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One thing I forgot to mention was the power #TiddlyWiki has for Transclusion. Much software uses it but in an inexplicit way that users don't fully control.

In Tiddlywiki it's an outstanding central, user documented, feature of huge utility ... some basics ...

https://tiddlywiki.com/#Transclusion

https://tiddlywiki.com/#Transclusion%20Basic%20Usage

https://tiddlywiki.com/#TranscludeWidget
You mean Apple excuses? That's a Steve Jobs quote. Linux UX is rough in parts and the answer is "it's a $0 volunteer group project, we need your help to make it better."
>The reality is there's a lack of truth / data / facts to support doing so.

Only because you're making a point of pleading away any data that invalidates your conclusions. You just asserted opinion polls don't count because it's not votes, which is a far cry from you original statement that there is nobody talking about or supporting an agenda to reduce inequality and seems like you're just trying to juke your way out of reevaluating your priors.
You could make a whole building out of windows... Maybe call it a clearhouse or something
>>> aimed at the American style of learning

Ouch! Boas is maybe not as inspiring as Feynman. But when you see a copy on someone's bookshelf. It tends to be just as dog-eared and spine-cracked as Surely You're Joking

Another resource I just thought of. While not a textbook per se. Math competition problems from previous years can be very stimulating ;)

https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/pastpapers/past-ia-ib-...

https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/
He probably meant that it costed him $3k when he bought it.
> Isn't the "God the Father" used to show the maleness of the Chrisitan God?

No, the maleness of Christian God is not something that needs clarification. Appending “the Father” signals the author’s personal beliefs, asserts god’s righteousness, etc. all with plausible deniability

> Does the article make the case that an alignment with Satanism is a bad thing?

Technically correct, persuasively irrelevant. Satanism is without a doubt seen as something blatantly “evil” among his target audience.

> Is the opposition to Christianity a problem for modern Feminism? Even an historical opposition

Aside from abortion probably not. But most religious groups preach conservatism, and are thus anti feminism.

> To me this article simply reads as early feminists rebelled against a society they felt was oppressive to them by adopting what they saw as their enemies enemy as a mascot. I don't think that is particularly disparaging of feminism is it?

Intentions matter. The author’s goal is to create an association between satanism (-> Satan -> evil) and feminism (-> progressive social movements). If we look at this guy’s other works we will find the same agenda. It is enabling a justification of pre-existing beliefs of the basis of rationality because now there are facts, even if those facts have literally zero salience to the issue at hand. To state facts neutrally, but obscure, irrelevant, and persuasively chosen facts is a dirty technique because it’s effective and it gives everyone plausible deniability upon accusations of having a bias
> (besides visual indicators for scroll)

Yes, but you normally cannot control that :)
Eh, I had to support a codebase where the comments where in inproperly encoded cryllic. But happily the code was a php app that had lots of large hand crafted if soups for handling dates, so I'm pretty sure the comments were useless anyway.
In some sense this is what a particle filter already does, but this allows greater learning capacity (hence also huge risks of overfitting on specific surface statistics in a given dataset).
Yeah exactly. Ants also move far slower than humans do. Even the world’s fastest ant only moves about 1 m/s, considerably slower than the average human walking speed of 1.4 m/s.

People like to marvel at ants by taking everything they do and scaling it up. That’s not a valid thing to do, physically speaking. Kinetic energy is proportional to mass times velocity squared. Compared to humans, ants with negligible mass and very low velocity have minuscule kinetic energy when they collide.
That’s really cool. Appreciate you sharing.
These are PM/Design flaws, not software dev flaws.
Thats not correct, anthough many stoics adopted the common term. Its akin saying 'vibrations' today.

What is the cirlejerk around stoicism these days? Is life for coders really that bad?
Meanwhile we're still voting in governments that don't believe in climate change and which fight tooth and nail to destroy any chance of addressing the problem. No worries giving endless buckets of taxpayer money to climate-denying farmers and coal plants, though.
> Now image you had this incredible build tool that produced X without any programmer doing any build related work ever at all. Your build output is X and value is V. 100% of your developer effort can go towards working on X and increasing V!

That is only the case for the simplest of software though. "Build systems" are often much more than just build systems: they are project management tools.

e.g. quite often I have to perform some preprocessing or code generation.

I could :

- A: write a $cross_platform_scripting_language script and integrate it to my build system & CI, ensure that the script interpreter is correctly found, that the build dependency graph is correct, etc etc. But just getting the same version of python to work reliably on 5+ different platforms is already quite a pain.

- B: write the preprocessor directly in my build system language (in my case, most of the time CMake).

Option B takes wayyyyy less time in my experience than option A, even though it looks more "build-related" than option A.
> Does it matter?

Not really I guess, I mean who cares about the user's computing resources? Certainly not developers.
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The bus is part of a system, as you said, but it's only the visible entry point and when the system is designed around handling individual fares, flat rates, children, free fares for students and the elderly, as well as making it fair and equitable (and relying very much on fares for funding), then you have a bus which must work with that system. Some cities rely on conductors or a vast fleet of ticket inspectors, but London's public transport system might be the biggest and most extensive in the world, and some things don't work well at that scale.
Indeed!

https://elangocheran.com/2014/10/30/exploring-programming-in...

https://youtu.be/MqjMZNwnYCY

Although I started the above project around the same time as Ramsey started his project in the original link (CLisp in Arabic), they were two entirely independent things. Ramsey's project is a 100% translation, whereas my project scales to other natural languages but is not a 100% translation.

Tim and I worked on trying to make programming in other languages easier as a means to help more kids learn programming, and learn FP the Lisp way, which we explain as more natural.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3-53JoGPE4

https://power-turtle.com/#freestyle
When programmers get too distract by having their own fun, we get hard to maintain complex code base. But hand designers do it, it directly harms users.
Do you have a source for this? I believe you, I just want to read about something this bad I can't find anything.
Higher voltages and liquid cooled cables permit higher power levels without making the cables and connectors unreasonably large and heavy. You can see this in Tesla's "V3" supercharger, where they increased the power to 250 kW, but actually made the cables thinner by adding liquid cooling.

Of course, high voltages do brings other issues, like risk of arcing, that need to be mitigated.
Can this, by any chance, be averted by planting eco diverse forests??
I suspect this is a typo, but it reads well anyway. :)
For centuries in the sciences, it was essential to know more than one language in order to be able to keep up with developments worldwide. As recently as our parents' generation, it was a graduation requirement for doctorates.

That English has become the lingua franca [1] of the world is a recent development. If we would like people to read our documentation, it is reasonable to expect that we should do our best to learn how to read theirs, too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca
If you have an email provider that classifies ham as spam, complain.

If complaining doesn't help, consider switching away.

Remember at Google you're not the customer. The reason Google want to keep you using their product is so that they can learn more about you and then ask their customers more money to show ads to you.
I am a native English speaker in the US and to me it seems palpably unfair. People much smarter than me have to spend a lot of time struggling with a foreign language, and are still unfairly perceived as less intelligent than native speakers.

I could imagine it might be less unfair in a situation, like in much of Europe, where nobody is a native English speaker but many speak it (sort of like Latin at one time). And there are of course huge benefits from a standard language. But it still bugs me.
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Anyone with experience in 1C/tales of 1C?
I've been curious about it since discovering it existed.
Because they're not ant roads, they're ant sidewalks? How can someone have such a blind spot of basic facts. Check out any street fair or large public outdoor event. People are going everywhere, despite a high density of people. It works because people are not driving.
It never ceases to amaze me the depth of the world economy, and how seemingly small niches can add up to billion dollar markets.

But $500mm is a tremendous amount of money to raise pre-revenue, which would really only be appropriate in an area with tremendous barriers to entry. Gaming physics, AI, map generation, etc. all seem like exactly the kind of thing that you can break apart into smaller pieces to get to market quickly and iteratively.

It's not like a molecule that needs to through Phase 3 trials, or a rocket which needs to make orbit, or something with a huge CapEx component. Even rockets can scale up from computer models, to scale models, to rough prototypes, etc.
As a common user of compressed air tools, there are countless drawbacks that likely negate the benefits:

1. Leakage. It is hard to avoid having connectors leak, requiring very frequent recompression of tanks even without use.

2. Efficiency. Compressed air tanks are very efficient for energy storage, but compressors and especially handheld tools are not. Also, if you are using a compressor powered by another easy-to-use source of energy such as electricity, you are just pointlessly throwing energy out the window.

3. Noise. You cannot get around the fact that the tools need to expel pressurized air, commonly powering either turbines (whirring noises) or pistons (adds banging/clicking noises). Compressors are also horribly noisy, with the best ones being a deep, powerful humm.

The reason pneumatic tools are popular with mechanics and the likes is related to the built-in cooling effect allowing for dense high-powered tools, and that high-torque impact tools are also quite easy to make this way. The environment they're used in is already noisy, so that aspect doesn't matter.
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You'd have to shut down the over-grazing first.
Yeah, the share button really means more like “send to other apps”
iOS 13 just added a delightful feature where long press on a web browser link it opens on Safari, even if you are in Firefox, and even if you are in private browsing. It pops up a split screen window that has no close-window button. The only way to close the pop up window is to exit your browser and go Home, and then go to Safari to clean up.
I think the argument here is that Apple can/could control that here.
Try that in vast majority of the homes and businesses in the US, and you'll be stuck without a high speed internet connection. There's only one company running wires, and if you piss them off, they might decide not to deal with you.
Yes, sorry for that. The post on hacker news put our server under some stress.
As an intellectual exercise, this is clever. I imagine it wouldn't take long to learn how to use it to write a basic application.

I'm also willing to bet that the time I spend learning the Arabic writing system in order to use this would be of general value, too. I'm fascinated by writing systems.
I don’t think so, because game engines shouldn’t need $500 million to prove themselves. If you could make the case that the software was irreducibly complex, then maybe.

More generally, just because Unity and Epic are worth more now, doesn’t mean it would have been a good idea to pour money in back then. Hindsight isn’t an actionable heuristic.
The article touches on the cause. Planting trees won't help if you use the available water for other things.
Improbable is the theranos of videogame, really ambitious vision but poor execution and endless pool of money from Son. Now they are buying companies to justify no product at all in 7 years. Its a complete nightmare that will blow up indies and workers.
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Perhaps you are always unknowingly shaking with anger whenever you read emails?
The iPhones have degraded in every respect as far as I can tell. When I got my first Android phone about 4 years ago I didn't want to spend a lot of money. I was surprised at how expensive the iPhone was but after using a friends phone I understood that it was a higher quality product and you got what you paid for.

But my girlfriend recently got the latest one (11?) and I was shocked at how bad it is. It feels absolutely massive for a start. Has weird software. But it has a huge design flaw that I really struggle to believe actually exists. I've pinched myself several times and I'm now convinced that it's true. Somehow it's considered OK that the phone doesn't even sit flat on a surface. The cameras bulge out of the back such the whole thing rocks like a table with a short leg when you use it. If anyone can explain how that is considered OK I'd love to know.
Coda bought the name from Panic.
Hmm, don’t they also have an enterprise/Defence sector? I imagine that would generate more stable revenue

It seems natural that they video games business is pretty spikey in terms of revenue, although it’s worrying there isn’t a AAA game that’s using their technology yet, seems still unproven.
My mom had the same issue the other day. Even I didn't realize the save option was concealed below the fold. My workaround was having her long press the photo in iMessage, which reveals a prompt with an option to save.
Actually, a whole bunch of them.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%B4%E3%82%85%E3%81%86%E5...

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%AA%E3%81%A7%E3%81%97%E3...

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%B2%E3%81%BE%E3%82%8F%E3...

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_(%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%82...
How is this inappropriate for adults? You are free not to like it, but you shouldn't gatekeep others.
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From the PoV of someone buying a phone, in that specific time and location, cost of phone without contract was rarely ever known. And the iPhone wasn't sold outside of network with attached plan anyway.

From the PoV of someone working at the network and having the luck to talk with some pretty high up there people... the exclusivity was only for order in which networks got the phone. As in, present-day T-Mobile Poland made a bid to be the first network to have it - but it didn't have any kind of long exclusivity and was soon followed by Orange and Plus (the other two "main" networks). All networks had special iPhone "plans" and the phone wasn't available outside of them, and the only technical difference was that said plans ultimately got the very buggy Visual Voicemail server attached and probably triggered workarounds for call handling bugs.

The Apple tax on the phone bill itself, and making it unavailable outside of contract, were all on Apple. (I think for some time using one outside of approved contract even required jailbreaking, but I can't be sure).
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In order to build a MOSFET, you need to know how do electrons react in the presence of thin barriers, and how thick should the gate oxide be to prevent breakdown while still keeping the field strong.

Does a civilization know this? If no, they cannot make MOSFETs. If yes, than whatever branch of physics and math describes this is called “quantum mechanics”

Can it be different, can you do QM without Schrödinger Equation? Sure, but it will still be QM. One can rearrange terms on formulas, use different units, work with voltage instead of energy, introduce various metrics and so on. Physicists do it all the time, it is simply theory reformulation.
Shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone in today's UX culture. Hide all the things, make them indistinguishable, it might not be usable but at least it meets some designer's arbitrary definition of "beautiful".

Fuck. Every day I grow to hate technology more and more.
Sure, if you want to start an international project, then English is a pretty good language to use.

However, I have heard people say that all software everywhere should be written in English, including things like personal projects and internal tools for companies in non-anglophone countries. I think that's kind of ridiculous.
If only it was somehow possible to charge more for water, so that people would use less.
Are you driving towards the conclusion that we don't need to be concerned about management of water resources because this happens naturally?

That sounds close to the argument that we shouldn't do anything about climate change since the Earth naturally warms and cools.
That's in theory. In actual reality, if you're making an app that has private data and is not crawled by bots, most of the time users don't save everything that they see.
I think the difference between such a service and tmux attach or screen -x is that if person A wants to share a terminal with person B and that person A is behind a firewall / NAT, it would be painful to do without some kind of proxy (this is mentioned in the linked page be the way).

You have to trust the proxy though.
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Usenet was great, but the WWW and the hunt for child pornographers drove providers off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

It is still available:

https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-usenet-providers
It would be nice to include a pronunciation for English speakers. I just read it in my head as ‘scribble’
We, as an industry, used to do a lot of UX research. Today's designers ignore all of it because they don't like what it says. Spacial file managers? Global menu bars? 3D buttons? Ew. Let's just make shit up.
Did it dry up during the "dry" season as could be reasonably expected for a river in a desert region? What is the current situation? Is it dry during the "wet" season?
My mother has a copy of the "Breeches" (Geneva) bible, first published in 1557 (sure, hers is a reprint from 1607, regular folk could never afford a first edition). The Douay-Rheims translation was published in 1582.

The King James version might be considered definitive by many, but it's nowhere close to the first English translation. In fact, King James' version was less popular than the Geneva bible and wasn't selling well until His Majesty banned the competition and punished those caught with a copy.

The famous refugees that migrated from England to America in 1620 on the Mayflower carried Geneva bibles, not King James bibles.
If you would have actually read the link in the post you're replying to, you would know that Gmail is not accepting mail from me despite that I've spent a huge amount of time in verifying that everything is configured correctly.

Also: please stop spreading unsubstantiated claims about your magical server magically sending mail past Gmail's spam filters. There's virtually no chance of that being true, and if it somehow was true, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
> some linguists have hypothesized that analytic languages are easier for foreign speakers to learn as adults, and that this causes languages with lots of geographic spread and inter-language contact to become more and more analytic.

That's an interesting theory, and certainly fits with Mandarin (aka "Common Speech"); but how well does it fit with the prevalence of Greek in the ancient world, Latin during the Middle Ages, and Arabic in the Middle East and North Africa now? Those are all towards the "synthetic" scale, aren't they? Did/have those languages drift/ed to become more "analytic"?
My post is about why a mother might have a significant amount of anxiety about being a mother and their mothering capacity.

This response is entirely out of scope. This isn't a competition on who works harder, and framing it like this completely ignored my point.
What did he suggest was changed about it?
I have a love-hate relationship with that book. It elegantly shows how to think about the topics, but it also left me with many unanswered questions to which I could never find answers with any amount of Internet searching (even though those answers are known to the humankind, buried in a set of complex topic-specific books).

Feynman's Lectures are much more complete in that sense, even though as other comments on this thread note, the reader may not be able to use the learning to solve practical problems without going beyond Feynman's lectures.
Sometimes I wonder if the people of the 1960s (i.e the people who came up with lisp, multics, unix) had the right idea: to use a computer you should program it.There are many programs, each does a different thing, you program your final product by composing programs. Users of the final product are the programmers.

I found myself being frustrated recently at Lifx smart lights. I had wanted to put a slider widget on my home screen of my phone. There is no way to do that. The only way is for me to write my own program. I started work on it, then had to wade through ridiculous amounts of documentation on the lifx api site, android docs. I still haven't finished it.

Consider on the other hand, if android were a massive lisp environment where every API is available in the global scope - think emacs - how easy would it be to program the things you want!

Now I use Lifx as an example and I appear to be bashing them. I am not. At least Lifx publishes their API for consumption. Another time I tried to pipe an app that generates white noise for sleep to another program (TL;DR I was too cheap to buy a Sonos), but alas no publicly accessible API. I had to hijack the BT stream to do something remotely useful to it.

You may think the solution is to get people to publish accessible APIs. I think that's a band aid solution. The core issue is somehow programs have become less composable over time. Far from the original ideals. Programs become standalone products.

I think we as an industry made a wrong decision turning programs into products. We should have kept programs as programs - make them super composable, and then let the end user design their own products that fit them best.
They already can so that's hardly a good test.

But I think you are looking at this the wrong way.

Technology is the natural evolution of biological material which is currently being used as the information carrier of DNA.

Think of AI as the building block for a better information carrier of our DNA.
The US models use Qualcomm chips and are close to completely different models. That's why I mentioned Qualcomm, as the issues tended to be related to those, and I suspect the use of Qualcomm chips might be related to them having such annoying process for unlocking - and the greedy US carriers requiring that.
But how many times did it dry up between 1960 and 2019?