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This unhinged, delusional, conspiratorial piece of science denialism (literally claiming science is propaganda**), seemingly disconnected with reality, and describing the "totalitarianism" of science and pandemic restrictions (eyeroll), fails to recognize that the people exhibiting the most violent, totalitarian tendencies are the anti-science, anti-masker, anti-vaxxers the article claims to defend.

Just as an example of the actual dehumanization of scientists being perpetrated by the author of the article himself (emphasis mine):

"*They* do not believe in anything that is related to personal experience or what is visible, but only in what *they* imagine, what *their* own statistical models say, and the ideologically consistent system *they* have built around it"

You read that right: it's us vs. them, and 'they' are scientists, with statistics, and we are better, with nonstatistical feelings. 'They' don't believe in anything personal! 'They' don't believe in anything visible! 'They' only believe in imagined things! Let's all of 'us' defeat the 'they'! Wait, what was that about dehumanization being bad or something?

** - the relevant quote; It seems the core conceit of the article is that the author has chosen to claim any information they don't like is "propaganda":

But there is another even more sinister element that totalitarian propaganda historically uses to cajole the masses into following its lead through fear and that is “the use of indirect, veiled, and menacing hints against all who will not heed its teachings (..)”, all the while claiming the strictly scientific and public benefit nature of its argument that those measures are needed. Both the deliberate instrumentalization of fear and the constant referral to “follow the science” by political actors and the mass media in the Corona crisis has been extremely successful as a propaganda tool.
Yeah. There are more conventional websites that can be made with it too (will add them to the showcase soon) -- the core idea is that content is just easy to add and layout.
Check edisonos.com! It precisely being built for the reasons mentioned above. We haven’t open sourced it but it’s designed for launching new edtech businesses in no time.
Part of it is probably the cross compatibility requirements. SCORM and LTIs and all that stuff mean that content has to be able to render the same way for the textbook publishers and everyone else to sell content to schools running on any LMS.

Canvas may seem a little old school but I really like it. It’s not that hard to extend, API is good (they even expose graphql to students) and it’s fast. It feels like it was made by humans, as opposed to every other LMS that feels like it was made by a bunch of people in suits for school administrators. (Much like GitHub in that respect.)
Exactly the kind of ignorant comment I’ve come to expect from this forum whenever crypto is even tangentially related to the topic.

It’s been almost 15 years, you’re getting left behind.
In regards to culture shock/language: I have been in this country for 8 years roughly. I have been more relax about people not speaking in language I can understand around me. But only recently, I have lost emotional capacity to be cool with it. I worked with an international team for a while before Covid, and it reminded me how much nicer life used to be.

So I am planning to explore my options to move to US or UK, even at the expense of loss of income.
OK, how about the theory that mens shirts have buttons on the right side so that the swordsman would unbutton his jacket with his left hand while drawing with his right?
> Estimate by story points [and] track how long tasks take to complete, and you can trivially derive a mapping from one to the other.

I like this approach because time is such a weird thing to try and figure out beforehand. You either overpromise and look bad or over deliver but the thing you're delivering could get delayed because another team isn't ready. This other team will likely not be developers too, it could be a timeline imposed by the product team.

Time still has importance tho because something can be easy but still take a decently long time. You could rate something 1 story point but it could still take 3 hours all-in from dev time to do because it involves making a very straight forward change to 8 services which entails maybe creating an epic Jira ticket to explain the situation and then 8 individual tickets (1 for each service repo) + 8 PRs + 8 code reviews + updating 8 release docs.
They'd be most useful in single-stage-to-orbit craft, but, if they can increase efficiency of reusable boosters and orbit-to-ground propulsive landings, that's still great - an aerospike-based Starship wouldn't need both vacuum and sea-level engines and could use the same engines in space as it would use to land.
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Worked for me. Cold emailed a prof asking for advice on how to enter a particular field I had never seriously studied before. He hired me as a staff programmer, helped orient me to self-study the topic, and encouraged me to apply for grad school in the same program. He is now my advisor.

I think a lot of PIs in less popular fields struggle to find computationally proficient candidates. There is a massive glut of software talent in certain hot-button domains and a huge shortage in others
The problem is how consumer internet connections should be configured.

If you're an ISP, your choices are basically just that: Expose user networks fully and trust that all users have enough expert knowledge to put up their own firewalls - or put up a common firewall for all users.

Right now, the default is option #2. Unfortunately, this means that the ISP will configure the firewall to support the most common use case - which for consumer internet right now is a user without any technical knowledge who just wants to browse the web. So outgoing connections only, it is.

Switching to option #1 would mean that the networks of all users are exposed, whether they want to use P2P or not. And for anyone who is not an expert, this would mean exactly that: hanging your whole system online with its pants down.

What we'd really need is an ISP who lets you configure exceptions in the ISP's firewall yourself. However, this would mean significantly more effort for both the ISP and the user. I think it's unlikely, an ISP would offer such a feature without charging extra for it - and even if they were, it would mean that P2P software would still not work out of the box but would need configuration on the user's side.

To sum up: Right now, I don't see how P2P software is usable for non-expert users without opening up glaring security holes.

With "security holes", I mean everything else that runs on the user's network. The P2P software itself can be perfectly secure, but that doesn't matter if the cheap IoT device on the same LAN has a well-known RCE vulnerability and the vendor doesn't bother to patch it.

This all assumes an ISP who is fully on your side and doesn't have business interests on its own - such as actively blocking consumers from running servers at home because they also sell dedicated servers in a separate business unit.

What I can see as a pragmatic way forward is more along the lines of WebRTC and ICE: Make direct connections if possible, use a TURN relay server otherwise.

It sucks that you still need a control server to coordinate matchmaking between peers. I wonder if we could have something like "(almost-)serverless WebRTC" in the future, where we can exchange the control information through other means - e.g. QR codes, bluteooth, emails, etc.

I also really hope, we get back more LAN-only devices in the IoT space. Currently, it seems insane that my smart light switch has to talk to half a dozen cloud servers to activate my smart lightbulb half a meter away.
I assume the intended market is people who like this style

It may still be confusing though that’s another point
I'll bet spammers assume anyone cautious enough to do the absolute minimum to obscure their email is too hard a target for anything but a higher-investment phishing attempt. The same reason they purposefully include spelling errors in bogus official emails; to get their targets to self-select.
Product and sales always want exact dates from tech but always seem to be a lot more vague when it comes to customer numbers and revenue numbers.

I've found the following system to work well. Estimates are always given as the following: hours, days, weeks, months, quarters. That's it, not numbers attached. It means "some small number of _______". This allows for discussion without everyone feeling trapped. If a feature takes "weeks" and Product thinks it should take "hours", then that is a discussion that can allow for a change in scope or requirement clarification or just education about how the system works. Of course, PjM systems only work if everyone buys in and that is always the bigger challenge.
Cost per mile on a Toyota, including fuel, regular maintenance, insurance, depreciation, etc is most certainly much lower than Tesla.

What I am curious about is if fuel prices flatten or become cheaper, will people still keep flicking to electric vehicles?
> suv have been an out of date style for the last 50 years
They have done it. Do you know how the Chinese smartphone app market works?
Going too deep on any estimate is actually a bit of a pitfall. We see this in my world (large scale project management) where some folks want to plan activities down to the tiniest tiniest level, and it just doesn't pay off.

In software, it's hard to do estimates at all if you're a blue-sky environment. Once you have a codebase you're working on, it can be possible to give a better estimate of what it will take to implement a new feature, but the more elaborate the feature, the softer the estimate.

We have just shipped a very big change to our product, and we thought it would be a 3-6 month effort to do so. It took 3 years, because it was VERY invasive and VERY complex, and we just didn't understand the underlying challenges enough when we set out to do it.
You have to assume you're going to hit a brick wall at least a few times in any given project, and something you thought would be a snap turns out to require days of refactoring. Especially if there's some aspect of business logic that wasn't clearly communicated beforehand and/or the customer hadn't considered until it came to light as a code problem. This should be built in to the estimate, but always come as a surprise gift to the customer when you still manage to deliver it on time.

In design and code, customers need to be consulted and asked what they wanted and made to feel important but not about anything actually mission critical. That's what you're hired for. At least a few times in any long project you need to come up with a meaningful sounding but essentially empty aesthetic decision for the customer to make. This allows you to both show progress and let them feel they're in control. It also allows you to extend the deadline if you feel yourself behind.
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If we use a secure cryptographic algorithm which combines different entropy sources and then hashes them together, even a completely insecure additional source of entropy will not reduce the security of /dev/random [1]

If we have 10 different sources of entropy for our random number generator, and only one of them is truly random, our random number generator is still secure.

[1] There’s an issue where /dev/random will have less actual entropy than it think it has, but as long as we have 128 bits[2] or more of actual entropy, the output will still be secure.

[2] 256 bits if worrying about quantum computers or theoretical future computers the size of a continent
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In general, sources from the middle ages aren't as sparse as people like to think.

He isn't making that kind of error. The burden of proof is on the people making the claim. Otherwise any sort of weakly plausible reason for choosing the staircase direction would be true because there is "only" absence of evidence.

Absence of evidence here means that while you can't rule it out, you can't positively state it either.
Perhaps there’s been an error in phrasing. I did not mean self-centered quite to the point of obsession, in fact neither of those categories were intended to lie at extremes—IMO the divide between them can be very nebulous actually.
Same here. There is a usage guide, which helped a tiny bit: https://github.com/elfshaker/elfshaker/blob/main/docs/users/...

Honestly, I sort of looked at it for conventional backup strategy...as in, i wonder if it could work as a replacement for tar-zipping up a directory, etc. But, not sure if the use cases is appropriate.
Another way to think about it: privacy stayed constant over time, it just shifted from the family, local communities, and the social oversight (“eyes on the street”) that came with it, to big tech and government.
If they were more decisive they could have avoided it becoming a partisan issue in the first place. There was nothing foreordained about it being an issue at all. Even if I’m wrong about that, they did harm to the people who listened to their advice.
I’ve been looking to use this. One question, is this something we can use with a non-bazel based build system?
sure they can take the money back. they just make wikileaks pay them, or else they press charges against wikileaks for holding onto the proceeds of crime or whatever.

even if you're insisting that censorship has to be preemptive, then the chilling effect from these arrests still counts.
> Harps is used for F(M)ANG scale web servers.

O RLY? Which of those companies use it in at-scale production?
Why do you need to 'protect others' if their mask works inbound?

You have no idea whether you are 'protecting others' or just creating plastic waste for no good reason. Clearly masks are not trivial to validate given that there is no evidence they have any positive effect whatsoever in the real world. No deflection in rates can be seen from NPIs and the process leaks like crazy.

It's entirely a backward belief. Believing you are 'protecting others', yet doing nothing to protect yourself against the almost certain risk that other people won't be 'protecting others'.

None of it makes any sense in any logical analysis.
I'm certain no one believes these numbers are actually real time as per definition of real time, as it would be impossible to know. But yeah, even the title tag contains "Worldometer - real time world statistics" so if they cannot even avoid lying with the very first data that gets parsed by the browser, what's to say they don't lie about the other stats?
How is that a rebuttal? You plan your castle's military features (assuming you do plan them, which sort of begs the question) with the majority of attackers/defenders in mind.

Or do you mean "if the mason who planned the castle was left-handed, he would have built anti-clockwise stairs"?
The thing I remember about Worldometer is that Max Roser of Our World In Data ("OWID") was appalled by the quality of their data on Corona last year. Have these issues been resolved?

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1248585604809490432

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1262723848866316288
While some marketing is more crass than others, there is no doubt that advising people of dark patterns is valuable, and probably worth money to mitigate. Every security advisory in the last decade has been marketing material for a security company or researcher. Everything should be read critically, and this article reminded me to drop a subscription.

You can have an opinion without being dishonest about your interest behind it or its controversy, no?
This should be integrated with Cargo to reduce the size of the target directories which are becoming ridiculously large.
Find colo with 24/7 access, high up time (good networking, multiple connections to the internet from independent providers and proper setup for working when there's no power) and "remote hands" in case you need to manually reset server.

Rest of the questions you have to answer yourself. Initial server cost will be way higher than VPS plus maintenance and paying for colocation is also not cheap. Servers will have to be upgraded every ~5 years, depending on the scale and you have to buy machine for the worst case scenario, there's no automatic scaling so if you sometimes need 32 cores and 1TB of RAM you have to buy that even if 99% of the time it will sit at idle.

I would rather find cheaper VPSes for non-critical systems or work on optimization of current solution.
There is a GitHub repo[1] with a very limited list last time I checked. That the best I could fined in my degoogled time.
The Techlore Youtube-Channel-Community (yes, I realise the irony) also seems like a reasonably healthy place to start.
There is also a bunch of telegram groups with NoGoolag[2] at the center. I would not recommend for the 70:30 mix of conspiracy and tech support but they are at least technically very knowledgeabl, and sometimes helpful, even considering their almost 'religious' technical beliefs.

[1] https://github.com/techlore/plexus

[2]https://t.me/NoGoolag
Problem isn't creating namespaces.

Problem is what happens when someone claims google, amazon, and then stars doing shady stuff with it.

And maybe that somebody, was working for such organization and then left on bad terms and doesnt want to give login code or whatever.

It's not that easy problem to solve, and you need to have people on standby to resolve such issues, some of which might include layers.

Implementing namespaces in code are not even 10% of effort for this to work.
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A little late but you could also have used the Crynwr plip packet driver to run IPX over the parallel cable avoiding the significant overhead of running Windows 95 on a 386 system.
Discussing things with people I disagree is awesome!

Reading philosophy books is difficult (for me), because my instinct is to have a conversation, ask questions, explore notions and branches, spend more time on some things than others. It's the railroad aspect of philosophy books (whether I "agree" or "disagree", which is rarely binary), that makes them feel stifling :-/

Even the classics like Plato - or perhaps most particularly classics like Plato - they tend to lose me after the first dozen "As everybody can plainly see...." "We can all agree that..." "It is an understood fact that...".
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RSA is very slow for decryption. The general approach is tp use RSA to encrypt / decrypt the key of a symmetric encryption algorithm, that is much faster.
In principle the SSTO is better for reuse because you can refuel a single vehicle and send it out again, compared to a Starship-class vehicle which has two stages that need to be stacked each time.

The trouble is that SSTO is on the margin of the possible and mastering reuse of a 2 stage system is a certain win whereas the SSTO is risky. You have to perfect quite a few technologies such as the aerospike engine, very lightweight tanks and thermal management system and get them to all work together and really be able to reuse them without tearing it down each time like the old STS.
For anyone having trouble understanding why this won’t take off, imagine if where you live, we called down “up” and up “down”, because on the other side of the world, up was called up and that’s the opposite of our down, but we want to remain globally consistent.

What possible kind of utility would this serve? And how much pain would it cause?
> IDEs have encouraged developers to write convoluted code and to forget how to navigate a filesystem.

I would argue the exact opposite. Developers who force tools designed 30 years ago to dictate programming language best practices today are holding back the entire industry. There is no reason for my tooling to depend on my filesystem; imagine if my IDE integrated directly with vcs, and a language server provided both of those tools semantic information about my code, available on any device. Let's not kid ourselves either, utf-8 isn't human readable on disk, it's still a binary-like format.
> Sure, most would of course like that but then they would also need to get all N highly technical and detailed error messages professionally translated into all Y languages they support, right?

Not sure. If the error messages are translated on the website, they could as well put those translations directly into the OS. If they are not translated on the website, no need to translate them in the OS.

AFAIK, languages have to be separately installed/shipped with the installation, so if you have EN-US installed, you'll just have the error messages for EN-US.
The most bitter pill I have swallowed in my career is seeing the extent to which executive compensation (i.e., bonuses) drive almost everything.
An author here, I agree! The packfile format is heavily inspired by git, and git may also do quite well at this.

We did some preliminary experiments with git a while back but found we were able to do the packing and extraction much faster and smaller than git was able to manage. However, we haven't had the time to repeat the experiments with our latest knowledge and the latest version of git. So it is entirely possible that git might be an even better answer here in the end. We just haven't done the best experiments yet. It's something to bear in mind. If someone wants, they could measure this fairly easily by unpacking our snapshots and storing them into git.

On our machines, forming a snapshot of one llvm+clang build takes hundreds of milliseconds. Forming a packfile for 2,000 clang builds with elfshaker can take seconds during the pack phase with a 'low' compression level (a minute or two for the best compression level, which gets it down to the ~50-100MiB/mo range), and extracting takes less than a second. Initial experiments with git showed it was going to be much slower.
I would really take a second look to moodle. It's very customizable, have some good mobile apps, and a great api, so you can extend it to your heart's desire.
I think of the USS Nimitz. Everything on that ship is (presumably) there for an excellent military reason. Yet it has probably never been attacked directly and it clearly has an important role in maintaining status and prestige. The two things are correlated, not independent.
NFTs are only expensive on ETH. Other chains like Tezos or Solana they can be cheaper than a latte.
Their patent is currently expired [0] in the US - but yes: it is a great example of overly generic patents.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6988138B1/en
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That's exactly my point, though. What happens on-chain doesn't really matter when you can circumvent it in real life. If I start sending people to jail for using blockchain, nobody's going to want your bitcoin, no matter how irreversible the transactions are.
Not point of your post, but when I click that link on my phone Reddit won’t let me read it without downloading the app. The two options are download the app or go back to popular.

It’s crazy to me that Reddit would be willing to go to that extreme to get people to download their app.