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> You've made 4 posts bashing on Linux with more complaints about supposedly being attacked than actual substance about why you don't like Linux.

I have repeatedly complained about Windows[0] in this thread, and the very second I mention not liking Linux people really seem to want to recommend me Linux distros or ask me to tell them why. I have never seen anyone do this for any reason other than performative argumentation.

> At any rate, I would be genuinely curious to hear what specifically you don't like about Linux beyond tautological statements like not liking its paradigms and calling package management "stupid" without any supporting rationale.

I don't even need supporting rationale for an opinion. I could say I don't like any of the distro logos and that would still be a perfectly valid reason not to want to use Linux. At least in a sane world it would, but Linux users apparently have some bug up their ass about needing everyone to agree with them about how great it is.

[0] With great hostility and in the context of expecting it to eventually drive me to use Linux
> It's when I read comments like yours that I feel so jealous of the US.

And then the same Americans ban you from Reddit if you complain about the lockdowns or forced mask mandates.
So a feature for child safety, delayed due to public peer-pressure. How much of the public pee-pressure was from children? An odd question but equally, does highlight how many things are done in the "think of the children" vein that never even asks a single child for their thoughts. Whilst we all admit there are many things to protect children from and even some questions, but imagine if Apple countered with an advert showing lots of children saying how it's good how Apple is protecting their safety. How would that sit with public opinion then?
We're seeing more and more that our democracy's systems only have integrity while the people inhabiting them have integrity. The rules are in place so that a couple bad apples can't bring down the whole thing, but that assumes the majority are still acting in good faith (this applies to citizens too, not just those in office).

No set of rules can make a society functional when a majority of it has decided to be dysfunctional.
That's insane when the Chinese are playing the game too.
I've been on the other end of this. The person in charge of hiring me took my resume and qualifications and used that to template the job posting, so I would be the most perfectly qualified candidate too.
Calling a rust library with the Panama FFI
The same critique applies to skateboarding, and that seems as popular as ever.
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That's overall community effectiveness, and with only 50% mask compliance:

“It’s notable that even though fewer than 50% of the people in the intervention villages wore masks in public places, we still saw a significant risk reduction in symptomatic COVID-19 in these communities, particularly in elderly, more vulnerable people.”

And the protective effect was even more pronounced in the elderly:

The protective effect increased to nearly 35% for people over 60 years old.
Unfortunately I don't think pretending that covid doesn't exist is going to allow society to function as it used to.
Ida dodged NYC’s flood defenses
Holding down a job develops a work ethic and pride in one's accomplishment. These are things that a chronic benefit recipient may have in short supply, and are vital investments that will pay off many times over in a lifetime.
LeBron James responds after bar bans NBA games over his tweet about Ohio officer
That kinda makes the situation potentially a bit worse since this condition is known to occur with more frequency in 16-24 year olds.
> maybe this is one of the reasons for popularity of 12-based systems in ancient times?

The popularity of 12-based systems is due to the fact that 12 is divisible by 2, 3, and 4.
Since the threshold is 30 images, and those images are matched to a curated database of abusive material, what you write here simply doesn't apply.
When 70% of people weren't affected by the experiment (13% were wearing masks before the experiment started. 60% of people didn't wear a mask after the experiment), then of course the numbers are going to be small.

Seeing a measurable difference when the population only changed from 13% mask to 40%ish mask usage is pretty outstanding IMO.
No idea why this is being downvoted. It is totally accurate. 50,000 people died from synthetic opioids in the US last year, and fentanyl in illicit pain pills are common. Stick to cannabis if the medical system is failing to give you a legitimate prescription.
> The safety of the vaccine compared to the safety of Covid has been conclusively demonstrated.

I agree with this, but it I find it hard to find a single repository of good information on Covid. Maybe I am ignorant. Is there something you can share with me? I know many people still on the fence and I would like to offer them some evidence.
> 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.

With the road metaphor, one issue I've seen is ops will create a rope bridge and get mad when devs need to drive a car over it. "You shouldn't do that! You idiot! Just walk over the bridge like we expect!"

Example: We have about 500 different applications in our company and the ops team maintains a single rabbit cluster for all apps (and everyone is supposed to use that one cluster). If an app gets too chatty on that cluster "Oh you idiot, why are you so chatty! You just sunk the organization!" Which, in turn, discourages the usage of rabbit (maybe that's the intention?)

> But most of my team does not write code.

I actually prefer this ( :D ), our ops team was a bunch of converted devs that decided the best way to do things was making a giant ops framework for all devs to follow. That ended up costing WAY more money than if they'd just used tools that were available. They fetishized trying to make everything "just one line!" which ended up breaking anytime you had a slightly different need (trying to take control right up to managing how version bumps happen).

Overly trying to force a single method of implementation has a lot of negative consequences. I prefer instead to have guidebooks and examples with the freedom to be an idiot and walk off the beaten path when needed.
I use Quickbooks and it is reasonably hands off. Classifying transactions improves with time, the manual part gets reduced too.

Bookkeeping is not overly difficult, but accounting is much more than that. It has similarities to lawyers, in they you need to be staying current with the laws and regulations.
Why didn't they test N95 masks?
You would need negative interest rates for it to work and then you would need a tax on land to curb speculation on the strongest monopoly in the economy.
"Human review" here means basically minimum wage person who's looking through a lot of abuse images on a daily basis & has significant fatigue. I view it more as a CYA thing than any meaningful protection mechanism.

Additionally, the images sent to review are significantly downscaled versions of the original & could easily be made to be ambiguous.

The most difficult challenge in this SWAT story is that Apple has a secret secondary hash that's checked on a collision. That's the part of the SWATting story that feels difficult on a technical level. However, there are also really smart people out there so it wouldn't surprise me if a successful attack strategy is developed at some point given time.
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> you'll need to somehow hook up 3 or 5 disks to your computer to have any chance of a recovery

If you are using only 2 disks, the only reasonable options are 0 or 1. So, you are saying that 0 is too unreliable, what I think nobody will disagree.

But when you have enough disks, RAID 6 is a no-brainier.
Drivers distracted by talk is already a thing through radio, phone and physical company. A purely voice-driven anki should not entail more risk than a conference call.
And don't forget that all of this was ruled illegal a year later. All fines reimbursed, but who gives us back the time that was stolen from us?
"Three glasses." - Those goddamn people from Piz Palü!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Ckh80mLlQ
Finance is a good one. Academia is really hard to make any money in, if you can even get a job. Otherwise you can slide into stats or some applied field and do some consulting or something.
I really like the Chinese way of counting. As far as I remember you can go as high as 99 on both hands.

Still, I'm never able to memorise it, no matter how many times I learn it.
Wearing a proper mask that actually substantially reduces the chance of contracting or spreading covid is uncomfortable. As many of us have been saying from the beginning (including the CDC initially!) the cloth masks are just the medical equivalent of TSA security theater. Right now they just function as a little badge to indicate which "team" you're on.
I completely agree. Far too many devs are clueless about how their apps perform or interact with the ecosystem. That tunnel vision has a LOT of negative consequences on infrastructure.
I was militant pro-mask when I was unvaccinated. Now that I'm vaccinated and have no comorbidities, I'm OK with being exposed to COVID-19. In fact, I want to have a mild case of COVID-19 to get natural immunity. Natural immunity seems to be more effective than the vaccine for long lasting immunity.
It's the natural consequence of a world where performance is difficult to measure, people are largely fungible, and next to nothing that you personally do will move the needle in whether your employer will be successful.

In that situation, why wouldn't you hire and promote your friends? All of the incentives are aligned for doing just that.
> Apple is well within their rights to be shutting down pay discussions on company time and on a company platform

That's simply not what the legal precedent says. It is an "unfair labour practice" to forbid workers doing collective action like discussing pay in a venue where you let them have other kinds of general discussion.
Getting turned down for another job in light of the company choosing what is in their purview a better candidate, is not any indication that someone isn't valued.
Shameless plug for my React library for creating interactive visualizations on the web, in case anyone wants to make similar things. Probably needs a little work to make things this sophisticated though :)

https://mafs.dev/
Not a bad problem to solve .. how to identify clickbait
Just like people stopped using google and facebook because they also scan for CSAM?
Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts
Maintenance isn't free as it takes time to do it. Some just want a COTS solution that works.
‘Fraudulent’ DMCA Circumvention Takedowns Target Prominent Websites
oh gee, i missed an opportunity to cite Ursala Franklin's holistic vs prescriptive tech dichotomy! well, let me backfill that a little: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_p...

yes the big powers of the world are clutching at tech to control & mechanize. to prescriptize technology, by which they can process human beings. but the flipside is that tech has enormously large heart, of holistic technologies, that humankind leverages rather than is-leveraged-by to expand their potential & power. and i think we have never been better enabled, but that we are struggling to tell the tale, amid so many other losses of control/immediacy/locality.

and when we do begin to wade into technogenesis, more often than not we are bombarded by too much choice, too many options, too much responsibility. we are too free, too unable to understand how to steer, where to go. so again technology does not feel like a win, does not feel enobling, even when we are engaging in holistic technology endeavours.

but i continue to think the place to focus, the place to think of, the place to move to is 100% in advance. is 100% about focusing on general systems research that is pro-user, pro-observable systems for everyone, pro-malleability. the word user itself needs replacing, needs to be supplanted by more ennobled forms, by software & systems that respect the humans working with them more broadly, by a sense of ownership & control over the everyday technology about us. i ride with hope.
I’ve seen a lot of job postings for a team lead developer, and I’ve always wondered why those positions wouldn’t be filled internally by default. I would never want to be in charge of a team whose project and code I had literally never seen before! How could you make any sort of decision without knowing the first thing about the technology or infrastructure?
Does the paper reveal the seroprevalence by control village and intervention village? I just scanned it and can find no such information.

EDIT: Table A14 is the closest I can find but it is only coefficients, not the underlying counts.
I can certainly relate to this. I spoke with the hiring manager of a new role for which I ticked all the boxes in terms of the sort of skills and qualifications needed. I'm talking years of relevant experience with the hiring manager agreeing I was more or less perfect for the role. Except one thing, the role was posted at a higher level than I currently was and they just weren't willing to expend the political capital needed to sidestep that. I mean he was nice enough about it and offered to talk again in a couple months once they had more headcount at lower levels but the annoying thing was, if I was an external candidate that wouldn't have been a problem. In any case, I quit shortly afterwards and found a new role elsewhere.
Yes, to some extent. A business will have software that totals its revenue and expenses. There are judgement calls, though. If you have $1 million in receivables outstanding, how much of that will you collect? If you invested $10 million to build a factory, how quickly does it depreciate?
> Predictions of some massive sales drop -- or even a sales drop at all -- are deluded nonsense.

I remember, when that recalcitrant dentist was dragged of a United plane, endless predictions of United's imminent demise, people would never fly United again, yada yada yada. Needless to say, nothing much happened.

> I suspect the on-device scanning element is going to be removed and it'll be on ingress to iCloud, which is what I said on my very first post to this. It was ill-considered to do it on device given Apple's privacy push.

Not sure about that. Apple's approach (private set intersection run on half client, half server) preserves more privacy than scanning it in the cloud, and leaves the door open for E2EE.
That was on my ming when I wrote "one of the".
Translating this to plain English using the corp/gov lingo:

Child = authoritarian
Safety = control/censorship (depends on context)
Features = restrictions
Not really. What's being suggested is that what's being tested is both societal compliance combined with mask effectiveness. To dramatically over simplify, let's assume we have a population of 10, none of them mask wearers. Let's also assume masks are 100% effective at preventing Covid infection. These measures convince only 1 person to wear a mask.

In the control group (no advocacy) 10/10 are infected. In the study group 9/10 are because that one person wore a mask. So we've got an effectiveness of 10%, despite masks in our contrived example being 100% effective. The effectiveness is blunted by lack of compliance.
I guess you also mock meat eaters by saying let's all eat humans too? Or do you only waste your great talent at hyperbole on vegans?
I hope it's dangerous enough that it ends up creating ninja turtles, but not enough to bring dinosaurs back from extinction.
At one point, Bill Gates openly admitted that this was part of Microsoft's China strategy [1]:

> Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-fi-micro...
If it helps, this type of nannying conduct stopped when I went to engineering focused firms instead of product and traditional businesses. Why it happened at Apple eludes me, but I suspect that once an engineering firm grows to a certain size it's culture cannot be sustained homogeneously.
> Intuitively I'd assume they'd be much more effective as they have better fit + higher filtration, but of course, confirmation would be great.

I think that is really hard to say.

IF they are properly fitted (that won't normally be the case).

As I see it (as well intuitively) if the virus is transmitted "directly" by droplets then cloth, surgical or N95 won't make much difference from a clear plastic shield (as we have seen many in hospitals wear, besides the masks), while if it is transmitted by aerosol the filtration capacity changes matters greatly.

Point is whether a (poorly) fitted N95 does actually protect more than a surgical mask.

Since a N95 is "harder" to breath in (as it filters much more), it is possible that a lot more non-filtered air comes from the (poor) fitting gaps.

In my personal case I have (now) a beard and #1 lesson when years ago I was taught how to wear a N95 (actually a FPP2, almost the same as N95) was that you had to be cleanly shaven, and - besides that - I had to try some 5 or 6 different mask models before finding a suitable one (the mask shape need to be suited to your face shape for a proper fit).

This is a pet-peeve of mine, but noone actually wears N95 masks properly:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22728367
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23957506
>Free mask distribution and promotion reduced the proportion of people who reported COVID-like symptoms on average by 11 percent, which was driven mainly by the effects of surgical masks. Villages where cloth masks were distributed experienced a 5 percent reduction in symptoms, while villages where surgical masks were distributed saw a reduction of 12 percent. About a third (40 percent) of those who reported COVID-19 symptoms agreed to have their blood tested for SARS-CoV-2. On average, researchers found a decrease of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections of 9 percent. This reduction was higher in villages that wore a surgical mask (11 percent) and in these, among individuals aged 60+ (35 percent).

It is measuring the effectiveness of the public policy and comparing how it differs when the masks distributed were cloth versus surgical. There is nothing in this report about the effectiveness of masks on an individual level.
>Hmm, are you suggesting that those public policies might have had an impact on covid transmission that wasn't mediated through mask-wearing?

That wasn't the intention of my comment, but yes that is also true. As the article notes:

>"In the intervention villages, they also saw a slight increase in physical distancing in public spaces, such as marketplaces."

My original comment was more directed at the fact that these public policies are not 100% effective in getting people to wear masks. Therefore the society reduction of 11% is not comparable to the vaccine efficacy numbers which are measured at an individual level. If we measured vaccine efficacy numbers using this societal approach, the numbers in the US would be abysmal considering our active case numbers are quickly approaching the peak of the pre-vaccine waves.
Do you have a good source on this?
> Something so true that it has to be compelled by law!

Just because it is compelled by law doesn't mean it has to be. My company gives me paternity leave which isn't compelled by law, so I'm sure they would give maternity leave even without the law.
Mac rumors has really drunk the cool aid with that headline and not actually call out what apple was trying to do.
analog electronic and electro mechanical engineering is a lost art that should be resurrected
Only a piece of the solution, you still need the economic incentive, and that incentive shouldn't be just hoping you're popular enough for people to donate to your stewardship.

Let me know what you come up with, there are likely some crafty solutions.
You have access to the internet, yet claim you can't find good information about Covid? Please don't troll about a virus that's already killed millions of people, including my own mother.
Try it. It works.
Crazy you are being downvoted. fentanyl fakes probably outnumber real painkillers 100-1 at this point.
99% of startups fail. I'd rather get RSUs from an established company myself having done a startup once before that crashed and burned.
Whelp it seems I recalled incorrectly this time, because LPL did pick the second one open, via a weakness in the design that he believes can be patched. I don't think my sentiment was totally off base, but clearly my statement about not being picked was factually incorrect.
As the second employee at the company, I did get these answers. I also got cap table access.
The focus of the story is an Islamic State website celebrating a Taliban attack. Sounds like folks came to comment and didn't realize what they're commenting on.

> Amazon made headlines in the Washington Post last week for shutting down a website hosted on AWS that featured propaganda from Islamic State that celebrated the suicide bombing that killed an estimated 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops in Kabul last Thursday. They did so after the news organization contacted Amazon, according to the Post.
>Why didn't they test N95 masks?

The difference between a cloth mask and an n95 mask when dealing with an airborne virus has been tested.

>Studies that have been done show that if an individual might get infected within 15 minutes in a room, by time and concentration of the virus in the room, add a face cloth covering you only get about five more minutes of protection.

On the other hand if you use the n95 respirators and fit them tight to your face, you can actually spend 25 hours in that same room and still be protected.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/do-masks...
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Sorry, but if you think emailing codes is the good case you’re beyond help.
Sure, but the point is that no system is going to be perfect, so just this one example doesn’t tell us much.