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> This is a really terrible line of reasoning to pursue, because it's basically the continuation of colonialism - the need to have a caste of second-class noncitizens doing a large part of the work

Nobody said 'caste, second class or non-citizens' though. Yes, people who have the 'colonialist mentality' might assume that foreign-born people are only capable of replacing menial workers, but that's not implied by the basic logic that if people are born below the population replacement rate some countries and above it in others, some population transfer might be desirable and not consistent with much of the reality of immigration.
So, Apple is a German company (https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa)?

(I like long names, but also think this can be overdone)
That's interesting.
I saw once Timothy Feriss interviewing Neil Gaiman, and it was about focus and whatnot, and Gaiman said: "whenever I'm blocked, I stop, and start doing nothing. I can't watch a movie, read a book, I do nothing. I have only two options: I work or I do nothing - I cannot do anything else. After a little while, things get really boring, and I think 'might as well go back to work' - and that works as a charm.".

I guess that's a very good way of setting your focus straight, to obey your commands, instead of the other way around.
The exact same arguments are being used in favor or automation. Short term it causes unemployment, but people argue that long term it will just move people to places where they can more efficient apply their skills.

However people are also currently arguing that we might be starting to hit the cap and that we should start reduce the number of work hours (8->6) in order to maintain the same amount of employment. A similar discussions is going on around UBI which is focusing on allowing people to remain unemployed and focus on maximizing personal skill and happiness.
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> Is the average third world user willing to pay the same to have an email address?

As a potential third world user, I would happily pay $50/year for services such as email. I may not be representative of the "average", but really the notion that you need to have the "average" third world user to be able to use the platform is a distraction in these arguments.

WordPress business plan charges only about $7/mo in my country vs $25/mo in other countries. I know this can lead to some fraud etc. but it is a good way to cater to the "average third world user" if you are not trying to turn said user into the product.

There is a company called Zoho which is headquartered in India, which makes world class software, charges very reasonable prices, and is able to pay its employees quite well. And as best as I know, they are not dramatically unique in any way, but just produce solid software combined with a solid roadmap.

Also, it is not as if "first world" tech company policies are just neutral and harmless to third world users. The perfect example of this has to be the way news about Hydroxychloroquine has been distorted beyond all recognition. There are three things which are perfectly obvious to anyone who lives outside the US and is following the news on this:

1 HCQ doesn't actively harm anyone, any more than a random drug would. There is now plenty of evidence to support this. I am not claiming that HCQ is some kind of wonder drug either, but surely many more proper clinical trials would have happened on this topic if Donald Trump wasn't the president today.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/coronavirus-hydroxych...

2 First world news media has set the entire research on COVID-19 back by at least a few months (with all the associated death count) because they seem more intent on opposing Trump than in solving the actual problem. And as best as I can see, big tech platforms and big tech employees amplify all the anti-Trump news with almost no regard to the actual science on this topic.

3 While this setback is going to affect all countries, it impoverishes third world countries and does a lot more permanent harm to them vis-a-vis the developed world.

Are you a business trying to maximize your profit? Then just charge what you think your service is worth. Use WordPress and Zoho as your inspiration. The "average third world" user doesn't care either way, and frankly people in the first world are probably not smart enough to know all the unintended consequences of trying to do what is right by the third world users. Just do your job, produce a great product, charge a fair amount, and please don't use the third world user as a reason to adopt all kinds of user hostile policies.
> A dedicated menu button on mouse is hard to discover.

For what it's worth, it really wasn't. The meaning of at least the left and menu buttons was literally the first thing you would find out when being shown how to use the machine, and was on the intro sheet in the (extensive and excellent) printed guides.

The difficult-to-discover part was the right button ('adjust'), defined as doing whatever the left button did but a bit differently. So the left button might select a file, while the right button might add a file to the existing selection. Or a left click on the scroll bar 'down' arrow scrolls down, while a right click scrolls up (which was actually quite useful in pre-scroll wheel days as it saved a lot of precision mouse movements when searching documents etc.)

This is really analogous to the discoverability problems that guis have with modifier keys - the right button is basically a sort of ctrl-click without needing to put your hands on the keyboard.

But the menu button was just how you used menus. It was available and worked the same in essentially all applications and was really pleasant to use.
Are you being sarcastic? rationalwiki is terrible for arguments against anything (more of a place for smug circlejerks) and best I can tell doesn't include ANY arguments at all for the falseness of racism on the linked page (something of the form "if groups really did differ in average intelligence then we would expect to see X, but insteas we see Y"). I suspect the lack of such an argument is partly because, like almost everyone, they are unaware of the actual arguments HBDers make.
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> Batman is a superhero that operates in darkness and has black clothing, yet people don't think of Batman as the BBEG of their comics, no?

Superman: Literally powered by the light of the sun, boy scout who never breaks the rules, hard-working member of the proletariat.

Batman: Tortured soul with tragic backstory, lawless vigilante, billionaire (regarded as evil in popular media, cf. Lex Luthor).

The darkness in Batman is the adversity the hero has to overcome. It's integral to the story but it isn't pleasant. You can't imagine the young Bruce Wayne wishing for somebody to murder his parents so he can grow up to don a bat suit and punch criminals in dark of night.

And so it is with the other common depictions of darkness in hero types -- an internal struggle, not a desired characteristic in itself.

You can find the odd situation where darkness actually is positively desirable in itself, but not enough to overshadow all of the more common ones where it isn't.
In win95, everything had access to everything if it wanted. E.g. DLLs were mapped in a shared memory segment that was shared between all applications. Lots of 16 bit code was still running, and this did IPC basically by messing in some other program's memory. Backward compatibilitty required very thin walls between processes.

DOS TSR programs started before windows were still running. I had one that popped up a calculator in dos text mode, and if you pushed its hotkey in win95, it switched win95 back to text mode, paused win95, did its thing, then popped back in win95.

Only the very basics of protected mode and virtual memory where there, and a well-behaving program had a reasonable chance of staying in its own sandbox. But only because it wanted to. Seen from the CPU, you could argue EMM386 was more the actual OS than win95/win98.

None of this is meant to be negative. It was a solid step up from windows 3.x, and yet quite usable with 4MB RAM of which the first 1MB wanted a very different treatment.
Not gonna lie, that looked janky as fuck, until he showed the finished picture. Nice work.

C64 has a special place in my heart, and I will never forgive myself for selling mine. It was the mid 90's and I had just gotten a shiny new 486.
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I do think you get a specific "tourist curated" version of Japan traveling this way - not that that's necessarily a bad thing, nor is it unique to Japan, but having spent my fair share of time both as a non-Japanese-speaking one-month-at-a-time tourist and as someone who can now speak the language continuously and lives here permanently, the people I knew, activities I'm aware of and understanding of the place then and now are pretty different.
Sure, you didn't mention hand-written letters, but hand-written letters is exactly what the agreement/law (in europe) was designed to take care of.[0] So I think you are missing my point.

It was definetly not designed to be abused by the world's biggest companies to be able to ship stuff for near zero cost world-wide. If you can't see how it's clearly being abused, I don't know what to say.

A trade union created in the late 1800's that made sense then, may need a change now. Although alot of damage is already made.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union
Do you have a reference that is runnable in this emulator? (Genuinely curious.)
Mold is made from animal skin (waterproof) and wood, then block is cast in place. Skin degraded with time, so nothing left between blocks. It's easy to notice bumps on blocks where animal legs were.
It is not pseudo-science - it just hasn't been taken seriously by current _market_ leaders in the agricultural science market.

That is not the same as being a pseudo-science.

There are a lot of discoveries in agriculture that aren't taken seriously by mainstream researchers, because they work for market-dominating entities who can't profit when people start growing their own food gardens.
You're making their point, kind of. The conflict of 08.08.08 started with Georgians attacking a city of Tskhinvali with MRLs, a very indiscriminate weapon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tskhinvali#Georgian_...
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Here? I guess that VLC displays whatever name you give the named pipe instead of just a file descriptor.

In general, another advantage is that in scripts giving a pipe a name can sometimes aid in clarity, supposedly.
Increasing total food production at higher costs to support a larger population is fine if the goal is a larger GDP, but it’s lowering per capita GDP. That extends to taller buildings and more congested cities etc. The curve is almost flat at +/- 5% population, but unlimited immigration could have seen the US population reach several times it’s current levels.

Innovation isn’t a meaningful difference because global population is not changing.
So far, seen quite a handful of 'no-virtual-dom' declarative framework:
surplus, solid.js, redom, imba
I think you can spare the "and", because if you overflow the exponent field, the result will be wrong either way.
I used to do that technique for studying for the GRE. And it worked like a charm for sure (aside: Barron's GRE word list had the word <n-word>dly as meaning lazy in 2007 still. I was a kid in India but even to me it sounded wrong). Neil's full time work is to write. I'm sure this is what he does 9-5 or whenever he writes profesdionally. I doubt he just sits without doing nothing in the weekend when he could be playing with his kids. Thats the issue. If I was demotivated to do this in my day job that's one thing. Motivating yourself for extra work is where it's hard.
Yes to "Am I being foolish?", I mean if you have to ask...
I needed to hear that; articles like this give me FOMO for emacs and lisp and the like, but the learning curve intimidates me. It wouldn't be the first task tracking application I'd be trying.

Right now I use intellij for my main development work; I use some keyboard combinations where applicable (and changed the keymap to Sublime Text because I've used it and its derivatives (vs code mainly) for the better part of my career.

I don't have a dedicated flow for task tracking. Right now for work we use Phabricator, it's a bit awkward because it's a heap of independent modules built on top of each other, but it met our requirements (free, open source, self-hosted, not shit).

For a while I used a todo.txt addon in Sublime Text, which worked great; haven't been able to find a good alternative to it.

Used Wunderlist for a while, but I couldn't find my finished tasks without paying and it's been discontinued. Same with Todoist, minus the discontinued-ness.

Anyway, I don't think keyboard-based tools for me; I'm pretty good at typing if I do say so myself (~120wpm according to online tests / typeracer and co), but I haven't developed the mental capacity to remember all the keyboard shortcuts for emacs or vim.

I also didn't grow up with *nix systems, commandline only became a thing once I started my education and career ~15 years ago.
>The whole idea that we are at the end of the line for particle accelerators smacks of huge hubris

The worst part is that the LHC has been a success. You don't stop after a success. You stop because you've hit a dead end. The only way to know if we need a bigger particle accelerator is by building it and then either seeing or not seeing any results. After doing this we can definitively agree on never building another accelerator. Giving up after finding the higgs boson is like winning a bronze medal and quitting instead of going after the silver medal.
It's more like a self hosted auth0, I think. I'm not very familiar with cognito.
That tablet interface also made it to the server version - which probably had the worst windows interface ever.
The question applies equally the other way round: why, instead of an race-obsessed government determining that having children is a 'public matter, not a private one' and chastising women for having the temerity to prioritise other things, do we not simply permit people willing and able to do the work into the country?

Irrespective of the merits or lack thereof of paying bonuses for having three or more children, fertility rate in Hungary is still well below replacement rate, and well below the US birth rate for that matter.
there are several;

https://www.mah.se/fakulteter-och-omraden/Odontologiska-faku...

I'm using the first one. Pardon the swedish but pictures/google translate should sort things out. That's from a orofacial pain dept at a swedish uni
I am very thankful for all the American bases protecting my formerly Warsaw Pact country from being in the pact again.

This is how Russia behaves to us, I think my position is understandable. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/10/russia-opens-c...
Technically, they're the same kind of pipe as the anonymous ones you create in a shell.

But you can give them a name yourself, and you can create one, then later have a program listening to it, and then later send data to it, from different programs if you want.

You can also create them, send some data to them, and then later start a program to read that out, but you're likely to run into buffering issues with that.

Also, don't forget to remove one when you don't use it anymore.
You can use an adapter to get ethernet to your chromecast. I’ve never run into issues on mine with YouTube at 1080p
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Does anybody have any insights about how rest came to be such a buzzword?

My pet theory is that rest was popularized by Rails. If you look at trends [1], rest itself shows up as a super slow trend ramp that only now is starting to diminish... But rails seems to have had the peak of its popularity between 2006/2007 [2], which happens to be the time Rails 1.2 came up with "restful routes" support. Even if this theory is correct, it begs the question how did the Rails developers come in contact with rest themselves and how did it happen that the whole thick thesis derived in just a simple HTTP routes convention ...

1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

2: https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/1/19/rails-1-2-rest-admi...
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How is advise from someone who literally can't do the thing they're advocating valuable? Because it confirms some old tired OOP tropes?
That's utter bullshit and i'll tell you why:

Russia has been severly weakened by democratic Europe. They have lost an insane amount of area since the fall of USSR and Europe has never been "closer" to Moscow, their capital.

They are now getting punished for actions of last resort. Eg. Invading Ukraine, because otherwise their entire naval fleed would be rendered useless, since it couln't even go out.

Russia is weak, although Putin tries to portray it like it isn't. The conflicts they create (eg. with their jets) is just for the show, they can't even afford it to build those jet en masse for themselves, lol.
The difference being that we suspect Putin has pretty much total control over his empire, whereas a US president for example operates with checks and balances
Yeah I'm not sure this works. As far as I can tell the Pareto front doesn't have to be convex and can therefore contain points that are in the interior of the convex hull.

Of course if you accept convex combinations of options then the pareto front is part of the convex hull.
> to hang out with the town drunks all day

I hate spoons. It's the worst of the corporate world (race to the bottom, conformity, lies, undercutting family businesses) sold as "what the working-classes really want". It's the McDonalds of alcohol and tabloid-culture, with a Scrooge-like owner to match.
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That self-selection for living and organizing with kindred is something that also happens in the absence of extreme power disparity.
CERN has it's own budget. Stop projecting authority on unrelated organizations.
The hidden cost is the enormous strain it puts on the environment...
I always thought that it is established truth.

Like, I was taught that in school. Immigration increases general wealth of nation. If 100% of that wealth is captured by immigrants employer (highly unlikely) then it might be that it is net neutral for everyone else.

Otherwise, she pays taxes. She buys products. She provide services. Sooner or later, she might employ someone herself. Obviously, sosiety benefits from every single deed of immigrant.
You also shut down Europe. Who has the power in this situation?
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Great blog there with many interesting retro projects. I enjoyed the one where he bought 32 Atari 65xe's in various states of decay and restored a number of them for resale. Truly a labor of love.
Personally I've always been slightly amazed that at no point in time did anyone at Microsoft think that making msn.com the default homepage for servers was a bad idea.
I don't think he's saying that Russia is the most powerful country in the world, I think he's saying that as an individual person, Putin is more powerful than any other individual person. I guess the main question would be "is Putin with total control of a less powerful country more powerful than the US president with carefully defined control of a more powerful country?"
I do not understand what you mean. If you "convert" a float to a float it shouldn't change anything? As long as you keep to floats there should be no problem.
I think that GP point might be about being able to direct the military and economic might. The US is surely ahead in terms of numbers... but even if they wanted to stop any military involvement in the middle east tomorrow, and pull back from NATO, there'd be a lot of push-back and it would heavily disappoint its allies.

Compare with Russia: they have some involvement in Syria (and other places, I'm sure), but if they'd pull back from Syria, I'm not sure who else besides Assad would complain. From this point of view, their hands might not be as tied as the US'

I agree that Russia counter-sanctions can be just a delusion, but I think that another interesting point is that sanctions aren't biting as hard as they could've in Russia, due to their massive reduction in public debt:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/09/11/russias-net-public...

They had slow (or absent) growth, otoh.
Living in the place where the list of "available networks" can never fit to a single screen of anything, I like the major point:

"15. How to improve speeds

Use Ethernet whenever possible"
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You mention the importance of having this pandemic dilluted prior to reaching the flu season. Another aspect that I haven't seen discussed in terms of public health is the side-effects of the large scale habits change due to this pandemic.

Could this change in social distancing, hygiene habits i.e. Hand-washing frequency, use of desinfectants on hands, public surfaces, parcels, shopping trolleys, etc. could this create a positive pressure on flu viruses promoting a particularly virulent flu in seasons to come?

Could the measures used to contain this pandemic provide the selection pressure conditions for a future (worse?) flu pandemic?

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Console.app always gets in my way whenever I'm trying to watch the status of some self-reporting processes. I just find it utter junk to use in the development flow - and even for trying to debug general purpose computer issues, its nothing but frustration for the average user.

I think there is a deep-seated bias at Apple against TUI's, and this is well and truly expressed in the flaming pile of junk that is Console.apps' GUI.

For me, tail and grep are always the better option when it comes time to look for messages, or try to observe what's going on with a system.

That said, it is also very shocking to sit and watch an idle MacOS machines' logfiles. Either most MacOS software is barely held together with bubble gum and duct tape, or there are a lot of messages being spewed by folks who forgot to turn their terrible debug logging off ..
Thanks, I'll check it out :)
Quite possibly. For example, the Obama campaign in 2012 used friendship and interaction data from Facebook in order to figure out which of his supporters could most effectively convince specific undecided voters they were friends with to vote for him and instructed them to do so, effectively turning your own friends into instruments of the advertising algorithm. The New York Times ran a glowing article about how clever this was and the new commercial advertising organisation they were using their techniques in: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campai...
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Did I understand that right, if you have PHONK on your phone, you can write code that affects the phone? Can you brick your own phone accidentally? Or at least cause it to need to be restarted? I guess that's true for anything that can write/run code on itself.
Yes, the postal service here delivers unaddressed items - the customer (sender) simply specifies the destination area and the item gets delivered to everyone (except no-ads boxes): https://www.posti.fi/en/for-businesses/data-and-marketing/ma...

Though there are also other companies delivering both addressed and unaddressed items (the state-owned postal service has no legal monopoly).
In many European countries (all that I'm aware of), anyone can use a mailbox. You can deliver mail personally, there sometimes are local mail delivery services and they're used for advertising. In the end that makes it easier to avoid Spam as you can opt out of anything not sent to you directly.