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> Nobody wants to read the source code to such garbage as "stfupy3.org"

How do you know? It could be exactly what I need for some esoteric reason!

Within the past year, I've found several useful projects on Github that their authors who appeared to consider them worthless.

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Edit: As an example, I really wanted a simplistic dictionary app for my iPhone, which used the definitions built into iOS so it could work offline without taking up lots of storage space. Apps like this are explicitly against App Store guidelines.

After a chance search on Github, I came across this. Licensed under the WTFPL. https://github.com/forresty-archive/Dictionary

I'm not really a developer of any kind—I know basic Javascript—but I was able to figure out enough to get the app working on modern iOS, with modern fonts and such. The result was https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/Dictionary

Here's what really surprised me—I posted this to the /r/Jailbreak subreddit and I still get PM's once every other week thanking me for the app (which, I think I made quite clear, I didn't write). Apparently english language learners in particular find it very helpful.

Suffice to say, I'm really happy that "forresty", whoever they are, posted their rejected iOS app to Github.
Oppo Reno 10x Zoom to Receive 60x Zoom Camera Update
The moment you think its a real BD video..
And yet it functions like a well oiled machine.
"Leftbook" is small groups of far-left people. This article is talking about news articles being spread across Facebook, which seem to be fake right-leaning conservative "news" sites.
ZFS on Linux 0.8.1 Released
"Progress" is an opinion/propaganda term -- you use it to paint whatever actually happened in a positive light.
Interesting, thanks for sharing that. What other services are you using? Is there anything I can read up on for this kind of operational stuff? It would be interesting to learn about the landscapes of tools people use for their production setups.
I'm pretty sure all content on Spotify gets manually curated first, so abusive tagging doesn't happen, and some of the worst content simply doesn't get uploaded at all. Spotify also doesn't try to be a news site, so they can afford to have a couple week's lag between uploading a song and having it show up in people's recommendation feed.
I don't know why you would think that - with the exception perhaps of a national preoccupation with maintaining order, the two countries could hardly be more different. For all its faults, and there are many, Singapore basically delivers on its promise - a fair and equitable legal system, a transparent and accountable executive, and an excellent business and financial environment.

Singapore's laws can be strict, to a fault, but caning has never been a punishment for chewing gum. Regardless - they are a known quantity and more or less fairly applied, and if the citizens really didn't like them there's a mechanism to have them changed. If China was anything close to having a system like that, we wouldn't be having this discussion!
A misreading of the section I copy/pasted. :)

I thought because you were responding to my post saying using GPL code in a class, that you were claiming professors couldn't use GPL code in classes (they can). But you weren't saying that--I misread.
No Man's Sky Fans Buy Ad Outside Hello Games Office to Say Thanks
I enjoyed using Twitter for 9 years with my firstnamelastname account. Then I lost access to the email address and there is no support to help me regain access. I'd even pay them something to verify my identity and account.

Oh well i havent used Twitter in years and wont unless I gain access back to my account.
Decades of Being Wrong About China Should Teach Us Something
meh, this is called "deliberate practice" which is discussed extensively in the book "Talent is overrated"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_(learning_method)#Del...
From the thread of reactions on reddit, I got this gem:"And finally, the realistic problems we have at work typically take 6 months to explain to new people."
flow usually equates to deliberate practice.

I don't believe this is true at all. If it's too easy, sure, that's not flow. But same is true if it is too hard. Deliberate practice intentionally and introspectively focuses on changing your approach. If done correctly, I think this will easily break flow.

Deliberate practice is never relaxed - but flow can be.

To reference the OP, there was discussion of intentionally focusing on and making the difficult parts of a piece harder as a form of practice. That doesn't bring flow, but allows the flow state later when you play the piece "for real". I think this generalizes well.
ah, I didn't realise it was actually coming out of the fab like that now? I could have sworn that at least initially, it was being offered as a value-add service.

Anyway, I should stress it wasn't a criticism - just that if that's their biggest question, they'd probably benefit from being able to tell the bare & WH boards apart.
The Truth About Tonkin (2008)
The VS Code extension is really pleasant and pretty much requires no setup other than installing merlin with opam.
This is the funniest satire that has ever made it to the fp of this site. I was literally LOLing at the videos.
> How do you know? It could be exactly what I need for some esoteric reason!

No true scotsman wants to read that garbage.

> Within the past year, I've found several useful projects on Github that their authors who appeared to consider them worthless.

If the authors truly believed it was worthless, they wouldn't have expended the energy to publish it.

But that's not the point anyway. If you drown out your good work with all the crap you may have written over the years, your overall portfolio becomes weaker. In the arts, pretty much everyone knows this. In programming, apparently only the people that are hiring know this.
This question is really tricky, though: depending on your frontend stack, the answer could be in an event handler prop (e.g. onClick). In mapDispatchToProps, in a thunk, in a saga, etc.
I've had my twitter account for 10 years
https://twitter.com/mkrn
and then one day I decided to follow a few people from an article I've read all at once.
Then twitter blocked by account and removed all my followers. Have no ability to DM them either.
I filed complaints but no response
It would also be nice if they responded to my actual point. Which was the state of technology over a hundred years ago. Using bad lead acid batteries vs poor efficiency petrol engines. The petrol was just way ahead at the time.
I can't speak to the relative merits of flow vs. (what's the opposite? self-consciousness?), but I can testify that the vast majority of musicians practice dumb. They just recite, or jam; they don't target the hard part, or new ideas, although they might say they know they ought to -- and more cerebral work like ear-training or learning the combinatorics of music theory (mapping the possible chords and scales, and ways to combine them in serial or parallel) aren't even on the radar.
I mostly watch movie reviews on YouTube and I'm constantly being recommended either weird Joe Rogan, alt-right content, or makeup videos. I don't get it. I've never clicked or watched anything remotely associated with it. I suspect a lot of the popular YouTube channel's are gaming the algorithms or SEO their videos to get more recommendations.
That's a pretty reductive viewpoint. While PTSD is certainly a component of the story, it is all but a facet of the humanity and consequences of war
> How consciousness needed to be a semi-stable chaotic attractor so that different avenues of thought could be pursued but that there was still coherency

Loose metaphors like this kind of make sense on a verbal/visual level - but then "attractor" has a well defined mathematical meaning, and "consciousness" absolutely doesn't. So the onus is on the person making the comparison to demonstrate why a certain mathematical formalism is called for; otherwise you just end up with "consciousness is quantum!" pseudoscientific statements that might make sense in some fuzzy emotional way, but entirely fail to provide any insight of scientific value.

Would you recommend the books on that basis?
Actually, you have it all backwards.

If it is a normal textbook with non-GPL code in it (which includes code taken from an MIT/BSD licenced source), then that's copyrighted, and using that code for anything else, commercial or not, would be copyright infringement.

If the code is taken from a GPL source, though, then at least the code in that book would have to be licenced under GPL as well, in which case you would be free to use it for commercial software, as long as it is licenced under GPL. The GPL does not forbid use in commercial software, it only forbids use in non-GPL software.
No we cannot pass laws that do that no matter how indignant we may be. The whole bloody point of the constitution is that no matter how pissed off the majority (or "the majority" which is just a noisy minority as it may be) is that you cannot simply legislate away rights.

The vague "do something!" regulation push has all of the marks of a moral panic and all participants should slap themselves hard enough to leave a mark and repeat "It is never too import to be rational."
Feels like the article was about more than that one issue. It also discussed creators slicing in frames of mickey mouse and other methods of gaming the alg. Most of the responses here seem to be buying into Google's hype around number of hours or videos uploaded per second. I think that is a distraction that lets them off the hook for not managing the community they built.

Every algorithm is an editorial decision.
I use the GPL and I long for the day that it is no longer needed -- when we finally abolish copyright. I GPL to help virally encourage an ecosystem of software that will not abuse my freedom via the tyranny of copyright, in the meantime.
Re-education camps are certainly a human rights violation; however the important difference to concentration camps is that people are expected to leave the camp alive once they have undergone the re-education. If the Chinese government has some foresight, there'll be some actually useful education beyond regurgitating propaganda and the inmates might end up with decently paying jobs afterwards. Someone with a stable income and a family to feed is less likely to throw it all away to join a terrorist cell, so that would achieve the stated purpose of the camps.

On the other hand, a large-scale government action completed in short time usually indicates that things haven't been thought through all that well. If all they're doing is putting a bunch of Muslims into an adversarial situation with probably racist guards, I'd expect any actual terrorists among the inmates to have no difficulty finding recruits.
We're working on opening up the schematics to our range, watch this space!
In terms of law, sure.

In terms of labor, specialists like having multiple employment options in case they ever need to jump ship, and for specialized enough services centers are the only places capable of offering such networks. New York is still the largest financial center in the US despite many attempts to dethrone it because it has built up so much of a center. And people don't really abandon centers unless something catastrophic happens.
Because I can't think of any good definition of "the far left" that matches the incentives, philosophy, and power behind the tech companies out there.

There's a group of far left activists, who are also included within a lower tier of non-programmer workers for companies like YouTube and Google, as well as programmers and technologists who are sympathetic to their views. The impetus comes from the 1st group, who has sway with the 2nd group.

can be a term that's expanded to the point of dilution

To the point of a Bernie voting Korean American journalist (Tim Pool) being accused of being one of them, to the point of people yelling to have him mobbed and beaten in the street.

But... what's an actual nazi?

What's key, in 2019, an era when "brands" are easy to create anew, to the point where even kids and the poor have the resources to do so and organize around them, it is not the brand, but the behavior, the semantics, which is important. Who uses violence, intimidation, and vandalism to silence opposition and for political gain? Who dresses up in the same clothes, like "gang colors," and uses anonymity to get away with doing the above?

We need to be skeptical of this authoritarianism masquerading as "justice" and "openness."
Sorry, I think there's a couple of confusing things there. I mentioned a try block that always throws, but that was a different bit of code. In the example I posted of the for-loop the try/catch is unrelated to the previous, so we can assume it doesn't throw every time. The only WTF is why are we counting `i` and using `continue` and `break` to control a for loop.
Is there any solution to water damaged Mac standalone keyboards ? I have several keyboards that were ruined by minor water spills. I don't understand what component in these keyboards gets permanently destroyed by water.
Israel is restricting the use of cash to prevent tax fraud
Keep in mind the pis frequency scale so it’s not like throwing stuff on there won’t cost you heat and energy.
I wouldn't really consider piracy easy, compared to Spotify, YouTube or (formerly) Netflix.

It is getting harder and harder to find what I want on Netflix though. And I am not going to pay 4 or 5 such subscriptions.
I saw that. What I'm talking about is editing code with Vim-like keys INSIDE the cells. An implementation of the Ace Editor[1] or something similar would be amazing.

[1] https://ace.c9.io/
Applying for college, yes. Applying for loans at 15? No. In the U.S., loans are generally applied for on an annual basis and disbursed on a semester basis. So once again, we return to these people being 18-22 (adults).

My actual point was that yes, parents/teachers/principals/other adult advisers do bear some responsibility, but let's also not pretend the actual students are unable to reason about future income and debt.
> This shows that with using unrepresentative, hand-picked examples, you can prove anything.

True, but the pianist in the article still makes good points.

> "The mistake most weak pianists make is playing, not practicing." as I understand it, means that the pianist found repeated confrontation with difficult parts was beneficial versus sessions repeating the music in full from beginning to end.

What he says is about seeking mastery first. To be a great musician, first you need to have taste, that cannot be downplayed. If you have the right taste and an idea of what the music should sound like, then there are mostly technical traps you need to tackle to achieve a great performance. The pianist doesn't mean to say that once you have done the hard parts you shouldn't enjoy playing the music in full—that's would be stupid. No great performer ever stops in the mid of a piece and get along with it being great.
But it is much easier to find "flow" or whatever you call it, once you have mastery. And one is not exclusive of the other, that's maybe Cal Newport's interpretation or simplification to match the goal of his article.

> "Weak pianists make music a reactive task, not a creative task."

and

> "In performance, weak pianists try to reactively move away from mistakes, while strong pianists move towards a perfect mental image."

ring particularly true and are useful tips.
Not sure why this would be downvoted.
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While I agree... if someone has had some very strong antibiotics, getting back to anything resembling healthy doesn't work for a lot of people. A lot of what you bring in gets killed before it reaches your gut and even then there's evidence that quite a bit is passed on from the mother even.
Do you think it is?
Eating while standing reduces a person’s enjoyment of food, leading them to eat
Observable is SUCH a clever piece of software design. Every time I read more about how it works I learn something new and interesting.
Deviant Ollam has some of the most informative and approchable physical security and pen testing talks out there. He's great.
Are you saying zero speech should be met with violence?

Zero speech should be met with vigilante violence. Speech which is direct incitement should be reported to law enforcement.
touché. What a missed opportunity Project Spark was. I feel like a book could be written about that.
Pinboard's "read later" feature.

I never actually go back, but it's nice to know I could.
Edwin from Stripe here. I'm really sorry about this trouble. I couldn't immediately find your emails—would you be able to email me at edwin@stripe.com and I can look into this right away?
In that case, you may be interested in checking out some of the fancy explorable explanations folks have been publishing: https://observablehq.com/collection/@observablehq/explorable...

Here’s a sequence of sound wave primers by Dylan Freedman: https://observablehq.com/@freedmand/sounds

Mike wrote an exploration of the Lotka-Volterra equations for simulating the dynamics of populations of predators and prey: https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/predator-and-prey

Or something physical, like Jacob Rus figuring out how a chunk of metal from a machinist’s workshop can scribe out a perfect sine curve: https://observablehq.com/@jrus/sinebar

Or something fun, with Krist Wongsuphasawat’s tapioca pearl to tea level Boba Calculator: https://observablehq.com/@kristw/boba-science

Or my personal favorite (although I can't view it in Chrome), Toph Tucker’s poignant reverie on correlation, eugenics, and the morality of applying statistics to human affairs: https://observablehq.com/@tophtucker/inferring-chart-type-fr...
I had a physical a few years ago and it was noted that I had a low level of vitamin D. I took supplements for that as well (my first time ever taking a supplement). I actually stopped that after the bottle ran out because I read various things over time that said that Vitamin D deficiency was overstated and that the supplements just gave you expensive piss. I tested fine for all other levels, though I am not sure they covered Magnesium in that test.

Perhaps I could give it another go, with Vitamin D + Magnesium, thus far I just try to drink milk to swallow down the Mg pills and get a bit of Vitamin D in nutrient form.

I am personally very wary of taking supplements, it seems like a dicey business. I wasn't planning on buying another bottle of Magnesium after this one runs out either.
That would completely change my answer. Thank you for that perspective.
Hah, I feel the opposite. What irritates me is that random JS libraries took over search results for terms like "observable" or "reactive programming". I've wasted a lot of time recently because of that, and ended up inventing some of the reactive stuff for a project from scratch, because it was less effort than trawling through pages of tutorials and advertisements for hot NPM packages.
This is just false: there are a bunch of sharp edges in JavaScript, but once you know them, the language itself is one of the more pleasant languages to use: this can be a bit of a problem, since the languages itself doesn’t force a particular structure on your code like Java or Haskell do, but on the other hand, JavaScript is an amazing language for experimenting with new programming paradigms and application architectures.
> But when people ignorantly consent to having their data harvested for the pleasure of better targeted advertising, the tech community happily says "but they asked for it!"

What? I feel like the only topic the tech community gets worked up about that nobody else cares about is digital privacy. There are always people on hacker news condemning a lack of privacy and targeted ads - I'd venture it's the majority of people on this site that feel that way.
Best Year in Music
I'll bet $5 he went to state school which are often heavily subsidized.
YouTube can be a source of astonishingly great education and entertainment that will help grow society, as well as astonishingly horrid corruptions of nearly anything that will corrode society at it's roots.

Most of these discussion posts seem to miss the point that 'engagement' or 'upvotes' does NOT equal value.

Also missing is the concept that a company with a massive platform has any social responsibility to at least not poison the well of society.

And claiming "it's the parent's responsibility" may have some truth value, but it does not and should not be an excuse to absolve the platform owner of responsibility.

The key to longer term success of the platforms is to abandon the low-hanging-fruit of "engagement" as a measure value and develop more substantitive metrics that actually relate to value delivered, both to the individual watcher and society as a whole.

As one audience member, I find their recommendations to be basically crap, nearly never leading me to something more valuable than what I just watched (sure, they'll occasionally put up a recommendation that has enough entertainment value to watch, but much of the time I want my 5min back). To find any real value, I need to search again. That already tells us that their "engagement"-based algos are insufficient to serve the needs.
Spreadsheets are an example of incremental computing(see adapton for formal research).
What about github projects? Can't you ask for examples of code they have written?
There's still a dev fixing bugs and improving perf full-time, but it's not getting drastic changes. More people are using Kodu now than ever before.
You're right - that's not a terribly well thought out argument. They should have said:

"I don't believe in any deities existence as such a claim would require extraordinary evidence. Not only have we been provided no extraordinary evidence, we have been provided no evidence at all, save possibly the very existence of creation itself, but we can safely reject the argument that a creator deity exists because creation exists due to the innate problem with first causes arguments - if you assume that everything must have a first cause, that first cause can't have had one, thus there isn't an innate requirement for a first cause, making first causes an argument against themselves. There being no evidence provided, therefore I can safely rejected the supposition that such a being would exist."

That would have made more sense.
That's not unpopular. That's the idea of a two sided transaction, you learn a little about me and point me in the right direction as a personal shopper and I'll buy something from you.

Also, point out that you're going to sell that data to anyone who asks, link it to your facebook profile and CC data and people start to get a little uneasy. The reason people tend to view these things as OK, is that they see it as a 2 sided transaction and don't realize the implications of unregulated data. If we had clear laws around data, and consent of use of data like GDPR in the EU, it's a completely reasonable stance to take. (even with GDPR, there's a lot of data in things like tracking beacons and video recognition in public that are difficult to consent too or have data removed . . ..)