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With Linux and git being probably the most widely adopted open source software projects ever, it would be a valid argument that Linus's approach is by historical proof "the best way".
Until I read your comment, I had assumed it was just a static image! Pretty cool to go back and move it around and stuff, thank you!
> most important truths about the world are falsifiable

I think it depends on what you deem "important". There are many truths that I relied on just this morning alone which aren't "falsifiable" in the like Popper-derived sense. In my own head I call these "contingent truths", things which are true of the world by mutual convention or by the accumulation of human history. For example, my name or the name of my spouse; the designation of the gravel patch on the corner of our block as an area for my dog to pee off-leash; the presence of paint on the road which keeps my bike separate from cars. In some sense these are all material truths, properties of things in the world which have a falsifiable flavor (like "color" or "mass"). But I do think that their contingent nature, the fact that they are products of human decision making, taste, and history, gives them a different character than what most people keep in mind when they say "falsifiable truths" (scientific statements about the world). On a cosmological sense the latter type of truths are definitely "more important", but on the scale of things that actually determine the quality and shape of my life it's contingent truths which dominate. Spiritualism and mysticism proliferate in part (IMO) because they promise a bridge between the two scales, they reconcile the personal and the cosmic. I feel like Dawkins-era materialism has failed to have similar dominance because it only plays on the cosmic domain, and more often than not scoffs at modern attempts to explore the world of contingent truths (I don't meet many Dawkins-ites who are interested in the modern approach to sociology, which I think has done a pretty creditable job trying to deal with the contingent nature of social dynamics). Moreover, contingent truths are rapidly becoming an important area for multiple fields: many modern problems of engineering and science have contingent faces (infrastructure, big tech, medicine, AI). Being unable to provide guidance for negotiating, or even really a basic vocabulary of, social reality is an enormous hole.

I say all this because I do consider myself a material-reductionist, or at least have been aggressively so in the past, but have been left kind of cold by how the movement has developed. It seems too shell-shocked by the culture wars of the 80s-00s and is unable (or no longer able) to act with the sense of openness or curiosity that I think is required by genuine truth-seeking. This is why I'd imagine you see so much criticism of it recently, not because the ideology is fundamentally wrong, but because its standard-bearers are no longer able to push it forward in a way that the meets the needs of the moment.
Detectives, or tactical teams at the direction of detectives. Street cops are as bad as the parent describes in most areas.
Trust your technolust?
The Second Amendment is centuries old. The current interpretation of it is only a decade or two old. For centuries before that, other interpretations prevailed - the oddball is the current radical one.

If one more person tells me 'the ship has sailed' or some other hopeless cliche of the moment - yes, the smart trend of the moment is despair! - about anything .... The radical gun people sure don't think that way, and their positions are obvious, absurd horsecrap. The only problem is you (and many like you) quitting.
Collections of amusing anecdotes is exactly what they are. Feynman didn’t write the Surely You’re Joking series. They’re stories he told that Ralph Leighton wrote down and collected into books.
In the UK, I believe that if you organise a large event that needs police coverage, you pay the Police force to provide on-duty officers. This seems a lot less open to corruption because it would be based on a standard price list that was public, and the officers received the same as they would doing any other duties.

I know that's how it worked at some events my Dad organised in the 90s. I can't find anything about this on any Police force website, so it might be that it doesn't work like that any more.
Not having a side project going on in the background.
No, according to the link the hand-writers learned Arabic much faster than the learners typing on keyboards. Handwriting Arabic facilitated faster learning of the language than typing it out.

This comports with my personal language learning experience, for what that's worth. I couldn't say whether it translates to other subjects.

Full article is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8641140/
Ah, very true "minimum wage" has nothing to do with "wage". I'll remove it from the Google search since you aren't able to.

https://www.google.com/search?q=effect+of+wage+increase+on+i...
37C3 Unlocked: CCC invites to contribute to 37th Chaos Communication Congress
I've read a lot about Feynman and have never read that. Would love to see a source.
Poster is hoping for no more large wars
the default extension is good enough to begin with. as you are adding more to your project (e.g. black/isort/django), you can naturally find more extensions.
It’s a finite resource. 100 acres of land being barely used should certainly come with a cost. Of all of the things that could be taxed, this one actually makes the most sense.
To understand you correctly, you want an app designed to shoot video for videographers in ProRes who usually shoot video in ProRes or raw to add low bitrate HEVC, the same low bitrate HEVC you can get in the stock camera app?

Sounds like scope creep not targeted at their intended audience.

Likewise what would be the difference between adding a 45mbps ProRes option vs adding a 45mbps hevc option? That fact it is hevc? They would take up the same storage space.
I started my career on Wordpress. In a lot of ways it was where I learned to program. I'm surprised you stuck w/ it as long as you did, guessing the cash must of been pretty good. To me once you're deep into the internals and writing your own plug-ins you might as well just build something custom. I think it's a good middle ground for someone technical and willing to put in a lot of time but not the know how to truly make something custom.
John Carmack working on small project glBegin FTW (2013)
He is being a raging asshole by behaving like one?

How is it ok to berate a contribution like that? Is it encouraging more people to contribute? Is it creating a positive environment? Let's park that for now, is it helping the technical discussion at all? It's just power tripping on the gatekeeper status.

All of this could be said in a technical, professional manner. Many many great programmers do it everyday, sorry Linus, nobody is a God. People are not anybody's toilet paper.
NBER has declared that the definition of a recession is when NBER has declared a recession. NBER has declared that disagreements with that definition are clearly invalid, since NBER is the source of the official NBER definition of recession.
My feedback: this is artificially generated art, and is meaningless. Why would I spend any amount of time or effort on this when there is art made with intent by humans?
Then again, plenty of times they are not declared unpersons nor treated horribly. Oftentimes just mentioning that this or that person did something bad at some points is enough for everyone to get outrage over "how dare you to say that".

As in, criticism is silenced until it breaks.
How about we do away with speculating on the personal lives of public figures unless it is pertinent to some issue? So much judgement and pedestal-making.

But people will keep lopsidedly downvoting when someone veers towards the judgement-side. As if putting people on pedestals is any better.
Sort of. They also want to add a bunch of custom extensions to make up for the lack of the standard C extension. Qualcomm is probably not going to get what they want.

What appears to be happening is that they bought NUVIA, and a bunch of high performance arm64 cores. ARM sued claiming that cores designed under NUVIA'S Arm Architecture License can't be transferred to Qualcomm's Arm Architecture License. It seems they are trying to slap a riscv decoder with a minimum amount of work. So that means no C extension because the arm64 frontend was designed around aligned 32bit instructions, and tons of custom instructions that match how AArch64 gets passable density, like equivalents to ldp/stp.

So what you're seeing here is a success of RISC-V's model to keep consistency without an incredibly hierarchical body mandating consistency. Qualcomm is more than welcome to create that core and it's numerous extensions. The community is also welcome to not support it by default, and so Qualcomm will probably actually go and complete their design and collaborate.
Maybe it's because I'm not American but I don't see that language as unwarranted nor particularly severe? (Also not insulting the authors competency; the strong language is mostly on the technical merits of the commit, not the authors own technical merits.)

Like I've read some of Linus' older swear-laden rants back in the day; those could get unreasonably angry at people for what amounted to things like inconsistent commenting and basically had shit in them that amounted to "the author shouldn't ask me for anything ever again". That's not present here.

This is a direct code review that calls out (from what I understand) a number of bad design problems (hence: totally illogical and complete nonsense) and the fact that the author doesn't seem to have followed the kernel commit message rules. (For which, yes, the moniker "worthless" is appropriate for those messages - the kernel has pretty strict commit message rules.)

It's strong language but strong language of this stripe is only bad if it's excessive or attacks the wrong thing. I don't think it's excessive in this case; the patch seems like it's a poorly thought through solution and is a technical mess for a project that has strict rules about user space APIs (aka if a poor solution ends up being used, it'll be maintained for ages).

In general the response from Linus reads more like that of a certain type of uni teacher; "this is bad, go back to the drawing board, here's what you did wrong".

Finally, also keep in mind that this patch was submitted by a Google employee (they're representing their employer) and that as far as I understand it, by the time you get to contribute to the mailing list that has Linus doing code review, you're at least expected to be familiar with how the Kernel works - he's not in a position where he can scare the newbies[0]. I'd not put up with it if it were a colleague but that's also really not the dynamic here. Google is more akin to a third party vendor than anything else.

[0]: Some of the lower tree maintainers are though.
U.S. Tightens China's Access to Advanced Chips for Artificial Intelligence
Useless as car salesmen. Hire an engineer or lawyer to protect your rights. Do you really need a 6% consultant? No, you very likely don’t.
The way Biden administration treated rail workers was criminal
So we're paying for all those facilities, infrastructure and so on, and it's going to waste. That's inefficient. We want that land being used productively, contributing to the economy, making profits which pay taxes, to pay for these services.
how i hate exotic apps that don't explain what they do but just present me some buttons to goof around
Honestly one of the best mecha anime ever, right up there with Neon Genesis and Gundam. Maybe even better in some regards.
Social media comments and journalists love to talk about how many may die if we fail to regulate and slow down the progress of AI. ("six month pause", etc)

Very few discuss how many lives may be lost if we regulate and slow down the progress of AI.

Rather than constantly focusing on x-risk, we should be just as often discussing the reasons to believe that life-saving and perhaps even civilization-saving breakthroughs may come about due to advances in AI technology.
That a valid point, in a perfect world no one would choose to work for a company that pays substandard wages or offers inadequate benefits. But as it stands people need money to pay for food and housing, which can put them in a disadvantageous bargaining position.

With Universal Basic Income perhaps this could be avoided.
I believe it was a 3-year-old intel NUC, if you send me a link to your patch I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
Mmmm, code with recover is just a valid code. Calling it spaghetti seems unjustified.
Empty box is opened in front of multiple witnesses

Voter comes along, name ticked off list of registered voters -- "this person has voted"

Voter given stamped piece of paper with candidates on in front of multiple witnesses.

Voter marks an X next to a name on a paper, folds paper, showing stamp, puts in a box in front of multiple witnesses

Box fills and is then sealed in front of witnesses. Number of votes inside (from the ticking the list) written on.

Box is then transferred to counting place.

Box is unsealed at counting location in front of multiple witnesses

Papers counted to confirm they have a stamp and the number of papers matches the number of votes on the box and accompanying paperwork

Papers transferred to counting table in front of multiple witnesses

Papers counted in front of multiple witnesses

Any confusing ballots set aside to discuss between candidates and the adjudicator

If the vote is close papers are recounted

Winner announced.

This works fine with elections with a turnout measured >30 million people in the UK, which means it works fine for the largest election in the US (California presidential election).

So it's secure, scalable, and cheap

At what point can you commit fraud to a scale where the effort to do it returns more than the effort to campaign for a few more votes?
SpaceX is willing to pay more money to fund the FAA hiring staff right?
All good points, I've seen some sites with every plugin years out of date when I've helped friends with theirs, weak passwords, that sort of thing.

I've always done my own hosting too, just a minimal setup of nginx, php-fpm, and mariadb on a 1GB RAM VPS. That way I can keep the server side up to date with security patches, instead of relying on a webhost that may not do it.

Backups run nightly offsite, and I monitor the sites with Change Detection so if a plugin update does break something or in the worst case a site gets hacked, I know fairly soon and can either fix it or roll back to a backup.
Let me guess - the honky tonk doesn't have to, but if you're booking rap acts....
Just a new brand of consophistric justification for "biz rules out of my investment portfolio."
There's a "custodial history" section on that page.
I consider myself a mediocre, if competent, programmer. I would like to improve my level of code reviews, but I'm on an operations team and I'm pretty much the only person who programs (it's a small company for now, but if we're successful, we'll grow pretty dramatically over the next few years).

What tips would you have for doing this?
> You have to be mentally sick to ask people to code review their side projects.

I would love to do this; it would give me an opportunity to showcase my side projects, my coding style, and all with code that I'm already familiar with.

It would be great, IMO.
Sounds incredibly like a non-starter for people who aren't completely desperate. Then again, maybe that's who they're looking for.
> "were not who they said they were"

I worked with a guy who it later came out that he was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder when he convinced a buddy of his to kill his ex-wife and her new boyfriend. Probably should have had better background checks at that company.
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> a very slimy and backwards model

perhaps it is, but that's the business a lot of big tech is in. ads drive everything. google is an advertising company with a lot of data mining on the front-end.

if your ad game and monitization isn't tight then you don't have a company, you have a public service, and one that will gas out pretty quickly.
Buy that lambo, you made it :)
> account manager that stayed longer then a few months

Average tenure at amazon for corporate employees is less than a year.
I would say, based on experience, that kids aged 3 or 4 would be similarly nonsensical, changing number ordering, improvising without any consideration for self-consistency, and heavily focused in the present irrespective of what has just happened.
All she wrote: The pleasures and pains of formal correspondence
I'm excited for this vein of Leftism to end. We're seeing the DSA get chucklefucked due to their 10/7 Attack response, and we're seeing their NIMBY allies get chucklefucked in the legislatures.

Hopefully some new, more productive and positive ideology emerges.
The range of what is practical changes with how something is valued. If kelp became a higher value crop for biological derived fuel, then some things not practical today may become practical.

For example, kelp may not grow in some areas because those areas are especially hospitable to the "Invertebrates that eat kelp include snails and shellfish such as crabs, sea urchins, and abalone." [0] If some of the increased value of kelp were directed towards decreasing those species then it might become practical to grow kelp there.

0. https://earthlife.net/what-eats-kelp/
Java was running on feature phones well before android was a thing.

> "Java programming culture" outright would not work which was obvious to anyone trying to write fast code back then.

And yet Google had enough air to use a half working third party implementation instead of using the bleeding edge Sun JRE.

> (I also wonder how many users are willing to trade off 15% of their battery time to developer java programming culture.)

Apparently many people don't run an adblocker on their mobile browser, so the number of people who don't care must be rather high.
Not in the slightest, we have an even more strict version of this bill currently being drafted for enforcement. It's already law here.
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I've been to community meeting with neighbors complaining about drunk bar customers urinating, sleeping, barfing on their lawns; making noise late into the night; fighting; etc.

About security specifically, bar fights are a cliche and alchohol makes people violent. Are we going to pretend that isn't an issue?
As a resident of Germany, I sincerely hope my neighbors paid attention in history class and won’t ever retry what produced that economic opportunity.
I found nothing amiss in Linus’s response. No personal attacks. Just hitting bad code and even suggestions for future fixes which all show a different Linus, a much more accommodating Linus who he and the other maintainers have the tall task of having to maintain quality in the Linux kernel — software that literally runs (most of) the internet.
no idea how blogspot has survived this long
They're way ahead of you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
> Linus' criticisms are really mostly just small (if valid!) gripes about naming conventions and readability

> > My
complaints are not some kind of small "fix this up". These are
fundamental issues.

Maybe he wasn’t direct enough!
I attack with laughter and sarcasm. Other people have different coping mechanisms. Mine just happens to be socially acceptable atm. It wasn’t always, such as in school where I was accused of not taking things seriously.
I'm kinda seeing the opposite. Recruiters are falling over themselves contacting me and this wasn't the case a year ago. I'm in cyber.

It's a bit annoying because while I'm mildly interested in other opportunities, most don't even bother reading my profile and just dump their crap on me. I selected the remote only option but most jobs that are shared with me are office based or hybrid. I'm officially hybrid now but I rarely visit the office and I want to keep it that way. Offices have become horrible places now with the hotdesking.
I feel like Netflix and the western market is having a slow positive effect on annoying fanservice in anime. One can hope. I find it incredibly irritating.
We would have an iOS app if we were better mobile engineers... hopefully someday we'll make one!
> That's why ADHD as a disability lost its weight.

ADHD as a disability was never respected, there was a 2 year time period post 2018 in which people sort of took it seriously but not really.

Pre-acceptance period we had "Is ADD real?" articles on the regular, now post-acceptance we have "Are ADHD sufferers faking it?" articles on the regular. Nothing substantial has changed for people with ADHD, the common man still does not try to understand.
If it was in the job description, you'd be a police officer.
I don’t think that’s enough. I think what you need is a close male friend that is really self aware to guide, a female friend to ground and most important a willingness and desire to grow and change.

I don’t think any close female friend would do lots of people both men and women are extremely not self aware
The context is that their teammates' working conditions are so good (as a result of union participation in collective bargaining) that they've become spoiled & forgotten how it got that way to begin with.
There is actual difference between threatening people livelihood and actually destroying peoples careers forever and actually using violence. Which afaik, Feynman is not accused of. He did misrepresented who he was in some of those relationships - by pretending he is undergraduate. That is exact opposite of using power, it is pretending you do not have it.

Those are completely different types of people. It is not that professors should sleep with students, it is that Weinstein went far far beyond that. Suggesting it is the same is minimizing what Weinstein did.
I can sympathize, but keep in mind most professions expect you to commit to a certain number of hours of continuing education. Often you can convince your employer to let you do this during work hours (or even pay for it!), but not always.
I worked with a well know hacker/author at a company and while most people wouldn't step foot near them I saw it as an opportunity to maybe learn more. They were brutally honest in code review, but never personally mean. Yeah, I had some code reviews that looked just like this, but it motivated me to try harder. I learned a lot from this person and eventually gained trust and some friendship on top of additional knowledge. Don't be scared of a code review, be happy that code reviews will give you new insights even if that means the work you have now is wrong or requires refactoring.
I suspect most people would agree with this. What they don't agree on is how it gets paid for.
Expect people to install those tools in unrealistic. But companies can implement all the features in the end product (web browser, email client, IM client etc.).
Yes, and even your own inventory: Are you really going to kill another human being over a TV?
> I would not be able to operate offering 50% off.

You might not be, but others might be able to optimize out the costs you describe.

Right now there’s not much incentive because most everyone charged that.

Personally it seems odd to me that everything is percent based. It’s not 10x cost and work to sell a $100k house than a $1M.
This is a pretty shady looking protection racket -- "nice business you've got here, be a shame if something were to happen to it". With the difference from traditional gang/mafia activity just being that they'll get the government to remove your business license, rather than burning the place down.

Similarly, I once got a speeding ticket while driving through Kansas, and was instructed by the ticketing officer on how to send a "donation" to the "Sheriff's Benevolent Society" to make it go away without any points on my license...