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I don't have familial wealth and I can study for stuff. I happen to spend around an hour a day (most days) studying programming-related topics.
I'm sick of this woke nonsense pervading society.
Studying for a Leetcode exam has sweet-fuck-all to do with race!
I read that to mean that the tests are geared towards white candidates! Is that really what you mean? Coz I can't wrap my head around that!
https://fullfact.org/health/dr-hilary-lorraine-kelly-90-perc...
I was linking to UK Government data here [0] and asking about the numbers.
They're not adding up. I want to know if my interpretation is correct
[0] - https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
Don't get me wrong, I've read about Rust and it's capabilities vs things like C++ and yes, I can see benefits. That's not what I mean.
It's in 10 years when we clone a repo on Github and it pulls down 2000 dependencies: will they all still work?
Everything nowadays seems to require massive dependencies!
I know we've long used libraries for different bits of functionality rather than reinventing the wheel but it just seems like we're giving up masses of control/agility for convenience that may kick the shit out of us later!
Just a thought...
It has been shown time and again that the covid jag does not prevent infection/re-infection/transmission so your talk of eradication smacks of propaganda, not science.
I have no evidence to say that the vaccine is physically harmful to me, personally, but there are plenty of stories on the web where people in the prime of their health, have been struck down with something after taking it.
However, there is plenty of evidence to say that covid itself is not harmful at all... look at the stats - literally no one is dying!
These jags are also brand new: they're a few years old so there is ZERO data on long-term risks. None! For all we know, in a few years people may start dropping dead with heart conditions.
Now, if covid was as life-threatening to the majority of people as it is being marketed as, then I can potentially see a case where people should get it but the figures do not lie: almost no one is dying from covid.
Remember, this covid jag is a treatment for something that it's unlikely you will succumb to. So, should you get every vaccine going just in case?
Additionally, the gov wants you to keep taking it, over and over again! That will increase your long-term risk (again, zero data on the long-term effects!).
Plus, by giving in and taking it each time you're told, what kind of world are you leaving your children? They're going to have to get a medical procedure to go to the pub ffs!
So, in answer to your question about whether it's harmful... we don't know and the thing is do you really want to risk your health and that of your children for something that has almost zero chance of affecting you?
Edit: Forgot to say, the point of these jags (despite them incorrectly being called vaccines) is only to make you feel better when you catch it. Make no mistake, they DO NOT prevent infection, DO NOT prevent re-infection, DO NOT prevent spreading... so what the hell are they for? I believe that the newest strain that was discovered in South Africa was in someone with the covid jag...
I don't do personal attacks but in your case I'll make an exception: you are a fucking psychopath if you think it's ok to tell people to get a jag for something that is killing literally no one right now!
We're at around 100 deaths per day right now in the UK [0] and those stats don't actually tell you if they died FROM covid or merely had covid 28 days earlier when they died (massive difference!)... completely hides the real data.
In addition, there are on average 450 deaths per day from cancer [1] so where is the big gov. push to eradicate that?
Here are the overall death stats in the UK [2]. COVID is a tiny fraction of it.
[0] - https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths?areaType=over... [1] - https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-... [2] - https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
What could be more effective for your enemy than taking out all your power stations and plunging your country into total darkness and chaos? Everything would run out in short order and people would turn on each other.
Saves having to mess the place up with bombs and you have plausible deniability within the international community.
No matter what I tried I could not get the code to compile.
I still laugh about it now but it definitely highlights the importance of sleep.
For example, money problems, dangerous job, working in toxic environments etc.
I reckon we don't put enough "science" into working out the life-extending properties of a non-toxic job and a health bank balance.
FWIW I was diagnosed in September as having stable angina. I eat really healthy, don't smoke or drink, no family history of heart issues, and all my blood work was great. However, I have been under immense stress for the last two years to the point of sleepless nights etc (won't go into the details).
I am convinced it's stress that did it!
Edit: I'm fixed now btw :)
Or by pedestrians!
My brother curses the number of pedestrians in Glasgow that cross the road while looking at their phones... they're by far his biggest hazard.
Meta seems like there was a wall of post-it notes in Zuck's office with a bunch of ideas to stop FB from becoming MySpace and the dart he threw landed on this one.
My gut tells me that Meta is dead in the water but with the billions that FB have in their war chest I wouldn't bet against it completely, however, the fact it requires a headset, a massive source of friction, will restrict the audience.
I dunno... seems like Zuck is living in a fantasy world here.
It does: Try creating a a local account on the Home version! You can't. You must create a Microsoft account which ties you Microsoft. You may not be physically handing over $ but you are using their ecosystem. Your actions are now recorded, categorized, analysed and then M$ make more money from them.
There is no way in hell they will give you an OS for $0 unless there is a way to make money from you. None.
Look, I'm not being cynical or negative about it! I'm just putting it in perspective. If people wanna do it then go for it. It's not for me.
This isn't just a Microsoft thing, companies that give you something for nothing are making money from you somehow! Or else they won't be around long.
Let's be honest here though: those could easily have been added to Windows 10 as they will be on the same kernel... they added them to Windows 11 so that people would buy the new shiny!
I'm not saying it's wrong, companies need to get new money in to keep going, but those features hardly merited a "new" OS :)
Corporate security has been fine for years: TPM 1.2 (if I remember the versions correctly) alongside bitlocker and sensible corporate policies render computers all but impervious to everything. However, this implies a competent IT division in your company... I've worked in plenty without them!
Social engineering or clicking a dodgy link/download is probably a bigger threat than someone hacking your computer and that can be mitigated to a huge extent by restricting access to only the things that the user needs, locking down apps, running with low privileges, auditing relevant things etc... again, competent IT division needed for this too.
Now, if your threat matrix includes nation-states then one could argue that any device is hackable.
My take is that hardware vendors saw the writing on the wall with the pandemic-buying about to ease-up and worked with Microsoft (or pressured them...) to help out. We're already seeing Chromebooks on the wane[0].
From my perspective (long-time Windows guy now on Fedora) I see nothing of value in Windows 11 that 10 didn't have already.
Edit: Forgot the answer I was gonna write :)
[0] - https://chromeunboxed.com/canalys-report-chromebook-sales-do...
Where are the keys?
If they are on your servers then this is dead in the water. If they are in a secure vault on my device then that's a different matter.
It wasn't 100% accurate as a couple of things changed but it was definitely close enough to be applicable.
In 2013 I was paying out 13% more for roughly the same stuff yet the official government figure was was less than 3% per annum.
So my own inflation in that two year period was twice what the government said it should be.
In short, it doesn't surprise me that they're talking shit about inflation! High inflation won't win you an election.
I haven't checked 2021 vs 2019/2020 yet but I will in January 2022... although, I may not want to :(
My take?
It's going to be another method for FB (and other "carefully curated partners") to assault your eyeballs with advertising so they can make bank.
The end.
I don't see it like that. If they did become the town square, it's one where people must only say certain things that are part of the official narrative [0] or where people post things to an authoritative figure who reads out the stuff that he's approved using rules that he won't disclose.
[0] - whatever that actually means...
On another note, as I was scrolling down the page, it got laggier and slower and I'm browsing from an i9 10900K with all the trimmings... odd.
Traditionally it was used to enhance HTML pages with some DOM manipulation but it's now being used for a million other things too.
So historically, if your JavaScript code broke your page would still render as it was just html but now there are all sorts of build processes and long chains that use JavaScript to create the html in the first place... I'd consider that the exotic bit.
Traditional JS running in the browser manipulating DOM elements is very much a foundational aspect of the web and won't deteriorate with age (with the exception of perhaps deprecated functions in the far-off future) but all these js libraries and tools and build processes with massive dependency-chains are what's being referred to.
This is the conclusion that most people don't ever reach. They assume that there is an altruistic element to things like open source within Microsoft (and other commercial organisations) and perhaps among the developers there is... giving back, helping out and all that.
But if Microsoft (or Google, FB, etc. etc) thought for one second that supporting, nurturing and building open source software and tools was affecting the bottom line negatively they'd drop it in a heartbeat: they answer to the shareholders and they only have one question - will this make more money?
Every site has logs. They can all see where I've been, what I've looked at, how long I looked at it and so on. I get that part. I'm a developer. I build that stuff myself.
However, I need to draw the line somewhere and using UBlock Origin and never ever seeing an on-page advertisement AND minimising all tracking is the threat-model I'm targetting. And, I'd reckon that most people who care about privacy would stop about there too.
With HN, there are no distractions on the screen. Nothing flashing or moving or asking me to sign up or anything... that's what I am trying to prevent.
In any case, lets say I could stop everything and still let the text on a web page through on my browser... just the text, nothing else: we've seen in the past how even that is a signal that can be tracked.
We can't stop it completely but I feel that I'm doing my bit to make it less effective and hopefully, eventually, pointless.