mhurron

> Yet another example of how government research drives modern innovation

As the article starts, that's not how Cisco, and by extension a lot of Cisco employees, tell it. To a whole lot of people, Trump is just clearing out lazy hangers on who are preventing real innovation.

Cisco's story is two people working alone in their garage creating IP routing.

A lot of these are not there to breach your data, they're there to make money and fund the DRPK.

That's why there's no one industry or types of businesses being targeted, it's anywhere they can get hired. If your a high profile target, that's a bonus not the original goal.

I think that's actually going to be more of an age thing as well. The converter wasn't just the remote, but the little box, separate from the TV, needed to convert signals for an older TV.

Basically, the 'cable box' or the 'satalite box.'

But ya, 45 years old, grew up in Toronto and Southern Alberta and it was a converter, until it wasn't.

Some people have real problems with change.

If you've been anywhere around linux gaming circles for the past 6-8ish months, you've seen nothing but people not understanding the benchmarks hype NTSYNC. Everyone trying to set appropriate expectations is pretty quickly silenced in whatever manner the platform allows (downvote, etc)

Modern? Everything has been 'new and improved' since the 60's

XRDP? Only real problem I know of there is it doesn't support Wayland.

It's been well over 30 years since I've been there but I always enjoyed going there in the summer, along with the ROM and Planetarium. I'm actually pretty sad to hear this.

At the moment it appears that way, but that is still the wrong action. An unconfigured field is not a disabled function and there is no way in iTerm to disable the functionality. Also, the 'prompt to use OpenAI' is not OpenAI specific, it is a new button in a previous function that you could use in earlier versions for completely non-openai purposes. There isn't a OpenAI specific prompt area.

If you leave the field empty (open to accident) and you don't press this button in this function that you may use for other things (open to accident) it doesn't send data where you didn't expect it to. This is functionally equivalent to you can accidentally send data you didn't mean to. This is simply prevented with a real toggle to disable the function.

I don't know about you, but I have clicked on things I didn't mean to because I lost where the mouse is, or because I'm giving a window focus again, it is not an accident that doesn't happen.

Except that it can be. As was pointed out in the original issue to remove it, the feature is not disabled, it is unconfigured. Put anything in the box for the OpenAI key, valid or not, and the functionality to send data to OpenAI is active. Accidentally put a [space] in that box and it looks like there is nothing there, but it's doing things you didn't expect.

That was the wrong way to do it. The feature should have been disabled with an actual, clear toggle that shows that it is. This blew up in the developers face for a good reason.

There are limits to that and the Government keeps attempting to increase the limits of the 5th amendment in regards to electronic documents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

Above is another article on the same case.

LucasArts made some great games, but had they really done anything near the end that wasn't just another Star Wars game using someone else's engine?

Yes, it's apparently shocking that even internet companies work in exactly the same capitalistic manner as pre-internet companies.

The problem with that is why should those kids that can behave themselves (which used to not just be 'rich kids') be penalized by being stuck in an environment that has to slow down because half the class didn't hear the teacher the first four times because they choose not to pay attention.

In high school, I just stopped showing up. Classes were going too slow for me and didn't hold my attention. I'm not super intelligent but I do like learning and am fully capable of sitting down and focusing.

One size fits all doesn't work anywhere else, why do we expect it to work with educating children that have nothing in common except their age?

Yes it is.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOHbM4GGWADc5bZgvbivv...

As did the True Facts episode about the mantis shrimp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJM

That helps those without an income how exactly?

Syntax differences between pf and ipchains/iptables are why I chose OpenBSD on my firewall so many years ago.

Any word you try to create for the same thing would be as well because it would be the new word for it.

Also, there is Depression (condition) and Depression (colloquial usage) that's the way language works. The problem is not that the word is used, but that people believe the colloquial usage is the medical usage. They believe that when they feel depressed (colloquial) they just eat a cake or do something they like to get over it so why can't you when you're depressed (actual medical depression).

> We need another word for what is described above. Most people understand ordinary depression, because most people feel down sometimes

No we don't, it's called depression.

What we need is people to realize that depression is not 'people feel down sometimes.' That is feeling down. Depression is not something that you just work through, it is an actual, real thing going on in your brain.

But hell, most people act like armchair psychologists so ya, lets create another term that they'll also misuse.

> three hours downloading 5MB files over dial-up in the late 90s

Ah Napster.

That is not the purpose of the form.

Also -

"Have you received public assistance in the United States from any source, including the U.S. Government or any State, county, city, or municipality (other than emergency medical treatment), or are you likely to receive public assistance in the future?"

I was unaware that that was a problem in the US. It also asks about things that are legal in other countries and you are penalized if you answer honestly.

That's the one. That's good for a laugh.

Green card application includes a form that has that and more. Are you a communist, have you been convicted of genocide, have you ever used a prostitute ...

I really wish I had taken a picture of that form, the majority of questions were idiotic.

Doubtful since the Flyers started as a franchise in 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Flyers#Colors.2C_...

It was the result of a naming contest.

Pills packaging powdered remains of fruits sell very well, I'm sure people will be fine.

This is sort of the reason we invented pills.

Yep, eating a balanced, calorie reduced diet for a period of time will let you lose weight in a healthy manner - assuming no other issues. Thankfully, most people don't have issues beyond being overweight so loosing weight for most people is just stop eating so much.

Calories in, calories out is indeed how it works, but people also need to realize that your body is not a static machine, it reacts to its environment. Restrict caloric intake too much and you hit a point where your body enters a 'starvation mode,' it holds back on as much work as it can and holds everything it doesn't use. If you have problems absorbing foods due to problems with your GI tract, you might find that you don't need to restrict too much before that happens because you weren't getting all the calories you thought you were before.

Of course, reducing calories will cause your body to change some of what it does even if you have no other issues, so for maximum benefit, you should pair it with exercise.

I've also restricted myself to 1500 calories a day for the past month or so and have lost about 10 lbs so far and am on track to lose a similar amount in a similar time as yourself. My wife did the same thing at the same time, it's not going anywhere near as smooth for her, but she has GI issues.

Stop bringing logic and data into this discussion.

But they don't look like the places cool startups do cool startup things and the company wants to foster a cool startup feel so that everyone acts like it's a cool startup and starts doing cool startup things and attracting all that cool startup talent so that all that cool startup money starts flowing in and cool startup vibe permeates the office.

/cool startup.