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Apart from reading with no interruptions, you should take breaks and just daydream:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180208-an-effortless-way-t...
Interesting, and a bit surprising. Back in the Triassic Age, I picked up LaTeX from an undergrad roommate because it was easier than writing up homework by hand, and because you can turn a basic ".txt" file into a ".tex" file with very few changes.

I agree that Markdown and friends have their place, but they quickly reach their limits. You write that "Pandoc can take care of the presentation for us," but in my experience, Markdown and such will only get you as far as "good enough." If you want to typeset complicated equations, or print something more complicated than a novel, you need more powerful tools.
Sorry, didn't mean to come across as harsh.

Just wanted to point out that C++ was in reach for a lot of people, thanks to Borland's compilers. They were considered cheap by most.

Example, in my case. I had a TRS-80 200 computer, which cost US$600. About the same as most computers of that era. In the context of owning a computer, the $50 wasn't much more.
*Before taxes?
I agree. I'd do a heck of a lot more unsafe shit if I knew I could survive it without permanent damage. It's the permanent damage that keeps me from doing flagrantly unsafe stuff, not the pain. You wind up causing yourself pain in all sorts of avoidable but not terribly unsafe ways.
Anecdotally, I kind of agree with the author. I used to spend whole days as a kid just reading books, sometimes staying up very late to finish them. I don't know if its because my life has just gotten busier, my attention span has gotten shorter, or a combination of the two, but I'm finding it much more difficult to first pick up and crack open a book, then read it all the way through. I do this a lot lately: I will hear about a book I on a topic I find very interesting, Ill read about a quarter of it, amd almost always never pick it up again. Fiction, non Fiction, it doesnt matter the subkect nor the interest level, I inevitably stop reading it. I think it comes down to a few factors, though. The only times now where I can really read through a whole book is when I'm on vacation, usually a long ways away from my home and job. So I'm assuming the short attention span is probably stress/exhaustion related, and at the end of a day or on the weekends I just dont feel I have the energy to pick up and finish a book. And this goes on and on until Ive forgotten about the book I was reading. Anyone else feel the same way? (Sorry for any grammatical errors, I'm typing this from my phone.)
If you feel like sharing it, I would be grateful!
I was with you until the last paragraph. Microsoft Word? Really? I can still read plain text documents written in the late 70s. Can't quite say the same for VIP-Writer. Or even Word Perfect.
I don't read. However I go on walks and listen to an hour long podcast or an audiobook the entire time. Audiobooks and podcasts are continually growing in popularity. Is this somehow worse than reading?
Reading is a skill like any other. Ignore it for long enough and you get worse as it atrophies. I read a book a month or so and a fair bit of longform text on the web. I'm as engaged as I was when I was young, going hours at a time if I need to.
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No not really. I was wondering how the process works since it takes 72hours from requesting an unlock at the provider until the unlock itself. I read online that the request gets pushed to the unlock servers in intervals and wondered why.
But that is not true. I end up using crypto to buy things online because some vendors I use give 25%+ discounts for buying using crypto. Saying "no one" uses it for commerce is just wrong.
I actually read this recently...very interesting. I've learned a bit of Esperanto myself and if anyone is wondering, yes it is really easy to learn. My grasp of Esperanto grammar and vocabulary is significantly stronger than Spanish despite years of formal instruction in high school. Knowing a single word like "dento" for "tooth" tells me the place where a dentist works by adding "ejo" to the end and what a dentist is called by adding "isto" to the end of tooth. I still have a lot to learn, but a few root words gets you a lot of mileage with Esperanto.

Back to the article. It's always interesting how these families work that meet at Esperanto events. Hungarian is an extremely challenging language, so it sounds like her French father could only fully communicate with them in Esperanto. I bet your fluency goes up fast. I'm curious if there are words her parents had to invent if there isn't an Eaperanto word. I guess you could always describe a computer repairman some other way by adding electric-machine-fixer-man together or something like that...I'm sure this happens in other conlangs too.
If you knew there would be no permanent damage would you do it for $10, $100, $1,000, some amount that assures you never have to work again, etc?

There's many cultures that have coming of age rituals that would be considered torture in the western world. People do those things because they're "part of a larger package" so to speak.
So you will crush a roach or swat a fly? I am all for humane chicken faming methods, et.al. However we are the top of the food chain and we eat everything below. That means it dies. My friends dogs will try to eat his chickens and it is not pretty (he trains the dogs not to of course.) I have a forest full of dear behind my house. I heard the very loud screaming of an animal the other day. One of the deer was lunch for a mountain lion. This is the way it works. If you have an issue with it then do not eat lobster or do not eat meat. I like lobster. If you told me I could do something simple to make their death more human I would, but it’s still going to die and I am still going to eat it.

Edit: English is hard :)
Adding happiness to the model solves some of its problems (suffering+happiness model doesn't advocate nuclear annihilation), but I don't see how suffering-vs-happiness utilitarianism reaches the conclusion that infanticide is wrong. It seems like we need to consider more than happiness vectors for infanticide not to be okay.
> Do you think i am entirely wrong, and suffering is worse than death?

In some cases, certainly.

I'd also say that it being voluntary, and knowing that there is an end (and can be brought to an end by you), makes for a very different experience.
Yes, nobody - like for example Apple, to implement Time Machine.

But now perhaps I better understand why Time Machine backups aren't supported on APFS.
That would fall under the scope of "needless".

The context of this law is a lobster that's going to be eaten.
Yes you actually did copy what I've said verbatim, now you're showing you're able to copy entire comments as well, congratz, which you may think was pointless, but it does answer whether you're confused or just trolling.
One of the strongest arguments for banning cock/dog fighting is that it inculcates moral depravity in its participants. To stand there and take pleasure in causing suffering in living things can only serve make you callous to human suffering as well. It seems justified to ban it, at least as an organized, large-scale enterprise.
That's exactly the point. The first steps in the path to illegitimate authority is to start legitimizing it using these low-hanging fruits.

This is just textbook play calling. Removing net neutrality starts "we just want to help hospitals and police have faster internet, don't be ridiculous." Drug prohibition, the War on Terror, the TSA, police militarization. It all, every time, comes with "they're just trying to do something good and it doesn't seriously affect you." Except maybe thre TSA, because when someone starts searching you all of a sudden everyone is a civil libertarian.(1)

The problems 1) One can always make the argument that "those are just not worthwhile freedoms." 2) The idea that using the threat of violence from the government to solve every problem is the actual path to tyranny.

1-https://theintercept.com/2018/02/05/the-nunes-memo-and-katie...
It irrecoverably destroyed my partition on upgrade to High Sierra.
FWIW, I upvoted your comment for being mathematically correct, even though I was a bit confused as you meant to reply to someone else.
I'd say it's at least different from reading. A book on tape just plays generally, it's streaming information to you. It's kind of like UDP. A book on the other hand is more like TCP. If I miss a point, don't understand something, or am going through a difficult to understand part I can slow my reading pace, or just pause reading and let my mind digest this information. Of course you can hit pause on a podcast or audio book, but I don't think most people do this.
I can second this. Markdown and Pandoc work quite well together. I write documents professionally using this setup.

I do fall back to LaTeX for certain formatting, but it's actually quite easy to build pass-through filters so that raw LaTeX can be inserted when specialized formatting that can't be easily simulated in Markdown is required.
you appear to read HN...
Love that whole series of essays in the Consider the Lobster collection - you can also listen to several of them on YouTube and I have to say Wallace’s tone when reading the essays makes them more enjoyable

https://youtu.be/_fZOl7C_vDI
>If the law actually specifies boiling, is it just going to result in cooks bring the water to a boil, taking it off the heat, letting it drop to a little below the boiling point, and then inserting the lobster, where it still dies but not as fast?

Yeah, make stupid rules, play stupid games. This seems like a feel-good law. I wonder how enforcement will be.
How is Amazon any more an "open" marketplace compared to a grocery store? Because it's online?
I'd argue that IntelliJ is a structured editor. If you look under the hood the entire system is build around a tree-representation of the code. The "text editor" is a thin varnish on top of that syntactic representation.
I have used latex to typeset most of my work at uni. but recently I began using org-mode, With a bit of knowlegde it is so much easier to structure my notes. And then it can export to a lot of differnt formats like latex.
I have to agree with the parent poster. In my adulthood, as my responsibilities have grown, I found that I had no time or patience for reading anymore. As it turns out, I just needed to develop an appropriate level of discipline to make reading happen in my new context.

There have always been distractions and there always will be. Excusing ourselves as some kind of lost generation is incorrect and not helpful.
It's also quite hard to report fs issues. I ended up one day with a not working apfs system. Boot was ok, but I couldn't mount the user partition. Apfs repair tool just failed and made the system hang. After a number of restarts, attempts at repair, and attempts to move the partion somewhere it can be decrypted, everything started working. And I actually had enough experience to try and debug/fix it - many people would end up wiping the system, or having to go to Apple shop.

This is not reportable. I got only a generic error or hanging system. I can't reproduce it. I don't know why it started and why it finished. Yet, it was almost certainly an apfs issue.

Even if I wanted to play, my priority was to get the work laptop usable again.
You are being very creative with “obsolete”. I use an iPhone 4s and it is not obsolete by any means. It works just fine. Don’t blame the manufacturer if you want the latest shiny new gadget and expect all the bells and whistles to work on hardware >5yrs old.
What is the difference with libcurl ?
Part of this phenomenon is due to other people's expectation of us. I find it is very difficult to carve out 30 minutes of time where I am not interrupted by someone. If I turn off my phone and IM for that long people start to get worried.
I worry about reading every year or two, then I read some books, and then I remember that they aren't as interesting as they used to be - I think there are just better ways to stimulate my mind these days. Mostly I end up feeling disappointed.
So forcing you to see the reality of where meat comes from was a power trip?
You should have a problem with a live octopus being chopped up in front of you. Octopi are some of the most intelligent creatures around. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-oc.... They are undoubtedly delicious too, just like cows, and, in some cultures, dogs.

It boils down to empathy... the way you acquire empathy is bound to culture and education. Knowing and understanding what a octopus is: a being of high intelligence and skill, sitting here at the bleeding edge of deep time with the other survivors, aught to matter to a emphatic being, like yourself.
I have never heard about a vegan who does not care to eat healthy. Besides I wrote "aim".

Maybe a vegan junk food based diet including large amounts of refined oils, sugar and candy is common among vegans and I do not know about it.
What liberty is being stripped here? The law should be considered for what it is, not a broad hypothetical generalisation of what it could be.
I've bought courses on Udemy, and they have some quality content. But they've always seemed kind of shady with the whole "$200, now $10.99 with 2 days left". If you buy something, make sure you buy it in incognito mode, ublock, etc, so they don't jerk you around.

But I'm going to have to rethink my patronage of Udemy after this stuff.
The problem with Pluralsight is that you can't buy individual courses..that I know of.
Hey guys. What is your favourite resource for learning how to implement a complete RISC-V processor? I have taken a course in computer architecture so I have an idea about the theory but I really want to try and actually implement and simulate one from scratch and maybe even synthesize it if the FPGA board is less than 200$.
>Author Nicholas Carr ( The Shallows) writes that, "digital technologies are training us to be more conscious of and more antagonistic toward delays of all sorts." We become, "more intolerant of moments of time that pass without the arrival of new stimuli." So, I throw down the old book, craving mental Tabasco sauce. And yet not every emotion can be reduced to an emoji, and not every thought can be conveyed via tweet.

I read for the reason the author says he can't read. I cannot stand wasting time and I read significantly faster than people speak. For this reason I prefer to read textbooks over watching lectures and I read books instead of watching tv shows. Written news is more accurate and faster to consume than televised news. The only exception I can think of is books that are adapted into movies but that generally comes at the cost of the movie being drastically different from the book.
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All my unlocks have been pretty much instant. I think its that provider pushing unlock to Apple at intervals. AT&T does they 3 day thing but that again is AT&T time to send it to Apple.
I don't know why he writes so universally.

>"digital technologies are training us to be more conscious of and more antagonistic toward delays of all sorts."

Indeed and this is why I read: I just don't have the patience for video, much less (shudder) audio. With a book there's no gap between word and image, and the book flows at the speed I want (I can always skip ahead, or linger, or jump back to that previous spot). While a video is forcably linear (not to mention all the buffering, startup delays, and ads).

A tweetstorm requires so much cognitive overhead to follow (since each one is a discrete sentence or two with a large gap to move your eye down to the next one). You have to maintain so much context from the previous tweet while searching for the next one it's hard to actually absorb anything.

Frankly the biggest problem with reading is bingeing. You come up for air hours later with a crick in your neck and wonder where the day went.
Totally agree. I used to be excited about upgrading MacOS; now I absolutely dread it. I only upgrade when Xcode etc doesn't work on old OS anymore.

Until 10.13.3 I could barely use my MBP; horrendous graphical corruption issues. How this can happen I have no idea.
Just because there are various styles to reading doesn't mean you should forget the other one...

I read on sites like this in an information gathering mode, skimming, searching, for something worthwhile...

I read a book, like I've always read a book, slowly, and without interruption.

I read research (i care about) with a highlighter and a pen.

You don't have to forget.
What support do you need? Not hypothetical ones. Have you discovered any new vulnerability in iOS 8/9/10 that we don’t know about please do share.
Well, it’s nice that you can always define your own tagged template literal. ;) The double backslashes certainly are annoying. We may be able to eliminate them by using String.raw. https://github.com/observablehq/notebook-stdlib/issues/10
> That means cats must have a daily visual contact with other felines

Wow, really? Why? Cats are loners, they don't need to be around other cats. In fact, my cat hates other cats, giving her daily visual contact with other cats would basically be torture.
Yep, org-mode is really cool too!
I came to the conclusion that I need to learn blender as well, and spent about 2 weeks using it, but man, it is such a frustrating (yet powerful) tool, somewhat like Apples Interface Builder :)

It’s just not how I would like to work. I want more control via a super smooth interactive text-based interface; that interface should integrate seamlessly with a visual direct manipulation interface.
> I'm complaining that the whole concept of lootboxes is predatory

When there's no pay-to-win dynamic, it is literally the least predatory business model out of all games of that ilk. All of the alternatives for producing a recurring revenue stream, such as abandonware and direct PTW, are far more predatory.

I don't actually think it's predatory at all, but you're complaining about the weakest possible conception of the problem (and even the alternatives you named are worse), which implies that you don't think the alternative models like abandonware are a problem.

> I mean, this is objectively incorrect. League of Legends is not P2W, in that you can't buy your way to victory. You can get champions, but even the newest ones are not strictly better than earlier ones. The pressure to pay money in this case is to avoid grinding

You are literally paying money for the chance at something that will impact your chances of victory, as opposed to something that is entirely superfluous to the gameplay in every way. That is the definition of pay-to-win, even if it's a less extreme form than most King games.

If you don't see that as pressure to keep spending money, or if you don't see abandonware as a direct cash grab designed to exploit people's impulses, then I don't know how to continue this discussion.
> Never EVER do actual work in interrupt routine

Never? Sometimes you have to in order to adhere to timing requirements.

Say we're talking about a USB device. You'd better respond EP0 control requests without data stage under 50ms; USB spec demands that.

Even more so, when there's physical safety involved. You might really want to stop that stepper motor long before main loop notices your marker...

Then there are those situations you need to do the processing in IRQ or lose (some) of the data due to system constraints.

Just never say never.
Maybe you're reading the wrong books? I felt like that through most of school. Then I started reading for myself, and I've been a lot more successful.

But even the best book has bad chapters.
Both your issues are solved by LyX. It removes most of the pain, and what remains tends to be with adding obscure document classes anyway, which you don't need for documentation.
We really need to support more kernels on NixOS. Different distros duplicating work is unfortunate, and muddles the experiment.
Nope. “Last year, the 24-member coffee cooperative harvested 250 pounds of beans.“

So 24 farmers harvested 250 lbs, all of it bought by the one roaster at $60 /lb. Coffee plants take 18 months before they start producing harvestable amounts of cherry.
Pretty sure, but not 100%, that I could just maybe scrape on 360k/yr. /s
Or maybe your "wasted hours" reading a book have turned into "wasted hours" online. Who's to saw which is less wasteful. There is something unique about actually reading a book though, just like there's something unique about it being an actual book, not a ebook. Though these things are hard to classify.
Do you have any connection to any company involved with OSM tech, just so I understand your perspective?

Mentioning OSM has gained functionality is irrelevant, the article’s point is the API which serves a different purpose. What other companies offer is irrelevant that’s not OSM.

Your other points seem to attempt to diminish the importance of the API, yet the state of modern software has become such that almost any significant software project can benefit from a rich, well implemented and maintained API.

Not to mention maintaining a high quality API often in and of itself leads to improvements in the overall architecture of software, due to how it encourages careful thought about the purpose and organization of the system.
"The typist must type "blind:" there is no video display."

Seems odd since displays existed. Even tty machines would use paper as the "display" so you had some visual feedback for typos, etc.
Yet another reason why property tax needs to be replaced by land-value tax.
those reverse-osmosis systems are really expensive.... I wish I could get one at my house that could provide pure water at $0.40/1000 liters over X years... I pay a lot more then that and it it is only to get softened well water (still has 400 ppm of stuff in it)... But the health department just came to test my water and according to them, it doesn't include petroleum products, at least.
They're not making it illegal to kill lobsters.
Unless you're a slow reader ;)
Most information goods are non-rival, whereas food is not.
They're arthropods, just like insects are, but true bugs are insects that belong to the order hemiptera.
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We already have laws about which animals can be kept as pets. This is hardly an egregious extension of that power.

The law is very plainly there to prevent guinea pigs from being abused. It is not there to extend the government's power.

What an extremely odd thing to argue.
IMO the primary problem is with retention elections - if a serving judge must face the electorate to remain in his position, then he is encouraged to make populist decisions in court, rather than decisions in the interest of justice/public policy.

Judicial elections in general also bring in unwelcome outside influences to the process (monetary campaign backing, campaigning along party lines despite the fact judges are supposed to be politically independent) and the best judges may not be the best politicians/campaigners.
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It sounds like you're saying a tool can only be a structural editor if it doesn't do anything else. I want an editor that can operate structurally AND as a text editor - I don't write new code as syntactically complete units in one keystroke.
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Sarcasm aside, are you advocating a one child policy and very high car taxes (like Singapore)?

This thread has just degenerated to “world has many problem, let’s just blame Apple”
FWIW, `(sqrt(2)-1)^3` is `0.071067831`, which while not equal to `(1.0606601-1)` is fairly close.
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