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> This is where you demanded perfection.

There is no call for perfection there. Stop pretending nuance doesn't exist. A system that helps 75% and harms 25% is better than a system that helps 25% and harms 75%. Improving the system so that compassion and empathy are a larger part of the process helps bring us closer to the former than the later for the reasons I explained. You ignored those reasons, and instead tried to attack a strawman... again. If you want to convey your arguments effectively, you need to try to understand what the person you are arguing with is saying rather than insisting they are saying what you want to argue against.

> Empathy and compassion are not the only values and the result of treating them as such is negative.

Another strawman. Nobody ever said they were the only values, just that they are important ones, especially when trying to treat mental illness.
> teach all students at the level that would have been taught only to gifted students before?

You just can't do that, no matter how much you want it. Some teachers are better than others, they can't all be elite. The teachers union wouldn't let you sack all the mediocre teachers, and even if you somehow could fire them, where would all the new elite teachers to replace the mediocre ones come from? If you just sacked the bottom 50% of teachers and doubled the class size of the better half, I think classroom conditions would certainly deteriorate.
True. Many countries had incentives before the industry reacted to the Tesla model s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_incentives_for_pl...
I didn't call you a bean-counter. You called me directly for "being out of my league".

> Re-read what you wrote again.

I read these two sentences you put there, and I still can not see what is contradictory about them.

The idea I am trying to convey from the very beginning (even from last week's conversation) is "I think that buying from a closed SaaS when there is an open source alternative is stupid. Not only it costs more, it also does not really mitigate risk and it just gives an excuse to a manager to punt the problem to someone else. If however the open source solution is lacking some key functionality or you think that the best solution at the moment is to go with the established player, at least throw some money to the developers of the open alternatives as a hedge and eventual way out. The open source solution can give you optionality. You can do it in-house, or you can outsource it, etc."
That’s more of a hack than anything actually serious.
Algebra I is right around what they should be able to grok.

When I went to high school, the expected path from Freshman year (9th grade) to Senior year (12th grade) was Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, MATH ELECTIVE (IIRC, that last could have been Trigonometry).

My middle school didn't have 8th grade Algebra I. But another middle school that fed the high school I went to did have it. And from what I remember, it was available to honor students as well as those in gifted programs.

So I don't agree that it should be mandated, that seems a step too far, but it's probably a good option to have for those who can handle it. And the number of students who can handle it is probably greater than the number who it is being offered to currently. So I don't agree with removing it entirely either.
"Better" depends on which specific problem that someone is experiencing.

If your problem is that someone stole the token, then you're better off with a PKI token.

If your problem is that you have lost your token, then you're better off with a non-PKI memorable token.
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As long as housing is treated as an investment - people in SF will continue to not allow housing to be built.
European countries and Canada could finish counting ballots in a day. All paper records. US had to take days, and any questioning into the process is labeled, of course, racism and right wing. It must be because the US is so advanced and progressive. It's a shame, I guess, that the damn European countries or our neighbor can't follow our lead.
One worldview is that progress is more important than equality, thus inequality is an acceptable side effect so long as life is genuinely improving for everyone. “Rising tide lifts all boats.”

Another is that equality is more important than progress. “Take from the rich and give to the poor.”

It seems mostly universal that we really want to raise the floor, not lower the ceiling. But so far history suggests that lowering the ceiling is easier.

Since the decision to value progress or equality higher is ultimately a personal moral choice, I don’t see this debate ever being resolved.
I've never been convinced that more money for schools produces better results. Sure, that means nicer buildings, but how does that improve education? In Washington State, the teachers finally got their "fully funding" proposal enacted, which was supposed to solve all the funding problems, including big raises for teachers.

There's been zero change in results.
Would this be vulnerable to a side-channel attack as follows?

1. Record what item was retrieved from disk for a query

2. Run a dictionary through the query system, and see which item matches the record
yet another buzzword we hear a lot these days: Zed is “lightning fast”… I hear that a lot about Rust projects, like Kitty or Alacritty
If nothing else, Atom was the birthplace of Electron.js and I know it is controversial, but Electron was a boon for the rapid development of cross-platform desktop applications. VS Code was built - in turn - on Electron.

We need people like nathansobo to try out new ideas and directions. I, personally, am very much looking forward to their WebAssembly-based extension system and Zed being the flagship UI application developed in Rust.
I do the same, as well as using multiple apps in particular editors for different flavours of tasks: RubyMine, VSCode, Sublime Text.

I do still end up with too many Chrome tabs for work items. Using a couple of windows helps and tab groups delay the inevitable but isn't a good solution (other than store only, read never).
Accept the fact that it takes a lot longer to do anything at a big co. Also, accept the fact that whatever you do, is not crucial to the company as you are just another engineer out of thousands. Hence, why the rush?

If you feel creatively constrained, try to do a fun project so you can learn new things. But don't through away a good job just because it takes long to do anything.
There are languages, like C#, Java, and Kotlin, where the language design basically assumes an IDE is being used. It's just not practical or useful to deal with imports and their structure. Sure you can look them up on javadocs and copy/paste the import path. But at that point why not just use an ide? Why learn a skill you'll basically never use or need?
I like the syntax. It looks like a combination of Ruby and Python with a goal of being more terse than either.
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They say /voter/ fraud never happens; this is /election/ fraud.
> Gifted programs are "unacceptably white"

Curious if they're also "unacceptably asian" - the author doesn't seem to think so, or at least didn't feel the need to say so.
It was posted earlier that the developer's computer was potentially compromised. But now that all of the issues and discussion around it has been deleted, does anyone know to what extent the developer and the software was compromised?
I mean that Microsoft's acquisition of Github had nothing to do with Atom whatsoever (I assume), but the acquisition was the final nail in the coffin for it.

Would it have survived if Microsoft didn't acquire Github? It's possible, however unlikely. But after the acquisition? Not a chance.
If you let students attend any classes they wanted, I bet they would sort themselves appropriately. The rowdy kids won't want to be in a classroom where everyone is quiet and the teacher is explaining the central limit theorem.
> Again, despite many PC narratives, slavery was hardly the exclusive province of European colonial powers working against oppressed others around the world.

Which PC narrative suggests otherwise? I'm not familiar which one pretends and relies on the exclusion of various slave trades, can you elaborate?
I wonder if his actions managed to change the outcome of any election.
Because it's nice to exist outside the news cycle of what's "current" every once in a while :)
Latinos almost universally despise it. It was made up by non-Hispanic leftists because... I don't know, something about not forcing gender? It's utterly ridiculous.
Voter fraud and election fraud are two entirely different things.
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As an American, how is this problem avoided in other countries?
If equity is the goal, schools should spend some $$ providing extra tutoring for kids when they are younger..especially for kids with potential. But we can't have that because that may require a little more tax $.
"There are so many topics that are hard to talk about nowadays without getting into politics"

I suppose everyone says that since politics exist. Life in a society is politics, that's the very definition of the word. Politics is not a bad word or something to avoid, stop being afraid talking politics. The less you talk about politics, the more others do it for you.
Your comment distracts from the argument of the case that the FBI failed in their duty and lied. This isn't just not showing up.
By the way “write once, run anywhere” was the original promise of Java. Back in the 90s! Before JavaScript was even a thing!!!

People wrote Java applets that were supposed to be same everywhere. It even had GUI.

Nobody expected that not Java, but _JavaScript_ will be the actual write once-run everywhere.
Prettier / linter can just be run in a git hook and verified in a GitHub action / CD step though. Prettier config should be committed to the repo itself, then let devs decide how they want to apply it to their workflow (and prevent them from merging otherwise).
Equality of outcome simply isn't a rational value, because it can be achieved by bringing down the achievers, as well as bringing up the disadvantaged. When people call for that, they're most charitably engaging in very imprecise thinking.
Sugar causes excess uric acid in the blood, which causes type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, among a dozen other ills. And, does not reduce hunger like real food. On a choice between fat and sugar, always choose fat.

To be precise: sugar without enough fiber causes illness. With enough fiber, as is provided by all fruit except grapes, sugar absorption is delayed long enough that intestinal bacteria get to eat most of it. Keep your intestinal bacteria fed; if not, they eat you.
Interesting to find that I'm not the only person doing this! I also just hop to Atom if I need to do something more involved with git

I typically do this when tidying up / amending >1 commit at a time (anything I can't do easily with git rebase interactive mode), or to resolve merge conflicts.
I'd be genuinely interested in reading about an example of that. Do you know of a particular incident that I could search for?
Alright, Mr. Noble. You're either naive, narrow-minded, unable to see the big picture, or all above the above.

Bringing others down will never be an antidote to not building or achieving anything in your life. Your time will be better spent if you focus on bringing yourself up and others around you.

I think you want to get a rise out of someone over the Internet, with your identity hidden, to get attention. Hence, this will be my last comment-- but if you want to turn it around, I'd be down to help.
He clearly thought so or he wouldn't have taken the risk/spent the money.
Would he get bribed if they didn't?
Lack of users isn't the problem. VR growth is fairly healthy and niche applications especially so.

I don't want to get sidetracked into a general "defending VR" thing because that got still about 5 years ago.

I was hoping to get people thoughts on how to build a dev community around an already popular content creation app.
In my opinion the worst enemy of an intelligent student is boredom. Boredom causes underachievement and disillusionment. One reason to keep a gifted programme at school is to give intelligent students something to do that is actually interesting.
This is just not true... Car break ins happen almost everywhere in SFBA as long as you're in a relatively populated area. It's unlikely to happen in Loma Mar because no one is going to Loma Mar to steal shit. Catalytic converter theft is incredibly common in the rest of the SFBA along with other forms of theft.
Plenty of progressives have been against electronic voting machines from the beginning. What we're calling right-wing people out on is only caring about it when their candidate loses, and calling the previous election where they won "the most secure in history".
> If they were not selected because they didn't meet the qualifications, well, that isn't the fault of the gifted program.

But it could be the fault of the government, the school administration, and an entire culture of systemic racism.

And so there could be several problems to address.

Does removing the gifted program solve any of the problems? No. Does it make some people feel as though they're doing good by equalizing everything? Yes.
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> payments ranging from between $300 to $5,000 per election

Surprisingly affordable relative to today’s campaign budgets.
I don't know what's worse, that Adobe would do something so shamelessly anti-consumer and anti-competitive, or that the FTC did nothing to stop such an obviously bad acquisition.
There is a port called FastDoom that could serve as inspiration for achieving better performance.

https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom

There is also the official SNES port for the faster Super FX GSU-2 chip running at 21 Mhz.

https://github.com/RandalLinden/DOOM-FX
> While not feasible

Well, that's effectively what happens in European systems, where schooling is basically run entirely by the State and funding is mostly distributed on a per-pupil basis - higher-income taxpayers effectively subsidize poorer areas. So it is, in fact, feasible.

But Americans would probably call that illiberal or something.
Can you be more specific about this, and what you're prioritizing?

Eg: Speed? Different UI layout? Fundamentally different design/UX philosophy?
My point is the following:

1. Photonics is a new technology. It is more expensive than silicon
2. Silicon can do the compute as fast as photonics, and we understand silicon. Building a silicon chip is 'easy'.
3. The problem is data transport, which silicon cannot do fast enough. We can compute inferences faster than we can get the data

Photonic compute doesn't help with (3). Photonic data transport does, and there are several companies who have entered this market, including several who have already exited with large deals. However, photonic data transport can terminate at photonic compute or silicon compute, and silicon compute is fast enough and cheaper / better understood.
It isn't just the left.

The revolutionary rightwingers are endlessly fragmentary - the militia, white supremacy and various theocratic movements each have a ton of complicated history of fragmentation and infighting.

I suspect the phenomenon is partly a function of relative powerlessness combined with the emotional high-stakes of being marginalized combined with the personalities attracted to such groups.
"Native UI" can be interpreted to mean "UI written in native (i.e compiled to machine) code" or "UI written using the OS's native widgets". You are presuming that the only correct definition is the latter, but it's pretty clear from context that they mean the former.
According to the post, neither of them have vested shares:

> We signed a founders agreement, we each have a seat on the board, and he holds a majority of shares. None of our shares have vested - my first vesting date is in 6 months when ¼ of my shares vest.

Unvested shares are still shares. All that being unvested means is that the shares are subject to conditions such as a repurchase option that gives the company a right to buy your shares if you leave the company.

Unvested shares still have the others rights of shares, such as voting and sharing in dividends.
Equity isn’t a bullshit goal.

As is typical, the concept get confused because one assumes that gifted programs correctly track students based primarily on ability, whereas in my personal experience and looking at the data, they primarily track students based on socioeconomic status.

It’s not about denying that some students have the ability to excel in subjects in comparison to their peers. The question is whether or not the current system actually achieves it’s stated goals.
I've never worked for a bigco. I work for a 100 person company and enjoy being able to self-start a project, create VMs and other resources and deploy it myself! Not sure if I could get used to that.
I loved Stallone's reaction to that.
At my high school, they were able to get funding for advanced program (for above average students) by arguing that there was already funding for programs for students who were struggling (below average students). That is, that is was unfair that one group of students were having their special educational needs met, but that another group wasn't. They succeeded and the program was very successful. The result was three levels for most subjects which students could choose based on their goals and abilities. They were also able to keep the bar for the advanced classes high so students who enrolled but found them too challenging would soon drop down a level -- as most preferred a high grade in middle level class then a mediocre or low grade in a high level class. I took classes at all three levels as I was strong in math and science but less so in the humanities, for example. I thought it worked great.
It took me a long time to figure this out, but the BigCo friction does come with benefits. Particularly benefits of scale and risk reduction. Need your app localized? Surprise, that happens automatically with BigCo processes. Didn’t think about GDPR compliance? Surprise, part of the delay you’re experiencing is that review. Need an awareness campaign? There’s a whole marketing team to help you with that.

Thing big and slow, and you’ll work it all out.
The server processing has to scan the entire database to answer a query- so the entire database stays in memory, and access patterns tell you nothing about the query.
“…it is unacceptable to have eighth grade Algebra I classes and gifted education programs that disproportionately exclude Black and brown children.”

a definition of exclude is “deny (someone) access to or bar (someone) from a place, group, or privilege.”

no one is barring access to these classes on the basis race. can you even imagine that? “sorry, you’re not allowed to take this class; you’re black.” it’s like everyone who writes this lives in their mom’s basement and has never gone outside and thinks if they just make the boring and tired declaration that non-black/non-brown people are evil/racist, that it absolves them of every other sin they commit, like not caring about homeless people or the fact that everything they own is made by chinese children. in reality it accomplishes nothing except complacency and it helps the people raping the world continue their work of exploiting everyone.
You have other social media for that. Low effort posts do not invite meaningful discussion and add moderation load.
VS Code had a really interesting "head start": the core editor (named Monaco) had been built for very early stages of the Azure Portal and then been adopted into IE 10/11's Developer Tools to replace an aging code viewer/editor. In order to run in Dev Tools it had to run through an extreme gauntlet of some of the web's worst "files": giant one-line minified things, massive multi-megabyte bundles, and so forth. So the Monaco code editor got a huge amount of performance testing and work years before Atom arrived and built Electron.

It also sounds like VS Code took a much more measured approach to extension APIs than Atom did. In Atom nearly every part of the product was an extension, which is a great approach to dogfooding extension APIs and making sure everything including the kitchen sink has an extension API, but getting that performant is tough. Whereas VS Code was very careful in the early days in what extension APIs they declared and started from a place of performance first. In many cases if only a single extension doesn't perform well in VS Code you almost don't notice because it's mostly isolated from the rest of application performance. Atom had a lot more situations, from what I heard, where one badly performing extension brought everything to a crawl.
> laggy, and make you dizzy.

This is largely a function of both frame rate and IPD.

The latter is one of the reasons why I feel Meta has done an absolutely huge disservice to VR adoption by making the Oculus series fixed IPD. They claim to be able to software compensate, but my experience is that IPD on a headset being even just a millimeter or two physically off makes the difference between a comfortable VR experience and one that leaves me with a headache after the fact.

The fact that they reduced screen refresh rates on the Oculus S and the original Quest didn't help at all either.

I've had an Index since shortly after they became available and can use it hours at a time without any sort of discomfort provided my GPU is able to serve up enough frame rate for a particular title. Available GPU power is holding back VR currently more than anything, IMO.
Yep you answered the question.

I was born in 84. Incidentally, you and I probably learned how to code around the same time. My first exposure to it was right out of college, in 2009. But I didn't really learn it until around 2011/2012, and I've been doing it professionally since about 2013 or so. I hear what you're saying; I agree that the centralized internet isn't great for creativity. Though having access to codecademy, lynda, and a few others was super cool. Trying to learn coding without them was fairly difficult.
You basically can’t trust statistics without statistical literacy, the source data and the time to interpret it.

Lies, damn lies and statistics is still applicable and relevant today, if conveniently forgotten.

Just to bring something else to this discussion, Chesa didn’t run on statistics. He ran on a soft-on-crime message and delivered. Since this is an elected office, he didn’t answer to the Mayor, so he didn’t benefit from the Mayor’s cover but also wasn’t in the same chain of command as SFPD, so when the voters turned, they turned directly on him and this being an elected office, he just didn’t have a good story to tell or the support he needed from the communities he needed it from. The real statistics don’t even matter at that point because statistics don’t run for office or win elections.
So leftist are producing inclusivity and equity by forcing everyone stay at the lowest common denominator. Instead of trying to help disadvantaged people climb the stair, they are breaking the stair to be sure everyone remains down.
Passing it would be seen as an admission by one side that this kinda stuff happens often enough to warrant it.
That is mitigated by the fact that SSNs can often be used without the physical card.