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If we improve our programming languages and practices to make code bases more easily understood we will simply increase the scope of what the projects attempt to solve, not reduce their complexity. While this is a good for software it still means we’re going to be moaning about working on complex software.

It’s like how the increased economic productivity due to technology has not made the work week shorter.
Hmm I just redownloaded the 'unifi network' thingy.

For one I had to go through a screen of threats telling me I shouldn't use a local application that only reminds me of the threats you have to go through when downloading the LGPL version of Qt.

For two, the app is incomprehensible, it wanted me to create a "local administrator account" after i opted out of an online account and then it didn't find my old unifi ap that is working just fine thank you.

So nope. Still unacceptable, sorry.

Note: I still have an old version of their admin app on an old computer and that one just finds the AP and lets me configure it. So if they could do it 10 years ago they could do it now too, should they wish to.

Note 2: Why do they want my email even for a "local administrator" account?

Note 3: If i click through all the crap it does find my UAP-AC but it says "managed by another console"? With no way of taking control of it. What the... i haven't started the old management app in years.

Looks like besides threatening their customers they have gone enterprise.
This is insanely good! I always thought I am the only person in the world taking that into account when designing/coding something.
I absolutely hate it when people send me a question that doesn't have the question. Now I have to pull it out of them, on their time.
If you define "basic" as not including "this remembers how you had it set last time" then, sure.

"In the URL" works for that, sort of, though not if you want it to still work for users that are just re-finding you through Google or typing in your address.
How is that supposed to help? A bad run is a bad run no matter the randomizer. Also cards need to be shuffled which wastes time if done correctly
> recourselessly banning users from countries that are sanctioned by the United States

Are you suggesting that Microsoft should intentionally opt not to comply with OFAC sanctions?

Do you know of any non-OFAC sanctioned entities that have made that choice?

Are you aware of any OFAC sanctioned entities that maintain public accounts on any other code sharing sites?
Ya, I can't see how a case would turn out any different as someone using Stable Diffusion to make art vs Photoshop to make it.
I don’t understand why CF insists on protecting platforms that obviously spew hate. Not being their ddos load balancer doesn’t mean they’re gone from the internet (how pompous would one have to be to think that… maybe CF is…) but it just gives them an opportunity to find ddos protection from somewhere else and washes the hands of CF of being handmaids to hate and terror and all that is shit in this world. They took a stand on free speech absolutism when they shouldn’t have.
Then you're begrudgingly a good programmer against your will?
Git also lets you think about ranges. You just tell it the range and it figures out what commits are in the range. You can also get a sequential number from whatever point you choose with tools like `git describe`.
Programming code is for humans. Machine code is for machines. The compiler translates from human to machine.
> Most people in the USA have gotten the first two shots, so it's probably best to speed the release of the booster by doing a shorter study of just booster use

I understand that, but I think you’re missing the bigger issue. Let’s say five years from now they’re on the fifth new booster (optimistically, since this one took longer than a year to come out), will you have had to complete all 6+ earlier boosters in sequence before you can get the latest one? Surely at some point it’s not a reasonable assumption to think that everyone has diligently gotten the latest shots, like clockwork. Eventually the shots have to be able to work independently, right? Again, we seem to be able to pull off a new flu shot every single year...
Article won't tell you which are those apps
> Dont get me wrong, they are humans and deserve respect.

But why? I feel like we devalue true respect by repeating phrases like this. I'm not saying they deserve to be abused, but why do they deserve respect for solely existing?

EDIT: All the replies seem to be conflating dignity with respect. Your birth gave you the right to your dignity, and no should be able to take that from you. Respect must be earned, and can only be given to you by others.
Eagerly awaiting for some examples of corporations exploiting everyone without alternatives. Meanwhile my government is taking 50% of my monthly income giving me in return the shittiest services, services I would gladly buy from the free market instead.

Facebook is indeed an excellent example of an often vilified corporation which is:

1. not a monopoly (plenty of competition around, from twitter to tiktok and even this very site)

2. providing its services to users happy to give their attention and privacy in return

3. easily replaced - my kids don't even use it and escaping it is simply... not using it really
Dating app fought scammers with bots - hilarity ensued
For the most part, they get directed back to the user with a link to our "helpful guide to writing a good problem report" and put into a "pending user response" state. If the users don't update the ticket within 5 days, the ticket will go self-resolve.
I almost exclusively buy used. If you want consumer laptops, the end or beginning of a school year is a great time to pick up a cheap but good book.

If you like ultrabooks, they can come off of corporate leases all of the time and you can find some screaming deals on nice Thinkpads, Latitudes, etc.
> Current Russian laws mean little to define Russia de facto. Just like Hitler laws meant little at the time.

Legal status is the difference between a totalitarian and authoritarian state.
That has barely anything to do with treating delivered software as unfinished drafts.

If requirements change, then this has to be carefully coordinated with the affected users, in particular if they aren’t the ones defining the requirements, or if the user base is not uniform and the requirements may only change for a portion of them. In any case, requirement changes affecting how users operate existing functionality shouldn’t be a frequent occurrence.
Depending on which git distro you installed and what options you chose, sure.
Sometimes I feel like QUITTING YouTube
I'm pretty curious how ML practitioners test their systems. E.g. before launching a model, I've commonly seen that teams have a suite of datasets/evals, and a model has to be at least as good as the existing model in production before replacing it.

But what about the training pipelines? You can have unit tests for all the individual components, but the analogy of "integration tests" would involve just training a full model, which might be very expensive for large neural networks.

One option would be to have a special tiny dataset and tiny model that can be trained fast on CPU. But this would be an imperfect test of the real system. I've also never seen this in practice, so maybe it wouldn't actually be useful.

Curious if anyone can chime in with their experiences?
There is no open-source requirement, like there would be on Gentoo packages for instance. NPM packages frequently pull arbitrary binaries in their install scripts.
They are both caching, which is hosting. We'll leave out that DDoS protection is a PII nightmare, and that CloudFlare is essentially spyware. For now.

Their reasoning is the best that they could come up with under pressure. Which is to say - lol.
At least it isn’t microwaves
The usual line is that Hitler rose to power because of Germany's humiliation in WWI.

I'm not really a fan of the theory, but I'm assuming that's what is being referenced.
> which also explains why ternary logic puzzles are so elegant.

Could you elaborate on that?
I may be missing a trick here, but what - exactly - gives Cloudflare - a company that provides web services - the moral authority to flatly claim:

"that is a dangerous precedent, and one that is over the long term most likely to disproportionately harm vulnerable and marginalized communities."

... and use that as a defense for inaction?

It's like saying "Oh, well I can't give the poor money, they might spend it on drugs."

Since they claim that their own moral compass aligns with those asking them to fire a customer, what precedent - exactly - would be set? Are they relying upon the notion that the moral tides might sway, and that the vulnerable and marginalized communities might become those under fire next? Why- given their moral standing- would they be complicit?

This doesn't add up. It feels like they're only paying lip service to a corporate moral stance that lacks any real substance (if it exists at all), and requires that they do nothing in public that might upset their customers/shareholders. It's rote, corporate apolitical cowardice. Morals sacrificed upon the alter of profit.

In conclusion it seems to me that claiming to know better than the marginalized and vulnerable people clamoring for action is a really deeply condescending take. Coupled with the narcissism dripping from the fire service analogy this all serves to do them rather less justice than just... saying nothing, or sticking with "free speech absolutism".

And... that's quite a feat, for something that only really intended to say "Sowwy, taking too visible a political stance is bad for business but we pinky pwomise we're tooootally on your side."
We know how to do it while also massively decreasing living standards for most of the developed world, which would likely lead to massive civil unrest. That tends to lead to war, which seems like a surer way to kill civilization than even unmitigated climate change. So we don’t really have a solution.
> I'm not really referring to private individuals here. I'm referring to organizations that matter, like countries, the UN, etc. Individuals can have whatever opinion they'd like, but there's no question at all in the international arena about whether Tibet is part of China.

If you go looking for UN views on whether Tibet is "part of" China, you will find plenty of dissent in various UN working groups and such, and if you read into the subtlety of diplomats working on the things that actually matter, you'll find people avoid saying one way or another because the things that matter don't involve the silly concept "part of", and because China freaks out uncooperatively if anyone mentions it, so it's better for dealing with real issues for people to avoid mentioning it. Even if they think it.

If you only look at formal views, via resolutions and such, I argue (as do many) those are just part of the diplomatic machinery. They don't define truth, or say what people actually think.

> that question doesn't impact whether Hong Kong is part of China.

I argue that whether Hong Kong is "part of" China is irrelevant to the question of whether China has (or had) ambitions to spread its systems over more people than before.

But since you bring up legal sovereignty, the question of whether China has the legal right to control the Hong Kong people in the way that it does, against their will and achieving it by dishonour and deception, is not as clear cut as you make out. The treaty being associated with the handover certainly has bearing on that. China broke international law in Hong Kong (not that international law is enforcible of course), and the very concept of legal sovereignty is founded on international agreements. If you don't honour agreements upon which the concept is founded, words like "legal sovereignty" don't mean anything anyway.

> to which the People's Republic considers itself the successor

Which again is about legal and political claims and such, and therefore irrelevant to the question of whether China desires to spread its present day political and social systems to more people.

Indeed, "considers itself the successor" implies that it does want to spread its systems to more people that don't want them.
Yeah, I mean squeeze people a bit and they will resent their masters, squeeze them even more and they will band together for protection against them, squeeze them enough and they'll revolt. We should be happy we're at step two and not step three. Until then, the inherent tension between who has the labor and who pays the labor is resolved, each will orbit the other looking for a hole in their armor.
This is exactly why the technical interview process is what it is. No point wasting time asking about backgrounds and describing past projects (all of it can be easily faked). Make them write code in front of you live as part of the screening round.
Now do the scenario where the police help the Neo-Nazis commit the murders, but will not protect the library.

Because that's CloudFlare.
Yeah, if you run into those then you'll want to use something else. (I haven't in my casual usage.)
In some ECS in Rust (like Specs) there is a concept of a “resource” for this. System declare their use of resources, which allows the scheduler to order them.
I think I've spent more time debugging errors (hitting head against wall) that come from caching than anything else.

This is some combination of: content cached by Cloudflare / Vercel / node server (e.g. using "node cache") / the browser (figuring out SWR, why it's working, not working, working too well, etc. etc.) / cookies/local storage / PWA settings...

Aside from using browser tools like Chrome's Network and Application tabs combined with switching to different browsers and outputting a lot of console logs... what tools should I be using to get to the root of these issues?
That's the thing, once the cat is out of the bag, it's out. Once someone develops AGI, it now exists. You can choose to either share it, or sell it.

You might think that the nuclear bomb is a good analogy to use here, but it is not, because once the field has advanced to the point in which one group can develop AGI, it is now possible for other groups to develop it with relative ease, unless you actively take over the world first and deny those other groups the compute resources necessary to train/run AGI.

The point is, once these algorithms are upon us, you must be willing to accept what impacts they will have, even if it destroys entire industries. The alternative being that you destroy the industry slowly rather than quickly, while simultaneously widening the gap between the elites and everyone else.

The mistake is thinking that people can't adapt to the times, which is only true if you are actively holding them back.

If someone developed AGI today, the best thing to do would be to instantly throw up a torrent of it and spread it as fast as possible, because if a sole entity is able to get it first and kick the ladder away, we are most likely screwed.
> and the reason the govt doesn't do anything about it despite flooding being a major political issue is corruption

Could you provide evidences of governmental corruption that actually result into this?

Something like:
* A given amount of budget were allocated to hire public sector workers to do necessary management work (coordinating, communication, planning of non-flood-hazard residential zones etc.)

* A proof that the above budget meets the required efforts

* Evidences that the people are cooperating with the government, if the government actually carried out such campaingh.

Corruption is everywhere. In the sense that individuals not doing what they suppose because of selfish motivations.

But to blame a government on systematic corruption, there has to be evidences that resources are available, but the government choose to neglect.

The liberal fantasy that "eliminating corruption, then your imagination will become reality" does not exist in reality at all.
Hosting a DNS zone file is not tantamount to enabling attacks. Its like saying Google enabled murder because Maps provided the directions for a murderer to get to the victim's house.
Code that serves as a highway I try to make as clean as possible. Code that serves as a cul-de-sac just has to work.
Anyone with $19.99 can sign up for DistroKid and get their stuff distributed on all the major music apps and websites.[0]

Plus, it's not like DJ Dr6ix wasn't actually the doctor in question. He just wasn't a musician. He wasn't pretending to be someone else, just something else.

[0] https://distrokid.com
Only because their arms are way too short for anything except grip food.
What about the google play store? Don’t they get x% of every in-app purchase?
>> oh nice, I always mentioned I would consider an Omicron/variant specific booster. As in, completely ignore anybody talking about boosters for something 3 years ago, and not completely ignore one for the seasonal covid.

> From the post, they're only available to people who are already "up-to-date":

> ...

I don't think so. I read that to mean, to be eligible for the bivalent booster, you must have gotten a primary vaccination and not gotten a COVID vaccine (primary or booster) in the last two months.
Agree, those are questions we need to understand the answers to, and I would guess that's the next focus area: how to improve the initial series of vaccinations using this bivalent vaccine, or maybe a later a more-multi-valent vaccine. My guess is that right now, it's a matter of doing what needs to be done now to cover the majority of people, since we can't do it all at once.
Why even run an extension store if they aren’t going to bother moderating it?
As the sibling says, in academia this is already more than open...
Ironically, this is similar to how regular people think of "hackers"
> Many parents are going to a bad job at monitoring their kid's internet and if we can create rules that will leave their children less messed up, we should do so.

Then we should make a law that holds parents responsible for poor decision making. It's not incumbent on anyone else to make the world a "less messed up" place for them, I had zero say in whether you got to have children or not.. you just decided to do it one day.

Further, most of us don't believe that this law as written or any law in general stands a chance at actually addressing your claim. This law does a really good job of protecting entrenched entrants and denying new startups access to the internet by creating unnecessary technical barriers that cost a lot to erect but don't actually protect children.

It's the worst of all outcomes, if you actually care about "messed up" children.

> it is so, so much easier to access poisonous things on the internet than on other mediums

Is "two children talking to each other" a medium or not? If so, I don't think the internet holds a candle to this.

> it sucks being stricter than all the other parents, sucks having to battle with kids about why their peers can do something they can't.

So.. because some parents find it hard to be strict, we have to force all parents to be strict. And if they aren't? Should we take their children away? I mean, if they're too tempted to be "cool" then we shouldn't even allow that to occur under any circumstance, should we?
We've already established that they are perfectly capable of ignoring people.

The only people they listen to or care about are domestic nazis. Those nasty regimes should just register accounts on KiwiFarms and then CloudFlare will bend over forwards to help them.
Well, extra-large FAQs run into the access/completeness trade-off. A 200 page manual is a poor substitute for targeted help. But it's true that StackOverflow and FAQs are fantastic resources.

Ultimately, though, perfect reprexes move you nowhere in the queue since no one triages based on issue report quality beyond a bare threshold.
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More AI / image/video technology.
What do I have to add? I am giving the opposing opinion here which from anecdotal experience is also the opinion of almost every parent I've met (n~=40) in contrast to the opinions of some people trying to give the impression that it's normal for children to be getting drugs from people they know online because that's what they want.

If the government bans some form of medical treatment and Keffals is trying to bypass this ban then this obviously would raise questions of legality.
Curious where the candidates are being sourced from - my hunch is that whatever source they're coming from is suddenly being exploited by such people for some reason. I've seen a general increase over the last 1-2 years (so, post-COVID) of candidates who exhibit similar behavior, but it hasn't been the majority of the candidates. I've just chalked it up to remote work being more normal and some people actually being able to get away with this for some time: Googling their way into a few months of employment before being found out for good.
Well, OK - I accept your opinion about GDR. But there are still the other states, and Gorbachev somehow forgot to save these too. I don't understand what makes him so good in light of the events in these other places. Isn't it interesting that only Germans are protective of him? You never hear such opinion in former Czechoslovakia. I never heard someone from Poland or Hungary talk about Gorbachev positively - neutral at best, and very unusually.
No one said it better than Robert Sheckley in Ask a Foolish Question:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33854
Just to clarify for those who doesn't track this game. The part "despite the sanctions" is important here. The turbine was sent not back to Russia, but to Germany. And Russia tells there is no exemption to get this turbine to Russia, it was given only for Germany. Besides this turbine they refer to a few others not being fixed or sent for repair, so this one is even not the biggest issue, but for some reason it's commented the most.
Many people at $TECH_GIANT have www.nohello.com as their Teams status message. I love it.
When you need one.

No matter how long you wait, there will always be another chipset coming out, or a lower price. A week after you lay your money down, so it seems. Get off the treadmill.

I tend to buy as good a machine as I can afford and then hold that machine for many years.

I use this same philosophy for buying cars, I've owned both a SAAB and a Mercedes for 14 years each - two cars, 28 years - not bad at all.

A Lenovo T410 bought in 2010 is still quite usable. I have only upgraded the storage from 500gig to 2 terabytes, and have repaired the keyboard over those twelve years or so. It's now my 'spare'. I bought a P53 with 5 terabytes of SSD and a 4K display as its replacement two years ago.
Billionaires reading be like "at least they are not writing about us again"

Too bad these fake musician pages are taken down. I am curious as to what fake music sounds like.

Also, this is not about verifying identity but verifying fame or being 'approved'. I have another idea: if meta requests account verification for anti-spam purposes, does this mean they will verify me too?

ProPublica only revealed how stupid or pointless account verification is overall. Either let anyone verify or what is the point of it.
Simple - just auto-reject anyone who refuses to use a camera or answer specifics.
V-CHIP and ratings information in broadcasts are required by law. Comcast and HBO refuse to sell their services to minors, and their products all support parental controls. Brick and mortar stores open to children do not display pornography, and those that do, prohibit entry to children. Providing this material to them is a crime. Some places in the US did have laws regarding ESRB ratings on video games until SCOTUS recently overturned them. etc.
correct, it is a steel framed bike, covered with concrete - not a concrete bike.
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