With so much browser fingerprinting and the biggest social networks being US companies, I wouldn't be surprised if already a company like Palanti has a dataset with all your history
They don't need fingerprinting, all the American social media has probably already been given a sealed FISA order to hand over account lists with ip access logs.
I feel like it's the same as the "I am not a terrorist" declaration check-box. You know your socials, they know your socials. They want to see if you lie.
I am in very small minority since my car is 20 years old now, but it has halogen lights with height adjustments, and they even check for height adjustment at the yearly inspection. But automated high beam switching and people are not ware of it? What sort of drivers do we have nowadays..
A number of US states don't even require regular safety inspections. For example, in Maryland, you only get a safety inspection when selling your vehicle or transferring it in from another state.
The number of people who don't use their lights judiciously is surprisingly large. Besides high beam issues, I've also observed people who think that their daytime running lights are headlights. This is especially obvious because their taillights will be off.
I've also lost it, around ~10 times so far. Never have any dreams or flashbacks. Just before passing out, I realize what's going to happen, but it's often too late. I only have a terrible headache afterwards.
Depends on the source. I've been doing nogi BJJ (not on the comp team: I am old, we train hard but not competition hard) about ten years or so.
People training technique will grey out pretty much routinely as they talk through things with their partners and work strategies for techniques.
People go out now and then, usually on purpose with folks who understand when it happens.
The BJJ community is mature at this point. There are folks on comp teams basically having fights every day. I suspect when those people go out, you are right. Damage is done and it accumulates.
I suspect when folks like me and my training partners go out, there is no trauma to speak of.
What is the net of this lifestyle? I don't know; I've had no major injuries (requiring surgery or major downtime-- popping the cartilage in your rib working top control drills will take fucking forever to heal tho), I've learned a lot, made good friends, and have only this life to spend as I see fit, so I can only anecdata.
But the understanding in our world is this: trauma is traumatic (and sometimes causes loss of consciousness, sometimes not), but not all loss of consciousness is traumatic.
I've passed out about that many times in my life as well. I'm very sensitive to dehydration and it can sneak up on me and drop my blood pressure enough that down I go. Happens maybe once every five to six years.
I don't have any crazy memories when I'm out. But coming back to, I always feel like there's something I just can't remember, it's just out of reach, at the tip of my tongue... and then my sight comes back and I can place where I am, but it feels like I've been gone for a very long time and am returning to the past, and then everything snaps in place and I'm back to normal.
Being put under with anesthetic feels very different. With that, I simply pop out and then pop back in.
And later, I thought I'd check, you know, what Google itself has to say on this: ;)
what are the main programming languages used at Google
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AI Overview
Google utilizes a diverse set of programming languages across its various products and services. The main programming languages used at Google include:
C++:
Widely used for performance-critical applications and system-level programming, such as in the core search engine, Google Chrome, and other backend infrastructure.
Java:
Essential for Android app development and significant portions of Google's backend systems.
Python:
Employed for a wide range of tasks including scripting, data analysis, machine learning, and web development (e.g., YouTube).
JavaScript:
Fundamental for web application development and frontend interactions across Google's web-based services.
Go (Golang):
Google's own open-source language, increasingly used for cloud-based projects, microservices, and network programming due to its efficiency and concurrency features.
SQL:
Crucial for managing and interacting with databases, which are integral to almost all data-driven applications at Google.
While these are the primary languages, Google also utilizes other languages such as Rust (for projects like Fuchsia OS), Kotlin (for Android development), and Dart (for Flutter framework development) for specific use cases and projects. The choice of language often depends on the project's requirements for performance, scalability, development time, and existing infrastructure.
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So it looks like the main ones I missed were Rust and SQL.
Dang! I should have thought of SQL, at least for their IT ops, but I was thinking only about their customer-facing apps.
The fragmentation this creates is not worth it, we're building the tower of Babel of web technologies. If you look at 'modern' web applications every html component is rephrased into something like this 'inlinestack' crap.
The tower of Web Babel was built 5 years ago during peak React. It’s gotten better tbh as more competition has creeped into the web space due to React dropping the ball and resting on their laurels.
While I understand the gut reaction to seeing something like InlineStack, it’s not any different than a utility class except the abstraction has been made on the component level instead of the CSS level within a bunch of different components. The other thing is that these types of components provide a layer for abstraction that extends beyond the web. If I’m writing a app that targets web and native mobile, I can let the compiler decide which version to place in the build to take advantage of native features of the platform.
At a certain scale, programming becomes about maintaining consistency at said scale and less about the craftsmanship of an individual component. As a developer who also enjoys writing CSS and building layouts myself by hand, I understand your frustration but it’s misguided towards a group of developers who are trying to solve different problems.
We don’t need to implement everything that FAANG comes up with in their “innovation labs” and I 100% believe that there is a place for handcrafted code in applications for decades to come. But let’s not lose site of the fact that table saws haven’t replaced hand saws. They serve different purposes for different audiences and that’s okay!
Not to be pedantic, but I am legitimately confused about how the babel of tower metaphor is being used here. In biblical lore, the flaw of the tower of babel was that it too successful as a unifying project. Is this what you mean in regards to react? It seems that other comment meant the opposite.
People complained that the Russians didn't protest more at the beginning of the war, and here you have the Americans, who won't be sent to Siberia or thrown out of a window, doing nothing.
American liberals are so full of lifelong indoctrination into thinking that laws, courts, and constitutions are what hold up democracy ... they're just going in circles for the last 10 years expecting the next election or court decision to save them.
They have no real concept of the mobilization of people power, street protest, disobedience because it's been stripped from the ideological palette of American liberalism.
Those on the left who do hold these concepts of opposition are deliberately marginalized by their two party system.
Just like with Russians and the war, the world cannot expect domestic dissent within these countries to save them. It's up to the people of Europe & Canada to form alliances and do the best we can.
American liberal propaganda is so powerful because liberals sincerely are incapable of seeing it because they take it as fact.
What's odd is that, despite considering themselves "left", no one them seem to have gotten through enough Marx to understand the concept of "ideology" which is the basis for their distorted worldview.
I always find it interesting that Americans will rant on about how oppressive China is because you can't talk about a particular event (Tiananmen Square massacre), while not batting an eye that mention one of the most prominent thinkers in Western history will get everything else you say absolutely invalidated.
Again, a perfect examples... somebodies writings on ideology.
Is anyone here using Crowdstrike, what does it do? I see it referred to as an 'anti-virus'? I have it installed on my work laptops and I see it as a keylogger and activity monitor. "I got nothing to hide", but still bothers me when some corporate super users spy on me.
Instead of calling out AV/EDR solutions as malware and spyware, I have a better solution: Stop using your workstations for private stuff. They belong to the company, and they are a liability since you use them to access the company environment and could cause damage if actual malware would find its way onto it. Use a separate device for private stuff if you want privacy.
