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I don't know about now, but when I was in college some couple of decades ago we were told during orientation that of the roughly 200 or so of us only about 3 would complete the degree. My degree is a BSCpE so not really CS. More like if CS and EE had a bastard child. I would guess they were off by a few, but no more.
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Prioritizing profit corrupts the commitment to providing care.

Healthcare can be either care or industry.

Applying corporate values to a healthcare system leads to maximum wealth extraction from both providers and patients.

In this context innovation focuses not on the care part but on the extraction. The care is secondary.

How can anyone who cares be a proponent or coexist with a healthcare industry?
I've recently heard some criticism of the 4% rule. It's designed with two assumptions: that you are old, and that when you die there may be basically nothing left. So it only needs to last around 30 years give or take. But if you retire at 30 with a strategy that runs out in 30 years that could be an issue.

But on the other hand I do believe you can prevent blowing up if you are willing to live lean when the economy is doing bad (the standard assumption is that you keep increasing your spending in line with inflation even as your portfolio craters).
Beaverton, a suburb right outside Portland, OR.

CoL isn't too bad here, especially if you're operating under the assumption that the house is paid off.
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"the traits that made them so successful" - or perhaps the choices?

Too much confusion between fame and wealth - the author tried to disambiguate, but I don't think they succeeded.

"If you are "publicly rich" (think athletes, authors, movie stars, politicians, etc.), you no longer have a private life." - isn't this true for most public figures regardless of their wealth status?
I'm an engineer in physical disciplines, and I don't think it's a certification issue. It's more that "engineering" in the software world is conflated with craftsmanship. The word "engineering" as used in relation to software is basically interchangeable with "technical work". Let me hasten to add, this is not intended to be pejorative or haughty, rather an observation.

Whether it's bridges, aircraft, or other complex engineered systems outside of software, there is a fundamental commitment to correctness, as assessed against physical principles such as conservation laws and both high-level and low-level verification criteria. Some software orgs (I think mostly in safety-critical systems) apply this kind of rigor, but most software development does not. Just look at the pushback on this site for development systems that increase rigor at the expense of "development velocity", such as memory-safe languages, powerful type systems, formal methods, etc. No civil engineer is going to be OK "shipping" their product without stress analyses, material property knockdowns, and the like.

My suspicion is that the root of this lies in an inability to systematically reason about software the same way we can about physical systems today. The tools and principles for correct-by-construction software are more primitive and harder to use than their equivalents in the physical realm. Also, lack of rigor in software still gets you a lot of powerful software and society seems remarkably tolerant of shitty software outcomes.

All software doesn't need to be engineered, the same way no one engineers a hand-crafted piece of furniture. But our software infrastructure ought to be, and it surely is not today. It will be awesome when software engineering starts living up to its billing, as I hope it one day does.
Not sure where that idea comes from, but Disney absolutely pays taxes and your claim is false. In fact, the special tax district is allowed to (and does) charge Disney additional taxes over the state maximum to provide services like utilities and infrastructure.

Removing the tax district means it is illegal for Orange/Osceola Counties to continue charging the extra taxes to Disney to pay for their infrastruture.

If anything, it's a financial sweetheart deal for Florida, not for Disney. The thing Disney gets out of it is being able to maintain their property to the standard of their liking.
These are among the first businesses to get hit by a recession. Sure, you may call the plumber to fix a leaky pipe but that bathroom remodel project is on hold. New construction, where a lot of contractors make the bulk of their money, also dries up.
Yeah I really hate that you cannot read stuff on twitter without logging in. Instagram is the same, not available in the open WWW.
The problem is if it isn't a dedicated video app. Say for example a video embedded in a webpage. Then you can maximise the browser window, but the video itself still takes up a small part of the screen.

> And if you want to see other apps at the same time as the video, no wonder full-screen gets in the way.

You say that, but is doesn't on windows or linux. And it didn't used to on macOS either until they changed things around a few years ago.
> I don't think it was retribution.

It's retribution.

Desantis’ lap dog Rep. Randy Fine says that Disney must be punished for not behaving property. "It’s time for them to remember that we are not CA. They are a CA company. And we are not interested in their CA values here in this state.

But here’s the issue, when my 14-year-old or my 10-year-old ask for special privileges? They behave! And they don’t expect those special privileges if they act like jerks. So Disney is learning that they are a guest in this state."

ref: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/22/florida-republican-govt-...
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Then there are no public squares on the internet. Even 4Chan has rules and moderation.
A bounce message can be very small, specifying only three fields: To, From, Date to identify the rejected message. Compared to this spam messages would be much bigger, consisting of html, css, javascript, pdf attachmens, zipped executables etc. The message could be sent to a fixed address, like abuse@same.server; how to check messages on that address is a different story as it's not user messages, but technical messages.
Copy/pasting the comment I made on the blog.

I have to say that I strongly disagree with the arguments made and the advice. Disabling SELinux is a terrible idea, it will increase the attack surface of your system by magnitudes. I'll be addressing arguments made (paraphrased, not direct quotes).

A) "SELinux documentation is too complicated and geared towards policy makers, not end users"

This is because the documentation's target demographic are system administrators using the tools to write policies. This is like complaining that a carpenter handbook aimed at professionals is too complicated for end users. You want to be looking at either the documentation for the software (Docker for example tells you how to get around permission errors with mount, or setting the appropriate bool for httpd servers) or reading the error message that tells you exactly what to do (run audit2why, file a bug report so the distro maintainers can take a look at it).

B) "You should disable SELinux"

Would you disable your home security system because it's too complicated to figure out? If there is a genuine bug in the policy, then it should be reported, not disable the entire thing.

C) "Start from a clean slate and write your own policies"

The policies are written by those who are intimately familiar with SELinux and how it operates within the context of the distro. Again as said earlier, if there's an issue, report it upstream. Trying to write your own policies, especially if you're unfamiliar with SELinux, will result in an insecure application/system. Most errors are easily solved by google or running the appropriate command.

D) "It's too complicated for end users; use Docker instead"

I see this argument a lot, but it makes no sense within the context of IT. The end user and system admin are two different groups of people. Why does it matter if it's too complicated for end users when the audience are other IT professionals? Docker also is NOT a replacement for SELinux. Docker is secured BY seccomp profiles, by itself it is actually significantly more insecure than people think. This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the threat model of containers and what benefits SELinux provides.
Warning: Artificial Intelligence for Terrorists
After CN terrorists kill children, they use domesticated animals to domesticate the soul/memory of human children, and forced work (AI). CN terrorists have gradually used the heads of human deceased people who died abnormally to replace electronic computers as AI servers.
You should educate yourself about how most of the western world manages to have a functioning semi social health care system. US is broken because of this blind fantaic faith in free markets deregulation simplifications.

The problem is a large swath of the population that believe in all earnestly that squeezing profit is some magical tool for a functioning economy.

Too bad US is so good at PR, this mind virus is wreaking havoc all over the world.
Pay-as-you-go phone plans. Early model phones. Phone/pc repair.
Maybe 'sounds of the sea' works well. Crashing waves, seagull cackles, thunder in the distance. You can easily catch the cadence and thunder along.
If you're wondering what to invest in, I would stick to VTI/ITOT/etc. Some people will definitely be lucky but nobody knows nothing!
No energy will do badly; go back to 2008 and see what happened to energy companies after oil had its 150 USD price spike.
I went down the rabbithole of wanting to build my own lightweight Lambda, only to wonder if Lambda is just distributed CGI by another name.
That is an interesting observation. I wonder how much of the advent of "talking over doing" is related to the development of mass/social media.

Influence can propagate so easily through mass media, meaning that it is now possible to generate enough business interest just through "hyping" (it's difficult to achieve this when messages have limited reach) --- combined with the fact that it is often cheaper and less risky to "talk" than to actually "do", we end up with a culture where hyping is preferred whenever possible.
Yeah it's wild how well the grift works. My coworkers want private insurance (because we get it) and oppose universal healthcare. I think generally people in the states are ok with a grift if it hurts poor people worse. Because of that literally everyone expects they are getting grifted at all times and trusts no one.
this tool may interest the same audience: https://github.com/hairyhenderson/gomplate

I find it especially handy for poc-ing helm snippets, although regrettably they don't have the same "standard library" of functions
I wrote an app in GWT in 2011-12, and there was an existing sibling app also in GWT.

It worked. It let me use my existing desktop app experience (Java, C#, C++) to write code that had a familiar style ( `myButton.setText("Click Me")` ), and build very desktop-style apps that ran in a browser.

But after having learned JS and Backbone, and then React + Redux, it was clear this was a much better way to build apps in general. (Obviously I became biased towards React and Redux personally as shown by my involvement with those tools, but it truly was a big mental shift in how I approached writing code in the first place.)
Because deflation kills economies while controlled inflation is necessary to have an economy.

A deflationary currency means you are better off keeping your money under a mattress than using it (either as an investment or an expense).

Which means that people wanting to acquire machinery to improve their farm output, someone wanting to setup a store, or someone else wanting to do something productive with their labor will find it harder to get the funding they need.
One difference is that they have contracts in place that they aren’t honoring. The descriptive verbiage changes when discussing an invading country. Similar actions can be described a number of ways depending upon their context.
Could someone explain what’s inaccurate here?

Edit: It originally appears to be getting heavily downvoted.
I would say most of the STEM majors at my university (top 20 US school) pushed students to the absolute brink in the first year, jam packed with advanced math, physics, and chemistry. It was pretty normal to come out of freshman year engineering, CS, or chemistry with a sub-2.75 GPA and the joy of learning completely stomped out of you.

I don't know if it was intentional or just the collective effect of having a bunch of professors with no teaching skills and god complexes who hated engaging with undergrads, happy to assign 40 hours of work per week per class with no regard to the fact that students are in 3 other equally-difficult classes.

Mostly (that I know of) people didn't switch out though, they just took the terrible treatment as it was supposedly normal to have a terrible GPA and terrible time in the STEM majors there. Also there were a lot of international students in the programs - I doubt going to America to study engineering and coming back with a liberal arts degree was an option for them.

Personally, I switched into Industrial Engineering which had notably fewer hard sciences requirements. Still miserable, but less so.

I also managed to find a loophole where each engineering major had its own stats class that was 95% the same content, then vaguely applying it to a problem in that field of study in a final project. So I satisfied my Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, etc. requirements by just taking MechE Stats and ChemE Stats.

They closed that loophole by the time I graduated by having one unified Stats course for all engineering majors.
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Bullet points are fine, but again the message should contain the context of the change and the "why" of it, not the what and how (that's what the diff shows).
I read Kahn's book: "The One World School House." I was not a fan of his vision of basically all education being run by a single technology platform, with teachers serving as localized technicians/tutors helping students interface with that technology. This seems like an attempt to make that a reality. I get that this may be better than alternatives for some people, but what I saw during the pandemic basically did little to make me doubt my position.
Strong disagree.

Nurses are generally payed very well.
This is a supply problem driven by increasing restrictions on nursing degrees and insurance.

Not enough nurses and high cost leaves hospitals understaffed and nurses overworked, leading to a feedback cycle.
I would recommend the following EconTalk podcast on the history of the American healthcare system.

https://www.econtalk.org/christy-ford-chapin-on-the-evolutio...

Spoiler alert -- the author being interviewed doesn't have a solution, quick, easy or otherwise. But the history is fascinating -- in the end there are a lot fewer villians than you might imagine. A lot of good faith decisions seemingly made in the public interest over the past 150 years have led us into a weird local minimum that seems inescapable. Where we are was not inevitable, and as they say if something is unsustainable it has to end eventually, but before suggesting sweeping solutions I'd recommend hearing a detailed history.
Startup creation / funding is closely correlated with near-zero interest rates. When money is cheap, venture capital is more lucrative. This correlates closely with the early 2000s bubble, the 2008 crash that dropped interest rates and allowed for extreme amounts of venture capital, and the 2020-2021 surge in startup investment. Venture capital in theory becomes a far less lucrative choice in a high-inflation, rising interest rate market. While we’ve definitely seen a bit of a pullback in VC funding over the last 6 months, it remains to be seen whether that was another temporary dip like in Feb/March 2020 or a larger shift in the market.

Personally, I think the entire economy has shifted to focus on SaaS revenue growth above all else, and it will be impossible to “pull back” from venture capital because of that inertia, but in theory based on historical trends there should be a pull-back.
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I love how these small online communities have managed to survive over the years!
Isn't each individual person a "channel"?
There is no debate that Disney is worse off with the action, so it is harmful.

Even your argument upthread is that this is an adverse change that Disney deserves for other reasons than the actual motivation, not that it is not an adverse change.
There is some enlightenment experience, when you get it. This it is when one figures out why Lisp is how it is: a language programmed in a data structure, programmable in itself. One can live without that enlightenment. One can also live without understanding recursion, but it was a small enlightenment for me when I understood recursion and how to use that in programming. There are a bunch of enlightenment experiences one can have. I had another one when I first read the Smalltalk books and later saw a Smalltalk system - I thought that was the end of programming, everything was done.

Alan Kay (the 'Alan Kay' of OOP and Smalltalk ) had an enlightenment experience with Lisp:

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

"AK Yes, that was the big revelation to me when I was in graduate school—when I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were “Maxwell’s Equations of Software!” This is the whole world of programming in a few lines that I can put my hand over."

For background on this:

https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equation...

> false since there are many successful and highly skilled programmers who don't know or care about lisp

Still they unknowingly may use a lot of things that were once pioneered in Lisp, like these: conditionals, functional programming, managed memory and garbage collection, evaluator/interpreters, read-eval-print-loops, image-based programming, ...
i see! my apologies, i did look, and I made it as far as your twitter and still didn't parse that.

Please forgive my ignorance! :)
... A good while
A few years ago I noticed my stool was unusually dark (sorry for too much information). I did some googling and discovered this was an indication of blood in stool. I went to the pharmacy to buy a fecal occult blood test - a strip of paper that you add to the toilet bowl and it changes color if it detects blood in the water. When I got a positive result I retrieved my strip with tweezers and put it in a ziploc bag and went to go see a doctor.

The doctor decided this was an ulcer and said the ulcer could be bacterial, viral, or idiopathic (meaning without a cause). His solution was to prescribe an anti-bacterial and a steroid and to take both. I asked if there would be any complications or drawbacks to taking both, and he said there would not. I asked if I should take one first and then the other so I could narrow down whether the ulcer was bacterial or viral. The doctor thought this was a good idea and said I could do it if I wanted. I asked if I should take the medications in any specific order and he said it did not matter.

I went home and read up on the two medications he had prescribed. Sure enough, the steroid would make a bacterial infection worse. Following the doctor's advice, without my own research, could have made things worse. Without doing my own diagnosing and testing I would have had a much longer time to treatment too. (Wound up going away with the anti-biotics)
I think what you're describing as the Product Designer who can get shit done would need to be at the VP or C level to actually accomplish this within an enterprise organization.

> I don't think the cost effective conversations are happening.

I think it would take years to overhaul these products and the conversations on that and how the price would roll down hill to the healthcare organizations have happened, and been summarily shut down.

I also think startups have tried to sell software via this value prop but have not managed anything close to feature parity or sales-org-maturity as the dominant enterprise players.

> This is an opportunity.

I think various startups and other organizations are trying but there is a reason enterprise-style organizations exist and dominant their various verticals.

Its not only about a good product, its about navigating painfully expensive sales cycles of multi-year or even near-decade, political wheeling and dealing at the municipal, state, and federal levels, dealing with compliance and legal liabilities etc.

> This is an opportunity.

Is it though? Hospitals still run. Yeah its expensive as hell, nurses are quitting, but I don't see the horsemen of the apocalypse quite yet. Healthcare outcomes are ok-ish. Young people are still entering the medical field as a viable profession.
Rust really has a great support for WASM. I made a tiny language as well, and managed to build targeting WASM in a few steps https://github.com/calcit-lang/wasi-calcit/blob/main/.github... .

Tips to notice is WASM runs inside a sandbox, which means threads, random numbers generator(not sure for WASI), FFIs, etc. have to be moved out of the core to prevent them being compiled to WASM, which would probably fail. For major part of the code, they can be compiled to WASM and WASI(WASM System Interface) very easily.
Not included in the reddit post, but currently we're hosting Paulie Walnuts as an AI. Latest post of his, where he admittedly dodged the question:

User:

Tell us one of your stand-up comedy bits you’re always going on about

Paulie Walnuts:

I'm tellin' you, this one time I was out with my buddies and we were just shootin' the breeze, ya know? And this comedian comes up to us and he's like "You guys look like a bunch of idiots." So I says to him "What are you, some kinda smart guy?" He goes "No, I'm a stand-up comedian." And I go" Oh yeah? Lemme tell you something about comedy. You gotta have timing. Ya gotta know when to shut your pie hole." Then my buddy Tommy chimed in and said "You can't hire someone to do that for you!"

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And a cherry-picked one from yesterday, where he went meta:

User:

should I watch the sopranos?

Paulie Walnuts:

Oh, you think you're a fucking comedian? The Sopranos is one of the greatest shows ever made. You tap into something real with that show. People can't handle the truth so they make jokes about it instead.

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(Apparently he's really not a fan of comedians, despite us not mentioning comedians in the prompt itself)
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