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The fallacy starts with "most evolved". What does that mean?

You can say most intelligent, probably, you can measure other stuff... but what does "most evolved" mean? Most DNA changes since the primordial soup? I doubt we win on that.

I'm not trying to belittle the asker here, I know "most evolved" is something of a trope. It's just one that's meaningless IMHO.
No it doesn't. It just needs to keep not being run by the most oppressive entity that's ever existed.
Sure, but doesn't that also make them slower?
However, ‘Hard’ is a subjective term. The deeper you are in a trade or the longer you have done it, the easier it comes to feel.

I agree with this. I don't think mail is particularly harder than other serious Linux and network system administration tasks. But it does require those sysadmin skills, and it's not something I would recommend to a typical software developer unless they were interested in broadening their sysadmin skills or had a particular need that could benefit from a self-hosted mail server.

I've been operating mail servers continuously since 1992, so I guess that's the buffalo I'm milking.
Annoyed? Sure. Surprised? Only the naive would be.
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Austria's vineyards are concentrated in the eastern portion of the country, right? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_wine#Wine_regions) That's wine production; is wine consumption also predominantly in the east, or do Austrians drink wine no matter where in the country they live?
It's a complete misunderstanding of evolution as something where species "level up" to become "more evolved", usually seen as more complex, stronger, faster, smarter, etc. But in reality, evolution is adaptation to environment by the process of natural selection. As long as you're surviving (or more accurately your genes), you are "evolved". This is no more or less true for humans, snakes, or Salmonella bacteria.
All life is evolving to survive and reproduce. This is the reason that snakes have evolved to produce venom and that human have evolved logical thinking. We have essentially placed ourselves above the food chain. At least in that sense we are the most evolved.

However, that doesn't mean that we should consider ourselves superior to other animals. It doesn't give us the right to destroy the plant and put other living being into factory farms.
I feel you bro. If you don't check the boxes, you just get filtered out. Online dating is a shitshow if you're not in the top 10% of what the average women deems attractive (i.e., tall, white/European, and fit).
Currently, flashes and other single-frame events are not dealt with gracefully by PySceneDetect, although there is an open feature request for that:
https://github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect/issues/35

(Disclaimer: I'm the author of PySceneDetect.)
I used to be a sysadmin. I still hate systemd, and think a lot of who like it are suffering from Stockholm syndrome (joking, maybe :)). It's not that I don't understand it, or use it, because I've been forced to for years. It's that it made everything about my job harder, and abstracts or attempts to abstract everything. As an end user, I get liking it. It's fast, and mostly works. As a person who likes to poke and prod, it's a gross nightmare of inconveniences.
Wow, this article is reall interesting to me. I am actually an extreme critic of Tesla.

However, I also am an ardent supporter of cost-efficient technologies (anyone who knows what an Acer C720 is knows what cost-efficiency is). So, it is really awesome to me that a country that has been ravaged by corruption and health crises is able to run vital services with repurposed hardware that isn't anything to do with glitz and glam like Tesla cars.

Hope they continue to build what they need with whatever they can continue to get their hands on.
Talk to the borgcfg team, and let your organization's tech leaders know as well.

A few executives are not friendly to borgcfg. Their agenda, appeared to me, has been to deprive it's resources so it can die from rotting. That's bad engineering and totally unnecessary. A healthy BCL/borgcfg will die easier, because they'll allow an easier path migrating to something new.
But evolution does have a direction. Survival of the fittest! Those animals most fit to reproduce survive and reproduce. Humans have done that and taken over every other species with tools and general intelligence that no other animal can hope to possess. We are what you would call the apex predator on earth.
I agree that a multidevice, always-available solution is better for many activities, especially for news, but the downside to this requirement is that desktop apps become unimaginative, blown-up versions of the mobile apps.

I want more developers to create unapologetically desktop apps — unconstrained, customizable, with multiple and filterable views of content, able to integrate and share data with other apps.

(Yes, these are not mutually-cancelling goals. You can have a good enough iOS app and a more interesting Mac app. However, developer time is finite, features beget bugs, and only a small fraction of users collaborate with an open source project)
> The constant anti-systemd bashing every time the name is mentioned from people who seem to barely know much about what it's trying ... to do is rather annoying.

The constant misrepresentation and/or refusal to address the actual "anti-systemd" complaints by systemd advocates is also rather annoying.

> makes me suspicious as to whether they did more than have a knee-jerk reaction to a tool that is different than what they used before.

Resorting to accusations of incompetence only add toxicity to the discussion. You'll have to take my word for it, but I assure you I know what I'm talking about.

> but considering practically every window manager/DE relied on consolekit

Mine doesn't. Some of the special-purpose computer's I used to use didn't use a window manager. These may be uncommon use cases; so what? They solve the problems they are supposed to solve without any unnecessary overhead.

> I find it hard to believe it's not desirable by a large majority of users

So only popular need should be supported? The entire point I'm making is that there are many different reasons people use computers, including many that are unique or almost unique. I may use an older window manager, others might prefer to use consolekit or logind, someone else could be interested in developing a totally new post-window-manager design that doesn't even use metaphors like "desktop", "windows", "sessions", etc. All I'm arguing for is the freedom choose any of those options, which includes variations where consolekit isn't used even if it is used in popular configurations.

The alternative is to argue that one design must be used everywhere, even when it is inappropriate or unwanted.

> in my experience, the bash scripts always ended up being a hot mess

I disagree, but you're welcome to your own opinion. If other software works better for you, then great, use it. I'm not trying to convince you to write bash scripts; I'm trying to explain why a single "one size fits all" design isn't possible, because we may be trying to solve different problems or prefer different tools. If systemd wasn't tightly cou0led and instead played nice with the rest of the systemj, we simply replace parts of it when necessary and we wouldn't be having his argument.

> Not to mention that none of the alternatives give me the functionality I want

Which is why I want you to have the freedom to use the tools you prefer to use, even systemd. Shouldn't other people have the freedom to made different choices?
On iOS I use MiniHack.app which opens all links in reader-mode on the safari webview... it's quite nice, and gets right to the actual substance.

Or, perhaps you can just double-click on the text, it'll zoom on the text only.
When the frequency is nosediving and below some threshold it is a good sign that you want to switch to your back up power immediately. Even if there isn’t ultimately a cut, it is bad quality power and a sign of system instability
Plants and animals are all different instances of the impulse of life. Plants tend toward instinct, animals intelligence. Humans are the first species to encode symbolic representations in matter. This capability is what has allowed us to 'evolve' beyond all other life forms. The ability to believe that that matrix is real ;)
This is definitely a good idea, and something that I'm most open to considering for a future release of PySceneDetect. Admittedly the current version does not handle single-frame "upsets" like this, but this does seem like a logical and reasonable approach to a first attempt at filtering them out.
Uighur's and Tibetans have historically not had significant ties with mainland China. The Uighurs are Turkic and have closer cultural ties to the likes of Kazakhstan. The Tibetans are more closely tied to India/Nepal.* After the Mao revolution, the Chinese annexed these territories and started a huge bout of propaganda claiming these regions were always part of China. The propaganda has worked on the mainland Chinese, but obviously, the Uighurs and Tibetans don't buy it because they know their own history. There's been some recent unrest in Uighur autonomous region, so China is starting around round of indoctrination and police state tactics.

*I know this is a controversial claim especially for people of Chinese origin. So if you doubt this, a couple of facts worth pointing out are the following. The Dalai Lama's government in exile is headquartered in Dharamshala in Northern India. Loads of Tibetan kings have had Nepali wives. Tibetan is most closely related to languages spoken in Ladakh, Sikkim, Bhutan and Nepal -- two of these are Indian states and the other two are effectively Indian protectorates. Some of the most important "gurus" in Tibetan Buddhism (e.g. Rinpoche aka Padmasambhava) were Indian. The Tibetan script is based on Brahmi which is an ancient Indian script that gave rise to all modern Indian scripts such as Devanagari (used for Hindi/Marathi etc.), Gurmukhi (used for Punjabi), Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese, etc.
LiveView isn't meant to be a replacement for Angular/Vue/React. It is meant to address the many companies/projects that were once doing some light client side functionality with jQuery or prototype and have since gone full framework and are now finding themselves with a much longer time to implement what was once simple. The overhead that frameworks impose are meant to manage complexity but if the interactions are simple then that overhead is a liability.

Some people also just don't like JS so there is that.
I don't think there's a meaningful total ordering on 'how evolved' you are.

We probably have the best memory, and obviously the most complex society. But I'm not sure whether that makes us 'more evolved'.
“We expect each person promoted to Senior SWE to have largely demonstrated competence in all areas (in our case, Technical Skills, Leadership, and Culture and Values) and to have met the bar in all areas, making the required skill set of all Senior SWEs fairly similar.”

The leadership and culture markers are _wildly_ subjective. I’m willing to bet managers are still paid more and still carry more favoritism and power and climbing the tech track ranks is very difficult.
Mentoring is providing technical guidance, the same as writing code and design documents. It's just a little more personal than other kinds of guidance. Managing includes things like:

* Interminable day-long budget meetings.

* Fighting with the recruiting department and other teams to get new hires.

* Mediating personnel issues, such as "I'm not considered senior and I think I should be" or "We're at loggerheads and can't reach consensus on this decision".

There's of course some wiggle room here, and a lot of people at the first leadership rung do end up with a kind of hybrid role. But by the next level up, management track people are generally spending 100% of their time on these kinds of things.
"Here's a great line from the article that sums up the moronic tone-deafness with which we treat our current climate: “Should we create a list of all men in the United States and keep tabs on them?” she said.

What? As if we do not already have this? "

"Men living in the U.S., citizen and non-citizens alike, are required by law to register with Selective Service at 18 years old."

https://www.sss.gov/Home/Registration
Check out fcron, it's the unbundled Cron that works like this.
> driving more recklessly than the typical Uber or Lyft driver

A lot of uber/lyft drivers have horrible driving skills. They have no respect for walk signal - keep-on honking while pedestrians are crossing.
These things are managed by your compositor, not Wayland itself. Which compositor are you using?
The thing is too, anyone can do that. HTML forms are easy, generating HTML is easy. There just doesn’t need to be any webdevs, the dedicated role doesn’t need to exist. No amount of trying to rebrand themselves as “full stack engineers” will save them when that realisation dawns on the people paying their over-inflated salaries!
I always thought it was intended to differentiate “line” engineers (charged with the core work product) from “staff” engineers (focused on advising and supporting the org more broadly): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff_and_line
Amen. I ran my own personal mail server for ~15 years (started with qmail+squirrelmail, moved to postfix+dovecot+opendkim+zpush+roundcube at some point). I enjoyed it but eventually just didn't have the time to care anymore.

Moved everything over to Fastmail about a year ago and haven't looked back. My inner geek still feels bad about not doing it myself but my rational brain is happy.
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Saving the banana from extinction and the problem with farming monoculture
At first this seems like a good idea, but such ambiguity makes me wary.
Who claims that "humans are the most evolved of 'all' animals"? And what do they mean by "most" evolved?

Without this information it's hard to answer the question why they're saying that.
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Pick up heavy things with your hands so that your arms and wrists don't atrophy. I started developing random elbow pain as a young developer ( with years of sedentary lifestyle already ) and it persisted for some time until I started lifting weights a few times a week, and it disappeared within a month or so.
Yes.

Eat less during the day on the days you go to a restaurant.
My feeling is that it traces from the institution of staff officers in the military:

> General staff: in the military, a group of officers that assists the commander of a division or larger unit by formulating and disseminating his policies, transmitting his orders, and overseeing their execution. Normally a general staff is organized along functional lines, with separate sections for administration, intelligence, operations, training, logistics, and other categories.[1]

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/general-staff
> I agree that humans might be most evolved to make use of the logical brain, but isn't it the humans themselves who have given so much importance to logic.

No, humans are not evolved to make use of the logical brain. Humans have the most evolved brain known to us, as well as the largest brain mass to size ratio. As the brain is the most complex organ known, it is not unreasonable to think of humans as the most highly evolved.

And anyways, what does it matter?
It's always CCP regime survival.
I would venture a guess that even the most technically savvy users who could set up their own mailsever now, still flock to "Big Mailer Corps" for the easy to use mail client filled with useful AI features, etc. and that even in the presence of an easy alternative to set up their own, will end up forwarding to their "Big Mailer Corp" of choice that offers them the most efficient user experience for their workflow.

IMHO, the most important thing missing right now to promote more decentralzied mail is a cometivtive open source mail (web) app, with a simple UI and a vibrant plugin system for every use case.
Author of PySceneDetect here. The current implementation does exactly what you hint at, except instead of YUV, it considers deltas in the HSV domain (specifically differences in hue and color).

Other techniques being considered for future work include use of optical flow, background subtraction, and analyzing histograms.
Anyone in the rich first world is welcome to try a morally and ecologically superior way of life by moving to a poor third world country and making a living there. I’m not sure small corrections in our lush lifestyles will cut it or deserve bragging rights...
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Yep. Once one meter starts reporting the wrong frequency vs the thousands of other ones. It'll simply be taken offline and replaced because it could just be a broken one. Depending on severity, the gig could be up if the meter is sent back to the manufacturer for "repair".
I thought the pain of setting up your email server was doing all the IT stuff to make sure that it's always working and you're not going to end up losing all your mail and all that.
But when a browser doesn't fully support a CSS feature most of the time is your site just looks a little wrong. Unless it's a major feature, the site will probably still be functional to the user.
What's not reported is recently arable land & "greened" deserts.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLZmwlPa8A

There are more meridonal jetstreams meaning changes to regional climate. Some places become deserts & some become green.
Mysterious 'alien' shapes on Venus are doing strange things to its climate
Spaceflight from the Backyard
Testing Your Uber for X Idea Without Spending a Dime
Since Uber was introduced to the universe, there has been countless attempts at creating the next Uber for X.

Some blew up to be unicorns, some fell flat. DoorDash, Instacart are a few that become unicorn Uber for X ideas. The market determines if the Uber for X idea adds value and votes with their dollars.

Testing an Uber for X idea doesn't have to cost a lot. Before you write one line of code, you need to see if there is a demand for your service.

Can you get customers that are willing to pay you for the service?
On demand cannabis delivery, furniture delivery, dog walking are some examples that come to mind for Uber for X ideas.

Put ads online, social media, try to sell to friends and family. Create a simple Google/WuFoo form where people can sign up for your service and pay.

If you can't get customers, get better at marketing or test another Uber for X idea.

When you do get your first customers, provide the service without having an elaborate software setup and routing algorithm, it's not needed at this point.

When you are getting overwhelmed with with paying customers requesting your service, now is the time to think about implementing technology to help you scale the idea.

Now you could develop software and try to raise money, but this may take a while. There is an easier way. Rather than develop software, use an off the shelf solution that can optimize driver routes and send appointments to drivers on their mobile device.

The software may not be custom to your specific use case, but it will allow you to service customers more efficiently, NOW.

In the background, you can start adding features to the existing out of the box solution. The market doesn't care what is happening in the background, they want the service, and they want it now.
Yeah. I’m the same. Im sure it’s to my detriment that I hate the hoop jumping rat race nature of the modern workplace, but I think opting out has led to greater happiness.

I just know I would absolutely hate competing over positions and titles. The real beneficiaries of this are the owners of the businesses who make up these meaningless distinctions in order to get everyone grinding their lives away for shiny baubles.
I exclusively use firefox for android. It's better than android chrome in nearly every way I can think of you. You get extensions.
There’s many options, but it boils down to two approaches:

- pay someone to send and receive your emails (eg. update your MX records to point to gsuite, fast mail etc)

- host your own mail server (something like http://mailu.io/ will work), basically you’re going to need a program that listens for and stores incoming emails, and a program that sends them, plus all the glue inbetween (IMAP, pop3, webmail, storage etc etc)

If you’re going for simplicity, then the first option would be the easiest. I think Zoho offers this for free for one address, and it works just fine.
We see this in the Denver metro area. Lots of growing Bay area companies moving in (Slack, Strava, Checkr), while the bigger companies (Microsoft, Google, Oracle) have long had a presence (often through acquisition).

Not that Denver is cheap compared to many places in the USA, but compared to NYC/SF, it certainly is.

I think it's great for everyone. I also think the future of work is totally remote, as I outlined here: http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2919
Rather, these social media policies are a result of a government and news media that operate on an assumption that everything bad can be prevented if only they have enough power. Random idiots merely supply a convenient narrative for longstanding authoritarian motives.
Why not just buying the healthcare package yourself and paying for it from more cash you make as a contractor? Honest question since I live in a country with a very different healthcare system...
Loads for me - latest Safari, latest macOS. Maybe it's a specific page?

I know for example I can use FF everywhere but specific Google apps (new sites) don't work well in FF, though that's improved lately as well.
Page seems to have been removed?
Exactly. We think in terms of what's important to humans. Maybe a tree thinks what's important is to sit still and grow forever.

Also, if we can't perceive or measure any sort of higher order being, we're going to think we're at the top of the food chain. We can speculate, but never get any solid facts.
I mean, you get what you pay for.
If your are cost-optimising that hard, you probably aren't controlling something with critical data.
Well, it would be interesting to see some benchmarks, but it would need to work pretty terribly to lose to AOT compilation of an untyped bytecode to WASM, unless it's a really good compiler with some excellent type inference.
> Humans are the first species to encode symbolic representations in matter.

We are probably also the species most capable of alienation and getting totally lost in the symbols we invent, taking them more seriously than what they're supposed to represent. Since that might very well be a major lubricant in our continuation of the course towards the destruction of our species and the ecosystem it depends on, in my books the jury is still out on just how advanced that is.
One of the biggest issues with Firefox for me has been the U2F support - because they came so late to that party and so many of the web sites that do support U2F gate it by user agent instead of feature detection, because Firefox was so slow on the uptake, they made a lot of problems for everyone and set back one of the better security standards.

I also have a big issue with their handling of webm/webp. There was one single guy at Mozilla killing that for years - may still be - despite heavy demand for support.

Both were really disheartening because it showed that Mozilla had lost its fight and had become so complacent that it didn’t even feel the need to match its competitors much less try to lead.

On the flip side Chrome has now become so comfortable with their position that their users are more of an annoyance, which lets them do very unpopular things like pinching off all of the ad blockers. This is where Mozilla could make a comeback because I think a lot of people (myself included) would take another look at Firefox if that is what it took to keep ublock and ghostery functioning.