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How so? I didn't see any statements from Ellison cited in the article.

Some humans who are not trained that curiosity produces beneficial outcomes are often not all that curious. It is difficult to know what is truly innate vs. the result of conditioning. It is also difficult to know what is the result of an absence of opposing conditioning. If I was raised in a poor area with high crime and little economic opportunity, my conditioning would be quite different. How would that have changed my behavior? Could curiosity get me in more trouble than it's worth? Could I observe that and adjust my own behavior as a result?

We are all, to some extent, a product of our environment (training data). I wasn't raised in that type of area, but does that mean my own intellectual curiosity is more innate? Or does it mean it is less innate? I could argue that both ways.

Same. Around then, I requested MySQL and was told no for the same reasons you were. So I implemented my database as flat files and proceeded to use up all the inodes a few weeks later on a large call center server used for interviewing and data collection.

I received a panicked call from the admin that turned down my request. He wasn’t happy with me but understood the role he played in creating an expensive disaster.

Plenty of learning to go around in that experience :)

Wholeheartedly agreed w/@danShumway - wish I read this before typing my own response. I might have saved myself some time :)

That's not entirely true. In fact, the Sound-Harmony-Melody-Rhythm-Growth model for analysis explicitly calls it out as a critical building block of the music that we hear and experience. Like any subject, it takes some study to get to the interesting bits.

For example, the vast majority of people who have taken Music Theory 101 have completed coursework that is the equivalent of "Hello, World!". That is barely scratching the surface and certainly give the aspiring programmer the skills necessary to create something non-trivial. The same is true of music theory. You don't instill in someone the musical understanding of Brahms with one music theory class.

I think that there are rules, but they're less about a teacher being an asshole. Musical styles evolve over time. We wouldn't have classical without baroque, and we wouldn't have romantic without classical. The style itself imposes a "rule" that is really a best practice. How do we in technology treat best practices? Well, they're basically rules that we shouldn't violate without careful thought. The same is true of music. People who study basic music theory learn about the cadences used most commonly in church music ... V-I ... IV-I ... and the deceptive I-IV-V-vi cadence! You feel where music is going because you've learned the rules by listening to other music and embedding yourself within its best practices. V-vi is deceptive because it violates a best practice, but used effectively, it works.

As music evolved, and as the world became smaller in terms of ease of travel and exposure to other cultures' music, we started to see new influences. Debussy and others were influenced by indonesian gamelan music. Without that influence, we might not have the jazz that we have today. Why? The impressionist style that Debussy practiced created floating pillars of sound, chromaticism, etc. that became important elements of early Jazz.

It's all connected and has evolved over time, just like technology. Personally, I do think they are rules, but like most rules, they're meant to be broken.

The issue is with how many will interpret that headline. People who already want to believe that 100% of the vaccine research is a sham will run with this. The burden is on BJM to be extremely clear if they don't want to add to the misinformation.

As best we can tell, no one has "permanent acquired immunity". 36% of those infected never develop antibodies. Of the remaining 64% that do, most lose their antibodies in less than a year.

I'm important, but my importance is fully decentralised. It means almost nothing :)

I think you spelled "AI Agents by DoorDash" incorrectly.

The solution, of course, is to give our virtual avatars virtual smartphones that they carry around in their virtual pocket, running virtual versions of Insta, FB, their text message apps, and even their calling app. You could do all of those things from within VR, no more isolated than before. Arguably less isolated, in fact.

Technically, that's only a HIPAA violation if you're a provider or are handling data given to you by a provider.

Remember that half the population loves the government, half hates it, and they think both one another are evil incarnate. Logic breaks down a bit when that kind of irrational vitriol enters the equation.

About 10-15% of the opinion addresses the issues of whether or not the university had "substantial control" over the vehicle for harassment and if it displayed "deliberate indifference" in not taking appropriate steps to end the harassment. It rejects the idea that the University can't control activity on its own network. It also notes that the University allowed the harassment to continue for months when it could have stopped it.

It seems like we're reading pages 14 - 24(ish) of the opinion - plus some later sections - differently. That's the nature of this sort of ruling. This does not constitute a misunderstanding of the complaint on my part, nor was I misled by the title on reason.com.

Personally, I agree with the vast majority of the opinion. The University could have - and should have - done more to pinpoint the harassers and punish them in accordance with university policy. It does not explicitly state that the University should have blocked the app, but it does spend considerable time demonstrating that not blocking the app constituted deliberate indifference to the harassment.

I also agree with the other poster who mentioned there are other ways for communicating threats. With hindsight being 20-20, though, we don't know if a threat is a serious threat until it is acted upon. By the time those systems are activated, there has generally already been violence and/or loss of life, unfortunately.

http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/172220.P.pdf

Hate speech that encourages violence is illegal in the US. General hate speech that doesn't include threats or incitement of illegal activity, on the other hand, seems to be celebrated these days.

If the speech in question was determined to be a true threat, blocking exposure to the speech could have serious unintended consequences. It could people unaware of specific threats and expose them to harm. Ignorance is bliss...until it gets you hurt.

If someone posted a credible threat of violence against people fitting my demographic profile, I'd want to be aware of it. I don't need to be protected from the words. I don't say that to diminish the negative effects of hate speech at all. I may be hurt and angry after reading them. It could trigger me in ways that I try to avoid. That being said, I think our courts need a reminder that the negative effects of exposure to hate-violence can be much more severe than exposure to hate speech. I'd rather fight myself, in my own head, than someone who wants to do me physical harm.

I work with this type of data and I assure you that the results are quite plausible. The original hypothesis was tested against US census data. See "Experiment B" here:

https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.p...

I'll add that there are far fewer live births, per day, in the US than there are zip codes. I agree that some highly populated areas that are problematic, but this may be the only reason that 87.1% number isn't 100%!

Well, they've got the "failing" part right. It's the "over" that's taking a while ;)

I'd argue that both scales do indeed "start" and "end" on the same note - middle C. If I were playing an arpeggio that spanned both staves, I think I'd find your method harder than simply moving in thirds from the E on the treble clef to middle C to the A on the bass clef.

Interestingly enough, other clefs do already exist. The "C" clefs (alto and tenor clef) identify middle C and simplify note reading for instruments that have atypical tessiturae.

I wonder if they meant that you shouldn't pay providers until things are sorted out. I agree that you need to pay your premiums, but doctors and hospitals will just send you to collections. Still not a great option, but it does keep the money in your pocket until things are sorted out. (Of course, I wouldn't do this unless I was very sure I was right, also, so that any collections issues would be an insurer/provider error.)

Don't forget that PowerBI also has R embedded/integrated. There are some limitations in how you can use R to produce custom visualizations, but this tight integration is a real plus, in my opinion. Combined with the Excel-like functionality that is also embedded in PowerBI for data reshaping, PowerBI has a clear advantage in terms of flexibility and raw power. I personally can't speak to Qlik, but PowerBI has Tableau beat in this respect. Much of the data reshaping etc. in Tableau happens outside of Tableau. This can introduce some challenges in process.

Is it more prevalent because we have hard data showing it is, or do we think it is more prevalent because we typically speak with more people in tech because we're in tech and have more experience with them?

I am now a few years post-divorce and in a relationship with a wonderful future wife v2.0, and I will be the first to tell you that my perspective on others', careers, and behavior patterns has changed significantly because I'm exposed to a very different slice of American culture than I was with wife v1.0. You'll find similarities where you didn't expect to find them. The same is true of differences.

It's a great question. I think it drops the barrier for individuals who don't want to spend time learning other languages or concepts. What's a Dispatcher and why is it important for the UI? Some of these developers may never need to answer that question -- and that may not be a terrible thing.

Things that allow people to do more with their existing skill set, even if it's not the most efficient, are generally good. They support organic growth of platforms, creativity, and exploration of things that were previously out of reach for some individuals. They can certainly become unmaintainable and problematic, but if the app's usage grows to a point where those are important problems to solve, they will get solved. Or they won't and they'll become a limiting factor in the usefulness of the application.

Evolution is a fantastic thing ;)

Did you figure it out? If not, you may want to try choosing "All processes, hierarchically" from the View menu in Activity Monitor.

I second this. I'm writing this on a late 2011 MBP w/8GB RAM and an after-market 1TB SSD. I use it primarily for developing and testing data-driven applications (big data, medium data, small data). I occasionally run Windows and Linux VMs when my development work demands it. This "old" MBP is my primary machine.

I don't have any major performance issues to this date, at least not for my primary use of this machine. I typically run Netflix, Hulu, or some other media while I code, and I actually have more issues with Flash video running in the browser than anything else. This is generally tied to Spotlight reindexing. Killing the index and allowing the machine to rebuild it from scratch usually resolves my issue. But, I digress...

Take the time to understand how your work utilizes machine resources and buy the best machine to get the work done. It might not even be a MBP.

Run a trace on your database and watch the queries Tableau actually runs while building your worksheets and dashboards. It's doing a lot more than you think.

Not to mention the fact that over fertilizing will often reduce crop yields. The idea that the runoff of fertilizer products into groundwater, streams, lakes and oceans must be the result of over fertilization is false. It's the result of gravity.

It's common in the UK to use "do" when referring to a collective. The author is from the UK.

Agreed, and it helps to have 2 backups of all your data using different techniques/products. I run a local backup to cheap disk, network backup to remote location, and I suppose my remotely hosted svn is my third backup of most assets I really care about.

Most of us here are developers. How many of our products are perfect? Always assume something will fail in a new and interesting way in the future. I'm not letting Dropbox off the hook - their product shouldn't do this - but you'll be happier if you treat backups with the same level of redundancy and planning as the rest of your infrastructure.

I wrote a very nearly identical letter. After closing my account, they continued to send mr marketing spam with a broken unsub link. I had to write another letter requesting to not receive their spam.

Can you elaborate on what is not performing well?