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I think this sums up the problem with today discussion about this issue in general. First, the whole debate has been reduced to one side only, i.e. people who identify as women. Second, trans activists can not understand that there is a huge number of women who are not comfortable with the fact that anyone can say they identify as a woman and do things like observe them naked.

It's very hard to argue because it's clear both sides have good arguments: you can't debate someone's feelings. One side has a feeling of being vulnerable for abuse, and the other side feels rejected and misunderstood. It's no wonder that the whole discussion gets out of hand and name calling starts, like "they want to eliminate my existence" where the opposite is often true: the people who feel courageous enough to express their opinion on this dangerous point are the ones who deeply care for others and feel they need to speak out on behalf of those who are too afraid. You can be the most popular writer in the world but it's enough you speak up on this issue and you will be dragged through the mud.
and spend energy in making the world anbetter place, where these hypothetical ideations dont matter.

for example only today in learned that 200sqm feed a human while the global mean agricultural land is 2000sqm per human. now what are the remaining 1800sqm used for, today? and back to ethics: why do humans still starve? who benefits from people starving or living in absolute peverty? which priorities do we need, as a species to change that? or what are the dsm.diagnostic criteria for people shrugging absolute pverty or starvation off as "such is the world?" that is an ethical questions to solve, imnsho.
Sometimes I’ll write a unit testing library with a terse syntax/DSL to learn a new language. That pushes me to learn how to bootstrap tests to test the testing framework :) It usually helps me get into some of the more advanced language features. After that, most things I do in the language feel relatively easy by comparison.
In the United States at least, an IRA is a responsible way to set aside some of your income in a way that defers taxation until your retirement years, when presumably, you'll be in a lower tax bracket.

The returns aren't great, but they are better than the 0% you'd get putting them in savings, after you paid tax on them at your current income bracket.

Do NOT try to pick individual stocks, etc.
If the perceived problem is stacking too many gags on each other, how would that help? The joke density would be unchanged.
>that doesn't preclude a licensing board from sanctioning the witness as practicing without a license

Yes, according to the current law, which is not serving the needs of society well. If an engineer has been working for many years for a company which was not required to have a license, this is already a sufficient proof of qualification and licensing board should not be able to sanction anyone in such case. On the contrary, they should offer a way to obtain a post-factum license either as a result of exam or based on audit of previously implemented projects, and the cost of such license should not be prohibitive, only covering the reasonable share of the expenses of the board.

The purpose of licensing for society is to restrict certain activities only to qualified individuals and businesses to reduce risks of unacceptable damage. This restriction does not imply that a license should be obtained in order to do something, only that there must be a proof of qualification and a license is a sufficient proof. When and how this proof is presented, should not matter, as long as it happens. The law must only create a liability for those people, who cannot present a verifiable proof.
Exciting encounters and spine-chilling near misses.
I always go for a simple lisp interpreter. I think this covers a good range of techniques and gives you a pretty good feel for what is/isn't ergonomic in the language.

I don't generally bother with features like macros etc, I just get enough going to define and evaluate functions in a repl. When you keep the scope small like this it doesn't take very long, and it can be broken up into a few fairly well defined evenings - e.g. lex, parse and eval.

One caveat is that if you haven't written a toy interpreter before then it will take you a bit longer. Once you know a little about the common techniques and patterns it's easy though.

edit: grammar
"Every castle boasts magnificent natural vistas" - of other identical faux castles!
This feels like a crass development by a group who had very little experience of what does and doesn't work for people to want to live in a development.
Can't find the source, I think it was a link on HN. What it said was basically "software engineering is programming over time". To me this also means read "reuse is hard". So _one_ application is not engineering, but all useful applications over time would be. =;-)
I taught for a few years, and I met many parents and students. The old adage is right: judge the tree by its fruit. Voucher-funded charter schools don't even have to cherry-pick students to surpass public schools: the biggest factor is that parents have to make a conscious decision to send a child to a charter school over the default public school. The worst-performing students belong to parents who will not put in the effort to choose a school instead of sending their kids to the default public school. There is a direct correlation between the parents' (or more likely parent's or grandmother's) lack of involvement in the child's education on the child's performance in school. The easiest filter to separate the bottom of the population from the average and top is to provide a choice of schools, because the lowest segments simply will not make any choice.
But isn't this just Red Hat with the name changed?
Patents are not only about processes, they can also cover the final product amongst other aspects. The patent in question also does the same [1], as visible via claims 14, 29, 46, 51, whereas the claim 1 is about the "method".

Reading the claim #1 of the said patent, I do not find it "very specific" as you said. It is quite broad within the purposes of making a mosaic image. One way of avoiding infringing claim 1 is to not use a computer for this.

I agree that the Wikipedia page mentions multiple programs doing this for long, however, it has not committed that there has no patent violation and a possibility that the patent holder "has chosen not to bring infringement proceedings" is also cited.

[1] https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/0267124...
> Why doesn't Amazon and friends just make a dist that is not tied to Red Hat?

Because RHEL is a known distro many vendors test for and allow. Having compatibility with it is a huge boon for adoption, since you can just use lots of software. If you do a distro from scratch, you're on your own.
Huh? Ivermectin has been in use for decades and administered in the billions of doses and had only a handful of associated deaths in that time. How to safely dose it is extremely well-known and established.

If you look at any vaccine adverse events reporting system, you do indeed find the 1:200,000 number - as that's indeed where it came from - for all ~70 previous vaccines on the schedule (and adjusted for under-reporting - the raw numbers in the systems are in the 1 in millions in most cases).

The COVID-19 vaccines however, unadjusted, are in the low 1 in 10,000's.

Check any reporting system independent of country/region, you'll find the same massive safety disparity between COVID-19 vaccines and all other vaccines being tracked.

So, basically everything you've said is wrong.
Does anyone know what's going on with text in this article? Almost a collection of clipped statements

"Deductibility is a piece of a bigger quandary stemming from the rise in ransomware attacks, in which cybercriminals scramble computer data and demand payment for unlocking the files. The government

A ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline last month led to gas shortages in parts of the United States. The company, which transports about 45% of fuel consumed on the East Coast,"
But why does companies use slack if “everyone” hates it? For once, I’ve never been to a company which uses it.

There are literally countless options in the IM/groupware field which is not Slack.
Rocky Linux's first release candidate was for 8.3. According to the news section at the Rocky Linux site the RC1 for 8.4 was released on June 4th.
https://kivy.org/#home is the closest I ever got to working with UI in Python and not hating it. But it still appears to be an unsolved problem.
Apple is right, if you login with an iPhone, or iOS the device is upgraded to not use SMS verification anymore.

While the author of the article has found something its not anywhere as serious as they think. The second part of the article with the on device based codes vs sms where 29/30 requests didn't work before was most likely that way before they found the vulnerability.

It is upsetting not to get the $100k but the post comes off a bit as a lash out against that.
Yeah, right. And criminals will give you an invoice with their tax ID.
In my country parents can choose which school they send their kids to.

You get "white schools". Parents always want the best for their children and this predictably leads to full segregation. I am actually surprised how egalitarian and inclusive the US is when it comes to education!
Very cool device. The dean and doctor discussing the document they've been writing in Creole (context tells us it's probably a local dialect) could be uploaded to the device for everyone else that has them to use is a great reflection of how far this device can reach.

Agree with the other comment, not what I thought the device was going to be initially. Not everything needs a buzzword marketing name so it doesn't need to be like Doctr or something like that, but maybe Medic-in-a-Box or something that conveys this is a medical device.
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Maybe, it depends on your opinion of the established safety profile of Ivermectin prior to its attempted maligning. It's a fair comparison to this commenter.
There were some weird ones, but I liked this

Michael Warot made this world a better place when he left, and I will always remember the time we spent together.

"Michael Warot was the person whom, in my opinion, best characterized encouragement"
About 6 months into my first proper gig I was working on some code for emailing people in estate agencies. Typically you've got three channels, Rental, Sales and Commercial there. This was a Java Spring app and I didn't really understand all the annotation magic, and the channel field was nullable as to make it non-null you needed to write a @NotNull annotation above it. To add insult to injury I gave the field the wrong name too, it was agentChannel, not channel.

I then wrote some code like:

if (channel == AgentChannel.sales) {
emailSales()
} else {
emailRentalOrCommercial()
}

So when parsing the JSON, the field name silently failed and all emails got sent to rental or commercial channels.

Sales is obviously the most lucrative channel with the biggest contingent of, shall I say, "pushy" people and so when this was discovered I had quite an upsetting day.
Gas cooker over induction in an off-the-plan new high modern concrete apartment building. Retrofit for high current turns out to be ruinously expensive.

Imperative-dominant programming language. I think I'd be solving different problems if I had learned to think in functional mode.
Amusing name, but if it's not networked in any way, it's not really 'internet', it's just an extract of various sources that's pretty much static in time.
"I'm going to quit this middle class job and go be a teacher, easy money" said literally no one ever including the OP here.

"We just need better teachers" says a group composed of people who are entirely sure the profession is beneath them.
I guess Musk still wanted to find out anyways. His goal isn't merely building cars the simplest way possible. The guy is an educated physicist, he knows how stuff is usually done.
This has been circulating the web for a few years now and what strikes me every time I see it is that something does not add up.

Who would build that many ugly houses with no promise of people moving in? It just doesn't make sense.

I know the story says 300 were "sold" but that still doesn't add upp. If they sold 300 house before they were even finished then it's already a red flag. Who buys a house before it's finished? Before they even know what it's going to look like in the environment where it will be located.

It reeks of fraud to me. Most likely they got grants from the government for each "sale" they made and then built shoddy houses and kept any money they didn't have to spend on proper building materials and workers.

Either that or they're just the dumbest people in the world, with money, and a vision. Because that's what it would take to litter the landscape with those monstrosities. A lot of money, no brains and a vision.
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Can you explain this a bit more? I'm not sure how it contributes to the motivation for the attackers, as the motivation is already pretty high due to the ease of execution.

From my point of view, whether or not there is a legitimate process built around the ransomware attacks, the attackers will simply continue business as usual; there's no fear or penalty for them, the workflow of their process is not disrupted in the slightest (the bitcoin payments can still go through), and I don't really get the impression that the legal background of the victim's country is taken into consideration by the attackers.

(All of the above is why I'm pretty sure that the idea of "make paying the ransom illegal" will have no impact on the number of attacks, as such a policy does nothing to actually impede the workflow of ransomware; all it does is create another decision point for an already damaged group of persons as to whether they commit an illegal act or not to try to save their business)
Weird shouldn't be illegal, in fact, the opposite should happen. The more weirdness can peacefully coexist, the better. Inhumane, on the other hand, absolutely. The fringes of society are under constant abuse, and it's a sad state of affairs, given that much of this abuse is straight-up illegal already, just not enforced as much on the fringes.
I don't think he is saying he didn't pay for it, more like why can't other companies offer similar product with user experience this good?
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Yes, you are crazy wrong. Longterm investment yields 7% against all economic crises over two centuries. Do the sums on your life expectancy, compounding and future risks of state subsidy disappearing.

The only net present value alternative of merit is housing. Owning your own home has huge direct correlation to a healthy old age.
You're missing the point.

The reason for CRT/segregation/intersectionalism in 2021 is to attack the existing power structure and recreate it for the benefit of Marxist leaders.

The "problem" with desegregation and the nuclear/extended family is that Marxists don't get a cut.

You can learn more by reading previous generations of the Red Guard, Red Terror, Maoism and Fascism, which are being copied wholesale from the history books.

Your misunderstanding is caused by not being a good comrade.
I don’t know. My bank offers smartphone accidental damage, theft, liquid damage insurance at about €100/year.

AppleCare+ costs the same per year but requires an additional €230 for the base AppleCare coverage.

If I wanted one I’m sure I could find for less too. Smartphone insurance is not something new or rare.
* remedial and the kids who were really trying would never be sent to remedial because that’s where the true losers were sent (in a different building) where they couldn’t disrupt anyone else’s learning.*

This just isn't true. Do you honestly believe that a kid with a learning disability is simply not trying? I know that was the attitude of the schools of yesteryear - but they were wrong.

There are lots of reasons for remedial classes: Dyslexia, for example. A kid might have anxiety issues that make finishing homework near impossible: ADHD is a real thing that folks struggle with. All of these can be worked through - but back in history, they would be sent away to rot. Lots of them are bright kids, and a fair number of them can be a future surgeon or researcher.
I love things like this, and I have a number of open wifi networks which could use this, but it seems people have gotten in to the habit of thinking that one service should run on one device, and that's all. It'd be nice if people would say what the software requirements are, regardless of the complexity of setup.
Is a radio station obligated to put you on the air and let you say whatever you want? No. And those are publicly owned airwaves. You have a right to free speech. You don't have a right to be heard, nor a right to stand on a billion dollar multinational soapbox. The fact that it's a de facto standard or the biggest megaphone at your disposal has zero bearing on your right to use of it. It's a private platform. Many of us made the decision in 2008 not to create Facebook accounts or to do anything through that company. Your mistake is you thought you understood your role in something, and didn't; thought you had a right to something which turned out to be a very easily revocable privilege. I really hope FB slowly takes their own network apart at the great distress and alarm of every single user who views it as indispensable, specifically so people will be individually and forcefully disabused of the notion that they were part of an actual community. I find it hard to think of anyone I know who relies on Facebook who I wouldn't banhammer from any site I owned.
My suggestions (I have just decided to officially retire, so money things are on my mind):

1. Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I have not personally read it, but it is supposed to be pretty good at explaining the basics. I also vaguely remember some criticism, but can't remember the specifics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad

2. Index funds are good for people like you (you sound like my sister). If you're worried global capitalism will collapse (along with everything else) in the next 30 years <which it actually might> then... well, no one is going to be worrying about money at that point.

3. Investing in stocks takes some effort - you need the emotional intelligence to control your impulses (I am still working on that) as well as some understanding of the economy, economic forces, etc. How pump and dump schemes work is another good topic to understand. People can go down the rabbit hole as far as they want - I am not a "research the financials of a company in detail" person for instance. And options... very gambling-like. I have done ok over the years, but more just because I understand tech and have a decent sense of how companies might thrive -- i.e. invest in what you understand.

4. Relying on state pensions, given the social and economic trends, is a recipe for disaster. Politicians are kicking the can down the road all the time and if the social trends I spoke of become real problems, then pensions will be the least of it. I am certainly not counting on seeing any Social Security or National Insurance (I live in the UK) when I hit 65.

5. From the sound of it, you probably should focus on never getting into debt and building your business / passive income. Then you need only worry about what you are entirely responsible for and not on other people which seems to be a motif in what you're saying. But that means not being an employee which is a lot more secure...

6. If I'd held onto my 10 Bitcoins for longer.... well, if I'd bought some when I heard about when it was $0.01... if I'd sold that NSOL stock in August 2001... You can't be terrified of what might happen (or what didn't) and become paralyzed as a result. Go read the Chinese parable about the farmer who loses everything after gaining everything. Or the Book of Job.

7. And like you say, don't blindly trust other people with your money; the world is getting more corrupt, I fear. So that means YOU HAVE to be responsible for it and figure out how to take calculated risks and what your limits are. Otherwise you will become reliant on that paltry state pension - or you'll have to keep working all the way into your 70s like some people.
Numo::NArray has proven useful to me for working with audio in Ruby, though I haven't tested it with GBs of data in a single array.
A large omnidirectional antenna could be a decent addition?

The RPi inbuilt module doesn't have the much range, assume the other options are the same, antennas are cheap and even better can be homemade quite easily with instructions and raw materials.
I love reading things like these. Is there a word for the mushy feeling I get when people praise something or someone? 'Giddy' is the closest I can think of, but I'm looking for a word used only in this situation.
At least linux AMD64 ABI allows passing (and returning) 128 bit structures by registers, which is perfect for the ptr/len case.
> I think the miniaturization is a gimmick

I suppose you can make it useful by inserting more q-bits into the expansion slots (?)
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P&P (and peg-in-hole) are two popular problem domains for robotics and there's a couple of academic success applying DRL+ Domain Randomization techniques (or any sim2real) to that. There's some daunting limitation to it though; and there are other DL/analytic methods that does it at the same level.
"Korea" =/= "South Korea".
> specialized profession.

Color me skeptical that it's a specialized profession. It does not appear to me that decades of education majors have done any better than those who didn't possess such a degree, or that there are any special skills involved beyond knowing the subject and good interpersonal skills. When I think back to my best teachers, none of them had any special skills. They were just passionate. It doesn't help that when you delve into it, all this 'specialized knowledge' about how to learn turns out to be junk science: cf. 'learning styles' or 'three cueing', which destroyed the ability of millions of kids to actually read. [1]

Let's try a model where yes, we pay teachers more - much more. But instead of hiring "teachers", we hire experts who are passionate about their subject and want others to learn about it. Let's do this from middle school onward.

In elementary school, we can focus on getting kids to read and do basic arithmetic, and otherwise let it basically be daycare. A lot of underperformance at that age goes away if you simply give the kid more time to mature - for some mad reason at least in my school district, kindergarteners are expected to already know their letters and numbers and be able to read a few words.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20790600
It's not the best project for your requirements (seeing the big picture and thinking deeply), but my go-to project for general-purpose languages is to implement a Markdown static site generator with a simple plugin system.

It allows me to test a few things I care about: filesystem operations, templating engine, reflection (or lack of), string parsing, testing, build systems. It also gives me a feel on the ecosystem (e.g. how many good quality Markdown parsers? Do I have to write my own).

Also, because I have a few of them I can make something of a comparison between languages for this particular use case (how long did it took me? how fast does it process the sources?)