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OP quotes Socrates in Phaedrus talking about the evils of writing. But in Phaedo (yes, a totally different dialog with almost the exact same name), we hear quite the opposite. Phaedo takes place on Socrates' deathbed so might be considered more representative of the philosopher's final opinions.

"'Tell him the truth, then, Cebes,' he [Socrates] said: 'I made them [poems and a hymn], not because I wanted to compete with him [Aesop] or his verses! I knew that wouldn't be easy-but because I was trying to find out the meaning of certain dreams and fulfil a sacred duty, in case perhaps it was that kind of art they were ordering me to make. They were like this, you see: often in my past life the same dream had visited me, now in one guise, now in another, but always saying the same thing: "Socrates," it said, "make art and practise it." Now in earlier times I used to assume that the dream was urging and telling me to do exactly what I was doing: as people shout encouragement to runners, so the dream was telling me to do the very thing that I was doing, to make art, since philosophy is a very high art form, and that was what I was making. But now that the trial was over and the festival of the god was preventing my death, I thought that in case it was art in the popular sense that the dream was commanding me to make, I ought not to disobey it, but should make it; as it was safer not to go off before I'd fulfilled a sacred duty, by making verses and thus obeying the dream.'"
The article is a classic mixed message propaganda. Too much “is it really THAT bad though?” mixed in with the mainstream opinion that it’s really bad. This is how consent is engineered. Not surprised at all that people fall for it though.
I would wear only a Nike band if they were willing to pay me $3M to induce blindness in the public.
This was one of the reasons that pushed my of Facebook, in the end, my newsfeed was heavily filtered because I don't care that one my friends bought a new phone, or checked in into a shopping mall. I'll probably miss some more important life events, but I would argue that if they don't share that with me in person, we weren't really friends in the first place.
I used to think that compact sized phone such as SE (or Sony compact range) were perfect size for me. Until I got a Galaxy S8 and realized that, as long as width is ok, I can stand a long screen.
Even the S9 (at about 1mm wider) feels too wide.
Why? I quote from Wikipedia quite a bit with a link to the article, which has links from the original sources. I don't see why quoting from Wikipedia is any worse than any other tertiary source.

I understand not using it for academic research (just link the original sources), but for online discussion, it's quite nice.
nice setup. personally i've moved to a two device solution in two physical different places, where the "serious" device has /etc/hosts black holing of addictive domains + social media; were i able to consume it in a healthy manner on a mobile device, the iOS rule would be great.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mit-media-lab-personal-food-...
Exact reason Plato's Forms are so misunderstood and incorrectly taught.

Too many people teaching what they know as knowledge. Over time it seems to create instructional rigidity and opaque truth. But, it does provide the authority needed to continue such instruction.

Know one thing, know a million. It can't be taught only discovered.
KG-Bert: Bert for Knowledge Graph Completion
Except that Western civilization as in the minds of it's inhabitants likely wouldn't have existed without the subjugation and exploitation of those other societies, including but not limited to: China, India, the Middle East, most of Africa minus Ethiopia, and even some parts of Europe, and much more recently, South America.

The West has largely won because it won a lot back in the day, and that inertia builds up and continues to favor us.
I would pay a high price but I doubt this is feasible because the number of drives that have some copy of my data is probably approaching several thousand!
I don't know the details of this situation and Uber is far from a healthy company, but I don't like that layoffs are always a sign of a company in peril in Silicon Valley.

1) This is a public company with shareholders. If they think they can cut costs without hurting their revenue outlook that's not a bad idea!

2) We all know that interviews for engineers in SV suck ... So why can't you fire someone if you make a mistake?

3) I work at a company (Google) where the prevailing assumption is that if a team is not getting enough done it should ask for more engineers. That almost never helps. It adds communication overhead and doesn't address the problem of why the team wasn't getting to where it thought it would. Just smothers the issues. The most effective teams I've ever worked with were 3-10 people who were motivated and working in their area of expertise.

4) We all know that one bad teammate can undo the work of two good ones.

I could go on. Yes I truly have sympathy for anyone who loses their job suddenly. It sucks for them and those who depend on them. It's probably good for Uber though.
Doesn’t really matter what consistency level is picked. We have offices in US, South America, and Australia. Right now every single query has to come back to a central point, which isn’t great for latency. It doesn’t even need to be multi master since 99% of our page views are reads only.
Our startup is one of the happy users of self-hosted Taiga [1] [2], it is much better than a combination of Jira and confluence.

It has all the features and much more with both a complete open source and SaaS offering.

It supports both "scrum" and kanban style development with card layout which rivals trello. It features many importers, integrations and provides an open API to build new one's easy.

Depending on the company's policy it can be deployed in their own environment, cloud of their choice or just sign up for SaaS.

It has a beautiful interface with PWA and mobile apps on app store using its API, by other developers.

[1] https://taiga.io/

[2] https://github.com/taigaio
I used it at my last company before the JIRA brigade took over, and I"m pushing it at my current gig. My typical JIRA cycle goes like: I use a simple PM tool. PM's insist on JIRA, because "features". PM's can't figure out how to do simple things (because JIRA). PM gives me admin rights. I quit. That was my last three companies. Anyways -- Clubhouse is more limited, focused, opinionated. The UI is snappy behaves exactly like I expected as I learned it. It feels a little cluttered at times, but unlike JIRA everything seems to work in the ways I expect. It has some interesting constraints (stories belong to epics belong to milestones, so you can't put a story directly in a milestone) but overall I like it much more than JIRA.

My tl;dr for Clubhouse is that (imho) most software shops would be better off using it, or something nearly identical to it, instead of opting for JIRA to turn that one knob they just can't live without. JIRA works well if you need complex workflow management and can hire people to administrate that _as their full time job_.
> USB-C

Careful what you whish for. I can totally understand the desire for uniform and interchangable power adaptors and ports, but USB-C on my S8 wore off within half a year, to the point that to "take" and speed-load, I had to ram it into the plug several times in succession, greatly contributing to wear.
I'm very confused about what this is.

Duo as in Google's Duo video calling? There's 2FA on that? I've never seen any.

Or is there some other Duo it's referring to?
Yeah it is really really really nice but not quite what we are looking for
I can attest to the ever growing popularity of Texas Hold 'em poker.
Indeed, my 21 yr. old son is a recent Comp. Sci. grad at a top ten Univ.
He just won 1st prize out of 454 participants, prize pool of $227,000.
He is fascinated by this research.

Stark contrast to his starting salary last month as a software engineer of $101,000 in Austin.
I was so pleased w/ Clubhouse at one of my previous jobs that I've gotten my past 2 companies to switch to Clubhouse for project tracking (from Trello, Jira/Asana combo respectively). My current team misses required fields, but other than that, Clubhouse serves our needs very well and their support team is very responsive.
Banks will definitely loan out crazy stuff. But it's not very common, from my knowledge, to buy a $1m+ home with less than 20-30% down. (You have to pay PMI and a really high mortgage then anyway) To have a few hundred thousand dollars lying around before you're 28 is pretty remarkable. Especially if you aren't at FAANG.

The means they were able to do it through were likely rich family (no one here of course will say their family is rich) and high paying job ($300k+/yr). Both of which I am not in (for my position in my region). I'm at a startup. Watching my peers, who are not in companies like mine, just skyrocket in wealth is rather discouraging. It's even more harsh because it's usually a couple who are sky rocketing and I'm just sitting here with a SO who will never make anything substantial. Love them to bits but the lack of financial contribution is practically suicide here.

I know everything isn't perfect. It's curated. But the point is that often their highs are way higher than mine. I already know their lows are nothing like mine because I know a lot of the people well enough to know that much.

Side note about home buying: a lot of statistics online about homes being bought for x and what kind and where and all that. But there's very little information on who is buying and what they're doing with the home!

I only recently discovered that all the homes being bought under $1m in the Bay area aren't being owner inhabited. They're all being converted into rentals and as investment property. It explains why East Palo Alto hasn't gentrified.
To prove to you that PSTN based 2FA is never a reasonable idea.
> At most half of it if I know how to count up to twelve.

I thought so too, and this would be true if the reaction happened exactly as the equation describes.

But it turns out there are a bunch of intermediate steps.

The first set is pure hydrolysis:

2H2O + light + depleted energy carriers -> 2O2 + 2H(+) + filled energy carriers (that include 2H)

That oxygen is excreted and ends up in the atmosphere. Then, there’s the transpiration process that takes in CO2 and makes sugar and water again:

3CO2 + filled energy carriers (that include 6H total) + 6H(+) -> C3H6O3 + depleted energy carriers + 3H2O

So really what happens is this:

6CO2 + 12H2O -> C6H12O6 + 6O2 + 6H2O

All the O2 output comes from the 12 H2O input. The 6 H2O output are recreated with half the H from the input 12 H2O but oxygen from from half the 6CO2 input, while the other half of the CO2, combined with 12 H from the 12 H2O input, make the sugar.

Fascinating stuff.

One upshot: all that crap about the water molecules being the same molecules the dinosaurs swam is crap. Any water that’s been through photosynthesis is reconstituted on the molecular level!
Time travel isn't necessarily magical.

But thanks for posting this so I didn't feel obligated to.
Watch is really really nice.
It was lousy by my standards. But I'd rather not discuss myself any further, this thread isn't about me.
https://www.amazon.in/Casio-FX-991ES-Plus-Scientific-Calcula...

I used this one for my BE in electronics. Casio 991es. If you look at the button just below the ON button, that is the logx function.
I think there is an opportunity for a new perspective here...a positive one. Once you realize that all you're seeing is a highlight real on these social platforms and move past that I think there is a great opportunity to be a good friend, family, community member. Let others you follow know you are happy for them and the things they felt were important enough to capture and share with you and their audience via their profiles/accounts. Click like and leave supportive comments and turn social media into a positive! I have found the more I celebrate with others and interact in positive ways that it is reciprocated and strengths relationships.
My company has a feature that uses it in production but I think it's still too soon to tell whether or not it's of any value to customers. We're only using the raw score for the big 5 traits, though. We don't look at any of the "consumer sentiment on Mondays" stuff. It's been a while since I've looked at the docs but IBM seems to be adding new features to Watson all the time. For the most part I think Watson is great but there are definitely some features that deserve a healthy amount of skepticism.
They have an app now, works much better than the text receipt feature in my experience so far: https://brex.com/mobile/
I'd like it to be a primary device where you can also use it with an iPod Touch optionally for just rare moments when you want to either take a decent photo or interact with a screen.

For this to work well for me personally, though, I think Siri needs to be better.
Shareholders pick the board, board picks CEO. If CEO wants to spend money that his choice until the board gets rid of him.
It's not some sacred pile of cash that 'belongs to investors/shareholders'
Those are strong words for a service that claims to save 3 frustrating hours a month. Let it be, it's how capitalism works — solving needs, no matter how tiny.

Pretty sure a dev made this for themself and decided to share
These types of methods are often attempted to be used for payments but theres a bunch of practicalities in rolling them out that hurts adoption.

Id say the easiest is to give them an app where they can check their credits and geofence the yoga class so a push notification appears once you arrive.

If you really wanted to, you could display a TV displaying a live page on your website and when the geofencing is triggered it will display the persons details.
I’ve found every iPhone since the original 3.5” form factor too hard to use with one hand. I simply can’t reach all corners one-handed with anything larger.

I’ve been out of luck since the iPhone 4, so I often go for the largest. Might as well get the best camera and battery life.
I’m guessing but based on my studies of philosophy, Socrates was more interested in the technique of asking questions than of reading nonverbal communication. In other words, he’d probably have no problems in learning from a blind person and blind people would still benefit from Socratic dialog ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method )
Unsubstantive? Flame bait?

A man is dead. He was murdered at embassy, then they chopped him up to make him easier to move.

You aren’t tying for better than the internet default. You don’t want anything approaching open discussion or substantive discussion. You want bland inoffensive tripe. You want to have a bunch of people who can sit around discussing how we work will change the world.

A man is dead. He was murdered by a regime that has no respect for human rights. A regime that has funded terrorism. A regime currently trying to carry out genocide in Yemen. A regime propped up in no small part by American money.

If you don’t see any substantive discussion to be had then maybe you need to break a from tech for a little while so you can get your head out of your ass.
I use my iPhone X regularly at contactless terminals at stores and on the bus. The trick is to double click the lock button first, select a card if you want, then hold it by the reader.

I don’t have any problems with FaceID — it’s more reliable and easier than TouchID for me. I live in a rainy place, though. Obviously a YMMV situation.

With TouchID do you just put your finger on the home button and hold it by the reader?
No, it was the iPhone 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O99m7lebirE
What would academia.edu want with my contact list? This book is pretty much the (historical) bible in the mentalist circles, but there are many better ways to get a copy than donating your email contact list to advertisers.

Tricky that .edu domain acting like something other than an edu site.
I assume this is referring to Duo Security, owned by Cisco: https://duo.com/
Regarding the identity thing: programmers like collective nouns.

What do you call a bunch of google employees? Googlers (and they self-identify with that label). The same thing goes for a bunch of companies.

What do you call the people at a go meetup? Gophers. Ruby meetup? Rubyists.

There's a bunch of collective nouns. In the software community, they particularly pop up around companies we belong to, and programming languages we use.

It's about 50/50 with programming languages really. A bunch of C programmers isn't a "Unit of Eunuchs", but a bunch of python programmers are a "Plethora of Pythonists".

Rust programmers are a "Corrosion of Rustaceans, but java programmers aren't an "Orientation of Objects".

Collective nouns are somewhat random, but I assure you that when the programming language name makes it easy to create them, they will be created. Ballerina makes it very easy any of a number of collective nouns to form, and they totally would if the language took off.
Ada was the language of the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Washington when I was there (late 1980's) -- because Boeing. One of the core safety mechanisms was exception handling.

* The biggest thing I miss is that every block was inherently a try-block. Just put your exception handlers at the bottom of the block. This provided a nice separation of "normal flow-control" and "exceptional flow-control". Why have try-catch anyway -- I never got used to that later in life.

* Exceptions were not synonymous with errors. In fact the way to read a file byte by byte was just to keep reading bytes and never explicitly check for end-of-file. Let the exception handler handle this case. Logic is much cleaner.

* Remember that you can't just dump core and shell out to the OS on an un-handled exception -- not if your controlling a ICBM flying of the continent. Ada really forced you to handle all errors at some level of the call-stack with an exception handler. At the outer-most level -- just call self-destruct.
I get that this is the normal ideological description of firms post-70s neoliberal whatever, but if that’s true, like why not just say firms suck, we need communism? Like your description makes Pikkety look like an optimist. “The purpose of a firm is to help rich people get money faster than other rich people” logically implies that eventually a small group of rich people will have all the wealth. That’s feudalism. If that’s the goal, let’s start a revolution instead.
They still have the “reachability” feature, however. It’s a gesture (that I never use intentionally, but I think it’s a swipe down at the bottom of the screen).
25-35% efficiency? Pumped hydro is generally over 70% roundtrip.
I notice the iPhone is getting heavier.
iPhone X 174 grams,
iPhone XS 177 grams,
iPhone 11 Pro 188 grams.
The Max line is even heavier as expected. I wish they could make it lighter.
I’ve had to use AMEX travel several times to book flights for business reasons, and it’s always substantially more expensive than I could get if I booked it myself. Even with 25% off I’m still not certain it’s a good deal.

Edit: just realized you were referring to booking with points. In that case it gets a little more hazy, who knows what the value is really worth there. But I definitely have a negative opinion of Amex travel and will avoid them if possible, at this point I just assume they’re giving me a bad deal
So I had a live-in tenant with this ability. Getting woken up an hour after I went to bed and then again an hour before my alarm by the normal activities of an awake person took its toll on my health and we had to part ways. I had lived with many people before that.
> The actual 'bug' was caused by an integer overflow occurring due to the velocity variable not being wide enough to handle the higher horizontal velocities of the newer rocket. This caused the rocket to go off course and require termination.

This is not entirely correct. The code which overflowed was unnecessary for flight. People have this idea that the sensor sensed it was going 32745 m/s to the east one moment, and -32723 m/s the next, and then tried to compensate for the sudden gust of wind it must have encountered. This is incorrect. The routine in question was only supposed to run when it was on the ground, and served no purpose in flight. It was scheduled to be disabled 40 seconds after launch. (The flight failed after 37 seconds)

The problem is specifically the fact that the code was written in Ada. Ada does not fail the way other languages fail when you overflow. Instead of given an incorrect value (which never would have impacted the flight) it throws an exception. This exception was uncaught. This uncaught exception brought down the entire flight control system, despite the fact that the falling code was not controlling flight.

Rust improves upon this situation by panicking in debug mode and wrapping in release mode, which is better than the Ada behavior in every possible way. Normal "unsafe" languages improve this by giving an incorrect value as the result, which in the case of Ariane V would have saved the flight.
Fry's management is lying.
One employee spilled the beans to me that they are declaring bankruptcy.
Anyone who has ever dealt with Fry's on returns knows how strict and sometimes pissy they can be. Contrast to all other big box stores who accept returns with a smile. Ordering with Amazon from home was just a lot more pleasant experience than driving down to Fry's to haggle with them on a return.
This is positive, they need to adapt to the expectations of the public markets.
Have you seen any interesting aircraft?
Another plus for notion. I just wish they supported multiple accounts.

I currently write in notion and export to confluence because I can’t stand the sluggishness of atlassian products.
This never happened to you with the past few presentations? I basically haven't seen a new feature I genuinely need since the iPhone 6 (or whatever Mac/iPad was announced since then, for that matter).

Smartphones are pretty much done. The one thing I'd upgrade for is apparently not possible with current technology: A display that works perfectly in sunlight, being illuminated by it instead of trying to compete with it. Other than that? I can't even think of something!
According to Matthew Walker's book "Why we Sleep", sleep deprived people think they thrive. https://inweb.notesalong.com/id/5d785df04818060013b15a78/htt...
First off, nobody owes you anything.

Second, this you don’t have to come up with a thesis on American foreign policy in central and South America to say it’s been horrible. There are dozens of examples of coups, death squads, treasonously funding said death squads, propping up regimes that commit atrocities because at least they aren’t communist, engaging in unending wars on drugs that cause massive violence, etc...

This goes double when the topic of discussion is that the Saudi government murdered a man.
> * The biggest thing I miss is that every block was inherently a try-block. Just put your exception handlers at the bottom of the block. This provided a nice separation of "normal flow-control" and "exceptional flow-control". Why have try-catch anyway -- I never got used to that later in life.

That's still the case in Ruby, you can put a rescue at the end of the block.
Then it would be nice if they extended the AppleCare to let us protect the devices as long as Apple expects us to be keeping it.
Why doesn't Uber spend less on Engg and pay more to their drivers- which may actually help its business.
What are some of the reasons you hate Jira? I use it all day every day and I don't really have many complaints for it, I find it to be quite a nice tool actually.
>I don't need to upgrade for any of these things, which is probably a good thing in terms of e-waste, but it is still definitely a clear upgrade from my current phone.

I don't think anyone doubts the "clear upgrade" part. It's the "need" part we're talking about, here.