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> The initd job IS to launch other processes and reap zombies. (To non-technical people: zombies are childs which died when their parent is already dead, so a daemon must collect their souls).

Well, those initds don't actually start processes, they start one other process.

> It's not a job of init daemon to manage containers or resolve DNS names.

systemd's init doesn't do these things, other parts of systemd do that.

> IMHO, systemd must be PID 2+, not PID 1.

It is, for the most part (certainly most of those '1 million lines of code' are not in PID 1). Certainly you could try to keep more of the service management code out of PID 1, but it's honestly not something with huge practical benefits (your service management is going to be priviledged anyway, in the event of a crash all a non-PID 1 solution allows is maybe a little bit of an easier time giving a chance to inspect the wreckage before you need to restart everything anyway), and you create more interfaces in your system to manage.
That mostly reflects how much CD sales have plummeted.
That is in fact the plan.

We have a working product -- the thing is we have built out a whole UI and was hoping for end consumers to come to the site, but now we are trying to go to companies and to sell the API directly. Obviously I can just direct them to the end-consumer site, and that would be the demo, or I can wrap our API around something like RapidAPI, so that they can call the API -- not sure which one would be more effective.

Also we don't have really a landing page, it is just a site that does what the product does, not sure if it is better to direct the companies to a landing page, rather than just the current site.
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His way of "manual testing" is just development with breakpoints. I do not think that this person has ever worked on a software for more then a few months.

Unit tests actually let me develop a lot of stuff faster, since i start thinking about the API first, before implementing it and therefore i shift my perspective to the API consumers point of view.

Sure testing "getters and setters" is not all that helpful but i wholeheartedly disagree with the authors confidence in correctness and to just refactor the parts that feel wonky.
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Maybe it depends on a lot of factors. Thanks for sharing!
Type writer, mimeograph, stencils - if you're just doing text or intend for large distribution.

Buy a cheap printer with cash, from a location several hundred kilometers from you.

Go to a non-local Staples, FedEx, Kinkos with a USB stick, pay with cash for copies/printing. Better yet, pay someone else to do it for you.
I am, have a PhD in it at least, and complex numbers are 100% required to do quantum mechanics, so are physically motivated. In fact, many physicists consider the complex numbers to be the preferred number system of the universe for this reason.
I have a much sillier reason for disliking this change, which is that there is a charming part of YouTube culture where people attempt to explain a small number of downvotes on an otherwise popular video in a witty way.

For example, on a recent piece of Imperial propaganda [1] with 100K upvotes and 935 downvotes, we find the comment:

> 930 heretics and counting...

This one isn't laugh-out-loud funny, maybe raises a grin. Others are better. But it's a tiny artform which will be lost from the world.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWnQedD4BlI
Good luck and thanks for sharing!
My take on discoverability is exactly being able to figure things out without the need for extensive documentation. The documentation should exist, of course, but you shouldn't need it for every corner.
I guess attitudes toward this crime have changed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-investiga...
I don't understand what there was to negotiate about which apparently was done better by the UK than the EU when these vaccines are being sold without profit; so for a fixed price? If there subsequently is a shortage in production you can not accept extra money to provide more to one than the other (then you would make a profit) so I'd say it logically follows that you either go with a first come first serve distribution or a social, per capita, distribution.

PS: I was really hoping the world would have banded together to develop all vaccines publicly; sharing their recipes and allowing the whole world to produce as much vaccine as possible without artificial financial limitations.
There are more but I'm currently the only public one.
That sounds kind of real. Image recognition is one of the most useful ML areas and it's good at identifying plants.

Doesn't have to be deep learning though:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-past...
Check out https://www.classcentral.com/
I guess Amy Schumer feels vindicated now.
I'm assuming the more prevalent cynical belief is that it's a money grab to sell more ink
Yes, it does feel that way for me too. Thanks for sharing!
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> Most don’t provide such a choice, because it’s a huge undertaking to basically package and maintain 2+ versions of everything

Yes, I absolutely agree regarding the effort. (not sure about that vote - I honestly didn't follow that discussion)

In parallel, some software (cannot recall - maybe the Gnome window mgr) does rely (in its original form) on SystemD being there => I don't think that's fair, kind of forcing the distros that want to offer it to adopt it => I don't like it - I do see the advantage of having that kind of integration, but I still don't like it :P
"In January 2019 Governor Steve Silolak vowed that "not one ounce" of nuclear waste would be allowed at Yucca Mountain, and a May funding bill did not include funding for the site. In May 2019, the Reno Gazette-Journal published a long-form essay cataloging opposition to the Yucca Mountain project. According to a tribal elder, the Western Shoshone view Yucca Mountain as sacred and a nuclear storage facility "will poison everything. It's people's life, our Mother Earth's life, all the living things here, all the creatures; whatever's crawling around, it's their life too." The tribes say they lack funds to discredit federal safety claims, but will be directly affected by a potential disaster."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
> Maybe in a whitepaper. In the real world, it's mostly about speculation and enabling crime.

Speculation I could agree with... however,

Crime? Really? Got anything to back this up? The vast majority of crime is performed using cash.

https://hodlhard.io/blog/bitcoin-crime/
It's really just incredibly shitty op-sec from The Intercept, which should have known better. This isn't really a novel technique.
I'd say stupidity first, greed second. There are a lot of private companies making a lot of money. Valve and Ikea come to mind.

Being private and successful is hard to achieve in the Capitalistic world we live in, when you achieve it stick to it.
> Statements assuming they are all, without exception, clearly and obviously sicker (and "ickier") than all other people, without exception, due to being homeless is not one of them.

It was not my intent to cast people experiencing homelessness in a bad light, but I won't apologize for my words just because they weren't received in the spirit I intended them (I know you didn't ask for an apology, just throwing it out there). My point was that by definition homeless folks don't have equal access to facilities that non-homeless folk do, and have greater exposure to specific health risks. I didn't say this to be mean or hateful, I stated my current understanding of the situation many people find themselves in. Understanding a situation is the first step towards improving it. That requires talking about things that might make some people uncomfortable.

I strongly disagree with the manner in which jimbob45 was immediately shut down (and subsequently accused of casting homeless folks as "subhuman") for making a statement that quite frankly, wasn't wrong. Not only was his advice not wrong, but it could save lives if someone didn't know any better. It upsets me to see people get beat up over innocent comments that other people take offense to because they assume maliciousness. I saw zero maliciousness in his comment, and in fact it appeared as someone simply giving sound advice.
A pointer to a type that implements an interface can be nil, but a function that takes said pointer as an interface type will not be able to distinguish between a pointer that points to an allocated object and a nil one.
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that is also what I'm wondering about, if it is better to contact the BD team who might be more aware of what value the product will bring, or if it is better to contact the developers who would be working with the API.
Targeted dislike campaigns are clearly a thing. I'm glad they are doing this.
everyone talking about irrelevant boot times. how many times a day do you boot your editor? for me like 0.2
It's good until it's not. A successful quantum attack on a bitcoin address would end it permanently - sure we might be "decades" away from that, but we also knew it took years to make a vaccine until Moderna/Pfizer made one in ~2 days.

Right now bitcoin is like a castle with massive walls - everyone knows where the castle is and what's inside, but nobody can get over the walls. It makes sense to feel safe from attack. Quantum computers are the equivalent to the enemy arriving to your castle walls with a helicopter.
Why is this post downvoted?

I know that P.1 (Brazil variant) seems to totally avoid natural immunity. The proof is from the city of Manaus, which was over 75% infected in October 2020. A resurgent wave of COVID19 hit in January 2021.

At first, this didn't seem possible. But upon further study, it seemed that P.1 was avoiding natural immunity. So its reinfecting a ton of people in Manaus.

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In contrast, the Pfizer vaccine has shown to confer immunity to both the original strain AND to P.1. As such, the immune response created from Pfizer absolutely offers better protection, once we account for the variants (especially P.1 and B.1.351, which both have defenses against natural immunity)

B.1.351 is the other "immune avoiding" variant. And I await for more studies before making a conclusion on that matter.

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EDIT: It seems like the article is discussing B.1.351 among its list of variants. That's good: the South African strain seemed like it had some ability to avoid our immune system, but our T-cells are still functioning against it. So a P.1 / Manaus event probably won't happen.
>> Bitcoin is up something like 800% for the year. It might be up another 800% in six months! Or it might go down to $10000!

That was the case in 2017. Not anymore, things have changed.

the fundamentals of bitcoin are based on what people believe it will be worth and this has changed drastically in mid-2020.
Mid 2020 is the year WallStreet "got" bitcoin. this fundamentally changed it's future path. You have all these hedge fund managers and institutions that are willing to pour trillions of dollars into this asset to gain some exposure. And now that, that's begun it's setting off a chain reaction.

You've got to remember, the impetus for all this. It's not that bitcoin is some ideal form of investment. The driver for bitcoin and equity growth is the destruction of an existing asset class: fixed income. That 100 trillion worldwide wealth of fixed income has to go somewhere (not that all of it has to get sold). either it will go into bitcoin or equities or gold. it could go to cash but then it'll get wiped out.
> In general, this is not something you frob lightly
> But banning cryptocurrency would be much easier since the majority of the population doesn't own any and it can be framed in very positive terms.

How exactly do you ban or confiscate bitcoin? New bitcoin wallets are created without touching the internet access. Internet access is only needed when sending bitcoin but not when receiving bitcoin. By the time someone sends it, it’s too late, you can’t confiscate it because they don’t have it anymore. If the government bans or starts monitoring the bitcoin network for activity, people can still send slips of paper through the mail with the private and public key to one of their wallet.

Combine that with a brain wallet and you can literally store bitcoin in your brain. Try doing that with gold.
Assuming you were the one who amended the commit before pushing it up to the remote, there's no reason that you would not be able to delete the branch because your local working copy has already updated contents of .git/refs/heads/my-feature-branch.

For those who have cloned the repo for testing, they can simply run git checkout my-feature-branch; git fetch origin; git reset --hard @{u} to get their local repo in sync with the remote.

So there's no reason that amending the commit will affect anyone until they branch off of the repo to do their own work. But that's nothing that a rebase can't fix.
As I understand it, the original rationale for the tracking dots was the fear of counterfeiting, which may be less of an issue with black and white laser printers. That doesn't mean that I can say with any consequence that your printer doesn't have any tracking mechanism, but it might not.
Yes the original artist, or anyone else could create NFTs of the same image. And in the same way the artist could come out with a limited series of 10 prints, then make more of the same prints later.

But there is no way to create a forgery and duplicate your NFT. The digital provenance is all there on the blockchain. With a physical object anyone could create it later and claim it was an original.
not surprised, if you see the steering committee members: https://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html
For the folks who were saying that TLS-everywhere is an unnecessary burden recently:

> During our follow-up research on cryptojacking, we discovered that 1.4M MikroTik routers were serving cryptojacking scripts as they were routing Web traffic, geographically focussed on Brazil and Indonesia. It could be that a Vietnamese MikroTik router is still infected and somehow manages to inject the script into that particular (popular) website.
Cryptos are trash, ban them now
FTFY: Corrected off-by-one error in the AR ammo counter to correctly match actual rounds in small arm.

;)
Just because a chip is shitty doesn't mean it's worthless. In practice, Bluetooth is quite interoperable, and reliable enough for many use cases (especially the common, better-tested ones).

Breaking compatibility with that ecosystem out of spite is not conducive to getting adoption for a better product.
>> [cryptocurrency] entices masses of dumb money investors to pour their savings into what is effectively a unregulated speculative momentum investment untethered to any real economic activity.

As if that was different for the stock market or the rest of the economy... The entire economy is propped up by the money printers at this stage. Bitcoin and crypto are just better at getting hold of that freshly printed money for obvious reasons. If the government bans crypto, they will have to ban the stock market too.
Maybe it's just me but I think I'd actually prefer suicide over the "possible" (but quite common) mental handicap that ECT will cause.

And please note that psychiatrists lie. Technically it may be the truth what they say, but it is a disgusting lie through deception. Yes it is quite rare for a single ECT treatment to cause permanent memory loss or "severe" loss of function. What they "forget" to tell you is that an ECT regimen is not one treatment, but 7 to 20 individual sessions. Mathematically you can say that (1-(1-p)^20) is a hell of a lot larger than p. Intuitively you can say that it only works BECAUSE it does damage. So without at least some loss of function there is no benefit to it at all). It is also not so rare for the treatment to be abandoned, by the way, because the particular loss of function has medical consequences.

They also say it doesn't hurt, except that is patently false. When you have a medical operation doctors will use 3 sedatives, not just one. They use something akin to GHB that prevents the formation of memories, a muscle relaxant (prevents you from moving) and something to actually sedate (depress neural activity). For ECT they use a muscle relaxant and GHB. So ECT doesn't hurt in the sense that afterwards you don't remember. They would use a sedative, except with those it doesn't work. The working principle of ECT seems to be extreme pain and trauma, and they merely prevent you from remembering that. They explicitly don't prevent extreme pain. We know it's extreme because it used to be done without any sedation at all, so there's no shortage of patient testimonies on the subject.

Psychiatrists still want to use it because it is effectively the only medical treatment that can result in permanent change in behaviour. Nearly everything else (or let's say everything legal/moral) only results in change while the treatment continues, like antidepressants. If the treatment is stopped (voluntarily or not, say because of money issues) all effects stop in a matter of hours to weeks.

And yes, I think it should be outlawed. Also the modern forms. That psychiatry has no answers for problems is not new.
Ransomware is a key one, also.
It is pretty crazy.

I worked for a large organisation where management was far closer to 'technology leaders' and 'technology strategists' than engineering and data science principles and leads. They would endlessly swoop in to our division asking us to assess another product they have bought to fix the legacy problems of multiple data sources.

All of them were brittle af. They all anticipated a very idealistic data source and the absence of non-technical people curating data in excel ten different ways.

Even though we were the data science team, we usually ended up providing far more value to the organisation because we could do data engineering and cleaning and ended up being the source of truth for a lot of data required by the wider organisation.
We got pitched dozens of sexy solutions to fix all our ETL problems, but when we started asking questions it was always seemed like a well designed custom pipeline couldn't be beaten for both data quality assurance, reliability and speed.
It's one of the few ways that the online public square can still show visible discontent of what their government is doing in a way that is easily visible to all others.
>The contamination problem in common household products seems like something either the FDA/USDA/EPA should be monitoring

It is - I believe that literally all imports of hand sanitizer from Mexico are subject to an emergency order requiring sampling/testing because of the prevalence of contaminates
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What a reasonable and not-at-all unhinged threat model. I should be kept up at night worried that currency counterfeiters will break into my house, steal my printer, use it to print fake money, the cops will find that money, use these dots to get metadata to find me, then what no-knock raid me?

idk I think I'll just accept that risk, it's a lot more likely that my ex will stab me after all
There's a million novelty, gift-quality citrus cultivars sold in Japan. They're a lot more similar to brands than meaningfully distinct fruit species.

You want an actual little-known Japanese fruit? Try akebi!
Do you have any examples of designs where batteries are literally integrated into vehicle structure?

The iconic Tesla battery-skate design is still modular/replaceable for example (they're all 18650/2170/etc cells).
No, but it does mean unions need to be invited, which means there's preexisting interest.
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In printed text you would mostly have seen a single font used on a page, if not for the whole work. There's no inconsistency when there's a single font, especially not when the only variations are the odd piece of italics, a few (pretty much pre-defined) styles for headings, footnotes etc. and no zoom or different display devices.

If you could turn a paperback sideways and have the text flip it would look pretty bad - lots of the layout and text is either hard-coded or even manually applied based on the physical format.
So, if I am getting it correctly - this is only for color printing right? Why would they implement it on software level, would not hardware be easier and harder to remove?
i use vscode AND sublime. even on the same files sometimes. sublime is just way better at editing text. don't know why vscode won't just copy their ideas. like, ctrl+f in vscode is busted
> Apple have 27% of the mobile OS market.

iOS has 60% of the market in the US[1].

[1] https://deviceatlas.com/blog/android-v-ios-market-share
> Also, as Python illustrated, a language doesn't have to be interesting to be popular.

Python was very interesting, or rather, Python is the thing in its interesting group that survived. Highly flexible scripting language with a "batteries included" library set is a very compelling sales pitch, even today. It was Perl but readable, and in this case simply being "readable" was interesting enough to cause it to win out (and also Perl's internal drama)

> As Python also illustrated, a language can be opinionated and popular.

Python's "style guide" is opinionated, but Python the language itself isn't that opinionated. Missing ++ & -- are about the only contentious "opinionated" aspects to it. You can fiddle with basically everything else however you want, though, and the language made adjustments to make that even more possible (eg, replacing the print keyword with the overridable print() function).

Critically Python's standard library didn't really get any special treatment from the language. When a language lets the standard library or builtins do things that you can't, that's when it gets really questionable.
but youtube isn't some vc cash cow that has to change every 2 weeks in order to get more moni from vcs

i'm very fine with youtube *just working*
> The way to break the cycle is to have cash start to lose value, or inflate. Then the interest rates drop, and people start to spend their money.

If people's money starts losing value, the last thing they would do is to be concerned with interest rates. With less valuable money, people would simply be able to afford a smaller consumption basket and, thus, spending will stay flat & consumption will decrease.

> ... people make 10x the salary ...

Where did this come from? Just because the productivity would increase 10x / cost would decrease 10x, it does not mean that workers would receive 100% of the relevant benefits. Most likely, 90%, if not more, of those would be routed to business owners (and robots' owners, if the machines are leased instead of bought).
The NFT is just a receipt, currently without any legal standing.

The digital asset itself is not protected and infinitely copied. Everyone who views the asset has made a copy. There is no original.

Physical items cannot be copied perfectly. There is always an original unit that can only be in one location. This fact alone creates intrinsic value that digital items lack.
Of course the problem with this approach is that (at least part of) the Bitcoin community see it as non-inflationary - see above. So if you remove that cap then the value surely comes down significantly.