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>I'll tell you, I hate the idea of half-measures like laws that don't get enforced. (I'm not talking about hundreds-of-years-old archaic laws that are ignored by everyone, I mean real current laws that have some implications. )

So I guess you start your post by deciding which laws you choose to follow or not, pretty much discrediting the rest of your post, but anyway...

>Why? Because good law-abiding people -- we want people like that, right? --

Good and law abiding aren't necessarily the same thing. Let's take for example

This guy and a law that's common across American cities, it's illegal in many places to feed the homeless.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/90-year-old-flo...

Now, I'm sure there's arguments against this, but i feel like giving someone food who needs it is an objectively good thing. Though, in many places, by doing so, you are breaking the law and in fact, by blindly following said law, you are in fact, doing something not so good.

>with the undesired activity the law is aimed at.

Laws are written by people just like us, what's undesirable for some isn't undesirable for all, or even a majority.

>Think about when you have had to pay extra or buy something, or do something where you found out no one was actually following up on it.

I remember a pretty clear moment when this happened to me, but I ended up coming to the opposite conclusion.

A few years back I went to a concert at a small venue, like a really tiny venue. We were some of the first people there and nobody really paid attention to us when we got there but being 'good' obedient folks, we helpfully found someone and asked about paying the cover and forked out the $15 each or whatever.

As more people started to show up though, we noticed only a handful of people actually ended up paying for the show, only the people that ended up walking over and asking about it. Most people just walked in, sat down and never paid.

I wasn't bitter about it though, I just learned never show up early and never offer money you're not asked for, whatever the sign says.

>This creates a lot of frustration among the law-abiding.

Life's full of frustration, becoming frustrated at people's actions based only on principle is a waste of time and energy.

>Maybe we should retreat a little from our self-confidence and think "maybe I should follow rules even if I don't agree with them" -- inject a little of this approach for everyone's benefit until we figure out what's wrong with us lately.

Why? Rules should be based on logic and common sense if a rule is arbitrary and has no basis in reality then why? You started your post by saying if laws make no sense, they don't count, but you finish your post by saying everyone should follow the rules, even if they don't agree with them.
Many apps detect GL level and adapt renderers accordingly.

Still, it's not just graphics drivers: there's the oft-cited security patches, but also features for user-facing interfaces; Ie, an update to a URL parsing library might add additional codepage support transparently to an app that uses it.
I'm a regular user but having been around for a while (and done some web dev) this course doesn't seem to go further (except in a few extensions) than my current knowledge/experience. I've written bash scripts, configured Apache/Nginx, setup a mail server with spam filtering, used git to a basic level, all that kinda stuff ... what's the next step for a taste of what being a sysadmin is like?
You're right on the money here.

I'm old enough to remember when you could start a business by going down to the bank and borrowing money with a 5 year term. The problem is you can't play in a winner take all market with a slow steady growth model any longer. The multi national monopoly with a stake closest to your business model will just crush you for fun.

This results in new ideas being go big or go home. May as well not play unless you're going to over borrow and try to grow so fast that you corner the market over night. Once you get the market cornered though, you gotta pay back that loan.

It would be rad if there was enough pie for people to have a good idea and get some customers and pay all their people and go home without needing endless growth.
> And there are ways to have agriculture and industry and compounding scientific advancements without having rigid hierarchies, are there not?

Sure, the absence of rigid heirarchies with strictly top-down authority in favor of fairly fluid ones with something like circular authority where the top of heirarchy is selected and changeable by the people subject to it is a hallmark of liberal society, realized to varying degrees throughout much of the world.

But that's not what anarchism is about.
And it takes a week for 9 characters and a few hours for 8. The point is that with a random salt the amount of work that needs to be done is proportional to the number of accounts you want to break across all services, not just one. It isn't a ton of additional security (especially if an email account is compromised...why is everything so terrible), but it is strictly better and doesn't have failure modes like the same username being used in a billion devices.
Sadly some vendors of computer hardware have based their offerings on Ubuntu.

For example, NVidia's Jetson platform is based entirely on Ubuntu 18. You can't run it with other Linux distributions (or you end up with broken stuff left and right).

Therefore, vendors, please (!) build your products around kernel drivers, not around Linux distributions.
Is that insane to be ousted for stating an probably true idea?

Or am I just missing something?
also for the bit on the CSAIL email discussion where he objected to the use of the term "sexual assault" when referring to statutory rape, the other bit on the CSAIL email discussion where he was questioning whether statutory rape actually counts as rape, and mostly for the new publicity that everything else objectionable he's been doing and saying for the last several decades received (e.g. his stated views that laws against child pornography are censorship, that pedophilia, necrophilia, incest are actually fine (IIRC he revised his view on pedophilia a few days prior to resigning), his MIT office sign reading "knight for justice and hot ladies").
I don’t want to argue that the keyboards and mice are perfect, but we have two magic keyboards, two mice, and one gen1 trackpad that have all been extremely reliable. All are +/- 10 years old.

Well, one mouse and one trackpad didn’t survive a recent toddler/tile floor situation. But that’s not Apple’s fault ;)
Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?
https://www.google.com/search?q=castle+toilet&tbm=isch works in my bubble
> Hey, you’ve invented WinSxS.

Oh, I know :)

> there’s no incentive to coordinate

True, but it potentially works out anyway, for several reasons that end up covering most libraries:

• libraries that just doesn’t change very often, are going to be “coordinated on” by default.

• people building these container-images are the same people who actually tend to be running them in production, so they (unlike distro authors) actually feel the constraint of memory pressure; so they, at development time, have an incentive to push back on library authors to factor their libraries into fast-changing business layers wrapping slower-changing cores, where the business-layer library in turn dynamically links the core library. This is how huge libraries like browser runtimes tend to work: one glue layer that gets updates all the time, that dynamically links slower-moving targets like the media codec libraries, JavaScript runtime, etc. Those slower-moving libs can end up shared at runtime, even if the top-level library isn’t.

• on large container hosts, the most common libs are not app-layer libs, but rather base-layer libs, e.g. libc, libm, libresolv, ncurses, libpam, etc. These are going to be common to anything that uses the same base image (e.g. Ubuntu 20.04). Although these do receive bug-fix updates, those updates will end up as updates to the base-layer image, which will in turn cause the downstream container-images to be rebuilt under many container hosts.

• Homogenous workloads! Right now, due to software-design choices, many container orchestrators won’t ensure library-sharing even between multiple running instances of the same container-image. We could fix this issue without fixing the rest of this, but designing a container-orchestrator architecture around DLL-sharing generally, would also coincidentally solve this specific instance of it.
Pinebook pro is using an arm64 cpu instead of an x86. That creates a big list of problems that you don't have on x86 because that's what all linux desktop developers have (mostly) been targeting.

As one example, I was surprised to find that the tor browser doesn't have an arm64 build :o
The freedesktop runtime updates Mesa faster than most distributions. The current version is 20.1.5.
I'm just amazed that this guy raised all those millions! I need to study him.
No, you are wrong, it is not mentioned in Mankiw. You are also wrong that modern economists don’t spend time on historical analysis, as there is a whole discipline devoted to it and it is DeLong, the professor of economic history, who spent a lot of time arguing against Graeber.
Do you remember the show Modern Marvels on the History channel? Back when it was about actual history and not reality tv...

My favorite episode was on bathrooms. Did you know that during large gatherings at the Palace of Versailles people would relieve themselves in hallways, stairways, and even in the gardens? Or that dining room seats in medieval Germany had holes with chamber pots underneath so that people could go while they ate?

I miss Modern Marvels.
> Any type of increased leave benefit should be available to all. If that means the pace of developing new things for the business slows down, that’s what that means.

I’ve worked at two companies that tried genuinely unlimited vacation policies. The theory was that happy and well-rested employees who lived very fulfilling lives outside of the office would be naturally more motivated to do work for the company that granted them this benefit.

For the people who needed flexible schedules (young children at home, caring for aging parents, personal health issues, irregular sleep patterns) this was a success. People who fit this description were overjoyed to find a company willing to accommodate them, and they returned the favor with great, efficient work.

On the other hand, there was a subset of people who approached the system like a game: Just how little work could they do without getting fired? How could they claim the easiest tasks for themselves?

This becomes a major problem when the workload is shared across a team, where one person’s reduced output becomes an increased burden on someone else. The people gaming the system weren’t doing so at the company’s expense. They were doing so at their team member’s expense.

In theory we’d all get the same allowances regardless of the reason. In practice, people are infinitely happier to cover for a hard working coworker who needs an unplanned day off to tend to a sick child than they are to cover for an otherwise unencumbered coworker who simply decided they didn’t feel like working today.

You could argue that the business should be allowed to slow down, but when your competitors are not slowing down and your profit margins aren’t infinite, that’s not a sustainable option. Eventually you need to start cutting headcount to compensate for the reduced productivity, which begins to defeat the purpose of catering to the employees. There is no free lunch.
I have to admit that despite some annoyances I've had with the newer apple mouse (the batteries die very quickly, and the rechargeable one has the plug on the bottom so can't be used and charged at the same time), the gesture recognition on the top of the mouse is pretty darn cool and useful
Oh sure, I get the point of tiling window managers .. its just that I rarely need to leave Terminator for anything besides the odd web document or so - and that context switch is, for me, quite helpful.

But I set up Terminator in full tiled rig for everything else, and rarely every leave it. Its a delight.
I live in a place where mask rules are not enforced. There is a growing split between places people gather without masks and places people gather with masks. Unless completely unavoidable I only go to places where everyone is wearing a mask. I think there is a similar filtering mechanism happening with everyone that prefers being around mask wearers, and those that prefer not wearing masks.

Seeing one place where people are not wearing masks is not a reasonable sample, and doesn’t show a complex story that is happening.
Yeah, I was referring to the certbot warning of "logging" the IP publicly. But I guess that policy never actually came to fruition. Thanks for the clarification!
I don't think there's ever been a time browsers haven't reliably supported POST.
> people will generally be good to each other and support each other when left to their own devices.

Yeah, and when doing so they create organizations with quid pro quo behavior and ultimately form new countries. Anarchy is therefore impossible. Not because we can't handle being left on our own but because we handle being left on our own by creating new organizations.
I would care more about how Apple feels about this after it releases an Android app on its own. Being available to more people is more valuable than being secure.
>Do you believe that human beings are fundamentally corrupt and evil

Certainly not all but it only needs a few so I guess I'm not an anarchist I accept reality even if I don't like it.
oh my that THAT is why it takes over 5 seconds to start chromium on my Xeon...
Look I think they’d sell more copies and it’d be good for everyone to have the content more widely available but it’s not always feasible to require it. A PlayStation game doesn’t just automatically work on PC and it probably takes numerous hours to get a PC game ready to submit to the Steam store. I’ve certainly wasted many hours localizing text for iOS app submissions and the like.

With so many different stores to download apps, it gets increasingly unlikely anyone is going to take the time to cross list on all of them.

If we wanted to change how this worked, I feel like we’d need to consolidate on fewer marketplaces. For example, apt-get has access to a huge variety of packages so I don’t find myself using the Ubuntu App Store or random third party marketplaces as much as I do with games.
I don’t want the sandboxing to be mandatory! Some software inherently doesn’t work in a sandbox, or works less well. A good distribution format should still cover those use-cases, the user just needs to be informed about the capabilities of what they install. Especially on Linux, which is supposed to be about user-empowerment.
I don’t see why childless people are resentful of people who have more responsibility and a harder situation.

It’s selfish of them to be resentful. Kids are the ones who will be working when these people retire (whether by then they have children of not).

Society depends on new generations and so I don’t see a problem if parents get a small advantage.
So you only make reasonable choices because you are forced to?
Plenty of "MBAs" are former engineers who moved into management so make strategic technical decisions nowadays. An MBA and an engineer are not mutually-exclusive.
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It's not though. Instantaneous gravity, third law, etc, are not true in GR.
Because Signal isn't user-friendly, and does not work well between multiple devices.
Deferring isn't a solution, it's a band-aid. Just as you can only defer Windows updates but not completely opt out, you can only defer snap updates; there is no global opt-out. Having to do a convoluted procedure for every app as outlined in your second link shouldn't be necessary and definitely shouldn't be hidden behind an obscure source that only snap gurus even know about.

This issue, combined with the snap server being closed source and controlled by a for-profit company that seems to care less about FOSS with every Ubuntu release, makes snaps a very hard sell to anyone with common sense.

With the direction Linux is heading between snaps and systemd, and old-school holdouts like Void and Slackware suffering from a lack of developers and long-delayed releases respectively, I'm leaning more and more towards adopting OpenBSD for daily driver use. Performance has improved, quality of life has immensely improved, and the team behind it actually cares about putting out correct, working, secure software.

Sorry, rant over and I really went out on a tangent there, but my original point is that snaps are definitely no good for the future of Linux and I believe will be a detriment to the platform going forward.
It sure has not. The only stability from this, is the rate of bombs dropping.
Consumer centric API design

https://github.com/tlhunter/consumer-centric-api-design
And some women were offended or something. This constitutes a major crime, nowadays. Bombing brown people half-across the world? No big deal. Using slave child labour to mine rare earths for your iGadget? who cares. Helping out fascists to topple a democratically elect government in Latin America? yawn. Hurting the feelings of some pampered students? Beware, you monster!
I wouldn't retrofit my car to use them (though you can probably put them on a Jeep without much problem), but it may make for an interesting decorative desk lamp, suitably dimmed or diffused.
You’ve done the same as well!!! Can YOU spot it?
Lol, what? Only a small portion of Bitcoin Core contributors work at Blockstream. You should think critically rather than merely accepting as facts everything Bitcoin Cash proponents tell you.
> live with parents until marry

This is a culture thing, nothing to do with being conservative/liberal. Renting in Singapore is expensive, therefore people prefer to stay with parents until they can afford to buy their own HDB.
How are the human beings in government able to behave in a reasonable fashion without being forced to?
If authority turns out to be absolutely necessary, that's okay. It just has to be limited and kept in check.

As for the tragedy of the commons being only transcended in small homogenous groups, that's stretching the definition of small and you can still have norms for larger groups without introducing tons of authority.

As for as some companies being able to WFH and others not, there are reasons that can be anaylized and propagated.
Worth watching even if you hate Java.
Why on earth wouldn’t a parent be able to eat the free lunch? Or drop off the dry cleaning in a box at the office instead of a dedicated storefront along the way? Or get their hair cut between meetings?

For us dinner was provided as a courtesy in case we worked late. Some younger people stayed for it every day; it’s true that only a few parents did that (ones with bad commutes waiting for traffic to die down). But there would also be random other parents who happened to work late that day, maybe half the time.
I'm surprised that Apple hasn't made an official iMessage app for Android. After all, there is Apple Music for Android and iCloud for Windows.
Same thing they did with Unity they keep shoving at everyone. I still hate that stuff. I don't need my Linux system to be Mac-like. I'd be using a Mac if I liked Macs.
Tribal societies have hierarchies and laws, they are not anarchies.
Couldn't the double NAT STUN/TURN thing be eliminated if the solution was modified to utilize Wireguard on all the endpoints?
Counter to the current thoughts.

I love Ubuntu and haven't had any problems with Snaps via the software center in Ubuntu.

I use apt at the command line so I may not be getting the brunt of snaps problems.

But using Sublime, Chromium, Spotify, Intellij, has been pretty flawless for me so far.

Maybe I'm not a snap power user.

Ubuntu desktop is wonderful. Not as good as Mac imo, but infinitely better than Windows.

Just wanted to stick up for Ubuntu a little.

I think it's great there's finally an open source Desktop OS that is as nice to use as the big two and I hope they continue their great work.
Not to mention the fact that the USA is the #1 CAUSE of illegal immigration, i.e. war refugees.

Living in Europe, I have seen a lot more war refugees than there should be. The immigrants, I am fine with - Europe is resilient. But America's war victims streaming in cross the Balkans: Americans need to understand their own culpability in that situation. They really don't, however.
One of the top images for me is a Roman communal toilet, fyi.

AIR I've only ever seen single occupancy toilets in UK castles?
Additional PTO at many companies is a joke because there's no mandate to actually use it, and definitely no compensation for leftover. Usually the opposite, in fact - the culture strongly encourages people to use as little PTO as possible. Monetary rewards are really the only way people are going to be ok with different treatment.
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Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean Its Opposite
There are still ways to run agricultural and otherwise technological societies with minimal authority if any at all.
Some times, yes. And some times multiplied by however many people there are results in a lot of some times that people wouldn't be forced to in an anarchy.
The 5 second load time is exactly the slowness people are complaining about. It's a ~100x slowdown.
Are you claiming that a 21 year old engineer is obviously going to be as experienced at life as a 40 year old engineer?

Because that's what you're implying here, and I don't think any reasonable person would make the claim that's obvious.
Not really surprising. iMessage has a very strong lock-in effect while iCloud and Apple Music do not. The latter two services can make more service revenue if available on more platforms while iMessage is not adding to that.
Microsoft releases KB4571744 update to fix lots of Windows 10 problems
I set up a VM and had this whole stack working about a year ago. While it was fun to get up and running, it proved to me enough of a nuisance that a few months later I bought my first iPhone. Happy to answer questions about my experience. I applaud the author for the work and found it to be a really neat hack.
The most popular fiat currency, the US dollar, was tied to gold until 1971. It's still not clear that breaking that link was a good move.

Also this: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I think it's really telling that this disaster-anarchism argument comes up so regularly. The question isn't how society functions during a state of exception, it's how it functions on day 2 after the excitement is over when things go back to normal.

It's like all other revolutions having failed the revolution has now been outsourced to hurricanes and floods. if you want to argue that capitalism or the status quo or whatever is bad, make the case how anarchism functions on an ordinary, boring day, that is to say how it organises regular life, that is the relevant question.
Whats the point of using Ubuntu at that point? Why not just use Debian if you're gonna manually install everything anyway instead?
Whether or it it is “for the looks” probably depends on which particular model you’re talking about. But adding downforce always adds traction.
They are being forced to - by the threat of being voted out of office.
Yes, always. No company is explicitly, purposefully doing evil.

Also, "evil" is such a subjective word that it's almost meaningless with no context.
> Certainly children don’t, if you’re only talking about prepubescent children, but they’re also not particularly relevant to a discussion about working from home.

Then I think it's pretty clear that's not what I meant when I said children... It becomes even more clear when you realize I said "or their own car", or did you think it was my belief that 5 year olds were driving themselves to school?