I feel that I had reasonable skepticism based on the consequences to the scientists if they turned out to be wrong. Korea is not known to be a particularly forgiving or understanding culture, and I suspect that all of these men will be working at a fast food restaurant soon.
Yes, and there is never, ever time to go back and address the weaknesses of the initial fast and dirty approach. If you prove out a product, it's proved, and any further work addressing tech debt is pure overhead, from the perspective of the business. Like so many problems, the ultimate solution is large scale collapse. We are now open to a super-virus that renders all of our (internet connected) compute worthless, or worse. It's a good opportunity to learn a trade, like carpentry, pottery or (pre-2005) auto repair.
It was/is a huge step backwards in terms of DX, but an infinite step forward for distribution. Distribution is the ONLY problem, which is why the shift happened.
DSLRs are insane value right now as everyone jumps to mirrorless. Which is just silly fashion, IMHO. (Or, if you're like me and prefer optical viewfinders, kind of important). I'm jazzed that people are abandoning things like cds, physical books, and DSLRs - more for me. An aside: I can't believe people have so quickly gone from "geez should I even shop online" to "hey lets put my whole live online and burn the physical copies". That happened in the last 20 years. No engineer or risk analyst in the world could say this is a good idea. Computers, software, and the internet need to be stable for 100+ years to be relied on to that degree, IMHO.
Good. Then fork the library and modify it to your liking, optionally republish.
>one box is fully within the other, and centered
This implies containment/stacking and wouldn't require an arrow. However, you could do worse than drawing 4 arrows from the edges of the surrounding rectangle.
>When we no longer need each other to learn about that hole in the wall restaurant, that new band
And yet the best information is still person-to-person, old school. It lives in the cracks that software misses and where review systems are gamed. Finding good Indian food is hard - but the locals know. Who has an open mic night? Hard to say without connections. Maybe the ultimate example is real estate - deep knowledge of any given place comes after you've lived there, and understand it's history, is life. And that's impossible to represent online.
>cheap consumer goods
Yes: making everything in Shenzen is a problem because now it's the only community that knows how to make and fix things. (Obviously its not 100% the case, but its mostly the case.) That lack of distributed ability has follow-on effects that we don't understand yet -- most worryingly having to do with national security, but also about agency and curiosity and self-determination. Maybe we should have to pass a test before being allowed to use any particular object, showing that we at least know how its made and where it's constituent parts come from.
Perhaps the GP should have been more explicit with his sarcasm. People say (and apparently believe) the craziest things, it's almost impossible to do satire or sarcasm without a disclaimer.
I don't know the author, but I had a similar thought, that was about the very immediate emotionality of his characters. It doesn't have to be that way - the "radical compassion" he mentions is only one small step away from nipping that kind of angry/passionate response in the bud.
The idea that words have enormous power over human minds is taken to fantasical extremes in a (sf? f?) thriller "Lexicon", by Max Barry[1].
My own view is that "truth" means something different to some people. For example, a charismatic narcissistic leader might mean "confident belief" when he says "truth". This definition define his statements to be truth! I suppose the last backstop for these kinds of structures are nature itself, and it's tendency to allow problematic structures to crumble.
Updating Chrome is a vaccination, which is great, but people already affected by this exploit need a cure. I'd like to know more about who was exploiting this and for what purpose, and how to undo it.
Wonderful quote. The concept I have been playing with I call "consensual communication". We dont allow people to run up to us and shove food in our mouths, and yet we allow information to be shoved into our minds - and as the quote notes, they have the gall to place restrictions on the object of assault.
It would be sufficient to GET a resource that uses a script to POST the side-effect. Slack's user-agent probably isn't sophisticated enough to mess this up (although heaven help us when they implement their preview with something like headless chrome).
One way to isolate applications, common for server daemons, is to run them under their own user. The real "human" user can sudo into any application account, and does so on application execution. Marketing would have to rename things and slap a GUI over the feature, but I don't see why it wouldn't work for arbitrary Cocoa apps. (And the screen-capture API should be limited to capturing parts of the screen the application is currently drawing to, with overlaps clipped out, etc.)
Security is a feature of rolling release. But supply-chain attacks like this are the exception to the rule.