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> I think there are issues with our Democracy and our Media, not with our Capitalism.

The question is, how do you stop Capitalism from subverting Democracy and the Media to perpetuate itself? I think one can successfully argue that capitalism is a human-scale paperclip maximizer, but for capital.

> PS: if we wanted to, a democracy could simply make it illegal buy investment property insuring that everybody had somewhere to live. Freeing people from the burden of rent.

Only if the wealthy allow it. You don't have to look very hard to find dead-in-the-water concepts/projects that have the support of a large majority of Americans across the political spectrum, but are hated by the wealthy, and therefore their politician proxies. These tend to die despite public popularity - alas, that's the downside of representative democracy.
When Node first released its biggest selling point was being able to reuse web APIs. It also filled in gaps for APIs that weren't standard in browsers. Then browsers started to add these APIs, and some of Node's implementations naturally diverged (aka the idiosyncrasies that you mention).

Deno has the advantage that they are starting from a clean slate without the burden of legacy APIs, but how long will that hold for?
This is such a wonderful initiative and could bring so many kids into programming! So many people start programming in order to make games and I could see this developing into the new standard for it & it being supported first class in replit makes it super simple to create and share your game.

I got a chance to try out kaboom last weekend and while it's already great for games, I'd love for it to also have more support for visualizations, something I used to spend a ton of time on in high school in khanacademy's processing.js editor[1]. Kaboom's support for ES6 and WebGL, focus on gaming, and integration with replit would make it a much better tool than KA for this. Some things in particular I'd like to see from kaboom for viz - it's missing basic raw functions like drawEllipse, the docs were difficult to read (I wish it would say what params something takes instead of "[conf]"), and in the end I failed to port over my voronoi viz[2][3]. If they decide this would be a good focus for them, I'd suggest having one of the built-in kaboom examples on replit to be a visualization.

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/profile/raphaelrk/projects

[2] https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/quick-voron...

[3] https://replit.com/@raphaelrk/CumbersomeAdmiredStrategies
You might be based by the fact you learned programming and the associated ”linear" thinking a long time ago... I am not very efficient reasoning on graphs, but I remember how HARD it was when I started programming and this does not seem even close.
Or better, force the app to let the user dictate how many months they want to authorize the subscription for.
They had both, but some new hire confused them.
There is for instance http://afiestas.org/appmenu-runner-meet-the-kde-hud/ , and I bet there are similar tools for Gnome. However, from what I heard of Unity, it seems to be a hell of a work to keep/maintain it running for all kind of programs (regarding the different UI toolkits).
>Then instead of superheroes think about countries or groups. How do you align Iran?

One could start by not toppling their legimate democratic leader in the 50s, not imposing a dictatorship afterwards, and not sponsoring their neighbors to go to war with them.

Also avoiding subsequent decades of sanctions, insults, condescention, using their neighbors against them, and direct attacks and threats towards them would go a long way towards "aligning" them...

Finally, respecting their culture and sovereignity, and doing business with them, would really take this alignment to the next level...
A clue for the NYT: none of these words have ever been used by engineers with reference to anyone's race, so it's absurd to call the terms "racist." The terms "master" and "slave," for example, refer to machines, which don't have any feelings to hurt. Slavery is an unfortunate (but nearly extinct) practice of an earlier period of human development, and people of all races have been masters AND slaves.
One theory going around is that, since they want to charge for Nitro and other things in the app and go through app store billing, they can't have adult content (whereas a free app with no mtx can presumably get away with more risque content).

Sounds reasonable, but I don't know the current landscape of iOS development well enough to say if that makes sense.
On the other hand, I cheated once (I was bored with TF2's new gameplay, and a teenager) 11 years ago , and got a lifetime VAC ban, while most die-hard cheaters would probably laugh it off and create a new account (especially now that it is f2p). Lifetime bans hardly seem proportional if you are on the receiving side.

The solution to cheating problems isn't necessarily technical, it's also social, and I think it reflects a bigger issue in our society, also present on social platforms. When anyone can interact with strangers and behave however they want, there's going to be trolls and others, motivated by the feeling that they can't be held accountable for ruining someone else's fun (or, just not realizing they are not having healthy interactions).

Lots of online platforms have developed lots of ways to cope with this, from karma systems to moderators, to social credits, to ID verification. Couldn't games take a page from that book?
Windows laptops usually overstate battery life, we’ll have to see if it’s reproducible.
But you need a bank account to make a wire transfer to turn your real money into MOB.
Hello, I am the author.

> So the author waited for people to come to them, and when nothing worked out, declared themself "unemployable" (despite not proactively looking for work).

There are two sections. There is the part where people reached out to me. Then there is the part where I went out and interviewed more proactively. And there is a lot of stuff in between that doesn't really fit into this blog post. So consider my version a simpler, abbreviated version than real life.

> According to the blog post, they didn't proactively apply at companies they were interested in.

I did apply at companies I was interested in. Why wouldn't I?

> They didn't bother catching up on new technologies or other skills sought after in the current market, spending their time on building a computer game instead.

So, I had just come off 5 years deeply immersed in the bleeding edge of deep learning and the beginnings of the wider application of this technology at various companies. Excuse me for wanting to try something different. Have you ever made a game before? Do you have any idea how technically involved it is? How does this not count as catching up on new technologies or other skills? I should have studied leet code interviews instead? I think I'd rather enjoy life and pursue things I find interesting.

> Interviewers are being vilified for acting in their own best interests rather than the author's conveniences.

No, they are being vilified for focusing on arbitrary things rather than focusing on things that are important to the actual job.

> It's hard to sympathize with the author when the narrative is essentially "I put very little effort into getting hired and so had to work a little harder to get a job".

I'm not looking for your sympathy and I don't know what part of my life story seems low effort to you.
Isn't the context here in-class notes? The time spent is a constant, and the goal is to maintain the right kinds/ratios of focus.
It's kinda funny how Sputnik-V felt like a rushed publicity stunt... and later on it turned out it might actually work.
Funnily enough the same group found a wormable exploit in Valve's Alien Swarm, a mostly forgotten game with a tiny playerbase, and Valve fixed it in 3 months.

https://secret.club/2020/10/30/alien-swarm-rce.html

Meanwhile CS:GO, their flagship game with over a million daily peak players, has numerous wormable RCEs reported and ignored for as long as 2 years.

Valve works in mysterious ways.
So why don't you buy? I am in the opposite position. I would like to buy something, but I can not find anything that would be worthwhile (mortgages lower than the rent I pay at the moment, or lower than rent I could ask for renting out).
Credit bureaus are also highly regulated
Not parent commenter but I've had the same experience - and I'm sure this comment will be received just as poorly as theirs, but I've given up on Linux desktop. It just isn't stable. I've tried so many times and I don't know what 1) is wrong with me or 2) the "I'm just as productive on Linux" people are smoking. Just getting basic stuff to work like bluetooth is a hassle. Headphones stuck in headset mode, let's go drop an argument to the bluetooth kernel module to enable autoswitching to A2DP. Touchpad driver for my machine kinda sucks, click and drag is still a little broken. Screen tearing watching YouTube videos on Firefox. Oh and it randomly freezes requiring a hard restart. Good luck upgrading packages, you never know what will randomly break. Extra good luck upgrading to the next LTS release, your machine might not boot when you go to restart.

I've been wanting to love Linux desktop for 10+ years and I just give up. I don't have time for this stuff anymore. And I'm not using esoteric distros. Ubuntu LTS, I also tried Fedora and it was even worse.

Sorry, but none of this happens to me on macOS or Windows. They're not perfect - of course crash, have certain quirks, etc, but they waste much less of my time on basic desktop functionality being unstable or needing special treatment.
> A vaccinated person can have no symptoms of covid and still be spreading

Aren't the efficacy numbers from the phase 3 trials based on giving periodic PCR tests to everyone that was participating in the trials? And not just based on people self-reporting symptoms?

It would be very surprising if there were a new kind of asymptomatic carrier that emerged only for people having taken certain vaccines in which they would never test positive on a PCR test but could still spread covid. The odds that this is how the vaccines work seems very small, relative to the number of times this argument that "we don't know yet" is getting repeated.

It just seems strange to me that so many people are hung up on pointing out that this small possibility is still a possibility. It seems more likely that this will drive more people to skip the vaccine, since they're being told they can't even go back to normal once vaccinated, than anything else.
> 4K is great because it is a factor 2 compared to 1080p.

I strongly disagree. QHD is perfect for me, because everything renders natively and looks beautiful. 4K without scaling is unusable, and 4K scaled up is just 1080p - You lose all the screen real estate you paid for.
Just got this up and running. No issues so far except wireguard keepalive is broken for me for some reason. Very exciting to see Linux and FreeBSD pulling ZFS from the same upstream - I needed this to properly deal with encryption etc.
Note the latest AMD 5850U chip is 40% faster [1] than the M1 for the same wattage! It really deserves more media exposure than the M1 which has the only merit of beating Intel.

[1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+PRO+585...
Additionally, out-of-the-box functionality matters a lot. DEs like XFCE have insane tweakability, but outside of a handful of settings most users don't take advantage of that. The majority of Windows and macOS users don't spend hours tweaking their setup to perfection, they just install Chrome and Spotify and maybe vertically orient their taskbar/dock if they're feeling spicy and it's off to the races.

And moving the needle on the out of the box usability front often requires changes that can't be made by changing the default configuration or becoming a contributor to an existing DE. The GNOME team would likely never approve of the changes seen just in the short blogpost, let alone anything more extensive.
It should be illegal for employers to request employees install anything on their personally owned devices or to retaliate against employees if they don't.

Her employer could pay for another phone that she keeps at the school to use as a timecard/geofence - but I'd imagine a shitty employer that wants to implement this sort of system is only willing because they can mandate free use of employee property they do not own.
It seems genuinely unbelievable it was being used for as long as it was without someone finding out
I think their hand was forced when the first iPhone was jailbroken, and able to install 3rd party apps within six months of release.
Minority oppression happens everywhere; perhaps more as a consequence of racism than an act of it.

Cigars keep getting caught up in actions against e-cigarettes and tobacco, with the US moving the age from 18-21, and Australia and Canada applying plain packaging laws.

Surprisingly, the public health risk caused by tobacco doesn't extend to cigars at the same magnitude. Plain packaging increases consumption by shifting spend to greater quantities of discount brands from expensive premium brands. This negatively impacts economies with segments of premium cigar production.

https://ipa.org.au/ipa-review-articles/cigars-and-the-plain-...

Tyranny of the majority.

In the US, it seems like anti-marijuana legislation was part of the new Jim Crow. Criminalize a common behavior, but only enforce it against a small segment of the population, leading to people trapped in low wage labor due to their criminal record.
Is there a scenario where rm -rf -no-preserve-root is needed?
We can only guess, but I would imagine that pausing would show that issues were being taken seriously and reduce hesitancy. Compare:

- Government breaks standard practice in favor of J&J corporation, allowing sales to continue After These People Died!!1!

- Government pauses J&J vaccine, experts condemn them for extreme caution.
Yes but a lot of the energy and talent that 20 years ago would have been making movies is now making TV series. Today is the golden age of TV like the 70s was for film.
a) "Install this app, it's safe" != "Install this app, but only use this part, don't click on that part"

b) opt-in features that are very profitable have a funny habit of transmorphing in to opt-out
I'm using the qgmlwy layout for a few years now, pretty happy with it.
I remapped caps & added a new modifier to have a "special chars" layer and it works pretty well.
Overall it's more trouble than it's worth, if I had to redo the whole journey, I would simply learn to touch-type with querty (maybe colemak), but I'm still happy with the end result.
This is similar to the very similar HPIB/GPIB/IEEE488.

In theory you can have 32 addresses but in reality because of electrical limitations (even defined in the IEEE488 spec) you can only have about 24 devices.
Yes, you can pay with it at a cafeteria snack machine in a Swiss university.
https://taler.net/de/news/2020-09.html
I've actually thought about this a lot (I'm building a note-taking platform), and one feature I still want to integrate is something to address this. My current best idea is to just hide stuff you've already written from you until you are finished. I've already seen this used elsewhere, but most recently experienced it with The Most Dangerous Writing App[1], which I actually used to write significant parts of my thesis.

[1] https://www.squibler.io/dangerous-writing-prompt-app
To be pedantic, you can see the dash/dock when you hit the super key, I don't believe anyone actually uses the hot corner.

Also to be pedantic, there are plenty of desktops that don't use a dock, in the form of most window managers. I'm currently running opnebox with no dock and it's totally fine, though the approach is better suited to tiling window managers.
I bet they could produce 90% accurate data without any installations on personal phones, just watching for wifi beacons
If your giving is a cynical PR effort, you don't donate to unsexy causes like better toilets or nuclear plants. I'm willing to believe that MacKenzie Scott's giving is a cynical PR effort because she's donating to all the trendy social justice causes. That's what I would do if all I cared about was my public image and didn't care whether my money actually did good. Most coverage I've see of MacKenzie Scott's giving has been positive.
It really depends on the subject matter and symbol set - in stats classes I took notes in a LaTeX dialect which sorta worked but took a lot more mental effort than handwriting, but I was also actively trying to train myself into using TeX style expression so it was worth it - for just taking down notes hand-writing can definitely be faster and more legible for anything with lots of weird symbols.
There’s a culture of life hacking and microoptimizing that promotes following conclusions made on pvalues and averages as a key to the promised land (re: “trust science” as a replacement for religious style identity and morality even).

In the reverse direction, non academic population’s desire for popular science seems to lead with a carrot and incentivize studies like this (I think about this like trying to objectify relative efficiency multipliers of -personal- study habits?).

It’s the same thing as always: who has the time to think critically about every aspect of life. I think these things are just assurances to reduce that anxiety of uncertainty.

Whether pen vs keyboard is the “best” option according to the given study, there will be folks who are naturally on the “losing” side of the distribution whose habits are not supported by the conclusion. I think it can cause some cognitive dissonance when these folks are encouraged to force themselves to do what science said was best; even when is not what is best for them.
Let me introduce you shorthand, especially alphabetic shorthand. (The latter is much easier to learn)

You can get relatively easily into the 100WPM range - above most good typists. And if you're willing to invest in symbolic instead of alphabetic shorthand, you can get to ~200WPM, well outside of what a typical touch typist can do.
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Thank you for that. The full letter was a pleasure to read.
> Draw your own conclusion on how aligned these folks are with your interests.

What's this supposed to mean? Is the implication here that the CDC and FDA want to keep people from being vaccinated? WHy?
I have been hearing this talk for more than ten years now. As someone with 23 years experience with the web and more than ten with iOS all I can say: spend some tine learning native technologies. Then you will know better.
Ok, so you have a lot of experience of this subject - would you mind suggesting your preferred approach(es) to moderation? What can work?
Her demands were quite specific and she did list a date.

I'm happy enough to say it's not clear cut quitting. But what's the difference really? She didn't want to stay, they didn't want her to stay, beyond that it's like a couple asking who dumped who.

I probably should have said "leaving employees" in my comment above...
But how much capital? You also have to consider opportunity costs of putting down that capital.

Maybe if I put down one million and borrow another 300k, I can get a low mortgage. But I also lost one million.
I made this a little over a year ago, but forgot to share it...

I have two GIT accounts, one for school use and one for personal use but I have to constantly switch between them, so I made this.

Please give feedback!
How does denying citizenship to minorities help preserve Jewish culture? I'm glad you've backed away from the "equal rights for all rhetoric" though.

It's too bad Afrikaners didn't try harder to "preserve the traditional and culture" of minority rule in South Africa as well.

Historical persecution doesn't justify enthnostates in my mind, I didn't realize this was a controversial opinion.

e: Since you've now edited your comment to include the statement about "BIPOC", Jewishness is orthogonal to "BIPOC" and most Jewish people are white.

I say that as someone of Sephardic descent.
> Ignoring the Software, this Laptop looks exceptionally good!

Paying attention to the software, WSL2 is one of the most convenient ways to run nix. No more messing with homebrew, you get real apt-get (and the breadth of packages and speed of updates that come from running real Ubuntu or Debian) or whatever else you want.
They aren’t digital (at least, they don’t have to be) but I would argue that an analog synth is an example of an analog computer.
I somewhat disagree. Sometimes I need to send payments internationally; in the US most chat apps allow for this. Or people use CashApp/PayPal. Sometimes I'm chatting with friends outside of the US and the choices to send money are very limited and problematic (e.g.: Argentina inflation, low PayPal adoption outside US and I think CashApp isn't available)

I don't know the specifics of the cryptocurrency being used, but adding the ability to send money is welcome
The same thing actually applies to DS&A interviews: a person can memorize the solution to a given problem, but the interviewer can easily throw some curveballs that require deeper knowledge to handle.

It might come down to who is doing the interview: if you're a founder, or a team leader, and have done a lot of project management, you're likely to ask better questions about constraints, considerations, teamwork, etc, and get a better read on a candidate from questions about past experience. OTOH, a programmer giving an interview may not really care that much about those aspects or have a realistic idea of what a reasonable answer sounds like, and will thus tend to just jump through the interview hoops--and be more susceptible to, well, nonsense. On the other hand, they may actually be interested and invested in low-level technical questions.

I've had really good tech interviews that were challenging and even fun, and I don't think I could've faked my way through. I've never had a good experiential interview. But then, I've only ever interviewed for front-line programming jobs at large companies.
I have been programming computers since 1988, so I have seen a lot of things come and go. Not often has there been a just relationship between quality and popularity.

Never has that been so stark as with Node.js. So many mistakes, mistakes that have been made before. Such a mind boggling lack of purpose. There has never been a need for Node.js - except to play with the cool kids that programme Javascript on the client, server, on any &&^^*!! thing!

I still do not see the need for Javascript anywhere but in a browser, and with Webassembly, most of the impressive things done in the browser do not need Javascript any more.

So my preference is for Javascript to quietly die out in a dignified exit stage left. But I am not always completely correct. So if you must, then use Deno. Node.js is simply awful. Deno is only useless. A vast improvement.
Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer (Rails) (Remote, PST-Ish)
As far as I know Signal has no issues with funds. I feel this is more about Moxie and potentially other employees who want to make money for themselves, not for the foundation.
The problem is if you don't get emotionally involved you'll definitely lose at least some level of emotional boost & interest. That also could be noticed & mentioned in one of the reviews.

There is no ultimate solution, it always depends on specific person you're talking to