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Why not?

I don't need the degree. I don't intent to pursue employment which will require it. And should I decide to continue at the graduate level, I already have a regionally accredited bachelor's degree and grad school. Thus, I have options for that path.

I like the structure and grades. Sure, I could I learn just as well using MOOCs, textbooks, and so on. However, the grade hovering over my head provides a touch of external motivation to stay focused. Plus, it's nice to interact with students from different places and with different interests.

So, basically, it provides me a cheap means to fulfill my curiosity.
I was just measuring the size of Terraform earlier today--it's a program with 733 dependencies and it weighed in at 63 mb without stripping symbols or compressing when compiled with go 1.13. I was comparing it to our Python executable bundle that weighed in at 260mb with only 104 dependencies and had become too big to run in a lambda, and I found myself jealous of everyone who is fussing over their 10mb Go binaries. Anyway, I rebuilt Terraform and it's now I'm 6mb more jealous of everyone fussing over their Go binary sizes.

EDIT: If I compress the Terraform binary and the Python lambda, they become 14mb and 250mb respectively. At least Python is fast, right?
I think the amount of discarded plastic from water bottles dwarfs 3D printed filament by many, many orders of magnitude. There aren't that many 3D printers out there and each printer can only extrude so much filament per second.
Maybe because there might exist propaganda against the Chinese government? If Twitter has evidence for Chinese propaganda on a US-based site that's inaccessible to the Chinese population, wouldn't it be reasonable to suspect that US propaganda that targets the Chinese government exists too?

The above is just my opinion, but I think we're detracting from the main issue in the parent comment, that the term "WuMao" can be considered a derogatory term. Tell me if I'm wrong, but many terms started off neutral, but turned derogatory over time. The example that comes to mind is the N-word that rhymes with aggro, I'm not even sure if it's okay to use that so I'm self-censoring.
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I know most people won't like this answer but the reason why rust is more popular now is because it had klabnik-san, mozilla, cargo and the super excited community.

The same goes for go-lang. It throws away years of research into programming languages. While rust is a great language and deserve the popularity, do you think go would have peaked in popularity if there weren't rob-pike-san and google behind it.

It's not a matter of features for programming languages popularity. It's who is backing them and doing the work to unite the community.

Programming communities also need to be aggressively cultish to take off in the beginning. You must be able to bite everyone's same repeated rehashed argument about lacking ecosystem, bad tooling and so on. You must be able to survive that and still shill the language.

It's reality. Everyone will tell you I don't care about your language when I can use my favourite language. People have invested more money than one can imagine into fixing php, js etc.

You can't easily get someone to switch from their single threaded language when they can scale it through AWS lambdas or other layers of abstractions.

This is why you don't see wide use of ML. All those communities are passive. They write their tutorials and papers in pure html on a weird forgettable domain name. They don't tell people to use the language because they are conscious of the lacking ecosystem but how would you get a good ecosystem without someone adopting it? OSS doesn't pay enough. Tooling require money. They don't focus on marketing or sponsorship.

Same applies for dlang.
AFAIK Bazel and Nix are orthogonal and actually go well together. Nix is great for packaging and environments, but is anemic at actual build tooling (a big one: no incremental builds within a package). Bazel does very little to manage the environment or packages, but it has very granular and efficient build support.
I like dark mode on my phone, because when I want to read at night (i.e. in bed) even on the lowest settings the screen feels too bright on light mode. On my computer though I don't really care, I never use it in a completely dark rom, so at night I just dim the display and have the colour temperature shift.
Something about this idea sits uncomfortably with me. I also just had an idea / thought experiment based on your idea.

We think of net neutrality as being for carriers and ISPs, but you could see it applied to a publicly accessible DNS service too. These DNS service providers are just as much part of the core service of the Internet as anyone else. It’s not a huge leap to require that those who operate a publicly accessible DNS service are bound by the same spirit of the regulations: that the infrastructure must not discriminate based on who is using it.

It’s different to operating a discriminatory firewall. DNS is a cacheable public service with bad consequences if poisonous data ends up in the system. Fiddling with DNS like this doesn’t seem like a good idea. Too much weird and bad stuff could go wrong.

Another analogy would be to the use of encryption on amateur radio. It seems like an innocuously good idea, but the radio waves were held open in public trust for public use. If you let them be used for a different (though arguably a more useful purpose) then the resource ends up being degraded.

Also along these lines of thought [begin irony mode]: FCC fines for DNS wildcard abuse / usage.
Doesn’t solve poorer search results.
If that was happening in my state I’d definitely be writing my representatives to take action and change that- transferability to a university while being able to live at home and pay less was quite explicitly one of the points of having a community college system when I was growing up.
Are you implying that D is slow at compiling regular code but fast at compiling itself, because of some cleverness?

Is that actually true?
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That's a dangerously general statement, and it does not apply to me (an engineer) for example. I learned a lot of languages because of the language itself, e.g. their type system.
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Personally I like dark mode for macOS/iOS windows, menus etc... but light mode inside apps / on websites for reading text such as blogs, ebooks and emails.
> I dream of (and am actively working towards) a day where the computer's potential as a new educational medium is fully realized, rather than the current parade of attempts at transplanting a brick and mortar classroom into a remote asynchronous delivery system.

I assume you already know about PLATO, yes?
The USSR did not defeat Hitler, nor did the British nor did the Americans. It was a combined effort. Without three fronts to deal with or if the Germans had had an uncontested supply of oil and iron, there would only have been a single front and what we think of as Europe would now be called Germany. This is just fact.

To secure the resources of war, Germany needed to open and secure three fronts. In some respects Germany was doomed to defeat before they even started with the aggression. That said, defeating Germany was a international effort and without the terrible sacrifices made by the Soviet (and Polish) people, the heroic (almost suicidal) actions of the British air force or the industrial might of the Americans.. German may have prevailed.

By the same logic, the author might have argued that China "not the Americans" defeated Japan.

China suffered unspeakable civilian casualties in the war (civilians from the USSR and China likely account for 1/2 of all deaths in WW2 certainly so if one includes Poland). China supported Allied air raids on Japan even when the USSR would not. Without China's sacrifice and support for the Americans, Japan would have been able to direct military efforts elsewhere. Again though, it is clear that Japan knew that the only way to prevail was a quick set of wins in the Pacific then sue for peace with the Americans. There was no way that Japan was going to prevail against the might of American manufacturing.

America did not defeat Hitler nor Hirohito but neither did the Soviets nor the Chinese. The sacrifices made by the peoples of the allied nations (particularly the peoples of the USSR, China, and Poland) allowed the un-contested might of American manufacturing to come to bear and ultimately prevail.

In the end Germany was defeated by the Allies ending in a footrace to Berlin and ultimately a falling out between the western front allies and the eastern front allies resulting in a divided Germany carved up as the spoils of war. To attribute the victory to one member state or another does not make sense to me.
So frogs are people too? Bah.

Why are people so hung up on definition of human rather than more critical things we don't understand, such as consciousness and intelligence?

Perhaps they're afraid to be put in the non-human box, and non-human is to be removed or exploited?
(Also, inhumane. For once properly built word.)

History has shown repeatedly narrow definitions of humanity in action. It ends in a bloodbath of some kind.
You've just spent a lot of time writing this to refute my argument but all you really said is that I mischaracterized what you've been saying.

Well, nope, I did not. In this particular thread, you took literally zero responsibility for your decision. You blamed it all on software and developers.

Look, it's not a heavily guarded secret that GIMP is not great for certain workflows and tasks. It's not a big fucking secret. The text tool, in particular, would do with a rewrite (which might happen at some point, among gazillion other things). Literally everyone who tried it knows that.

It was your responsibility to pick the right tool for the job, and you messed up. So how about, instead of telling me to change my behavior, you start with yourself, step the hell up and start admitting your failures? Like a grown-up, you know.

Oh, and you'd make a great pair — Niccolo and you. It takes a special kind of a person to attack someone, shower him in expletives, then follow him around internet to tell everyone how bad that person is. You'd make great friends.
I've been thinking about this as well. There is so much potential given the vast number of free and incredible resources online. Lmk if you're interested in working on something together.
Write down anything that seemed surprising or otherwise non-obvious on first reading. Even better: rewrite the surprising parts in your own words, once you have understood them, in a way that clearly explains to you that which you originally found puzzling, with enough context that you will get the point when you re-read your notes (note that this helps even if you never re-read these notes, because the act of paraphrasing is helpful on its own.)
Yeah, I'm not sure you can say anything meaningful about eye strain and readability without accounting for room lighting, glare, and other reflective surfaces and distractions. If I'm in a dark room with a bright screen, it's almost physically painful to stare at the screen. I have to turn the brightness way down, and then I lose contrast and have to strain even more. In an office with horrible flourescent lighting, highly-reflective white walls and surfaces, metallic accents reflecting light into my peripheral vision, reflective monitors (Apple displays are the worst), and eyeglasses, I'm practically blinded. The last thing I want is glaring white light from my application windows.

There are things other than black-on-white and the inverse. I've been using Solarized dark where possible for years, especially in code windows. White-on-black is horrible, but pastel colors on a slate blue-gray background is the most comfortable option for me.
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I don't think that was an "or" clause, I think it was an "and". The author will retain the copyright, and they will have generous re-use rights (i.e. they will not agree to a restrictive exclusive license).
Google is definitely exhibiting anti-competitive behavior and they should be broken up.

What kind of company can get away with a critical product, such as advertising platform, email services, etc and provide ZERO SUPPORT. Literally they have no customer support that you can contact. This is the behavior of a monopoly.

If they were in a competition, they would invest more and more into things like customer support. But they save billions by not investing In customer service and having no way of contacting them. This is monopolistic behavior, because that’s how they squeeze more and more money out of their customers.

Instead of raising prices like traditional monopolies, they do it in other ways like having a product that is easy and cheap for them to maintain but hellish for their customers who are dependent on it. They hide behind algorithms to detect fraud, they close accounts immediately based on bad information and there is no recourse. If they were in a competition they would have customer support but since they don’t have competition, they eliminated it entirely with impunity.

Google should be broken up or forced to spend a certain percentage of their revenue to customer support the way any other company would be forced to in a regularly competitive environment.
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I don't really understand how it's not rational. What's irrational about trying to get as many resources as you can?
That's a bit of an overreach, isn't it, calling my writing incoherent and incompetent? (Edit: Parent clarified that "you" is meant to mean a hypothetical student, not me.) If more information is needed, as was the case here, we can ask questions. That's got nothing to do with author competence. It's not an essay contest. And why assume we know it all, filling in the gaps like that? In a discussion of ethics, this is a qualitative issue to say the least.

The concept of competence as you describe it is also very much a vague, subjective concern out of which you've just attempted to carve a covert competence contract. This leaves your blind spot unguarded because you are unknowingly making the discussion focus on you and your own competence level.

And this is a big part of why "hyper ethical" subjective ethics people struggle--they assume their view is right and don't ask questions of others.
D was closed source when it was in the spotlight and missed its opportunity to gain mind share.
Purely for work? Maybe. As the other poster noted, I would also lean to no.

For study and eventually work? No. The school does not participate in the student visa program. It's purely online.

Some students start at UoPeople and transfer to a better known school to finish. This saves a fair amount of money. So, that's a possible path. But, getting a work visa in the US might be a challenge even then.
My impression is that they pretty much roll their own communication suite.
If you monetize mainly by charging people for your app, sure. If you sell mandatory subscriptions or make your money from ads, Android is more important.
It's a different phenomena.

I experience the running out of RAM problem that you describe as well and take basically the same approach to you.
That's much closer to how I read code.

My issue really is just a tendency to keep reading even if I didn't actually parse the sentence properly. It seems to be a complexity threshold rather than a volume one.

I think it's just what happens when I try to read a text at the top of, or beyond, my reading level. I imagine that anyone who struggled in school with reading comprehension may have a similar experience, or perhaps its like that feeling when you read a garden path sentence[1].

I struggled to even recognize that I was facing this issue because I found reading very easy during school. Facing a text that was too difficult to instantly parse and understand was rare enough that I never had to develop the mental tools to deal with it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
> Writing down a thing you’ve read (/heard/etc) improves your memory and understanding, at the cost of disrupting the flow of reading.

Flow disruption, in the case of self-paced learning, is likely a good thing, even though it feels like it's slowing you down. Even though it _is_ slowing you down. The act of getting back into the flow requires some level of retrieval from long term memory, and retrieval is practice at remembering. So anything that helps you practice remembering what you just read is useful, and anything that helps you read more pages per hour but does nothing to change how much you remember per hour is wasteful.
This: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608040v4.
With easy push notifications on mobile...
That would be closer to a monopsony (single buyer), though the details get a bit fuzzy when talking about platforms rather than straight customer-seller relationships.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who was baffled by this.
He took the dive and the producers cheated him out of what they promised. He complained to a newspaper and initially wasn't believed. Then he's conned out of his winnings in an investment scheme.
That’s funnier than the joke itself as I was scratching my head to understand the joke in

> It makes sense for those companies to expand beyond what they already have. Starting with version control systems, going on to Wikis, static websites, actions/automation, CI, artifact hosting. It will eventually contain the entire lifecycle it seems.

Because from what I understand wasn’t this the goal from early on? :)
We're all replying to the article about the Chinese propaganda Twitter has evidence of, do you have evidence of US propaganda to submit into the discussion?

Regardless, I don't see how more wrong it is to call someone a "WuMao" than it is to call them a "trump supporter", they should both be allowed.
I've been recently evaluating vnc and xrdp for a project. xrdp was much harder to install and configure. Documentation was sparse and outdated. VNC provided multiple choices of well established implementations and in low latency environment with simple Desktop (xfce), both provided pretty good feel.
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It seems much less densely populated than the various Occupy camps ever were. Also their relationship to the cops seems 100x less adversarial given SPD has willingly abandoned the area.
That's surprising. Around me it's mostly been the opposite with schools signing transfer agreements and the community colleges developing programs specifically for students who plan to transfer.

Though, in the case of UoPeople, it's purely about nationally accreditation lacking the prestige (and sometimes rigor) of regional accreditation. It's been that way for at least a couple of decades since I started reading up on higher ed.
I think it's a little unfair - you will always have jobs that are important in the immediate, short, medium, long terms. Society can function perfectly fine without teachers, engineers, scientists... For a bit.
Some teams can function fine with reduced manning, but long term need full or more manning, for training, taking care of admin, ensuring sanity, and doing more than the bare minimum.

Not that I disagree that some jobs are for expensive seat warmers to ensure warm fuzzies
The city is maintaining a row of porta potties, and someone rented one privately a block or so away. Some businesses are opening their restrooms too. As of this evening I saw at least three soup kitchens, two well equipped aid stations, a community garden plot with zucchinis and other food, a row of freshly planted trees, planters of decorative plants which double as barricades, and lots of barricades. Half of that wasn't there yesterday.
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> Plagiarizing some work doesn't really hurt the work, it hurts you

Except learning isn't really the reason most go. It's to get a well paid job at the end of it.
> I think you will love the Chinese saying of 'you can you up, no can no bibi'.

Lol, after learning it the other day, I'm not sure, but I guess it depends on how it's used? I sort of view it as a recent version of "Haters gonna hate." :)

> But then we also need to consider the consequences of having such a perspective in the relationship between those who rule and those who are ruled.

Yeah. I'll fully admit that there's quite a lot of room for the item we were talking about to not be benign, and the consequences of it not being benign are pretty horrible.

It's one of those things where my stance is more along the lines of "well, it's not necessarily bad, and here's an example why." The caveat is that it should go along with "buuut... we should look closer to make sure it's mostly benign."
AFAIK twitter doesn't even ban US state operated psy-ops, not even ones targeting US citizens.

They should require all parties posting on behalf of a state or as part of a contract for a state identify themselves...
It's wild that the first time I saw this on the NYT was an article talking about Trump's tweat about it. I don't quite understand why they didn't think it was newsworthy
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Of the "we really don't like matplotlib syntax, really do want to live in dataframes all the time, so we wrapped mpl and pandas" plotting libraries, plotnine has impressed me the most by far:

https://plotnine.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

plotnine is an implementation of a grammar of graphics in Python, it is based on ggplot2. The grammar allows users to compose plots by explicitly mapping data to the visual objects that make up the plot.
So your solution for there being to many languages is for somebody to create one more. And the main thing you want from that language is that it have no corporate sponsorship, such that whoever creates it will have to bear the financial burden personally.
There are different types of accreditation for schools. Generally speaking, if you are in the US and want minimal risk in terms of transferability, you want to attend a school that has been accredited by one of several regional authorities. National accreditation is different and for purposes of credit transferability in the US, it is considered inferior to regional accreditation.

The University of the People applied for regional accreditation in 2020. They are not regionally accredited yet. The process can take years.

Note: Good schools can lack accreditation and bad schools can get the most prestigious accreditations.

Another note: There are schools that set up accrediting organizations to, surprise, accredit their own schools.

Edit: I think this is the list of legitimate regional accrediting organizations:

https://www.chea.org/regional-accrediting-organizations