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Notification Systems 2.0: Part 1 – User Requirements
Notifications have become such a nuisance that end-user devices have started inventing their own ways of providing a premium user experience. What happened to these apps? Did marketing take over and SPAM Gun everyone? What happens to the important transactional notifications that are filtered?

This is going to be an interesting battle moving into the era of GDPR, CCPA, CASL, and other regional CANSPAM acts. We've seen apps like Clubhouse basically disappear because everyone toggled off their notifications after being sent 10+ per day.

We see pop-ups making a come back now with web push and in-app. It's obvious email is out of control. Most companies still don't understand how to use SMS. Send times are so far off that we are receiving messages hours after our appointments and engagements about the event starting.

I hope that we can begin to educate and encourage appropriate notification usage by enabling observability, centralization, and recipient history|engagement to give end-users the best possible experience alongside your app. I think this post along with their tech is on the right path.

Notifications don't have to suck.
https://www.courier.com/blog/the-developers-guide-user-requirements
The person I was replying to brought up the Biden administration, I personally don't think any president in the last fifty years would have handled this differently.
Facebook Learns There's Another Company Named Meta Already
This all smacks of an overpaid marketing department trying to justify their salary.

Hint to Mozilla - the only effective marketing you have is:
"Firefox isn't feeding your data to Google's AI and it has uBlock Origin."
IP is the same, but it may be Little Snitch messing things up. Let me see if disabling that gets me any further..
Picking one deficit is very different than averaging them: [0].

However I tend to agree that prior to Obama, presidents from the Democratic Party were the more fiscally responsible.

[0] https://www.thebalance.com/deficit-by-president-what-budget-...
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Is it time for the UN to take over San Francisco?
> An "autopilot" that requires a driver's attention is not an autopilot.

Weird; I thought that's exactly what an autopilot was.
If you think it's a bad idea then you're against people bringing their whole self to their computer.

Much easier to construct that defence of a bad idea than to have a good idea.
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I'm reminded of an early machine learning experiment where a system self-trained to perform a certain task on a piece of dedicated hardware did so unexpectedly. The researchers "knew" the solution but wanted to learn how their project solved it.

At some point, the sensing for analog effects became the most efficient way to achieve the result by exploiting flaws or unique properties in the individual components, sort of like that inductance backdoor where a particular set of instructions in a certain circuit leaks into another until it's energized enough to trigger it like a relay. Anyway, the result was unintuitive but worked.

Anyway, there's no doubt that after millions and millions of years, there are natural principles at the quantum and atomic levels that biologics are taking advantage of that we're basically only at the "allegory of the cave" level of understanding.

The micro is very much relative.
I've taught math to plenty of undergraduates – enough to know what does and doesn't play well – and I made an honest attempt to find problems where GA might have some advantage. It is the fact that I sunk several hours of my life into this with no reward that explains why I'm a little salty in this thread, and motivated to warn other people away.

I'd suggest that your comment that math and science pedagogy have been static for the last 50+ years reveals that you are the one speculating beyond their experience.
When you want to undo these "colorways", they're still called "themes" in settings :)

Which have been around for a decade. My personal research into themes is that they suck altogether. Besides very neutral dark or light tones, almost every other combination conflicts with real world content. I've tried hundreds over the years and always fall back to defaults. Note how both web pages and apps also tend to have neutral tones. Must be a reason for it.

Whilst this feature does no harm in itself, I can only agree with some other commenters that Mozilla has turned into a series of contradictions.

It preaches a progressive agenda yet has a neoliberal economic policy. It excessively rewards leaders despite mismanagement and then fires workers.

It preaches privacy unless it concerns their sponsor, Google. There is a Facebook container built-in, but none for the unavoidable Google.

And now they want to get out of the "browser language" and speak the language of common folk. Yet they never seem to have met one. I suppose my old working class father would be a good test:

"Dad, this browser allows you to bring your authentic self!"

My what? And what is a browser?

"They are gray boxes. But not to worry, these authentic colors that somebody else picked are a universal language that transcends the boundaries of our diverse verbal languages"

Go on and you're out of the will.
Bill Gates's philanthropic legacy from a sustainability perspective
This might seem extremely basic, and even silly, but have you tried specifically telling your boss that, 'hey, threats don't motivate me. in fact, they hinder my productivity. also, after hours calls are inappropriate.'?

Why would you do that? Well, to stand up for yourself. Also, it could spur your boss to fire you out of anger or whatever, allowing you to collect unemployment until you find a new role somewhere less toxic.

Edit: a word
Between experience and math, my rule is: on average, buffered with a battery, you'll get 10 watts out of a 100 watt panel (i.e.: 10% efficiency, all common conditions considered).
I'd guess that the NSA had already caught them.
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My brother got a cheap LTO tape drive on eBay and he bought a few LTO tapes so I think I bought one off of him for a few dollars more.

It’s only a few hundred gigabytes and the tape holds about one terabytes .

Note this is my long term cold storage I have backups made on my MacBook Air (hard disk) and my sold MacBook Pro (ssd which I will use on my new 2021 MacBook Pro eventually).

I also have backups using blu ray discs and I have one long term storage blu ray that I have been meaning to use
How would it be fraud if the name is his, legally?
The SSNs were base64 encoded I believe, which is strange to consider encryption, but they also seem to be conflating the "decryption" of that with viewing the source code. This is just so ridiculous of them.
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Compliance with US export controls and sanctions isn't optional. That some companies are less diligent about it than others doesn't change the compliance requirements, and people can and do regularly go to prison for willful violations.
It isn’t a regulator, it’s a charger - depending on the design, you can get even higher voltage spikes. 12V batteries charge at 13-14V, but most chargers design for lead acid can get away with reallly really noisy voltage transients due to the way lead acid works. It’s a pretty insensitive chemistry and dampens them normally.

Some chargers with ‘equalize’ or even worse ‘desulphation’ can intentionally go even higher in voltage than normal charging voltages.

So basically ‘if you just assume it wouldn’t kill your laptop to directly connect it, you’re playing Russian roulette with your laptop’.

With a decent spec sheet (and oscilloscope) to verify nothing too crazy that the charger is doing, some decent power filtering capacitors, and good DC-DC power supply you’d be fine though.
Completely self-inflicted. Let’s make sure the rest of the US does not adopt SF policies. For that matter, west coast policies (LA, Seattle, Portland).
Even as a staff engineer it's not worth trying to fix. Run, run as fast as you can. It's one of my questions I always ask, even for front end based gigs. How does DevOps/Infra work at your place. Unless they have a gleam in their eye or they say that developers can so most of it or a DevOps resource is embedded on each team I run.

As a Staff Engineer it's a no win situation, if you recommend changes the current team hates you. If you don't and try to change things slowly or just tweak things to build trust, most managers are upset that you aren't "moving the needle". The only way I've made that work was to be in complete control and to go scorched earth. Loudly and often state the issues and to have solutions in the back pocket. Basically be unafraid to make the existing team hate you. To be clear I've only been here once and I TRIED to work with them. I didn't last long after righting the ship because I grew to hate the company and working there.
(I work at/cofounded Vanta)

We work with companies doing B2B sales and looking for help with compliance certifications like ISO 27001 and SOC 2. Some folks come to us early but most come with a deal on the line — which is to say, this is a process you can start “just in time” if you must.

From what I’ve seen, saying “no I won’t go through your security review process” is an (obvious) dealbreaker, but there’s a lot of ways to get through that process: ISO cert, SOC 2, the promise to get either of those certs by your go-live/implementation date, security questionnaire hell, etc.

As mentioned previously, ISO is preferred by European companies; SOC 2 is more likely to be mandated by American companies, and you’re likely to get pretty far, even in Europe, on just a SOC 2. If I had to construct the situation that’s most likely to be deal-breaking, it’d be an old-school European company that’s operating off a rigid flow chart: “if no ISO 27001 cert, go back to start. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.”

A few folks have mentioned cost (dollar and organizational) — ymmv and/but the cost of obtaining ISO 27001 certification varies with the number of employees, say $10-20k for smaller companies. Implementing ISO 27001 and an ISMS can be blitzed by small teams in a few weeks but probably will take a couple of months to a year for larger organizations.

(And we’d love to help if you decide to pursue this at Vanta etc etc)
Misleading title.

>spent a whopping $153 during the primary portion of his campaign.
is electricity finite? i don't think so.

you might say that the grid can only support a certain load at a some given time, but obviously more energy could be provided.

in any case, i think it's silly to concern ourselves with (specifically Bitcoin's) energy consumption, as it's tiny compared to the efficiency gains that are realized elsewhere as a result of bitcoin's adoption.
If they weren't autonomous, they'd be employees.
Presumed consent would effectively end waiting lists for most organs.
Doesn't OCaml support it as well?
Great article, but I think he's far too hard on himself and reading too deep into his rejection (plenty of immigrants, non-native English speakers and people in their 30's from non-Ivy League schools succeed at building businesses). He's built a bootstrapped site that is probably going to be able to sustain himself for years.

But small businesses and big businesses are fundamentally different. I come from the restaurant space, and all my favourite restaurants are 'small' and likely can't exist in any place other than where they are. They can't scale. But they're much better qualitatively than restaurants that can scale. Some of the other products and things in my life that I enjoy also come from small artisans and could never scale. And that's OK.

He didn't build a massively scalable business but he did build a (seemingly) good one.
Type 1 is a point in time, and it expires. Type 2 maintains it.
AWS is ISO and SOC certified so they get audited on physical security. I can m trust that they dis it right because they passed their audit. I don't have time to go bother AWS about their security cameras and key card procedures.
Optical disks degrade due to bit rot when the substrate of the disc starts to peel off
With egress costs on s3 that may not be viable if you generate data on the cloud
Based on the article, it sounds like the incumbent angered a lot of people.

The news behind the news is how somebody helped Durr win.
Are you thinking of purified silicon? Silicon is made starting with quartz, quartzite, or similar minerals rich in silicon dioxide. Crude silicon always requires additional purification for solar uses after it's initially created, so the purity of quartz going into the electric furnace isn't critical.

You can see the process flow from raw materials to completed PV modules here:

http://oasis.mechse.illinois.edu/me432/ME432_L31_Nov4.pdf
Certification allows you to form a chain of trust via providers who have had auditors validate and verify their security. When my company gets SOC2 audited, we don't have to audit AWS because AWS is also SOC2 compliant, and their business critical vendors are likewise or have been independently validated, etc. all the way down the chain.
Zuul is a proxy not a caching proxy IIRC.
I don't think most people's resistance to using public transport is a two minute walk between the parking lot and the station entrance.
Yet we have basic vulnerabilities in C and C++ code ALL THE TIME. Empirically, even if perfect tooling exists, you still have to go out of your way to use it.

The right place to enforce these things are in the language and compiler (which I think you agree with). Make it impossible to make mistakes. Which is also why I'm not that excited about Zig. But the point is the tooling story for C isn't a land of puppies and roses, even in 2021.
If I'm working on an interesting problem I can stay on it an infinite number of hours. For a lot of the tasks I get at work it's 5 minutes max: I start doing it then when I realize I'm already typing this comment. Time to go back to it.
I think your reasons are good and essentially what I would give. I also think differential forms are a much theoretically cleaner way to express the same concepts.

Further, teaching differential forms prepares my students to engage with the (vast majority of the) existing math and physics literature. Teaching geometric algebra doesn't.

The practical reasons boil down to: I have to teach the standard stuff because otherwise they can't read the literature. Having done that, what's the marginal benefit of teaching GA? Not a lot.
What policies are you referring to besides zoning?
For a start, governments could demand that phones sold in the country forbid sideloading. Then, after a few years, the government could release an app which checks the firmware version of the phone it is running on, and whether the phone is jailbroken, and tells the mobile network whether to allow data access based on that.
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> First: the rule with these kinds of certifications is simple: don't do them until you have customer deals contingent on them.

Getting an ISO 27001 certification can take months of effort, and not all deals can be stretched this far without significant repercussions.

Just a data point, I lead the certification project at my current company and it took us 8 months (~65 people in total, of which 3 full-time in IT): the auditors were a little hesitant at first because the system wasn't "battle-tested" as much as they'd liked.
I got bored by the time I was at languages
I keep reading that this or the other crypto thing had a design flaw that caused people to lose millions.

I really don't want those same kinds of people running nuclear reactors so I can read about how crypto scheme X literally blew up.
AWS has ISO27001 certification and more. The whole point of these certifications is that it proves a competent auditor came in and checked all of these things, so your customers don’t have too.

Part of ISO27001 is proving that you’re supply chain is also ISO27001 compliant. So picking companies that are already certified makes that easy, because then the certification naturally recurses down your supply chain.
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talk to mummy she'll console you
TOTP support is free if you selfhost it, e.g. with Vaultwarden [0].

0: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
Not magically.

Carter negotiated end to the hostage crisis (Algiers Accords of January 19, 1981).
How to Scale Hiring
> From my perspective we are only at the beginning of a period where Europe doesn't jump for US.

As a European, I tend to agree with that assessment, particularly with countries like Germany.

Most of the US military presence might be gone compared to cold war levels, but the pro-US political presence mostly remains the same.

Which is actually quite astounding considering we are slowly entering the second decade of when this distancing started [0] and it had plenty of additional contributions since then [1].

[0] https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0919/p12s2-woeu.html

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/2014...
Unless someone has something to say, why would they be given a turn? That is completely nonsensical.
Warm winters
You can also use Zopfli to get a bit higher compression at the expense of longer compression times: https://github.com/google/zopfli
look into ODrive.

It uses brushless motors and encoders.
You really can’t assume much of anything here frankly. Voltages here are nominal, and open circuit voltages can be quite high, or when under load can drop quite a bit. MPPT charger will attempt to maintain and output voltage within it’s target range, but voltage transients and ripple can be a problem - they aren’t designed as a live power supply, they are design to charge huge energy sinks with specific chemistries (aka batteries), so they usually cut corners that would matter in this case but don’t for batteries.
Thats my motive. Why?

Because “If people would assume the worst about someone as competent at communication as $leader, then how much more likely are they to mistrust me when I try to communicate sincerely?” is the story I tell myself. Spending time in low-trust environments does bad things to the psyche.
Pretty neat, this is worrisome (from the paper): A book was recorded in 4-bit voxels with nearly 100% readout accuracy.

Kind of like "this new car hardly kills anyone." :-) Given that data recovery is like the most significant aspect of any data archival solution.

Not a mention of readout speed either, there are many read-only datasets that could benefit from something like this of course, but if it is way slower than LTO tape I'm not sure exactly where it fits in.
We also wouldn't be reading about them if crypto people didnt increase power draw by 7%.
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You make it sound like no one is responsible for setting the budget and determining that a decently paid IT staff is not worth it.

It is malicious intent the whole way down.
A class with a single function can also be nicely modelled as a function.
Considering that some people have been revived without side effects after multiple hours of being brain-dead (e.g. famous example of women who drowned in icy water), how 'dead' is 'dead', in the context of being an organ donor?

I've heard it said that "you're not dead until you're warm and dead", but 6-12 hours doesn't seem like a lot of time, to make sure you're not coming back.

e.g., I drown in an icy pond, and I'm found after 5 hours. I might be revived, I might not...but the heart only has an hour before it's toast.
"Nate, after stepping down as the CEO of GitHub, has declined to comment."

Yeah... what message do you think that would send.
I'm less familiar with OCaml and don't know off the top of my head. Doing a quick search I was only able to find references to type declaration variance [0], though I learned that Java also supports use-site variance too [1]

[0] https://blog.janestreet.com/a-and-a/

[1] https://blog.jooq.org/tag/use-site-variance/
> Militarily, though, it’s worth pointing out that the USSR’s big military defeat came in Afghanistan. And though that war lasted until 1989, the crucial initial decision to arm the Soviets’ mujahideen opponents came from — you guessed it — Jimmy Carter.

That worked out well...
perspective: I own a SFH in lower peninsula and have a lot of homeless near me - daily or semi-daily interactions. I'm typically YIMBY and pro-housing, though I lean against homeless-specific solutions (but it's case-by-case ofc). Read the article, watched the oliver segment.

I think the problem with this angle of argument is that it pretty much solely relies on extreme empathy holding from current homeowners (aka those with power). And when that empathy is worn down, such as the example woman in the oliver segment who has to pick up human poop on a regular basis, then the argument just falls completely flat. Like it basically goes like this "Look how bad these ppl have it, don't you care?" and the answer is "No." - then what do you do? There's no avenue for follow up or iteration - you've just made a assumption just completely breaks.

You can criticize the housed-first perspectives, but at least they try to find win-win common ground between the interest of the house (not picking up human poop) and the homeless (get a home). I'm also a big fan of the tax/finance forward methods and oliver had an example during his segment of a way to save $ per homeless per year spending.

To me this article reads as the epitome of 'bleeding-heart' syndrome, and lacking critical thinking toward actual problem solving with multiple stake holder interests in play.
Who cares. Pathetic corporate pish
Password Managers all have the concept of a 'Primary' user, who shares access to passwords etc. with 'Secondary' users. The primary can cut off the secondary at any point, but not the other way around. For couples/groups where everyone has equal standing, this model doesn't work.

Also a lot of 2FAs are based around authenticator apps which can only be installed onto one device at a time.
Now we need someone to make a 3d-printer out of 40x CNC'd parts and we'll have a never-ending supply of both!
NYC has something around 200,000 for-hire drivers among taxis, Ubers, etc. The need for all that human effort can be removed.

Yes, eliminating cars entirely would be great, but that's an orthogonal problem.