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I deeply agree with your interpretation.

At school, we all learn basic skills read/write to understand each other. But in today's society, a basic grasp of science, a minimal level of scientific literacy is crucial to swim through our techno-society.

To this day, I cannot picture the void in someone's head that doesn't know how computers work. It would surely give a sour taste of powerlessness. Same can be said about anything that explains how the world around us revolves.
"A straw man ... is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the proper idea of argument under discussion was not addressed or properly refuted.[3] One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man". "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
It seems to me that ideally, college would admit some people as a result of family wealth, and some due to aptitude. The question is, what should the balance be?

To explain: it’s simply a fact in our current society that people with wealth have outsized power and influence, even if they do not have special aptitude.

In a society where wealth does accumulate, it seems beneficial for people with aptitude but not wealth to be able to build relationships with people who have wealth but not aptitude.

Thus, society benefits from colleges admitting a mixture of the two.
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Cookery? Languages? Music? Singing? Dancing/Excercise?

To be honest I did those kinda things already, except for the singing, but having a small child those are the kinda things he likes at the moment. No doubt his tastes will change over time, but I'm gonna try to join in with his interests at least until such time as he doesnt' want his "uncool" dad doing so.
Guitar Center seems to have the Barnes & Noble problem, that is, they provide a valuable service in allowing you to browse, compare, and try out products, but they attempt to make their money from the product itself, which you can buy online from a non-brick-and-mortar store for cheaper. I've been to Guitar Center much more often than I've bought anything from there.

And both of these companies, being national chains, have the capital to out-compete local independent book / music stores, but because they're a chain, they won't inspire loyalty. I might feel like I should pay a little more to buy a book from Greenlight Bookstore instead of Amazon; I don't really feel like I should extend this courtesy to Barnes & Noble.

How do we solve this problem in a sustainable way?
Unfortunately, this pandemic has made it necessary for people to not have social interactions when they go to buy things. And that goes double for a store where you expect to take your time, get a feel for things, put your hands all over the merchandise, and try things out. I feel bad for the employees who have to wipe down the demo guitars after customers use them. Ultimately, I think the only stores we'll see survive the pandemic are the ones where you just get in, grab what you need, and get out.
Their web retail is through Musician's Friend, the GC website is mostly a front end for their in store stock.
Tipping itself should be that mechanism. "You kept interrupting us after we asked you not to do so. No tip for you"
I think this is largely false, and I took the SAT about 3 years ago. My only prep was a $25 book and some free official practice tests. Managed to get a 95th percentile score on my second try.

My family could have afforded prep courses, but I wanted to prove to myself that it could be done for much less (which it was).
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I agree that the post is not very well written, but if you are a bit generous you can read them saying "phishing sites are doing MITM attacks that we have a very hard time distinguishing from CEF logins, so we are axing CEF logins altogether".

I'm appalled of the general direction Google is pushing the web to (an AD haven), but some of their points make sense.
Completely agreed. I'm just questioning if those edge cases are really what is holding folks back.

That is, yes, calorie counting is problematic. Is there a non problematic way? Maybe? But probably not. Just different problems.
I am referring to the ability for consumers who purchase a hardware product with these Corporation's operating system installed to be able to dual boot, or replace the OS with a Linux distribution.

I believe this is both in line with free-market enterprise as well as core values such as individual liberty and property ownership. Anti-competitive and predatory practices should not be justified by people such as yourself under the guise of "competing for profit".
Definitely the latter, IMO. Posters like this don't have enough detail to matter if you're actually interested in the system. The volume of information is cool and fun to look at, but it's not really that useful, other than as a 10,000-foot reference. And the number of times you need a 10,000-foot reference is low enough that a big poster isn't really that helpful.

Giant periodic tables are actually a lot more useful, now that I think about it.
What incentive would Apple have to do that? For the most part their products have only gone up in price (as with the yearly iPhone releases). I'd expect exactly the opposite instead (e.g. thinner-bezel macbooks with face ID). A cheaper ARM Macbook would cannibalise their iPad sales.

Laptops with OS freedom have always been a more niche thing, same as dual booting on a desktop machine. Short of selling laptops with no OS at all, most people are going to stick with the default install.
wait it out, eventually it will have to go up as the old timers die off.
Because Youtube's algo is trained on videos you are most likely to watch through.

None of which really take in account your personal preferences. Youtube only cares about how long you stay on a video after clicking on it.

https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-algorithm-silence-conspi...
As a non-American, tipping makes me feel disgusting(Footnote). Tipping is about waiving money around so other human beings literally cater to my every whim, on demand. IF I deem their service appropriate, and IF I'm in the right mood, I might give them some of my money.

Or not, simply because.

It's a disgusting way that rich people lord it over poor people, and every time I experience it my skin crawls.

It's no surprise at all that rich people really like the idea of tipping, because it lets them flaunt their money, and people of lower classes will literally scramble to get some of it. What's the point in having a ton of money if other people aren't impressed/trying to impress you/make you happy.

(Footnote) I still always tip, because the staff need it to survive.
The notion that SAT scores are a poor proxy for IQ in low income households is a commonly held talking point, but it’s just not borne out by research.

Testing prep just doesn’t matter in aggregate, because admissions rarely have a cliff between marginal score and slightly better marginal score. Upper middle class people spending money on it doesn’t mean it’s money well spent; like many things rich people spend money on, it’s largely signaling to peers.

Also, your caricature of why people get hired for engineering jobs bears very little relationship to what I and my colleagues look for in engineering interviews.

Being able to solve a few simple algorithm problems is table stakes. Being able to talk about what you’re doing and why is what’s being measured.

People who crammed leetcode but don’t actually understand the material are obvious 5 minutes into the interview; people who freeze up occasionally on the algorithm bits but can talk about why they’re doing what they’re doing generally get hired.
Makes ya wonder if all of that existed when you were younger, but if the naivete, innocence, and wonder of being a child were enough to shroud you from the reality.
Obviously interrupt code can't clobber registers like that, any shared register the ISR needs to share with ordinary code must be saved/restored on entry/exit somehow.
Define “wealthy.” My brother went to Yale. We were definitely comfortable—immigrants to the US in 1989, my dad worked in public health and my mom was making good commissions at a furniture store. That made us somewhat better off than the typical family at Yale—the median family income is $196,000. But we weren’t “wealthy.”

I worry about the collateral effects of these attacks on meritocracy and the SAT. As immigrants, my family and I didn’t have social connections and deep cultural familiarity. Applying to college, doing the “right” extra-curriculars, etc., was actually quite a challenge. We never knew to work teachers for extra credit or retakes on exams to keep our grades up. What we had to distinguish ourselves from other upper middle class kids was our SAT scores.

Today, my wife and I have vastly more resources and cultural competency to navigate “the system” than my parents did. My kids go to a tiny K-12 private school where their teachers and guidance counselors will know them from preschool. We know the trendy extra-curriculars, how to craft admissions essays, how to put together class schedules that look good on a transcript while minimizing GPA risk, etc. I feel like deemphasizing the SAT and objective measures is going to help established families like mine at the expense of the kind of family I grew up in.
> The history of the church in the middle ages provides an interesting comparison. Instead of technocratic experts, there were priests who claimed a monopoly on truthiness. Members of the laity or even academics like Galileo were declared heretics when they diverged from official truths.

Ah this trope again. I am just gonna post this for a more complete picture:

http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2011/05/18/science-ow...

> Admittedly, Galileo was put on trial for claiming it is a fact that the Earth goes around the sun, rather than just a hypothesis as the Catholic Church demanded. Still, historians have found that even his trial was as much a case of papal egotism as scientific conservatism. It hardly deserves to overshadow all the support that the Church has given to scientific investigation over the centuries.

> That support took several forms. One was simply financial. Until the French Revolution, the Catholic Church was the leading sponsor of scientific research. Starting in the Middle Ages, it paid for priests, monks and friars to study at the universities. The church even insisted that science and mathematics should be a compulsory part of the syllabus. And after some debate, it accepted that Greek and Arabic natural philosophy were essential tools for defending the faith. By the seventeenth century, the Jesuit order had become the leading scientific organisation in Europe, publishing thousands of papers and spreading new discoveries around the world. The cathedrals themselves were designed to double up as astronomical observatories to allow ever more accurate determination of the calendar. And of course, modern genetics was founded by a future abbot growing peas in the monastic garden.
Branding and advertising.

Like having google on your resume.

It's not logical. If someone left google after a year.. it sounds like it wasn't a great fit for either but others will take it as a proxy for your greatness and select that person over someone who stayed longer at a less known entity.
I always loved reading on my Kindle DX (which had a larger version of their standard e-ink screen -- though it's since been discontinued).

You can still send PDFs to a Kindle and display them on the screen. The formatting isn't always perfect, but it's an option.
Okay, but what about middle income kids and families?

Why did it omit a whole swath of information in
order to make a point?

How does the outcome of elite grads compare with those from public universities? Second tier colleges?
To Train an AI to Pursue Objectives, Scientists Made It Play an RPG
i make the same argument for hiring. once you've done some basic filtering, you're likely better off hiring at random than trying to "pick the best", as alluring as that is, because your biases will select against intellectual and creative diversity.

economies of scale work to your advantage here as well. when hiring 1 person, you feel immense pressure to hire correctly. but when hiring for 10 similar roles, you can, for instance, hire 11 people at random from a qualified pool and find the best fits along the way (often even for the 'extra' hire, who might fit in an entirely different role).
> however it's worth considering that religious believers made the same assumption about previous cultural realities: theirs was the only right reality.

Science doesn’t make that assumption about Reality. In fact it makes a rather weak assumption: reality is only that which we can demonstrate and prove using the scientific method.

Science only lays down the principles by which scientific discovery might be made, and leaves the description of reality as whatever the outcome of that process might be. It’s something that rational human beings enjoy because it has offered great predictive power which has benefited humanity immensely, in addition to providing theories for how the world works.

The best thing about science is that it allows you to completely change the description of reality if a better theory comes up. This is one of the main reasons why this framework has been successful: it is adaptable and accepting of new realities.
> If there was sufficient demand there's nothing stopping someone from making a MacOS compatible release

That assumes that it's something that can reasonably be ported. Granted, that does cover most software, but there are exceptions that for whatever reason are difficult to port. Docker is the poster child for this since it uses Linux kernel primitives; the way it runs "on" Darwin is to run Linux in a VM.
Why do we care what anyone thinks? He's been a pretty reliable tech taste maker throughout my life. I'll keep listening to his guidance.
Ha, not if nobody visits them any more.
SpaceX rests on the shoulders of all previous space programs. They did not invent space travel. They iterated.

I’m not sure NASA was financially irresponsible. They were doing things for the first time. Mistakes are going to be made, lessons were learned. That’s even true of SpaceX.

If your prediction that SpaceX gets people to mars with no deaths turns out to be true it will be because of NASA, not in spite of them.
You provide an excellent argument for penalizing applicants who are good at Leetcode-type problems :)

How far are we from trying to "correct"/normalize SAT scores according to family income quintiles? It seems to make sense if it's actually true that you can't compare scores across quintiles. As someone who did above-average and came from the bottom quintile it would have helped me a lot. As someone whose kids will very likely grow up in the top quintile I'm not sure I'd want that to happen.
Presumably they matched the name, location, and DOB with a person who had a public obituary. I'm not the op so I don't know.
Computer Mouse Combined with a Telephone Once Made Sense. Kind Of
There's a minimum amount of money you need to pay to be able to attract competent sales people inside a shop in a stable way. I'm right now in a hotel, and I wish there would be half as many people who were doing their job well.
The Idea Factory by Gertner was great, and in fact Kernighan's memoir specifically recommended it for more detail on Bell Labs!

https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovatio...

Search for the many HN comments about this 2013 book:

https://www.google.com/search?q=idea+factory+site%3Anews.yco...
I'm not going to trust google with that after a decade of terrible track record.

I don't believe one second there is a way to opt out of Google tracking you. At best, you can lower the settings on how much it displays the informations it has on you.
> A cheaper ARM Macbook would cannibalise their iPad sales.

I was thinking of it more like. Here's your PC in tablet form for iPad, here's your PC in laptop form for a entry level Macbook. They can keep the internals same for both. Most users are fine with web browser, mail client, photo editor etc. which an iPad internal laptop should very well run.

> Laptops with OS freedom have always been a more niche thing, same as dual booting on a desktop machine. Short of selling laptops with no OS at all, most people are going to stick with the default install.

True, but everything being x86 or x86_64 allowed us to run other OSs and that community kept the threat of a different OS alive for other users. If no one can run other software on these laptops, that fear will go away completely.
That's my main criticism for all this and similar projects. I think we as rss entousiasts should invest our time in a better way than patching rules against a running target. Who knows if those big sites break their markup intentionally just to keep us locked out and absorbed. Support the automated approch [0] it's JavaScript.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
Amen. We've got a couple local music instrument stores here too.

But I feel for my buddies that make electronic music. They loved GC since they could try out the synthizers and drum machines before they bought.
I'm largely interested in used/refurbished items, I don't usually have a thousand to blow on hobby music gear & would prefer store curbside pickup (packages in San Francisco get stolen within seconds of arriving).

For online, ship to store/pickup in store is super important to me (and probably many others). I'm not sure why more places don't offer it.

This also being said, I don't believe I've ever found GC/MF in person to be useful or any better than Amazon. No one working there was actually knowledgeable about their lines of products or about instruments in general, they just kept harassing me over buying worthless GC-offered third party warranties that they refuse to pay out and covers nothing
>Those who seek to shut down discussion by labeling dissenters as "science deniers" deserve to be scrutinized.

Exactly this. In line with my theory that Covid (or at least, the overall response to it) has accelerated all that was going wrong in the world, I have seen similar disturbing trends among scientific academics. That is - the science (couched in terms impenetrable to the layman) is right, actions are being taken in the best interest of all, and daring to question it marks you as anti-science (when questioning the status quo really is the essence of science). The comparison to state-sponsored religion is very apt.
>There's some very strong propaganda out there that you can do anything if you just apply yourself.

Heh, do people really fall for that? Even if the "can do anything" part is possible, it's not probable (compared to starting from a wealthy family and applying 1/10th the effort). Rich play life in easy mode, news at 11.
I think a Bonobos model for instruments and gear for the big retailers would be more sustainable. Quality control for musical instruments has gotten much better in the last decade (huge shoutout to World Musical Instruments in Korea) to the point I'm not really afraid of trying the exact guitar I'm buying compared to a floor model (although many GC floor models get beat up). Same goes for all other kinds of gear, except vintage and used.

On the opposite end is the Chicago Music Exchange (they own/operate Reverb.com) which is the coolest damn store you'll ever go to if you're a guitar nerd.
> Also, your caricature of why people get hired for engineering jobs bears very little relationship to what I and my colleagues look for in engineering interviews.

Yeah, I'm not sure I've ever even heard of anyone comparing the times it took different applicants to answer a question, except maybe in the binary "did they do it under the time cap" sense. And even then, very rarely is software development time capped in the way an interview was so as long as someone's thinking is along the right track I don't think not getting a specific answer in a specific timeframe would disqualify them.
You claim to disagree with GP comment but nothing in your comment even comes close to addressing its main points, unless I'm much mistaken.

Indeed, the only points of contact between the comments I can find is where you agree with GP comment, namely that scientific literacy is necessary.
You implement higher-level abstractions like mutexes. On a single core device this could be as simple as masking interrupts. You can use the mutexes to avoid the described race.
Neither Elixir Liveview nor StimulusReflex are really viable longterm, especially for mobile web.

The idea of chattily streaming UI changes over the network doesn't work out for mobile web, where networks are frequently unreliable if not totally inaccessible.
A descendant that would be dead by now wouldn't Apple decided to buy NeXT.

VLAs are dead, a broken design fixed in C11 by removing it from the standard, no idea why everyone keeps referring to them.
Have you paid it back? What was the total cost to you including financing charges.

I find school's love to offer loans.
Customers directly paying employees wages is one of the most bizarre things about America.
>The wired thing about jewelry is that it’s only real value is mostly in the first sale. After that, it’s rare to get more than the value of its component parts.

Is there a reason for this? Why can't you take a piece of used jewelry, clean it, and resell it? Do they go out of fashion?
Does there exist soc any that would be suitable for a powerful arm laptop that can run Linux? How does for example the nvidia xavier soc stack up against the apple m1?
If you were better off than the typical family who sends a child to Yale, and that typical family makes $196k/yr then yeah you were wealthy. By what metric would that not be considered better off than the vast vast majority of Americans?