Saving was useful until my career ended with everything about my profession changed. Resilient savings is a great idea until it fails. Then adaptation and improvisation perform better.
> A San Antonio police officer caught on a dash cam challenging a handcuffed man to fight him for the chance to be released was reinstated in February. In the District, an officer convicted of sexually abusing a young woman in his patrol car was ordered returned to the force in 2015. And in Boston, an officer was returned to work in 2012 despite being accused of lying, drunkenness and driving a suspected gunman from the scene of a nightclub killing.
> "In Philadelphia, an inquiry was recently completed on 26 cases where police officers were fired from charges ranging from domestic violence, to retail theft, to excessive force, to on duty intoxication," Adam Ozimek writes in a Forbes article on reforms to policing. "Shockingly, the Police Advisory Committee undertaking the investigation found that so far 19 of these fired officers have been reinstated. Why does this occur? The committee blamed the arbitration process."
This guy got reinstated:
> In June 2008, after downing six drinks as part of his wife's birthday celebration on the South Side, Paul Abel was accused of accidentally shooting a 20-year-old man he was trying to pistol-whip.
This relies on OpenOFDM for much of the "Physical" layer of WiFi, which has some INCREDIBLE documentation that is really worth checking out if you want to understand how modern radios go from a radio signal to packets:
What a bore. I'm not a fan of TikTok, but being stupid is the whole point – and pretending that everything you spend your time on has to have some "value" it's one of the stupidest habits of people who want to be smart I've ever seen. Human life is absurd and pointless, you die anyway and everything you do will disappear into the void: just let yourself have some stupid fun in-between pointlessly hauling the boulder back up, for hell's sake.
To someone not familiar with Haskell funding, can anybody explain the quote below?
"For a while it has been a public secret the Haskell ecosystem has become increasingly entangled with an unsavoury variety in the cryptocurrency sector as one of primary mechanisms for funding development."
I mean, what exactly is this "unsavoury variety in the cryptocurrency sector" and how is Haskell tied to it?
I remember this quote from Larry Sabato, famous political science professor from UVA: "online education is something you want other parents' children to do".
People who think college is just about, or honestly even primarily about, learning various subjects show a deep misunderstanding of what college is in my opinion. Online learning will of course have a place, but in a world where there are both in-person and exclusively online options it's not hard to imagine which experience top students (not to mention the rich and connected) will prefer, and this will only lead to more inequality in higher education.
The Linux Foundation recently released a free course as well titled "A Beginner's Guide to Linux Kernel Development" - haven't taken it yet, but another resource for the community:
> some people are creating FPGA boards that use DMA to read memory
Do you have any links handy where one could read more about this? I'm really curious about the kinds of projects people are doing which requires this kind of hardware.
"systemd is, to put it mildly, controversial. As a FreeBSD developer I decided I wanted to know why.
I delved into the history of bootstrap systems, and even the history of UNIX and other contemporary operating systems, to try and work out why something like systemd was seem as necessary, if not desirable. I also tried to work out why so many people found it so upsetting, annoying, or otherwise rage-inducing.
Join me on a journey through the bootstrap process, the history of init, the reasons why change can be scary, and the discovery of a part of your OS you may not even know existed."
