also note that I said something like Flux.

Last but not least, my glasses also have blue-light filter in them. So I'm reducing blue light with both HW and SW and it has very minuscule effect on me, personally.

Of course, it's anecdotal experience and nothing more. But I get an eye twitch when I see stuff like "blue filter is a game changer". Sounds like placebo to me.
I think the network boot is broken in recent hardware
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You buy $50k stock, you'd pay 50c tax, it wouldn't affect you.

You bound 50M in stock between two companies every second in a ladder, you pay $50k/second tax
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Jira. Please stop crapping on it. It's a tool that's too flexible so many people can't resist abusing it. It's you, not it.

For us, it's primarily a documentation tool. It has great integrations. If someone makes a complex pull request, the text that tells me what it does is the Jira issue. Yes, it could be the PR description, but Jira is much easier to link to, search, etc. 2 years later when someone looks at the git commit, they can go to Jira and read through the whole context, who created it, who commented on it, etc.

Just use the damn thing to solve problems you actually have.

Jira, Java, Windows, JavaScript, Kubernetes, etc. can be used in various ways, and because most people aren't excellent at what they do, flexible tools will result in lot of crappy output just because so many people can use them.

If Jira/etc. destroys your project then it's absolutely your fault.
Exactly. I use KeePass for password management, and Dropbox for conveniently syncing a set of common files across my devices. It’s a convenience, but not a necessity. That’s worth something to me, but it’s not $20 a month of value. It’s more like $3-10, depending on volume of content. For more than $10 per month I would rather buy some hard drives and host it myself from home with nextcloud or similar. I have plenty fast enough internet for the task, so it’s simply a question of value.

I don’t have a problem paying (and I do pay for plenty of services), but I need to be receiving value in return.
Hah, wait, so Clubhouse is currently iPhone only? I've been hearing a lot about it but haven't been tempted to join, but now I'm learning that I couldn't even join if I wanted to??
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I use password safe as a password manager.
https://www.schneier.com/academic/passsafe/#:~:text=With%20P....

I keep the file synced to all my devices with drop box. I do worry that I have a horrible single point of failure. But at least I know to read the file you need to know my pretty long password.
Besides cloudron and sandstorm, yunohost is another alternative for this: https://yunohost.org/
You know I really think you're on to something there. I distinctly remember being in middle school and not wanting to associate with anyone my age. Few years older, great, few years younger, great. But it just wasn't pleasant to try to maintain friendships with my peers. The constant social competitiveness just really irked me. I always preferred one-on-one socializing rather than groups. If I didn't like how one of my older friends was treating me, well, I didn't have to knock on his door for awhile.

And when I started bullying the younger kids I would hang out with, I was able to reflect on it later and stop being such an ass. Course, it would come out anyway, but not being trapped in one single group of friends and having to derive my social identity from that made it much easier to self-adjust. Looking back on those years, it's pretty obvious now just how much of what I experienced back then was that pecking order mindset.
Here's one guess, off the top of my head: what actions have you taken to reduce the likelihood that police in your community will kill a black person unnecessarily?

Cause as much as I care about that issue, I never reached out to leaders in my community to encourage hiring more police and reducing overtime, for example. I didn't join any protest. I have been completely passive, standing by, waiting for someone else to solve the problem.
> 17° in my experience is too cold and poses a risk.

Interesting, I have my thermostat set to 17° and the house is only 15 years old. What temperature should it be set to?
> That's not an issue I've experienced. Screenshot works instantly for me (both CmdShift-3 and CmdShift-4).

I have seen it take a few seconds to appear on the Desktop, but I thought that was the new Mac OS thing: the little thumbnail of your screenshot appearing during that delay in the lower right of the screen, not a hardware-specific thing.
I guess all I'm saying is that I do like cheap, dedicated servers from hetzner - but if you need to guarantee five nines uptime, the architecture part is important.

Five-nines is less than 10 minutes of downtime per year. I doubt anyone is really guaranteeing that without 24/7 active monitoring and maintaining extensive automated failover systems, which is already several full-time jobs. No solo operator is credibly providing that level of service.
PDF here: https://www.nature.com/articles/167483a0

In figure 1, panel b you can see a set of peaks (5 and 6th) with a '?' above them. That turned out to be pseudouridine, which took Cohn and co-workers almost another decade to nail down!
I agree with your approach.

I always try to avoid to give such KPI toward management. They fall in love with it and then it leads to just KPI limbo... It can be faked, or manipulated to obfuscate reality...

Another funny story : Once our department head was really angry because we wanted to open our Jira board inside the company. :D He afraid of that others would see that not everything is awesome... And it will have negative consequences. Ok this fear is also strengthened by the clueless upper management who has no idea how sw dev is done...
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> People have this instinct that "silence is consent".

Absolutely.

Part of my impulse to speak up IRL comes from the example of the activism to tackle HIV/AIDS. Literally, silence meant death. That left a huge imprint on me.

There a few times in my life when I didn't speak up, didn't act. And it fills me with shame.

Examples (of failure) help:

At a music festival. Mid '90s. Two white guys were harassing two black couples. I thought one of the white guys was going to get physical. I was so flabbergasted. I had no idea what to do. I was also in no physical condition to get into or break up a fight.

I saw a young parent assault her kids. Like punches, not spanking, Kids had signature abuse victims response. I should have called the cops.

Young gay couple were being harassed in a movie theater. I didn't act.

Old white dude at a public townhall talking about "those people" and advocating Jim Crow laws (in Washington State! in the early 2000s!).

> Our instincts are built of some assumptions that no longer work on internet. One possible approach is to learn new skills.

Absolutely.

My IRL impulses are sabotage online. I've been on social media since the late 80s. (BBSs, CompuServe, BIX.) Trolling and smack talk have always been part of the medium. It was fun. But now it isn't. It just keeps getting worse.

Next book on my reading list is Adam Grant's Think Again. Some of the recent book promotion interviews (eg Vox Pivot) have been great.

Chris Voss' Never Split the Difference, how to use "radical empathy" in tough situations, is really really good. I'm now looking for workbooks, training, or something. Like role playing exercises to practice.

Recommendations please.
> It felt more like playing some kind of diablo themed version of gauntlet

Which gauntlet game is your point of reference?
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Not too long before a walled-garden internet is created in India ala China, driven entirely by hyper-nationalistic rhetoric.
I can’t really read large chunks of code but for me code is less a collection of words and more interconnects between concepts plus processes that allow them to communicate. I don’t need to read it as much as think about what the things are and what they should do. I remember doing this with some networking code a few years ago and thinking of how I wanted to structure different datagrams and which parts of the system would be responsible for creating and processing them. It had less to do with waking up and copying everything word for word and more to do with thinking of “put this function into this module which should do this kind of thing, then hook a callback to it from this function”, etc.
You would be amazed by the amount of data "anti-cheat" spyware called BattleEye amasses about customers of their clients.
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"You only need game theory: as long as each participant has more to gain from allowing Bitcoin's continued existence than destroying it (and they can't subvert or destroy it in a way that will be invisible to other market participants), it will continue to exist."

The CCP doesn't allow Chinese citizens to own Bitcoin as far as I know - however they allow mining because it's generating revenue.

And of course, Bitcoin's continued existence by the "army of HODLers" is a non-brainer when you join an MLM - everyone who has adopted it will push for its price to go up (or return to the prior buy price) so they can realize a profit - until the latest adopters are left holding the bag.
I don’t think that ray of hope came through
Do you really think hn should be exclusively formal arguments presented in an emotionless manner at the expense of personal flair, enforced by limitations on the diction permissible when discussing particular topics? That's scary.
Or the pressure on the feet puts marks into the snow.
my biggest take-away from our current covid-crisis, and now this event (let's hope it doesn't grow into a full-fletched pandemic, I'm really done with those for now) is simply that I believe we've really reached a scaling limit in regards to our global meat production.

We'll see more and more of those zoonoses in the near future if we don't get that under control. In addition, eating meat day in and day out simply isn't healthy either. I'm afraid it's one of those habits that we as a species really need to cut down on.

I've tried eating less over the past year, and while I do miss eating meat occasionally, I really didn't find it too difficult to stop consuming.
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Interesting, I didn't even know there was such a thing.
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I stand corrected.

"But don't inflict your laziness on the commons"

So you must be against the downvote mechanism as it's a lazy, near effortless way for people to get a hit of dopamine vs. your qualitative response that actually shares thoughts that I am more likely to respect and take note of?
People seem to think that if they don’t experience a bug, it’s an “extreme edge case”, or that if they don’t experience it, it’s not an important bug.
So, which one is it, better marketing or better technology?

I couldn,t care less about my browser extension security model. On the other hand, not having native vertical tabs and keyboard accessibility in Firefox made it unusable for me. (No, doing it via JS injection into current page and the stupid sidebar doesn,t cut it.)

The saving grace is that thanks to the miracle of FOSS, we have Devuan, Waterfox, and PaleMoon puttering along and new even better browsers to blow them away. I think the same will happen with X.

There certainly seems to be a pattern of arrogant idiocy going on in the software world, however.
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Yes, there exist review processes by peers, and yes, your institution can choose to exercise veto power. The scientific process of "peer review" is a very specific thing. (My code is not "peer reviewed" in the scientific sense simply because a teammate, a peer, reviewed my pull request.) So saying the paper was not good enough for peer review is misleading.

And yes, Google can veto any paper. That's not the issue. The issue is they chose to use their veto power to block a paper that did not sufficiently praise Google. That means no paper coming out of Google can be trusted, because it's not the output of researchers but also management. Does Spanner work? Maybe there were some negative examples that were deemed too embarrassing to Google and removed.

I don't know, maybe you already acted as if no paper coming out of Google could be trusted, and you were smarter than the rest of is in that regard. But a lot of people act as if their papers are trustworthy and not propaganda (e.g., https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/01/08/spanner-googles-globally... takes the Spanner paper as if it were a legitimate scientific paper). Want to tell them they need to stop?
What is a personal brand, and why do I need one?
I'm a new software developer who works for a big company. I am constantly being told, by friends and colleagues alike, that I have to have a personal brand. Why? Why can't I let my work speak for itself? Why do I have to have a 'personal brand' as if I'm some sort of celebrity or influencer? I hate social media, I hate the Instagram/TikTok culture, the Twitter pontification, and I would much rather have nothing to do with any of that.

Maybe I completely misunderstand what a personal brand is - I was always under the impression that that was something you did if you wanted to become famous, something that was just for narcissists. So - what is a personal brand, and why do I need one?
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Do you have citations for these incredibly high numbers? There has been some justified criticism about the way rape stats have been re-designed to elicit higher numbers. https://time.com/3393442/cdc-rape-numbers/
No one who matters would allow themselves to be caught using an Android.

It's like using a Windows laptop and calling yourself a "software engineer".

Or being a teen and not rocking $300 sneakers.
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Has that been studied?
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