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Which brings up the topic of responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities and leaked credentials.

My friends and I used to play this a race. We weren't concerned so much with the number of hops as how quickly we could get here.

It was always fun reviewing each round and seeing how everyone got to the destination.

Or perhaps UBI can set people free to live as they see fit, cultivate themselves spiritually, artistically, and communally without needing to consume nearly as useless garbage.

What's the connection?

Don't tell me that I just needed to believe in myself more.

My belief in my ability to succeed was briefly shattered by my dad's employment situation. He was a well qualified engineer laid off from manufacturing. That made us struggle.

I was always thinking about money and feeling the need to optimize for $2 meals instead of $4 meals, and wondering if my car would hold in long enough to be able to get me to school in a week. These are things that only your first, most motivated, category of people will overcome.

I didn't overcome these obstacles. I temporarily dropped out. Don't tell me that I just needed to believe in myself more.

My story only has a happy ending because state schools are cheap and engineering internships are paid.

The author's story makes me incredibly grateful for the current situation for developing engineers. I went to a cheap state school and had paid internships. Also, we have a long way to go on sexism and discrimination, but there are countless fields that are far more closed.

As of a while ago (they took down the page explaining it), it's not even split up per user. It's split up per total Spotify streams. Those people that leave their Spotify playing Muzak all day long are diluting your dollars.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150219221341/http://www.spotif... The "Royalties in Detail" section.

Yes. That's the point. They don't know them, and they can still be productive. However, if you require the knowledge it can be taught and you might have to help teach it.

A while ago they had an offer for lifetime membership for a lump sum. I'm sad that my cynicism around that offer was accurate.

“It’s intended to be a symbol of what we believe at Facebook, which is that our work is unfinished,” said Lori Goler, vice president of people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/30...

I personally feel that cubicles are the worst of both worlds. You get none of the privacy and sound isolation of a private space, but you don't get the frictionless collaboration and socialization of an open office. I felt like I was socially isolated and living in the hell of hearing the conversation of the "that guy" through the wall without being able to give him any subtle social cues.

A lot of interesting engineering research into floating offshore wind is being done at University of Maine. They have some prototypes producing power. Understanding the characteristics of the carbon composites has, AFAIK, been the major limiting factor in their more widespread production.

https://composites.umaine.edu/offshorewind/

After my dad's manufacturing related engineering position moved overseas he got told by an automaker that he was over-qualified for line work. However no one was interested in his engineering skills even after he tried to pivot to quality-control engineering.

The pay and work at the automaker would have been great for him. Instead he ended up carrying mail until retirement.

I constantly think about him and remind myself to not get to comfortable in an industry.

Who the fuck are you?

Imagine having nothing and then being told you can't have the companionship of a dog or even cheap beer because that means you aren't interested in changing your situation.

I ride my bicycle all winter. When the weather gets bad, I go a longer route with better bicycle infrastructure where it's safe to go slowly and I'm not being tailed by a car. If I lived in a city where no such route existed I would resort to other means of transportation.

Why do you "have to" build more car infrastructure? If traffic gets worse when the weather gets bad then there's even more incentive to bicycle despite the weather. That's the whole point of cycle-first, transit-first, pedestrian-first city planning: Cars don't scale, so stop trying.

Anecdotally I see them driving like snails on Valencia Street and elsewhere in the Mission day and night. It's very well mapped, but one of the more challenging areas to navigate in America.

I've never seen them pulled over in the bike lane on Valencia like very other Uber/Lyft, which is a good thing, but picking up and dropping off is far from autonomous friendly in that neighborhood.

Of course sometime it's obvious a person is in control and presumably they're generating training data.

The headline should read "Priceline Group Inc. now worth $100B"

priceline.com is pretty tiny compared to the totality of the group... Mostly booking.com really.

One word: Addiction

Facebook events are invaluable to my life these days, but the news feed is an addiction that I've been fighting since university. If only I could be %100 dedicated to all resolutions without any effort then I wouldn't need any tricks like this.

Plus this is just meant to be silly. I should really just blank out the news feed like someone else suggested.

I've worked on financial systems still running on mainframes from the 80s. The Y2K compatibility commit messages are there in the logs.

Airline reservation systems run on software written in the 50s and 60s

Your views on evergreen this and disposable up to date that are very naive.

Embedded systems and business systems live for a VERY long time.

Or "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" ... even though he's clearly not singing it as a contraction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWi5jdgTUJs

Traffic in SF is traffic that works imho. I love the nuance and judgment that drivers are forced to use. I feel safer walking/bicycling/motorcycling here than in any other city, and that speaks volumes about the city's livability. Density creates these problems, and density is good for other reasons. It's only in suburbs and rural areas that every store can have a loading zone, but then no one can walk anywhere.

There's a big difference between being a supported first class citizen and having a hacked together ecosystem that Mostly Works™.

After my experience with Mono on past .NET versions, I'm skeptical of any of these "compiles to x" schemes.

Is this what it's come to?

There have been attempts a universal language that are quite fascinating. There's an interesting RadioLab on the subject of Bissymbols. I suppose the one that sticks and evolves over time is the one that probably matters though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols http://www.radiolab.org/story/257194-man-became-bliss/

> So as usual, Apple is lying/misleading people here. At least 'technically'. No. Apple are arguing that the patents are invalid. They aren't sayin they have been found invalid already. The TechCrunch article said "All four of VirnetX’s patents have been found invalid by the patent office"

Out of context relevant quote time:

"...and reality has a well-known liberal bias" -Stephen Colbert

> The difference is human drivers will stop the car if blinded.

So will the self driven cars, if you read the article.

I'm just going to answer with a webcomic that fits exactly this. Stop comparing yourself. I went to a shitty cs program after dropping out of an electrical engineering program. I'm doing great.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3685

I'm happy to see experimentation in new wind technologies, but it makes me sad to see things like this grabbing headlines when floating offshore is such a strong contender that just needs some more funding for the engineering effort (mostly because it's pushing the currently tested limits of carbon composites).

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/07/news/bangor/umaine-get...

Does anyone have a plain text transcription? I'm having trouble reading that scan.