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My concern is that it would be more difficult to install software that doesn't have a nix package built (in particular, from git repo trunks), and also more difficult to have confidence that the software I write would work on other Linux distros. For this reason I chose Arch over NixOS.

I have a set of overlays for various packages and try to submit updates and improvements upstream. Having some experience with making packages for other package managers, I found making Nix derivations easier than RPM or deb packages and about as difficult as Arch PKGBUILDs. stdenv automates a lot of work, and when a package uses a standardized configuration/build system (autotools, cmake, cargo), most of the work is in finding/adding the dependencies.

I did some Haskell programming ~6-7 years ago, so the learning curve for the Nix language was probably less steep.

The primary difficulty I found is that not everything is documented equally well and you often have to poke through nixpkgs to find examples and/or good practices.

also more difficult to have confidence that the software I write would work on other Linux distros

I guess I have been lucky that I write work-related code mostly in Go and Rust, so building on other systems is never really a problem. But for C/C++ projects I would just compile in an Ubuntu container as well.
This kind of controversy is intruding on the hard sciences. For one example, a highly abstract math paper on the greater male variability hypothesis was blocked from publication and the authors subjected to uncollegial harassment for purely ideological reasons.

https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-p...
here's David Harsanyi, the author of the article wikipedia page:

Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and senior editor at The Federalist. He is a former editor of Human Events and opinion columnist at The Denver Post.[1] His writings on politics and culture have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, Washington Post, National Review, Reason, Christian Science Monitor, Jerusalem Post, The Globe and Mail, The Hill, Sports Illustrated Online, and other publications.[2]

A libertarian,[3] his column is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate. He is author of The People Have Spoken (and They Are Wrong): The Case Against Democracy, Obama's Four Horsemen: The Disasters Unleashed by Obama's Reelection and Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children.[2] He left his position writing op-eds for The Denver Post to work for TheBlaze.[4]
This is considered by Usher in her article.

How would a journal editor draw the line between scholars not wanting to cite their rival in the field and not wanting to cite a sexist jerk? Would you have to provide a detailed accounting of the sexism and gender bias to persuade the editor?

In short, trying to avoid citing someone because you don’t like them is impossible if their work is important in your field. Perhaps it’s just adding insult to injury when the guy is a sexist jerk.
Not that in control center, you can tap and hold or force touch the music widget, then tap the “output” button at top right, then tap on your AirPods to quickly switch them to iOS device if they’re not currently paired.
I do research and my couple forays into Android, while less expensive, were not good experiences. Admittedly my last Android phone was a Nexus 5, so maybe I should look again?

The problem is after other poor experiences I will only get a Google phone. The Pixel 3 XL with 128gb is $999. A new iPhone Xs is 1249 for the 256gb. Is taking yet another chance on Android worth $250? How well will that Pixel 3 XL even be supported?

It just isn't as simple as no one does any research.
Simply because insurance corporations have shareholders to serve. There's just no incentive for insurers to lower prices.

It's the nature of corporations to maximize profit. That can be a good thing, but not when health and lives are at stake, which is something that lower class conservatives don't understand the economics of, and upper class business owners profit off of. It's an ugly emergent property of the system we've built.

> "If I was an American I'd probably just fly to Thailand for any serious health issues because the cost of flight ticket plus treatment would be significantly less than in the US."

What you're describing is called "medical tourism" and it is slowly becoming more popular in the USA but still a fairly niche and underground idea.
In benchmarks, sure. But day to day, the new phones only really show their speed in things like games. The Everyman is good with a 6S. That's about when peak phone happened. That's when phones got "fast enough". That's why the 6S is still one of the most used iPhones (14% last number I read.)
People have been writing about consensus since the very beginning of Bitcoin, and long before that. These are not new ideas, at least not to anyone paying the slightest attention to cryptocurrency development. It's just about all Vitalik writes about now, and is the motivation for essential designs like Ethereum's ICE AGE.

Social consensus, however, doesn't affect the standard 'malicious' double-spend cheat. You're not going to get social consensus forming around an obvious 'criminal' behavior. It's only going to happen around political issues like network governance/rules (like the DAO), technical bugs (like BTC forks), or global political issues (Satoshi Dice blacklist?).

Considering this a criticism of cryptocurrencies is inane. We're all just apes shouting at each other about value. We can just as easily blacklist or boycott each other outside of any kind of value-information network to achieve the same effect; recognizing that this behavior can become part of the network is trivial.

Social/political elements will always be the ultimately arbiter precisely because human assessments of value aren't physical or mathematical realities. This is overwhelmingly obvious when stated explicitly, but for whatever reason this is seen as some sort of 'gotcha!'

Bitcoin still achieves an entirely novel way for humans to communicate information about value. It is still qualitatively different from anything that has come before precisely because it is reliably a consensus mechanism. Nakamoto consensus is the innovation, yet many do not understand this consensus.
Selecting a new audio source from the swipe up menu seems to work pretty consistently for me.
That’s really interesting. Compared to what you could get on the open market, what’s “a fraction” mean? 1/2? 2/3?

It’s kind of hard for me to imagine moving out of the Bay Area, but I’m sure there are major cities outside California that one could easily live on 1/2 a software developer’s income.
Patent means that editors should help people find new content, not an ML algorithm under the guise of editorial effort
Span<T> only requires .NET Standard 1.0, so it came out for Core and Framework at the same time [1].

.NET Framework only has the portable implementation though. The fast implementation requires support in the runtime, and Framework may never support fast Span<T> [2].

[1] https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Memory/4.4.0-preview1-...
[2] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/18280#issuecomment-...
This, together with taeric's question about tokenization made me realize that we can think of it this way:

Macros are not receiving AST nodes [1]. They are not receiving tokens either, though. But something in-between: how many tokens it receives is strictly delimited (by the end paren which ends the macro form, but the macro doesn't see an end paren token, just doesn't get more items in the list, thus can't violate the scoping). Lisp forces open and end parens to be understood as hierarchical grouping indicators for (any kind of) syntax. This simple change over a stream of tokens seems to happen to simplify language creation via macros a lot.

[1] quite definitely not before macro-expanding their arguments. After macro-expansion, by grouping the resulting s-expr with a context and a correct tree-walker, I guess it could be said to be one.
> If I'm not mistaken, this is the same dev board that's been for sale from the manufacturer (sifive) for months and months.

Yes, this seems to be the case. The layout is only very slightly different than the HiFive1, most of the major components are in the same locations.

I was thinking about buying one of these and porting Tock OS [1] (written in Rust) onto it for a fun personal project. There's been a surprising amount of work already in the embedded Rust space, and I believe the compiler support for RISC-V is already sufficient.

[1] https://www.tockos.org/
> Another way to deal with this would be to not apologize, but to insist the algorithms are imparital,

But since, as they admit, they have historically intervened in the trending rankings, insisting that they are impartial would be lying.

They could decide not to intervene this time, but that would raise he question of why this is less deserving of intervention than past issues, if they were being honest and open.
You contradict yourselves. Anti-hate-speech laws and culture suppressed the spread of ideas. That's the concept of "chilling effects" (from the other side). If suppressing speech didn't matter, no one would be worried about it being suppressed.

With the rise of non-suppressed hate speech on Reddit and Twitter and Fox News and the like, we saw a resurgence of terrorism in the US, terrorism which was very clearly inspired by the hate speech (specifically, it's conspiracy theories) and spread ideas that people wouldn't have thought up on their own.
Everyone that I know hates my wife and I, because we're just so ridiculously happy with each other. It's just sickening, we're that super annoying couple that finish each other's sentences and act like teenagers in love, even though we've known each other for well over two decades.

I don't think I could have done it without LSD.

Here's what happened:

I was raised by a single mom and I just had NO IDEA how to talk to women whatsoever. On top of that, I was always the kid who'd spend all weekend squirreled away in his room writing code.

I never had any luck with girls, I honestly lost my virginity to a girl because I did her taxes. No joke, she basically felt bad for my nerdy self and threw me a bone because I did her taxes.

In some other timeline, I could've turned into an incel.

Instead, when I was 20, a coworker gave me some LSD one night and we went to a night club. On a normal night, I would've spent the whole night trying to 'pick up' girls. On that night, I just wanted to dance and have a good time.

And it stuck.

I stopped worrying about trying to find a GF.

I stopped stressing out about being lonely.

Practically overnight, I found myself going out and focusing on having a good time and just having fun. And the interesting thing about LSD is that I didn't have to do it every night. I did it one time and it changed how I viewed the world. It wasn't a crutch, it just re-arranged how I saw things.

Naturally, you know where this is going right? I met a great girl, and suddenly I wasn't nervous or self conscious or creepy, I was just like "hey let's go out and have a good time."
All of that stuff is great, and does not explain why the Mac Mini, an entry-level Apple computer, is somehow proportionally worth $300 more than it used to be.
> Somewhat agree about the XR, though I guess the idea is it's one less than an S

I certainly don't find it obvious that XR means "less" than XS. I could just as easily see it meaning "greater", in the way that the 18th rank is greater" than the 19th rank (in this case the ranked things being letters). Until I actually learned the difference, I actually had thought that the XR was the more expensive one.
Because people want it? I don't understand why tech people can't understand the most obvious of actions. Apple is popular because people love their products.

Apple may not always have the specs or work best with non-Apple services, but Apple products are consistently high quality, integrate nicely into Apple's ecosystem, and are brand that shows its owners are a certain type of class. Signifying you're of a certain type of class or are "hip" seems to be what so many tech people get hung up upon yet its basic consumerism.

Certain types of people wear Nike clothes or wear Ralph Lauren, or drive a Tesla. Showing you're a HENRY (High Earner; Not Rich Yet) is apart of Apple's appeal.

So no, people know there are Apple alternatives but they don't care because Apple has an appeal that other tech companies have trouble emulating on top of constantly being high quality products. There's almost no Apple product that is "bottom of the barrel" in terms of quality.
No, I’m pointing out that it’s a weird sexist comment that sounds like something from a scene of Mad Men.
People just love trolling them because they overreact.
>The "funding secured" tweet wasn't harmless, it was a lie that gave a false valuation basis for Tesla at $420.

If you make a snap financial judgement based on a single tweet, you deserve to lose money.
100% agreed. People are complaining online about how the new Mac Mini is priced, but they're not just selling a computer. It's a whole ecosystem of things of mostly reliable stuff that works well with each other.

The old Mac Mini started at $499 with a slow processor even when it was new, a slow hard drive and 4GB of RAM. That was a configuration that no one should have bought. The cheapest previous Mac Mini that anyone should have bought was $699.
How come they are removing the golang package, and forcing people to use the go toolset instead? Will this affect CentOS?
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I'm sorry but to anyone who's actually tried and lived with AirPods, there's no going back and there's no comparison to anything on the market at any price (even at a higher price).

It's so drastically better than anything on the market, that I'll immediately buy a new pair if I lose my current ones. I wouldn't even think twice about the price.

There is no other headphones on the market where I can play 1:1 basketball for hours, have the headphones never fall out, and I don't even notice I have them on the entire time. They're a part of me. I literally forget that I have them in my ears, and they easily switch between all of the devices in my life in a way no other headphones do. It's a signficant quality of life improvement for me.
Can someone run this against some manga?
Does anyone have insights into the possible motivation behind this? I'm an industry outsider, but I've been a bit baffled by the way that Canonical, Purism, and now Red Hat are seemingly doubling-down on Gnome and shifting away from KDE Plasma at precisely the moment that (going by the discourse within my Linux infosphere, at least) Gnome is approaching a crisis point, stripping away features as the debt comes due for bad design decisions made (and good, if painful, design fixes not implemented) years ago, whereas KDE Plasma is cruising, constantly adding refinements onto an already good foundation.

Or to put it differently: all the Linux experts I read and listen to (many of whom actually work at Canonical or Red Hat) are talking about how great KDE Plasma is, and how troubled Gnome Shell is, yet all the companies are rejecting KDE for Gnome.

What gives? Is this just part of the growing "corporatization" of Linux -- i.e. an investment of resources into a more corporate-controlled project, with an eye on the bottom-line and optimizing business-consumer support, rather than into one that's more decentralized in its development and individual-user targeted (and that would just draw resources from the former)?
Should they apologize for human nature? People facilitate hate, no matter what the platform.
https://jriddell.org/2018/11/02/red-hat-and-kde/
How soon we forget. That is obviously a CoffeeScript fat arrow function, after you're done adding the Rest API to the front end you callback to the .NET framework to execute it.
You know the truly damning thing is that we’re all surprised by this feature working. This is exactly the sort of thing that should be completely painless.
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“Services provided on iOS” is not a market in the regulatory sense. “Services provided to mobile devices” is possibly a market in that sense, and there is indeed competition there.

Apple would have to have a monopoly on mobile devices for there to be a concern that the market is not free.
I never had any luck on Upwork either, so I completely dropped it. Those freelancing platforms, imo, are really not great. You won't be able to compete with someone who is willing to do the work for next to nothing.

Believe it or not, I have pretty much gotten all of my Freelance work for the last two years from Reddit. A seriously undervalued resource for this kind of thing.
Indeed, just two days ago I made a derivation for a large binary, which is built against an older Boost (1.58). On most other package managers, this would be painful, but with Nix I just made a derivation for that version of Boost by overriding Boost 1.59, which is in nixpkgs:

https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/f6da4d02686224b300...
Twitter needs some kind of negative feedback mechanism to allow for the discovery algorithm to correct for the sentiment of users. A downvote, dislike, un-heart, something along those lines, would be a good signal to allow users to signify what kind of content they deem objectionable.
> Twitter is supposed to be the "safe" micro-blog social network

Strange, I have the opposite perception. On Twitter, I am constantly confronted with "kill the jews" kind of hate speech. If you post something with a remotely controversial hashtag, you'll get frothing responses. Oh, and on some days searching for innocent terms gets you tons of NSFW nudes - if you are outraged by that kind of thing.

OTOH, Mastodon is advertized as "safe" alternative - or lets better say "comfy". Whether you feel comfy by being able to express radical free speech and not having to deal with identity politcs, political correctness, "SJWs" and so on. Or whether you are on the other side of that debate and don't want to be bothered by hate speech, misogynism, and other abhorrent things - a loosely federated network like Mastodon offers places for both groups.
> He also used his real name. In fact, he didn't really take any steps to protect himself

I kind of think that's the point for a celebrity on Twitter or a similar site.
What if people know they're not getting the fastest/biggest/best but pay a premium anyway? It might be a trope but "it just works" is a heck of a value proposition for most people.
I think that's the case for most people. Especially as we age, healthcare becomes more important. And it's the healthcare that gets a lot of people.

(At least that's the case in the US. I don't really know much about other nations and their retirement setups.)
I would like to have both .. but only got a laptop .. :-/
Huh? Are you 8 feet tall?
The $499 Mac Mini came with 4GB of RAM, a 5400 rpm hard drive and had a 1.4Ghz CPU.

A usable Mac Mini was at least $699.
> But then there's a question of where does the content live? Most people don't have a desktop they leave connected all the time

I think most people know someone who does and we can start there. The first step is to make it really easy to host on a desktop (including addressing and NAT busting, both of which Tor provide).
No, not secure enough. Remember ActiveX? The security policy of ActiveX was, the browser asks the user if he wants to install the ActiveX. If the user says yes, anything that happens afterwards is the users responsibility.

What you're suggesting is not that much better. Do you expect your grandma to be able to review the permission list for the browser extension?

Browser extensions are the modern day ActiveX. Yes, lots of them are very useful. But you could say the same about ActiveX controls too.
I used to have a Palm Pilot around 15 years ago. On that was an app that supported a C dialect. So I wrote a Snake clone in it. Was actually fun. But yeah, there was a pen and a custom input language, I think that's more efficient than fitting a keyboard on to a tiny space.

There's a trend that all kinds of computers become like Stereos. They become very practical to use for recreational tasks and a limited amount of professional tasks. That's not including programming though. I mean a Chromebook is for instance a laptop perfectly suitable for programming but you need to go through some discomfort to configure it for that, although I guess it became easier with time.
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Ironic bigotry is still bigotry.
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I don't understand this argument. Haven't they done just this over the past 4 years or so? Enhanced blocking and muting controls, etc.

What more needs to be done? It's up to individuals to curate their own social environments.
Is there any decent data on those AirPods? I am considering them against the OnePlus Bullet Wireless if I'm forced to go this way with a new phone. Overall I'm not a big fan of the completely separated earbud style Apple went with and I'm not using them with any other Apple hardware. The OnePlus design seems better, the price is much cheaper and the charging time is much less, but if the quality isn't there then maybe the Apple ones are the way to go.

I just wish they had decent objective quality numbers like I can find for even fairly cheap wired headphones via InnerFidelity. Anyone know if these are widely published for any of the wireless headphones?
> I've really really enjoyed the switch.

How so?

I've been a mac user for many years but can't really justify the price of an iphone. I've been considering making the switch though, for better integration, privacy and smaller phone. Not sure it's worth it.
Windows just isn't cool, no matter how hard Microsoft tries to rebrand it. It'll never be cool until Microsoft does something to not make it ubiquitous.

Windows is what you use when you're a kid at a public school or have parents that don't have the money to buy a Mac. Macs and iPhones are trendy because not everyone owns them, they're really nice, and they're pricey.

Windows is like Wal-mart while Apple is Whole Foods.
I wish societies would stop telling us about GDP. Over my lifetime I've seen GDP change in one direction, while quality of life in society goes the other way.

I remember France hired some Nobel Prize economists to create new and more relevant measures, but the wealthy aren't concerned about average people, so they keep using GDP since it so effectively hides all the information our society should be measuring and weighing.
This is so true. People keep comparing the specs with competitors but they're missing the point.

Apple's strength, be it when they are doing it well or not, has always been UX.
>There has been decades of quality research

Has there been? If the null hypothesis is that populations show identical traits, and to publish a paper rejecting the null hypothesis is career suicide, what have we learned when no one credibly rejects the null hypothesis?
Man, Twitter seems to be eating a lot of crow lately in this domain. They came out swinging against regulation/"censorship" of their users... but this is getting out of hand. Twitter, Facebook, etc. need to start taking some responsibility here or someone is going to do it for them (i.e. the government).
To be specific, Frege, was quite anti-Semitic in his private writings.