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Not at all. "Social studies" AKA Social Sciences are divided into, say, two ethical perspectives.

In one sides is Marx and all the marxist school. This people believes that the social scientist has to have the desire of changing society, and he should act upon it.

In the other side is pretty much everyone else (highly simplifying here), mostly people that believes that actual science has to be separated of any activism, and that achieving the highest degree of neutralism and detachment is desirable.

While is not hard to detach science from activism, it is hard to not comment on what the actual desirable society would be, if you are involved in the field.

IIRC you have examples of this in functionalism and simbolic interactionism schools, that had both descriptive and inferential studies, but didn't mix activism on it, as far as I can tell.
I daresay the Ubuntu userspace WSL ships with absolutely eclipses the kernel in terms of lines of code. For all intents and purposes it's another Linux distro, essentially with just one or two core packages swapped out.

Excluding drivers, documentation and non-x86 arch code, Linux is "only" 173mb of uncompressed source (39mb gzipped). The Debian source repository is 103GB compressed, or, put another way, the replaced code amounts to about 0.03% of what makes up Debian.
Note on above: there are legitimate reasons for businesses to set Caller ID to something other than the call origin. But the "something other" should be selected from a set under the control of the business, not a free for all. I.e., a desk phone with DID may show as the main company number, etc.

This takes a little more work to account for, but it shouldn't be a roadblock.
I think learning at your own pace is perfectly fine, so long as your okay with mitigating / dealing with inefficiencies of roadblocks. It depends on the topic, but I'm assuming this is towards computer science / webdevelopment in general

Online learning is cost-effective though. You can effectively specialize in anything computer-science based for less than $100 with all the free content / cheap MOOC's available. Or you could attend a live seminar / webinar etc where you can work with other people, etc. But this comes at a significantly higher cost at a faster learning rate.

Why not take the best of both worlds? It all boils down to the best value for the buck

1) Learn things online at your own pace, 2x speed, playback as necessary.

2) Take the extraordinate amount of money you would have spent elsewhere, use a fraction of the cost with hackhands / make your own ad-agency for hiring upwork specialists in issues you have. This scales indefinitely, now you always have an expert on hand and consequently, form a long term business relationship with. There's no roadblocks anymore.

3) You get on demand help onpar with in-house training / tutoring, assuming its a popular topic. For example, learning nodejs /react. There's tons of qualified tutors that will charge $1/minute from india/europe with hackhands and/or similar.

4) There's always forums and or Q/A on MOOC's who have had similar issues to you. Assuming its a popular course. Stackoverflow / reddit / etc is always available too

5) Techmeetups and my city's dev channel has lots of great people. Also, techtalks to explore different topics

Learning on your own effectively does require a small investment paying for tutors, but its significantly cheaper and arguably sometimes even more efficient than learning through a program.

I know exactly what I'm getting everytime, from the comforts of my own workarea. No wasted time driving, 2x playback speed, triple monitor setup/mechanical keyboard, on-demand tutoring within 5 minutes, etc. I don't have to worry about the instructor being subpar compared to what I can find online.
Totally concur, that's very similar to the method I explain to folks when they ask how I go about debugging.

I've always visualized it in my head kind of like a binary search tree, or maybe the bisection method in math for finding roots. I want to think about as little code as possible, so I take steps to cut the problem space down as dramatically and quickly as possible.

Plus, the less I have to think about when debugging the less likely I am to end up with an actual headache.
And understanding how different technologies work will help you build expertise in future ones more easily. Technologies are not usually born out of thin air, they inherit approaches from earlier ones.
No, Waymo's test drivers aren't supposed to be representative of future customers, they're supposed to babysit the cars until drivers are no longer needed at all. That's why their Firefly prototype didn't even have a steering wheel.
I've gotten a lot of value from reading HN. I've also wasted a lot of time. It helps to develop a personal filter. Mine is

* Avoid headlines that make me angry, unless the news is really important. The discussion is never worthwhile, don't even bother.

* WSJ, Bloomberg, and WaPo won't let me read articles with w3m, so I skip the article. If the topic is tremendously interesting, I'll check the comments.

* TED and nautil.us are the information verison of empty calories. I've never gained any long term benefit from reading them.

* Javascript framework churn is intense. It's not worth trying to keep up with the details unless you do web development. If, like me, you don't, it's still worth reading the headlines to keep abreast of what frameworks are popular, what paradigms they embody, and who's pushing them. This changes every six months or so.

* It's always worth scanning the comments in threads about programming languages. There are some really interesting people who sometimes jump into those threads and blow your mind.

* Know your prejudices and look for information that challenges them. My prejudices are that I think Windows is lame, that MacOS is infuriating, that Javascript is terrible, that vim is better than emacs, and emacs is better than IDEs, and object orientation is a failed paradigm. So I look out for articles that have a different point of view. I've learned that Microsoft has some really interesting technology, that Apple is infuriating even to its own users but it doesn't matter because they're sitting on the world's biggest pile of dollar bills, that Javascript is usually unnecessary but occasionally useful, that kakoune is even better than vim, and that nobody agrees about what object orientation even is.
Well said, exactly this is the point. For devs a Mac is more comfortable to get things done with than with surface.
Work on things that are interesting to you, if you are bored for too long your skills will atrophy. If you are interested in your work, being indispensable to your company will be a natural result.
Topre's are mechanical. There is nowhere in town I can go to test to see whether I like mechanical switches and what color switch switches to get. I also need something that is no louder that a typical non-mechanical keyboad.
have you tried WSL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10?
i found it quite usable
Speaking as someone big-co track record... that seems like a bit of a strawman though, doesn't it? Not every team, in fact, most teams are not going to be the pivotal shared component behind billion dollar pipelines. Enterprise internal policies re: things like accessibility and security review are _hardly_ reflecting of that, since it's impossible to be fine grained and accurate, so they typically apply "a big hammer" across most groups and "an even bigger hammer" across others.

This is close to heart as I've grown a few teams from "small green-field experimental 3 people groups" to full on 8-10 person launched feature teams, and watched the process slow to a crawl despite the additional manpower. There's definitely a _reason_ for some of the bigco paranoia, but being flexible and accomadative in this sense is certainly not one of our strong points, so you usually get a decent amount of institutional boilerplate/plumbing work too, _especially_ when some of these side groups (e.g. UI) have a vested interest in having their fingers in as many pies as possible.

A somewhat tongue and cheek but accurate picture to draw: I've seen a dropdown menu go from being "code it up before lunch" to "3 weeks of meetings, multiple reviews, and demos in front of stakeholders" task. Were some parts of that useful? Sure. All of it? Probably not.

(To be clear; I don't actually take issue with much of the conceptual process, and like that there's some amount of oversight, but the nature in which it gets placed on teams is often 1. often not fully aligned with their actual "threat model" and prioritization in whatever space this is and 2. often given with inopportune timings and without a good support system. I call out the negatives above pretty exclusively because I think a bigCo _could_ do the processi-fication with a lighter touch and serve the same ends.)
> Why not put your money were your mouth is

"Rules for thee and not for me"

The government is happy to tell everyone else what to do but when it comes time to buy their own vehicles they don't have to play by those rules so their decision making process does not reflect the presence those rules and they wind up buying ICE vehicles for the majority of use cases because from a strict numbers perspective those are what make sense in a majority of use cases.
Maybe too much configuration? It's not clear what the value prop is of the Inspiron line versus the XPS line and the Inspiron line has 20 base models.
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Honestly, your comment annoys me because it puts words in my mouth, as if I'm doing what I want to be doing. As if I DREAMED of being a back-end developer my whole life. As if I'm some artless drone that can't understand the mind of an artist.

> That assumes you want to be doing the thing you're doing, rather than some other thing (which potentially doesn't generate money.)

No, it doesn't at all. It means I would rather be doing something more useful than browsing facebook all day for a job I'm being paid to do. It means I don't dump all of my work onto the people around me and be a complete parasite. It means I want stability and praise instead of constant fear of being discovered and fired and ruining my own life.

Most of us do not want to work, that is why we are paid for it. The vast majority of people do their job to get by.

> But vocationally, I'm an author. You know what the best job in the world would be, for me? One where I'm paid a living wage to do nothing at all. Then I would have the free time, the energy, and the resources to write books.

Yes, I would love to hang out at home and read books all day, constantly learning new things.

If I could drop everything and not have to care about having a roof over my head, I would be a video game developer or an artist.

BUT, I don't have rich parents or anybody to support me. I don't have the privilege of not working, most people do not.

So instead I'm a slacker programmer who doesn't work overtime, gets by, and lives his life the best he can in his down time.

> I would say that I have plenty of drive. Just... not for doing the thing that I do for money.

To be clear: I'm specifically talking in the context of people who are so dysfunctional that they automate their jobs and do literally nothing for years. If I was in their position I would find something more interesting to spend my time on.

What do you do after that? Who is going to hire you after being fired for defrauding the company? Also: I believe doing things like this CAN open you up to liability. Also often a company owns everything you do with their computer, or that you do during work hours.
Interesting bit about the Range Rover model, but from the fourth paragraph:

> “In just 12 years, we will prohibit the sale of new diesel and petrol cars. And in 17 years, every new car in Denmark must be an electric car or other forms of zero-emissions car,” Rasmussen said, implying that hybrids will be phased out in 2035.
what version of ubuntu are you running?

I've seen this behavior with the old 'gnome-screensaver' (which I think ubuntu hasn't used for quite a while), but with the current gnome-shell lock screen it behaves properly and doesn't black out the screen when I open my laptop.
>> "now President Trump is retreating from the American chief executive’s traditional role as Leader of the Free World"

Citation? He may not be some people's ideal of the leader of the free world but I wouldn't say he has retreated.
That is completely false. Any decent camera or eyesight from the car's point of view would have seen the pedestrian well in advance enough to avoid that crash. Uber's fatal crash was caused by the car being programmed to ignore stationary/slow moving objects in the way.
Thanks DrNuke! And Thanks for the great advice.
FYI I am not new to iOS development and I am an iOS developer with a decent experience. I am googling for many years sir! But I still need good materials that people went through already and I need their word for it, for E.g. the books offered by raywenderlich.com looks pretty promising but I’m not sure how informative or helpful it will be. So I hope the experts at HN can provide me and other iOS developers a direction to become an expert, the parts of iOS sdk we should master and the skills we should acquire to become the best.
And, unlike other alerts, Americans cannot opt-out of receiving a presidential alert

Is that still true if you run your own customized OS (like whatever-the-successor-to-cyanogenmod-is-called-now)? Or is this all done at such a deep level within the phone's firmware that it's all-but-impossible to turn it off?
Wonder what it'd do to the resale value of cars even before 2030.

Denmark with their famous 150% registration tax already has cars being used much longer than what I've seen in other countries. I'd love to see the 150% tax waived off for 100% electric cars that are not luxury vehicles. Set strict constraints for a common man car, and incentivize it turning electric.

Also, think about the charging infrastructure....
> student success is directly related to student attendance. In fact, they concluded that attendance is the single most important predictor of high grades, a better predictor than SAT scores, high school GPA, study skills or study habits.

This reeks of selection bias and conflating correlation with causation to me. The abstract of the linked study does not seem to draw causal conclusions.
Western society is historically opposed to your "good idea"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities

In essence, the rule prevents a person from putting qualifications and criteria in a deed or a will that would continue to affect the ownership of property long after he or she has died, a concept often referred to as control by the "dead hand" or "mortmain".
Corollary: if someone posts "my first X" to a big public site like reddit or HN, it is almost certainly not literally their first X; it's just the first one they felt comfortable enough to exhibit publicly.

(At least, that's what I tell myself...)
I find it odd to blame DAFs rather than the absurd tax laws that enable them.

There are several oddities in our tax laws:

- extremely generous treatment of donating long term appreciated property. You deduct the FMV and also avoid paying capital gains tax. I have yet to understand why we think it is good policy to offer both advantages. Allowing only basis to be deducted (as is case for short term) seems much more reasonable.

- our tax system has a standard deduction that itemizations must go over to see benefits

- we have a progressive tax system that doesn't smooth over multiple years of unsteady income.

I've been a big user of one myself, contributing heavily in a year of an IPO (abnormally high income plus lots of highly appreciated stock). Using a Daf allowed me to have more time to vet target charities; if they didn't exist, I would have still donated heavily in the IPO year (because the tax benefits are leveraging my donations), just less efficiently (less vetting).

Point being, the way our tax system handles charitable donations is what is "unfairly" benefiting the rich; DAFs are just a symptom.
> Not to mention the constant battle with windows defender, which slows npm installs and webpack compiles to an absolute crawl due to the large number of filesystem requests, won't respect a whitelist, and re-enables itself every 4-24 hours depending on the phase of the moon

I'm not a huge fan of Defender (although it is less like malware than most anti-viruses I've been forced to use), but npm and webpack are not blameless here. It's completely flipping absurd how many tens of thousands of files a medium size front-end project that uses these technologies spawns and kills every time it is rebuilt. I'm tempted to RAM-disk those folders, because even with fast SSDs, IO speed becomes a gating factor in my workflow.
And we can democratically repeal the tax deductions.
There's anonymity, fraud, and strong guarantees of identity. I'm fine with 1 and 3. There's no reason for the phone company to have a knowingly spoofable caller ID system when it's already being used so heavily for 2.
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People have and you can install Linux distros directly onto surface hardware, but personally I wouldn't recommend it.

If you want Linux hardware get something that's designed to be shipped with it , so in mainstream land a XPS13 Developer edition or if want something from a vendor focused on Linux System76 or Purism.

That said for many "linux" use cases, WSL works just fine. I use it a lot for developer/ssh use cases.

Also Windows 10 Hyper-V now has better support for Linux guests so things like clipboards and shared drives can work more smoothly.
I don't know much about montary theory but from what I do know it seems unlikely that in my lifetime the US dollar will be threatened as the world's reserve currency.

I can only think of the euro, yen, renminbi, rupee and perhaps the pound as currencies that are backed by strong enough political forces to be considered as reserve. But there are many threats which each of these routes, do you trust the Chinese central bank? Is India stable enough? Is the EU stable enough? They are losing a prominent member in March 2019, will the UK recover post-brexit for the pound to be attractive??

Even then, as stated other nations have deep ties with the US which increases the risk of moving from the dollar. We provide for Japan's defense, we are the biggest funder of NATO, etc. While Trump has moved the US away from international institutions during his term I have no doubt that the US will continue to dictate global economic policy after his term is complete.

In many ways, while it's fun to speculate, I don't see the rest of the world having the will or options to move away from the dollar as a reserve currency.
Yeah the new 400e has more range. The original that came out few years ago had only 1 mile range, as mentioned in the brochure:

https://www.landrover.com/Images/HYBRID_FAQ_GUIDE_Intreactiv...

"How far can my Range Rover Hybrid travel using just the electric motor?

When Electric Vehicle mode is activated manually using the EV button, the
EV light on the instrument cluster will glow green. The Range Rover Hybrid
will drive silently at slow speeds for a distance of up to 1 mile/1.6km provided
the hybrid battery is fully charged when EV mode is activated"
The Linux Subsystem for Windows is good enough for my software development needs - the Docker Engine does not run in WSL but you can tell the Linux docker client to use the Windows server by setting an environment variable:

export DOCKER_HOST=localhost:2375
Not to mention that a separate power port allows Microsoft to continue their magnetic power adapter, who's passing in Apple design is still oft maligned...

And the Surface Book 2 does have a USB-C connector and can even charge off of it.
Best advice I ever got was from a creative writing class:

Writers write. To become a better writer, write more.

But then I've always treated programming as a form of communication. Maybe not literature, there's still beauty, awe, and whimsy to create and behold.
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IMHO, "it just works" has never applied to Windows and probably never will. The arcane UX changes for the sake of change, arbitrary removal/renaming of features/actions/applications...

My favorite random "made it worse" change in Windows 10 is that with multiple monitors, your cursor gets stuck at the top/bottom corners between the two monitors, causing me to frequently click the Close "X" on the program/window I have open, because I was actually trying to click something on the monitor to the right. It doesn't matter if you were moving the mouse cursor very quickly. There's no registry flag for this, so the only known workaround is to run some 3rd-party application 24/7 which will take over the cursor position to nudge it over if you hit the edge.
Thanks for the information. I appreciate it.
Your point #4 was very informative. I have learned something new today.
came here looking for ranger and wasn't disappointed. i love it!
Yours is the more succinct way of saying it. Remember that all these modern blogs usually aren't written by (or edited by for that matter) professionals of any kind, so the grammar/sentence structure will suffer at the expense of pumping out articles fast and getting clicks.
At first that sounded ridiculous but actually it might be just right for an SUV in suburbia. Day to day driving is electric, then long distance is combustion. Pretty much what I would need in Australia.
Wish Microsoft fixed the following two things

a. Fix IO overheads - things like cloning git repositories, copying directories with several thousands of small files, compilation are all much slower on Windows.

b. Write a proper terminal.
They're not supposed to mimic real-life; Waymo's plan is to not have drivers at all.

A passenger can hold the steering wheel until the driver comes to. Or they can even use a car with two sets of pedals, they're common in driving schools.
Google is a brilliant company but ad based business models have weird incentive structures. When your primary customer isn't actually using your product it makes product decisions harder. I don't think Google means harm but it does seem like they are making some questionable decisions. Zuck was smart to remove ads on FB even though it cost FB lots of ad revenue. Their web browser change had no obvious benefit for users compare to how creepy it is to have gmail forced on you by the web browser. they might have some hidden strategy that will eventually benefit chrome users but it's not clear what that is
Nextcloud made it pretty easy to get away from Google Drive and Keep. I really like using QOwnNotes to manage my markdown files which are synced to nextcloud.
Why does it make any difference whether it is a luxury vehicle or not?
Yes even things like git are comparitively slow on wsl. Emacs in windows is also slow, haven't found a solution to this.
IPFS is a distributed p2p filesystem. The idea, I believe, is that you can put your big media files on it, to share bandwidth and (iiuc) reduce censorship risks; but it's better to do it with a stream-friendly codec, so this site will turn your file into that first.
Sure, I wouldn't recommend it either, just trying to understand the level of compatibility it has. I prefer to assemble my own desktop systems, so hardware selection is a different process in such case.

As for laptops, I'd go for something with Ryzen+Vega APU. Purism doesn't offer such options.