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adriveatrainon Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the polygraph

The show (Jeremy kyle) was taken off air because someone who failed the polygraph committed suicide.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/13/jeremy-kyle-take...

adriveatrainon Deep learning may need a new programming language

You can use any indexing scheme you like now.

Arrays can start at [-100] if you feel like it.

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/offset-arrays/

adriveatrainon The shady economics of ‘buy one, get one free’ deals

It does undermine the value logistics / delivery companies provide to the customers.

An industry that works on 3% margins already.

adriveatrainon Air Force 'rods from god' kinetic weapon could hit with nuclear-weapon force

Are you sure it's not because they are the obvious things?

adriveatrainon U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166B

> making community college and trade school level degrees free

that's a tax on the non-attendees, why should they pay for your education when it significantly raises your earning potential?

adriveatrainon DIY Spot Welder [video]

A screwdriver

A pillar drill

A MIG Welder + Mask

A chop saw + cutting disc

A pipe bender

Some spray

You must have really expensive tool shops round your way

adriveatrainon Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (2004)

Plan9 has multiple native web browsers, Mothra, Abaco & Charon. You could run Opera in Linux emulation mode and also use VNC to another machine.

Did you see the part where I was a website devops for 10 years using Plan9?

adriveatrainon Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (2004)

Plan9 was far superior as a developer's system. It's text based tools are the best, bar none. But really it owes that to Project Oberon.

"Everything is a file" as an abstraction enables you to build really powerful through composition. e.g. running TCP/IP over a serial connection just by mounting files in certain places.

Your end user program doesn't need to know anything about networking, it just reads from files.

this is an irc bot written in shell script

http://proweb.co.uk/~matt/chugly.rc

It's not perfect, of course, it had problems with throughput - we were forever discussing at conferences how to improve the protocol to implement streaming.

I describe it as a racing car, not everyone can drive it, you need to work to keep it going, you might kill yourself but when you're out front, it feels amazing.

adriveatrainon Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (2004)

It's not Plan9's improvement. It was never designed that way. It's a stand alone product. It has nowhere near the richness of Plan9.

Source: I worked as an Inferno developer.

adriveatrainon Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (2004)

the internet is not the web

yep, IRC, if I was at the computer I had a window with FreeNode and QuakeNET.

And a condescending Plan9 user, "Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad", as we say.

adriveatrainon Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (2004)

yes, and I was a website devops during that time.

that's my desktop in wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)

adriveatrainon Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (2004)

I found during my ten years in Plan9 it was the most usable OS I have experienced in my 35 years of computing. My only problem with it is every other platform is now ruined because I gnash my teeth and say "would have been easy in Plan9".

adriveatrainon A proof that Unix utility sed is Turing complete

Word is a set of COM objects, you can run it server side without the UI.

adriveatrainon Scientists call for ban on lethal, autonomous robots

Why is "scientists" the name of the group?

That seems to be an appeal to authority. This group is making an ethical argument, not a scientific one.

Which probably why without “supervision or meaningful human control” is their criteria.

Is a security guard with 20 camera controlled turrets using facial recognition to choose targets "supervised" ?

adriveatrainon Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content, UK government report

Read the actual report.

CNBC's version is an example of what some people call "Fake News"

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

adriveatrainon Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tightens Grip

There is also an estimate of 50 million dead as a result of starvation as a consequence of the colonial invasions of China in the late 19th C

See Mike Davis' Late Victorian Holocausts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Victorian_Holocausts

adriveatrainon Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds

Suggesting people tweet "learn to code" at journalists wasn't specifically targeting Ben Popken

adriveatrainon 38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types

implementations are not languages

adriveatrainon Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds

What would you call this highly publicised and still present Tweet from CNN presenter, Kathy Griffin, I wonder [1]

> Name these kids. I want NAMES. Shame them. If you think these fuckers wouldn’t dox you in a heartbeat, think again.

[1] https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1086927762634399744

adriveatrainon Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds

And he got 1 response.

Not very effective.

adriveatrainon Reddit's user uprising against China because Tencent will invest in the platform

Do you know why f spez was happening at the time?

and on the drama end of things

> former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao weighed in on the thread with her own criticisms of the current CEO. "I would have immediately fired anyone who did [what Huffman did]," Pao wrote.

adriveatrainon Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds

Who was co-ordinating the tweeting of "Learn to code" at Ben Popken?

Perhaps I can put it another way

"I don’t believe that we can afford to take a neutral stance anymore. I don’t believe that we should optimize for neutrality." - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Feb 5 2019

adriveatrainon Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds

They didn't extend such protections to schoolchild Nick Sandmann

"#MAGAkids go screaming, hats first, into the woodchipper"

adriveatrainon Jeff Bezos: Amazon Boss Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

I'm not justifying extortion, just reminding people of Bezos hypocritical statements.

He was piling pain into Theil but now the shoe is on the other foot his tough talk has a different tune.

He should have supported Peter / Hogan against the "everything you do in private is in the public interest" mentality. Especially when he owns a newspaper and a media network!

adriveatrainon Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

Gordon Comstock - George Orwell's protagonist in Keep the Aspidistra Flying

adriveatrainon Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds

Some of Twitter's users are more equal than others when it comes to bans. I don't think they are concerned about blowback from false positives from spam accounts.

e.g.

"Learn to code" was tweeted at me by a sketchy account. I reported it as abusive behavior as part of targeted harassment. Twitter suspended the account within 20 minutes.

Journalists if they tweet "learn to code" at you don't stay silent, take a moment to report it. https://t.co/RXgqqV2ptw

— Ben Popken (@bpopken) February 1, 2019

adriveatrainon Jeff Bezos: Amazon Boss Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

> I’m very willing to let any of my body parts go through a big fat wringer if need be.

If you're willing, how can you be extorted?

adriveatrainon Jeff Bezos: Amazon Boss Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

Will Bezos eat his own 2016 words to Peter Theil re Gawker:

https://archive.is/Q6f09

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has spoken out against Peter Thiel and in defense of Gawker, telling a Los Angeles audience: “Beautiful speech doesn’t need protection. Ugly speech needs protection. That’s where the rubber’s gonna meet the road.”

In reference to Peter Thiel’s recent efforts to punish critical reporters in court, he said: “Seek revenge and you should dig two graves, one for yourself.

“Is that really how you want to spend your time? As a public figure the best defense to speech that you don’t like is to develop a thick skin.”

“I’m very willing to let any of my body parts go through a big fat wringer if need be,” Bezos said.