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If more activists took your approach, I'd be far less skeptical of them.

edit: I should add why I tend to be skeptical of them. It's not just about idealogical purity, it's that in order to truly make progress, you have to reduce the total number of problems in the world. It's very easy to spot a problem - anyone can do that. It's less easy, but still fairly easy, to recommend a fix for the problem. But what's very challenging is to find a fix that does not cause more problems than it solves. It's entirely possible to make things worse, and the best way to make sure that doesn't happen is to be dispassionate. But right now the trend is to lean into passion, and specifically, anger. As you said, anger can prompt action. But the problem with anger is that it's a fire that you can't control, especially when you're talking about millions of people.
I'm sorry you've gotten that impression. We do have some things we'd be interested in getting more users for, but much of what we build is prototypes. If you're interested I'd love to talk.
Electric trains instead of polluting ships for freight? I think the value should be quite obvious. Plus, goods can be delivered in days as opposed to weeks. I am not sure why the article was pushing the passenger angle so much.
Yes, I am also all for paying a bit more if it comes with the guarantee that it's less problem/questioning/time wasted researching or supporting the thing down the line.
> And why would they? OpenGL is really unpleasant from a hardware manufacturer's / integrator's / OS author's perspective

That's why it must be deprecated. Why do we need to reinvent the wheel over and over again ? I get it, X sucks and the answer to this is .... wayland. OpenGL sucks and the answer to this is ? DirectX ? Vulkan ? SDL ? Libcaca ? ( sorry i forgot ncurses).
Just like an old builder: you have some bricks, use them.
On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality
Most banks don't do their own everything. A few seemingly little banks (often in the middle of nowhere) take on different tasks. It could well be that when you called "your bank" the other bank was originating the call and the person at your bank didn't know how the backend was really wired.
Yeah but no. I did that at one time but it's a huge time sink and I didn't retain useful knowledge or skills.
> Does that mean I shouldn't be able to hold a job, or that to do so I should have to hide my opinions and express them only surreptitiously?

You should, and are, free to express those opinions but bigotry is not a protected class. Your employer should be free to fire you if it doesn't like what you are saying.

What value does tenure provide in this scenario? His blog is not related to CS or academia. He is doing harm to the reputation of the university and CS department.
> but really what you're saying is that nobody wants to pay for it

No, I'm saying it's feasible. It's not uncommon to hear of people being reported by their teammates in team games for just having a bad round, and in games with cross team chat (like LoL until very recently) people would request the enemy team to report for "feeding". The SnR is incredibly low when the report button is just used as "I had a bad game and am blaming someone else". The sheer scale of reports in a game like warzone (where there are 150 players per game, and each session takes ~30 minutes) where there are 100,000,000 people playing [0] isn't feasible. Technically yes, nobody wants to pay for it, but nobody wants to pay for it in the way that nobody wants to pay to send every player the hardware required to play the game.

> Set up a very modest subscription model (like 2$/mo) to fund report checking for your game, possibly with a free tier that starts with low trust, and nuke people by credit card number.

This is a terrible idea, for many reasons. $24/year in the US is much less than $24/year in India, the Phillipines, Brazil (which is where many F2P games are popular. You're also competing against games that _don't_ charge $24/year. There is already a secondary market for video game accounts, this just ensures that a secondary market appears for games with valid credit cards attached to them (and this sounds like _exactly_ the sort of secondary market you want to discourage from your game). Having this sort of protection also doesn't weed out cheaters; CS:GO is absolutely rampant with cheaters, despite having an actual price tag, and requiring a _phone number_ for verification (it's now F2P with a prime upgrade for ranked; it's no better). You're also competing against people who are willing to pay $50/month to cheat [1] in a F2P game, so asking them to pay $2 extra to play the game is not going to stop them.

[0] https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-04-21-call-of-duty-w...
[1] https://battlelog.co/store/product/315-mwwarzone-supreme-20-... - This is a cheat site,I make absolutely no claims about what is actually on the site, wouldn't recommend clicking this link.
You’re confusing purpose with inevitability. Why do organisms reproduce? Because if they didn’t they wouldn’t be around—duh!

This is like saying that the purpose of water is to find the path of least resistance.
Having that functionality in your pocket, instantly usable, beats having an SLR in the closet at home with a macro lens that you can switch to for a passing need.

And FWIW, the curse of SLR macro lenses is minuscule depth of field, so much so that many take many photos (presuming a perfectly stationary subject), bracket the focus, and stack by sharpness. It's a hugely involved process. A macro lens with a tiny focal length instantly has a big advantage, though depth of field is still going to be a problem given the fixed aperture.

It most real world scenarios I think the average person will have a much better chance of successful results.
Yes because their fight is not grounded in principles but in bottom line.
This is a fantastic nugget of info, thank you!
I use showdead on hn, and I'd say it's kinda 50-50. A comment thread like this one is gonna draw out the worst offenders though.
escape life, or the point of life (if there's one)?

i don't think there's a point of life. from a nature perspective it should be reproduce and assure balance in the ecosystem, but as there's way too many humans that ship has sailed.

from the economic perspective you're a pawn to contribute to a "healthy" economy so we all can enjoy our luxuries.

and then there's the individual perspective, where the point probably is what you want it to be.

after realising there's no point at all, for me the point pretty much is "do what you want and what you're comfortable with and try not to worry too much"
A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes
> Suppose the likelihood of the government or ISP rewriting my requests is very low, as it is in the U.S.

Comcast used to (and maybe still does) inject JavaScript into HTTP requests when users were approaching their transfer caps, so that a warning banner would be shown to let them know they are almost at their terabyte limit.

ISP's have been and continue to be caught playing tricks like this. T-Mobile for instance used to rewrite the playlists that YouTube would send down for HSL to remove the higher bitrates to reduce network traffic.

Just because you are in the US does not mean you are immune from this sort of shenanigans, currently it is used mostly in the name of network management, but it could also be used for nefarious purposes.

I also fully believe this is why public libraries should exist. The library near me has new computers, help that can help the person navigate those sites and even has tablets available for loan.
Not to mention the platform wide rollout of spatial audio.
I was thinking about Godot!
Commenting without having to get to the trouble of showing your code is faster is cheap.

Your suggestions would make the code much slower.

There may be ways to make it a bit faster, but not with your silly suggestions.
You can ear an EV very well, the rolling noise and the wind noise is difficult to miss. Of course if the EV is driven very slowly it's not noisy unless it has a fake sound like many does, but it's not very dangerous either.
Epic doesn't seem to think so, since they majorly funded it just two years ago.

https://www.blender.org/press/epic-games-supports-blender-fo...

The only area I could see this in is in high-end movie production, like they did with The Mandelorian for the digital green screen stuff, but the distinction between real-time and non-real-time rendering seems pretty strong.
Apple could just use the vendor-provided OpenGL (AIUI most of the code is common between Windows and Linux for the major vendors), which e.g. for nvidia still happily supports everything from 1.0 to the present.
Interesting. I was thinking more in line of ppl simply siphoning money and power from fb. I don’t see a grand scheme here, just some blood in the water.
You know it's not just a picture right? There's a description under the picture, that likely was the part that was being censored.
I tried to install the pop shell, but it worked out badly. Those distro are not made to just have the DE installed after the installation of Ubuntu. Something always breaks.

You have to install from the official .iso
From the article, it sounds like nothing even remotely questionable was done by the reporter who found the flaw:

> "According to the Post-Dispatch, one of its reporters discovered the flaw in a web application allowing the public to search teacher certifications and credentials. No private information was publicly visible, but teacher Social Security numbers were contained in HTML source code of the pages."
Nuclear is (more or less) clean, and would have been great to focus more on 20 years ago (instead of slowing it down, that was a mistake), and can still be part of the solution, but it's no longer the best or only solution.

“Stabilising the climate is urgent, nuclear power is slow. It meets no technical or operational need that these low-carbon competitors cannot meet better, cheaper, and faster."

"The report estimates that the average construction time for reactors worldwide was ten years, significantly longer than the World Nuclear Association’s estimated construction time of between five and eight years. Nuclear reactors are also slow to start and a number have closed, with nine units closing over 2018 and a further five units expected to close over 2019."

"The report also states that nuclear power is more expensive than renewables. Nuclear energy costs around $112-189 per megawatt hour (MWh) compared to $26-56MWh for onshore wind and $36-44MWh for solar power. Levelised cost estimates for solar and wind also dropped by 88% and 69% respectively, while they increased by 23% for nuclear power."

https://www.power-technology.com/news/nuclear-energy-report-...
Where/how do you use it? The description is pretty straightforward:

https://man.openbsd.org/timeout.1

But it's not something I'd miss - unless it's used in some scripts I'm unaware of..
Someone I know retired from an executive role at a tech company and, in retirement, he got into doing a lot of angel investing. He mostly got out of it except for a few companies he especially believed in. He told me he would have done far better investing the money in a handful of large tech companies.

People think there are these high-return (after adjusting for risk) investment opportunities out there off limits to the plebes. And it's mostly not true. Sure you can get lucky. But over the past decade you could have made a lot of money on boring big company investments.
Tell me you don't understand computers without telling me you don't understand computers.
The First Black-Owned NFT Marketplace, Disrupt Art, Launches October 15th
If crypto is purchased via debt then whomever lent the money are morons and need to lose their shirts.

But yes there is a problem that there is a lack of safe investments that pay a little above inflation. Bonds used to do that, but they don't anymore, because there are too few people who need money and too many who have it (ironically the price of money has cratered).

I suspect that this is linked to our inability to build things anymore. With interest rates in the toilet the various government should have borrowed way more money so that they could invest them in bridges, road maintenance and so forth.
How could they figure out the internal account number without hacking into the bank in the first place? I’m fairly certain there’s no way to derive the account number from a debit card number or any of the info you mentioned.
I agree with this. The quality of your Jenkins experience will be pretty much inversely proportional to how much groovy script is in your Jenkinsfiles.

Every new permutation of parameters is a new chance for something to go wrong, and there's basically no sane way to unit test or validate any of your "helper" functions, so they're all write-once-change-never.

Which is not necessarily a problem inherent in Jenkins— Jenkins just gives you more than enough rope to hang yourself. GitLab CI can get silly too, but culturally it inherits from the much simpler Travis model, where you're basically expected to just be wrapping some other build tool (eg, tox from the Python world) rather than rolling the whole thing yourself.
It's funny how donut and not circle is becoming the norm.
Well, you seem to be uninspired by DOTA and Netflix so I think you already know the answer to your question.

To be nerdy about it; this is a problem with many variables and one of your responsibilities is to figure out what they are. So if you're feeling overwhelmed with a sense of futility then it might be that you're experiencing some level of depression. You could be out of 'happy juice' and be wildly over stimulated. You need to name, and isolate those variables for yourself, so you can hear what some people call your 'authentic voice' which will give you some level of inspiration.

I realize this might sound hand-wavy. I can't give you any practical personal advice for obvious reasons, but I would really encourage you to change things up; change your surroundings. Try new things. Meet new people. Move your body around. None of it will feel good to start.

You may also be interested in reading or listening to work by Andrew Huberman who provides excellent lectures on various topics around brain chemistry and motivation.
I used to run Nextcloud. Nextcloud did a bunch of stuff I didn't need, is a larger attack vector and usually took an entire afternoon/evening every time I needed to do an upgrade. So far I spent less time setting all this up, and writing a WebDAV server than any one upgrade of Nextcloud took me.

Minio is zero-maintenance, if it needs an upgrade I just pull a newer Docker image. My WebDAV server is fewer than 100 lines of Go and extremely easy to maintain.
America does invest into itself. But Americans generally don't want the investment.

* No one likes welfare. At best, Americans begrudgingly accept it when necessary, but many people (even poor people) refuse to accept it at all.

* Investments into Education are fraught with political issues. Spend $1 billion bucks on a new Math program and everyone loses their collective minds. Buy a new teacher and people think you're indoctrinating them with Critical Race Theory.

* Improve local land, and the leftists yell "Gentrification". Oh, I'm sorry I wanted to improve this area with parks and metro stations and bus stops. Yes, that increases rent prices in the area but what else did you expect to happen?

* Try to build low-income houses elsewhere and people stonewall you with NIMBYism. People don't like their property values declining, which happens when low-cost housing is made.

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At some point, its just not worth the political hassle. Americans largely don't want the money or things to change. It doesn't matter if they're right-wing or left-wing, changing cities for the better is change and scary.
When I was younger I was a big fan of existentialism. "Life has no prescribed inherent meaning, it is whatever you want it to be!" seemed very freeing.

Then I suffered a disability and came upon the realization similar to Helen Macdonalds, in H is for Hawk:

"There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all.

You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]"

In an effort to adapt to this, I clung to stoicist philosophy. Life is to be weathered, through the development of virtues, and above all else--realizing what you have control over, and what you do not.

Upon becoming homeless, I realized this wise and practical branch of philosophy had not exactly delivered on it's promises. You cannot be destitute, sick, and isolated, and still manage to be happy, despite Stoicist claims to the contrary. This branch of philosophy oddly seems entitled to me now--little wonder it grew popular with intelligentsia, emperors, and now tech CEOs. I grew to far prefer its philosophical progenitor, Cynicism.

For this phase of my life, Albert Camus resonates and brings comfort. Life is absurd. The challenge is not to unravel or create meaning for life, but to image personal happiness in a stochastic world that defies explanation (though some such explanation may indeed exist, it is certainly absurd to human minds. I envy the dismissive confidence of those that proclaim "no point!")

This philosophy has served me far better than the others, though who knows what will come in the twilight of my life. Life is strange, fellow travelers.
I am not opposed to nuclear on principle, but I am pragmatically opposed to building new nuclear for three reasons: 1) the amount of nuclear that we get per dollar 2) the long delay between funding/approval/design and the first power delivers to the grid, and 3) the chance that when we do spend money, that we will actually get something out at the end.

Throughout the US and Europe, all recent attempts at building new nuclear have suffered from massive construction failure. Not from regulatory burdens, but from just building what was designed by engineers. Vogtle, Summer, Flamanville, Hinkley, and Olkiluoto have been huge disappointments.

France's only hope for new nuclear to replace their aging fleet is now small modular reactors, a technology that in the past has been rejected foe being too costly since the costs are supposed to go down with larger reactors, not smaller.

If we get new nuclear, it will either be because Russia builds it (and there's no evidence that Russia could take a US construction crew and get a completed project), or because we try a new form of nuclear.

I think it's time to realize that nuclear technology does not fit our current skill set. And that wind, solar, and storage have leapfrogged nuclear in terms of advanced technology.
Cher Scarlett leading a worker uprising at Apple
How is the SCSS performance? I've tried just about every trick in the book in an attempt to get our bootstrap-based SCSS projects to compile faster, and I'm at my wits end with it.

Any chance you can share your config?
I don't think anything is that secret about their business model. You see this same model with legacy enterprise software and other long tail recurring revenue soures. You largely give up on growth, but drop costs to near zero if you can and buyout based on the tail that will stick for a while.

There are often hyperbolic claims that these local newsrooms would be making tons of money if only an investor came in who understood business - but the newsrooms never seem able to find that investor. Employee buyout efforts also have fallen flat, efforts which are driven by I think very clear views on what Alden will do (cut costs!).

Separately, not all news has fallen - Wall Street Journal has to be making good money off their subscription and print product, they've taken a bit more of a middle of the road path relative to other media. NY Times and Washington Post also probably doing OK for various reasons.

There is a real need for local news however, desperate, and ideally not the hard left / right type stuff that seems to emerge on social media.
This is also because the women's team had originally negotiated a contract that prefers stable salaries over the higher risk-reward benefit that comes with winning: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/09/22/uswnt-equal...
Irrational. If everyone ceased to have children, the whole bet would be lost. So, it's more complicated than that.
>"Shit" that happens at low levels is still shit, even if it's not company policy coming from the top.

In some cases, it can be worse. If something happens at a low level that is unambiguously bad and no one at the top does anything about it despite knowing about it, then to the public, it's as if upper-management is condoning the behavior.

Case in point: the Redskins practicing human trafficking with no strong public denouncement from the team's front office.
I doubt about the gaming market. Plausible. But their upcoming AR tech needs 3D content and lots of it. Might include gaming as well but there are more uses than strictly "game games" for game like software and content.
There is no point. There is only one point. There are as many points as you can make up. Choose any of these.

Life’s point is to live, and the inherent hope of all* life (regardless of species) is for life to thrive way beyond the term of one individual.

*: Caveats apply.
classic trade-off between security/privacy and convenience
OpenBSD for laptops, VM guests, and VPSs. It has a very coherent userland, and the devs dogfood heavily, my go-to for anything I have to actually administer.

FreeBSD for servers and NAS, desktop. FreeBSD has high performance all around, ZFS, jails, bhyve, linux compatability, etc. But it's not as nice to administer as OpenBSD. I want to love it, but it's tedious.

NetBSD is an OK choice for anything, and very capable, but doesn't stand out for anything other than portability. If you enjoy hacking on things, you might find a lot of use in it.
Surprised they didn't go for the "GIT" ticker
> No private information was publicly visible, but teacher Social Security numbers were contained in HTML source code of the pages.

If it was in the HTML source code, then it was publicly visible, so it is unclear what the article is trying to say.
You can really get a sense of his humor from his website: "55 years ago I first used Occam's Razor. Since then I have used no other."
> our inability to be rude to people

I don't seem to find that hard at all. And I meet many strangers that are rude (not all of them foreigners).

It's true that brits hate complaining in restaurants. I don't think I've ever complained in a restaurant, despite my innate rudeness. But I find it very hard to keep my cool, when I've just listened to 30 minutes of hold music, and the person that picks up is an unhelpful numpty.
Senators too! We must end finstas! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGt1Ukg7q4Y
I don't want a OS where I have to read man pages and documentation to get around. The whole self documentation excuse is the same reason why Emacs is slowly losing market share. People want software that is intuitive, and failing that, have all answers available on their favorite search engine. Short of baking a chatbot or search engine into OpenBSD, relying purely on self documentation is not sustainable. Though the idea of Clippy being powered by GPT3 does sound appealing.
This seems to be a requirement these days for being a governor.

I understand not everyone can know everything. The fact that it is deemed unacceptable to admit not having all of the information to make an informed decision/comment where someone in a position of authority makes shit up to just sound authoritative is a sad state of affairs. It's not like being a governor is the same as posting things on an internet forum.