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This is what Bloom filters would solve. I believe another poster said that Firefox uses them to quickly check valid certs.

This is what I've been telling people as well. We're not the country that can deal with adversity anymore.

During WW2, people sacrificed steel so that industry could produce the weapons we needed. Now, there's a rush on toilet paper, for little discernable rational reason.

Distrust of science is increasing, and rationality decreasing. Soon, we'll have anti vaxxers marching against any covid vaccine, crippling our pathway out of the current mess. Memes and sound bites dictate public discourse, no one is reading anything.

The most concerning trend is the de-emphasizing of the importance of college for today's youth. Yes college is not for everyone, but to actively campaign against it is going to be a destabilizing force against the US' technical and engineering prowess in very short order.

The trends seem more and more clear by the year, and I don't see it slowing.

I love the naming. The milk industry has been trying to keep soy (and other) milk producers from using "milk" in their name, arguing it confuses consumers, and that "milk" = cows. Such FUD nonsense. I'd love to see them try this argument with "NotMilk"

I've been trying this, and let me tell you, the user experience is absolutely terrible.

The Play store and what it gives you is incredibly hard to live without, unless you really just want to use your phone for texting, browsing, and calling. If you're a minimalist, then great. If you're accustomed to what a smartphone can do, not so great.

The alternative app stores are full of unimpressive, small scale apps. Dozens of calculators and little games, but no maps apps (of worth), no yelps, no IMDb (which I use often), no Sheets or Photos, the list is huge. I'm sorry but these apps make a smartphone worthwhile.

To avoid such a spartan experience, I ended up just installing microG (an open source replacement for Google's Play Services) and Aurora (a replacement Play store client, which allows me to install most apps from the Play store).

The problem is that most modern apps require a mammoth cloud backend, which costs big money to run, which means you're going to need a huge company running it. You'll never find big scale apps like this on F-droid.

if facebook gave this post a score of -infinity, such that it is literally never recommended to anyone, doesn't show up on feeds, and you can only find it by typing in the URL, that would be fine with you?

If my boss said "we need to finish this or I'm going to put heads on a pike, one on this corner of the office and one on that corner" I think there would be repercussions, but keep making your false equivalence.

I keep the halves almost shoulder width apart (the connecting cable is almost maxed out). I also have the halves tented. I think it's a much more ergonomic position that way, vs forearms pointing in.

As for moving it, I don't move the keyboard that often, and even if so, the halves can lock together.

I wouldn't be surprised if most documentaries are similarly inaccurate. The filmmakers want to tell a story, and good stories are never completely neutral retellings.

Lance Armstrong

> This article was amended on 28 October 2020 to correct the spelling of Bulbasaur.

The guy who hacked around the boot logo check with an FPGA was also a great watch:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ix5yZm4fwFQ

This is ridiculous. Python won scripting because it offers a sane way to do sequential, shell-ish things, without having to wade through "man bash" or searching stack overflow for the umpteenth time about the syntax to do something that should be trivial but is anything but.

Saying that younger devs only know python is like a FORTRAN engineer in the 90s saying young devs only know java. No one needs to apologize for growing up learning better mature readable shit.

The number of gotchas and tricky nonsense in bash could (and probably does) fill books (array indexing, string comparison, quoting, toggling 'set -e', many more). I don't doubt that there are clever grey beards that are wizards that know the arcana. That doesn't mean arcane should be what you build an engineering culture around.

None. That's the problem. We've reached a point where the very engine of humanity's growth, capitalism, has revealed a huge vulnerability in its design.

I think no one is thinking past "but I'm more productive!", that's including employers and employees.

Productivity is not the be-all end-all of a career! Human interaction (of any kind) is important, "wasting" time going to lunch with colleagues is important, serendipitous encounters at the coffee machine are important.

I know for certain if my employer decides to go permanent remote, I'll be looking for another employer. This is not the way I want to live and work.

This is a company doing this, not the government.

By the way, companies _can_ take the easy road and allow absolutely everything. _Nobody_ wants to use such a service though. Visit reddit clone Voat, and see if you want to revisit it again.

I've known plenty of software engineers that don't carry their weight. Some of the big techs make it very easy to do the bare minimum, if that's all you want to do. You don't need a union to have slackers.

Now everyone that's ever said "I would pay for an ad free experience" can get what they want.... and come up with another reason to be unsatisfied.

Hg's developer ergonomics are just way nicer than git. I tried the hg-git bridge at my current job, but the bridge becomes unusably slow for large git repos.

I was quite shocked to see just how snappy and clean medium is with javascript turned off, via uBlock. Reminded me of the old web. No noticeable functionality loss, other than the auto highlight popup stuff, which is not missed.

What happens if you are fine with those parameters, you build a business on iOS, and then apple decides that it wants to be in your business, so it makes their own competing app default and non removable? Then it adds hardware functionality to help its own software, but locks the hardware from you, so your business suffers? This is exactly the Tile example on the linked page.

If that happened to your business, would you say "well we always knew they are a closed system, time to pack up and go home"?

> I wish I could go back in time to when I didn't need to tense up before opening up the news each day.

This really hits home. These four years have been such a depressing time for just reading the news. Every day it seems the US is edging closer and closer to.... I don't even know what. With half the country happily marching to the drumbeats. It's amazing just how fragile our systems were.

I've been wondering if it's just mentally more healthy to go the ignorance is bliss route. I know so many people who don't even register these kinds of events, and they seem happier.

Slow or not, it becomes cryptic to write Sconsfiles with any complexity, and it's impossible to debug.

Polished presentation! I like to learn from first principles, so this is perfect.

There is also write you a git: https://wyag.thb.lt/

Also, wouldn't sitting in the back row of this feel like a roller coaster during turns?

What a story. It's hard to believe that actually happened. It's also sad to see the changes in the world since that awful time.

I know next to nothing of ethereum or how it works, so the whole thing read like a cyberpunk caper that I couldn't put down. I imagine the author on his Ono-Sendai deck.

It's far too late in the game to let the Sierra Clubs and the NIMBYs block nuclear power. It will take immense work to overcome the stigmas associated with nuclear power plants, however. With today's hyper-conspiracy minded discourse, it's going to be an uphill battle to convince people of safety, without getting drowned out by kooks.

I thought Play Services was designed to house more and more of the OS, so that Google could get back some control over updates, instead of letting device manufacturers never update their Android versions.