optimuspaul

> Big Sur is a Big Disaster

I may be naive but that seems like hyperbole. I updated to Big Sur shortly after is was released. It was a little bumpy here and there, but not more than any other update. I'd even argue it has been as smooth or smoother than any of my Linux major upgrades in the past 20 years.

was this comment written in the past? social media is already controlled, exploited, and mastered by corrupt businessmen and politicians.

I was going to complain about them because there are a few fonts there I like a lot, but not the ligatures. Wasn't sure if it was = or == or === in the samples.

I was going to pop in to say that. also going to add that I hate implicit things like this. messes with my brain, how hard is it to just add the return keyword? saving a few keystrokes hardly seems worth the increased cognitive cost to others.

"give up their privacy" that's a funny phrase because it assumes that privacy was a thing they had in the first place.

I am in favor of privacy but I'm not under the delusion that it is something I have ever really had.

COL?

Downloading my own videos doesn't require something like YouTube-DL. Offline personal use of others videos does make sense.

Interesting. I'd not heard of MPV, def going to check that out. Video playback is something I deal with everyday.

I had not considered that. I should also note that I rarely look at videos on YouTube so I am not really aware of the scope of that is there.

am I the only one that doesn't support YouTube-dl? Are there use cases for it that are not downloading content that is not your own?

But the people negatively affected are few compared to those positively affected.

note: I don't actually buy into this idea that these so called positives are worth the cost. I believe we would be better off and happier if we still had the small businesses that were displaced.

esp8266 does not have bluetooth, the esp32 does and that is what makes it more more interesting.

I feel like maybe we are saying the same thing but using different words.

wrong. I have trained plenty of unsupervised models where the inferred results are purely for human consumption. In fact I believe unsupervised models more often require a human to analyze the results.

6 hours on site for engineering interview is nuts.

Absolutely. The current state of AI/ML practically requires a human to interpret the results. Even a recommender system is just collecting and analyzing data for humans to consume in some way. And that system needs to be maintained and retrained regularly to produce meaningful results.

> Alternatively, if ESB-fans started framing ESB-haters with child abuse imagery, then obviously that's a problem for the cops rather than the moderation list verifiers.

Also a problem with ESB fans.

Note: I came here because I assumed this was about the ancestor simulation we are all living in, I'm a bit disappointed.

essential for it to gain users but by no means a technical requirement.

Besides getting actual privacy with cryptocurrency requires jumping through a lot of hoops, covering a lot of tracks, and trusting a lot of people. I think privacy is the killer feature that we will never actually have.

edit: you are of course right and I am splitting hairs, but I do think real privacy is impossible.

At some level probably a meaningful distention, like you wouldn't decide to create a neural network in HTML alone. But from a high level HTML is a language used in programming, generally with other languages to create distributed multi-platform computer programs.

My point is let's stop being so pedantic in the soft spaces. This isn't a discussion about "should I use HTML to write my kernel?"

> In most non-technical discussions like this, it's only serving the purpose of gatekeeping, as if people who work with HTML or CSS are not really programmers. That's nonsense and should be rejected.

that is my real point

it the text contains a program then it could be

it certainly can be... https://owasp.org/www-pdf-archive/Marshaller_Deserialization...

Wait, I thought the foundation of cryptocurrency was about trust not privacy.

Of course it is, it is a collection of instructions that can be executed by a computer to perform a specific task. In this case the task is to display some data on a screen in a specific way. We need to stop arguing that HTML is not a programming language, it's silly and serves no purpose.

Exactly. A public facing ip for a server, especially a database, is just a bad idea. You need something a bit more hardened to route the traffic. And a publicly accessible database is just asking for trouble.

I don't pay for twitter, I don't have any reasonable expectations for a SLA regarding anything including DMs. Just like I have no responsibility to listen to people on soapboxes on street corners, and soap companies have no responsibility to provide soapboxes to anyone to shout from.

Why would you have a database running on a machine with a public ip?

MPW was my favorite environment to work it. It was like as editor and a CLI all in one. I wasn't going C or Pascal with it, just using it to manipulate files and the like. I have long wanted to write a terminal that emulated some of it's intuitive behaviors.

Indeed. I was in a position to make that choice a few years back and decided to go non-profit/ed-tech and have been so happy ever since.

seriously?! I just bought one now after putting it off for years