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> The only cure for loneliness is to master the art of solitude.

Most important sentence to take action on in this article, IMO.

> But perhaps we fool ourselves in thinking our desires for love, comfort, and belonging can be sated with an inanimate object.

No, not perhaps, I think it can be phrased more strongly (at least, speaking for myself). I believe this to be true as I have cross-checked these type of YouTube experiences with real-life experience, looked at the similarities and differences. It's then easy to see that the YouTube thing is an illusion. The real thing is much better. With YouTube I feel soothed. With my significant other, all of my existential crises are gone and I feel soothed. Yes, it includes fights, but feeling part of a soul-mated team who support each other is totally worth it (I don't believe in soul mates, but I can still feel that way).

> The whole point of boyfriend videos—and of ASMR, mukbang, and the rest—is to create a one-way interaction from creator to silent consumer.

This is the case with all YouTube shows even that have a personable approach. I think the problem is much bigger than this article portrays (see also an earlier comment on it that I made).
But it was a contributory factor, probably the most ubiquitous in the fall of most empires.
> A word is just a word and whenever it insults somebody it's their own problem.

That's what you think the world should be like, not the way it is. If your name is Adolfhitler Smith, a perfectly legal name in the US, then you will have trouble getting hired.

That's a made up example, but there's evidence[1] that unusual (not necessarily obscene) names will lead to less success in job applications.

If you have a "bad" name, it's your problem well before anyone else's.

[1] https://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html
I think we should focus more on remedial treatments for these problems, because I don't believe humanity has it in itself to prevent it from continuing any time soon.

I agree that we need to try and achieve prevention. Consumer action has proved nearly powerless though, frankly. There will never be enough consumer buy in. We've been campaigning for recycling for decades and it's gotten us here. Our modern lives are built on oil and plastic, not even the ones who care and try are doing good enough. You're far and wide an outlier, you would probably have a hard time convincing other avid recyclers to go to your level, to say nothing of the consuming majority.

We are going to need to prescribe this change, not ask politely for it. Through regulation and economic policies. If there is a buck to be made you will have the immense power of capitalism on your side, the same forces that cause the situation can be used against it. Perhaps if we tax oil so much that plastic stops being a cheap material, and plastic recycling and recapture from the oceans becomes profitable, technology and investment in fixing the oceans can prosper.
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I found it at times a bit too pop-ey, and once I realized the voice was a bit too much like Peter from Family Guy I stopped listening entirely. That said, I'd recommend it. Many of my friends loved it.

Another somewhat more in-depth but possibly slightly more boring podcast is "A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps". There's at least one spin-off on African Philosophy. I really enjoyed the almost-boring slow-paced nature of its approach.
Osaka has a lot to be said for it too. It has as much culture as Tokyo but the pace and energy are dialed back a bit. There are also fewer English speakers and the signage doesn't use as much Romaji, so your Japanese skills need to be a little sharper.
You're sure it works on suspended accounts?
It's a good TODO, and it's worth pointing out that those things are being gradually put into place. Great example is the Continuous Integration, https://ci.freebsd.org/. (Shameless plug: it actually runs Linux Test Project Linux binaries too!)
> That is not how human learning works.

As someone who has a baby in the house, I assure you that it is indeed how a human learns and refines motor skills, at the very least - by repeated experiment and play, with thousands of permutations of position, speed, weight, and situation. They also try to infer causal models [1].

Just what do you think 'play' is for a child, if not (in part) an opportunity to safely explore its surroundings and refine mental models?

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_videos.jsp?cntn_id=125575&medi...
I used to run Gentoo. At one point, trying to resolve dependency conflicts, and not knowing what I was trying to do, I uninstalled libc. Obviously, my system immediately became unusable.

I actually appreciate that Gentoo is set up to allow me to run that command if I want to.

But I did move off of Gentoo due to constant dependency conflicts. They took forever to deal with and they were pretty well guaranteed to happen whenever you didn't hold to a strict and frequent update schedule.
What is the big difference between nations and corporations?
That will solve itself when there is more specialized jobs being left unfilled and salaries rising even higher for those.

Eventually the cost of living will increase because everyone is making at least $100K, and the cycle will repeat.
that was a good watch actually, recommended
How long ago was your experience? That might be a factor. I have been using Arch for a long time, and if my memory serves, stability was a bigger issue years ago than it is now. These days, I have found Arch to be really solid.
2nd law of thermodynamics: it's always cheaper to avoid a mess than it is to clean it up. Ergo, better to use the political route.
> but also writing brackets do not require shift

So your target audience is strictly (US) English?
> make it “generic enough to handle future use cases”.

The answer to this is usually YAGNI.

That is, don’t plan for a future you might never have. Code in a way that won’t back you into a corner, but you don’t know what the future’s cases might be (or if there even will be any) so you can’t possibly design in a generic way to handle them. Often you just end up with over-engineered generec-ness that doesn’t actually handle the future cases when they crop up. Better to wait until they do come up to refactor or redesign.

Some people argue to design in a way that lets you rewrite and replace parts of the system easily instead.
A lot: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinat...
Are you suggesting that a dev acting like this without consulting the team should be considered normal/expected? Not sure how to address a move which is unproductive in its nature "in a productive manner" unless being proactive and preventing those rewrites to happen, unless needed and discussed with the team. But in my personal experience the team's decisions were always ignored by the coder in question.

edit: I should remind for context, I have no problem with the rewrite, but I have one with the team being handed over-abstracted code; I found that this happens mostly with more junior profiles, the same that don't stay around for long.
It's really only a matter of changing packaging in supermarkets.

It's the sort of thing that could be done in a blanket fashion within a couple of years if a major government just stepped up and said "no bullshit plastic waste everywhere".

That is to say - it's preventable as soon as a major government says so.

Unfortunately none of them seem to have the balls. It's fine and dandy to spend multiple years on political fluff (see UK), but god forbid we make any serious changes in packaging regulation.
As someone already pointed out here, Fuck is a real last name. Fucker is also a real last name. You need a credit card to pay for Lyft; I don't quite follow why they can't just match people up with their credit card data.
You want more fanout to use the entire cache line or even the entire virtual memory page. RB trees assume access to any address in memory has equal cost, which is extremely incorrect.
> Tumors aren't healthy tissue.

Well, they're tissue that isn't fulfilling its design goals. They're perfectly healthy, sadly.
As long as FreeBSD has sustainable interest among cooperate usage it should be fine, but I am not sure if the number of FreeBSD client / cooperate user are growing or shrinking.

WhatsApp moved away from FreeBSD to Linux. And last time there were a few Netflix employees mentioned FreeBSD were used on Open Appliance for historical reason, not technical. So I would not be surprised if someday they move to linux as well. ( Once it offer similar performance )

Mellanox loves FreeBSD, but I am not sure if the same could be said for their new owner Nvidia.

OpenBSD and NetBSD are both an easy sell, one focus on Security and the other on Embedded. I am not sure how to sell FreeBSD, and it needs focus and direction. May be aiming for Network Appliance which is what the majority of its cooperate customer are using it for, where it could offer greater value.
A* is not guaranteed to find the optimal route - it depends on the heuristic and the environment.
It seems to me that would favor those with more property at the expense of those with less which would be unjust. Am I misunderstanding?
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No. That's incorrect. This study published in Nature (2017) by the Ocean Cleanup researcher contradicts your statement entirely:

https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15611

> Our model is calibrated against measurements available in the literature. We estimate that between 1.15 and 2.41 million tonnes of plastic waste currently enters the ocean every year from rivers, with over 74% of emissions occurring between May and October. The top 20 polluting rivers, mostly located in Asia, account for 67% of the global total. The findings of this study provide baseline data for ocean plastic mass balance exercises, and assist in prioritizing future plastic debris monitoring and mitigation strategies.

The likelihood of your trash ending up in the ocean depends entirely on where you live and how your trash gets processed.

The only part of your statement that's somewhat correct is that rivers in developed countries carry less plastics to the oceans compared to developing countries. But "very little" is creating a false impression of the problem.

Processing disposable plastic waste is a problem that can be avoided by... not using disposable plastics at all. This is first and foremost a moral choice: whether or not we want to put the health of the ecosystem of which we are part above our own personal short-term convenience.

Thailand banned the use of disposable plastic bags this month:

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-thai-retailers-single-use-plas...

You'd think that the Thai would oppose the ban. That's not what's happening if you gauge the sentiment on social media:

https://www.boredpanda.com/unusual-ways-people-dealing-plast...
I believe you can get it to behave like vi
> Perhaps the opposite of a populist is a technocrat.

Aside from possibly Angela Merkel, can you name some technocats that are good examples of what you describe?

My impression is that technocrats, generally, are just as populist as all the others, if not more deliberately so.

The amount of time spent on voter sentiment and polling data, not to mention a target audience of 'intelligent, enlightened voters', makes me almost as suspicious of 'technocrats' as they make of the typical populists.
Maybe adding an extra municipal taxes (or increased yearly tax rate) for homes that are owned but left empty would be a way to curb those who buy homes solely as an investment?

Maybe I'm forgetting an unintended negative consequences, please do share of that is the case.
> Your own trash is very unlikely to end up in the ocean.

Except that the plastic waste of certain countries tends to get "exported" to these places and then dumped there - if it doesn't get dumped into the ocean before it can even get there.

The poorest places don't tend to generate so much plastic waste because it is mostly a by-product of "luxury goods" (read: trash) in developed countries bought by clueless consumers.

For instance I will never understand the people who buy plastic-wrapped pre-sliced "salami" that hardly resembles the real thing in anything but name. I recently saw croissants(!) getting sold off the shelf in a supermarket. How the hell do you even make that work? Of course they were wrapped in plastic. I don't even want to know how they them make them last long enough. No way they're still crisp outside if the whole thing hasn't turned into a rock.

I feel like some people will buy something not despite it being a plastic wrapped faint imitation of the real thing - but because it is.
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> I asked the developer and they told me, "I have this philosophy that says when you have only two of something, it's better to just copy and paste the code, but of course when you get to the third one you want to start to think about refactoring and combining them."

I would argue this is a good rule of thumb, but nothing should ever be a hard unbreakable rule. The usual refactoring rules should apply too: if 95% of the code is the same, you should probably go back and refactor even without a third use case because it sounds like the two use cases are really just one use case with slight variation.
There's a field called pedagogy which explores some principles of how to teach humans things.
Various people have said they want to work on Docker for FreeBSD over the years but nothing has come of it. There was a port years ago but it was just before a major change (containerd split) so it didnt get merged. It is not an enormous amount of work, but it is non trivial.
While yes it is cheaper to avoid the mess, innovation can lead to avoiding the mess

I do not believe that the "political route" of taxation and violence is the best way to "avoid the mess", in fact I believe that will only prolong and increase the mess and do nothing to avoid it.

Governments are ineffective and inefficient, all government solutions are based on threats of violence, and we know from centuries of history violence is not the solution to any problem, thus government is not the solution to any problem

GOVERNMENT: If you think your problems are bad, just wait until you see our solutions
The man who invented tiramisu (2007)
Facebook did the same with Native American names (https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/facebook-nam...), anyone remember if they were eventually sued for that?
Huh I have heard the same before, and I don't know why there is such certainty. Similar to the claim bad eyesight cannot be fixed through exercises, which is not totally correct.
I have read the paper; unsurprisingly, it doesn't address any of the subsequent developments in the field.

>> finding a less-efficient algorithm is a design goal

The Bitcoin paper doesn't actually specify a specific algorithm at all, it just says "such as":

> To implement a distributed timestamp server on a peer-to-peer basis, we will need to use a proof of-work system similar to Adam Back's Hashcash [6], rather than newspaper or Usenet posts. The proof-of-work involves scanning for a value that when hashed, such as with SHA-256, the hash begins with a number of zero bits.

The Hashcash paper uses the term "minting".

>>...in order to impose a global rate limit..

> To compensate for increasing hardware speed and varying interest in running nodes over time, the proof-of-work difficulty is determined by a moving average targeting an average number of blocks per hour. If they're generated too fast, the difficulty increases.

ie to limit the global rate of block generation. Which is what makes it useful as a global distributed timestamp server.

>> maximise the energy wasted

> The steady addition of a constant of amount of new coins is analogous to gold miners expending
resources to add gold to circulation. In our case, it is CPU time and electricity that is expended.

As everyone noticed fairly early on, like gold mining, this creates a means of expending energy to produce something which can be sold. Just as it's economically advantageous to burn down rainforest, it's economically advantageous to perform a trillion SHA operations and throw away the results of almost all of them.
I read stories like this that are so promising and then never hear about them again. And people close to us keep dying from it.
Otherwise known as 'veganism'.

It's not at all a challenge for an individual any more except in certain areas (e.g. northern Norway).

In most major cities vegan food is everywhere. In some countries McDonalds has vegan stuff for christ's sake. We arrived.

It's about as much of a challenge as putting a differently coloured shirt on in the morning. Of course, you have to want that colour first.

If you don't care, that's fine, but this shifty "oh but we're not ready", "falls out of the window" nonsense doesn't really come across well at all. Who are you trying to convince?
>A few years' practice led to me filling only one load of garbage per year in 2019, 2018, and 2017

That's impressive. I've been trying to reduce plastic use on a room by room basis, and it's tough as almost every product has a plastic component in the packaging at least. The kitchen has been the most difficult thus far; for example, I cannot find a alternative to mayonnaise in a plastic jar. I've tried making my own but this is a work in progress as I haven't got it quite right yet.

I heard a commentator say (paraphrased) 'Buy food that looks like food. The more writing there is on it, the less reason to buy'. This was in the context of healthy eating which has a great side-effect of generating less garbage. And vice versa.
With a 95% match, you really only have one use case, with some minor variation.
When did the term "space invader" become popular for people that encroach someone else's personal space?
In the US the only milk my grandparents would drink was buttermilk (they called it "milk") that they made by culturing overnight on the kitchen counter. They called ordinary milk "sweet milk".
She has a new book too.

https://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles
Read the title as Poop Song, I was not far off...
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Sweet, I stand corrected!
I considered to Amazfit Bip and while shopping I saw the Amazfit Bip Lite. One thing I've read is that Amazfit/Huami/Xiaomi started putting a server-side activation on their newer devices, so I'm not sure I want to passively reward that kind of behaviour by buying their hardware..

https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/wiki/Huami-...
> It always amazes me when US Americans talk in terms of human races like it's the most normal thing in the world.

It's just progressives and a smattering of yokels. Everyone else seems to be right in the head, relatively.
> and that difficulty, struggle and suffering are inherently worthwhile

Sure, I'll happily go through that "inherent struggle and suffering, but who's going to pay for childcare? Or for after-school (there's no way me and my gf would be able to raise a kid on one salary only). Who's going to economically "smooth things up" for me and my gf and our potential kid when one of us loses his/her job and can't find anything else for 3 to 6 months? My parents can't financially do it. Her parents can't financially do it. Our savings most definitely would not be enough to support the 3 of us for 6 months.

In other words and as much as I hate this word it really bugs me when some people lecture from a position of privilege when it comes to other people's lives. Please don't take this the wrong way, is just that I've heard the same discourse as yours from friends of mine and it really bugs me, especially as those friends are in a financially better position (their parents too), which makes a hell of a lot of a difference.
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I believe Splay trees are usually mentioned as an alternative.
Thailand just banned disposable plastic bags... and the Thai seem to have totally embraced the decision:

https://www.boredpanda.com/unusual-ways-people-dealing-plast...

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/plastics/majority-of-thais-s...

As far as the U.K is concerned: it will off the use of plastic straws, cotton buds and drink stirrers in april 2020:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/22/england-...

Following a complete ban adopted by the European Parliament in 2018 which will be implemented across all members of the union:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/24/european...

Seems like politicians do have balls to tackle the problem.

Sadly, we lost so much time over the past decades when everyone knew that this was a problem.
Insofar as that is purely a philosophical proposition, there is nothing there for society to recognize - you might consider struggle and suffering worthwhile but you can't make that judgement for anyone else.
To keep the anecdotes going, I've been using a mix of Debian and Ubuntu, both stable/LTS and testing/biannual, for pretty much exactly the same 15 years as you've been running Sid and I've never had any breakage that wasn't caused by me fucking around with binary drivers.

ndiswrapper was the main cause back in the day, shockingly giving Windows drivers access to the Linux kernel can cause problems. The most recent time was when VDPAU was new and I was trying to get HD video playback working on a mini-PC with an nVidia Ion GPU by running a version of the nVidia driver much newer than Ubuntu packaged. Now that I think about it that must have been around a full decade ago.
That's just a bad idea. The Nanny State cannot legislate people into making the decisions they need to make.
I've downloaded vcvrack, but not actually tried it out yet. It looks awesome. However, the project I'm working on is a web-based synth using the HTML5 Web Audio API. It's built using Tone.js and NexusUI.js, so vcvrack isn't really applicable, as far as I can tell at least!

Thanks for the recommendation though. :)
I think that the point being made is that nothing is being done. It's all talk and show, including my many so-called activists.

What is needed is action. Not only government action but individual action, right now.

An example: Plastics used by supermarkets to pack fruits and veg. Arguably that should be banned. But equally supermarkets wouldn't do it if people didn't buy all the same. So let's just stop buying fruits and veg packed in plastic. It might mean not buying anything for some time, but we'll survive. That's called putting your money where your mouth is.
And why to use Laravel Homestead for local development – real life TIPS
I.e. they're better for the environment.
Wolff 2 released: Ridiculously small framework for building web apps
Last time there were Netflix employees claiming Linux can't do more than 60% of FreeBSD's performance in their workloads. Pretty good technical reason if you ask me.
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That's why the post is strange. I don't drink milk of any kind straight from the bottle.

It goes in cereal, mashed potatoes, cakes etc as an ingredient.

Porridge is about the most adult breakfast I can think of.
I'm not talking about emergencies - I'm talking about situations where someone comes in for a "routine" blood test, but it shows they have cancer, and you as a doctor end up blaming yourself for not spending 10 minutes more to look at the test the day before, and the most obvious thing to blame for not having those 10 extra minutes is anything in IT that slows you down and takes those 10 minutes away. Even if it's irrational(maybe that person would have died even if you did look at the test slightly earlier) the guilt can be very real.
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