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I do agree removing Windows Update does pose some security risk, however I don't think said risk is nearly as bad as some make it out to be, and I personally think the benefits of Windows Ameliorated greatly outweigh any security downsides.

Spyware is not the same as local system logs. Spyware in this case is software that sends unnecessary or intrusive information to Microsoft. The goal of Windows Ameliorated is to remove spyware, not prove your innocence in court.

You used Windows Defender as an example of a security benefit. There are alternatives to Windows Defender, and IMO If you're a tech literate power user, an AV isn't useful in most cases.
If you have the time, consider reading this: https://wiki.ameliorated.info/doku.php?id=antivirus
Personally I believe antivirus software in general does more harm than good, as they are generally quite resource hungry and privacy intrusive.

Also, AME does greatly help to mitigate the attack surface of Windows:

Windows Ameliorated ships with a non-administrator user account by default, which mitigates ~70% of Windows vulnerabilities. (Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210618023509/https://www.beyon...). Of course you can still do admin actions, it just requires the admin password.
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Yeah but that analysis downplays the shareholders’ thoughts about the future. If they largely feel like Twitter’s real value is $100B, that it just hasn’t been realized yet, and that they think it can be realized, then it totally makes sense to turn Elon down.

In reality though, the shareholders are a giant mob of people with wildly varying views about Twitter’s place in society, its true value as an asset, its ability to achieve its true value, and just generally what the best way to “make the most money for the shareholders” is. So I don’t think it’s an open-and-shut case that the board betrayed the shareholders. It’s probably a muddy case that’ll play out in court over months or years.
> Absolutely not!

Why not? Everything I’ve seen here and in the real world strongly suggests otherwise.

If safety is really the overarching concern and assumptions on basics like one-ways are not so obvious and cannot be taken for granted…

Then I don’t see any other obvious choice other than testing and licensing cyclists.

It won’t happen, but that’s the rational conclusion.

Even if you take away
everyday motorists, the same safety issues remain with delivery vehicles, mass transit, and taxis.
I'm not anything other than a C tourist, and I see that the man page says it returns either NULL or a "unique pointer value that can later be successfully passed to free()."

I'm kind of at a loss about why it can return either of those two things, somebody want to take a shot at explaining it?
A pattern that has saved my bacon a number of times: When writing the "permanent delete" code, only issue the delete when you have proven that there is a backup.

i.e.:

- Create a backup of the data you want to delete and store it somewhere

- Read everything in the backup, and delete everything you find in the backup from prod

- Have the backup expire after a certain time threshold (e.g. s3 has a nice TTL setting for backup buckets)

Even if you delete the wrong thing, the backups are always immediately accessible in the near-term
There's over engineered mechanical pencils and then there's the Wingback[0]. A £140 mechanical pencil made from stainless steel, featuring bespoke internals made in Japan and finished with a tungsten carbide coating.

It may be over engineered and overpriced, but damn if it's not one beautiful item of stationary.

[0] https://wingback.co.uk/collections/mechanical-pencil/product...
I don't think this can be emphasized enough, it's something I saw a few times in my career which was outside of California. Just having a non-compete that might apply with a former company is enough for many companies to hire someone else who's not got such entanglements. If that company is known for litigating them all the worse.
Surprised that he wants to see the “social machine” work but is fine mocking the homeless, the poor, or the hungry.

In my opinion the fundamental needs of humans being meant is part of the social machine. Not rich people getting to whine.
Think about LVT as the occupier paying the community for the right to exclude them from a common resource. The price of that exclusion is set by the community. The occupier gets most of the benefits of private property rights without actually having private property.

This concept can be extended to all natural resources (and in some cases already is to some extent). The radio spectrum, mineral resources, etc.

I find this to be an attractive concept because I am philosophically opposed to the current situation where a new life is born into a world where all resources are already 'claimed'. That new life has just as much right to the world's resources as any other that already exists. This doesn't mean that someone can't make use of more resources than anybody else. They just have to do it in a justifiable way.
I think it's more that than no one sane would consider the presence of Nazis as justification for Russian slaughtering innocent civilians.
That's not a rhetoric and it's also not even close to what I said or what I actually think. Please don't make things up, it's doing a disservice to yourself.
> his concrete proposals seem to include things like an edit button, long-form tweets and some monetization strategies.

This sounds like an opportunity to diversify the media (and discourse) landscape with a different product.
What you do as an individual is microscopic compared to what corporations do. You are going to punish yourself for what - for big corp to continue to destroy the world.

If you really want to see change politicians need to do the work, not you.
> you can download and start locally using the file: protocol

Have you tried doing this? You're using ES6 modules for everything except CryptoJS, but modules are subject to CORS (even for local files), so they'll get blocked.
You can't yell Fire in a movie theatre if there's no fire. Your speech can't disturb the peace, your protest can be assigned to a specific location.

Perhaps we need online equivalents. Online on one hand you have 4chan and the other Hacker News. It's a race to the bottom in some sense if all bets are off.
This shouldn't be a controversial opinion. This is the evolution of a government that never faced any consequences for the Great Leap Forward, the Tiananmen Massacre or their concentration camps in modern Xinjiang. The CCP is actively malicious and very willing to kill it's citizens by the thousands in further an of their political goals.
Today gpus are showing up below msrp, so if you still want a pc, you are good
Building software mostly requires working in teams though. If you want to go it alone as a contractor there's no need to be applying to HR depts

I mean, forgive me for stating the obvious, but they're not trying to make you come out of your shell because they want a friend to talk to.
That's fair. This submission title was editorialized a bit too at the time of my comment but I guess it survived not being flagged long enough for someone (yourself maybe) to adjust the title.
That would be a lightning fast way to serve a simple multiuser chat. Any idea of the response rate per second you could achieve so close to the metal?
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And US legislators too ;)
I agree with you in the sense that I only want to work places that recognize and value great code.

But everywhere has code that stinks. And it's hard to find people with the skills and experience to get rid if it. Before it can be gotten rid off, it must be understood.

In a sense it might be valuable to use the poor code in a reading screen. Firstly so we can agree it stinks, and the reasons why. And secondly, to find people with the attitude required to clean up messes that they didn't create (good scouts).

Even when the job is greenfield, or extending great code, I'd rather have engineers with the battle scars of doing tough maintenance.
Not to harp on a secondary point but term limits was your breaking point?
Huh. My first answer was "I don't know", and then I googled it and apparently it's implementation defined. So...my first answer was correct? :)
Are they blocking Apple Private Relay IP donations too?
>When you support "free speech", you support all of it or none of it.

Free speech is not tautological.
I did the reading of existing code thing in interviews a lot a while ago (and somehow forgot about it when switching teams, this reminded me to reintroduce it), with the probably common twist of having intentional mistakes at various levels in the code, and it was absolutely great.

I feel it really gives you a good impression of the level of experience the candidate has with actual coding, and opens up for a lot of related discussion, such as security implications. Without, as the article mentions, the tediousness and artificiality of whiteboard coding (which I don't want to completely dismiss, however).

We're going to be working on a lot of code together, so it makes sense to have the interview about doing exactly that.
He is a futurist, and believes that without free speech, human kind is doomed.

I agree.
Not for actual search IIRC. Last time I checked, they only used their own index and crawlers for the "smart search" and instant answers. Almost all of their search results are still sourced from Bing.

That's pretty easy to check for yourself, usually whenever something does not show up on Bing it won't on DDG either. A good example of that was when the "tank man" picture disappeared from Bing and the exact same thing happened on DDG.
Both NULL and a unique pointer value can be safely passed to free() :-).

Answers to this question taught me about the candidates taste and understanding of good API design :-).

Both NULL and "unique pointer" are correct answers, but all modern implementations only chose to return one of these. My follow-up question is "why ?" :-).
Another big shipping line is refusing to export the West’s plastic waste
What's his loss going to be? Like, $500,000,000? I doubt the money matters that much to him.
Great! Hard growing up, but this corrected when I became independent
Google Chrome emergency update fixes zero-day used in attacks
Reading probes the most fundamental skills. Reading code is probably 95% of what a developer does as part of their job.

This is true. Most of the time I'm only reading my own code, and over the years I've been motivated to code better by having to go through crap I wrote early on.
I understand what you’re saying but I think we’re talking about two separate contexts, I’ll call them “CHERI unaware” and “CHERI aware”. There’s plenty of low-level, pointer casting CHERI unaware code, that should continue to work on the hardware. But there’s also people who write secure systems on top of it, and would like to do so in C and C++, so it’s important that they are able to access tags and such. Whether that is through wrappers over assembly instructions, or compiler intrinsics, or whatever, but the easier it is to use from high-level code the more likely it will see adoption there.
LVT isn't a market distortion. Private landowners getting rich by not doing anything is a market distortion. If you buy a building (say that isn't rent controlled) and over 10 years the market rate for rents in the area doubles, you didn't make that happen basically at all but get to reap the rewards. That doesn't make any sense -- the community should get that money as the community created it!

On the other hand if you renovate a building and now can charge twice as much for rent, that hardly effects the land value at all -- it's one building in the area, it won't have a huge effect generally on the land value of adjacent buildings. So you'd get to reap the rewards of your work -- you improved the property and now get to make money from that improvement. LVT explicitly does not tax improvements, only the site-value of the land.

I'm certainly for eliminating rent control and massively liberalizing land use (you may still need very broad classes of zoning, ala Japan with 12 total zones all of which allow mixed use and multi-family dwellings and non of which except industrial zones restricts the minimum size/use in an area, but my preference would be to just have a separation between industrial and non-industrial use cases). That would help a lot! But it doesn't address the fact that when for instance Los Angeles installed the Expo Line for ~$3.5B the people who owned apartments nearby suddenly got a massive 20+% boost in the rent they could charge, a total value of which would have been large enough to pay for the line's construction & operation!

The value of that public investment ought to have come back to the city to be spent on yet more improvements, not pocketed by private property owners who happened to buy a building nearby a decade or more earlier.
Analytics and ML on confidential data are some interesting server side use cases. See the MC2 open source project, for example: https://github.com/mc2-project/mc2
Loads of people said that about Twitter in 2006 when it was a "knock off." It's been proven wrong again and again. And Musk is the kind of guy who can create significantly large network effects and economies of scale.
and my answer is irrelevant?

Alright, what's the relevant answer then?
If you are from South/East Asian country, most of the time you have very tight bond with your parents even as grown ups, I think that's what make those cultures beautiful and valuable.
It's these types of absolutist statements that drive people away from activist causes. Even a staunch proponent of free speech might have some types of speech they object to;

- Advertising dangerous and addictive substances, particularly to children [0]

- Lying about the contents or efficacy of a commercial product, especially medicine or food [1]

- Publishing private details about someone in an effort to inflict real world harm [2]

- Publishing private work against the will of its creator, as might have happened with Sir Terry Pratchett's unfinished books after his death. [3] (I distinctly remember a commenter I had an argument with stating that after his death, his wishes in that regard were irrelevant compared to the living's desire to actually read said work. Fortunately, such callousness is not the norm)

Collective free speech is an interesting idea, in any case. I'm always wary of the term "collective." It brings to mind collective justice. It's not unthinkably terrible, after all, to throw a single stone at a sinner. And if my neighbor has the right to, so do I. And his neighbor, and her neighbor, and soon enough the sinner is stoned to death and none of us are responsible. All each of us did was throw a single stone, after all.

It's a strange dissonance to state that censorship is free speech. But that's what people seem to often mean when they talk about cancelling or deplatforming people.

[0]: https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/rules-regulations-and-g...

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/nestle-baby...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/30/terry-pratchet...
I think you severely overestimate how important security updates are.
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Aside from a small group, the people that want to live there don't want that though. There's a preference for SFH and larger footage. It's generally easier to control commercial activity than personal activity/choice.

I see the real problem as too many people wanting to live in one spot. To me, my solution is addressing the root problem.
>I don't see how it's possible on the internet at large. I've seen many terrible people in person and at least there were consequences for overtly evil or lying acts, I just don't see it happening on the consumer internets social media platforms.

Everyone trying to control you is wondering where the switch in your head is that turns your brain off to the fact that they're controlling you.

Where's yours? Is it child porn? Hate speech? The futility of productive online discourse? Or isn't there one? ;)
> Bonus points for no PR’s and trunk driven development as that shows a very mature team.

I'm not sure what Trunk Driven Development is, could you elaborate?
Snapshotting is different. Undo/redo is not a contingency plan; instead it’s something that you make a regular part of your workflow.
True, it's implementation defined. But almost all implementations choose one of the two options. There is a reason for this.

FYI. I introduced a (bad) security bug into Samba a long time ago by expecting the wrong return (i.e. the one the implementations never return :-).
He probably loves them, and quite responsibly would prefer to encase them in steel on the way to school. If I see an adult driving with kids and I'm biking I usually just fall back. They will crush you like a bug, and curse you for traumatizing the children as you shuffle off this mortal coil. I'll let em go first.
>but his spouse also had the opportunity to communicate about her feelings of neglect

According to the article:

"Hundreds, maybe thousands, of times, my wife tried to communicate that something was wrong. That something hurt. But that doesn’t make sense, I thought. I’m not trying to hurt her; therefore, she shouldn’t feel hurt"

At what point it's okay to stop "trying to communicate" and just leave?
this (your) ideological absolutism is not a hill I choose die upon. It seems you would rather look the other way upon a site harboring this material.

The content is harmful and the admins made it clear they will not allow it within their site. As a user, this is fine by me. By the way the word is `lose`, not `loose`.
Not to mention he is being disingenuous by implying there was no material change between getting offered a seat at the board, and hearing what accepting that seat would entail.
> When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code

Are they intentionally trying to scare devs away?! (Some of the code bases that I've seen have been pretty bad)
“Zebra DelGuard Type-ER”

Sold.
They are not importing COBOL developers man. I know 3-4 members on my team that do Angular. It’s a scam.
which part do you want open sourced? timelines are generated after going through machine learning and then multiple services. even then, some of the infrastructure limits what you see in the end.

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

> Unfortunately, Haplo has its limits. Since we try to pull every single Tweet ID in a conversation every time a conversation is loaded in real-time, this is potentially an unbounded amount of data. We’ve found that if our platform tries to load more than a certain number of entries from our cache at once, our cache request latency will spike, and we begin to time-out on a significant fraction of read requests. Because of this, there is a limit of thousands of Tweets per conversation tree in this cache.

even just showing an ad is a ton work has a bunch of services involved

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

Other stuff that I think explains the complexity

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...

there's no single algorithm, its a bunch of parts coming together from hundreds of engineers and multiple services.
> another perspective is possible, that Trump should be able to speak freely as the leader of the country supported by half its population

Arguably Trump would've been banned under Twitter rules a whole lot quicker if he hadn't been the leader of the country supported by half its population.

> people can be suppressed for saying the wrong thing (see: Trump).

People are lying to themselves if they think they are in favor of unfettered speech. Otherwise your favorite online forum would be chock-filled with Viagra links, crypto, nft and forex spam, multipage crank proofs of the coming singularity, race-baiting rants of the worst sort, ASCII art, Base64 encodes of Blu-Rays, etc. We all want limits on speech, we just differ in where those lines should be drawn.

> What are the upsides of this? A more engaged voter population. A move of politics back towards the center of cultural life, where it should be. A closer integration of politics, culture and ecommerce.

People become strongly politically engaged because there is something they strongly dislike about current public policy. Politics being the center of cultural life is a sign of bad things going on. So I don't see fighting angrier and more hypercharged online wars as an upside. If anything it just primes people for fighting angrier and more hypercharged offline wars, which is where we seem to be headed.
Nah, you can't incite a mob which is what did Trump in and Twitter should regulate the speech of foreign officials per US law. Trump has many other ways to communicate with the people including and not limited to Press conferences. Heck, Trump could email people.

Twitter has no moral requirement to broadcast anything he says. It ain't a utility and it ain't news.
Local governments, which have been granted near unchecked authority by state governments, are entirely captured by homeowners.

I'm not fully clear on this statement. Is it putting forth that local governments shouldn't be controlled by the people who are local, or is it saying that homeowners hold more power than renters? If the former, that's just silly. If the latter, renters get the same one vote per person as everybody else. If they don't care enough to vote that's their problem.

Homeowners, like everybody else, vote in their own best interest. If you want higher-density housing figure out a way that it makes a place better for its inhabitants, not worse. Personally I've never lived in a city that got better as it got bigger and I vote accordingly.
So you think the invasion was justified? I believe the US and friends are not saints. But whataboutism is meaningless when cities are being destroyed and civilians are losing their lives, regardless of where it is.
> where I'm supposed to talk to some HR girl instead of an equal

There's no need to be demeaning to people (not just "girls") who work in HR.
I've never understood how links can fall victim to copyright. A link is just a signpost instructing your browser where to go next. There is no copying involved, anywhere. Subjugating links with copyright law is morphing reality into fantasy.
The only unbelievable thing in your statement was "oviously /s".. I read that and thought.. someone is taking notes.
I'd personalize the reach out. What I suggest is to find out the tech stack the company is using, find some issues related to the stack and then reach out to the hiring manager with personalized message. Maybe even build a product or solution that addresses some of their issues. In my case, I found a vulnerability with how their application connects to the database.
I agree that keeping a cookbook of stuff pasted from the internet without knowing the fundamentals is an anti-pattern.

For me (and probably for GP), my cookbook is stuff that took me more than a few minutes of tinkering or reading manpages to figure out, and it’s stuff that I use maybe once every couple weeks — not often enough to memorize, and annoying if I have to figure it out again.
Well if all you have is bugs but you never look into how they get there and how they happen, you’re not going to improve your process or tools much.

Also blame and accountability and responsibility are all subtly different.