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Most historians and victims of its missionaries would beg to differ that Christianity isn't imperialistic.

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

>Christianity and colonialism

>Christianity and colonialism are often closely associated with each other because Protestantism and Catholicism participated as the state religions of the European colonial powers and in many ways they acted as the "religious arms" of those powers. According to Edward Andrews, Christian missionaries were initially portrayed as "visible saints, exemplars of ideal piety in a sea of persistent savagery". However, by the time the colonial era drew to a close in the last half of the twentieth century, missionaries became viewed as "ideological shock troops for colonial invasion whose zealotry blinded them", colonialism's "agent, scribe and moral alibi."

>In some areas, almost all of the colony's population were removed from their traditional belief systems and were turned into the Christian faith, which the colonizers used as a reason to destroy other faiths, enslave the natives, and exploit the lands and seas.

>"Colonialism is a form of imperialism based on a divine mandate and designed to bring liberation – spiritual, cultural, economic and political – by sharing the blessings of the Christ-inspired civilization of the West with a people suffering under satanic oppression, ignorance and disease, effected by a combination of political, economic and religious forces that cooperate under a regime seeking the benefit of both ruler and ruled." -Jan H. Boer of the Sudan United Mission
The problem I have with Lombok is that suddenly it’s hard to trace getters and setter from the Pojo. By this I mean asking the question, “where is getId() used” is hard if I want to use the find references feature of the IDE.
Without a second ship at the other end to trap people in, no one was gonna be stuck more than a couple weeks; they'd all eventually decide to unload at a port or go around Africa.
The author says:
// to call it you'd do

first_argument = 1;

second_argument = 2;

int three = add_numbers();

This is, I trust you all agree, terrible. This approach is plain wrong.

I agree, but I don't think everyone agrees. Just have a look at the apple APIs, their configuration options are all objects you have spend time configuring, then pass as an argument. I don't know why everything with Apple development beats around the bush. It's almost too object oriented.

To be clear, Apple is more like this:

let argument = Argument()

argument.first = 1

argument.second = 2

let addRequest = AddRequest()

adder.add_numbers(with: arguments)

let mathRequest = MathRequest()

mathRequest.perform([addRequest])

if let results = addRequest.results {

// Do something with your results.

}

And yes though, Apple development makes me feel smart when I solve something that should've been documented.
My God that site is beautiful. If only every "maths" site could looks like this, I'd have won a field medal!
I also found the paper hard to read, but check page 6 of the pdf at http://www.brophy.net/Downloads/AIL%20Class%20on%20Reality%2... (Adventures in Curved Spacetime, Eduardo Guéron, Scientific American Vol.301)
If they don’t want to show their hand then why even report it’s North Korean to the general public? I don’t see how widely reporting that detail is useful, especially if they don’t intend to back up their claims publicly.

They can easily report their findings privately to the appropriate authorities without any loss in potential for real punishment or rectification.
This is a code free api builder and operationalization product
It's funny you should ask; I've been trying to write (rarely) along these lines for a few years now:

https://aereperennius.org/poems/surplus_electronics.pdf

https://aereperennius.org/poems/death_of_a_capacitor.pdf
After just a week of lifting weights or running, you feel 200% better and it just gets better. Thoroughly recommend it. Going back for another beer though. Damn this covid forcing me to play wizardry 8.
Please stop saying things like "big tech" like it is a single entity, these are companies and the question is, should a company get to decide who uses their platform for crowdfunding.

Many of us here build things, and I know I personally feel that I should have a right to choose how my companies services are offered, I don't want my platform to be used to support hate, racism, sexism, etc.. And frankly anything that would damage our brand by association.

I feel like that people seemingly are confusing commercial services provide by companies with something they have a right to.
Ex-Blackberry here. BB didn't bail; not enough people were buying the phones for hardware manufacturing to be self-sustainable.
Yup, I've had to troubleshoot servers over SSH on Android more times than I care to count and it's time consuming. Due to this I often bring my backpack with laptop just in case. With a daily driver like this with a physical keyboard I wouldn't have to bother.

The size of this (as well as the Astro Slide[0]) deters me from buying though. Well COVID as well since I'm not on the move as much as I used to. But size-wise it's just too big, a phone this size doesn't comfortably fit in my pocket. Wish someone made something N900-sized (but lighter and thinner). The large size is great when used in computer mode, but most of the time you're using it in phone mode so I'd prefer to have it smaller.

[0] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...
Mnogo dobre Martin!

Daje si go drapnah.

Imash li telefon?
Interesting take given that they are used by millions of people every day.
Even that is not exactly the same. Cells, or logic gates per mm° is too rather ambiguous, as different implementations of same logic families do things differently, and the metric gets even wronger for different logic families.

The best I believe will be a whole cell library metric using some lowest common denominator blocks like registers, adders, bus pieces etc
IIRC Sealand sells post cards, as part of its general merchandise thing (along with nobility titles). Not sure about stamps though.

Another quasi-governmental curio is that, again IIRC, Spain has several, maybe even a dozen or something, local currencies. All being traded just fine in their communities. (I think the US also has or had at least a couple, though those were essentially just checks of some co-op banks, and thus nothing new in the country.)

Also I remember reading about a currency established by a gang that controlled a part of a city—and which currency ended up being used more actively in the city than the country's currency, because it was more stable. Don't recall where it was: possibly northern Africa, maybe Ethiopia or Eritrea.
In node.js there are quite a few packages that do exactly this - it's a great pattern and forces you to define which env values you will rely on in one place, rather than dripping them all over your codebase.
Yeah, I was fully on board until I saw the processor.
> or just lack the initiative, knowledge and internal motivation to work without external pressure and supervision

Most people who lack the motivation to work without external pressure are in it only because they need to do even the most menial "bullshit job" to survive: "a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case."

> Most people feel alone because they lack the social skills to make friends outside work

It's hard to have time for making friends when you waste 8 hours of your day on work, another half to whole hour on lunch break, another one and a half on commuting and eight hours on sleep - that leaves only six "free" hours a day of which then go one hour for eating (breakfast+dinner), one hour for personal hygiene (shower, toilet visits), half an hour to an hour for house work (cleaning, maintenance)... suddenly you're left with only three "leisure" hours, and that assumes a decent work commute in the first place. Weekends are often enough used for recovering from a stressful work week and shopping groceries.

Add in kids to the mix and it's no surprise that for many people, work is the only place they can reasonably form social connections during the week.

We need to get rid of excessive commutes, we need to get rid of the 8 hour work day in favor of a 5-6 hour work day, and especially we need to get rid of "bullshit jobs" that add additional mental stress.
and it is completely disconnected from the internet localized to the vm its deployed in .and on your hosted linux box
Wouldn't Quora or Reddit cover this 'need' but with the additional convenience of recorded/written word, so you don't have to be there and then to capture this random information?

I understand to drop in to listen (for example) an AMA by Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, someone... but to be on a chatroom with 1000 people talking about sex.. I find it kinda unhelpful.
I agree, however, I'd prefer just putting this phone into my pocket.

iPad with a keyboard is definitely better but it's also not compact. Plus, I don't really want to bring it to the beach (because no matter what I always end up cleaning all my stuff from the sand)
I would agree with the music. Which is unfortunate because music doesn't tend to encompass all the different forms that poetry possesses, and both have their place. But, on some level, they both explore condensed use of metaphor/rhyme/etc to create powerful emotional effects in the audience, so they share a lot of similarities.

For me, learning to write poetry and explore has been great, although funny enough one of the best books to help me with the writing of poetry was Writing Better Lyrics by Pattison, as his advice helps a great deal with poetry (with the above caveat about forms still holding true).
I posted data that shows that price is indeed spiraling out of control so it’s not just my personal experience. My situation isn’t that unique. Why do you think they created the individual mandate? To force people who didn’t want or need insurance to pay for it. Zero to non-zero is a huge jump. If I was alone, they wouldn't have needed to create this legislation to artificially capture the market.
Strongly disagree. Environment variables are, IMHO, best tool for some simple configuration in unix. They match perfectly with behavior of the ecosystem and other tools in it (like unix shell).

Yes, if your OS is some unversal JS machine, then JSON would be better, if it is Lisp machine, then you would use S-expressions, but on Unix machine, environment/args are way to go.

There are two realistic alternatives - config files and arguments. They have each their own niche, where environment is somehwere between them.

Arguments are better for one-shot setting, not for some setting used always. You can use 'alias' to define shortcuts that always add some argument, but that is definitely more cumbersome.

Config files are good for always/default setting, but are too rigid. Changing config files is equivalent of changing global variable in code, it has system/user-wide effect. While i can just change environment in this one shell and it will affect just commands executed from that shell. Also, config files are much harded to be manipulated from scripts, and use different syntax for each tool.

Perhaps the ideal tool would allow every option to be set/changed from config file, environment and argument.
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I didn't even know that was a thing until the other day where I saw someone post on Twitter that they got an email that had basically a web storefront within the email. It was selling some product and it had a color selector and cart, the whole thing. I assume the checkout process would kick you to their actual website but it's still kinda crazy.
>Some of them are programming languages.

Are you doing programming on your smartphone?

I agree with the rest - sweaty fingers or wet fingers in general, or god forbid you want to wear gloves where it's cold.

But programming on a smartphone?
If you're a heathen like me, you sometimes store JSON configuration in environment variables https://mitchum.blog/how-to-store-json-in-an-environment-var...
GA-WDIO: Automating Web App Testing
Jet.jl: experimental type checker for Julia
igmp snooping would be standard practice too
Outlook comes with MS Office, so it's must render HTML with MS Word. Super logical ;)
It definitely isn't at some of the places I've worked.
what are the inventor's credentials? I searched and searched and could only find vague descriptions like "scientist"
We down sized 4 months before the pandemic kicked in and I started working from a coworking space. Not great timing but we make it work. I get up early for 4 hours work before wife and kids get up and then later in the day my wife takes the kids out and I get another stint in.
I agree, I always thought that the idea that "big pharma" would be actively suppressing miracle cure for long term profit is rather improbable.

There's the reason to point out (why pass the opportunity of a huge short term profit?) but also for these types of diseases there's bound to be a high ranking officer within the company who either directly suffers from the illness or has a close family member who does. I doubt that they'd let themselves or their wives die for the sake of getting a nice +3% to benefits ten years down the line.
It's a made up scale that is intentionally imprecise to communicate rough estimates.

These imprecise measurements may be way off on individual units of work, but in aggregate, can average out to fairly consistent measurements within a team.
> Just because something has been used for decades does not make it good.

I'm not calling this is good with the persistence of the original author. I tell that it's one of the realities that we have, and instead of burning it with torches, why not build better conventions around it with better attitude and language?

Maybe we can try: "Instead of burying all config under environment variables, why not try doing it like this?", and slowly build something better, step by step. Nothing is inherently good or bad, but can be abused. So the abuse of environment variables as a shortcut needs to stop, one may say and I'd agree, and may also volunteer to help to build a better thing.

But, shunning it with anger and shouting "I'm the one who knows all right things!" sure creates backlash, like here.

All in all, I'm against the attitude, not the idea of improving a situation.

> Yes, some things are bad and are actively harmful.

It might be, but even your solution might not be right. Why the attitude?

> unstructured programming using gotos. Would you like to go back to that?

Did that on some older, limited hardware, and it was fun. It was not OK by today's standards, but I had to. I'll do it again if it's the only thing I can do to work on that particular hardware again.

> But perhaps you are not a programmer?

I just design algorithms and develop scientific applications which run on HPC clusters, nothing fancy.

> It's not a "de-facto standard", it's simply bad.

I didn't say it's good. I say it's a fact. I'm not disagreeing on its bad sides. I'm not OK with the attitude.
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The insistence on comparing going into an office to jail that I see all over this thread really bothers me. This is such an extremely privileged viewpoint.

When you're a minimum wage McDonalds worker, you can get written up for being 5 minutes late. But if you make $350k a year, being asked to come into a physical office to perform work is similar to jail. Okay. I guess the similarity is that they both serve meals :)
I had the original Nokia Communicator as well. And I still have a Jornada 720. I also had a Psion 5 and a Psion-style keyboard (from the same designer) is being used on the Astro Slide mobile phone which is scheduled to ship in June, (I have one on order).

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...
AI experts warn Facebook’s anti-bias tool is ‘completely insufficient’
CrateDB v4.5 is now stable and ready to use
Nothing wrong with socialising at work. If you’re spending a third of your day working, it may as well be enjoyable.
This was always easy to get around, but good news it’s officially supported.
Agreed, and I'm currently looking for a more elegant solution for that very input data. I'm thinking of a very simple invoice line editor, and a way to keep the metadata for each generated invoice. Suggestions welcome! Cheers
I would prefer a better CPU and a power bank in my bag.
Where and when does the driver's responsibility come into play? Do we not have a social contract of following rules we already agreed on, or set by the Gov? What else did you want Gov to do?
It's a nice thought but is there any evidence of this? I've also heard this quote "If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on."

In my experience at work, I've seen the opposite. The people most distracted get the least done and it's obvious to everyone on the team. Plus obviously you do need to pay attention to some distractions. Going too far in one direction is not good. I think, however, most people lean more towards distractions than focus.
Yeah, no idea how that happened. 662 is an early 2020 11nm midrange SoC. For comparison the 1.5 year older Apple A12 is twice as fast. Considering the price point I'd rather pay an extra 200 dollars and buy a 7" One Mix laptop.
Yeah I've looked at the Gemini and Cosmo before but the sliding design of ProX and Astro Slide is what makes me seriously consider buying one of these devices (in which case I'd lean towards the Astro).
Imagine a world where some people speak more than one language on a daily basis.

Wild, I know.
Generally you are using a typeclass to specify behavior (which I guess is a kind of duck-typing).

For example, there is a typeclass Foldable[F[_]] which provides the ability to "fold" (i.e. recurse over) some type F[_] which takes a type parameter. Then you have typeclass definitions for Foldable[Set], Foldable[List], Foldable[Tree], Foldable[Option], etc.

Then if you have an operation and you want it to work on any collection that can be folded, then you can just define it in terms of a generic type that has a Foldable typeclass. For instance to generically sum a collection of ints, you might do

def sum[F[_] : Foldable](ints: F[Int]): Int = ...

Now you can call sum(List(1,2,3)), sum(Set(1,2,3)), sum(Option(1)), etc...
Used to use this thing back in the day called FTP. Oh, and Usenet! :)
This argument reminds me of the historical arguments made against heliocentrism vs geocentrism. Just because we have widespread belief of one thing to be true does not mean we should blindly accept it and not test things that appear to oppose it.

In my opinion, the tests that have happened with the EmDrive are exactly what _should_ happen to make sure that our knowledge is strong and that we do keep advancing the field.
> Saying the public transport in Cuba is bad makes no sense. Basically nobody owns a car in Cuba and people still get around just fine

what does not make sense is saying that "the public transport in Cuba is bad makes no sense". Both public or private transport is bad in any angle. You can not say people still get around just fine when for instances sometimes you need 4 hours or more to reach a place 80 kilometers far from you. Sometimes you just have to give up and returns home after some hours exposed to the sun on the road.
* As someone who is born in Cuba and lived and studied in Cuba, feel free to ask additional questions ;)
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>MS clearly decided to re-do the settings system over multiple Windows generations because it was too big to do in a single release cycle. During the transition period, both Settings and Control Panel tooling will be available, and used by many users. Is there any other alternative?

Windows 10 was released in 2015. It's been like this for six years. Things have improved incrementally over that time period, but there's just no excuse for this situation still existing. If you can't get it into one release cycle, the solution is not to release whatever half-baked thing you've finished and try to keep going with it, the solution is to wait until it's done. The current situation is strictly speaking worse than both replacing it altogether or not replacing it at all.
Maybe we need a futures market for fab slots. Then we could just blame speculators for price swings instead of a particular industry.
And finally good default touchpad gestures on Linux in the next version. https://blog.elementary.io/multitouch-gestures-in-elementary...
We use mjml as well, together with nunjucks. It's awesome :). No more HTML wrestling for all the different clients.
> In perl, you would know based on syntax whether you're dealing with a reference as opposed to a copy of an instance.

Once you 'get' the sigils in Perl, you miss them everywhere else.
Most of what I wrote makes no sense. The previous sentence has only one to be to get the just.

I swiped the above and you can see the results.
Luckily, I think the autonomy part is on the rise...At least for tech workers. I basically no longer entertain positions that aren't 90+% WFH (so companies do quarterly or yearly get togethers, which aren't so bad), and there seems to be more of them all the time. In an industry where working with 'offshore' dev. groups is fairly routine, it seems especially silly to require 'local' resources to come on-site.
It depends on whether or not a person has a use case for a better cpu.
I never needed customer support for a phone and never done any updates (I have not updated my phone for like 3 years, because I know the next update disables call recording).

I'd love a phone with good specs, as many open parts as possible and with all schematics and BOM so I could fix it myself if something goes wrong.
It is really fat: about 14mm, nearly twice as thick as most current phones.
Legal (loophole) money laundering and facilitation setup from India
Still kinda useless, because most users still block (and should block) remote content including images by default.

I'm tired of companies(and users) sending emails with trackers to check if someone has read your email or not.
I have a hybrid experience where I really need swipe to get things done fast, but I always disable autocorrect, because when I actually type I don't like to be corrected. This way I can put the anger on me rather than the software.
Things described as “game theory rational” often become irrational as soon as you introduce an error term with respect to the rules of the game.

An example is the famous marshmallow experiment. It’s framed as a test of self-control and rationality, but what if the proctor is lying to you? A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
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