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Your lock example isnt perfect, it cant fight back.

In IT, you need both joined up offensive and defensive measures which includes self destruct if secrets need to be kept. That is at best a Check Mate.

Take a VPN, in nearly all instances I have encountered the only traffic is genuine traffic, there is no dummy traffic to muddy the waters from external Deep Packet Inspection.

Likewise routing can be used to isolate, I'll give you a real world example which you might be able to relate to.

You are travelling by car from A to B, and you can take a variety of routes to get there. Most modern cars now have built in sat nav, and all you know is when your target is leaving and they will be using the car manufacturers satnav. So you have a window (at the start of their journey) in which to manipulate the targets satnav by giving it fake traffic data to cause it to take a particular route. Ergo you have been able to isolate your target onto roads they wouldn't normally travel. Now that can be done nationally over the radio station network, or nearby using a transceiver SDR in a chase car.

What makes you think the internet is any difference? Business efficiency like JIT is a weakness as we see with the chip shortages and other problems caused by covid lockdowns. VPN companies are no different, they need to maximise profit so they dont add in fake traffic to hide their customers traffic, and by virtue of being able to choose from multiple VPN providers, users self isolate themselves into yet smaller groups. VPN providers should really organise and share networks to further muddy the waters from external entities.
The OP barely provided any information. Mainly they claimed authority on the issue and ruled it closed.

It's also interesting how you continue to imply that I'm uneducated, dumb, etc. That's a great way to shut down a dialogue.
Presuasion by Cialdini - https://smile.amazon.com/Pre-Suasion-Robert-Cialdini-Ph-D-au...
Short answer: N95s are not as good if you have a beard, but they are still better than cloth. See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34006963/ for details.
The last few paragraphs of the article strongly hint at that. With the boy carrying a cellphone and the inverter-for-coffee pot stuff and how the line is moving and how the amish are steadily adopting technology at their pace.
You can create multi-stop gradients easily with this tool, but doing so with pure blue and yellow looks nothing like the blend of those two colors would look. I think you should just pick colors that fit better together, unless the rainbow effect of walking along the hue angle is the effect you’re going for.
Isn't that the entire point of this "fact" checking, to raise the truth above the myriad of things the general public merely believes to be true?
I feel like the amount of time you would spend dealing with weird interop is far far greater than the number of times typescripts unsoundness would get you (hardly ever in my experience)
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I would like to go to olive garden. If some of you need to die to make that happen so be it.
You can certainly critique individual judgement calls on their so-called "self-sufficiency" - e.g. reliance on external oil mining & refinement does seem an unfortunate choice - but at a high level I think saying their rules "ultimately don't even matter" misses the point a little.

The intent (and benefits) of adopting things late is twofold: it allows more time for judgement calls to be made on impact, and it also instils self-sufficiency in individual members of the community, which ultimately is a pretty large collective benefit in itself when it comes to day-to-day living.

> in places where scarcity is not self-imposed

Not everyone has the freedom & resources to leave home and settle (& succeed) somewhere else, but for those who do, scarcities can be self-imposed by personal decisions on where to stay.

Either way, I'm not sure how someone deserves more or less respect for taking similar approaches just because their situation is either chosen by them or by fate.
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1 death in 100 million miles driven? that's amazingly good!
Something I just learned about age discrimination: people over 40 are a protected group in the US, but otherwise it's perfectly legal [0]:

> The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older. It does not protect workers under the age of 40, although some states have laws that protect younger workers from age discrimination. It is not illegal for an employer or other covered entity to favor an older worker over a younger one, even if both workers are age 40 or older.

So in case anyone was wondering, it's perfectly kosher to say that being 60+ "may even be an advantage for many roles"

[0] https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discrimination
Go has a much easier time of it for including some batteries, because it’s a simpler language.

Take HTTP, for example: the decision of the data type to use for storing headers is easy, because there are really only four possibilities, two binary decisions to make: ① do you use string or []byte; and ② do you use map[T][]T, or join values with commas and special-case that pesky Set-Cookie header somewhere and use map[T]T? And so map[string][]string was fairly obviously the best choice from the start, and I think still is—in Go.

Meanwhile, in Rust, are you going to go Vec<(Vec<u8>, Vec<u8>)>, can you get away with HashMap<String, Vec<String>>, do you store a central buffer and work with slices for fewer allocations, or do you say “no, that’s stupid, headers aren’t strings, they’re just serialised as strings” and go all fancy typey in one of a variety of ways, some the most efficient of which depended on GATs which are only recently stable?

Go could have net/http from the start. I don’t know if there’s something better now (I don’t use Go), but I expect that the better would still be very similar in API.

If Rust had had a std::net::http at 1.0, it would certainly have been deprecated by now. Probably even over four years ago.

(Disclosure: I wrote the first de facto standard HTTP library in Rust, rust-http, back in 2013. Then in 2014, realising its design was a dead end, I went to write a new one from scratch, Teepee, but never finished it because of decision paralysis, others took up much of my work and finished the concept off in Hyper, and I’m glad I got out of the critical path and I’m glad they took it up.)
In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)
They state how they measure it and what they do to collect their data. Nothing more and nothing less than that. How people use it or interpret it is up to that person.

Everyone should keep in mind that inflation for each individual is different because we all consume different things. The BLS calculation is a weighted average of prices. It’s their best guess and they don’t hide how they make the guess.

What is wrong with their methodology? How should it change? Have you read about the different measure they use and how they make their calculations? Do you think they shouldn’t measure it at all?

We’ve all experienced a general rise in prices the past year and have a sense that something abnormal is occurring. BLS’s calculation confirms this. Our sense of abnormality is confirmed by the data.
> Letting China do to Taiwan what it has done with Hong Kong, or more likely, Xinjiang

Xinjiang is ethnically and culturally (Muslim) different than the rest of China. It would be more like Hong Kong.
There are studies about how beards limit mask effectiveness.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-021-00337-1

I got rid of my beard before a big (vaxx and mask required) convention in DC last weekend, wore an N95 to the best of my ability, and tested negative (PCR) more than 24 hours after, and I am still feeling fine.

The difference between N95 and cloth masks is so big that we should just treat cloth masks as no masks.
> No actual controlled evaluation that measured protection against the actual infection has ever found effect remotely as strong

Such a study does exist:

> Upgrading face masks to filtering face piece (FFP3) respirators for healthcare workers on covid-19 wards produced a dramatic reduction in hospital acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections, according to research carried out at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

> Once FFP3 respirators were introduced [as opposed to simple surgical masks], the number of cases attributed to exposure on covid-19 wards dropped dramatically—in fact, our model suggests that FFP3 respirators may have cut ward based infection to zero.

https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1663
https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1479143340159422468
Open the vent above you and point it at your face.
When you print money, but expectations are that you print more money, the value of the money printed goes to assets, not stored as currency, and certainly doesn't appear as inflation in consumption goods.

It's only when you slow down or reverse the printing can the inflation 'catch-up' and over-whelm, and the more you slow the higher the wave will be, and the longer you've been printing the more volume the wave will be.

The best way to avoid inflation is to only print currency equal to actual productivity increases, the second best way is to continue to print more and more - if you ever let up you'll run into the other end of the cycle. As the second option produces wealth inequality that centralizes decision making and drains efficiency from the market-economy, we should try the former again.
This guy seems to exist to create charts that a) show vaccination does nothing to stop Omnicron, which seems to be all recent charts or b) that demographically similar states/countries that are neighbors have virtually identical results when one has a mask mandate and the other doesn't: https://twitter.com/ianmsc/

Given how infectious Omnicron is, these mask mandates are nothing more than talismans.
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Can you tell the difference between places that had mask mandates and places that did not?

https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/masks
Sure if nothing else works, but sorting your life out by doing the same thing that landed you in prison to begin with really strikes me as a bad idea.

It's maybe sort of a fundamental attitude, either you are honest or not.

Also this "I had no other choice" rationale also seems like a risk factor for slipping into crime again.
That was a cheap way to read the FT.com!
I specifically said "large PHP applications" instead of just "PHP applications" because the difficulty is not in writing, it's in auditing and enforcing.

Even within templating libraries there are different levels of advancement around context-awareness: e.g. <div onclick="{{ val }}"> is still dangerous in languages like Twig, and is similarly challenging to audit. Alternatives like Latte mitigate this but even Twig is still a large degree easier to work with than vanilla PHP.
Childcare is probably true but Europeans in general completely misunderstand American healthcare for employees.

In the US, healthcare is provided as an additional benefit on top of your gross salary. Whereas in Europe it is taken out of your gross wages in the form of tax.

Obviously there are still issues with copays etc, but the bulk of the cost is actually additional to your salaries.

On apartments, I'm not sure how true that is these days. You can easily pay 2k+ EUR/month for a nice apartment in Berlin or Munich (even Lisbon, where I lived recently - where the local minimum wage is close to $3/hour!). Cheaper than the NYC or SF, but nowhere near the difference it was a few years ago. There are also many low cost of living places in the US where you'll pay a fraction of European housing costs but still get vastly more salary.

Most Europeans seem to have their head in the sand in this (I say this as one). They completely underestimate the salary differences between Europe and the US for middle class jobs, and vastly overestimate the benefits they get from the higher taxation. It is just not possible to say someone earning 3k EUR/month after tax is doing better fiscally than someone in the US earning $200k for the same job, paying 30-50% less tax.
many people who build computer systems build systems that endanger lives. It's a tradeoff in modern society.
Don't get me wrong. I deploy all my API's in docker containers as well, for similar reasons. But I do feel like a victim of stockholm syndrome whenever I think of docker as a solution instead of a workaround for problems self-imposed by our byzantine development tooling stacks. It is now even starting to make sense to run the entire suite of tools for local web development inside of a local docker container, because of the risk of subtle conflicts in devDependencies between machines. At what point are we going to concede this way of building software is madness? How many layers are too many layers?
I feel like we’re in a loop. Are you saying that making software under MIT or closed source licenses allows unethical behavior in a way that makes creation of that software unethical? If so, can you back that up instead of asking rhetorical questions?

I write software personally, which I license under the MIT license. I write software professionally, which is closed source. I don’t believe either of those things is inherently unethical. There are obviously examples of any kind of software that are unethical, and there are ways that closed source licenses enable unethical behavior, but I’m not following the expansion of that to the license choice itself.
That sounds like an interesting curriculum. Would you mind sharing what program that was?
> Everybody wants to be the one who decides what is extreme and what is mainstream so they can silence and ostracise those who don't think the way they do.

Not everybody in the world wants to be the one who decides what is extreme or mainstream.

He fears to be silenced and ostracized or that his right to free speech will be suppressed.

That all because there could be a possibility that a for-profit company gets forbidden that is not complying with the laws of the country it itself is operating in. This is rambling.
Its dumb approach when you look at it from a bit bigger distance. The solution to protection isn't just focusing hard on as-good-as-possible masks.

People do mistakes with masks (often intentional), forget to wash hand after firmly holding door handle that was touched by 1000 other hands on that day. People have small kids which is a vector you have practically no control over. People do family visits where all masks go off. Folks go to restaurants and as soon as they have drinks everybody acts like covid disappeared suddenly.

I firmly believe average human is simply not mentally equipped to keep constant vigilance and cover all potential routes. It tires everybody rather quickly.

As for N95 masks, neighboring Slovakia has them mandated for quite some time too and it didn't prevent them being 2nd worst globally in new cases few months back. Why? Well 50% of population not vaccinated is a good start. Opposition politicians in good old Trump manner attacking any covid measure government puts in or science in general, generating a large pool of antivaxxers over time. Bravo, that's one sure way to get a lot of blood on your hands without ever pulling a trigger.

I really see omicron as kind of godsend within limits of current situation - I would cancel all measures and open everything, brace for a month and let it run through populations. This prolonged agony and ineffective lockdowns that prolong general agony ad infinitum wreak havoc on kids and tons of professions, and frankly on almost everybody in some way.
The first is sometimes true, but deliberate - the goal is to get people to get all the evidence out for real. This only happens in practice when it wont be used against people. You can be cynical about it, but it works, and enables arbitrators to force evidence to be produced. The same happens in real court and is effective. You can’t claim the fifth if they guarantee they won’t use it against you.

The same thing happens in almost all adr, like mediation, for the same reason. It is also why you talking to your psychiatrist is confidential.

The second is rarely true.
I’m really unsure of your info source here. Here are the standard JAMS rules:
https://www.jamsadr.com/rules-comprehensive-arbitration/#Rul...

They are not chosen by the corporation. This is also deliberate. Courts will invalidate sham proceedings, so usually is is either agreement of the parties, or the plaintiff chooses
A related question: which part of math can be used to model object-oriented programming? AFAIK set theory deals purely with associations of objects, not how you make new ones. HS algebra is concerned with simplifying and inverting numeric equations. Meanwhile abstract algebra (and number theory) is concerned with finding talking about broad categories of numbers, relating those categories to each other, and making new, presumably interesting (read: surprising) statements about categories of numbers. Math is a study in "going meta" since each component of each activity gets a name, which are further grouped and named into other categories, limited only by what the thinker can stomach/finds useful.

But I am hard-pressed to think of any mathematical construct that reflects, even a little, the reality of OOP. This is evidence that OOP is an engineering concern, not a math concern. That is, OOP is one method to help humans deal with the complexity of a large amount of shared, mutable state (SMS), by partitioning it into smaller units of SMS. But math itself doesn't care about the scale of anything, and will happily encode any state into a single, very large integer, if you let it.

Some parts of programming are better grounded in math, like functional programming and relational algebra. Some distributed programming problems have some nice, ad hoc mathy treatment (e.g. Paxos), but don't really have a clear correspondence to anything.

Interesting the field that is closest to programming in real life, IMHO, is statistical thermodynamics. This is usually taught as part of the physics curriculum, and is pretty math intensive, and the field's remarkable job is to generally model microscopic behavior and then predict macroscopic behavior of huge aggregates. Programs always deal with huge numbers of tiny things, each having unique degrees of freedom, (alternatively, which have unique constraints), so there is some connection there. ST is also the field most closely related to certain "quant" jobs in the finance field, AFAIK, since the same tools let you model individuals in an economy and from that predict markets.
> How do you square that with France not joining the war until more than halfway through

Going by your logic the US involvement in WWII wasn't significant because it didn't started with the war. History manuals are saying otherwise though.
Is it even possible for the program to know at compile-time if the types will be violated at run-time? Even if you declare data from other sources 'not mine' this still seems like it would be impossible to do.
Because web apps are treated like second class citizens on mobile systems, but not on the basis of any merit, just platform holder control. Hence, blatant copies emerged on app stores.
No, except for companies that require you to submit your resume with a required LinkedIn field. /eyeroll...

If that company is one that you really want to work for, perhaps try finding an alternative way of applying. See if you know anybody there and get them to submit your resume. Having an internal referral is good for them, and probably helps your chances vs. coming in via a web form.

If you are personally opposed to setting up a LinkedIn profile, the fact that the firm requires one for submitting your resume, probably indicates that they aren't a good match for you.

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I've repeatedly had that study linked to me when I say stuff like this. Quote from your link:

> Direct Epidemiological Evidence.

> Overall, evidence from RCTs and observational studies is informative, but not compelling on its own. Both the Australian influenza RCT and the Beijing households observational trial found around 80% efficacy among compliant subjects, and the one SARS household study of sufficient power found 70% efficacy for protecting the wearer. However, we do not know whether the results from influenza or SARS will correspond to results for SARS-CoV-2, and the single observational study of SARS-CoV-2 might not be replicated in other communities. None of the studies looked specifically at cloth masks.
> But, what are the chances of this being coincidental?

Enormous. The odds are heavily on the side of this being a coincidence.

What are the odds of, if this was a leak, the leak coming from that single research line? It's basically 1 divided by the number of experiments running on the lab. And that's assuming it was a leak, if you estimate the odds of it being a leak, you will at a minimum halve that number.
They are. But limiting the number of people you’ve been potentially exposed to to just the people directly next to you is obviously safer than being exposed to every person between your table and the bathroom/exit.
I agree that the rules seem completely made up, but I think the most interesting thing in the article is that it makes it clear that there's a lot of Amish geeks, and these people are very curious, like all human beings. The geeks are really drawn to technology, and they find ways to implement more and more technology, despite the byzantine rules.

If they end up switching more to solar (which the article hints at), it will probably help them be more self-sufficient. Even though they have their own convoluted process for approving technologies or not, they will probably converge towards the more efficient and cost effective solution, just much slower.
how long before this is ported to IOS and becomes the #1 grossing game? I'm thinking ketchapp is already on it.
Quite the contrary, wirewrapped boards were easily patchable. And computers (not sure about SAGE, but this was common with Digital) used to be patched at customers premises; patches usually used differently colored insulation.
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering updating its mask guidance to recommend that people opt for the highly protective N95 or KN95 masks worn by health-care personnel, if they can do so consistently, said an official close to the deliberations who was not authorized to speak publicly."

CDC weighs recommending better masks against omicron variant, Washington Post, Monday, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/10/cdc-weighs-....
https://www.care.com/c/how-much-does-child-care-cost/ suggests the average is about 1/3rd of that. But I wouldn't be surprised in NYC or SF/SV it could be that high.
Cloth masks satisfy those policing people to wear a mask. For me, that's 100% effective.
Java's security manager blocks access to existing APIs that are already linked. The new approach relies on explicitly making only specific APIs available.
The point is, they did work with coronaviruses in level 2 lab, and similar works might or might not have concluded by end 2019. (If not by these particular researchers)
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Why would I /want/ a LinkedIn account?

Sorry, if someone is hiring based on whether I have a cricle-jerk social media account, then I don't want to work there.

I genuinely don't understand why you would think it's odd?
Many houses and places of business have walls or floors made with thicker material that block/hinder the waves - things like solid wood floors, brick walls or concrete walls can do a number on even 2.4ghz signals.
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