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> the rapist Marvin Minsky

I think you might be confusing Minsky with Epstein[0]:

> Virginia Giuffre testified in a 2015 deposition in her defamation lawsuit against Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell that Maxwell directed her to have sex with Minsky among others. There has been no allegation that sex between them took place nor a lawsuit against Minsky's estate. Minsky's widow, Gloria Rudisch, says that he could not have had sex with any of the women at Epstein's residences, as they were always together during all of the visits to Epstein's residences.

It is a basic human right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. In this case, we only know than one person was asked to have sex with Minsky, but it might have never happened. We will never know. But calling a dead man rapist just like that makes me said.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky#Association_with...
I'm in this position. I run ADSL + NBN satellite.

Come school holidays I put all the TVs/iPads etc on one and the other for my work. Still a pain with slow internet but it limits it. ADSL is 3.5mb down and satellite is 30mb but latency is worse.

I'm looking at bonded networks currently to improve, plus when Starlink gets to me I think I'll keep a second connection as I heard there are a few dropouts and will be a while for the satellites to number enough to mitigate that.

Anyway, it's not ideal but it works ok and lets me live rural.
I started a job as a manager during the pandemic, with everyone working from home. It sucked. On top of the usual difficulties with onboarding remotely, I had to deal with getting to know everyone around me in a 360 degree sphere, and forming relationships when most people had already been able to get to know each other in person.

Can not wait to get back to being able to meet people in person, even if remote and WFH is allowed and accepted in the future, which I think it will be for all but the most dinosaur of companies.
Sitting in a park alone was illegal for a couple of months in the U.K.

In other countries it got even more strict - 1 hour exercise and you had to pre register on a form.
Mobile data in Germany is very, very, very expensive. An hour of video meeting consumes around 1GB (I think, probably even more), you can not keep up with the cost, I think.
that's far from universal.
Should never happen. If it does, call the developers
Many places in London accept them (tourists often bring them, and higher prices make them more useful). With a new, secure design, I expect many more places will start.
I personally think Turing was more worthy of being buried between the graves of Darwin and Newton than Hawking.
> What if e.g. github reframed its project sponsorship model as something that involved getting maintainers setup with liability insurance and the ability to offer sponsors warranty and liability for their software.

I think it would be much more expensive. The developers of some library are having a hard time judging how much money somebody stakes on that library working perfectly. It might be that they'd lose an hour of work if they hit a bug, it might also be that a huge project fails with gigantic losses - it's hard to insure against that if you still want people to be able to afford it.

It's much easier to buy insurance on the user side where you know the potential impact (i.e. "my wordpress site will be offline for a day" vs "the oil rig I've run calculations for could sink if there was a bug").
I found no instance of the word "objective" in the GP's comment, so no pointing necessary.
Oh wow that actually makes a lot more sense than the direct reading of the article
Yes and no.

Berkson's paradox is a special case of Simpson's for the two subgroups selected and non-selected.

The difference is that Berkson's paradox involves selecting the subgroup a posteriori and in a particular way, Simpson's paradox assumes a selection a priori.
PyTorch for AMD ROCm Platform now available as Python package
Try softening kibble with hot water. Let the food cool down before serving to your dog
Netflix on a recent android mobile showed that the formats supported for hardware decoding are h264 and VP9. So, thought the mobile doesn't have h265 h/w. But then installed mpv from fdroid and played h265 video and mpv said it's using h/w decoding. So for some reason, Netflix chose not to use h265.
No, Europe tends to have the same tax rates and rules per country. But in a way you can compare the EU and US here, moving countries within the EU also has tax consequences. But due to language barriers, that happens less often than people moving states in the US. And the UK isn't part of the EU anyway.
> but internet is unbearably slow anywhere but in a few major cities

There's only one city in the Highlands - Inverness.
What was inaccurate about it for those that know little about Turing's life
Crazy to think that if WeWork held out a bit longer they could have come out of this on top, as WFH becomes more common.
Self driving cars will most likely make it all worse. If you are assuming a taxi like service then they will drive to you empty and away to their next pickup empty so that means more miles. Then you have the problem of a long commute becoming more acceptable if you can relax and read the paper during your journey.
> You can't use more than one scrobbling service simultaneously.

Well, I have the perfect solution for you. :) It's not a deadbeef plugin, but a user daemon that can load the track information from any player and can submit to Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz.

The project is on github[1] and I believe it's packaged for Archlinux, Fedora, openSUSE.

[1] https://github.com/mariusor/mpris-scrobbler
> It's embarassing that this anecdote is given almost any weight. It's absolutely the most navel-gazing useless analysis. It does help to serve as an excellent counter-argument to "philosopher kings", though....

Damn dude, it's just a funny anecdote, no one is claiming it's a national security threat or anything like that.

There was no analysis involved, Gödel found it while studying for something else.

It's a super small wikipedia article for an amusing story, who said anything about solving law? If there is a contradiction on the Constitution I don't know why would it be a wrong thing to, at the very least, address it.
Nationwide is on your side
According to Wikipedia[0], citing the Verge[1], she has been fired...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Challenor

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22348255/reddit-moderator...
It's more likely that we'll end up in a hybrid environment. Previous companies I've worked for already had clean-desk policies. No-one, not even the CEO had a fixed desk.

Teams were assigned areas so they knew where in the building to meet, but if you arrived late and all the desks were taken you simply went and found another area (or if you needed to hide to minimize disruptions).

In a hybrid-model this becomes even easier, because the hardest thing with the above model is keeping free capacity in a growing company.
> Just pick who you work for carefully and make yourself valuable

you realise that's a relatively privileged position in the emplyment market, right? you:

a) have enough choice in employers to be able to pick one

b) have both a profession that allows you to differentiate yourself and the skills that can make you differentiate yourself

that's unfortunately not the case for the majority of employees
I think permanent WFH means tons of savings for employers, and meager tax savings for employees. Our costs have gone up substantially in one year of working from home, and the government doesn't allow us to write almost anything off.

Whereas an office could write off coffee, TP, cleaning staff, electricity, the whole rent etc, we are stuck with only being able to write off equipment we bought specifically for working and wondering if the tax authorities will come after us for that.
The problem was that £50 notes were most likely forged, I think, although I don’t know how true that was. So the solution surely isn’t to get rid of the notes as that just shifts the forgery to the next note down. Surely instead the solution would be higher valued notes being created. But:

- I don’t really think the problem is forgery. I think it’s that it is annoying for a lot of shops to make change for £50.

- I don’t think the government is particularly interested in making cash more convenient for people (card transactions are easier to track) and wealthy people mostly aren’t interested in carrying around high-value notes as credit cards exist.
So, can I add a new chain to the Blockchain, putting images up for individual satoshi? Who should vote for which images ?
I guess I always looked at Android's propensity to killing processes ultimately not just as a RAM saving tool, but as a battery saving tool.

That whole process lifecycle thing that you have to jump through with activities and bundles and what have you is so that your app disappears not just out of RAM, but out of the scheduler too from a piece of code that can make such decisions at a complete system level. Yes, it kills processes essentially arbitrarily, but the processes should have all of the hooks and places to squirrel away state to come back from the aether as if nothing happened. Programming Android code should embrace that rather than fight it.

As for webview, I think they're generally pushing a security fix and think that your app should be able to pull itself back together, the same as if a browser was refreshed.
ok, but then they can reduce by the equivalent travel savings :)
We need more D compilers. Hopefully OpenWatcom and OrangeC will also provide D compilers.
I think the jury is still out on that. It is still commercial real estate, and that has taken a massive hit since March 2020.
Setting boundaries is your job, not your job’s job.

Almost everyone I know works normal hours or less even during WFH.

To be perfectly clear, this is true regardless of WFH. Your work will never set boundaries for you as they benefit from you working harder and longer.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one frustrated with this post. This is just straight impure political hit piece against RMS.

So, does he really saying we should ditch the FLOSS movement to get better freedom? Well, that’s really a bold idea. Of course, there can be other approaches, but where’s the analysis on the success and fail factors? What was the lesson from the past decades, so big that we should rollback a whole movement? Nothing I can find here.
Wow, that's overly agressive. If you read the article, the story goes that upon asking him what government his native Austria had, Gödel commented "It was a republic, but the constitution was such that it finally was changed into a dictatorship." The judge commented that this could not happen in the U.S., and Gödel responded "Oh, yes, I can prove it".

I don't see how you jump from this, to saying that Gödel, who was a very smart person, childishly believed that words on paper were universally enforceable to their logical consequences. I'm sure he was aware of the existence of courts...
Could it be that working in close proximity of your kids is the main cause of that?

We experienced 2 months of 'school at home' with kids 5 and 8, and there is no comparing with the current situation (schools open)
Sadly they will become acceptable most places soon - inflation will take care of that. I remember bars refusing to take twenty's as the night wore on. Now you can barely get a round out of a twenty.
100% agree, Turings work was so ahead of his time, and his incredible prescience : I am very humbled and just in awe every time I think about it.
Is this the iPhone made in America or Communist China? Your argument is a strawman's at best, as is mine but I'm being facetious on purpose.
as mentioned earlier, setting boundaries is up to you
I just tried it, I love it! Thanks!
I work in software testing: this is my new capture tool because it will save me a lot of time.
Nothing to do with cashless, most places don't accept £50 notes and cash machines often only dispense £20 (apart from airports). Using less cash will probably decrease the use further but so far the lack of £50 note usage had little to do with card payments.
I think only a fraction of people would move away from their home country just to gain some tax benefits. Doesn't seem like most people I talk to are interested in that.
I have to agree that I like being able to pay with cards, however I think paper (or, well, plastic) money still has it place.
I never understood the existence of bailout programs without equity. If the banks, car and semiconductor companies mess up and you keep them alive then you deserve to have a say in their business and owning their shares is the easiest way to achieve that control.
But you could do that with FreeBSD.
I empathize after two years in UK education. The working culture is almost cult like and self reinforcing - the Peter principle in action turns the best teachers at reinforcing the status quo into headteachers.

Unions are really powerful in education - it's one of the only benefits of the sector I can think of. Hopefully your wife has a union rep they can teach out to on behalf of all the staff if not just herself? Teaching assistant salaries definitely don't to high enough to compensate for anything outside of school hours!
As a developer, I agree with the sentiment that FLOSS won.

As a consumer, I think the situation is in some ways worse than ever. Consumer software used to be distributed to the end-users' PCs. You could store your data on your PC, and inspect the source code to make sure that nothing nefarious was going on. Now the code stays with the companies (so you can't modify it or learn from it), and you send your data to them via the browser.
Richard Stallmann has an interesting piece on FLOSS and FOSS definition, containing this:

> A researcher studying practices and methods used by developers in the free software community decided that these questions were independent of the developers' political views, so he used the term “FLOSS,”

Unfortunately he doesn't name that researcher, whom he is attributing FLOSS to. Anyone knows?

According to Stallmann "FLOSS" is the most inclusive term including open source with a non-free license though:

> Thus, if you want to be neutral between free software and open source, and clear about them, the way to achieve that is to say “FLOSS,” not “FOSS.”

So and I'm suprised by that, while L stands for libre according to Stallman, the acronym FLOSS is a actually a more liberal term because it is neutral to whether the software in question free or only open source.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html
That's true, the one place I see them most often is being smuggled out of China. Actually I have gotten them from cash machines in Covent Garden before as well. Since then I've wondered what criteria they use to pick denominations for each area.
> I'm not sure where RoadPony fits into this touring cycle or helps tour managers in their decision making.

It provides strong confirmed information on where the fans are. With it the tour manager can know for certain how big a crowd they can expect in each city before they even start planning. Its up to them after this to decide where to go and where not to go to make the tour viable.

> It seems to me that it will promote one off gigs...

Why do you think so? I don’t see the fan pledges as binding on the band. If a band runs an album release campaign and when the numbers are in they can see that they have 10 fans in Miami and 10 fans in Anchorage and nothing else that just means that they are not ready for touring yet so they won’t.

The kind of information RoadPony can provide is especially usefull on the margins. You don’t need to be a genius to know that huge band in a huge metropolis will find enough interest. But it might show if the time is right for a smaller band to start touring, or might show which smaller cities are viable tour stops for the huge band.
Yeah, agreed. I was a Databricks skeptic when I first came across it, but it's value goes a LONG way beyond just managing Spark.

For example, we found that Databrick's Spark (or their 'Delta engine' or whatever it's
called) had 50-60% better performance on our workloads than than 'core' Spark. I guess that's not surprising when a large proportion of Spark contrionutors work for you and can performance tune! Not to mention things like MLFlow and all their data engineering stuff.

This is a cool project, and I admire it's ambition, but saying it's a real 'alternative' to Databricks is a bit disingenuous.
Perhaps 'werewolves' are a shapeshifter species that learned to mimic humans, not actual humans? It more plausible that human species isn't
entirely composed of biological humans than some magical transformation to a specific animal and back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_octopus
Fort William had decent internet last time I was there. Probably not a city by most standards but the biggest place around there so it does feel like a major center. But maybe their connectivity is also a result of the tourists coming for Ben Nevis.
> This is a worrying announcement.

Why? All the points sound reasonable and definitely a step towards more transparency. Notice that RMS is on the board that proposes these points. I would have appreciated if the FSF had been more transparent in all this since the beginning.
i read a lot of studies about how productivity increases when working from home.

so i decided to superficially calculate this after a year of working from home for all of my very diverse clientele (fortune 500, small agencies, etc). i felt that a lot less work was being done, but i didn’t know how much. or why.

since i’m a coder at heart i looked at tickets/features and commits. something easy to measure.

what i found is a big productivity drop. in some cases there was 40% less work done from home than from the office. and this happened gradually over the course of a year.

and since i know people working for big corps in HK i’ve asked them to do the same. their company’s productivity increased slightly (5%<). they were never forced to work from home.

this is by no means a scientific study, but i was surprised at the huge drops i was seeing, and even more surprised at the continuous drop off across the time line.

did anyone else notice this, or are just my clients outliners?

what will wfh do to the productivity difference between asian countries and western ones? will this apparent productivity loss be offset somehow?
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Maybe it's a legitimate argument but it is also a imho naive one. Lobbying works when you have big money backing you up, when you represent big interests. Or when you represent a looooot of people, when you have voting power backing you up. Fsf and the free software movement have neither. Look at Mozilla's action... Don't seem to be really effective. What was effective in Mozilla's action was getting people to use free software by backing it up with money i.e make free sexy/polished. But it seems like a secondary path for Mozilla today. They dumped thunderbird when they could have financed usability of PGP encryption way sooner. They dropped Firefox OS and now someone else is making money off of it. Firefox sync is not seeing much development so people are not in a hurry to give up non privacy respecting alternatives.

The main difference between simply open source software and free software is a stance about whether an alliance is possible/beneficial with the software industry (money flows in) or not (no money).
I don't have a strong opinion on the matter. I am glad open source is so ubiquitous and to see the pool of "commons" aggrandizing but I still don't trust big tech to really have user freedom at heart so I support the FSF.

What free software lacks is money really, not ineffective political lobbying.
It's a mixed blessing. On the one hand, you're always with your family. On the other hand, you're always with your family.

Fact of life is, many relationships have trouble finding balance between "me time" and "us time". Going to work is, for many, a way to catch a break from their home - with perfect plausible deniability, since it's socially approved and demanded externally.

Some people don't need it. I had a co-worker who would come super-early in the morning, so he could leave early and spend time with his kids. At work, we could see his kids were his whole world, and he was always happy. But at that same job, I also had a different co-worker who went out his way to find reasons to stay overtime - he dreaded coming back home. I don't keep in touch with them much, but I imagine the former one was super-happy about forced WFH, but the latter very much not.

Add to that, quite a lot of people in cities bought their apartments on the assumption that both partners are working 9/5 at the office and the kids are at school/daycare - this let them buy smaller places for less (or closer to work). Such apartments become living hell when all dwellers are present simultaneously for the entire day, and each is trying to do their work/school.

This is not to trade who has it worse - just pointing out that it's not smooth sailing for those of us with families either. There's a tight line between being happy to have people around, and hating their guts for it - this pandemic pushed a lot of us close to that border.
Isn't, according to cancelers, cancellation about moral clarity or in other terms "politically correct" stuff?

By definition those who are powerful don't need my aid, and I'm only here to learn.

Denying an employee (and even a customer, if one really wants so) for any real reason is already possible and done, by invoking any other reason. Such a Constitutional Right doesn't change anything.

Trying to coerce people into interacting with persons they don't like is either moot or, if apparently efficient for a while because "those who are powerful" enforce it, leads to a major clash as soon as this power vanishes.
There had been enmity between "Free Software" and Microsoft for a long time. MS rightly views GPL as threat to its business model. But there is another aspect to the renewed attacks on Stallman and FSF. The founder of Microsoft has been a close associate of Epstein, travelling on board of his "Lolita express", visiting Epstein's mansion and participating in Epstein's fundraising. Could those attacks on FSF be a bit of "red herring" to distract the public attention from the real story? How much of negative coverage appeared in microsoft-affiliated press?
That's a good point.

Here it is common to have a probation period between one to three months, which can be terminated by both parties on short notice. And you can also define a lower salary during this period.

Hence the workaround with being a contractor first is probably not necessary with a local employer, but with a foreign employer it's probably the only solution.
When or where did she "defend paedophilia?"

As best I can tell, the paedophile she "has strong ties to" is her father. No?
From the book:

> In the English++ project a foreign language is naturally English and a specific purpose is the field of computer science.

I actually might spend time time reading this. I'm a native English speaker, but it covers a lot of computer at a high level in a way that's very easy to understand.
The words "per capita" or "per apartment" are not in the article.

I completely buy that skyscraper have higher fixed costs then lower buildings. It can be true that the optimal height from energy expenditure per capita would be 5, 8 or 12 stories. Or it can be false and sckyscrapers are the best energy investment per square feet of living space created. Your links don't provide any evidence either way.
Why are you calling security an anti-feature?

Lineage support will hopefully get better with the new Android split between system with drivers and userspace.