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I never learned to type "properly", or, should I say, never completed learning. We were told very sternly in catholic school typing class not to fiddle with the IBM Selectric "golf ball" lest the typewriter malfunction and we be permanently removed from the class.

Being a curious and tinkering individual, I was presently kicked out of the class. (Insert here rant on rewarding curiosity in schools, rather than punishing it.)

Today I have a bizarre, hybrid typing style, somewhere near touch-typing with a lot of error correcting, and occasional hunt-and-peck. It's odd... the hunt-and-peck occurs more when I'm typing nonsense like passwords. Words (and quasi-words in code and the shell) seem to come out just fine.

That said, it's nice to see that even in my 40s, I can improve at something over time.

A lot of the improvements in my typing, I owe to returning to mechanical keyboards. (I think... this is completely unscientific.) First, I switched to a Das Keyboard Ultimate, without labeled keycaps. This really forced myself to get away from the crutch that was the labeled keys.

Lately, I've switched to a Kinesis Advantage 2 ergonomic keyboard. This has helped more with my hand positioning, which seems to have improved even going back to a "default keyboard" -- I've noticed that when traveling and using my laptop keyboard, my typing has also improved.

I will fully admit that in addition to attempting to improve my typing and treat/prevent RSI in a non-scientific manner, I bought these keyboards for the eccentric nerd factor. As one does.
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Given the price they're going for, having a Model M seems more like a status symbol now than a true devotion to mechanical keyboards.

I had a co-worker with a Model M. It was certainly nice (and heavy), but I had a hard time justifying paying 3x the price for it when my $40 generic mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches (or maybe they were "Blue" Cherry-like switches, come to think of it) were nearly as good.

I suppose if my keyboard starts to crap out in three years then maybe the Model M would be the more prudent investment, but, for the moment, it's holding strong, and I didn't need to break the bank to get one.
Can anyone recommend software to help generate quizzes, preferably with a spaced repetition component? So, instead of a single card that associates "agua" with "water", a set of cards like "____ es mojada" or "vaso de ____ fría". It might have a multiple choice interface where the order of the choices varies, and maybe the wrong choices vary as well.
'recent' is 5 years ago. But as a wild guess i think this has to do with your usage of html as the presentation format. It being a text based, syntaxy format. although it does not need to be dry at all, as it is very powerful if you combine it with the right CSS and javascript, it requires highly specialised knowledge to do well, costs you a lot of your time and does not provide many benefits for presentation purposes. for the same reasons i would not suggest LaTeX either. i would imagine a HTML based presentation to end up looking like a 90's web site. plain blocks of text with some headers and an image here and there. no animations. that does tend to look dry and unpolished. not really at the level the average student is used to.

if you want to get creative, MS powerpoint is much easier to work with, is WYSIWYG and allows you to easily insert things as you think of them. it has a lot of good looking formats, transitions between slides et cetera. it allows you to easily insert video content, allowing reuse of your past interactive sessions.

i know i'm suggesting a university professor to use a laymans tool, but i am no academic and do not know of a more academic alternative. maybe it exists, you could take a look. Yet a lot of professors use powerpoint. most of them are not very good with it, so it might pay to invest a bit of time into learning it so you can produce a sleek looking professional-level presentation. Of course it is MS. In case you like open source, you could use libreoffice as well.
> Humans can explain themselves. Many ML systems are not designed to provide any explanation, even poor ones.

Humans are good at generating sentences that appear to explain their decisions, but whether those are their actual reasons is unverifiable. Unless the decision is based on some predecided verbal rule, most such "explanations" are probably pretty useless.

While I agree that most ML systems are not set up to explain themselves any better, the ability to get an explanation is something that can be bolted on after the fact. By providing the model with slightly modified inputs, it's possible to determine which kinds of input would have changed the decision if they had been different, i.e. the value of those inputs being as observed is the reason for the output. One possible implementation of that general idea is "Anchors: High-Precision Model-Agnostic Explanations" https://homes.cs.washington.edu/%7Emarcotcr/aaai18.pdf
That's true, but it's much more fun to read about being a camel, lion and finally a child than describing it in a dry and unambiguous way. So in a way he tried to appeal to his readers and made a piece of art. But you should also acknowledge that only 20% of people were able to read back then. His expectations about his readers were based on the time he lived in.

While I don't defend his expression skills I just want to emphasize how hard it is to anticipate what people 100 years in the future will think about your ideas. And the interpretations and emotions which those people use while reading the texts.

The hard part about Nietzsche is being able to let your mind absorb the thoughts without interfering with your own values and belief system. But I guess it's not a secret that it's hard for people to listen without simultaneously judging something.
When the emotional reasoning of Nietzsche is removed, what is left is very close to Zen Buddhism. In fact, there is a large informal philosophy group that self identifies with "Zen Nihilism". I'm one.
> the hunt-and-peck occurs more when I'm typing nonsense like passwords

Actually one of the reasons password manages are recommended is that entering passwords is never as fast as typing normal words so it's easier to shoulder surf.
But LSD was also used heavily by people who went on to become the visionaries of the computer revolution that we are all utilizing to discuss this topic. Steve Jobs being one of the most notable but there were others documented in the book what the domouse said https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/725789.What_the_Dormouse...
It kind-of also fits Linux, it's not that far gone, but it's moving towards that sociopath stage.

Though, would it be wrong to bring social rights movements as examples too?
I use JMP.chat but I'm not exactly sure it is what you are looking for.
This is BS. Define the "severe harm" or stop making this argument.

There are a lot of people here speaking on behalf of smokers and people with chronic illnesses and disorders.

I happen to fall in both categories and self medicate.

I can and do stop smoking so the time. It is not physically addictive, and you can become mentally addicted to anything that gives you a dopamine release, like eating junk food.

I have never had "withdrawals," nor do I recognize weed "addiction" as anything other than excess, overindulgence, and a lack of self control.

People claiming that they are addicted to weed are simply looking to blame a bad habit for their lack of self control.

The only severe harm you can get from smoking too much weed is to your wallet.
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Or at least $25 Uber ride in to arrive on time, 2-hour bus ride home. Or the reverse if you have groceries.
Accelerating Machine Learning Inference with Probabilistic Predicates [pdf]
Passwords really do need to die.
It's because our politicians are hypocrites who use morality as prestige, all the while engaging in the very behavior they decry.

I guess there's also less of a paper-trail when prostitution is illegal, and girls are less willing to come forward about beatings and nonpayment, so...
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Why Sexism/Racism Never Diminish-Even When Everyone Becomes Less Sexist/Racist
Most of the mistakes are pretty simple errors and with how many news articles are printed each day it would be weird not to have errors like this (also it's essentially impossible hundreds of journalists could be communicating with each other in some grand conspiracy, that would unravel insanely fast). It's the same as most software bugs are legitimate errors, there have been purposeful ones but most aren't.
Noted about this, we are making a login with email, this was just easy to get started.
Brazil was under a military dictatorship until 1985 where those wanting democracy were imprisoned, tortured and killed. Over the past four years we have seen what started as a minor investigation into corruption turn into a judicial coup, overturning governments the people are voting for - the judges ousted Lula, then their process led to the ousting of Rousseff, who herself was tortured during the dictatorship. You also now have major voices hinting or calling for a return to dictatorship.

You also have well-funded extrajudicial efforts by mining interests massacring Indians, organizers, rural workers or anyone who gets in the way of mining interests. Many uncontacted Indians are being killed, yes - by well-funded mining interests.

In the midst of this, we hear nonsense about the legal system which just overturned Brazilian democracy and which won't provide adequate funding for protecting Indians from mining company slaughter, wading into the Amazon to, in its benevolence, sort out what are probably seen as mercy killings of children who can't survive in that environment and will be leading a life of suffering. Often due to the circumstances caused by the mining companies trying to kill them. It's the height of hubris and hypocrisy that Foreign Policy, which itself has justified more bloodshed than any magazine, sees fit to try to bestow this mantle into itself.
Like the author, I also rolled my own SMS-over-XMPP solution a few years ago. One central ongoing frustration is that a lot of what people think is SMS really ends up being MMS. Not only do I miss pictures, but people send group texts that silently miss me, and messages over the SMS character limit are also sent over MMS. It sends 160 characters over SMS, and the rest is chopped off if you don't have MMS. Some (many/most?) messaging apps don't give you a character count any more, so I can't even tell people to watch the characters...

I believe Twilio has some sort of MMS support, so maybe this could be made to work with their service. My VoIP provider doesn't support MMS, so I may have to migrate to Twilio some day.
Agreed. That's a real nuisance.
Thank you for your comment. I like Zen Buddhism because the meaning of 'the inherent emptiness of all things' means to me 'stop thinking about how other people think, and let them think on their own'. Accept things at face value and be responsible for your own direction, if you don't like the people you are surrounded with, surround yourself with different people.

Too often I think we become complacent, trying to change what we can't change. Haters gonna hate? Hate just leads to self hate, whether it stays internalized, or leaks out, comes back to the self through another self.

I wish there was less of it. Trying to fix the problem independently... How? Finding like minded people, and so the wheel turns...
Measurement isn't the soul of engineering, but modelling is - the ability to describe and refine a system mathematically without having to build it physically.

There isn't much of that in application software engineering. Some domains have it, like ML and DSP, but most of the code written for startups is ad hoc carpentry, plumbing, and masonry, not applied physics.

You can do a lot with carpentry, plumbing, and masonry without really knowing what you're doing - up to a certain scale. But when you start building giant things without rigorous non-tribal reasons for your design choices, you're only ever going to build things that fall down and break a lot.

Too harsh? I think it's hard to find anyone today who thinks software is acceptably robust and reliable by default. Some products/apps/pages work just fine if not stressed too hard. But generally security, bugs, and efficiency are all poor compared to comparable challenges in hard engineering disciplines.
I used to own a model M back in the early 90's. It was a joy to use and you could drive a tank over it without damaging it. Unfortunately I lost it during a house move. These days I settle for keyboards with Cherry MX blue switches. But I still want a model M with springs.
I've met the guy at keyboard meetups and tried his prototypes. They feel exactly like a real Model F (or at least as exactly as you can get to inconsistent-due-to-incredible age keyboards).

You can keep ordering until you can't; it's an illusory deadline.
Courageous decision. I tip my hat to you. Best Wishes!
(I assure you, it could be much more different. Ever tried a rubber keyboard? Not rubber dome, rubber. Flexible keyboards, roll ’em up and take ’em with you—or toss ’em if you prefer, they were awful to type on. I haven’t got the foggiest idea why they were a thing for a couple of years about thirteen years ago. My school got a bunch of them for a year or so.

Or touch keyboards, they’re also much more differenter than Apple keyboards!)
If anyone is interested in a deep dive on this topic, I highly recommend 'How to Read Book' by Adler and Doren. It is a fantastic how to on learning and understanding new ideas.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Classic-Intelligent/dp/...
In this, I think Nietzsche was dangerously wrong. I don’t have the time to go into detail at the moment, but the better prescription is outlined in Ken Wilber’s “A theory of everything” or if you have lots of intestinal fortitude “The religion of tomorrow”.

Nietzsche is dead.
This is human zoo. We see that culture, and our approach to certain instances of it is inherently oppressive. We had cultures similar to that of the indigenous peoples' back in the old world until relatively recently. But because we have a certain fascination with these exotic "species" of people, we negate them the modern life, way better than theirs in every objective measure. We entitle ourselves to the "preservation" of their cultures, which means a) we believe that we are enough better off than them that we can assume that role and b) needing protection means that their culture is insustainable and bound to extinguish already. It's cruel to think that we should allow these people to suffer because it's an interesting spectacle for the scientists, while we enjoy increasingly free and individualist societies.

We do the same with languages: we try to preserve languages that only a handful people speak because it's interesting to us that those few hundred speak a dying language, while we enjoy using languages that allow us to communicate to millions, if not billions of other people.

Culture is a nice thing to remember, but just like we mostly dumped it for the modern life for the latter is objectively better, we should allow these people to do the same too. Otherwise, it is human zoo.
What should happen and what does happen is completely different. In the US, if you are spending 10s of thousands of dollars on an education and where the only real way for most people to have upward social mobility is a college education thst gives them practical skills, you need to be able to hit the ground running.

If college doesn’t give you real world skills and companies won’t train employees (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2014/09...) where does that leave a college graduate?
At what point is a child imbued with consciousness and a will to live? Who should be responsible for that determination?
There are numerous "open data" licences, many of which are totally incompatible with OSM. CC-BY 4.0 in this case isn't straightforwardly importable into OSM (you need to get them to sign a waiver). So that's one reason to generate our own data, rather than using "open data" from a government.
What about your ego telling you that you’re any more right than they are? How do you know you’re right and your kids won’t be saying the same thing? Just some food for thought.
How can you know what an alcoholic is without being one?
Also sucralose kills gut bacteria.
I’m flogging Ken Wilber these days. Perhaps take a look at “The Religion of Tomorrow”
The best keyboard that I have personally used is the old IBM Thinkpad keys. They had a slight curve for accommodating touch typists, instead of the flat keys in the modern keyboards. I could type at 100+ WPM in the old IBM thinkpads even when I am sitting in a dark room. I struggle to reach around 80 wpm in the macbook pro and modern lenovo thinkpads.

The new macbook pro with the touchbar is the worst keyboard that I have ever used and I ended up buying an old model Macbook just because of the keyboard.

I wish Microsoft or Google releases a good developer oriented laptop with proper keyboard (Preferably licensing the old IBM thinkpad keyboard style) and full-size buttons for arrow keys, boatloads of extensible RAM and a gorgeous screen. Apple seem to not care anymore about macbooks :(
Hmm or perhaps it's because the legal medicines available for chronic illnesses, autoimmune disorders, severe IBS, seizures, and depression/anxiety, etc don't actually work and give you horrendous side effects.

Please stop speaking on behalf of others if you have no clue what you are talking about.

There are people with MS that smoke and are able to walk and move around and not be in constant unbearabke pain. People with chronic back pain do not have to take opioids loaded with toxic nsaids that will destroy their kidneys and get them hooked on narcotics. People and even children with untreatable seizures can live completely oridnary lives. People with depression, PTSD, and anxiety do not have to rely on dangerous antidepressants that can actually increase suicidal thoughts and have resulted in numerous suicides.

People are self medicating because weed is the only real medicine for many of these illnesses.

To call those people cowards is downright awful and completely unwarranted.
I find the old Model Ms to be heavier than newer Unicomp ones, which I really enjoy.

But I really can't stand most Cherry keys; blues are the most tolerable of the lot but they sound so 'tinky' because of the little click jackets.

Now Kailh Box switches, that's where it's at. Less wobble, better dust (and even some water) resistance, better tactility, a better click mechanism... Cherry isn't remotely the best game in town.
a swing-and-a-miss is still a swing...something few people are willing risk! best of luck on the next leg of the journey
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This article [2015] is of relevance in this context. It refers to the work of Richard Dawid who's apparently laying out an expanded view of science beyond the commonly accepted Popperian perspective centered on falsifiability. In his 2013 book "String Theory and the Scientific Method" he apparently identifies "three kinds of “non-empirical” evidence that Dawid says can help build trust in scientific theories absent empirical data." Of course, this is not an accepted view yet, but it can lend some balance to the conundrum resurfacing today.

[2015] https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-and-philosophers-d...
Model M: “the old is good”.

Arch Linux: “… um, no. The new is good. Why do you think I left Ubuntu in the first place?” (Having more control is one aspect of it, but rolling releases and not having to add a PPA to get a newer-than-five-years-ago version of a package is rather compelling too.)
I never acquired the taste for coffee and, while I’ll drink tea in a pinch, I’m not a huge fan of hot drinks in general; I don’t want to have to wait and if you leave it too long, that’s worse. I have a sweet tooth and I like the acidity of ice-cold Coke, but it felt a bit weird having this in the morning. As such, I started making iced tea, with lemon, added caffeine and zero-calorie sweeteners. It took a bit of experimentation to get the recipe right (iced tea isn’t hugely popular in the UK), but it works great as a morning drink for me.
Straight line acceleration is pretty useless on a real track if you don't have the handling in corners. I assume the roadster will be pretty heavy. The Model S is also a beast going straight but cornering is much less fun with it because it's so heavy.
The first study seems flawed from its own description. How can the diet of subjects have the same amount of calories, when one group is consuming high sugar drinks, and the other - calorie free sweeteners?
> messages over the SMS character limit are also sent over MMS. It sends 160 characters over SMS, and the rest is chopped off if you don't have MMS

I've never seen my phone switch to MMS automatically because of the length. I've had old black/white Nokias support concatenated SMS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_SMS
The most interesting headline today. The article has very little information. Hope to see a followup.
And accessible only for a few days a year.
That’s one aspect, but the other is cultural imperialism of for example offering Mexican content to all LatAm, or Nigerian content to all Subsaharan Africa. Those other countries at the receiving end may not share the same values with the source countries.
The first and second hyperlinks are yet another victim of Virgin Media's abrubt cessation of WWW page hosting services without notice. I believe that the new target is http://sphericon.pjroberts.com/ .
Now if only the Visual Studio C++ compiler was half as good and fast as GCC or Clang, or supported the new C++11/14/17 features properly. Frankly, it is 5-10 years behind these other compilers. Or maybe they could finally support variadic templates properly instead of doing it internally with ugly macro rewriting and limited argument numbers. That would be cool. Instead they add this feature which may have its uses but this is not something a skilled programmer who knows how to step through a program ever had a problem with.
> If you run an enterprise, pay for enterprise support.

I do, but that wasn't my point.
I think that the emotional aspect is really important. If you just remove it, you might miss something that is fundamental to human nature. And just removing it is almost certainly a type of self-delusion because the emotional aspect is very hard to remove from human existence.

But yes, if you achieve a level of self-awareness where you're able to live in a near-nihilistic state and be content with it, it can be quite pleasant, although it's very hard to achieve.

Pure nihilism would lead to beings who don't want anything and therefore don't do anything - but even if you want to pee or "achieve nihilism" you stop being a complete nihilist because you start to want something. So it's a catch-22 here. As long as those Zen Nihilists know that they can't achieve pure nihilism and treat it as a goal which can't be reached (like wisdom), I think it can be a good solution (otherwise it could lead to a silly competition where all followers just try to tell everybody how "nihilistic" they are). Not for most of us, but I'm glad you found something.
The words:

* What advice would you give your younger self? ["You're doing great kid. Keep going."]

* David, what other questions should I be asking you? [He thinks they should be asking him 'How do you do it?']

* "Can you describe the deliverables?" [He'd rather have a conversation than write up a report.]

I found no useful perspectives in this transcript. If you are some kind of consultant, maybe.
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There seems to be a fairly long chain of leaps in logic in this argument.

Take marijuana or alcohol for example, two of the most popular recreational drugs. You’re absolutely convinced that a Saturday night booze bender or big smoke up will drive them to work harder on Monday because they had such a rush?