I honestly have no issue with people managing to contain their own righteous opinions (for either side of the debate) and not smash thousands of characters of spam and spam images into issue trackers.
That's not what they're for.
If the issue doesn't affect you directly (and it doesnt), and you're not a contributor to the project, then dont get involved.
The issue of someone else getting censored affects everyone who might also get censored. Being silent about injustice against others, just because it does not affect you, is umwise.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. [1]
Please note I am not suggesting that this simple issue is in any way remotely related to the seriousness of what this quote refers too. However, plant enough seeds over long enough and you wake up one day without being able to express things that cause other people to be offended. You don't have to like what someone does or says but they should be able to none the less.
A bunch of mostly rich people of mostly above average intelligence using a particular service are asked[1] to refrain from using a particular word, but who are free to set up their own servers and use whatever language they like
Versus
A lot of mostly poor, vulnerable, people of (by definition) below average intelligence, who are subjected to bullying based ontheir disability; who are segregated from society; who were sometimes sterilised against their will (sometimes without their knowledge); who were used as test subjects in medical experimentation; who were used by the Nazis to test mass-killing techniques before the Nazis started killed Jews; who are denied medical treatment; who are sometimes killed just because of their disability.
> Being silent about injustice against others, just because it does not affect you, is umwise.
Yes, I agree. I disagree about where the injustice lies.
Personally I think this is censorship because Github holds power in the development world. Basically every developer is on Github. I switched from Bitbucket to github not because Github is better, but because it's basically open source suicide NOT to be on Github.
Disabling a repo because they don't agree with a word in it seems like an abuse of that power to me.
So basically, I feel it's censorship because Github holds enough power over its users.
Why is the word "censorship" the problem here? Of course it is. Github is censoring what it is willing to host. This is roughly akin to you or I selecting which papers we'll read tonight, or which speakers we'd like to hear in a conference, or which links we'd like to include as related work on a blog post. Or which book we'd give to a friend.
The western world has a lot of implicit censorship going on that we think is unfairly applied en masse, and that's where we start to see a problem. Women, for example, are consistently and provably discriminated against in a variety of ways in these subtle decisions. This creates a general vacuum of their input in our field (and many others!).
Actions like this help to remove said implicit bias and apply the censorship principles we use in our daily lives more fairly, giving us a more accurate picture of the world without having to listen to every single voice.
Looks reasonable as a support when your child is being taught how to swim (and is thus closely monitored). Looks absolutely horrible as a means of preventing your kid from drowning though.
disclaimer: I'm not in any way a professional when it comes to water safety, so this is just a remark; not advice.
Yea, it looks like a useful tool to provide support while following the warnings:
Warning: Not suitable for children under 36 months
Warning: Only to be used in water in which the child is within its depth and under adult supervision
Warning: To be used under the direct supervision of an adult
I don't think it's a mistake that "under adult supervision" is said twice.
Yes, that would be a waste of time. But in the past I've gotten in the habit of commenting things in the database for larger projects, and have written a bunch of tools to extract those comments and generate database documentation from it. For large databases (table-wise, not data-wise), it's been absolutely invaluable to be able to just take the DB docs and reason about how stuff works in there. "Oh, this table is fed by a trigger from table X!", "Ah, the `system` table contains non-tenant specific global system settings". Stuff like that.
Yeah, in a perfect world everything in a database would be obvious from its name, but this is not a perfect world and naming things properly is extremely hard.
Only if the send you your old password. If they reset your password, they can send you the plaintext first, then hash the password and store it in the database.
No. The problem is that email isn't encrypted on the backend. Sending a plain text password means every server between the website's SMTP server and your email provider's SMTP server can see the password.
a) Work once. If you click on a password reset link and it says it's already been used, you know something is up, v.s. someone using the plaintext password to log in before you and you are non the wiser.
b) Expire. Lot's of people won't bother changing the password that was given to them, so anyone who comes across a plaintext password in the email at a later date would be able to log in.
Temporary plaintext passwords are rare; I don't think I've ever seen one. If you've got as far as temporary plaintext passwords, I'd argue it's a better UX to provide a simple link instead of forcing them to copy and paste something.
For me it's not so much that handing over cash is mentally more painful. It's just that cash is inconvenient to obtain, so if I don't have enough of it on me, I won't buy that drink in the shop when I'm only 20 minutes from home. With plastic, there's always enough money, so I don't even have to think about it.
I think we don't even realise the impact we can have on people, deliberate or otherwise. Years ago, when I finished highschool, this guy came up to me and said "thanks for acting normal to me, it really helped me through the last four years". I kinda knew he got bullied, but I never really realized how much it bothered him or how my interaction with him affected him. He was just this guy, and on occasion I'd talk to him if I saw him in the hallways.
Since then, I've always had the feeling that you don't really have to try hard to have a meaningful impact on other people's lives. Just be nice in general and you'll have more impact than you can imagine.
I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Airlines are like hard disk vendors or car manufacturers. Everybody has their anecdotal evidence that the particular one they hate is indeed the worst.
I once, involuntary, went without sleep for around 72 hours. I was at a music festival and we were either pulling through the night or I couldn't sleep because of the noise. When the time came to go home, I really felt pretty good. At that time I had been awake for around 60 hours. My body was tired and my thinking was a bit sluggish, but nothing too bad...
Until I got home and tried to sleep. By then I was feeling dead-tired, but I simply couldn't sleep. This wasn't your average "Oh I can't sleep, guess I'll do something else and try again later" case of 'insomnia'. I was so extremely tired; all I wanted was to sleep. I started having hallucinations much like the early stages of a mushroom trip (minus the fun). My eyes couldn't focus, I couldn't think.
Finally I managed to fall asleep (while constantly suppressing panic attacks; something I've suffered from in the past and know how to deal with now). I had lucid dream after lucid dream during that sleep. It was very unsettling as I got the feeling (during lucid dreaming) that I wasn't getting any "real" sleep and I'd go insane.
All in all the lucid dreaming aspect was pretty cool, and in retrospect perhaps worth the unsettling experience of being awake so long. But I'll never ever want to repeat that experience.
I had sort of an 'opposite' experience following 86 hours of no sleep and lots of physical labour.
Military training, 3 1/2 days of digging ad building trenches by hand. Middle of high summer and digging through stony clay.
Interspersed between the digging were numerous patrols and mental tests.
I experienced the hallucinations whilst fully awake from about hour 76 particularly throughout the night and early morning. I vividly remember stopping so talk to a Colour Sergeant I knew and shook his hand, only to find it extremely prickly. Trying again the pain brought me to my senses and I realised I was shaking hands with a Holy bush.
During a dawn attack the following morning I frequently fell into micro-sleeps whilst 'standing to', resulting in bashed knees and a couple of trips to the bottom of the trench flat on my face.
Come an enforced rest period at hour 86 I lay down and experienced the kind of unconsciousness I've only experienced under an anaesthetic. I was utterly gone.
3 hours later I felt amazingly refreshed, just as well as there were 48 more hours to go without sleep until the exercise finished.
It's common in the military to train for extreme scenarios, because sooner or later you might encounter them in reality (i.e. war) where you are forced to do it whether you have trained for it or not.
I had a similar experience when my child was born. The birth took about two full days, the last 36 hours of which I didn't sleep. And the first week I slept about 3 hours a night with maybe a few naps during the day.
The strange thing was, I could still function. I couldn't do anything complex, but basic tasks where not much of a problem. However, when I finally had a moment to really sleep. I couldn't. It felt like every time I had to get up to do something, I got an adrenalin rush to be able to do it and all that excitement prevented me from falling a sleep.
I fortunately didn't have any hallucinations, but I can relate to the lucid dreaming. Aside from lack of sleep, I also seem to have this after a very stressful day. I wonder if it is stress related.
We just had our first child 4 weeks ago. Relationship with sleep has completely changed. Before I'd need ~8hour of straight sleep to feel completely rested, anything less I felt like my brain was very sluggish.
4 weeks later that number is 5-6 hours.
Also relationship with coffee has completely changed. 4 weeks ago drinking a strong ~16 oz of coffee in the morning would keep me up all night. Now I drink multiple cups throughout the day and can pretty much sleep at will :)
Sleep has been very light and dreams not super vivid, every now and then will fall into a vivid dream but not lucid
That's a crazy story, I could never imagine myself not sleeping for 72 hours!! When I mess up my sleeping schedule pretty bad (which happened a lot back in college), I usually do sleep paralysis when falling asleep (as opposed to when waking up). And I can do it 6 or 7 times in a row, it's a nightmare. Usually though, I realize what's going on (it's happened to me so. many. times.) after the second or third 'paralysis' and sleep on my stomach, which for some reason, allows me to fall asleep without the whole paralysis thing going on. You can actually turn sleep paralysis into a lucid dream if you 'control' it properly. I usually just wake up thinking 'thank god I'm alive' though.
Ah I get that too. I figured out why sleep paralysis happens and here's how to fix it. When you sleep on your back your pillow is compressing your brain stem at the base of your skull. Get the pillow further up on your head so as much as possible it doesn't touch your neck or the fleshy part just below the back of your skull. It'll feel a bit different (weird?) but you should be able to sleep without issue.
Tell as many people as you can after you see for yourself.
edit: As an additional tip, the way I get out of the paralysis is by trying to rock my body as if I'm building up momentum to jump or at least jerk a limb. Once I twitch a limb it feels easy enough to break everything else out. That rocking feeling is probably imaginary so I don't know how transferable the technique is to other people.
Oh man, sleep paralysis is scary. After I had it happen to me a few times, these days I either go "ugh, not this again" and go back to sleep, or just panic and try to fight it, in which case I wake with a jolt after what feels like a minute (an eternity, when you're paralyzed).
I tried polyphasic sleep where you sleep 10 minutes every 3 hours, except I couldn't fall asleep quickly enough so I didn't sleep at all for >72 hours. The strange thing is that I got the idea that I was somehow more awake, more focused. All the background thoughts in your brain disappear, and it makes you think you have laser focus on what you are doing. Except that you objectively suck at what you are doing...
A few weeks after that experiment I found out that some of my memories were missing. I was in high school at the time and I took a university course in classical mechanics with a few friends. This meant going with the train to a different city several times per week, but I had totally forgotten that I did that. I only realized this when my fiends kept talking about it as if I was there too. The memories did come back later; the lack of sleep only only broke the reference to that memory and when the reference was restored the memory itself was still in tact.
I once worked for 100 hours solid (only breaks were to use the loo or fetch food; total waking time was about 110 hours) and once I got past the hours 24-40 I felt fine most of the time - no hallucinations or similar, didn't feel particularly sleepy or experience micro-sleeps, and the quality of the work was OK (not my best by any stretch, but passable).
The wierd part came when I hit the deadline for the project (10am) and had to submit it - pretty much as soon as I stopped working, I felt _awful_, barely coherent, and had to take a friend with me to submission as I wasn't sure I could find the venue despite going there five plus times a week for a couple of years. It was a pretty shocking experience to go from working OK to barely functional in a matter of minutes. Not an experience I'm in any rush to repeat either! Despite that, I ended up staying awake for the rest of the day and played Risk with friends that evening, because I just couldn't get to sleep.
Hmm, I went to a festival and stayed up at least two nights in a row plus the three days. On the third day we got on this little tiny plane to get back to the main airport and everyone and I just conked out. Same thing in the taxi on the way there. People shaking me said I wasn't waking up. Landing, taking off, nothing. Although I'm a very comfortable flyer anyways and never really have any of the anxieties some people have with flying.
I'm not sure which is preferable, without friends I may have missed all my flights, but that sleep was desperately needed.
That's actually not that weird (minus the dreams). There are times during your circadian rhythm when you will have trouble falling asleep no matter how tired you are. You probably just were in one of those periods when you tried to sleep.
Mindful deliberate diaphragmatic breathing has allowed me to completely overcome panic attacks.
A simple exercise to learn diaphragmatic breathing is to lay down on your back and put a textbook on your stomach. Place your hand on your chest. Focus on each inhalation only moving the book, your hand/chest should not move at all :)
I've had panic attacks in two locations: while falling asleep in bed and in crowded trains.
I guess I just kinda got used to them. Since I know what's coming I don't feel the 'panic' part of the attack anymore. I just breathe slowly, deeply and deliberately, focus on my breathing. If I get the adrenaline rush you might be familiar with, I sometimes get up and walk a bit.
They key for me is to recognize when I'm having or starting to have one and not focusing on it too much. I don't know if it helped, but I used to meditate quite often. That tought me a lot about keeping my mind in check. This helps with many things, amongst which falling asleep (I just clear my mind and I'm gone in under 10 minutes) and panic attacks.
The whole shrugging off and downplaying of issues like this are exactly the reason the internet is complete shit when it comes to security.
Why, after all the exploits, insecure software and bad decisions, can people still not see that they can't anticipate everything?
For instance, here's a scenerio I can easily envision: The NSA strongarms Ebay into letting them sniff TCP connections to their favicon, combines the TCP fingerprint with the browser useragent to uniquely identify you from perhaps millions of other users. Geolocate your IP to determine where you are and bam they know all about you they need to know. Tin-foil hat? Of course. Plausible? Totally. Doable? Absolutely. They don't need to be perfect, just good enough.
That's just because those of us who don't are afraid we'll get chewed out here, so we're not commenting.