I bounced back and forth for a few years. Now? Not even dual boot, not even a VM. Maybe Linux did not get better than Windows, opinions differ. However, Windows certainly has gotten worse than Linux.
"Delegate everything" - delegation is hugely important. But not everything, obviously, as a team lead your responsibility as "transparent umbrella" cannot be delegated.
It also sounds like he is talking mostly about external projects. For internal projects, you really do serve as a shield. One project, I spent my first months teaching the internal customers that they were not allowed to talk to my people. They had become accustomed to telling individual developers "I want feature X", which cause total chaos.
I stood between the customers and my developers - at the beginning, sometimes literally blocking the office door - and said: my team, my job, you talk to me.
This. I did my dissertation in the early '90s, so very early days of the internet. All of my data and code was online.
IMHO this should be expected for any, literally any publication. If you have secrets, or proprietary information, fine - but then, you don't get to publish.
No, we shouldn't. Research fraud is committed by people, who must be held accountable. In this specific case, if the issues had truly been accidental, the author's would have responded and revised their paper. They did not, ergo their false claims were likely deliberate.
That the school and the journal show no interest - equally bad, and deserving of public shaming.
Of course, this is also a consequence of "publish or perish."
I feel the same way. I retired last summer, but that only means that I found a place that needs me, where I can work part time without worrying too much about money.
I remember, decades ago, reading an article about some African politician visiting the UK. He was given a tour, which included some of the social housing. The UK bragging about how they took care of their people. He saw people sitting around with with their housing and food paid for. His comment? "How horrible!".
He found it horrible, because - from his perspective - they had no role in society, nothing to do, no purpose to their existence.
This is a big topic in disability rights activism; there are a lot of people who can do some work some of the time, with a certain level of accommodation, and would benefit from so doing.
But that's not how the system works. It forces everyone into binary categorizations, with the aim of removing help if at all possible. So it becomes economically necessary for people to present themselves as helpless and stay away from work or even volunteering, because doing so jeopardizes their means of surviving the bureaucracy.
I'm skeptical of this perspective as most social housing in the UK and the USA have stiff REQUIREMENTS that housing residents be either either employed OR be showing proof of interviewing OR enroll in a job placement program (which requires active training participation). If you fail these, you are generally kicked out of these social housing programs.
Maybe there are some exceptions here and there, but it's generally unusual to have social housing without strict policies and monitored policies on job placements. This policy exists as social housing is highly limited and the administrators wants people to get jobs so that they move out (and into a better shelter they can now afford).
I don't believe UK social housing has any work requirements, it is just massively oversubscribed, such that you need to be very vulnerable to realistically be offered council housing. You do have to pay (below market rate) rent, so you probably need to be searching for work or have been declared to have limited capability for work or work related activities to get a benefit to pay for your social housing. I think there's some state where they've decided no one will hire you for minimum wage, but you're otherwise able so you have to do some kind of volunteering.
Saw a Wall Street Journal article (behind paywall) on this topic which was a short version of this upcoming book: _Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose_
"What these retirees were describing wasn’t just disappointment in a lack of opportunities. It was an erosion in something far more fundamental—their sense of mattering, the deep human need to feel valued and to have a chance to add value to the world. We plan for our wealthspan and healthspan, mapping out financial security and physical well-being. Yet very few of us prepare for an equally essential dimension of retirement: our mattering span, or how we will continue to feel seen, useful and capable of making a difference in this next chapter of life."
I understand, but retired people rank highest on the happiness index, same as children, and the thing they have in common is nothing to do but play, relax, and have fun. Social housing probably doesn't allow for any form of play, and it's just scrapping by level of "surviving". I don't think it's a good example, and letting those people instead work 12h days, 7 day a week, at some repetitive, low pay, job, isn't gonna be all that better, and might be even more horrible.
Hobbies are often personal, or at least self serving. Unless your hobby is volunteering. You can hear this in how people talk about out them. "I do this for me."
I totally understand. I "retired" last summer, but I continue to work about 50%, mostly at a new place that needs my help. I like what I do. Anyway, gaming/reading/etc. are fine and dandy, but not something I want to do 24/7.
The only thing I don't quite get about Brin is going back to Google. Since he doesn't need the money, why not support open source AI projects?
It's not that simple at all. For one thing, having a v6 network doesn't mean you can't have a v4 network. You can run v4 in exactly the same way you currently do, with exactly the same software, and it'll work no worse than it already does.
But for another, the v4 space is available as a subset of the v6 space:
$ ping 64:ff9b::8.8.8.8
PING 64:ff9b::8.8.8.8(64:ff9b::808:808) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64:ff9b::808:808: icmp_seq=1 ttl=113 time=9.82 ms
That's from a machine on a network with no v4, and it works fine. I can reach v4-only sites from it too. I could even do this using v4 addresses if I wanted, but if I showed you the output from that you'd just claim I was using v4.
The point of backwards compatibility would be to allow IPv4 devices to work on an IPv6 network. Not to run a parallel stack.
127.0.0.1 needed to be a valid IPv6 address, along with all the others. Pick a particular prefix, say 0...* and any address with that would be extended to 128 bits. That would have been backwards compatible.
No, that would be forwards compatibility. v4 doesn't have forwards compatibility with any address protocol that uses addresses bigger than 32 bits, and it never will regardless of how that protocol is designed because the flaw is in v4's design.
There is no possible way to design an address protocol with bigger addresses than v4 that a) makes v4 forward compatible with it, and b) can actually work. Feel free to suggest one.
> .0.0.1 needed to be a valid IPv6 address, along with all the others. Pick a particular prefix, say 0...* and any address with that would be extended to 128 bits
That prefix is ::ffff:0:0/96. 127.0.0.1 is ::ffff:127.0.0.1 (::ffff:7f00:1). 30 years and you still haven't realized v6 has this?
Simple reason it didn't take over: the lack of backwards compatibility with ipv4. Yes, it would have marred the beauty of the new specification. But we will continue paying the price for another 30 years.
I bounced back and forth for a few years. Now? Not even dual boot, not even a VM. Maybe Linux did not get better than Windows, opinions differ. However, Windows certainly has gotten worse than Linux.
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