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I read GEB at about 18 and it changed my view of things. I loved it deeply and studied even the formulas. But not everyone is like that I guess. And even my self today wouldn't be.
> I'm not sure anyone is going to find much dirt on, or discredit, [someone who] worked for the Whitehouse.

gestures vaguely at 2016-20 and the various characters who worked for the Whitehouse
Here is the biggest. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/32383
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Alternate hypothesis: the likelyhood of accidentally writing a use-after-error is proportional to the scale of your codebase and the number of people who work on it.

It's not like Google is uniquely bad at this. The Linux Kernel also suffers from memory safety error, and Google's Project Zero keeps fidning them in other projects.
Seconded.

Have been really impressed with the CBeebies family of apps.

Also worth a look: Khan Academy Kids, but it doesn’t seem to hold the attention quite as long.
Which is ironic considering that Gay itself is also a very valid first name.

For example, Gay Byrne[1], who was sort of like the Irish Johnny Carson; a big cultural figure.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Byrne
Yeah, I didn't wanna just blather at people but I should have mentioned that with minidsp and all its descendants you can treat the crossover design as a software problem, which definitely simplifies.

But also what I was getting at with mentioning the common room correction systems is these days, you can do something like take a textbook Linkwitz Riley 4th order crossover, do the little bit that's necessary to match levels, and then just call it good and let the receiver's DSP handle the large scale FR response. That advice might annoy some more knowledgable people, but the blunt truth is it'll work and done with reasonable care you'll have a truly impressive system for the price.

I don't know pro gear that much but my understanding is there's a bunch of vendors now that package DSP + ClassD amps in a way the speaker companies can white label as their own. Kinda like half the AV receivers on the market are ultimately mildly tweaked Audyssey designs.
Here's a linear view: https://www.theverge.com/archives/1

Much easier to scan and read.
How to build an air quality monitor using R-Pi Zero W and ANAVI Infrared pHAT
That is overly optimisic though, the Paris agreement was a minimal effort, California and all other governments are on track to fail miserably at following even that. Which means we are talking about a lot more than a "few hot weeks".
Honestly Makefiles that are more than 10 lines should not exist
Having just overseen a construction project in rural Spain,...

workers show up sober, that's not the problem. Problem is they are not trained in the trade.

Never heard of vibrating concrete. Or curing times.

Setting pillars by 'eye', not even using a plumb line.

Carpenter delivers the doors unfinished. These are outside doors.

Door lock mechanism installed wrong, such that the door locks (once) but cannot unlock.

The painter was decent, but his background was as a Venezuelan helicopter mechanic. Left Venezuela for economic reasons.

Workers showing up without the basic tools for the day's work, so had to supply them myself. Obvious stuff like blades for the angle grinders.

Oh, and coordinating supplies and work, nah, not really a thing.
Sound more like issues with sbt, I use Gradle when I write Scala, but I admit I use Kotlin nowadays.
Well, Azerbaijan seems pretty convinced, they wouldn’t risk fighting them otherwise. Georgia sounds interested too. And those are small countries, they are making a colossal bet here.
Project Cybersyn looked pretty ergonomic and Star Trek TOS chic

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/project-cybersyn/
GEB is art, in the sense that it's really literary. In this sense an "explainer" cannot really capture what it is about and why it's interesting. Reading a summary of the story of Hamlet, no matter how "in-depth", is not interesting.
The title of the article is exceptionally misleading to the point of being defamatory. The article absolutely does not support the headline. He was NOT 'turned away' by the NHS.

> Telling a patient they're inoperable or not a candidate for immunotherapy or are going to die in 6 months from their disease is immoral and yet very common. It's really not difficult to just say to someone "based on my experience and the protocols we have at this institution, this is what I believe to be the case for your situation but you may find others with a different perspective".

I am not sure exactly what he was told, but the article says 'Mr Dons was told the average survival time for someone in his condition was between seven and nine months', not that he was going to die in six months. This is a fair thing to share, and I believe aligns with NHS guidance on how to share this kind of prognosis.

The article goes on to say:

> NHS treatment would have involved urgent surgery followed by chemotherapy. But Mr Dons, who divides his time between the UK and Japan, was concerned that a cancer drug called Avastin, was not widely available in the UK.

So he wasn't told he was inoperable (in fact, he was offered surgery) or that he was going to die in 6 months or anything like that. He was offered treatment, but he chose not to take it because he'd heard of this Avastin wonder drug, which the NHS were not offering him. However, Avastin is far from a wonder drug and the jury is still out as to whether it actually prolongs life or improves quality of life at all.

> Yes but that's precisely not their job in a non-emergency context. They're not philosophers, they're not Maimonides. Their job is to provide medical expertise, not make value judgements on behalf of patients or arrogate themselves to a level of expertise or knowledge they don't have.

That's wrong I'm afraid (rhetoric aside). In the UK, it is definitely the case that they are making value judgements on behalf of patients (or more accurately it's not the individual practioner who is generally bound by value judgements made by other bodies). because we have a single payer healthcare system, which cannot simply waste resources on treatments which are expensive, and ultimately the decision rests on balancing cost, likelihood of treatment success, and expected QALYS if the treatment is successful. Adoptive cell transfer is still an expensive and experimental treatment, and is not generally available to adults in the UK, although it is available for children with leukemia. People cleverer than I am debate these topics and come to their conclusions. I am very glad that I do not have that job.

My main point though is that I think it's very damaging to suggest that a doctor is 'immoral' for sharing a prognosis and offering a treatment plan.
I think you may be thinking of Archie Battersbee who was on life support and hence couldn't just go somewhere else easily. In general if you can walk there's no problem leaving the NHS and going wherever.
China Accuses the NSA of Hacking a Top University to Steal Data
If you go to the souce on the Wikipedia page, it tells a slightly different story than what the OP said -

https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news/publishing/the-medal-of-...

>Yet 2015 would never get the chance to make another Medal of Honor. EA decided to take all development for the franchise in-house. Morale was low amongst the team and they were looking to start up on its own.

>We had bonded as a team, but decided we wanted to work with new management. Many members of the team were actually going to leave to find new jobs, regardless of potential royalties coming in from Medal of Honor.

>After leaving 2015 we were working with a major publisher. For legal reasons I will say things didn’t go as planned with it. We were left in a situation of unpaid milestones that were delivered and no finances to operate on,” says Thomas.

>The company was potentially going to disband. In a last ditch effort our then president, Grant Collier sent out a signal to all the major publishers in the industry letting them know that the majority of the Medal of Honor: Allied Assault team was available. Within days of closing the doors on the studio, Activision responded immediately with an offer.”
Yahoo has previously been found to have abysmal security and was pretty much forced kicking and screaming into taking it seriously.
> Let’s say file A references file B and C, and files B and C both reference D. D doesn’t need to be duplicated.

Yes, if an ecosystem does not attempt to ensure that D is at a single version, which is both B-compatible and C-compatible, it moves a mountain of complexity onto A.

It might not be apparent for a small program that only uses standard library and never experiences diamond dependencies at all. But the complexity here is that

1. A might get a D1 object/structure/result from B, and later

2. A might get a D2 object/structure/result from C, and then

3. Some code may be needed to ensure D1 compatibility with D2, if they interact. This problem is better to be resolved in an ecosystem than in A.
It’s the sysadmins sub - ie the crowd dealing with the fallout when migrations go bad. So sudden big moves of questionable technical merit are disturbing to them
> The accusations were not exactly specific. You're splitting hairs.

Have you read Mudge's actual whistleblower report, rather than just media articles about it? It doesn't go into extreme detail (at least in the unredacted parts), but there are plenty of specifics.

> In July, Twitter experienced a global outage of ~45 minutes, the longest outage global outage in years. If Twitter was some shocking, never before seen level of insecure, it wouldn't have been 45 minutes, and there'd be a lot more of them.

You seem to be conflating security with availability. There are plenty of ways to be insecure (many of them detailed in the report) that have no effect on availability.
Languages I speak: Russian(Mother tongue level), English(Beyond C2), French(C2/Beyond C2), German(C1).

My advice would be as follows:
1. Duolingo and Anki are horrible for beginners, see point 2 below. Should not be more than 10% of learning time.

2. Beyond the basic 1000-2000 words(for European languages), vocabulary expansion for mastering language is not only overrated but detrimental. It is much more important to have a solid grasp on grammar. You can talk/write around vocab issues with good grammar much more than the other way around.

3. For whatever language you are learning, you need to figure out what is the "key" differentiator of that language and focus on mastering it almost immediately. For example, one of the key aspects of Russian is the extensive declension system, beyond what is seen in other Western languages. For French, I would say stuff like subjonctif and understanding where to place the different accents (aigu,etc) are the complicated parts.

4. I would say that once you have the basics down(i.e beyond A2 level), your time splits should be as follows:
Grammar:30%. Learning new structures, doing drills, etc.
Reading:20%. Seeing usable grammar. If you have grammar and basic vocab down your will see how easy it is to fill in the blanks in terms of what the words mean.
Writing:20%. Try writing short stories, maybe a diary entry, maybe stuff about your work.
Speaking:20%. This should be higher if you live in the target language country, but speaking basically helps you to make stuff come out more seamless. If you are struggling with forming sentences much more obvious when speaking. Same drills as writing only oral.
Vocab: 10%. You should ideally be learning vocabulary that has an immediate use to you to make it stick better(job,etc). Otherwise, you should try to cover all your bases on basics like body parts, weather, home, etc.

5. For gendered languages, knowing the genders well will make or break how native speakers receive you. Wrong gender articles sound extremely off to native speakers, do not downplay it. For vocab, learning word without its gender is useless.

6. Passive consumption is cool but should never be counted as learning time.
I'm going to buck the trend here and say that I'm actually using Facebook more than in the past. I am member of a few groups, which are quite niche, but genuinely interest me. I always browse by Most Recent and by checking every day I know I don't have to browse past posts which are more than a day old. FB does a decent job of notifying me when my friends post, so I can see all of those via notifications.

While I do get ads and suggested pages, these don't seem intrusive with the above approach. Maybe its just me?!?!
I replied to the overhead claim, you are moving the goal post.

I don't think we will ever have consensus about the control flow aspects of exceptions. For example once you employ RAII it's easier to write error-agnostic functions with exceptions than with error codes. With error codes you have to explicitly propagate the error up, while with exceptions it is automatic. Sometimes this is desirable. It's arguable that the function isn't really agnostic to exceptions, as you have to employ RAII to qualify, but in modern C++ codebases that should be the default, really.

Having said that you probably don't want to introduce exceptions to a large code base that was designed with no exceptions in mind, and this definitely applies to the Linux kernel.

edit: enum based approach giving better error messages, really? You get a fixed error message per enumeration, but you can have a custom error message with exceptions that include context.
We are talking virtual threads here(project loom), i think, no?

https://openjdk.org/jeps/428

Basically, you don't have a thread context anymore, or you don't have a use for it anymore
No, the Atari name exists today. Famous defunct company names regularly get bought by entities wanting to cash out whatever goodwill or positive associations still left in them. Would-be buyers with less extractive ambitions can't compete in the auctions.

So no, Atari doesn't exist today, what exists is a company wearing Atari's skin as a suit, in order to fool you. Don't be fooled by names without the organisational continuity to back it up.
Ah yes the old BAI format which is totally not a CSV file with a bunch of insane rules that differ per bank and are passed around via sftp server that are on the internet.

I'm glad I quit that job. The only problem is when I tell people how the bank actually move money they don't believe me.
This here is for you then: https://www.w3fools.com/ ;)

w3schools got way better, but back then w3fools had its reason.
In my understanding most fraud in the fiat world is similarly irreversible, different actors just absorb the costs of the fraud, in the end consumers foot the bill as increased prices.

Fraud is huge industry, the fraud models and attack vectors in the fiat world is different than in the crypto world. In the end wherever there is enough money, there will be fraud as well.
We were talking about CFCs and how supposedly eliminating them (despite not actually eliminating them) fixed the supposed problem. It's a bit like claiming lockdowns flattened the covid curves, when the exact same flattening happened everywhere that did without lockdowns.
I think part of the discussion is that there are no 'hidden gems' at fair prices. You have cheap products sold for cheap, and cheap products sold for a lot, and then you have expensive products sold for much much more. There is no good products sold for a fair amount, just bargains on commodity gear. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the 'middle market' is only such in price, not product quality.

I would say though that Audio Technica, while still commodity products, do seem to get better the more you pay up into the middle market. I think you get diminishing returns in their higher end range though.

I've had the same Audio-Technica ATH-500's for perhaps 14 years now. I drop them all the time too, like daily. I had to buy some replacement earpads as the pleather wore out, but that's it. Still perfect audio. I'd wager they'd have 10,000+ hours of use easily.
Well, no, because there's still no evidence that Twitter has lied in any of its filings, and because Musk intentionally waived due diligence which is the traditional way for a purchasing company to verify the actual state of the company it is buying.

If, and only if, it turns out that Mudge's claims cause FTC action that would be severe enough to be defined as a material adverse effect, Musk may have some grounds to back out or reduce the price. But that's not yet clear.

Remember, Twitter didn't want to be purchased. This was a hostile takeover, achieved by Musk going to Twitter's shareholders with an offer attractive enough that they were not going to refuse, forcing the board into accepting the offer. He then signed a binding offer and in his haste to force the deal waived due diligence.
150M-year-old vomit found in Utah offers rare glimpse into prehistoric ecosystem
I just tried to search for it, not with touch effort to be honest, but man is internet search a dumpster fire by now. Results, searching for the actual report filled by Mudge, were news coverage from all kinds of sources, ads for whistleblower training, answers to the question what a Whistleblower is and news coverage of the hearing without any details or links to actual report. So take my comment with that in mind.

Mudge claims that twitter had no way to identify foreign intel agents and get rid of them by themselves. Heck, that is quite a statement. No company actually has that capability in house to do it systematically. Even security sensitive civilian jobs rely on authorities to do just that during security clearance checks. Even intelligence agencies need dedicated counter-intel operations to do that and those fail regularly. Not sure what the other claims are, from news coverage the fact that data access is not tracked by user is a serious problem so, I agree.

Expecting a non-security relevant employer to prevent infiltration by foreign state actors is way too much to expect so, IMHO. That would have been a job for the, e.g. FBI to decide that Twitter important enough to make it security relevant and put a program with Twitter in place to prevent infiltration. Or not, in case US three-letter agencies have their own agents in place. If Twitter knowingly hired foreign agents, that would be something different and quite stupid and dangerous.

EDIT: Coming to think of it. Why would it be up to Twitter to decide what to do about a foreign spy in their workforce? Wouldn't US counter intel take the lead in that? And just maybe Twitter firing the person isn't actually in the US best interest...
> Every wannabe post-capital economist should try to run a restaurant (profitably)

I would guess most people don’t start a restaurant to be financially profitable, instead they start it for ego and status. A failed restaurant is both an example of capitalism, but also some very uncapitalist incentives.
You didn't really provide that much detail, how are you expecting someone to understand what to Google?

If your suggestion is for people to not question, or be curious at all then I think you're in the wrong place...?
> Unless you're saying that coercion is only justified on individuals if the benefit to society are well known, probable, and sizable enough to some "threshold".

This point seems too obvious to me to even warrant defending. Obviously, there must be an especially high bar to be met before we chase people down, hold them down, and inject chemicals into them.
What particular differences did they note between the US & Korea?

I would love to learn what was the outcome/ learning of the study.
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I don't really get why it would be pretentious, like it's not pretending to be smarter than it is. It doesn't seem to me that the author is showing off for the sake of showing off, but rather that he is not hiding his joy and love for the themes discussed in the book.
Yeah, I should have elaborated more.

What I love about Toole's book is it's basically the whole big picture of audio, completely sourced and grounded in real deal empirical research, but research that also worked to correlate objective measurements to subjective preferences.

All those internet arguments over the years about what matters and what doesn't, tubes vs transistors, class A vs class AB amps, you name it... Toole's book is the cliff notes of what's actually real. It's such a huge advantage vs when I first started reading this stuff in the 90s and it was a lot harder to find information that wasn't just someone's "golden ear" opinion imagined out of thin air.
Call of Duty then and now are very different. Back then, it was more like an indie movie. Now, it's Disney size. Their animators are cogs.
The NHS can be a bit conservative with anything a bit experimental for better or worse. I'm just trying to sort something myself and having to go private a bit.
Kurzweil famously took/takes large numbers of vitamins / supplements / pills each day, in order to extend his life and health. I’d love to read a followup on that. Did it work? Were there any side-effects? How is he measuring whether it is working?
There are examples of "natural" sentences which are unprovable in Peano Arithmetic (which is one of the simpler systems for which Gödel's theorems apply): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%E2%80%93Harrington_the...

But in general, Gödel applies to all formal systems that satisfy certain properties, it's just that the exact unprovable sentences will be different (since you may just add that sentence as an axiom) that's why the general example is very abstract. It shows that sufficiently rich theories are not only incomplete, but also incompletable.
They are wholly unsurprising in C code. C offers literally nothing in the way of automation to eliminate the problem. But there is no excuse for writing C code today.

"Scale of your codebase" is a clever excuse, but it doesn't wash. The bigger your codebase, the less cowboy-ism you want. But Google seems to particularly foster it.
I use an OG Quest which is quite low res compared to other headsets. Most seem to recommend the Reverb G2 which is what I’m eyeing as an upgrade.
...which is explicitly mentioned in the article, but I suppose not everyone actually reads it.
> and how often it is stolen

And how often it is returned to the store because buyer didn't like it. Some things can be resold, but most of the time the seller eats up the costs. It is always amusing for me to see people being outraged by the costs and seeing nothing wrong with returning something to the store just because they can.
> To be honest, I don't think money laundering is real, or significant.

Heard it all now time for me to get off this site I think.
Brasília is wonderfully designed dirty, and the building is beautiful. That's a terrible book.
I typically want reproducible builds to never ever have to deal with build issues and to be able to free up that space to think.

Boring technologies are easier for people better and making due with what they have and accepting sometimes very large limitations.

ADHD makes boring tasks harder for instance, and boring technologies give you no escape from the tedium.

With a little fancier technology though, you at least have hope ;)
...which is explicitly alluded to in the article, but I suppose not everyone reads it.
Coincidentally Bloomberg's bold design was ushered under Joshua Topolsky, one of The Verge's founders. He then went on to found The Outline, which arguably had an even bolder design. In many ways, The Outline's premise was the same as the new The Verge. I'm curious to see if The Outline was just to early, or whether the premise is just flawed.
It's old but still working. Revealing the anatomy of cyoa books. https://samizdat.co/cyoa/ The flash animations don't work though.
MBS of KSA has a similar fever dream.