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> Antislavery sentiment was strong and growing in the 1800s - if you lived in that time, could you imagine someone saying "I feel foolish taking stances on what is and isn't abhorrent"? Slavery is abhorrent - period.

It's tricky to judge people in the past, or to try to get a sense of how one would act if transported to that time. We're not inherently better than the people that came before us; we're still the same species. It's easy to take a stand against slavery today, but not so easy if you can see the Civil War on the horizon and all the ruin it brought. I can't judge people who adopted positions in 1830 I find disgusting today from the comfort of 2021, when I lose nothing from my position and they had everything to lose.

> The same applies to many ideas today. This doesn't mean ethics aren't worth fighting for, that you should sit back and passively watch as society decides for you that slavery-by-different-name or some other horrible idea is OK. You can't strong-arm people into believing something. You're right it leads to "division and hatred". However, mirrored ethical standards on the other hand are required for civilization to work.

I think you're underplaying the effect of "division and hatred" and where it can lead. You can't build a better world by tearing down your current world. I agree that mirrored ethical standards are required for civilization to work, but you have to strike a balance between avoiding stagnation and excessive compromise and maintaining a degree of social harmony. We're currently building a world where the ethical divisions between citizens of the same country are greater than the ethical divisions between nations in previous eras. To think this will end well for anyone is unrealistically optimistic.

> Do you really think everyone in the top ranks of a corporation is a sociopath? That's a bit cynical for my taste.

Yes it's cynical, but that's been my experience so far. I've been fortunate enough to encounter a lot of people that are genuinely _good_ and to call some of them close friends, but I never saw any of their qualities in people that occupy the c-suite. Maybe I'm wrong in my generalization, but I think it's a fairly safe assumption to make given the evidence.

In any case, I suppose I'm no longer "baffled" like in my OP. I'm starting to see the logic behind the attitude of expecting corporations to take ethical positions. Thank you for clarifying things.
Learning new languages is always good, as it teaches us about new ways to approach solving problems.

Now, if you plan to do any kind of systems programming, C and C++ are unavoiable, as that is what the majority of the jobs still expect one to use.
Another solution would be to have apprenticeship as you had them in olden days: You can become an apprentice at one or preferably a few craftsmen (IT companies) for a given number of years. They'd teach you, pay you and in the end evaluate you. You can do that in parallel to following something like the given materials in OSSU.

Germany has apprenticeships as far as I am aware, I don't know enough about it though.

edit: Yes! Having certification and teaching done by one organisation _IS_ a huge conflict of interest. Splitting these up without changing the fundamentals (courses and exams/assignments) woudln't do much to fix this I think as you'd either have clumsy evaluations or organisations that just help each other out in order to gain from a slightly different system.
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If you have passion for that kind of stuff and that is your "thing", yes, of course. But most of the time, we just got rent to pay and there is not enough room for experiments with your life and career. Experiment in college, kids, while you can make mistakes - including sexy mistakes.
Yes, but also it is not uncommon (I think) for companies to allow you to buy extra holiday. So, for example, my company allows you to buy an extra week, which I always do.
Agree, I even started putting off movies at some point because I thought they would be cool to see with the kid so why waste the time now.
If there's some overhead but in return they can work 24/7 without breaks then it's cheaper. Constant output is really valuable.
Speaking as an underlying Robert, I have to agree. It's always better to have one of us around.
A Playstation 5 and an espresso machine I wouldn't consider "material goods" in the classic sense. For PS5 it's kind of obvious why, since it competes with cinemas.

For the espresso machine, it's an "experience machine" if you're a espresso aficionado. If you're getting it to show off and barely use it, it's a "material good".

I'd draw the line like this: if it makes you personally feel good many times, through your interaction with the thing, it's worth buying. If it's just/primarily to show off, then it's a "material good". Unless you have some sort of personality disorder where you feel good by showing your stuff off repeatedly to acquaintances.
Human went to moon with Assembly.
Bad-actors would ignore it wholesale anyway, so this at best gives one a false sense of privacy. It would probably be better _not_ to have it, since people won't be misguided into thinking they're not being tracked.

An actual effective approach to privacy is to use a firewall to block all unwanted connections (allowlist only), and a DNS sinkhole like pi-hole.

IMO we should get more on the more aggressive side when it comes to mitigating tracking, and use tools that actually are a threat to the status quo. Tools like adnauseam[0] was blocked by Google[1] on their store because it actually worked—that says a lot more than a env var string they'll happily ignore.

0. https://adnauseam.io/

1. https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/05/adnauseam_expelled_fr...
Azure Sphere OS was designed to fit in a 4MB of SRAM envelope... while actually using a Linux kernel.

If I remember well, only 512KB is actually usable by OEM applications on that platform.
my biggest issue with this is that i don't believe democracy really works at scale.

wikipedia vs encarta is used as an example of the success of a decentralised network effect in adoption and growth vs the centralised much more limited encarta. i think you could argue that wikipedia is just as centralised as encarta ever was.

i think any decentralised network will eventually skew towards increased centralisation. something we see already in the centralisation of mining and/or network validators.
> a swab from a bat contains very little infectious virus

We know that they were doing gain of function research, but that only works with live viruses. So they must have some method to cultivate the virus. When they can do that small size of the initial sample is no longer relevant.
Sounds like some old pal who misses old "good" American movies with "good" old American jokes. If you're serious about movies, try learning other languages and do not expect to find a good movie to watch every 5 days ...

I agree that American humor isn't the same as 10 years ago, but I am not sure that's a bad thing.
You just build a platform which can move over the xy grid, and which allows humans to sit on top.

It's quite simple to make sure (using e.g. bumpers) that if a robot crashes into the platform then nobody gets hurt.

Of course a towrobot would be better, but it's not really necessary and it also might get stuck.
It has brought to Symbian, BeOS, Apple, Microsoft, ARM, Arduino, IBM, though.
The approach I use is Little Snitch. It's how I discovered most of these telemetry misfeatures in the first place.
It's a good idea but it seems to me the name will hurt adoption.

Phoning home with telemetry data does not by definition imply tracking.

Yet a project implementing DO_NOT_TRACK is essentially saying that without it, it is tracking users. This isn't particularly attractive for a project that already has some OPT_OUT_TELEMETRY option.
I can really recommend Wong Kar-Wai. I may have rewatched some of his movies four or five times.

Chungking Express is such a beautiful movie. You can also take a look there at a bit less developed and less modern Hong Kong.
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Ivy League Study Shows How US Media Created a Climate of Fear over Covid-19
Shock horror, society has moved on in the 40 years since Airplane was made...

How do you even know it wouldn't be allowed? People love to spout this kind of stuff, but... have you even tried?

Edit: A very nice example I've come across is Ricky Gervais stating that the British Office couldn't be made today. I think he's being very disingenuous saying that because while out of context it could appear to have a lot of controversial jokes touching on taboo subjects, within the show it was always clear who the real target of the jokes was (same with Borat). Masterfully done and I believe (from what I've seen in terms of comedy recently) that kind of stuff would still fly at the BBC. There's even a documentary from a couple of decades back about the success of the office and a BBC producer admits even back then they had to reign in a few of the areas Gervais wanted to go in terms of race & disability (it was also mentioned that he is quite obsessed with these topics), so its all bullshit that people like him are shouting about "THESE DAYS...!".

In fact maybe he's right and the Office couldn't be made today. But that's primarily because Gervais isn't funny these days
Why are some places rich and other places poor?
>How many ways can you really tell a compelling story or possibly show an artistic experience?

Is this a joke? Do you actually think american film captures every single possible artistic experience?
Symbian, BeOS, Apple, Microsoft, ARM, Arduino, Google, IBM don't seem to much regretted about their decisions.

And no, it wasn't C++ that killed Symbian or BeOS.
I was overly brief here.

I meant to say "I look to see how they are going to deploy and use the virtualenv they have created."

Hint: what works in development -- just telling people to type "source .venv/bin/activate.sh" or such, doesn't fly in an unattended environment.

All that it requires, of course, is a bin/venv-python wrapper (bash) script to reference the created .venv/ directory, so this is hardly ground-breaking stuff, but as I mentioned originally, this (crucial) section is missed every time.

I use a minimal-but-complete pairing of venv and pip, and a couple of location-independent wrapper scripts, and I can run things the same across all environments.
The penalty being low doesn’t prevent this from being fraudulent. Second, the transaction doesn’t need to be unwound for the funds not to be in the Roth IRA.

The timing of his “investment” is also off, he put the funds in after a seed round. Therefore those shares where worth far more than the annual Roth IRA contribution limit.
So why not formal verification or static analysis tools of an existing codebase (Frama-C)? Or dropping in C derived from a formally verified source (Idris / F-Star)? Or a language with good performance and a verified subset (Ada/Spark)?

I've never read anything to make me think that Rust is a safer alternative than any of these options; the guarantees of the language are just assurances of its advocates.
I use LuLu https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html a free, open source alternative. Was interested in little snitch but this has been working okay
The answer is complicated (I am mentioning it in the midst of plans and possibilities in README: "(maybe?) other MediaWiki-based sites (like Wikvoyage, Wiktionary, etc.)").

In more details:

1. With the current library, you can't (connection to en.wikipedia.org is hardcoded :shrug:)

2. Adding "what MediaWiki instance to connect" is relatively easy (they all have the same API), including Wiktionary

3. For Wiktionary, current (v. 0.0.2) selectors will be useful, but future ones (infobox, wikitable and other high-level Wikipedia-specific stuff) will be not

4. So I might think of some way of specifying "set of selectors relevant for this instance" or something like that.

5. So, in some distance future, Wiktionary definitely would be fully supported; how distant—probably depends on how fast the project will be moving forward, and how it will be (hopefully) used by others

6. But I might add a support for "use this instance of MediaWiki" in the near future, it is easy!
His phone number and IRL identity are not easily available and he hasn’t posted any proof. The guy can’t even code C and only does webdev.

Edit: lmao seething

Learn how to google hack and check his ”cookiengineer” accounts for yourself

If you have to resort to brazen and ignorant reddit-tier downvoting instead of looking for actual evidence and just shouting ”TRUST VICTAMS” you honestly do not deserve the internet.
Yeah, I did think that too, but submitted verbatim per guidelines.

It is true, as in that is what happened, it just needs to be read as an observation (of n=2 as you say) and is perhaps deliberately ambiguous in also being how you might phrase a full study with high success and rate and reproducibility!

I thought it was interesting though.
> Just compare with who was the laughing stock at the original one - feminists, blacks, gays, jews.

If you think the first Borat movie was laughing at any of those groups then you have seriously misunderstood the movie.
It's only a matter of time before the products are packaged to accommodate automatic systems picking orders; at the moment (as the video shows) the robot has to be adjusted specifically for the wide variety of packages.

Anyway I was thinking, why not just have a long row (can go vertical as well) of product dispensers where all orders just go under? I mean they'd pass thousands of dispensing stations, but the output would be really consistent. And there'd be shortcuts here and there. I probably have baggage handling in mind.
It was not for nothing that I realised in time that stock exchanges and quotations were not for me. I could not make any money on the ups and downs of exchange rates. But I managed to make an online betting application with the help of Nuxgame with their engine https://nuxgame.com/products/sport-engine . I was able to set everything up very quickly and even made my first money.
That's not true, and it's not even what the article claims. It says it's not the strictest in the country, which is true. From the article:

> Seven states receive higher grades than Illinois in the latest Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence ratings.

So it's the 8th strictest out of 50, by their standards.
And the most strictest gun laws
You need to attribute. So commercial projects that do not want to attribute are not permitted to use the code.
The profit _can be_ (and is) paid to the shareholders, it's just that the lone shareholder is a non-profit.
Depends on the board. I have an RSS feed of /pol/ which provides me one of the best sources of unfiltered news and social trends available, without having to wade through any of the other shit on there. Plenty of bright autists in there.
When I worked with git I squashed/reordered my feature branch to make it pass tests on every commit before merging it with the master. This is usually not very hard and you can still do small commits. You can even split new tests into a separate commit.

Honestly I don’t really see why would you want to change code that breaks tests without updating them in the same commit. Updates in tests give strong signal to the PR reviewer to see that an API has changed. When fixing bugs it’s also nice to be able to reproduce it with a test case first, then fix it.
I have understood that Swedish housing is a specially bad case, or at least in Finland we like to tell unbelievable horror stories of Swedish housing (Stockholm rent-controlled apartment market where one either waits on queue for years, except if you know the right people; if you are not renting, deal with housing mortgages that are structured so that you will never pay them back in full during your lifetime).

(edit. Main point, Sweden is not necessarily a representative case of "Europe".)
The kind of post you write when you think the web is the world.
RSS is fine for most uses, and is a much better "brand" than Atom.

There never was a valid reason to define a separate format rather than extending RSS to clarify ambiguities - I think its time to drop this bikeshedding and just think of Atom as a slightly different type of RSS.
Wound packing is part of the "Stop the Bleed" training that is increasingly common in the US. It's not a hard skill, and just like tourniquet usage, it is one of the few skills that can actually save someone's life.

https://www.stopthebleed.org/
Actually you could have achieved most of that with Ada, Modula-2, Mesa/Cedar, Object Pascal, but we had to wait for the pendulum to get back.
I've never in my life worked on a professional project I could describe this way. this might be the most common path but it's far from the only one.
That is not the topic being talked about.

Is Google allowed to filter results on any internal criteria they can come up with?
It includes all avenues like political, censorship, fake news, low quality, competitor results etc.
I can’t remember the last time I went to a theater. For me I got tired of rolling the dice and walking out feeling like I got ripped off.
>A license is simply the condition [...]

I don't think reducing it to that actually helps the discussion.

A license/law/policy can't be analyzed via its bare verbatim text. One also has to look at its unintended effects in the real world. Yes, the GPL license has noble intentions but that doesn't mean it's immune from causing actions that indirectly contradict its goal. (Wikipedia article on that phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive)

A license or law can have a stated positive goal or ideal with the text written for that intention and motivation ... but the complexity of the real world may work also against it.

>Carmack does not explain what he wanted out of the license,

To use framework of "perverse incentive" to interpret his tweets..

He wrote: "The GPL virality wound up being a net negative," and followed up with:

>the best aspects of GPL work didn't manifest, but tons of opportunities to just copy-paste-modify were lost due to license concerns. It is possible that some of the source ports wouldn't have been as open, but I'm pretty sure there would have been more total users of the code, likely making the amount shared in the open still greater. I'm still supportive of lots of GPL work, but I don't think the restrictions helped in this particular case.

So in this particular case, he claims that GPL unintentionally caused less openness instead of more. Seems like a textbook example of Perverse Incentive.

Yes, we could get pedantic and say GPL verbatim text mentions "freedom" instead of "openness". True, but many interpret GPL's copyleft reciprocal nature of "I share my code and you share your changes back" as trying to create source code abundance. Carmack is claiming that in his case, GPL's restrictions unintentionally caused less code to be shared.

One can still disagree with Carmack but it's still worth understanding what he's claiming.
Pakistan, not India
Really? I assumed if you are on HN you probably enjoy tech enough that it's not just to pay rent. Maybe I misunderstood your comment.
Oh, I'm sure it's cheaper to operate, otherwise they wouldn't do it. But I am of the opinion that energy and many natural resources are extremely underpriced when one factors in climate change and other externalities like the impact of exported e-waste.
The diagram here should give you a good idea of Safe Agile: https://www.scaledagileframework.com/

I will leave it up to you to form an opinion….
The fact that they’re salaried doesn’t matter. It’s still costing the government x dollars an hour for people to stand around doing nothing when that time could be better spent.

In fact I’d say if you were actually paid by the hour, you’d probably see less of this type of waste.
Personally I like (mainland) Chinese movies and TV. It boggles my mind that I had to get a bootleg copy of the 2010 Three Kingdoms TV series.
Thanks MFA.
> I can't imagine learning Chinese characters without any form of mnemonics.

Username checks out :). Have you learned Chinese? I'm not convinced that my method is the best by a long shot, but I don't use mnemonics. I've tried memorizing other things with tricks like the memory palace, and either I don't know how to do it or my brain is busted, but I've never been able to create a "palace" much less store information I want to remember within it. I recently read about the mnemonic peg system and thought it might be useful if I could use radicals as "pegs." So far I just haven't been able to employ any of these tricks to my advantage.

My memorization routine (about 10 new words per day) is to write down a whole list ~30 words, writing the character and it's pronunciation (I use zhuyin). Sometimes I do this in class while we're going over the chapter's vocab. I set a timer for 5-8 minutes depending on how many new words there are, how "hard" some of them look at first glance, how many have unusual radicals I haven't used frequently, etc. Looking at just the pinyin or zhuyin I try to write them all down before the timer goes off. If I can't write a whole character, I at least try to write down some of the radicals, if nothing at all I just skip it and move on. Afterwards I grade myself and looking at the characters in my textbook again, I write a new list of just the words I couldn't write. I practice writing them several times until I feel like I have the hang of it. Then I test again. Repeat until I can write the whole list. After I can write them all, ideally, I would retest again after some time, sometimes I do. Unfortunately, I usually don't have enough time and I have just barely gotten them memorized before it's time for a chapter test and then a new load of vocab. Fortunately old words get rolled into new chapters and having to write essays and stuff gives me more practice after they've had a while to stew.

If there is some One Easy Trick that I'm missing that would make my routine 10x more efficient, I hope someone can share it, because this routine is very tiresome and time consuming. I have played a bit with visualization, where I would close my eyes and imagine every stroke of a character without actually writing it. It works, but I need a really quiet environment for that.
> Like, I find it intensely frustrating that, when an industry veteran says "I've heard the pros and cons of each approach and I found that in my real-life experience GPL was a net negative", people answer with a 101 on the philosophy of GPL.

You think that's frustrating, try watching an expert talk about economics.
Logic technology scaling options for 2nm and beyond
can we make something similar for medical studies. I know it is a walled garden at the moment.
Every C++ project is written in some dialect of C++
Is there oh my zsh plugin or something that just exports all those envs?
Driver can configure WiFi firmware to periodically query the RealWOW server by UDP, without host involvement.
after the first usage it should have just been referred to as The Language™ from then on.
Yeah, you could add a job to your CI that runs a compiler and outputs the result to a web page that can be accessed by all. I'm sure there's ways and means to have a web based editor that can commit into version control as well.
My memories are fairly vague, but I do remember the "Pool's closed" raid leading to some random grandmother getting flooded with phone calls from /b/tards.

The Chris Chan saga also started in 2007, from what I just looked up.

There was definitely a gradual decline, but it was happening even back in the 00s.
Making the animation after generating a password exactly 1 second seems oddly suspicious.
And?

I was using C++ on MS-DOS.

Not even C++ is supported on the Azure Sphere OS SDK.

Ironically they usally tend to evade the question when asked about it, to the point they ended up writing a very long blog post trying to justify C, and it had nothing to do with space requirements.

Rather industry expectations and other marketing speak.