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> But it is just insufficiently sophisticated people that would conclude from that [getting shot for the crime of border crossing] they were lacking freedom.

Translation: East germans getting shot at the border were just too dumb to realise that they were free...

> Surely it is just to shoot somebody for such an egregious violation of other people's freedom

Translation: Refusing to have their labor wasted on a defunct system, thereby depriving others of its non-existent fruits, soundly earned one's capital punishment, to be carried out on the spot. It was "Notwendig".

> They did have freedom, but just had a different definition for it.

And surly they did have less radiation poisoning due to a different definition of what it means to be "poisoned".

EDIT: How could I miss this misanthropic gem:

> some stupid redneck

Translation: I know only cliches about the discarded working class trapped in the American rust belt, but treating them with contempt seems fun and acceptable, so I'll join.
I totally get your point regarding Windows, but does Android do this, too? The only thing mine does is auto-update apps, and only because I told it to. I didn't have to turn on auto updating. OS updates are still only suggested, never applied automatically.
> Those two things are the opposite of one another. If a city grows denser, the size of its footprint is smaller.

I believe they're mostly complementary. You can't rebuild the city every other year because you have more demand for housing, it's a slow process. The city expands outwards if possible, and at the same time will be made denser when convenient.

I'd love for the whole thing to be Sim City-style "we'll just remove those 12 single-story homes and add a sky scraper", but it's really not. It takes years and years, and it's really impacting the quality of life during those years. I used to live in a part of the city that got more dense housing, and it wasn't fun at all, construction sites everywhere, traffic jams everywhere, and housing prices rising sharply. It might turn out nice in 20 years when they've doubled the density, but it's absolutely not during those 20 years.
Looks amazing! I really miss foobar2000 for its album organization possibilities - but at the same time I don't miss having to maintain mp3 files on my hard drive, so I'm still contempt enough with Spotify even though its interface is designed for a completely different target audience than me.
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I used to love DO. It was like 3 clicks to set up a VPS. You paid $5/month. Then they started adding support for object store, managed databases, projects, etc, etc. Now the interface is more complicated. I guess competition with other cloud providers necessitated this? I think it has been hard for DO to shake the image of "the tinkerer's cloud". It always felt like it's for small projects and small teams. However, I love the upfront and transparent pricing, and think it's important to have competion in the cloud space.
If anyone's impatient like me, this example from wikipedia helped me get it:

> For example, a person may observe from their experience that fast food restaurants in their area which serve good hamburgers tend to serve bad fries and vice versa; but because they would likely not eat anywhere where both were bad, they fail to allow for the large number of restaurants in this category which would weaken or even flip the correlation.
It will probably end with a better balance than right now. I used to enjoy working from home a couple days a week as focus days with minimal interruptions, but doing this all week with a lot happening inside the house at the same time (schools and daycare closed, spouse also wfh every day, grandparents in the house taking care of the kids, 3 different package delivery services at the door etc.) is not that great and I can't wait to work from the office again.
Isn't that what the article is saying? :)
Meanwhile, here in Belgium, some companies force employees to come to the office despite government plea to allow remote work. Subjectively, there's been much less traffic on the streets in the beginning of the pandemic. Now, it seems like far too many people are still commuting every day.
There seems to be a lot of dismissal in this thread about the consequences of a Constitutionally-legal road to dictatorship.

The historical precedent to this concern is the Nazification of Germany. After Hitler was appointed chancellor, the Enabling Act[1] was passed as an amendment to the constitution. This gave Hitler the power to pass unconstitutional laws without parliamentary or presidential approval.

I think the possibility of iterative erosion of Article V such that the the entrenched clause that protects the composition of the Senate from change without unanimity can be removed is very comparable. This is concerning in an age where a once-majority party has been largely supportive of a figure who's displayed dictatorial tendencies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
My explanation has been that many of the elderly who died from covid did not have much live expectation left because they had suffered multiple diseases already. So in excess deaths they don't show that big, even though there were many cases.
But the 25-44 olds would still have decades left, so every death makes a greater impact on excess deaths of their age group.

But my statistics math is on a very basic level...
I guess everyone has the choice to use the best one or the free one but rarely at the same time.
...and then what would happen to the price of essentials vs non-essentials...take this one step further and you've found the answer to your question.
Another old process (ancient?) a teacher of mine once mentioned is that of always having three witnesses to any official transaction (usually one being a Notary to record) and two other people present.

Having three people present is a way to protect against he said/she said.
Do you use 2 spaces or 4 or 8 to indent?

Leading tabs or spaces?

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I love that Gödel's Loophole is itself incomplete. Very fitting.
The problem isn't automatic updates, it's the philosophy behind those updates. On Ubuntu (last time I used it some 5 years ago), an update fixed bugs in software and that's it. Occasionally you'd get a new feature here and there, but rarely in the shell and existing features always stayed in their places. On Windows 10, updates ship breaking changes basically every time and there is no regard for consistency. Whether the updates are manual or automatic is an implementation detail - eventually, you'll update either way. The big difference is between a rolling release with no promise of compatibility and a versioned release with LTS.
It's a bit of both, depending on what those in power need it to be.

I think Gödel's concern was for the people who might not agree with it installing a dictator, but go "well, it's legal and it's what the founding fathers wrote" and therefore go along with it.
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Meh, check my post history. I created a throwaway account years ago to comment on some somewhat controversial topic back in the day. I just forgot to throw it away.
There's some thought that it's around presidential pardons, and it's not clear the supreme court would strike down nearly any use of them or allow the legislature to do so short of an amendment.
The linked article
https://somerandomstuff1.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/geoguessr-...
is interesting -- at least for me, a very casual player ;).
Flexibility sounds good but what I have seen over the last year is that all boundaries in terms of when and where work begins and ends are being eroded. This started accidentally but it is now being actively exploited on an unprecedented scale.
I guess you could reduce the use of dirty fossil fuels to mine bitcoin by taking advantage of cheap unused solar capacity at noon. Maybe it would be a good fit with a Powerwall and solar roof to offer a Tesla-brand ASIC which will mine greener Bitcoin?
Yeah, your GPS example doesn’t hold up. How is denying an app location info consistent with your position that Apple wanting to enable companies to track users?

So you, I suspect, don’t want to “avoid tracking” so much as you want to avoid geo-gating of apps and content.

Content distributors rely on such features to satisfy legal obligations about what content they can show where. If the OS started adding features like “pretend I’m in location X” or “download movie regardless of app restrictions” (as an example of another feature that could be argued is pro-user) then at some point you’ll have a platform that isn’t commercially supported or viable.

Honestly, Apple is by far the most pro-user company in this field and there are countless examples of this.

But a very small minority chafe against the restrictions that are actually in most users interests (eg not allowing side loading of apps, which for most people would simply be an attack vector).
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Virgin used to print a message on the bottom of their tableware that said "Pinched from Virgin Atlantic".

https://colinseymour.co.uk/pinched-from-virgin-atlantic
I’m not sure about the bounty idea, but I’ll tell you what does work if you want your favorite undiscovered band to play a show in your town: offer to book and promote the show for them, especially if they’re already planning a tour in the area. I’ve done that multiple times and it worked out quite well. (Of course, that’s only a good idea if you know what you’re doing.)
Same. I had this idea of making a special pi-hole variation where instead of blocking the domains, it actually redirects me to a page of my own creation that explains that the given domain was blocked by me due to [intrusive popups, hiding the article behind a click so it can trigger some JS, whatever other dark patterns]. It's hard to manually remember all the domains to not bother clicking links to :)
DeadBeeF is probably the best nix-first GUI player out there, but even though it's not a new project, some parts of the UI still seriously lag behind Foobar2000.

Some wishes from me, from memory:

- You can't use more than one scrobbling service simultaneously.

- You can't tweak parameters of burnt-in converter settings

- You can't easily switch the language of the interface (It just drives me nuts when software and internet pages assume the language)
> In this case I'd recommend wikipedia, the thread is quite short and light on details

To each their own, I guess. Sometimes a short explanation is plenty.
The tin cans heavily exposed to radiation? And in direct sunlight so more likely desiccated than frozen? And didn’t that guy just die of cancer? Though I was wondering why they didn’t start collecting semen and egg samples immediately after the total loss of the first samples.

Perhaps I’m misremembering, but I didn’t perceive the description as true speciation, more like socially defined racial groups.
I'm wondering to what extent social working has to be within a company.

A fitness club I was part of a decade ago had this amazing 'cafe' space that was often used by folks with laptops and the odd bit of chat. It felt social. If work anywhere becomes the thing, is there is scope for work 'clubs'? Or without the fitness reason to be there at all, is it a nonstarter?
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You add in some interesting, additional facts, but you do not in anyway refute what the author wrote.

I think your comment would make more sense if you removed the “not really“ in the beginning. You come off as saying “No, it was not written in kanji at first. It was initially written in kanji!” Which casts a weird, negative shadow on the otherwise interesting facts you add.
This is what I've been looking at a lot lately. I dont trust any data related to PCR-tests, as those tests are not one but many tests. The number of cycles used, and the number of chains looked for is different from PCR to PCR making their results useless for me as an interested outsider who wants to do some calculations.

Hence I turn to excess all cause mortality as my main figure. I personally know 2 people that had their lives shortened by the measures instead of the virus itself, so I take that into account.

The main problem I have with the US data (z-scores) is that they dont include 2018 which had a serious flu going around killing a lot.

The Euromomo data does show that 2018 flu spike of mortality. And that puts things in perspective.
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Could I please restart my life from the time OSX was released?
Work isn't the only place you can socialise with people. You seem to have a deeper problem if you're using work to fill that void. Do you need help on finding alternative sources?
> What people really want, is a phone that is on their side.

This will never happen. Personal radio communication is innocuous compared to what a modern cell phone is, yet personal radio communication is heavily restricted since decades.

Maybe we will eventually see an open source radio stack and truly open source apps. This will only happen once surveillance and kill switches have been moved to another layer.

A cell phone will never be on our side, it is far to dangerous.
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A lot of users hate the mods too.
So what was Austria's loophole?
Be in the field or declare your dilettante status.
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The problem is how quickly the AI learns. When a player gets caught off guard by a strategy in one match, they will already react to it in the very next match. The AI we have does not.

Also, did the StarCraft AI have to move the camera around? I remember watching the show matches. In those the AI lost the match that it had to handle the camera and couldn't just give impossible orders that a player's interface would not allow.
I would have understood it on first pass if it said philosophy or philology instead of philanthropy.
Most exponential curves are only exponential until they hit a limit and become an S-curve. These sort of have a runaway point. But in this article full of hyperbole and falsehoods, steelmanning its bad arguments might not be appropriate.
Notably, steel blast furnaces go offline once every 10~20 years, and that's to replace the firebrick lining on the inside. They take months to ramp up, and at least weeks with no output.
No, it's not particularly important to me that the OS is FOSS (it's a bonus I appreciate, but what I dislike about my work Mac is that it's hard to configure and changes between versions and bundles crapware, etc., not that it's not FOSS).

Another Unix would be ok as long as it's not hidden away under a forced UI, with some things unconfigurable, required, etc.

But ultimately I want to share dotfiles between my desktop and phone (sure I might have to accept some amount of conditional guards..) - and that pretty much means Linux and ideally Arch. But only because that's what I happen to use on non-phones.
You think that it‘s just reassignment in svelte? I don‘t think so.

Counter in this example is likely a proxy object that knows when it‘s changed and tells svelte to re-render.

It‘s also not immutable, which can cause very confusing interactions in global state.
You're fighting the good fight. I've recently seen the term "exponential" used in the press to mean all sort of things, but mostly as equivalent to "really fast". This kind of thing may be inevitable, but it's a pity that such sharp and descriptive terminology is decaying into just another term for "growing quickly".
This is a very interesting question! Aside from somewhat difficult (C/C++), non-native (Electron) and perhaps too platform-specific (.NET stuff) the alternatives for easy desktop GUI development are rather limited:
- Python apps with a GUI library (e.g. Qt) are nice to develop difficult to package and distribute
- Go with a GUI library (e.g. GTK) resolve the packaging and distribution problems but might be a bit more difficult to learn than Python
- Lazarus gets recommended a lot. You have to be comfortable writing Pascal however

If you're into Lisps the Racket GUI library is really nice and actually looks like the easiest option for developing native GUI applications with capability to build for different platforms.

If the you're targeting Windows only then .NET + C# is probably the best alternative. Not the easiest platform to learn but you'd be learning skills that have more demand on the market.
Exactly. I “worked from home” for several years before covid, but I never worked exclusively at home until covid. I’d usually spend a few hours of a few days a week at a coffee shop, library or park, and not being able to do that during covid has definitely made remote work feel more isolating.
I like the mention of being able to work from your local branch. It may help keep more branches open if they're doubling up as workspaces for the "office" staff
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Methamphetamine is sometimes prescribed for ADHD under the name "Desoxyn". While medical professionals appear hesitant to do so, patients who are prescribed Desoxyn rate it much higher than other ADHD drugs.
It’s baffling that some people believe banning something by law prevents it from happening.
Its one of the big three that will use your watch to tell you the time and charge you to do it, and they are not worth $140B they are priced at $140B but their worth varies as a function of belief in their services.

Their value could evaporate as fast as Enron did in its space. Or Greenhills. Or in the consulting space deloittes or anyone else in the consulting and contracting business. Theyre all one significant lawsuit or one excel spreadsheet mistake away from zero value. It just depends what happens when the mistake goes live.

Did you intermediate the Australian census deployment debacle? Poof. Gone.

It's Arthur Anderson. Anderson consulting.
Plenty of people in the Free Software community don't feel represented by RMS. A lot of us were complaining about his behaviors even 15 years ago.
As I mentioned in another comment, a frugal lifestyle also played an important role.

I create models of income statements, it's nothing fancy. And no, I don't use data analysis.
I got into GeoGuessr during the pandemic, and am still very into it! I can really recommend it as a way to learn about more of the world while you're stuck at home.

Since I'm very interested in languages, I'm often surprised at how difficult other players sometimes find it to be to recognize specific languages (e.g. the differences between Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, and Italian are quite obvious to me, but often not to many other players).

But I also notice that there are many, many world languages that I can't recognize easily; for Geogussr purposes in particular the most relevant for me right now are the Slavic languages (I can tell Polish apart from the others written in Latin script, but have trouble distinguishing the others that are written in that script; I have trouble distinguishing the Slavic languages that are written in Cyrillic; and I also have trouble distinguishing the Central Asian languages that are written in Cyrillic that are not from the Slavic family).

Wikipedia has a great chart to help you recognize languages even without learning to speak or understand them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Language_recognition...

and I'm currently writing a language recognition trainer (which, when it's done, will give you a sample of text and ask you to guess what language it is, and, if you get it wrong, provide some kind of tips that could help you to recognize that language). I plan to make it available to the public when I'm finished. I'd love for the ability to recognize and distinguish languages from one another to become more widespread. Because of the ubiquity and importance of English, we native English speakers are said to be especially bad at this... not just at understanding other languages, but even at telling them apart!
Am I the only one who expected a game with apes jumping and swinging from trees and so on..
Indeed they did... as well as passenger jet in-flight breakups. There's a reason square windows aren't used anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet
It's without a doubt amending Article V with Article V; I don't really understand why it's thought of as some mysterious loophole lost to time. Not everything a smart man figures out has to be particularly complex.
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If a truly ingenious method exists, probably best that nobody knows about it! Thankfully the current crop of would-be American dictators doesn't look smart enough to figure one out for themselves. (Brute force remains an option.)
Happy long-term user here. I'm probably one of the few people who have an extended mp3 collection in "physical files" (is that a thing nowadays?) stored on a physical hard drive, some of which I actually grabbed myself from CD, casettes, even vinyl. I've never used iTunes or any online streaming service. If I need something I don't have on my disk, I just go to Youtube.

In the late 90s I was a happy Winamp user, because back then it was just a player and not much else. Deadbeef is exactly that, it works perfectly under linux (KDE), it is very unobtrusive, can be controlled by the media keyboard buttons if needed, in general, it just gets out of the way and does one thing and one thing well (play music, that is, preferably in the background).
I believed that the L meant libre but libre when translated from Spanish to English literly translates as 'free'

So in floss, that would be free free open source software.

Which doesn't seem right? Unless there is another meaning to libre I'm missing?
Well, the evidence from Europe (which mostly re-opened schools in Sept/Oct) would suggest that schools weren't a major source of transmission.

And to be brutally honest, closing bars and restaurants so that schools can open seems like a fair trade to me (and our child is six months old, so this isn't a self-serving argument).
Because it's not riddled with arbitrary additives and supposedly has micronutrients in it. Candy is overpriced for being mostly molten sugar wrapped in hard sugar.
The whole situation is even more absurd if you take into account the fact we're tech folks, we're supposed to be good at logic, reasoning, and detecting bias. In this particular case, it looks like people have problems parsing a simple sentence, and projecting their own meaning onto it. At this point nobody seems to care what Stallman actually said, it only matters that the crowd already passed sentence and you will be criticized if you disagree.
You are completely right, some employers just can't cope with the tiny bit of control they lose when their employers work from home. A friend of mine (who is also in IT) still has to do an hour and a half drive 3 times a week just so that a client can 'see' that he is working. There is no reason for him to go work there, other than inspection. We're in IT, all we need is a decent computer and a network connection.

All while WFH is obligated by the government.
Food prices are rising fast

I don't think that's just the container crisis, your currency has been going down the shitter for some time now.
In the same idea of "foobar2k clone", I used Foobnix when I was using linux as my main OS: http://foobnix.com/en/index.html.
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> It's as if someone says to a physicist "I have the General Unified Theory" and they decide to not listen to it.

That happens all the time. The probably judge ignored Gödel for the same reason physcists ignore cranks.
vrms is free software though. In the unlikely event you're not already using it, you should. It looks through your installed packages to find non-freely licensed software, and if none if found then you win.
That the loophole involved the amendment process is just speculation. It may have been something else.
People can generalise about many millions in a country.

I think with generalisations, some people forget its only generally true (or not).