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What I find both amusing and frustrating is that the linked article uses the word "accuracy" 110 times but never explains what is meant by it. For example in the headline "Over 500 ‘Migrant Caravaners’ Arrested With Suicide Vests", what is meant by rating for accuracy? Is it the number 500 and whether it is low, exact, or high? Is it whether the people were migrants? Is it whether the vests were explosive? Is it whether the story is in any way truthful? I really have no idea. Is "accuracy" an alias for "truthful" or something else? The article doesn't explain.
I mean, the similarities between languages are a big part of why they're easy to learn. Obviously if you only learn within one cluster, you operate best in that cluster, but one or two archetypical languages in each are probably enough to use any of them.

|Functional|Prodedural

Strict | Haskell, F# | Rust, Java, C

Loose | Elixir, Lisp? | Ruby, Python

No idea if that rendered right at all, such is life. Seems like Lisp-esq languages are kind of a category on their own, but what's an oversimplified taxonomy without some really forced placements?
Thing is, the decision whether to open source your code comes first, not last. GPL doesn't force it in any way, GPL prevents one from using GPL code if they don't intend to immediately release everything.

In other words, what would happen with GPL is that companies which don't intend to give the code back would simply go somewhere else instead.
Yup. And it's not limited to software/tech. The local police department has the same problem with patrol/beat officers - many of the good ones were promoting into desk jobs because their salaries capped out. IIRC, they ended up creating a new tier of patrol roles on top that corresponded, income-wise, with the first or second level management.
> '"Left" is a term with centuries of history...'

so has "slavery" but that doesn't make it right.

'left' (and 'right') is a term to subvert thinking in ways that advantage the already powerful, and short-circuit the formation of coalitions that can bring about real prosperity and equity to more people.
That's a good one. When I moved from Germany to the US in '92 I looked down on pies - nothing like a good German Apfelkuchen. Fast forward 20+ years and I'm slightly obsessed with making a good apple pie. Lots of variables and due to fluctuations in the exact makeup of the ingredients it's a new challenge every single time.

I came here to say I recently took the time to really understand the Lucas Kanade algorithm in depth but I'm going to join the apple pie bandwagon instead.
Woudn't pay off really, check the FAQ.
Could you elaborate about the Gitlab discussion features? I know they can be threaded, but a nice advantage of SO is being able to upvote solutions (which may be edited for clarity), so we don't have to read through pages of comments. I am missing anything?
Yeah, it feels like someone was told that they needed to support CGA a few weeks before the final deadline.
This could also be because he's right, and as more information comes out, the rest of the market is coming around to his line of thinking.

I made a number of bets on the tech industry early on in my career (2005-08): that the Web and Javascript would become increasingly more important, that Python would be a major language both for web development and for scientific computing, that Google and other new tech companies would continue growing until they were bigger than we could imagine, that startups would become a more respectable way of spending your career. I would happily crow about them to anyone that would listen, while also arranging my professional life to benefit from them. They happened. Did I cause the ascendancy of Javascript, or Python, or Google, or startups? Of course not. I called it, and then lots of other people, as events progressed, independently made the same call and jumped on the bandwagon.

So it is with Dalio (and Buffett, and other thought leaders in the financial industry). It's unlikely that their words are moving markets, particularly since their bets are often contrarian and unremarkable at the time they start publicly stating them, and financial markets often take years to catch up. Rather, they spot the trend, understand the implications, and then position themselves to benefit when everyone else spots the trend and understands the implications.
At the core, Dendron is a tool to help you manage markdown files with consistent naming structures :)

And for the most part, I don't use HTML rendering but Dendron gives you easy ways of creating notes from links, creating relative links to files, and pasting images into your markdown.
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This advice is the same as what is given in https://www.manager-tools.com/get-started

Their concept is based on the idea that the key activities of all managers should be primarily focused on one on ones, feedback, coaching, and delegation.

If you do all 4 well then you will be able to grow your direct reports career and help them to better align their output with their career goals and also what the business needs them to deliver.
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I think I've always just been somewhat contrarian/independent, at least to the level of devil's advocate. My teachers were usually quite annoyed with me when I brought up inconsistencies or loopholes in the assignment.

So, I don't really know how to teach it. Not to mention the negative impacts - it might be a positive for requirement gathering, but my independent views greatly stymie my career advancement. So proceed with caution.
That we aren't that different is why there's an ethical problem.
I agree, and even with a selfish motive, this is still a positive move on their part (and Apple's). Companies changing their behavior to avoid regulation is a better outcome than regulation in some cases, including this one IMO.
> the “master” branch is clearly using master in the sense that it asserts control of the other branches in some way

Master as in expert, meritorious of command, arbiter of truth.

They all mean the same and you can't have a master's degree without a master copy of information.

Control is exerted only by virtue of being correct.
Sorry, I was wrong on the location. I don't think that opposition to the ACA began with Trump though (witness the resistance getting it through in the first place). Republicans opinion of it did a nearly complete 180 almost immediately after Obama started advocating for it - far too short a time for the Republican party ideology to change.
Great question. It's a feature request that comes up sometimes, but doing it by accident could be costly if we're talking about proprietary code.

Having it in this format should make it easy to port Q&A over to the public site if a Team decides to make a certain project visible or open source.
You will not struggle to find Bridgewater/Dalio talking about the following themes:
- The concept of "Debt cycles" (From Dalio's book "Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises")
- Interpretation of monetary policy effects on markets
- Emerging markets (Mainly China) and the rise and fall of "reserve currencies"
That's exactly how I see it too. These performative bits of nonsense are how we as a society build consensus, in this case something like "racial injustice is real, it matters, and it needs to be addressed with action".

And by all getting together and renaming our white/blacklists and master branches and slave devices, we're all agreeing that this is important.

And.... yeah, it's also a way to find the people who aren't willing to mildly inconvenience themselves in this pursuit. Yes, cranky posters like the OP are ALSO signaling with their refusal to go along. What they're telling the rest of us is that this racism stuff isn't something they want to care about.

And that's why we do this stuff.
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About (1), Linux itself actually does go out of its way to provide stable ABIs as do some very common infrastructure-level libraries like the GNU C libraries. X11 itself is also very stable and both code and the protocol has been compatible going back to the early 90s.

However everything built on top of those is not and does not care about ABI or even API stability and now several desktop projects are actively undermining X11's stability with Wayland. Gtk+ breaks its API and ABI every major version as does Qt - and IMO even if Qt wanted to remain stable, as a C++ library it is very hard to do. Also Qt is really middleware and its developers have very different priorities than what you'd need for an actual platform (not to mention how intentionally misleading they have been towards users of their library).

There is a stable desktop API on Linux, Motif, but that is ugly and nothing targets it anymore and the company behind it nowadays actively promotes Qt instead.
The world is only changed by individual people. Alliances, parties, movements, schools of thought, etc., are just mobs who have adopted the ideas of particular individuals.
It is literally the same thing as the abortion issue. You'd merely be aborting a cerebrum, to bring about brain-death before brain-life can begin. If abortion isn't killing, then neither is this.

If you want to support abortion but oppose this, then you need to say that a fetus is alive -- is a person with some rights -- but that those rights are superseded by a woman's absolute bodily autonomy. This would be a stronger position: Rather than saying that fetuses aren't alive, you'd be saying that women have a right to kill in certain circumstances.

We don't even need mechanical wombs to bring these clones to term. A woman could gestate her own braindead clone to provide organs for herself later in life, or a man could work with a female partner or paid surrogate. The only missing technology is that needed to allow the braindead body to develop from a baby into an adult. We already have life support technologies that seem applicable, but they've never been applied in this way. Possibly certain hormone injections would also be needed, to transition through puberty.

This is all so logically clear, and the stakes so high -- immortality? -- that I'm a little surprised nobody has been ruthless enough to attempt it yet.

There used to be Forbidden Cities with water-clocks to track the ovulation of concubines. The ancients could ruthlessly apply logic. Moderns seem not to. I guess it's about avoiding retaliation.
AFAIK, that has been deprecated at around the same time as LSB (2015?) due to systemd and gnomisms such as gnome's login, dbus, etc. invading every single package. I guess, nowadays the Devuan developers maintain a Debian version that should be as close to a starting point for a new Debian system running on a FreeBSD kernel as it gets.
The viewpoint stems from the idea that implicit biases mean racism is the default state. To do something is to be anti-racist, which requires energy. To do nothing means racism persists, which could be considered pro-racism. A big part of this definition is trying to realign it with a temporary modifier, one to be avoided, but not a permanent tag.

The difference from your examples is that an act or attitude can be racist, but that doesn’t make YOU racist. You are not defined by a single event any more than a single belief defines your broader theology.
A few months ago, I was going to buy a depth sensor (such as the Azure Kinect, Intel RealSense or Mynt Eye) to collect some data to test and prototype 3D vision algorithms on. I had an old phone from 2015 and Apple had just announced the iPhone 12 Pro with a LiDAR sensor on it. I thought: why don't I upgrade my phone to that and use it as my depth sensor? I did, and subsequently developed Stray Scanner to collect datasets that I can then work on and process on my desktop computer.

Having the sensor on my phone has the additional benefit that it is always with me. No need to bring a laptop and separate sensor.

I published the app on the App Store, as I thought it is likely useful to other people as well. I'm sure there are some people out there that work on, or research, computer vision and just want to quickly and easily collect their own datasets instead of using freely available academic ones.

Here to answer any questions if you have any.
Hmm, I think that's comparing the complexity of our understanding of the topic and not the complexity of the topic its self which I think is regularly laid out by experts and researchers of said topic. So, you might have a savant belting out absurdly complex fugues on a piano with little to no effort, while a young music student spends two hundred hours understanding the content of that music. The music itself, however, has the same complexity regardless of who's appreciating it.

No?
You are right! But what is that level when you say that you are a coder now? A software developer? When you graduate from a bootcamp?

When someone hires you? Maybe when someone pays you for an app you built?

For me it was the latter..
I think that's an apples-to-oranges comparison (no pun intended).

It would be fairer to compare the Democrats' allegations about Russia to the Republicans' allegations about China, i.e. accusations that Biden is anywhere between a useful-idiot-for to an outright-puppet-of the CCP.

AFAIK the Democrat position has been that, for both elections, the voting/counting mechanisms have withstood targetted attacks by state actors, and in both cases gave overall tallies which correspond to the electorate's choices, within an acceptable margin of error (I'm stopping at the tallies, to avoid the separate debate regarding the electoral college versus the popular vote).

Some Democrats also allege foreign interference with the electorate's choices, through widespread misinformation and propaganda. As an extreme example, fewer people may have voted for Trump if Russian troll farms weren't claiming that Clinton harvests child organs (or whatever Q-adjacent bullshit was spreading around Facebook at the time). It's perfectly consistent to make that claim, whilst also claiming that those lie-induced Trump votes were subsequently collated and counted correctly towards the totals.

AFAIK the Republican-led investigation found the Democrats' position to be essentially correct, that there were targetted attacks on infrastructure, and misinformation/propaganda attacks nudging the electorate towards Trump. No evidence of collusion was found, i.e. that Trump was working for foreign adversaries, or foreign adversaries were working for Trump, or they were coordinating ahead of time. That would (of course) have been even worse, but the lack of (evidence of) such collusion doesn't make the idea of foreign adversaries weaponising US voters for their own ends any more palatable.

In short, choosing positions/policies/rhetoric that is useful to adversaries is not itself criminal; it could simply be naivety or coincidence. Yet knowing that a candidate's positions/policies/rhetoric is useful to adversaries would be pertinent information for voters.
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> Merely reading false news posts [makes inaccurate beliefs] subsequently seem more true.

>the widespread sharing of misinformation on social media is also surprising, given the outlandishness of much of this content.

Emotional reactions plausibly drive the first observation, so the second observation shouldn't be surprising. If it really is, then they don't see the emotional component.

And yet:

>Our results suggest that the current design of social media platforms—in which users scroll quickly through a mixture of serious news and emotionally engaging content, and receive instantaneous quantified social feedback on their sharing—may discourage people from reflecting on accuracy.

They conclude that distraction is the cause, and that nagging users will solve it ("reminding them about accuracy in a subtle way that should avoid reactance"). Yet if the study is flawed, and the distraction tied up in emotional outrage, wounded identity, and spite, then those nags may only insense the users more.

Of course, considering already-distracted Mechanical Turk workers and people who link to "right-leaning sites that professional fact-checkers have rated as highly untrustworthy" shows that the authors of the study failed to consider much more than emotional actors.
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> Do not forget the evils of the Soviet Union, but it is not equivalent to communism.

Yep, also China and North Korea. And in recent history, the evils of Cambodia, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Cuba, Ethiopia.

I don’t believe these are coincidences or implementation issues, the list is too long for that. Can’t explain with soviet occupation either, some countries on the list are very far away and never had Soviet military presence.
This looks like a great tool, thanks for linking it here.
I built a Gentoo system once or twice, and I learned a lot that I otherwise wouldn't. Even just following the directions forced me to go to parts of the system I otherwise wouldn't have.

Now I use Macs on the desktop and linux on the server.
It should not, if users are banned for violating written rules.
Also worth mentioning the Hacker’s Manifesto from 1986: http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html
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Left has a long history, yes. But there is so much diversity within the groups that identify as leftist. And some people you might call leftist (like the folks at raddle.me) reject the term wholeheartedly. They are committed to thorough antiracism, but do not want to be associated with communist or socialist regimes or ideologies.
the dotted namespace has been a back and forth in our community. some people love it, some people not so much.

we're still using the dotted namespacing but we've also introduced the ability to export your notes to plain markdown (it inlines dendron specific markdown like note references to regular markdown). if you have folder based markdown, you can import them to dendron's format using our markdown importer and then export them to the same format as well (this is coming soon)
If replacement parts are the goal then the best course would be to learn how cells decide to develop into those specific organs and then apply that knowledge to produce the part needed without attaching a whole human to it. It would conceivably be faster, less wasteful, and perhaps easier than figuring out how to ethically produce a consciousness free human.
I think most reasonable people discussing this topic are aware that there are some similar arrangements made between retailers and manufacturers. The one big difference is that there is no retailer monopoly and thus the overhead they charge has been negotiated by the market. I.e. their overhead charges are probably a lot more fair than 30%.

If Apple were to allow alternative app stores, I think we’d see price normalization in this space. The various app stores would then be competing on price based on the costs of hosting their App Store service.
More likely, the government would place a lien on your property, and when you die or sell your home, the profits would be used to pay for the deferred tax, rather than simply accruing to you or your heirs.
"Not everyone uses Git each day and I am certain that people who continue to use the word "master" without knowing a thing about what Git is will be viewed as racist and morally inferior. E.g. (Master of Ceremonies, Master of Arts, etc.). Explain how a tech worker can agree that "master branch" is offensive but putting that they have a "Master of Science" on their CV is fine."

Honestly I find it terrifying that high ranking tech people can't see the cognitive dissonance they're showing.

Either they're lying in a pitiful attempt to fit in with the silicon valley leftist elites or they're actually intellectually inept. Either way it's not good.
Can it though?

The bigger issue is removal of important details that provide context. Everything else can be factually accurate, but tell a completely different story. Unless you have first hand knowledge you won’t know what’s missing. You see this all the time if you read a story on a subject where you have expertise.

“Tim punched Bob

Bob punched Tim

Tim and Bob shook hands”

Is a very different story than if only “Bob punched Tim” is reported. It’s accurate...but it changes the story perception.
nitpicking but its a little deceptive to refer to this as an "agreement" because it implies there was ever an option to disagree. the transitive "agree" demeans the high courts ruling and authority in the matter. Uber is complying, but im sure "agree" makes it sound like this wasnt blow to their business model but instead some sort of consequence of their own foresight.
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Agreed. It's one of the only axiomatically false marketing claims.

"Unlimited" storage/data is in that category if not for bandwidth/throttling disclaimers.
I didn’t say anything better could be done with it, just that it isn’t. If we had carbon capture technology or an aluminum plant that would be a better use.
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Microsoft does not sell it's AI technology to police. So... let's avoid accusing them of things they aren't doing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/11/microso...
I remember independently inventing the ": foo;" prompt, and using it with Bash, in the late 90s. My beard is gray now.

It's not really practical because there are all sorts of values of "foo" which will make Bash choke when it tries to evaluate the string. Backticks and parentheses, for example, will cause problems, as will newlines (which NB may even occur in filenames, along with other problematic characters!). So the "foo" string typically needs to be sanitized using an external command: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x279.html

Once you get to that point the idea no longer seems as elegant.
indeed the list goes on. i was trying to just list some EA games, but Epyx ('summer games'!!!), Infocom, Lucasfilm and others all produced some groundbreaking work for their time.