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>For example, I don't want GTK-3, I only have GTK-2 installed. It could be all fine and dandy if, one after another, year after year, applications wouldn't give up their GTK-2 backend to only maintain/develop their GTK-3 one.

gtk2 is deprecated, so it makes sense that any actively-supported applications are moving to gtk3, which is still supported. By refusing to use gtk3, you're locking yourself out of not only newer applications that were only written for it, but older ones that have moved to it.

Why do you think an actively-maintained application should stick with a deprecated toolkit?

>On Qt side, there are applications which requires an exact version of Qt (not only the main version Qt-3/4/5, but the point version), or require KDE, or require an exact version of KDE.

In all my years, I've never seen this with an actively-maintained application. Of course, I generally stick with stuff that's available in my distro repo, so I never have any trouble.

Also note that with both gtk3 and Qt5, both these toolkits have been around for something like a decade now. Looking at Wikipedia, gtk3 3.0 came out exactly 9 years ago (10-02-2011), and Qt5 came out on 19-12-2012. Neither of these is at all new. I will grant you, though, that gtk3 is now already headed the way of the dodo, since they've announced gtk4. Personally, I'm not a fan of gtk and prefer Qt as it seems much more stable and better for GUI development anyway, and I don't see anything about Qt5 being phased out. Qt is also used a lot in embedded systems in industry, unlike gtk.

>the visible changes were: icons are now flat and monochrome (i.e. you cannot recognise one from another)

That's all the rage these days. I'm not a big fan either, but it's what most users want. This isn't a brand-new fad either; it's been going on for years now. I do wish I could try living in the alternate universe where UI design mostly stuck with way things were done in the mid-2000s.
That kind of drive-by low-content posting is the inevitable result of lax and/overwhelmed moderation combined with a massive userbase and ultra-ephemeral posting. It's possible to suppress it, but it takes either a community small enough to have some organic buy-in of posting standards (see HN, for example), aggressive moderation, or both.
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An excellent talk on its affects by the late Hans Rosling https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_magic_washing_mac...
What a waste of time! People doing processing of any kind, be it biology, chemical, or mechanical, require certain spaces of time through the day to be free so they can do their job efficiently. This kind of bullshit is the worst possible interruption for such workers and would certainly produce the maximum possible resentment towards management.
At the bottom of the blog post, the author links to a Github gist which includes the C++ source code.
Safari extension – a lot more difficult than we thought
That's true - you're definitely correct that P&H is more of a "nice to have" for a developer.
I searched for 'logic' and 'proof', and all I got was a request to consent to their use of cookies.
That only leads you to the server though, not to the person managing it.
Do you get paid to make such posts? Or are you just incredibly blind, brainwashed, and naive beyond belief? Serious question. See my post above and argue with it, if you can.

> 'your experience meeting maybe upwards of 50 people across the midwest'

50 people? Could you be any more obtuse? And a poll of 2500 hand-picked people represents the nation. You trust in these lying psychopaths is legendary.

I've personally spoken to tens of thousands of people who all unanimously agree that you have no idea what you're talking about.

Maybe you should get out more, instead of vegging out in front of the TV and/or Google.

We are of course supposed to assume good intent, but the reality is the world is full of paid trolls, and your total detachment from reality is a strong indication that you're among that group. Prove me wrong and refute my post above if you can.
CDA 230 immunity doesn't apply to federal crimes, only to civil lawsuits and state crimes. This was prosecuted under federal laws against child pornography, so it would not help them anyway.
Depends on your value system. Another perspective is that some laws ought to be broken, in spite of the potential consequences.
Everyone thinks that different part of it is trash, so you get 20 desktop. Its like in that xkcd where you creat ultimate desktop and end up with 21 desktops instead of original 20.

And why would Linux need Such desktop-to-end-all-other-desktops? It would be a trashy configure me only with mouse desktop. Let such users stay at Windows or Mac and allow power users to have their choice if 20 desktops with majority of them allowing at least a text configuration.
Palm Pilot debuted in 1996?
I think you're the one who overestimates how much this will affect NLP. I'd say bulk of what was possible to deliver with this is already here, the subsequent changes will be incremental.

The cold hard truth about statistical (and by extension, deep) NLP is that it's just a fancy way of counting numbers mostly. The only way to get to _real_ language understanding is AGI, and _nobody_ is working on that. You fundamentally cannot interact comfortably with a human if your system does not have probabilistic, contextualized cognition, and can't incorporate knowledge about the world.
Holy cow, Looks like I need to expand the library.. Somehow I am unable to quickly find a complete collection in print. I will have to dig to see what volumes would be required to collect all of his work.
Plenty of ebook collections however if that is your style.
This is illegal and unconstitutional. It is so bad that this is state sponsored child kidnapping.
Which email service do you prefer? I'd like to transfer away from gmail.
Well, I just had to take my laptop in to work to get the firmware updated because BitLocker hiccuped, and locked me out of the machine. I'm doubting that you're going to be any safer on Windows in this regard, unless Corporate IT is NOT turning on drive encryption for Windows. (And even I would probably advocate for this particular policy.)
I see. Thank you very much for clarifying. Will reach out to you when the time is right ... :-)
> stopping to hurl abuse

How can you possibly call "I stopped and asked her what if I hit her?" abuse?
I'd like to see sources please, since I don't believe that claim. The years and years of research of many teams all over the world should exceed the amount of money required for large-scale trials by orders of magnitude.

Please note that I don't speak of an individual research team but of all teams globally combined working on that goal.
Tor is open source:

https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/

So, no undocumented issues.
Vey interesting, especially now that big websites such as Twitter force you to give your phone number. Others coerce you in not-so-subtle ways ("because of security!!1!" -- Facebook). No matter that sooner or later, criminals will have them.

I'm looking forward to Senu expanding outside the US.
Sorry. I meant intentionally.
Early last year I made the exact switch you are considering. As another commenter pointed out, since I work as a freelancer it was more a matter of "adding" a skill rather than "switching" I was able to gradually transition to doing native iOS.

Swift itself has made me feel a lot of enjoyment and productivity as a solo developer, I feel I'm able to produce a higher quality of software faster with far less npm noise and "busy work". There is a lot more work in React right now but with that comes a lot more competition and a lot of not very interesting jobs doing repetitive CRUD work. The community is much smaller but very friendly and welcoming to newcomers and beginners. With CoreML, ARKit, SwiftUI and Catalyst it's quite a fun time to be working in Apple's walled garden.

Keep in mind there is a considerable upfront time investment in doing this, there is a lot to learn. Swift itself should come fairly naturally as it's designed in a way that you can get by with a small subset of it and gradually add more. Learning the platform and it's APIs however takes some time.
Posting this since I don't see it mentioned yet.

Scott Hanselman and Rob Conery created the Imposters Handbook. I believe both of these guys are self-taught, and they are incredibly good at what they do.

They put it together precisely for self taught developers with no formal CS background.

https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/
https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook-season...
Abort to surface seems non-trivial in a situation where you're hella deep under a thicc ice shelf. I wonder what sort of failsafes they've got in place to handle that particular situation.
Assembling a Film Poster's Billing Block (2013)
Ah, the problem is that modern inventions are really embedded in a practice and theory. The invention may be simple but the practice and theory are not.

So I would put up soap as a contender. Simple, saves hundreds of thousands of life, prevents diseases and so forth.

But soap, as an invention, is embedded in the modern practice of washing, which requires our modern knowledge of germs and diseases, as well as our modern effective plumbing system to bring the clean water and dispose of the dirty water.

Of course if it didn't require those it wouldn't be modern.
One of the team members from Project Turing. Happy to answer any questions.
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The pencil, surely? Although you can get a long way with chalk, slate and charcoal, so perhaps not?
To the first point, yes, I'm just being pedantic.

But for the second point, how is that relevant? I'm not sure how this helps, because a) this has nothing to do with the display, i.e. we could modify an image to show the same effect on all displays, and b) gamut has not become wider at all.
It’d be cool if you included a disclosure when you advertise your cryptocurrency scheme.
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Yes, although sometimes it's referred to as "hyper-volume".

But one dimensional objects have length, two dimensional objects have area, three dimensional objects have volume, and higher dimensional objects all have their equivalent concept.
Yeah, if you're smart about these things and know where to look and don't mind some diy, an adequate desktop can be found for $200. A game streaming service would be perfect for that sort of setup. But I still think the price point for streaming is wrong for mass adoption, and for anyone with even minor gaming interests already (e.g. you've bought a decent amount of games over the years) then being able to use your existing library of games is an essential feature.
I would love to re-read some of these books with the original illustrations now, something I didn't have the first time I read them.

Does anyone know of good copies of English translations that preserve the original illustrations? The easiest to find ones on Amazon (from SeaWolf Press) don't look to be the best printing.
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No :( unfortunately it's more of a library than a framework, and there's no broad consensus on how it should be used (although there are certainly some opinions floating about on that front)
They're forms that submit stuff to a server and get a response

What kind of response? Asuming no React,

a. json

b. SSR-html?

If,

a. Now you've got to process that response, handle errors and finally render into html. You'll be either imperatively replacing DOM nodes, interpolating string templates or both. Probably re-binding event handlers after that.

b. You'll be merging your server-rendered html to your current view. Re-binding event handlers if you've got any interactive stuff (e.g your SSR came with a modal link) and god knows what else.

React is a million times better than this.
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Yeah, I guess it's called different, but has the same functionality and is a drop-in replacement. I'm surprised there's still development on virtualenv after 2.7 is EOL.
Interesting, are these systems made by the same team, what kind of technical stack do they use? I'm always curious as to what some use for internal tooling. I've been using Django / CherryPy for internal and external solutions at work for a few years. Python helps me to stay productive.
Thank you for actually answering the question! Your list of functionality is the first that I've seen which actually shows where React really is helpful.
Type-to-search is significant— Ubuntu has it, MacOS sort of has it (Spotlight), Windows 10 definitely has it. It wasn't until it mysteriously broke last week [1] that I suddenly realised how dependent upon it I had become; I felt like a caveman manually paging through the list of installed software or seeking out the proper icon on my desktop.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/02/09/windows-...
I think there's an error here in the case of a very tall notebook. The paper claims that there is a finite limit to how far to the right the bookmark can go. But it seems to me that for a sufficiently tall sheet of paper, the optimal fold is at a 45 degree angle with the left edge of the paper folded right up to the top edge. This gives you a length of D - 1 hanging to the right, where the width of the paper is 1 and the height is D.
Fortunately, there is now a new consensus on "whataboutism":

https://theoutline.com/post/8610/united-states-russia-whatab...
Learning to Detect Malicious Clients for Robust Federated Learning
"is React simpler for building UIs than the RAD tooling of Visual Basic, Delphi or the Flash Designer"

I asked something like this too, but the other way around.

"If Flash, Delphi, etc. were so good, where are they now?"

The answers were: These tools were good for one developer or small teams, but textual dev tools scaled better to big teams.
Absolutely agree. It reminds me of people who claim they are immune to advertising.

Personal anecdote, I am not a sports person, but I was at a baseball game once. The crowd briefly got wild and I could literally feel that weird elation of being part of a cheering group.
Why do you allow users to draw circles when they aren't actually a proper GeoJSON geometry. It's just a Point geometry with a custom (unit-less) radius property.
Bigelow has always seemed like it was on the edge of collapsing. It'd be interesting to see them actually get their large station launched, I'd love for their to be a commercial alternative if only for there to be less pressure to commercialize the ISS. (An endeavor I think is doomed, there's not enough actual use for it yet that isn't satisfied by the national lab model)
unfortunately they abstained from participation in more popular SQuAD and Glue benchmarks..
He made lots of stupid mistakes.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/03/five-stup...
I moved from Germany to the US a long time ago and at first I was confused by what you call "good vibe culture". I've come to appreciate it, though. When I visit Germany now I notice that people make less of an effort to keep surface interactions more polite and often make a point of spreading their bad mood around.

Beyond the surface interactions there's not much difference, though. Interactions with people you know better, be it friends, family or coworkers, are pretty similar.
I am an '05 alum of GW. GW disqualified itself from using "Don't Be Evil" a long time ago. e.g. https://www.propublica.org/article/george-washington-univers...

But GW isn't really an academic institution. It's a real estate developer that uses rich kids from Long Island to fill it's square footage.
The modern idea of a library catalog came around in the early 1800s, and probably accelerated the pace of knowledge transfer and acquisition quite a bit. In its original form, index cards, it was ubiquitous for almost 200 years before being replaced by computerized systems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_catalog
This sounds like the "community" felt entitled (which they are not)
> Human knowledge of the universe has widened and deepened since Verne's day, but for sheer intellectual and adventurous wonder about what that universe might contain, has any writer, from any era or land, outdone him since?

No, I don't think so. It seems sci fi went the way of the graduate thesis: hyper specialized, hyper focused. I think this might have been out of necessity. Maybe Stephenson has come close though.

He's covered nonfictional history, space travel (anathem, seven eves), colonization of Earth orbit and the moon (seven eves), generational space travel (anathem), multiple universe theories (anathem), and to come back down to earth, cryptography (cryptonomicon, reamde, fall), AI (diamond age), wetware hacking (snow crash), VR (snow crash, fall), post mortem VR (fall), nanotech (fall, diamond age), and layered simulated universes (fall).

So beyond Stephenson I don't think anyone comes close to fantastical exploration at the level of Verne. Crichton didn't. Watts is highly focused in biology. Banks deals with cosmic horror, AI, and a touch of multiverse. Doctorow is fantastic "realistic near future" exploration but he never takes us to space, and I don't think he really even explores AI.
As one example (with a relatively trivial fix): the deep subfolder it gets installed in can cause path length issues [0]. There's a trivial fix (registry edit) to enable long paths, but that's not very user friendly. This affected me immediately--the first package I tried to install failed (possibly htop? I can't remember anymore...)

apt installs packages for the system as a whole. Microsoft store does not.

[0] https://bugs.python.org/issue37769
Why the lack of number on the more popular SQuAD and Glue benchmarks?
iPhone batteries are replaceable as much as any other android non-removable batteries are. You know what I meant.
Well, they seem to be pretty popular as they just got another day to air. They also get a live even every year.

I get it through a Telegram group where someone rips the casts ;)
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I know the recent charges list them as members of the Chinese "military", but I wouldn't be surprised if they also did work under the Chinese "intelligence agency" umbrella...especially considering their skillsets. Since the Chinese gov has such a tight grip on everything, I'd assume that the importance of which internal division is cutting which paycheck is more obfuscated than the US as long as it benefits the country.
>I don't think any of these things are the primary reason people run windows. I think the primary reason people run windows is that they have to use it at work and so they're familiar with it and don't even bother considering other alternatives.

I think this is slowly changing. I'm seeing more and more people who have given up Windows and moved to 1) Macbooks, 2) tables, 3) Chromebooks, or 4) just using phones.

I agree that the Linux desktop failures aren't the primary reason people run Windows, but it hasn't helped.

>It would probably end up cheaper, since the cost of development of a well made, bugless Linux desktop would probably amortize to less than the Windows tax per unit.

There's no "probably" about it. We already have fairly decent Linux desktops (just use Ubuntu: for most people, it "just works" most of the time, and it costs nothing). The Windows tax is already the largest BOM item for a PC. The additional cost needed to make Debian or Ubuntu into something even more bug-free and fully-featured wouldn't be that much. In fact, this was basically the whole idea behind many Linux distros: give them away for free to the masses, but sell support contracts to large corporations and governments to finance it. Unfortunately, that didn't work out so well. It's worked for Red Hat, but that's about the only company that's done well in this space, mainly because of US Government contracts.
They've just named some names. These people might be associated with that "institute", but they're just as likely to be custodians or secretaries as hackers.
What does it mean to be co-founder of facebook workplace? Arent you just an employee of facebook?
Oh, that does indeed look very _Why-ish. Glad to see he's still creating stuff.
Couldn't agree more, especially with apps. Airbnb, Google Maps, Snapchat etc all have these fucking awful animations for each action. Makes the whole experience clunky on my mid level Moto phone. What was the point of all this advancing compute power if everything is still slow!!!
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Thinking Recursively, Rethinking Corecursively [pdf]
recapturing the 'feel' of Verne’s socio-historical milieu and evoking that sense of faraway exoticism and futuristic awe

It's my understanding that the original French texts (not just the illustrations) are much richer in that socio-historical stuff. The English translations that we have are unfortunately dumbed-down to YA-friendly adventure stories.

I'd love to see translations that more faithfully capture the full complexity of the works.
Erm. OK, but there is at least one Irish accent which is obviously similar to "generic American", but of all the UK accents none persist in the US, nor vice-versa.
Cognitive Dissonance: A Theory That Can Help You Stop Destructive Behavior
The condition "you can pretty much build it yourself" forces me to exclude many things with important impact like for example nuclear reactors, LSD, birth control pills, and the silicon transistor. But I think steam engines (or Rankine cycle engines in general) and penicillin are simple enough to qualify.
> Stopping to lecture an adult in public is rarely well received.

I imagine the people who need a lecture in public are the same ones who do not receive feedback/advice very well.

This is a problem on the receiving end.

> "hey, this is a dangerous road to walk on, would you like a lift to the end?"

You are advising an adult male to offer a ride to an adult female who he is a stranger to? She doesn't know him from Adam and should NOT accept that offer.

Not walking in the middle of the road and not accepting rides from strangers are things people should be taught as children.
A child can not consent to anything in a legal document. Perhaps they are taking advantage of people not knowing this.
bicycle?
Part of me wonders if it was a request from Disney, given that the value of the IP being emulated in an unlicensed product would be undesirable to them.
Yes people shouldn't invade things. I was hoping to make an emotional connection. But this is highly illogical. Silly me.
Makes you wonder how one bad action can just cause sweeping changes in surveillance, privacy, screening process, etc. How much of it is overreaction?
It seems pretty unavoidably brutal, to be an unaccompanied minor who might not have a right to be in the country. It's obviously terrible to have 5 year olds make these kind of decisions, but would it be better if the government made them without asking?