dragonsngoblins

> Just imagine if Github suddenly decide to block Chinese users like they did for Iranian users

Wait I thought India blocked github, not that github blocked India. Or has there been a whole thing I've missed?

A mortgage is a lot of money, how can so many people not be reading them?

And coming up after the break we will hear all about how water makes things wet!

The pessimist in me thinks this is just stalling and they will re-enable these features when the heat has died down but with less fanfare

Imagine if water was heroin, would be so casual about plumbing?!

It could be a straw that broke the camels back type situation. Additionally they may have already decided to move, but this made them choose Tulsa over other places

Just not saying controversial shit on twitter will only get you so far, as someone could just post what you said to twitter

Can confirm. I have a video which was already open and still plays. Interestingly I closed the tab and opened that video again and it still worked. I'm in Sydney

It is also vastly more urbanised than the US, most of Australia lives in a few areas that are pretty densely populated. We aren't all living in tiny communities in the middle of nowhere, Australia's population is hugely coastal.

It is an island is a silly response, we didn't shut borders before COVID got in so it isn't like us being an island is hugely impactful. Australia has done a really good job of handling community spread within Australia.

What proportion of the COVID cases around the world do you think are happening because of people from the outside a country visiting vs community spread to think the island thing is especially relevant?

I disagree that the author just isn't a fan of change. The old ones are definitely more readable/distinct and in my opinion there is value in that.

Of course everyone will stop talking about it in 2 weeks, there isn't all that much to talk about. It isn't a huge deal that the icons are slightly worse for these things, it will cause no major problems or anything like that. But it not being a big deal doesn't make the author wrong about these being very similar to each other and that making them less readable at a glance.

The issue on Android also happens for me. I honestly assumed it was a deliberate dark pattern to encourage installing the app

Also you could just have two different accounts, buy the file, compare the two files and identify any differences, overwrite the differences with blanks/gibberish

I wish so much I could work less days even if I was getting paid less, but nobody wants someone not doing 5 days it seems like.

I worry that for me the regularity of the 9 to 5 is the problem, rather than what it is I'm doing from 9 to 5. I'm not sure if that is definitely the case, but I feel like I'd be so much better off if I could be in a situation where I worked 3 or 4 days a week, and not necessarily all in a row

I mean, sure and that sucks for them but I kinda think that is part of the risk of being an agent. Don't want to get killed by foreign governments? Then don't go and do espionage in their countries.

These are agents who have materially harmed another nation, it isn't as if they have only been acting in a purely defensive capacity and working on the internal security of the US.

I.... I'm having a hard time understanding why anyone would have a moral problem with that? It isn't even 100 active CIA agents who have nothing to do with Russia, apparently these agents actively damaged them.

Not who you asked but because people have lives built where they are living and they don't necessarily want to move to an entirely different continent away from their favourite people and places even if they could be making more money?

Like if you want to do that power to you, but this seems like such an insane question to just ask a stranger on the internet given that there are very obvious reasons why a person might not want to do that

It is really a case by case thing. I have ADD but with chemical treatment I'm basically fine and don't need other intervention. I go in to see someone a few times a year to get another prescription but I didn't really need any cognitive psych stuff.

All the "behavioral" problems I may have had were largely caused by the underlying imbalance and just stopped once I was on it. Or at least, stopped enough that they are no longer a problem for me, and I think really once a behavior isn't causing issues in your life it is probably hard to classify it as a "problem"

I'm definitely a collectivist when it comes to many things, and this is one of them. I just explained myself poorly. I think we should have legislation that prevents this kind of data vacuuming, or at least makes it more transparent to lay people. I'm from Australia too, not the US and we definitely are more collectivist in general than the US is.

The comment about personal responsibility is more representative of why I don't especially feel sympathy about this stuff on an emotional level anymore. We've had multiple, huge, public data breaches in years and the average citizen does not care. Hell in Australia we have some of the worst data privacy laws in the world. I wrote my member about it and only know one other person who did. The "personal responsibility" thing isn't a comment on people not reading the T&Cs, it is a comment on them letting the entire industry get away with this shit time and again.

The fact that people on the whole don't seem to care makes it hard for me to feel a good deal of emotional sympathy when it bites them at this point, even if I do feel they shouldn't have been bitten.

My music player app has an equalizer function

I do care about people's data in general, but also I don't recall the documentation for the device pushing the app much or at all and instead just suggesting you use whatever your device's way of connecting to bluetooth devices is, though I might be wrong there. If it did then it is a bit worse than I recall.

However if the app isn't really pushed at all then this is so minor an infraction compared to so many others happening in the technology space it honestly doesn't really illicit a response from me.

I do want to point out that not really giving a damn isn't the same as thinking it is a morally ok thing to do. I definitely agree that they shouldn't be doing it, but again given the state of the industry I'm honestly just glad the app isn't required.

Lastly I do kind of think personal responsibility has to enter into things somewhere. I understand that the average joe doesn't really understand how these work, and that the information you share is greater leakier than you might think it is given how things are phrased - and I absolutely agree that it is terrible. However for years now high profile data breaches have been a thing. The fact that the average joe hasn't defaulted to a "I don't understand why this device/app wants X information or how it could use it, therefore I won't use this app" is what is letting companies get away with this kind of thing in the first place. You don't need technical competence to be wary of this stuff (in fact I know someone who isn't technically competent who is concerned and they ask my opinion on things).

I've been using my Sony W-1000XM3s with my Android phone for months and I haven't had to install an app. The only thing the app would get me is a bunch of equalizer shit (which my music player could do and I never use anyway), dynamic noise cancelling of some form (which I'm not sure why I'd ever use, just an on/off toggle is good enough for me).

As shitty as the app collecting data is it isn't as if the app is required for me to have had an excellent experience with these headphones so I'm not really all that bothered that the app is invasive.

If any real functionality was locked behind it I'd be annoyed, but honestly the app seems like an afterthought with no real purpose other than "EVERYTHING NEEDS AN APP" type thinking.

I did Comp Sci, didn't live on campus, and certainly didn't need a lot of hand holding (I won the dean's medal), but I definitely think the on campus experience was worth it.

I find in person lectures more engaging and pleasant generally speaking. I definitely don't think the information would have stuck with me as well or as long term with online lectures, and I wouldn't have gotten some connections within academia over the internet.

Not to mention I made friends which I wouldn't have had the course been online.

I disagree that it insists on that. You can be part of the world but the world is still external to you.

The way you ask it sure. I'm just not sure that is how everyone asks it, though maybe it is. I've never been asked something quite like that before but some comments I've seen around seem to imply some people want a close to accurate answer.

I suppose it depends on how you grade the answers. Like I have bad spatial awareness in terms of how big things like planes are. I genuinely don't really have an idea how long a commercial airliner is, or how big a ping pong ball is. I feel like I'd do ok if I could get reasonable approximate values for things like the size of the plane, the balls, the seats, etc. if I also have to supply those values myself the end result is likely to be off

The end result being off is fine if I am being graded based on my thought process, but a disaster if I am being graded at having an idea of the size of airplanes before walking into the interview.

I agree it is easier to use a key, but the reason owners don't break windows is that is damaging.

The main reason a thief wouldn't want to is that is loud and suspicious looking, much more likely to be noticed. People seeing someone they don't know fucking around with smashing a window in town might call the cops, if they seem someone they don't know using a key they assume they were given it by the residents

I had literally never even heard of Quibi before I saw this headline

It also went unnoticed with me for the longest time. I only noticed the issues when I had finished high school, because before then I could do pretty well just doing all my assignments the night before. It didn't occur to me I had an attention issue because it wasn't like I had a hard time paying attention exactly, I just couldn't be bothered to pay attention to the things I should have been paying attention to. If someone had suggested it to me at 18 I would have thought they were an idiot.

I remember talking to the psychiatrist who diagnosed me the first time:

"So did you fidget in class?"

"Not really, I mostly just got the work done quickly so I could read or talk with friends"

"Okay, so you still weren't actually focusing on the lesson"

"Well no, but the lesson was pointless and boring"

"Do you draw patterns on your teeth with your tongue?"

(Me, currently doing that while he was talking to me) "Uh, yes - how could you tell?"

"It is a common thing for patients with ADHD who don't fidget in obvious ways"

It was around there I starting taking the idea a lot more seriously

For me I think the reason I can't do a thorough job on my own code is down to a combination of two reasons:

1) Testing my own code is boring. I keep thinking about what it should do and then taking shortcuts where I don't test every possible circumstance because I believe I can infer what will happen in one case from another.

2) Testing my own code is time I'm not spending working on the next bit of code in my queue. At a certain point I start feeling like I should just be working on the next thing