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I've been having increasing difficuly getting 3rd party sellers to even ship their products. Here's the most recent scam that I don't quite follow the purpose of:

1. Seller sells me a small patio side-table on Amazon.

2. Seller marks item as "shipped" with a UPS tracking number, meaning it has a tracking # but carrier has not taken possession of table.

3. Seller contacts me indicating that "FedEx" trucks are being used for covid purposes and that said table requires multiple boxes (not true) and that there are a backlog of boxes waiting to be picked up and that table will be delayed, but offers me a percentage discount which I decline.

4. Package never ships.

5. After the required number of waiting days from Amazon, I request and receive a refund.

What's the scam here? Is it purely negligence and they're not actually benefitting from this charade or why would a 3rd party seller go through this? How would this benefit them?
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Google is absolutely itching to replace the last GPL component of Android – Linux – with their own software, Fuchsia. Google will then control the whole stack, with no obligation to anyone. This has been coming for a long time; IIUC, Android started with many components from the larger GNU/Linux ecosystem, but today only Linux itself remains.
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I haven't done any actual research, but I got a feeling that Miele might have been bought up or some external entity got a say in how to optimize their business?

A 70yo family friend loves Miele. Never bought anything else for a dish washer, washing machine or drier. When his dish washer broke down two years ago - he proudly mentioned that it lasted him 22 years - he obviously bought Miele again.

Just half a year later it broke, he called a Miele technician, who said that this wouldn't be covered by warranty: You see, the manual explicitly states that you must run the machine with a higher-temperature program every so-and-so-ishth time, since the ECO program, which is selected by default every time you turn that goddamn thing on, doesn't heat the up the water enough, and all the gunk will add up in the machine's pipes over time, damaging it.

Now that's all fine and logical and I would have shrugged it off if this was an Ikea or no name brand from the local store, but a goddamn Miele that costs premium and is supposed to be a quality product? It's designed by German engineers which probably qualify as rocket scientists in every other country on this planet. And they cannot figure out how to add a counter to that thing so it would warn you if you used ECO mode too many times, or even better yet, make it just raise the temperature automatically even though you selected ECO?

Traditional German companies complain about not being able to compete with competition from eastern Europe and China, but then go ahead and pretty much offer the same quality by going to alibaba.com and ordering from there, with a Miele logo slapped on, while keeping the price the same as before. I can only see this being a short term solution, thanks to those old folks who have your brand image burned into their heads from thirty years ago, and will keep buying your stuff. The family friend from above? He got a discount of 50€ for buying a new Miele, which he happily accepted. qed.
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SpaceX, BO & Dynetics all started on the same level playing field. To act like there hasn’t been competition is kind of weird. There has been and still is competition, and we have witnessed the results. SpaceX has simply proven to be superior in every aspect. Don’t hate the player hate the game :)
The kernel isn't useful alone. I am 90% happy with my macOS. Its kernel is not as good as Linux, but it runs all my unix apps. I can use free, mature software solutions for most of my needs; E.g., I use mpv and a WiFi-connected HDD to listen to music. (With a much more pleasant playlist creation UI thanks to ugrep and fzf.)
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I don't understand 1) Why every company doesn't use Github/Gitlab to do documentation. and 2) Why Github/Gitlab don't offer a cheaper account type for employees that don't code or even write documentation to make internal docs available to everyone.

It's easier to maintain documentation when it's closer to the project. You can also automate a lot of its parts for your projects. You can create template projects and use tools like cookiecutter every time you create a new repo to have the basic structure in place. That's already half of the road.
I don't want to defend Google here, but in theory, since Google controls the OS, it can also make it lie to you.

So you tell the OS to "show me this app's signature", and the OS can just lie and show you the expected signature. You want to copy the app to an SD card so you can check it on your Linux PC? The OS can copy the "legal" app.

Also yeah, it seems code signing won't affect anything if the OS wants to be malicious. "Super Secret Messaging App" asks the OS to load encrypt.so, its custom encryption library, and the OS can deliver a no-op library and say "Here it is!". The app wants to check the file's hash, the OS can intercept the hash method's return value and change it to the expected one...
Although there's zero electronics involved in the cartridges, and it's pretty easy to refill yourself too.
As a resident of Michigan this road will be destroyed and needing replacement in approximately 8 months.
>When I say that a dependency downloads and executes random shit from Internet I meant it as a behavior intended to fulfill its function.

Can you give an example?

I'm aware of the banner thing, but I think that was only a few projects, and that's something else entirely.
Is it possible to train on features cross currency? Also, are there any volatility metrics included?
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Nice prototypes which I then had to fix them or even rewrite to C/C++

Even as someone who 'knows' C and C++ I still find it faster and easier overall to do the exploratory and 'science' part in Python, making sure it works and gives me the answers I need in the format I want etc. only to then rewrite and optimize the slow parts in C or C++ if necessary.
FVWM is still around? It was part of my first X11 desktop around 1996. I remember it as one of the more powerful WMs back in the day.
> Government-regulated currencies are best because voters can actually have a saying in how money gets handled

No, they don't. BTC is successful because citizens were against bailouts and yet government did bailouts to secure the "common good"

It's also popular because the Fed has a 2% inflation target whereas the population prefers a -2%

Government can kill btc in 3 seconds if it wants to do so...it just needs to give people what they want, what's popular so to speak, regardless of outcomes
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I haven't touched windows as a software developer since around 2008, so I don't know what's going on in there really. So long as I can launch games in my steam lib I'm fine.

My main working OS was Ubuntu (~2006-2010) and Arch(20010-2013). Then I got tired of my Android phone and switched to iPhone and mac book. (if that matters somehow)

As for you question - you were saying, quote:

>this is as untrue as "Year $YEAR will be year of Linux on desktop" was so far (posting from laptop running Linux)

when answering to

> Linux desktop is nowhere

I was merely pointing out that your preferences has nothing to do with general situation. And the general situation is that Linux is almost nonexistent on desktop. Hence no 'Year $YEAR will be year of Linux on desktop"' being not true so far. The phrase was and is about linux taking some meaningfull portion of market for itself, not about a you using it. Obviously linux was on desktop since 90s

You do you, nobody is trying to take it away from you.
Linux is pervasive because it's free (gratis) and flexible, but customers aren't necessarily seeing the core benefits of the Linux philosophy in terms of liberty and privacy. These examples of Linux succeeding are where some sort of application stack is very non-libre and often non-gratis, but maybe that's just one example of how to commercialize Linux. It's a generalized and well supported base for commercial products and services that is less restrictive and costly than other OSs, which is why we saw it replace server Unix distributions and even Windows Server in some cases. Many companies are embracing open source and extensibility more and more, though, which is definitely a good thing.

I'm interested to see a stronger focus on privacy and liberty in consumer Linux products like smart devices and IoT. Somehow iOS/MacOS, a markedly closed system, is the only one that really seems to be going in that direction right now.
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I've worked in this industry for a bit and had the opposite experience. Most of the slow solutions have been in other languages due to poor design and algo choice. There have been several projects I've been able to rewrite from R to Python where the runtime on a workstation went from days with R to seconds minutes with Python in a tiny tiny VM (like $10 DO box).

Sure maybe a 3 minute task in python that reconciles a few million transactions and builds some very useful projections is too slow for some pipelines, but it worked for my clients.
I am so excited for the prospect of mRNA treatments, especially in the field of auto immune conditions like multiple sclerosis. Those scientists are heroes.
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Prices are tending towards the bottom because of competition.

I don’t like it but that’s not a result of the App Store model.

It’s a result of the democratization and globalization of software development.
So the IRS asking questions as to how you got all that monero is not an issue?
Thank you for this. I'm missing a good RSS service so much and was about to implement something like this myself.

Well done!
Hopefully my height. Hello, 6 feet.
I also think that it's a shame he didn't bring up NumPy & Pandas, or R. He's just created a data frame and then complained that there's no functions to sort it, but we do have those. They are here.

ants = pd.DataFrame({
"name": ["bob", "alice", "carol"],
"color":["red", "blue", "red"],
"age":[1.1, 0.5, 1.2],
"warrior":[True, False, True]})
# Or read_csv to get the data in.

# Count number of warriors. True => 1, False => 0
ants['warrior'].sum() # Returns 2

# Count old red ants
((ants.color == "red") & (ants.age > 1.0)).sum() # 2 again

ants.sort_values(by="age")

I think Pandas and NumPy should be up there as making the language easy to use in a SoA way.
Extended support implies them having to actually support something, providing security updates for it and taking extra care of the version. Docker could charge for extended support, charge for a LTS version, and even turn features they'd would otherwise deprecate into premium features.

This here is merely attempting to prevent the user from running an unsupported version on their own machine. Software tends to be about "solving user's problems". The only problem this "anti-feature" is solving is one of its own creation.
Yes. Python is pretty much the main tool in biology, for example. C or C++ would be abysmal for similar exploratory scientific takes.
> Like reading the vintage ads recommending cocaine to help your tooth ache.

Cocaine didn't result in large scale environmental damage, to this day it's still in widespread medical use as a local anesthetic.

Imho a much more apt example would be something like "plutonium toothpaste" and the fact how humanity has irreversibly changed Earths biosphere by introducing large quantities of atmospheric plutonium 239 during the countless nuclear weapon tests [0].

Any acknowledgement of potential deadly consequences out of that mostly exist in some fringe awareness [1], and pretty much never comes up in any debates around the risks and dangers of nuclear as a source of energy generation.

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0096340215581357

[1] https://qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civi...
An Irishman of the hundred years centered on 1900 would have responded with amusement or indignation at being called "Anglo-Saxon", a term referring originally to the peoples of
Great Britain east of Wales and south of Scotland. The Irish regarded themselves rather as Celts, and ones that I had received bad treatment at Anglo-Saxon hands.
So because roads already involve microplastics, we don't have to care about there being even more?
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I use hot reloading with an iPython repl. I write my code in such a way that I can interact with any individual part of the system via a REPL. Lisp excels here, but you can have a decent approximation of a real-time evaluation loop going.
One more thing: some people have no eye for aesthetics. I’ve seen (smart) people defend a piece of code, and when I show them a refactored version, they say “that’s literally the exact same thing I wrote.”

No it’s not, and yes it is, in the sense that’s a^2 + 2ab + c^2 is not the same thing as (a+b)^2, but they (should and ideally must) evaluate to the same thing. I say ideally because only in the case of using infinite precision arithmetic can you guarantee this for all values of a,b,c.

People blind to these patterns cannot see how to simplify things, whether math or code or UIs.
> Researchers from two universities have discovered several new variants of Spectre exploits that affect all modern processors from AMD and Intel with micro-op caches. Existing Spectre mitigations do not protect the CPUs against potential attacks that use these vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, researchers believe that mitigating these vulnerabilities will cause more significant performance penalties than the fixes for previous types of Spectre exploits. However, it remains unknown how easy these vulnerabilities are to exploit in the real world, so the danger may be limited to directed attacks.

> Both AMD and Intel had been informed about the vulnerabilities in advance, but so far, no microcode updates or OS patches have been released. In fact, the researchers believe that since potential attacks must use mitigations in extremely low-level caches, it will be impossible to fix the weaknesses without severe performance impacts.
I agree entirely, but vendoring breaks composition compile/package time by definition!

If you have compositional packages you bake into one giant executable or something, that's still not vendoring.
We have an easy and better alternative to plastics road but we dont fore tire, so there's that.
Do I understand correctly that Apple is already doing what Google wants to start doing here?
Not to start a flamewar, every time I see a python talk (pycon or else), with fancy tricks like metaclasses.. all I can think is that, well, CLOS would have been perfectly fit for this too.

I know people are tired of the "lisp/smalltalk did it better" but what features of python are not possible (or hard) in CL[OS] ?

ps: how many CL shops are out there ? I'd work near free just to try a CL team once.
Assuming they are relatively pure-blooded Irish, they'd more accurately describe themselves as Celtic. In theory, Anglo-Saxon has a somewhat specific meaning (descended from the Angle and Saxon tribes). In practice, the term is often generically used for descended from northern European white people (as in WASP).
Alternatively, we can work inside the current political constraints on subsidies and try really hard to figure out how to make cutting-edge electronics out of corn.
Agreed. The only time in practice (working on datasets consisting of millions of rows) that Python has been too slow was when I was taking courses in college and their online code thing timed out on some specific graph problems. I rewrote the algo in C# without any fuss
I think the opening of the article is unfortunate. It doesn't relate that strongly, or support the bulk of the article, which is a skim through different Signal (which as you say was a Nazi magazine).

The rest of the article is better, but still kind of surface level I feel. There are two broad strands of thought in the rest of the article: a) Signal critiques of America could be "surprisingly" nuanced and/or still resonating today and b) the tone of signal critiques show a surprising acceptance of some level of greatness of America.

I say surface level, because a) seems kind of obvious. The best propaganda is to selectively choose (and perhaps mildly exaggerate) your opponents true weaknesses/downsides, while emphasizing (or perhaps fully fabricating) your own strengths. Especially when your target is notionally the land of freedom.

For b) that's also not completely surprising. It was simply NOT feasible not acknowledge America's material strength and wealth. You could not have plausible propaganda claiming that America did not have admirable resources or industry.

Fundamentally this boils down to, Nazis were not cartoon caricatures of humans. They were humans like us, spanning the entire spectrum of temperaments, "high browness", education, and tendencies. Even more, they were humans raised in the western tradition - there were Nazis who were ever bit as informed by enlightenment thinking and greek rhetoric as we are here today. And therefore they could choose to write propaganda that would appeal or at least resonate with us to this day.

The final line however is probably the most interesting bit: "What if our enemies know us better than we know ourselves?". This line of thinking invites us to ask all sorts of interesting questions such as:

* What are the means by which we "know ourselves" - who teaches us about ourselves?
* Is our failures to change really a failure of knowledge? Amongst which group of people?
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Generally speaking, Irish people would be of Celtic or Norman (Which I'll still probably get some pushback for saying.) ancestry. Anglo-Saxons settled the rest of the area and ever since there's been some type of issue between the groups. An Irish person describing themselves as Anglo-Saxon is entirely divorced from the roots of where many Irish people are descended, there has always been a lot of trying to erase and assimilate that history and culture.

This is a somewhat tenuous topic too because there's a whole lot of history and bad blood after the times I'm speaking of and there's a different but similar issue currently brewing over there as well.
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The Anglo-Saxons inhabited England, not the rest of the British isles. The term more-or-less corresponds to racially English, or culturally English.

The people in Wales, Scotland and Ireland were the Celts, with some subdivisions (Picts etc).

But it looks like both terms are more loaded in the USA [1], so I don't want to speculate on the intent of the comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons#Legacy
> one way we do nuclear weapon containment is by lying about certain properties of Uranium (and of course mostly lie about lying, and of course, most researchers don't think it's particularly effective.

What is being lied about, and what is its truth?
A virologist, along with an evolutionary biologist, here explain, in depth and for layperson, why that is perhaps exactly what we need to primarily be focusing on - and by targeting the immune system in a rigid way with mRNA - it's allowing more slight variants to escape immune response, that existing mRNA vaccine will still target some of the variants but at a lower efficacy (which seems to match the real world findings as well); virus attenuated vaccines would have avoided this - where if the vaccine included dead virus for the body to respond to: https://youtu.be/BNyAovuUxro

We may be growing the perfect variants to escape and may need to be getting non-mRNA vaccines for years to come, for multiple variants that become too broad difference wise from each other, to allow our innate immune system to develop a spread of variants it will target to stop the efficient development of even more variants.
Canadian diplomats were also affected in the case of Havana. They have good relationships with Cuba, send a good flow of tourists, and have no sanctions in place.
Nice article.

One thing, re “In Python we typically restart everything at each code change“: I sometimes run Python in Emacs with a REPL. I evaluate region to pick up edits. Not bad.

The big win for the Common Lisp REPL is being able to modify data, do restarts, etc. I usually use Common Lisp, but for right now I am heavily using Clojure to write examples for a new Clojure AI book that I am writing. I miss the Common Lisp REPL!
> If you have physical access to a device, you can already tap the memory bus or countless other places

This is complete bullshit.

iOS devices use an SOC so there is no way to ‘tap the memory bus’ without destroying the processor.

iOS decides do in fact resist access even when they are in the hands of an adversary.

Also it seems like you don’t know that the storage on iOS devices is already encrypted.
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Legally is allowing them to return and fining and imprisoning them the same as not allowing them to return?
In terms of LSP, I don’t think there’s anything particularly novel about it. It’s really only better than other similar protocols in the sense that it is gaining in popularity. I.e., the biggest thing that was missing is consensus on a shared protocol.

In terms of the protocol itself, I suspect it’s actually worse than a lot of other ones.
Yeah, I was also curious about it. I was kinda hoping for a service that I can simply replace a youtube link with another one and watch it without sharing my details directly with youtube (a proxy, I guess...). But I guess it's too much to ask.
> The whole point of a dishwasher though, is that you /don't/ need to do that.

Our filter clogs really quickly if we leave too much on the dishes, even with prewash detergent.
You've defined your market, it seems, as enthusiast developers who want Linux. But stock Android (without the Google services) is that already. It's FOSS, it uses the Linux kernel, and it comes with the infrastructure to run mobile apps. Even better, it's compatible with many Android apps (as long as they don't need Google Services).

So what problem would another Linux mobile OS solve?
Along those lines it used to be a very good strategy to bet against popular clubs/players. As fans like to bet on their favorite teams/players there was too much money on that side so the bookies moved the line to balance.

I don't follow sports betting anymore and my guess is that there is enough smart money out there these days to close that market inefficiency but it's an interesting mechanism.
Shameless plug: I previously wrote up a blog post on how to use an unsupervised feature selection analog of PCA to avoid many of the issues you point out here, and an associated python package to carry it out ("linselect", which you can pip install):

https://www.efavdb.com/unsupervised-feature-selection-in-pyt...
I have zero problem with static linking. I've said this multiple times in this thread. Strawman right back at you.
I would love that the state sponsored research into chronic pain. Big pharma has no incentive to find cure, they want to push a suite of addictive pills that ruin lives or they spend money to block medical cannabis. Millions of people suffer with no way out.

Edit: why people downvote the truth? I guess none of you suffered this and I hope you will not, but silencing a voice like that is inhumane.
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Is there any reason why they didn't use a simple hashing algorithm? At first sight it seems to me like they are just trying to invent one, but without actually knowing how.