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> Colleges do. At least, liberal arts colleges do.

This is the ideal. Sadly, reality rarely actually measures up.

What liberal arts colleges most commonly do in practice is assign lots of work that assumes that students can think critically in all the ways you describe, and expect that either they've already learned it, or they will learn it in order to be able to actually complete the work.

There are certainly individual professors at most liberal arts colleges who take it upon themselves to explicitly teach such things, and there are a few that even have a robust enough "core curriculum" that it includes at least one class explicitly focused on those skills, but by and large, there is no formal, explicit teaching of skills like critical thinking in higher education.
I'm the OP -- I had 2fa enabled on my LastPass account, but didn't have access to the token (a 2fa app running on an old phone I don't have anymore)

I was able to remove the 2fa myself by going through a recovery process and clicking a link they sent me over email...

2fa on LastPass is pretty much useless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_circuit
Does this mean voice assistants and GPS will one day be made consumer friendly and support any voice/name we want them to have, rather than this gimicky brand driven marketing malware known as Alexa or Google or Siri?
A good translation will contain a lot of that information as in the notes. I like the Oxford World Classics series as the translations are very good and the notes are often fantastic, the Cambridge Companion-series also make a very solid complement.
IDK, how’s the ozone hole doing these days?

Took major international cooperation to tackle that problem so people can obviously get together and coordinate an action plan.
This is a post about NFTs right?

NFTs are DRM 2.0, but without any current leverage against the "players". If there ever is such leverage (which in the article should be copyright as much as DRM), then it will be the players that enforce DRM, not the blockchain. Just like copyright doesn't enforce itself.
Strong disagree, at least in the US. With the possible exception of a proof-based geometry course, almost all of US math education is memorizing and applying rules and procedures with minimal emphasis on how to think about problems. Most math teachers themselves don't really know how to think about problems.
Discord had a really nice UX.

Click the link, choose a nick and you are thrown into the chat.
That way you could checkout a new community and discord in general with a really low barrier to entry.

The community that drew me to discord made the jump when their self-hosted IRC network became increasingly unstable.
The multimedia features like easy picture sending ware also very nice, as was the mobile client.

Still dislike the condecending tone they have towards the users tho.

And I still use IRC on other networks. Both with a shell running irssi in screen and hexchat on my desktop that starts up with windows.
That's for more ephemeral communities.
I think this principle should apply to any big business or government spending etc: how much is it per person? There's a lot of talk of billions and trillions at the federal level, and millions or billions at more local level. Far more relevant to say how much it costs per person.
That page is amateurish and riddled with absurd statements, like the claim visible light travels faster than radio waves. It also claims LiFi offers speeds "100 times faster than wifi" but their thousand dollar router can only do 100Mbps. To add insult to injury it rips off the Wi-Fi trademark logo as well.

There may be a market for visible light networking but LiFi is total garbage.
Gee, you are doing a terrible job. Not even kidding, "Elon Musk profile picture Twitter account tweeting about giveaways" level of ineffective. You got the reverse problem too of banning perfectly normal users for spurious reasons and losing them in a support hell of "this decision is final".
Thank you for your straightforward appraisal. Makes me take Matrix a lot more seriously.
Primarily bandcamp, since I can get flac and support artists directly. But I also use 7-digital for more mainstream releases (they also offer flac and some releases as Hi-Res 24-bit flac if that is your thing)
> Those SIM engineers should build other unhackable systems too!

They did - see EMV payment cards for example.

> it simply means that it's useless for security.

It's not - SIMs close one attack vector where credentials can't be stolen by malware/bruteforced. Current SIM-swap attacks don't scale well; imagine how worse the problem would be if any Android malware could silently take over your number even after you've wiped the device clean.

The solution is to close the social-engineering attack vector by making carriers liable for any losses, not to remove a different layer of security because it's currently being bypassed by a different flaw.

> Who knows what happened

I doubt it was nefarious, I'll place my bets on misconfiguration somewhere. The telephone network is a massive mess and it could very well be that some carrier/equipment in the path rewrote the caller ID as something else.
You trust some cheap brand over Amazon? I'm not saying Amazon should be trusted but that's a really odd stance to take.

You've got their app on your phone and their device on your LAN.. I'd just assume I was already a part of someone's botnet
If you buy a new phone to upgrade your current one, how easy will it be to get the 8 esims in the new one?
> but I do think there's a subversive effort, especially in the media, in painting the history of Africa into something that it's not.

Well, I'm not sure how you come by that conclusion. I do hope you are familiar with the civilizations of Kush, Aksum, Congo, Ghana/Mali/Songhai, etc. If you are, it seems disingenuous on your part to claim that African history is being portrayed as something it is not.

If anything, popular depictions of African history are woefully lacking in the knowledge of these and other civilizations that existed in ancient times. We need more dissemination of what is known to academia regarding African civilizations, and more research into these barely explored sites.

The exhibit and movie you mentioned are clearly meant to be fiction, so I'm not sure what they have to with a supposed "painting the history of Africa into something that it's not"
The last time I installed windows on a computer was in 2007. Even then I was already spending more time on cygwin than on anything Windows-specific. Some years ago, I put together a Hackintosh to see if there was anything that I would be missing by sticking with Linux on the Desktop, and I realized that my day-to-day was better served on Linux than any alternative. I can confidently say that I will never ever again install any proprietary OS on my personal machines.

That said, there were more than a few occasions that made me aware that this choice was not free of downsides:

- When I gave up on having a reliable bluetooth connection

- When I got so sick of looking for ways to improve battery life and just started assuming that it will last a third of what is claimed to last with Windows.

- After I tried to connect my guitar to my computer via an usb interface and realized that I had to choose between running the sound effects application or running any other sound app that depended on Pulseaudio.

- When I browsed through Steam and realized that I still can not find a good car-racing game that runs on Linux.

So, yes, Linux is great and can do a lot. But if you are not having any kind of periodic frustration with it you are either resignated or playing within a very small sandbox.
How does this compare to Stellar?

https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol

https://medium.com/interstellar/understanding-the-stellar-co...
Thanks for your report! There are more than 20 independent reports here... Really scary.
Ding ding ding. Welcome to the tyranny of economies of scale. The profit taking happens only a little at a time, spread over millions of transactions. Given you're getting it right more often than wrong (something your analytics will tell you) and your merchants can't be arsed to leave, ignoring problems is absolutely an effective tactic.

Also welcome to why I've been trying to get away from finance and failing miserably. The human cost quantification is far too high for my tastes in my reckoning of hours of suffering induced.

There's some profound revelation on the nature of the great farce that "you can do anything, as long as the money holds out", but this is likely so tautologically obvious it makes very unstimulating discussion.
That'd be great for some specific countries or markets. One gateway to a network being removed isn't bad news. More traffic and bandwidth is used by Wi-Fi nowadays.

Just in case that future phone will be connected to a headset or IOT devices, it makes sense to give less priority to GSM functionality.
I (before COVID…) travel somewhat regularly and have a collection of SIM cards from my most frequently travelled destinations making just arriving and going about my life a nice straightforward process. I haven’t seen anything to indicate eSIMs have anything close to this experience and I feel like losing the option to do so for some perceived modernness is a bit disappointing.
This is a shame. I got through to payment and I am presented with ‘Due to recent changes in United Kingdom's tax laws, we can only accept orders over $200 USD to the United Kingdom at this time.’

Wonder what recent tax law changes they’re referring to?
Where I live (Germany) this is completely unfeasible and untrustworthy for yet another reason: telcos and ISPs (the big telcos here are ISPs as well). There are not many industries where contract agreements are handled by electronic and manual processes so unreliably, erroneous and intransparently as they are at ISPs and telcos. I wouldn't trust them with managing an eSIM for me ever. Given how important a phone number is these days, again, never. When the simplest processes don't work (point in case: wanted to change a prepaid plan online (should be possible) -- it was not possible, buttons simply greyed out for no reason and/or missing, customer rep totally clueless).
What you're missing is the level of comparison. Everything is different from everything else if you're looking only at differences. But if you want to classify concepts, you need to determine what are the similarities. So, yes, if you're talking about objects in the category of operating systems, W11 and OS/2 are in the same category. If you're looking at languages that offer high level constructs, C and Java are at the same level. Languages that offer only direct machine instructions (assembly) are at an inferior level.
Others have already pointed out that pretty much all your point are wrong (1 is also wrong incidentally, discord is not a phone call, and wrt 2 nothing prevent moving discussion off of discord if it turns out to be a large undertaking, that doesn't remove the value of the simpler and more accessible channel as first step), but aside from that sometimes you want to ask a question about a question e.g. you've noticed something you find odd and have not seen whether it was normal or not, or you think that something is missing but don't know whether it's considered in scope for the project.

Opening an issue is a huge signal, putting in little investment means the issue is likely to be closed with barely a look, and putting in a huge amount of investment is a waste of time when the issue gets closed as out of scope.

Having a less formal channel with lower investment from all parties is useful.
> I do have a lurking fear there is some truth to that, and that I'll never fit in at this stage in my life.

Eh, I'm in my early 40s FWIW and I don't worry about these things. I meet people of all ages and walks of life who are working in software. However, if you are wanting to work for some flashy start-up or some hipster design shop, then I suppose I can see how that might skew your outlook...but that's not exclusive to only the software world.

Also, keep in mind that the 20, 30 year olds of today will become 40, 50+ year olds soon (time flies!). Since you are 28 now, by the time you reach your 40s, there will be even more middle-age engineers and greybeards running around.

> if I am going to be discriminated against just because of my age then I don't think it is worth it.

...another thing to keep in mind is that age discrimination is illegal, even in the US.
This article presents a false premise.

Intel (and other) processors present a serial programming model in spite of parallelism under the hood because that is required for stable semantics in assembly language programming, and for the instruction set architecture to be a stable target for any higher level language whatsoever. It's not because of the expectations of the C programming model.

The unoptimized, instruction by instruction fetch-decode-execute model of the instruction set pins down what the code means, which is super important, otherwise there is chaos.

Moreover, machine language executables must continue to work across evolution of the architecture family. The way an new Intel processor is today has as much to do with C compilers as it does with the need for someone out there to run MS-DOS or Windows 95.

Compilers could better deal with chaos at the architecture level, because breakages at the architecture level can be treated as a new back-end target, and code can be recompiled. It's the code that doesn't get recompiled that you have to worry about.
It does however sound like you put the blame on Twitch. Streamers are demanding more ways to combat spam. The community wants more intrusive verification, not less.
I suffered social rejection as a child and found it a severe trauma.

It still affects me in some ways but not particularly in my career (e.g. I am not a great salesperson but I feel about cold calls the way Brer Rabbit feels about being thrown in the Brer Patch.)

Overall it has gotten better as I have gotten older and I expect that to continue.
If a sim is digital, couldn't Apple put the eSim into your 'wallet' for example?
I appreciate that it's not currently designed like that, but given we are just talking bits, just because it's not a fully baked system yet, it can't be?
This was 8 floors of heaven last year. Loved it
I have a 110 volt electric kettle, and it does not take 30 minutes to boil.
I've done it if someone lives farther away and you want to make sure you're not being Catfished, or checking to make sure the person isn't crazy. Sometimes women do it for the same reasons, or feel more comfortable after being able to look for red flags.

It's kinda crazy to think about how you would go from picture to texting to a date, VS meeting, smalltalk, date.
Pretty sure the author knows that, and he s making an argument ad absurdum, doesn't literally want norway to stop oil extraction. That said, i dont understand your point, does norway have some moral advantage vs other oil producing countries?
You don't need a google account to use an android phone, there are fantastic open source apps on f-droid, and you can even access the play store without a google account using aurora store. If you have root you can fully degoogle (PITA but gratifying), even without it's a big privacy upgrade to just disable the google apps and log out of google.
Right. The costs of future production have to be less than they were in the past or it’s even worse. Regardless though it represents a huge transfer of wealth from the future to the past.
In New York City, I have been seeing decreased compliance with mask mandates as the pandemic has gone on. It really seems like people have limited capacity to comply with unpleasant rules. Carbon rules may end up in the same category, with rampant noncompliance.
Yea and many authoritarian government can simply block websites and if it happens to be apple asn? I think there should be fallback otherwise its going to be debacle.
I think you've hit the nail on the head: just use the type-C connector. Bonus, it means the connector could be on the same side of the PCB as all the surface mount components and not impact insertion direction. If you need a type-A, good news, there's adapters for that.
Unless the FDA somehow gets involved, of course: they wield a ban hammer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709315
All these discussions try to solve feeding more humans, which is a secondary issue and the consequence of the primary issue: more humans resulting in an unsustainable number of humans on the planet.
A “plant”: the bio-chemical subgenus … of industrial variety.
Then make something better than Discord. It's that simple. People choose Discord because it's genuinely better for their needs.
LaTeX isn't just for users, there are also people who are developing packages or classes. And since LaTeX doesn't even offer the luxury of arrays or hash tables natively, LuaTeX is very a refreshing change.

My company is using their own LuaLaTeX class extensively to produce hundreds, if not thousands of reports per year, and features like automatically computing the CVSS base score of a CVSS vector will take a couple of minutes in lua, while it will cost you several days and a bunch of gray hairs to do in TeX. It's only the developer who has to know any lua though. It's completely transparent to the user.
It's not a cash alternative with the kind of paper trail blockchain creates.

Just saying. The perks of cash don't stop at what everyone considers virtuous or convenient to those looking to control economic activity from the top down.
> Then get all the world citizens involved. We can have movies, concerts, video games, political campaigns, social media campaigns, support from big tech like Apple, Alphabet, Amazon.

The problem here is that we will, once again, ask developing nations to also pull the weight and pay the cost that allowed developed countries to reach their current position.
Yes, the Pro plan allows 50k rows per Airtable base. Arbitrary JSON can't be imported easily though, you'll have to convert it to CSV or use the API to dump data.
Joined FAANG and used the illiquid equity described below (the unvested and forfeited part specifically) to negotiate a good offer, and on top of that the stock market helped.
Best example is people who don't want ABS or automatic transmissions because it sacrifices control
Unpragmatic static blog generator in OCaml
I don't know about layer, but according to this book[1], it is a fourth-generation language. I've never associated it with RPG and FoxPro, but I guess you learn something new every day.

[1] - https://www.discoverbooks.com/Forth-The-Fourth-Generation-La...
> They did - see EMV payment cards for example.

To drive the point home - this is a SIM card: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Thuraya_... (although you can remove the mini-sim in this revision, originally they were exactly like modern EMV cards).

Again, if you're skeptical of the government itself and allowing them to tap your communication lines, then I understand your hesitation here (although 2FA won't protect you against warrants), but outside of that it's actually simple incompetence of the carriers - SIM swap fraud attacks are common in North America but surprisingly fewer outside despite having the exact porting capabilities, probably because there's a waiting period (usually 48 hours) enforced where the current holder of the SIM card gets warnings about the impeding deactivation in other countries. Annoying if you lost your SIM card, sure, but is much better than having an unauthorised person getting a shiny new SIM card without warning.
For anyone who prefers mechanical pencils over pens (like myself), I have been extremely happy with the pairing of a Zebra M-701 and Uni Nano Dia HB 0.7mm on Leuchtturm1917 or Moleskine paper.
I'm actually more worried about a different problem - I don't care about removing the physical SIM slot but I'm really concerned about halving the amount of numbers someone can have on a single device.

Phone numbers are an utterly terrible system. Having to give a single number out to everyone is a stupid beyond belief design that we just tolerate year after year. That SIM-based 2FA exists makes this even worse.

Apple has already shone a light on this and basically shown their customers that having a single primary-key-for-contact circulate to everyone is insane - which is why they now have the private relay for e-mail. I have my own reservations about the relay, but we really should move to single-number-per-contact and make that the norm.

And yes, I realise this wouldn't be supported by the current phone networks, which is why Apple/Google need to be the people to introduce a vendor-agnostic system as a layer above the current phone networks (akin to a private relay for phones).

This is not unprecedented - they've collaborated on a lot of standards before (matter is a recent example that comes to mind).
Google gets search results so hilariously (or horrifically) wrong so often that I stopped using it, ever. If ddg doesn't have what I need, I'll ask on matrix or IRC or literally anywhere else.

Google removed nuance from search terms and results a long time ago, and sometime after 2014 took to flat out lying about when pages were first seen. This makes it completely worthless for research, education, and basically anything. I was going to say looking up a phone number for a business, but Google maps is the faster way to get a valid result for that, as it stands.

So, after spending a decade and a half becoming the Kleenex of search engines, they made themselves just as disposable, for the name of ad revenue.

Good work, everyone!
Many banking jobs have been vocal about trying to keep offices open despite Covid. I’d expect adjacent industries to be similar
Have you looked at Stellar at all?

https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol

https://medium.com/interstellar/understanding-the-stellar-co...
> You cannot send gold securely to anyone with an address. Even in advanced, stable countries, mail theft is common. In countries with high corruption, you are very likely to have your gold stolen.

Yes, you can send gold securely to anyone with an address. You just need to choose an appropriate middleman.

> Regarding smart contracts, yes they only work for on chain stuff.

So then, what is so revolutionary about them?

> What do programmatic contracts using gold work on? Answer: nothing.

Did I say anything about gold smart contracts? Did anybody compare Bitcoin to Gold? No. It is always easier to argue strawmans.

> Even if you used tradition contracts, you would need to hire a lawyer and still worry about how they’re written.

How is that any different than having to hire a programmer and still worrying about how they've written the smart contract?

> You’d also need a strong legal system to enforce them.

That is because those contracts can be about things other than the ones on chain.

> Your criticisms are weird. You’re like “yes btc enables new things, but they aren’t 100% perfect so we should keep using this old thing despite its limitations.”

I wasn't criticizing Bitcoin and I have no idea why you'd think that. I was criticizing your "revolutionary things BTC did" list. At least you dropped the middleman thing.
Please, let's stop being silly and start being realistic. We aren't going to meet the lofty emissions targets or pull GHGs from the atmosphere. It's just not viable. Even if we halted emissions completely today it wouldn't be enough.

Let's think about what we're actually trying to prevent. Mainly heatwaves and natural disasters. We could use geoengineering to try to reduce the impact of such disasters, build things with resiliency, and relocate people from disaster zones as a start. The vulnerable land can be repurposed for crops. This would be by far the cheapest option.
How is an Apple proprietary wallet an improvement over a tiny chip that works in every phone brand?

You're looking for a solution created for a problem that doesn't need to exist.