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There a TL;DR; on the bottom.

I'm very sympathetic with people (over)reacting to what Stallman said and did.

I'm from a family where my parents and most of my uncles worked in healthcare.

Specifically my dad worked in oncology and my mom in infectiuos diseases.

I've seen patient's relatives panic because of some blood (after a very dangerous surgery) or complaining to the management because some other patient had sever pain and they could not stand them crying.

People are tribal, they usually act as a tribe, if not educated differently or introduced to things they do not know.

Of course I don't have to explain than when some of my friends needed to go to an hospital I was always regarded as the unemphatetic for saying things like "some blood is normal at this stage" or "the pain is gonna go away soon, don't worry" or "well, they amputated that man's leg, I bet I would be crying too. You can't complain about that" (this one really happened to me, when I had surgery to remove the saphenous vein, one of my parents friend came over to visit and asked me "why your parents keep you here with that man crying all the time?", I must specify that in Italy healthcare is mainly public, it was even more 25 years ago, you don't find the private hotel like rooms, and it worked much better than today, but that's another story).

SJWs are the same: they only think about their group, their needs, their right words, without stopping to think for a moment that Stallman started 40 years ago and that for 40 years he resisted, you don't just throw him under the bus because he said something you don't like because you were never exposed to that kind of thinking.

But Stallman would have defended their right to speak their minds if the role were reversed.

And that's why I'm sympathetic with them because they don't even understand the damage they made to themselves.

TL;DR;

We should work together engaging in what makes us similar more than what makes us different.

That's what Stallman did.

Exactly 80 years ago Sigmund Freud died.

> The narcissism of small differences (German: der Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen) is the thesis that communities with adjoining territories and close relationships are especially likely to engage in feuds and mutual ridicule because of hypersensitivity to details of differentiation. The term was coined by Sigmund Freud in 1917, based on the earlier work of British anthropologist Ernest Crawley. In language differing only slightly from current psychoanalytic terminology, Crawley declared that each individual is separated from others by a taboo of personal isolation, a narcissism of minor differences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
> This court has already concluded that the prime minister’s advice to Her Majesty was unlawful, void and of no effect. This means that the order in council to which it led was also unlawful, void and of no effect and should be quashed. This means that when the royal commissioners walked into the House of Lords it was as if they walked in with a blank sheet of paper. The prorogation was also void and of no effect. Parliament has not been prorogued. This is the unanimous judgment of all 11 justices.

This is a very clear and damning verdict.

Suspending parliament for five weeks in a critical time would be heavily criticized by the West as a major anti-democratic and authoritarian move in any other country.

It's something that would have been unimaginable to happen in the UK a few years ago, and will probably burden the UKs political system for a long time.

Interesting times indeed.
I can feel so much pain from that description and I truly hope you are doing well mate!
Funny, I don't see anything in the court's ruling about having (or not) a general election.
Aw, I missed it by a couple of hours.. :/
We're tied to the EU inherently through Ireland, which everyone keeps forgetting about. Sure, we can impose a border there, and perhaps people won't object that violently, but it won't go down well in the NI reunification referendum.
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> Async is not new at all

I believe GP is referring to async streams[0]. Notwithstanding the colourful language GP used, I think the new async streams are pretty cool.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tutorials/gen...
I don't think its fair to say the lower court got it wrong, the written and case law here is, sparse. TBH either way it was going to get appealed so the judges decision is moot. I certainly wouldn't be wanting to make the decision, and I'm sure he thought it was above his pay grade also.
> and you have the audacity to claim others are sociopaths

Not necessarily in the government, no. I was only referring to BJ that way.

> the “remainer” fools

That cuts of any discussion with those people. Our concerns aren't foolish just because they aren't yours.
I'm not exactly sure how UK government / prime minister elections work, but I'd expect that this government was elected on the exact same basis as previous governments. PM wants an election as well, which he's likely to win (well, according to polls... which are likely wrong!)

More importantly, the government isn't non-democratic by any definition.
They upheld the Scottish judgement, and overturned the English one. It was both cases.

They reached the same conclusion as the Scottish case, but with somewhat different reasons. They avoided the issue about the PM’s motivations/purpose that the Scottish judgement focused on. Instead, they said the impact of the prorogation on Parliament’s ability to do its job made it unlawful, so they didn’t have to consider the PM’s motivations.
I think we can all agree the referendum was not “I want to leave the EU in the most chaotic and economically dangerous way possible, preferably with no plan for what to do next”
With your own server and Web framework, you do all the work in provisioning the machine, configuring services, installing dependencies, building deployment and integration pipelines and, worst of all, maintaining all that when updates are released / something breaks. It is also harder to scale.

A serverless solution that eliminates the Web framework (and thus the stack in which is being run) does most of that for you, at the expense of extra cost or infrastructure deployment complexity, but once it is done, scaling and maintenance are easier.
Why set up a private DNS proxy when you can (arguable more easily) set up a private VPN, which protects all of your traffic instead? A quick "apt install unbound" on the VPN server will give you a private recursive DNS resolver which supports DNSSEC, and you'll be communicating with that over the VPN, so DoH gives you nothing...
The moment you enter into hex editing these records is the moment that you are into trouble anyway - assuming the software is trusted in the first place.

In some countries it isn't really the POS that does the bookkeeping, but a special device is used that communicates with tax registry (or something, i'm not 100% sure on this). All the POS software does is tell the device what it was sold, the device registers it with the tax registry and gives back some sort of code string to be printed on the receipt. This also allows the receipt to be any type of paper (as opposed to the special triple-layered paper that was often used back in the day) and even if the device itself is tampered with, the information has already been sent to the tax registry.

I think the author of this POS is mostly using this as an excuse to not release the source code, not for any practical reasons.
So what's the result, vote of no confidence?
> It is worth just taking a breath and considering that a prime minister of the United Kingdom has been found by the highest court in the land to have acted unlawfully in shutting down the sovereign body in our constitution, Parliament, at a time of national crisis.

...yeah, is there anything to add here?
Looks like they have a document on that. https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/overview/
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As a Swedish speaker, I get this deeply rooted feeling of righteous indignation about not understanding spoken Danish. I'm only half-joking.

As a Finnish speaker, I don't get that feeling with Estonian. The written form is different enough to warrant a deeper look before I start whining about how annoying I find language studies in general.
The democratically elected representatives, who are the supreme law of the land under parliamentary supremacy, decided that they didn't want one. And the normal five year term has several years left to run.

It's very likely that we'll have one before Christmas, but obviously it has to be after cancelling or postponing Brexit.
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We've had one, and we're not halfway to the next one. I'm amused to some degree that the idea of another referendum is anathema to some, but the idea of a third election in (almost) as many years is somehow a better idea. If there's another GE now or soon, it'll be the same hung parliament.
In practice, "data" means a set of observations collected by humans- who have inherent biases that influence the collection.

I'm not talking specifically about cultural biases like racial stereotypes etc. Confirmation bias is a thing, there's nothing stopping a researcher from making those observations that confirm their favoured theory and contradict all others.

Then of course there is sampling error. Just because you have a set of data that you collected "at random" doesn't mean that this dataset is representative of the population you are interested in. Let alone the fact that it's very hard to collect a truly random set of observations about processes that we don't understand to begin with.

The kind of data you're describing is an ideal, a principle that we all aspire to. It's far from the reality in practice.
Voters were deciding based on abject lies in the referendum campaign. Then the government carried on lying during whole process. This makes whole referendum mandate very weak.

It's probably best to redo whole thing.
There's something deeply satisfying about the idea that the annoying tone and shoutiness (and volume increase) of most ads could be used against them for filtering.
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> It's more like the notion of open source, where the source may be viewable but isn't necessarily available for redistribution.

That's incorrect: open source software is necessarily available for redistribution. What you are referring to (source viewable but not necessarily available for redistribution/modification) is commonly referred as "source available" software [0].

Now, the distinction between open source and free software is more a social/political one rather than a practical one. Free software encompasses an entire philosophy while open source is simply concerned with software licensing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
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<shrug> It's the new normal. The press and the usual suspects will be out there yelling that down is up. They've put a lot of work into creating this crisis and don't want people to do things like resolve it, and certainly not in a sensible, constructive way.
Free software might continue without Stallman, but it doesn't follow that it would have ever existed without him. Read his auto-biography, he lays out in very convincing terms just how bleak the world of software looked when he started the FSF.

You don't even have to jump back 30 years to see what that world looked like, it still exists today, inside every large corporation that hates free software, except when they can steal it and not give anything back. That nasty, back-stabbing world is what it all would have looked like without the constant efforts of the FSF to continue to advocate sharing and cooperation.

It might have come about anyway, but Stallman accelerated it by at minimum decades. It should also be noted that the timing of the FSF's and GNU's founding was important, if they had tried even five years later when all computers were ensconced behind protective legal walls, they might not have gotten anywhere at all with the effort.
It wasn't obvious at all. Even ignoring the fact that traditionally this was outside the purview of the courts entirely, the Supreme Court had to take a very aggressive approach to the evidence to get this result. First, they decided that it didn't matter whether the Prime Minister had unlawful intent, only whether prorogation did in fact frustrate Parliament. Secondly, they decided that it was up to the Prime Minister to prove in detail that his prorogation didn't have this effect. (This was important because no-one has been able to come up with a convincing argument for how exactly this particular prorogation would stop Parliamentary scrutiny of Brexit. It was scheduled to avoid all the important dates where such scrutiny was likely, and the court had documents showing this was intentional.) Thirdly, they had to play up the fact that Parliament could theoretically sit or carry out other actions during the three-week party conference season if it was in the usual recess rather than prorogued in order to justify the claim that this prorogation was at all unusual in the first place. Which is technically true, but by convention no-one does this because using your control of parliament in ways that monkey with the other parties' annual conferences is pretty bad for democracy.
That's basically the idea of fixed-term elections.

The problem is that when the current government can choose the timing of the elections, it invariably chooses a date that holds some sort of advantage to it. Therefore, the date of the elections is set in advance and can only be changed by a super-majority, depriving the ruling party this advantage.
The problem is with ctrl positioning, there was a time when it was more commonly found on the home row [0]. Rebinding caps lock to control turns the motion from an awkward wrist snap to a slight spreading of your left hand fingers.

[0] http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_ctrl_vs_capslock_position.ht...
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If (as it seems) brexit is still the prefered option, polls show the no-deal option is highly supported

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49551893
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Your point of view is interesting, but one I don't really share. Either way, what I don't really understand is that the government didn't really seem to try to get a deal for the first 2 years. EU officials have practically told off the UK government for "wasting time". Precisely because you have a different viewpoint that mine, I'm interested in your take on it. Do you think that a no-deal Brexit was the unspoken goal all along, or was there something else going on? Personally, I almost got the impression that May was actually torpedoing the process as it seemed pretty clear early on that a deal was never in the works. I've had a hard time making sense of it.
May not be a popular advice - but try a church. If you have reservations about religion you can let them know, but more often than not - there is a welcoming community and in local church groups you'd find a bunch of folks who are willing to go an extra mile for someone else and most of them do really care.

Obvious disclaimer - do watch out that they do not end up exploiting your vulnerabilities - there are known cases where that unfortunately happens as predators are everywhere.
Reminds me a bit of Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow book. Where thinking slow is the data gathering and thinking fast is the inference machine.

At this moment we are fascinated by the thinking fast part of AI. Where AI infers conclusions with astounding efficiency.

We forget the 'thinking slow' part, the data gathering the data filtering, that's the difficult (and boring) part.
Could this wrok on TV?
> RMS alienated so many women

[citation needed]
It has an API.

> You can craft a URL that disables pi-hole for X minutes, using the API. You hit the boomark and boom, pi-hole temporarily disabled. If you save it to your phone's home-screen, you've got an instant disable button.
True, but I still don't get what grandparent was talking about. Comparing Elo ratings of what why?
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I have a Github dotfiles repo so I can set it up on any server in a couple of minutes, just by cloning the repo and running a script within it. If you're jumping between different servers, I would highly recommend having a quick way to setup config like this. It's a short investment that pays dividends for many years - not just for tmux config, but setup for bash, vim, and any other utils you rely on.

I use one tmux prefix for the local machine and another one for ssh sessions (setup in bash_profile using something like `if [[ -n "$SSH_CLIENT" ]] ; then tmux set-prefix ... etc`. You need different prefixes when using tmux recursively like this, so you can navigate both the inner and outer session.

I also use a different color theme for ssh sessions, whch helps to know which prefix to use until it becomes somewhat subconscious.
The government is not directly elected. It is, in a sense that's both very technical and actually constitutionally important at the moment, appointed by the Queen.
At the last GE, the government wasn't elected with a majority. The people specifically voted to not give the government unfettered power to do whatever they like.

Specifically, Boris was elected prime minister by a very small number of people, and no-one voted for the cabinet.

> PM wants an election as well, which he's likely to win (well, according to polls... which are likely wrong!)

It's kind of irrelevant what the PM wants - general elections are held in accordance to the Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011 (which was passed when the tories were in government). If he wants an election, it has to be with the consent of Parliament (ie the people).
I haven't attempted that setup however I've got a Nginx server acting as a reverse proxy which implements DNS-over-TLS.

Android 9 has support for custom private DNS servers so I just point it to my home IP and works great, no adverts when I'm out of the house.
> Is it okay for someone to murder a person if they saved more than one life before ?

Murder is a crime.

Where is the crime here?

It is ok to let go a "fuck you" if that persons did good before.
I am completely against this reclassification, because I think it is crude and wrong. Racism isn't equivalent to prejudice and the distinction they made is pretty feasible. Racists think of themselves as superior due to their race. I like to keep these issues separate and the lizard brain theory is just laughable.

At least some of the people conducting the studies on children are guilty of child abuse, for they tried to correct the behavior of infants with their infantile theories.
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> I'm not exactly sure how UK government / prime minister elections work, but I'd expect that this government was elected on the exact same basis as previous governments

Well, you're wrong, so why don't you go and do the basic reading first?
> Our current understanding is that quantum computers won't offer a speedup for the simulation of nonquantum systems.

The speedup from grover's algorithm is essentially universal it's just not an exponential speedup. So for example in your non-quantum simulation task, you want to search for an input to a cellular automata that makes it spell your name after 5000 timestemps. You can use grover's algorithm to find that input with a sqrt() the number of simulation runs that a classical machine would need (and perhaps fewer, since there are likely multiple solutions).

To me that's one of the most interesting things about quantum computation: There is a very broad class of things where it offers a modest speedup (sqrt) and a narrow (but useful!) class of things where it offers an exponential speedup. But if you imagine almost any kind of 'superpowered quantum computation'-- something that is a little more powerful than the laws of physics as we know them allow-- you almost always get an exponential speedup for everything (or even more absurd results, like every problem being solvable in constant time). QC has this interesting property of being just strictly more powerful than classical computing, but without being magic-instant-computing.

[Which is also why many of the common incorrect descriptions of quantum computing are sad, stuff like "testing all values in paralle"-- if it worked like that description it would be magic instant computing.]
I'd think the apple news+ service they've started might end up being something that can go in that direction. Patreon as well, or even Spotify. I've started listening to podcasts via Spotify as the player has more fine-grained speed controls. I'm sure they could track my listens to that. letting podcast creators sign up to get paid a portion of listens would be useful, and something I'd support (maybe a $12/month price point vs $10? and split the $2 among the episodes I listen to?)
As a member of the commonwealth with a parliamentary democracy, I’m confused by how many people think this was the wrong call. The PM is only the first minister, the serve at the behest of parliament. I wish Canada would also remember that Parliament is supposed to hold the ultimate power of government.
You are making a logic error. When there is no causal connection between two items it is very well possible that there is a connection that allows you to say something about populations. But you will never be able to say something about an individual. And that is where all these arguments flounder, we put population information in, in order to engineer features that then allow us to make decisions about individuals. For those cases where feature engineering can dig up causal connections this works wonders, for those cases where it does not or gives you apparent connections that are not really there you end up with problems.
How can someone say this with a straight face? Driving is for better or worse the primary means of covering long distance in a timely and economical manner for a large slice of the global population.
Households can contain multiple people filing separately. Did you mean only 40% of households or 40% of taxpayers?

Anyway, people getting Social Security should really mess with this calculation as someone could be making 150k, but up to 45k of that is from the government.
> "women" to be discouraged and counted as collateral damage

this never happened though.

According not to me, but to Thomas Lord (if you don't know who he is, go and check)

> One remarkable thing about the FSF at that time, when we worked out of dinky spare offices on the campus of MIT, was the degree of participation by women. In the tiny society that was then the FSF, women were more prominent than I had seen in Silicon Valley, or acadamia prior.

https://archive.is/7qepC

And it says a lot about the amount of fabrication going around.
The point is just that the tariffs etc. aren't having the effect predicted above. Chinese policy doesn't seem to have changed in response. Besides we're not importing lots of pork and chicken from China, so banning particular antibiotic practices on imported meat wouldn't have a big effect even if it "worked".
Yep, after I posted I realized that if this is really widespread & iLok related, surely someone would have posted on Gearslutz complaining about it by now. So far I can't find any threads about it there.

In my iLok case years ago, it was a problem with the iLok KEXT kernel extension drivers causing my Mac to kernel panic at startup that put me off. That would've been around the Mac OS X 10.5 / 10.6 era.