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Don't rewrite history, main reason Richard was pushed out was a MeToo/racism witch hunt against him. He was not the only one attacked on it, most heads of open source projects were also a target at the same time.
Is there anything different today concerning software that makes his old words obsolete?

> before the web, the explosion in javascript

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
Raise your hand if you’re the least bit surprised by this? Content creation is going to give a tiny number of people a high income for several years and everyone else almost nothing.

YouTube isn’t struggling with how to make these incomes more even any more than record labels are trying to make every artist have a nice, steady income. It’s a hits driven business.
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You know, in the old days, there were public broadcasters, like BBC (I am not English/American, so I don't know what the state of these is today). They balanced the commercial aspect of the media (somebody has to pay for the waves) with public access.

I think people should consider political initiative to have something like Youtube, but in public domain (with the same status as public broadcaster). Basically, the service would run on ads, but would be non-profit in the sense that the ads profits would be mostly returned to the creators on that platform, transparently and fairly.
The point is that "technical implementations", such as how to shoot properly, shouldn't be discussed "regardless of industry or product", such as being a gangster: sharing PII with Facebook is something most web sites should avoid, not something they should do properly.
To me this missive reads as a response to some specific questions. It would have been nice to know what those questions were.

As an art teacher, I would not dream of writing something like this to a former student. It seems well-meant, but it also comes across as rather trite and not a little preachy.
Try out Scylla instead. We moved to it from Cassandra and have had no stability issues at all. Our use case is several 100k requests per second with occasional batch writes. Request latency reduced, as did the number of nodes we required.
Salaried work in the UK in general pays a pitiful amount, I agree.

It has always seemed absurd to me that the returns on productive assets are taxed lower than the returns of the sweat of your brow.
I’ve started this process myself, deleting as many accounts and removing as much personal information from the internet as possible. One trick: if an account won’t let you remove your address / phone number / whatever, try changing it to a garbage value (e.g. 000-0000). Most sites only perform the most basic validation on those fields unless they are actually needed.
I'm glad we got vaccines out so quickly, but I can see why some people ask about their safety as it never happened so quickly in the past and mRNA at such a large scale is unheard of.

Unfortunately, the anti-vax crowd will use any means necessary to discredit vaccines, and scepticism is part of their toolkit.
> you're more likely to leave

Where to? Only America pays more, assuming you can get a visa, and while UAE taxes less the lifestyle there has fairly limited appeal.
Undefined behavior on overflow is always the most performant, followed closely by "the result is unspecified". Wrapping is less performant because it often forces the implementation to actually wrap if the behavior is observable, which might be extra work (e.g. i32) or interfere with loop optimizations.
This is not really the point. This is to be used where its necessary to know who the user is, for example when opening a bank account or checking in with an airline
Also known as "Potato, fries" in germanic culture.
There are about 8,000 one-in-a-million people out there for any discipline anyone cares to name. Around 800 of them speak English to some degree and are connected to the internet.

There is room on a top-10 list for 10 of them. Number 9 will do OK but is starting to move down the Praeto curve. The competition to entertain others on the internet is fierce; it is difficult for me to see how even someone of that level of talent and calibre could survive except for the fact that most of their competition simply gives up before they start because it looks like a lousy career.
You're not wrong, but my priority is to ensure that my friends who rely on emotion-based arguments (fear of the unknown regarding the vaccines, dismissing the risks of covid and taking too few precautions as a result) to be safe and to not contribute to keeping the pandemic going. Going this deep into statistics would just lose them, because I'd come across as trying to intimidate them into taking my viewpoint on how to reason about these things.

edit: apparently none of you have ever been accused of being an ivory tower jerk in their lives, explicitly or implicitly, ever? We're not talking about a discussion between people trying to weigh uncertainties based on what they do and do not know and working it out on a paper napkin. We're talking about people being overwhelmed by the complexity of it all and as a result starting from what they're most scared of and reasoning backwards from there. Which is how most people out there function, like it or not.
No. He made multiple statements on his website supporting sexual relationships between adults and minors. There was not simply the one statement he made, then retracted.

Here is a comment I made two years ago pointing them all out as well as the context by which any reasonable person would consider them to be in support of pedophilia.

And while it is true that he made a single comment after the controversy retracting his beliefs, almost as if he were forced to do so to try to put out the PR trashfire that he started, that does not mean OP's comment misrepresents RMS's views. It is correct that RMS was a stalwart, passionate advocate for pedophilia for decades.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287006
READMEs shouldn't be "fun". They should be boring, simple, and concise. Just tell me what I need to know so I can get to it.
99% of creatives have never been able to pay their rent by selling what they make.

It's not even about how good they are - some people produce amazing stuff but it's not something that enough other people want to own (or listen to, or watch, or whatever).

The lucky few whose creative spark happens to coincide with market demand get to do that all day long. For the rest of us, it's a day job to pay the rent (which might mean creating something that the market wants instead of what scratches our creative itch) or a life of poverty and creative freedom.

This is not something that a change in the platforms is going to "fix".
Have you considered therapy to try to get to the bottom of this? Not being snarky -- you yourself seem to realize that this is really detrimental to your wellbeing.
Yep - I was told fairly early on that if I didn't start improving on CPAP in a reasonable timeframe, or I worsened at all, I would be ventilated (SpO2 90% with occasional dips to 88-89% on CPAP, SpO2 was 78% on admission; arterial blood gases were monitored, but I've no idea what the readings were).
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I'm sorry, but unless you are in the US the estate is over $10m, you owe no federal taxes.
https://smartasset.com/taxes/all-about-the-estate-tax#:~:tex....

I don't know what your local / state is shafting you for, but the estate tax rhetoric is totally a put on by rich people.
in another Eastern European country a nurse that was administering the vaccine was telling people to go home and not get vaccinated with the AZN vaccine when they came in to get vaccinated :)))
Because it's mostly not like you can throw a folder with a "recipe" over a fence and just have someone manufacture a vaccine in the required amounts and quality.

The closest ones to this are probably vector vaccines like the AZ one, because they use a "relatively" well-known delivery technique (as in: one that was at least already used for a single market-ready vaccine before the Covid-19 ones). For that reason, AZ has several production partnerships around the world already, for example with the Serum Institute of India, and the AZ vaccine is considered the likely "workhorse" for global immunization because of this relative ease of manufacturing (and storage, of course).

But it quickly gets harder with the mRNA vaccines. While those are also produced in production partnerships and subcontractor scenarios, the original producer appears to be much more intertwined with its subcontractors, performing some steps by themselves and outsourcing other steps. mRNA vaccine mass production technology is relatively proprietary and new, even newer than the already-pretty-new vector vaccine stuff, and the entire mass production scale-up has only been done very recently under massive time pressure for these Covid-19 vaccines. This basically dictates that with these outsourcing initiatives, the original producer cannot simply hand over some instructions and wait for finished vaccines to appear at the loading bay of a subcontractor, but has to transfer significant amounts of very specialized know-how to the subcontractors, which makes such operations very personnel-intensive and hard to scale.

Two highly recommended links that provide very informative details about mRNA manufacturing hurdles in particular are these:
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/my...
https://blog.jonasneubert.com/2021/01/10/exploring-the-suppl...
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Technically, such guideline prohibits anonymous speech, because how you speak can reveal your identity after a certain threshold...
I was surprised when the article didn't pivot to the typical immigration proposals and narratives. Instead it actually did some interesting digging into what motivates young people to choose their career.
The last time I heard about IT shortages in the UK I sent 30 letters to London secondary schools offering to teach Python classes and train staff. Didn't get a single reply and I have 20 years' experience. The UK education sector has its head up its ass - that's why there's a shortage.
> (and have written much about it, e.g. https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity)

Wow, thanks for that link. I only made it through the first part for the moment but it is an incredible read. You clearly thought about this more deeply and carefully than I did.

Edit: I'm not entirely sure how that came across so I want to explicitly say that this is not a dry ironic statement (communication is hard, and I am a poor writer).
This does seem to preclude developing a company from being a one-person thing to a bootstrapped entity in its own right.

I know someone who did that around 05, it was very effective. Eventually he grew it to around 10 people, all of whom could be farmed out for contracts when the company itself wasn't quite cutting it.

Perhaps a model of contractors collecting together in small groups to carry on, will work.
Why would you ever want to have 7k tabs open at once? Surely this is a joke?
This is not at all surprising.

Here is a good explanation of a similar situation by Jordan Peterson (2min): https://youtu.be/BZMBdRfbk6A?t=322

TL;DW Pareto Distribution.
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I have heard exactly the same thing. The other thing to bear in mind is that we grew up in an era where nothing worked. Simply keeping my computer up and running on a day to day basis required a "computer whiz". Nowadays, phones and computers work properly nearly all the time. It's the same as when boomers make fun of millennials for not knowing how to diagnose and fix a faulty alternator in a car.

That said, why don't most computers have touch screens by now? For many, many users, a touch screen is a far more accessible and intuitive way of using a device. My elderly grandparents can use a touchscreen but don't have the dexterity to use a mouse.
The anti vaxx crowd is already against it anyway. The way Europe is treating AZ does mean generally pro-vaxx people become sceptical as well. And I see that effect in Germany as well.
> If the vaccines are safe, it should be easy for the authorities to provide data that shows they are safe.

A portion of that crowd refuse to acknowledge their safety without more data about their possible long term side-effects, which inevitably takes time that we don't really have.
This was a major stumbling block for me until I read about it on MDN. My blog's longish titles were always spilling over into the next line until I removed the em unit. Serves me right for not RTFM-ing and thinking I know enough HTML to cobble together a basic site.
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I feel like I’m repeating myself, but the whole concept of “progressive” web apps is to be resilient to these variations in which features are implemented.
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Are you saying that they haven't destroyed all (effective) external opposition?
Neither; GP is clearly saying that such "reason for cancellation" was NOT what Stallman did. And no,

> he resigned himself after saying stupid stuff

only goes to show that you were bamboozled by the BS spread about him. He was pressured to resign after gross distortions of some in and of themselves quite reasonable(1) things he said were spread like gospel of what he actually said, and almost nobody listened to the corrections from people who were not as easily lead.

You can still defect from the former to the latter camp.

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1: But admittedly somewhat irrelevant at the time -- and too-obviously prone to easy distortion.
Most of them aren’t losing a year of education. Just face to face education.
Netnews wire users show up on my dashboards as doing an abnormal volume of parallel requests. Like >200 all at an instant from a single user. Chrome has a limit on the number of parallel requests but NetnewsWire lets any quantity of parallel requests off.

It annoys me because I have rate limits and so the NetNewsWire RSS users get annoyed at me but I feel its NetnewsWire is moving too fast and breaking things, WDYT? I feel this situations is a side effect of making speed the #1 priority.

I don't really want to complain too much as I am happy people are using RSS.
Sounds like you could already do that by proxying the emulator through burp or running adb logcat with a grep filter. Is there something more than that that you need?
In an engine, there critical parts are the rpm sensor and fuel supply / ignition. Failure of one of them means an engine not running.

Now on top of that you have emissions regulations which force you to run an engine with 100% functional emission systems. To ensure it, the automakers are limiting the engine performance to force the user to repair, which is a major source of annoyance for the user. Moreover regulations require ABS and ESP on every vehicle.

So even if automakers would do such a car, it would not pass the homologation phase due to these regulations which can only be achieved with chips.

Africa needs an African carmaker, or import from Russia or other non regulated markets
Aliexpress is a terrible outlet for consumers. The buyer pays the return shipping which is often too expensive to be worth the trouble. At least Amazon/Ebay respect the consumer protection laws and make returns pretty easy.

I'm dealing with an Aliexpress seller that sent me the wrong thing and it's basically not worth shipping back to China. I'm trying to get a few dollars from the seller but they're slippery as hell, want to privately paypal me the money etc. Never again!
When I was at school we did 'computing' classes, around 1993/4. They were effectively an intro to word processing and a paint package. Anything that looked anything like programming was feared as "hacking". Nobody had any inclination to look further and there was certainly no mention to us kids that one could have a (lucrative) career in the area.

Wouldn't surprise me if little has changed.
Every[1] reputable[2] source[3] I[4] can[5] find[6] (literally just the top search results for "stallman resigns" that have any info about the reason) says that Stallman resigned over his comments defending a fellow computer scientist over his participation in the Epstein scandal. Do you have a reason to believe otherwise?

1: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20870050/richard-stallman...

2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/09/17/richa...

3: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/16/computer-scientist-richard...

4: https://www.vice.com/en/article/mbm74x/computer-scientist-ri...

5: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/09/17/computer...

6: https://www.cnet.com/news/computer-scientist-richard-stallma...
As someone who is not an expert, I find that read mes spend time on the wrong stuff. I don’t care about all the buzzwords of why your program is better, if I got to it, chances are that I already know I need it. What I want is to know what it does exactly, and briefly how I get there. However, don’t assume that everyone landing to this read me is already an expert in the field. Don’t assume I know all the pre requisites

My GF is a cell biology girl dipping her toes in bio informatics because she has to. She does read docs before asking, but the problem is that the docs she finds are for people who would already had figured out how to use the program on their own.

As some examples, she can’t start if:

Doesn’t know that the program has dependencies, and which ones those are.

Doesn’t know what the slang of the field is, keep it generic. “Just Bootstrap the gradle config to the mdl Sasquatch compiler” doesn’t mean anything to someone just landing to the page and just frustrates them because they feel like they are supposed to know stuff and don’t even know where to start.

The “quick start” guide can be short if existing, but show how someone would get to the same thing in their own project. What config files must be set up and how, for example.
There's the "Little Book of Semaphores".
But it was no vague anonymous - he once hit on me - lynch mob, but very concrete criticism of RMS. Things he said and did in the past - and in the present.

(only thing would be, that his "voluntary resign" was obviously done with a lot of pressure)
Yeah, it's sad that it caught on for those things, too. I hope it becomes harder to do those things as a result, not easier, so that the day it goes away comes about sooner.
> willingly resigned

Voluntary suicides are in your pipeline as well, no? Dictatorship sure doesn’t innovate.
Before the rise of Amazon and Ebay, you (almost) always knew when you were buying a counterfeit, because you were getting a great price for the latest Disney VHS from someone selling out the back of a van at the local flea market.

The other option was to go to bricks-and-mortar retailers, where if they had it in stock and if you were willing to pay full retail price, you'd get something that wasn't a counterfeit.

Amazon seems to have pulled off some marketing magic where flea market sellers plus a refund policy equals one of the world's largest companies.
That assumes a tremendous amount of scheduling freedom on the part of the average retail worker or office drone, which I do not believe to be a correct assumption. Business Opens At 8 (or 9) is so ingrained as to be unlikely to change.

Tradespeople - particularly contractors - on the other hand, have a fair degree of freedom to decide when to start work, and they tend to start when the light starts (or shortly before) and stop aroundish the time the light fades. It doesn't really matter to them what the clock says, yet we continue to see arguments that DST is evil because it forces tradies to start at times that don't correspond with the light. To that I say, a) bullshit, b) prove it.
It's already free to watch even the smallest channel on youtube, the income from the largest channels subsidizes the servers needed to transcode the millions of videos that will only ever get a single view.

The "problem" is that most creators have miniscule audiences. The "transparent and fairly" returned ad profits for someone with ten viewers is never going to be very large. The power law in entertainment has always been large; the big artists make tens of millions and everyone else scrapes by. The internet has not changed that dynamic.
So what? You said:

> There aren't really transferrable skills here that would empower somebody to rapidly figure this sort of thing out if they just rearranged how their thought process worked.

Which is just false. There are transferable skills to achieve that.

Also troubleshooting is not the only way to achieve the goals. She could have just chosen a different tool, that doesn't come with a ton of baggage like Python does, if troubleshooting is too much of a bother. There are a lot of tools out there that could be used to select certain page range from pdf and save it as another pdf.

On Linux, I run:

pdfseparate InputFile.pdf InputFile-%d.pdf

and the job is done. I didn't even need to install anything. On Windows, all you need to do is just to find a way to install pdfseparate tool or an equivalent.
Russia didn't have phase 3 trials when it pitched to Brazil.

So it does seem justified to me, they hurried up everything "to be the first".

In the mean time, Europe has independent trials. But the news you are posting is from before that ( december 2020).

Interim phase3 trial data was only published in February 2021: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n743
Not only young people but also adult who would want to take some kind of drugs, or who would like to get into, god forbid, homosexual acts.

Now, homosexuality has been allowed everywhere in the US for a decade or so. It wouldn't have been if it was not appropriate to talk about it.

Richard Stallman was, for my understanding, just daring to ask questions, and debating over a sensitive topic, and he got blamed for it.
Also possible for the drone to fall into lava and still transmit for a few seconds, maybe enough to get the higher-quality buffer?
Test scores are plummeting, particularly math. Damage like this will snowball for years
The GP should really work in marketing. They have the skill needed.
Or as if monopolizing a distribution channel allows you to charge rents way in excess of your costs.
There's an even more limited need for fraud-promoting bankers, crooked and corrupt politicians, people who spend their entire lives gambling on the markets, and organised criminals, but somehow we never seem to lack for all of those.

This isn't some kind of rational market forces issue. Artists and intellectuals have real power. But starving them of cash, branding them "entertainers", and converting their jobs into a gig economy scramble guarantees they'll be too distracted to realise it.

Not unlike other jobs.
India and probably Brazil will suffer the most -long term- from Covid19 effect on worldwide trade and economic production. They are at the end of their demographic transition, and already had trouble cashing in (and cashing in is fundamental if you want to be a rich country).

This pandemic did not help.
That paragraph is not the journalist's writing, it's a quote, presumably transcribed from a verbal interview.
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