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Yes, if I need to fish out my phone and put in a code every time I need to git fetch a private repo, I will do everything I can to convince anyone who will listen away from GitHub

On gnome on fedora at least, I can have my gpg automatically unlock when I login to the desktop.

I already have two steps on GitHub with the authy app but I don't get it. Why is it not good enough to send an email with a code when signing in without a cookie for people who don't want to opt in to two steps?

The way I see it my authy is a vulnerability because if someone were to guess my authy phone number, they could technically grab all of my TOTP.

I don't get this spoon feeding. I mean I would sign up to two steps where I can but something doesn't feel right about the lack of choice.

> Okay so which one do I buy and how do I use it with ssh. The documentation is not specific.

Oh crap, I was thinking this doesn't affect me because I already have two factors authentication but yes if I need to fish out my phone every time I need to git something (I use sash, not tokens) that requires authentication, I will definitely minimize what I do on GitHub.

> First, Low Earth Orbit is at least 160km above the Earth. You could do it at 100km but now you have to fight atmospheric drag on top of everything else and constantly need to readjust your orbit to avoid burning up.

I am just thinking out loud but what if we went out further and added an array of satellites in the geostationary orbits, not to power anything on earth but rather to power each other. I was thinking if we had enough of these satellites and they were in line of sight between each other, could they kind of send power to each other in case one of them was in the dark? Just thinking out loud.

» I think the point you're missing is that often moderators are in that position because they specifically want the power that comes with it.

I love that you were courageous enough to say this because this is completely true and also why we say #ACAB. Most people who want to be police officers are absolutely unfit to be police officers!

Now I am far from an expert on monorepos but I want to know what you think of the next sentence:

> The first one is easy, ban these. You don’t need them in the blocking portion of your pipelines.

I don't think they mean ban integration testing. I think they are saying don't block merge requests on integration testing.

Is this still a problem? Perhaps they are doing some kind of trade off management. Isn't that basically what engineering is, like I remember when I was in high school the classic problem of engineering was do you want thicker heavier wires on electricity poles which means more poles and more expensive or thinner lighter wires so they are lighter but higher resistance and more "leakage". My understanding is there are no correct answers, only the least bad ones.

Imagine someone trying to change the background color of a button in css and waiting three hours for integration tests to finish before anyone can +2 it.

> Jail time for frequency jamming seems very extreme (if you want to see the failure of jail time to curb behavior, look at how many people are in American prisons and how high their recidivism rate is).

I find this comment interesting because I remember people were very supportive of Freakonomics (iirc) saying locking away people works.

>> Steven Levitt (of Freakonomics fame) wrote a paper in 2004 that concluded that 58 percent of the drop in violent crime during the 1990s was due to incarceration. (pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUnderstandingWhyCrime2004.pdf)

I am OK with no prison for the criminal in the OP. However, I would like a drop in jail time or prison sentences for more people at least for non-violent offenses. I agree that too many people are in prison in our country.

> The birth rate does indeed drop as countries develop more, and as more people get educated about birth control, but controlling it beyond that is likely not a good thing.

Sorry for my poor communication skills. I meant to say voluntarily, not through use of force or coercion. People are just way too optimistic about the future or maybe I am just too pessimistic...

>> That doesn’t answer the parent question. Yes the jammer is dangerous and bad. Putting the father in jail doesn’t fix that or particularly help.

> A fine, community service or something like that seems more appropriate.

First of all, a fine doesn't hurt everyone equally. A thousand dollars is huge for me. It is nothing for someone who makes lets say thirty eight million dollars a year. How do you say we do fines? Based on net worth? Previous year's tax return?

(Allegedly, Steve Jobs paid a fine to drive without a license plate.)

See, there is awareness that jail and prison are horrible places. Yet, our "solution" seems to be people like us should not go to jail or prison for things people like us might do. That is not a solution. This "tough on crime" nonsense needs to stop.

1. Jails and prisons should not be able to charge for necessities like food or hygiene products. If we can commit to keep someone locked up, we can afford to keep them clean, fed, and read on taxpayer money.

2. Nobody in jail or prison should ever have to work without their consent. No more free prison labor.

3. No for-profit private services. Phone calls from jail or prison (excluding common sense things like premium numbers) ought to be free of cost, not collect. Public libraries coming up with services like free video visitations is nice but it is not enough. It is also not available everywhere in the country.

4. I cannot believe I have to say this but zero tolerance to sexual abuse or physical in prison. If that means there can only be one person in one cell, then so be it. If it means maximum occupancy of facilities are lower, so be it. If we can commit to keep someone locked up, we can afford to keep them safe from abuse from others there. If not, we have no business locking people up. It is insane that otherwise "good people" joke about "don't drop the soap" in prison.

I sincerely believe the incentives are out of whack. In the US, at least the only way to "win" parenting is to not play. We should refuse to have children at all.

My hope is once we see total fertility rate shrink below one, we will start to see proper support for parents and children with things like paid paternity leave and medicare for all enshrined in our laws.

That being said, I absolutely do not condone frequency jammers and were this to happen in the US, I'd argue a minimum of six months in jail is an appropriate sentence.

Imagine though a world where copyright is at most twenty years under special cases, ten years by default...

» Nobody is going to pay for the rights to the Hitman video game franchise and create The Professional. Because if you mutate the story that much you’re legally in the clear.

We would see new movies using footage from existing twenty year old movies maybe even a different cut of not so old movies.

I think age of five years for patents and twenty years for copyright is the maximum I can support.

Can confirm I cannot use my personal account I use to publish my Alexa skills. It says I need to give billing information to be fully registered with AWS. They have pretty much all my information because I gave them a lot of my personal information when I signed up to publish Alexa skills.

Maybe this place isn't for random people like me to answer random questions we find but rather for AWS staff to not have to repeat the same answers a thousand times.

» There is no requirement to sign in to AWS re:Post to browse the content. I wish they extended this to asking questions as well. Like I don't want to associate asking question to my work$. Why would I if questions are public?

> Those two things together means people freezing to death.

If we want to prevent people from freezing to death, the best way is to help people get 1. food 2. clothes 3. shelter 4. health care.

I'd argue gas based heat isn't even on the list. As you said, we should not go all-in on heat pumps. We can and should have alternate sources of heat for vulnerable people (I am thinking hospitals, retirement communities, and so on).

I am confident that healthy, well-fed, appropriately dressed people in well insulated homes do not die because the weather outside dips below freezing for under a day.

> If you go the route of using an (A)GPL core, make sure all 3rd party contributions are made under the terms of your CLA, or otherwise reject them.

If someone goes down this route, does the rejection have to be automatic? Does looking at a pull request without a CLA "taint" me in a way that I cannot implement it again? I am asking partly because I am curious and partly because I remember Drew DeVault (sircmpwn) used to have a big scary warning saying if I have looked at the official minecraft code, I should not contribute to truecraft (now archived I believe).

These are things I never worry about at work. I can look at stack overflow and copy x.filter(x => x.blabla...) and change the bla bla until my javascript works (I don't use filter every day so it is difficult to remember this syntax in my head).

Thank you in advance.

I don't work at Microsoft but I can confirm. There are so many "suggestions" for Microsoft Teams. I don't know if there exists another company whose employees are more critical of Microsoft Teams than Microsoft.

My personal conspiracy theory is Teams would have died long ago if not for strong support from the top.

Exactly. This is probably the best outcome for the owner of the money. I remember reading a story about how the government recovered supposedly millions of dollars worth of diamonds but was unable to unload those diamonds for anywhere the amount the criminal bought it for. I would have thought the government would force the people who sold the diamonds to take it back and reimburse the government in full.

I don't get why that was not an option.

> Section 1 - 5/5 Section 2 - 44/45 Section 3 - 16/21

Thank you for sharing your score.

Mine (practice test 1, English) was

Section 1 - 5/5 Section 2 - 43/45 Section 3 - 13/21. These are the questions I got incorrect

Section 2: questions 12, 33 (I know I don't have any excuse as a math major in college).

Section 3: questions: 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 17, 19, 21.

When I went into this test, I thought this was for students and was trying to figure out which grade students would take this test. There were multiple questions which made me do a double take because I thought "surely this must be a trick question I am missing the point of".

> If you can't prepare for and pass this test you really shouldn't be teaching anyone anything.

13/21 is 61% which is failing score. I think section three of the test should be removed.

Comments like this is why people ignore economists when it comes to personal finance.

Macroeconomics is so difficult to grasp for me and feels so far away from anything that is remotely related to my life that just talking about it feels silly.

The amount of capital in the US or even my state feels like completely divorced from whether I feel comfortable having children and raising a family (I don't at all).

I am not trying to say Microsoft did anything unlawful. However, I am suspicious that these events in 2020 were coordinated.

I remember we knew about Zoom vulnerabilities in 2018 as well but I rarely used video conferencing and definitely not for "daily stand ups" however, I wouldn't discount Microsoft tried its best to "educate" reporters.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

From what I have read here, it diesnt look loke anyone dislikes exa. The only thing I'd change is the messaging.

Instead of saying modern replacement to ls, I'd rather we be more specific and say "a modern replacement to ls for some interactive workloads" or something like that. This makes it clear that the ask is not that we remove the ls binary and put exa alias.

> The only good outcome for the whole world is Putin and allies being ousted out of power and replaced by actual non-warmonger democrats.

I don't actually know anything about Russia or Europe or politics in general first hand. However, from listening to a few episodes of the Economist podcast, my impression has been that Putin is stuck. He can't quit because even though he might be above being punished for his crimes, his cronies who have amassed billions are not. These folks will do everything in their power to keep Putin in power or find someone who is better at diverting people's attention from the problems affecting the people in their regular lives. Chechnya, Crimea, Ukraine, ... all these are (in my understanding) in service of the government's attempt at consolidating power at home.

> Nobody wants nuclear war, maybe some kind of super-sanctions would be the only recourse for the west, cut them off everything, and I mean everything.

What is a super sanction? In my (uninformed) opinion, a sanction is a complete sealing of a nation backed by political will and military might, preferably consensus from all the neighbors of the nation. No person and no goods go into or out of the country. No funds get transferred into the country or out of the country. All communications get cut off.

Correct me if I am wrong but Europe (I am speaking geographically, so including Ukraine) relies a lot on Russian petroleum and gas? And even if we weaned ourselves off of everything Russian, there is a border between Russia and China PR (mainland China under control of the CCP). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Russia_border

tl;dr a sanction not enforced by military might is not really a sanction, it is just a silly little non-binding resolution.

Windows on the desktop is a completely different can of worms. For example, I installed a small application last week to take screenshots of my entire screen every so many seconds and it was then that I realized the whole installation process (there is no installation process, just a simple executable with a config file in the same directory) and execution required zero root privilege.

Technically, any application (at least any application that lives in the system tray) can take screenshots of the whole screen as often as it likes. You can probably imagine it doesn't even need to store it on disk. It could just do some quick computation and send it to whoever.

> No. People were apparently overwhelmed by system instability and resource hogging (mainly hard drive grinding). I don't remember people complaining about the UI's usability. Though there were UI complaints which were mostly echos of the same complaints leveled at the glossy "Teletubby" XP theme.

The biggest fault of Windows Vista in my opinion was Microsoft made one too many compromise. There were machines that came with Windows Vista pre-installed that should have never gotten Windows Vista. My roommate in college had a Compaq machine on which the screen completely blanked for over three minutes at a time as it tried to display the user access control overlay. Of course, over three minutes later the screen would turn on as if nothing had gone wrong at all. iirc it was something about the processor/integrated graphics being too weak for Windows Display Driver Model. [1]

I think Microsoft is making a similar mistake today by allowing OEMs to ship Windows 10 on new machines with anything less than a SATA SSD (mechanical hard disks or eMMC).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Display_Driver_Model#:.... Off-topic but if the url looks weird it is because it is a Chrome only thing: more at https://wicg.github.io/scroll-to-text-fragment/

> You're asking police officers to be less armed then the general public.

Can we at least agree that off-duty police officers working as security guards at a hospital or elsewhere should not under any circumstance carry a weapon (other than perhaps a stick or something) while on non-police duty?

> Soon, from inside the room, there was shouting, sounds of a scuffle and a loud pop. During an altercation, two off-duty Houston police officers, moonlighting as security guards, had shocked Mr. Pean with a Taser, fired a bullet into his chest, then handcuffed him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/hospital-guns-mental-h...

> Mr. Pean said he was informed of the dismissal of the assault charges against him in a phone call to New York, where he is finishing college. He said he was relieved but remained deeply disturbed by his experience, noting that his family spent more than $100,000 in his defense. “If I was someone else, I could have ended up in jail,” he said.

> After the incident, federal health officials conducted an emergency investigation and faulted the hospital for the shooting, saying that St. Joseph had created “immediate jeopardy to the health and safety of its patients” and ordered that it restrict use of weapons and provide more training in dealing with mentally ill patients.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/us/alan-pean-hospital-gun...

In addition, perhaps if a police officer is not "on duty", felony assault charges should not be possible. This may sound harsh but imagine a bus driver goes on a walk and someone hits him on the head with a stick. Does that carry felony assault charges as well?

I think many people are saying a police officer's testimony should be void in a court of law if they do not have other evidence (in which case the evidence can stand on its own without the officer's testimony).

I kind of see a pattern here between net neutrality with ISPs and pollution with car makers.

I'd like to think in both cases that by walking back (sensible) regulation at the federal level was bad for business.

I wonder what that means for online privacy laws. Should the federal government not even touch this?

Speaking of the British, it is funny how Indians question Gandhi's legacy based on his personal life and contrast it to the English people who voted Sir Winston Churchill number one in 100 greatest Britons.

> Well, if you get too big to get things done well, maybe not get too big?

I love this idea but my old history professor (who I pretty much disagree with on everything except this) used to always say "follow the money". What are the incentives that all the parties have for and against growing companies bigger?

Looks like database connection issues... Archived at https://archive.is/olI6j

> Real people don't tweet about Hillary 100% of the time, no matter how awful she is.

I disagree. Real people use pseudonyms as well. I have multiple twitter accounts and while I don't have an ax to grind against Hillary, I can imagine some of my friends in Texas would create and devote a twitter account solely for venting about something like this.

Of course, there is a difference between someone in Katy, Texas tweeting "lock her up" versus someone using a farm to make it look like there is a groundswell when there is none. However, is it wrong, immoral, or illegal? How do we define these things? We have to be really careful because we might end up making advertising illegal.

Sorry for not clarifying. I wasn't talking about consumers but rather service providers who have to maintain a presence in all major platforms. From what I understand, Android exists because Google was fed up trying to get Google maps and mail and search applications on all j2me, symbian, and what not devices.

How? I can't see how fragmentation can be good for anyone. The web has made progress since the jar days but even if you go the web route, you are still a serf (to continue the analogy that we are all serfs sorry couldn't find the link).

I wouldn't support a different app store that competes with Google for control of Android.