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> not for you specifically, but for the average computer user

This is shifting the goalposts. Desktop Linux is perfectly usable for me, not for my wife. I'm interested in a more Linux-like phone for me; I'm not looking to see if it would be better than an iPhone SE for my wife.
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We know color perception is a very distinct phenomena from the actual frequencies (and mixes of frequencies) of photons from which we perceive color.

So it may be that without a lot of examples of violet in everyday life, that not only human languages, but also our internal perception, may not developmentally adapt to strongly perceive violet.

There would then naturally be a strong reinforcement of violet perceptual blindness, until the scientists’ systematic analysis of color forced greater exposure (in variation and number of incidents) to violet into generating significant perception of violet.
> There is a difference between doing blowjobs for a "living" and flipping burgers

No, there really isn't. If one seems less appealing to you, just as it does to me, then that's fine because nobody is forcing us to do that kind of work. If, however, somebody else is completely fine with earning their money that way, why would we care or even tell them they aren't allowed to?
This is exactly what happened in the late XIX century, when first mass media appeared, and did about the same: they'd cherry-pick evidence to support their prior opinions and painted the oposite side as villains.

Dreyfus affair was the highlight of that phoenomenon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair

Unfortunately, same thing is happening with YouTube bloggers right now: I checked economists of 3 different kinds, and all of them would mostly pick the other's argument, exaggerate it to absurdity, then blame the opponent being socialist/social darwinist/nazi/anarchist/etc.

Most of audience enjoys simple confirmation of their views, and accepts whatever is put in its favor: pure theorizing, demagogic questions, anectdotal evidence and cherry-picked data. Many reject any evidence that puts their worldview under stress -- I personally had this moment with friends, who'd just claim "this is not important, X is always Y, and Y > Z."
I think the giveaway for this paragraph comes right at the end: "a kind of substitute religion".

What's more compelling: myths written for another culture in another time/place or ones written for you by your contemporaries addressing current problems with fantastic production values? Feser is right to be concerned: successful religions, like successful companies, must be wary of flashy startups that can outmaneuver them.

Still, a fantastic and insightful article.
At the time at least it was wildly more intuitive than other mp3 players. I'm not a huge apple fan, but sometimes they get stuff right.
Don’t make the shell expand glob patterns. Move that to a library for tools to call.

Advantages:

- things like mv *.jpg foo/ work regardless of the number of files matched, avoiding users having to learn find or xargs (https://serverfault.com/questions/315590/how-to-remove-many-...

- it’s much easier to handle arguments containing spaces and other problematic characters

- you can write tools that handle glob patterns differently for some of their arguments without the user having to escape characters

Not really shell issues, but contributing to the mess

- Be consistent in naming tools and arguments

- provide a usable help system (MPW commando is by far the best way I know for letting users compose shell commands. I don’t understand why it hasn’t been replicated)

- there should be a standard way to send higher-level data than streams of characters over pipes. Tables, in particular, would be very nice to have because they would allow for easier composition of commands. Hypothetical example:

ls foo/ | where filename≈bar.baz | select name,size | max 10

(Powershell is like that, but I would hope there’s a way to do that without going full “send whatever binary data you want: we’ll use reflection to access fields”)
Do you have hard evidence that the "fallible military" would deliberately confuse and frighten a civilian pilot, or that such incidents are common enough to make this a plausible explanation?
Police in the bird could have hit it with a shotgun too
Please don't disappoint McAffee. Release all you have got, you crazy libertarian.
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yes, this is a flaw in some legalization regulations. but only decriminalized lacks any consumer protection. I agree with you about optional registration, as least then consumers would have a choice about assurances of certain aspects.
Yea, but I don't know if MS would go that far. Before that, don't you think they would make it Opensource (highly improbable) but you know a sliver of chance.
Apple does not delete iCloud photos if you don’t connect to it every 180 days, that’s for iCloud device backups only.

The solution to it supposedly being unreliable would be to make it reliable, not invent workarounds. You’d still be unhappy if the service allowed local storage and the cloud service was unreliable.

This is just not the kind of business Apple is in.
> One of them is the desire to be seen as clever. Manifestations of this might include developing abstruse lines of argument, with feigned earnestness, for positions one does not really take seriously and one’s readers are not likely to take seriously either; the use of logical symbolism and other technical apparatus in cases where it is not necessary in order to make one’s point; a predilection for one-upmanship and argumentativeness; and, in general, a tendency to treat intellectual life as a kind of game or mental onanism.

If their blog post isn't self-ironic on purpose, then it is at least accidentally. I would definitely categorize the writing above as an excellent example on how someone might choose to word their opinion or thoughts in a manner that is seen as intellectual. The whole post reeked of this mental intellectual onanism.
Thanks! I wasn't aware of that!
You allow them to grow up, how magnonimous of you.
Make that "Murdering those that threaten authority".

I consider it an "alternative possiblity" that Epstein hung himself.
I’d argue that the larger problem is not that transistors can’t shrink forever, but that we stopped finding ways for additional transistors to usefully increase the speed of processors.

For example, these techniques improve instructions per clock, at the cost of adding transistors:

* pipelining (late 80’s early 90’s) MIPS R3000, Intel 486, Motorola 68040

* superscalarity (early 90’s) Pentium, DEC Alpha 21064, MIPS R8000, Sun SuperSparc, HP PA-7100

* out of order execution (mid 90’s) Intel Pentium Pro and later, DEC Alpha 21264, Sun UltraSparc, HP PA-8000

* SIMD (vector) instructions (mid/late 90’s) Pentium MMX (integer) Pentium III (floating point), DEC Alpha 21264

* multithreading (early 2000’s) Pentium 4, planned chips from DEC and MIPS

We also got improved branch predictors and larger, more-associative caches.

But it feels like most of that progress stopped in the early 2000’s, and the only progress is slapping more cores on a die. I mean, if you can put 8 cores in a consumer level CPU, you have 8 times as many transistor (give or take) as you need to implement a CPU. Nobody seems to be building a higher IPC CPU with 2x transistors, even though they clearly have the transistors to do it.
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I suspect all of the drugs are pretty popular in Russia.
> The core of the belief is that if there is a financial transaction taking place then it is not possible for the worker to give meaningful consent so all Johns are rapists.

I mean, it's a very narrow view, but I can kind of see where it's coming from. Of course, the obvious implication is that working for money now becomes "slavery" by the same reasoning.

I think the problem is the assumption that prostitution would only ever happen as a last resort to stay financially afloat, and nobody would ever just choose it as their preferred way of earning an income; which time has shown, actually does happen, and more often than many might think.
Yeah, physical keyboard is going to be a lot of fun https://xnux.eu/log/#041
I have hit L6 after 7 years of steep upward trajectory. I have been hired with a PhD and four years of part-time industry experience. I got it now because two years ago our org got a new leader with a mindset very similar to mine, while at the same time a solution I've been developing for a couple years was just found by a tens-of-billions-usd problem.

Sure, over the 7 years I've met a couple engineers with a similar trajectory and one with a steeper one. But the vast majority will either take more time to get to L6, or plain decide to stay forever at 4 or 5.
I referenced to the same theory above. It seems to have died out, again. The idea had a long winter and then came back. Maybe history is repeating.
Agreed! That's why I said probably. I am also gaming a bit on Linux, but I know the vast majority of people still stick with Winddows for that.
I remember learning about locality sensitive hashing in school a decade ago, but since then I’ve never seen it used in an ML system in industry. Does anyone actually use this technique at scale? If you have, I’d love to hear about your application and experience with it.
>if you blow the estimate because your customer didn't get you access to the systems you needed to work on until 3 weeks after the kickoff, they eat the overage.

This right here, I once waited 3 months for a company to get their stuff together for me to work on it. I had other projects going on, but you should be paid for waiting time as well, because you won't be taking on as much other work if you expect to get a huge project any time now.
This is well-reasoned statistical thinking with an obvious basis in sound research methodology and does not deserve to be grayed out.
Probably we are looking at the neurological effects of functional smell loss. On average, this will result in a loss of cell mass in olfactory processing regions. There is no reason to believe this is permanent or something to be alarmed about. The brain is plastic, and it changes in response to use. Not being able to smell well will result in a reduction of resources put towards smell processing. Getting and recovering from covid is depressing (loss of smell is horrible and used to induce depression in mice), and that might explain the general brain-wide trend that's the cause of the breathless headlines.

Probably the olfactory loss continues to some degree for a long time. There may be some nerve damage even if the cells that are targeted by the virus aren't nerves. These then will take a long time to heal. Smells and memories of them seem fixed, but at least in mice, appear to be a flexible entity, with successive exposure to a particular smell causing different patterns of brain activity at every new exposure (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/the-brai...) "representational drift" is the key word. This particular system is highly regenerative. It can be damaged easily, and it can recover easily. Not to say that anyone should have to get COVID19.
like the doctors don't have incentive to prescribe drugs...
I audibly went "GAH!" when that scrolled into view. Impressive work.
I agree, there is a huge difference what one should expect from a early OS project and what one should be able to expect from billion dollar companies.

But it seems that without external pressure (regulatory?), it's not getting fixed at either end.
In my experience ... they have learned to activate that charm when among other people/in the spotlight.

Being on their own, they have their dark moments, too.
That thought can really be generalised; the problem I tend to have with feminism is how it conveniently forgets to address the male side of many problems until it's specifically pointed out, only to be acknowledged briefly and then put on a shelf again.
He once offered me 3 BTC to get a tattoo of his face. Genuinely the most interesting person I followed on twitter.
People used to break into systems because they were smart and curious, now we've got these fucking cockroaches holding people ransom.
Adult percentages are too blunt an instrument. With young adults and children this is a big issue.

In the school where I teach, sex, gender, and most importantly gender identity come sharply into focus during puberty and I have several students taking a time-limited therapy course to help them with gender id questions. That puts us into the 5% to 10% range, though that is of course purely anecdotal and from a tiny sample size.

Puberty hasn’t suddenly become more complex and access to these ideas and therapies may be driving gender-identity as a fashionable topic amongst the kids. But from what I’ve seen it’s a genuine need with most of them who ask for it.

Puberty is fascinating: it is a time of identity turmoil for every human being and while in the majority of cases that means going down a difficult but pre-determined path, for many others it throws up a huge number of questions about how to match their genetic/hormonal programming and the way they think, with the society in which they live. Intersex itself is a spectrum, for example.
I must be a bit out of the loop, what’s the usecase to run a database inside Docker?

What is the general trend for Dockerizing everything based upon? Are we not already largely running in virtualized hypervisor instances on our clouds and do folks actually run multiple contained apps on one cloud instance? Not referring to using ones cloud providers scalable Kubernetes systems, of course, as I see where Docker comes in to play in that case.
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To add: this conjecture seems ready made for a classic reenactment experiment. Sally, requisition the color filter head baskets from cold storage! Fred, please fetch the latest batch of prepped language and vision isolated babies!

Or an animal analogue will do.
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Which is exactly what I would do when I had signed strict NDAs...
> But sure, it's less polished than Windows or IOS.

Just FYI: You can make Debian look just like MacOS, and it literally feels just like MacOS too! :-)

How my Desktop looks (Ubuntu 18.04): https://ibb.co/pJxT0Ng

Here is a guide on how to do this (which I used): https://medium.com/@shahriarazizaakash/make-your-linux-ubunt...

Anyways, I have to use Windows as I have a print-related disability. Windows has better support than MacOS and Linux for the certain type of print-related disability that I have. I also rely on screenreaders, and Ubuntu just does not work as nicely. So, I do a QEMU/KVM Windows 10 GPU passthrough, for using a screenreader, and it has no noticeable lag whatsoever. This likewise works quite seamlessly. It's basically like running Ubuntu and Windows together in harmony, but with Ubuntu as the base OS. A good guide (that also shows the thought process with setup) is here: https://pastebin.com/5tuvWTMH
> My answer is to use tools that handle this correctly on the output side (a good db library, an ORM, an HTML template library with auto-escaping, and so on).

Came here to say exactly this! Unless you're building raw SQL queries out of the strings, or you're using them in element.innerHtml, then you should not have to worry about it. Django ORM / Django templates / React / Vue /... will correctly escape stuff for you.
I'd say the standard in civil suits is the lowest ethically possible in judging people. It merely requires the claim to be more likely to be true that not. Below that, you're saying the claim is most likely false based on the evidence, but for reasons of extreme caution you will presume it is true. I certainly agree that happens in social media where the outcome of letting a "guilty" person get away with something is judged to be more unacceptable than the outcome of destroying an innocent person.
> But, I guess that an important difference between USA and Europe is the stress of commuting. European cities are more compact and with way better public transport, so, maybe in the USA is justified the extra effort just to not have to spend hours in a car to get to the office.

Not everybody hates driving, for some - like myself - public transportation is much more stressful. In any case, if measured by time taken, USA has much shorted commute than Europe, definitely not "hours in a car":

"The average commuting time in most European countries is 38 minutes, as opposed to 25 minutes in the United States."

https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter8/urban-trans...
It's widely used in recommenders based on embeddings. See:

https://github.com/spotify/annoy

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
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The site uses both Spotify and Apple Music’s standard oauth flows. You aren’t providing your credentials to the site directly and the site requests access to a very limited set of your data. So, no people shouldn’t be concerned.
I guess that "there's nothing new under the sun". I used to get annoyed by instances like this where it feels close enough to be essentially a rebrand but now I view it as a posistive thing. If there's someone out there that never really understood YAGNI but ODD clicks then that's great.
> hired a small private army

That one is the most verifiable. He in fact seemed to be proud of that fact.
It’s top-down versus bottom-up. YAGNI is about individual decisions. This is about mindset. Naming it Opinion-Driven Design is a bit cringey and clouds the actual intent though. But a call for more opinionated software is a good thing IMO.
" I will patiently explain to you the lessons you missed as a child in basic human decency. "

Do it, go ahead. Just do not avoid the topic anymore by acting as if it were unspeakable.
Nice article. Thanks for sharing. Most of it applies to other fields as well.
There needs to be a list of news related to Bitcoin fraud.

I mean just to document and warn new comers.

It seems we already forgot about mtgow.
It's used in the cybersecurity world for fuzzy file comparison. See https://github.com/trendmicro/tlsh
I've got to imagine that comment as leading to a honeypot; what I heard "prove you're a good hacker by downloading video from my site".

This is the web nerd equivalent of sitting next to a petrol-head at the traffic lights revving your engine.
I just went an measured, about 18g of finely ground coffee fit into my 'double' espresso shot... However I could easily power through 5 of those a day.

I further fell from grace when I started packing as much as possible into a massive percolator for rocket fuel by the filled cup.

But you are right, 3 shots is probably not that much caffeine. It's somewhat hard to get good numbers on it.
Academic example but I'm sure it's made it's way to this industry as well: in bioinformatics, this has proven tremendously useful for approximate string matching to do things like identify microbes in sequenced microbiome samples - cf https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...
My rails experience has mainly been dabbling with some admiration from afar, but I've liked that the criticism levied against it at times is that it's a framework for building basecamp. That's why it's good! It's been built with a purpose and it turns out that purpose is close enough to others (like building shopify) that it's useful for lots of companies.

I'd much rather use a tool like that than one that shallowly appealed to every hypothetical user.
Omg. 0.08 basis points is indeed in the article.

I checked it 2 times and always parsed it as 8bp... And not 0,08bp.

I feel embarrassed now. Nice job :p
I'd encourage you to look into Cognitive Load Theory[0].

A key finding is that people are not creative generally but are instead creative relative to their skills.

e.g. if you are not a skilled programmer your programming is very unlikely to be creative except insofar as it relates to a non-programming skill that you have acquired.

This suggests that most creative solutions will come from people who learn many things. You'd expect people with high IQ and conscientiousness (implies being organized and driven) to be the most creative group. This lines up with the best evidence I've found, and anecdotally matched my experiences as an educator and continues to as a software developer.

I think this may also explain your own experiences. The model predicts that a smart person who learns a lot less about a topic than their less smart peer would be less creative thinking the topic.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Explorations-Instructional-...
Getting a 404 'Site not Found' page.
Late to the party. It was not a surplus of men vs women. It was a surplus of men vs jobs. It's just capitalism's credit cycle ending. It doesn't have to end that way but that's just what happened back them.
If SARS-COV2 has the ability to evolve really quickly, we have little chance to defeat it with vaccines and natural immunity. Cross fingers for lab-made virus.
A mainly meat-based keto diet is only made possible by privilege and resource exhaustion. There is no way such a diet were sustainable for all humans on earth. Now, if we switched to insect flour, maybe that would work. Still, AFAIK, switching to a mostly plant based diet is the biggest contribution one can make towards a smaller environmental impact.

When it comes to evidence, water fasting for multiple days improves insulin resistance and lipid profile, and lowering blood pressure. There are probably even more benefits (through autophagy, though that can be a mixed bag because some viruses seem to hijack that). Some of this also applies to intermittent fasting.
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They don’t enforce a clean look and feel. There are endless ugly apps with bizarre UI and UX.
This is completely ignoring the fact that for a long time, purple/violet dyes were really rare and expensive. "Royal purple" was called that because only royalty could afford it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple
China will not attempt to invade Taiwan (at least not now).

But the threat of invasion will be continued to played up in US politics in order to support increased military spending and aggressive industrial policies towards US allies (in particular Taiwan but also South Korea).
I disagree. People can be themselves and still be professional. If your experience doesn’t match this, maybe you’re just bad at hiring people.
We have universal health care in Austria, and many people are still obese (less than in the US, ok), get cancer etc.
From antirez the guy who wrote redis's blog:

'The Redis security model is: “it’s totally insecure to let untrusted clients access the system, please protect it from the outside world yourself”.' -- http://antirez.com/news/96

That blog post also helpfully shows how to write you own key into .ssh/authorized_keys to you can log in as the redis user over ssh. From there use your favourite lunar priv escalation bug to p0wn the box completely. (Or just run your cryptominer as the redis user...)

Note: that's about 5 years old now...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Schiff

Not only did he die in prison, but he was banned from selling his books.
hackers start with a target and try to find a vulnerability. script kiddies start with a vulnerability and try to find sites vulnerable to it. it's not about the skill involved in making the exploit, it's about the effort around that.

the case you mention is more of a hacker feat because that exploit had to be crafted specifically for facebook. meanwhile in this case it was most probably someone who just continuously scans the IPv4 address space for open mongo instances and applies the same generic "exploit" against them if it finds some in a fully automatized process
Portland, Maine is a well-known city. Something like Portland, Connecticut would bave been better.