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> Today everything is politics

I attribute this to political parties and their media campaigns which includes sound bytes from interviews, jabs at each other via social media, etc. not just during election season.

I think there is solid reasoning that the vast majority of the public doesn't differ on much, when it comes to policies, so the divisive politics are used to push people towards one party or another - at least here in our two party system in the US.

The 1% donate/fund (via PAC's, etc.) the political candidates and expect legislation that will favor their interests/companies. It takes 10's of millions of dollars (maybe over $100 mil) to effectively run a campaign for some seats in Congress. Candidates aren't getting that amount from individual middle class donors. This isn't a conspiracy theory, its just how it works. The 1% and politicians don't want their status changed and use money to keep it going.

The political divisiveness keeps the 60% of the people that are in the lowest financial brackets divided. I think the US is approaching a point where people (probably not software/startup people) are sick of the financial divide. Sick enough that they might get off their keyboard driven outrage. If they found common ground and united together, the 1% doesn't stand a chance. It doesn't take much effort for politicians to find issues to get people riled up about. Social media makes their job much easier too. That's why we see outrage and protests about masks, when that subsides as a divisive topic they will go back to old topics like guns, etc.

What if there were protests about workers rights (i.e. healthcare, wage inequality, time off, etc.)?
I thought WSB was for Well Stated Bullshit :-)
What are you talking about? It totally isn’t, this generate profit! /s
Time to read "Mathematics: Form and Function" by Saunders Mac Lane, my friend.
bestaudio is usually opus thou, which not all devices and app's can handle as seamless as mp3. ymmv
There was an item posted here this week with the same exact conversation. It's honestly a bit eye opening with the way UX is going. I am all for sensible defaults, but being able to tweak things here and there should really be an option, and not one seen as a failure by the designers...
> Otherwise, most of these questions become trivial when consciousness is considered as a physical, biological process bound to the brain.

If it were trivial, we'd be creating conscious entities via knowhow and will, not the old fashioned (fun) way.

We... need it be said... cannot. We can't even describe what consciousness is in a way it can be measured or analyzed. We can make things that do things, sure. We can even impart some of our own "consciousness" into these doer machines like robots. But we have no useful way of understanding the phenomena we feel and how that might differ from the robot, or a cat, or a bat, or whatever.

> Why is consciousness bound to a person's location? Because their brain is bound inside their skull.

We might as well ask: why is software in a robot the way it is? Because the software is on that CPU in that physical case over there. It's a non-answer and a diversion. Software can be transferred to other hardware, and there are many questions to be had whether software is consciousness, and also what the nature of that consciousness is given that there's clearly a layer of representation (1s and 0s) different than the material reality of the electrons pumping through silicon.
Nice.

FYI for those using Android, NewPipe also supports this.
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Not different??!
Or even better, proper sum types. They're a superset of enums anyway.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype is great, but a bit unwieldy. Language support would be much better.
I understand what you are saying but would you change your mind about those "feel good" actions if say there is possibility that gadgets/cosmetics you use could have come from forced labour? There have been publications in credible news sources for long and even the US government has acknowledged prevalence of Uyghur Forced Labor.
Not so serious question: what is Go2 and Python4 would be the same thing?
Not sure how relevant that is, the old code worked fine in post-generics Java.
Why couldn't the bots apply the paste as well?

I think of this being a tiny version of a home SMT assembly where you're dispensing paste and placing components manually, one at a time.

I also suspect that you can have the target PCB separate from the one the magnets move on.
Not for a kid in elementary school but I think a machine running a BSD variant would be a better learning environment than one running Linux.

It is a lot easier to make a source code change, rebuild and update.
Just fire up YT shorts. Nothing but content from TikTok.
Why? It removes the the stocks from business and finance fundamentals, into more speculative (aka gambling) transactions that create huge BOOMS, and even largest BUSTS in the market, taking out peoples retirements, and financial security

One truism that I have always believed in, it is better overall for an investment to increase predictably @ 5%, then for it to Spike 20% then retract by 10%. Overall for the economy the person may end up with a higher gain with more volatility, but perception and human emotions would focus on the 10% loss, shaking confidence and causing other problems.

I am a "steady as she goes" person, I like clam waters... I do not like chaos which is what money printing causes
How can you have an illusion without an observer? An illusion is by definition a subjective experience - it doesn't explain the thing doing the experiencing at all. You say there is no magic, but your explanation might as well be "it's just magic".
I'm not saying that App Store distribution is useless. But I think vendors should have a choice. If Apple's system is so superior, they have little to worry about.
> for simple things I reach for Node

That's fair enough; it's a language you're more confident with. I've spent two years doing Go regularly now, and at the moment I can whip up valid Go code without tooling or running it in between, but it took me a good amount of time and practice.

> As a corollary, I still haven't been able to understand Go modules and the way code is supposed to be laid out!

I also believe these are the biggest challenges in the Go ecosystem at the moment, and it's probably the most frequently asked question in the various communities. Code / codebase layout is still a very opinionated thing, and while there's a handful of good ideas, there's no standard. (on that note, ignore the "golang-standards" github account, those are NOT standards).
I use C++ for large web backends because I dislike Typescript. I use Javascript for small web backends. Actually to me, JS feels so close to C++.

I use cppcms most of times but in some cases I use Seastar for high perf.
About NFT Profile Pictures on Twitter
It’s in the article he’s responding to.
Go-1 and Go-2 code could even cohabit using something similar to Rust’s editions system e.g. the `range` behaviour could be something like a package opt-in.

And half the article could be fixed by adding new APIs and deprecating the old ones.
Why not? You can care about delivering beautiful code. You can care about ensuring the workplace is a pleasant place to work for all. You can care about your relationships you’re building. You may even be a huge fan of the product you’re building. That doesn’t mean you need to shit a brick when someone comes running in with their hair on fire—it’s not a binary proposition. Caring about things can be done “a la carte” and you can simply just not care about the bullshit
>(in Minecraft)
Rust solved this with editions[0], I don't know if is this feasible with Go.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/editions/index.html
He looks utterly haunted.

It’s tough to have sympathy for him, but if I’d built a website to rate women at my uni for a laugh, then accidentally found myself in charge of one of the world’s most powerful companies that’s destroying society from the inside out - and personally one of the world’s most hated people, I’d look pretty haunted too.
One reason might be that Indian managers are sometimes ass holes to Indian subordinates in particular, maybe because they are aware that Indians are stuck in perpetual H1B status so they can be abused.
Apple 2 was more like a prototype for the C64 that has graphics and sound unmatched without cheating on 8-bit with 16-bit memory.

But honestly today I would give a Raspberry Pico instead, it uses less energy and has more performance but it's still low level!
I would have hoped for a typesafe (compile-time checked) template engine for something dubbed "Modern C++".
There are $100 Chromebooks now that can run Linux and Android. And Windows. And Apple II emulators.

In comparison, my parents paid $2,000 for an Apple IIc. Back then. Like, I'm not adjusting for inflation.
If the sold them to a private company we wouldn't know about it.
>It’s any woman with a decent profile online - a year or two ago a bunch of women in the tech space posted the Twitter DMs they received every day for a week or so - a tsunami of crap saying they’re ugly, they’re stupid, they’re going to be raped/killed etc.

I dont wish to disregard this possibility that a visible female on the internet may be mistreated. Absolutely the case I can see this. However, this political activist provocateur very clearly is sticking their nose deep into the hornets nest. Their experience is certainly not even close to being representative of 'women on the internet'

>She didn’t say that, but did post screenshots of a bunch of slurs based on her surname.

She did say this. Her story literally starts how she meets a 'white supremacist expert' in person. Which is not a thing in reality, she's either stupid and was being mocked or the story is just fabricated. Which is my take on it in OP. She's clearly just faking much of it.
From Corporation to Self-Actualization
Bullshit jobs, anti-work movements, community-driven economies, DAOs and productizing yourself
This is kind of where I'm at. To me clearly qualia are part of the physical world, but no amount of understanding of neurophysiology is going to account for their existence without positing "something else".

My best guess is qualia and consciousness are like an EM field, something that exists and has some relationship with known physical entities but is distinct at the same time. It may be amplified by, say, some computational structure, but exists independent of it.

At one time I had convinced myself that qualia were related to time, in the sense that it was the "substantive" manifestation of time as a dimension, but now I'm not sure what I was thinking.

I suspect in the end consciousness will end up in the domain of physics rather than neurobiology and psychology alone.
I'm in my mid thirties, and did not get into programming until around your age. Didn't get a real programming job until 2-3 years ago. There is some ageism in tech, but I don't think it starts anywhere near your thirties; or even fourties. There is competition of course, but I am not seeing that when applying for non-FAANGS or when freelancing. Bring skills to the table, be able to work within a team, and market yourself and your skills; and then it doesn't matter if you're a programmer starting out at 15, or 65.
The issue with the order of range seems like using the same name for satisfying a different requirement: in a template, you're much more likely to want the value than the index, so it makes sense that a looping construct with a single parameter would be putting the value in that parameter. In a loop in normal code, you're more likely to want to do math on the index. So, I'd say the problem is more about punning the name of these two behaviors than the behavior itself being bad.
Sorry but it does not do the same. It does not block the video. The video is downloaded but it does not used
yea, if wishes were horses ...

we are talking about files on a public webserver, it's absolutely fair game to download and modify/recombine the bit's in those files however i please.
> 99% of Apple consumers

That's 5 million people who do care then, considering 500 million iPhone users (which is a conservative number).
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If the coins are not a legal tender, having them will mean nothing. In order to enjoy them, you will have to sell them. People won't be able to sell you goods and services, because of the tax man, so you'll be able to get for them only stuff that is as unfungible as the coins themselves from people who will be able to use them for other such items. This is much worse market to be in compared to the rather liquid and accepted currencies.
It's my opinion, not "propaganda". Don't be ridiculous.
> EDF is planning to launch its own methane-detecting satellite in about a year, which will take much sharper pictures, showing smaller leaks. Other organizations are developing their own methane detectors.

When this does launch, the images taken should be open to public consumption, preferably on a website. Once we put these companies on blast with the hard facts, things will begin to change. Very quickly.
> Being oncall every 4 weeks for a team that lost 50%

Ugh this hits too close to home.
Only if you're fine with them being indistinguishable.

The flags of Indonesia and Monaco are easy to tell apart if they're the correct aspect ratio, because the flag of Monaco is much narrower. If you force both of them into the same shape, as this collection does

https://flagicons.lipis.dev/flags/4x3/id.svg

https://flagicons.lipis.dev/flags/4x3/mc.svg

they only differ in the shade of red. And I think they got it wrong: Indonesia's red looks darker than I'm used to, Monaco's looks brighter.

If you absolutely need to fit many different flags into a uniform rectangle, you'd better keep the aspect ratio and leave the rest of the rectangle transparent. And don't forget to include a differently-colored border so people can tell where white stripes end (or whatever your background color is.)
> Britain has failed at it

I don't see that (I live here).

The UK has had a two-party system for at least 60 years. The Conservative Party is much the same as it was under Margaret Thatcher: xenophobic, opposed to public expenditure. The Labour Party is currently in the grip of people who admire Tony Blair's policies (interventionism, focus groups, and triangulation).

Labour had a brief phase of mass-movement socialism under Jeremy Corbyn, who might be tagged "populist", but didn't deserve that tag. The current Conservative Party is led by a would-be populist; but the rest of the party doesn't seem to admire him very much. The only real populist much in evidence recently was Nigel Farage, who seems to spend more of his time in US TV studios than on UK TV.

"India is failing, Britain has failed" makes it sound as if UK politics is dominated by pogroms, temple-burnings and riots - as if British society is in a worse state than Indian society. That's far from the truth.
Entanglement is part of material reality - the "classical" world where there is no entanglement is a simplified approximation. The fact that it might feel less "material" to us is an irrelevant feature of improperly-applied intuition. It's no different than someting like e.g. the wave nature of light.

In fact, complex entangled states made of many interrelated "qubits" or degrees of freedom are one of the most promising candidates for the physical correlate of similarly-complex phenomenological experience. Complex-enough quantum computers might just feel stuff, as a matter of basic reality.
Yes, their setup likely would have been configured, monitored, and maintained properly if they had an IT guy. But they made the (easy to make) mistake of thinking that having enough tech knowledge means you don't need a proper IT/systems department.

I'm certain at least that Linus knows that RAID isn't backup. And I'm Linus is going to try had to get the data back, but it seems to me that this isn't some devastating failure for him.
From an accessibility perspective it's a disaster too. My granny is visually impaired, but loves watching tv. She's been able to get by for decades by memorizing the commands needed to get where she wants to go (she had a list of nintendo cheat code-like instructions on how to get to various channels she wanted on the satellite e.g. down-down-left-left-enter gets her to her show)
We tried to get her into Netflix, but the menus change far too often for this strategy to be of any use. Of course you can use the screen reader/narrator, but you can imagine how frustrating it is trying to find the carousel you're looking for by waiting for the screen reader to tell you, it's frustrating enough doing it visually!!
There are two graphs, the second one is broken out by age and gender and seems to show a higher risk for second dose of ChadOx1 (Astra vaccine).
Fully agree. I'm heavily in crypto but keep saying the same - people will demand banks, will demand regulation, will demand insurance.

One recent example: a few days ago there was a big movement in crypto market. Due to huge traffic spike that went with that, one unnamed chain practically ground to a halt. The only thing that continued working normally was liquidation bots...

So tons of people got liquidated coz they couldn't adjust their positions. And now obviously they all are calling for compensation. But in the decentralized world of de-humanized smart contracts with no legal framework, there's obviously nobody responsible, hence nobody to pay any compensation.
Of course those problems can be fixed and are not too bad YET, but saying that you don't need to worry about this is wrong.
That’s obviously true. And once you accept that then the whole premise behind crypto is gone - if centralization is the only way to make it work, then traditional banking is preferred. All that’s left are use cases that are in the gambling and money laundering category.
Browsers have the Accept-Language header just for this. You can provide a list of languages, in order of preference, for the site to decide what you want to see.

But nope. No-one uses it. (I know, I have had it set for a decade at least.)

This is even worse when I run a service on a VPS in France and I get pages in French, just because of the location.
I find it makes sense if you can write the tests at a high enough level and the tooling to mock the "outside world" of your system is easy enough to use.

If you're doing TDD exclusively with unit tests I find it falls flat for pretty much everything except complex, logical code with no state and simple inputs and outputs.

Likewise I tried doing TDD on code which had complex, hard to mock interfaces to the outside world (e.g. interfacing with a horrible oracle system) and it didnt exactly become impossible but it definitely stopped being worthwhile.
LOC isn't a meaningful metric. Flat out. You can think it is, but it's such a toxic, nonsensical concept that you deserve to get pushback for mentioning it. It's a waste of time in the presence of actually useful criteria product/project-related metrics.

Teams of people build things. LOC don't add up to a hill of beans.
While I agree with you that Facebook (the app) is in decline and Facebook/Meta are rushing to diversify as the market changes, the premise of the article that Apples change has significantly effected Facebooks revenues is not a lie.

Apples change has fundamentally damaged ad conversion attribution from the Facebook/Instagram apps on iOS, we have seen it it ourselves.

It may be that the exact figure of $10B is inflated, it could even be an underestimate. Meta may have an agenda in how they are spinning it, almost certainly do in fact. However I can assure you that the fundaments of the article and what they are saying is true.
German school finds DIY answer to anti-virus ventilation
I am not someone that holds back criticism. I do believe many mistake that for negativity. Maybe I am too hostile to advertising that I tend to curb my enthusiasm about many new products, although I am still interested in them.

Sometimes it feels pretty lonely in the group of people that don't expect the near end of the world. Especially annoying in times when policy is often put forward in times of crisis. I don't mean Covid, the last decade was full of that.

You would think religious people and climate scientists could come together to proclaim that the end is nigh, sometimes you have to start at common positions...

Problem is that the both-sides perspective is more often correct than not. People will identify different facts and different instances of propaganda. Especially if said fact rely on nothing more than perfectly compiled statistics. Good ideas must prevail against opposition.

There is also an argument that states have problems to project power against multi billion $ companies, but the answer should certainly not be propaganda.
All of this would be nice if we didn't stumble into negative interest rates territory for a while. Having to pay to hold a depreciating asset is going to make the choice much less evident.
I guess we have different interpretations of what happened in Chicago and elsewhere. In our school district the teachers’ actions diverged from a group focused on safety, regardless of one’s interpretation of the covid threat level. I used to be 100% behind the teachers when they were fighting for better pay. I’m sorry to say that they have lost my support. I should probably also say that I’m not generally anti-union. Workers have lost a lot of leverage since the 70’s.
Personally I’ve run into more problems with strict enum types in distributed systems in a team setting, than I have with Go’s lack of them. In that setting, strict enums are usually over-strict and eventually you back yourself into a corner in terms of being able to roll out new enum values.

When there’s no clear winner in terms of tradeoffs, I prefer to leave it out of the language like Go has done.
I'm a Slackware user (as a "pet" testing machine) and one of the things that bothers me about this distribution is that I don't know which packages I'm supposed to install. For example, by default it wants me to install both lilo and grub, but only one of them seems to be necessary. Is that alright? Do I need to select my packages manually from the long list?

Besides that initial confusion, once it is up and working, it is remarkably minimal, clean, elegant, and with very up-to date packages (if you use "-current"). I love that package management does not install recursive dependencies. It is my smaller testing VM and feels just as fast as the others, and never gives me any trouble.
I heard about this topic from the excellent youtube channel 'Engineering with Rosie' some months ago : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuQLJIqFjkk

If you are interesting about energy and environment I think this channel is very good.
Do you have any examples of other languages offering typesafe SQL integrations? Not sure what to think of it, given how you'd end up having to map SQL datatypes (across multiple database engines) with Go's own (not very powerful) types or a custom type validation layer (which already moves the problem to runtime instead of compile-time).

I did see a post the other day criticizing Go's standard template language and approach. Maybe someday someone will stand up and build an alternative, more advanced template engine - it can just be a library, after all.
Depends on who you ask, during 2010 - 2012 so many people were enthusiastic about running their own bitcoind node.
Every other day I see a new reddit post of a cute little node running on a rPI with an external SSD and a tiny e-ink display.
When I was in school back in the 90's and worked for the computing center supporting Unix workstations on campus, it was always funny to get called over to the CS department to fix a professor's workstation and discover once again that they had zero clue how to use their machine. These were the same professors I had in my CS classes, who were fantastic. They were 100% theory and not at all practical, and actually weren't the least bit ashamed to admit it.