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The point of an undergraduate university degree is to represent to others that the holder has some level of knowledge and skill in a particular subject.

The value to the student is as a key to further opportunities: academic, social, commercial. The value to the institution is almost entirely financial.

My proposal is that the degree-granting institutions be separated from educational institutions.

To get a degree, you submit a request for examination. That will be an intensive two or three week long process of written, practical, and interview assessments conducted by a team of people who attempt to satisfy themselves that you meet the requirements of the degree. The cost (and difficulty) will vary, depending on the institution you select. You pay for the assessment, regardless of the result. The institution's motivation is to ensure that its graduates actually meet the degree criteria. If it issues degrees for sub-par applicants, its degrees become worth less (and ultimately, worthless), and fewer people will bother to acquire one.

Educational institutions can then be separate. They can be exam-prep, cramming specialists with experience in getting students past a particular degree-granting institution's assessment, or they can be a genuine, broad-based, learning facility that students can attend to learn whatever they want, for however long they want, subject to continuing to pay for that tuition.

If you want to teach yourself off YouTube, go ahead, and then test for the degree. If you want to be a well-rounded, educated person, maybe spend some time at a learning facility.
Turn in an assignment using libraries and see what happens. You will either get a bad grade or get summoned.
The odds on this draw were much better. Earlier stories said they expected to sell $400M in tickets, so they paid out about 3X as much as they took in.

If you bought tickets to every draw the expected value of a ticket is $1.10/$2, but if you only bought for this draw the expected value was much better. The expected value before the draw was not 3:1, only slightly above unity because the biggest likelihood was no winner, and a significant likelihood of a shared jackpot.
Swift was annoying in the early days since searches would bring up info on the international payment system.

Lua and PHP have nice searchability. At least, it's fairly easy to weed out results on the Portuguese moon and the Philippine peso.
A Russian and an American sinner die and end up in Hell. As they stand before Satan, he says: "I give you the choice of your punishment: you can spend eternity either in the American Hell, or in the Russian Hell."

"What's the difference?", they ask.

"In the American one you're force-fed a bucket full of shit every day. In the Russian one, you're force-fed two buckets. Other than that, you're free to do as you please."

"Well, that's a no-brainer; I pick the American Hell", says the American.

The Russian ponders for a while longer and says, "I'd rather stay in a familiar place; I'll go to the Russian Hell".

A month has passed, and the sinners meet to compare notes. The Russian asks: "So, what's it like in your place?"

"It's exactly as advertised; I have to eat a bucket of shit every day, regular as clockwork, but other than that I'm enjoying life. What about yours? I can barely get through one bucket, two must be horrible!"

"Pah, it's not so bad. Most days, there's a shortage of shit, and they don't have enough to feed even one bucket to most of us. And sometimes the buckets get stolen altogether. Just like home; I love it!"
Of course it does, because the alternative is giving privilege to other countries for the benefit of power politics. It won't end well either. Relying on censorship for such things really isn't a great idea.
My Weibo feed is full of Chinese people reposting Instagram content (blocked in China) that's posted by Russians (where Instagram is banned as well).

People in both countries just use a random free or dirt cheap VPN.

The feasibility of a "big firewall" is kinda low if you're not willing to go full North Korea.
Inform? Do you really believe that they are uninformed, that they are unaware of the rules and that there are consequences for breaking said rules.

People are not informed by speeding tickets. There is no element of surprise there. They knew the rules, they broke them anyway. Same with theft and so on. I could understand it for some obscure tax law, but basic things like this, no.

Maybe you reached for the wrong verb there, but they are not ignorant of the rules.
More to the point, Rust lacks key features I need to capture essential semantics into libraries. So, the libraries I could write in Rust would be less powerful than libraries I can write in C++.

Among common uses for these more powerful features is to make misuse of the library into a compile-time error. Coding the library in Rust, if possible at all, would mean failing to prevent these usage errors.

The point here is that C++ puts more power in the hands of a library writer, and both the responsibility and capability to enforce safety in uses of the library. Rust jealously reserves maintaining safety to the compiler alone.
I just finished moving my nvim’s dotfiles from lua to fennel with help of https://github.com/Olical/aniseed

It works quite seamlessly.
The 'does it not?' breaks the flow of the quote perfectly. It was intentional, I like to believe; it's as if your peace of a flowing sentence is suddenly interupted by the life of a fantastic writer! :D
Teddit specifically has this unfortunate behavior where every referenced subresource is loaded before a response is returned: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/issues/248

Until that is resolved, libreddit (similarly self-hostable) performs much better.
The web is peer to peer if everyone just runs a static webserver. Back when Opera was still Opera they integrated a webserver into the browser (with a naming system/proxy through Opera). If this would've taken off the human (but not the commercial) web would be a very different place. It still can be.

I host a static nginx webserver from home and just use a text editor to look at my log of POSTS to participate in p2p web techs like indieweb's webmention.
*Okteta, like "octet" (= byte): https://apps.kde.org/okteta/
I'm in agreement with you. But I'm also an old salt that's been using it for nearly 8 years. I completely understand how someone unfamiliar with the language and its nuances may be overwhelmed by the configuration options and the effects they have on compilation. The types system does take time to learn, especially for those that didn't come up on a strongly (or hell, even loosely) typed language.

I also think there's enough resources out there for someone, who isn't in a hurry, to grok TS enough to put together a project that will compile. But skills and comprehension aren't uniform - I've seen many a junior fresh out of bootcamp look at a tsconfig.json file like it was voodoo. That's why I think it's fair to say "Hey, you don't have to use this."
clojure is about simple composition not magic, so any solution starts by solving frontend/backend data sync in a composable way. Absent that you are just in the tarpit so most commercial shops might as well be in the typescript tarpit with everyone else and benefit from the larger ecosystem.
I'm very concerned TikTok will take over the social media space not because it's a superior product, but because the company ignores all privacy legislation in both the U.S. and E.U. and because advertisers will want to take advantage of the data they collect and use it to their advantage.

For example, both the U.S. and E.U. has strong legal protections for minors. TikTok ignores them and collects data on our minors anyway, including facial recognition, fingerprints, voiceprints, messages, habits and who knows what else.
These are well done, but they're hardly universally agreeable sentiments. I find too many of them trite, self-defeating or otherwise disappointing, eg advice for defectors, rather than cooperators (in a Prisoners Dilemma sense).
You can't.

You can try, but you can't. The only people you'll stop are non-tech users, and the others will shame your business for playing this game.

If you need an analogy, think of it as trying to disable screenshots in an environment where users carry a camera in the other hand...
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I destroyed an iPhone 6 Plus screen one time reassembling it. Apparently I switched a 1.7 mm screw with a 1.3 mm, and when I popped it back together then entire screen (which wasn’t working for touch anyway) shattered.
Even the Cthaeh cannot predict when Rothfuss will finally deliver Doors of Stone. I’m minded to go full Misery on him and become his greatest fan.
> If the car sends data back to the mothership, then who pays the phone bill

You do. The bill is included in the purchase price of the vehicle. The manufacturer sources data SIMs, pays for data ahead of time, and that’s to the cehicle price.
No idea where Sunnyale is or what their population count is, but Iceland has 4 major ISPs and a bunch of smaller ones too. Competition's already proven.
Dunno about the most exciting but the most irritating so far is seeing it up. Admittedly I didn't spent a lot of time trying(I didn't have all that much time today) but in the 40 minutes or so, I was unable to get it going. I'll go back to attempting tomorrow and make sense of the errors.
I remember a more nuanced version:

- They tried using some commercial Lisp on a platform where it was poorly supported, and were struggling with certain stability issues (I don't remember the details).

- A team member came on board who, what do you know, had also authored the Python-based web framework that they were using in the rewrite. Reddit may have been used as the "guinea pig" for improving this web framework.
You're describing all command line tools and config files.

Maybe people will discover GUIs one day, it's only been 30 years.
And that the "zombie gap" is a growing concern...
All (most?) of them also trivially supports using a proxy so you can selectively route them through Tor or some other proxy or VPN.
Yeah Grunt is pretty ancient but Gulp is still used in many places.
I'm familiar with French censorship, and I read the Democratie Participative journal by simply using north-American DNS providers like QuadNine or the Cloudflare one (1.1.1.1).

Foreign VPNs also work too.
The BBC lying might as well be. Good luck keeping a job at the BBC if you are the kind of person that wouldn't have taken the US on their word in that situation.

Instead of keeping an editorial line on a list of subjects, organizations like the BBC simply maintain a culture, from the top down, where if you were to threaten propaganda by the government or it's allies that is too valuable, you will lose your job.
What makes it even weirder is that you'd think they'd be in favor, since it is basically free advertising for their self-help book that introduced the term. Instead of legal threats, they should just request linking/attribution.
You can downgrade the firmware and extract the certs: https://www.dupuis.xyz/bgw210-700-root-and-certs/

However, AT&T added another layer of authentication in mid-2021 that precludes the use of third-party hardware. I don't think that part has been cracked yet.
The globally installed packages only take precedence over local packages when you run the binary name from the command line. To get that to stop, you'd have to add the local node_modules/.bin to the PATH. Additionally, if you run npx/yarn/pnpx in a package script, it will use the local binary.

> oh that and installing thousands of packages in the project root instead of a sensible place that could be shared per version like bundler and rubygems.

Look into pnpm. It does precisely this in a way that's compatible with node.

Honestly the information is out there to address most people's gripes.
focusing on the consequences, it would be a very difficult earth to live on if a a response (the gp's point) was that using violence/punishment/retribution to stop further aggression was rational. I agreed that in the context of pure overwhelming aggression it might be possible (ender's game), but I doubt we would have gotten very far as a species or a planet if everyone followed that mentality with each other.
Clojure itself is not much more than a decade years old. Even that, there are quite many libraries that have stayed all these year, e.g. the standard things I mentioned, such as Ring, Reagent, etc.

As I have already mentioned, "actively maintained" is not a requirement for many Clojure libraries. Many are just done, as in "nothing needs to be changed".

As long as they are still working, why do you want to update them? As I mentioned, many production code bases in Clojure contain libraries that have not been updated for ages, but they still work. Why fixing things that are not broken?
T'was all fine until folks had to come up with useless typescript and modules and webpack churn and Es2015+ bloat. It's not like we didn't warn them to turn JavaScript into Java; for some of us getting away from Java bloat was the entire point of node.js. Well that, and because CommonJS was portable, or used to be at least. If you want a typed language, just use one, rather than foobaring JavaScript or Python into something they just aren't, a fool's errand.
I was waiting for the part where it indicates that it’s satire, but it never came
That would just be another tendentious example. Nobody would write a make_appender that takes a span argument, because it makes no sense.

The point we should take away is that is actually hard to invent plausible examples of the failure that we are being told Rust would prevent.
Navy has an extremely high bar for safety according to Navy itself, but accidents sometimes get classified for a couple of decades. It happened before, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site for example.
It is fascinating, yet it still makes relatively little use of a complicated and capable machine that is a spider, relative to when we can be in a few decades from now.

On the other hand we still can’t even get dogs to deliver mail, so…
Please elaborate on what it is that I do not understand. Which version of anti-racisim did Mr. Rogers embrace?

https://www.newsweek.com/real-problem-critical-race-theory-o...
So, EU/US lies are better ? And EU and US are lying through their teeth on a lot of Russia-related topics. Pick your poison, man, just don't complain
Is there a video showing the images of "heart, lung, and other internal organs"? I couldn't figure out what the image in the video is. They show it being placed on an arm and say that the ultrasound has something to do with the neck?
> C++ also pays a price for insisting not only that objects have addresses, but those addresses are distinct.

With only three exceptions I can't think of a case where by default one would not want that. In the case you describe you would want all those objects to have unique addresses. If you wanted to have them overlap you should go to the effort to happen the way you want it to -- how could the compiler guess on its own?

The exceptions BTW are union elements, the first class/struct element, and base object addresses (in `class foo : bar ...` the when you make a foo, the address of its bar is the same as the address of the foo itself).
Although there are a number of OK ways, lay-tech seems to be what most knowledgeable people in the community use.
Hard to take the article seriously with so much Rumble butt-kissing in it. Main point is this case was not dismissed like most similar anti-trust cases usually are. No idea if the case itself has any merit
The funny thing is you’re talking about a huge restructuring of everything and that process will require a lot of excess energy.

Don’t forget about the energy required to modify all our current systems. To fight against the current system and overcome the inertia to change it.

Also - that’s your vision of Utopia. Maybe others want to colonise the solar system ? Which is not possible by reducing our energy consumption.

Why are you so motivated to make sacrifices that don’t need to be made ?

The article talks about someone generating more electricity from solar panels, than they can use. What does it matter if they increase consumption of energy with respect to harming the climate by burning fossil fuels ??
Getting acquainted with both kinds of propaganda is informative. If you compare RT and internal outlets side by side, you see which stuff gets said for which audience.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best is now.
The industry is helping distracted drivers by adding stuff like lane-keeping assistance, AEB and what not. The legislator, by requiring these systems in vehicle, helps people drive while distracted. OTOH, those systems do prevent accidents.
I knew they'd lost it when they rebranded Hotmail as Outlook. Now I have to use extra words when I want to clarify whether it is the desktop program or the web service.

Or Xbox One, which previously meant 'the first Xbox', but stuff continuity right? Or using a restyled Internet Explorer icon for the original Edge browser, when what they really needed to do was distance their new browser from IE. 'Visual Studio Code' never clicked with me. And slapping the word 'Xbox' on to anything to do with their entertainment offerings is just silly. Renaming 'Xbox Live' to something else was unnecessary and makes me feel old when I bring it up.

Other names are good and mean one unique thing, while also tying in with the item's purpose. Like Word, PowerPoint, Windows, DirectX, Surface. But these are increasingly the exceptions.
I really wonder if we need to be concerned at all about this. In the end people are always able to vote with their feet. We've seen this happening with SACD (Super Audio CD), the successor to the CD which had unbreakable encryption. People ended up simply ignoring it. Today, you can buy HiRes audio files without DRM of any kind online. These files have mostly been ripped from SACD's with their unbreakable encryption. The record companies thought they might as well sell them online, lest they become worthless.

If people feel they're being hampered too much by Windows' DRM they'll most likely switch over to some RISC-V processor from some Chinese company. I'll bet you that if that happens Microsoft will flush Pluton down the toilet before you can say "Clippy." It simply isn't worth it to them. Sure they want to lock in their customers even more, but as soon as they start leaving in droves they'll swiftly move to stem the outflow.
Like Microsoft Update and Windows Update?
Electricity is pretty easy to transport over 50-100 miles. One big plant servicing a whole metro is as efficient as smaller reactors distributed around. It's only when you have to transport electricity over 300+ miles where more exotic things like HVDC lines become necessary.
That's fine.

But I was merely pointing out a false premise. The article was saying too much focus was spent on "big web frameworks" in Clojure, but the reality is that most people in the community do not care about these at all.
When broken down by race, yes.

Economic status and two-parent vs one-parent households are both stronger indicators of educational achievement than pretty much any other, including race.
If you want to ban the government from requesting searches with "this person used cash" as a reason, then go ahead. But if they have another good reason to look at someone's transaction data then the data should exist to be searched. Law enforcement can still need to produce a reason for why they need to search the data, but with anonymous transactions the data simply does not exist. The government can (and does) require transactions to be recorded without asking to search that data at the same time.
For whatever it's worth, Russia continues to operate several RBMK reactors today, and haven't blown any of them up since Chernobyl in the 80s. This is probably attributable to some combination of the retrofits they made after Chernobyl, generally treating the matter more seriously, and maybe luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK#List_of_RBMK_reactors
Food insecurity.
The reality is that most Russians are well aware of the nature of Putin, the war etc. There's nothing to expose, really. The majority just don't care all that much.
ehh, going from poor to successful is hard and unlikely, but it’s a lot more likely than winning the lottery.

Maybe your best shot at becoming a billionaire is indeed winning some jackpot. But if you’re looking for anywhere from moderate wealth to millions, you’re much better off trying to find a job and start a business.
Ok? What does that have to do with EVs? Those are all different problems to solve. You can’t say we shouldn’t partially focus on fixing a problem because it doesn’t fix every single problem we have.
Negative Reinforcement ≠ Punishment. This is a common mistake.
Negative Reinforcement is the removal of an adverse stimuli.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Negative_reinfor...
It's certainly stopped in the case of the Caledonian Sleeper; the new Mark 5 carriages have retention toilets like all other recent stock. I think the Mark 3A sleepers on the Night Riviera to Cornwall also came fitted with retention toilets from new in the 80s, but I wouldn't swear to it. Mark 3 day carriages definitely flushed onto the tracks, though those that are left are being retrofitted with tanks.

I always found the visible turds and toilet paper worse than the smell, but I haven't spent much time at Liverpool Street specifically.
What would make you feel it's sufficiently vetted?
The "ABI now or never" paper suggests somewhere on the order of 5-10%, and that's without considering the escape pessimization. Especially with the rapid expansion of smart pointer usage (and for good reason!).

Given the major selling point of C/C++ is performance, that's not an insignificant amount.
> Clojure, from the beginning, was intended to be a general purpose language, not a web language

i don’t think that is strictly true, clojure is for “situated programs” which is basically a perfect description of cloud information systems and user interfaces.

immutability and macros is not what you want for games, for example. and data science is very SQL/struct oriented, it doesn’t hit clojure’s high notes. mobile is very platform interop heavy and best done natively without adding intermediate abstraction layers. databases are written in lower level langs for performance (Datomic is not known for lightning fast queries). what’s left?
strict rules that hold to this day: keep the paths scythed, don’t sell your produce, check with public officials before you keep hens or bees or rabbits or pigs or a goat.

Note the strict bar on using the allotment to improve your economic situation. I laugh at the idea that property rights create freedom because the history of property rights is one of property owners acquiring more property by force.
I've always heard (since the 80s) lah-tek. But I've never asked Lamport whose pronunciation is presumably canonical
I’m considering taking a WHM afternoon class, but have been questioning my expectations. For a noob, do you think a couple hours in a workshop would be valuable? Or am I being suckered by charletons?
A Lottery Is a Taxation Upon All the Fools in Creation (2017)
> TeX's creator Donald Knuth promotes a pronunciation of /tɛx/ (tekh) (that is, with a voiceless velar fricative as in Modern Greek, similar to the ch in loch).

So, LAH-tekh.
Have a look at Mobileye. Owned by Intel.
Yes, I’m in Portland, OR and waited for a plot in a community garden a few blocks from my apartment for about 4 years - this garden is very popular and now has a wait list of 6-8 years. There were several gardens in the city with openings but none were very convenient to where I live.