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Yup. Indeed. A group I'm part of had a fatality in a canoe race back in 1991 because of exactly this. It happened in a channelized stretch of river where the dam stretched wall to wall.

The vertical eddy is called a "keeper" around here. The way to escape? Swim to the bottom of the river. Totally counterintuitive and hard in a panic situation.

His death led to some legislation here in Massachusetts about inspecting, marking, and, where feasible, removing these "roll dams."

It also led to race judges making sure racers do the portage and don't try to shoot the dam to save a few minutes.
And yet, here's you doing it to him - discounting the argument based on his physical appearance. A truly brilliant way of disproving your own point.
Reagan often used humour in the form of jokes that were clearly laid out in a very traditional way: joke set-up, unexpected twist

His humour took a very defined and clever format. However, he’s absolutely not the recent politician to use humour. While Trump’s humour is less clearly defined than Reagan’s, he still uses it to great effect. The same for Boris Johnson, or Putin, and Obama too.

Especially Trump though. Trump plays his rallies like a stand-up gig
Thats the point though isn't it, they dont sell it anymore.

So any gains in lifespan are reaped by the company, not consumer
It's a nice sentiment... for running a military. Or managing a company with very high turnover. I don't think it maps well to software development.

The soldiers on the front lines spent years being trained to obey orders first, ask questions later. This is necessary because they're risking their lives, and explaining to each and every one of your grunts why it's important they do the thing that's likely to kill them, does not scale. You won't achieve your policy goals if your soldiers each decide the war isn't worth fighting, the orders aren't worth risking lives for.

Software developers spend years training (or self-training) to use their brains to solve complex problems, which involves continuous learning, constantly making "tactical" decisions, and quickly gaining understanding of the big picture. It's a shame to first filter people by how good they're at complex technical work, and then make them stop using these skills, for the sake of shortening onboarding time.
> If that opening sentence tries too hard, or holds no special friction, the book slips from its holder’s hands – back onto the table, or the shelf, ready to be replaced with a magazine, or a snack, or a screaming child.

I’d love to know a first line amazing enough that one would ignore their own child?
> ...like your GP comment is suggesting

Really? What I literally wrote is "neural networks have extremely limited applicability".

> I'm not suggesting neural networks are a panacea.

That's good. Because ML practitioners are, even if they phrase it differently. (The idea is that since neural networks can fit curves then any problem can be solved by a neural network given enough layers and feature engineering grease.)
The opposite, surely.

If there's no market for old hardware, there's no benefit to making new products which hold their value.
I have not had any experience with these trees, but I will try to read and make sense of this paper, thanks! There is C++ implementation here is someone else is interested: https://github.com/rahulyesantharao/b-epsilon-tree
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True, but if the code is that subtle then you still need to write it as simply as possible, otherwise even your ever-so-clever senior programmers will struggle to understand it fully.

And unfortunately, only a tiny percentage of code in even a really interesting project will be anywhere near this tricky.
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In practice, most wallets and transactions are handled off-chain by the cartel of exchange platforms.

#Bitcoin is more centralized than the banking system

Sadly the Lightning Network will not help : it does not scale either.
It's not called a monopoly. A monopoly is a single provider of a particular service or product allowing the supplier to abuse their position.

These farmers do not have to buy John Deere. If they don't like being tied in, they shouldn't have bought the equipment in the first place and chosen a rival then one of two things happen 1) John Deere realise they have been caught with their pants down and change their policy to win customers back 2) Farmers realise there is a new normal where the equipment is simply too complicated to allow them to tinker with it (or at least without losing any manufacturers guarantee).
> Maybe people shouldn't start software projects if there isn't a "can leave it here unmaintained" milestone within sight.

It's because these projects have tons of dependencies and moving parts which tend to break themselves (often for very little reasons) so of course it's going to affect upstream.

The software you listed are usually mostly self-contained or rely on stable projects.

There is no such thing as "stability" in the Node.js ecosystem (which isn't javascript itself).
One surprisingly practical use I found for things like this; when internal tools throw up a 404 or a 503 with the usual default status page, people assume "oh it's not working, I'll try again later".

When they get an unexpected cat (or dog, in this case) they tend to go and ask their tech team, "what's with the cat?" It's not a substitute for good logging and alerting in any way, and is totally unsuitable for environments where internal tools need to appear professional and sensible, but as a way to get people to pay attention when something goes wrong then a cute animal can work a lot better than a "normal" notification.
GPT has no body. It's not a matter of computing power.

In every case where we estimate the meaning of words we do so in reference to prior concepts learnt by being in the world.

We don't acquire language by watching videos; we watch videos when we have acquired language.

> about it can't do to be falsified within a few years

Such claims have been made since the 1940s, minskey said self-driving cars were a summer project.

AI systems have never acquired what i'm talking about. Ever.
One concern I also never see discussed is that for any type of electro-mechanical system, allowing the customer to change anything or maintain anything is a actually a big liability issue.

Let's be clear, it is pretty obvious that the whole tractor-as-a-service paradigm is extremely profitable. However allowing access to diagnostics/config/firmware for anything that controls heavy machinery can be a huge liability.

You are a misconfiguration away from a work accident with injury or death.
In the year 2121, the Toyota Hilux will still be the go-to choice for aspiring warlords. The difference is that they may have competition from Americans who want a repairable vehicle.
Please stop the misinformation: Open source authors do own their IP, but are altruistic enough to license it to others.

In the long term, altruism only works if there aren't too many leeches. Up to 2010, OSS authors at least got recognition, could stay aloof and in general weren't little corporate bitches.

Now, this has changed, so there is no longer any point of writing OSS for free. The corporations have won their long term game, using the freedom propaganda until they owned most of it.
> The criticism only applies to users who reused their passwords on other sites, because Edward can still attack those other sites.

Of course, but that's a weakness that concerns the user, not the platform.

It is not a flaw of Facebook's security model.
Allowing people to help also takes time...there's a non-trivial management effort involved...one that's too frequently forgotten about in these discussions.
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It has a proper RFC and everything [1].

All the April Fools RFCs are worth a read imho [2]. RFC2100 (The Naming of Hosts) and RFC8135 (Complex Addressing in IPv6) are real gems.

1: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for...
This kind of anti-consumer lock in seems to be the natural course of things when more and more stuff runs software which the buyer has no control over. I don't think we can fight this with consumer decisions only, it is just too profitable to shakedown consumers like this.
I have no problem with this person who probably had legitimate issues with Google but "You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise recognised by journalists, governments, scientists, civic organisations such as the electronic frontiers foundation etc) is acknowledged or valued in this company" is a pretty clear and cut accusation of bigotry to me.

How exactly would you fail to acknowledge somebody's humanity thanks to "naivete"? I'm making the presumably safe assumption that she is not a sentient piece of lint.
I have also done this to help manage AdWords exclusions.

In the end I just extended mysql to have a Levenshtein function my Perl POC was a bit slow :-)
Reason for submitting this: it explains the lab-leak theory better than most stories submitted before (that I’ve seen), as well as tracing / explaining the timeline of the research.

It also includes other pieces of the puzzle that I haven’t come across before (including details of coronavirus research performed by WIV, and the extent of China’s blocking of the research), and all together significantly increases my posterior probability of the lab-leak hypothesis.

Note: it might still be biased (based mainly on the account of one of the amateur researchers that followed the theory).
"Things" is a pretty abstract term here. I think Paul is more guiding you to consider your values rather than your identity when considering a topic. I don't think he is proclaiming that you should eliminate values or some sort of subjective ethics.
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I was taught electronics in the 70s by a elderly professor who was very familiar with tubes from his earlier life. He sometimes called parts of transistors by analogous names for tubes (or "valves", which I think would have been his name for them).

Everyone adored that man, and not just for his brilliance. He was immensely patient and kind. I think he loved teaching Physics as much as he loved Physics. He did a lot of mathematical things differently than the younger professors, and it was more intuitive, somehow. All these years later, I remember several pleasant conversations with Dr Crawford, and the impact they had on my life.
If John Deere were being honest they wouldn't sell tractors, but lease them with the cost of repair built into the yearly fee. If "parts and repairs are up to six times more profitable than selling the equipment itself" eventually they will ruin their brand and people will purchase other brands.
Fixing would mean hacking in this case.
Disturbing?
In addition you may be effectively refused such repairs, or charged so much that it is better to buy a new product.

If the only entity who can repair the kit is the one who sells new kit too, this is even worse than a standard monopoly argument. At least a normal monopoly has an incentive to serve you at the end of the day.
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We should absolutely act now to ensure their right, including their free speech rights both now and into the future. I do not see how handing veto power over free speech rights to gatekeepers advances that agenda.

Even if doing so might advance that agenda in the short term, and I don't think that's the case to any great degree, all it takes is a shift in who the gatekeepers are for this to go very wrong.

Just look at how many countries outlaw all kinds of speech on the basis of this or that religious group being offended by it. Who gets to represent marginalised groups and say what they are offended by? How many or what proportion of them need to be offended for it to count? It's a quagmire.
I don't say for this project but if you own a popular open-source project which is used by many companies it does make sense to think off it as your main business sometimes. I mean not just donate to me or follow me on patreon business, an actual business business.

I think once you start making a lot of money from your project and can do it full-time it may help to bring some enthusiasm back (if it doesn't, well you can always leave the project too).

For example, take Laravel. The guy created Spark and Forge and it was an instant hit for those who love his software. I think fontawesome, tailwind, sidekiq, browserless are more such successful examples.

Some means of montesing OSS projects I've seen include:

- Approach big companies to sponsors your project. Often times big and funded companies will love a spot on your readme for a monthly subscription (but they need a little nudge).

- Offer a hosted version (like browserless)

- Offer specialized subscription courses (like Vue Mastery)

- Offer premium features (like Sidekiq)

- Use it to drive traffic to your own commercial business (like jwt.io is for auth0)
It’s a monopoly on fixing JD gear, a narrower term than an outright farming hardware monopoly but still.
The issue is really about freedom. If you don't care that a company can decide whether or not you may farm, then rent their equipment. If you do care, then you want 100% control of that equipment. Or as close to 100% as you can get.

It's sort of comparable to writing software in C (an ISO standard with many open source compilers) to run on your commodity x86 hardware versus writing an iOS Apple Store app. In one case, you have almost complete control of the HW and SW, in the other, you have no control and can be prevented from doing so at any moment for any reason.
Do drives in this type of stationary assembly (i.e. a server rack or a stationary PC) ever trigger their vibration protection? Barring of course during a bit of bumping in the server rack. I mean, these drives are not sitting in laptops. I have a hard time thinking the lack of this feature bears any weight on the huge failure rates Backblaze and discrete customers saw, though I'd accept the argument if there was a 2.5" laptop model of that drive seeing the same failure rate.
> We could call them pre-rational, rational, and meta-rational. These stages are distinctive, internally consistent, relatively-well-functioning modes for organizing one’s thinking, one’s self, and one’s relationships. They might be described as “islands of psychological stability.” To progress from one island to the next, you must cross a heaving sea of psychological confusion, in which the previous mode no longer seems functional, but you cannot yet operate in the next mode reliably. These stage transitions are emotionally and cognitively difficult, and typically take several years, during which one may think, feel, and act inconsistently.

I might be an outlier, but that doesn't resonate with me at all?

I'm pretty sure I've been at something that looked like those stages at multiple points in my life, but AFAICT I've never had any "oh god, everything I thought I knew is a lie, reality is subjective, I need to reinvent logic from the ground up" phase.

More like, I've had different philosophies in life, and when I've been confronted with bits of these philosophies being wrong (usually by arguing on the internet) or with other people with similar beliefs to mine being wrong (usually by arguing on the internet), I just... changed my mind?

There's doesn't need to be anything mind-shattering about any of this. You can systematize the way you think without reinventing thinking from first principles.
Thank you for explicitly pointing it out.

I disagree with you - I think you are using a different definition and there seems indeed to be discussion about what the definition really is. Wikipedia for examples uses the definition that I use, but in the Talk-section someone made a similar complaint to yours (or was that you :)). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency]

I stick to my definition though, because... I find it more useful and I think it is the more common one.
Or it could have also been due to the whole having access to orders of magnitude more mechanical power on tap, assembly line production allowing for rapid prototyping, and industrialisation of agriculture leading to a population boom.
It's not 1930s Germany, throwing a firebomb at the cop car out of hysteria is not justified.
>The current politician who had a mastery of humor was Ronald Regan (formerly Bozo the clown).

I don't believe Reagan was ever Bozo, perhaps you are thinking of his starring role in Bedtime For Bonzo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_for_Bonzo in which he also did not play Bonzo.
I think coming to an understanding of what you want out of life in general is a big undertaking in itself, and a lot of people coast along with the defaults presented to them and then wake up at 50 and despair that the options are now closed to them once they start thinking about it.

I’d suggest a good therapist to try to understand what you really want out of this one life - I am in the same boat right now, thinking about what I want to do next whether in work or in life. I tend to prioritize lifestyles over specific work/career related goals, but I often get sucked into spending all my energy at work. This gets me paid, and well, but I tend also to burn out after a time when I don’t feel like I can focus on other things.

I for one hope there’s something out there that really calls to me more than programming jobs, but if not or I can’t find it then hopefully I’ll be able to find a life I find worth living regardless.
Eh, so far.
How about..a salary based on the ressources you need/want to survive...so that those who work less (indirectly contributing more to society by sharing their job, childcare, volunteering or just being mentally healthy enough to think of the"next big thing" and directly by ecologically diminishing consumption) get paid more ...? Tax the higher earners and subsidise the "work less" ...then suddenly wages and automation go up as businesses have to compete for a diminishing work pool...

I personally have moved out of the 1st world to avoid the work plague, I help my kids grow up and dig a beautiful garden...my conscience cringes at the "work ethic" which I perceive as government propaganda to help milk peoples time and keep them politically silent... the easiest solution to global warming is to work less, we saw it with covid (at least a whispering) but maybe politicians are avoiding doing anything realistic because...power corrupts...
What's really required is to build a community large enough that the 0.1% of people who can run it are big enough to have a group in charge, set up a foundation etc etc. It's just like going from a monarchy to a democracy, hard, takes ages, fails a lot.

That won't work for most small projects though, so orgs like https://sfconservancy.org/ exist.

Not sure what other options like SFC exist, and the differences between them though.

At a minimum you'd want them to be in charge, and fire the current lead developer if they go rogue.
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I think he's suggesting that you not identify with your values. Instead of identifying with your values "I am an honest person, I am forthright in my dealings with people", you could try to identify with "I am someone who strives to act in accordance with my values." This is generally more inclusive - it broadens the scope of people who are in that identity, and makes it a bit easier to identify with other people who are acting out different values sets.

Personally, I don't spend a lot of time on identity, I just cultivate a practice of doing the best I can in the circumstances I'm in, as constrained by my limited knowledge and limited capacity. "Best" here is wildly subjective, of course, but that's kind of the point: I'm the arbiter of if I did the best I could in the circumstances, or if I was being self deceptive, or intolerably lazy or selfish or whatever.

That's not to say you couldn't tease out a value set that I'm acting out - I favor being kind and honest in most circumstances, but on rare occasions targeted, constrained cruelty is a useful and moral tool. Identifying with a particular thing gets in the way of the sort of contextual, thoughtful morality that enables thoughtful action.
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كل ما هو جديد وحصري الان من خلال متجرنا المتخصص فى تفدم العديد من الخصومات التى تصل الى 30% الان من خلال كود خصم الذي يوفر كل ما هو جديد ايضا
The pattern is familiar:

* open source project

* success

* no monetary reward, maybe just cost

* burnout

* project abandoned

This is why I don't try to make any open source projects - what's the gain?

I'd only do it if it paid money. If people aren't willing to pay then I'm not willing to work.
Yes, those would also be a very bad choice for a large project. But at least they have the advantage of being very lightweight so can be a good fit for adding simple crud features to a microservice, especially ML services that already need to use python for other reasons.

Django is the worst of both worlds. Not suited for small services, and not able to scale with large ones.

To your "load of crap" point, web development looked very different >10 years ago, Django was a lot better fit for that era. There is _zero_ reason to use it today.
Merging Unladen Swallow into CPython (2010)
In which case would attacker be able to compromise your password but not the 2FA code? Eavesdropping on an unencrypted channel would be one, but given how ubiquitous https is, it's hardly a concern.

Most likely there would be a breach on the site's database, where all password hashes, and the TOTP seeds are stored. In that case, having 2FA or not doesn't make any difference.

2FA is usually useful if the user is not confidence of the integrity of his login device, e.g. public library computer. If you are perfectly confident of your own device, there isn't really any point of having 2FA.
I had one of those in my Amiga. I remember friends telling dull stories about those drives, but mine ran for 8-12 hours a day, every day, for years. It is a bit flaky today, but it still spins up.
When a company rents out equipment, the longer the equipment is usable, the more rent can be earned on it. So there is an incentive to have durable products when the income is on a subscription basis.
Trauma informed therapies can be really helpful though psychedelics look to be the most promising short term therapeutics, if they truly pan out. Things like EMDR and IFS can manage to really hit at the core of those intangibles beasts, and start to untangle the web.
People also want control over the information collected from their farming equipment and sent to headquarters. The machines collect information about exactly how much of which crops are planted and then at the end of the year it knows exactly the yield as it is being harvested. Knowing yields before anyone else is very valuable.
EROI for solar is between 9 and 35, depending on the details of how much sun it receives.

EROI for wind turbines is on the order of 20 to 30.

So, no. You're wrong about that.
No, those life essentials are not required _before_ getting the right to freedom-of-speech. Indeed, freedom of speech may be essential to discussing how to arrange a society to enable the procurement of those things. Holding off freedom of speech until "basic needs" are met is, to me, a way to guarantee that a tyrant in a poor country stays in power.

Ultimately, those life necessities must be provided by oneself or by someone else, or some combination. Freedom of speech can allow for the best ways of providing these things to be selected. The alternative is that only the prevailing view is considered or approved, often leading to much worse provision of these necessities, including starvation (feudal systems, communism, warlords, etc.).