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I don't mean to pick on you, per se, but I think there's a long-standing confusion about creative works that's captured in your line:

> Data yearns to be free -- sharing it and copying it costs nothing.

The latter part of that is true (setting aside quibbles about bandwidth and storage not being absolutely 100% free), but here's the thing: back in the days of physical media, of books and DVDs and CDs and what have you, the bulk of the price was never the physical media itself. The paper and plastic was never the valuable part.

> There are so many other ways to monetize media content...

Maybe, but just about all the ones that I've seen boil down to one of three methods:

- charge people directly for the content

- give the content away for free and sell ads against the content

- give the content away for free and make ancillary sales (e.g., merchandise)

Charging people for content doesn't require DRM: essentially all digital music sales are now DRM-free, for instance, and many ebooks are, depending on the publisher.

Also, two other observations.

First, while music publishers were always unduly whiny about the ability to record music at all, burning CDs and making mix tapes did cost money; it may have "felt" just like putting your entire music library up on Napster, but unless you had enough money to just hand out thousands of CDs of other people's music on street corners, it wasn't. It's not really super surprising that digital music piracy made those music publishers a lot soggier and hard to light.

Second, "data yearns to be free" sounds like a rephrasing of "information wants to be free," and I think it's worth remembering that the full quote from Stewart Brand went on to say "Information also wants to be expensive. This tension will not go away." Technology may let us reduce the marginal cost of reproducing anything that can be expressed as data to zero, but that doesn't make everything that ben expressed as data valueless.
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> * They ship a ton of mingw-w64 libraries. It's super nice to not have to cross-compile a bunch of dependencies when I'm building something for Windows.

Still shipping, however they dropped EPEL7 support for it :( Issue about it here:

https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2333
I linked a clear instance of exactly that, an article written this week by a doctor whose patient contracted the virus twice in a short period, with references to other examples. Further, the claim that most viruses create immunity for a meaningful length of time is questionable.

> repeat infections in a short period are a feature of many viruses, including other coronaviruses
Your comment seems like a variation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman. The parent commenter says "I personally experienced X and it was not great for me" and then you say "what you experienced could not have been X, because X is always great for people."
I meant to compare python with languages that support logic programming or functional programming which help convert the problem from loops and nested conditionals into declarative statements, but you are right, it makes their job, and in return your job much easier.
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Thanks for this great draft resource, Celine! I wonder if you see an opportunity for a "sell shovels" approach to BioTech -- for example, visualizations for drug creation, simulation and collaboration?
That seems...odd
We know how to make fast robots, we know how to make safe robots, and we know how to make useful robots. But we do not know how to make fast, safe, useful robots. A faster robot would need to be heavier to do the same work.

Any robot that can move as fast as a human and perform similar work to a human will need to be close to as strong/heavy as a human. And humans can kill each other with their bare hands; we just know not to. A Kuka LBR iiwa can only lift 7-14kg, but could easily accidentally kill/maim someone with common payloads of that mass.

Obviously there's also some slowness w.r.t. the actual control here (i.e. safety pauses, planning latency, etc.), but it's a tall order to build any kind of home robot - especially one that has such a large workspace - that is intelligent enough to be both fast and safe.
Why did you name it Runnaroo? Search engine are supposed to be easy to spell and type. During the last 3 days of my usage, I misspelt Runnaroo every 3rd time I opened it.
Thanks, yes. I think it would be nice to have some kind of range indication, maybe the waypoints could be letters so they don't get confusing?

And then you can toggle distance measurements.

And for the direction problem, maybe a change of color every kilometer or a gradient? Although that might also be confusing.
I'm looking forward to the day a small home robot can do the dishes, in the sink – replacing a dishwasher machine. This looks like a small step in that direction.
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This article is specifically about a single person (60yo woman) who had a aneurysm and was actively fighting pneumonia from COVID19.

Just because a celeb died doesn’t mean it makes any sense to try and tie in COVID19.
The amount of word feross has put into P2P systems over WebRTC is astonishing.

Thanks feross for your incredibly great work!
Yes but then they wouldn't be the most valuable company in the world.
scp is terrible over links with low bandwidth and/or high ping.
Anyone found a goverment willing to hold women accountable and doesnt treat marriage like welfare and weal redistrubtion (socialism)for women funded by MALES

- While all the repsoiblties are towards MALES,
all the AUTHOIRTY is the state

I recommend all MALES go check out MGTOW before you even consider

- Dating with a girl
- Living with a girl
- marrying with a girl

The system has been designed to remove all responsible and accountability for women, while giving males no power yet holding him accountable with zero authority

its a raw deal

Slowly males are waking up to the SCAM globally
- no fault divorce

- "settlement"

- Child support + Alimony

Its a methods to squeeze money from men to give to women via STATE FORCE
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Wealth buys your family quite a lot of relief. Not having to worry about eating, or being shamed because you eat the free lunch for poor kids, or having access to better schools and computers and so forth are all huge compounding factors for school performance.

This is with ignoring that wealth quite literally buys you seats at various colleges, tutors for personalized lessons etc.

Which leads into my original point that any discussion about the value of unschooling cannot be done without taking into account the income and wealth of families that went that route.
On this subject, there is a subreddit ( https://old.reddit.com/r/homeschoolrecovery ) dedicated to those trying to mentally/socially recover from their experiences of home/un-schooling, which can highlight some of the darker experiences, marked by extreme isolation, social anxiety, and depression
Not supported by numerous studies. Not supported by thousands of years of history either.
Good point, I had taken the mechanism for granted.

So the scenario is that miners drop off at a pace where you don't reach the next adjustment?

Taking that into account, the "mining death spiral" theory doesn't seem too far fetched? In bad circumstances, if the network drops a substantial amount of hash rate early in the adjustment, and price took a hit, you could see some major disruption from the miners following suit.
Mobile base with a long stick on top, camera on top of the stick and arm moving up and down the the stick: I'd say that's a proven design featured in many custom-built robots for RoboCup@Home.

This has some potential.
I think most cans have a plastic liner
Inheritance springs to mind, although it's semantically backwards.

I like instantiation time.

Or, to take a non-tech word, how about spoor? You can lose tracks after time, they can be more or less clearly defined and they have a lot of metaphorical associations.
Things it can't do:

- go up stairs

- get up after a fall / reset itself

- pick up heavy objects

- precise motion (so no cooking)

- interact with buttons or touch screens (so laundry might be hard)

The one use case I think it might be worth it is if the robot can take a room full of toys and return everything back to where it belongs. Kind of like a one click, reset this room. If it can help me keep organized and clean around the house that would be a big win. Also, if it can help me detect which clothes are still wearable and which I should probably wash, that'd be nice.

I'd gladly pay 5k for a robot that can auto-organize my stuff around the house, even if it involves a lot of customization and setup. Imagine leaving your groceries next to the fridge and coming back to a perfectly organized fridge. Or letting your kids play in the play room and then the robot comes in and puts all the toys back. Or if you just tend to leave stuff out (throw your clothes on the floor or forget to return stuff), the robot can put it back.

I think that's a legit use case.
The good news is that it doesn't see any of my private tracker linux downloads and since I only download linux on private trackers the list is empty.
Damn it... Just before the pandemic I had started piling up hardware to start building something similar(I was intending to use a raspberry pi). And since I couldn't go and look for parts in person(I'm not that crafty with my hands so I genuinely need to see in person the part in order to be able to tell if it's going to work) so I postponed it. And today I see this... Feeling kind of sucks, even though I can't really explain why.
No I just meant that I spoke in general.
cool! will keep an eye over the releases
Less?! I have had little to no problem finding even niche media on the internet...
No boredom will make one able to write essays on War and Peace to university acceptance standards or memorize the order of English kings and their wars.
It's definitely a sad moment. I tooked photos of him and the group when they visited dragoncon in Atlanta around 2009 / 2010. Something cool happened, I was invited to a after hours party with the whole team. I had to chancel my previously scheduled competitive drinking at that time but of course I did.
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Yeah, it's amazing what you can have made specifically for you for the same price or less than an American-made Fender or Gibson if you go with a small-volume manufacturer or an independent luthier.
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Thats a lot of pressure to put on a relationship.
AMD really are trying to get in the enterprise laptop segment, simply because that's where Intel has had a near-monopoly since the Pentium M.

So I know why I can't get a good mini-ITX board, but I still really want one :-)

As is, my best option for the living room NAS/HTPC turned out to be a J4105 board from ASRock. 10w TDP and apparently it can do 4 simultaneous GPU-accelerated 4K transcodes, which is pretty neat. Perhaps I'll upgrade to an AMD board at some point.
Homeschooled kids have the same rate of college acceptance as schooled kids, higher according to some surveys. Many universities, including the Ivy League, have admissions programs for homeschooled kids and actively recruit them. I unschooled three kids. Two have graduated from college, no problems getting admitted or completing. I know many other homeschooling and unschooling families (secular homeschoolers) with the same experience.
Haven't tried those products sorry
Sure, but I think this at least demonstrates that unschooling deserves to be within the window of discourse. I've seen many people express the opinion that unschooling is inherently completely insane.
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EU: According to a directive passed 2006, a minimum of six months and at most 24 months. But that directive was ruled invalid and anulled in 2014.
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it is hard to imagine where do you evacuate so many people to - temp housing? relatives?
According to Wikipedia, the Richard refers to"Poor Richard's almanac" a publication of Benjamin Franklin, who was US ambassador to France when John Paul Jones named the original Bonhomme Richard in his honour.
Most people think Bitcoin is a gambling chip, but it is first and foremost a new form of money. Let me repeat Bitcoin's benefits:

- You can pay anyone and been paid by anyone without anyone's permission. Not so with government money.

- Can't be counterfeited. You don't need to check the bills under UV light, no need to check if your gold bullion has lead or copper inside.

- Can't be inflated

- No one can take it from you. No one even knows that you have it and how much.

- Safe for merchants. If they got it, they got it, no risk of transaction being reversed because the shopper paid by a stolen credit card. Because of that, merchant doesn't need to ask for your name, phone number, home address and other information required to sue you in case of a fraud. So the shopper in turn enjoys better privacy.

- With second layer solution in place, such as Lightning Network, transactions will be fast, cheap and private. We are not there yet, but will be in a few years.
>> Battery consumption will be worse, but are your users going to notice?

If it's IOT, yes definitely. Some things you don't want to plug in every day--they have to run 10yrs on battery. TI is pretty good in that space.
Yeah, I can see that. Fortunately on many axes the situation is getting better and better, as data in https://trends.debian.net/ show. But every single developer is still free to choose whatever tools they like, so there will be always packages that do it differently.

On the other hand, there are reasons for scepticism towards proposals of forcing a uniform style. If such policies were accepted, they would have accepted years ago, so we would now be stuck with packages on SVN, much cruder tooling, etc. Back then SVN was really the future. What will be the future in ten years? We don't know, and that's the reason why we want to be sure that we'll be still free to move to it when it will arrive.

(and, BTW, of course you can change your SVN policy, but then you have to update all at once 30k+ source packages and the habits of 1k+ developers, not really easy)

Not to be meant as a rant, just an explanation for the current situation.

> That said, again I love debian, its stability and high quality, and thanks to you and the volunteers who make it that way :)

Thanks to you for your support!
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I live in an English speaking country, having grown up a in ex-USSR. My writing is adequate for what I'm doing, but I wouldn't touch my kids essays with a 10 foot pole. I wouldn't want to revisit the Russian literature or history experiences either.
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"its a small Colorado tourist town with one strip of shops"

You're probably suffering from sampling bias here; cautious people that take care to wear masks properly are much more likely to be at home than walking around a tourist town, even if you are an exception.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23519802. With one comment from someone who knew him.

Also a bit from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11313030
Ghost cities...
Interestingly at WWDC Apple said that they are contributing patches to NumPy to get it to work on Apple Silicon
For SME/Enterprise, WooCommerce is not even listed on the Gartner quadrant [1] — so whilst the software might be fully capable and open-source, it's not represented at this level whereas BigCommerce and Shopify are.

[1] https://ok.commercetools.com/hubfs/Images/Website/EN/Webinar...
is a fab the only way to make prototypes or parts of a design? for instance, could 3D printers one day solve this part of the stack?

thanks for the detailed explanation!
just don’t blame this on capitalism.
And it seems like an actual first step, as opposed to the various gimmicky anthropomorphs we've gotten used to seeing. If this thing could be set to clean the kid's room during a working day, or programmed to water the plants when I'm away, that's substantial progress.
A Stradivarius, but Stratovarius is a nice name for a guitar/violin hybrid!
Thanks, wind load/behavior is a good argument. I was serious about the zip ties but obviously I don't know anything about hanging wires.
Something that stood out to with recent shutdowns/WFH was the amount of people that rely on work for a social life. It seems many people just carry their school habits into the professional world and study/socialize morphs into work/socialize and they never really have a community outside of that.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if people home schooled as kids are coping a lot better right now.
This is what a 10 year old would want a robot for.
You might be confirming what I said rather than disprove it.

If you're well educated and have plenty of time and desire to educate your children they'll do well, school or not.
I'm always surprised how much these things cost. A 3 axis CNC is basically a 3 degree-of-freedom robot, yet only costs a few hundred dollars. I think we'll see mobile autonomous robots come into people's homes only after they:

- fall to low thousands price range

- do something useful (ie. not just a "social robot")
Scottie? She built a lot of the early stuff
Isn't this more an example of "fail-open design is bad, use fail-close"? Or in other words "make an allowlist, not a blocklist"?

I mean look at those variables, this seems like a loosing battle. PERLLIB, PERL5LIB etc. - what if there's a PERL6LIB at some point or a NEWSCRIPTINGLANGUAGELIB variable?
In the US at least you can try homeschooling, and if it doesn’t work for you or your child they can just return to school. In the state I lived in when unschooling three kids, Oregon, public schools allow homeschoolers to participate in sports and other activities. It’s not an all-or-nothing or permanent choice. Kids change schools all the time, which can prove just as disruptive as taking a year to try something different.
> Is that what we want though?

Yes, please.
The idea of it being controlled by a remote person makes me feel like a new breed of gig-jobs could be around the corner.

Buy a robot, and pay someone remotely to do your housekeeping for you. The housekeeper could even operate it from their smartphones.
Because they only have their own experience in school to judge from.
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Or you could teach your kids to clean up their toys themselves. Make it a fun game for example.

Set an example by putting away your own groceries as soon as you put them in the kitchen. Boom 5k saved.

Maybe they will grow up to not be the type of person who leaves all of their crap on the table of the university table after they are done studying.

To be clear: I am not shifting on you as a parent. I am making fun of owning robots to do the specific things you mentioned. Obviously if you are immobile in some sense it would be great to have a cleaning robot
That's not true. GCC, Clang and MSVC are supported.

http://erlang.org/doc/installation_guide/INSTALL.html
Defining where things belong is a thing I want control over, so that when I go to find something, it's right where I want it.

Actually putting things in their proper place is a chore, no matter how old you are.
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Wood is not cheap outside Europe/North America and few other countries. Concrete is still the cheapest option along with steel if i am not mistaken. One thing is observe is that downsizing or reducing the size of the house is not considered a popular option.
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Parents not taking an interest in the child’s education is the number one reason professional teachers cite for failure in the classroom.
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I've never commented before so I had to make an account for this. Hopefully it doesn't get flagged, but that's the risk of lurking I guess. The rest of this post is anecdotal and perhaps fairly unusual, so forgive the lack of citations.

I'm 1995 I moved from Canada to the United States. Up until then I had been in the public school system since kindergarten. After 1995, I was "unschooled" from late 1995 to 2001, and I have to take exception to your idea that it is a privileged experience. I'll spare you the details but the summary is that my mom was more worried about the physical and mental abuse I encountered in public school (U.S. 5th grade, around 10 years old average and the first year of "middle school") at the hands of my supposed peers, primarily based on physical appearance and "foreign" + "new kid" status.

So after this very brief stint in American public school I was told by my mom that I would be doing "homeschooling" instead of getting my face rearranged for being white (whoops, spoiler).

Interesting fact: my mom had no idea how to homeschool. We had food stamps, sometimes, but usually it was just living off of combinations of flour, water, and salt. She became "religious" in order to get food boxes and a hope of networking to get work. We lived in rooms most of you would consider closets.

Her version of "unschooling" was to tell me that I need to learn math, science, history, and English, that way I could get a job when I grow up. She walked with me to the nearest library, and got me a library card, and told me (paraphrased due to memory): "read until you figure out what to do" her tone implying that I should learn the topics she mentioned.

I did. I also worked; I didn't have a computer at home (yet) but I knew how to use VCRs to record cable, and I could move furniture (even as a 10-11 year old), so my mom's church network got me a few dollars a week to save for myself. I saved up and bought a Commodore 64 from Goodwill after a big fight about "useless shit."

I taught myself BASIC, at first from a library book that showed how to draw Christmas trees and math problems (original leetcode I guess), then from the help files. When I wasn't doing that, I was reading science fiction. Absolutely no educational material.

My mom soon made enough to get a 386 Acer PC on credit, and I learned QBASIC with its infinitely more helpful help system. The computer had a modem and by late 1995 my mom had learned about ISPs from her friends at church. She called the owner of the local ISP and essentially traded me for internet access; I would go to their "office" (a repurposed shipping container) to answer tech support emails, and at home we could dial in for free.

This is where "unschooling" truly began. I had Microsoft Encarta that came with the PC, I had a book called Internet For Dummies, and I had virtually unlimited access to information.

I also ate once every 2 days, and it was rice and shitty meat more often than not.

I won't say where I am today, but I will say that it all worked out for the both of us.

Hope that helps someone.
Rule 14: Do not argue with trolls — it means they win.

This has been a basic tenet of the Internet for decades - until Twitter and FB became huge.

Now the regular people don't know or understand this and continue to interact with trolls (retweeting, subtweeting, basically bringing attention to their idiocy). This just feeds the anger cycle and shuts down all attempts at sane discourse.

You don't tell a troll you're not arguing with them, don't block them (that's a win), you just ignore it completely. If everyone would follow this rule, the crazies would be left alone shouting into the emptiness.