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> but noone with a non-lonely brain cell will.

These “universities” lied to prospective students. Here is just one example:

“ The FTC says the university wrongly suggested that it worked closely with high-profile companies to develop its courses. And it says the school's "Let's Get to Work" ad campaign was one example of how it hyped connections with potential employers.

In one video in that campaign, a UOP student is seen driving through a school parking lot, passing spots that are filled with the iconic logos of successful companies.”

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786738760/university-of-phoen...

This has nothing to do with neuron count and everything to do with fraud and lies.
The key difference is Jubilee was scheduled every 50 years, and was thus predictable. Taking on a debt at, say, year 35 meant both parties knew the remaining term was limited to 15 years, and could adjust the specifics accordingly.

This situation is ad hoc, meaning both parties take on the debt assuming repayment, then one party exits, leaving unpaid debt behind. Spontaneous debt dumping, unlike the 50 year cycle in ancient Israel, is destabilizing and encourages debtors to complain loudly, and perhaps violently, to get out of the debt they owe. Doing so successfully encourages consumers to take on bad debt, which is bad for the economy (see 2008).
> A type-safe wrapper for libc should be enough...

The standard C library is not great. There's a lot of dangerous cruft in there (gets), as well as cruft with various gotchas (sscanf; see the recent hoopla about it being linear in the length of the string even if you just want to read a fixed-length prefix). It absolutely makes sense to design new, safe, consistent libraries along with a new language.

THAT SAID, I shudder at the idea of people writing yet another library for "Hashing • encryption • key derivation • TLS • etc".
You can easily forget pending tasks. That’s a single line of code like this:

task.ContinueWith( t => { }, TaskContinuationOptions.OnlyOnFaulted );

However, graceful cancellation is indeed hard. Doable in .NET but not easy, you gonna need to manually pass these cancellation tokens all the way down.

Do you have an example of a language/runtime/etc where the cancellation's easy? It's easy to kill processes from the outside, but even for threads it's borderline impossible without horrible side effects.
Mac and windows too https://github.com/replit/upm#macos
This is well written. Nice metaphors and thank you.
Indeed. My 4 year old Oneplus phone taught me that China can make a phone just as good as anyone else. It's a quality product and was at a great price.

With that said, my next phone will be an iPhone. I am trying to de-china whenever I can when it comes to buying stuff.
Is it during work time? Great. No? Aight, imma head out.
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I did the same a few years ago, played SS2 and then continued with the three Bioshock games. The first two Bioshock games have a truly amazing atmosphere as well. The third didn't really do it for me.
Traditional for loops are probably the most common for ranges but if you want a more functional approach you can use the Array constructor or Array.prototype.from with its various parameters.
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Yes - the banks then hand a substantial portion of these fees back to the customer via credit card rewards.

We have a bizarre system where retailers mark everything up an extra 2%, to give their more well-off customers (that pay with decent credit cards) an effective 2% discount and the ability to dispute charges.

I think retailers would love a new system with less transaction fees, but banks definitely would not, and some customers may not either if it means sacrificing their credit card rewards and perks.
> in practice what’s to stop someone from borrowing ...

the same things as any other debt that is dischargeable?
Not really, iteration requires the existence of interfaces, requiring two methods (or one, if optionals are supported). Iterator semantics are orthogonal to memory management.

The transformation into a while loop is a handful of lines of code (unless your implementation language sucks). It's not difficult for simple iterators (but can get dense for more generic constructs like generators).
Those are some harsh restrictions indeed, given that Ireland seems like a country where you live life to it's fullest, it's an almost unreal level of restrictions.

As a comparison Denmark and Ireland have almost identical number of vaccinations and population, so it seems like Ireland is being way too cautious.
For what it's worth, I use Vim fairly regularly and have always left the escape key alone. (The "butterfly keyboard" Mac tempts to me remap it, but that is not, in the final analysis, Vim's fault.) I do, however, tend to remap caps lock to control, because I think it's a better place for it and it's not exactly a high effort thing to do the remapping -- it's built right into the Mac's system preferences.

As other people have pointed out, most of us aren't regularly using computers that aren't ours (or at least "ours," in the case of work machines permanently assigned to us), and I suspect nearly everyone who reads this web site has changed more than one thing on their computer that deviates from a fresh out-of-the-box default. :)
This is called the "infant industry" argument, and it has been made since at least the 16th Century, most famously by Antonio Serra, a proto-mercantilist.

This idea of raising tarrifs on imports and then using the money to protect domestic industries has been tried in Latin America in the 60s and 70s, in Africa, and in many places.

The results are mixed.

The problem with infant industry is that you get a group of local monopolies protected by the government who sell expensive low quality goods to the public, people get sick of it, they want the lower priced better foreign goods as it will increase their quality of life, and at some point there is sufficient political pressure to force a regime change.

Another way of saying this is that the infant industries often fail to grow up, they remain protected infants forever.

On the other hand, if you don't protect your infant industries, then you have no chance against mature foreign competitors, as you point out.

Then there is a third aspect to this, which is that foreign governments, especially East Asian governments (not only China, but China is the biggest offender) massively subsidize domestic industries and so you have to subsidize and protect your industries in return, or they will be destroyed by competitors who never need to turn a profit, or repay a loan, or meet any environmental regulations, or deal with unions, etc.

So it's a tough call. All these theories have valid points, but they all have fatal flaws. For the last few years, I've come around to the following mantra, which is my own development philosophy:

* every country should have a long run balance of payments. That means all trade should be balanced.

* countries should make investments in local productive capacity, but not subsidize industries per se

* countries should not allow foreign companies to set up factories or purchase capital or land. Each nation's assets should be owned by their own citizens only.

* With the above caveats, there should be free trade and no industry protection.

What this means, in practice, is banning foreign capital inflows. Have your own currency, borrow only in your own currency from your own people, and don't allow foreigners to purchase your bonds, stocks, land, private debt, or productive capital.

But trade all you want with them. As long as you do that, your currency will depreciate sufficiently to prevent any flood of cheap imports, and your domestic industries will have a chance.
lol, and yeah it worked.

I also don't think there is an issue here.
Yes it does and should be used when precision is important.
> Communication and critical thinking skills will never become obsolete.

True, but you don't need a college degree to learn communication or critical thinking skills. For some careers they are generally useful, but for a lot of careers they're just a tax on entry.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorCo...

There is no good answer to why, except to improve fingerprinting. Which is most of what this site shows, the amount of data a site, even open in the background, can use to continuously fingerprint you. Or maybe I misjudge what this is supposed to do.
The problem is with other loans there's collateral the lender can sieze like a house or a car.
The answer to why: It helps with efficient allocation of worker thread pools.

I helped make a timing attack[1] as justification for adding this API, and then presented this suggested API to each browser vendor along with the timing attack. The result was that every browser has adopted my suggestion.

If this API was not present, ads could get this data in a more resource-intensive manner anyways.

1. https://eligrey.com/blog/cpu-core-estimation-with-javascript...
seems like a lot of volcanii eruption.
It seems like this would result in many just graduated college students choosing to declare bankruptcy immediately after graduating college. You're in an effectively perfect position to do so. You have massive debt, you have no job, you have no assets, you're not yet ready to do anything which requires credit and you're 7+ years away from buying a house.

Also, technically, student loans are dischargeable in bankruptcy, it's just much harder than other debt[1] nearly impossibly so, but, perhaps it should be. I think the alternative is that the issuance of student loan debt becomes so risky that you enter a feedback cycle of increased interest rates leading to increased bankruptcies leading to more risk leading to increased rates leading to increased bankruptcies etc.... where there only exit point is that nobody can take loans for college.

I also think there are much more elegant solutions to the problem.

1> https://studentloanhero.com/featured/student-loan-bankruptcy...
You're correct, however my point that there exists non-profit schools that offer useless degrees, stands. Are you arguing otherwise? It's unclear from your post.
Using Google Chrome profiles as password manager for business (easy onboarding)
With Gsuite you can make a lot of accounts without licenses. You can make a Google chrome profile with these accounts.

you can store passwords and bookmarks related to marketing for instance and do this for every domain in the business.

This can make onboarding easier as people can just log into the Chrome profile and have all the access they need for the specific job: Bookmarks, credential access etc.
Is this new? I swear I searched as recently as last week and the only thing that came up was "rmtree" and the "brew bundle dump && brew bundle --force cleanup" workarounds.
> Software engineering _badly_ needs a concept of finished version and mature software

It used to be like that. Back before the expectation of regular updates, in fact back before downloading updates off the internet was considered desirable or even feasible, when releasing a patch was a borderline embarrassing admission that we didn't get it right the first time, software shipped on CD and the version that shipped was understood to be the version installed on the vast, vast majority of customer systems, so it had better be a finished product or there were reputations on the line.
> College tuition just needs to be paid for by the state without the lending facilities, IMO.

No way. That just means the taxpayer gets defrauded rather than the student, and the "school" still gets their money. It encourages the further growth of fraud.

The government should not guarantee loans for universities and programs of study that do not have a track record of financial benefit for the students.
The same thing that's stopping everyone from borrowing a bunch of money to go on vacations and then declaring bankruptcy?
As someone who has never added incremental complexity to software until it manifested bugs, I agree.
There are long term consequences for declaring bankruptcy that would dissuade sane people from flippantly filing. You also have to convince a judge that you are actually bankrupt.
Can’t say that thread is missing the point, but he doesn’t look like a young girl, because what you see is not a young girl either. It is a simulation of what a young girl would look like if she applied a ton of made up makeup (hence the word) to look attractive.

If you’re asking yourself why females tend to have more followers than males, and males get more followers when disguised as a female, remember that the “attractive” part is neither female nor male, not even human. It is our notion of perfect attractiveness that is completely made up and females exploited that since forever because sexual behavior asymmetry (women attract, men approach).

In a world without makeup, uv filters, clothes and odor deception, almost everyone is a red uncle biker.
you talk about margin debt in a topic about a sliver of Department of Education loans as if there is any similarity into the structure, circumstances and participants

Department of Education's outcome is a unilateral decision by the confirmed head of a federal agency, the latter requiring something far more involved that nobody is asking for.
And a typical TR workstation is 2x the price of an "average desktop" so maybe a 4x multiplier?
I tried it, but everything required sudo and that wasn’t an option at the time. I primarily develop in Windows(on a Mac) now because Unity runs much better on windows than Mac OS.
From my reading of the OP (and the original news reporting that the OP is summarising), this covers the case where someone was defrauded by their school. Not just harmed, defrauded.

Fraud is a well-defined crime. It requires intentional deception for a small number of specific reasons (most commonly, to gain money or something else of value). If in doubt, consult an attorney in your jurisdiction to determine whether you have been the victim of fraud according to the laws of your local area (which do vary across state lines within the US, to say nothing of internationally).

But this isn’t about forgiving student loans where someone has been harmed. It’s about forgiving student loans where someone has been the victim of fraud.
I believe you make a good point. So the question then is, should for-profit schools exist? Surely there should be a mechanism to prevent these scenarios from occurring.

The plot twist is that there already is in the form of accreditation. Anyone can trivially look-up whether or not any school is accredited or not.

So the question remains, if someone chooses to go to an unaccredited school and they get burned should the government foot the bill?
Covid "scientists" are quacks and conspiracy theorists. Why don't you all go back to your fake moon landings and flat earth theories - leave the rest of us alone.
>It seems like this would result in many just graduated college students choosing to declare bankruptcy immediately after graduating college. You're in an effectively perfect position to do so.

How is this different from any other kind of debt a 22 year old might have?

The answer is, it's not - banks simply wouldn't loan outrageous sums of money to 18 year olds. If 18 year olds couldn't get 200k loans from banks, colleges wouldn't charge 50k/semester (unless you think colleges would simply close up shop if they can't charge 50k/year).

Unbankruptable loans + incredibly high demand today means that colleges can simply charge whatever they want.
Separate VLANs is right, but it isn't easy. If we have more IoThings every day, we have to get them plugged into the proper VLAN every day.

That would be a mirage anyway. With Nest thermostat's secret microphone, the various smart TVs with hidden cameras, and universal police access to video footage collected by the Ring doorbell network, it has become clear one can't assume any particular device isn't sensing everything in its vicinity. Cell network connections are expensive at scale, but that is due to oligopoly rent-seeking, not technical restrictions. The MNOs are pretending that it's even physically possible for them to own 5g, but it isn't. Connecting around rather than through wifi will become common for IoThings.
a) Some do like paper maps.

b) Google Maps could advice direction to some smaller not so well maintained roads, that could increase travel time a lot, or lead to some road where it's hard to turn back. So maybe planning ahead and writing driving instructions at home before driving would be better. Or just trying to follow main street signs for major roads.

c) There are some DIY projects like Raspberry Pi navigator:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=70517
Never heard of a "from" loop before.
>then all student loans would be be via the government

They already are effectively.

Private student loans are for the difference between what the government will loan out at for the tuition/cost of living costs. The government doesn't guarantee them. The problem is you can't discharge private student loans in bankruptcy. So they are personal loans that get special treatment.
> College tuition just needs to be paid for by the state

Ok, but not masters degree right? Were the last 2 years of high school actually useful to you? Free college will just make it defacto required and waste people's time.
>>> I absolutely don't know enough about the topic. I just know that when things get popular, it is often due to some value-added detail that no one explicitly talks about. The fact that it gets slipped in and not commented on is part of what makes some things wildly popular

^^ this

Thank you. Wish I could pay you per word for this. Hmu@samir.ist
One problem is that this would deter people from watching, as they would only be watching what they want to see. Bad for business.
Your analogy is poor. Cars depreciate in value. A higher education with a degree supposedly increases your earnings, thereby enabling you to repay debt. Cars don’t do that.

When the school lies about how many graduates are placed at SV tech companies, when they lie about who teaches and designs the courses, when they lie about their “connections” to employers, enticing students to take debt for their false product, the problem is with the school... not the victim.

Do you also forgive rapists who say, “but she was wearing a miniskirt! She enticed me to do it!” The schools are the rapists here. The students are the victims.
Oh wow! They talked about OverlayFS so I wondered what they'd do on other platforms.
The functional approach also works better as a one-liner when typed in the devtools console.
> Their only possible options at that point are to labor in poverty forever (the loan's still not getting paid back),

The ideal state of capitalism is $0 labor costs, so: more's the better. Lots of Business majors and MBAs graduate from university under this orthodoxy every year, and have, for a long time.
I'd say yeah. At least if it was from the government. They're supposed to make sure people aren't being defrauded
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This is awesome. Just imagine how many radio stars wouldn't have been killed by video if this were around in the 80s.

Seriously, the world is full of talented performers, but they lack the look or image that the entertainment industry demands. I look forward to seeing how this progresses.
This article is really short. What kind of fraud is it talking about? Unaccredited schools presenting themselves as accredited? The original press release (linked in the article) just says "institution[s which] engaged in certain misconduct."
This would sharply curtail lending to lower socioeconomic groups/families as there is no collateral and co-signers would be harder to have qualify as well on a creditworthiness history basis.

This would likely perpetuate/increase generational wealth inequality rather than reduce it.
I state explicitly that in the article the justification and determination of "harm" is unclear so it's impossible to really have an in-depth comparison.

However, I will say the fact that it's DoE related isn't really relevant at all. From the article it seems the main point was that students were misrepresented and later harmed as a result of taking a loan.

Those particular circumstances do happen to be shared in some instances of taking on margin debt.
Which is why I believe the best you can do is stay aware of the present at a meta level, and track things as a function of time.

Of course all of this requires self-drive and personal determination / willingness.
Not necessarily (e.g. credit cards), but that is one way to manage risk.

Certainly removing this protection would likely reduce the number and/or size of loans that are approved, and other risk reduction methods applied.

As it is , tuitions are being driven more by ability to pay than by costs, and ability to pay is being driven by this loan status. The system has terrible incentives for lenders and institutions.
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Most new college grads who took loans are.
Well, a 22 year old is far more likely to be approved for said debt than other kinds. I doubt unemployed and uneducated 22 year olds are generally approved to e.g. $100k home loans.
None of those require on-prem solutions, like at all. I work with those on a daily basis. A basic cloud solution is more secure than most on-prem solutions held together by shitty in-house duct tape made by resume engineers.
Almost all 3rd party SDKs should be avoided like the plague as a general rule. I have a much better time taking control of the HTTP requests to 3rd party APIs
Oh wow this is next level though.
I did not know this variant, thanks. Having to fill the array with anything (even `undefined`) to iterate on it seemed such a weird concept (but then again, JS is weird).
Institutions will stop giving student loans unless the parents co-sign.
The student loans issue is a hard one to fix. There is always a catch.
Why can't the university take back the degree? They can't take back the knowledge, but assuming the certificate itself is actually worth anything they could always revoke the diploma. And employers are already oddly adept at checking boxes, "actually has a degree" is just another checkbox to them. Anyone that says they have a degree and doesn't is untrustworthy and why would you hire that person?

If someone has a job they have no need to do so. If someone doesn't, then assuming that person went to school with the intention of getting a job afterwards, then it seems the school failed (either in educating the student or choosing to accept a student who is unlikely to accept a job).

It seems utterly bizarre to me anyone besides the university should be on the hook for this. If they're accepting the money, they should also be accepting the risk. It feels like nobody is willing to be held accountable for anything anymore and push the risk off onto those who are most vulnerable. This is a cancer in modern capitalism.
Unfortunately, whomever edited the video only shows the speaker and not the content of the slides, which makes it pretty hard to follow the speaker's points.

For example, the speaker will mention examples of doors, but no doors are shown, only the speaker looking to the side (eg. seek to 34 minutes in the video). There's also no link to the slides or accompanying materials that would help understand the material that I can see.

Unfortunate, since it looked pretty interesting.
You have to go to bankruptcy court and convince a judge that you are actually bankrupt. I think it would be a particularly hard job for a recent graduate to persuade a court that they are bankrupt.
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That no one will lend them $100K+ to live for four years without working and without qualifying by credit scoring and income metrics?