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> Sorry, but best estimates of actual Commodore 64 sales are roughly 12.5 million, not 22 million. Still, there's no doubt that they handily outsold Apple II's.

It leaves out the C128 sales, which is like leaving out the IIe/IIc.

> "[Apple] made up for it only in superior marketing" (emphasis mine) ignores quite a few other factors.

I wish I could agree, but from a HW perspective, Apple was doing a bad job. They had years and a ton of revenues from the Apple II, and failed to significantly innovate in HW. From a software perspective, they were much better than Commodore. Look, I had a Mac 128k in 1985 and an Amiga 1000, and although Mac OS and its DTP software was better in some respects than the Amiga, the HW was not, with the exception of LocalTalk/AppleTalk.

I also think you are ignoring why parents often bought computers for their kids in the 1980s -- because the kids asked for them. Because they could play games. It just so happened they could also be used for education tasks, but huge numbers of people were inspired to go into STEM because of playing games on early 8-bit computers, and then asking "How did they make this?"

For computers like the C64, lots of kids would type in game source code published in magazines like Compute! Gazette!, run the games, and when they got bored of them, they'd modify them. It was the early open-source model, learn by forking.

Most of my friends asked their parents for computers because of the sexy graphics and sound. They then serendipitously learned from them.

So whether the numbers are 12 million or 17 million or 22 million, I'm willing to bet there are far more engineers of my generation who cut their teeth on a C64, Atari, Spectrum ZX, or an Amstrad, because of the flashy graphics and games, then the children of parents who read splashy Apple full page ads talking about how 'educational' they were.

What's my point of of these rants? It seems unlike criticism of Commodore, people can't deal with any criticism of Apple Hagiography, that after shipping the first Apple 2 in 1978, they stagnated, and were never good at HW innovation. The lionization of the Apple 2 ignores the reality of the world of millions of Europeans who never saw one, effectively cementing an American viewpoint of 8-bit computing.
>Apparently you could buy this for $9.95

Sorry, I should have clarified that I was referring to software development. Radio Shack, as a store chain prominently selling kits and Forrest Mims's books on electronics, would have embarrassed itself by not offering schematics for its computer.

What Tandy did not do was offer software documentation. Read this BYTE article from two years after the TRS-80's release (https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-08/1979_08_BYT...), which a) discusses how to implement machine language graphics and b) complains about the complete lack of Tandy documentation that motivated the author to write the article in the first place.
This was always the plan. Operate at a loss on both riders/drivers until you can turn the screws. In the past, you could say you'll just switch to Lyft, but here they're working together. That should tell you something about who they're competing with. Their drivers.
> Good is purely subjective.

This is a substantial claim, and requires substantial evidence. Claiming that the Good (meaning the metaethical object) is objective is also a substantial claim, but observe that it's not necessary to be a moral realist to think that things can be, for all practical purposes, bad: in an intersubjective sense, a thing is bad if everybody around you agrees that it's bad.

They can all be wrong (and they frequently are!), but I'm going to go ahead and wager that they're not wrong about civil rights, not drone-striking civilians in other countries, indefinite detention of undocumented migrants, &c &c.
How are you getting from "Uber shouldn't be able to hire its drivers as independent contractors to skirt worker-protection laws" to "we should go back to the medallion system"?
Epics concerns are of an utterly and completely different dimension - and to make the statement 'making money off of other's people's work' while the nature of the contention is Apple's 30% fee is rich.

The issue with Uber v. California is really an issue of materially new kinds of workforces requiring new and effective kinds of legislation.

We just need some responsible leaders to think a little bit, maybe the feds, other states, other countries, and make some simple legislation. There doesn't need to be a referendum, nor does the gov. need to 'negotiate' with anyone per se. Just find something that works for the new world and do it. Subject to change obviously.
But Airpods aren't waterproof. So there's that. Galaxy buds look pretty small and have a replaceable battery. Apple with all their genius could make it work.
@green_rooster: “Not far off from that, it seems:”

Ни черта не умеют!
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How to add nodes? It seems than right-click doesn't work in your canvas/workspace, also it's static, I mean can't zoom in-out, also, the node itself is not collapsible, ...

Also, if I ware you, wouldn't fix input and output nodes, instead I would add input and output nodes into node menu and let they be free on canvas

But I like four things in your approach: collapsible components/lists, typing/defining input values of nodes directly on canvas, adding new variables, and sub-graphs

See how real nodes are:
https://github.com/nortikin/sverchok/pull/3284
Can you say more about what you mean? "Pushing companies to hold and voice political opinions" is not how I would characterize it — at least for my part, I conceive of it as "Pushing companies to behave ethically."
It seems to me like this would have been the perfect opportunity to become the first state to decouple benefits from employment. Recognize that gig jobs are going to become more of a thing in various ways, and set up state sponsored benefit plans for gig workers. Start a mini UBI that covers 4 weeks PTO at the median California wage, open up medicaid eligibility, etc. If the problem is these people don't have benefits, give them the benefits. Trying to force Uber et al to book these people as employees is just propagating the issue in the first place.
If you haven't seen it before this might blow you away haha - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKE8qK9UCrU

All of this is happening in my body right now so i can type these letters: WTF
I completely agree that separate operators area MUST for dynamic languages.

Lua allows operator overloading with metatables as do ruby and Python with classes

http://lua-users.org/wiki/MetatableEvents

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#emulating...

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/faq/7/

> One number type in Lua:

Not quite true. Lua had only 64-bit floats like JS until version 5.3 and the blazing fast LuaJIT still only has floats. Well, to be honest, it has hidden 32-bit integers for sake of bitwise operations just like JS (well, JS uses 31-bits with a tag bit which is probably a lot faster).

> How about `{} + []`? I believe I can disable this part in JavaScript engine and no one would notice.

That's very simple. {} at the beginning of a line is an empty block rather than an object (yay C). "Disabling" that would break the entire language.

> UTF-16

UCS-2 actually. Back in those days, Unicode was barely a standard and that in name only. Java did/does use UCS-2 and JS for marketing reasons was demanded to look like Java. I don't want to go into this topic, but python, PHP, ruby, C/C++, Java, C#, and so on all have a long history not at all compatible with UTF-8.

> You've said nothing about constructor oriented programming. Unique feature, I have not heard any other language adopted it yet.

I'll give you that JS prototypal inheritance is rather complex due to them trying to pretend it's Java classes. Once again though, the deep parts of both Python and Ruby classes are probably more difficult to explain. Lua's metatables are very easy to understand on the surface, but because there's no standard inheritance baked in, every project has their own slightly different implementation with it's own footguns.

Closures are almost always preferred over classes in modern JS. Likewise, composition is preferred over inheritance and the use of prototype chains while not necessarily code smell, does bear careful consideration.

If someone insists on using deep inheritance techniques, they certainly shouldn't be using class syntax as it adds yet another set of abstractions on top. Object.create() and inheriting from `null` solves a ton of issues.

> By the way, you can say "Yes, I know JavaScript has some problems". It is not a secret, everyone knows.

I'd say if you take the top 20 languages on the tiobe index, it sits in the middle of the pack with regard to warts and weirdness. Maybe people are just attracted to weird languages.
That's funny how you say here that Uber and Epic are equal while in your mind Apple totally deserve it's 30% cut.

Say what you want about Epic, but they totally forced Valve to publicly commit to decrease it's cut for every big publisher out there without directly profi ting from it.

But yeab ofc it's poor Apple being forced to screw developers a bit less. Unacceptable!
Prop 22 makes no opinion of medallions, in either case of a vote for or against.
XWiki is the closest thing I've found to Confluence.
There is a clause in Prop 22 that would make it nearly impossible for it to be amended or repealed except by another proposition.[1]

>Amending Proposition 22 would require a seven-eights (87.5%) vote in each chamber of the California State Legislature and the governor's signature, provided that the amendment is consistent with, and furthers the purpose of, Proposition 22. Changes that are not considered consistent with, and furthering the purpose of, Proposition 22 would need voter approval.

These ride sharing companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars and engaging in shady tactics targeted at both their drivers and customers so they can give their employees fewer benefits all while completely circumventing the state legislature. This is a absolute perversion of democracy.

[1] - https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,_App-Based...
keep in mind $150k is a lot for an IC in most parts of the US.
Deplatforming from the big services helps create a moat around them by creating a huge population of obnoxious trolls, crackpots, and hate mongers who will descend upon any newer or smaller challenger like those clouds of moose killing black flies up North.

Look at BitChute and other small video sites now that YouTube has been deplatforming trolls and crazies. They are full of toxic waste. BitChute now gets called “poopchute.”
It's impossible to say of course. But I think at the least we would have led more conventional lives.

For myself, maybe a darker outcome. I was struggling with peer pressure and getting into trouble. The family that owned our house before lost their daughter to overdose. She went to my school. I wonder sometimes how my life could have been had things been slightly different and we hadn't changed to homeschooling (after grade 6 for me, 3 for my brother.)
I find it incredibly hard to imagine why anyone would pay for this.

Is it really so hard to find one person in a group of players that wants to GM?

Is it really that hard to find a group of players in the first place?

Meetup has always been perfectly adequate to find a group, and I have to do that only once for every place I live.
Not the OP, but using comparisons of 1995 software to try and make a point about the current software situation is some indication that people making that argument are several decades behind. The software that we use in 2020 and need to be reliable in 2020 is quite different than 25 years ago, heck, the platforms running the software are quite different - in 1995 you'd be using some program running on an OS on your computer (or through a remote terminal on some other computer); in 2020 you'd be using some program running on a distributed set of cloud servers through a browser sandbox - and the way how the reliability of that remote system is maintained is simply different from how you'd ensure the reliability of a local utility program. That 1995 study is perhaps interesting enough to suggest doing some experiments again, but currently it's outdated enough to be simply irrelevant.
Lately I've been using sublime merge, works pretty well.
I think the proposal should be:

If you commit to work for the platform more than X number of hours in a regular basis, you are eligible for benefits. That means that you have a quota of worked hours to meet.

If you can't commit to work for X number of hours in a regular basis, then you can work whenever you want, without benefits.

And... the company commits not take any measures to keep the number of hours for an individual worker below the benefit threshold.

This is the way things already work on many occupations.
Science is a everchanging set of ideas, many of which are debated in the scientific community.

It's not a simple set of facts that scientists discover and move on.

There's ton's of questionable ideas even in the most accepted theories.

For example:

1.Massive leaps in Evolution: "theres no use for half a wing"

2.no one understands how gravity works only how it behaves

3.the source of climate change is pretty speculative due to
the fact that it's true that there are indeed massive natural historic temp shifts

5.Scientists don't even understand the folding process of how the DNA fits into a cell.

So science is one large evolving conspiracy theory.

If you think deeply about how little even the smartest monkeys on earth truly know about the universe it will definitly put you into a psych ward.
Like the Truman Show?
I thought that strange too, it's something young people obsessive over perhaps? It just opens up the ambiguity again.

It should just be about code (or whatever the project is made of). We need to get back to a system that maximises the project, not bike shedding.

https://missionprotocol.org/codeofconduct/
"Our objective is to focus on the mission we set out to accomplish, which we believe will produce an important social good in the world"
I updated my comment to clarify. If a company has a neutral mission (like selling cars or something) but treats workers poorly then activism can fix internal issues. If a company's fundamental goal is harmful (tobacco, war, etc.) then I don't think unions can fix that.
Luckily, new grassroots mobile platforms are sprouting up. I ordered a PinePhone[0] to tinker with. One can dream that a robust mobile Linux community will one day flourish, free from these corrupt monopolies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone
Moxie Marlinspike is not his real name, it is Matthew Rosenfeld. Registration to the Signal app requires a phone no., so if you desire true privacy - - use a burner phone, and know that you are giving up your GPS location wherever/whenever you turn the phone on and connect.

Rosefield, one guy, can be "bought" and you would never even know it, whereas a community of open source developers who all watch each other is a bit harder to infiltrate and take over.
When the GP said "internal activism," I don't think they meant unionization in the sense of worker rights. I think they were referring to workers objecting to projects that hurt other people, rather than workers collectively bargaining wages etc.
> 1. exempt all drivers from getting basic benefits like health insurance

> or else

> 2. we're turning off our apps in California

If you create a law that makes it unprofitable for a company to operate, are you really surprised that the company stops operating?
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Hunter sounds like a jerk; I'm not voting for him.
I think the CANSPAM act probably needs to be updated to include app notifications. If Uber sent this sort of thing as an email they would be legally obligated to include an unsubscribe link but they can just hijack your entire phone to send you unsolicited political messages at their discretion. It's obviously the sort of communication CANSPAM defines as spam, but it's via a notification rather than email.
It also fuels mountains of trash they will dunk into their rivers and back into the ocean.
Weather does affect spread, because it affects how often folks go outside, where and when they interact with others and so on.

In any case, you've fixated on one similarity and missed the larger point. Comparing Sweden to its immediate neighbours is a stronger comparison than any other. No other countries in the world are as comparable, not even close. When you control using that natural experiment, Sweden comes out much worse.
OK. So where's your white paper? I genuinely want to read it.
Weird typos(?) in the article: coördinate, coöperate.

Seemingly other sloppy typos like "Signal could only proffer the relevant".

No critique against the substance of the article though, seems great so far, love Moxie.

Edit: And the date in the URL is October 26.
Thank you for pointing that out; I had read the Creative Computing article with the (I think CDC) BASIC source code for Oregon Trail, but didn't realize that this is the issue.

This is exactly the same time as David Ahl (founder of Creative Computing)'s monumental BASIC Computer Games book. While that book was the single most important source of source code for the earliest personal computer BASIC game programmers, another important resource was articles like this one. BYTE printed source code for important early type-in programs like Star Trek and Hunt the Wumpus into the early 1980s, too.
To the extent that corporations are capable of producing "Free Software" as defined by Stallman then I would find it likely that they would succeed, but the comment I replied to argued that commercial software was inferior and that seems obviously false outside of what I called "boring" stuff. But I think the boring stuff is really important and good, and wish more things became "boring" in the sense of being solved problems rather than open problems.
Lots of other people have already replied, but I didn't see this explanation yet.

The concept of intersectionality came from a court case, DeGraffenreid v. General Motors, where this black woman was denied employment. She had noticed that the company was hiring very few black women and thought they were being biased against her when they refused to hire her despite her qualifications. The court checked the numbers and they found that GM was hiring a sufficient amount of black men to not be racist, and a sufficient amount of white women to not be sexist. So, despite actually not hiring black women, GM was let off the hook.

If you've studied set theory, you probably know the concept of the intersection of two sets: basically the middle part of a venn diagram. The theory of intersectionality says basically, when people are biased against you in more than one way (in this case through sexism and racism) that the effects compound to create a situation where people like you are underrepresented in terms of opportunities, in a way that affirmative action failed to take into account.
Is that even possible?! I’m not aware of the ÇA constitution but bills in my state descend from the constitution they can’t exceed it. To do that would require a referendum to change the constitution. Which they are trying to do now by making a referendum to make voters vote 2x to pass (ie make laws take a long time and very expensive to vote in).
I'm running pleroma not mastodon but experience here (if I recall) is the same. I think the friend of a friend is a manifestation of "the whole known universe", unless I'm not remembering correctly.The discovery challenge I reference is very much an initial thing before following that person who then trigger the friend of a friend cascade. At least as I recall. (I went directly from Gnu Social to pleroma so memory is nebulous.)
Blockchain/distributed finance.
They are using an antiquated security and require capchas for VPN users. It's kind of lame. The IP ban should be removed after a day for abuse. It's an ignorant "security measure" and annoyance to users who also value a bit of privacy.
I can't even convince my contacts to use signal.
It's worse than "maintain the status quo". It prohibits the state legislature from making any amendments to prop 22 without a 7/8ths majority, and requires any such amendment be "consistent with, and furthers the purpose of" prop 22.
Why is it uber cannot offer their drivers a choice of whether they want health insurance or not? Couldn't they have headed off this whole thing by providing health benefits at a discount to the drivers? Some drivers may indeed want to stay independent but still have health insurance.
I am seeing the push notifications telling me how to vote on MY WATCH. This is too far.
Some Oauth providers require https (even for localhost), and if I'm using WebAuthn, I have to have a certificate.
This really is the right idea. Screw batteries, this is acheiveable today and outright fixes all the issues with solar and wind as the only required source of energy humans will need.
As an aside, does Wisconsin even make sense from a logistical standpoint for LCDs?
>> I would prefer to develop a story together. A system where you don’t need a exact map with squares/hexagons to make decisions, for example. Where story and character decisions on what to do matter more than tactical decisions in combats.

You're probably looking for something like the old Call of Cthulhu by Chaosium:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu_(role-playing_...

I see from the wikipedia article that the last edition was in 2014, so it's still going. There used to be a d20 version, also, for those people who don't know how to read two d10 side-by-side ;)

You might also want to check out the user forums at rpg.net:

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php

You can find threads for all sorts of games, more or less popular. You're bound to find something that you will like.
What if there was a simpler way?

Is the Internet itself leading to more freedom or less? Or is it human nature spilling into bits and functions that is?
Thanks for sharing these! I haven’t seen anyone trying to add integrations into onboarding but it makes sense.
Reliability aside, documentation for non-commercial free software often hmmm... sucks, compared to commercial software.

Some of the larger free software Communities seem to have decent documentation though, so that's not a 100% rule.

Not sure if that's because they might attract commercial entities who fill in the missing pieces (eg docs), or if other things are at play.
I think you are right on one level, reading and reading comprehension is absolutely required for self driven learning (at least before youtube, and yeah, even with youtube.)

For what it's worth I didnt learn to read until I was 9 and by 11 had a college age reading level.

I think some of the later learners in reading (who were not disabled, or at least not traditionally disabled) might also have some other correlations.