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Sure, those are examples, however what about people like rush limbaugh? Michael richards should be in trouble for what he did and he suffered the consequences, but somebody like rush limbaugh has an active listener base where he essentially lies about every group under the sun and there are no consequences. Here is his Wikipedia page which lists all his views, many of which are just abhorrent and factually incorrect (he doesn't belief that we damaged the ozone layer, this is a non political example)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh

We also elected a president who spread birtherism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_con...

And there was the pedophile ring pizzeria conspiracy theories floating around a few years ago that had real consequences not just for the politicians implicated but the pizzeria owner themselves
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory

It doesn't seem like there were consequences for any of these the people who spread lies (in pizzagate people were arrested, but not the spreaders of the rumors).

Imo, we should be intolerant of the intolerant as they say. I have nothing against obscene language, pornographic ideas, dark humor, etc. But speech has influence and the second speech is used to infringe on the rights of people, it should really be stamped out.
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They were likely taking issue with the statement “de facto against the law.” De jure is by law and de facto is in fact, and using them how that poster did does not make sense.
The author is a spammer.

I banned this guy from Lobste.rs for endlessly posting terrible, thin retreads of Ruby docs and idiotically vague motivation porn. He had zero interaction with any other post and nothing mattered to him except that posting a link got him a few clicks: https://lobste.rs/threads/mehdi-farsi#c_attzu3 When asked to participate normally he posted some comments randomly like "very interesting topic." (no longer visible on this page)
> There is not sufficient communication between the various layers of software.

Because there is not enough communication between the engineers writing a this code lol. Ie: Conways law ;-)
I suppose a 3d-printed object could carry a (steganographic?) copy of its own specification, so you could replicate it endlessly without degeneration.
All sorts of boundary issues occur when you're near the end of a page or cache line. How many instruction bytes should you load per cycle? What happens when your preload of a byte that happens to be in a subsequent page trips a page fault?

By comparison, 4byte instructions that are always aligned have none of those problems. Alignment is a significant simplification for the design.

(Somewhere I have a napkin plan for fully Huffman coded instructions, but then jumps are a serious problem as they're not longer byte aligned!)
I disagree strongly with the notion that mitigating risk of harm to others via awareness and simple action somehow makes society less human. I live in DC, a notoriously cold and closed off city as far as social interaction goes. Mask usage (even outdoors) is close to 100% here. When I see someone wearing a mask, I’m filled with a sense of warmth and camaraderie—that person cares about me and others. Someone else may see the same scene and think, “look at all these petrified sheep”. I sort of understand, but I’d challenge those people to shift their perspective.

If kinship isn’t your thing but sober analytical thinking appeals to you, wearing a mask is a no-brainer: positive benefit with effectively zero cost (the only negative thing that can happen to you is that someone might think you’re a terrified dweeb, but they’d be wrong).
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Citation required (I've looked, and all I can find are annual mortality rates per capita, which are higher, certainly, but not double the rate for a year). Even if you're right, a doubling of baseline mortality per day is certainly something plausible for influenza in specific scenarios.

Italy as a whole is now seeing new cases per day roughly twice that observed in the spring, and yet deaths are up a tiny fraction of what you would expect from the Lombardy example. So it's not clear that Lombardy represents a typical outcome, even for Italy:

http://opendatadpc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

Point being, again, it's difficult to draw conclusions from data points that are on the extremes of the distribution. The IFR is a measurement of average behavior.
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I came into the article expecting to hate it, but the author eventually kind of won me over. She doesn't think Americans should abandon free speech, but she does think we should approach it more like Germany and France.

> Germany and France have laws that are designed to prevent the widespread dissemination of hate speech and election-related disinformation. “Much of the recent authoritarian experience in Europe arose out of democracy itself,” explains Miguel Poiares Maduro [...] “The Nazis and others were originally elected. In Europe, there is historically an understanding that democracy needs to protect itself from anti-democratic ideas.”
I wouldnt mind if Tesla used Stereo-vision, but they try doing self driving with single view crappy cameras. First it was 30 fps 6640x480 monochrome Mobileye EyeQ3, now its 3? center mounted 36 fps 1280x960 monochrome/red cameras.
I think it's mainly as a safety net in case Microsoft decides to only allow applications to be installed through their own store. IIRC, that was the original reason they started work on SteamOS. They're also working on their own cloud streaming platform, so they might figure it's cheaper to develop Proton than have to pay for a bunch of Windows Server licenses.
I tried it too, but eventually walked away from the endeavor. I found you really have to learn to think the "Esperanto way" of saying things. That's the tricky part. At least, if I tried to communicate a more complex thought other than a general conversation, it wouldn't really be understood by the community, or at least be understandable, but just incorrect.

To overcome this, I think I would have next had to emerge myself into more complex texts. For example, I had 1984 to read, but just never got round to it.

The other thing was this personal relationship building thing the community embraces. I really am a loner so am not really into their general ideology. It really freaked me out when they wanted to meet me when visiting my town, or worse still, stay with me! That's the thing that actually really turned me off and made me ditch the whole idea.

I've played with various languages over the years, including conlangs, and actually found Swedish to be my favorite. There are some hard parts, like the declensions of definite, indefinite, plural with its genders, but practicing general conversation with my wife (who is a native Finnish speaker with Swedish as a second language), found we could communicate simply, quite well. It just felt more natural and fluent. The way you literally say things translate quite well to English, so I can still think in English --if that makes any sense.
Totally. A robust domain model is one of the main things that matters in terms of software architecture in my experience.
It's important to remember that 2038 problems won't start happening in 2038. Any system where users can perform actions to generate arbitrary dates in the future that get converted to epoch timestamps in code needs to work with 2038 now.
> Good ideas win. The better argument will prove persuasive

We don't value free speech because "good ideas win", there's nothing "optimistic" about it, we do know that bad ideas also win, sometimes on the back of/with the help with said free speech (history has showed us that), so tying the idea of free speech with its perceived usefulness/effectiveness is a fallacy, that's not the reason why we should value it. We should value free speech for its sake only.
The "sufficiently smart compiler" [1] has been tried often enough, with poor enough results, that it's not something anyone counts on anymore.

In this case, the most relevant example is probably the failure of the Itanium. Searching for that can be enlightening too, but heres a good start: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1011760/what-are-the-tec... (For context, the essential Itanium idea was to move complexity out of the chip and into the compiler.)

Also, don't overestimate Haskell's performance. As much fun as I've had with it, I've always been a bit disappointed with its performance. Though for good reasons, it too was designed in the hopes that a Sufficiently Smart Compiler would be able to turn it into something blazingly fast, but it hasn't succeeded any more than anything else. Writing high-performance Haskell is a lot like writing high performance Javascript for a particular JIT... it can be done, but you have to know huge amounts of stuff about how the compiler/JIT will optimize things and have to write in a very particular subset of the language that is much less powerful and convenient than the full language, with little to no compiler assistance, and with even slight mistakes able to trash the perfromance hardcore as some small little thing recursively destroys all the optimizations. It's such a project it's essentially writing in a different language that just happens to integrate nicely with the host.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/sufficiently smart compiler
What's there to understand? This is like saying why buy an iPhone when you can just get an Android.
Society is misdiagnosing the issue here.

It's not unchecked free speech. Instead, it's unchecked curation by media and social media companies with the goal of engagement.

As long as media companies get the most benefit from people engaging with content, they will continue to promote information that is damaging to society. It may even be true information but when the goal is engagement, it's purpose will be to enrage and divide because that's what's engaging.

Limiting speech will not cause this issue to go away. It's bigger than just misinformation. The core issue is the underlying system that values engagement over all things. That is, the advertising system.

Companies that make their money selling ads while providing content to engage have a perverse incentive to make society worse. This is the bad seed that needs removal.

This business model should be illegal. It's already trivially unethical.
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I've always been fascinated by space and would like nothing more than to see humanity spread to the stars. How can I, as an ordinary citizen with programming skills, contribute to this without joining NASA or SpaceX? Are there open source projects I can contribute to or perhaps a lobby I can donate to?
Windows Home is $140, not cheap even for the US and certainly not cheap for poorer countries. Where did you see $10?
That would eat precious bits in each instruction (one in each byte, if one only indicates ‘first’ or ‘last’ bytes of each instruction).

It probably is better to keep the “how long is this instruction” logic harder and ‘waste’ logic on the decoder.
People need to read history. History shows this isn't our first rodeo with a pandemic. History shows that social distancing works. History shows that society thrived after.

In fact, cities that didn't socially distance had things much worse and took longer to recover.

Humans are resilient creatures. We're not going to lose our social capabilities just because we're also evolved enough to be smart to stay safe for survival.
There's easy to find colorblindness tests online you can take. They can suffer a tad from color reproduction problems on monitors I think, but they still seem to give good results. You could take one if you're curious.
> What is stopping the US from doing something to filter out such attacks.

Just look at the backlash Facebook and Twitter got the other day for trying to limit the spread of an article. Now imagine what this would look like if it was the US government that tried to limit the spread of certain information.
Net neutrality means it's not fine for the ISP to do the filtering - that's all it does.

It says nothing on whether it's fine if Facebook or Twitter do it.
> Now, attempts to do radically different things (like Itanium) failed for various reasons, in Itanium's case at least partially because it was hard to write compilers good enough to exploit its VLIW design. It's up in the air whether a different high-level language would have made those compilers feasible.

My day job involves supporting systems on Itanium: the Intel C compiler on Itanium is actually pretty good... now. We'd all have a different opinion of Itanium if it had been released with something half as good as what we've got now.

I'm sure you can have a compiler for any language that really makes VLIW shine. But it would take a lot of work, and you'd have to do that work early. Really early. Honestly, if any chip maker decided to do a clean-sheet VLIW processor and did compiler work side-by-side while they were designing it, I'd bet it would perform really well.
No you don't. Devs don't have to use Steam's DRM if they don't want to, so you won't lose every game. Period.
Genuine question. What is in it for Valve ?

We are talking an incredible amount of effort for something that benefits a pretty small crowd.

The only real money making avenue would be that Valve launches its own mature Linux based OS for gamers. Low key tho, they would be trying to be the first real alternative to windows/macs.
>Secondly, Zamenhof was still writing from an Enlightenment-era framework that saw language diversity as a problem, something to systematize away.

The anarchist philosophy that was responsible for the global spread of Esperanto was far more complex than this and rooted in a rejection of reductive, Darwinist cultural formulations that were coming to prominence at the time. The idea was to preserve local autonomy, while providing a universal medium for exchange, such that communities could develop their own unique cultural systems and permutations thereof, but still have recourse to share them in a mutally beneficial way with others. Esperanto was widely popular in Japan under this rubric, for example:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23357508

It was likewise suppressed by authoritarian regimes on the left and right for its encouragement of this eclecticism.
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You're lucky, I tried a "platinum" game that was not just playable, every time I opened the inventory I had a black screen. Known problem, that has no solution. Then if you want to fix it:

- custom config

- custom drivers

- lot of hacky solutions

- compile wine / proton on a "fix" branch

If you want to play just use the native platform the game was built for, Linux will never be like Windows until the games are natively supported.
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But they have a clear case with no trace of metal or magnetic material to help it "stick".

The theory isn't very sound...
You can buy grey market keys off ebay, but that's the only way you're getting a $10 license.
And some DRMs like Denuvo are massive in size (add several hundreds megabytes to the executable) and resource intensive. It's quite common to see a significant performance gain and reduction in stuttering from the cracked version compared to the original version.

For this reason I tend to prefer buying my games from GOG, which sells all its games DRM-free.

I do value the work game developers put in these games and I buy all of them, but I like having the peace of mind that if something happens to my purchases down the road I could run a cracked executable later on.
> The only thing that's encoded in DNA is how to make proteins.

Wikipedia on the human genome [1]:

> Protein-coding sequences account for only a very small fraction of the genome (approximately 1.5%), and the rest is associated with non-coding RNA genes, regulatory DNA sequences, LINEs, SINEs, introns, and sequences for which as yet no function has been determined.

Wikipedia cites [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/35057062

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Not sure Valve are doing this all for me but I certainly thank them for their efforts.

As for games sold by the EGS, they work fine via Proton (baring those with anticheat) and you can even get the EGS working via wine trivially.

I can't speak to your experiences with the Linux desktop but it's certainly my platform of choice both professionally and for personal use. Each to their own as they say.

I'm very happy that Valve (and all the other contributors) putting all this effort into getting as many games as possible to run on my platform of choice.
>You are exposed to the dominant economic and cultural ecosystems easier and much earlier.

I don't think that early induction into specific ideologies as something to be described as blanket good. This kind of monolingualism certainly hasn't helped the intellectual life of the average American or its society writ large.
None of these parts have an 800MHz base clock. If you are encountering PROCHOT asserts with normal workloads you should get your money back and/or post on your blog until Intel forces whatever third-rate vendor made your laptop to refund you.
I think the issue is that you measure productivity as in quantitative physical output instead of in value as driven by supply and demand. Absolute value increases due to inflation even though the supply/demand ratio is the same.
Valve is worried that Microsoft is moving towards a model where users can only install programs through the Windows Store which would threaten their business model of selling games through the Steam Platform.

By making Linux more compatible with the games that Valve sells through their store it puts Valve in a better situation to survive this possible course of action by Microsoft because they can switch to selling hardware preloaded with their SteamOS.
That basically what I went through, I acquired many pirated games when I was studying and trying to make ends meet, and I believe I bought all these classic games since.
How would someone paid $4/hour be expected to sustain themselves though? Or is the expectation that they would a higher paid job and do that on the side? But then why do they need the $4 job?
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> I’d call that necessary or the lesser of two evils

Which is literally the very definition of _good_ -

"In most contexts, the concept of good denotes the conduct that should be preferred when posed with a choice between possible actions"

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good
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The one I wrote for the FastComments Blog is 140 lines. Each post is a separate markdown file, and it has RSS support. I love using NodeJS for little scripts like this. Generates in about 200ms for the content we have today.

https://github.com/FastComments/fastcomments-blog/blob/maste...

There are hacks in that file. Beware the dragons.

Commenting support is or course done with FastComments...
Not trying to be obtuse, but why should an employer want to employ anyone at all if the market was effecient?
In that case, here it is in one line, producing byte-for-byte identical output to the snippet above:

pangeadoc -c style.css ./ -O ./_site

(pangeadoc, of course, is a fork of pandoc that when invoked as above behaves exactly the same as those "3 lines of Bash".)
What if I disagree and at the same time I don't harm anyone? Would you live with the idea that I may have my freedoms and property arrested by the government in order to make you supposedly safe?

Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
I had a similar reaction re: professors.

Sure, it takes the same amount of time to mark an essay. But it takes much less time to score exams and to administer them.

Writing research papers takes much, much, much less time because of word processors, online submission systems, copyediting changes, and so forth. A lot of research itself takes less time to do because of statistical analysis libraries, computerized administration and recruitment, etc etc etc

This is actually something I've heard older, very professors lament -- some of them have claimed that when, say, papers took longer to produce, you had more time to think when things were being mailed back and forth, and there wasn't so much of a factory approach to paper writing where they were treated as widgets. I'm not saying I agree or disagree with this necessarily but I'm really skeptical of claims that productivity hasn't risen in certain fields.

Now you can get into a discussion of "real" versus "false" productivity gains but that's a little different.
A curious outcome, considering Stadia servers run Linux!
[0] Close, it was the VAX-11 and is the poster child for CISC madness.
But there's no guarantee that it will. When people argue that free discourse will eventually always end up at the "best" place (whatever they define "best" to be) it almost sounds like some kind of appeal to a diety.
In my former life I worked in Finance departments of Fortune 500 companies, responsible for process and report automation, and making Excel-based systems less unwieldy -- often by converting them to Access. I have an Accounting & Info Systems degree. I'm well-versed w/ relational databases, SQL, and VBA. In more recent years, to distract myself from wanting to die, I've become proficient with Python and R. Unfortunately, a gap in my resume a few years ago became the reason recruiters started treating me like a leper.

What went wrong, besides bad luck? I was good enough at what I did that the perception formed that I'm not a real Finance person. So, instead of being used in roles with longevity, where writing code was an adjunct to domain expertise, I became The Tech Guy: a'hired gun', used exclusively to build tools for the real Finance pros to use in perpetuity.

Reading these comments is upsetting because they suggest that in 2020, someone w/ my background should be able to support themselves. To those who understand the power of databases and automation, the inanity of using Excel to do almost everything except wash your dishes is painfully obvious. Trust me: there's a better way.

Many technical people -- W/OUT a business background -- are prepared to do whatever is necessary to improve their understanding of The Business Side. Why is it that asking finance types to write code is akin to asking them to perform brain surgery? Perhaps grasping math and accounting principles doesn't imply creativity, or competency w/ language and logic? I've worked with people who can do all of these things. In 20 years, those who can't may struggle to find work. Somehow, in spite of my background, I ended up in the same boat.

Sorry to sound bitter, but people with skills who can't find work are sometimes more miserable than those without any skills, who have resigned themselves to a life of earning minimum wage. I miss the good old days, when I could flush money down the toilet for sport.
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