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> why not the camera too and watch everthing

Because who doesn't have a lid/sticker over their webcam yet?

I have also kill-switched the built-in mic in the BIOS set-up but I'm not sure how secure this is. I would prefer there to be no built-in microphones in any hardware (except phones) at all. Sadly every modern laptop is equipped with a mic.
Automated diagnosis and clinical recommendation engines are seeing a lot of research, yes. As a clinician unfortunately, I can already tell you that all that will lead pretty much nowhere. The first problem to solve is data collection/information retrieval, and the solution is not "see, with this clean data my model achieves 101% accuracy, that's better than a human" but will be a systemic effort to enforce policies about data collection and storage. Only then can we hope to use this data consistently.
So brave. Does this championing of the persecuted also apply to un-wash.. er sorry un-vaccinated? or just politically correct causes?
Everyone knows this from using calculators in school, even non programmers knows this.
I bought a Kershaw Leek from the Kershaw store on Amazon last month. I received a knife that was clearly used, it was dull, dirty, and scratched.
> pursue their education somewhere

So is it just a fake threat or are they really taking action?
or because the student newspaper for an American university doesn't care to try to read and comply with foreign laws
You can find most of those here: https://taoofmac.com/space/dev/python.

Those that aren't should be there momentarily :)
What's wrong with toptal?
Really nice :-) I'm hearing echoes of the Thunderforce IV OST (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLDBwMusg4o) which can only be a good thing.
I was a Republican. I was always pro choice. I was always skeptical of cops. I thought the Soviet Union and then the rump empire under Putin was dangerous. I never felt "oppressed" by standards of decency. Maybe it's not about being a Republican.
I dont think so. BBSs were not really a thing in Mexico... particularly in a city as small as mine. Maybe in Mexico city. But long distance calls were super expensive (mom used to talk to my grandma living in another city only once a week for 30 mins).

I think I might have been able to get something in the local public university computer centre. It was the beginning of the internet (14.4 modems min to connect to the university, which was the only internet provider)

Great fun times!
In Vista defragging was one of my goto's for getting the thing to act nicely.

I would use process monitor from sysinternals to measure which files are loaded as the system boots.
Then use jkdefrag/mydefrag to take said list and rebuild drive into different zones. Try to put small files that are used together in the same area of the disk. Put huge things like 'isos/vhds/acrivezips' etc near the end of the drive. Put small frequently used files near the front in used order if possible. Smash out any gaps if possible. This helps NTFS from creating more fragments. Defrag any files that 7zip unarchives immediately as it has a bad habit of creating highly fragmented files (contig from sysinternals). Try to put file index in its own 'area' as one reason it runs so badly is the drive fragmentation it causes to itself. It got so bad I would put the index on its own partition sometimes. Try to put files that fragment frequently in their own 'zone' as NTFS will tend to pick the next available gap to where the file is (not always).

That made a real noticeable difference in perceived speed.

These days with nvme and ssd I might just defrag the files themselves once a year if I feel like it. There is a difference but the perceived is pretty much not there anymore. The difference is there is a chain of sectors in the MFT that windows will have to traverse if you ask for something in the middle of a file. That is about the only thing you save with newer drives. ext4 has a similar issue. But it seems to be better about picking spots where it will not fragment. It will however fragment badly in low space conditions. Most filesystems will.
Unfortunately, "I know a lot about security, trust me bro" doesn't satisfy the compliance box-tickers, for better or worse.

Maybe run it inside a VM?
>The more content I discover, the tinier and irrelevant I feel.

This is called knowledge. This is a good thing, keep going.

>I go down a rabbit hole of brilliant relevations of one person after the other, and I come out tired and discouraged.

Compare yourself only with the person you were yesterday

Comparing yourself to others is completely fruitless, will generate desires, and will cause suffering for yourself.

When you are say 30 you might see someone driving the new Chevy Corvette C8. Such a beautiful car being driven by an old dude who is barely touching the accelerator. You desire to have a corvette as well, maybe something better? But you dont have it and cant afford it and you suffer. But did that old dude have a corvette at 30? Nope, he was looking at corvette c3 back in the day with astronauts driving it and had the same desires and suffering.

Instead you should plan, 'how do I get to the point where i can buy that Corvette C9 in some time. I'll have it decades earlier than that guy and I wont be blind and can use the throttle to its max.'

What does that plan look like? Maybe it means you need to save more or go learn Rust. I'd bet Rust will survive, you could go do that.

You have to figure out what the end point looks like; then reverse engineer. Go look at job postings, what are they asking for? Go get those things in the next year. Then you apply for the job. In the interview you explain this very process that brought you to them. You get hired and you are now on the way to getting that corvette. When preorders of the C9 open, you show up and have the cash.

Here's the clincher. Before you even get there, you'll find the interest in the C9 wanes. You saw a dude driving the F150 lightning and now you want that. You realize that these desires are the real problem. You learn to break the desires.
I’m perpetually kind of bothered that I can’t defragment my ZFS HDD. I’m aware it’s not actually a problem in most cases and it’s not like I’m having performance issues, but it feels like a potential ticking time bomb, albeit one the rational part of me knows will never go off.
I use all 3 OSes ~daily and have nits w/ all of them. This one's minor even as it stands, but if I can make it "click" - at least for MacOS-specific workflows - I'd love to. Each OS shines the best if I adapt to its idioms (vs. trying to make Mac feel like Win, etc.).
Yeah, there's a similar thing you can do with gamma correction.

https://superuser.com/questions/579216/why-does-this-png-ima...

Or with, uh, analog image processing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

If you're hosting an image, you can also have some fun with referrer, user-agent, geo-ip, etc, based redirection. Where you post an image in a forum or similar, and different users see a different image.
> At also made showing the taking of Osgiliath more natural in the movie.

I have only one thing to add: Sam, who apparently knows the book, says:

> "We should not even be here"

Hear hear.
I couldn't find anything about this JET
I would say it’s about choice, not an “our finance” vs “their finance” (at least not primarily). I don’t think the traditional finance systems needs to be overthrown but I do think people have a right to choose an alternative open system if they choose. If it was an “our finance” vs “their finance” problem, people could just build a new centralized system without the properties offered by the blockchain.
I think I'd like a version of the famous "cloud-to-butt" browser plugin that changes Omicron/COVID/etc. to "common cold". Then headlines like, "The Omicron variant will spread quickly through the U.S., experts say — the threat it poses is less certain." will read, "The common cold will spread quickly through the U.S., experts say — the threat it poses is less certain."

Then a) I won't feel as stressed out, and b) I won't read the article, since it sounds ridiculous.

This plugin would only make sense for people who are vaccinated of course, since for those people, like myself, COVID has been defanged. Isn't it time for those of us who have had two doses, or even three (I have yet another one scheduled a week from now...), to stop worrying and start enjoying life the way it is meant to be lived?
A lot of it comes down to the agency thats doing your audit. Its supposed to be a fair process, but just like PCI compliance, there's a huge amount of variability. Most auditing houses are going to be pushing 'solutions' to problems they find so they can milk the company out of more money. Its all snake oil.
Unfortunetly my credit card (visa) does not work on their side. says it got rejected. I talked with my bank and they replied that is because they did not do the 3dsecure trickery (basically second authentication token), which is mandatory in germany for creditcard since beginning of 2021.

Can someone verify that?
When did you graduate
>> I try not to compare myself; but I'm also unable to shrug these feeling off, however indirect.

I would suggest that you start mindfulness practices. In this way you would simply observe the feeling of being "nobody" without trying to shrug it off. And once you achieve the "indifferent observer" state, these feelings simply stop appear and the whole different perspective opens for you.
You're not missing out on much, it's the History Channel of today, and not the History Channel of 25 years ago.
Depends on the company, but bulk of the interviews are about scenarios. For instance "Tell me about a time when you..." Additionally, a big thing is that they will throw scenarios at you and ask what you would investigate or test against in order to figure out next steps.
> the responsibility on the part of the university community for maintaining a climate of civility and mutual respect, is not a justification to prevent "discussion of ideas, even if "some or even by most members of the University" find them "disagreeable", "offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed."[1]

I'm all for allowing discussion of ideas even though they may be disagreeable or offensive, or even unwise, immoral, etc. But debates on this concept always end up at the Holocaust denial level. It's a fine line. Are you going to let someone come in and talk seriously about that, providing "evidence" and alternative histories, etc?
Just so we're clear, you're saying that Rust only takes 15 minutes to learn and be productive in, for the average person?
No. Also, I tried that with youtube-dl but it doesn't work reliably (throttling still takes effect, with all but one connection simply timing out). [1]

yt-dlp uses a different method than youtube-dl (I believe it uses the API used by the Android app, instead of by the youtube.com website).

[1]: https://github.com/CyberShadow/turbotuber
A sense of awe and appreciation, a belief these things were made to be discovered by me and others like me, and realizing later in life that what people who really become excellent at something find they lack are other people with enough understanding at all to appreciate what they've done.

Being good enough to truly appreciate what greatness really means is usually sufficient. If you would like to understand how that all feels, look up the BWV 1006 prelude.
SQL made relational programming possible, when computer were too slow to do declarative programming.
The modern aproach would be something more highlevel/declarative like Datalog, but given the context SQL made a good tradeoff in terms of programmer control and declarativity.

R is ugly because it encourages users to use it wrong.
For loops are slow as a snail, but are what everybody uses and teaches, while the proper/fast way to wrangle data, with higher order functions like map, is hidden behind idiosyncratic names and obscure APIs.

Even the creator of R considered making it a language instead of the scheme library that it started iut as, as a mistake.
Yes, it's temporary, in the sense that even tokens backed today might not necessarily be backed tomorrow.

And yes, it is actually a surprisingly dubious organization (that corporations fully owned by a state and performing some minor official service for it, can still be extremely dodgy, should not come as a surprise).

They seem to be profiting off the assumption that from the name, they would be as tightly controlled as a central bank. But it's very clear from dodgy stuff they've already been involved in, that they're absolutely not.

But of course, I wasn't first and foremost talking about them, I was talking about the 800 dollar gorilla, Tether. They're now where Mt Gox was ca. mid-2013, with "everyone" knowing they're extremely dodgy and likely to collapse, but hoping to make money off those who haven't realized it yet.

As to "tracking" real world assets, that mechanism of tracking is a weak point, rendering all the other "guarantees" moot.

> Just because you don't see any value in money laundering doesn't mean others don't. It's a billion dollar industry.

So is other fraud. Doesn't mean it isn't money out the window. For that matter, you don't know how much of the economic activity is real. Saying "this laundromat must be really good, see how much money is going through it" is a lot like saying "this service for purchasing fake reviews must be great, look how many 6 star reviews it has".
You could always make a ramdisk and defrag that.
> At the risk of repeating comments, welcome to Unicode Hell. And possibly to cross platform development :)

As who has spent a huge amount of time the last few weeks due to an extremely obscure and hard to reproduce Unicode bug in Windows, I can vouch for this. So can my ever receding hairline. Turns out, Unicode is hard.
Imma clarify:

By "normal" here I meant that you don't have to be some kind of genius in order to model real world using OOP.

And we have shitton of programmers that everyday model real world complexities using OOP

>Wasn't that whole concept just marketing by Sun to sell Java and OOP to the world? These days everyone using Java uses so much spring and xml I'm not sure it even makes sense to call it OOP anymore. It's more like AOP+DI with a little OOP thrown in.

Well, on the other hand C# doesn't have all of that XML fetish/Annotation Oriented Programming (@Transactional :P)/Aspect Oriented Programming magic, so it's not like there's only one interpretation and implementation of OOP and it must be Java's
More likely they're blocking it because they're a local campus newspaper and they spent money on 1hrs worth of time with a lawyer who, well informed or not, told them if they just block the EU/UK they won't have to spend any more money to figure out if they're GDPR compliant or not.
> Before that you had to set an option

What option?
You are sort asking for legal advice. Not sure if I need to elaborate more.
On the other hand, maybe not immediately getting a ton of pussy the minute your balls drop isn’t trauma, but just part of a natural curve of learning adult socialization and coming of age. Maybe that’s why romantically incapable male youth goes on adventure of growth and ends up romantically successful, even if as a side note, is one of the most common story arcs ever told.

The average age people first have sex is 17 the US. We should not pretend that you’ll be scarred if that number turns out to be 20.
mpv packages in linux distros seem to be pulling in yt-dlp now too; at least on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, the mpv package recommends yt-dlp and not youtube-dl.

On one hand I'm sad to see youtube-dl's demise. But its prompt replacement gives me hope for the strength of the community to overcome whatever challenges the IP industry might present.
It's a not-for-profit student newspaper. I doubt it's about tracking.
It would be kinda interesting if somebody actually implemented a law like this: all citizens without free speech get automatic asylum. You'd have half of the world turning up on your doorstep within a month.

More seriously, it's also interesting when you think back to how asylum worked during the cold war. Migrants, even explicit economic migrants, were encouraged to emigrate from communist countries (cuba, east germany, etc), while asylum seekers in imminent threat of torture and death (say, 70's era Iranians, 80's tamils, etc) were blocked.
> if you’re clever/motivated enough to end run it, your clever enough to not need this anyway.

Except that controlling people changes their motivations.
Is this the BEST SPREADSHEET you've ever seen?
Pulling $100M in sales in their 2nd year probably is the expertise everyone looks for, rather than buzzwords.
Because in lots of countries all over the world, hospitals are still at or over capacity, making live miserable for those lying there, waiting to get there for other treatments and last but not least, for those working under enormous stress there.
Nobody runs a hashrate burner because they feel like sinking the cost. They all do because of ways to make others pay for the waste and profit from it. Those attempts at simile are beyond broken.
Being GDPR-friendly is easy.
https://cm.maxient.com/reportingform.php?PurdueUniv&layout_i...

They even include "offensive classroom comment" as a category
You probably don't want to use bank transfers, depending on your jurisdiction. Using any sort of visa/masterdcard/amex gives you some protection via chargebacks. In the UK (and I think many other places), paying with a credit card over £100 gives you enormous additional protection (the credit card company is also liable for any problems). So if someone goes bankrupt, the credit card company has to make you whole. This is super helpful if eg you can't do a warranty claim on a product because the supplier went bankrupt. The credit card company has to resolve it (which generally means a full refund).

Paying with bank transfers completely negates all this protection. Merchants love it for this reason (and lower fees), but as a consumer it offers no benefits and a lot of drawbacks.
Why does the control panel need an address bar and back buttons?

I think the 98 side panel added to 95 would be the best usability. Not every user knows it is safe to open the programs in the control panel (maybe it’ll change something if I run it!) so the select icon to view description was a really good idea imho.
Not my experience and I doubt this is true in any way. Maybe young startups by young founders, but even there I have never seen it. I am not from California and not even the US, but demographics of IT looks pretty similar in many countries.

I would expect such behavior in some cases in the established industry branches and large corporations. But that is nepotism and gender or race does not play a role in the slightest.
Even Florida it seems these days
If you have ever attended a college in the US, you must have had to submit a list of vaccinations, with their dates. I remember digging through files to to find my son's list.

And for a little context: Mitch Daniels is a Republican, twice governor of Indiana. The form of political correctness you have in mind (which I think is improperly taken to include vaccination requirements) does not flourish in Republican circles.
Here is a modern IDE/compiler with semantic navigation and source-level debugger: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/

There are precompiled versions for Windows, macOS and Linux i386.

The compiler can generate CLI assemblies, (platform independent) C99 files or LuaJIT bytecode.
Then the comparison on pricing between Windows and MacOS that grandparent made doesn't make sense if one cannot be bough without accompanying hardware, unlike the other, effectively making MacOS priced into the hardware itself, so the comparison falls flat from the start.

By that logic iOS and Android are also free and you can alo get Windows for free with various OEM Laptops and system if we use that logic with the difference that you can choose to purchase Windows licenses to use on a machine you build yourself vs the inability to purchase an separate MacOS license without any Apple hardware.

So any comparisons on the price of the OS are moot since the cost of MacOS is priced into the accompanying hardware, MacBook, iMAc, etc as you cannot buy it without.
Does anyone know if the two groups tried working together at one point? I know they have some disagreement over sponserblock, but beyond that was there any attempt to recruit the dlp people?
I had a hunch so I searched and lmfao every damn time!
https://socialistworker.org/2014/01/06/academic-freedom-and-...
This seems to be woo. Here's the Wikipedia entry on erucic acid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erucic_acid#Health_effects.

Key takeaway: "However, more recent research has cast doubt on the relevance of rat studies to the human health of erucic acid. Rats are unusual in their inability to process erucic acid, and the symptoms in rats caused by a diet with high levels of erucic acid has not been observed in pigs, primates, or any other animals."

In any case, mustard oil has been the primary cooking oil in India since time immemorial, so if high-erucic acid cooking oils were a problem, we'd absolutely know about it by now.
> Good. Now: when are governments going to lift restrictions?

Obviously the set of "commonest" systems is not the thing to base such a decision on (e.g. for a hypothetical disease where 90% get a mild cough and 10% drop dead, cough is the most common symptom, but the death symptom is what should drive policy).
Another reason not to work with UpWork!
clr.fund is a good demo of how this sort of thing can be used in online distributed communities to distribute funding across public goods and implements maci (minimal anti collusion infra) https://github.com/clrfund/monorepo
speaking as a dad with a young girl who wakes up most nights with night terrors: this is true.
Founders knew people at Nike and in fashion before the company was started.
> The new variant is basically a bad cold

Cough... Omicron being “mild” refers to the double or triple vaccinated.

Even then, the problem is it’s so damn contagious that even a small percentage of severe cases puts pressure on health systems already at breaking point.

> Why do we still have these silly mandates?

That's hardly specific. There’s plenty things governments can do at this stage, some good, some bad.

For example, I’m not a fan of criminalising private mixing of individuals. I think governments should be funding healthcare, UBI or furlough, and mandating decent ventillation.
The brainwashing must be strong for students thousands of miles away from China in the middle of nowhere Indiana for them to feel the need to snitch on dissenters. Or, more likely, they were threatened before they left China that they would be watched while abroad.
Agreed. But the sad state of the world now is that many are still trying to figure out how to score political points. The virus that hit us in March 2020 was bad, but it's not March 2020 anymore. We need to move on as a society.
2,281 extents found

hmm that does not seem right and off by an order 10x...
That might be hard.If i recall correctly a few years ago there were some numbers indicating somewhere between 1-3 million people who were either "proper spying", doing espionage(industrial,research,etc) or having ties(actively involved, not merely having relatives/distant connections) with China living in the US.[I will edit with a source assuming it still is online, otherwise i have to dig in my local data]

This happens a lot at 'FAANG-tier' companies, but then again screening employees is virtually impossible at this scale, US companies still have an advantage and they remain ahead of the competition because copying/leaking information takes time, and the re-engineering also takes time.Academia is a sensitive area, because on one hand you have to be transparent and keep discourse public and open, but on the other hand state-sponsored entities actively engage in battles(especially cybernetic ones) to control narratives about certain subjects, especially in 'public spaces'.