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> There exist people who voluntarily live in some form of solitary confinement, like hermits and some types of monastic orders - very few though. You may well be one of the edge cases of humanity that would be ok with it.

It is quite plausible that in a different time I would have lived such a life. Sometimes I think about the question what the analogue of such a life would be in an extremely technology-pervaded science-fiction society (think for example cyberpunk or cypherpunk), e.g. how people can "leave" society without leaving all the technology that comes with it. :-)

> Are you asking if that is possible, or if everyone is like that? Because yes, you could actually be like that, and no, most people aren't like that.

I am asking what the problems are that "normal" people have with such a life. I am talking about the psychological problems. Other posters here have very plausibly explained to me how other circumstances of jails that accompany solitary confinement can plausibly explain lots of psychological problems of solitary confinement. But I still cannot imagine how being alone per se can cause you serious psychological trouble (I would describe this at most as "inconvenient"): As I already wrote this does not contradict that I accept that being alone for such a long problem can easily cause problems for reintegration into society after the jail time.
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probably talking about the hilarious update release notes
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Yeah, it was. So it's like how the order in which we learn philosophical ideas roughly mirrors the order in which they were discovered?
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That's a very interesting observation. I run without buds and the only time when I'd want them is really boring straight stretches, e.g. along highway.

I'd say novelty is important too. Whenever I do smth in new location or listen to new music, there's next to zero introspection. The usual location or known music seem helps introspection. In addition to that, if the location is unpleasant, it's hard to get into introspection mode.

TL;DR known-but-nice locations are best for introspection runs :)
Patagonia does that, they call it "worn wear".
I have the exact same feeling, this feels so nostalgic
I'd love to have feedback.

What would you like to have in the ScaleX experiment ?

What is your advice on how to do it right ?
Walks like a duck, talks like a duck, swims like a duck, etc.

Actions speak louder than words, but the words are already loud and bad enough.
Why are you afraid of being bored?

You brain knows how to fill the time. You may be afraid because you know what you brain will fill it with. But it may be worth to listen to what you brain has to say and try to get to terms with yourself :)
Thanks. That seems a lot more understandable.
Yeah, step one: learn Erlang's debugging facilities.
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The thing that gets me about criticism is that critics themselves often seem to think of it this way when it's aimed at them, when someone dares to take their work and subject it to the same kind of analysis and scrutiny they apply to the work of others. What seems to make it acceptable in the eyes of its worst perpetrators is that they're the ones applying it to others who they think of as inferior on some level.
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Quite true.

I think I was lucky since I avoided the worst of the latest storm. I just had a lot of delays on my first day of work this year: they had a tree fallen on the tracks, but they had managed to keep a few trains rolling.
> I just fire up the Arch installer

I will concede that I usually run into far fewer problems/bugs with Arch's pacman than Ubuntu's apt/dpkg. It seems far more robust, and honestly more intuitive too. On the other hand, (1) getting things set up in Arch in the first place is so much more of a pain that it wastes just as much time, and (2) I have also had bad luck with Arch, when after re-downloading and re-trying the install a couple times, I finally realized the ISO I downloaded just had a broken build. (?) I would follow the setup instructions (yes, the appropriate ones, I know they change over time) but pacman would just somehow choke by the end. Once I realized it was a problem with their build I just went back to an earlier ISO and updated and it was fine. But yes, overall, I've had far better experiences with it.
I find your comment much more "disrespectful" than telemetry enabled by default. Did you read the mention that it was done for beta phase ? If you're not happy with that, then do not use beta, ask politely if it can be removed or made optional for final release, and stop whining and acting disdainfully.
No, glass is definitely recycled in the true sense at least some of the time. The key word to look for when researching this is "cullet": crushed glass used as a furnace input.

e.g. Here, http://uk.saint-gobain-glass.com/trade-customers/float-glass... : "SGG UK also utilises, on average, 30% recycled glass (cullet) in the batch, which has the additional benefit of lowering the melting point of the batch, resulting in a more efficient process."

A discussion of the problem of having too much of the wrong colour glass in UK wine bottles: https://www.glass-ts.com/userfiles/files/2005%20-%20WRAP%20-...
I think that is actually closer to the usage in English.
In English it often seems to be the joy you feel at the misfortune of someone as an outcome of poetic justice.
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I think "censor" is the word OP is looking for, not "anonymise".
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I think the idea there is that if you use these wheels in e.g. a folding bicycle you can still easily move the bicycle on the (now collapsed) wheels. You basically get to pick between big or small wheels depending on the situation.
Compared to the usual educational hardware PlayStations are really cheap. If you're putting 10k beamers with 3k PCs in every classroom, who cares about the few hundred bucks to buy a couple experimental devices that make your school look cool.
If the salary stays the same it's because that is the value having someone in that position produces for the company. Paying your employees more than the value they produce is a quick was to bankruptcy.
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Yeah absolutely not giving access to scan my emails. Sorry. I don’t care what service you have, if you can’t provide an alternative way to get the data I’m out.

Also where’s your privacy policy? I don’t see it. You’re also not the first service to show a map of flights I’ve take. There’s been services around for YEARS.

http://www.jetitup.com/
https://my.flightradar24.com/
https://www.flightmemory.com/
https://openflights.org/
https://www.jetlovers.com/

To name a few.
From what happened in France, funding for high-speed rail usually means that maintenance get slashed for the rest of the network.
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critisism is just an evaluation of the use of time/money/work. That is, if we care.
I'd love to know more about the setups you guys use! As in, what you can choose, how much freedom you have tool wise etc
> unless you are on something like T-Mobile that does not consider major audio-video streaming sites against their data cap

Isn't it odd that people don't raise their placards against this example of network non-neutrality?
Would be nice if it could output SVG!
Must have a Google, Hotmail or Outlook account. Yeah, nah.
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I wish I could import my flights from App in the Air
I pretty much dismiss all 'the youth today' statements. People have always been people, so why would the youth today be so much different from, say, young people a hundred years ago (in what they think, feel and want that is).

However, to add to the point about noise: Often I just want to go have a few drinks with my friends, but there's virtually no place where you can do that, without getting bombarded by way-too-loud music. The only places I could think of where that would not be the case are working-class watering holes where people my age apparently don't like to go anymore. I'd love for us (I'm living in Austria) to have more of a pub-culture like in England, where it seems to me, it's more accepted, also among young people, to just sit in a bar, have a drink and be able to talk to another.
While it is becoming widely acknowledged that long-term solitary confinement is essentially a form of torture, in theory it's not about causing suffering, but rather about protecting inmate safety. Denying books wouldn't really make sense in that context.
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Older tracks can't be used for high speed trains. In France, all the new high-speed lines are constructed for this usage (lot of straight lines). On older lines, an high-speed train will be at the same speed as a normal commuter train.
Or any of the liberal arts.

The "well rounded" argument works both ways!
Sanaa, the capital city of Yemen, has already run out of water. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-blockade-r...

There were serious problems before the war, but now it's just a disaster area. The US supports this.
No information whatsoever. Could very well be a hoax.
No way. E-mails are incredibly sensitive data, you are not getting access. I'd consider using this if I could manually put my flight details in, but F-U-C-K T-H-A-T.

What reason do I have to trust you at all?

What if you got hacked?

Plus I don't use any of these emails. This is an awful idea.
Windows 10 is the best OS in the family so far. The fact that you switched, is most likely just a hyped-overreaction to one of the things that they did that you didn't like.
What desktop/workstation manufacturer?
Uber's value nowadays is that they have the infrastructure as a "connected" taxi service, and they have the users. But I guess that's not unique, Lyft has this too, and installing another taxi app or two is easy enough (or in the case of Google, they'll probably just integrate it to Google Maps -- I just realized why they've integrated Uber into Google Maps, so when they do that with Waymotaxi, no one can scream "anti-competitive move!").

Finding and vetting drivers will be the slightly harder task...
ahh so the bankers make $$ for an arcane opaque "buyback" I would rather have the $ now and as my apple holdings are in Investment trusts in my ISA I don't pay tax on dividends.
You can still use an Android phone without the Google Play store if you use a custom rom such as LineageOS. I do not not have a Google account set on my Motorola E LTE.
I’ve long thought Uber’s plan was acquisition: google up cash to GBF (Get Big Fast) with unassailable network effect (brand, user data, city usage data etc) and then sell off. Just as GM got Cruise (for a song) then a GM would buy uber.

That seemed, for the reasons you gave, to be a long shot. Sure the car mfrs don’t have services in their dna, but it won’t cost THAT much to get there. Certainly not the $40-odd billion valuation Uber bears.

I also have long believed there will only be 4-5 global car brands once the vehicles drive themselves (fleet production in a monopsony environment destroys the value of branding). I hadn’t guessed that GM might even have been in the runnng.
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It is unnatural and inhuman ... hence any social system that root out this is bad. Accept what we are and deal with it squarely. Escape is not a solution.
Who is the desktop/workstation manufacturer?
Also, let's not forget another point, is that CD Projekt was already a large distributor/localizer in Poland long before they had their RED division: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Projekt

So they didn't really start out of nothing when it comes to having connections with game developers.
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A mandatory membership fee.
I just realized why they've integrated Uber into Google Maps

Google Ventures invested a large amount in Uber as well – I think they owned something like 5% last time I looked.
> Thank you Canonical for the competition

One of those examples where competition does not help at all.

Many desktop users and contributors moved to Ubuntu and stopped contributing to Debian. A good number slowly moved back to Debian in the last 5 years.
Correct. The lawyer in this case asked for permission to withdraw, and the court wouldn't let him. (The court wouldn't agree to reschedule the case, and the defendant neither found another lawyer nor agreed to waive his right to a lawyer.)
To address Spectre, I assume these patches involve turning off speculative execution in some way. These various benchmarks that seem to show very little performance degradation after the patch should perhaps lead to the question "why was the processor ever doing that in the first place if cutting it out barely affects performance?".

edit: And if its not turning off speculative execution, how is it addressing Spectre? Because I thought that was the only way.
> and at least 900 of them are forbidden by law to run them on clouds (e.g. banks).

Minor nit: banks are increasingly using cloud computing where they legally can, and that's becoming a lot easier now that regulators are using the cloud as well.

The bigger problem for banks with cloud is cross-border data transfer. Will Luxembourg or Monaco or $country allow banks there to host their computers in a cloud in Frankfurt or Dublin or Amsterdam? Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, so you always have to have a backup plan.
We have this in spades here: Two types of people clash regularly. The "doers", who demand that they be working on something all the time, and the "completers", who insist that they can't start something new because they haven't finished the last task.

The "doers" tend to "win", and that causes all sorts of problems at deployment time, not least of which is the test department swamped at the end of the release cycle.
There is a Paint.NET remake on Linux called Pinta. Not quite as stable (it struggles with large images), but it has the exact same interface.
Maybe in situations where someone throws a beach ball in front of your car and your immediate split-second reaction is to turn your car into a murder weapon directed at the first "hoodlum" you spot who may or may not have thrown this ball.
Thanks for update. I was wondering about that too.
I think it can be a tool to hurt others, and is often used that way by people who probe and learn our psychological weak points, but its proper role is to defend against ideas/culture that one doesn't like.

If some new idea or trend is painful or apparently harmful or even just mildly annoying then it's important to try to understand why and to articulate this in order to protect one's mental integrity. This can be done in private. If one is defending against the actions of another, it may or may not be necessary to communicate the criticism to that other person. Often it is sufficient to silently note why their actions are wrong. (And if one fails to accomplish this, perhaps the actions weren't bad after all. Thus a failed attempt at criticism has changed one's mind about something. This is useful and important.)

Sometimes the criticism must be communicated, perhaps even in the presence of witnesses. This can be hard.

Public criticism is a different matter. There one is trying to protect a subculture from some idea or work that one considers harmful. I'm not sure what are the proper conditions under which to give this or hear this kind of criticism. Perhaps one has the right to be heard only if one can advocate an alternative approach or artwork that is worthy of attention. Or if one has made significant personal contributions to the field.

Note that this comment is a criticism of criticism as it is generally understood and so it makes sense by its own terms. Most of us and most ideas have been the target of unjust criticism at one time or another.
> While it is becoming widely acknowledged that long-term solitary confinement is essentially a form of torture, in theory it's not about causing suffering, but rather about protecting inmate safety. Denying books wouldn't really make sense in that context.

That seems to go against what Wikipedia says? It says it's primarily about punishment rather than safety:

> [Solitary confinement] is mostly employed as a form of punishment beyond incarceration for a prisoner, usually for violations of prison regulations. However, it is also used as an additional measure of protection for vulnerable inmates.
> I just realized why they've integrated Uber into Google Maps, so when they do that with Waymotaxi, no one can scream "anti-competitive move!

No, they integrated it so that Maps becomes the go-to point for users when they need a ride. That way, Google can snatch those users away when Waymo becomes available. The internet nowadays is all about being the "gatekeeper", and Google just wants to stay in that role.
Now make a desktop app out of this using electron!
Software will always fill up the capacity of the hardware.
For me the brush tool is very smooth (running Chromium browser on a 5 year old gaming/dev rig).
I live in Cape Town, and this article is missing some points about whats been going on:

1. "Day 0" has been moved forward - we're now expected to run out of water 21 April.

2. The daily limit of water per person is 87l but only ~50% of consumers meet this target

3. This is considered a 1/1000 year event (in contrast to 1/100 experienced elsewhere in the country recently). However due to increased population this is being called "the new normal".

4. Water allocation between residential/agriculture was done at some national level, meaning the province wasn't able to manage the supplies correctly.

5. 6/7 water relief projects are behind schedule - these include desalination plants and aquifer pumps.

6. We lose 15% of our water through leaks - much lower than the world average but not as good as the best (around 10% in Australia and New Zealand)

Some other personal notes:
1. There has been talk of tapping the aquifers for decades - the studies haven't been prioritised and we still don't know how much we can safely take. The outlying areas of Cape Town are essentially marshes and during normal rainfall seasons are prone to flooding, so there is definitely some space but noone knows how much.

2. The city has lost R1.6b ($130m) in water fees due to reduced usage, so now we're facing a "drought tax". To me this is bullshit but thats a whole other post.

3. The restrictions should not be eased once the dams are full - with climate change and increasing population its only a matter of time until we run out of water and no amount of rainfall is going to help

4. When we run out of water there will be water trucks and collections points, but there has been no talk of sanitation - I suspect a lot of people are going to get really sick.
The site works nicely in my browser (Chrome).

I feel like this mockumentary is not getting enough credit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9L03GycSZw

- "We worked for eight months in a facility in California to figure out what were the best twelve colors to include in Paint"

- Can we make this line thinner?
- No.
- Ok.

I have not used Paint for any real work in the past, other than saving screenshots. Ever since MS started shipping the snipping tool, I hardly use this function.
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The difference is, Cape Town is not in war time. I can't think of the last time there was literal war in Cape Town, there's nothing in recent times. My best guess would be "a small but significant military engagement" on 8 January 1806 (1).

Unrest in the late 1980s doesn't count.

As far as I know, there were no military engagements in Cape Town during the Anglo-Boer wars (1880 - 1881 and 1899 – 1902).

1 ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blaauwberg
I think with Wine you can only save in BMP and PNG? Last time I used Wine to emulate MSPaint, these were the only two formats for saving the files.
They are not. Turning speculative execution off would roughly halve the performance.

What they are doing is flushing (some of?) the btb on privilege level change.
This is exactly the same pattern that you can observe in government projects in Eastern Europe that we call corruption here.
> to provide cheap workers

doubtful, rarely the self taught can pass the hr screening
Often the required firmware is in the non-free section of Debian, which isn't enabled by default for idealism/purity reasons. It is very simple to enable installation of packages from the non-free section, and then usually everything just works. Basically, Ubuntu have chosen a different default - it probably doesn't actually have any firmware that Debian doesn't. Neither approach is wrong.
Microsoft have tried this kind of thing more than once in the past, usually ultimately cancelling the projects. There was Microsoft Popfly (retired), Project Spark (retired), Microsoft Kodu (still going), now MakeCode. I suspect there are even more if you go further back.

Our startup has been doing the visual programming thing successfully for around 6 years now, and our latest tool is at www.construct.net. Maybe they should give us a call since it looks like they're struggling to get this right ;)
Interesting that he'd say garlic because my dad (in his 70s now) lives in his hometown in Croatia. Where most people grow crops, it's a rural community.

And near the center most crops are just for personal consumption. Yet no one grows garlic. I was shocked by this.

He said he'd be the first to grow garlic in the whole village. He has of course lived many years in Sweden where I was born and raised before he moved back for his twilight years.

In Sweden garlic has been very common for my entire life, since at least 1985.

I can only speculate but it's likely that I had access to garlic due to global imports.

And it's also likely his fellow villagers, many in their 50s and older, aren't used to garlic because they didn't grow up with it.
It may be both, but certainly the stated goal is not psychological torture—so it's not surprising that some limited amount of entertainment is allowed.
There was some action in World War 2 with shipping around the peninsula, but nothing in the city itself
> I wish the Google Play Store/Apple App Store did things half as well as Steam does, like:
> Backing up application data in the cloud (game saves)

iCloud has been doing that for years, with more features and flexibility for both users as well as developers than Steam.

> Update priorities (ASAP, before next launch, before everything else)

Disable auto-updates and let the user decide. Manually choosing updates works better on the App Store than on Steam.

> Update windows (like when the phone is idle in the middle of the night, not when I'm in the middle of using it)

macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS all let you choose whether to download OS updates in the background and when to install them.
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Possibly off-topic, but I would have guessed Tarkovsky would be as popular here as any filmmaker, at least because of Solaris and Stalker. Are the nerds of today no longer into such stuff?