lone_haxx0r

This is how Chinese citizens in China react if you ask them about it:

https://vimeo.com/44078865

Do you think Americans would react that way if they were asked about the Kent massacre?

I don't get why that would be wrong. If law enforcement asked Binance about my account, of course I would want to know, and would choose an exchange that does tell me vs. one that doesn't tell me.

Maybe it's illegal, but then I prefer that over a legal exchange.

> Most of what we believe separates men from women is learned behavior.

I haven't seen convincing evidence to support this.

There's the possibility that the differences we see in the higher echelons of chess arise from biological differences between men and women. But that possibility is not being explored for political/social reasons.

There's isn't any evidence that there was any sort of "fraud" involved in the Bitfinex hack. It was just a hack.

Your thesis is true, but we should keep in mind that outrage almost always comes from a perceived injuste in the world.

We have always and will always disagree about political issues. Issues that from our subjective appreciation are destroying many people's lives, so it's not surprising that we resort to all sorts of toxic behaviour in order to "help the cause", whatever it might be.

This emotional need for justice (even when misdirected) can not be discarded in the discussion about toxic behavior. Sometimes it takes the form of physical violence, sometimes it's an insult, a threat, doxxing, etc.

We should strive to channel these desires and differences of opinion in healthy ways. "just ban all heated political discussions" is a good enough workaround at the forum level, but not a noble solution to the root problem at a societal level.

> Mac notebooks have a camera indicator light to let you know when the camera is on.

That's great, but we'll need the electronic schematics and the OS source code to trust that.

In the same vein that "hate speech" means "political opinions we disagree with", "animal cruelty" really means "animal cruelty towards animals we don't like for reasons we don't like"

I much prefer Facebook's relatively laissez faire approach instead of Twitter's politically biased approach where hateful things are allowed as long as they are from the left side of the political spectrum.

Drawing the line on what is hate speech is a hard enough problem already, and companies like Google, Twitter don't even try to be impartial, their execs have clearly taken a side. Add to that the weird times we're living in and how people's fundamental moral ideas have diverted so much in the last 10 years, and you have a perfect disaster.

Facebook's approach is less harmful than the alternative right now.

> I don't want the government in my private conversations, but I don't want my kids in someone elses either.

Easy: don't let your kid join zoom meetings without your permission/supervision until he/she understands that there are bad people out there.

I use Linux everyday, and it's a UX disaster. I have tried Gnome, Xfce, Cinnamon, KDE, I like none of them. The only DE that I somewhat liked (Unity) was discontinued.

Linux sucks, but I use it becuase it sucks less than windows, for programming at least.

2. In the specific case of the College Board, yes. Keep in mind that maybe the license fee is based on number of institutions and every student would end up indirectly paying for the license.

But also think about independent educational institutions (primary, secondary, higher, etc), think about all schools and colleges in other countries (we're all in a similar situation). All of them would have to find a way to license HEIC, just because Apple decided that they wanted HEIC as their default format.

3. I'd guess that companies that implement HEIC pay for their license.

The legal situation of using open source programs to decode licensed and patent encumbered formats is uncertain to me, and I guess it is to most people, including software engineers and managers.

1. I think both parties are at fault

The testing system for not using the <input> tag appropiately and Apple for using a closed, patent encumbered format as the default when most of their users don't know about software patents.

> It's also not clear to me that this patent license is actually an issue in terms of decoding and converting file formats on the backend.

It's reasonable to assume that it is.

2. Sure, the college could pay, but looking at the broader problem here, saying that colleges should accept closed formats would make it really hard for open source online testing systems to proliferate, and all colleges around the world would have to pay royalties to the HEIC patent holders.

Even if they were to implement an open source decoder, unless you have plenty of lawyers, the legal uncertainty of the situation could be unacceptable to many individuals/institutions.

3. If the format was open in the first place, maybe we would have lots of open source decoders and maybe the library that the testing system developer used would have support for it, and would have transparently worked without the developer knowing about the format.

Using HEIC apparently [1][2] requires a license and is patent encumbered[3], so I actually blame Apple for using a closed format by default.

[1] https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/97036 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587923

[2] http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/833-HEI...

At this point, each time I read "ethics" I think of someone proselytizing their political ideology in the most obnoxious way possible.

I do have ethics, they're the product of my own analysis and are consistent with my world view in other issues not related to my job. I don't go around telling everyone else how to conduct their lives. If they have their own ethics, good for them. If they don't, I don't care, it's their life.

Some people stand up to wipe while others wipe while still sitting.

Pulling the paper from the side of the wall is like taking off your shoes by grabbing the sole.

It was too small.

Glad to help.

Nim, Zig, Odin?

As someone who uses Linux as their main OS, I can tell you a few:

1. Ugly UIs: Of all the distros I've tried, the only one that doesn't make me wanna gouge my eyes out is Ubuntu. Most Linux users seem to have accustomed to ugly UIs to the point that they don't notice their ugliness anymore.

2. Bad UX: I've been using Gnome shell for 2 years and I still don't understand it. I never remember if ALT+TAB switches between groups of windows or between windows, or between windows in the same group. Or was that ALT+ESC?. I've never had such issues on Windows. Am I just too stupid for Gnome?

Also, why do I have to edit 2 obscure files (from the POV of a regular user) in order to have a simple 'show desktop' button in my taskbar?

Also, why do I have to install an external application (Gnome tweak tool) to disable mouse acceleration? And if you're not on Gnome, good luck trying to use libinput (used by Linux Mint and Ubuntu Mate) directly, because for some bizarre reason the "flat acceleration profile" setting is ignored if you're using a touchpad.

Also, why do I have to install an external plugin and edit an obscure file to have audio compression/normalization when Windows has a single checkbox that reads "Enable audio normalization"

Also, why does PulseAudio start to crackle each time I open reader mode on Firefox?

* Note: You can choose a desktop environment with decent UX, but it will look ugly (xfce). Or you can choose a DE that looks good but has bad UX (Gnome Shell with Ubuntu customizations)

3. If the app you want isn't in your distro repos, you have 2 choices:

a) Install a ppa whose server doesn't work anymore, so now each time you update your repos, there'll be ugly warnings about the dead server. Now you have to Google "how to remove ppa" and choose between 5 articles telling you 5 different ways to do it.

b) download a .tar.gz and spend 1 hour installing the right dependencies the right way, and then 'make'ing and 'make install'ing only to find that there's some obscure error.

After all of this, I still use Linux because I think Windows is slightly worse overall. But would totally understand why some people still choose Windows.

> I only want to belong to a social network that values science and public health. Why shouldn't I be allowed to be a user of a website that has those same values?

I think it's a problem of expectations.

Some expect Facebook to just be a social network. Others, like you, expect it to be a safe space where unapproved opinions aren't allowed. Neither kind is bad per se, but I don't think most people expected Facebook to be of the latter kind.

When mainstream media has been pushing pernicious narratives and outright lies for many years, I see why people would be skeptic about their claims.

Unfortunately, most people don't have the means (technical knowledge, time) to appropriately asses the real danger of this situation, so they have two options:

- Believe the liars.

- Don't believe the liars.

It turns out, the liars weren't lying this time.

I just realized I have used the ordinal symbol many times when I should have used the degree sign. Why didn't someone tell me? Oh, I've been making an idiot out of myself.

The why include the symbols in the first place? Just in case?

Newpipe on mobile, ublock origin on desktop. Problem solved.

You should try Newpipe if you're on Android.

What are these "better languages" you speak of? Because I've been looking for a good C replacement but to no avail. C++, D, Nim, Go, Rust, Zig, Odin, etc; I've looked into them but none convinced me.

It also penalizes non-fathers because employers assume the possibility of you having children, and that has an effect on your pay, even if you never have children.

As a non-father, you have no way to say "I don't want paternity leave" and negotiate a better salary instead.

I wanted to read the article, but Medium sucks too much.

I'll agree when there's a good replacement.