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> doubt that granting Congress more power will inspire them to be less political

Now imagine what unelected government officials who play the revolving doors game with the industry they're supposed to regulate can do.

This could go the other way. All agencies answer to the President. The President could just scrap all regulations or just not enforce them.

Political motivation is what makes hearsay bad. Wikileaks never relied on hearsay.

Fair enough.

So what if it's not new? That doesn't really make it better. An author rewriting another edition of his own work is not the same as deceptively presenting an unoriginal work as being genuine.

The sources are out of context quotes coming from hear say sources; those sources being clearly politically motivated think tanks.

Assange wasn't pardoned. He agreed to a deal to plead guilty with retroactive detention which meant no additional imprisonment.

A pardon can cover previous crimes with or without conviction.

"Robots are hard because the world is complicated"

Or it could be that some problems are inherently hard. Just solving the motion matrix of a simple robotic arm is an academic research field of its own.

As long LLMs are seen as patterned knowledge aggregator then work as intended. They hallucinate answers mostly because they try to interpolate data or there is some pattern that it didn't catch due to lack of context or training.

They're really good for type / name finding and boiler plate generation. For larger suggestions as your pointed out they're too wrong to be used as is. They can give good ideas, especially if guided with comments, but usually at this stage I just use Phind.

This is the only way I've found that we can do the needed refactor. As consultants, we never ask the permission of the client to refactor the code. Ever. That's not for them to decide. The reason they hired us in the first place is because we're the experts and they are not. We evaluate the needed refactor that puts the code in a decent state and put the time in the quote we provide the client. And even then we never create tasks or log time; when we find something that needs to be done, then our time is billed to the task relating to that issue.

I've worked in an embedded Linux system that was a greenfield project. We needed a library that was written in a certain language, but we also wanted Python for the rest because getting the logic right with a client that changed his mind often was top priority and the data crunching was minimal.

So we ended up using protobufs over a local MQTT broker and adopted a macro-service architecture. This suited the project very well because it had a handful of obvious distinct parts and we took full advantage of Conway's law by making each devs work the part where their strengths and skills were maximized.

We made a few mistakes along the way but learned from them. Most of them relating to inter-service asynchronous programming. This article put words on concepts we learned through trial and errors, especially queries disguised as events.

> Had a very good experience simulating K8s cluster with QEMU aka studing K8s hard way once I figure out how networking actually works between virtual machines and domains can be assigned with external proxy.

This is an awesome use of QEMU! I'm both interested in learning K8s and what goes on under the hood at the kernel level because I do cloud connected IoT stuff, so I'll definitely use that!

Is there any kind of "build the kernel from scratch" project for that kind of stuff?

Expertise simply means having a deep understanding in a field of knowledge. Running Windows XP is irrelevant.

> especially server-side JavaScript developers. Server-side JavaScript developers know that JS is inefficient and they choose to use it

I'm in no way a JS fan, but this take is wrong. The main reason JS is on the server side is because it makes the transition between server side and client side trivial. Not everyone runs SAAS with billions of requests every seconds.

In terms of not only money and time, but also resources and energy spent, this increase in software productivity it is worth it in most cases.

Kind of tools I wish I had a use case for.

And yet AFAIK he seems to be doing fine. If you run the same stuff, only allow and visit the same addresses, and disable ECMAScript and in addition to other mitigation measures such as 2FA then I don't really see the problem.

> That is not the behavior of a security expert.

Your image of "security experts" must come from movies. I know security experts IRL. Their security at home amounts to not use their work computer for personal stuff and 2FA.

I didn't listen to that show for a while now; but it seemed that it was the only show out there that explained in details computer security news. I remember him explaining the speculative execution exploits when they first appeared really well when they first appeared. Does the people I know who works on blue and red teams listen to him? No, they already know that stuff, and yeah he could be more up to date, but he does his researc, does his homework and is a great pedagogue.

This is what I was about to say. I've used it some drives and it worked 4 out of 5 times for drives that I had given up all hopes for.

These hit piece articles are all the same: very well contrived phrases that stops short of making definitive statements and overly rely on the reader making assumptions as a mean to avoid libel lawsuits.

Yeah, I always assume that I'm the one whose presence is at best a privilege. It takes a lot of effort to take my proper place and stand up for myself. I'll never forgive them for putting this curse inside of me. Now words got out of what they did to me and my sisters and they pretty much have to hide. They deserve everything bad happening to them.

I have two older sisters. They are way older than me, which means they left for college when I was very young (when I was bout 5 or 6). I don't think they went through the same stuff as me, but still lived through a lot of very fucked up shit. We live in the same city and are very close, we see each other for their kids birthday and all of that. I'm very lucky to have them.

I know why my mother had me years later, because when my father was angry he would yell at my mother "it's you who wanted another, so take care of him", but with more vicious insults. It turns out that when my mother had her first pregnancy, she was supposed to have a son but had a miscarriage in the toilet. I think this pretty much explains her using me to satisfy her emotional needs all the time; I literally was her emotional garbage can. Telling me how she feels like an ATM for the family, how she's lonely and not taken seriously by others; things that a husband have to deal with, not a child.

So anyway, my sisters began to extended family members about what happened in our house when they were young and also of what happened to me. Like me, it probably took them years to unshame themselves and flip the culpability unto the abusers. It created a scandal I think in the extended family, although always very hush hush, as is usual in small rural places.

My parents probably got a word of what my sisters told about them and then when my oldest sister got her first child, it was actually my parents who stopped talking to them. They never told me why they stopped talking to my sisters, but we figured it out. For some reason that enraged my father and forced my mother to stop talking to them but not to me. After a few years I got tired of seeing them trying to play nice and burning bridges after bridges with other family members and family friends, and I decided to cut them off. Although my sisters never made any kind of ultimatum, I could see how my parents were throwing a wrench between my and my sisters by only talking to me and not to them.

There are more details to this sordid story. It really could make for a full TV drama episode; these people love drama and being the victim. Don't fall for their game.

I would say that recovery started when I got out of the house for university. I picked a university that was at least 6 hours of driving away.

It was absolutely terrible and laborious; yet necessary. Being not socialized and not able to leave home alone for a very long time made me basically afraid of going outside the campus; I had to learn most life lessons people go through from childhood to early adulthood from scratch. People don't forgive you when you're an adult. Abusers love dependent children, even if they lament all the time that "you cost too much".

One of the things that's hard is separating the actual good parenting lessons from the abuse. From basic hygiene to on how to behave socially. Everything was laced in some kind of humiliation. "I told you this would happen, you think you're smarter than me haha!" kind of routine all the time.

I've never had therapy nor did I seek professional help. The bad experiences I've had with psychologists and other "professionals" that sided believed my parents by default were enough for me. This is not what I recommend, but I just can't let myself be vulnerable by the same kind of people again. It's like asking a severe burns victim to go through a firefighting course with live exercises. I have the chance of being smart and deeply introspective, but this is not perfect and very slow and fraught with painful mistakes. Just like most people should not represent themselves in a court of law, even if they're lawyers, I would not recommend doing that.

I mainly relied on the podcasts, shows and books from mental health professionals and also public forums, although I didn't really participate. Writing this stuff used to hurt a lot with a lot of flashbacks. Basically I did my own research, haha. Putting words to emotions and situations helps a lot, because abusers love twisting words, concepts and using logical fallacies to justify themselves. Also learning that I am not alone and that was happened to me was not right nor justified really helped a lot and was very validating.

I'm not done healing and probably never will be healed, but there is resilience and confidence that comes with successfully surmounting adversity.

They genuinely believe that everything is justified; even if they hide what they are doing from public view. "I do this because I care about you, other parents would have given up a long time ago". The hiding is also blamed on the child, claiming that he or she is the one that would destroy their reputation if words got out of what he or she did and what the extend of what the parents had to do to "remedy" the situation.

From my point of view, the government already has most of my most personal stuff due to my time to CPS and what my parents told them (and possibly made up).

Anyway I've handwritten it, I guess the rest is up to their security lol.

But yeah, that's terrifying if people that know me would have it; information is power after all.

Thank you for the kind words!

In my experience, and not only with that instance, power defers to power. An unruly child's pleadings will never prevail over his parents that are really good at making themselves appear as victims (http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-miss...). Or as famous lawyer Gerry Spence said, "the gentleman of the bar is there for the other gentleman of the bar".

Also, let's not deny it, I was not a nice and adults would not be nice in return and I would respond in kind. I was a reflection of what was going at home. This makes other adults not want to be nice at all. I can't count the times where I was told "oops, we forgot to bring one for you" or something along those lines.

It's always the deficiencies that are invisible that are the most vicious. You know that something is wrong with you but you can't tell what, why or what.

Canadian stuff ;)

Finally a subject my childhood makes me "expert" at!

People often say that I have a unsavory dark humor, but it's one of the best coping mechanism out there.

My earliest memory is my mother spreading food all over my face because I didn't want to finish my plate. I remember my eyes hurting because of the pepper in it.

My father threatened to shoot the family dog on a weekly basis to make me behave.

I could not leave the house alone until I was around 12, thus making me not socialized. To this day in my 30s I have a hard time forming friendship.

They also threatened me on a daily basis to "give me to CPS". Then they actually did it for two years. I wasn't a delinquent or violent mind you, and didn't do drugs.

They would often bring me in front of the school's psychologist and he would make me cry in front of them, always blaming me, never once asking me what was going on at home.

Once I applied for a job that required a high security clearance. I had to write "all the traumas of your childhood and your adolescence". I filled two pages, one trauma per line, and I just told them that I couldn't be exhaustive because of the sheer quantity.

But I think I can stop here, you get the point.

One of the main thing is the inability of standing up for myself. By default and unless proven otherwise, I'm already convinced that if something bad happens then this is my fault. If someone accuses me of something bogus, I just accept the accusation and apologize. This got me in real deep trouble more than once; fortunately not as an adult.

Also not being able to say "no" and being of hurting people feelings to the point of absurdity.

I could do an AMA in this thread if someone's interested lol

I wouldn't let kids alone in Chicago of all places

This is not reactionary. This is what happens when you put talk on the butt of a baby girl each day until she's diaper free. If the quantity is detectable then it's far greater than the Avogadro number. These are physical needles that stay there over the years. How do you even study that?The safety studies have been done or financed by the same groups of companies that are getting sued. Chronic diseases are up in America since the rise of chemical industries in America.

> Overall energy usage is increasing, outpacing % growth of renewables.

This is why I pointed out per capita emissions. If renewables had a bigger proportion, then it would decrease. It didn't. In fact it accelerated.