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Popper led us astray into a reductive outlook on science that led us directly to the replication crisis in the social sciences, Amy Cuddy and power poses and much more. People act like this is a mathematical problem and it can be fixed moving beyond p-values but it isn't.

Quine had the better thesis, if only for the word "confirmational holism". Science must be holistic -- it must be one across all fields or at least hope to -- or it's a credentials game. As it stands now you can get credit for social science that contradicts physical anthropology directly and doesn't apologize for it.

None of the truly great achievements of science were done through atomized conjectures and refutations. Newton, Lavoisier, Mendeleyev, Darwin -- they all posited entire worldviews that were supported by a patchwork accumulation of evidence. The challenges to Newtonian or Darwinian theory couldn't be merely empirical, they had to embody a whole philosophical attack on this worldview (preferably with evidence of its own -- but challenges to the evidence would never be enough to bring down Darwin in his time).

Quine's confirmational holism might have highlighted the dissonance between GR and QM, but it might also have highlighted the differences between mid-19th century geology (which was beginning to discover deep time) and taxonomic biology. OTOH literally no experiment could be set up to evidence the importance of deep time in biology. Not without the fundamental insights of Darwin (and likeminded, less-accomplished contemporaries).

We need to bury Popper.
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I've taken the course. I mentioned it to my insurer, and they didn't care.
> without explanation

Common misconception. Let’s assume something as bad as a criminal in prison. Well, they still need their emails. Perhaps not in prison but at least for their recovery. Or to access their bank account. Their retirement funds. Their social security. It’s a misconception that there could be a good reason to entirely revoke any account.

Youtube is different. It’s a broadcasting tool.
The more bloggers, the more nonsense.

> A growing body of evidence suggests

Ah, weasel words. How telling.
That doesn’t make a lot of sense. You could go steal a bag of chips from a gas station now and get detained by the police for an hour. Would that excuse work?
About HTC, I used to run Lineage my One/m7. After upgrading to the One/m9 I switched to AICP, and I'm very happy with it!

AICP really let me down only once: I'm semi-religiously doing the weekly security updates. Once that broke the installation, because it was a major version upgrade (I think Oreo to Nougat). I suppose I should have wiped and installed it manually, but the AICP update center just enqueued it like a regular security update.
I think that is focusing on a less important evil in the definition of it (although still significant).

Let's say that the main issue with patent trolling is that it is basically rent-seeking with patents.

If we agree on that, then choking out competition and stifling innovation through patents should count as a "flavour" of patent trolling, regardless of who invented the patent.

Since that seems to go both against the concept of a free market as well as against copyleft ideologies, I would expect that to be the one thing most can more or less agree on as an issue with patents, and that it is an essential element of patent trolling.

Mind you, I'm not naively saying patents are inherently bad, because without them big companies can just copy small innovators and push them out of business through economies of scale. I honestly don't know what the right solution is here.
Did you read TFA? His name matches [A-Za-z]+.
The orthodoxy says that "science is the scientific method", but I think we need to decouple core science as a humanitarian enterprise from the academic adventure.

We should be able to deeply criticize science to its very core without losing a rhetoric that defends vaccines and so on.
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"I will never do anything like this again."

I doubt that.
I wish we could ban them too.
Darwin's "On the origin of the species" meets neither.
> If there's double predestination of that kind, then it's meaningless to say that society needs to change, as it's all predestined anyway.

You're making an assumption regarding "meaningless" and that's arguable but off-topic. People can think everything is predestined and even use it as an awful excuse. Although, a difference exists from being educated about determinism and continuing to think everything is okay with unjust punishment compared to the current today of what's happening now with the incorrect assumption of choice exists. So I theorize there is the possibility for change because people live with the assumption of fault existing from making choice. Lastly, whether everything is predestined doesn't take away from right or wrong in the sense of people wanting to do the right thing compared to doing the wrong thing when knowing the truth.

I don't believe in double predestination either, in the religious sense. Some people just get a bad deal from the shuffle. You thinking what I say has "some" nuanced truth to it makes me think you're naive and deluded.
Can we just go away with speeding in non residentials areas and make driving licence harder to obtain skill wise? There is no point in speed limits and modern cars have much better handling characteristics when such speed limits were introduced. 140 km/h is like standing still in modern executive car.
Always relevant: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
> In my experience with two-phase commits, if the system crashes before a transaction is fully processed and committed, it should be fully reprocessed (from scratch) once the server restarts.

Then the problem becomes, in a fully distributed system how do you know which was the last successful commit before the system crashed?

That 'settled' flag you mention may be set in the coordinator node's storage just before the coordinator crashed, but not communicated to any other node because of the crash.

So the other nodes have to wait for the coordinator to restart, and replay its storage, to find out if that transaction was successful.

That pause can be quite long, especially if it involves a coordinator rebooting, and really long if it involves resynchronising a RAID, checking filesystems/DB integrity, etc.

The other nodes could decide it doesn't matter, exclude the coordinator from the cluster, and reprocess starting from an older transaction. But then they have to agree which older transaction - a distributed consensus problem.

This is certainly possible, but I wouldn't call it simple, and it wouldn't be two-phase commit any more.

Restarting older transactions tends to be visible to clients as well, because they may see transaction retries, and it's often desirable to minimise the number of those from a distributed database for minor failures (such as one node harmlessly going offline). Among other things, they can cause load spikes in the large system, and may exercise retry corner cases that don't come up normally, surfacing bugs that shouldn't be there in application code, but are.
He just got a lesson in how to scam properly. Impressively stupid though.
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>HTC are well-known for providing locked-down devices

I've been using HTC devices for ages, and so far every one of them was dead-simple to unlock: Just go to the HTC developer page and enter your phone ID, get unlock code and enter on phone, done! Naturally HTC will from there on out decline responsibility for bricked phones, but which company doesn't?
That is a good point. I did lots of wild and crazy stuff back in the 60s through the early 80s. And then I did est/Landmark. And learned how to be rigorously professional.

But I'm lucky. There are very few public records about my dissolute youth. Maybe a couple news reports, that don't mention me by name. Maybe a few photographs. And lots of memories that could still come back to bite me. But nothing like it is today.

Today, it's necessary to start the "nothing at all controversial" act very young. So that's something parents need to be teaching their kids. Along with "don't play in the street" and "don't accept rides from strangers". Plus using pseudonyms, with VPNs and Tor. And never trusting that "friends" won't sell them out.

> I think the only way to fix it is for everyone to be cancelled.

That doesn't work. Because there are multiple factions that cancel each other. So what you'll get is not just a permanent underclass, but permanent castes. Which will hate each other.

And given the demographics, it seems like what you're calling the underclass will be the majority, and will elect governments that pretend to cater to them. And the woke will end up working for social media etc, who will pretend to cater to them.

> Is it possible that the ethical thing to do here is to join the cancellation brigades?

One aspect of saying nothing at all controversial is being ambiguous. You want all factions to think that you're one of them. It's like playing a double, triple, etc agent.
What i understood that methane production needs concentrated CO2. It is possible to get that from air, but it is energy inefficient.
It's a great city for tourists in summer.

But to live in Montreal is another ball game. Shops close at 9. On weekends by 5. Never ending construction. Old noisy apartments. Crazy drivers. Badly marked road signs.

The only good thing I have experienced so far is the metro system & the underground city.
The third OnePlus model is an old one now?

I remember the first one coming out (and haven't kept track of how many there have been) but I honestly don't think I do anything that needs more than what the first one would give me.

(I actually have a Motorola One, which is on the 'Android One' mostly-stock long-term upgrade committment, and was about £150 new 18mo ago? £100 phone or less would be plenty powerful enpugh, I just paid a bit more to know I'd get the upgrades, and thought the fingerprint reader might be useful. (It is.))
What about doubling the 'mr' in the end of your name ?
It should be (I say that without any serious confidence) possible to explain the probleme in case of someone wanting to know why you ticket name is'nt exactly matching your id document.
My first name ends with "-dr" and I've been awarded doctorates by quite a few airlines.
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Yes it was a relative's DNA. So you have to not only submit your DNA, you have to talk your all your kin out of submitting theirs. That includes sisters or brothers separated by adoption in early life.
I am in the same boat. Content is so affordable and accessible these days that I don’t understand why people get pissed about it. Part of the reason, I feel, is that there’s so much abundance of content and stuff that choosing becomes impossible. We feel FOMO and slighted if there’s content which is not already included in the service we are paying for.

As consumers we have come to expect everything under the sun to be accessible right here, right now, according to my expectations and preferably for free. That’s honestly irrational on our (consumers) part. Internet and forums just amplify this part.
You seem to be coming from a punitive mind-set, yet also arguing about what is best for society.

It is better for society (AFAICT from this one piece) that this guy got the outcome he got. It has a better chance of breaking the generational cycle of poverty and criminality.

Regarding associating with his Dad -- there are many reasonable reactions. Kids need fathers. When trying to understand other people's behaviour, as frustrating as it might be, it's generally a mistake to think "well, I wouldn't do that." It's often more productive to ask "why would someone do that?".

EDIT> Regarding the nature of the robbery victims ... from a punitive stance hey they were drug-dealers. Outlaws shouldn't expected to be protected by the law. From a societal harm-reduction stance ... well, they got scared and robbed, not physically injured or killed. That should factor into the reaction. Depriving the subject's child of a father who seems to have reformed is probably worse than incarcerating him because even unharmed drug dealers need the protection of the law.

Mindless application of the law is not a good thing.
> Most donated phones have an iCloud lock with no way to contact the previous owner to request an unlock

To be fair, newer Android phones have Factory Reset Protection[1], which is pretty much 1-to-1 clone of iCloud lock.

[1] https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6172890
Maybe you could design an even stronger experience of hearing someone's thoughts, by using VR + voiceover + some machine learning to match the viewer's own voice. I wonder if people have tried using something like that for brainwashing.
It’s not just macOS, Windows has the same, with all the same associated problems.

For that reason, I generally prefer to keep all file names consistently lower-case - user_account.ex over UserAccount.ex. It’s just as easy to read, if not more so.

We have enough other things to worry about as programmers without having to think about correct capitalisation of file names.
> Chrome never allowed any customisation and Firefox stopped supporting it (e.g. vertical tabs) when they switched to "Quantum".

Current Firefox has vertical tabs, with the Tree Style Tab extension (like it always has been). The only UI difference is that TST cannot hide the horizontal tab bar automatically, but it will explain to you on first use how to do that.
There is no greater class solidarity than that of the ruling class.
Yes, true, although I hope most people already have internalized that they shouldn't commit fraud whether or not their mother would approve
It's interesting to compare "Dice Man"[0] with "Yes Man"[1] (the book, not the Jim Carrey film adaptation).

Both books are about people putting their decision making to an external force (Dice man with a die, Yes Man by accepting any offer or invitation that he was given). Dice Man embraces randomness which ultimately leads to Chaos and self destruction. Yes Man embraces positivity and most of the outcomes are positive and constrictive.

One of the main issues I had with Dice Man when I read it was that you were kind of limited in a way because you were making a discreet set of decisions and it seems like the book was encouraging you to always include destructive options, which would occur (intrinsically) with a probability of some multiple of 1/6. To abuse the gamblers ruin, this basically means that if you're including destructive options, then you're almost certain to do damage to yourself eventually.

To that end, it didn't really seem that useful to me as a philosophy or as a tool. Not in any meaningful way. Yes Man, on the other hand, feels like it has greatly changed my life for the better. Your flatmate comes home from work and says to you "I've just had someone pull out of a gig. Want to come? I'm leaving in half an hour". You go, putting aside the fact that you're tired and were looking forward to some quiet TV. You meet someone who you end up dating for a few years. Or how a friend at college invited me to a talk given by local companies in the area offering industrial placements (year long internships taken as part of the degree). It was in 5 minutes time and I wasn't on the 4 year course that the placement was a part of. I had a free period so I went. Off the back of that I changed my course to the 4 year, applied to one of the companies that presented. I got the placement and off the back of that learned basically all the technical skills that got me my first job out of college. So on and etc.

I can't see the dice really allowing for that kind of flow, unless you use a d20 and heavily stack all of the options with positive, enriching and life affirming options. Which, really, isn't what the Dice Man book encourages at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Man_(book)
Assuming what is and isn't valid for user inputs is a dangerous game because there are always exceptions.

I ran into a similar issue with many online retailers when I was living in the inner city of Mannheim, Germany because a lot of online systems make assumptions on how a valid address looks.

Addresses in Mannheim's inner city follow the format "Char Number, Number". "A1,1" is a valid address if you want to send a letter to the district court. A1 being the city block the court is located at and 1 being the house number within that block.

I didn't get to do a lot of online shopping for years when I lived there.
Apple already has HEIC codec on their systems, which is half the size of WebP.

I'm curious why they're not exposing it to the Web. Is it because the codec is a ball of risky C++ code? Patent issues? Or because it's non-standard, and for once, they don't want to add a non-standard feature?

There's also JPEG XL being standardized now, which gives similar compression while also supporting lossless conversion from the classic JPEG. This offers nicer migration path. With other formats conversion from JPEG is lossy, so you get smaller files partly because you lose quality in the process.
> Most donated phones have an iCloud lock with no way to contact the previous owner to request an unlock

If someone donates a phone, isn’t clearing the phone and releasing the “iCloud lock” typical practice? Otherwise the phone has negative value, in that it is simply toxic waste.
> For one thing, Swift is hardly ready for application domains like audio, video or games. No doubt it can make the development process so much faster and safer, but also less performant by exactly that amount.

I've done quite a bit of experimentation with the performance characteristics of Swift, and I think that's a slight mischaracterization of the situation.

For instance, I built a toy data-driven ECS implementation in Swift to see just what kind of performance could be squeezed out of Swift, and it was possible to achieve quite impressive performance, more in the neighborhood of C/C++ than a managed language, especially when dipping into the unsafe portion of the language for critical sections.

But it's a double edged sword: while it's possible to write high-performance swift code, it's really only possible through profiling. I was hoping to discover a rules-based approach (i.e. to avoid certain performance third-rails) and while there were some takeaways, it was extremely difficult to predict what would incur a high performance penalty.

Currently it seems like the main limiting factor in Swift is ARC: it uses atomic operations to ensure thread-safe reference counts, and this, like any use of synchronization, is very expensive. The ARC penalty can be largely avoided by avoiding reference types, and there also seems to be a lot of potential for improving its performance as discussed in this thread:

https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-performance/28776
It's a good thing Microsoft doesn't think that way. It apparently has metrics that show desktop development is not stagnating, but rising thanks in part to Windows desktop OS usage also rising [1]. See its plans for WinUI v3 [2]. WinUI is not cross-platform but it is talking about it.

[1] Comments from Ryan at MS https://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1660

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d...
Just to be very clear, what is you Solution to these irredeemable people who you believe don't "belong in our society"? What can it be other than death, or exile resulting in premature death?

Have you thought through the implications of trying to do this to at minimum 1/3 of the population of the US? And what that 1/3 or more are concluding from this opinion being widely expressed in the US right now?
I have a feeling that a certain class of rich person would be much more bothered by being made to wait than just paying a large fine.
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Nit: Valve just banned them from forums, not Steam. They already do what you're proposing.
It seems the solution is for him to but mr infront of or after his name. Another solution to a part of a name getting filtered out is to write it many times. For example ammrr turns into amr if mr is removed.
I'm not sure we've read the same text. Hossenfelder explicitly acknowledges all that -- in fact, she makes the exact point you are -- and yet says that physicists today do not practice the theoretical methodology that led to success in the past.
Nice. It's the most lucid explanation I've seen of what Hungarian notation really is, what it can do, and how different it is from sticking "ul" in front of every unsigned long variable.
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This seems to mirror the idea of forest bathing also known as nature therapy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_therapy
LineageOS is nice, but with every major Android update it seems to work slower and slower on my OnePlus One :(
Well, I'm running Android 9 on OnePlus One thanks to Lineage. That's five years old phone still rocking. Official support ended in 2016 IIRC.
It's easy to disable FRP by de-associating any Google accounts from the phone before factory reset. Can iCloud locks be removed with comparable ease by the original owner before they "donate" the device?
It is a little dream of mine to mine videos for crazy traffic behavior and sell the license plate numbers to insurers. Should be pretty simple, the uploaders even do the tagging for you. How to do that while complying with GDPR is a little nugget to be solved. I'd need a method for take down and a method for checking the vehicle hasn't been sold (that's public at least).
Just because the connection is secure doesn’t mean it’s controlled by a trusted entity