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> What is the recourse to parents who think this is a legitimate problem?

What recourse should parents have when they're upset that their children are being taught to be better people than they are, and don't like it?

> Let's not forget both sides are not impervious to racist behaviors.

What is the relevance of this at all?
It's a setback because it's another case of overzealous prosecution that fell apart because the basis was entirely false. In the end they harmed the career of a scientist because he had some affiliation with China, which, duh, he grew up there. It calls into question the basis of the whole initiative.
Look it this way. Why an ordinary user would use a phone that they cannot use with their bank or their employer in some cases? Widewine is the defacto and dejure standard for drm content playback and you must have an explicit google license to create a browser with such capabilities and there are less than half a dozen such browsers on the market. For this same reason you need Google or Apple support to have a range of other enterprise apps/services native to your platform or you need to have another means to convince those developers that they should trust your signing keys.

Add distribution to that, because in order for your platform to reach significant number of users, it should be offered by the mobile carriers with their phone plans. How many companies do you know who are willing to compete with the agreements already done by Apple and Google?

Linux distributions need lots of money in development to reach the polish of Apple and Google, they need the sales channels to be truly accessible to the mass user, and they need additional formal agreements to have their code recognized as trustworthy by big content providers who are big part of the user experience on the modern phone.
I was just walking through a deadish mall in my city a couple days ago thinking how awesome if they had done that instead of the offices they put on the upper floors.

I know there is a small mall in Providence RI that does this (more like a strip mall if I remember correctly).

I also believe there are condos above one of the malls here in Boston but I am not entirely sure if they have their own entrance or if they have direct access to the mall.
Exactly, the other part is it should be easy to transport by rail too!
I clicked through to the linkedin post [0] and airforcemag was clearly not reading this carefully. Not sure how they missed that, but Mr Kanaan never once in his letter wrote "Fix My computer" as is stated in the airforcemag title (and in quotes) but rather every. single. line of this letter ends with "Fix our computers."

Quite a different tone. He seems desperate, but he's not self centered.

[0]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michaeljkanaan_technology-fut...
The real real Bill Gates registered January 5, 2012

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BillGates
I believe my family and I drove over this bridge, when we were in Pittsburgh 4 years ago.

I hate to say this, but the condition of bridges like this is one of the major reasons that Pennsylvania currently has one of the highest gas taxes in the country.

And whatever PennDOT is spending the tax money on, this bridge-- in one of the two largest cities in our state-- collapsed anyway.
I cannot confirm. In Chrome, I visited Twitter in an incognito tab. I clicked each of the trending topics in turn, and held down the 'j' key to scroll through 1000s of tweets. There is a standing login/signup button at the bottom of the page but at no time was there some kind of pop-up.
This is still not bad for the ocean or environment. Yes, they seemed to have decayed faster than thought but things on the bottom of the ocean even if they are a pile of rubble are good for fish havens. The whole area on the continental shelf south of Long Island is mostly featureless sand. Small fish need places to hide out and that brings bigger fish to the area. I fish in the area. So perhaps they might not be as good as hoped but it is still good.
>Surely, everyone is working on different things here and there, but this idea that there is such critical intellectual property the US that needs to be guarded so intensely in this like James Bond scenario, just feels a little wacky

lots of technology that took billions of dollars and decades to develop? Why would you give that away for free?

Protecting IP isn't some new thing, humans have done it for thousands of years

>As Constantine Porphyrogennetos' warnings show, the ingredients and the processes of manufacture and deployment of Greek fire were carefully guarded military secrets.

>The technological advantage it provided was responsible for many key Byzantine military victories, most notably the salvation of Constantinople from the first and second Arab sieges, thus securing the Empire's survival

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire
I also switched to just recently. Nice and simple syntax, and a very satisfying verb:

just push
just test
The Feds do things besides move our money around different States to inefficiently spend on local infrastructure.

If you want to go all in on the eliminating the Federal government, you’d have to also go after the Military, Federal Courts and the Department of State.
I choose to believe that you're actually Bill Gates.
All exchange is predicated upon each party gaining more utility from what they get than by retaining what they give up. The company you work for retains the goods/services you sold them and enjoys a net increase in utility, and you retain the compensation they provided in exchange, and enjoy your own net increase in utility as a result.

On top of that, the ultimate consumption utility enjoyed at the terminus of the entire chain of production is not something you are individually responsible for; you aren't creating the final value, only offering your own marginal contribution of value by selling your own goods and services to your own particular customer.

The concept of "class" does not factor into the reality of any of this.
I'm getting more like 4 or 5 before the pop-up. Problem is when I sign-in I only get one additional tweet. Plus I have to deal with all the extra screen clutter. I'm trying to read about the upcoming blizzard and I'm cursing Dave Epstein for posting a picture of a tree when all I want are his potential snowfall maps. Just switched to nitter.net. End of rant.
Bill apparently responded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPAfdkBprk
Yay! Glad to see this rather than the Red Hat approach of continuing to support dead versions (yes, I know that enterprises value stability blah blah blah)
You could argue that the data is irrelevant for this initial discussion, because somewhere along the way, something went wrong, or the bridge wouldn't have collapsed. Someone is responsible, and I am sure the appropriate organizations will investigate the data to find out whom to blame this on.
As a former resident of the Pittsburgh region, it's not surprising. It seems like the same problem as convincing business owners to invest in backup or disaster recovery solutions. No one who can do anything about it cares until the worst happens, and then it's too late.
Ancient solar storm smashed Earth at the wrong part of the sun's cycle
Well, many military technologies developed by the US companies are being used to manufacture weaponries used to kill foreign civilians... what's the moral of that story?

Also, by your logic what if totalitarian regimes are to steal medical technologies from US companies to develop medicines for their citizens? Is that moral or immoral?
It also depends a lot on application, e.g. UI code will always look different from ETL code. ETL code is much easier to test, than, say, embedded code.
I think the idea is the Feds are fundamentally more capable at big civil engineering. E.g. the Army Corp of Engineers probably knows a lot more about bridges than your city streets department.
Alaska. You can move out there by yourself, do whatever the hell you want (as long as its by yourself and doesn’t impact others), and no one will notice or care.

Or you can be a hermit.
I had no idea there were original colour photos from the war. You often see images from this period re-coloured using modern image editing software or AI, but they never look convincing to me. These are fascinating.
An individual could afford computing power for such research activities (not exactly like this one, but e.g. for personal ML experiments) in 2018-2019 for an adequate price. You were able to buy 2 new RTX2080s for the today price of a used single unit. If you want to tinker and need GPU power today, your best option is to rent special datacenter-approved(tm) GPUs for the really expensive $/h. And you don't own anything afterwards (except if you bought GPU before the end of 2020). Does this make no sense? Is this how technological progress should work?
oh grow up. no - seriously.

is this the kind of culture you want? no one can ever share bad things theyve done, ever? lets all lie and say we're sinless?

you "feel bad" for how "extremely inappropriate" that was? how tiny is your worldview that this is the cause you think needs correcting?

maybe add something to the conversation instead of calling someone shitty for a decades old action. how are people suppossed to recover from real problems if this is how you treat some meaningless, damageless 5 minute prank?

shovelling embarassment and guilt is the most unhealthy and unproductive forum environment possible.
Ruby Uses Memory(2015)
I didn't think you weren't arguing in good faith. I still don't think you weren't arguing in good faith. That's why I was explaining some important extra context to you that you seemed to be unaware of.
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I vividly remember visiting NYC for the first time and being shocked that while starting to cross 8th ave and 15th st, that a yellow cab was already making a turn the second I put my foot in the intersection and was slowing creeping towards me. It's probably just the nature of a big city.
Not to be missed in the article: The Air Force has a "chief of esports and virtual fitness"
I've felt the exact same way after working (consulting) for mostly very large companies. I'd love to do a startup at some point in my career and sometime I have FOMO on that experience. The grass is always greener.
We use them a lot, but in my case mostly on the back end. We have a 24/7 service that runs and our customers depend on our service being up to make money. So if a new feature or change goes out that has any risk, we feature flag it so that if there are any problems we can flip the new feature off immediately rather than have to wait for a fix and deploy, or wait for a rollback.

Our feature flags are nice to work with in that you can just add them in code. If the flag doesn't exist in the DB, it is created with a default value. This makes them pretty painless to work with for us.

You can activate feature flags one server at a time as well to roll things out gradually if you want.

We have a simple web ui in our admin site where you can see them, what they are set to, when last updated etc. A good idea which we haven't done yet, is to log who changed it each time, and why as well.

Being able to find flags that haven't changed in a long time is useful to identify ones you can clean up.
So in the years before this hack, Nortel had already laid off more than 2/3rds of it's workforce, received a massive government bailout, and had top execs like their CEO fired for an "accounting mistake" that cost billions. "Other problems" is an understatement.
There's already a system in place to record most public certificates in a way that facilitates monitoring and auditing. It's called Certificate Transparency (CT); you'll find more about it at https://certificate.transparency.dev Google designed it and made it a requirement for certificates to be considered trusted in Chrome. It's since been adopted by Apple and Microsoft.

The basic idea is that participating CAs must publish all certificate information to multiple CT logs. For every issuance they thus receive several proofs of logging [SCTs, one for each CT log they submit to). They then embed those proofs in the actual certificates, enabling browsers to distinguish published certificates from those that haven't been. If you'd like to see the SCTs, go to this page https://www.hardenize.com/report/hardenize.com/1643337370#ww... and open up more certificate information by clicking on "View details". The SCTs are under the "Certificate Transparency" heading.

If you're talking about your own personal web sites, I don't think misissuance is something you need to worry about; someone will need a reason to go after you. For large organisations with large infrastructures, it's another story.

There are free services out there that will send you a notification whenever a new certificate is issued for one of your properties. IIRC, Facebook used to operate one and so does Cloudflare. I haven't tried them myself. It's fun when you get the first couple of notifications but quickly becomes noise. The real challenge is being able to filter out the regular issuance and highlight the unusual ones.

Disclosure: I am the founder of Hardenize, which helps companies handle their certificate infrastructure and we offer CT monitoring as part of our product. We provide free configuration assessments to everyone and without registration from our homepage https://www.hardenize.com
That story revolves around Brian Shields's account, which, while I don't doubt the details, I think lacks the business perspective and doesn't really explain Nortel's demise. Nortel was maximising growth during the the dot-com boom, spending heavily on acquisitions and not paying attention to its profitability. It couldn't have been worse placed to handle the dot-com bust when its main market shrunk hugely. Huawei and ZTE were not really major competitors internationally at the time.
Wow! you may be right.
It's mostly in your imagination. Big companies don't have any better idea how to do things, often worse. I think it's beneficial to work for a large company for a while, if only just to see how things are and to say you've done it. But as far as getting to : "doing things properly", that's something you will need to figure out as you go, by applying critical thinking and by trying to work with competent colleagues where possible.
Amazon probably has one of the worst reputations available for a major tech employer, so even if you find the grass rather brown, it may just be Amazon.
Guilt requires an ability to act on it to be meaningful. It's meaningless to put guilt on people without such ability: they can't act on it anyway, similar to how it's meaningless to scream at a wall.
Not much of a choice anyway. Choosing to keep an unsupported piece of software in the system is a security liability.
With Prius batteries, there’s a whole refurb scene where people buy the whole pack, crack it open, find the underperforming cells, and replace those. And that’s for a very small battery. So I would guess the same will be done for EV packs, since “most of the time” the cells will wear unevenly and the whole pack won’t be bad at once. If you do need a pack replacement after 10 years though, you probably get more power and range and lighter weight, so you get an upgraded car at the same time.
Very fascinating. Thank you.
This is pretty nice example of "blaming the victim" mentality. No, there was no missed opportunity for salesman, no the salesman done nothing wrong. Did not went out of way to make the situation sux for others either.
What? In a point release?

We all knew this was coming, but doing it in a point release seems like exceedingly bad form, particularly as Apple does major releases annually. I never expect point releases to break stuff, at least not on purpose.
It doesn't need to spread from person to person. Most likely people get it from rare environment conditions and bad luck.
How is that any different than cars and turn signals?

The obligation is on the party obstructing the traffic flow to not be a dick about it (which includes broadcasting their intentions to some extent) and the secondary obligation is on the moving traffic to not do ludicrous speed so that the former party can accurately predict whether or not they can make their move without being a dick about it.
I’ve heard that the idea of dragons sleeping in caves arose because cave bears lived in well, caves throughout Europe and it’s quite possible their skeletons would be mistaken for a dragons.
Oh definitely. You need to constantly be checking all your mirrors. If you get out without checking your door/rearview mirror i would expect them to fail you on the spot.
Vaccines can potentially be mandated for entire populations and funded by the US taxpayer for distribution around the world and require adjustments several times per year. The development of new related vaccines of this type is apparently quite cheap and straightforward (this was boasted about at various points over the last few years) and vaccines are also pretty unique in the way that manufacturers can effectively be immune from liability. Add in the magic word Pandemic, with careful orchestration from public health authorities and politicians I think you can have a dream combination of volume, revenue and commercial risk limitation.
You're not saying what roles you'd try and go for at a big company. If it's robotics, I'm sure they'll assess your tehcnical knowledge and then not sweat the size/scale of your engineering work. If it's a transition into non-robotics software engineering (which is what I'm guessing your friend did), you might not have the level of experience and skill to immediately get a software job at Amazon or other big companies, but you'll for sure find many companies willing to help you change careers. Just seeing robotics on a resume is enough to pique my interest and want to talk, I'd imagine lots of hiring managers feel similarly. I don't think I've ever assessed a candidate and felt that they missed the boat on doing things the right way. It's really about assessing potential and attitude, and if those fall into place, the "right way" can be taught.
...and let's not forget that performance could be improved in newer versions so it's a bit tricky to say that A is faster than B, period.
Particularly, in this new 3.1 version there is a new JIT (YJIT from Shopify guys) that shows up to 22% on railsbench, 39% on liquid-render.
And there are alternative implementations like JRuby or GraalVM with diff. in performance.
The way I have always understood it - the Python that RedHat supplies is intended for it's scripts. If we install our own packages or remove any packages, then the risk destabilising the system. I have seen situations where people have removed python packages that resulted in yum no longer working, for e.g.

Hence, I have always (including from the RHEL 6.x days) provided my own local python version by compiling and packing as a custom rpm. I now use venv to do the same.
When I was at Apple, they discontinued bundling the command line version of emacs, and they sent a long internal email stating why. The stated reason was that any newer emacs would suffer from license incompatibility with macOS, and they didn't see the point of supporting a 10 year old version that the FSF doesn't even support when, if someone really wants emacs, it's just a `brew install emacs` away.

I can't say I disagree.
"If you dump clueless suits with expensive gear and hackers in the same environment the outcome is somewhat predictable"

This is essentially bigotry, endemic among arrogant groups of people with limited social skills, narrow understanding (and therefore respect for) subjects beyond their purview, but who might have developed some strength of understanding in their niche.

"What point is there to have a salesperson there who does not understand what they are selling?"

It's ridiculous to assume that a salesperson might have to have the same level of knowledge that an Engineer may have, and betrays a total lack of understanding of how organizations work, levels of expertise required.

Imagine if Engineers were required to have the knowledge and skills to have to actually 'sell' the devices they make, after all, why shouldn't they be expected to know how to 'have a conversation' and 'collect money'? My god.
A lot of it is just backdoor appropriations to defense contractors. The aid is expected to be spent on materiel from US companies.
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This is Windows 10 specific. I was alarmed today when Nvidia GeForce turned off persistent screen recording (called ShadowPlay/Instant Replay) as soon as I accessed "netflix.com" on Firefox 96. They claim it is to deter users from screen-recording DRM protected content.

Besides the privacy concerns, I'm very curious to know how GeForce Experience process does that? Does it get assistance from Windows (PlayReady etc.), or can a process just do that. I'm looking for a technical explanation. How about some process reading how many times I visit my bank website per day? Where does it end?
He can certainly sue the US government for accusing him publicly without enough evidence to prosecute, and the resulting loss of compensation.

Now, it's not exactly affordable for him to do so. But that's a separate problem we should solve.
It shouldn't require a third-party driver! It's basic functionality which should be provided by the OS in a userspace API.

Blackhole does its job, except your volume buttons stop working when you're on a multi-output device. Quite a pain.
I'll go against the grain and say that working in startups has been hugely overrated. Each time I worked way harder for less money, and dealing directly with the owner/ceo makes everything so much more complicated.

At a bigger company, sure it can be a bureaucratic mess - but I have been much personally happier every time. I get more resources, better pay, and much better work/life balance.

I didn't realize how unhappy I was working at startups until I took a corporate job again and my wife made me promise not to do another startup until the kids are grown up.
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I checked the TxDOT bridge report out of curiosity.

"Out of 55,000 Bridges in Texas, Only 787 (1.4%) are in Poor Condition—much lower than the national average.

https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot-info/library/reports/gov/bri...
I think your mistaking technical debt for code quality.

I've seen the same thing play out and more often than not, its a helix like cycle of projects starting simple and as time goes on trade offs are made and you get a lot technical debt then you rewrite and the cycle begins again.

I partly agree with you about "ugly=not written by me", I just think that only happens at the edges aka semantics.. Nowadays its pretty easy for teams to come to a consensus on whats clean/ugly vs acceptable/subjective.
It sounds like you have a fully self-imposed restraint qualified by expired data.
1) I doubt you're actually working class, even if you're working for money

2) Capitalism is a decentralized system of allocating resources. By working and investing (even if just owning a retirement plan), you are taking part in it all. You may now collect your monocle and top hat.

3) Getting paid some fraction between 0 and 1 of the value you create is a fact of nature for all actors in the system. The company has to create more value for its customers than they pay for it, otherwise nobody would bother buying.

4) The system itself creates vast amounts of wealth and progress, for the entire society. You wouldn't have a good job and a good computer if it wasn't for all that extra value.

5) Don't confuse capitalists with capitalism. The people may behave badly, but the system is resilient - that's why it's been working well for centuries, through thick and thin.
> Is Twitter entitled to my attention?

If you're using Twitter, yes, because you are explicitly entitling them to it

> In only narrowly proscribed [sic] ways that maximize their own benefit?

Yes