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Huh. The way I remember it, the government first only forgave him, and then after a huge public debate decided to forgive everyone in similar circumstances.

But if you think that's editorial and political if mentioned at all, despite being endorsed by all sides of the parliament, I guess that's a valid opinion. It's certainly the case that many people claim that anything objected to by a single person is political. I usually find that the BBC is more clever than that.
I asked about this on the mailing list a while back. Apparently it requires changes in the VM, and as you can imagine there are fewer people working on the VM side. This must also be a problem for Squeak, too, but they work around it by having better options for scaling morphic components. Obviously it needs to be addressed.
A long time ago I toyed with the idea of a kickstarter campaign that would design and build a range of freebsd laptops - they would just work. fixed components and still having all the nice features like a /etc/resolv.conf you can edit
Venkatesh has a very playful and idiosyncratic writing style - you see that in his other posts, like the Gervais Principle or the series or "premium mediocrity":

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l...

It's just his personality - I don't think it's a particular affection to try to sell more, although I do think a number of his readers are there because they like the idiosyncracy.

I also think that for posts like this, "are they based in fact and likely to be correct?" is the wrong question to ask. Posts about culture, worldview, systems thinking, etc are too broad to actually be "correct" - one way to see if this is the case in a domain is to ask yourself whether two different observers could observe the same facts, pick a different set to focus on, and draw entirely different conclusions (an exercise that Venkatesh frequently does on his blog). Rather, you read material like this for perspective. It's a way of training your brain to look at the same set of observations in an entirely different way. Then when you're faced with actual facts in your own life, you can apply the lens you just read about to it and see what the meaning of those facts is, and ideally shift rapidly between different perspectives to triangulate something approaching reality.
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> “We could never pin down Google on what their true business model was,” says a Cerner executive involved in the discussions.

Imagine being that insecure in what you do. What were they looking for? A non-compete from Google? Innovate or die.
Yes.

From his GH profile looks like he's a competitive applicant for ML engineering positions or perhaps a fellowship/residency/PhD program.

So, a junior researcher at the level of a decent second or third year PhD student. A researcher, maybe someone you'd trust to build a prototype or product, lots of potential, but probably not someone you'd trust to run a research program.
Fair enough -- and I think I had my own similar doubts when reading, but ultimately deferred to Hodges' authority and assumed he was quite likely to be correct. I'm interested to look at the Copeland biography now (see my edit, which might not have been up when you began to respond) -- presumably he found no new hard evidence, but he did conduct his own interviews with people who knew Turing.
I love the simple and minimal site design of this website. Kudos!
Some of the bigger communities are sadly like that, intolerance of non-conforming opinions seems to correlate with gaining critical mass.

If (big if) that’s true, then San Fran would be at the extreme in terms of having a queer community so large it can ‘afford’ to ruthlessly exclude as you experienced.

Likewise with diminishing religious groups becoming more tolerant and welcoming.

Then again, some of the teeniest subcultures are notorious for elitism, maybe it’s a bell curve.
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If 'genetic' component is weak, it will be overwhelmed by the social function.

If you look at the data, there is no evidence of a cyclical pattern, only a consistent fall in theism.

In Czech republic is already approaching at 80%, i think there is no coming back from that.
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I used to call it "the OAG Guide".

The official name was "Official Airline Guide," and it was considered an indispensable part of any office.

It first went online as OAGEE (Official Airline Guide Electronic Edition) on CompuServe. It was a massive driver of business accounts to CompuServe, and I believe the first place the average Joe could book airline tickets online.

Then the internet happened...
With that sort of bar, pretty much all journalism would be classed as “garbage”, UK or not. Which might well be true, I’m just saying it’s hardly a British phenomenon.
>Our social connections have been replaced with commercial ones.

This one phrase combines Marx's notion of alienation and commodity fetishism into one - it's odd how relevant Marx's sociological analysis is today.
I wonder if these food delivery and ride sharing companies are even sustainable. Then reports they use VC money to subsidize things. Also mailers where you can get so much free credit too for the service.

Seems convenience though as a customer but sounds like some of these people aren't even making that much money with all the waiting and stuff in between, maintenance, increased insurance, fuel, etc and then some apps I don't think it starts paying until you are there to pickup. Then again though truck drivers aren't paid while waiting to load and unload, and flight attendants aren't paid until the plane is in the air.

Plus I feel like they are taking short cuts, I don't think i'd want to publish other peoples prices because they could change, items removed from the menu, etc. I guess they scrap the website or send someone in to take notes of the menu? I rather it be an agreement where businesses themselves opt-in and update their menu and prices. Wonder how these apps handle things when stuff is out of stock (ran out of wings, but has chicken tenders still) or the ice cream machine happens to be broken? Just seems not as deeply integrated as I'd hope. but even if businesses updated menus, with being on 3 apps and their own site I'm sure something would be missed due to human error unless some sort of API with a central UI to update everything. Plus some fast food places are understaffed too, because some people rather work in another field other than fast food or just don't work at all. Reports that less teenagers are working in fast food too. Then I guess putting growth and stuff first is some business models for these apps, grow fast and figure out things later when you are a bigger company.

But even before internet ordering, businesses we're doing shady things too. Like pizza delivery drivers are required to have commercial insurance, but many don't so if found out and got in an accident, claim could be denied. Was reading that happen to some teenager using the family car for a part time job, and the state decided to take his license away because claim got denied and wasn't able to pay out of his own pocket. Sounds like the employers mention it, but don't really enforce what type of insurance you have. So many are using personal insurance, some forums discus this and some pizza drivers said they'd put their roof topper in the trunk before the police come if in an accident. So sounds like faceless huge corporations are shifting their liability to teenagers and other people just starting out and more vulnerable people. Then ride sharing, the companies say you are covered by their million dollar insurance policy but some people still have been dropped as result of ride sharing... Do they even give you a insurance policy number or card? Sounds like most people exchange their own insurance in that case or these apps are misleading. Then some even report insurance company dropping them just for asking about ride sharing insurance, even if they haven't signed up.
No more Fortnite? /s
Court finds primarily for “Our Children's Trust” but that courts can do nothing [pdf]
For a philosophical reflexion along these lines please check out Byung-Chul Han « in the swarm ». Written a while ago, translated to English only recently.
Well for one, the linked video example of the Styrofoam plates and hair dryer (shown right before the immersion blender) is definitely due to Bernoulli's law. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_grip

As for the immersion blender, intuition should tell you that the same principle should/or at the very least… might apply. Now it could very well not apply (but I'm quite confident that it does). To really prove if it does or not, one would have to do the rigorous math involved, which would include deriving the stream function for the flow situation, verifying if conditions allow for applying Bernoulli's principle, then applying the principle and verifying if it matches experimental observations... This is would be non-trivial to do (judging simply by the geometries involved) so I'm not even going to attempt do this…

However, I’ll try explaining the gist of the idea:

Bernoulli’s principle basically states that, within a flow of constant energy, when a fluid speeds up, it is corresponded with a drop in pressure and vice versa. Now looking at the immersion blender, intuition (and essentially conservation of mass) suggests that the fluid should be moving fastest between the edges of the blender/blade and the boundaries of the container/cup (i.e. areas where there’s very little space near the moving blender parts). Outside these regions, intuition would suggest the fluid is moving relatively slowly (e.g. near the top of the water level in the container cup). Since the fluid appears to move, and likely cross these regions (i.e. undergoes speeding up/slowing down), Bernoulli’s principle states that we should expect to see a pressure differential between these regions, where faster moving water regions should be at a lower pressure (i.e. acting as a vacuum / suction cup).

But again, whether or not this idea is true and is valid would have to be mathematically and experimentally verified…
Google is doing the right thing.

EPIC is a perfect example of the walled garden ecosystem that extracts every last drop from its clients and keeps anyone trying to innovate out. Healthcare tech could use the competition to drive down costs related to medical record management and exchange.
Full title:
Decision of Divided Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Finds Primarily for
Juliana Plaintiffs, but Holds Federal Judiciary Can Do Nothing to Stop the
U.S. Government in Causing Climate Change and Harming Children

Here's the link to the actual court decision: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/571d109b04426270152fe...
> That's not the only reason, there is also simplicity, static typing and performance.

I think the only meaningful benefit here is performance.

Simplicity is at best determined by the nature of the problem and at worst a completely subjective opinion for C.

Similarly, static typing is not usually something the programmer should care about that much. You need to know which paradigm your language uses, of course, but beyond that it does not matter all that much. IMX, you're more concerned with type safety, and C is not fully type safe like, say, Java is.
I’m not too sure how many people buy tickets at the airport nowadays

Many people. Mostly business people who need to be somewhere on short notice. Until very recently, my wife was in this group.
You make it sound like a bad thing. Have you met people? Do you really want to spend more of your time with them? :)
It sounds like, in one case:

1) Doordash takes order on their site

2) Courier shows up to pick it up

3) Order never got to the restaurant, customer is confused, customer blames restaurant.

In the phone example:

1) Doordash connects the customer to the restaurant

2) Customer tries to place an order based on outdated info

3) Restaurant is now trying to convince the customer that the menu they are looking at is wrong. And restaurant looks like a fool because they can't even publish a menu.

In both of these cases, Doordash is damaging the restaurant (at least their reputation and wasting their time) and doesn't sound like they're making any good-faith effort to be a good actor here.

Also, in your example, if it gets to food being made and then an argument about price, what happens to the restaurant if someone refuses to pay? They don't really get to put that cooked meal into a fridge and wait for someone else to order it. It's garbage (straight up lost money) now.
It's randomness with causality; each momentary mutation may be random, but that mutation must be possible based on the prior state. So while it may be possible (even probable) for a perfectly resistant cancer to exist, it's much less likely for a causal chain to exist that allows for that.
Jack Copeland is another who argues against suicide:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-18561092

But that being said, the coroner’s inquest at the time ruled it a suicide. So we can speculate that they got it wrong, and we can suggest that today we may or may not come to a different conclusion, e.g. “Death by Misadventure”.

But until someone gets that ruling overturned, it seems to me that the appropriate way to describe his death in a journalistic context is to either say nothing (Died in 1954), go along with the official verdict (Committed suicide in 1954), or mention the official verdict and that there are some dissenting views (Died in 1954 by what was ruled a suicide at the time, however some historians now question the finding.)

I feel it’s inappropriate to say “poisoned,” while saying nothing about the ruling at the time, which has not yet been conclusively overturned.

I find the arguments against suicide reasonable, but it’s not like anyone has a conclusive bit of hard evidence that it wasn’t suicide. So it seem to me that if the manner of his death is to be mentioned, the official verdict should be mentioned.
This article makes several misstatements or factual errors, unfortunately.

> What I failed to realize back then was that FreeBSD was (and it still is) designed as a complete multi-purpose operating system meant to be setup and tuned according to specific use cases.

IMO, if it needs to be manually tuned, that's a bug, not a feature. (And I'm speaking as a FreeBSD developer on that.)

> FreeBSD sets the kernel and the base system apart from third party packages. This is unique to FreeBSD and none of the other BSDs do that.

Um, nope, this is how all of the BSDs do it.

> FreeBSD is installed only with the features you enable and nothing is running that you don't know about.

sendmail, cron, and ntpd run out of the box, to name a few.

> The FreeBSD code is meticulously maintained and very well documented.

Not really (especially in random drivers) and usually not (in the code, anyway). We have pretty decent manual pages.

> The FreeBSD rc system that reads this file understands dependencies between services and it can automatically launch them in parallel, or wait until one is finished before starting the things that it needs.

The parallelism part is not true.

> I believe it is important to understand that FreeBSD is not like a GNU/Linux distribution.

Not really true? In a lot of ways FreeBSD is like a GNU/Linux distribution; it just happens to bundle the equivalent of coreutils, binutils, gcc, etc with the kernel.

> FreeBSD is an operating system made by developers who are also system administrators.

Definitely not true (or at least, in no respect different than the developers of the broader Linux ecosystem).

> A Linux distribution is a collection of tools written by different groups of people, often with conflicting interests and priorities.

This is true! Especially for core bits of the system, like glibc and the kernel.

> A Linux distribution needs ..., additional third party software, the X Window System, a window manager, and a desktop environment, and it then needs to combine these different components into the resulting distribution.

This is of course no different than FreeBSD's ports system; we face the same integration challenges as Linux distributions.

> there are no conflicting interests in the [FreeBSD] project

Ha. ha. ha.
I certainly understand the attraction of a simplification of engagement and for decades I thought that was the true potential of the Internet (via usenet, IRC, later web forums, social networks, etc etc). I'm no longer convinced.

The reason I'm no longer convinced is that such simplification carries with it a component of convenience that makes it awfully easy to isolate ourselves from those who may differ from our thinking and outlook and it seems to be human nature, backed by an awful lot of history, that we prefer to avoid such inconveniences in favor of reinforcing our preferences.

The problem with avoiding the inconvenience of being exposed to different thinking is two-fold: isolation bubbles that allow us to come to beliefs absent any real opposition which leads to intellectually weak conclusions and an exposure to the overwhelming commonality that most people have with each other absent a few contentious beliefs/ideas. The lack of recognition of such commonality allows "othering" based on minor differences in a way that simply did not exist in most Western societies of the last few hundred years.

It may indeed be what we wanted but I'm unconvinced it resulted in what we need.
The Rust v8 wrapper used in Deno is rusty_v8: https://github.com/denoland/rusty_v8

The whole privileged side (except for v8 itself) is in Rust.
In a Christmas card this year, I learned of the death of an old friend that was very influential to me when I was a teenager. I hadn't spoken to him in at least a decade. With some hesitation, I wrote his widow about how much impact his generous gift of his time and his friendship had on me. She wrote back a very thoughtful and gracious note saying she was saving the note to share with their young children when they were younger. So a positive ending, but I still wish I had done that when he was still with us. If this thread brings anyone in your life to mind immediately, don't wait. Give them that feedback while it's with you.
These delivery services are inserted middlemen. More friction.
We (fly.io) use Deno pretty intensely. We really like:

* No npm spaghetti, just requiring a URL is a win

* It'll build a lightweight static binary. Usually way smaller than the equivalent node Docker image

* The stdlib and every community lib were written at a time when async/await was the norm. So they're all very nice to use compared to wildly inconsistent node libs
I don't think we should be relying on Facebook to incentivize people to not rape.
I hope at some point in time we can use Typescript's type hints to replace/add a better JIT for v8 engine.
I think it's intended to just be a "better node" in as many respects as possible. Better security, more coherent module/package system, async/promises from the start rather than hacked in, first class security/sandboxing options.

The cool stuff I think is in where Deno is different. Able to be used as a library from other Rust or C compatible languages. Able to compile your javascript and Deno itself together into a single binary, etc
As a longtime BSD user (since BSDI) I switched to Linux on my desktop several years ago, mainly for GPU support. It then didn’t seem worth it to use FreeBSD on the server and have to remember 2 sets of admin tools. So Linux it is. I think it could succeed with a usable desktop with accelerated graphics.
GCP seems culturally a terrible fit for anything compliance-related. Azure and AWS both offer high-compliance regions (Azure Government / AWS GovCloud) that are absolutely necessary for many industries (medical, defense, etc). Slightly salty about this as I am currently migrating a legacy Firebase app because Google doesn't care...
Did you read the article? It begins with "Electronic health record giant Epic Systems..."
I’m not sure, I read In Cold Blood, which was as much about the family as the killers and was most struck by how full and vibrant and prosperous life in 1950s small midwest farm community was. It seemed like everyone from teenagers to adults had a huge range of social ties and activities even apart from religion. I’ve lived in small town middle America and nowadays its mostly a dump between meth, opiates and Walmart jobs. Reading that I felt like I understood for the first time why people my grandparents age really feel something has been lost.
Anecdotally, it seems like the Bay Area LGBT community has lower overall cohesion than the communities in other urban areas I've lived in (Denver, Chicago areas). Maybe the communities differ within the Bay Area too; it seems like there is less of an LGBT community in silicon valley than there would be in San Francisco or the East Bay.
The problem is that at Step 4, the downstream customer refuses because they feel they have been deceived by the wrong price listed on the unaffiliated website. In turn, the courier refuses to pay and the restaurant is stuck with the unsold meal they made.

I suspect that in some cases, it may be that the downstream user has might already have paid with their credit cared before step 1 has even happened. The delivery-related operations staff are trusting their site's own prices, which are wrong due to some other employees not updating them.

Then they realize at step 4 that if they buy the meal at the correct price, they won't make a profit any more.
Free but monetized.
it's a verbal contract between the restaurant and the patron. I dont it'd be that tricky to prove such a contract!
* This site is now browsable with netcat/plain TCP (2020-01-20)
| curl https://anderspitman.net/txt/19
| nc txt.anderspitman.net 3838 <<< /txt/19

That's neat, but if you remove the `|` then one can copy the whole line with triple click instead of having to click and drag to carefully exclude the `|`. Just a tip to improve the UX. :)
This doesn't help you, but I just use a conventional DPI monitor and Xfce on FreeBSD works well without any special configuration.
A rainbow baby is one after a miscarriage or stillbirth, “double rainbow” just means two losses. Very helpful to know if you are ever invited to baby showers as there can be some outward signs there that reflect some events that not everyone is privy to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_baby
How many `unsafe` blocks of code are there and how many of them can be refactored? What's a t-shirt size estimate on the level of effort to convert the code?
Very well monetized such that there are paid moderators.

I'm very much okay with this.
My experience with FreeBSD mirrors the author's quite a bit.

I bought that same book, installed it on a system, struggled like hell and went through it cover to cover. It was my "daily driver" for probably 5-6 years after that. The experience got me a job at an ISP running FreeBSD and later I started a web hosting business with FreeBSD backing.

I love it and love how easy and simple it is, but I too had to stray into Linux because that's where the crowd went. Hardware and software availability are key factors. I also think they should drop the focus on Desktop and go towards servers.

I've never administered servers that were as painless as those old BSD boxes. There is so much value in things that "just work" and documentation that's accurate. Yes there's a learning curve but it pays off exponentially.

Linux is being plagued by too many choices and too much change. RTFM doesn't do you a lot of good when it's out of date. It's only my decades of experience that help me figure things out when problems arise, I'd hate to be a beginner with Linux now. While Linux on the server is pretty tame the desktop world is out of control. I would like to see the FreeBSD folks just focus on making it the server/container host of choice.