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I don't game much... My computer is my workstation.

I used Windows for 10+ years and was very comfortable.

I felt, more and more often, that I was losing control.

Things were changing without my consent.

So I tried Mac, and it was good for a while.

Then, things also changed without my consent.

So I switched to an OS where I have more control.

I tried one distribution and WM and then another.

Until I found a combination which works for me.

And now I am content.

Thank you, GNU.

Thank you, FOSS.

I am so grateful.
> My opinions are backed by an overwhelming preponderance of evidence, which you seem to feel qualified to criticize despite not having been aware of its existence until today

I feel qualified to question anything I like on an Internet forum, as should everyone. To defer to your opinions without you stating your qualifications would be idiotic.

Throwing up a few links and expecting people to know that you have read over 100 papers and 6 books makes no sense at all.

Nobody is going to treat you as if you are an expert on the subject unless you show them why they should. Until this point you’ve just been making claims from authority.
Old people on their death bed are telling us what they want to do now, couched as what they would have wanted to do. But they made the decisions they did for reasons that seemed good at the time, and it might well be that they'd make the same ones. Wishing things were different is not the same as a plan to make them different.

Or, as I've said about this before: why worry about what death-bed you wants? That person literally has no future, but you do have a future to worry about!
Yes, but Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Clearview or anyone else cannot take an image of me and use it for biometric purposes without my express consent as an Illinois resident. It doesn't matter if I took the photo or uploaded it. It's still a photo of me, and I have not consented.
Congratulations bro. You have the gut to do this with a family. My wife is going to rip me open if I do something similar. Actually after second thought, work is probably more interesting than whatever residual life after it. I'll keep working.
Yes. Maybe I'll try this on my laptop (:
Had no idea Kipling was a mason, but now reading 'If' again, I would have been more surprised if he weren't. Nice find, thank you.
Thanks.

I realized I might be guessing wrong about the reference but was willing to look foolish in the interest of brevity. Appreciate the reply.
Let’s draw a line then between chiropractic “can cure stuff beyond muscles, bones, joins, and related pains” and actually useful chiropractor/physiotherapist/remedial massage work… because I utterly despise the quackery yet routinely take advantage of an excellent physiotherapist who basically does “adjustments”, 95% of the time not to my spine but she’s an absolute wizard when it comes to fixing the back pain from occasionally being hunched over on a project in intensive concentration for too long and only noticing after I’ve hurt something and begin feeling pain the next day.
I predict someone will make this post at least 5 more times
Stress also damages the brain and can lead to heart attacks.
Rule #1 (as famously learned by SpaceX and Tesla) about doing new and risky things: Don't ask permission. Deal with the consequences later. They'll probably be smaller than if you had asked.
Anyone who reads history knows these things never end well.
Yeah. Some states are more lenient but I would rather not have more restrictions placed on the only medication to ever get my life cleaned up because of some trend going on right now. North Carolina already won’t let me refill Adderall any more than 2 days out from my refill date. Life is so busy I need to actually a plan a day to start work late to get it.
And how many of those 7 billion people will die of mosquito-borne diseases...?

It's time to wipe out them out. We don't need mosquitoes, and neither does Mother Nature. Use gene tech to do the job, not Rube Goldberg hacks with lasers.
I mean... I think it can be re-built from the ground up if the funding were there, but the type of people who build surveillance tools using nebulous data collection methods tend not do make a public service out of it.
Why is meant by “an untrustworthy client”? I always assumed clients are inherently untrustworthy? I assume I’m misunderstanding your sense of “untrustworthy”.
I support this. I took 5–6 months off and moved to Thailand a few years back without a real plan other than the minimum to fulfill a student visa. I've done a lot of incidental travels renewing visa. Probably the best move I had made. ชีวิตชิวดี
UTF-16 is a simple encoding. It should take a few dozens of LoC to convert to UTF-8. At least if you don’t need extreme performance with AVX, etc.
The modern APIs can be quite challenging, on the contrary. Binding models, synchronization and barriers can be quite tricky. I group my conceptual knowledge of a render runtime into four main parts:

1. Graphics Systems. These are the platform APIs and how to use them.

2. Frame graph. The different passes in your frame and the purpose of each, and how they flow together, and how the code around this is organized.

3. Object layer. How draw calls are batched, sorted and submitted. This is the glue that determines which models end up in which passes.

4. Material layer. This includes shaders, resource binding, and more of the tech art side of things.

There's a lot to be done beyond the API world, but there's also a lot to be done on the CPU side and not just the shader side.
I’m old!
I actually found that paragraph rather strange. My experience of writing is the exact opposite: the world as it stands is an internet shouting match among lost souls, and I write precisely because while I have my own thoughts, I want to run away from all the shouting, and I refuse to dignify it by participating in it.
Base58 is used for example for Bitcoin addresses. Being able to type an address from one system to another is a nice property, and it's much less error-prone if you don't have to worry about look-alike characters.
Multiple mini retirements are where it's at. Enjoy your year off!
foobar2000 is quite nice
"But with Wilson countersink flanges and Dorry flanges, hydraulic torque is allowed to bypass the settling clutch, providing steady wall pressure to the lug manifold and all seismic rotors. And that goes for 7000 RQMs, 8000 RQMs, even 10,000 RQMs!"
Solving cancer is a fundamentally new thing that nobody knows how to do yet and probably can't be done by one person.

Taking an ugly language that evolved in parts and synthesizing it into something elegant is something that not everybody can do, but it only takes one talented person, and it's been done before. Craft rather than invention.
I'm asking this question in genuine good faith:

Do you think that social media apps (not necessarily just Tiktok, but the lot of them) are contributing to an acceleration of this trend?
Computer graphics is where I found my love for software, math, and art. Needless to say, the first time I got to code lights in raw GL, my mind was illuminated :)

Shameless plug: If you'd like to know how to build a simpler version of THREE.js from scratch in WebGL, you can check out my book: https://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Graphics-WebGL-interactive-...
"legislation" only stops people acting in good faith.
Robust access controls would be things like certificate auth, MFA is cool, fail2ban is good, maybe throw in some roles there; whatever floats your boat. So yeah, your security model should involve not using default passwords and not using devices that have unchangeable default passwords.

Again, people are depending on something that isn't really designed to provide security to provide security. Devices that have horrible default passwords aren't secure in any environment. We need to a) do better in picking what we run on our networks and b) hold manufacturers accountable for setting sane defaults.
I learned unity about 5 years ago and got burnt out on it after a few personal projects and a few freelance side gigs I took that used it. But I was not a decent programmer then and I have earned a CS degree in the time since. I actually used 3DS Max and Blender more than Unity but have since been distracted with web development and once I’m settled in my new job I am planning to write a raytracer. Any other recommendations?
>> Gaming is no longer one of those reasons to choose Windows over Linux unless it's a specific game that simply isn't native or supported by tools like Proton.

Uh...yeah it is. Even if I didn't have a specific game in mind currently, every PC game targets Windows. Not every game works on Linux. Why would I artificially limit myself, both for existing and future releases?

In fact, just looking at ProtonDB...6 out of the top 10 games are 'borked' on Linux. The top 100 looks better, but the majority still aren't "native".

That's not a sleight on Linux; there are plenty of things it is better at. But unless you are willing to be limited in what you can play, a PC gamer will continue to pick Windows.
A former boss had a beach house in Galveston that was destroyed by a tornado/strong wind during a hurricane. Insurance claimed that the house was destroyed by tidal surge and did not want to pay. By sheer chance, a weatherman from a Houston tv station was doing coverage live from the field and did a segment in my boss’s front yard, clearly noting on-air that the house was destroyed by a tornado. More coincidental, my boss was watching the channel at that time. Once the insurance argument came up, he requested a copy of the footage from the tv station and sent it to the insurance company. The insurance company cut a check, no questions asked.
Same severity as common flu. I got sick from common flu that my kids brought back. The issue here is basically how many percentage you get severe flu vs severe covid. Current covid is significantly milder compare to earlier one just came out from China plus majority has been vaccinated. Current flu is also significantly milder than the one responsible for Spanish or bird flu. Response need to be measured and not a one size fit all. Healthcare (admin side) will love to continue these as they can claim from government. You shouldn't take at face value whatever these healthcare professional is preaching at 100%. You can now go to 10 hospitals and it will be much less severe than if you do so just 9-12mths ago. Even during the height of covid, death rate from covid is around 4% (flu is like undee 0.2%). With 80% almost no symptom. Plus if you actually do extensive test, death rate will be way lower than 4%. Singapore proved that with their exceptionally low death rate due to their exceptional testing (increasing the denominator). My key point here is measured response. At some point we need to get back to normal lives just like the Americans that gone thru Spanish flu, polio and smallpox. The next time people around you talk about how dreadful Omicron is, ask them how many died due to Omicron strain. Ask why healthy infected Omicron is such a serious statistics when people dying or even "maimed" by Omicron is unreported or statistically not "recorded" or "published". Also asked yourself this, flu vaccines have been around for decades and many children did died from common flu, why you and the people you know didn't get flu jab religiously?
It's better when you find something you enjoy. Some people don't enjoy what is traditionally presented to them via standard education and upbringing. But if you can branch out, and find something that tickles or scratches that itch. Oh boy.. applying discipline comes a lot easier and is rewarding.
> if you could trade 20 years of your life for 10 billion dollars, would you? Just step in a room and walk out a billionaire.

i think it depends on which 20 years are taken - the old ones, where you're unable to anything anyway, or the young ones, which you'd need to enjoy that 10 billion?
It's not the "established" definition with the target audience. Your argument is basically "I don't speak Spanish, so I'll talk louder and add a long 'o" at the end of words when talking to someone who only speaks Spanish."

It's hard to find a public health organization that doesn't say that communicating with the public is a key goal and core competency.

So, are they:
[1] Incompetent
[2] Using a different definition of "goal", "communicating", "core competency", etc?
[3] ????

Note that communications isn't the only problem.

One of the arguments for [1] is that the public health folk have long said "hey, we're necessary to avoid a repeat of the Spanish Flu." yet they were largely unprepared. (Then again, flu kills 30-80k Americans every year and most of the good transmission research was done in the late 40s...)
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You could do that, but most raw processing software is not equipped to handle tile-based aligning and merging so nothing would support it...
A memo from the boss on apology inflation
It does exist, it's option #2. It sucks.
That sounds about right? I get from the structure of your comment you're trying to imply that "capture the value of those ephemeral capacities directly yourself" is better than "rather than yield them to the capitalist capturing the surplus value of your labor", presumably because 100% for the former is bigger (and therefore better) than some fraction less than 100% for the latter. The flaw in that analysis is that in entirely ignores the compounding effect of returns that the parent poster mentions, which allows you to spend more time on yourself later on. Whether the trade-off is worth it depends on a variety of factors, but it's not as simple as "recreation good, capitalists bad".
Yep. Microsoft lets users upload their drive encryption keys to their Microsoft account. Then the account is pegged to SMS, Microsoft Authenticator, or (best) a FIDO key. The problem is what happens when they lose the key. Falling back to SMS lowers security to social engineering your phone company.
Very much identify with this.

The banality of everyday Life is soul-crushing leading to ennui. I think it is in large part due to our consumerist/distraction-filled society (itself a product of Technology) and catering to the lowest common denominator in everything.

Questions plaguing me:

- Why do i need to conform to social mores?
- Why must i accommodate myself to "popular culture"?
- Why don't people stop what they are doing, take a step back and ask themselves "Where are We and How did We get Here"?
- What have we "Gained" and What have we "Lost"?
- What exactly has "Progressed" and what "Regressed"?
- Why don't people want to face "Reality" but are willing to live in any "Fantasy" of their making/subscribing?
- Is this all there is to my Life?
- How do i cope with the utter meaninglessness of it all?

My answer is to shut myself away from Society and live within my Head, alone and lonely. But Books provide a coping mechanism by getting me out of my Head and providing me new experiences through that of the author.
An interesting tidbit I learned about Kipling a few days ago. Kipling was born in India, and was raised by Indian servants in the household. As a result, he could speak the native language. Leaving India at age 6, he returned when he was 17 or so. He then married an American lady and settled in Vermont.

One of my personal favorites of Kipling's poems is Gunga Din: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46783/gunga-din
Damn, this sounds like the definition of "evil".
Afaik the UWB is currently only used for location and not as a data channel.
I'd be pretty surprised if the bank didn't have some generic term in loan contract along the lines of "the information/papers I gave $bank for this loan is accurate to the best of my knowledge", in which case you'd be explicitly defrauding them.
Chopper video shows devastation in Boulder County caused by Marshall Fire
So far, it sounds like I’m younger you. I’m 35 and the last few years have been Hell, but damn I have grown a lot. Been learning all these lessons the hard way. And I’ve held off on children for the same reasons.
We form governments and associations, and have them set rules, in order to accomplish more than we can accomplish separately. This means relinquishing some individual freedom of choice and prioritizing our use of resources. If you disagree with those choices, that’s fine, and you’re free to make your disagreements known and vote accordingly, but living in a society means accepting that you can’t just do whatever you want, everyone else be damned.
Can you kindly elaborate on steps 4 and 5?

How do you do that post-mortem? I can agree, let's say if the problem is 'pick top k elements', and you already know what needs to be done, you can hone in on what went wrong. But in cases where you don't know how to come up with the steps, how do you go about that?

Thanks!
Mortgage company wanted 3 months of statements to show the money wasn’t recently deposited.
Still waiting for "BFF" https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bertocci-oauth2-... to gain popularity, the setup seems solid tho slightly more complex compared to these other methods.
Of course you can. That approach makes different tradeoffs, of course, but it's entirely possible. I have a "legacy" server with ~20 small/medium, non-containerized applications running on it (Django, older Python frameworks, some Lisp & Scheme stuff, etc.), all running as system services and sitting behind an Nginx front-end.

But I can see the merits of containers, and might containerize these apps & services some day.
I think “privilege” is just the excuse used by people who aren’t willing to work hard, aren’t willing to put the extra time into learning a new skill, or aren’t willing to acknowledge that they didn’t get blessed genetically. It’s easier to create some label and blame everything on that. “Oh, I’m not rich at age 30. Must be privilege.” “Oh, I got passed over for that promotion. Must be their privilege”. People need to take some self ownership - the world isn’t a fair place. Stop blaming someone else and have a little introspection about why you aren’t the one taking a year off.

I mean, your statement “To be lucky enough to choose a career that is in demand” just misses the mark so entirely. There’s NO LUCK INVOLVED!! People on HN didn’t pick their major/hobby out of a hat. The picked tech because they love it and it pays well, and they have the intelligence to do it well. If someone chooses to be a street musician, they can’t blame “privilege” when they can’t take a year off.

“maybe this is your privilege that is blinding you” - no, maybe your rose colored glasses are blinding you here. Not everyone can take a year off, the world is unfair, and some people will live better lives than others. Deal with it.
Yes, this.

Legislation and regulation operate on the basis of finding some viable point of control or enforcement.

The devices are ... ubiquitous. Collection all but certainly cannot be stopped.

What can be controlled is:

- The collection, solicitation, retention, sale, purchase, or transacting of the images, data, or access to each.

- Voiding of any contractual obligations concerning same. Any such business would literally be outside the law.

- Development of technologies or training sets concerning such data.

- Validity of any such data or conclusions derived from it in courts of law.

- Any business decisionmaking based on such data. Protected by whistleblower laws.

As a start.

Standalone collection, security footage recordings, and the like might be permitted with some limited retention period (say, 1--3 months), but restricting any aggregation of such data. Individual images could be taken. Posting identifiable images online without the freely-given willing consent of subjects should be sharply limited. Yes, that includes children. Compelling public-interest exceptions might exist.

The biggest challenge will be totalitarian surveillance states which practice and cultivate such surveillance, and which drive further technology and practices both within and beyond their own borders. That is a problem whcih inherently goes beyond mere law, and always has.

Privacy is the ability to express and enforce limitations on access to and distribution of information of, by, or about you. It is an emergent principle, and its own scope and definition expand precisely as information technologies do. In an age of speech, it concerns gossip, hearsay, and slander. In an age of print, libel. It has expanded with photography, telephony, improved optics and sensing (long lenses, infrared imaging, microwave scanning of structures), and with ever-expanding data storage, processing, and distribution.

In response to an earlier discussion where it was asserted that concerns over privacy in information technology are somehow a post-1980s phenomenon,[1] I compiled a list of notable persons in the field who'd voiced concern earlier, one of the most notable being Paul Baran, a co-inventor of packet-switched networks whilst working at RAND in the 1960s. At my request, his RAND monographs are now freely accessible to the public:

Paul Baran:

- "On the Engineer's Responsibility in Protecting Privacy"

- "On the Future Computer Era: Modification of the American Character and the Role of the Engineer, or, A Little Caution in the Haste to Number"

- "The Coming Computer Utility -- Laissez-Faire, Licensing, or Regulation?"

- "Remarks on the Question of Privacy Raised by the Automation of Mental Health Records"

- "Some Caveats on the Contribution of Technology to Law Enforcement"

Largely written/published 1967--1969.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html

I've listed additional authors and references here:

https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193

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Notes:

1. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24745246
I'm facing this. Though without the parties and such.

It seems to go with getting older. My two best friends for intellectual conversation passed away in 2021. Just one such friend is left. TBD how that'll go. Two people can't make for the richness of intellectual conversation that three or four can. And the ghosts of the two who are gone could cast long shadows over the remaining two of us getting together much.
Can’t you export to csv or excel and do it with existing tools?
Why it was created? I don't think anyone could offer more than guess. Why it is maintained? lol. First, we could get a lot more specific about the kinds of classification and the distinguishing characteristics... but I think we can get away with this: broadly speaking there are two kinds - tactical and strategic. Tactical is almost always SECRET (sometimes with a further qualifier like NOFOR) and below. This is stuff that is very time sensitive. For example: Manning's SIPRNET data dump. It makes sense to protect this information for a short period of time, no more than 2 years - as declassification would only skyline bad actors. Strategic (everything above SECRET) is where are all the highly illegal stuff that would cause a massive amount of backlash is hidden. For example: all of the Snowden/Greenwald releases. Sure, there are some long running strategic programs that could be argued needs protection... but to a degree that justifies the entire security apparatus? No, that is the whole reason why nukes are suited to their purpose - the barrier to entry is far higher than getting your hands on some schematics.

Clandestine sources always pale in comparison to open source collection, when the objective is the truth - not some concealed agenda. So, the idea that the status quo is maintained for any other reason than concealing bad behavior is laughable - we know that it doesn't do what it purports to do.
Reminds me of the House MD episode where the guy takes drugs to make himself "stupid" enough to live with his wife.
Authors publishing infotech panopticon concerns in the 1980s or earlier (2020)
Close to half their revenue comes from games, so yes. Gaming is huge. They do a lot of things, but games is still their core business.

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