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Well, this is where it seems to get complicated.

There is an 1831 letter from Whewell to Somervilles' father, asking him to thank her for the advance copy of her book which she apparently sent him, and also on behalf of the Philosophical Society for the copy she sent them [1] -- so they would have at the very least been aware of her and her book by the time of the 1833 discussion.

It is definitely not clear to me that the assertion in the article is correct, but one thing they do appear to be correct about is that "man of science" appears to have attained substantial currency (or indeed dominance) as an alternative to "natural philosopher" by 1830 [2,3]. Why not keep using that? Perhaps just because it is unwieldy? On the other hand, this was 1830 -- people were not so adverse to verbosity back then.

In any case, the deeper questions of why the profession was thought to need a noun at all, and of Whewell's internal motivations, seem to me still rather unanswered.

[1] https://archive.org/details/b21960239/page/170/mode/2up?q=wh...

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whewell/

[3] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=man+of+science...
Makes me sad. CS3 Production Premium Collection was my first, long-desired Creative Suite product, bought in high school with my summer's earnings to support my burgeoning filmmaking projects. Cut a bigger film that next winter using Premiere & After Effects and won some smalltime awards. Good times, so long ago.

I have Creative Cloud now, and have had for years, but still, that little bit of my history is now just memories. I still have my CS6 environment, so they'd better not kill those activation servers anytime soon!
The only reason I like Halide is because I loathe Apple's noise reduction in their photo processing. Shooting RAW is the only way to avoid it.

Every other aspect of computational photography is amazing, but when shooting photos I often intend to print, the photos just look so much nicer without noise reduction in my opinion. Everything close up becomes a smudgy mess.
You are ill informed:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barkhane

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Serval

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_Licorne

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sangaris

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_%C3%89pervier

And these are just _some_ of the terrestrial missions, to say nothing of air operations.

France's Army is small, but it does most of Europe's fighting, and is generally regarded as accomplishing a lot with very little.

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Edit: You might appreciate this mini-documentary about operation Serval. It's in English.

https://youtu.be/-QDnB6dMAb0
Unless you are willing to get arrested or beat up, or worse, for your beliefs, then yes.

If you are not willing to play the game, you will not just be systematically disadvantaged, you will be crushed.

In such a situation, you play the game. You play it because you have no choice.

I've been kidnapped by the police, I've bribed perhaps dozens or even hundreds of people. I've paid off government officials, I've gotten offers to kill my enemies (haven't crossed that line fortunately), etc etc. When the inmates run the asylum, you have no choice in becoming crazy.
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When companies do use that approach, they usually include a warning insert about not shorting, mechanically abusing, or eating the battery. Li-ion cells aren't very difficult to handle safely, especially in single-cell applications. This has gone well for flashlights, but has yet to be widely adopted in other product categories.

I understand that major consumer-product companies are reluctant to offer a product with any risk of attracting personal injury lawsuits, but I'm still classing it as a bad reason.
It could be that the market won't exist (or that the quality of service will diminish because of the lower network effects) if there isn't sufficient demand at a break even price post legislation.
If it's just an MSR write, what do you need a driver for?
Adobe installs an epic amount of phone-home crapware on your PC. Another reason to used a cracked version
e1000 is pretty common in servers, too. It's got a lot of variations though, which makes the full driver pretty big. virtio-net is a lot easier to write a driver for, of course. :)
The Apple MAC mice only had one button.

Windows mice only had two buttons.

The UNIX OSs used 3 button mice right from the start.

When browsers became more widespread, it became more usual to add a scroll-wheel to the two-button mice. But most Windows users didn't twig that the wheel as well as being scrollable, was also clickable. Probably that was because at that time very little software for Windows had the capability of using a 3-button mouse.

UNIX users had the reverse problem. They were used to their mice not being scrollable, so they were very confused when their middle-clicks were also scrolling the mouse (thus moving the cursor) so they were sometimes clicking on the wrong thing.
I don't think it is. If an employer sends a memo to all staff that says "If this law stands, we cannot continue as a business in California, and this could mean disruption to employment." It's not directing anyone to vote for anything, just informing them that hey, this will be very bad if it becomes law. It's up to the employees if they want to vote for or against the measure.
Yeah it was never about squalor for me, but unless you are in a million dollar condo with top notch sound proofing in every wall you will hear your neighbors at all hours and everything they do. Some people may love this, but I hate it. How do I know? I lived it the first 30 years of my life until I bought a house in the burbs. My quality of life is so much better now. No I didn't buy a McMansion. I have lived in bigger apartments, however I have space and nice solid walls between myself and neighbors and it's a huge % increase in quality of life not to hear other people's sex, family quarrels, or bad taco bell incidents at all hours.
Pretty interesting, but from the wiki article looks like it might melt and blur out tattoos which would be a no go in public.
https://www.gimp.org

https://krita.org/en

If you donate anything near what you would have paid for Adobe, then these projects will be awash in resources.
> The problem is that it will move teenagers out of bicycles, scooters, and public transport, thus making roads busier.

These kids are not zipping around in bicycles or scooters. They are either being driven around by their parents or Uber/taxi drivers in their 2-ton 6-seaters or being zipped around in taxis.

These modes of transportation are not a panacea but nothing is, and mindlessly parroting "use bicycles!" does absolutely nothing to address the problem. I'm pretty sure people already know that bicycles exist for a couple of centuries now but somehow they choose not to use them in spite of the colossal cost of purchasing and maintaining a motorized vehicle.

These vehicles pollute less, have a smaller footprint, are safer, are hard to steal, and are affordable. More importantly, they are real, exist today, don't require retrofitting the current system nor do they require legislation changes. Sounds like an improvement.
If one is using proxy protocol within your stack, it would seem like this could be a good work-around here. Particularly if having knowledge of the original client source IP is important to your application.

Has anyone tried this?
From the ruling, p. 62: "In sum, our assessment is as follows. The trial court found that rectifying the various forms of irreparable harm shown by the People more strongly serves the public interest than protecting Uber, Lyft, their shareholders, and all of those who have come to rely on the advantages of online ride-sharing delivered by a business model that does not provide employment benefits to drivers." Reporters simply paraphrased the court's opinion.
Learn it the hard way. The most challenging platform is styling email content with CSS and pushing it out to various webmail platforms if you can do that well you can do anything with CSS. Webmail is a form of embedded media. You just have to practice challenging things.

I see a lot of people struggle with CSS and so they try redefine their environments to make it less challenging, such as box-sizing. Just accept the reality of the environment and learn to solve for it.
I'll bet you could set up an actual marketplace with automated matchmaking

it probably wouldn't be as good as Uber/Lyft can make things by forcing "contractors" to take unprofitable rides, though
If Uber and Lyft don't win their proposition, they can either agree to classify their drivers as employees, or some company that is willing to classify drivers that way will take over the market. People are commenting as if app-based ride share will no longer be available. It might cost more, but it wouldn't be much more.
> California didn't help itself when it implemented term limits which had the unpleasant side effect of never having any legislators with enough experience in the job to know how to really get things done.

I've never understood this argument. Potential "yay" and "nay" votes are both term-limited, so the "inexperience" should cancel out?

The fear of rocking the boat effects anyone that, well, will live longer. Whether you are looking for continued perks/bribes in office, a cushy lobbying job after, or simply don't want to make enemies before your political next move, the perverse incentives are still there.

Perhaps a better thing to do would be to let the populace force votes on a daily basis (with queuing / anti DOS measures, of course), so the representatives have to go on the record one way or another, and can't hide behind inaction.
On a related note, people should download and run OONI Probe to monitor and record censorship on networks around the world. OONI Probe has tests for Telegram and WhatsApp, as well as middle boxes, blocked websites, etc.
That's a really interesting assertion. I have a feeling you could throw arbitrary amount of money at GIMP and it will still be almost useless.
Capitalism is in crisis. To save it, we need to rethink economic growth
It doesn't make a difference. AB5 is the law; it was on hold until the outcome of prop 22. With or without this court decision, if 22 doesn't win Uber and Lyft either have to reclassify their drivers or their drivers will work for some other company that is willing to comply. What is not a possibility is that app-based ride applications will disappear. There's a market, people want the service, and the current drivers want to provide it.
"Judges rule based on the law," and "judges' decisions are inherently political" are not inconsistent statements. In other words, why not both?
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Sounds like you agree that there's a problem with a system the prioritizes profit over everything else :)
my guess is it would take me a lot longer to finagle the database to do what I want, but that's me.
I remember the OG iPad had a pathetic amount of RAM, so that might be your issue;

I use my iPad3 (2012) for Netflix and light browsing and it works great. The battery even holds plenty of charge.

The App Store and Apple Music work fine.

The YouTube app stopped working because the app demands an update that Google didn’t make available for that generation of iPad. Watching YT via Safari still works.

My only complaint is that adblockers don’t work because that generation of iPad doesn’t have a 64bit CPU.
What happens if Uber and Lyft pull out of California?

Here is a list of Organizations and Individuals who are against Prop 22

Seems like there are a lot of Unions, School Districts, and every Democrat in Government from Biden all the way to the local level.

https://sickofgiggreed.com/endorsements/
And then you’re back to the NYC pre-2009 model where you can get a cab anywhere in Manhattan but good luck getting home from Bushwick.
AB5 was very clear about how Uber and Lyft drivers should be classified. There wasn't any ambiguity and it wasn't a hard case.

If Prob 22 wins, then that part of AB5 is overruled. If not, drivers are employees entitled to minimum wage and everything else employees are entitled to.
SUVs are a relatively recent phenomenon, with some exceptions such as the Wagoneer. And we did like large cars, but switched to minivans as cars downsized, then switched to SUVs as Minivans become stigmatized.

And even if you're ambivalent about SUVs, after a while you start thinking "It'd be nice to be able to see beyond this giant block in front of me".
To be clear, I was just pointing out what the intention behind the taxes were.

I was not voicing an opinion on whether such protectionist policies actually work. (They seldom do).
Ah, gotcha. Above I wondered if it might be a self reference also but couldn't see from the text. Either way I think the rest stands.
Trump Awards 1.4B for Nuclear Reactors to Fluor Corp
Maybe you should ask yourself why the single party is unable to oppose special interests? It’s almost as if they were working together for some odd reason hmmm...
Incredibly dumb. Taxi drivers have not ever been employees, what's the difference now?
I remember reading something about a ban-evading technology that telegram used, that 'happened' to be ready just in time for russia to 'ban' it two years ago?
One of the great distinctions between natural languages and programming languages is that programming languages have comparatively little ambiguity — because computers do not have the capacity to consider external context when interpreting the intention of the programmer, and thus cannot resolve ambiguous constructs.

You'd hope that tech folks, from constantly having to accommodate this defect of computers, would develop a sophisticated appreciation for ambiguity. Instead, it seems that the ability to appreciate nuance atrophies.

Legal language may be more formalized than everyday language, but there is still lots and lots of ambiguity. The idea that there is a single correct interpretation of "the law" is nothing more than collective self-deception.
The soft money vs. tenure track / tenured positions is a huge difference in money, future, and security, and it is supprising to me how many future doctorate students don't understand the difference until it is too late. Next stop for many of those postdocs after the soft money runs out - teaching at a community college on semester contracts at a fraction of a university salary, probably not what they had in mind when they started their professional acedemic journey.
I still have my original iPad Mini. It's the only device that has installed and can play the games I made when I worked for an app company back in 2011-2012 that went out of business. Once it dies I'll be a sad panda :(.
So does this mean that presumably, going forward, when the factory starts working at full capacity, the taxes imposed will be lower, and hence Apple products will be cheaper in India?
Yay & Nay votes aren't the only job of legislators. They're often responsible for writing good legislation too -- something that's arguably difficult to do if you're new to the job, so the task (largely) falls back to special interests to "help" with the process.

By way of example: Literature. It's easy to read a good book; it's much harder to write one without lots & lots of practice.
well that's the subject of the Linux kernel thread as the original patch was just to remove a warning from the use of the Intel MSR https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200907094843.1949-1-Jason@zx2...

I guess it's a question of whether you want drivers to be in the kernel source tree with supported interfaces, where interactions with other drivers can be mediated, or in userspace, where they can iterate without the kernel release process, which takes a long time to get to distros and end-users.

As this Intel MSR is not well documented, I would not argue strongly either way.
Yes. But Is this still happening though. Apple has lowered iPhone prices in China, so that if you exclude any sales tax and import tax, China now has the cheapest iPhone 12. ( Or Apple is making less money per iPhone sold in China )

Part of the reason why Apple is protecting its Services Revenue.
WebStorm – Project History
Oh dear, thank you so very much genuinely for your excellent history. Unfortunately I think this is going to leave me with the loss, since I last backed up my design workstation to tape conveniently the just far enough distant past and (dealing with long-term injury that I am only recently overcome sufficiently for picking up my WACOM pen again) only the last month or so have been planning on restoring.

Completely seriously, isn't Adobe missing out on a significant community of graying designers who would be entirely contented to pay Adobe quintennially for a long term support version with standard menus and hardened fuzzed etc security wash before rtm?

Priced at say 60 percent of the current subscription, and given the opportunity for satisfying this constituency of customers who I am not sure at all would be Adobe customers in the future otherwise, isn't even such a radical branch viable?
It helps to say something outrageous like that to attract more attention.
> I'll bet you could set up an actual marketplace with automated matchmaking > it probably wouldn't be as good as Uber/Lyft can make things by forcing "contractors" to take unprofitable rides, though
I think it's hard to tell what would happen. There's no reason that we would necessarily expect that uber drivers would not take lower wages for rides if they had to in a market.

It's hard to know whether Uber deflates the price of rides to keep demand high (and thereby steals surprlus from the drivers) or whether they inflate the price of rides to take a larger cut (and thereby steal surplus from riders).

Of course it's also hard to say whether if the price to the consumer went down the drivers would actually make more without Uber if the theoretical drop in price was less than the extra amount drivers get from Uber's previous cut.
this is the right answer.

You can tag playbooks and either run only the specified tags playbooks or skip those and run everything else.
Pennies
Don't worry, you can still become president in your late 70s.
I wonder how much they're automating the protection of their auto-generated playlists (if at all) - for example, does it know if I look at an auto-generated playlist, create a new one, then fill it with all the same songs in the same order?
> Is it even feasible cycling on some roads where SUVs abound, along with trucks?

It's feasible to cycle on any urban road where SUVs abound, provided that they have an urban speed limit.

And by the way, it's not comfortable for pedestrians to contend with bicycles. At least cyclists driving on roads have to navigate drivers who had to go through training to have the privilege of being there, and risk suffering consequences if they do not abide by rules.
> I've never understood this argument. Potential "yay" and "nay" votes are both term-limited, so the "inexperience" should cancel out?

What? Take this to it's logical conclusion and imagine term limits of 1 day. No one would be making sound decisions with those yeas and nays.

And why would they always be 50 / 50 and "cancel out"? If you know nothing about a fairly complex topic, it's easy to be mislead, especially by someone with an ulterior motive that's playing a game much longer than your term limits.
Affinity is the answer.

"I've switched all my work to Procreate, Affinity, and Final Cut."
While saving money on fuel and avoiding pollution. If you can avoid pollution in India you can literally increase lifespan.

The problem here in India, when I brought up "WFH is future", all the experienced manager above 10yrs were not happy with idea. Why? Probably because they are paying EMIs for hefty loans they took for buying flats. People like me who are relatively less experienced don't want to take that risk at all. Moreover I intend to move to my hometown permanently. Needless to say, my ideas don't sit well with managers.
Seeing a timer ticking away on you can cause anxiety, which could help you focus.

However jotting down the things you have done with each passing day feels a lot more rewarding. With time, your memory wears out and you start forgetting the little achievements, feeling like you've wasted your time. Seeing your daily jog or journal of thoughts preserved, memories made, helps you relive the good parts (if that's what you've written down) and that makes the best parts of life last longer as they are relived, re-encountered.

I'm building functionality to help people preserve those memories/personal logs in an ads-free way and make them privately share-able with loved ones at https://www.dreamlist.com . However I also own the domains journalee.com and braingarden.net. Debating whether to explore those. What do you think?
This may be the first time I've actually wished HN had /. style moderation, so I could give you a +1 (Funny) vote.

Jokes are usually frowned upon here, but that's a good one. Have an upvote from me.
My negativity comes from this specific solution. My two main problems with it:

1. It's the exception, not the rule. Most of the time there aren't collaborative solutions. Most of the time people work in their silos and make something work for themselves. Often it's corporate-funded, and those corporations have no consideration for others being able to pick up the work once they've abandoned it. The fact that there's 10 of the same thing to integrate is proof enough. It's just gotten so ridiculous that somebody finally had to address it. Turns out it's a company that has to deal with all of those implementations anyway.

2. This is one tool figuring out how a bunch of other tools can integrate into it. It's like what I'm proposing, if you assume the least work possible to achieve maximum laziness for your own specific tool and use case.

Their solution wasn't "hey, it looks like a lot of things use secrets. maybe it'd be cool if we made one way for any system with secrets to interoperate with any other system, and try to get it adopted by existing vendors." Their solution was "hey, we just need to get all these other things to work for the one tool we're using." Rather than "how can we make this more composable, more compatible, easier to implement, for everybody... even if they're not using our tool...", it became "how can we make this easier for just us?"

That's what is always happening, has always been happening, in this space, for nearly 10 years. Either everybody latches their custom tech onto a single platform and no real open source solutions get made, or everybody spits out incompatible, overbuilt, underthought, opinionated solutions for their own problem. We don't build standard solutions in the cloud world, we build log cabins.

I mean, just read the PR. They're talking about coding into this 'standard' support for each different implementation. Like "this is a vault secret, and this is a gsm secret." That's the opposite of what I want. I want it to say, "this is what a secret looks like. now you figure out how to use it.", or, "give me your secret. I don't care who or what you are, because we all speak the same secret language." That is what an internet standard is supposed to be. Not "this is a bind9 DNS record, this is an AD DNS record, this is a RedHat DNS record, this is a Route53 DNS record".

The "container landscape" shouldn't remotely resemble what it does today. The idea of a "container" should have been standardized in an agnostic way, without requiring all the (admittedly useful, but also completely unnecessary, and often burdensome) features Docker threw into their tool. Yes, many people's lives were made easier. But a whole lot of other lives were made harder, to the point of small economies built out of badly re-implementing and custom-integrating into one precious and incompatible concept.

I would call Kubernetes the open source Active Directory, but Active Directory is literally ten times more standards compliant.