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Worldviews resist rational arguments very robustly. Even those that are supposedly scientific. The human brain has a belief system that by it's nature tries to stay fixed. It's a cognitive foundation.

The other part of it is that worldview are tied to group identity. In order to integrate into any sort of community or group, people generally have to accept that worldview.

These are a couple of reasons why the idea of opposing political groups having a rational discussion may be far-fetched.
Harvey and Wright's _Simply Scheme_ is another excellent book that does not get enough mention.
Thanks for posting the non-mobile link. :)
Aggressively normalize US companies conceding to Chinese Communist Party censorship and surveillance demands.
If you have even a passing interest in aviation then this book is a must read. Very deep, yet incredibly compelling. I kept finding myself on edge...
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Really? I think if you forced "people on the street" to formulate a list the 5 greatest living people, I bet 80% of them would have "Bill Gates" on that list.
> I have never seen a report of a fire with a Prusa.

Tbf, that really depends on the market share. In the interwebs, I've read a total of 3 - 5 reports of printers catching fire. Now, if 20% of the 3D printers are Prusas, then the rest are chinese ones, which come all with the same bad components. There is not much surprise here, at least for me.

Despite from that, the groups I know usually go like "Yeah, get a CoreXY printer instead. Moving the printbed constantly in XY direction isn't a good idea."
The thing is, a notable ninja seafarer would only be notable as a seafarer, that's kind of the point.

There probably were ninja who specialized in that. Sailors who took up the profession or were recruited to turn against their crew or captain, or regular ninja who did it the old fashioned way.
Threat letters from the Senate: https://www.schatz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Signed%20Letters...
In one of my first jobs like 15 years ago at a large software company we had just moved to a monorepo.

It was introduced to counterbalance what many saw as a big mess. Result was a lot of process being introduced which slowed everything down, but that was probably necessary at that stage. To my knowledge the company keeps switching back and forth- but new projects that need to move fast typically are done independently still.
I wasn’t trying to be a pedant, I’ve just never heard of anyone doing this. I was wondering how it helped solve the problem of not rebuilding everything.
I was rather under the impression that checking in binaries was discouraged because it led to performance issues and tends to blow up the repository size. I don't think it's just pedantry.
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If it's a good thing to ban retail from opening on Sunday, it's also a good thing to do the same to restaurants, transit, and everything excepting emergency services. The UK only restricts retail over 280 m^2, and only in England and Wales—a Scot-lead UK government blocked deregulation in 2006, and more recently Scots did it again.

France is no different; its closing laws also apply only to retail, plus they exempt tourist areas. Germany's exempt train stations. Israel comes closest (at least for Jewish employees), but still allows more than the minimum necessary employment on Saturday; and assuming Benny Gantz forms a government in two weeks the faction who want to impose their religion on everyone else will lose more control.
He was convicted in 2008 of soliciting prostitution, with there being public accusations of underage prostitution, something that Epstein claimed however to be not aware of. See [1].

Given that people convicted of crimes such as prostitution deserve to be re-integrated into society rather than being shunned, it's not clear you can accuse Bill Gates of much except maybe taking on a PR risk to himself to be kind to another human being. I am assuming he did not have a relationship with Epstein for the money.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/02/usa.internatio...
> You're missing my point.

You asked what could be the reason why "are most people in 2019 so convinced that Bill Gates is "the worlds greatest guy?"

I'm pointing out it might have something to do with a $50 billion philanthropic organization.
Does Gates really need help networking with wealthy people? If Gates wants to talk some oil tycoon or whatever into donating cash, wouldn't he be better off just asking himself instead of sending a convicted sex-offender in his place.
Would Fukuyama have been as prominent if he predicted the opposite?
I have mixed feelings about BillG with my only conflict being around his stance on being pro-Intellectual Monopoly laws and anti-open source/intellectual freedom:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
2. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_...
3. http://techrights.org/2009/06/25/bill-gates-office-patents/

It's a real intellectual struggle for me because his recent Netflix, his writings, his book recommendations, the company he built, the Melinda + Bill Gates Foundation, he's done so much good for the world but I still haven't seen him come out against Intellectual Monopoly laws, which due so much bad for the world (and which he has made such a fortune off of). The examples of the evil that Intellectual Monopoly laws do are numerous, but take the recent opioid epidemic—the root cause was patent law! You make 100x+ more money off selling patented drugs, regardless of the outcome on the patient, so we have a whole industry that is focused on making patented drugs, and not actually helping cure or heal people, and we get horrible horrible things like the opioid crisis (disclosure: took the lives of a number of my friends).

If BillG comes out against Intellectual Monopoly laws of copyrights and patents, then I will think he is a true saint.
>How do you fly on someone’s private plane without realizing it is their plane?

Easily, you just assume it’s a charter. When you fly on private jets every day you stop thinking about these things really fast.
One good thing with the giant banners is that they make everyone more aware of all the tracking going on.

I do sometimes just leave the site instead of clicking the single "I Agree" option.
This is why Microsoft is the better long-term play: Backwards compatibility -- their commitment to the investment of labor. If you build your software on Apple, there almost certainly will come a point in the future where your code will cease to work.

Microsoft has made a commitment to backward compatibility. It's such a huge benefit. I have code that has continued to run, untouched, for decades. I don't have to upgrade my development environment. I don't have to buy a new laptop to run the latest xcode. I never have to worry that my years of investment into my own software platform will be worthless three years from now or require unknown amounts of recoding to work.

This is not true of Apple, Ruby, or almost any open source project.

I want to continue moving forward all the time. I loathe the requirement to go back and redo what I'd already done and works. It wastes my time, my money, and my confidence in my vendor.
I... can't believe my eyes. If you find what Koch or his foundations have achieved to be similar to what Gates or his foundations have achieved, I feel like you really need to re-calibrate what you call good and what you call bad.
I would guess these apps are insecure in some way.

I've been a loyal Apple user for 20 years, and in my experience every decision Apple makes is based on extremely logical and intelligent reasons though they don't always publish said reasons.

But I would suspect macOS is the most advanced OS ever designed because of the little things like this that put it a cut above the trainwreck that is Windows 10 or Linux. You gotta cut out the cancer before it ruins your platform.
(Binary) Lambda Calculus can interpret brainfuck in under 104 bytes:

http://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html#Brainf...
> Monorepo shortcomings 1 and 2 seem like bullshit to me.

It's a blogpost and the author didn't try to build a total and exhaustive formal system. These shortcomings are not absolute truth but actually they are true.

I've seen this multiple times: a small projects evolves over years into a monster. Engineers add new components and reuse any other components they may need creating horizontal links. At some point they feel like they lost their productivity and they blame monorepo because it's easy to create horizontal links in a typical monorepo. So, they try to build a multirepo flow and they spend a lot of effort, time and money trying to make it working. At some point they feel that their productivity is even worse than it was before because now they need to orchestrate things so they merge everything back.

Same applies not only to VCS flows, but to system design as well.

When we discuss monolith/microservices controversy all the monorepo/multirepo arguments may be isomorphically translated to that domain. What is better, monolithic app or a bunch of microservices? A role-based app of course: https://github.com/7mind/slides/blob/master/02-roles/target/...
I see "bespoke" and am immediately satisfied.
I think, but cannot prove, that Prusa's got a fairly high percent of this broader segment of the market.
Thanks for the great feedback.

Posts in your feed upon signing up are the ones with the most spotlights. Once you follow people, you'll start seeing posts by them. I'll have to work on conveying this I guess.

Why would "community of your peers" turn you away?

Thanks a lot!
Why can't its suggestions be in the style you said?
I think Firefox is adding it as a standard in the next version.
Perhaps these apps were already well beyond supported? I don't use anything except 1Password on the list at the link and the current supported version is 7. Version 2.x would have been sometime and many security updates ago, non?
I couldn't follow this. I'm usually capable of following technical papers. The jargon was thick as a jungle, it seems auto-generated. Use plainer language next time, please.
I think you overestimate how much money is spent on FB political ads. FB had over $16B in revenue in its most recent quarter. Trump and Clinton raised a combined $2B in their 2016 campaigns. If they dumped all of that into FB ads, it would still be only about 3% of FB's annual revenue. Obviously they spent far less, but I don't know what PACs spent.

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...
Even then you're supposed to actually use the higher level filesystem framework APIs from Objective-C and Swift.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/file_sy...
Not true, you still get screwed on cash withdrawals regardless of the service you use. Most ATMs apply DCC even when you hold the local currency
People who believe different things don't process information differently. That's a sneaky way of suggesting there is something wrong with their brain.

I have a twin brother who I often find has exactly the same thinking as me when discussing a topic. He is very religious. I am an atheist.

The reason people believe different things is because they are part of different communities and/or are exposed to different streams of information.

I agree though that it's unlikely to have a constructive conversation on a topic where the two worldviews contradict each other.
...and I'm saying that you're making up an idea in your head that there are people that buy their mac laptops and don't actually use them. The people at Starbucks do use their computers, just not in a way that you appreciate. That meme is propagated online but it doesn't actually reflect reality.
My guess is that that's just normality setting in. Back then, the internet wasn't for everybody, you didn't do "normal stuff" on it, it was a very separate domain. Today, the internet is about as special as a side walk, everybody is on it, you can do anything on it and all the normal people and all the normal problems have come along with the change.

In society, witch hunts have been a thing for quite a while, I think the web mostly just didn't have the opportunities to show its witch hunting abilities in the early, pre-mainstream years.
Switching to the Bowden extruder may have been more about reducing print head mass because of the cantilevered design.

I'd avoid printers like the Ender for fire risk as much as the hidden cost of maintenance and upgrades. The Prusa Mini will be a much better entry option than the cheap Chinese knockoffs.
> But being slow to accept the evidence as it rolls in is not denialism

I recall many former AIDs denialists mounting similar rationalizations in the 00's.

"We did not deny, we were being scientific. We did not delay, we just were doing our due diligence. We were never pigheaded, we have principles, unlike the common rabble rushing to conclusions!"

In my view, the climate-change denialist impulse to rewrite their own history is both political and psychological: they need to distance themselves from the social consequences of their past rhetoric, while conversely self-affirming their idealized and supposedly-consistent motivations (aka resolving cognitive dissonance)
A whole mess of anticompetitve actions. Plenty of quotes to choose from, I'll keep it to two, from the Novell DRDOS case:

"Bill Gates ordered to all application business units to include checking routines of operating environments and if it is Microsoft DOS, nothing will happen. But if it is non MS-DOS (such as DR-DOS), application will display messages saying that 'This application has been developed and tested for Microsoft MS-DOS. Since you use different environment, this application may not work correctly . . .' "

B. J. Bahk, Microsoft, August 9, 1989

"Microsoft's unfair contracting practices have denied other U.S. companies a fair chance to compete, deprived consumers of an effective choice among competing PC operating systems, and slowed innovation."

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, July 16, 1994

http://www.maxframe.com/DR/Info/fullstory/factstat.html

Or if you prefer the full findings of fact from US vs. Microsoft:

https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...
"Hotjar works bullshit on most popular bullshits"
The same way you might get in a car with someone and not realizing that it's not their car.

A rich person isn't going to boast to an even richer person that it's their plane.
On Windows it is perfectly reasonable to expect aps running even if they are 20 or sometimes 30 years old.
There’s a reason forecasts are called such :) I follow the Atlantic hurricane season since a few years ago and the forecast discussions of the NHC are amazingly informative, especially so when models disagree. In short, there isn’t a perfect provider and even models that are usually the laughing stock can sometimes be the most accurate.
It's got nothing to do with security. These (versions of) apps do not include 64-bit builds, which is required for Catalina support.
That caused me problems when I edited a wiki page that was subscribed to by about 200 colleagues at Amazon. I changed around 20 mentions of the word cloud on the page to the word butt and hit save without realising.
Good point! Hmm. Maybe git(hu|la)b could solve this with some kind of pull request batching.
They do a great deal more than giving money to republicans and republican things you know... however I am not saying you should like them because of that. I won't enumerate those things because I don't want to encourage anybody to like them, but if you doubt me you can look up the details yourself easily enough.
That is an awful lot of words for "people who don't agree with me are part of a vast conspiracy". Put aside the possibility that the reason elites disagree is because they know something that the author doesn't. Even if one disagrees with a prevailing philosophy or even if it is objectively wrong but the idea catches on doesn't mean there is a conspiracy.

That a rant from the 70s sounds like one today says more about the source than it does the target really - given ongoing processes one would expect the complaints to differ more substantially as the changes either "succeed" and are embraced as the norm or "fail" and are discredited. I use quotes because it is a matter of perception more than if they are actually good ideas.

To be frank it seems to be pure projection of the "eauality feels like oppression to the privledged" sort.
Anyone who plays sports knows the rule is "don't get caught" there too...
Thanks! Partitioned and foreign tables look quite interesting -- I'm at the point where I need to scale the database compute load (with write access) across many nodes, but coordinating those nodes has seemed challenging with rails.

And yeah I can probably lean on views a bit more to save some search time for point/line-in-polygon operations.
Haha. I clearly do not have any experience in that area, but I guess that does make some sense.
I also really love this video of Norilsk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUqDpJt7VGY&

I think Norilsk is undeniably artistic, in both the idea of the city, and in its unique aesthetics.
The whole point of this thread is that the people who stand to lose money as we all draw the obvious and inevitable conclusions (stop burning coal/oil/gas ASAP) know they cannot win the debate, but they know the longer the "debate" drags on the more money they make. To continue to fall into the "debate" trap is to have already let them win. So yes, you're damn right i'm "stifling" this debate.

Whether you're a bad person using debate as a concern trolling topic, or just a dope who's inability to understand things and draw clear conclusions leaves you forever trapped in analysis paralysis, doesn't matter. Either way its time to stop humoring you.
For a perspective of a mathematician that came to evangelize theorem provers, I recommend Kevin Buzzard's MS 2019-09 presentation [0] about LEAN. He highlights cultural misunderstanding and apathy on both sides of the domain divide. He also references the idea that the people who might make the appropriate tools may not have stayed in academia. So, he's structured his courses around using LEAN with the indirect consequence that power users (undergrads) may choose to become open source committers.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp-mQ3HxgDE One hour of presentation and then 15 min of q/a. My favorite is around 1:04:00 when someone asks a second time why he disprefers coq, and Buzzard complains that it can't represent some advanced quotient type that he'd have to work around. I'm reminded of [1]

[1] https://prog21.dadgum.com/160.html Dangling by a trivial feature
>governments looking for an excuse to raise taxes.

In Germany energy taxes + VAT make up more than 50% of the price of gasoline and this has been the case for decades. If we switch to 100% electric cars then the government will lose 10% of its tax income. This is a strong motivation to avoid transportation policies that are good for the environment.
Try Beta/Nightly! Firefox got much better for MacOS in 70/71 but that version is not yet in stable.
"why not go all the way, and drop the parens?" because no one found something that is simpler and shorter than just using parens. I-expressions are made up of invisible characters and my feeling is that not a lot of people who write lisp likes any sort of invisibility in their software.

For me, using parens is not a deal-breaker, as it's a relatively simple to use for dividing up things. Beats using invisible characters or many different characters.
Who should be responsible of deciding if anyone is indecent or inclusive? Are decency and inclusivity even real?
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You may not know it, but every public school in Japan is a ninja school situated in hidden secret villages in between the mountains. Shinobi & kunoichi are graded as jounin, chuunin, genin, and ninja-in-training.
I feel the same. I started a project just four years ago, and now I feel that I'll need to rewrite a huge portion of the graphics code to work with future Mac versions.

I also have a lesser fear that in order for my application to work on some future version of Windows, I'll need to deal with code signing and directory access rights nonsense in order for customers to think that the software "works properly". But that's just speculative. Apple's already doing it.
Armin here, the developer of Search by Image. After that experience I felt it's necessary to share the entire discussion. That is how Google treats developers in exchange for enriching their platform, with a list of nonsense allegations, and if you speak up, retaliation. This practice is well documented at this point, and the best way out for those targeted is to hold your head down and maybe plead for help on social media.

So yes, Google will eventually be forced to open up Chrome to third-party extension stores. Google will not get to decide what software the majority of humans can install in their browsers, the same way Microsoft is not allowed to block you for arbitrary reasons from installing software on your Windows devices.
What I have been trying to find is an easier way to copy files from an SSH session to localhost, without having to use scp.

Like zmodem back in the old days (which should work with SSH, but I didn't get it to ..?)

Anyone have a suggestion?
I like Mozilla's principles in theory, but this warning from the user guide for GrapheneOS [1] (successor to CopperheadOS) is alarming, and applies to more than just Android:

> Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox runs as a single process on mobile and has no sandbox beyond the OS sandbox. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux, where it can hardly be considered a sandbox at all) and lacks support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole.

So, despite concerns about monoculture, I guess Chromium-based browsers other than Chrome are the most practical solution for now.

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/usage
The problem is, it's impossible to know if they are accurate without doing everything the computer was coded to do for you.
> How do you fly on someone’s private plane without realizing it is their plane?

I was wondering this too, so I googled it:

https://flyxo.com/operator-partners/

Apparently, if you own a private jet, you can rent it out on the equivalent of Uber. Seems like the sort of thing rich people would use a lot when their own plane is somewhere else.
And I have New Yorker's Digital Archive which doesn't except in my VM with an old Windows XP.

Nobody is perfect and you can't rely on anyone to solve this problem for you.