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I currently manage an infra ops team. I was a developer for about 10 years.

I agree with point 1, nearly completely. A lot of developers could take a lot more responsibility for understanding the environments their applications operate in, but I get it.

Point 3, at least in my shop, you're just wrong. I don't know anything about what you're writing. I probably don't even know what problem it is supposed to solve. You are mistaking the highway road crew for mechanics.

Point 4, in my shop, we provide a lot of documentation and guidelines for this sort of thing. Developers are responsible for knowing if their stuff is going to fall outside of those, and come to us to work something out. Again with the road metaphor, if you drive a semi into a single car garage, you're the idiot, not the person who built the garage.

On some of this, I'm taking a hard line. I do, in fact, end up doing a lot of troubleshooting with developers. But most of my team does not write code. If you want more senior ops folks who also have a coding background, come on over! There aren't that many of us who are any good, and I would love to hire more.
The power of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes
I want to see an ai that changes picture A to picture B by abusing rounding errors in white balance and levels adjustments.
Which ironically, is less transparent, less open, and less private than Apple's original plan.
We could just imprison everyone and prevent all future crime…

Valuing and prioritizing privacy is not advocating for crimes against children.
> Retail investigators blame changes in sentencing laws in some states for an uptick in thefts. In California, a 2014 law downgraded the theft of less than $950 worth of goods to a misdemeanor from a felony. Target recently reduced its operating hours in five San Francisco stores, citing rising thefts.

I think this is an example of conflating two classes of crime. There are effectively two classes of shoplifter: the professional and the desperate amateur. The activists who wanted the sentencing reduction probably did not have organised gangs in mind. But the gangs are taking advantage of the light rules.

This is something we miss a lot in discussions of crime. For instance, laws against possession exist because of the crimes associated with drug use. People who use drugs who wouldn't otherwise cause any crime are a sort of collateral damage of these rules.

It's often remarked how drug laws are disproportionately enforced against the poor, but I have always regarded that as a feature and not a mistake (as awful as that is for equality under the law). No one really cares about the banker snorting coke because he isn't robbing gas stations to get his fix.
In your colored car analogy all cars use the same fuel. An Apple computer with a different chip arch will use different software. Yes fat binary are a thing but anyway all different archs should be tested separately. This is a real bummer especially for small dev shops.
Maybe I'm not understanding the question but best practice is usually to store everything in the database in UTC time (or epoch time) and do the conversion using a localtime offset when you display it.
Have you ever seen a historical chart of bitcoin versus paper? I dunno which week you're talking about, but Bitcoin is generally not the one falling.
Cool project! What stack are you using? And what countries are requesting the most reports at the moment?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1433470109742518273.html
I recently bought gluten-free bubble bath. Didn’t realize people were eating the stuff.
If the actual goal is to keep it "rural" or "greener" etc, living small, as long as they don't demand anything extra, as long as the outside is kept as it was meant to be, why go as far as punish the person?

Sometimes rules are written too narrow and need adjustment. Following it blindly is not necessarily serving society optimally. If the actual goal is to have places people can garden, and have a large span of green land in that region, the single student living there is still following the objetive in spirit. In my opinion punishing would be going to far and serving no or little purpose for the community.
I can't help but laugh at the good faith Apple Inc has. The less obvious questions about the company are never asked because anyone who does is attacked by fans, who in a manic state of self righteousness never asked why were child safety features not a concern for Apple Inc for the last 20+ years.

That's the blind good faith of which I speak. It makes Apple Inc is a mouthwatering target. So good, there's no need to rush. No need to be splashy. The intrinsic trust its users have on its integrity is mindblowing. People trust it more than they trust their own children and their ability to raise them.

And no good can come from such blind faith.
> Why can Ops not do the same? Why can Dockerfiles / Orchestrators / CI / playbooks not also implement sanity checks on deployments?

All of those things were written by developers.
Free solo coder – Programming without safety equipment
What makes you think adults don't like flavored liquids?

Seems insane to suggest that adults would prefer the taste of ashtray over apple or orange (I like fruity aromas). I mostly vape without flavoring nowadays because I'm lazy, but I just don't get the mindset. Adults like sugar, sweets, lemonade and all that stuff just as much as children do. Some seem to really like the taste of cigarettes, but I think for the most part people are just more comfortable to say "I like the taste" instead of "I'm addicted to nicotine", because inhaling burnt plant matter along with the diffused active agents and aromatic compounds generally isn't good for taste. Weed also tastes much better vaped.
> the employees wouldn't have any more bargaining power to demand higher wages.

That's what you get for demolishing every ounce of bargaining power of the unions. Corporate overlordship where workers are exploited like it 1870. (Slight hyperbole, of course.)
Honestly, I've been positively surprised by F#. Nice syntax, functional-first, pragmatic design.
What an laugh of a trash post. There are plenty of angles of ignorance and outright ludicrous statements here, but your finale really underlines it:

>Which they have said they won't do.

What the hell? Apple just won't comply with governments using force against them? How in your magic world do you imagine them doing this? If China says "you will add this specified model to your detection or else we will kill iPhone production" what exactly do you imagine Apple is going to do? Apple has already caved there, repeatedly, such as with iCloud data itself. Or if the USA points out, correctly, that while it can't compel Apple to create something from scratch it is on much stronger ground to compel Apple to use capability it already has and successfully wins that now what? They're just going to defy the US Government and the feds will just shrug and say "oh nevermind jodrellblank already said on HN Apple won't do that"?

You throw around "bad faith", "FUD", and "fantasies are more real" and then just outright accept Apple saying "they won't do" something which equates to defying government. This is not going to strike anyone actually grounded in reality as a particularly "fact based" bit of reasoning on your part.
Going out of business isn't the same as losing at working from home. Going out of business is usually not working.

Otherwise this article would just be the fairly obvious statement that people who kept their jobs are "winners" over those who lost their jobs.
The problem is that if we introduce it, it might take a while for those evolutionary pressures to show up. Uncontrolled growth isn't an immediate pressure, it kicks in after the damage has already been done.
Not that hard to train your goats or cows to this; highly dependent on the animal's inherited personality though. I would routinely milk one of our cows when I was a kid right out in the pasture. She was calm as ever, no food was ever required, and she was never tied to anything. Obviously, she was just very happy to be milked and have the pressure released from her utter (her babes were the same ilk). I agree though, seeing the goat line-up is quite interesting. :-D My current herd would not stand for it, I assure you.
And what happens if you check the receipt on the body and find out that the item wasn't stolen? How many years do you face for murdering a customer?
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> the composer would have legal grounds to sue and win

>> I wonder was that tested in a court? In a case where the person who transcribed the song has not profited in any way from that, neither selling the transcription, not selling ads on the web?

N=1, but when I was in high school, I remember that several friends in the drama/theatre department were really disappointed one year because they'd performed a copyrighted play the year before for our school (at no charge; our principal firmly believed that charging the $1 admission they typically charged separated the "haves" from the "have-nots"), the board of education received a letter from the copyright holder, and now they were no longer able to do any plays for the school.

I guess this doesn't touch whether or not this has been tested in court, but it certainly scared the pants off our board of education.
Ah, no. This was a company called eFusion, which was an early VOIP telecom spinoff from Intel (which is where I started at). The Member of Technical Staff was a very east coast Bell labs like title, which didn't really translate well to other schemes.
Office 97 had a different style. Most commonly used programs had different sytles: winamp had its own UI, IE had it own theme, winfile had different icons...

Yes, system and default apps were somewhat consistent. But out of the box, a win9x installation was very poor with regard to installed software; you had to install more things if you wanted you computer to be useful. And the consistency went away.
Why compete when you can do the exact same model and roll in the cash yourself? Business people hate leaving money on the table.
VS Code is all fine an dandy but -

1) When you alt-tab you lose dialog tooltip, I can't handle this, it should be a number one priority to fix this
2) A lot of languages just look plain ugly in VS Code, not so in Emacs for example, Vim w/e
I think that there are universal truth, I just don't want the distinction between what is an universal truth and what is not to be made by a small team of active Wikipedia contributors. I realize that this is probably already the case, but I think these changes will aggravate that.
Garbage non-science.
I don't think that's a safe assumption at all. In fact unless it's somehow increasing the rate of nutrient intake, doesn't that all but guarantee the nutrients are being used to make the base plant larger rather than going into the rice?
> Will Github allow people to use other $EDITORs?

Yes, just clone? Most people who want other editors probably don't want browser-based ones.

I'm not sure if the VSCodeVim or VSCodeNeovim extensions work on the online version yet, but I'm sure some VSCode/GitHub engineers are on the case if not.

EDIT: VSCodeVim (the main "Vim" extension) does "work" on github.dev but the escape key doesn't, so as soon as you press "i" you're stuck in insert mode forever. https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/7005
I think they must buy a new license for each new ISA version they want to use. That makes new features a potential risk factor.
Physical access doesn't mean access to a meaningful data if it is properly encrypted.

I didn't say anything about Apple servers. They can implement a protocol that works over a wired connection only, gives the device the instruction to match all the files on the device against the given list of fingerprints and returns the results. No match, no results. If there's a match, return just enough to tell what fingerprints matched and nothing more.
it's not. you must relearn everything more or less from scratch.
Of course it is relevant. Many of those 95,000 annual deaths would be preventable if a good variety of quality cannabis was more widely available and its use was more socially acceptable.

I also believe such a paradigm shift would largely eradicate domestic violence.
From the wonderful fortune(6) database:

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President
should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

I think the RSA chief can be trusted to do what's in the best financial interest of the RSA, even when that is in contradiction of the correct thing, so long as there's plausible deniability.

I'm glad this is being brought up and not forgotten.
How though?

I'm intrigued.
This idea that idiots are extremely sensitive and will deepen their belief in nonsense _out of spite_ if confronted seems to have become very widespread, but is there any reason to think it's true? If anything, their nonsense is being taken too seriously; a lot of media both-sides it to some extent in a way that it wouldn't with, say, flat-earthers.

And, while there are a lot of confounding factors, of course, there seem to be fewer people buying all the horse drugs in countries where the media was dismissive of them, vs in countries where parts of the media both-side-ed it.
Pragmatism is dead.

Are you trying to change people’s mind or show that you are enlightened.

The preaching about damn masks does not change minds. That’s the point. Maybe a compassionate understanding of why people refuse is better. What’s that old saying “before they care you got to show that you care about them”

This IS about society. Only 60? 70% agree that masks / vaccines are imperative. This leaves a large minority that society needs to work with.

This is not an education problem. This is a hearts and minds problem and so to the original OP. Feel before you speak such things to make it counter productive to yours and dare I say society’s goals.
There's also a fair bit of circular reasoning going on. Take the lab leak "conspiracy theory." Some organizations were dinged by the media raters (relied upon for this study) for being ahead of the curve on that, while organizations like CNN and the WHO weren't dinged despite being very wrong on an important topic. So people want to share articles that accurately point out that the lab leak hypothesis is plausible, which gets marked up as sharing information from organizations known for sharing disinformation (like the lab leak hypothesis), while people don't really care to share whatever CCP-apologetics the WHO is spouting today because it has no credibility, which gets marked up as not wanting to share True Information.
Here's my take on this

I think this was Apple calling the US government's bluff. I don't think they ever wanted to do anything like this because they know it destroys their claims of superior privacy. I think they have internal plans to roll out E2E iCloud encryption so that in addition to not being able to provide law enforcement the code to unlock any phone, they also won't be able to help law enforcement decrypt anything stored in iCloud, including those phone backups. So Apple sees the incoming fight where government cries foul to the public, making the same tried and true "think of the children" arguments, saying now all pedophiles will be free to save their CSAM on Apple servers. It's the government's way to try to get the public against Apple on this, and this is how Apple neuters that argument.

But I don't think anyone in the government really cares about the CSAM. What they really want is backdoor access to the devices for the high-value targets that they actually care about, or just to make their jobs a lot easier in other investigations, but that's a lot harder to sell to the public. Look at Facebook alone. They made 20 MILLION CSAM reports last year ALONE. That number was astounding to me. I haven't heard anyone discuss the sheer numbers yet. Think about that for a second. That's one company, making 55,000 CSAM reports PER DAY. The equivalent of a medium sized city being reported for CSAM materials every day! I don't know how many people work in government handling those reports, but I'd imagine the process of taking in reports, evaluating them, forwarding them to appropriate authorities, and then making arrests is not one that can possibly be automated away to deal with that kind of volume. And Apple would generate at least as many reports as Facebook I'd imagine, not to mention all the other sources of CSAM reports that are out there. Do we really think there's anyone in law enforcement who is saying "oh gee, if only we had an ADDITIONAL 55,000 CSAM reports coming in PER DAY then we'd really be able to get a handle on the problem." If anything, that just provides even more noise, making it harder to find real signals.

So now that they've shown they're willing to call law enforcement's bluff, I think law enforcement predictably has now said to them ok, it's not really about the CSAM, we still want backdoor access for other reasons, and now Apple is reevaluating their response.

The issue for Apple though is that even if they're legally allowed to say no to law enforcement requests to open up backdoors, they're probably being extorted by law enforcement threatening to come down on them for antitrust issues if they don't go along with it. Smaller companies that don't have antitrust issues to worry about would be able to put up a much more resilient fight.
They shouldn't have to come to him that often, if they had skilled senior SWE mentoring them.

Seems like OP works for a shitty company.
For everyone who is saying that the technical community “won”... Nobody’s been fired. Rather, Apple’s senior execs publicly doubled down and basically labeled those of us who thought this scheme to be insane, as a bunch of uninformed idiots...

You can change a product decision in a day, but it takes a LONG time to change a culture that thinks these sort of insane product decisions make any sense whatsoever. Making a long-term bet on Apple has become precarious at best.
>It's kind of a funny situation where in Apple being more transparent than any other implementer of this same process.

It isn't the same process, it's an on-device scanning process and Apple is the first to implement this. Had Apple said they were scanning iCloud directly nobody bat an eye (I, for one, assumed they already did).
Yes, but mainly because I get to help my coworkers. The actual work doesn't really matter, but being someone who can assist when your coworkers running into issues is great
as a criminal you can just opt out of Apple hardware, and/or implement separately encrypted content. Better - maintain your facade of having an Apple device for your daytime phone and use a burner by night. Has DRM really stopped piracy?

All this did was make it more annoying for criminals and maybe make it easier to catch dumb criminals - who would have been caught by other means anyway.
If I had to guess I would say dramatically larger plants require dramatically more nutrition. It will probably be a net negative outside highly fertilized industrial farming scenarios, preventing it from spreading far in nature.
This is the way.

My previous company had a HUGE problem with Devs cowboying off and doing whatever and dumping it on the Ops team at the last minute.

One of the biggest (but for damn sure not the last) issues was a dev who designed and built an entire new product around a MongoDB database, which wasn't something we had in production, and something he didn't mention during the months of development and demos to stakeholders. Week before the launch date he hits up our Ops folks to get production set up.

Ops was calm and collected about the whole thing. "We don't have MongoDB in production. Are you volunteering to learn how to correctly install it, write monitors for alerting, be paged with issues, figure out backups and how to ensure our data stays safe, secure, and available? You're not? Then get the [redacted] out and rewrite your app. Yes it will affect the ship date, and yes it's your fault."

I'd love to say we used that opportunity to shore up our processes involving kicking off new applications and including Ops folks in from day one, but that took years more.
Yes. That's why there are some knock-off fonts that is fully legal in the United States (apart from the name, but that's trademarks).

Note: US law (for rather obvious reasons). Europe (depending on the country) has either a design trademark or a design copyright available, which means that foundries can (in theory) control their use there (in practice, uniform worldwide licensing means they go for the lowest common denominator). Asian (mainly East Asian) IP laws does have a nuance, which means that whether a design is copyrightable depends if the purpose of the said design is utilitarian or artistic.
Different strokes for different folks. All depends on what you're doing, what you're ignoring, what you should be doing, and what you want to be doing. Once you can be honest with yourself, priorities become clear.

As long as you keep moving in the long-term, it's OK, just remember to make time for yourself. This is where a lot of people focused on productivity inevitably burn out.
Side comment: my math professor in college (a logician Simon Thomas) shared a math puzzle with us about a hydra that grows copies of her heads when cut off according to some math rule. The process made it seem like there would be no way to ever kill the hydra, but our professor said there was a proof that you could, just by working through one head at a time (even randomly).

Many years later, while drowning in links (reading one article made me bookmark several more), this story gave me hope that I could reach inbox zero just by reading, undaunted by the growing backlog.

https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/undergrad/Activities/Lectures...

My personal strategy is to add things to Pocket or bookmarks, and then, if a year later I'm still interested in reading it, I'll read it.
"Workers on Medicaid" doesn't sound so bad. Here in Spain everyone who works is on the community medical system :) Which is really great by the way.

Food stamps is awful though.. But I thought that McDonalds employees can take unsold food home? I know they can here, one of my friends worked there when he was young and he'd often bring home a big bag of burgers ;)
I'm in a similar boat. I use pocket almost exclusively when I'm travelling. It works really well for that but I'd love to extend it. Eg download and store video content, or permit tagging when submitting URLs via email, automatic tagging, ...

Can anyone recommend a hackable alternative? I found https://alternativeto.net/software/pocket/?license=opensourc...
You would have to do it as a social marketplace. You could post the items you want to pawn and local independent 'shops' could offer the item. Essentially, a reverse Craigslist with pawn dynamics backed by eBay style profiles and feedback.
This looks great. It seems like there are issues with sign up. There is no sign-up link on the home page. I found it via guest mode --> sign up. After clicking sign up,... there is no form. I'm using firefox.

HTH!
Legal department / managers etc. needed something to do.
You haven’t met that many adults have you?
I guess that's part of the reason I enjoy reading about and experimenting with old hardware like the Amiga and old consoles. You could learn how the whole machine worked. It's a wonderful feeling that just doesn't exist on modern hardware.
Coming up with enough resources to satisfy both sides of my dilemma resolves it for now, but it doesn't really address the fact that our expectations about markets' fault tolerance were wrong and probably will be again.

That said, my solution is equally unsatisfying. Saying that we should reconsider our assumptions about markets isn't the same as providing an improved set of assumptions.