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Funny you should mention that book. Tom West's daughter is Jessamyn West, famous Vermont librarian. Her cousin is Christopher Schwarz of Lost Art Press, influential author and publisher of woodworking books. She was recently interviewed on Vermont Public Radio's Brave Little State podcast on an episode about religion in Vermont.

I believe all of the above is public information about the named people.

If I'm honest, I haven't yet read The Soul of a New Machine, but it's on my list. I did pick up House[0], also by Tracy Kidder and read it over the winter holidays a couple of years ago. I'm not sure exactly how I'd sum it up, so I'll leave that to the author, linked below. I've also read excerpts of Among Schoolchildren[1] and can recommend it (at least the parts I've read) as well.

[0] https://www.tracykidder.com/house.html

[1] https://www.tracykidder.com/among-schoolchildren.html
China doesn't have mandatory military service, Taiwan does.
This isn't the point of the article.

The point is that if you look at middle-class Americans, they do have an astounding amount of crap in their homes, even when compared to equivalently wealthy people in other nations.

Having been around the world a bunch, the material excess of the American middle class is real and true. Precisely _because_ people don't give much thought to the creap stuff they're buying and, frankly, because the suburban middle class lifestyle isn't exactly rich in the aesthetic appreciation for high-quality goods when 90% of the stuff you buy comes from department stores that have appeared in the last 50 years.

Not to say that there _aren't_ enormous benefits to having access to a gigantic market of every material object you could ever possibly need.

But as I look at most boomer's houses, the vast majority are drowning in a sea of totally useless objects, half-broken, that have never found great use and are just sitting there taking up space. Most of my friends in their 30s share a similar opinion about that generation's attitude towards consumption.

I do think the Internet has made for better consumers when it comes to niche objects, and after material overflow was no longer a status indicator, we decided to drill into higher quality, "nice" things. But consumerist culture lives on.
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I want to like this article but there is a piece that is missing.

I think reading books is overrated, especially for something like what the author is trying to “cure”.

My biggest gripe is that you’re reading an interpretation filtered through the eyes of someone else. You will never form the kind of tacit wisdom needed if all you do is listen to things other people have done with their lives.

I strongly recommend to instead pursue a vocation. A calling. I don’t have anything to recommend in particular. Take up something artistic and creative and allow yourself to experience different dimensions of existence for yourself, as an example. Your life will be more enriched if you write your own story.
Have you looked at Streisand? Super easy script that sets up wireguard and several other protocols for you all at once, all you need is a VPS https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
And satisfactory, that's my newest obsession.
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The East India Company was founded in 1600 and had its own army before it was nationalized. So it is not like big companies is something that never happened before. And as we can see in the US, the state can easily control, cooperate with and even destroy companies, no matter how big they are.
B+Tree leaf nodes contain keys and values. In kvlds (which is the core B+Tree component of kivaloo), the code aims to keep nodes at least 2/3 full, in order to keep the tree approximately balanced. If a key-value pair can take more than 1/3 of a page, you could have a situation where a node is less than 2/3 of a page but adding another key-value pair would take it above the maximum allowed size.

This restriction could be relaxed, e.g. to require only that internal nodes are at least 2/3 full, in which case for the small key / large value case you could have pages which are barely larger than the largest value. I didn't bother doing that since it wasn't relevant to my usage.
> Despite being often a dreadful person to deal with, he was an original thinker who could actually ship things even it took most of a lifetime.

Honestly, what is so admirable about this? There are a lot of people who take visionary stances and ultimately fail - these stories rarely get talked about. I'm sure there are more than a handful of visionary stances that Jobs took that never formed. It's survivorship bias at its finest.

Don't get me wrong, Jobs is/was an impressive person, but he gets a Midas-like reputation that is beyond cult like.
In addition to things people have already commented on, the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance also comes with requirements such as: being mindful and reporting things like contact with foreign nationals, reporting plans for and completed foreign travel, generally being able to account for your whereabouts during those travels to the day.

(Caveat: these are "rules" for regular people that have been given the privilege of holding a US national security clearance. There are many examples of people that have held security clearances that get away with conduct that would otherwise result in revocation and criminal charges for regular persons)
Fish aren’t human, so the proper pronoun for ridiculous_fish is “it”.
Has anyone tried this with Google though? Is there a chance it can result in a locked account? And what would recovery be like?
He's just realistic. 99% of people are "idiots" by that definition. Twitter and the press are full of people who take themselves really seriously but turn out to be total idiots upon further scrutiny. I think it's undeniable, however, that he's really good at what he does. Spotify deal aside, wouldn't have 9 million subscribers otherwise.
It's pronounced "key-value". The "kee-va-lieu" thing was a joke. ;-)
The most gruesome briefing I remember from the military was the dermatologist prior to fortnight leave.
Nobody has ever managed to sell a web browser (Netscape's problem), im not sure why people would buy extensions when they wouldn't be willing to buy a browser.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I've long considered myself not smart enough to shoot with a flash, but I've never given it a really serious try learning. As I understand it, getting the exposure right can be a challenge. Or maybe it's just a learning curve I haven't tried climbing yet :-)

Everything on my site was shot with continuous light, but I'll take a deeper look at the site and see what I can learn. Some of the photos definitely make me want to! And let's be honest, strobes are a lot less hassle to deal with than studio lights.
My question was rhetorical. Users can help, but they shouldn't. This is not their responsibility. This is the equivalent of Netflix interrupting my service because I need to help them to migrate their payment provider and they cannot do it if I don't do some manual process.
I hate it but you arguably couldn't use them for life unless you wanted to run some old version of the OS they came out on in a VM. OSes change, the deprecate and remove old features. You can't run Photoshop CS6 (the last non SaaS version) on Catalina.

In the past I got by on 1 upgrade every 4 years or about $50 a year. Now it's $120 a year. Before the incentives were aligned. Add new amazing features or I'm not upgrading. Now the incentives are not aligned. The more money they spend on dev the less money they make. The are 100s of features I see on cheap or free iOS image editing apps I'd have expected to see long ago in Photoshop or Lightroom but Adobe no longer has any incentive to add features. As just one example, the features of the Focos app. Being able to create an AI generated depth mask would be extremely useful in Photoshop.

I'm sure you can make excuses why this isn't a valid data point but look at Wikipedia's Photoshop feature list by version. Notice how before SaaS each version shows about 4-5 paragraphs of new features, after SaaS each version is just a single paragraph of mostly minor re-workings of existing features

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop#Version_histor...
Depends on the state, but look for verbiage related to lodging a consumer complaint. Here's[1] the one for my state.

The AG office isn't necessarily writing a personalized letter, but rather forwarding your complaint and maintaining visibility into the correspondence until it's resolved.

In this case, a complaint such as "Google operates a marketplace for web browser extensions. I generate revenue through this marketplace, and have been unable to obtain the transaction records for sales made through Google's marketplace that are necessary to comply with my NY State tax obligations. Please see attached for correspondence records of my unsuccessful attempts to resolve this situation to date."

AG's office forwards that to Google's legal team, asks for a response. Technically the AG's office doesn't care how the situation gets resolved, and they're just acting to facilitate the complaint and not as your personal lawyer. But in this situation a resolution/response of "oh yea, no we can't give you those our export button is broke" _would_ be of interest to the AGs office, since it potentially means there are many NY state residents unable to comply with their tax obligations and it becomes an actual issue on their radar to look into. So instead their legal team will track down whoever the hell is responsible/capable of providing those records, hand them over with a smile, get the matter closed with the AG's office, and give you a direct point of contact for the future, so Big Brother AG doesn't have to get involved (or see) future correspondence on the matter.

Actual responses will vary depending on the complaint. But issues that are likely to impact more than just you are likely to be taken the most seriously by the company receiving the complaint, since those are the ones that could be issues the AG decides to look into "on behalf of the State" and can lead to enforcement actions/fines/etc.

[1] https://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/working-for-tennessee/fil...
I get the feeling that most simply don't care about status quo, but they have been in this "industry" for quite some time, aren't flaws of PDF transparent?
While I don't mind Latex, I would argue HTML is better suited for automated processing, whatever purpose it meant for
For where you'll be located, you're damn right it's an excellent salary.

And don't forget one of the biggest benefits of all... actually making something useful rather than spending your most important years working on how to get people to click a button or stare longer at their screens to enrich your employer.
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Crane would be way more complex and something like 50x more expensive.
PWAs definitely exist for smaller apps, companies with smaller development budgets, and internal usage. Maintaining teams of mobile devs for apps that may have a couple hundred users is a waste of money when your perfectly capable web devs can learn to use Cordova or similar platforms.

Thing is, doing web development is _freaking_ hard. Learning the quirks of different mobile browsers, and dealing with Apple purposely slowing down Safari development to make it an unappealing platoform for web devs, makes thigs pretty difficult.

But even without those things, just making a regular SPA that can downscale well and play around with different browsers is still a huge challenge. Whenever my frontend dev friends complain about the ridiculous bugs they have to deal with I just wince. Comparatively speaking, backend development is just way more consistent and predictable.
That's part of the point, though — can a federated service become easy or self-managing enough for people to run without needing sysadmin expertise?

Drew's point is that people who can have or acquire that expertise are force multipliers — it's easy _enough_ that one person can run a node that carries less-technical users into the ecosystem. But I don't think we're really there yet, and worse the value isn't there in federated social media to offset the costs of time, money, and change.

We've seen distributed networks capture enough imagination and be usable enough to get mass adoption, but they did things like distribute tremendous proprietary media libraries on the cheap and without permission.

Services like Mastodon aren't as easy to spin up for a group as, say, running Napster was, or even seeding a torrent is now. But people, even non-techincal ones, either put up with those services' occasional unreliability or recruited more technical users to work them on their behalf because the relative value was so great.

So to me the problem with federation is making the value exceed the cost. It's a squeeze from both sides. We won't get there until an ActivityPub service is as easy to stand up as running an app on your device, AND the value of running one is large enough to make it worth the trouble.

It feels like messaging should be where the value end should have already taken off, but federated group chat is still a rat's nest of incompatible or feature-starved services. Federated social is still just on the wrong side of complexity and the value it provides honestly isn't that great to a mass audience.
Can we get a picture of the clavichord?! Talk about burying the lede.
Too bad the site is just whitepage without javascript.
I'm thinking of showing suffixes like that once you click on a result that you like. Is that what you are envisioning as well?
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The last browser extension i used that was basically an app was chatzilla for firefox, and that was a long time ago. I can't even think of an extension that would make sense as an independent app, let alone one i would pay for.
> But you can't hand wave away his statements on Twitter as "Oh, that's just Elon, all Tesla's corporate statements have very explicitly (in at times very fine print) said it's contingent on 'capability' and 'regulation'" when Tesla have literally said "Elon's Twitter _is_ a Tesla corporate statement".

Yes and no. His settlement with SEC only requires vetting for tweets that have material impact to investors. Anything else is just his opinion, although I agree that's a very fine line - [0]

Take his tweet sent out today about Battery Day event tomorrow:

> Important note about Tesla Battery Day unveil tomorrow. This affects long-term production, especially Semi, Cybertruck & Roadster, but what we announce will not reach serious high-volume production until 2022 - [1]

Clearly a vetted communication. A less serious one in contrast:

> Bitte arbeiten Sie bei Tesla Giga Berlin! Es wird super Spaß machen!! - [2]

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/26/tesla-elo...

[1] - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1308148212876812289

[2] - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1304175179606695937
Fear the Old ~~Microsoft~~ Blood.
A very ill-mannered response. If you don't want to participate in the discussion anymore, you can show yourself the exit rather than insulting your interlocutor.
True but they're still much easier to find in a scan. Most scans will prioritize them.
No. It's measuring the amount of investment into the game.

Some very dedicated folks took the pittance of time/money afforded to them and made a fantastic effort. Imagine what the same people could have done with an engine that wasn't merely a minor graphical improvement. Imagine what FO4 could have been with richer story telling technology (dialog mechanics, interaction mechanics, etc.), instead the content team was stuck with the same scripting power available in Skyrim.

BOTH the effort of people who clearly care about the franchise AND the publisher's shameless money grubbing show in the final product.
News sites & their Ad linked sites tend to do this to keep you stuck in their maze
Exactly. It is virtue signalling at its finest and it does absolutely nothing to address the actual concern or create anything substantiative.

> The v8.6 version makes the V8 code base more respectful. The team joined a Chromium-wide effort to follow Google’s commitments to racial equity by replacing some insensitive terms in the project.

The 'decisions' of the Chromium team never cease to be so illogical. If they complain about upstreaming another OS like the BSDs (Because they're a minority of users and its vewy vewy 'hard' to maintain) [0] but happily rename words in the entire Chromium codebase to appeal to a minority of actually 'offended' people of the sake of so-called 'inclusivity', then I'm afraid they have just defied any sense of logic and reason.

This is the hill they want to die on.

> This is still an ongoing effort and any external contributor is welcome to give a hand! You can see the list of still available tasks here.

An ongoing senseless wasted effort.

[0] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/...
Story as I recall had SecDef William Perry call both CEOs to Washington and tell them their companies "needed" to merge.
iCab

The problem today is that nobody can even make a browser. Even Microsoft failed, and was forced to adopt Chromium. The web has become far too complex.
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Sure, if you give static language a JIT they'll be able to get the advantages of having JIT, though language semantics still matter. A language built for JITs like Julia or Common Lisp have native ways of interfacing with the compiler, and programs are built without worry of exponential explosion of implementations during method monomorphization (as you'll only compile the optimal versions that you'll actually use, based on runtime information, without having to be pessimist as any overspecialization can be fixed on demand). AoT languages would probably need a compiler pragma or type similar to a dynamic boxing but for delayed monomorphization/compilation for methods when you want to avoid compiling all paths AoT (which might be a way to allow for example tensor specialization on sizes, similar to StaticArrays on Julia).
> In some Rust forums, the language designers were shocked to learn that this is possible.

Who? Where? I guarantee you that the people responsible for the `usize` type, or its usage in the stdlib collections, were not shocked.
> Why limit the interpretation of free speech to the US constitution?

Because that's literally what the grandparent asked. You appear to have a completely different question.
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My issue with federation is that so far, everything still requires some centralisation. Take Matrix for instance. The most popular homeserver by a long, long shot is the one that the Matrix foundation runs themselves. This is same for Mastadon, PeerTube, etc. If you let this experiment play out long enough, you end up with a de facto centralised system.

I think P2P ends up being closer to the goal of distributed control because it doesn't tend towards centralisation over time. My issue with P2P though is that it still requires trackers for boostraping in most cases. DHT only gets you so far.

I think there will be some interesting advances once IPv6 becomes more widely deployed. Hopefully this time around multicast is widely deployed on the internet. Imagine being able to subscribe to a multicast group and instantly receive DHT nodes over the internet without a tracker? Not sure how this would work in practice, but I have heard of some research being done here. I think the future looks very good for P2P applications, whereas federated applications are still on shaky ground.
Not really; most of them have centralized namespaces and servers. PPAs, Flatpak, and Deno are federated though.
What about SMS? I don't know where you live, but here in America everyone I know uses it.
I think also a certain amount of non freedom helps.

One of the big things facebook did is you couldn't customize your page. No autoplaying midis with seizure inducing gifs. Also helps with brand cohesion.

Federation gives people freedom. Quite frankly users cannot be trusted to maintain a good experience if given freedom.
That is very true, and has been employed successfully in past wars... thinking Russian T-34 of WWII or the T-54 of the Cold War era
So depending on the monkey the robot may be cheaper.

Another cost farmers will likely look at is the cost of a monkey handler, which are widespread vs the cost of a specialised employee who can operate a robot. Unfortunately, the monkey handler is likely cheaper.
> Congress controls the purse, not the President

Congress authorizes spending but the executive actually does it and, in practice, can fail to do it selectively. If not statutorily authorized, this can be illegal, but the fact that it's illegal doesn't mean a whole lot until someone uses that fact to force it to be undone, which can take quite a long time.

> If they want to change the law, they should vote on a bill first.

What if they just want to arbitrarily exercise power and don’t give a flip about the content of the law, what should they do then?
Very interesting. Pardon my ignorance, but what is a direct energy weapon?
Email sucks.

Spam is ramptant. Running a server is a nightmare.

Standards are a tar pit.

It "works" only for fairly loose definitions of "works".