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I often contemplate what it is that leads to a "good life". I am very fortunate in so many ways, yet I allow myself to feel envy, call circumstances unfair because I didn't get what I want, or forget to be grateful. I see my kids growing up not knowing what struggling really feels like and realize that I don't have a true perspective of being without. I'm not saying that I would rather experience the feeling of hunger when you haven't eaten in days or the fear of not having access to medical services if my children or I were sick or injured. It seems that often times people don't "wake up" to an understanding of what truly matters, what really makes a good life, until they have faced tragedy. I don't want to wait for that. Instead, like the article states, I hope to be more considerate of the circumstances others have and are experiencing, thankful for opportunities and pitfalls of each day, and open to other perspectives; and I hope to pass that along to my children.
I have seen various efforts to do this stuff in a way that is checkable via mypy (i.e. using Python's own type system + as much dynamism is still type-able) and so far it looks like it's a much harder task

These folks have several excellent projects in that direction though:
https://github.com/dry-python/
+1 for that book. This is how I reviewed it on Goodreads:

"William Ury summarizes the main idea in this book as: Yes! No. Yes? When you say no to something, there is a reason. For example, you say no to working late, because you want to spend time with your family. The first yes is the yes you say to being with your family, and it is the reason you then say no to working late. The third yes is the effort to keep the relationship positive, even though you have said no.

This formula is a great way of saying no in a positive way, and the whole book is spent explaining the formula and how to apply it. There are many examples throughout the book, and William Ury does a great job teaching the reader how to say no in the best possible way. Even if you don’t normally have a hard time saying no, it is still valuable to read, because the system he lays out is so well thought out. It’s a quick read, and all the examples make it even easier to understand."

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1871656944
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As an Australian who lives in the US, the vast chasm between how elections work in the two countries still boggles my mind.

First, the US needs mandatory voting. This is what Australia has. The argument against this has always been about uninformed people voting and "fraud". I used to be sympathetic to this argument until I saw the massive scale of voter suppression that occurs in the US.

Mandatory voting immediately changes the conversation from "How do we get our side to vote and the other side note to?" to the legal obligation officials have to ensuring everyone can vote.

Voting also happens on the weekend in Australia. This greatly simplifies finding polling places. Most of them are schools.

The other thing that Australia has that the US needs (which will never happen) is preferential voting.

A big mistake the US makes (IMHO) is how the election process itself is politicized. I mean who thought it was a good idea that election supervisors are an elected position?

In Australia, we have the Australian Electoral Commission, who is responsible for organizing elections, tallying and reporting the results and determining district boundaries. Somehow this manages to function without it being a partisan battleground.

The real problem here seems to be cultural. You have a conservative once-majority now-minority that seems to feel that the ends justify the means. I mean the level of hypocrisy here is truly jaw-dropping. Four years ago it was too contentious to hold hearings on a nominee 10 months before an election. Now? We may have a Supreme Court confirmation in a lame duck session.

Remember the outrage around Hilary's emails? Yet on Russian interference in the election? Nothing. No, that's "fake news".

And by any objective measure, Trump himself is a reprehensible human being, whether you agree with his politics or not.

How self-described "moral voters" can turn a blind eye to all this, basically "because abortion", is almost incomprehensible. I have to wonder if overturning Roe v. Wade might not be the best thing at this point. Two-thirds of the population live in states that will legalize it anyway and then this issue can stop being a rallying cry.

As for this effort, I don't actually believe it was organized this way from the top (ie White House, RNC). It's the sort of thing that really smells like some mid-level functionary and state politics wannabe acting on their own with something that ultimately probably won't matter but is great virtue signaling (for someone who wants endorsements and support for some later election).

Or it could be some partisan mid-level manager who acted on their own.

To anyone saying "no maintenance takes a day", I guarantee you it can. This could easily be a database server that is being replaced. It needs to be set up and the database copied over. Not everyone runs EC2 instances. In the real world deployments can be (and usually are) incredibly primitive.
I adapted a user.js template [1] that hardens Firefox by disabling a lot of features, including disabling Mozilla products like Pocket.

By default it is very strict though, so you will probably want to go through the config setting by setting and relax it a bit. Like enabling Webassembly and the search engine integration of the URL bar.

Most settings have inline comments explaining what they do and why they are chosen.

[1] https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js
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It's just a moratorium on taxpayer funding, not a ban. As a taxpayer, I'm ok with the government not funding racist ideology.
It can be even more basic. Just having your own quiet space makes a huge difference to study outcomes. Someone living in a tiny apartment with a shared bedroom, the TV next door, and constant street noise is going to have a much harder time concentrating than someone with a private bedroom at the top of a detached house.

Of course genes play a part, but eugenics is mostly economic and political discrimination, not objective assessment of absolute potential.
Comes up all the time between me and my boss with whom I share a mutual respect and, similar to parent, sometimes he was right and sometimes I was right. At the end of the day, it didn't really matter because as a manager the outcomes were his responsibility, therefore he gets the final say.
The point is that he didn't even say anything and you jumped down his throat. Imagine if he had.
Hi, VS Code dev here. We actually put a lot of effort into documenting API and extension development. This is why `API` is one of the main sections on our home page: https://code.visualstudio.com/api. It's also why we have very restricted API guidelines: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Extension-API-guide...

We'd love to hear more about the lack of documentation you're referring to. It's definitely a solvable problem. Could you create an issue so we address the problem? https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues

Also on

> But petty gripe: please kill the git username/password fields when I git clone a private repo over HTTPS in the console. I don't like being aggro towards what other devs find cool, but I think hijacking a CLI with an extension incredibly annoying. And I can't find a way to disable that specific "feature" without disabling all of the git integration, which I use all the time.

This can be disabled with the `git.terminalAuthentication` setting.
> https://climateactiontracker.org/

EU is on track (past 10 years and future 10 years) of reducing emissions by about 10% per decade. India is on track of increasing emissions by about 50% per decade. Yes EU is classified as "insufficient" and India as "2 degrees compatible". I guess that has to do with India's emissions being smaller in absolute terms at the moment, even though they are on an increasing track.

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/eu/
https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/india/
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The earth is a self stabilizing system over long time frames. If you disrupt that balance in the short term expect to wait a long time for things to get better on their own.
This post made me think of something kind of tangentally related. The youtube channel Thought Emporium shows just how easy it is to genetically modify stuff nowadays. It only costs a few thousand dollars to make a yeast that makes proteins from other animals. Why don't they make genetically modified yeast that produces the venom from snakes and such so that antivenom could be made en masse?
If anyone's interested, the double acute means that the vowel is longer than a regular ö or ü (there's no ä in Hungarian BTW). Same for á é í ó ú, with the added complication that a and e are pronounced differently.

...and kudos to salon for getting Rubik's name right!
On the other hand, a Mensa gathering (not a member, myself) is one of the few situations I've been in that was hard to characterize as anything other than freakshow on earth. Shows that you can maximize a single dimension so much that you are left with people incapable of communication.

Similarly, an organization of students maximizing academic performance has a certain vibe that definitely doesn't feel "perfect". It doesn't even seem like that useful of a skill, but I'd have to know the purpose of a uni to comment further.
> fatality count

If you count WW2 in, sure, but nowadays? I think very few of even the most extremist people on either side will murder for their convictions. If we’re talking political violence, we should focus on counting stuff like beatings, arson, even people getting canceled, because it usually doesn’t manifest in killings.

> Or guns and ammo count.

Not indicative of violence at all.
I'm starting a (completely unofficial) project to understand the difficulties involved in getting started with Haskell. If you have the time and inclination I'd be much obliged if you would file a new issue explaining in more detail what points of pain and frustration you encountered: https://github.com/tomjaguarpaw/tilapia/issues/new
What amazes me most is that tech-savvy people still use Google Chrome, which is basically spyware.

That pay is abhorrent for a company that failed to communicate the mission, even though the browser is better than ever.
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I see your point but you can't blame this entirely on women. Men themselves rank each other based on status / earnings. They may not do it to each other's faces but definitely there's a mental book-keeping on whose "doing well" , and accordingly many men will show more respect to people with high status.
Now of course not everyone's like that, and indeed this changes from culture to culture on how pronounced it is.
Also, the more capitalistic a society is and the weaker the social safety net, one can't really blame women for chasing savings and things. They and there offsprings can potentially end up in the street if circumstances go bad, so they need a partner that can take care of their material wellbeing.
Open source projects are full of smart people who want to contribute and are still often organisational clusterfucks. Unfortunately being smart and passionate alone doesn’t necessarily make you an effective leader.
Just updated and you are correct, 81 feels much snappier!
I'd argue the desire for consumer goods is very much equal for men and women, and is not inherently a bad thing. Some people are content when they have _things_, others seek thrill and experiences. Getting drunk on power is a trip worth striding for for many.

The hamster-wheel is not based on any single subset of desires, it's the sum of all of them
Presumably one realizes their mistake the moment they touch the leaves, long before they can reach around. So really you could tell anything to an unsuspecting victim just to get them to touch it. The "toilet paper" spin might be there to give the tale a humorous effect.
I don't know where you got that idea from, but your impression of the entire female gender is flawed, stereotypical, and yes, wrong.

I'm male. My competitive streak and desire for material goods is in direct conflict with my wife's desires. Most people I know similarly refute your opinion by their goals, personalities, and life status.
https://github.com/thesquash/stlwrt
The signed note from Miyazaki says "Please use these freely, within the bounds of common sense"

> Can i use them commercialy? Like for example when demoing a product? Can they be remixed/edited?

Probably not
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This only makes sense if you start with the assumption that anyone with any conservative views is fundamentally broken as a human being and they need to be 'fixed' before they can be treated equal to the other 'normal' people.
I'm not sure the analogy of the scribe works or that the population needs to be come "literate" in programming languages. You can essentially substitute any profession and the analogy holds true. For example, doctors are literate in medicine, while I am not. Do I need to become literate in medicine (beyond a surface level)? No, this is why professionals exist in the first place, so that I do not need to become "literate" in everything.
The EO claims that it's a misrepresentation to say, as Stephen A. Douglas did, that 'our government "was made on the white basis" "by white men, for the benefit of white men". Our Founding documents rejected these radicalized views of America, which were soundly defeated on the blood-stained battlefields of the Civil War."

Given the slavery in those founding documents, the Naturalization Act of 1790 (which limited naturalization to free white people of good character), the common law practice of the time of coverture, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and the post-slavery Jim Crow laws - how was Douglas misrepresenting the Republic at that time?
> hardly "scraps"

Your link says charity given by individuals decreased while scraps thrown by rich people increases, thanks for defeating your own argument.

> the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta:

Which says wages are rising partly because the states are increasing their minimum wage. So you can thank the law not the employers for that.

> the majority of the variance in US's average life expectancy is attributable to lifestyle choices and cultural factors

Yes you claim that but when I asked you the reason, you dont know the answer and yet if the these hypothetical reasons are fixed it will magically fix the life expectancy. Do you see a flaw in your logic?

> A mother in the bottom 20% in the US would spend close to nothing

Is it nothing or close to nothing, it its close, what is it?
Poor people and even middle class people atleast in Australia dont have to jump though all these hoops, the cost is nothing.

Is jumping though all these hoops the reason why US has the highest maternal mortality rate among the developed world.

Why would a nation whose poorest 20% are richer than average OECD people have the highest maternal mortality rate?
Evolution does not demand anything of anybody, especially not of self-aware people who can make their own realizations about what's good for themselves.

Evolution means adaptation to change; "society" is made up of the people around you, and they will also adapt to changes. Sometimes you need to push back a little to make a comfortable room for yourself between them.
Unfortunately "luxury" doesn't seem like the likely outcome here. Luxury items are created via artificial scarcity (e.g. diamonds) or just by high cost of expertise and goods (e.g. a luxury car). In order for food to become a luxury item, it needs to be a more costly variation on something which is more readily available. This allows for a constant demand, with a side business in exotic expensive extras.

If coffee, globally, needed to be grown in greenhouses it would just become a novelty tree that school trips visited until the climate turned around and it became an economically viable crop again.
That's cool, wish there were other "big" languages too ;)
Better living through chemistry?
We're still waiting for you.
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I know what you mean. It gave me a deep, primitive dread and fear.
"Do you know what X feels like?"

"Yes"

"That's just whataboutism!"
I've recently switched from Spacemacs (vim-style modal editing and keyboard commands, in Emacs) to "Vanilla" Emacs.

I've been finding that once I changed capslock to become control, the various keyboard commands in Emacs make a lot of sense to me. In fact, far more than I thought they would, to the point where I'm feeling a lot more comfortable and competent performing the shortcuts, which means I remember a lot more of them. (Remembering shortcuts has always been a problem for me because I have various Adult ADHD issues.)

Sure, it's just one person's anecdotal and subjective, experience, but I've found myself using Emacs to edit my code (mostly Terraform and Ansible) much more than VSCode.
> Why do men who have a partner already feel obliged to continue capturing more and more resources?

Great question. I think there are strong forces and dynamics that push us to earn more and "improve", constantly, regardless of whether we have a partner or not. It's kindof what a capitalistic society is built upon. If we didn't consume much gdp wouldn't grow right? If we didn't compete how would earnings increase?
It's coming from peers, parents, spouses and from the way society itself is structured.
I think it doesn't have tons to do with genes or evolutionary instincts though they may also explain some of it.
Just to be clear, you are advocating removing government officials by violent means? Please explain the difference between that and domestic terrorism.

To say American elections are "compromised" is both a gross exaggeration and a Dunning-Krugeresque oversimplification. Gerrymandering is absolutely a problem and needs to be dealt with. It's the primary (no pun intended) reason for the polarization of our elected officials. Having a non-partisan commission determine districts would help, but how to appoint those officials is not a solved problem.
So you replace 1 CEO with a committee of 6 people and save how much money?
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

This is why, before setting out to improve performance, you have to define a performance metric, goal, and do some profiling. Otherwise people end up flailing around changing things based on what they've heard has better performance.
Haha, that's funny.

Do you remember the Syrian refugee crisis and how it destabilized pretty much all of Europe and how we're still dealing (or failing to deal) with the political consequences of these upheavals?

How do 1.5 billion migrations by 2050 sound to you? Yeah. Many many issues.

And I'm not even going into the discussion that the whole planet will be toast once we reach +5 degrees celsius, which looks more and more not only like a extreme outlier but a real possibility instead.

Fun times ahead.
Something tells me that out of the three new apps, Judger, Rural Juror, and Executioner, the executioner app will be the most popular.
While they may have the upper hand when it comes to selecting companions, they definitely don't have more power over men. One simply has to look at laws in cultures all over the world that suppress their rights. In societies where they don't have the right to choose their mates male competition still exists. In addition, what alternative are you even suggesting? That women choose defy their own well-being and mate with all men?
There's some standard visual mnemonics for this (though you can tweak them to suit yourself).

https://artofmemory.com/wiki/Card_Memorization_Techniques
If anything, websites made with drag-and-drop website builders should always use the latest TLS standard because it’s just a single change for the hosting provider to make for all of the customers. I think the hosting provider generates a certificate anyway.
There is a cmake linter. I use it for some of the projects I inherited which still use cmake.

But cmake is a joke really. Overly simplistic, but for anything close to a real project compared to autotools, autotools is much much better. With autotools you get tons of constantly improving standard probes and fixes. Cmake is only for really trivially small projects.

I just added cross-compilation support for my aarch64 phones. It was doable with cmake, but it's a huge mess. With autotools it would have needed no changes at all. For cmake I need seperate CmakeCFG files. Not even talking about adding GPU support. Or valgrind. Or proper testing.
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They're simple, clean, unified, and I love the license. Nice work! Going to pass this along to the designers so they know it's an option.
maybe OP is referring to memory allocation during compilation?
> It's probably not true that all Trump supporters want a civil war

Probably? Dude. Don’t be ridiculous. Exactly this kind of demonization of the opposing political party is causing so many problems today.
Those are good points, and it’s frustrating that they don’t seem to be in Mozilla’s focus, but do you really believe this could lead to an Apple-style comeback?
Thank you for your explanation, this helped a lot.
For some reason I kind of see it as a different application of the 80/20 rule.

I can say with certainty, once you have a second child, you get really good at half-arsing. There just is not enough time to do everything you want to do.
The last thing you want is rich mediocre kids believing they're smart and accomplished when they aren't.

Some of them will go into politics and business, and their entitlement and delusionally rosy view of their talents will make them a national liability.

You really want to steer rich slackers towards wasting their lives with dumb hedonism, keeping them as far away as possible from any activity with strategic influence.
He did say something, he said that it bothers him to have to shape the way he speaks to other people so that they are not offended. And what exactly is weird about that? Sounds like life to me. And that he misunderstands free speech which is about the government not being able to imprison you or legally punish you for speech.
I always found it odd that the GEM environment supported this kind of cooperative multitasking by default only for desk accessories. The API support for doing it more broadly was there, but the desktop and all the applications were written so they would not be. So even when we got proper multitasking support under MiNT there were few/no applications that behaved well in this scenario.

I never saw uemacs compiled as a DA. That would have been a nice trick. The only microemacs I used on my ST was not a windowed application, was console only.