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> has all the software I need

That's really the key to it all. Frankly, Windows, macOS, and just about any Linux are all good enough and have been for a while now. For most people, it all comes down to what software they want to run.
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What country are you in? I've never seen a commercial on Netflix in the USA, Japan, or a few weeks in Europe. I guess there's probably some product placement here and there, and the auto-playing trailers are almost as obnoxious as ads?
I really don’t know to be honest. I’m just wondering if there’s opportunity between the people who won’t commit to a sub but still want to watch at a price similar to a tightly managed sub.
So what explains that the ratio has absurdly dropped after the Police crackdown? Manufacturing is still going on here, actually, manufacturing there is growing stronger as ever, with the workforce Surplus, now, salaries of factory girl workers went down a lot, because we don't have other things to do now besides work in the factories now, so manufacturing has nothing to do with this, and even if it had, a city doesn't become a sex capital because of high-ratio women:men, would be overly simplistic reasoning, and that's what I was replying to,

If this was true, please mind, BaoAn district that belongs to Shenzhen (and where you cannot find a single male boy among thousands of pretty girls if you go to try to get a table at a cheap worker's restaurant at lunch time in a big factory's gate), and every other labor-intense manufacturing hub all over Asia would be Sex capitals, what is not true. The district of BaoAn, in the border between Dongguan and Shenzhen, actually geographically located much more close to Dongguan, but belongs to Shenzhen, and because it belongs to Shenzhen, and not to Dongguan, Sex business is "forbidden", or at least nowhere as freely allowed as Dongguan(was), you can't compare. What get us to the reason a city becomes a Sex Capital in a country where prostitution is forbidden by the law(!)

The reason is that the Gov of that country thinks prostitution is a necessary evil that helps to prevent violence and rape and other things, so this Gov indicates a place where this can happen, for the sake of Society's Harmony(SheHuiHeXie). Almost Every city in China has a street, a neighbourhood, or an area where the Police pretends to crack but let it happen, at least until people start to abuse the relative freedom, because humans cannot have nice things without abusing it, then they will indicate another place to start from scratch.

Vietnam too.

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:adding some historical context: It is said that when the Old Wise Man, and this was a Wise one, mind you, Lao Deng (Old deng Xiao Pin) Decide that the few thousand people small fisher's village named Shenzhen was meant to become the 10 million people's Heart of Pearl River's Delta(the biggest Industrial Manufacturing Hub Ever built by hummanity, probably) Lao Deng decided to aloow the creation of what was called back then ErNaiLou( in a literal translation word by word: Second Milk Building(not clear)), but this was a building full of small rooms for the factory workers to get SocietyHarmonized( In the good meaning of this verb, it has a bad meaning too, related to execution of death penalty)
Yes, but people might have limited amount of time they spend watching entertainment. If that time's spent watching Fortnite, it becomes a harder decision to keep shelling out $10.99/month (or now $12.99/month) to subscribe to a service you're not using.
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> I mean that is essentially how all science is done.

Installing software shouldn't have to be a formal scientific discipline. It isn't rocket science unless you make it rocket science so you have an excuse to invent package managers.

> All supported distros will provide binary updates.

Eventually. On their own schedule. If you want (or need) the latest driver as soon as the vendor says it is ready, you'll be compiling. Otherwise you have to wait for the kernel maintainers, then the distributors.
That would be nice, but it would also require infrastructure investment on a massive scale before it could even begin. Self-driving cars as currently conceived function on existing infrastructure with zero changes.
I remember Windows NT being a bit of all right -- if I recall correctly, it was based on the Mach kernel as OSX is[was?].

One real historical criticism I have of Windows is that it took them until Win10 to make bash available. They really ought to have, at minimum, aliased a lot more bash commands to Powershell 'cmdlets'. It used to be so frustrating, having to look up all their weird, verbose commands.
I like my big phone because a) I'm going blind in my old age, and b) the security requirements at the work keep my private life on my big phone, seperate from the network at the office.
Book Bad Pharma thoroughly debunks this idea. These companies spend more time and money in lobbying, marketing, and rehashing the old research.
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Why not?

This is the sort of question that gets raised at the end of Sapiens and throughout homo deus two books by Yuval Noah Harari.

The next 100 years are going to be very interesting as science is really testing the boundaries of what humans are capable of and I suspect more and more experiments will occur just to trial and error and see what happens.
That’s why they are deploying driver assitent technology now and human co-pilots for any cars with autonomous driving capability.

Unlike with humans, the learning is transferable with driverless cars.
It's interesting to watch people make inferences about the capacity of individuals to develop software based on the utterances of a 19th century Irish playwright.

My theory is that exposition is hard. Most people are shit at teaching.
I think it’s a form of voluntary price segmentation. If you’re in a rich family, everyone has their own account. If you’re in a poor family, you could have 10 people on one account. The middle class does what you’re talking about, maybe shares it between two people but you have a higher retention rate. This way Netflix gets as much as it can from everyone.
If you never use your Netflix subscription, why would you keep it?
I've taught people coding a few times and I always start with a game, but it's hard keeping it simple enough for them to understand. This tutorial looks like a great place to start. Thanks!
I can't really understand the sentiment that front-end dev is absurd. I started with .NET years ago and find _anything_ that becomes 'standard' in the front-end more approachable than the constant reinventing of the wheel / new framework releases MS did circa 2004 - 2014.

It was something like:

- Learn ASP, opps we meant ASP.NET web forms. Actually, we meant .NET MVC.

- Oh no, the world wants APIs ... please learn WCF. Actually, we meant .NET Web API.

It seems things have finally calmed down with .NET core. But, along with the MS frameworks you also need to have good command over C# and data access / manipulation utilities such as LINQ, Entity Framework, etc. If you happen to be working with MSSQL Server as I was -- you had to learn it and all of its quirks.

I will say the tooling, once learned, was pretty good everywhere (except WCF in terms of configuration). I can't say that for a lot of front-end utilities, which I think results in a lot of configuration pain and StackOverflow searches.

I do find the answers / guidance on configuring front-end much higher quality than most things in the MS ecosystem, though.

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My intent here isn't to bash MS so much as it is to point out that the breadth of things you actually have to learn for front-end development is less than some other ecosystems. We're a part of a privileged profession where income and demand is high, so I do expect re-skilling to be an ongoing process.
But you're using this code in any application you make, so you can't use it commercially.. AGPL isn't made with libraries in mind...
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What's absurd is the size of pockets in women's clothing.
I'm curious how Netflix seems to have failed to innovate at social media consumption in their platform.

If they're really worried about Fortnite, why haven't they made an effort to actually leverage network effects past cost scaling?

My primary reason to get Netflix if my friends have Netflix is so we can talk about the same (Netflix-only) shows.

But why not offer synced or simultaneous viewing with friends groups? Or per group commenting on episodes? Or anything that offers a truly different viewing experience that I can only get on Netflix?
> Can someone explain just exactly how do drug patents work? Can this legally work? I understand that normally patents cover processes or working inventions. I didn't think that the precise chemical bonds were required to be produced in the final output of a patent.

A big part of it is that drug patents cover the process of production that gives the final molecule with viable yields. Pharmaceutical companies try to write patents broadly enough, or just file enough different patents, that there's no way to get to the final product without infringing one or more of their patents. The idea here is to come up with a sufficiently novel synthesis pathway that the original patents don't cover it, and thereby don't apply.

Derek Lowe has a good discussion: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/01/18/aut...
Yeah, or Francis Bacon, or any of the original Empiricists.

I find a lot more to like in the ASA's statement [1] than in any of these responses, which seem to act as if Karl Popper were the only one to ever have a worthwhile philosophy of science.

This paragraph of the response was particularly telling to me:

> A judgment against the validity of inductive reasoning for generating scientific knowledge does not rule out its utility for other purposes. For example, the demonstrated utility of standard inductive Bayesian reasoning for some engineering applications is outside the scope of our current discussion.

Translation: Ok, so maybe induction works fine when you're going to build a bridge where someone's life is on the line, but it still has no place in science. Falsification or bust!

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2016.1...
^ I'm a confirmed Linux user these days, but this is accurate. Half the time when I break something in a serious way, the above situation obtains and I just scowl and do a clean reinstall.
Bitter lesson learned: Invest couple of dollars in a surge protector.
Most tutorial writers are not aware of how to create educational materials. They don't think deeply about the learning objectives (what the reader should be able to do or understand at the end), don't understand how to provide concise working examples, how to "scaffold" learning, and so on. It's often just a dump of the things they learned and maybe how they learned it, but that doesn't mean it'll work for anyone else.

Creating teaching materials (tutorials, documentation, etc.) is hard, and few tutorial writers are getting feedback from actual students/readers. If you're never watched how novices work (and struggle!) with the materials that you've created, you don't really know what's missing or confusing or overwhelming. Even though I've been creating training courses for a long time, I still never know whether I'm making too many assumptions about what the student knows -- this is the "curse of expertise" -- and where they'll get stuck or lost.

(btw, I talk about some of the theory of learning with examples in my "Human Learning" presentation that you can find on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBHctPrH7Z2-BcpRWJ0uF...)
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>What I don't get about the larger phones is how people comfortably carry them around. Maybe its because I wear skinny jeans / pants, but there's absolutely no way I could fit a larger phone in the pockets of my pants, and I rarely have a jacket on.

Aside from a cellphone, I also carry a kindle all the time. I literally wear special pants so I can carry my kindle without a bag.

I mean, they aren't custom made or anything, but I do limit myself to baggy pants with giant cargo pockets. I keep saying I'm going to take all my electronics to a tailor and ask for less ridiculous pants that can carry all my stuff, but I haven't.

(that said, if apple released a new phone with new screen and network quality that was the size of the SE, I would buy it, just 'cause it's a lot easier to use with just one hand, and when I want to use both hands, I have bigger devices.)
Interesting. I was actually thinking of eco-villages and communes first. But these from the hippee era and collectivist ethos have only had minimal success. What if it was replaced by corporate principles in which the city or town ITSELF is the corporation?
Most fields don't throw their gadgets away like we do with computer hardware. I regularly with electrical equipment older than that.
In the software space your statement might be true in some cases. You're still far above the median, if you really create real value in the millions for others.
do you type with both hands?
A lot of games don't even start on my Antergos setup. I refuse to run ubuntu, because I don't like it (mostly package naming, and a lot of the time I feel like it's poorly configured at least when I was starting out). I personally have had a negative experience whenever I use a Debian derivative.
>Linux is usable for daily tasks, but only barely, and it gets further behind state of the art software every year. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone who isn’t fluent with critical debugging skills (bash, knowlege of logs and how to search them, the ability to manipulate system tasks, x11 and graphcis driver configurations, etc etc).

Would you say the same for Chromebooks? Chromebooks are Linux. If not that proves that it's at least possible for a user-friendly experience to exist on Linux. And I would further suggest that running Ubuntu on well-supported hardware closely approximates the Chromebook experience for most users. I personally know several ordinary users who find Ubuntu as easy as Windows to use, if not easier.

I think your statement that Linux gets "further behind state of the art" as time goes on is probably the oddest claim you make here. It runs counter to everything I've heard from anyone running Linux for a long period of time. Most reasonable hardware configurations just work right out of the box. Remember that the average user never installs an operating system. Either the OS comes with the computer or someone competent is doing the installation for them; in any case the end user isn't expected to fix any problems that arise. Whenever I've installed Windows I've encountered driver problems that had to be fixed to get a working experience, but that's not something I count against Windows when talking about the end-user experience.
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The XZ2 Compact has no headphone jack. :(
Good point! Now turn off all your privacy addons, Google up info on a disease or a new baby or engagement rings, and check out the ads you start getting
It just occurred to me that even for domestic animals, the "fast food" hypothesis cannot be true. There is now an obesity epidemic among horses: https://www.paulickreport.com/horse-care-category/obesity-ep... No one is feeding their horses human junk food.
Depends on the source. Many tutorials on Hackernoon or Medium or even personal sites are written by beginners trying to grow some web presence (if they are trying to make a career change) or just trying to edify their knowledge. It's great to learn something well by teaching another.

You end up in a blind leading the blind situation however and I find the most high quality tutorials end up being (usually) in the official documentation.

OTOH, lots of experienced devs forget the details that really get in the way! For example, I just learned I need to use an undocumented flag "disableOptimisticBPs" to enable breakpoints using Jest and Typescript with VSCode. I figured this out digging through Github issues. If I was to write a tutorial next week, there is a really high probability I'd forget this obscure step is what made my life easy.
Many comments here are concerned with the ever changing trends, downloads, and such. Frontend technologies really don’t change that fast.

If being a stronger frontend developer is a priority focus on the basics. I have received some favorable feedback about this list that requires no additional downloads https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/Web_Educati...
Unlike backend frontend isn't built on a solid foundation.

So someone people don't learn the stuff in use (or find it difficult to achieve the current trend in preexisting technology) in use and find easier tricks/concepts then base their whole framework on that.

Now newbies, who want to quickly achieve something gravitate towards the new shiny things which makes the current Trend easy but makes rest of the things difficult.

You can optimize technology along any axis, but if you optimize it along one axis it will be deoptimized along some other axis.

For example, think of interactivity. When people wanted to build interactive website, they brought stuff like websockets/single page application but now websockets can't be cached like a http API and SPA throws monkey wrench into SEO.

Now, you made current trending thing (interactivity) easier for newbies but made other things like initial page load time, SEO difficult.

These are my noob level observations, as you gain more experience you'll find many examples of this happening in wild.

Similarly, to achieve scalability people brought in JWT instead of Session cookies and lost ability to revoke the token without maintaing a blacklist or using short lived tokens which you've to refresh every few minutes increasing RPS load for the server.

So the moral of the story is that you need to understand what a particular technology makes easy and what it makes difficult then you select the appropriate technology without chasing the hype.
Wait who considers coal more green than nuclear? That's nonsense. Renewable is understandable as a sort of redefinition of terms, but I don't see how anyone explains away coal as "green."
We don't have technologies now that bring things under control. When it's cheaper to use renewable energies, when it's cheaper to use recycled materials then we have the technologies.
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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not permit automated load following of US nuclear generators. France and Germany nuclear regulators considered it earlier in the permitting process, hence the functionality exists there (load following incurs higher maintenance costs for components such as valves, but does not incur a higher fuel cost).
> I understand that normally patents cover processes...

> since apparently the researchers have read the patents in question and designed their software to produce drugs that avoid those patents, have they willfully infringed?

the patents cover process, not the resultant molecule. the program finds a different process to make the same thing.
You pay for Windows, but Linux is free. Windows is filled with ads; Linux has none. Windows is slow; Linux is less slow. Windows tried to pull some weird tablet hybrid nonsense; Linux desktops are just desktops. Cinnamon, Mate and KDE took the very best parts of old Windows and made them better. Gnome and Pantheon ripped off macOS and they're also great. Every single one of them is more polished and more useable than Windows 10.

But seriously, who in their right mind would tolerate advertisements in software that they paid good money for?
Let me put it this way. What's the best damn GPU on the market right now? I'm actually not sure, but I'd bet good money the top 3 slots are nVidia. Even if you use the nVidia proprietary drivers, the data says you're suffering a performance hit for it. God help if you're using nouveau, because you just wasted hundreds of dollars.

The kinds of people I think of when you say "serious gamers" are not going to be very happy with the idea that they're locked out of the best kit. These are people for whom their computer's primary purpose is probably playing games. Why would they sacrifice needlessly?

> So Linux is a natural fit.

If it were a natural fit, they'd be interested in using it. Data suggests they aren't.
Well, it fits in any pocket, it has a headphone jack, and i don’t need to stretch to use it one handed.
>But in the end, no one serious would ever consider using it.

Why not?

I would say it is the other way around. For any web application project of decent size there is almost always a transpilation step that converts whatever programming language your source code is in, into JavaScript (usually ES5). We also had very successful and widely used projects like GWT for years (GWT was first released in 2006!!!).
Secret Hitler! It's fun to play with a group consistently and watch the meta evolve over time. Also, yelling at people and telling everyone they are a fascist gives a special feeling.
I agree with you so much. Forbidden Desert is one of my go-to first games to the table and I don’t even ask experience. We just begin.
Christensen's Harvard colleague Rebecca Henderson has done some research how the organizational structure of big companies gets in the way and prevents them from re-organizing around innovations. Tim Harford has an interesting article on the subject: http://timharford.com/2018/10/why-big-companies-squander-bri...
Go. Not modern except as an application of ML. I like to play on the KGS Go Server which also has a bot library/interface. I might use that as an opportunity to try out Rust or some other low-ish level language. I started one in Go (the language) but since I already know it probably isn't worth the laugh.

What impresses me about learning to play Go is that even if I take break of a year and come back to it, I've improved because my ability to organize and think at a higher level has been developing elsewhere. Similarly, when I first started playing the game as I progressed through levels I could see changes in how I approach situations outside the game.

It's been really interesting following the advancements in game research where I could beat any of them to where the Monte Carlo ones got better, then of course AlphaGo and AlphaZero happened. I haven't plateau'ed so long that I lost interest but not near the dan levels yet so don't know if/when that will happen.
Driverless cars are a much harder problem than driverless trucks.

Once the latter become day-to-day reality on highways, I'll become cautiously optimistic about autonomous cars in cities.
> What are the ground rules here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
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