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Becomes a lot less interesting when you consider that there's no way to power such a camera for any meaningful period of time without a much larger battery (ignoring the issue of storage/transmission).

There is certainly much variance between the firms, especially the sign-on IME. People I know have turned down HRT core dev for big tech because their offers were unimpressive.

I think an interesting target for comparison with big tech is Jane Street, since their culture and WLB are good, so the main QoL drawbacks of finance don't apply. A new grad will get ~300k at Jane Street, though probably not with this large a sign-on.

I cannot confirm this. ~300k is pay (excluding sign-on) fresh out of college at a big HFT -- sufficiently senior devs make 7 figures.

Noticed this just now. It is.

The idea is precisely that you want to avoid pinging main memory at all, which is possible (in the happy case) if you do things correctly with DDIO. Not everything is done in hardware where I am. I am wary of saying much because my employer frowns on it, and admittedly I work on the software more than the hardware, but DDIO is certainly important to us.

Right, and I disagree with that post in this sense: there is a social expectation of fitness for a purpose that cannot be disclaimed with a license.

Many projects under licenses providing no warranty are nevertheless of high quality and well-maintained. Making the category in question precise is difficult, but it includes log4j. Projects by organizations such as Apache and eminent individuals like Bellard or Valsorda fall in this category. There is therefore an expectation that if you are such a project, yet unwilling to hold yourself to that standard of quality, you should make it clear for your users. Using a license with a no-warranty clause does not achieve it because it is not a distinguishing factor. The license, of course, protects from legal liability and so on, but no one is talking about legal matters here -- only about whether we should be collectively unhappy with the log4j maintainers.

The reason for this unhappiness would not be that they aren't willing to donate more of their time, but that their stewardship of the project is poor. Vulnerabilities are found in FOSS all the time; this instance was special because the misfeature in question was an egregious inclusion in the first place. It appears to be not a case of lack of time for review, but a lack of sense to say, "no, interpreting strings after formatting is insane and will never be part of this library." Obviously, they are entitled to include whatever code they want in their project, but some code is incompatible with it being useful -- if they do not aim to clear that bar, they should make it clear, because others in their position do.

I would say that something like opening your README with "this is not a serious project, you should not use this in prod" would be reasonable. This warning needs to be front and center and explicit, not merely sating "we are unpaid volunteers" or similar. There is precedent for this. Yes, some ignore such warnings and complain -- as long as this verbiage creates a useful distinction, such people are wrong and we should ridicule them. This warning would stand in contrast with the great many projects which aim to be fit for a purpose in practice, such as Postgres, Linux, Blender, etc. Obviously, such projects are usually better funded than log4j -- making it clear that you're not funded well enough to dedicate much time to the project an important part of this warning's content.

To continue the workplace analogy, I would be the unreasonable one to complain if the company specifically warned that they were significantly more trigger-happy that the normal company hiring at-will.

There is social context to licenses.

My employment contract states that I am an at-will employee, so my boss could technically fire me because they didn't like my haircut. If they were to _actually_ do this, I would certainly be slighted by this, probably post about it publicly and forewarn others against working for them, although they would not have violated the letter of the contract nor my understanding of its literal meaning.

I think the thrust of the complaint is that the society doesn't sufficiently value privacy for its own sake.

In a different kind of society, websites of the sort that you describe would be unpopular, because users at large would place less value on the real-person guarantee than on the non-collection of their identifying information.

Closely related to this is the topic of end-to-end encryption. To withstand attacks that I expect will continue to be mounted on it, I think the society has to believe in privacy as a terminal good. The answer to the argument that "we could catch such and such criminals if we had key escrow" ought to be "yes, and not catching those criminals is a price we agree to pay, because privacy is just that valuable to us".

I think it's quite reasonable to compare defer and destructors, in that case.

Destructors probably cannot be usefully imported into C while preserving the simplicity of the language: then you'll want at least unique_ptr to manage your memory with destructors, then probably shared_ptr, and some ownership semantics as you pass those around, et cetera. In that sense, defer strikes a balance between simplicity and usefulness. However, there is still a comparison.

That's true. I should add /r/Sino to that list. I also subscribe to ChinaTalk, but I'm not sure how valuable a it is for really gauging what goes on in that part of the net. Unfortunately, I can't read Chinese, so I have to trust someone to translate and aggregate that content in the end.

I haven't tried anything outside of US, China (these two being the two major geopolitical players), and Russia (because I am from there and understand the language). I would love to expand that list, but my time is limited.

Another factor is that reading American commentary is entertaining because I live here and am immersed in the culture. The same goes for Russia. I haven't been able to make this work with China: there is a mass of cultural material that I'm not "in" on, so it feels much more like work.

My own experience is that it works quite well for a certain kind of person: on Reddit I was simultaneously subbed to /r/The_Donald, /r/politics, /r/ChapoTrapHouse, /r/Libertarian, etc (while those were still around). I'd also drop by voat occasionally to get my weekly sample of virulently antisemitic takes.

I think looking at extremes is the most realistic path. Purportedly balanced sources are dangerous because their bias is subtle; extreme sources typically have very clear bias that is easy to keep in mind as you. You can read many extreme sources and sort of take the intersection of what they show you to guess at some minimal amount of what must be really true.