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A lot of developers will never run into most of the topics discussed in these papers.

However, at some point, they will all write some software that does arithmetic on arbitrary data. They will all be tempted to calculate an average by adding all the numbers and dividing by ten. Therefore, I propose that all developers should read and re-read Goldberg[1] regularly.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...
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Ah, good to know. Hopefully the SEC does end up relaxing those rules a bit.
If it looks like Zee Germans are coming, they'll probably just take the day off and move nuclear weapons around some other time.
Well, software/service names as well. iMessage, iCloud, iMovie. But I agree it is a little less standard than KDE putting K in front of everything
Software engineering research is a train wreck
GitHub Copilot: Leaked secrets and broken licenses
> No one funds research into problems that aren't that big a deal.

That's false. Mundane, basic research gets funding all the time.
Chris Rackauckas' work on it was truly brilliant. I believe he also posts on HN sometimes. Anyway, I've had tonnes of fun playing around with differential equations in Julia!
I’m not anti-sex or anti-sex work, but I think onlyfans is evil. They have a business model, that is perfected to extract as much money from whales as possible. Performers appear to have ‘relationships’ with their subscribers, encourage them to tip, buy ‘customs’, and ‘engage’ with them.

These sad lonely sexless men spend all their money on this shit. It consumes them, until they are out of money, then it destroys them. It warps their expectations of relationships further impacting their datability, driving them even more towards onlyfans.

Now, this is only a minority of their users, but makes a large proportion of their revenue. For healthy people, only fans can be great.
Currently Apple also has iPad, iCloud, iLife, iTunes, iMessage, iMovie, and iWork. Formerly, Apple had iDVD, iPhoto, iTools, iWeb, and iSight.

It might also be interesting to note that Apple licenses iOS from Cisco [0].

[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/08/cisco_licenses_io...
Here is a multi-hour playlist from a retreat by Sujato on the main mindfulness sutta that covers various points like this;

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL70fWqztn7OXdbGqWEOvhOVqf...
Not directly, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the layers of indirection between your (or my) economic actions and literal slave labourers (as in some prisoners in the USA or China, not merely downtrodden working class masses who deserve better) is at most one higher than the level of indirection between Bezos and that.

How many layers of hierarchy does Amazon have? 12? And what is made by inmates working for UNICOR or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice? I’m neither resident of nor a citizen of the USA, but I expect no more than 13 steps from my economic actions to the inmates.
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I might be a bit bitter because I am sitting right now in my office, about 25 meters from a fairly dangerous corner where I really need to peek out carefully lest I want to be smashed down. In order to get to the office I need to pass this place at least twice a day and during the last years I avoided at least ten accidents with either bikes or shared electric scooters already. Some of the riders seem to consider themselves immortal as they zap directly into a place where they cannot see.
Rarity numbers I found:

1 in 2.000 (0.05%)
1 in 1.500 (0.06%)
50-230 in 100.000 (0.05% - 0.23%)

That doesn't seem very rare tbh.
It breaks alphabetical seek bar like this https://cdn57.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/1...
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It's an accident if no one planned it and willed it deliberately.

But accident is a civil term, not a legal term. Legally there's a spectrum of culpability from driver innocence (the brakes failed, the lights failed, a bob cat fell on the windshield) to premeditated murder, with negligence and recklessness in between.

There may still be legal responsibility elsewhere. Did the brakes fail because the garage made a mistake?

Of course you can have an accident because you were reckless. That doesn't mean you wanted to kill someone. It means you were taking avoidable and unnecessary risks and didn't get away with it.
That company has stopped doing that >5 years ago. Since then, launched products are simply called Apple Watch, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Pencil, AirPods, AirTags...

Also, the original comment did not say anything about Apple. Stop trolling.
Wrong. EU is the boogeyman for the governments in Eastern Europe. Whatever unpopular move they make, EU gets blamed for it.

It is easy to blame some entity everyone knows exits, but at the same time, that entity is more like a group which doesn't fight back against it. Even if they fight back and criticize the government here and there, the latter own the media and that becomes a non-story.

Right wing governments always need a boogeyman to rally against. Today it is EU, LGBT+ groups, Roma etc. Tomorrow it might be you and me.
Yeah, they should use "smart" names like GNOME , I am wondering how those users will google "how do I do X with Files/Browser/Player"
Our legal systems may be slow, but if you try to spam the court, you will not have a good time.
What do you mean by dissociating? What is that?
Linux the kernel is GPL. That’s not gonna change just because Microsoft has a distro. The kernel is still gpl.

I should have added /s because clearly no one is understanding my post was slightly sarcastic.
Its not all men. I know women who also spend on these platforms just because they like to support certain creators. They have other normal relationships too.
> The US has only seen a death of around 0.2% of its population due to COVID and is already facing labor shortages in retail.

Pretty certain these two metrics are absolutely unrelated, given the fact that people who would have died were probably quite old in the first place.
On a high level they can be pretty similar. The biggest difference is intent. BitTorrent is about sharing particular files, it's use cases are focused on moving large files across the internet. BitTorrent has an entire algorithm around trading blocks to try and prevent leeching. Supporting the Kademlia (the DHT in BitTorrent) is incentivised by "I want to download things and supporting the DHT is the default on the client and nobody bothers to turn it off", which is amazingly effective.

IPFS is about being a giant shared read-optimized content cache. It is totally ok with leeching because it's goal is to get content to you, not to "share" it. Juan wants to implement "proof of bothering to serve all that stuff" as a cryptocurrency and get rich. The current pinning system for clients of IPFS is a "motivated by it just being the default setting" incentive system for hosting data they want to replace with a cryptocurrency.
The war on out off-patent ivermectin is ongoing! It's much better to sell remdesivir and overload people with steroids making them profitable diabetics for life than pay attention to out-of-America studies and try to reproduce them honestly and responsibly!
Hey I have Keratoconus too..
I am using the K-Rose lenses RIgid Gas Peremable ones, they are quite comfortable after a week of use. The K-Rose lenses are engineered to exact curvature of the problematic cornea, so the fit is perfect and no accumulation of tears inderneath
Overall, though bit expensive I would say they helped.
Sorry, I was being a touch sarcastic and it wasn’t obvious. I should have added /s
1. Juries are expensive. Is this really what juries are for?

2. Amazon tries to resell any sellable returned goods.
What a sick mentality. Globalism and mass immigration is the destructor of culture.

Nationalism is the only rational mentality for long term sustainability.

A people should never be ruled by those who have no blood in the soil or by those who don't serve the needs of that people.

Nationalism is what makes great nations. You can forget about that for a while and play the game of the inevitable failure of multiculturalism, but it will always fail, you will always destroy society, and from the ashes, a cohesive, homogeneous people will reemerge to build back from the ashes of your stupidity as has always been done
It is worth noting that the UK briefly has temperatures around 33 most years, but the Extreme Weather heat warning system was only introduced last year.

It's incredibly uncomfortable given the humidity though.
Why do you think there aren't any alternatives to the job you hate?
No, I'm discussing the dialogue between the journalist and Bezos.

The journalist asked a question with 2 possible scenarios:

- Bezos spends his money on space race; or

- Bezos spends his money fixing problems on Earth.

He also sugests the second option is what the critics are asking for.

I'm saying most criticisms I've seen are much broader than that, and if that world view was true, neither option would exist in the first place.

This is a problem because it lets Bezos off the hook about the bigger issue, and passes the responsibility of solvin humanity's problems to billionaires who shouldn't exist in the first place.

This is the dystopic part - relying on a small amount of people with overwhelming power amassed largely through no merit of their own (inheritance, tax avoidance, neo-feudal-like employment/exploitation of others) to fix the very problems that allowed them to be in that position.

This is the question that should have been asked. I suspect either ignorance of the journalist or pre-screened questions only allowing the ones who wouldn't put Bezos in an awkward position but of course I can't be sure.
I used to be that guy as well, till a college convinced me that anything I can do in Bash, Awk I could probably do easier in Perl. Then everyone sort of drifted to Python. I get that if you never used Perl it’s pointless to learn it if you’re already in the Python stack, but… damn Perl’s regular expressions and how it’s so baked into the syntax of the language makes using regex in Python seem like going back to the Stone Age.
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So Oracle, Apple, ARM, Google and Microsoft (Intel bothched their design) are investing piles of money moving the industry into hardware memory tagging for nothing?

Maybe we should tell them to stop if they are so good.
I hope the BBC does a follow-up article in about 20 years.

My theory is that the 'changed lives' will most often not be prosperous.

Call me wrong, but I imagine it's going to be right.
I'm rather looking forward to / dreading the spectacle of people poisoning the Copilot training set with obfuscated malware...
As already suggested by another commenter, continuing with web development, but with a focus on UX and accessability strikes me as the "shortest shift". It will potentially also give you a constructive outlet for the stress of loosing your vision (helping make sure others in a similar situation have a better experience with the product/sites you work on).

I imagine working as a specialized a11y consultant is likely to be a safer and better compensated niche than as a "regular" designer/developer.

Your personal experience and necessary adjustments would probably also allow you to work in similar fields, like working on native apps that need to be accessible to people with poor vision (ie: all of them, but especially those related to work functions, like logistics, cashier/bank, archiving/document management and probably lots I'm forgetting - where there might be regulations that must be passed in order to be able to deliver on bids).
> Isn't the U.S selling arms to Saudi Arabia?

The US and UK sell arms to all of these countries. That's not a good sign; the US even directly subsidizes the military and police of some of them. We like dictatorships that make our political donors money.
First ever warning - yes, of course, there will be more and more of them as they're running out of crises (now that SARS is kind of waning) so they need something new to scare the sheeple.

But is it really "extreme"? It's not. On Wikipedia 1981–2010 normals [1] show 37.9C in July.

tldr: just more climatist nonsense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London#Climate
> 2.1 People lie

Was always my reaction when hearing about efforts like The Semantic Web.

"Yeah, we can get everyone to classify and tag their data with machine-readable metadata and then use that to build all sorts of amazing castles in the sky!"

"But what about when someone misuses this metadata to, for instance, get listed in categories they don't belong to, lie about content to reach more viewers, etc etc?"

Let the handwaving commence...

(Yes, various interesting things have fallen out of the research, but the overall drive always seemed naive)
I'm talking about much more than climate change. Failure to cooperate, anti-intellectualism, and innate hatred of each other (among other flaws) are what will sink us.
I've practiced zen and Tibetan Buddhism for years. They both contain lots of "spiritual bullocks woo" at times, as does most forms of Buddhism I've encountered. You really need to filter out the good parts for yourself, I find. There are many paths to "meditation" or "mindfulness"; I disagree that those are necessarily separate traditions. This sounds like a "No true Scotsman" type fallacy.
Don't underestimate the EU. It's a slow beast but it can bear a grudge. The language used to address Hungary is slowly becoming more and more aggressive. A head of state from a small EU country explicitly called for Hungary to leave.

You also have to remember that the EU is an union of sovereign countries. Plenty can be done by EU members where the EU is powerless. History shows that messing with France and Germany can be costly.
Read the book copyright statement and license. Some books have separate license for examples.

However, if you copy an example from a book into a code, then very often it's fair use, but if you copy the same example from a book into your own book, then very often it's a copyright infringement, unless explicitly allowed by the book license.
He didn't threaten the dev. He warned the dev what are the consequences (that would be ompoaed by others) of his actions in violating the law and getting Muse stuck in the middle.

Being a political activist is not an excuse to violate unrelated laws and demand everyone around you abet you.
That's totally fair. My point was, your experience (usually) stops at some point without you having to do anything. That doesn't seem to be the case with meditation.
Well, one of the things about testing backups is that (if you are doing it remotely right) it reduces the danger when you need to actually restore.

A widely accepted method fur judging at least subjective risk when there are insufficient facts for truly objective measure is to ask how much you would bet on various outcomes - such as whether P=NP is solved before New York's 2nd. Ave. subway is completed.
"Being with Jesus" is a rather vague concept which. Different people may understand it differently. Often it even is primitivized to just attributing yourself to a church.

What I am telling, however, is a simple difference between automatic functioning in semi-hypnotic state and living in awake state. Let's take it to the extreme: imagine you were given a choice to spend the rest of your life in deep sleep (the kind you can't remember dreams after) and wake up just minutes before die. Would you agree? Would you consider such life making much sense or value to you? I wouldn't. To me it seems almost the same as dying straight away.

In fact Christianity includes the doctrine of Nepsis which is very much related to this (although many people believe it only means avoiding alcohol).
Try Gil Fronsdal. He’s a good gentle meditation teacher. There’s a podcast of his talks and guided meditations or you can find them here
https://www.audiodharma.org/teacher/1/
You want someone to explain to you why a certain wine tastes nice but you’ve added a condition that the explanation must not include the most fundamental nature of its taste.
I would never trust the battery in a laptop for 24/7 server-use. And the power-supply isn't made with that in mind either.
Thanks for going into further and teaching me the correct term for this.
It was more of a democracy before the 1953 coup [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
These standards were made freely available because unusually enlightened committees, common sense, public interests and/or private interests occasionally prevailed over ISO traditions.
Yeah, never rub.

I also saw a study semi-recently about sleeping on stomach as a possible cause as it increases the pressure on eyes during sleep. Not sure how accurate the study is but I did used to do it a lot.
One of the best developers I know has a serious visual impairment. Don't say "I can't." Instead ask, "how can I?"
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That's quite an accusation though. Have you even looked for the information you seek yourself, or do you expect to be spoonfed the information that you currently feel you are missing?
All my opinions that will probably be downvoted:

Like any cryptocurrency, Filecoin is an attempt to undercut an existing market and the regulation around it. IPFS could, and probably should, be paid for in much the same way current hosting works, just the host isn't tied to the namespace or file name so you can pay for redundant hosting. The IPFS protocol is intrinsically useful, Filecoin is a vaporware scam being snuck in behind it to extract rent.
The "Strategic advantages of Phosh for mobile Linux" article[1] mentions that Plasma Mobile roadmap "in September 2017 showed [Plasma Mobile] as having finished the prototyping phase, but not yet ready for feature phones and basic smartphones". It's 2021, four years later, and the Plasma Mobile roadmap[2] seems to be in pretty much the same place (or perhaps it's just an outdated page?). Does that mean that the Plasma Mobile effort is badly undermanned and will take about 10 years to achieve the >>Plasma Mobile 3.0 "Featured Smartphone"<< milestone?

[1] https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/advantages-of-ph...
[2] https://www.plasma-mobile.org/roadmap/
Is there a good email client for KDE Mobile yet?
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"Oracle, Apple, ARM, Google, and Microsoft" are actually a LOT of programmers and non-programmers with a huge variety of opininons, and I'm sure opinions similar to mine can be found there as well.

Also, they have loads and loads of money and their jobs come with prestige, so they have no problem attracting developers to jobs that are perceived by some programmers (such as me) as boring boilerplate jobs that make me miserable.

That answer was more related to the dynamic arrays discussion. If you want to move to hardware memory tagging, is that even a big thing? In any case my understanding is that it would work with pointer + length just as well, because the hardware tags are created at buffer allocation time, not based on arguments passed to a function.
Finance comes to mind. You make money every year, until you don't.
That keeps the people who build yachts employed. Which distributes more wealth, buying yachts or stocks?
Regardless of the nuances of that point, GitHub copilot violates copyright because the content it was trained on still lives in it, and you can get it to spit it out verbatim.

If I were a master artist, my existence wouldn’t violate copyright, but I would certainly be violating it every time I chose to reproduce a copyrighted work for a client.
Again, you've got the wrong time period.
Found this article/podcast about how to protect itself a bit more more Pegasus:
https://threatpost.com/protecting-phones-from-pegasus-like-s...

Isn't Android and iOS supposed to investigate what's the security vulnerability that allows the remote hacking through SMS and patch it?
Now go around and apply the same build optimizations to the C++ source base, including the use of incremental compilation, incremental linking, pre-compiled headers, export templates in TU, making use of lib files.

If your C++ compile times are slow, it’s probably your and only your fault.
It doesn't even require outside experts, just one or two competent sysadmins on staff.
And yet, as a market maker I think most crypto exchanges are pretty shit wrt reliability and correctness. This is actually a good thing though, as there are many places where a savvy operator can exploit quirks in exchange behavior.
Profit is the strongest market incentive, you want them to profit and invest full on in this kind of research. And pharma profits insanely is still negligible to the loss due to delaying vaccine deployment, spending any nin-trivial amount of time negotiating prices is full on retarded from that perspective, not to mention protecting vulnerable groups ASAP.
The problem with sexwork is that it is based on the persistent and dangerous illusion that there are NO boundaries, either emotionally or physically, between the client and the customer. In many cases, the boundary is enforced by physics (time-space) but often it is not.

The appeal of sexwork products is that they can be used to simulate a needful human interaction, one that implies the highest degree of intimacy even when intimacy is explicitly not present.

The necessary deception inherent in the consumption of sexwork products is normally voluntarily performed by the consumer of the product, but even so, failure to successfully self deceive shifts the onus of deception onto the performer, either with or without their knowledge.

The complex and inherently (usually consensually) deceptive nature of sexwork makes it a minefield of misadventure and unintended consequences. Add some unstable people in there, and you have all of the necessary elements for extreme negative outcomes.

I think there is an argument to be made that for the 30 percent of the population on the backside of the bell curve of intelligence, emotional agency, or socialization there is a high probability of an inherently exploitative interaction with most live sexwork.
Sure you might not notice it. But 80% of others notice and comment on it.

They don't expirence anything directly, but through time they get better treatment versus their non makeup wearing counterparts.

Source?
My office expirence, also my gf's master thesis was on how apperence affects office atmosphere.. (something in this line)
"Vipassana is a set of techniques for destroying the belief that you have an independent self. Not believing you have a self is itself a mark of psychosis."

This way of looking at it reveals a clash between Buddhism and mainstream "Western" psychology.

If one experiences the self as unreal, the world as unreal, others as unreal, according to some forms of Buddhism you're on your way to enlightenment (if not already there). But according to mainstream Western psychology you're mentally ill.

Which is it?
Seems like a bit of a tragedy of the commons. Individual containers benefit from a faster malloc, but the whole fleet benefits from one doing more work.
You probably have some negative experience with nerds, but what the poster meant I think is just people with interest and hard skills in computers. It doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to communicate, it means they should be able to also do other things than communicating.
It exists: https://github.com/MythicManiac/copilot-import
That sounds more like job for the legislative branch of government (e.g. parliaments).
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Welcome to software engineering, where engineers have extremely strong and fixed opinions about all sorts of fields that are completely disconnected from software engineering.