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I think the idea that programming is a back-room industrial or maintenance operation performed by specialists misses the point that programming is also another way to use your computer. The most fluid and limitless way, in fact.

Programming is not just like being a car mechanic or factory floor engineer, its like being an expert driver at the same time.

When I use my desktop, it often occurs to me that I could write something to speed up a task, if only the application was accessible in a similar way to Emacs, or had Amiga-style ARexx ports that I could talk to in a script. From this perspective, programming is the most fine-grained GUI affordance within a computer system. By making it accessible along a continuum with simpler GUI tools, we greatly increase the ability of the user to do magic, or to learn to do it.

I would really like to see the development of an ergonomic expert-oriented desktop that lets me use my programming skills in a high-level and bureaucracy-free manner, to augment my use of an attractive and well-integrated GUI. There's no reason why such features should impinge on ordinary non-programmer use.
> Nonetheless, liberal democracies have an obligation to call a gulag a gulag.

That this even needs to be written in 2020 makes me very disappointed at the current state of human rights.
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This is an incredibly low-information perspective that's got to go. China is an authoritarian single-party state where citizens have no liberty, no justice, no recourse. It couldn't be more different to the US.

The ongoing demoralization of the US like this is outright sister.
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The difference I see between a city state and a nation is that in the former people belong to it by being part of the same strongly economically connected component[1], while in the latter people belong to it by being part of some granfalloon[2]. Some nations share an ethnicity, some a language, some a religion. As my country shares none of those, we've fallen back on shared historical myths and shared cultural traits, such as celebration of diversity ("il faut de tout pour faire un monde").

Consider cities in Alsace: they retained their economic identity despite intermittently swapping nations for the last couple of centuries. Returning to Machiavelli, Firenze has been under roman, Odoacer's, Ostrogothic, byzantine, lombard, carolingian, monarchic, feudal, local republican, local aristocratic, monarchic, french revolutionary, monarchic, Savoyard, and monarchic regimes before being incorporated into republican italy. I'm having trouble thinking of a nation which has stayed constant while having its cities change instead.

If Detroit had an army[3] and in principle set its own foreign policy, it would be considered a country just like Singapore. Consider the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Monaco , all few hundred of them, or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Monaco .

[1] from TFA: "... he means loyalty to Florence. He was a civil servant, serving regardless of regime; the Medici were hardly worse than many others. ... What mattered were family, friends, particularly circles of friends, lovers, the polis."

[2] consider before the nation was a thing, when larger-than-city political entities were simple: all the land that currently belonged to the same monarch.

[3] I'm not very familiar with the Detroit CSA, but it seems that of the local militia, at least four army companies are based in Detroit proper, so just the city proper, without land units from its periphery or the air wing at Selfridge, could probably field a larger military than Monaco.
I don't know man, if I have to do another std::chrono::duration_cast, i might chuck my computer out of a window.
Thanks. There must be more to this story. Everybody in China knows about the Yuan dynasty (and its origin).
> Your thesis is based on the notion that “society is unstable” more than ever before

It certainly isn't. But it is more polarized and increasing content control in the last 10 years made everything 10x times worse. We continue on this path...

If people just could run their mouths more freely in the most vulgar form, I think the situation would improve quickly. Some people watch sports for that, but I think really telling you opinion to someone on the internet can also be helpful. I don't think the world is ending from that.
On a massive scale? Proof?
Some genocides inspire silence.

West Papuan human rights tragedy mocked by new Australian PM

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/10/6/west-papuan-hum...
> Is China out for world domination, I really don't think so. Every single one of my Chinese friends is about as sweet as they come.

... is this satire?

Edit: or do you believe there’s some kind of correlation between some individual Chinese you know and the CPCs plans?
If a free and open Internet was a threat to media gatekeepers, walled gardens have neutralized this threat. Outrage over this latest incident isn't misplaced, but regulation will only further entrench these platforms.
China and WHO confirmed human to human transmission on Jan 20, before any doctors died and before China closed Wuhan province. Anyone who says or implies otherwise are lying or misinformed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/20/coronavirus-sp...
This is absurd. As a brown immigrant Muslim looking person, not only do I feel safer in the US than I would in China, I feel safer here than in France. Americans aren’t frothing at the mouth to ban Islamic religious clothing while schoolgirls in France have to remove their headscarves.
What exactly did Biden do to stand up to China during the Obama/Biden administration (or throughout his political career)? Here’s an incomplete list of things Trump has done:

- He refers to the Wuhan Virus as the China/Chinese Virus (CCP is trying very hard from distancing themselves from responsibility; they won’t even let us into Wuhan to investigate).

- He started a trade war with China, which has forced companies to move their manufacturing to Vietnam, India, Mexico, Taiwan, etc. (Biden admittedly said he would end Trump’s China tariffs, but the many companies that already left are unlikely to return), and even high end tech such as the iPhone is starting to get assembled outside China as well.

- He was the first US President to speak directly with Taiwan's President since 1979.

- He made the largest arms sale to Taiwan in the past few decades.

- The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act was signed under his administration.

- The TAIPEI Act was signed under his administration.

- Meng Wanzhou was arrested under his administration (which dragged Canada into it because China decided to arbitrarily arrest Canadian citizens).

- China Mobile was blocked from offering services in the US, citing national security risks.

- Huawei was blocked from using Android and chips with US tech (which will effectively kill their mobiles once their stock runs out).

- Huawei was blocked from building 5G networks (USA paid other nations to block them as well).

- Hong Kong’s special status was revoked.

- Universal Postal Union agreed to let countries raise postal rates after Trump threatened to leave - this means you’ll no longer be able to buy cheap junk from Aliexpress (and resellers like Wish) at no shipping cost (the receiving country was previously forced to deliver the products for free, even if you brought some toy for 10 cents).

- Trump is pushing for WTO to drop China’s developing country status.

- TikTok and WeChat (likely with more to come) would’ve been blocked by now if it wasn’t for judges temporarily blocking the bans.

China’s GDP growth in 2019 was also the lowest it’s been since 1990, and 2020 will be even lower. And China’s reputation around the world is at an all-time low (because all over the world then everyone is discussing everything Trump says, and he often attack China).

Also, China’s behavior is nothing new. The only thing that’s new is the fact that we finally have a president that for whatever reasons decided to turn them into his enemy. If EU and the rest of the world had any interest in standing up to China then they could implement their own tariffs, give 5G contracts to their own nation’s companies, etc. But they, just like the Obama/Biden administration, have no interest in doing so.
There are a number of problems with your comparison, but the most fundamental is that the Uyghurs are being persecuted as citizens by their own government.
And the entire prison system.
Why would it be harder for OoO to keep track of this than N mov/load instructions? It is just that the dependency tracker is working in instruction space?

As mentioned before these were microcoded anyways so it may end up "compiling" down to N loads which should track just as well.
When is it called a "prison" and when is it called a "concentration camp"?
I sense a shill.
Suggested reading: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin. It's a short read.
Which is why maybe you should actually understand Islam, what triggers radicalism, what doesn't, and how "The West" also gets that wrong, and how China navigates an exemption from Jihad.

Al Queda was specifically formed to create a predictable response from the West that the West would never get out of. Bin Laden's purpose of Al Queda was to make a war with them so expensive that the US tears itself apart over budget considerations alone. So, funny story...
> The US has concentration camps for blacks, native americans and immigrants, where they reeducate you to follow a tyrannical political system?

Yes, they are called ghettos.

> Are they tracked through a social credit system where you can't get a train out of your town if it's bad?

Yes, it's called the prison system.

> Where journalists repeteadly disappear?

not only journalists, but political leaders, rappers, pastors, etc.

> Where a treaty with the UK is ripped up and a city is invaded?

Well, that's the easiest one. The US is waging war against 3 or 4 African countries right now.
If anything the last year has shown that the economy is more reconfigurable than what was previously thought. Meanwhile, new green-dealers are promoting moving manufacturing back to Europe to deal with the climate crisis.

One solution is to use the ECB to print money, which is fine so long as the new money is used to build public assets and the majority of the new money is absorbed by labor. The core competency of EU innovation programs is micromanaging hourly expenditures. I'm sure some of that machinery could be moved over to building public assets in a way that doesn't overly enrich the holders of capital.
Free speech cannot be sacrificed. We’ll lose everything.
What is the definition of lifetime? Until you die, until the company goes out of business, or until the product's lifecycle ends? If it is the latter, there is not much risk involved.
And the rest of Europe avoiding an invasion from the Soviet Union due to NATO and us security guarantees.
Nobody sanctioned USA when George W started two wars on a whim against global community. So, no, nobody is going to sanction China, for exactly the same reasons.
So bugging a political opponent's room is comparable to exterminating an entire ethnic group?
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Yes, just the freedom of talking about the issue already makes the US much better than China.
Actually, I would say the problem with censorship is that it rarely stops at a good place. It might start from good intentions, but eventually we're shushing people that go against the herd without actually knowing they're wrong.

In this case, it seems pretty obvious that there aren't microchips in vaccines. I'm not even sure what those chips would do, or how they'd work.

But what if some day the government really did do that, or something else that seems ridiculous? We'll be censoring anyone who tries to tell us otherwise.

And 1 step worse: The government could order YouTube/etc to do that censoring, and it'll look like it's just their normal thing.

The problem with censorship is that legit and valuable free speech will eventually be restricted.
That is a fair concern, and I share it, but one can hardly blame that on social media. The Romans didn't have anything like our modern conception of social media, and they managed to collapse just fine without it. The problem as I see it is that fighting other Romans became more profitable for the Roman decision makers than fighting their neighbours.

Social media is an effective tool which can be used as a weapon, but the problem isn't that Americans have effective weapons; it's that they're incentivised to use them against each other. The solution to me seems pretty obviously a return to federalism. It's the fact that there is only one throne that makes everyone fight for it with whatever is at hand rather than build things up locally.
Thanks for this great list of resources, I might add these links in a section like "Further reading / More resources"!

> these free options are much deeper, comprehensive, and come with extensive coding assignments

There's no doubt that university courses are more deep and comprehensive, but my goal is not to compete with them or replace them, but rather complement them with practical exercises and visual explanations -- just like Khan Academy complements the school maths curriculum, even though thousands of comprehensive and deep books existed for centuries.
It is one of those things too inconsistent to rely on at this point - most buildings do not have internal maps. If I can’t find the restroom or a place, I look for an analog map or someone to ask at this point.

A lot of companies (Apple included) have digital internal maps of their buildings and offices - that’s a use-case I’ve used, likely because I know it is available.
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From what little I've used it, <range> is a C++ nightmare. Compile times explode and every time you get a tiny type error (which is impossible avoid, because the library is very persnickety about types) you get a bazillion pages of template errors.

Concepts and modules (supposedly) fix these issues, and I'm not going to use ranges again until those two are very mature features of C++. Even if you ignore this stuff, it's incredibly "C++ified" in just the worst way, with incredibly obtuse templates and type concepts all over the place.
Today. Today, everyone knows about it. The unpleasant parts of history have a tendency of disappearing. In a hundred years time, we might only remember Xanadu.
Git is such a standard these days that I don't think I can switch without it being difficult, even if I wanted to.

tbh I'm mostly happy with git. It does what I need it to do. Yes, it could be easier and more transparent, but everything is a trade-off.
Yeah, it is.

"Eezup geez! oi'm avin a roiht mare wiv me owlady. She wuz wew narked wiv me an trieda knock me sparkh ayt laas noiht"

"Don't be harsh with me old boy. I'm having a lot of trouble with my other half. She is very upset with me and tried to violently render me unconscious last night."

The oih usually rhymes with boy, but really has a hit of a H, depending on how common/drunk the individual speaking is. The a appended to words is like a "to", but it becomes a running vowel sound, like "gonna", but people do use it stand alone. I've heard "see ya ah morrah" (see you tomorrow) where the 'ah' is a schwa and probably could be prefixed to "morrah", I guess. Sometimes a K sound is quite aspirated, but only for effect, never consistently.

It's weird. A lot less people use this accent these days. And whenever people apparently come from this area on TV they always put on a posh version and sound more like Farmers. Funny really.
Camps yes, but if you're going to be technical, it's actually spread through out the United States and not just at the border and it is bad when you compare it to other developed countries.

Forced surgeries and sterilizations? For a claim like that, you're going to have to cite a credible source. As imperfect as we are, we're not as bad as China.
You answered your question with "apart from the nozzle"

It is the nozzle. Everything else is very simple to make because it is already done for 3d printers that are more complex than 2d printers(if you do not consider the nozzle).

5 years or so ago I made a 2d plotter with friends at my 3d printers community with the reverse engineering knowledge that we had about a specific cartridge with nozzles on it.

Printing with ink was easy, very easy. But we were interested in using it for 3d print wax, not so easy.

You need to manufacture nozzles, and that requires lots of money. That requires manufacturing plants. Very cheap in volume, but requires volume.

Open source has not volume in the millions, like big companies have, and those companies are not going to sell you the nozzles so you commoditize their professional field like linux did.
While I'm sure it's a challenge, after watching 3D printers evolve over the years, I've no doubt that random people will find unique and amazing ways to handle the problem.
The WHO hasn't come out against lockdowns and only one person is saying they have. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2...
I mean, it also led to the fall of a tyrannical regime that murdered tens of millions and was every bit as sadistic and evil as Nazi Germany. So there's that.
I support some extremely limited baseline censorship. Pretty much just "don't incite violence or get people harmed/killed". But I guess you need a World War ravaging your continent first to get there.
Let’s stop the false equivalency. Should more be done for the black community: absolutely. But black people aren’t locked up by the millions in internment camps.
Freedom of speech doesn't rely on the belief that humans are rational, it relies on the belief that there's no fundamental difference between some enlightened, rational circle of censors and the irrational masses.

WTF does this question have to do with the paradox of intolerance? There's nothing intolerant about the claim that the Bidens are corrupt.

> It's quite a stretch to call any of that "news". So I don't see how allegations of censorship even apply.

Freedom of speech isn't restricted to news and the idea that you can censor anything which doesn't fall into a narrowly defined category such as "news", with the censor deciding what counts as news and not, would completely kill the point of freedom of speech.

> The founders had the notion that democracy requires an informed populace.

I often see this claim but I'm not aware of any evidence that either the founders believed this, nor for the belief itself. It's also often used to argue for voting restrictions. It's kind of parallel to the idea that freedom of speech requires that people are rational, where again my question is: What's the alternative? What is the rational informed group that we should entrust restrictions to?

In your view some elite group should decide that NY Post, Fox News and OAnn are anti-informing people, not serving democracy. Well if we trust that elite group, why bother with democracy in the first place?
History has shown that the CCP will oppress the Han chinese if they do not bow down to their ideology.

"approximately 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners had been killed for their organs between 2000 and 2008"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
Whatever shit they do, you don't want to step to that level. It is not true that you will loose otherwise, on the contrary, you will become a republican otherwise.
I agree with this. Their goal is to get people to buy the stuff they normally wouldn't. They know you're already going to buy your normal items, so cutting you a break on those doesn't help them. Instead, they want you to buy that steam vacuum that you'll use a couple times and then forget about it or realize those messy kids never give the time to use it.
It's easy to say in hindsight, but Reagan's attitude could easily have escalated the cold war and caused a nuclear attack.

The entire debacle during the cold war was less strong and smart political leaders and more pure luck. We now know that there were people that, if they had followed protocol, would have taken that extra step to nuclear deployment. The only reason they didn't is sheer, dumb luck.

If the lessons we learn from history are to deify the actions of men like Reagan, then I truly hope that we have more of that luck in our future.
The point is to illustrate that this article is serving an anti-China narrative, which has been motivated over several years and decades by right-wing politicians looking for a palatable enemy to unite behind (replacing Russia in this role)

China can and does do bad things, but why do we read about that more often and with more emphasis than Western countries doing bad things?
The difference is that if mere propagation were problematic, then Monsanto directly harmed him by the contamination. He could use the "unclean hands" defense if Monsanto sued. But if he took deliberate action to concentrate the genes, over and above what would normally be done just growing crops, that defense would no longer be available.

Monsanto's statements that it would not sue for just contamination can be viewed as immunizing them against being sued for that contamination.
Yea, but it gets boring. Nobody is going to call for sanctions on America for anything and you'll never see a constant stream of articles for anything the US does.

When the US drops a record amount of bombs on a country[1] in a war people barely think about anymore and people barely blink an eye, is it really humans (lets not even talk about human rights yet), but rather just our fellow human beings, that people care about.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/28/us-afghanist...
> where citizens have no liberty, no justice, no recourse

Disagree if you mean in general sense. You need to define it in far more details. I guess you mean “when their interest conflicts with the government”. Ask common Chinese citizens who live a non-activist life if they agreed that they are slaves and don’t have any of those rights
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or names on birthday cakes.
cutting guides on wood.
UV paint on metal.
Jokes on toilet roll :)

thinking there might be mileage in this idea. clearly a mod from a 3D printer design would be where to start. standardise ink delivery / modules for different materials with different characteristics. A standardised printer driver for Linux and other platforms would get a lot or re-us.
I still find reading a long paper (the academic kind) in printed format is much more superior to any electronic screen in any form factor including e-ink displays.

Using pen on paper is much more natural, tactile and much more efficient in terms of concentration and uninterrupted work for me.

YMMV, of course.
The world I see inside USA doesn't seem like something worth spreading either.
Yeah that works. I think I've heard it too.
>When the chinese girl (Rose?) monologues about how the real evil in the world was greedy war profiteers and evil capitalists.

Don't forget that the inclusion of the evil capitalists was in the context of subplot which contributed absolutely nothing to the main plot. They really shoehorned that garbage in there.
There's another project called SciTE https://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html which has nothing to do with this one, and although it's pretty old (first recorded version is from 30th March 1999), it still gets updates (last version is from 11 September 2020).

SciTE takes its name from Scintilla Text Editor. I have no idea where SciTer takes its name from.
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Most likely. People often forget that before the invasion of Poland in 1939 Germany had already annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia. So even attacks on neighbouring nations had to escalate quite a bit before any action was taken by the UK and France.
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