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> Also: desktop computers, in my opinion, pre-date the "desktop metaphor" and GUI environments

I kind of doubt that. When the metaphor was introduced by Alan Kay in 1970, there were no desktop computers. If you consider microcomputers the first desktop computers, which you should since their predecessors, minicomputers, were "cabinet" computers, then the Micral N in 1973 would be the first "desktop" computer.
These are foods of Mesoamerica https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Mesoamerica
I think you have a biased outlook, to be honest. For every handful of programmers I know, I know at least 100 others who maybe can barely use their computer besides basic apps.

Programming is still not intuitive (nor enjoyable) for the vast majority of people, and I believe it will stay that way.
> Has this person made a ton of money investing or otherwise deploying their economic theories?

You do know there's a difference between economics and finance, don't you? You've just illustrated the falsehood of wealth being a measure of worth.

> By all means try to outsmart the market

Even the very strongest forms of EMH allow for arbitrage, and that simplistic fantasy is no longer what most people mean by EMH. More common/reasonable forms of EMH also allow for information delay and asymmetry, so that being able to beat the market has little to do with market "efficiency" as economists use the term.
Indeed, the collective bargaining power of employees is less than it used to be. This will likely become more and more an issue in the current century as the benefits of automation will line mostly the pockets of the owning class. The current concept of fairness of pay and trust in market forces is evident in these comments as well. I think at some point there needs to be some adjustment there. Maybe that will happen before the middle class disappears completely.
Shouldn't it be possible to store and grow the bacteria at an industrial scale, just like large breweries grow and closely guard their secret yeast strands? If the wood is an essential part, why not line the steel vats with cedar?
Economics is mathematically mired by a lack of conserved quantities. Those are global invariants that (particularly in physics) that allow to desume facts about the final configuration of a system based only on the initial configuration (conservation of mass, of energy, of linear or angular momentum... each of which is a handy approximation to solve various problems and that surprisingly depend on the theories one is applying).

In economics even something as fundamental as wealth is not conserved (that's the whole wonderment of nonzero-sum games and interactions in general). That means that predictions are very sensitive to the dynamics one presumes to apply, and the practitioner has no amazing bookkeeping sleights-of-hand to resort to to verify that which one is predicting is defensible.
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I think that is taken for granted that the assumptions were based upon a state's existence for one. Lack of a state means economic pressures promote the eventual rise of one from either strongmen (influence on goods and their production gained through monopoly on force) or "oligarchs"/ priests (influence on force through goods including intangibles on force).

Being "too useful to destroy" can give an oligarchic or priesthood role. It need not be tangible and is in fact better if it is not because killing them will destroy it instead of stealing it. While thugs could kill a drug cook keeping him alive killing him and taking his drugs would get something of value. Killing an ascetic would get nothing of value - which might be an origin of vows of poverty sticking around.

A "shaman" or who people follow because he can treat illnesses better than nothing and/or has enough of an understanding to avoid diseases has real power even if his etiology is wrong or incomplete.

A belief that boiling water drives out evil spirits (bacteria) or that malaria is caused by evil swamp spirits is somewhat accurate but very imprecise as metaphors with some physical truth. The last especially sounds absurd but lacking microscopy and thus germ theory but makes sense thinking about it. Absent microbiology what else describes invisible forces that can make someone sicken and die and hails from the swamp? While clearly inferior practicallyvl to a more in depth scientific framework which allows for things like a very expensive malaria vaccine derived from dissected mosquitoes literal "spirits" as a framework is outdated but gets some fundamentals of survival right - boil water or you'll be sorry and avoid swamps and mosquitoes.
Obviously, you're only saying that to get laid, so who can trust you?

You could just as well argue we're all paper-clip maximizers, and simply interpret any evidence to the contrary as short-sighted. The only sense in which you can reduce everything humans do to sex is in the irrelevant and unfalsifiable sense.
I use i3 daily but every couple of months I switch over to Gnome (I have both installed). I appreciate the appearance of Gnome, but I get frustrated with it's handling of multiple displays (I dock the laptop at work and have two monitors). With i3, the windows stay on their virtual desktops and it's pretty seamless when I dock and un-dock.

That said, it's not very attractive. My partner thinks it's looks bizarre and I don't think I could slide my laptop over to, like, anyone and have them be productive.
The possibility of getting a bad batch exists. Slightly different I know, but of the Warner HD DVDs I own, approximately 80% are now unreadable due to IIRC the glue used.
Is it because more and more areas of business activity are conquered by large entities and thus are hard to enter into? As a small guy, you won't achieve economies of scale of Wallmart or marketing of McDonalds, while 70 years ago, if you were opening a convenience store or a restaurant, you only had to worry about local (non-chain) competition.
Unnoticeable? Everyone seems to be noticing pretty loudly.
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If you can't appeal to a codified standard, I see no reason you should be allowed to exercise authority over others.
Next level: fill whole pages with output from random Linux commands with 4 verbosity flags set: https://imgur.com/a/rnVE9u4

Spent 45 EUR on this Linux Network Administration handbook by Addison-Wesley Germany as a teenager. Still hurts whenever I think about it.

(Yes, the author also did the screenshot thing: "Look, this is how you configure it using SuSE YaST, and this is how you do it using the Red Hat GUI. Let me show you every single step of the wizard GUI, just to be sure. And this is basically the whole default config file for this daemon, but with "# Created by Bad Tech Writer" prepended. There you go!")
Maybe try asking him on twitter? https://twitter.com/pdcawley

I've been following him for some time (met him IRL at a conference in Kiev, Ukraine), and he's generally friendly.
I think you read what I wrote with some wrong assumptions. For instance you seem to think that my comment on blacks and crimes was a statement that supports a view of the legal system being racist. Nothing I said implies this or can reasonably be construed as suggesting this.

I said that blacks are on average more likely to be charged with committing a crime than whites. You agree with this since you mention that blacks overcommit crime. Obviously my comment suggests that the variance in the black community is higher than it is in the white community. I didn’t attempt to deny any facts as you put it. My agreement with you is right there in writing. I said blacks on average are more likely to be charged with committing a crime.

I don’t know how old you are but growing up in the 1970s and 1980s when crime was very high there was media narrative with regard to crime and race. This spilled over into the 1990s with Clinton’s remarks about super predators and the need for the 100 thousand cops program. The famous welfare queen that Reagan talked about was black and the image was created that blacks were a problem in terms of being a drain on the system.

Here’s a thought experiment. Have two black guys walk around a predominantly upper middle class white neighborhood walk around with hoodies and low jeans. See if the cops stop them. Have two white guys do the same. I’ll bet more times than not the white guys are treated differently.

Poor white Americans are not more racist than richer white Americans. Framing images and using coded language though allows poor white Americans to get a perception that the problem people, the ones who leech off the system are the brown people and not them. Using race gets people to lose focus on what ought to be socio economic discussions by getting them to think of race.

You should read about the Southern Strategy the Republican party engaged in. Here’s a quote from Atwater:

Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."
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Thanks for the follow up. For your second point, my experience has been that you can fix booting when writing a Windows VM partition to a real drive but it involves some BCD black magic and doesn’t always work. Windows 10 in particular has given me issues when trying to do that but it’s fairly straightforward in Windows 7. This guide is written from the perspective of going the opposite direction (real HD to VHD) but it’s basically the same procedure:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/jonjor/2011/10/04/vm-doe...
$42 on Amazon is a huge ripoff. I think it's about $20 a bottle at my local Asian grocery store. I like it, but I don't have "super taster" powers either so take that for what you will.
Ya don’t say.
Tech people have a problem with assuming that everyone is an idiot, mostly because it’s easier to do half-assed work aimed at a moron.

Legacy text based solutions that survived are usually much better designed by people who actually spoke to the users.
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Hi, thanks for the feedback!

Could you expand on slot based positions?
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There's nothing stopping you avoiding all of these things on CD. All things being equal, the CD will sound superior to the vinyl (at worst equal to it).
The argument for is that judges fuck with people's lives and judges are already unreliable. A simple ML system may have errors but could have less error than a judge. And there is evidence to that effect.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w23180
In this context, lossless refers only to what happens after the data is already digital. Some digital formats apply data compression the reverse of which doesn't recover the original bits exactly. Some digital formats (including CD) use no data compression or a form of compression that recreates exactly the same bits.

It's similar to the difference between JPEG and PNG. There is a quality parameter when creating a JPEG because the decompressed image will not be exactly the same, but there is no such quality parameter for PNG because PNG will restore the exact value of every pixel.
I used to be a lift-and-shift guy, but Fedora upgrades are painless now. I've gone from 26 to 29 on my main workstation and it's been a breeze.
I'm a former physical scientist, and I am very critical of statistical practices in the sciences.

Also, biology and biomedicine is just as bad, so don't act like like the super-smart physical scientists are somehow superior. Rigor in social sciences is difficult because there are no solid axioms as there are in physics or math to guide hypotheses.

Folks with your type of opinions act like there are such axioms, but that is just simply wrong. This kind of thinking is exactly what I was talking about in my above comment.
Oh, I wasn't talking about me (in that paragraph). Maybe it wasn't clear.

(If you want, we can talk about me, I have no problems with that - I think I am unusually lucky in this department though :), based on everything I see around. But I also spent my life building quality relationships with people, even before I really know what I was doing)

It's something I've noted that people do. It might just be my surroundings.

It was mostly generalized, but if I do this exercise in my head - think about all people I know, all relationships between them (friends, romantic, etc.), I still end up with the same conclusion. People are really not that nice to each other, so it's no wonder that the mental health would be suffering as this study portraits.

From the people that I know, the ones I think are really honest, good, well-mannered people, they all seem to struggle relationship-wise. And precisely those ones are deemed as too difficult, etc. even though they aren't that much different.

Ah, it seems as it is really sensitive topic :)
I started using Free File Fillable Forms. It's a refreshingly simple site run by the IRS that lets you fill out all the standard tax return forms in your browser and file them directly. It helps with a few small things, like doing basic math for you e.g. when a particular row is supposed to contain the sum of several other rows, but that's pretty much it. At the end of the filing season, they delete all accounts and data contained on the site, so I mean technically somebody could still hack them I suppose, but at least the attack window is much smaller than in the case of something like TurboTax where they store all your data forever.

The first time around, it's a little bit of a pain to figure out what forms you need to attach and such, but it's really not that hard if you read the instructions for the forms and just follow the directions. If you're doing something complex like running a business and dealing with depreciable property or calculating AMT, it gets a little hairy, but even then I've generally been able to figure things out by just reading through the free publications that the IRS puts up on the web. I also like the sense of deeper understanding that I get from seeing how everything is being calculated, instead of just answering a bunch of questions and then having an algorithm spit out a number for my refund.
Yeah but (in "modern first world countries") how many people can and do solder a wire or turn a wrench or effectively give directions?
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A million dollar teacher won't be able to do their job effectively if the child lives in a broken environment, so it's something that has to be attacked from all angles simultaneously, from the teachers, to providing the child's parents (and neighbors) with economic opportunities (and/or educating them), and even then it would be a slow process taking effect over generations, so no politician could claim it. Seems almost impossible to accomplish in a democracy.
I would add Greenspun's tenth rule (law)[1]:

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

And Beneford's law of controversy [2], which I see around monorepo vs polyrepo, language choices, tabs vs spaces, etc:

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford
The large binary size is mainly due to the Go runtime being packed into the binary itself. You can compile with "-ldflags -s" to make it slightly smaller. But it will almost never be comparable to Rust/Emscripten binary sizes.

OTOH, there is a new project called TinyGo (https://tinygo.org) which generates LLVM byte code from Go. This allows a subset of the Go spec, sans any GC or runtime, and generates binaries comparable to Rust/Emscripten.
This is a good point. It's simple economics. If there is a sudden rise in worker supply, but not a corresponding increase in demand for those workers, wages must fall to accommodate the influx.
Oh absolutely! Not sure where I conveyed anything different, but I agree with you.
Also walkmans and other cassette players did not spy on you!
I called my wireless company 3 years ago and had my phone turned off, best decision I ever made. I have a VOIP phone at and one at the office the house and that is all I use. It was hard at first, but the only time I have ever missed having a phone was in one emergency instance where I blew a tire and my jack does not lift my truck high enough so I had to walk to a store, no big deal but its the only time I thought I wish I had my phone.
A bit tangential, but would you know if there is an extension that would provide Vim bindings only in textfields? I really miss not being able to use regular expressions (or simple search) in a plain text input.
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Godel, Wittgenstein, etc.

Results in mathematics, logic, and philosophy have provided undisputed evidence that you can’t reason formally about human ethics.

You’re responding to someone who is correct but made the assumption that you’d be familiar with the field of study and the results.
Let me get this straight: Are there people who have been wrongly convicted and are currently locked up only because someone hasn't done their paperwork?
This isn't a new phenomena in that it's really no different than say, the dime store cowboy or the popular 90's thug look. It crops up whenever people are bored and or disaffected and want to feel "tougher."
Since I have a live account, expect a few PRs soon, once I get familiar with the code :)
> Note that this has been proven to make people any happier.

s/Note/Not/? Or are you missing a "not" somewhere else?
There's an absolutely huge distinction between "try to rewrite history so [thing] doesn't exist anymore" and "law preventing you from taking [thing] into account when making hiring/renting/whatever decisions."

It's not impossible, insurance companies have no problem with this, the insurance industry is highly regulated about specific things they can/can't consider while underwriting a policy, which varies by jurisdiction. They just don't ask about/look up factors that they aren't allowed to take into consideration while underwriting a policy, but aggressively ask about/look up factors they are allowed to take into consideration.

For example, in Massachusetts insurance companies are forbidden from considering credits score when setting premiums and making underwriting decisions, a practice which is extremely common in the industry where legal (people with high credit scores have less insurance claims). That doesn't mean Massachusetts is trying to rewrite history so that your poor credit doesn't exist, it still exists, and others are allowed to use it for other reasons (such as underwriting loans).

Saying "we forbid you to take into consideration conviction history when hiring" isn't anywhere near "forced amnesia."
Doesn't this trend manifest in European countries as well? (E.g. https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/poverty-rates-among-ethnic-gro...). I don't know about equality, but correlation seems to be there and doesn't strike me as intuitively "weird," or surprising, if undesirable.

Now the linkage in the zeitgeist of race and socioeconomics is another matter. I'd be curious if it can be attributed convincingly to some American social factor (racial heterogeneity, our media, our relative lack of ethnically meaningful home states), but that's one for the social historians.
Graphical file managers are really good at managing pictures and random arbitrary selections.

I am not using mail clients anymore, only webmail (I have a thunderbird install at work that is used as some kind of back-up/dumpster). I don't spend a lot of time in email or calendars though.
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Hi, only common stocks are included at the moment.

EDIT: Could you expand on what features you are using, or what features are missing from your broker?
I haven't used KDE for 10 years or so, but what makes you prefer that over a tiling wm? Considering you were already there, the learning curve must be zero, and nobody is forcing you to spend any time modifying anything. It kind of just works. At least it does for me.

There are a very few things that I will drop into Gnome to do (I think it's Gnome at least), and I dread it every time. Too many menus everywhere, too much animation, tiny targets that I need to hit with the mouse, etc.
The only thing I can think of involves truly relativistic speeds, which just isn't going to happen for human travel anytime soon, if ever, and certainly not within the solar system.
> That may be starting to shift, but it is not true that American media is more sympathetic towards minorities.

This is a puzzling claim, especially just a few weeks after the Covington incident.
I really like your point about third party documentation. I've written the "this is dumb" line before but that's usually on a forum not a doc.
> I feel like a lot of arguments being made here fail the A vs B test. Any argument that purports to provide help with choosing Judges vs Algorithms needs to apply differently to Judges, and differently to Algorithms.

Out of curiosity, is there a name for this "fallacy", if it is one, since to me it mostly seems like the other party is failing at some basic level of critical thought.

I've been dealing a lot with arguments of this nature at work, and it'd be great to have a name to it. Pointing it out in the verbatim sense ("ok, but that's true of <your counter position> as well") becomes tiring quickly, and honestly, just causes the person to move on to the next fallacious claim.
theres an anime called moyashimon - tales of agriculture that does a nice job of teaching you all about the fermented foods mostly japanese but some others as well. Its not a serious show by any means but it was interesting nonetheless!
Your confidence is severely out of tune with your knowledge in this field. You can't claim you have any quantifiable knowledge either, since the EMH holds very rarely.
>Anyway, I expect that what I just did – fixing up slightly broken bot-generated code – will be the most common occupation within 10 years

Imagine debugging code all day everyday for life. Oh wait...
Compulsory licensing schemes are enforced according to criminal procedure.
> but people with integrity ... are seen as "rude"

You seem to be drawing a line between having integrity and being seen as unpleasant.
Whatever terminology you use, every place you loop through records doing stuff with them, you'll either have to decide what to do with oddly-shaped records or implicitly decide to let exceptions occur at that point. Whereas if PostgreSQL tells you that `user` has a `email character varying(255) NOT NULL`, you can be sure that every `user` does. The only place you need a conditional related to that is when trying to insert an invalid record.
This is great fun. I'm running a very similar setup on a Raspberry Pi Zero W. I can plug it into an HDMI screen to start it up but then I can just run it headless via SSH.The "disk" size is 8Gb and my setup occupies 1.6Gb. 12 hours battery life with a 6000mA/Hr battery...