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As spotted over on r/emacs [0], on the FSF directory [1]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/jar7tz/dungeonmode_f...

[1] https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Dungeon-mode
the ICO is toothless by design
> MIDI files do not take into account stuff like key, time signature, etc.

They actually do.

What they don't take into account is whether a particular black key is a sharp or a flat, and this causes all kinds of headaches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enharmonic
I think this is classic case of things need to get worse to get better.
Things have been good enough for long enough that the incentives for running smoothly and efficiently have eroded away.

We are closing in to the bottom where the a rather radical solution has obvious and major benefits that it will finally be taken. And then the change will be swift.

Note that in previous iterations the solution has often been a large scale military conflict.

Edit: spelling.
> Remind me why anyone listens to Kurzweil?

In general, people do not adhere to the egalitarian message board nerd ethos that all opinions are equally important. The opinions on technological progress of someone who has invented as much technology as Kurzweil carry extra weight.

(I agree that he's wrong about, you know, a ton of stuff...)
He was on Joe Rogan a few months ago, and talks a lot about what he's been doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXOUCRLW2UI
The current administration has spent the entire last year trying to deflect criticism for their bungled response, and have been throwing accusations of corruption and incompetence at anything that moves.

At least earlier on the narrative was that "the WHO is in the pocket of China" [1] -- while in reality of course the Americans were a dramatically bigger contributor both financially and politically. Further at the same time, the Chinese were actually threatening the WHO and leadership for not playing ball.

Typical 2020 dumpster fire. And at the end of the day the people really hurt are once again the poor countries who depend on the WHO, and we're left with a pile of sadly misinformed "they have no credibility" armchair quarterbacks. It's always easier to try and tear down a system than understand and fix. That's my opinion anyways.

For a more balanced take I suggest this Atlantic piece [2].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pompeo-who-workd-health...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/world-h...
I really like this idea of 'what history didn't happen'. It's not 'alternative history', in the literary fiction sense, but more ... academic? Granted, the fictional sense is more compelling to read.
Just some random speculation, but how do we know the choices are random?

Moreover, I think there's an element of competence being enjoyable. If I start to learn a hobby and experience little successes along the path to competence, that will reinforce it as something that I want to do. Eventually you'll get good at it, or at least for very young children better at it than anything else you can do, and again, competence is enjoyable.

There's also possibly an element of a sunken cost fallacy. You've spent x amount of time or resources on some thing, so you start to justify to yourself why it's worthwhile to pursue or to have done.
THIS is such a great video! I had just flashed some wifi lightbulbs with Tasmota and was going to go with ESPHome but the lazyman in me just left it along. If I had watched this video first, I would have followed through. Now everything is setup and working I am not going to go through and change it all again.
You are still surrounded by people with the same ideologies, it's just harder to hear us because of the noise. The people who are pro-censorship and regulation have never been a friend to the internet or its philosophies.
I've been on a couple of negotiating courses and the first thing they teach you is you have to be prepared to walk away.

Having said that I'm sure the EU will see right through this stuff but the Brexiteers will lap it up.
It’s just bullshit. I’ve worked for 2 of the companies in the list and they both presume to have the highest values and a nice ethic codes. They even promote things like “if you need more time to do the assigned work, don’t do overtime, report to your manager and the case will be assessed...”. But then in reality the employees keep doing a big amount of unpaid extra hours.

Why is that? Because the ethic code is only to show off, but internally there is continuous pressure on the people and not doing overtime will be punished one way or another.
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In the maintenance cost list, are you accounting for battery replacement, tyres, engine oil, etc
long-term big-items as well?
Oh, neat! That's very nice, we were actually discussing doing this the other day using FFTs to make it work with real pianos that do not have a silent option installed.
Scouting and recognizing potential in people from a young age is so underrated. If only companies did that more. They do it in sports because timing matters to extract value (your peak years as an athlete are as a young adult). I try to hire for apptitude and potential, not pedigree, and it has always payed off.
> Who the crap has a beef with Lincoln.

IKR? Doesn't make sense anymore. But I was talking about the parent topic, which was the theologically-motivated scratching out of the eyes of figures in mosaic images.
We've seen hundreds of instances of police brutality, many of them after George Floyd was murdered. After Breonna Taylor was negligently killed by incompetent cops, judges and prosecutors. The state is killing people. That should be worth protesting.
> Wikipedia (whose reputation in academia for being inaccurate I don't accept as fair or accurate)

Neither did I, until I started studying aculeates in detail. Only a few polistid species are even described in Wikipedia, and for the most part their pages share identical content that appears to have been copy-pasted and which, while a reasonable general description of polistid social behavior and colony cycle overall, totally fails to describe heterospecific variations which can be fairly easily found in papers which treat individual species in detail.

For a general lay overview such as an encyclopedia is meant to provide, sure, it's accurate enough. But - given that even an interested amateur like me can not only soon exhaust Wikipedia's treatment of the subject, but almost as quickly also become aware of that treatment's shortcomings - I no longer have any difficulty understanding why it's so negatively regarded as an academic reference.

On reflection, I don't understand why this should be controversial. When is any encyclopedia expected to be able to serve in this role? The genre is, as I mentioned, intended to provide a lay overview of many subjects; its treatments are thus broad and shallow by deliberate design.
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I had some experience before joining, but in terms of knowing and applying certain core coding concepts better, that’s where the curriculum at Scaler Academy really helped me.
I have a nod of approval to your idea my idea is that shows like The bachelorette spawned a huge generation of people who think marriage is this throwaway ticket to temporary happiness and if you look at divorce rates it's sort of lines up
s/babies'/people's/
I don't believe that's possible either, but processing can make a lot more surface area available on which enzymes can then act.
What a wonderful racist analogy. Know the color of people is like knowing which areas are dangerous.

That's for explaining.
Forget Counterterrorism, the USA Needs a Counter-Disinformation Strategy
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We're talking to each other now.

Do you believe the President of the United States spoke in a responsible fashion? Do you believe his words were responsible, prudent, and appropriate to the moment?
Failure is a single outcome with many reasons leading up to it. Incompetence being one of them. I have no doubt that the claim could be true, but when a bailout happens you cannot assert that it must have been incompetence. Good startups that start with the best intentions can still be destroyed by many things that are not monopolised greed or incompetence.
Wouldn't it be awesome if your website visitors could record their screen and send you a video message instantly? Showing you exactly what they're seeing for support or just sending you some love.

Well I've been working on a new video messaging product and have just launched the website widget so your visitors can record their screen & send a video message to you directly on your site. This can be used for product feedback, customer support, authentic video reviews & more.

All you need is one line of code and to register your domain name & email so we know who & where to send your messages.

You can try it here: https://zessage.com/widget - Click the "Try it Now!" button to see it in action.

Instructions:
Step 1: Go to the link to copy & paste the js code above the closing </body> tag.
Step 2: Login to Zessage and add your domain & email address to ensure you receive your messages.
Step 3: Design your own trigger button and set the ID to 'zessage'. This will overwrite our default button.

Technical: The code for the widget is very lightweight and simply listens for a click of the record button. Once clicked, the rest of the code is added and allows your visitors to record the screen with their own video & audio. There is no user tracking or over bloated non-sense to slow your site down.

I've also just posted it to Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/zessage-website-video-mess...

I'd love your votes, feedback and thoughts.
> "Linux is GPL and I doubt it would have tens of thousands of authors if it were not."

Aren't the BSDs a counterexample to that?
To clarify: By default Nim will still use the GC which doesn't have any "footguns". ARC and ORC are new features which have different trade-offs, and some limitations. You opt-in to using them if you're interested.
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A way of dealing with memory that works well in all cases! That would be great.
I completely agree. While the UI was up to each individual user when we used IRC it was extremely stable. A lot of the Slack-isms are anti patterns and I can’t help but feel schadenfreude when they publicly have problems. They’ve caused enough for me.
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We're very much in the low cost wifi business, we're just taking the leap to fully own the backhaul part too. For the last 3 years we used partner ISP infrastructure to power our network, much like an MVNO. We saw first hand the terrible quality of service our partners provided mostly due to the limitations of their tech stack and their fiber deployments. We're taking the leap to deploy a much more reliable backhaul backbone at a much lower price.

Starlink & Kuiper are a totally different ballgame. Their satellites communicate with each other via FSOC, but the end delivery to the customer is a phased array solution. We're using FSOC as the backbone and overhead fiber to the customer premises.

Although 5G is a few years away in India, spectrum sales haven't started and its unclear whether our telecom companies can even afford it given the level of debt the industry already has. That being said, we're poised to be an enabler of 5G once it does arrive because all those 5G small cells are going to require much more backhaul than they currently have. Less than 30% of the mobile phone towers in India right now have fiber backhaul, that situation is only going to get worse when 5G arrives, so we see it as an opportunity to be a backhaul provider for 5G services.

Starry.com is using millimetre waves in the radio spectrum, whereas we're using lasers. The big difference is in India the 5G spectrum is not for public use as of yet, the big advantage of lasers is that they use unlicensed free space so there's no spectrum charges that apply.
Such is the nature of things. All systems develop vested interests which defend the status quo. They do it until it collapses. Rinse and repeat.
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So now that the Cambridge Analytica story is unraveling they're looking for a new scapegoat to blame an undesirable (to them) political outcome on.
Well ... they tell you that not because they're bending over backwards to give postgres credit. They're doing it to tell you that the barrier of entry to this database is nearly 0 if you are already using Postgres.
Security concerns that Chrome seems to be able to deal with just fine. If that's the issue then block sysex but allow the rest, the midi (v1) protocol isn't that hard.

Meanwhile, there are 100's of WebMIDI capable applications now and Mozilla still claims there is no demand for a feature they do not support. That's backwards, of course a feature that you do not support is not in demand because people simply go elsewhere.

The cumulative effect of a lot of little crappy decisions like this is part of why FireFox' market share eroded (the other is Google's anti competitive behavior).
Serfs were emancipated in 1861, well before the 1917 Communist revolution.
culturewashing?
It’s 1984, folks. No joke.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/09/facebook-allies-with-u...

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/10/01/twitter-suspends-acc...

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/20/ciad-a20.html
(As for the R’s, I saw but can’t find a clip of John Bolton bragging about helping R’s elect people with similar pedigrees.)

https://www.corbettreport.com/psychographics-101/

https://www.corbettreport.com/the-cfr-loves-domestic-propaga...

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/25/how-us-flooded-the-wor...

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/04/13/the-victory-of-percept...

From 2007 BTW:
https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=1941
Relax already. Count your karma; I'm pretty sure that you're positive in this thread. Please, instead, reflect upon why you've felt the need to post multiple times in this thread without actually talking about the original article's content.
> Better be wrong than ignorant

I think this is a hard mantra to put into practice sometimes. I definitely think many people who are not mentally ill sometimes do not abide by this mantra.

Whilst I agree that it is better to be wrong to be ignorant, there are plenty of times where I hate being proven wrong. Sometimes that does get the better of me.
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American intervention in Cuba due to newspapers absolutely fits the “most people believed it” criterion [1]:

> American newspapers fanned the flames of interest in the war by fabricating atrocities which justified intervention in a number of Spanish colonies worldwide.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish–Am...
From this nice interview with Araq (language creator): http://157.245.209.254/andreas-rumpf-on-creating-and-growing...

> I started the Nim project after an unsuccessful search for a good systems programming language. Back then (2006) there were essentially two lines of systems programming languages:

> The C (C, C++, Objective C) family of languages.

> The Pascal (Pascal, Modula 2, Modula 3, Ada, Oberon) family of languages.

> The C-family of languages has quirky syntax, grossly unsafe semantics and slow compilers but is overall quite flexible to use. This is mostly thanks to its meta-programming features like the preprocessor and, in C++'s case, to templates.

> The Pascal family of languages has an unpleasant, overly verbose syntax but fast compilers. It also has stronger type systems and extensive runtime checks make it far safer to use. However, it lacks most of the metaprogramming capabilities that I wanted to see in a language.

> For some reason, neither family looked at Lisp to take inspiration from its macro system, which is a very nice fit for systems programming as a macro system pushes complexity from runtime to compile-time.

> And neither family looked much at the upcoming scripting languages like Python or Ruby which focussed on usability and making programmers more productive. Back then these attributes were ascribed to their usage of dynamic typing, but if you looked closely, most of their nice attributes were independent of dynamic typing.

> So that's why I had to create Nim; there was a hole in the programming language landscape for a systems programming language that took Ada's strong type system and safety aspects, Lisp's metaprogramming system so that the Nim programmer can operate on the level of abstraction that suits the problem domain and a language that uses Python's readable but concise syntax.
On the 15 hour work week front: I think Keynes and other economists missed social trends here. What they didn’t predict was a culture that glorifies being busy. Look at the blogs from entrepreneurs in the past decade bragging about their 60 hour work weeks.

To be clear, the vast majority of these people are lying, either to us or themselves. What’s important is not what they actually work, but the fact that claiming to objectively overwork is something that they feel is socially necessary.
There's a terminal mechanism to avoid this kind of attack: Bracketed Paste Mode.
https://cirw.in/blog/bracketed-paste
You haven't listened very much, then. There has been a lot of discussion on how social services, mental health services, and demilitarization of police tools and tactics would benefit cities.

In a near-zero-sum municipal budget, funding increased homelessness assistance, increased staffing for mental health response, increased investment in lower income/higher crime areas would necessitate funds being reduced elsewhere; many suggest reducing police funding in places where those new services would step up.

If cops stop responding to certain kinds of emergency calls, is it not reasonable the funding for that capacity get shifted to the group that does respond? If cops were fighting fires and then a fire department was created, wouldn't you shift some of the firefighting budget to the new crew?
Keeping comments is a bad practice: If your slack ever gets compromised you’ll wish you deleted everything. We purge every 6 mo. Keep updates in tickets.
That seems like a very hard line to me. Copyright gives fairly comprehensive control over use, however trying to draw a line somewhere down full-control, attribution or no control seems very hard.

As it is today you can use your full control to allow full use with attribution. Of course the "unfairness" probably comes from the fact that you can't force others to do the same.

In my opinion the best option is to keep copyright at "full control" with a time limit. Probably 10-20 years. However that doesn't solve your desire for only attribution.
At this point every statement by the WHO makes me question it very seriously and think about their political agenda in announcing it. Something like Betteridge's law of headlines. So probably Remdesivir has very good effect on COVID-19 outcomes. If I can extrapolate from cases in my surrounding, this seems to be true.
I get that, and don't disagree.
Or just stop the nonsense redesigns in general. Moving things around every few months doesn't benefit anyone.

If the new design was clearly superior, fine, but then if it was clearly superior, they wouldn't do it again a few months down the road.

Maybe then Slack could also put resources into creating native apps. Electron supposedly streamlines development and allows teams to move quickly—but I'd rather they move slowly and make performant software.
I'm not familiar with Nim. Does it also support weak references?

A significant portion of the problems with cycles in ARC are parent references.
I'm not sure why you think I disagree with you. What I said is focus on the bigger lies because all the little ones pull away from a continued conversation.
> This will not teach you to play piano.

I agree, but tools like this or Synthesia can potentially help you practice the piano, which is what you should be spending most of your time on.
To actually answer your question — these coworking spaces do have IT staff. They’re mostly responsible for maintaining the shared infrastructure, but they’ll help you out with your needs as well, if you ask. If you reserve a cube for months at a time, you can certainly bring in a full workstation setup, and they’ll help you to wire it up. (Not that you’d need much help; both power and Ethernet drops are right there for the taking.)

It’s really the socialism to WeWork’s capitalism: because everyone there is, in the end, working for the same employer, enabling the people who come to work there to succeed at their jobs is part of the job-description of the stationed office staff. They aren’t just exchanging money for doing the letter-of-the-law of your SLA contract with them, with your job as an opaque thing that takes up a room. Office staff are more like a college librarian is to a college student: a resource paid to help however they can.
Well it’s just a good job as there isn’t enough remdesivir to go around...
Alas the regulators, as arms of the government, represent the epitome of greed, self interest and mind boggling incompetence outstripping anything dreamt of by private industry.
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> It's not an agreement, and both the Vice article and original Tweet are wrong to call it one. It's a statement of the law covering protected plant varieties (a.k.a plant patents). That's the contradiction.

How does this contradict me? The original text called it an agreement, _not_ me. My point is that it's _not_ an agreement. This is what's printed on the bag:

> The recipient of the produce contained in this package agrees not to propagate or reproduce any portion of the produce, including "but not limited to" seeds, stems, tissue, and fruit.

In this whole thread I'd posited that this does not mean there is any agreement between the end recipient and the producer. Now you say this contradicts me, but it sounds like you actually _agree_ with me. I also wrote this a couple posts up:

> There are of course other restrictions like patents that apply to everyone regardless of random text put on some plastic, but that's another thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24800561

I honestly don't understand your point.
This is a bit simplistic. By now, most cars will have multiple CAN buses, not least to separate the infotainment crap from the safety-critical subsystems like the ECU, steering, ABS braking and others. Chances are the mandated diagnostic part you can access will not be able to control these subsystems (or even receive their messages).

Of course a hardware air-gap is inconvenient when you are trying to ship subpar hardware and software on a shoestring budget, so the industry invented smart CAN "switches" and it's possible to escalate the access the diagnostic port provides, or tunnel from the infotainment network to the safety one. In newer cars, you can also possibly substitute CAN in this post with Ethernet.
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