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Remember the cool kid having a Dual Deck stereo to make mixtapes. Having a rats nest of tape when one failed.

Then that evolving into whoever had good internet and a CD Burner. Eventually almost 'renting' music by returning a CD-RW with a new request list. Just how much Discmans would skip with Burnt CD's versus Legitimate ones.

To spending $500 on a 128mb MP3 player. Compressing Mp3's into tiny WMA's.
Walking with music has completely changed my life. Can't imagine the amount of ideas I've had and steps I've taken listening to music. With music I can cross the entire city on foot and more.

footnote: do you remember when your batteries were running low and the cassette would start slowing down the music? ;)
Even if there is regrowth, new growth isn't the same as old growth. You also can't replace the unique species of plants and animals that took millions of years to evolve in that environment. Any major removal of rainforest is a huge loss. The fact that it's happening because of cows and greed is just an insulting waste of a very unique and important resource.
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I had no idea Bateson was connected to psychedelic drug research, in addition to being a war hero/secret agent, but I guess I'm not surprised given the interdisciplinary nature and general excellence of his work.

Interesting letter. For my own sake I really hope my hero Bateson is wrong about the whole not being able to change after your 20s thing, heh.

Good luck with the book project, sounds fascinating.
That is why I deleted my linkedin profile years ago.
Nice site. Good idea, but need time to fix some problems and make it more usable. Absolutely will advise it to my friends!
It's annecdata but I just had a coworker move from Alameda to NC. Combination of home prices and avoiding the miserable commutes. Probably mostly the later since they could have easily afforded to buy here and Alameda doesn't share SF's problems with schools and crime.
Yes, along with more efficient infrastructure. We’re constantly improving technology, why would we think infrastructure would be any different?
I co-authored the somewhat-famous Games Pack 1 for the TRS-80. I grew up with 8080 and Z-80 programming for low-level and my first high-level languages were APL, BASIC, Pascal and Modula 2. All top-down modular. Then I designed a language called R-code, for robot control, and another language called LIM (Limited Instruction Model). It was clean, simple, readable, and easy to understand. I say use what you enjoy and don't worry about trendy things like OOP. All good wishes.
In my experience, the lounge leaks a lot of memory. After about 30 days of running, it used 8GB and the shared hoster I put it on killed it. Would definitely not recommend as bouncer.
I understand what you are saying, but really. Programmers don't change their ways when new features get added.

I always remark that programming practices change when programmers retire, not when features get added. Most people learn these things through existing code bases, and these habits last ages into the future.

This is why most of the times, you just start using a totally new language, that way you buy into a totally new set of programmers, practices and community.
Statistically, it's the other way around.
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"Professional security consultants unable to hack hotel" is actually more interesting. I can see why the cybersec team didn't want to be named, the whole thing sounds more or less humiliating - despite standing on ironing boards to Bourne Supremacy the hotel, in the end they resort to WiFi spoofing which is pretty much the average freshman in every high school in America these days. Embarrassing.
If reads or communications can be spoofed, operators can be convinced to take the wrong actions with their analogue controls.
I will probably quote this comment.

It does take both kinds of kinds... creative thinking for hard problems, but attention to detail towards the path of correctness. I completely agree the "cleverness" is massively over-emphasized during the interviews for most companies
This strikes me as a bit hyperbolic, considering that America contains fewer than 5% of the human beings.
Reality is lots of people do eat it of course and it's kinda boring. Interesting but not a real unique texture, not a lot of flavour.

For a meat it'll never take of, it's to bland. Kinda like pasta, but it's an animal so not as practical.

As a source of materials, perhaps...
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For anyone looking to get into APL, Adám at Dyalog posts a lot of answers on the CodeGolf and Programming Puzzles StackExchange site often with expanded/explained code, and he hangs in the "APL Orchard" chatroom on SO. His profile says "always excited to [talk about] APL" and that seems to be genuine. - https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/users/43319/ad%C3%A1...

The most public APL dialect using the classic symbols (not J/K/Q/etc) seems to be Dyalog APL - they offer one of their older versions 14 free for non-commercial use (Windows), and they offer their current version 17 free for non-commercial use if you give them your full details (maybe Linux as well?). There is a book "Mastering Dyalog APL" by Bernard Legrand from ~2008 which is available as a PDF with companion files from: https://www.dyalog.com/mastering-dyalog-apl.htm although they have added to the language since that book was released.

There are other APL interpreters - GNU APL, NARS2000, ngn/apl, dzaima/apl (Java/Android) in various states of development and license conditions, and the developers of the last two are also sometimes in the APL Orchard chatroom on StackExchange.

Online there's https://tryapl.org/ run by Dyalog, and https://tio.run/# which has three APL interpreters.

The classic 1970s book "APL\360 an Interactive Approach" by Gilman and Rose is online as a PDF here: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Books/ with other books as well. That's before the {} syntax for anonymous functions was added to the language, and other developments.

Videos:

Jay Foad while he was at Dyalog, talking through some Advent of Code puzzles with APL: https://dyalog.tv/Webinar/?v=Q_vgSN6rza0 (might want to skip the introduction of explaining the Advent of Code puzzle format).

Aaron Hsu with Dhaval Dalal and Morten Kromberg, talking through some problems using APL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsj_7tFtODk

And anything that you get from YouTube searching for Aaron Hsu, he has several talks / presentations from high level ideas to working with trees represented using arrays.
As a citizen of the United States (a country that cut down nearly all of its old-growth forests) what can I do as an individual to slow down deforestation in the Amazon? What are some real solutions I could enact that would make any difference?

The situation feels hopeless until the Brazilian government makes a sweeping effort to preserve the Amazon and that it's laws are fully enforced.
In junior high I took wood shop. I used a router to make a birthday plaque for my dad. He didn’t smoke so the stereotypical ashtray wouldn’t do him any good. I also learned how to work with acrylics.

In high school I took an auto tech class from my local community college where I rebuilt an automatic transmission. It still amazes me those devices work at all.

In college I took a welding class from the agriculture school for elective credit. Everyone should have the experience of cutting metal with fire.

Those experiences have been priceless to me in my day job at $megacorp. I work with a lot of people who have only had one job. Their thinking is very rigid.

I encourage you to find a community college course in any kind of trade discipline. It’s extremely rewarding to apply the lessons conceptually to your day job and life.
> If you don't know the sun sets in the West and is at its highest point roughly at noon in your local timezone what else is there that you don't know?

And how many more things I do know

> Basic practical knowledge comes in handy all the time.

It doesn’t. The ability to strike a tent, roast a grizzly bear, read weather from moss and bird patterns comes in handy about 0% of the time.

Even knowing that the sun sets in the West has zero practical applications in urban settings.
Worked with an accomplished (5+ years in ICT) woman who left programming to follow her dream in med school. Australian universities like mature entry med students. They're committed and study hard. It's almost routine now for med to be graduate entry and having an IT degree instead of premed is about all they have to deal with. One additional year in a five+ study.

I have no doubt she's doing well. Haven't heard from her in years but I know she graduated
I sympathize. My solution is a bit "much" but if you're looking for things to try:

I wear my gym shirt while bicycling which I sweat into profusely. I get to work and lock myself in the family bathroom, where I take my gym shirt off. Then, I take out a linen towel I bought that packs super tiny, get it wet, and wipe down. I stand and cool and dry off for a bit, then put on the shirt I packed. The linen towel gets a soapy wash in the sink and then wronged out. Then, towel and gym shirt get hanged on hooks in the office near a window (as far as I can tell there's no bad smell and I have explicitly asked others in the office) and both are dry within a couple hours.

Change into gym shirt after work and bike home, take a shower.

It's a process but it's worth it, I've lost 7 pounds without much else lifestyle change.

The linen towel is fairly critical - packs small, light, dries quick and is odorless (allegedly linen is anti bacterial). They're also great for travel in general.
Why does everyone think there is?
Golang, as a garbage-collected execution environment, suffers from lousy tail latency
Cells manufacturing is a totally different animal, and I wonder if Tesla is willing to burn money long enough to get as good as Panasonic and the other big players. Being colocated with Panasonic at the gigafactory is a huge leg up, but its still a very long term play that I'm not sure matches up with Elon's patience or Tesla's cash reserves.
In the past months, I feel like I see a new useful feature every week. When Microsoft acquired them I was a little scared, but I've been extremely impressed with GitHub since. Microsoft is playing the long game and I think it will pay off immensely for them.
I guess I don't understand how it takes away from the casual experience when challenges in a game can be skipped through strategies that you would never even think of in a casual playthrough. Does the existence of a 17:01 world record for Ocarina of Time Any% that skips 95% of the game via a wrong warp make the game not worth playing casually?
No, I did not make this claim. What I claimed instead is that tech workers, along with other inhabitants of SF, share the blame for the sorry state the city is in as much as they voted for the people who put it into that sorry state and who are unable to fix it, despite being the city with excellent climate, lots of thriving industry and extremely affluent (by the standards of any other place) population.
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I really don't see how the BSD cat is a more "pure" or straight forward implementation. I find the GNU cat to have way more options

Way more options is "cat -v considered harmful" not thought any more?
> So you're ok with an elm programmer not willing to learn JS, but not ok with the reverse.

That's not exactly the spirit of what I meant, but, yes.

> That just sounds like good old fashioned tribalism

I can't really control what it sounds like to you, can I?

My whole point is that Elm is (or one day soon will be) much superior to JS et. al. This is a cost/benefit analysis, not tribalism. (I'm not an Elm fanboy. I don't actually like it that much, in fact.)

It's puzzling that more JS programmers don't adopt Elm.

It's reasonable for an Elm developer to ignore JS to the extent possible.

That's the point of Elm, eh?

> What I'd look for is an open, sharp mind. Willing and happy to learn new things and paradigms, even those that go beyond their comfort zones, whether it is JS, Elm or Java. Someone to whom programming languages, frameworks and libraries are just TOOLS to accomplish a certain goal, and not part of their identity.

Sure! Me too. But now I can make the scarcity argument, no? And you've got to pay those folks well, eh?

I'm postulating that you can take normal people (smart enough to solve Sudoku) and have them productive in Elm within a month or so. You probably would not have to pay them as much as an equivalently-productive JS programmer, and certainly not as much as the kind of person you described.

Again, I'm talking about the business value of a given software production tool not the entertainment value or the personal-growth value for the devs.
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For an entity that's waged a multi-decade billion-dollar bloody and bitter war against music piracy, Sony certainly have been instrumental in its proliferation.
Quite correction

For a spaceship to accelerate like that...
I suppose a captured regulatory body is right twice a day
I wonder, how many Poles consider Russia to be a democracy.
Unfortunately, the Brazilian government is corrupt af, and is only interested in preserving their wealth.
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Don't forget the MiniDisc format that Sony also released years later under the "Walkman" brand - for a while there it was an audio storage format and playback hardware that briefly seemed ahead of its time. Sony, if nothing else, were technical innovators during their best days. You knew the gear wasn't imagined and designed by a bunch of bean counters.
The "subsidy" is not straight-up tax dollars being given to Exxon & co, but computed against "prices fully reflected supply costs plus the taxes needed to reflect environmental costs and other damage, including premature deaths from air pollution".
Also this is how we saved batteries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk8v9Ijp1So
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> ...3-400k can buy a house in extremely nice areas in flyover states, why not find a nice one, buy that and live relaxed?

Although the general sentiment is agreeable, there's nothing relaxed about maintaining a $400k home. I like to think of it as a different class of stress that's decoupled from work that pays the bills.
Because burning tax payer money for a parade is a great use of funds
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Greatly depends on the drivers around you. Here it'll definitely shorten your life expectancy if you're lucky, and will leave you with a nice whole-body paralysis, if you're not.

You know how motorists sarcastically refer to cyclists over here? "Crunchies", or something like that.
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There is also: https://cipherli.st/
There isn't technically a shortage because the government hasn't imposed any price controls. However the price has increased drastically in the past 10 years. My gas costs for scuba diving are way up.
The UX of cassettes was very useful for sharing and swapping music or speech, and for resuming where one left off. Because of the linear tape, the cassette's "playback cursor" was stateful and independent from whether the medium was read-only or not. Playback resumed at (nearly) the same spot as it was last stopped, even if moved to a different player. Successor formats didn't have this property.

Interestingly, Sony emulated the auto-resume feature in some Discman CD players, and later it became common in car CD players, but there was no way to maintain playback position after swapping players. Later, MP3 players maintained their own playback state, but getting tracks on or off the device's built-in or removable storage was with file-based interfaces that connected to computers.

This stateful cursor functionality is only returning these days with URLs to media-hosting sites that accept timecode parameters.
There was a lot of concern inside Sony that the Walkman would be perceived as anti-social, that's why it came with two headphone jacks, and the hotline feature which let others talk to you, via microphone, over the music.

Both were essentially gimmicks and never really worked well, and were soon dropped.
If you're curious you could have googled something like "rate of growth of amazon deforestation". If you would, you'd have seen in the summary of the 1st result from Wikipedia: "The annual rate of deforestation in the Amazon region dramatically increased from 1991 to 2003." The title of the third result is: "Brazil: deforestation in the Amazon increased 29% over last year". So if you want to dismiss an idea that you had, maybe step outside your head. If you want to draw historic correlations maybe don't try to do so based on completely different examples. There are very few South American issues on which I'd use U.S. historical data points for which to draw forward looking conclusions. Military growth? Energy policy? Monetary policy? Natural resource utilization? I wouldn't for any of those. But you boldly chose,,, deforestation?

If you're gonna try to sound smart by dismissing something out of hand, then be smart. But for the love of god don't trivialize deforestation just as climate change is in the beginning stages of getting really, really bad, based on some half baked hunch you have, and then suggest I read some 64 page document that has, more than likely, no value add to the discussion.

(Sorry but not sorry for the tone. Trivializing this issue is not ok. The logic was not correct. Patronizingly suggesting I read a 64 page doc, like a professor handing out homework. This is climate change, and the arguments were weak to wrong.)
They are just not good enough. It came early, dominate the market, then so what? Google Keep is more light weight, One Note basically provide the same feature, and better. Even Apple note is getting more value recently. And Evernote is not free, why using it then?
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The balloons will fly higher than anyone with civilian weapons can hit. And shooting a hole in a hydrogen balloon wouldn't cause it to blow up anyway. The gas would just leak out.