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Nazism is a genocidal ideology; it's fundamentally evil.

The individual reasons for a specific person to ascribe to such an ideology are complex and worthy of study, and if the quoted statement had been 'any individual member of a fascist ideology is fundamentally evil', then sure - let's pull in the nuance.

But that's not the case here - we aren't talking about individuals, or general social movements, or something else that requires such consideration. We're talking about a very specific ideology.

Nazism - the ideology itself - is not a redeemable thing; it's an ideology inextricably tied to a laundry list of horrific acts.

It's absolutely fine to declare it evil.
> Although there are strong caveats

I guess one also has to look at the sort of crimes and duration of the sentences.

Also somebody who got a death penalty won't come back ...
Some interesting culture differences in there.

For example, one of the reasons that soccer/football is popular worldwide is because it's very cheap. Is it not so in the US?

Also the assumption that everyone takes painkillers?
AussieWog, bonus points for humility:

This thread is about Eurorack products, and you happen to sell a pretty sweet looking low-cost oscilloscope

https://espotek.com/

which you don't mention, because it is irrelevant to your super-helpful advice.
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I think so. Although I had a C64, I cut my teeth on programming the Atari ST in assembler. The 68k is so much nicer to program than the 6502. The graphics and sound capabilities of the x16 is more in line with a turbo charged Atari ST or Amiga 500. That would be my dream retro station. Still I'll buy a x16 if it ever materializes, could be fun to play with some raster effects and sprites again.
Damn. Most firefighters here in Australia are volunteers around a kernel of professional. Something like 20,000 professionals to 150,000 volunteers.
Under questions you’re unprepared for, years ago at a Wall Street job a couple of weeks after a re-org my new boss calls me into his office and asks me what sort of bonus I was expecting. Caught completely off guard I quoted him the real number I had been expecting.

He smiled and said great, which let me know I had absolutely left money in the table. A trusted colleague then told me if that situation ever came up again, take your real, reasonable expectation, double it and add 20. The situation has never come up again.
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> beings that have the same perception of time as us, or the ability to communicate in a "language", is just a human-centric idea

Well, we do see this behaviour in other animals, and not just humans, or mammals even.

I realise that's not broadening the net much - we share a common ancestor with everything that could be considered "living" on this planet, so ultimately it's all "human-centric" to an extent.

But if there are forms of life that are wildly different, to the point we can't communicate with them or even understand that they're "alive" in any meaningful sense, then that's kinda out of scope ;) The definition of "alien intelligence" only includes things that we would be able to recognise as an alien intelligence. Otherwise we're just talking to the trees, and they're dull conversationalists.
harder to negotiate a good deal for yourself when you are operating at an information disadvantage (e.g. not having friends/family/former classmates as peers in industry to give insider advice), if you don't have good alternative to employer lowball offer, or you are in poorer negotiating position due to having fewer resources (cash, time, higher expenses due to not having enough cash & stability to secure cheaper long term accommodation, etc).
I've seen that before. If you read the Koran, you'll understand why.
I ate the free "cheetos" (unfortunately, they were actually peatos), the free breakfast, used the occasional paracetamol tablet, got too drunk at parties and ate half the canapés, said hi to the cleaners, couldn't work out why everyone was so into snowboarding, failed horribly at networking, had an android, lived in the needles and shootings part of the Tenderloin, was just over the obese BMI when I left, and have never had my teeth whitened.

I think those things are markers of the upper or upper-middle classes in the US, and if you're not from the US or from any other class, you don't have them. I haven't had to worry about bounced paychecks for a decade. My parents, solidly middle class, could have handled emergencies like a missed paycheck by dipping into their savings.
"Alexa, drop-in to Kenya" works amazingly well.
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Your environment and mood affects self-control. Stress is a huge factor and poverty typically increases levels of stress.
In college, we had the gym "where you goto show off." Gold's Gym was for the rest.
There's an opportunity cost and a time cost (and an attention cost) to making food properly and eating right.

Opportunity: if your area cannot give you produce (raw materials to cook with) that's pretty direct. Time: I'm fortunate enough that I can blow at least an hour a day just cutting up meat for stir-fry or preparing my omelet and oatmeal, and a lot of this is really time-optimized but it's still way more than the microwave-box lifestyle. That hour (at least, and distributed among all my meals for the day) is also an attention sink that I can't skip, even though I make the same stuff over and over. If I couldn't do that, I'd have to not only be getting different foodstuffs, but also figuring out different recipes every time I got bored.

You can let corporate America do that stuff for you and just pick different enticing boxes of microwaveable stuff, but you will get bombed with combinations of sugar and salt because competing in the supermarket aisle is serious business and those who fail are lost. They'd be putting fentanyl in the Hot Pockets if they dared. Anything to make the sale, it's that or perish.

Then, that's what you eat, if you're poor and can't spend hours doing it yourself and doing it right. And if you're poor enough… the selection at Cumberland Farms is going to be strictly kept to whatever the other poor people in your neighborhood are addicted to, because that's what will sell.
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I realize that this comment makes me sound ungrateful - I'm not! But just something I wanted to mention lol.
This might be a learned defence mechanism against a general feeling of wearines with the state of the world. You might work a (relatively) well-paying job at a megacorp, but often you're confronted with colleagues that get promotions through what seems like bullshit projects, you see how useless your directors or even execs seem to be and how much cash they pocket, and you're forced to do some sham work yourself, maybe because whoever is leading your team wants to advance their career. So your everyday work experience is crap, and you have no agency over anything, and you feel miserable.

Then you see the cleaning staff, and you're confronted with their reality, the fact that they have to do work that is both harder and potentially more useful than what you're doing but they don't get any of the benefits, and they get paid a fraction of what you do, and that just makes you feel even worse, like this entire system is somehow fundamentally broken, which makes you want to trow your ergonomic chair out of the unopenable glass window of your open space.

So it's easier to just look away.
There are some really easy ways to protect yourself. Most of these ideas are generally good for periods of high inflation. REAL hyperinflation is so disruptive that nothing is really safe.

I-bonds for small-time investors in the US. They have some nice tax benefits for holders. TIPS for big-time investors.

Global stock index funds. That saves you the trouble of buying and holding foreign currency and they pay dividends while you wait for the inflation apocalypse. Even domestic stocks have a good chance of coming out ahead.

Others have mentioned gold and silver. Those can be bought like stocks with GLD and SLV. Likewise you can buy real estate investment trusts if you aren't in a position to buy actual real estate. Those usually pay nice dividends.

If you're really worried about real hyperinflation, you should go find the best deal on bulk-purchases of every non-perishable thing you intend to use for the next year. You might be surprised at the investment return you get on buying a 5-year's supply of wine or t-shirts.
As someone from a poorer (not poor, we live in the UK and nobody is poor here) background, I can relate to some of this. But a lot of it is way off the mark. As I read further it sounded more and more like a woe is me piece.

> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because nobody else ate the Hot Cheetos that were stocked in our free snack kitchen
> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I couldn’t restrain myself from eating and drinking myself into an absolute sickness anytime they threw a party and expressed no limits on our consumption

That's not being poor. That's being fat.

> Payday was marked in all caps on my calendar, every biweekly occurrence, forever.

That's not being poor. That's being bad with money.

> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I wouldn’t dream of Ubering in.

That's not being poor. That's being good with money.

> I gave back the Macbook. I kept the headphones.

That's not being poor. That's being a thief.

Overall I think coming from a poorer background is great for happiness. My girlfriend is from a similar background. We really enjoy small things that other people would take for granted. We've surpassed the quality of life we had growing up easily, so everything else is a bonus. If I were to write an article like this, it would be because I felt sorry for the "not poor" people, not to make people feel sorry for me.
I think this really depends.

If you are at a company with highly automated style checking, strong developer education resources, and a culture of using sanitizers all the time - you can let people learn C++ on the job.

But if you are just writing code with code review from other team members as your only option? Oof. C++ is a barrel of knives. Incredibly safe looking code can actually be filled with horrible horrible nightmare bugs.
It seems like you are advocating, for a bright but not exceptional child, that they do get pushed to the point where they burn out, just in case they manage to win the lottery of appearing to be in the exceptional group. Even if this dubious plan succeeds, sooner or later it will become clear that they are not as good as their results.
Manners? I don't say hi to the cleaning staff for the same reason I don't say hi to most people I see in the office: I don't know them. If I did, then I would say hi.

Do others greet every single person they see in the building?
ha. this article describes me.
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In 21-ish years on OPN/Freenode it was one constant in rapidly changing tech landscape. Sad to see it go this way, and much thanks to the staff for taking it thus far.
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Also a scrum adaptor? So everyone works as they want to based on common sense, but the software reports that in a scrummy way to the higher ups.
Great story. Thank you for sharing.
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Thanks. I think that's a good idea -- I'll do it.
> poor in the US

That's it. There's a huge difference between US and many other countries

It also compounds with the social/cultural context of a living in a city full of very wealthy people.
I definitely agree that being mean to the staff (be it cleaning lady, waiter, etc) is a very bad sign of someone's character.

That said, if I were cleaning an office building I don't think I would want everyone chatting me up - just kindly get out of my way when I'm trying to clean something but otherwise I don't see it as rude to not engage with me when I'm doing my job.
Here in germany we don't turn prisoners into slaves. We give them opportunities to learn a job to resocialize after their time. Yes, there is work for prisoners, and yes it pays way less than it should, but again, it's part of the reso program.
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> The informal consensus of network full (non-mining) nodes enforce that.

It does that now, but there is no guarantee that this consensus holds. Maybe it's quite likely that it holds, but nothing guarantees it.

> Full nodes are economic actors, such as people who sell goods and services, who fully verify the chain. They simply refuse accept inflated Bitcoin.

They can refuse to accept inflated Bitcoin, but somebody has to mine new blocks. If the vast majority of miners decide to do something, the remaining miners will have trouble mining new blocks and the entire system is heavily disrupted.

As you say, they are economic actors, so when faced with the decision of having a severe service disruption and giving in to miner demands, the choice may well be the latter. After all, why would they prefer to use a "original Bitcoin" that only has 1% of the hash rate? Because it has the original brand?

It's ironic that even modest monetary inflation is considered bad by so many Bitcoin proponents when that inflation is what pays for the Bitcoin network. Perhaps some day, transaction costs will make up for it, but that is not a given.

> A Bitcoin full (non-mining) node only takes 5GB storage space and 128MB RAM to run.

It's completely irrelevant how many non-mining nodes there are. The only thing that matters is who runs them (exchanges, merchants, actual users).
Victim blaming is THE classic tactic used to ignore the very real situational plights of many, if not most, Americans.
You're absolutely right. People are not reacting the way you had hoped. They are reacting by questioning the assertions in the article in ways that don't engage with the author's fundamental humanity. They are treating it like an alien artifact reflecting on a far-off culture.

What if readers came in, reacted with warmth and kindness and empathy and compassion, and engaged with the article in a way that validated the author's experiences while perhaps gently questioning the article's conclusions? Would that be cold?

Or would the abject failure to reflect when confronted with key truths from the life of a real person make you sick to your stomach?
Could that tbeoretically be replaced with a conditional move to recoup?
Apple may be the best example, but to me iOS7 remains a huge shift to shocking mediocrity they're still recovering from.

They're good, but they used to be better. Alas.
Because no-one in life has ever given you _actual_ assistance.
I have a kind of similar story when I started studying in the late 2000s years. There was a company that had a specialized and really expensive measurement device. But the vendor went out of service. They changed part of their system but kept the measurement device only to find out it could not talk to the new system because the file system of the data was proprietary to the measurement device.

I got a student job at that company and one of my first tasks (and that of several students before me) was to open measurement results on the device and type them into excel spreadsheets. I did this for an hour or so until I became totally bored so I started to tinker around. The measurement device had it's own PC that booted Windows (I think it was 95 or 98) and autostarted their software in full screen/some sort of . This was easy to bypass via the task manager and running explorer.exe. I found out that the proprietary file format was simplay an MS Access file with a different extension. I tried to open it, but the file was password protected.
At this time I had little to none experience with programming or anything else that was "low level" computer stuff, but I occasionally stumbled about writeups about hacks and exploits and skimmed over them. So I was pretty sure that there had to be a hardcoded password somewhere. I started to open every file I could in a text editor with no luck. Then I got a hex editor and opened the binaries and finally, in a dll there was a password.
The next few days at this job I spent teaching myself enough Python to read the Access files and write the contents into an Excel file.

This worked and I used the free time to study/eat/sleep while getting paid for it but then one of my supervisors found out that I wasn't doing anything but still got results and wondered how I did it. He immediately put me onto another problem they had, thus starting my career as a software engineer.
Last I checked, Google Nest did not have a "Drop-in" feature like Echo where my parents can just drop-into the living room of the other house (no calling or ringing).

The Echo device just makes a sound that someone is dropping-in and gives a 10 seconds heads-up (of course this only works if you enable the permission for family members. Else it's turned off by default).
My first job was at a local computer shop. I literally got out the phone book and called them all in order. The one that finally hired me was called ZAM.
> there is no feedback loop at all.

Smell the spices before you try them out, use small amounts then taste the food while it's cooking. This works for almost anything that isn't baked. Google to find out what spices intensify through cooking (Fenugreek, Cayenne Pepper, etc.)

Also check out The Food Lab's book for information on what different things do, so you can construct a mental model of it.
Handling exceptions in Python like a pro
Yubikeys seem to have multiple modes and have trouble switching between them. For instance in GPG mode, It's very difficult to switch back to U2F mode without unplugging. I wonder if this is your issue
The people identifying this person's complaints as irrational ("he's not poor anymore") or over the top don't quite get where they're coming from. I know many people who are now well off that still have this mindset or remnants of it. I'm a first generation immigrant, my own parents will spend long amounts of time explaining to me that we are not as wealthy as other people and shouldn't forget it, because they won't. Her favourite restaurants all have three Michelin stars. When it stops being physical, it's completely psychological.
> I've heard stories that at Google, the non-engineering workers at campus may not socialize with engineers at all.

I worked at HQ as an engineer, and didn't notice any such thing.

Most of the time I probably didn't say hi to cleaning staff, for the same reason I wouldn't say hi to most of the people I pass by in the office: because they weren't someone I knew. Of course this might vary depending on context, but I was treating them the same way I treated everyone else, or at least trying to.

Do other people say hi to every single person you see in the building every day?
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> Just need to specify the conditions of what "done" or "delivered" looks like

Since it's "just" so simple, can you better explain what those done/delivered conditions might look like? And preferably how that would also be more secure than Escrow.com?
I think "they" is best understood as an indicator of the author's mindset. When you feel like an outsider, it's very easy to feel that the whole of the group is unified against you.
The bogus file header was causing them to be interpreted as a different kind of file when opened by the viewer-editor (what we might consider an IDE today). The code wasn't encrypted at all and nothing prevented the author from reading it:

> In the editor, I could also clearly see the text of the BASIC source code for all the programs. It was there, not encrypted.
Right, so you correct that for next time? It's an iterative process, and like any skill -- it takes time.
How much of our global technological progress can be attributed to a handful of geniuses who happened to be at the right time and place?

How much more backward would the world be if the likes of Newton and Von Neumann hadn't existed?

I unironically believe that the government should dig up his body, retrieve DNA samples, and clone him. Populate federal labs and agencies with Von Neumann clones. Sell a few to FAAMNG too for good measure. Let uber geniuses run the nation's courts, monetary policy, tax laws, environmental protection programs, and defense planning and acquisition.
This proposal, if implemented, puts Bitcoin on an equal footing with Chia(also capex bottlenecked). It's probably the "next best thing" for an efficient securing function without going towards staking.
Much of the US is volunteer too. It's mostly the big cities that have professionals.
I won't say there's no bias (I'm sure it exists everywhere), but I think it's not an "expensive image" that gets you promoted as much as confidence.

Many people who grew up rich have a natural confidence to them (because they are protected if they lose their job, have been told they'll be someone important one day, given lots of help in life), and that helps a lot in giving a vibe that you'll succeed.

The great thing is that the confidence can be gained even if you didn't grow up in the same circumstances, it just takes more work.
If you are working through a programming textbook and doing the exercises in elixir, LiveBook is great https://github.com/elixir-nx/livebook (vs one big mix project)
“As you are doubtlessly aware, many Indian citizens depend on WhatsApp to communicate in everyday life. It is not just problematic, but also irresponsible, for WhatsApp to leverage this position to impose unfair terms and conditions on Indian users, particularly those that discriminate against Indian users vis-à-vis users in Europe,” MeitY has stated in the letter.
I don't understand why programmers use github for everything, in particularly for lists. This should be a blog. Then you could easily subscribe to it, you could have a discussion for every single idea. And you wouldn't need several lists of ideas. The only thing that would be harder would be to edit ideas. Is this a feature that would make sense for blogging platforms? A combination of blog and wiki? But even without that, suggesting an edit in a comment would work as well as a pull request.
I once had a friendly debate with a database professional. I argued that these days with storage being so cheap, databases should automatically create indexes. E.g.: anything referenced in a view or a foreign key, and also anything that occurs regularly in production. He said he thought that was a bad idea, because a tiny fraction of the time it could cause a performance regression.

Now, years later, Azure SQL Database has automatic indexing and I feel a little bit vindicated. He does have a point that this can go wrong, but compared to what the typical developer does, it basically can't make things worse.
I think the pay difference in Europe is much lower. There’s also a ton of not quite poor, but certainly not rich people.
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They signaled support for it, but when push came to shove, they bailed.

I'm not saying 51% of miners decide what the rules are. Suppose you had a Bitcoin fork that had 80% of the hashrate. How long would that situation need to persist until the major network participants decide to call that fork "Bitcoin"?
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