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> I've seen lots of speculation but no good inside information.

I've read rumors along the lines of illness, some say him, others say a close relative of his. Even so, these rumors are not really very interesting. I think "illness" crossed the mind of everyone who read the sudden and unexpected announcement of him leaving "for personal reasons".
Well guess what. Browsers have decided for you already.
That is absolutely false. I have seen absolutely horrible "clever" code hacks in Java production code - absolutely opaque and extremely complicated.

Lisp is definitely a good choice for 'regular open source or commercial code'.
Can we stop with "medium.com" links here? They reward read-time which means it's in a dev's interest to write click-bait and stretch content.

It also might just be me, but always something off about a dev not hosting their own blog, leading to a company being able to throw a pay-wall over your content.
I’m really not being facetious, and this is going to come across that way in writing. You really need to talk to a mental health professional.

I hate that we as a society can say that if you have signs of cancer go see an oncologist and it’s not okay to say that if you show signs of mental health issues go see a professional.

But everything about your comments and your user name points to it.
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One quarter of which group?
and here I got it from green bar which was so common on large machine printers
I think he‘s expecting someStr.Format() to format the value of the object someStr _instead_ of returning a new object containing the fornatted string.
“Demise” is nothing less than hyperbole.
There was this incredible TV show in the French speaking world called “Strip-tease” it was like a documentary, but with no narrator nor journalist. You would just see the people live and talk. It was a lot of rural and small town stuff.
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I feel like the difference of opinion you and us are having here are ultimately over the difference in perspective here. You label it as merely a "flawed patch". The original comment by the kernel dev that incited this whole debate isn't even directed at the flaw in the patch, so it kinda feels like you're arguing at cross purposes here.
It's fine if you can do it, but not everyone can. When he had Alex Jones on his podcast I actually had this debate with someone else, and I went to Facebook, I searched for discussions or posts of the video (you can do this right now too I guess), and the amount of people who actually believed Alex Jones is crazy, in some comment sections it probably was the majority of users.

You had people repeating everything from Jews running the world, to Sandy hook victims being actors, to pizzagate, and so on. Joe Rogan has 30 million listeners, he has a responsibility when it comes to what he puts out into the world. As it stands it basically a clearinghouse for bad ideas and conspiracy theories.
Thanks for the corrections.

• Hmm, I wasn’t aware of that admission of ambiguity. Allowing that fuzziness in terminology puzzles me, because if you don’t have the trailing dot, then what you have fundamentally isn’t fully qualified. Sure, some resolvers may treat it as though it were, but some won’t, and are perfectly correct not to. (I haven’t the foggiest idea what the balance of implementation behaviours might be. I know enough DNS to be dangerous, but I don’t live and breathe the stuff.)

• I should have said DNS hostnames are ASCII-only, which I believe to be true. (And yeah, this still depends on conventional rather than rigorously defined terminology.)
Not to downplay the course developers and marketers. That's a valuable and difficult skill! It's just different than developing.
How do you avoid side-effects of brainwashing yourself? Like being more vulnerable to believing other things that aren’t true? Or increased tendency to see issues as black and white?
I’d like to see more reporting on the removal of sorting machines. I’m willing to believe that there could be an actual reason for doing this, such as making room of package handling, since that is supposedly an increasing share of mail.

But I certainly haven’t heard or seen any such defenses made.

This is such madness!
That is creepy. I could not relax in such a garden, let alone let the kids play in it.
AMD Ryzen 5000 Cezanne Zen 3 Laptop APU Leaks with Radeon Vega 8 GPU Onboard
Paragon, purveyors of fine commercial filesystem drivers that corrupt my hard drives? LOL
The BEAM Has Spoiled Me
What it’s like to go into lockdown for the second time
Lookup stickk who donates to an anti charity
If you reveal one of your secret, you no longer have a secret.
Private data is the same, it's not private anymore when public, it lost its value.
This just comes across as manipulative. Meat eaters don’t want to be “nudged” into eating less meat or becoming vegetarian any more than vegetarians want to be “nudged” into eating meat (even occasionally).
This is something that I had envisioned [0][1]. I haven't really worked on it lately, but one thing quickly became apparent: were it not for the Google-ification of AMP (e.g. how it's used, tags for ads, etc) they had the right idea. I think you can go a long way with a backwards compatible subset of HTML and CSS only taking the latest/best of both, disallowing JS, and having an explicit goal of ease of implementation.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/92

1 - https://github.com/cretz/narrow
Yes. For those that doubt this, consider:

1. He's one of those people that thinks Trump is playing 4D chess.

2. He 'successfully' predicted Trump would win the election, and has subsequently fooled himself into thinking he has some special insight into social dynamics and interpreting Trump's 4D chess that allows him to continue making accurate predictions. I'm sure the more predictions he makes, the closer he'll get to a 50% success rate (binomial theorem) - as do most 'expert' political prognosticators who aren't using statistical models but going off their intuition. I wonder if he'll figure out what's happening.

When I read his writings, I just see an incredibly naive approach to prediction, ignorant of probability, that is primarily informed by the fact that he's a Republican who therefore is biased towards favorably interpreting Republican odds.
Is it fair assumption that Pumped hyrdo needs a mountain or high elevation in the vicinity of the city ? US has one pumped hyrdo, if I am not wrong.
Bad line-wrapping in the first commitmsg does not leave a first good impression.
OK, calling him a tyrant isn't correct, but he doesn't have the country's best interest at heart - his interests trump (pun unintended) those of his fellow countrymen and women.

> The US shouldn't be the world's babysitter.

The US declared itself the world's babysitter. The current state of multiple countries that "require babysitting" has been a direct effect of unwanted and unwarranted American involvement. A lot of it was due to an extraordinary fear of communism, but most of it due to corporate interests.

America may like to think itself the best and the most important, but it would do well to reign in its corporations and government from putting fingers where they don't belong. There are far more domestic issues to be tackled first than foreign ones: opiods, healthcare, weapons, internet freedom, monopolies, discrimination, fake news, education, the prison industrial complex, surveillance and lots more. Take care of your citizens first.
I love how they always push OpenJ9. Guess that's just IBM.
No reason they can't. After all Champagne is protected in that way. Perhaps they just ... didn't?
If they donate to something you approve of, often people will excuse their failures by saying “at least the money is going to a good cause”

when I made my bets to places I don’t approve of—-well I would never lose a bet where I had money to the KKK on the line, I’ll tell you that
Autonomous cars do so when you're in a public space. And by pixels, you could make that same reductive argument when violating anyone's private space via digital or physical, that it's only pixels, bits, molecules, etc. Don't forget laws and ethics work on scales.
In 2016 he said Trump would win in a landslide and there would be rioting. Trump lost the popular vote and won the electoral college by a margin of less than 100k votes in three states. This year he tweeted that Republicans will be hunted, telling his followers that they will be dead in a year. We’re supposed to take him seriously?
Reading these comments seems pretty similar to listening to a podcast ad. Just saying.
I'm reminded of WAP: https://www.wapforum.org/what/technical_1_0.htm (no, not the Cardi B version)

It was never terribly popular, because who wants to make two sites? Really, that plauges all such plans; everyone wants to build the fanciest, most "modern" site possible, and not do it again for a more constrained version. That's why few sites offer a JS-less version. Only AMP has made some headway, with the weight of the Google hegemon behind it.
Unfortunately lots of people have wool allergy
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Anthropologists before and in our lifetimes have gone and lived with tribes of hunter gatherers. We don’t need to romanticize or use cliches. Lots of them weren’t living as you describe. In fact their eyesight, teeth/gums, mental health, general physical health, sex lives, and life satisfaction seemed pretty great sometimes, and there’s interesting points to be made about why modernity might not have all the answers.

Let’s take your poop example. The average American, depressed and overweight according to the stats (both conditions rarely recorded in interactions with tribal hunter gatherers), poops in a toilet, they don’t “practice open defecation” (what funny phrasing). And that’s bad for you. We know now that if you don’t squat, it makes you strain (people literally die on toilets straining to poop) and you can’t get it all out. So we’ve invented poop stools. You should get one, it’s fantastic by the way, you’ll never poop the same again. This is just one of the many ways supposedly superior modern living has essentially played us, and our inventions solve problems that progress creates in the first place!

You’re right in some ways. I’m not a believer in “noble savages“. Modern sanitation is responsible probably more than anything for humanities success so far. But it’s a subtle topic.
Oops, yes, I should've mentioned what Beeminder is! Thanks!

We get that a lot ("where does the money go? wait, you do _what_ with it??") but I'm surprised to hear that pushback on Hacker News. Is the existence of Beeminder not "something positive"?

More at https://blog.beeminder.com/defail/
My preference is always auto pay, in preference order credit card, debit card, ACH. I only allow ACH access for my mortgage. I tend to use the merchants site to set it up, and allow them to draw. It would be nice if there was some kind of reach back where I could de-authorize these things with out interacting with each merchant.
It's easy to say a technology should have been obvious in hindsight, but...grass beds? It would be more surprising to me if humans 200,000 years ago hadn't hit on that. Remember these are modern humans from an evolutionary point of view, as intelligent as us or close.

Birds make nests, after all. You could convince me bears or apes make beds of grass, too. It's cool to find evidence that humans did it, just not surprising.
I don't think this necessarily says anything to the contrary of that. If you are someone at Gates overseeing research grants etc, you probably have a PhD and I'm sure the Gates job is less stressful than doing your own research. I could very easily see how friends of mine would say such a position is "easy" compared to publishing yourself, being scooped, research failing, etc. Instead, you get paid well to help other people do the same. Nothing wrong with that - it's just perspective.

Granted, I didn't talk to this executive, but I feel somewhat comfortable hypothesizing this due to what I know of this area.
Black person with a broken tail light is not innocent either, but somehow that doesn't come up in those discussions.

Maybe our personal biases play a bigger role in how much we care about about due process in a particular case, hm?
MiniFB: Small cross platform library to create framebuffer to draw pixels in
Fundamental Sorting Algorithms: Bubble and Insertion
I does seem like a great idea!
> Software engineering on average is indeed knowing the APIs of a few frameworks or products well.

I actually would have said that is the main thing that distinguishes a "programmer" from both a "computer scientist" and a "software engineer". Programmers are the tradespeople who know the APIs. Computer scientists know the science of the algorithms. Engineers know the design principles and systematic methodologies to apply them in practice successfully (independent of specific APIs). Of course, all this is blurred in practice.
Even with all the caveats it's still interesting. It suggests that if someone is determined to use psychedelics to self-medicate their depression, you should not try to stop them.

A priori you might think there is is a high likelihood that the drug use will just make everything worse.
Obligatory comic: https://i.redd.it/whnuvoh4od031.jpg
Why? Everything I've seen posted here from Quilette has been well-written and thoughtful.
While protecting consumers is noble, Apple isn't the company to do this. They're strong-arming every "business partner" on the app store while simultaneously strangling them for 30% of their income and forcing them to dance to the fiddle. To top it off, they cut off the business relationship these companies have with customers.

Apple is evil.
I'm not sure what the relevance of a statistic on "contemplating" suicide is. If you ask adults, I'd expect the number who would say they ever "contemplated" suicide when they were younger would be close to 100%.

I remember in the 80's, it was common for high schools to claim that up to 50% of students thought about suicide. It's one of the reasons there was an explosion in in-school counseling services and posters and PSA's on radio, etc...

There was an article in the local newspaper a few months ago stating that in the months that followed the start of lockdown, suicides in my state were down about 40%.
> the point of HTML is to ignore tags you don't understand and it should still render.

IMHO it could help a lot if a browser could let you configure the way it treat a particular unknown tag: just ignore it with its entire content or treat it like another kind of tag it knows.
This ruins Instagram for me entirely. The separation is part of what I enjoyed and needed.

This just makes me want to leave both platforms, not embrace them as one.
One of the amazing things about Russell Kirsch is that he got excited about the possibility of digital imagery when he was 21. Kirsch created the very first digital image in his late twenties and it was a black and white image of his three month old son. He continued to work on digital imaging for a total of 70 years!
This is simply amazing, thank you for your impactful work. Any tutorials for grafting fruit trees you can recommend to a complete beginner?
Don't forget ruinous decommissioning costs, usually dumped on the public.
Gen4 Nuclear and possible Fusion reactors will power the world. Sodium Batteries or some other breakthrough will be need Li will not do on Battery front.

Solar and Wind will have limited impact. Disposing Solar panels and Wind mills after their useful life is going to be its own TOXIC Waste problem.

Solar in space is an interesting idea too.
That actually would reduce the incentive to accomplish the goal, wouldn't it?

Ideally you want something the person doesn't like to happen, that way you feel like you're doing real good (preventing harm) by accomplishing your goal. Like an alarm clock I saw once that donates a dollar to a political party you hate every time you hit the snooze button.
Yatta: ML-like programming language for the GraalVM virtual machine
I'm aware. GP specifically talked about evidentiary standards, hence my response was specifically about evidentiary standards.
Every time I want to sit down and write an elm app I have a great time until I need to do anything complex.
I have a feeling that AGNB has a biased towards more sensational content. But people saying normal things aren’t that entertaining, just imagine all 10 min of a episode with people making sense and what you already sort of know.
also referenced from the project's FAQ: https://library.culinary.edu/primarysources/digitalfoodhisto...
There were many iterations of the Windows logo. I am not a design buff at all but the ones from the 90s look pretty bad now IMHO. The tail of icons and all that...

I am not a huge fan of some of the UI from Win8 and Win10 but the logo looks a bit nicer than it used to.
I agree. I remember there was a bit of criticism in the iOS twitter community about iOS development influencers giving bad advice, because they haven't worked on meatier projects.

Can't find much anymore but here's one example of a tweet:

https://twitter.com/alex_v_bush/status/1277002102351499265
> Nothing could paint a clearer picture than this: America is no longer a place that smart people want to move to

Poppycock.

That runs counter to the article's statement there were a record number of applications.

Something happened between the application deadline in early April & now, and that something is quite obviously COVID-19.
It sounds like MDN could benefit from being the work of a 501(c)(6) business league, which is how the Linux Foundation's work is funded. Money could initially come from the big existing browser vendors. It is in everyone's interest to see it continue.
> You want this whole pie in your body right now, and also you want to be two sizes smaller by next summer.

Isn't this more like a fight between instinct and rationality?

Wanting the pie is rarely a rational decision, while on the other hand wanting to be healthy so you can live longer is absolutely rational.

Hence willpower is one's ability to rationally control their own anamalistic instincts and emotions.
It seems sort of cool, but I don't see how anyone would ever agree on what should and shouldn't be included in the "simplified" standards. Instead, you'd have Andy's custom browser implementing 15% of the web, and also Beth's custom browser that implemented a different 15% and so on. Then Chris tries to build a website. If he uses only the stuff that Andy's browser supports, then it'll work there, but probably not in anybody else's custom browser, so what's the point? Just build to the real full web and let everyone use conventional full browsers. Each custom browser implementer would then be incentivized to implement more and more stuff to try and gain a bit more adoption. They'd either just give up, or try to match the real browsers, fail, and then give up.
There is no surprise here. The ATM companies making the machines and their software are so old school and simply outdated in terms of cybersecurity.
This is about a kernel-space driver, as opposed to a FUSE (user space) driver.
It should allow for better performance.
In Ireland, they just use a backhoe to cart the whole thing off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTe0cdxdSEo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTyON6gPTFI

Ah, and here was a failed attempt to do the same in Virginia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2TSGyXejls

How much cash does an ATM hold anyway?
I do have a 3D engine in progress, but I haven't implemented 3D animations yet.

it wouldn't be hard to migrate this to 3D, but this is not something I've been thinking about right now
Thumbs up for poop stools :)
Hi Maneesh! I'm actually opposed to anti-charities because I think they're bad for the world and not necessary -- you can get equal motivation with a neutral (non-evil) 3rd party, as long as you make the amount at risk high enough. More at https://blog.beeminder.com/anticharity/

PS: As you know I'm a huge fan of Pavlok -- https://pavlok.com/ -- and definitely don't think that my arguments against anti-charities apply to it even though they're both very punishment focused. Pavlok (obviously I'm saying this for others, not Maneesh, founder of Pavlok!) is more about classical conditioning while Beeminder is more operant conditioning.
Which was exactly my original point:

> FTA:

> > Did you sign I Love MDN? Great! Are you willing to pay 50-100 euros/dollars per year to keep MDN afloat? If not, this is all about making you feel better, not the technical writers. You’re part of the problem, not the solution.

> Not everyone has that kind of money to spend on charity.

The argument assumes users of MDN have 50-100 EUR to burn on charities. It shouldn't attempt to convince the reader with a static amount. As if a web developer from Serbia who donates 20 EUR a year is somehow part of the problem. They're not. Perhaps, if such donations from poorer countries are not recognized as solving the problem, the problem is that the costs are too high as it is.
He said himself in an interview that up until the Minneapolis and Portland videos, he was doing it purely for entertainment value, and didn't consider it any form of journalism.

His strategy was just to get the weirdest weirdos on camera and let them talk. With the Minneapolis/Portland videos you can see a significant shift towards a more journalistic disposition.
I’m familiar with Susan Fowler, and I’m sure she represents many other such victims; however, I’ve also read a number of stories like TFA, and presumably they equally represent a contingency of victims. Moreover, I don’t understand why these things need to be pitted against each other as though we have to choose one horrendous injustice or another. Victimizing innocent men doesn’t help victimized women, and contrary arguments are abhorrently sexist.
great explanation and visuals.
but I do not quite get the way the arrangements of sheep are treated. They seem to be counted in the standard "Unordered Sampling with Replacement" fashion.

>Just as the sheep wander about the plots of land in the farm, these packets of energy randomly shuffle among the atoms in the solid.

this would mean that any "packet" of energy is equally likely to be in any of the buckets and the "packets" are independent of each other. so we have an equal distribution on the product space with 6^6 elements.

but then later

> Now, let’s assume the sheep are equally likely to be in any of these 462 arrangements. (Since they move randomly, there's no reason to prefer one arrangement over another.)

under the prior assumptions these arrangements would not be equally likely. e.g. "all sheeps in plot 1" would be far less likely than "each sheep in a different plot"
am I missing something here?

in any case the same conclusions can be drawn in both cases, only that the concentration around 3 is already more pronounced in the "6 sheep, 6 plots" case using the product space model.
Totally true and nothing disappoints me more than the push away from nuclear energy
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once many years ago went hiking into forest (Russian North West) with minimal gear (knife, lighter, fishing thread and hooks, several SPAMs and some bread). For 3 nights i slept on a very comfortable pile of fir tree branches ("lapnik") by the campfire under a fir tree - so even small rain actually didn't reach me. It was late Spring, pretty warm. For winter time it is pretty established practice to sleep right on top of the extinguished campfire.

Speaking of mattresses - my wife has already close to 20 years been sleeping on a Japanese rice straw tatami mats (put onto a nice real wood frame), and she loves it. A bit too tough for me though.