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> very overpriced textbooks

Not just way overpriced, the few Pearson books I happen to own are of an alarmingly low quality. The pages of a phone book look and feel like premium paper compared to my copy of Blitzer's College Algebra.
Seen today in a "Trending Moment" [1] pushed by Twitter on the Explore tab. The posts shared the same hashtag but didn't otherwise seem to be curated.

This search query brings up a handful of examples [2]:

site:https://twitter.com/i/events/ intext:"by an algorithm"

[1] https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-moments

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter...
I'm reminded of/intrigued by Star Trek episodes.

How much of our attitude towards end-of-life is "learned" and result of "we have always done it like that"?

It's easy to imagine a planet/culture where people chose to go voluntarily and on their own terms and then everybody celebrates around that.

I do think it's a high burden on younger generations to pay "up-keep" for older generations, especially when technological advancements are pushing out/eliminating natural reasons for dying. How do you justify that especially if one can't contribute much to society anymore and maybe didn't raise kids on your own?
The fact that it can be done in a poor country is all the more reason that it's a scandal that it is not being done in a rich country.

These poor countries don't have any special techniques or mystical cultural powers. For example, the fact that south Korea has adequate flood defences and the UK does not is not because Korean culture lends them a racial character uniquely cognizant of water management passed down from their ancestors over generations of rice cultivation or whatever... There is absolutely no reason the UK is unable to "throw money" at constructing flood defences (altering planning policy, etc.) if they were to so chose.

The idea is not to "escape the hellhole" but to transform it in to "not a hellhole", through the direct, rational application of readily available, and completely straight-forward policy mechanisms.

But maybe it's too difficult to use political policy as a tool to achieve desired outcomes and we should blame the victims, turning it in to a nebulous cultural or moral failing and then wait around for the culture to just spontaneously change itself, eh :)
> “Burning out all of the glucose and dopamine in your brain” isn’t a thing.

This sort of narrative-based grandstanding is something the author is previously known for.

His "lol oops I hacked too much" doesn't hold up to scrutiny, otherwise this would be an extremely common thing in overworked knowledge workers. It's not.
Funny that you should mention that. It looks like there is an emerging interest to go after the money outlets: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/task-force-seeks-to-disr...
> Probably, the founders believed that the toxicity of the internal culture had reached a point

There are precisely one set of actors behaving toxically in this whole fiasco, and it's the founders.

> I'd be really surprised if this surprised the executive team. This seems to be a super intentional and very professionally executed cultural shift / purge.

Hahaha, what? In which universe are you inhabiting? No piece of evidence supports this theory. All the evidence clearly points at this being a hasty and unplanned reaction to a hasty and unplanned emotional outburst at an employee by a founder.
The outrage crowd is not the leaving basecampers but all the people spitting acid on the company online.

1) They were heavily incentivized for leaving. If you even considered a carreer move, the 6 month severance is your call to action.

2) I don't know that them leaving is so bad. They disagree, they leave (with generous compensation), not a huge issue in my book. Everybody is being treated fairly here, it seems. But for some reason, people have to insist that basecamp is evil, while to me it looks like they're going above and beyond the call of duty to treat their employees right.
Isn't that Von Neumann architecture vs. Harvard?
I want a UX which is mostly unified (outliers will happen, but should be few), clean and crisp, and easy on the eyes. This is of course subjective, and I've never found an equal on Linux, and Windows has never measured up for me, including Windows 10. Font rendering has always looked oddly antialiased and mostly washed out on Linux. It's never felt as refined as MacOS' UX. But again, that's my personal take.
How much do you think the people who have been working there for 5 or 10+ years are making per month?

And they can literally land in the company they want to work at in a week.
This seems simpler to me:

First, an observation: For a given question X, if you ask a god

G(X) = "Would you say 'da' if I asked you X?"

then, if the god is T or F, 'da' means X is true. (For an R, we can't say anything with certainty.)

Then, the remarkable thing is, if you pose Q1 = G("Is C the R?")@A, then 'da' (case 1d) means we could have TFR, FTR (if A is not R), or RTF, RFT (if A is R). Remarkably now, we know with certainty that B is not R! So, we can ask B something: Q2 = G("Is A the R?")@B. If 'da' (case 1d2d), then we have RTF or RFT, if 'ja' (case 1d2j), we have TFR or FTR.

Finally, note that DY = "Does 'da' mean yes?" yields 'da' from a T, but 'ja' from an F. So, in case 1d2d, ask Q3 = DY@C, and if 'da' (case 1d2d3d) we have RFT, if 'ja' (case 1d2d3j) we have RTF, while in case 1d2j, ask Q3 = DY@A, and if 'da' (case 1d2j3d), we have TFR, while 'ja' (case 1d2j3j) gives FTR.

Case 1j goes parallel, I think.

Some notes:

We have 12 possible scenarios (6 = 3x2x1 permutations of TFR, and 2 possible assignments of "da" and "ja" to yes and no), but only 8 (2^3 = 3 draws from {da, ja}) possible outcomes of the questions. That means that we cannot deduce both 1. who is who and 2. whether da means yes or no simultaneously! (And we don't figure out 2., with the above technique.)

Also, I am not sure whether this puzzle is solvable by asking a question to god A, B, and C in succession. (My technique above might involve skipping C (if he's the R) and asking either A or B two questions); and the solution in the article also.)
Cloud vendors probably use a hypervisor that schedules the VM time slices in a way that hyperthread siblings are only ever cooccupied by the same guest.
This is helpful!

What I always found odd: For many years, mobile users had @2x displays and desktop users @1x. If you just decorate an article that as roughly a width of 800px, a crisp article image was bigger in file size for mobile users (@2x) vs. desktop users.

So assuming that mobile users had lower bandwidth, you could simply serve the same picture for both users.

Many articles on image optimization seem to assume that desktop = bigger dimensions.
> removing their platform to talk about internal politics.

And they are not entitled for it. They were encourage to do it elsewhere on their own dime and time, not the company's. Do these employees not know what are they hired for exactly?
I didn’t say you’d just rewrite it in Rust and that’s it, just that the use of safe languages would be one thing that would help. We really do need to get away from C with its endless footguns.

Apps absolutely do not run with least privilege on any current popular OS. If I install an app on Windows, Linux, or Mac it can see tons of my data out of the box. In some cases it can see the whole system except for specifically locked directories and files. Then there’s the huge pile of local exploits afforded by unsafe languages and cruft.

Perfection may not be possible but if OS app isolation were as good as popular browser JS environments that would go a long, long way toward making it safer to run stuff locally.
I wonder if the source will be released of his games? That will ensure his work and legacy live on.
It makes me think of “How Doctors Die”:

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/03/how-doctors-die/
Depends on how lossy the compression is. Your watermark becomes compression artefacts instead.
Do you have any sort of citation for this? I’m not trying to be snarky, I’d really like to read more.

My understanding of the med lit is that bipolar and epilepsy aren’t particularly associated, and pure BD in particular is a rarity - when epileptic patients were assessed for BD symptoms, they were mostly only found in the confusional states pre- and post-seizure, which isn’t BD at all.

At least in my hospital, the most common way we get BD patients hospitalized is either during a severe depressive episode, or when their mania results in violence or law-breaking. We do sometimes have patients land on our floor whose first presentation was seizure, but that’s after they’re assessed by neuro and found that it was pseudoseizure (factitious seizure).
> ... everything white people do to help ...

Achieving success is a very complicated dance, where success is partly given and partly taken. Part of the problem is active malice where some parts of mainstream Australia, but another part of it is a passive malice where the people who are willing to help have cripplingly low expectations and just don't differentiate between people who are and aren't willing to help themselves.

A thriving Aboriginal community isn't something that should be "achieved" by white people via their policies. The Aboriginals need to do most of the grunt work on that front.
Even freedom of speech became associated with "right wing" political views..
I would love to hear how you changed how stressed you feel.
They won’t get sued if they follow the DMCA process which is very different from what they are doing.
So far my experience is that I feel much less "screwed over" by the macbooks I've had than about basically any other computer I've had (minus System76, which has been good but scratches a different itch).
No human being wants to die technically. You want release from a bad situation. People who commit suicide are trying to free themselves not from living, but from some kind of suffering. They imagine it will give them rest. It won't. This points to a fundamental principle, that we will the preservation of our own being. No one wants nonexistence. We are constitutionally unable to will that, to will nothing. In order to do what appears to be that, we must first confuse being with nonbeing and construe this nothingness as something. But here we must distinguish between permission and active willing. I do not will my death, but take a permissive stance toward it under such and such circumstances.

So, you have the obligation not to shorten your life per se or to harm yourself intentionally, but you can under certain circumstances licitly permit your death.

In this case, we must distinguish between ordinary care (supplying the needs of the body, etc, as much as possible) and extraordinary care (administering medical treatments) and the nature of the illness. Examples (simplified because I'm not writing a book here):

x. If your illness is treatable and curable, but refusing treatment will lead to death, then you are obligated to receive treatment to the degree that such treatment does not compete with equal or superior concerns. Can you afford treatment? Could it deprive you of the means to live anyhow? These considerations would make treatment an option, but not an obligation.

x. If your cancer is terminal (i.e., it is incurable), and you are able to absorb nutrients, you are obligated to take in nutrition, but not to receive treatment.

x. If you are unable to receive nutrition (or the offering of nutrition causes harm), then you are not obligated to receive nutrition.

x. If treatment causes disproportionate harm in relation to the disease, then treatment is not an obligation.
Is that with an M1 MacBook?
I would argue that this is a situation where the (presumed) greater expense of a biodegradable sachet would not be worth it. When it comes to providing safe drinking water, I would want the cost to be as low as possible.
Simplicity Jets (verifiable high-performance blockchain smart contracts)
Me too! I haven't even heard of Basecamp before, but now it has made it's way onto my whitelist of "sane companies worth working for." I really hope they survive this debacle and keep making good products.
TBH i wouldn't change that experience for anything.

During my early 20s, like you, i was working at a startup and had super high workload. Definitely burned out a few times but the motivation was high and i enjoyed every minute of it.

It pushed me beyond my limits and i learned so much in a very short time period.

Now, i'm closer to my 30s i don't think i could do this again. But with time comes wisdom and instead of high energy/high workload i choose to work smart/not hard.
Kind of, but there's only one archived version (the current one) and it's not consistently available for all pages. You can use cache:<URL> as a search query to get the cached page as it was received at crawl time. Or click the little arrow next to search results for the cache link.
"someone higher up will notice it" is not always true

no consequences for malicious or invalid DMCA is ridiculous (1$ penalty, paid to targeted individual/company for each invalid DMCA would be a good start)
> Because that was the condition on which the states joined the union

That's true for maybe the first 13 colonies. The subsequent states were largely formed by settlers from the first 13 and they just wanted their land to be a state in their country. For them, the constitution was kind of a take-it-or-leave-it deal.
> How much of our attitude towards end-of-life is "learned" and result of "we have always done it like that"?

Just because people generally operate according to convention doesn't mean there isn't a sound basis for the convention.
So long as they respond to actual DMCA reports, no. ContentID goes far, far beyond what is required by the DMCA to have safe harbor.
Not an expert, but I've been learning a lil about this lately. Royalties for performances of someone else's song are paid to the writers of the words and the music. The melody and words can be copyrighted, not the chords or style. So you can use the chords of an existing song and give it new melody and words, and it is your own song. Style has nothing to do it.

I love this quote from the classic The Manual: How To Have A Number 1 The Easy Way by KLF:

...the copyright laws that have grown over the past one hundred years have all been developed by whites of European descent and these laws state that fifty per cent of the copyright of any song should be for the lyrics, the other fifty per cent for the top line (sung) melody; groove doesn’t even get a look in. If the copyright laws had been in the hands of blacks of African descent, at least eighty per cent would have gone to the creators of the groove, the remainder split between the lyrics and the melody. If perchance you are reading this and you are both black and a lawyer, make a name for yourself. Right the wrongs.
In this situation here google is not willing to check if an automatism failed. I do not think that problem applies to selfhostetd content. But who knows, its a world where everything is possible....
Clojure(script) with re-frame and figwheel, nothing else comes even close
(Tantacrul Here)

It's true that there often exists a clash between designers and those who champion accessibility standards. IMO, this is normally because the designer in question hasn't enough experience working on software. Speaking for myself? I designed the accessibility features in Paint 3D while at Microsoft. I was in charge of accessibility of another Microsoft Studio that worked on Hololens software.

For MuseScore 4 (currently in development), I have made sure that every bit of UI passes web accessibility contrast standards and I have designed a new 'High Contrast Mode' which is being implemented right now. In addition, myself and another member of the UKAAF (Peter Jonas) have designed a far better focus state / keyboard navigation system into MS4 than MS3 had. This will enable much better screen reader support and will also help with ongoing efforts to introduce Braille support too.

I'm not one of those designers. But I do sympathise with the concern. I see it all the time!
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> There should be some sort of modest cost somewhere to stop this nonsense.

Playing the Devil's Advocate here:

But wouldn't that in turn incentivise actual copyright infringement on account of it potentially being cheaper to mass publish copyrighted material as opposed to request it being taken down?
Its also from the facts that almost every "redesign" or presentation for one, is often full regression in use ability terms.

It does help when software users that happen to have good UI chops suggest redesign because then it often improves things, as I've seen happen with KDE and Budgie, at least. But pulling in UX "designers" who have no skin in the game and letting them play around is how you get ridiculous unusable crap like Google Pay, Apple Music, Windows 8, whatever Google is calling their Android UI now, and more.
One of the comments by a MuseScore developer in that thread is much more nuanced: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issu...

Essentially it boils down to this: if you see value to society in allowing people to share musical scores with each other, that's fundamentally at odds with a libre software philosophy. Because if you let people share music on a platform, they will inevitably share copyrighted melodies, which means not only that you are forced to monetize to be able to strike licensing arrangements, or else be sued into oblivion. And you are also required to enforce that the sharing software be used as intended in order to placate rightsholders, or else be sued into oblivion. And it's that "as intended" that is fundamentally different from how many of us think about FOSS.

There's a lot of corporate speak in the official post here related to the emplacement of score downloads behind the paywall in the first place https://musescore.com/groups/improving-musescore-com/discuss... but it's the same sentiment: if MuseScore.com doesn't put in place paywalls for downloads and enforce them, they will lose their ability to negotiate with major music publishers, and they see that outcome being a net loss to society of access to digital scores.

Frankly, I think this is a reasonable tradeoff. MuseScore sees monetization and adherence to these restrictions as a necessary step to ensure they have the resources and community to promote music literacy. That's a distinct mission from, say, GNU's mission, and just as valid. And of all the corporations using GPL for visions distinct from GNU's vision (here's looking at you, AWS), this one at least has a reason beyond being a naked cash grab.
I don't see how "average users don't do high-security tasks" somehow helps the argument that "high-security tasks are rarely high-intensity tasks".
From TFA:

> That confusion is compounded by the fact that, for a small company, Basecamp has taken an outsized number of political stances — all of which employees are encouraged to discuss. Most prominently, the company and its founders have been vocal critics of Apple’s 30 percent tax on in-app purchases.

The author seems to be using a weird definition of "political". That's a business decision by Apple, which isn't a political party.
India considers using private version of Ethereum or Hedrea for digital Rupee
Urgent Tezos Blockchain Developer Job Deadline 1 week 05/07/21
https://youtu.be/-ThyLB6bakk is the referenced "Wicca moonlight" performed by Alice violet molland
I guess you could hope that it fails, or you could hope that it succeeds as described in the whitepaper.

The long term goal is getting Chia so decentralized that buying HDDs to plot chia will be unprofitable
Articles on product internationalization sometimes mention that sloppily translated Western ads tend to do poorly in the Far East—when on the ad pictures a man first grimaces with pain, then takes a pill, then smiles with a contented expression. From left to right.
If the white noise is based on a random number generator, the pattern would restart after a full cycle.

If the random number generator's period is 2^32 and you use one integer per sample, then at 44 kHz, you would have about a million seconds, or twelve days, before the RNG has gone through a full period.

Most RNGs have periods much higher than this. xorshift128 has a period of 2^128-1 and the Mersenne Twister's period is 2^19937-1.

So you could push it out until practically forever.
Is it time for a sci-hub like event to replace github? It would be better for the repository of nearly all modern public programming creativity be something more like Wikipedia, and less like LinkedIn.
Yes, I confirm that. The game will operate on 2 levels: audio tweak and software processing on 8bit era data.

The main appeal about 8bit era is that the data quantity is low, and this allows some nice bit level gameplay mechanics.

This works nicely on 13-byte (104 bits) headers, but it won't work on gigabyte(8623489024 bits) files.
It hasn't stopped me to joke about it:
http://caffeinewithdrawalgames.com/games.html#TRS185Tb
I explicitly stated I was talking about WASM being used in traditionally native process contexts - like in a serverless/microservices architecture. The first obvious step of someone offering that is to just import libc so existing code can migrate to it.

You seem to be continually focusing exclusively on the current existing extremely limited WASM-in-a-browser usage.

WASM's current limitations aren't intentional, it's because it's not finished & wasn't necessary for the MVP. In fact, it already has some of the things you are claiming it doesn't have - both threads & shared memory are available already in Chrome & Firefox's stable releases ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/master/proposals... & https://webassembly.org/roadmap/ ). Which means it also has accurate timers.

WASM very intentionally allows the host to expose whatever feature set it wants. That's a very core design element. You can't just ignore that and focus on the ~nothing that the "spec" itself delivers & pretend that's by-design. WASM isn't a standalone runtime and isn't trying to be.
Isn't it possible to create a crypto currency where mining it computes something useful? Like larger and larger prime numbers or digits of pi or protein folding or something like that.
DMCA replaces the scary letters. YouTube only responsibility is to collect claims and counterclaims. Common YouTubers can just accept the claim and mute content. Youtuber wanting a fight or that know the other party would never risk their frivolous challenge to go to court with the threat of perjury hanging on their head have a right to counterclaim and put the ball in the other party field.

YouTube instead decide to act as jury and will allow claimant to counter the counterclaim, and here lies the crux of the issue.

YouTube isn't protecting poor youtubers anymore than what DMCA already allows; YouTube is instead actively removing youtuber right to challenge the claim, putting all the power in the claimant, far above what DMCA mandates or requires.

And that decision to act as jury and judge and final unappealable authority in the claim process lies squarely on YouTube shoulders.
> Also, the fact that programming languages have any sort of remainder operator might not come up in a typical web dev coding bootcamp or a self-taught programmer's education.

That may be true, but as a web dev, I use the modulo quite frequently. Just yesterday I used it to implement some code where the client wanted to insert ads after every sixth paragraph in a page body, but not if there would be two paragraphs or less left on the page after the last ad. I can't imagine what kind of goofy hackneyed solution I would have ended up with if I didn't know about `%`.

Before CSS had :even and :odd pseudoselectors, we also commonly used it to zebra stripe tables.

Web dev isn't typically as math-y as, say, game dev, but I'd encourage anyone getting into it to at least learn the modulo beyond basic algebra stuff.