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> Could’ve been white or black.

What difference would that have made?

I don't think even those that are complaining are complaining about the colour - just that it's differentiated in any way.
If you create a product that adversely effects a population based on their innate behavior, you have a cruel product. If you care about that population, you'd solve issues with the product. Unless of course you have other motives.
Because we're keeping each other safe from coronavirus. But I guess you caught me: we've replaced law and police with a virus that enforces our behavior on pain of death, lol.
Lets face it, recruiters do a terrible job of screening. They dont understand the job, so how could they ever detect the tells of in group / out group?

Plus, you can generate activity for your profile. It's a game of cat and mouse.

https://hackernoon.com/how-to-hack-github-kind-of-12b08a46d0...
Tim Sort, Hamming Codes, Huffman Coding, RSA keys, LZW encoding, Duff's Device, Bloom Filter, Carmack's Reverse, awk, linux, git. We have a lot of things named after those that discovered, invented or popularized a structure or technique. Certainly nowhere near as commonly as does mathematics, I will agree.

In CS, no doubt, we often end up on the other end, where a single term means different things in different contexts and beginners may get confused at our reuse of terminology. Often the reuse gives some metaphorical understanding to the newcomer, even if it largely leads them astray in the details.
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Yes - that'll work fine.

As others have pointed out, Chromium is no longer packaged as a deb. You can use Firefox, or get Chromium from another source. An AppImage is available for example. I haven't tried it, but it should be functionally equivalent to using a distribution deb.

Or use Google's Chrome deb, for example.
I don't doubt the main conclusion of the article for certain tasks at least — what I do think is questionable though is using productivity as the only valid metric without controlling for others, including happiness, loneliness, effectiveness and sustainability.

For makers of any kind, I think remote work has mainly been a net benefit. There's a lot of developers in our teams who say they're more productive than ever.

For me as a technology manager, I'm more exhausted than ever. Video meetings are a pain. Because of this, people switch to asynchronous communication methods, which is definively more effective, but lacks even more personality. Text has many more layers of ambiguity. People get more aggressive and lonely. Misunderstandings rise.

My job is to be aware of the emotional undercurrents of arguments and technology and physical distance just seems to get in the way of that. Any forms of creativity that happens in a group, like whiteboarding together, just isn't the same.

So yes, I think I'm more productive, at least in some ways. There are some bright sides, also in my private life from being able to work from home that I'm sure to do more of once I'm able to go back to the office. But I haven't ever been as exhausted, lonely or miserable as right now and I simply can't wait to actually have the choice of seeing people in person again.
Reduction ad absurdism is not valid here. My question is perfectly valid for such a brief comment claiming something so far reaching.
Copying is not theft[1].

I know Copyrights != Patents, but the whole idea of intellectual property should be abandoned. It is born out of rent seeking and any benefits it may have were never justified by the costs of the patent system[2].

If you think the patent system needs to be fixed, rather than abolished, please reconsider.

[1]: https://questioncopyright.org/

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Against-Intellectual-Monopoly-Michele...
So, people don't go online to find those things in your country? Or your country has banned internet access too?
Is it really a case of “cheaper is inferior”?

I’d think these things have minimum standards they must meet and so the cheapest test is just as good as the more marketed (and more expensive) one. Am I missing something?
Apple isn't a commodity hardware maker, as the software isn't sufficiently distinctive vs Android. Their hardware is what makes them so hot.

Also, integrating SMS with online messaging and giving people free chatting are Very Standard terms of competition for the hot and overcrowded chat app market, and it's precisely this which has gotten some people so bothered.

More to the point, Apple is not responsible for the visibly poisonous affects of classism on children, and Apple is not morally culpable merely because they indicated to you what's free and what's not. The families whose children are hurting each other should gather as a community, look each other in the eye and ask what's happening.

Nike also serves as a symbol of class — should we blame Nike when kids laugh at no-brand shoes?
Right, I'm that way too. But the rest of the world basically chose to download another app instead.

So that's what I wonder about -- why did the US not bother, but the rest of the world did? What was different about the US?
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Casey Muratori (Rad Game Tools, Handmade Hero) talk from 2004 covers reusability and design for ease of use.

https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0024
This confusion of "what is meant by OO" is what my original comment was about.

The "hate" of OO is a misunderstanding, because most people are confused about what everyone and anyone even means when they talk about it, and that's also true of FP by the way.

So when someone criticizes OO for example, but their criticism is directed towards the fact that in Java, I cannot add methods to the existing HashMap class if I wanted too, and that annoys me. So am I criticizing OO? I'll probably label my article "Why OO doesn't work" or something like that. When I should have probably titled it: "Why it is a problem for Java classes to not be extendable from outside their class". Or at the very least: "Why subtyping for extension isn't always the most convenient mechanism for extension."

I see this happening not just on the topic of OO, but everywhere, and I find in a technical setting this is a dangerous thing to do.

I don't really know how to call this effect. I guess stereotyping is a good word for it.
Except that for free software, "the person writing it" is not preventing anyone else from being "the person writing it" so anyone with criticisms is directed to apply time or money to solving the problem they're complaining about. Because unlike proprietary software, you can actually do that.

This doesn't work well for UI improvements for a very specific reason, which is that most of the UI criticisms of free software are about how it's difficult to learn rather than how it's difficult to use after you've learned it. So by the time you've spent the effort to learn the existing UI well enough to know what changes to make to it, you no longer have a personal incentive to make it easier to learn, because you've already paid the time cost of learning it.

But that isn't user-hostile, it's newbie-hostile, which is different. In particular it means that if you're willing to put in the time to get over the hump, you end up with software that actually does exactly what you want, even if the incantations to get it to do that aren't always initially intuitive.
Computer science is not a subfield of math. Theoretical computer science is, but there is a lot more to cs than just tcs, for example: operating systems, programming languages, human computer interaction, etc.

I agree on your first point though, I think the concepts named after people are usually so abstract that the hard part is to really understand the concepts, not to remember the name.
> I try to minimize it as much as possible, even when it hurts productivity. Long term maintainability is more important to me.

I don't think this needs to be an either/or choice in these situations. You can have both if you make the make the conscious decision to not fight your tools. Yes, sometimes you have to be more verbose in one language than another, but the productivity hit in that case always pales in comparison to the hours, days, and in some cases I've seen, weeks, lost by someone fighting their language/tools.

My favorite example of this was a developer given a 2 week feature implementation that ballooned to two months. They had minimal experience C++, and they didn't like its looping syntax. Rather than accept that frustration and write the code in a syntax they disliked, they instead spent weeks writing a "re-usable library that abstracts away looping semantics".
I'm not a snap fan either, for the reasons listed in this post-- slow starts and forced autoupdates.

I do use it for LXD, where it's the only way to stay up to date.
Okay but at what cost? Perhaps they're creating far more problems than they solve? To take from your argument, freedom comes with risks. If we have to risk the occasional sociopathic murderer and in return not have to worry about being shot by the national guard for the crime of standing on our porch, maybe that's a valid trade off.
Bandwidth is physically bounded by frequency * log(noise ratio). As long as you've got a great signal, much better than what you can decode, you can increase the bandwidth.

The most common example is broadband. The 2 MHz band is split in a hundred independent bands of 20 MHz. Each one of the channel is adjusted independently to maximize bandwidth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.992.3
Boffins ? I haven't realized theregister employs such classy people as Thomas Claburn.
If one is a true contrarian then one would certainly stick to their position until the end, or at least wait for chances along the way while unyielding in their underlying belief. Otherwise the only conclusion is that they are not firm enough in carrying out what they believe in. Of course if they have a bad timing in their execution, they would still end up losing, but lose twice they won't.
You could just write out “Hamiltonian {operator, path, system, etc}, but it’s not uncommon for adjective+nouns to be shortened to just the adjective when it’s obvious from context.

If you want good Italian [food], you might ask an Italian [person] to translate some Italian [text] you saw in a restaurant review.
Stalin and Mao, and their successors, were totalitarian dictators. Trying to call the states they commanded socialist is as disingenuous as most other arguments in defense of capitalism. Its like saying the National Socalist German Workers Party was socialist or in the interest of workers. Instead it might just be that those of evil intent will co-opt the hallmarks and language in the peoples interests to undermine their efforts and seize power in their stead for their own tyrannical ends.

But yes, if you want to participate in a socialist revolution, make sure your movement isn't taken over by fascists.
I don't think there's anything on the chip that could compute a checksum of the microcode ROM contents. It could be some kind of copyright message perhaps, though I don't know how it's encoded and it's only 42 bits long so there isn't much space for anything meaningful.
I ran into something like this with Perrow's 'Normal Accidents' - he defines common words with specific meanings, when he could have just as easily used two common words with no ambiguity.

If you use three words, you're in real danger of forming acronyms, but I think two words are a sweet spot.
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If you think plain English words help with this, try either explaining what a compact space is or a normal subgroup. Or, if you don’t know, figure it out from the descriptions on the internet.

And these are not hard concepts as far as maths goes.
They won't be able to measure this.
Sorry, I didn't read your post properly (and it was only 2 lines). I though you meant the original article, not twitter. That was dumb.
Anarchism is a form of self-governance.
I don’t think your message contains anything material. It’s all vocal gymnastics.
David Hilbert was so prolific that one of his eponymous theorems was also numbered: Hilbert's Theorem 90.
If a socialist state fulfills its mandate to provide what it can for the betterment of its peoples condition than it would see many fewer cases of addiction than traditional capitalist economies with little or no socialism as a safeguard against destitution. See the Nordics, as per usual.
Ahh but I’m sure it’s different when a doctor injects inactivated our attenuated viruses.
Heard is still on track to reprise her role in Aquaman 2 as of 2 days ago.

Depp lost roles because he is a diva on set and hasn't been enough of a draw for audiences outside of Pirates for studios to put up with his behavior.
forgot about pharo, yes it has traits (protocols)
fun fact, the first thing google employees removed from webkit was all the ways to disable sending the referrer. after they removed the option from the settings page, someone added to the hidden settings. after they removed from there someone added --no-referrer, but obviously they removed it too. the command line switch made it back a couple more times because some build server needed it for a few tests to pass, but that didn't last long.

give to google what's google's. and by what I mean those sweet ad dollars that increase with attribution, which at the time relied on the referrer header.
-No history of medieval toilets is complete without reference to Erasmus von Lueg, 15th-century robber baron and lord of the Slovene Predjama castle.

He allegedly met his maker while relieving himself - having made a nuisance of himself to the Habsburgs, they laid siege to the castle to no avail -as there was a hidden passageway which let the besieged come and go more or less as they pleased.

The solution? Bribe a servant into lighting a lamp in a window when Erasmus went to the latrine prior to bed - a latrine the Habsburgs had aimed their cannon at in the daytime.

The rest, as they say, is (apocryphal) history.
Unfortunately I didn't know any teens in the UK

Anyway, UK was/is a lot more aligned to the fads in the US than in continental Europe to which I was referring to since the UK is no longer in Europe ;) j.k.
The other reason before the "and" was that it maximised light reflection (and hence ambient light levels in the room).
Elinor Ostrom come up with the 8 design principles[1] for dealing with the tragedy of the commons for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize. She concludes that top-down regulation doesn't work because of complexity and laissez-faire because private companies will try to maximize their profits. So she studied common pools and found out that if they missed these 8 principles between groups involved it would lead to depletion or conflicts. This I think is an anarchist solution to the problem only she called it polycentric governance.

[1]: https://evonomics.com/tragedy-of-the-commons-elinor-ostrom/?...
It could if you were smart about it. See the scripts at:

https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat

You could identify high quality devs that are suddenly funemployed with a burst of github activity - and reach out to them in a non-sleazy manner.
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MacsHeadroom responded well so I don't have a lot to add but I will clarify that its not that I'm against any negotiation as obviously some people have special needs / desires and don't want things other people want. There are also people who are truly exceptional who likely could have many competing offers so naturally they are going to end up with a better deal.

The point is when you leave literally everything up to the market as the GP appears to be in favor of then you end up with a bunch of $5 wage slaves who've never heard of a vacation and a well financed class of financiers with boats who help arrange to finance the whole thing. Once you have social programs and policies that insulate from those kinds of things, then sure let people negotiate for additional perks they want.
Many places, even in the West, were named after unique characteristics. Language changed though. I studied in a German town called Paderborn (we lovingly called it "Paderboring" though). A river called Pader originates there and the word "born" is old German for source or spring. Many other German towns have similar names that make sense in old German or are derived from Latin names that were more descriptive but nobody understands anymore.

In the USA there are many places like that as well and it's more obvious, since language hasn't changed since they were named. Ironically the landscape has due to human doing in many cases. Think Thousand Oaks, Walnut Creek, Mill Valley

A sibling post makes the argument that descriptive names would eventually lose the descriptively as language changes. This is very much validated by the German names. However, that took hundreds if not over a thousand years in some cases.
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War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. The machinery of government sets and enforces the drastic penalties. The minorities are either intimidated into silence, or brought slowly around by subtle process of persuasion which may seem to them really to be converting them. Of course, the ideal of perfect loyalty, perfect uniformity is never really attained. The classes upon whom the amateur work of coercion falls are unwearied in their zeal, but often their agitation, instead of converting merely serves to stiffen their resistance. Minorities are rendered sullen, and some intellectual opinion bitter and satirical. But in general, the nation in wartime attains a uniformity of feeling, a hierarchy of values culminating at the undisputed apex of the State ideal, which could not possibly be produced through any other agency than war. Other values such as artistic creation, knowledge, reason, beauty, the enhancement of life, are instantly and almost unanimously sacrificed, and the significant classes who have constituted themselves the amateur agents of the State, are engaged not only in sacrificing these values for themselves but in coercing all other persons into sacrificing them.

--Randolph Bourne, The State, 1918 (http://fair-use.org/randolph-bourne/the-state/)

Bourne was a Progressive, but was a critic of WWI, a minority position among his peers. This led him to significant ostracism before his death from Spanish Flu. I find it almost undeniable that Bourne was correct, especially in the contemporary political situation. Progressive president Woodrow Wilson was jailing socialists for sedition, and his administration was thoroughly in love with its own power.[1] It stands to reason given what we've seen since that groups in the media, the academe and the state itself have explicitly adopted the warlike posture Bourne criticizes.

So I think you're right, but it's a phenomenon from the last century or so that had originated sporadically in the decades after the Civil War. The reductionist debasement of all problems into enemies vanquished by a conquering army is mostly an artifact of the constitutional structure we've had since then, and the institutional founts of power that sustain it.

[1] See e.g. Philip Dru: Administrator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Dru:_Administrator)
We are talking about software defined radio though. How do these facts apply when there are no bands anymore? When collisions are avoided probabilistically instead of by partitioning?
Sorry it should have been obvious lol. Like how Nvidia screwed the 2000 buyers lol
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Try blending
I mostly agree with you, but I wish we could come up with a better word than "greed" to describe the almost universal and constant desire for humans to improve their own lives, which has a connotation that the only way for me to benefit is by taking from others. I think most in this community would agree life isn't a zero sum game and there are actions I can take that improve my life that are also net neutral-positive to the world around me.

I think we should encourage this type of activity while condemning the negative externalities of people's actions, as opposed to blanket condemning "human greed" as a whole.
I don't have kids. Get rid of the schools.

I don't have a car. Get rid of the roads.

I'm not old. Get rid of social security.

I live in a neighborhood with a security force. Get rid of the police department.
The focus on mathematicians naming things (possibly for legacy) seems similar to the politicians venerating each others with statues.

And of course... naming remains one of the hardest things to do in any field.
terms like "quick sort" and "map" are actively harmful because what they mean is VERY ambiguous, and in some cases becomes wrong over time. "quick sort" is no longer the quickest sort algorithm by any standard, it happens to just be quicker than some of the algorithms that came before it. "map" tells you nothing about the properties of the data structure other than that it 'maps' keys to values, but even the nuances of that could vary (can you have duplicate keys? duplicate values? do the keys have to be non-null?)

"Boolean" and "conditional" are semantically very different, the difference is significant.

The "there can be more than one" is specifically why it's important to call the algorithm Dijkstra. It's possible to look it up in Google or in a textbook and immediately find the algorithm in question. Generic terms don't have that property.

Calling this narcissism does everyone a significant disservice.
> dataclasses is not very extensible or flexible. It's fine for starting with, but it's not at all a replacement for store_attr etc.

> At fast.ai we used dataclasses extensively for a couple of years, but it just kept biting us.

What were the issues you had?
In contrast to the mice, which I've never really felt comfortable using, the Apple Trackpad has been one of the best input devices I have ever owned. Perhaps benefitting from all the UI/UX research into laptop inputs, swipes and gestures...
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It is not really optional to adopt nephews and nieces when your sibling passes.