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Your conceptualization of how the world works and mine are so not on the same page, they aren't even in the same book.

So while what you say is no doubt true, it's got nothing to do with what I'm talking about. I'm not expecting universal health care by June of next year or something.

You start by just getting people to say "Yeah, you know, that makes sense. I would support that." And when enough people can agree with that idea, eventually you get candidates who say "I have this terrific idea (parrots back to the world what the world is already saying is a good idea)."

If there were a general consensus that this is something all Americans like, you can bet money we would have a presidential candidate who not only supports the idea but already has a well-thought-out blueprint developed for how to implement it. In fact, you would likely have two candidates competing for your vote based on the idea that "My universal health care plan is better than theirs! Vote for me, Joe Schmoe, the guy with the better universal health care plan!"
> One of the detractors was an archaeologist with a background in Egyptology from the University of Queensland, Dr. Serena Love. “I was like, ‘Who is this guy?’ I don’t have an Xbox, I could care less about Xboxes,” says Dr. Love.

Couldn't care less.
Dr.
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That'd be amazing. Finally I could throw away all of my very good but obviously obsolete wired headphones and buy some AirPod Pro's instead*

* battery not replaceable, buy new headphones every 3-5 years
It seems better to alias rm to "rm --one-file-system", assuming major cross-filesystem deletes aren't something you do all the time that should be made as ergonomic as possible.
Uruguay is also containing the coronavirus currently very well, with 40 times less deaths per capita than United States. This is almost Asian level of competence.

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3575
I haven't tested it personally, but I trust those people enough to take a closer look:
https://clubhouse.io/write-beta/
ok sorry to hear - good job on spotting the potential for that market. What was the gist of those threats?
I think the central idea is that we need to be humble (like cats) and that hubris is dangerous.
Thank you for this.

It has been a strongly held opinion of mine for a very long time, but I haven't been able to state it as eloquently as that.
The level of evidence isn't great yet, but its highly likely that Vitamin D can help modulate the immune system. There is a retrospective study showing a difference between patients that got Vitamin D and those that didn't (can't find the link, unfortunately), and

there is a small Spanish trial of 75 people where 50 got Vitamin D and 25 did not; in the group that did, 1 person needed oxygen whereas in the other group 12 people needed oxygen and one died - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/
Do not go gentle into that good night.
And this is why I choose not to use Sketch.
They're just visual noise. I have to concentrate on the app's logo to see what it is. Nothing just 'jumps out'. It's awful.
Overleaf is certainly very convenient and so is Google docs, but I don't think they are meant to replace git, or v.v. Once you write your latex and your code, you can then commit it to git so you can benefit from git's version control. That is, unless it's acceptable for the text or code of a paper to live permanently on Overlaf or Google's servers - for me that's not acceptable at all. So I'll keep my local copies under version control and update them from Overleaf once in a while.

I understand that git appears foreboding and hostile to people who aren't trained as programmers. Again all I have to say is that I don't find it that hard and I expect a researcher in a scientific field to be able to cope with it.
Hi,

Seamus Blackley worked on the hardware team and is primarily remembered for developing the XBox controller. I didn't work with him but I am a former XBox team member.
I remember speaking on there to Americans on Christmas Day. PowWow was brilliant. There was a phrase or series of letters one could type to play a song or make a beat or something too. It had text to speech even back then.
Migraines and autoimmune issues are related heavily to Vit D.
* cancel culture

* eugenics

* totalitarianism

* anti-free market capitalism

* gun control
Excellent reference.
Not true for entire Europe. ICQ was de facto standard in Czech Republic and Slovakia. No MSN Messanger at all.
I think that

fn x() {
doStuff();
moreStuff();
forgotSomething();
}

is pretty bad code, but that's probably because I consider procedures with no arguments and no return value a sign that something is poorly factored. However,

fn x(y) {
foo = doStuff(y);
bar = moreStuff(foo);
if (isSomething(bar)) {
return theRest(bar)
} else {
return theBest(bar);
}
}

can be a good way to separate the why from the how and clearly communicate what's going on, especially with conditionals in the mix.

It's important, however, that these helper functions are not haphazardly strewn around the code base and accessible to things that don't need them. Depending on the language/context, I'd reach for nested function definitions or public/private keywords (or a combination), because definitely, it can be very hard to approach a big file with a bunch of (often poorly-named) functions that are defined at the same hierarchical level but not meant to be used at the same level.
My understanding here is that you can just configure this to your own liking. If you don't like lambda, just (macro fn lambda) and you're set. The names chosen by the original writer doesn't really matter when you can reconfigure the language.
Have you even read this quora answer? It pretty much tells outright that the nazi party was not right wing.

Edit: I would recommend less Twitter and Netflix and more L. Wittgenstein.
The problem with ecosystems today is that they lack aesthetic due to leaky abstractions. That Worse is better hasn’t been proven definitively and might never be!!!
this is some grade-a motte-and-bailey shit
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There is an ecosystem though https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl
"As the Last I May Know" [1], winner of this year's Hugo Award for Best Short Story, is based on this proposal. It's certainly a thought-provoking one.

[1]: https://www.tor.com/2019/10/23/as-the-last-i-may-know-s-l-hu...
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In practice, people living under these options like it less than the British people like the Queen.

For example elected elder statesman such as Higgins: approval rating around 70%.

Prime Minister: approval rating around 34%.

The Queen has an approval rating around 80%, sometimes as high as 90%.
I used to work for a company that marketed themselves as “low code” and we built custom business systems. The hard part was getting the data model right, which mostly involved understanding the customers business domain properly through long meetings. Then we could create a system that had 80-90% of necessary functionality literally within minutes just by clicking some buttons. All the simple CRUD, e.g., Create Order, Edit Customer, List all deliveries within the
last six weeks, etc., were then ready. After that there’s a lot left in the budget for writing the code for the company specific business logic and often some integrations.
> The BL602 seems to be trying to compete with ESP parts, follows a similar design, and thus can also be deblobbed, but is presumably much less available and much less documented.

Wasn't the BL602 just released last week? Bouffalo Lab is also a rather new company so trying to gain market share & attention with a more open strategy sounds like a good idea.
The issue is not so much about offering _customer_ service. Genuine customers will only ask for help when they actually need it and do it in a way that respects everyone's time.

Instead, it's more about taking time away from your business to deal with people who have no intention of buying from you but are just bored, lonely or mentally ill.

While the latter group might only represent 25% of the people who contact you, attempting to fulfill their needs is literally impossible and will eat up as much of your productive time as you allow it.
Online reviews (which basically represent the "appropriate amount of public outrage") have only made this worse. If one of your non-customers feel slighted, they will drag your name through the mud in the foulest way possible.
The whole "Karen" meme didn't come from nowhere (although in our case, it's usually 30-something single men).
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Another shilling opportunity!? Sure, why not?
https://espotek.com/labrador/
I think one of the main points of the article that the discussion here misses is that whiteboard interviews can be seen two ways: as an 'exam' where there's a 'right' way to behave/solve the problem and as a 'simulation' where the point is to simulate a situation of working/problem solving with the candidate.

If the interview is explicitly run as a simulation, where the hiring team looks for good behaviors (both in attitude and in problem-solving) and not necessarily good outcomes, whiteboard interviews work well, because: a) they scale and, b) they can actually be good simulations of a high-stress environment. The downsides are that they become subjective, unless the hiring team is experienced/has been trained well.
To remember to bring a physical object, I leave my keys on it. Downside, sometimes people will bring my keys to me when they find them in strange places, like the fridge.
Yes, they too jumped to incorrect assumptions based on reading their own political biases into the article rather than the content of the article itself.
mt76 is an application processor (running Linux) whereas BL602 is a microcontroller (running the RTOS of your choice).

Entirely different categories in both electrical and compute power.
Agreed. IMO it's an eye opener for experienced coders too.
> can anyone be said to hold such power legitimately, when they have only been given this power by a small minority of the entire population that is potentially affected by the decision

Can anyone be said to hold the power to murder millions if not billions legitimately, even if they were selected by a democratic vote?
https://ausdroid.net/2020/10/28/xda-made-a-phone-damn-right-...
This reminds me of:

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
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It would be nice to pursue interesting and useful things like this, where someone bakes bread from 4,500 year old dormant yeast, but coming up with these ideas isn't usually very easy, even with a decadent lifestyle.

Not a whole lot of low hanging fruit these days, a lot of it has been picked. The amount of things we 'know' now is staggering, and has built up some boundaries on what's possible or not. Those boundaries might actually be wrong, but the more you learn the more boxed in your mind can get.

Sometimes it takes an outsider that's ignorant of those boundaries to break through them, try the thing that other people just think would be impossible and it works. I wouldn't be surprised if these people didn't even consider it a possibility that you could bake bread from ancient dormant yeast until this amateur Blackley claimed he did it the first time (and was mistaken).

I had no idea yeast could survive in a dormant state for 4,500 years in ceramic pots. I have yeast that doesn't always reactivate that's only a few years old, let alone 4,500 years. It would never even occur to me to even try, as I had a now clearly false belief that yeast doesn't last that long in my head.

I've probably spent most of my life thinking about games in one way or another, and coming up with new game ideas, but even still I never really come up with something truly genre-breaking. And yet board games have done that a few times in recent years, with someone coming up with deckbuilders, another person coming up with the idea of legacy board games, another a hidden traitor mechanic, etc, and creating a whole new genre out of it.

But even then, it's not super common. Most board games coming out now are a mix of established things, with a bit of a twist or an unconventional theme.
Kind of, smartphones are not designed to last.
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I primarily use Bluetooth connection to ESP32.

BL602 support Bluetooth 5.0 with longer range, mesh network, lower power consumption ++

For me this makes BL602 a winner, if the SW can catch up.
Multiple correction burns along the way. For equivalent burns, the later along the trajectory the burn, the smaller its net effect on final position. So it's a series of increasingly better approximations.

Try it in ksp. It's quite illuminating to plan your burns and see their effect graphically and build an intuition for celestial mechanics and astrogation.
The opening paragraph says it studied ppl after one year of high dose Vitamin D. That doesn't really apply to most people.
That doesn't seem very challenging to a logistics company and falls out of things they already have to do to keep track of their inventory. They probably do somethiing like barcode each thing when it comes in, record which barcode came from where. Scan each barcode when it gets dispatched out to a customer. Now you know the ultimate provider of the item that went to a particular customer.
During compile-time, it doesn't care. So you can use "illegal" characters for the names of macros.

(macro what? (function () (return '(a b c))))
(what?)

That compiles just fine to the JavaScript code

a(b, c);

It does try to validate identifier names during code generation though (using the esvalid module), so if you give it

(? 1 2)

then it will error with

[Error] Identifier `name` member must be a valid IdentifierName
At line 1, offset 1:

(? 1 2)

(In a terminal, the offending character is highlighted.)
> I'm a bit confused why pine64 has decided the BL602 should be the target of deblobbing efforts. Surely the ESP32 would be a better, more popular and more available target?

Because RISC-V
It's expected that everyone has a charger these days. If you do not, you can buy one for a few dollars.

It's more like selling a kettle without water. It's expected most reasonable people will have their own water supply.
Firefighters are always present where there is a fire. Therefore, firefighters are those who lights up the fires.
or do the reverse, call Python from Lisp: https://github.com/bendudson/py4cl or call Lisp from Python: https://github.com/marcoheisig/cl4py

(or if it's because of Numpy, see NumCL https://numcl.github.io/numcl/)

in my taste Hy lacks a good lot of Lisp advantages… no closures with "let" by default, no image-based development and the excellent Lisp REPL, no Lisp's interactivity (in Hy or Python a process must restart after a code change, whereas in Lisp you compile one function with a keystroke and voilà, it's here to test), no Lisp's efficiency, no Lisp object system, etc. https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/pythonvslisp/
Prices aren't set by production costs though. They're set by the market.
Worth noting case control studies like this have inherent bias because your sample is of very sick people. It’s like saying out of all car accidents a disproportionate amount of them were Uber drivers. Being an Uber driver won’t get you in an accident. Uber drivers just drive more. This is correlation at best.

That said, this was also the type of study that found the original link between smoking and lung cancer. So while being vitamin D deficient may not cause me to end up in the hospital if I get COVID, I’m going to be taking a supplement just in case.
Map, reduce, filter, fold, project, transform, group_by, bind, apply - any functional API you care to look is all verbs.

Functions do work. That doesn't mean they have to have side-effects; if they're functional, they do work on the input and produce output. Doing is a verb. It's natural.

Using a noun as a function name is at best justified when you have a situation where you want to hide whether data is being calculated on demand, or fetched from some storage or lookup table. Some languages bake this in, in the form of properties - attributes of a structure which look like fields, but are actually functions. Those things have nouns as names.
A warehouse a factory is not. Try that in the same hall with 50 lathes.
I'm with you about Soul of the Marionette - aimless. But perhaps this article gives some hints as to his intention, to light a spark in our subconscious? Im not sure any lights flickered in my head reading that book though!

I think he got very famous with the Straw Dogs and Black Dawn books (I've not read those). Recently he seems to be a columnist mostly ranting about SJWs and brexit - effectively a small c conservative pundit, but sometimes these contain a gem of a paragraph especially when talking about history or literature.

I do like his ideas about the myth of progress and found it chimed with recent discussions about the hinge of history https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200923-the-hinge-of-his...

If the positive changes we have made are not inevitable and this moment in time is not the most important ever, how best should we act to make the best impact on the future?
>The same is true of watches

Sure, it requires special tools, but isn't a battery change on a quartz watch pretty easy? I think the going price for a battery change is like 10€. There can't be that much hard work involved with pricing like that.
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Isn't it just 3-dimensional (9x9x9)? That's a smaller playing space than taikyoku shogi, it's again a game equivalent to chess (in the von Neumann sense) and a computer wouldn't find anything more conceptually difficult about moving through a 3d array than a 2d one. So I'd expect the computer's advantage to be even larger here.
But only live there in the cooler months (when it isn't day light saving time)
It's an epidemic of this in interfaces.

Spotify and twitter do it as well. (Reading an interesting tweet while the timeline refreshes, and then it's gone; it might even be some kind of non-followed dynamically pushed content that you don't easily find again).

That is closely related with the slightly less obnoxious practice of repositioning things after an explicit reload or re-entry (but this is still annoying): In spotify, if you click on a playlist, return to home view, the order of playlists in the home view has now been "updated".
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That is already being studied between genders [0] as there are drugs that interact differently between men and women.

Even though the racial aspect of it can be taken a bit to the eugenics side by bad actors I believe that more studies should be performed to assess if there are or not significant physiological differences to account for during medical development.

[0] https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/11874/
Isn't that basically how you'd write it in Prolog?
It allows you to send a nice message of "piss off".
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Yes, I completely agree. To take it one step further, he didn't even need the bread. He could have just thrown it away and not even notice.
I'm not a good Buddhist, so this is what AFAIK. Chance to be reincarnated as human is low, it's rare so we are lucky to be born as one. As human we have a chance to gather good karma and attain enlightenment, thus ending the cycle.

I think rather than punishment, it's more like a lesson. And dukkha is often mistranslated as "suffering", but in reality it's closer to dissatisfaction or unhappiness (sadness) rather than suffering.
I'd put the emphasis on clever design.

The custom chips achieved a lot of functionality with a low transistor count due to clever design[0].

AmigaOS[1] achieved a lot of functionality (preemptive multitasking with priorities, fast interrupt response, elegant APIs[2]) and low overhead despite.

Links are Amiga as of ~1991 (ECS and AmigaOS 2.0).

[0]: http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_gui...

[1]: http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Libraries_Manual_gu...

[2]: http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Includes_and_Autodo...
>The other parts of the UK set their own taxes.

That's not the case. Scotland is the only constituent country of the UK where powers to set income tax have been devolved. Income tax in Wales and Northern Ireland is still controlled by Westminster.
> write once, run everywhere

thats rarely true for complex web apps... (doubly true if your using firefox)
The same thing seems to happen with a lot of cookie consents that appear at the top of the page after the page loads moving the content lower. Infuriating.

People spend so much time making their pages look, work and feel better but then turn around and add a shitty, badly designed cookie consent that ruins that whole experience.
This is very wrong to the point that I have to question if it can be a good faith argument.

Hitler was funded by capital. It is true that he employed anti-capitalist rhetoric, but he was not concerned with capitalism per se, but with Jewish capitalism. The only companies that were dispossessed where Jewish companies.

The German war machine was carried by corporations. It was a capitalist system through and through, and the state hired out forced labourers to companies.

You also point to the German Labour Front. I guess you mean to imply it was somehow forced unionisation. That is incorrect. The German Labour front was the replacement for unions. It was not a union, because workers had no right in the labour front. Actual union leaders were thrown into concentration camps or killed.

Essentially, you're either falling for or repeating Nazi propaganda. The Nazi party did not care for the worker. Whenever it stated it "cared" for some group of people that meant that it took control away from that group.

You can't just take what the Nazis said about their organisations at face value. Social workers, caring for the physically disabled? Please, the Nazi state systematically murdered the disabled and who it deemed anti-social.
Idaho is experiencing what California had in the 1970s and 1980s, with the influx of people from other states. I remember the bumper stickers, "Welcome to California, now go back home" and "Welcome to California, now get the fuck out."
The thing to keep in mind here is most illnesses deplete the body of Vitamin D during their course.

So you would actually need more data on whether these people were deficient before they got sick with COVID.
Wow... I thought I used a lot of butter! (Probably less than a fifth of that!)
Maybe Electron supports native menus, but VS Code certainly doesn't use them, at least on Windows and Linux.

Simple experimental proof: resize the window to be very small, and open a menu. The menu can't go outside the bounds of the window.
What is a functional language - something that encourages programming in a functional style, or actively outlaws imperative programming?

IMO it's pleasant to use Ruby in a functional style, much more pleasant than Python owing to the ease of chaining calls that take lambda arguments (blocks). Every time I try to do something similar to a big chained Enumerator stream in Ruby in Python using a list comprehension, I have to invert my thinking - as far as I'm concerned, those things are written backwards and inside out.
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