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> His loving pupil Plato went on to start the whole "Western civilization" thing.

What you mean by that?

> We are defined by being Sparta supporters.

Even if you assume that "Plato went on to start the whole "Western civilization" thing." then it does not mean that we are defined by what his mentor supported.
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The myNoise pub is actually already open : https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/jazzBarNoiseGenerator.php
I want to know if Amazon jobs are worse, objectively or subjectively, than similar jobs in smaller companies?

It's hard to tell if Amazon is outstandingly bad, or is just the biggest target.
Pretty sure parent thinks this is Reddit investors (as actual investors in the company, VCs etc) randomly funding a charity project, which I would agree could be a PR piece. What's actually happening cannot be greenwashing by the definition of the term.
> PS: duolingo isn’t a good way to learn a language even if you somehow manage to be super-diligent about using it.

I guess it depends on someone's personality. I heard people complain about it, but I've had good experiences with it. It really helped me, because it automates parts of the learning process, including spaced repetition.

Duolingo by itself won't be enough to get to fluency. But it's a cheap and convenient way to get a foundation.

If Duo doesn't work for the OP then they probably need to look for something else.
> As protohumans and humans invaded lands, they likely extincted megafauna...

It is not as certain as most non-experts believe and a controversial subject among experts why megafauna seems to have died out globally rather quickly. So to use "likely" is too strong. "Possibly," is a far better descriptor here: did a global human population of only 1M-15M at the end of the last ice age really kill all of the megafauna everywhere, at once? Humans possibly contributed, but with only sticks and stones technology, how could so few kill every last one of what must have been enormous populations of megafauna? And why?
I can absolutely see both parties wrapping a flag around an investment tax credit for building a fab in the US. To the person saying taxes don't matter because it's expensive -> The more capital cost the better if they can use that to offset taxes.
Given this article, it might be less irreversible then previously thought... but the CO2 will have to be removed from the atmosphere.
The article goes into excrutiating detail and compares the Spartan abuse with both contemporary and modern abuse.

No, what "western society" does is not comparable to what Sparta did to and with its soldiers.

Also to note: the promises of land for soldiers were as frequently made as they were broken. Politicians have always been reluctant to reward soldiers and keep all their promises, once the fighting is done.
Any chance this story was made up?
I believe that ARMv8 NEON crypto extensions has a special instruction for 64-bit multiply to 128-bit product, which is useful for Monero mining for example.
Perhaps the hidden thesis in the comment you're replying to is that people vocally pile on BTC to try to keep its price down, meanwhile buying as much as they can so that they can sell when it spikes again. (Not a holder.)
"AI" means all and nothing. I'd say just learn what you like and go with the flow.

Maybe you should think a bit more about why you like those topics (and start from a subset of them once you have a good answer, ideally the subset you like the most).

I don't mean to be rude but if your only goal is to add a side topic to your learning list I'd say either skip it or pick a random one as they're both technically interesting.
Last time I used it, it was generally a good experience, albeit slow sometimes when moving/editing stuff around but amount of features it offers even on free plan in my opinion compensates that. Also API is rather easy to use. I'm also surprised it doesn't get so much exposure, alongside https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/
DI is a design technique, you don't have to use a framework to implement it. Reflection-based frameworks became a popular way of doing it in Java because doing it in plain Java is cumbersome, and that's due to the limitations of Java as a language.
If the Nokia board had not hired Elop or had fired him in time, Maemo would have been a third mobile platform alternative today - one likely far more open than Android.

Elop was a truly successful Nokia saboteur. An illustrative case study of how a single CEO can destroy a company for his self-profit and go out laughing with no legal repercussions.
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Scoop is the way to go
Maybe you should actually read things before jumping to conclusions.
Thanks, make sense.
Just to clear it out, as side topic I mean something that is not linked with my day-to-day job right now.
> modern public education (active shooter drills, windowless rooms, zero-tolerance policies?)

Note that most of that is unique to USA education. Especially "active shooter drills".
Could this be why people feel calm and comfortable smelling woodsmoke on a campfire?
You assume them to be trolls only capable of evil deeds so they must be trolls doing evil. That’s both a bad world outlook and bad logic.
Yeah it would have been better if they had good intentions and completely failed to do anything of value?
What you describe sounds indeed horrific. It reminds me "Chicken Little" from science fiction novel "The Space Merchants" by Frederik Pohl.
Found the same
Had my N900 when it first came out and to this day it is still my most favourite device! I kept it for a long time as 2nd device, I had pwnphone on it for a ages and showed off to friends how i could Deauth all their wifi devices, run kismet, even crack WEP, turn off their TV with tvbgone app using infrared...
I would not consider a company or team that pushes you to work over 40 hours to be good.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Whether I want to associate with said beholder is another question entirely.
We were a little bit lucky in this regard, because we had some authority in the niche (2 members of our original team had spoken at security conferences internationally for the previous 10 years).

I have lots of thoughts on this though. I think with a low enough burn rate, you can overcome this with a great product, and taking just one bite at a time. ie. one happy customer, then another. Actual customer happiness is so low, that you just have to do a little better to have people talk about you, and over time it compounds nicely.
Seconded.
For reference, have multiple websites with 10K to 100K visitors monthly on a DO droplet, with a wiki and a dynamic blog working just fine.

Trying this project out made it quite slow and not practical, would need a beefier machine / setup. I decided not to invest time in testing it further, but it may work for others.
> directly comparing ancient societies with even the worst modern society may actually, on net, favor the bad modern society.

Note that important argument made by author is that even ancient authors - who were fine with slavery - still mentioned what was happening in Sparta as unusually cruel and extreme.

And in other societies even slaves had some minimal legal or cultural protection. Spartan society celebrated murdering slaves.

From second post in series:

"The absence of any taboo – legal or religious – against the killing of helots marks the institution as uncommonly brutal not merely by Greek standards, but by world-historical standards."

"Given how very little our sources care for the lives and experiences of any enslaved people, the unanimity of their testimony that life as a helot was awful is nothing short of astounding. This is an institution that shocks the conscience of ancient slaveholders."

"Plutarch relates the saying that “in Sparta the free man is more free than anywhere else in the world, and the slave more a slave” (Plut. Lyc. 28.5). He can only be referring to the helots here. Indeed, Plutarch’s statement is telling – the helots were treated poorly by the standards of ancient chattel slavery, which is, I must stress, an incredibly low bar."
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I don't agree with you at all. You can't blanket condemn a community of over 8 million people. Sure there are trolls, a lot of money is lost by naive people, but there are plenty of decent people there who just like participating in that culture for fun.
"Dark mode" is not an innovation. It's a half-assed reversal of a regression.

Computers used to show light characters on a dark background. 8-bit platforms often defaulted to white text on a dark-blue background, which until just a few years ago was still available in Word as a checkbox option.

Then the "desktop publishing" craze came along, and brought the analogy of a computer screen to a piece of paper. But this inverse (black text on a white background) scheme ignored the fact that paper doesn't EMIT light. Using these systems was akin to reading the label on the surface of a lit light bulb all day.

But for two decades, Windows let you set up a system-wide color scheme whose colors would be inherited by (nearly) all applications. It was great; you could (and I did, in the early '90s) replace the dumb inverse default color scheme with a "charcoal" scheme... essentially exactly what most "dark modes" are today.

I think Unix GUIs allowed you to set up color schemes too, leaving only the vaunted Mac GUI as the hard-coded,glaring eyeball-strainer of the era.

But now that people are finally realizing that inverse color schemes suck, what did Microsoft do? REMOVE the color-scheme editor from Windows. So now we're being dribbled out "dark mode" one OS, Web page, and application at a time. And it's still hard-coded.

That's not innovation. It's pathetic.
The title is confusing, perhaps worth changing "Reddit investors" to "Wall Street Bets users" or something similar. I genuinely thought the article would talk about owners of Reddit, not it's users.
Great point about the hobbies. Too many people are tied to the clock for when to do things. Get up at 6, go to work at 7, be home by x. Time is relative. I plan to now switch my clock to do my hobbies first. Thanks for the suggestion.
We do average to above average salaries, and all share a profit share bonus at the end of the year. Everyone gets a company credit card to buy books/tech needed to do their jobs. Everyone gets side benefits like an audible subscription, other mini stipends.

It's worth noting that we couldn't always do this (starting off we just went with "decent salaries and smart ppl to work with").

We try to keep doing this right so that we all do well as the company does.
Art is the prototypical intersubjective meme, isn't it? You know something is art iff you know there's plenty of other people who also believe it's art.

The quality of being art has some positive correlation with being aesthetically pleasing, and has some negative correlation with being useful for practical purposes, but the determining factor is whether you can reasonably expect other people to consider it art too.

Intersubjective memes have a bootstrap problem (the concept is a supertype of "network effects"). To make something art, you have to make people believe other people believe its art. A way to brute-force this is to get someone to visibly spend large amount of money (or other resources) on it, and proclaim their belief in the value of the thing.

So it's not just the NFT "art" market that's being promoted here; the work itself is being turned into art, and the author into artist.
> What you mean by that?

I was thinking about a celebrated quotation by A.N.Whitehead: "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

> it does not mean that we are defined by what his mentor supported

Plato's entire written corpus consists in Socrates speaking. If you accept Plato's great influence, you have that.
you probably do not understand what I've wrote but it's fine, it's your right. I'm not replying to you anymore, I wrote the people that paid my education in order to study palaeoclimatology and give a educated opinion in their place when necessary. They can hopefully read my messages with a more open mind. I tried to make them constructive and informative, and I'm open to constructive questions.
While the original TeX engine only get bug fixes these days, that's not really relevant for LaTeX since LaTeX doesn't even support that engine anymore. While pdfTeX development is rather slow too, it does still see feature development. That being said, for modern documents LuaTeX is really the only engine worth looking at and it is quite actively developed. Of course, it doesn't see much adaption but that problem will also appear for any new system.
Well, you work too much. At least in Europe, 40 hour work week includes having lunch, going to bathroom, water cooler small talk and similar.

If you’re productive for 8-9 hours a day, you’re effectively working more that full time, and that’s where your energy goes away.
I started out by DECIDING that making QUALITY software, as well as spending TIME with PEOPLE who matter to me, is infinitely more important than "professional development". I was lucky to have already had a taste of both, and how much more FULFILLING they were.

The hardest challenge was probably giving up my deeply held BELIEFS that "financial independence" was mandatory, and that depending on others (without paying them money) was somehow shameful, cowardly, or otherwise undesirable. In reality, it has formed the foundation of the best relationships I've got.

Another huge obstacle I was able to overcome was LISTENING to and learning particular useful skills or knowledge from people whom I did not agree with or want to become like.

It's easy to want to learn from and follow follow someone who seems hugely successful. I found it challenging to even notice or pay attention to, let alone try to learn from someone I did not admire or want to become like.

Yet most of my USEFUL knowledge, laboriously skimmed and filtered, came from people on the FRINGE: lonely divorcees, poor elderly people, criminals, drug addicts, homeless, travelers, outdoorsies, etc. My journey would be much more difficult without them.

On the other hand, most things I learned about Elon Musk and Berkshire, in part due to the broken telephone effect, have been useless. I've learned that the most valuable knowledge to be found is firsthand or secondhand, everything past that is of questionable truth.

In case it's not clear, I'm not suggesting shooting up heroin or becoming a criminal. But I learned a lot about living minimally from them. Their lifestyle is of forced minimalism, and they're very good at it, or they don't survive.

As you can see, much of it was in my head. The actual physical changes were a piece of cake in comparison, believe it or not.
It's interesting how devices have gone.
Nokia, when they were focused, were making devices smaller, cheaper and with improved battery life. Now we get these giant devices that need re-charging daily and cost >£1000
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I prefer it actually.. main reason is streamlined app auto updates
> That said, grid batteries should ideally be using different chemistry to handle the increased charge/discharge cycling.

I completely agree with this. It would actually be quite unusual if the same solution fit such different problem domains. Energy density by weight is an (almost) non issue in fixed installations, by volume only slightly more important. Lifetime cost and maintenance requirements as by far the largest issue.

At the moment it feels like the stage in the 60s where people thought turbines were interesting so tried to cram them into cars, trucks and trains. Except here we are trying to wire together millions of tiny lithium cells to get enough energy to power a country.
I would look at adding LMAX Disruptor to this list. It can run circles around stuff scattered across TPL usages. Doesnt fit every use case, but its really incredible when it does fit. I was able to build a toy project that handles millions of user events per second on a single thread using this.

Getting your application aligned with the NUMA model makes way more difference in performance than anything else.

https://github.com/disruptor-net/Disruptor-net
cool, are you a software tester?

Bach, and Michael Bolton [1], offer some fresh look at software testing BUT they are also controversial and tend to present their ideas in a demeaning argumentative way.

[1] https://www.developsense.com/index.html
PubMed costs a few hundred million a year to run, paid for by taxpayers. If you want us to just pay all journals to run directly from taxes, that's one solution. Then Elsevier can cut out the middleman.

If you don't want taxpayers paying publishers directly, then your solution will result in a lot less publications. I'm not sure either is going to be a better solution for society.
“But we all know the wag’s definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch
What does it even mean to adopt a gorilla?
Well, their changes have to be accepted. A lot of established contributors to (and users of) these open-source projects are belligerent apologists for their shitty UI.

But really, you find that in any forum. People get bent out of shape that you're pointing out flaws in their pet product, and pile on with claims that amount to, essentially, "you're holding it wrong."
Becoming a great artist usually means creating art every day. It depends on how you go about creating art though. You need focused studies. You need to push your boundaries. There's a shockingly low amount of technical improvement in this artist's work compared to other long-term online portfolios I've seen.
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I think this is what the Macedonians and the Romans did end up doing. By the time of the Romans, Sparta was a glorified "theme park", for lack of a better word.
the post is quite old (2013)

http://www.printadrink.com/

it seems some company did it.
(seen in the comments of the blog)
Painting the tape tends to relate to market trading activity, but the underlying ethos is the same in both markets. Make a public statement about price so oth
Julia also supports arbitrary indexing [-1], you can even start from a negative number!

[-1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/offset-arrays/
I love building products. The financial success was a side product.

I should have qualified my statement about failures better.

Current one: Financially successful for me.

Another one: Financially successful but got screwed over.

Another one: Was very successful with adoption, but timing got wrong and didn't become financially successful.

2 others: Moderate success but financially not successful.

It was really tough, but I enjoyed the process. I love building products. I have a few really good ideas, but don't have bandwidth for them right now. I would keep building products for my love of it.

My long term goal is to leave the world a better place. It took 10+ years to get to the point that I can work on anything I want to without worrying about bills.

I regret delaying having kids. I regret not spending enough time with family and friends. I wish I had taken better care of my health. But right now I get to spend more time with my kids than any of my friends.

Every individual is different with their situation and motivations. What worked for me might not work for others. The thing which helped me the most was my innate desire to build better products and making sure I keep learning more and more.

My life's driving principle is: If I can't look back at my self 2 years back and I don't think I was so stupid back then I am not learning fast enough.

Even though I have regrets, I would say it was worth it. Of course if I could I wish few things would have gone differently about my life - but who doesn't.
All file formats are now zip files or sqlite files it seems
I had an N800 and found it so amazing, 2 sd card slots, pop out camera that could rotate, and a useful kickstand.
I recently found the Planet Computers devices and tried their first version out, it is conceptually a bit similar to the fxtec mentioned in the blog post.
I download all KDE apps (Kate, Kile, Okular, Krita, etc) from the store, if possible. The one big issue I discovered with that is that store apps can’t be set as default to open a file for a file format that the app didn’t specify itself (e.g., you can’t open an .NFO per default with Kate, as Kate doesn’t register itself as file handler for .NFO files)
How did you stumble on all the ideas to try? I am at a point that I want to try literally anything, but its is exceptionally hard to judge success chances if the target niche is absolutely outside your domain/experience. How did you find all these 20 ideas?
One could interpret it as greenwashing for sure. Like who dares to act like a reddit community of people helping cute gorillas? IMO that's exactly the kind of tension that they want to create. Transforming it in a meme, would be the superhero sweating, having to decide between button A (Save Wallstreet) or button B (Save the cute Gorillas)
> "Climate change is not predicted to exterminate humans." It is. It's not predicted to make Homo sapiens sapiens extinct, like you probably meant

Sorry, but the only legitimate way to interpret "climate change is predicted to exterminate humans" is as a claim that the species will go extinct.

You do not appear to be a native English speaker:

> the way you did questioned the scientific competence of other contributors is reducing the value of the entire sentence you were replying to

> you probably do not understand what I've wrote

> I wrote [?] the people that paid my education

You're probably better off not trying to do fine interpretation on English sentences.
It's more like sponsoring them so the charity can protect them from poachers and study them
I mean, could they have? "Mammoths" in this case could be whales, sharks, and other large aquatic creatures. Considering the relative lack of deep sea archaeology going on, there could be an abundance of evidence of this that we simply haven't noticed. Plus, there's even extant examples of dolphins hunting sharks (and even knowing to flip them over to render them helpless).
How is this "cancelling" the artist?

It's just mocking people for paying millions for bad art.

People make fun of other people paying too much for art all the time.
The sound quality is indeed pretty bad on the LG 4K. Noticeably worse than the MacBook Air's built in speakers.

It's just "cheap speakers" bad, though, not anything that would suggest an issue with the sound output from the M1. I've used the LG with a few different Macs, and sound quality is the same from any of them.
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Another PowerVR GPU for those that wonder. They quite notoriously don't have any open-source drivers.

There is a lot of information on the net why that's not the case, from the GPU architecture to source leaks. One could possibly make a shim to load older proprietary kernel modules, but it's hardly worth it: PowerVR GPUs don't seem to be used much nowadays, in contrast with Mali GPUs. And PowerVR GPUs seem to require quite different drivers depending on IP customization.
You send some money to an org and they look after a gorilla for you. Usually not so directly tho. They just calculate how much their operation costs per gorilla and send you a bill for it.