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Presumably by merit of where you are now, you already have the necessary skill to autodidact your way to the equivalent of a comp sci MSc

Read the Kleppmann book on distributed systems - that is probably worth an MSc in itself.

Read the CTMCP book - probably worth another MSc. (PL theory)

What do you want to specialise in ? Choose one or two topics and look at the curriculum in a few universities. What books are on the reading list ? You can likely learn far more self-studying the material than any lecturer will be able to transfer in a few hours of tuition every week.

A comp sci conversion degree is probably close to worthless at your stage, and a more specialised degree still of questionable value considering the cost.

My anecdotal data point of 1 - I don't have a cs degree but work as a highly paid senior contractor on interesting problems, using functional programming to build distributed systems. Early on in my career I read an undergrads worth of text books, and then followed it up with several masters level textbooks.

The best devs I have worked with are constantly reading comp sci text books or papers. The knowledge has a much longer shelf life than x new framework or y new library.

All that said if you want to do it for some intrinsic value then never let anyone talk you out of pursuing education. I just don't think the degree will make much difference to your career, it's the knowledge, confidence and ability to demonstrate & implement that will give you access to better opportunities.
The insulin inventor wasn't aware of millions of diabetic people either.

MythBusters's episode was the starting point for him. The title is okay.
Vim mode in intelij rocks
There's also debris and stuff coming from above and to the right of the truck once the picture returns. And there's the expert in the article saying what he sees is not consistent with a large truck bomb.
Yes, I saw that article.

But I was surprised it didn't mention Plateau's problem, that is, with the minimization in soap bubbles, as at

https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Plateau_problem

or F. Almgren as in

Frederick J. Almgren,
Plateau's Problem: An Invitation to Varifold Geometry,
W. A. Benjamin, 1966.
This is the big problem with Stripe's positioning in the payments food chain ladder.

Block every single fraudulent or suspicious transaction, and you're leaving obscene amounts of money on the table.

The amount of credit card fraud that goes unclaimed or is eaten by liability shift is huge, so if Stripe makes a product like Radar ACTUALLY WORK, they would be missing out big time.

I am confident Stripe's radar's shortcomings are deliberate and not simple bugs or design problems.

It appears they have no incentive for the product to be 100% effective and that would explain why Stripe Radar is billed per screened transaction, regardless of outcome.

We benchmark Stripe Radar against other pure play fraud fingerprinting solutions, and the difference is abysmal. The fact that Stripe claims to have seen 80% of any card before it gets to your store make this fact even worse.

So, like parent says, you are going to see radar scores of 90 and 95 for certain charges (clearly fraudulent carding attempts), followed by scores of 15 or 20 for the same card, IP, fingerprint with absolutely no warning.

I've grown tired of escalating this to Support. They just give me the ML model answer. Basically: "It's a black box!"

You can definitely add a rule to start blocking charges from X places, or with Y velocity, or always enforce 3DS, but then you're taking the model into your own hands, and that has some important consequences.

Your acceptance rate goes down. You're heavily interfering with the model and relying (and trusting) it less, and you realise you really don't need Radar to do that for you.

If you're serious about fraud, you must use a pure player solution that is 100% aligned with your interests.

From what we've seen with Stripe Radar in the past, that doesn't seem to be the case.

I'm a big fan of Stripe in may ways, but I really have a love/hate relationship with this side of their business...
> I find it really unlikely the people that need it would really mind some age verification or another extra safety step when ordering it.

Well, you just articulated one of the major social benefits. We do really mind. The benefits are clearly not zero, like you claimed.

What you didn’t articulate is an argument for why we should invest so much — and give up privacy and our freedoms — to try (and fail) to prevent such a vanishingly small number of self-inflicted deaths.

This is emotional outrage bait, not a basis for instituting evidence-based policy.

Frankly, it’s not our problem, and not our cost to be bourne.

If you want to take away anyone’s ability to use the internet for commerce without interference, why don’t you you start with taking away your own children’s free access to the internet and credit cards, rather than everyone else?

You can do that yourself, today — and probably should.
If a large majority did, yes, it could be changed.

And obviously a piece of parchment cannot force people to do something if people unanimously decided to do otherwise.

But preventing the whims of the just-barely-a-majority-of-those-who-voted from changing such an important thing, is important and useful.
'it's nothing compared to an asteroid impact' is just the elaboration of 'humans can't impact climate lol' or 'obviously you don't even care about the heat death of the universe'. While we shouldn't paralyse ourselves with existential guilt, evoking apocalyptic scenarios in a policy discussion is usually intended to derail discussion and prevent the emergence of consensus, ime.
ya, in my biased opinion, you should do it. I think it will be hard but also I don't think it will harm your career. So worse case scenario it has no effect at all on your career prospects. But that's the worst case - in all likelihood it will benefit it.

However, the biggest benefit, in my opinion, is taking challenging classes, improving your knowledge, and making contacts. The benefit may not necessarily be career enhancement or learning the latest technical skills. The biggest advantage school has over self-learning is more on the theoretical and experimental side of computer science. You will be able to see and learn things you couldn't see on the job that I think could be very interesting if you like the topic. You can actually enjoy getting the degree and I think UK master's degrees are generally reasonably priced as opposed to the absurd prices some US universities charge. Sometimes software development can be kind of mundane so maybe this is a chance to see something new and challenge yourself.

If you are strictly focused on career prospects though, which is fine, I will caution that the classes can be time consuming and difficult and you might find all your free time is spent doing them instead of relaxing after work. I am biased about this but not everyone would agree with me about what is interesting or fun so I think it's good to know your motivations before going into this. If all you want is technical skill advancement I don't think a master's is a good choice. Universities often lag industry as far as teaching tools you could learn for free anyways.
> You have to be blind if you don't see that extremist groups are using gaming platforms to disseminate their ideas and recruit.

They definitely use phones too, so does that mean the Patriot Act is justified, and governments should tap into everyone's personal life? These are extremists, so they shouldn't be given a platform to communicate, and to achieve that, it has to be a solution that encompasses all users. This not only leads to false negatives, but abuse of power. At best this is lazy governing, solving a problem with a lot of collateral damage, at worse this is done purposefully to control the citizenry.
I feel like a few npm packages only exist to pad someone's cv.
Some guy on YouTube builds model planes propelled by power tools. This one reminds me of the plane he built with a leaf blower as its propulsion system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBC6AZY_O80
20 days are 4 weeks if you work 5 days per week.
I got a bachelors in software engineering about 15 years into my software development career. I had anticipated that taking the courses would fill in the gaps in my knowledge. It did give me some theory, but not much and not anything that I couldn’t learn on my own.

I did appreciate my digital logic class a lot.
If they had prints available the next day it would be telling. This bridge has been talked about as a next target since the flagship was hit. Not surprising there was art available.
This is very much up for debate and falls squarely into the "Philosophical opinions" category I'd say. Personally, I disagree that AGI would be any less capable of "real" goals than humans — but I'm also a staunch believer in the Turing Test as a standard of machine sentience, which I think serves as a pretty clear sign of my own philosophical biases.
^ this.

There are a lot of things to criticize the US for, believing people should be able to speak their minds aint one of em.

Yes, we are better in that regard than any country that restricts speech more than us. Don't like what I just said? Don't care, I live in the US, where such things are allowed.
Rust enums are a form of tagged unions.

Rust unions are plain old unions that are mainly used for C interop. This is why using them requires unsafe code.
Just let me do my job ffs. We can bond at the [whatever cadence] company retreat in person. Zoom happy hour is my personal hell.
Great points. My mic literally dropped during the recording (I was sitting in my bed). I'll try to fix that now and re-upload it (up to this point, the only regular listeners have been my parents and occasionally my wife). Also, excellent call on the problem/game part of the story - I should rewrite that part. I've also been thinking about this story as the backstory to an iPhone game, so maybe I can make it more fun that way.
The supply of artifical personae on social media is easily manipulated to be many times larger than the number of actual human beings. Better and better simulation models for social interaction combined with better text generation models will mean that a few officers in any directorate can control neightborhoods, towns, and cities' worth of sentiments.

Of course, the boiler room operations in the Phillipines and elsewhere, where a hundred employees drive the behavior of thousands of accounts, may play a role in boosting all tbis. The same boiler rooms may well exist for national purposes as well as commercial purposes.

I have a feeling that Gab, Truth Social, Telegram and the like will not be as motivated as the Twitters or Facebooks of the world to even look for this. If so, your political/social leanings will definitely steer the amount of manipulation you receive.
> Sounds like you would support a policy of income based on your personal expenses. Should the programmer with 5 kids make more than the programmer with no kids simply because the programmer with kids has more expenses?

First time in Europe? That's pretty much a given here, more kids = bigger tax break = more netto pay.
do the math at 1 atom per bit.
> > Here in CA we've already have the government ask electric car owners to alter charging behavior due to power grid problems.

> This bit of propaganda has been surprisingly successful, especially since it doesn't really make any sense.

What doesn't make sense to you? California did ask electric car owners to charge off peak hours to avoid overloading the grid. See https://www.newsweek.com/california-facing-power-crisis-fret...

It was not a legally binding request, so electric car owners could ignore it if they wanted to.
Yes. You'll stay in jail until you remember it. /s

UK doesn't have a concept of presumption of innocence. So guilty until proved otherwise
I've had to use some browser extensions for 3-4x speeds. Anything that is HTML5 enabled video will be supported by it. Unfortunately I don't have a solution for anything on the phone :/

The one I use for desktop is https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed
I don’t think it’s common to get a 30% raise in nominal comp in 2 years from these companies.
> They do, very successfully and most of the government services you and others have aurgued with me about income tax providing are not infact provided for by income taxes in the US. Roads, Schools, Police, Fire, etc almost none of that is funded by Income Taxes, it is funded by Property Taxes, Sales Taxes,and excise taxes.

US police is not an example of anything. They are literally fining people to fill their quotas to support the budget, leave aside their murderous practices. American schools neither are - the quality of American education has gone downhill since state-subsidized education was done for. Your roads are literally disintegrating, brigdges are falling down as people drive on it.

No. Those schemes just do not work. They never worked in history for any society, and they don't seem like working in the US.

> Ahh the religion of democracy. also known as 2 wolves and a lamb voting for what they will have for dinner.

That's your endemic American problem thanks to your two party system due to FPTP and your anti-government indoctrination. Government and democracy pretty much work well anywhere else in the world.

> the rich WANT an income based system of taxation

The rich don't want any taxation. The rich want the late 19th century environment in which they could just buy and own anything. The only way that they were reined in was after T. Roosevelt brought all those pesky antitrust regulations and FDR piled up the taxes and social programs. Otherwise it was a Dickensian world.

> is truly an equalizing force

The free market handed over ENTIRE US to ~12 robber barons to own when it was as free as possible in the late 1800s.

Randian 'free cities' and environments ended up in hellholes.

https://www.gawker.com/ayn-rands-capitalist-paradise-is-now-...

The decline of central state allowed local feudal lords to rise and own everything and everyone toward the end of Roman empire.

Chinese history is full of examples repeating the same, the 'free' market giving way to warlords who stomped down people like you when they had the chance.

We have been there, done that. And yet here you are, still PREACHING the same thing from a country that KILLS its people if they cant pay for healthcare.

That's why it is called a belief, a religion. For there isn't anything other than your faith backing it.
Interesting. What I've found is that when I come up with some pattern that is hard to type, or I have two parts of a system that need to work together but the interface can't be typed simply or doesn't quite 'fit', it is almost always the case that changing things around until the types do work straightforwardly uncovers a better design.

This is definitely sometimes not easy, and of course it'll get more difficult generally the more code there is or the more complex (usually meaning bad!) the design is, but I'd almost put it the other way round to your perspective - the types are like the signposts in this design evolution and discovery process. They don't make it easier to do the work of refactoring a design, but they do make it much easier to understand when I'm going in a good/bad direction and also when I have succeeded.
Isaac Asimov had an essay about how, in order for fantasy to exist as a genre, you first have to understand that some things aren't real. It's been awhile since I read it, but I believe he does address that many people have a problem with fantasy because they don't really distinguish between talking about something and believing in something. Reading a story about witches becomes believing in witches or trying to be a witch.
I agree, that read like pointless bitching with the author being above the plebs they run into when traveling. Maybe they simply need to get off Instagram and take a breath once in a while. I don't use it, and I go to Florence not because someone made some dumbass selfies there, but because I love history. Three months ago, they have a system where you get a time slot in the museums, you book online and I ran into absolutely 0 lines there. Yes, a lot of tourists, but so what?? It is a beautiful place and it will always be popular.
Is the BDS movement an example of stochastic terrorism? Someone told me they exist to inspire hate crimes against Jewish and Israeli citizens.

Are hasbara organizations stochastic terrorist in nature? Someone told me they exist to distract from settler-colonial violence against Palestinians.

Who should get to decide which warrants investigation?
Oh please. Thats like saying california is poor because san francisco has homeless people. Just because people dont drive fancy cars or homes arent refurbished in a region where it rarely rains it doesnt mean they are poor. Even east eu is rich compared to most of the world. I agree with you on slow growth but eu countries are anything but poor. Mismanaged yes. Poor not so much.
I hope it's was just some hyperbole from a mentally distressed woman. 11 antidepressants would cause stuff like serotonin syndrome. It would make you sick for sure, I don't know what else it would do.
>You can, but running Linux with a graphical desktop on VirtualBox under MacOS has become extremely sluggish in my experience.

Huh? It's actually faster than ever, and near native experience.

And the post is not about "how to run" a virtual machine as an end user or dev (for that the way the parent describes is still the suggested way).

It's about how to program running it under the hood if you're a developer who wants to develop something like a program that manages virtual machines or that hosts and runs one.
>why do they just assume it is someone else's duty to provide this to them, free of charge to them?

Why do you assume I would think it is someone else's duty to provide anything to me? This seems to be a bit of projection.
The H1B benefit only applies if you have a Masters from a U.S. university.
So you can use nice tools to bake a poop cake :)

That's not particularly pointed at PHP that. There is a big problem in this industry about where we get our software from and how it's built and managed but that's well outside the topic of this thread. Fundamentally everything is fundamentally broken with dependency management, trust and competence.
> Because of healthy state finances, it can afford to borrow up to 5% of GDP to create a “protective shield” that will insulate Germans from the cost of higher energy.

I find this kind of insulting to Germans actually, since the energy prices were already high to begin with in Germany and the personal wealth of the lower 90% is actually so low that it is not hard to imagine how quickly society can collapse after the government has set so much money on fire just because they can.

The problem with this "protective shield" is not that the intent is unjustified, but it comes way too late and I don't think it is going to help for long. I am honestly not sure there is a solution at this point anymore. They print money to dampen the price hikes, therefore increasing prices/devalue currency, therefore they need to print money.
That's exactly it - It's not illegal to take bribes as an officer of a corporation; it's illegal to defraud others while doing so.

If you take a personal bribe to tank your business, that's between you and your business partners - a civil matter unless your business partners are John Q public (Which is why the SEC exists). It is entirely legal to enrich yourself at the expense of a business you wholely own, with the obvious caveat that the courts will pierce the veil if you've committed crimes as that company.
you are not arrested for any of these.

you get arrested when you ask to lock up transgender people, when you suggest anti-vaxxers (or vaccination supporters) "have a death wish", suggesting you'll look away if someone attacks them.

you get arrested for shouting group XYZ "should die"

§130StGB is about respect in political discourse. if you can't say it with respect shut the fuck up until you can.

any and all examples in your comment have their position not only freely stated online, in Germany, but even on print media, at lengths.
> Maybe it's just me, but I seem to remember (maybe false memory?) that 10,20 years ago the produce section was basically large piles of loose fruits and veg, and you would pick what you wanted. There would also be a few bags of potatoes, oranges, and apples, sometimes in a mesh bag, sometimes plastic.

I live in California, and its still largely that way. The shelf space devoted to prewrapped things is pretty similar to 20 years ago in most stores (more than 40 years ago, though.)
AGI specifically refers to general AI with human-level intelligence or above. It's a far cry from modern AI, but I'm personally quite optimistic it'll be achieved within my lifetime :)
While I can navigate the Git CLI really easily these days, I don't disagree with Mark. Outside of the big four ("git clone", "git rebase", "git commit", "git push"), you're almost certainly engaging in some serious black magic fuckery. Hell, even "git rebase" straddles the fuckery border, especially when you're doing fix-up commits between commits.

If Git makes Russinovich want to shoot his computer, then a revamp of the CLI is _definitely_ in order.

Won't be surprised if GitHub goes for it by extending their awesome `gh` tool.
The other poster is wrong, the only thing listed that's indication of a crime (and even that isn't proof of a crime) is being arrested.

Nothing else is indication of any crime whatsoever.
If he picks his candidates based on prior projects, how does he know that all those candidates he picks aren't because they have comp sci degrees? Getting a degree isn't getting your visa stamped, it means you should be able to do some things better now that you've been trained.
Utopia makes for very boring television. Dystopian megacorporations make the future interesting to watch.

There's a reason why there's a Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting time."
The right to say that one ought to be able to, certainly is.

If something is a crime, it might not be legal to instruct people on how they can go about doing it? Which does seem like it could be problematic.

I’m not certain quite what your point is.
If you look at the USA then the profits are made at the periphery. Profits can be made anywhere. Sooner or later, they will be made where living is more pleasant and that's at the European periphery.

Which cultural problems exists that keeps the periphery poor? I would like to argue that the cultures of the periphery are what will attract people and customers and what will allow the periphery to develop.
Sun never really integrated Java into its UNIX environment very well, IMO. My memory of that time is spotty but I don’t recall any of their UNIX tools actually being written in it. (Likely because the startup time is awful, which is bad news for any CLI programs which need to execute and finish quickly.) The Java way of doing things and the UNIX way of doing things are worlds apart. UNIX prefers small executables that do simple tasks, mostly with text, tied together with scripts, where Java (at least at the time) preferred pure-Java libraries assembled into larger applications with graphical interfaces. Sun never seemed to square that circle, and Java felt like a second-class citizen on Solaris.
My current company actually puts you into a higher pay range band based on both work experience and degree earned.
> Third, I am asking the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to initiate the administrative process to review expeditiously how marijuana is scheduled under federal law. Federal law currently classifies marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the classification meant for the most dangerous substances. This is the same schedule as for heroin and LSD, and even higher than the classification of fentanyl and methamphetamine – the drugs that are driving our overdose epidemic.
Brill, thanks for the explanation.