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I'm not a long-time Beatles fan, but I've been going through a bunch of major popular music albums from the 50s on up in chronological order over the last few months, and gave IIRC seven Beatles albums at least one pretty close listen each as part of that project. Their qualities that still make them stand out as really damn good:

1) Their albums are eclectic. They're are all over the place in the best way. You listen to someone like Hendrix or Metallica or whoever and you're kinda in for just the one thing. Maybe with some notable variation here and there, but they're not gonna go way off some totally unexpected direction. They may be great, or they may just play the kind of thing you happen to like a lot, which is fine, but that's pretty much all you're getting. The Beatles may, by contrast, have five songs each with very different sounds and emotional content in not much more than ten minutes, somehow without giving the listener whiplash.

2) They do that thing great artists (in other media, too) do where they have complete confidence that they can come up with more good ideas, so they'll toss out great stuff and move on like it was nothing—they don't cling to good ideas, because they know more are coming.

3) Contributing to all the above, the creative input of various members of the band shining in different songs.

4) Legit good songwriting, music and lyrics. Rubber Soul, which is the album I keep coming back to (not sure I'd defend it as their best? The White Album is ~1.5 LPs worth of top-notch stuff spread over two LPs and it's hard to argue against it) has a some really good, understated moments of humanity and humor in just the first few tracks—lyrically, they know what to write and, as importantly, what not to. The Beatles could be blunt as hell when they wanted, certainly, but could also achieve sublime subtlety. Even their more straightforward songs often have one or two little thorns to catch you as you go through. The music itself is, as mentioned, eclectic but mostly very good despite ranging freely across instruments, styles, and continents. Haha, I've got that fuzzed-bass part from Think For Yourself stuck in my head now just from thinking about this. So, so good.

Going through those albums has been one of my favorite experiences to come out of this listening project. I'd barely heard anything but their radio hits (to be fair, there are a lot of those) until last year. Now they've got five albums in my regular rotation[0].

[0] The Beatles (The White Album), Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, Let It Be, Sgt. Pepper's—I've given Revolver two full listens and just cannot understand why people like it. I like a couple songs but most of it... bleh. I'll hit it again in a few years but for one that's often put up as their best, man, I don't even like it. Go figure. Magical Mystery Tour's (US version) back half is incredible, since it's just a bunch of their previously-released between-albums singles, but almost the entire first side sucks.
It's certainly not an OS issue, because I'm not talking about OSs. I'm talking about Libreoffice.
I fail to understand this human-hating stance. It's very confusing to me especially seems it seems to be cheering the suffering and death of many people but the feeling seems to be prompted by the suffering and death of many people. It's simply confusing to me.
Well you get what you pay for.
If there were commercial restrictions then it wouldn't be a free software licence. You're free to use the software for any purpose.
I believe both you and the GP are correct. Moreover it generalizes even further and includes, for example, the identity politics dogma of the modern left. These beliefs about systematic injustice are more than just rational arguments, they are themselves an important component to an emotional identity, a key to understanding a complex, suffering world, and hence a way to see possible solutions to that suffering. (Also we aren't the first to note the interesting rise of various secular replacements for religion! Personally, my favorite is Buddhism because it is the most humane way to embrace the void that religion leaves when it goes. )
A few years ago that was true, and commercial tools are still horrid and closed and necessary for certain FPGA families.

But as of right now you can use[1] the Lattice iCE40 (small, 8k LUTs), Lattice UltraPlus (5k LUTs, DSPs) and Lattice ECP5[2] (~85k LUTs, with 5G SerDes and PCIe Gen 2) with completely open tools. The ECP5 in particular would be well suited for it.

And there is a productive effort[3] to do the same for the Artix-7 and other Xilinx 7 Series parts.

Even for those parts that are still very much closed, you can load an existing bitstream on them using open tools. Intel Max10, which is the part found on the LimeSDR Mini, is one of those even though we don't have open bitstream documentation for it yet.

The major commercial FPGA tools all work Linux at this point too, I use most of them on Ubuntu routinely including Lattice Diamond, Altera/Intel Quartus, and Xilinx ISE/Vivado.

[1] http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

[2] https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjtrellis

[3] https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjxray
That's a nice theory but I think it's wrong. Can you provide an example of a framework that should have been an incremental improvement (or not written at all?).

The only possible example I can think of is React vs. Vue, but even then there's a pretty fundamental differentiating factor which is that Vue is lightweight (e.g. easier to drop in to an existing non-Vue project).
Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs (2016) [pdf]
Why do you assume the problem is with the EU and not with McDonald’s? The people who judge the matter have clear rules to follow, rules that McDonald’s lawyers are intimately familiar with. And yet they messed up. Is it some grand conspiracy against foreign companies or an arrogant multinational that is used to rules not mattering to them?
> The cost of actually delivering the video was so tiny it didn't matter. To put it another way, you could watch for the entire month continuously and it would make no difference to the bottom line.

Truly amazing times we live in!
On the other hand, a dashboard is probably one of the most boring stuff to work on when you have a CS degree. Typically, a dashboard is asked as a deliverable to keep the dev team busy while also making sure other people's jobs in the bank arent rendered obsolete if the dev team were used to its full potential.

The people saying Devs dont do enough effort to understand the domain are the same people who try to keep the "domain" overly complicated to justify their jobs/positions
When I had my new 'Man Shed' (It's a large workshop really[1]) built at the end of my garden, I ensured I could extend my network to it. I have an old NAS with a couple of large drives in it, and I have scheduled backups that write to it from the main file server in the house.

It's not perfect, but it's way better than not having any offsite backups at all. I have a deep distrust of Cloud storage services so for me I think this setup is the best solution I'm going to get.

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[1] I'm in the UK, so our typical 'sheds' are absolutely tiny - this one is not.
> 'Being in a club with secret knowledge' doesn't fit the description of 'religion' very well,

Why not? (I debated whether or not to include "religion" in my comment because the word is so laden with baggage, but ultimately decided that it was apt, so I am prepared to defend it if you really want to go down that rabbit hole.)

> But 'flat earth' has to be the dumbest of all.

Not even close. (Go read some Scientology literature, or the Book of Mormon.) But the fact that FE is so vehemently rebutted by the scientific establishment is a feature to the flat-earthers, proof that they really are fighting the good fight even though the odds are overwhelmingly stacked against them. That's the whole point.
I don't think they could negotiate something as big as a completely new health system in time to stop government services from collapsing...
Part of the issue is that most of the arguments about flat earth are easy to me in layman's terms and hard to debunk without going deep mathematically.

And there are lots of them, see this famous example https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ax_YpQsy88

Now let's assume that a flat eaether believer is lacking the sort of knowledge required to instance why these "proofs" are wrong, how you going to debate them with the knowledge gap? You have to either fill that first or convert all your arguments into layman terms, making it extremely costly and time consuming.

And so their view goes unchallenged.
This is a textbook example of Whataboutism. No one is saying that TVs, etc. shouldn't be different, but asking for more flexibility of software on Apple's devices is a reasonable follow-up to Tim Cook's stated desire for more data privacy.

Your following statement is roughly equivalent to saying the following, which I don't endorse:
"If you don't like Google's choice in focusing on their particular solution which involves intimate user-data integration for more intelligent assistance, the answer is to buy from a competitor."

You can buy from a competitor to avoid data privacy issues as well. However, to some people that doesn't justify offering and marketing an option that compromises that value.
You do understand that the only reason why trademarks exist is the Government?
Where do they think the edge is?
I have some clarification on this whole flat earth thing and it is insidious.

I have a father who is prone to believing conspiracy theories. When I grew up he bought me a thousand "unexplained mysteries" magazines. the topics ranged from spontaneous combustion to ghosts to Loch ness monster to the magazines primary focus.. aliens. I had an incredibly scary childhood. As I grew older i learned that the strange noises at night were not ghosts but the house settling or something like that. It took me years to find peace from his indoctrination.

Today, He doesn't care about any of those topics. They just seemed to slowly vanish from his radar. Today it is the invasion of "lesser" species trying to erode "Our" "Moral certainties"

- He believes Trump is the answer the world needs
- He believes Global warming is a myth created by Al Gore so he could take billions from the government
- He believes brown skin makes you less intelligent because your DNA prohibits you from excelling, "Nature has chosen white DNA"
- He believes the Rockerfeller's control the world through manipulation and bribery.
- He lives in South Africa, yet is obsessed with Palestinian Politics.
- He has a programmer son, and a Scientist Daughter, but routinely sends conspiracy theories to both of us to the point where I no longer interact with him

I spent many hours researching why this could happen. Why would a person abandon all reason and persue his own beliefs so fervently? It turns out that people are prone to conspiracy theories via their personality. They don't understand the world, dont trust the government, and therefore latch on to an explanation that explains the whole world to them. Anybody trying to explain the difficulty of the situation to them is therefore an "attacker".

The reason Flat earth is so insidious is that it has brought 3 active communities together.
1) The conspiracy crowd who does't trust the government ("The man")
2) Religious Christians who interpret the bible literally. ("The four corners of the earth")
3) Muslim culture being exterminated by christian "integrity". Christians view the muslim community by default as heathens.
4) the obvious crazies.

so you have 3 powerful, emotional motivators steering this conspiracy. to the point where good science is being applied well, to poor premises.

I was listening to a pod cast about this where the scientist in question was impressed by the level of scientific control over the completely insane premise.

I have not solved this problem or re-connected with my father. It is ongoing and the misinformation is just horrific. Right now I feel that humanity is as divided as ever, with corporations taking their biggest cut.

I honestly expected a completely different outcome to the freedome of information we have today. I expected enlightenment, but instead got people doubling down on their own beliefs and researching points to support them because emotions at the end of the day are more important than truth.
Because McDonald’s should not have to follow the rules and deliver the right papers and evidence when requested to do so of course.
I would say that putting climate change and flat Earth into the same category is not totally fair. While the geometry of the Earth has been pretty clear for millennia and the local CO2 level can be accurately measured, many more subtle questions on climate change still don't have clear cut answers.
If you look at the range of feasible activities in human existence, it is actually pretty small. In the modern era, a person can buy some quantity of a relatively small number of consumer goods, choose their place of residence, their work and their friends circle. In previous eras, choices were even more limited.

To say 'utilising the same brain space' carries implications that minds basically work except there is a little area open to corruption. I'd suggest on the contrary that minds _not_ working is the natural state of things, and most people either aren't intellectually challenged or aren't bold enough to go outside their areas of competence. Note that it takes a literal decade of schooling to be a functional member of society.

So, I would contend it is possible, with great effort, to create a little area in your mind that sees some level of truth in a given situation. Nothing to do with religion.
Typescript allows you to essentially write a typed API interface for your library (instead of rewriting your entire library in typescript), but support is fairly spotty.
I recently tried updating a Windows 8 system (planning to eventually get it to Windows 10). I let Windows Update try to "check for updates" for some hours before I eventually decided it looked like it was stuck (it gave no feedback either way, but people on the internet did claim it could take hours so I gave it a chance). On Googling, it seems like the accepted solution is to open an administrator command prompt in Safe Mode, paste in some weird-looking commands that seem to move files around in C:\Windows\system32 and stop and start services, manually download and install some KB13u319787wahtever.msi files and reboot a few times. It took me at least four tries to follow the instructions scraped from various forum replies, though I did eventually get it to start updating again. I haven't had so much work updating a system since I ran Arch Linux instead of Ubuntu =P

And then just try getting the built-in OpenSSH in Windows 10 installed and playing nicely with Linux – I'm still not sure it was worth the effort over just e-mailing files back and forth. I've had at least as much trouble with Windows as with Linux lately (but I don't do anything involving graphics).

The way I see it, the main reasons for using Windows over Linux are simply that there are still lots of programs written for Windows that aren't there on Linux, and although there may be good alternatives, they won't have the same community around them or training materials or third party tools and integrations. E.g. if you use Adobe CS, you can get lots of howtos on youtube, filters and plugins, help from friends etc. – if you try to switch to GIMP/Krita/Darktable, you're on your own and when you come across a cool-looking plugin you can no longer even try it out. And that feels bad.

By the way, what is iDrive? I've used varous linuces for nearly two decades and never heard of it.
If you want to run entirely open source software on entirely open source hardware with every software component compiled by a personally verified compiler and with every hardware component manufactured under your personal scrutiny then you might have a point.

Otherwise you are ultimately forced to trust someone—probably many someones—and I'd rather place that trust in as few entities as possible.

For myself I've chosen an entity that I believe has an economic incentive to respect my privacy and has proven with their actions that they deserve my trust.
Haha I hadn't heard that one before, I like it! Interestingly this kind of one-upsmanship quite easily makes conspiracy theories self-fulfilling. Consider the secret club that defends against the Illuminati. Then, another secret club arises to defend against the excesses of the first club. Since they define themselves in opposition to the other, the second group may as well be the Illuminati, which justified the conspiracy theory of the first group all along! Lovely!
This matters.

It may well be the tutorials are perfectly fine, depending on who you are.

I find that they way we organize and search for information through algorithms offered by the likes of Google and YouTube offer you this "10 sizes fit most" type philosophy where you get several results and they are deemed "the best" and you can self-select into using which tutorial is the most suitable for you. Though it may be the case that none of them are suitable for you, despite them being suitable for others.

Can you even conclude they are bad? I don't know.

I think there is a deeper lesson. It's not likely a situation arises that satisfies everyone and it's not likely you can tell when it is the situation that is bad or whether you are just not suited to it.
> A couple years ago they called large phones "phablets." We've lost that word now.

The correct term is tablone <grin>.

I loved my SE until I bricked it jumping in our local pool not feeling it was still in my pocket — one of the downsides not yet mentioned. I brought my previous Nexus 6 out of retirement since there aren't any phones, Android or iPhone, that is worth new pricing right now.

Plus, I demand a 3.5mm headphone jack — dropping that was the most annoying design choice I can remember in a long time, in any consumer device.

Grrr.
Yes, but we passengers use them regularly.
Control is a faulty illusion resulting in really bad policy. Here is a video of explaining this in a popular cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StrbppmsZJw

Instead of exercising control rational people focus their energy on planning of attainment of a goal.
I pursue it only during work time.

But becoming a father definitely changed my perspective. Just raising my kid has become a worthy life goal in itself.
React. Vue. Angular 2. Meteor. Vulcan.

Do any of these frameworks actually solve problems that weren't being solved before? Did rewriting Angular 1 in Typescript really improve things for the user?
> That being said, you don't have to use the newer technologies if you don't want to.

When you're new to the scene, how on Earth would you know?

Seemingly everybody's doing it, there's no sane source on whether it's worth using or its tangible benefits, and you can't make heads or tails of it – you need to be in the game already to even begin doing so.

Web dev may not be evolving, but it certainly is developing into new forms fairly frequently. As my newbie coding days went by, I witnessed the rise of Angular as this massive new way to handle web codebase. After some time, it grew into Angular2, with a seemingly indiscernable structure to its apps. Around the same time, came Vue, which is "the same thing as Angular, only better". And that's before I started getting around Github...

This kind of development doesn't match the mental model we have for improvement in a technological sphere. If there's something new, it must be better, right? Bigger TVs, smart TVs, 3D TVs... You could still watch your old TV (not really, 'cause the transmission's gone digital, which few, if any, old TVs support), but you'll be behind — and given the frantic pace of the everyday life now, how'd you know better?

I'd sworn off frameworks until bigger projects entirely. You can get a lot from regular JS, without the overhead of learning and keeping up the mental model of a new framework. I can afford to, because I'm an independent developer who codes for fun. Could people in the industry afford the same?
No it wont. Because you don’t understand the issue, you didn’t bother reading what happened. You just came here to shit on the EU for no reason but your own biases which you thought you saw confirmed in the headline.

What happened is something that is actually causing stability because a huge multinational was prevented from bullying a new upstart company.
You should read Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The perfect crime might exist, but the perfect delinquent won’t ever.
That's odd, I think I saw one of these in a small gift shop in a mall in the Mitte district of Berlin, just a few months ago. Was it the same maker, or someone different? TBH I'm a bit wary of people buying mass-produced Chinese stuff and marketing them as "art objects".
Only if you're a Chinese citizen in China.

From the article: "Apple to move Chinese iCloud keys to China servers...Once on Chinese soil, government agencies will be able to request information through the Chinese legal system, which lacks the transparency, checks or oversight of its American counterpart."

If you think the US Government would never act without transparency, checks or oversight, you are being delusional. And factually wrong.

Apple is complying with the local laws, just as it does in all other countries. The suggestion that Apple should breach these laws—or exit the market entirely—is absurd and unproductive.
that doesn't seem to hold.

Once MS was forced to deal with their monopoly IE issues Firefox and then Chrome took off. Now to the point that Chrome is number 1 by user choice even if you remove Android from the picture.

It would most likely be number one on iOS as well if Apple actually allowed Devs to implement a browser engine because Chrome follows 10s possibly even 100s of standards that Safari is dropping the ball on.

The only single reason Apple can get away with this is their control over the platform and not allowing competition in that space.

That's not just bad for iOS users and lack of choice (Chrome is provably more secure than Safari so by not allowing it Apple is not allowing users to choose a more secure browser ... see vulnerability lists), it's also bad for the entire web at large. By Apple controlling all iOS users access to the internet they have an effective stranglehold on what standards get adopted.
But wait, these drugs won't even exist if they didn't charge as much. They are needed by very few people (so if the price was $1000 they won't boost the number of patients so much, as the diseases are very rare), and drug research and regulatory process of approval is very expensive.
Here’s a controversial opinion. Most junior programmers start off programming front end. And most of them don’t fully understand the frameworks they are using. So there is a bit of a herd mentality when it comes to front end development. They will rush to the next hot thing because of all the shiny new things it can do.
"spirituality - morality - control..."

I think one could add also social proof as fourth element.

As the mass of believers grows the phenomenon becomes self perpetuating up to a point as people are wired to imitate things they percieve in others - were that a belief or skill.

Control is partly caused by the group's self control, and partly by power hungry political figures at the "top" of the movement - leaders if the movement is organized, or just "thought leaders" if the movement is less organized.