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> Almost everyone here is down with killing animals for minutes of taste bud pleasure

I don't really care about your argument against eating meat. Let's just say you win.

But who talks like this? How many minutes of brain power did it take for you to assemble this discourse into this digital dialog interface which I am currently visually consuming information from?
Japan is known for being quite collectivist and lonely. Frequently heard is of people feeling that they don't fit in society.
Agreed. The Wolfram page is crap compared to Wiki
One could save a decent amount of money for self and family by being handy with basic tools, plumbing, that sort of thing - but most in UK cities don't.
I didn't have ambition vs. slow paced in mind, more like lucrative vs. meaningful.

As an example: mastering any activity takes years of dedicated practice. Programming, writing, making origami, cooking, you name it. Very rarely does this training align precisely with making a lot, or even any, money. The mastery might itself then lead to actual financial gains, but our current system doesn't optimize for this at all.
It might not fit the topic very well, but studying evolutionary algorithms made me realize that in the grand scheme of things individual success is always the aggregate result of pure chance instead of some intrinsic quality of the individual.

In hindsight the optimal solution can be neatly tracked through its ancestors to the initial population showing a deliberate pattern. In the real world this is used and abused by our confirmation bias to try to associate individual traits or effort to the outcome. However the algorithm shows that the interpretation is bullshit, that it was always pure chance from the start, and that it only looks like the deliberate result of an action if we ignore all other individuals which were also generated by chance but also didn't succeeded by chance.

Also, evolutionary algorithms show that success is only relative, and that access to opportunities is in the grand scheme of things the realization of a few random variables. You are hired by chance, you are passed on by chance, you find other opportunities by chance. Thus you don't need to stress about the outcome because it's always largely out of your control.
I got voted down by someone who obviously never compiled their own kernel (which used to be the norm). After lots of questions about how you need to config, you get your kernel... THAT is Linux -- the kernel.

The rest, the part you are complaining about bloating is the GNU part. I'm not complaining about that GNU part, btw. I've lived in it since the early 90's. But the Linux kernel can be as slim and responsive as you want it to be if you are willing to compile yourself. You can even compile it as an RTOS, and you can never convince me that would be too sluggish.

What I got voted down for was pointing out that Linux-proper wasn't the slow part of that blend. It was the desktop. And that part is GNU, not Linux. Period.
> This sounds quite a bit more complicated than what we're doing, so the answer is "we angrily avoid complexity".

Curious about fly's other design principles: A blog post about that would be wunderbar
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And herein lies the immaturity the grandparent was talking about.

"starting with true premises and employing sound logic will always produce a true conclusion"

is only useful where premises can be determined to be true, and the conclusion follows a logical syllogism end to end.

This is only done (or even achievable) for quantifiable / statements of fact ("a book is on the table", "the earth is round", "the GDP is 10 trillion" and the like).

For 99% of what humans care about - claims and their veracity, values, morals, politics, goals, tastes, aesthetics, interests, etc, there are no "true staatements" to begin with, and many of them doesn't involve a sound logical syllogist-sound process, but only regarding their simplest sub-parts.

E.g. two political enemies might have different opinions on what to do with the national debt, but they can agree on the actual amount of the national debt, and use pure logic to calculate it, check where it was spent, etc. That, though, wont help them determine logically and agree on whether something like welfare or military spending is good or bad, and it's usually those latter questions that matter in such discussions.

The thing is, people still name all those other things (that are not ammenable to logical process end to end) as true and false, based on their own opinions.

Logicians can disagree all they want, this ain't gonna change.

And it's those "true" and "false" statements that matter in most arguments, not their less interesting, quantifiable, easily acceptable by everybody and logically analysed brethen.

The "let's point people to logical fallacy lists, as the solution" crowd doesn't understand this.
Sorry for replying so late, I don’t scan Hacker News all the time.

I have been following this phantasy for a long time (starting with the Atrix lapdock, continuing with the Nexus 4 running Ubuntu Touch and a SlimPort dongle, Nexus 5 and MaruOS and ...

Now I have a PinePhone and even made a few videos for YouTube (PeerTube, LBRY) demoing Phosh (the Phone Shell developed by Purism), Plasma Mobile and also Plasma Desktop and Gnome (the Mobile Shells have improved since, as they are still in early development). Honestly, Gnome and Plasma Desktop felt way better than their mobile counterparts. I think that this is not just familiarity, but also that they are made for the use case primarily.
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GOTO 2019 • The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Saša Jurić

This talk feels, as a coding analogy, a lot more like throwing ingredients into a recipe than architecting an abstract machine.
A FUSE filesystem that fetches objects on demand seems like it would be great when working in a large repo such as the Linux Kernel or Chromium, especially when only a small subset of files are needed. It would also be useful to monitor the fs for file changes since `git status` scans the entire tree. Does anything like this exist?
Yep, as long as you can explain that someone is a bigger monster than you are you can justify yourself killing anyone.
Speaking as someone who never had formal education, I recommend starting with Python. It’s easy and fun to work with. You can pick up basics of programming in two weeks. After that I’d suggest diving into HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Once you get the hang of these technologies, you go on to exploring anything that tickles your fancy.
> Note that the basic router on openstreetmap.org is just a tech demo

Huh? On the OSM.org website you can use Graphhopper or OSRM routing engines. Both are not "tech demos", but proper real routing engines for real world use. They are hosted by volunteers, so you shouldn't rely on them to be free for everyone for ever. If you want to build a business on them, both OSRM & Graphhopper are open source & self hostable
> The logic of waiting to launch shuttles doesn’t apply to global warming and I’m not sure why you’d bring that up here?

That's because my argument is not about rockets or climate change but about underlying assumptions.

> If I launch a rocket now, it’s will take 50 years to get to Pluto. If I wait 10 years, we’ll have faster rockets, so it will actually get there sooner. The progress of my original rocket cannot be improved.

Faster, maybe. Sooner ? Where is the proof ?

And what if you can build a faster rocket only because you learned from mistakes from the slower first rocket ? If you never launch and experiment with that one in real conditions then you may very well never have a faster rocket.

Let's put it another way:

- before, we didn't know how much was feasible and we doubted we could do better (LEO, moon landing, etc.).

- Now we know we could and did.

- So we think in the future we'll be able to do things we can't do now.

- But what if we are wrong again (like we were before) and that very belief is wrong.

- You can still think/believe things like “Assuming constant progress in technology we might be able to get there faster by waiting decades than by leaving now. Even the absolute limit of light speed, while impossible to imagine today, might turn out to be less of on obstacle in some future understanding of physics.” but that belief may very well be our mistake, just like people 100 years ago didn't believe we could land on the moon.

Now we just believe anything is possible.
Quite a significant proportion of people have fingerprints which cannot be read[1]. Phone fingerprint readers never work. This causes no end of trouble with airport immigration in various places. I spent a couple of hours in a back room at Boston airport while various people attempted to read my fingerprints (I have them, but they never work in those airport machines).

[1] About 2-3% if you trust this random comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/62c3oj/m...
> In my mother’s case I am sure pgp is too complex, but shouldn’t we demand it in a professional context?

Professional context is tons of people like your mother.

But also, PGP web of trust would break in larger adoption.
My MacMini 2018 has monitor wake up problems over 2 years. I have to restart it many times to boot it up everyday (Let MacMini reset settings)
> imagine a nurse who is just not suited to dealing with people, or following rules.

What's a good job for someone who is not suited to dealing with people or following the rules?
Even trying to purchase one as a hacker to use with a Pi to create a “modern day” HP 200LX palm-top required so much legal complexity bullshit and painful terms that it literally wasn’t possible.

I could buy the part on the grey market from China, but the documentation was literally non-existent (as in, there was zero, none. At least from the seller I wanted it from).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_200LX

Does anyone have any suggestions for a screen that would fit this sort of use-case? The UI/UX I planned on being a straight Linux TTY1 to begin with.
Perhaps it's someone who doesn't think in absolutes: sees the value of the ethical argument, but allows that other factors may dominate depending on the circumstances.
Unlike English though, the pronunciation is almost always straightforward and non-ambiguous. The spelling for some sounds can be confusing at first, but once you internalize it, it'll work 99% of the time.
That’s mostly a Rails trait though. I code and choose a mostly explicit approach to Ruby, which lends itself very well to that, especially as it’s how the stdlib is designed .
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Hello,

Develytica is a service that helps teams that use github issues and labels to keep track of their team member skills. This should help product owners, team leads, projec managers etc to find correct persons with right skills for tasks. Feedback appreciated.
It should use PJON for communication: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON
> dressed like a plumber

The Swiss Guards at the Vatican called him "the tankward".
Thank you and appreciate it, I was about to ask that and thanks for explaining.

But what about the code editor, can you recommend one?
> I once had a large trout swim UP a (short, about 4') waterfall with my lure in his mouth and I could SEE him swimming up it as if it were just normal water.

This would be much like the scene in The Hobbit with Legolas successfully gaining elevation by climbing up free-falling rubble.
Although someone choosing to bomb a place means I wouldn’t be surprised if they weren’t thinking everything through...
There is very little tourism right now, ever since this started.
But before that, Vietnam (population 97M) had close to 20M international arrivals last year, Germany (population 83M) had 39M, Thailand (population 70M) had 40M.

Vietnam has essentially one train line across the county that only splits up in the very north into two train lines into China. Vietnam has 2,600km of train lines, Germany for comparison has more than 41,000km, for a comparable area size. Vietnam has about 12M train passenger rides a year (pre-Corona of course), Germany has more than 2000M (does not include intra-city light rail rides). Thailand, with an area about 1.5x of either Vietnam or Germany, has 4,400km of train lines and 38M passenger rides.

Vietnam has about 250,000km of roads (50% paved), Germany has 600,000km (mostly paved). Vietnam has about 3M motorized vehicles (31 per 1000 population, but there is probably a significant number of unaccounted motor scooters), Germany has 56M motorized vehicles (701 per 1000), Thailand has 40M motorized vehicles (half being motor scooters/bikes, probably a significant number of unaccounted motor scooters) (571 per 1000).

You said "just like the US or EU", but I disagree given these numbers. The mobility, especially medium and long distance mobility, seem quite different.

Public life - as dictated by climate conditions and of course economic constraints - differs as well. Average temperature in Vietnam is 24°C, Thailand 26°C and Germany 9°C (and Spain/Greece/Italy aka the South of Europe it's 13°C). A lot more public life, incl paid and unpaid work, happens outside in Vietnam and Thailand, compared to Europe. When it was summer in Europe, we had a lot fewer cases and deaths than when it was cold and is now cold again. Colder weather and indoor living/working seems to heavily correlate with Corona, at least in Europe.

This doesn't mean we cannot learn from nations such as Vietnam and Thailand, but it's also not as straight forward as trying to outright mimic what they did and do in response to the pandemic.
The point of ethical vegetarianism is not keeping diversity and quality of foods, it's preventing bad life of animals.

It's also not the point of ecological vegetarianism: it's preserving the diversity of natural ecosystems, as opposed to food farms.
Thank you! I came here to ask the same question.

Now that we are producing and injecting industrial quantities of Ψ, any chance this will get incorporated in actual viruses or maybe teach the immune system not to ignore it (or maybe even go crazy about it)?
The IRA was an anti-government militia, specifically against British occupation.
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So basically one virus infected another virus in such a way that they became symbiotic? Cool.
The author lives in Germany, where food is surprisingly inexpensive even at good quality.
I think more likely a 5G nut. Tennessee is pretty bad currently with COVID. Given it is 5G building, people were warned to leave area, large explosion (still not enough to destroy the building, but looks like it caused a huge damage) I think it is likely that someone believing that 5G causes people to get sick and die would think that could help.
If you're building a hardware and have to ship it with an OS, Linux is the obvious choice for most... but the GPL licensing makes it very difficult for a lot others.

There's a reason a lot of open source in recent years have avoided GPL as a plague and opted for BSD or MIT or Apache licenses.
Telco worker here. These sort of exchanges in big cities are usually built from solid concrete to minimise damage from these sort of attacks - either from warfare or terrorism. At least, for buildings built during the world wars or cold war.

Here's an exchange in Melbourne: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gHeHncO6W4U/ThpRVvEhXHI/AAAAAAAAJ...

Built with solid concrete and with thin windows.
You should try the httpx gem, which does that for you since ruby 2.1
>it will help divorce this ubiquitous cultural association between time and money

I think this is naïve at best, and horribly misguided at worst. Time is money is not just a saying. The fundamental currency, the one thing that ever person needs and wants, is time. That's why it's so tightly coupled with other valuable things such as money. Time and money are essentially the same thing, though of course time is less fungible. And different people with different circumstances are able to expedite their actions with varying efficiency. Time is a more fundamental economic concept than money.

UBI is essentially just socialist redistribution policy in a different guise, and all it will do is obscure (but of course not erase) existing incentive structures.
I'm interested in cultured meat as well, but also in cultured dairy. I follow an ovolactovegetarian diet, and I exercise heavily six days a week. I find it really difficult to take even the minimum 50 grams of complete (which is crucial) protein just from eggs, dairy, and plant-based foods. Having the chance of eating cruelty-free meat would save me from thinking so much about coming up with ways of fulfilling my nutritional requirements.
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What is there to learn?

1) Act immediately and aggressively at the first sign of potential virus.

2) Get your population used to wearing masks when ill with cold like viruses and thus ensure sufficient supplies and willingness to wear masks when the government mandates it.

3) Preferably be an island or have absolute control of your country (China)

There was a period when countries could've done what Taiwan did but once the virus got a hold in continental europe and usa it was over.
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I suppose in theory malware that targets dev tools and source to infect compiled code could end up getting ported along with it’s target. More hitching a ride than porting itself though.
Now you’ve got two problems.
I agree about what you said, I've been on ultra wide 21:9 VA with 1500R curve for a couple of years and it's been really good.

I am curious about the new 1000R displays though, at first it seemed like a gimmick - but it totally makes sense curving the screen so much in order to diminish or even radicate the need to refocus your eyes as they look across the panel.

But I haven't had a chance to try it out in person yet due to the current times. Anyone here on ultra wide 1000R?
1. Issue based direct democracy allowing to trade votes https://voteflux.org

2. longevity research https://www.sens.org
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> This is an ivory tower view on what research papers should be (....)

It really isn't, and failing to understand what a scientific paper is shows a crass and fundamental misunderstanding of what science is and how it works. You will never arrive at a correct conclusion if all your premises are fundamentally wrong.

I mean, think about it. What do you think "peer review" is supposed to be? Why do you think these papers are accepted and published after being subjected to peer review?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review

> This is de-facto a lockdown propaganda tool.

It really isn't, and it boggles the mind how easy you come up with conspiracy theories to find alternative explanations to obvious and undisputed facts. Just because you feel a finding is politically inconvenient and incompatible with your feelings and personal beliefs it doesn't mean the world is conspiring against you. In this case it just means you're talking about stuff you clearly know nothing about nor you care to learn, as is demonstrated by your use of the term "ivory tower" to try to attach your fundamental misconception of what a research paper is.

In fact, you should think your assertions through. I mean, you're somehow accusing a scientific paper of being rubber-stamped facts while at the same time complaining it's propaganda? Come on.

Please learn what science is and what is the role of the scientific paper in conducting research, and please stop making conspiracy theories up to fill in your knowledge gaps.
Re Tech Kit EDC https://imgur.com/a/xmRmYSn
What is model of the mini-laptop ?
Notepad++. It has initial python support and is not so intimidating as VS Code. However, you can install both and see which of the two looks better to you.
My headaches (and I guess many others) are often caused by caffeine withdrawal. Taking caffeine without a painkiller usually solves the problem.
I'd like to give an answer from system theory ranther than biology: In order to create a system that works infinitely every single consumption must be met with an EQUAL production. If there is any imbalance it will add up and block a subsystem at some point in the future which will domino its way throughout until total failure.Think of a 1 byte production(memory leak), or a 1 transitor consumption(physical failure) over infinite time. Biology has a very throw things together and iterate what sticks style which is somewhat contrary to the fine craftsmanship required for perfect balance. For all we know, biology might have already taken a design decision which will never be able to be perfectly balanced out, or perhaps we're 3 steps away from engineering a fix.
> Are the bindings for other languages usable?

Yes, I've done several compiler projects using Haskell and LLVM.

That said, not all the bindings were always maintained and up to date and together with LLVM's lack of API stability, there was a significant amount of churn work related to updating from one LLVM version to another. I had to build and install an older version of LLVM that would work with the bindings, several times.

Note: this was years ago, situation may have improved.

I understand that LLVM API doesn't change significantly between versions any more so the work required to update the bindings to a newer version shouldn't be huge for the maintainers of the bindings. But for an end user like me there was quite a lot of manual steps to get my project and the dependencies building.

There's always the option of emitting LLVM IR by writing text, but that doesn't give you the ability to do JITting and a REPL and so on.
How do you copy being an Island?

How do you go back in time and get your population used to wearing masks (and having supply) at the beginning of the pandemic when it really matters?
A few hundred??!! What do you use them for?
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Hello, fellow dev! I found myself in the same position after roughly two years or career.

Fast forward about 8 years, and I'm now happily freelancing, working with an awesome team and yet very much working alone on my code.

A few things:

1. team matters. Humanly speaking, I mean. Everyone takes shortcuts, or sees "best practices" differently. Find a team that is willing to build a great product together, accept a few tradeoffs, and you'll be a lot happier at work.

2. Find things you like working on, but that everyone else hates. You'll love doing it, and the team will happily leave that to you.

3. Don't get emotionally involved. A job is a job, it's only a part of your life. Work on side projects if you'd like (outside office hours and on your hardware), or take on another hobby. Who knows where it'll lead. Some niche you enjoy, maybe?

Do I like my job? Well, yeah I do, very much so. Truth be told, it's the only thing I can do for so. much. time. But yes, with 40h of the same thing each week, you're bound to look on the other side of the fence sometimes.

I don't think it makes sense to go full alone, but find a great team and take the responsibility for something you love but everyone else hates. Bingo!

Oh, and a last thought in edit: old software is awesome. Think about it, it's still here because it stood the test of time. No small feat!
The resolution and FPS is only limited by bandwidth. The long is only relevant for latency/interaction.
I think there's no risk since cells can't make Ψ, and probaby Ψ is not super durable as a chemical.
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We just do not have the means to detect transmission that happens outside of households and private parties. Data from countries that have working contact tracing procedures suggest that bars restaurants, gyms and so forth are indeed important drivers.