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> You don’t get to redefine language and force your linguistic preferences on others. That’s not how language works.

you literally do and that’s literally how language works. You are free to disagree with these new definitions, and in turn people are free to show you the door, just like what occurred in the post above.

(What’s the alternative? Words are given a fixed definition at their conception? Who gives these definitions?)
On the face of it that does seem surprising. With (vastly) superior numbers and a focus on confusion and harassment though, I can easily imagine a gorilla being unable to fend them off completely.
Learn FP. The thinking muscle is quite different. You will find value in the abstraction models which come with FP, and even if you don't work in FP coding, the thinking models will help. Plus, its really fun. Mind-bending at times but fun.

Do not mistake programming for money (pay) for Computer Science. Very few jobs will ask you to exercise your Computer Science chops. They want you for your fluency in their take on coding norms, which often is driven in syntactic compliance and groupthink.

BTW Group work is possibly the most important skill you may not have learned adequately in college. In the real world (pay) being able to be a human SORRY HELLO FELLOW HUMAN HOW IS YOUR MEAT SACK. MINE IS VERY FINE is sometimes more important than being able to code.
from that forum it also seems like Windows Defender is deleting a .txt file containing the source code.
Exactly. And everybody who - willingly and knowingly - put that 'Like'-button on their website is an accomplice. An accomplice in violating human rights, that is. I wrote a small piece about that not so long ago. https://www.hellowebsite.online/?module=blog&link=1&post=4
Why should someone other than an elected official be allowed the power to manipulate legislation as corporate lobbies do?

It is not about money, it about money as a proxy for power over the country.

The guy you're talking to does not have enough money to affect disproportional change. It does not matter to anyone else what he does with it as it can't possibly infringe on their rights, unlike when corporations manipulate media and government.
You could use Godot (or Unity, but Godot would be easier) which has 2d animation tools, then record it to OBS.

Barring that, Blender?
I was very fortunate to be in a class taught by James Mickens in my undergrad. As he does in this article, he shared his wealth of cybersecurity experience but presented in a very entertaining way.

If you like this paper, he also has many other stories from CS academia that is approachable and fun to read[1]. One of my favorite talks by Mickens is a 30-minute roast of Javascript and web security[2].

[1]: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens

[2]: https://vimeo.com/111122950
Amnesty clarifies: The list of 50000 phone numbers not directly related to NSO
No, but the press has been crazy about this event to a dispiriting level. I'd have loved to see some restraint and clear criticism of their tiny hops.
I agree, that was kind of my point. He was talking about taking VM's but in a cloud environment this is a bit more awkward. Copying and storing VM's securely is not hard, but transferring AMI's is the only rough equivalent I know of in the cloud world. Ideally, you don't have to do this. But for one part of my current stack, the configuration that this specially configured windows box has been lost for a while. Rebuilding from scratch has not worked each time it has been tried.
I was reading every newspaper that mentioned spanish flu from the 1910's when covid was starting. I never would have thought that I would have been wishing for easier access to full text search newspaper archives. Here we are :p
Thank you. So many have become blind to how weird the syntaxes of programming languages are when not used to them.
Most people who are afraid of doing all of those things haven't actually done them, and would probably be shocked to find that they aren't actually that complex. Kubernetes actually makes them more complex, but simpler in the aggregate. In other words, most of the apparent value in kubernetes vanishes when you do a real bake-off between kubernetes vs rolling your own infrastructure. There is still SOME benefit, but it's usually exaggerated.

Another problem with kubernetes is the flexibility it gives you. Look at five engineering teams using kubernetes, and you'll see five wildly different setups. Within that maneuverability, in a project that ostensibly makes things "simple", hides the devils that will bite you when you least expect it.
Prohibition has already been tried with alcohol and drugs. Lets leave it in the past.
Yeah that's probably not goinv to work for India and the rest of the anglosphere.
>I really loved computers and programming growing up

Can you look at projects you did before getting the CS degree and improve upon them with what you have learnt in CS ? e.g. if you had designed a game , can you look at making it more scalable or more resource efficient etc? It's a bit like looking at paintings you did before taking a painting course and then going back and improving the earlier ones. Good luck!
Same here. But it looks very polished otherwise :-)
> Because Mars doesn't have life to mess up....

The issue isn't "messing up life", life will be fine. The issue is that we're knocking the supports in the forms of ecosystems out from under ourselves. Not to mention the human cost, e.g. potentially hundreds of millions of refugees. The potential for war, and the possible destructiveness of war, is immense.

Besides, starting "afresh" where there are no such supports to begin with, without Earth to be supported by initially is still facing same issues, but worse. Depending on that of all things saving humankind is like hoping a child "might" save their parents from their troubles 5 minutes after being born.

> Isn't the Terra-forming technology that we will have to develop to make Mars habitable, basically aligned with what we will have to learn to repair/manage our relationship with the Earth's environment?

Here too I see it the other way around: our civilizations not collapsing in massive wars over scraps is what is needed for civil space missions to go on, and the sustainability -- materially, socially individually -- which we would need to avert that from happening is also what we would need for space colonies to both come into grasp and to not turn into the wrong end of Star Trek episodes. You know, where we're not the visiting crew, but said crew shakes their heads in horror at.
Facebook exists to make money.

They took your money while you were willing to spend it and showed your ads, and blasted you when you ran out? Sounds like a way to make money.

And if you are not paying to use facebook you are the product. Do people not understand this?

Facebook IS NOT your friend. Engagement drives clicks, "engagement" comes from trash content / click bait / outrage cycles. Does this sound healthy? No

If you are trying to make the world a better place in almost any way - facebook is probably not the healthy partner in this!
Yea, very true.. there usually seems to be a strong resistance to change around giving others an opportunity to chase the american dream that is mirrored pretty well with artificially constrained housing supply/nimbyism. There is always that contingent of the population that wants to close the door behind them to prevent others from attaining what they have already reached. At least we always seem to have that opposite view point to oppose them.
I'm no expert, but I thought the black and white thing originates really from night and day. It is easier to see when there is light (often perceived as white) than it is at night (often perceived as black). We used white and black to convey the color of the sky. A white color reflects light while a black color absorbs light. This is how I've always thought about it. I never associated this with skin color until someone told me. I still have never internalized this because it just doesn't make sense to me.

I'm open to being wrong but to be this connection of archetypal meanings and skin color is a stretch. I don't look at a white phone or black phone and think good or bad (in fact I have a black phone and prefer dark colors while my skin tone is the opposite). One which requires a lot of fundamental change in language and how we think. Because I'm sure I'm not the only one that has codified this representation in my mind. And most of us should understand archetypes are not how you go about judging the world or people. I don't see a person dressed in red and think "angry" (which would be a different emotion in a different culture), or yellow and "happy". I just see colors.

That is pretty different to me.
"Cheap AI"/"cheap automation", to dispel the notion that throwing data at a neural network is high science or serious engineering. Or, even more directly, reduce it to "fuzzy matching". AI is just a fuzzy pattern database.
‘Somebody has to do the dirty work’: NSO founders defend the spyware they built
I think that’s similar to what the article describes.
My experience was very high level of calmness in day to day life. I sort of felt like Neo of the Matrix where I knew what to do in any tough situation and my action was based on objective analysis of the situation vs mind getting colored with different emotions. All tough decisions seemed less difficult to make because you can now separate emotions from the situation. To give an example - As soon as I reached home after finished the course, I learnt that my grandmother is in coma after suffering from a brain stroke. Everyone around me was in a panic state as to what is happening and what to do. I could think more clearly and immediately went into action mode (is she getting right care, how do we get a second opinion, what are our options etc). I accepted reality as it is. Similarly, I had to make a major decision that I was confused about (which is why I went the course in the first place), I think I was able to make the right decision (it's been few years since the decision was made and I am happy about it).

You also become comfortable as to who you are vs seeking validation about yourself.

Overall, it was a positive experience for me.
You should spend a week working on a infra / ops team then.
At first I thought you wrote this yourself!
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Climate envoy says U.S., China must end world’s ‘suicide pact’
I think parent was referring to a flat market cap, not a flat price, and given the price is $1 a flat market cap does in this case indicate a lack of demand for further issuance.
I don't trust multipliers. I often find those rules of thumb to be very poor predictors. Since if you don't know how can you predict some fixed fraction of the work?

I led a small team to deliver software over a multi-year project. The software was used to control a machine. The machine was contracted as part of a multi-million dollar deal. We delivered software on time and with good quality. It was very far from trivial. The key to this is that the team had experience in doing similar projects, so we generally knew how long things take. We knew what needed to get done. We knew we would be debugging the machines. We knew we would need to work around issues. We knew we'd be limited until the first prototypes are assembled. We knew what existing tools and libraries we could reuse. And we also knew what's the minimal viable product and what are nice to haves. For me personally this was the third consecutive project of building very similar machine control software, for very similar applications, using very similar technologies. This wasn't exactly the same but I went through this process and I knew how it works. The first of those actually failed because the software wasn't ready on time (and other reasons, but that was the main one).

A team with no experience, building something new, has zero chance of correctly estimating anything. Not only will they likely not deliver on time, they might not deliver at all, ever. Or they'll deliver something that doesn't work. Someone external who has experience with these teams might be able to provide the right estimate (e.g. they'll say it'll take them 3 years and they'll deliver nothing). In my current job I asked a junior engineer for an estimate, he broke down stuff to tasks, and came back with something like "a month". Ten months later it wasn't done. Much simpler technically than the other project but the engineer didn't really see all the details, didn't have experience with similar projects, so he basically just made stuff up.

You always have to plan for surprises and you need to have contingencies. An estimate is always some sort of distribution but for a large enough project these distributions do form some sort of coherent picture. Sure, you might have a surprise, but you do the risky things first to reduce those risks.
There's too much great, exciting computer science pedagogy out there to waste time on dismal, uninspiring material. Poorly-chosen required reading for courses is an unfortunate exception..

A lot of the classic books in the Scheme world, I think, are really enjoyable, besides being highly edifying. SICP, The Little Schemer (and sundry sequels), Essentials of Programming Languages.

Browsing through The Jargon File has routinely been energizing for me, but admittedly a lot of the content is pretty antiquated, and I might be among the last generation of programmers who can reasonably identify with the book.

It might look superficially boring, but Don Knuth's Art of Computer Programming is really engaging.

The Inmates are Running the Asylum might inspire toward building some highly usable software.
It is very rare that I meet people who complain about others being themselves humble, sweet people, who are great to work with.
I'm not sure that has been tested in court yet. If based on precedent, I would assume it would also be legal, but it would take a brave soul with a lot of money and free time to find out for certain.
> It’s not that simple, behind the company are people.

I get your sentiment, really. But where is the tipping point? When does it become the responsibility of an employee to quit? Which atrocity has to be committed after which i cannot claim personal innocence as an employee? (in a general sense, not only facebook)
I agree, but also the situation you're describing is no longer a 'free country' so much as anarchy or an attempt at strong-handed rule. I'd liken it much more to the cultural revolution and the tank man.
> Regardless, there's no reason to assume that humor of this nature serves to normalize racial hatred.

Yes, there is. This is a very well-researched topic.

https://theconversation.com/psychology-behind-the-unfunny-co...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/humor-sapiens/201107...

etc.
I still can't tell which is happening:

1. You're trolling us with masterfully-ported prohibition-era enforcement mechanisms
2. You consider yourself a prohibitionist (of alcohol, drugs, or airbnb) and are advocating for prohibition-style responses to AirBnB.
3. You don't consider yourself a prohibitionist, and don't see how your opposition to AirBnB (and recommended enforcement mechanisms) is very similar to prohibitionists opposition to alcohol sales.

Which one sounds closest? Would you propose a 4th option?
Well, in China, everyone who desires uses normal internet through steno/obfuscation. We just don't know about it because their external IPs are of course, outside China. One guy i know ran a marketing study for his idea of a new obfuscation tool for Chinese and found out there was no (paying) market - they all figured it a long time ago for free.
That sounds like segregation. Putting different players in to different sets.
My son and I would play chess this way, with my wife actually moving the piece. We use a dice or piece ranking to determine ending turns on the same square depending on the actual game we’re playing.
> referring to Latino people as “Latinx”

Isn't this connecting a Latin conjugation? Which in turn would be westernization? I understood westernizing people to not be the right thing to do. (Which to be fair, Spanish does originate from Europe but Latin people are not). I never understood this. If someone has a good explanation I'd love to hear.
Willy can be short for the older style name Willemijn, much like Freddy can be short for the older style name Winnefred in the US.
Best example to me was eBay going from people selling used things to being almost entirely made up of storefronts. In Australia, Gumtree became popular as people actually selling used things, and then eBay bought them (I think they've sold it since).

Another example is Facebook. All about people and communities, and now a huge portion of it is business page management and advertising.
It happened after the election.
Sadly it’s often a contractual / insurance requirement.
10 might be inelegant, or not...

Rechenunmenschtauglichkeitsempfindung!

/ex-germanist :-)
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Isn’t this the security nihilism the article is addressing?
Not only on capitalized pronouns but heavily intrinsically gendered language!

English is like easy mode for inclusion.
Hopefully it is just hidden and not deleted. But this is the main reason why alternative archive sites exists which ignore the original posters requests. Frequently used to archive posts from public figures which are suspected to be attempted to be scrubbed later.
Master/slave model has nothing to do with git's master which is "master copy" like as in record mastering. What you say is valid for SCSI or whate et though.
> "the Church is firing someone for who he wants to have sex with"

Are they tho? The headline says he quit.

Also: Off-topic; You the same "geerlingguy" that does all the open source stuff? Drupal and Ansible and all that stuff? If that's you, I just wanna throw out my "so very much thanks for all you've done for open source" at you. I've learned a ton of great stuff from you over the years. People like you genuinely contribute to a "more-better" world. ;)
However, Amnesty is now clarifying, this is not the meaning of the list. "Amnesty International has never presented this list as a 'NSO Pegasus Spyware List', although some of the world's media may have done so," the organization said in a statement released Wednesday.

and

37 phone calls from journalists and human rights activists, on which forensic evidence was found that was pasted in Pegasus or was the target of the spyware.

So of the list of 50000 phone numbers 37 had evidence of Pegasus.

And no one knows where the list of 50000 came from.
Yup, that's why I said "until Pentium4". P6.0/P6S actually introduced multi-die packages at Intel, not the SECC. Well, actually that's not true either, because I worked on Sidewinder: a 486 that fit in a 386 socket with an ASIC on the top of the package that matched the busses. So it was technically "multi-die".
If you want your webpage in the internet host it by yourself.
All pages on Facebook don't belong to you but Facebook.

You can still use FB ads but don't use it like webhoster.
In America we have a concept known as “the rule of law”. An independent judiciary prevents mob justice from simply seizing wealth from people and private entities. We even prevent the government from doing so (at least theoretically).

To see a counter-example, look at China. Their system is completely opaque and politicians can easily stymie even the strongest business entities. The judiciary is not independent but subject to the latest dictator’s whims.

If you are reading this and live in a Western country, feel appreciative that simple solutions are not applied quickly to complex problems.
the "reputable source" you downloaded from can always be compromised
Technology Review used to be about the science and engineering aspects of tech, but in the last few years focuses largely on social issues (and advocates a very specific ideological viewpoint). Not unlike how magazines like Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Wired, etc. in recent years went from being industry publications to political outlets.
Eh, Shelly, Dickens, Twain and Wells are all I can think of. Not zero, but a vanishingly small percentage.
> Master/slave model accurately describes the model in a way that people can hear the terminology and understand what is happening without knowing details.

Except it has absolutely nothing to do with slavery at all. The master branch is akin to the master record, that holds the true and complete copy. A master branch evokes mastery of a subject, like a Masters degree.

Except now, everyone just submits to the idea that the word master only has context in master/slave terminology.
> How many books have you read that were published in the 1800s? I’m betting close to zero.

Quite a few actually, and I'm not an outlier. Plus there are many adaptations and derivative works that exist.
Yes it will! https://github.com/KombuchaPrivacy/circles-ios
Repeated “formal methods” but I never learned what that meant, by the end of the article.
I have a collection of SGI gear I grabbed before the retro community jacked the price up. Also I have a couple hp pa risc machines. Apollo's etc. I still love the UX in Irix and think that windows 2k was peak windows.
This country allows people to buy more power than our elected officials have.
Keep in mind, you’re retired. Shorts have infinite risk.
I had to get signed permission from our IT contractors to disable it. But then again, I was trying to get a PDF of a Categorical Logic paper from an Italian university’s website and the filters kept blocking for pornography and sending emergency messages to the contractor to audit my computer.
Would you say your software is appropriate for aerospace manufacturing and quality management system data collection?
Deleting both the exe and the source code makes a false positive seem rather unlikely to me.
Shame on those people.
I don't care how broad your definition is, it shouldn't include the mp4 files in my hard drive.
> In America we have a concept known as “the rule of law”.

We do. And in America, that set of laws includes things like "Thou Shalt Not Buy Up All Thine Competitors Into One Giant Monopoly."

Unfortunately, the groups in charge of enforcing those laws have been asleep at the wheel for the last 20 years or so. Were they working, Facebook wouldn't have reasonably been allowed to buy up nearly as many successful competitors as they've been allowed to, and wouldn't have nearly the stranglehold on "social" that they do.

Same goes for Google and Amazon as well - I don't pick on Facebook alone here, except for the fact that they're the topic of discussion in this thread.
To what degree can human intelligence capture the complexity of nature?
The scales of most (if not all) geoenineering solutions to global warming are pretty mind boggling.

There are all sorts of ways that the resources and energy available in space can make the scale of these challenges more feasible. I don't expect that is we will see those benefits for several decades at a minimum as we are a long way from industrializing space at the scale necessary for it to matter.

In the short term the only practical benefits we can expect to see is cheaper satellites that will help use understand how the planet is changing as it heats up.
Caffeine alone. I should probably give it a try without caffeine, and probably take a T-break on the caffeine too. But I'm not sure I have the motivation to do that.
great. now we can further extend the ideological bubbles, with the brigade wars and political virtue-signaling mono-culture of reddit.