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Kind of, I think. I don't think it is directly related to the WSJ article, but it has to do with the general issue around the perception of texting on an iOS device as a superior experience to texting on an Android device. Google has been trying to get the phone networks to standardize on RCS for years, as a replacement protocol for SMS, and to add some similar features familiar to users of iMessage like typing indicators.

Great thought, but I think the author has made a careless mistake. Most people "deplatformed" are being ejected from massive propaganda machine like Fox News or Spotify for being sex offenders and criminals, not for issues of "freedom of speech."

I wouldn't equate the two.

Failure to plan is planning to fail

> What people call OOP is OOP

That's silly and not how definitions work.

definition noun def· i· ni· tion | \ ˌde-fə-ˈni-shən

an explanation of the meaning of a word, phrase, etc. : a statement that defines a word, phrase, etc.

In other words: words or phrases have actual meanings, regardless of what people call them.

To give you an example, people use "their" instead of "they're" all the time. It doesn't mean that "their" means "they're".

> That is often given as an excuse for this common experience, but it is not really intended. Top schools are assessed on their graduation rates. It is part of the rankings they are obsessed with. It serves no one--students or schools--for students to be weeded out in these intro courses.

Unless I misunderstand what you're saying here, it really is intended. "Top schools are assessed on their graduation rates" so if they don't admit students that will not graduate from the major into the major in the first place, they improve their graduation rates. Therefore, it does serve the school. And it probably serves the student too, since they only spend a quarter or two getting weeded out, rather than a few years and then hit a dead end.

That's because what people call OOP isn't OOP.

> “I invented the term object oriented, and I can tell you that C++ wasn't what I had in mind.” —Alan Kay.

Read here for more info: http://xahlee.info/comp/Alan_Kay_on_object_oriented_programi...

Ok but I found that 2FA even was a hoax since IMAP connection could still be established completely outside it. Any idea if you can still IMAP an email even if 2 yubikeys may be required to log in online?

That's really short-sighted. I live in an area where a copper smelter released toxic metals into the air over the region, contaminating the soil. One of the mitigations is to have shoeless homes to protect children and pets from arsenic and lead that is tracked in on shoes.

But sure go ahead and walk in my house with your shoes on. I'm sure you know best.

Betteridge's Law of Headlines says: "No."

I don't really get the terminology of "backend" and "frontend" languages. To me, JavaScript is just a dialect of C anyway and the browser is just an OS. It doesn't make any sense to specify any particular usage except to acknowledge that for frontend development, JavaScript is the most popular choice. And so what? Most frameworks (like Angular) are heavily-based in patterns that came from other languages.

Do you use the Gmail account for everything (bills, user accounts, personal correspondence, etc.)? That can determine how difficult and time-consuming it will be.

I've been reorganizing my email usage the past few years. I first adopted a ProtonMail email for all accounts related to financial data. That just involved going to each bank, credit card, loan, etc. and following the update email address process for each. It doesn't take too long.

More recently, I moved everything else from Outlook.com to an email address using my own custom domain. I set Outlook.com to forward/redirect all email to the new address and then made a filter/rule on the custom domain email address to drop all mail addressed into a folder. As mail comes into this folder, I take whatever action is necessary to either update the sender that my email address has changed, or stop receiving email from that sender by unsubscribing or whatever.

> I now am exclusively netflix dvds and love it.

Thanks for mentioning this! I actually had no idea that there was still the option for DVDs. Looks like a good service, actually! I may become an exclusively netflix DVDs subscriber!

One data point from the study itself is that "Across the entire period, suspended students were roughly 45% Black and 40% Latinx; White students comprised less than 10% of suspended students."

Basically: most teachers are white. Most students are white. The vast majority of suspended students are black and Latinx.

Maybe this answers the question?

https://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai21-475

Wasn’t the point of HAL to warn humans to think about potential unintended consequences of AI and avoid them?

I won't hold my breath. Still waiting for that IPv6 adoption and look where that's got me. ;)

In a chip shortage no less!

Check out the Darknet Diaries podcast if you don't already. There are some episodes that reveal how top hackers were taken down by the FBI. It's the randomest stuff you would never expect too, usually not related to tech stack.

I think the author makes some good points. I've been a customer of Netflix way back when it was DVDs-in-envelopes and that was awesome because you could get just about any new movie as soon as it was released. The current Netflix is irritating by comparison. I can hardly find anything to watch, especially the stuff I search for. Instead, I'm railroaded into things Netflix created instead, by the algorithm that suggests similar alternatives, all of which feel like cheap knock-offs. I want to watch Star Wars. I want to watch Back to the Future. I want to watch Donnie Darko. And not just when Netflix happens to have them on the catalog.

Darn, I found the article quite underwhelming. It may be a major breakthrough relative to past accomplishments in the field but it’s far from commercial viability.

The research into anxiety rates covered all fields though.

The article seems flawed from its premise, which is that because there's X% (41 I guess) rate of moderate to severe anxiety in students attending grad school, grad school must be the cause.

Classic case of correlation =/= causation.

Besides, the cited research also says this: "Although this is a convenience sample in which respondents who have had a history of anxiety or depression may have been more apt to respond to the survey..."

I assume you mean in situations where a meeting wouldn't be necessary?

IME the opposite problem of trying to use a long email thread for things that are better discussed in a quick meeting is usually what I see people doing, far more often than the reverse.

Ah! Got it

One important thing to keep in mind about the "10x engineer" is that it is a largely manufactured concept that originates with Steve McConnell, the author of Code Complete. He read a study from the 1960s that showed productivity variations between programmers and concluded that there was a 10x productivity difference "between the best and worst engineer."

Since popularizing the concept by naming his consulting company's blog "10x" (which he no longer does) he has had to defend this over and over again because there actually is only flimsy research (at best) to support the idea. For example, McConnell admits that the study he based the idea in "found no relationship between a programmer’s amount of experience and code quality or productivity." (See https://www.construx.com/blog/productivity-variations-among-...).

The book "Leprechauns of Silicon Valley" (https://leanpub.com/leprechauns) further undermines the idea.

Options:

1. Make your own according to your own needs (what I do). 2. Copy one of the other comments here. 3. Something yet more structured like https://johnnydecimal.com/

Don't forget about symlinks. They can be helpful

I turn 42 this year. My feeling is that there’s always something you haven’t tried. Over the years, I’ve changed careers, failed to change careers, went back for a masters degree, tried totally unrelated hobbies, and more. I’ve done community radio, had writing published, played in bands on the radio, started blogs and apps, and more. If it’s getting stale, look for a change of context, maybe even move cities. But often you can just follow your interest into something new. Works for me at least

Is laminating faster than making a copy? I woulda thought the opposite

No nah nope. You don’t need an app for this. You need the classic hierarchical file system and good folder and file names. I put it all in a VeraCrypt volume so it’s secure if the device is lost or stolen.

I’ve been combining one monitor in portrait mode alongside one monitor in landscape mode for about a year. It’s a great setup for software developers. I often open code and logs on the portrait monitor. Everything else on the one in landscape. With Rectangles.app I can place two separate applications on either monitor with a key combination. I place one window in the vertical top half and one in the vertical bottom half on my portrait monitor, for example. Or one window in the horizontal left half and one in the right half on the landscape monitor. There’s lots of possibilities and great flexibility. I’d recommend it.

> Otherwise, malicious people can sign up arbitrary third parties for tons of random crap.

In the early days of the internet I was a teenager in a prank war with someone so I signed them up for all kinds of spam and also free trial magazine subscriptions.