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And I’m very happy about that. Imagine the horror of some apps sending notifications to wake up an app, so they can track your ip/location/whatever.

I’d say give more control to Apple.
Most programs you write are very concrete. Concrete programs can have concrete variable names.

Then the more you abstract things the less variable names matter. If you create a general purpose list calling its content type "item" or "x" are both equally readable since "item" doesn't say anything that "x" doesn't.

Now math, the entire subject of math is just a bunch of abstractions. Now there are a lot of concrete applications of math, but math itself isn't concrete.
No, I don't think you can. But most people get enjoyment out of life without doing anything deeply. Sometimes you can look down your nose at them (eg people who get their science "facts" from Scientific American or /r/ifuckinglovescience and love to quote amazing bullshit at you). But sometimes it makes sense to take a shallow interest in things because, as you say, you can't go deep in everything, but that shouldn't stop you from singing badly, failing at some side project, gardening badly and doing high-effort low-quality DIY at the weekend.

The contrast reminds me of a fad among 20-something's back in the 90s, spending a year "roughing it" on a grand tour of some third-world country. They'd come back with a tattoo, weighing 60kg, tanned and full of derision for "...your first world addiction to consumerism, man", and laughing at people who take their jobs seriously. Telling stories of dysentry, dangerous situations, psychedelics, corrupt police, bribing border guards, and living on pennies a day. "You get to see the real <wherever>". But while they certainly got closer to 'grit', they never really blended in with the locals for the same reason that they couldn't appreciate poverty. It was because they knew they had an exit strategy. They were fake, like Carla in Fight Club, going to terminal cancer support groups. Like the rich girl in Pulp's song, Common People, hanging out in a rough neighborhood, renting a flat above a shop, getting a shitty job and pretending she never went to school. But she never gets it right because she knows she can call her Daddy any time and he'll rescue her. And true enough, every man-Jack of those 20-something's had a car and a career within months of their return, and they're rightfully embarrassed about the enlightened crap they gave everyone when they first got back. Maybe a 2 week holiday to see the scenery is just as good after all?
Coincidentally, anorexia started in the US. Maybe we're just really hungry
Yeah, Portuguese living in Germany, and have lived in several other European countries before.

I would rather move to other European country to ever bother with US, exactly for the same reasons you mention.
When I lived in China I found it a lot easier to live this way because the apartments are smaller and there seems to be more of a culture of going into the community to eat at local restaurants or finding entertainment in public spaces.

Now I am back in the North America I think it's harder, because people build houses much bigger, and seem to associate not having much stuff with being unhappy or underprivileged instead of well-optimized and free.

I've found a bit more in common with the rubber tramp and liveaboard communities in this part of the world. They are very mindful about everything they buy because space is limited, so trying to find things that are multifunctional is a high priority. A lot of those things work in houses too.

On the other hand, I don't think their lives are as low stress as I would like, because they end up needing maintain an entire vehicle as well as the stuff in it.

Two other hacks, for women at least, is to quit makeup and shaving. I quit makeup about 5 years ago by accident forgetting to put it on one morning, and then I realized no one at work noticed anyways. Quitting shaving has been more of a corona era thing. I'm not sure if I'll stick with it over the summer, but I've been out a few times in shorts and it seemed nobody much cared. That cuts a bunch of unnecessary maintenance time out of my life, which I can now use for other things.
I'm Generation X, what do I need to do?

On that topic I found "The Fourth Turning" very interesting - although I do not subscribe to the conlusions of that book.
I’m not trying to be mean, but there is a chance this guy has some deep anxiety and self-esteem issues which means he doesn’t even think to look outside of his comfort zone. Routine is a way of not stressing yourself out with newness and the possibility you might not cope, and fail.
I think this just tells you that happiness is not objective.
Source/more info?
Sure, YouTube TV works on many devices, but if a Roku is the only device sitting under your TV, then you have effectively lost your YouTube TV service.

Your TV is now mostly useless since you may not subscribe to any other services or have cable.
Be prepared to offer 10% over listing price. Just bought a house in this market last week. Texas realtors are the real heroes of 2021. I can't imagine having to deliver bad news to 20+ people for every house that touches the market.
The consumer countries have no direct regulatory power, so they cannot force China to abide by their domestic best practices for scrubbing of flue gases, waste treatment, and other environmental considerations. There's a moral hazard involved due to our race to the bottom mentality where cheaper is always considered as better, but blame for Chinese behavior rests with China.
> People aren't "gifted" with technology. Oftentimes it's because they were exposed to it and didn't have other obligations combined with a mixture of curiosity that was triggered by something.

Pretty much. I learned how to reverse engineer back when I was still in school and was bored with my Wii. I wanted to run my own code on it to e.g. watch movies on my TV. But I couldn't afford to buy another computer connected to my TV. So I just had to figure out how the Wii works and how I could run my own code on it.

The privilege I had was that my parents were well-off enough to allow me to have >8 hours of free time after school and that they bought me a computer and gave me pocket money for my Wii.
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I hear too much that the web is broken. My first experience with the web using MSN Explorer to create a Zelda fan site by copying gifs and html from other Zelda fan sites. MSN was a walled of version of the web by microsoft where you could create your own webportal. If people are curious then they will explore and find new things. Too many people want to "fix" the internet, wining about monopolies, stuf like that. Feels like old people being nostalgic about the world moving on, while I know 12 year doing amazing stuff.
I am confused why someone would downvote this comment, but you are completely correct, and thank you for pointing it out.
To clarify, you're talking about nominal interest rates. Central banks have little or no control over real interest rates.
It's easy. You say here's a general purpose math equation. Now here's an example of computing something useful with it, using real world concepts.
CA tax system is mainly set up for retirees - high tax rates for current income, low tax rates for long-term property ownership. Someone who no longer works for W-2 income, but lives off social security, pension or investment portfolio would flourish in CA.

It's interesting how AZ and FL get the reputation of being great places for retirement, even though their tax system highly encourages current income and penalizes home ownership through higher property taxes.
Computer science mostly isn't math though. A small subset of it can be called math, but most stuff are just applications of math. If we are talking about teaching applications of math then the answer is very different.
Vegetables lowers the chance of stroke. They are not supposed to completely prevent it. There are many more factors that go into whether you get stroke. But, vegetable intake makes yours blood pressure go down somewhat and make you less likely to have stroke.
Some people do enjoy grass mowing.
I love your example because it shows how different we people think. It has the opposite effect on me! I find these two equations

Demand = 100 + 50*Price
Supply = 50 + 20*Price

extremely confusing! What are the units of demand? Is it units per day, average units per capita of a population? Is it in money? It surely must be money, since it is equated to Price with a unitless constant in-between. Then, do the two prices on each line refer to the same quantity? No, it cannot be, for one concerns demand (the price that people will pay?) and the other supply (the money that it costs to build something). Thus these two equations are unrelated on first sight. There must be some hidden, "obvious" relation between them but I'm at a loss. I'm not making things up, this is really what I see here. I'm a 42-year old who knows something about computers, physics and mathematics, but nothing about economy, and these two lines are utterly mystifying.

Now, for this:

A = 100 + 50*C
B = 50 + 20*C

This is just two linear equations in three variables, which has a one-dimensional space of solutions.
Fwiw, a vast majority of “scientific programmer” roles I’ve seen are more so looking for a “Scientist who can program”.
True! Some XY problems are YY problems in disguise.
This is true on the iOS platforms I'd say but it's not on the macOS ones: There you can just run your own code shortly after the SoC boots and then just leave SPRR/GXF disabled. That way you can easily have all rwx pages all you want.

you can also just map the same physical memory once as rw- and once as r-x even with SPRR enabled there.
It'll happen incrementally. Each time the lawyer ruling class does something bad, like build a website that doesn't work, they'll need to give us a little more power in order to save them. Then after a long enough timeline, we'll win, and legal code will be executable.
If you try to learn a foreign language you quickly realize that 80% is actually a very low percentile. If you ignore or don't understand one thing out of every five you are really missing a ton and don't pass the threshold of usefulness.
There are also Google/Garmin/Samsung Pay, which IME work the same, from the consumer point of view.
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If you have enough money, you can get peer reviewed expert opinion to support your version of facts...
https://softwoodlumberboard.org/california-building-standard...

"With this approval, California will adopt the entire series of the ICC approved change proposals for the design of tall wood buildings in California. California will become the fifth state to move forward with early adoption of the 2021 International Building Code"
Lies. They got passports in 1974 only.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1147485
(that pertains only to Kolkhoz workers. Sovkhoz workers were free and had passports from the very beginning, but there were many times fewer of them).
This is so cool and I wonder why it hasn’t been discovered much earlier! Best thing about this is that the sauce will stick better to the grooved pasta.
Hi! I'm recently working on a portfolio website simulating macOS using React and tailwindcss. The style is between macOS Big Sur and Catalina (in another word, I picked out and combined my favorite parts from these two versions).

Here's the link to website and Github:

Website: https://portfolio.zxh.io

Github: https://github.com/Renovamen/playground-macos

I appreciate any feedback or suggestions.
> Simple: What Heffer recounts is fascinating in itself, but also eerily familiar...

Ever notice how once you buy a car everyone else has it too? Or how when you learn a new word everyone else seems to have just learned it too? Or how when you discover a song it's instantly in TV shows and on the radio like never before?

It's almost as if these things are always there, yet sometimes we take notice of them and other times we don't. Weird.
What do you mean by “sound financial advice“? Of course you are not going to get richer by donating. In fact you are going to be poorer financially! But that is not the only aspect of life which matters.

> “If you want to donate money, donate to somebody/something that provides a free service/product to you”

That sounds very much like paying for the service or product in question. Can you elaborate on what you meant by this?

“... but never to a charity.”

Why? You spent a lot of characters and 3 ornately wrought sentences wich all just reitareted this “wisdom” as if it is a fact without explaining why you think so. Are you against altruism in all forms? Or perhaps you have this opinion from an effective altruism perspective?
One of the reasons that this is quite beautiful is that it portrays the ideal of having just enough, living simply, and being grateful. There is something also stoic about the character described.

I imagine the farmer you're telling us about doesn't want attention, material possessions, or any kind of excess at all. This person is happy to build something slowly over time, in small increments. They're happy with what they have, who they are, and that they exist.

I think there are elements in your portrayal that we can all strive for, whether this person was a farmer, carpenter, or programmer, doesn't really matter.
You still need to eat soylent and chugging it down is unpleasant at best.
> If you are compiling Audacity from source, we will provide a CMake option to enable the telemetry code. This option will be turned off by default.
I bet it's also why cruise missiles use terrain navigation.
I think 'mpweiher just submitted the post; 'svenpeter wrote it.
There could be conflict of interest, but someone still needs to show that these numbers are substantially wrong.
Perhaps he gets more satisfaction out of a stone wall than a child. Happiness and achievement are completely subjective. It isn't a credit to anyone who doesn't grasp that, much less denigrate another out of that lack of understanding.
These threads are always so entertaining. Someone will make up this pastoral romance while implying that the city life is somehow lacking. Then someone will do the opposite and the wars will begin. Very entertaining.

For my part, I enjoy modal editors so I think vim is better than emacs and I like the GPL over BSD.
Yes.

The most resistance I get is "I already use A,B,C".
"was one of the examples of going from village to bacteriological weapon design "

And this is a good thing?
Was that the inspiration for https://alias.fandom.com/wiki/Mueller_Device ?
> If happiness is a lobotomy then credit to us who don’t choose it.

Why not? By definition it would leave you happy, what does it matter?
If it enables a wider range of monetary policies or if it makes existing policies more effective, then it's obviously a good thing.
Rust for Windows 0.9
People are quick to judge news reporters always get it wrong. Of course nobody gets everything right! Nobody ever did.

There are many examples from all countries, courts and judicial processes also get it wrong.
Then again, vegetable intake lowers chance of stroke too.

The guy lives wholesome lifestyle, but that lifestyle is not that terribly healthy as people want it to be. Simple lifestyles are not always the most healthy thing you can do. His diet is limited by habit/routine, but also possibly by cost and additional effort it would take to cook more healthier. He already works a lot and healthier food woold require more effort.
Apple aren't doing this to eliminate malware from their systems. Probably just gearing up to the point where it's impossible to run any application that Apple isn't getting a cut of (or is free).

Realistically, malware only affects a tiny fraction of users, and only a further tiny fraction suffer demonstrable loss from it.
I'd like to add to point 1 a plea not to do the thing where people don't understand existing code so they copy it, partially modify the logic and then add branching to choose the correct version.

It's fine in moderation to do this, but it increases your maintenance burden faster than it solves issues if you don't ever refactor.
How about a virus that's just allowed to evolve inside human tissue? Not "manually tweaked" just allowed to evolve faster.
Mostly because - for understandable reasons - the EU parliamant kept GDPR vague on implementations.

I've implemented PCIDSS and SOX several times which was much easier, because there is implemantation documentation and everyone knows what to do.
I reccomend watching this interview with him - at least the parts where he talks about money. It's incredibly refreshing to hear someone at the top of their game in the tech sphere say they're not interested in money except as a tool to help them create.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qJEWOTZnFeg
Distributions will disable telemetry by default. e.g. Debian etc.

Only individuals running from-source OS or package managers will be able to enable telemetry.
I don't think he was doing that. It's just a perspective.

It is when I read these stories that I truly consider how short our lives are. I can't stop thinking about how fragile our beliefs are once we hold them up against someone elses values, earthshaking.
Yeah, libraries are great an all, but wouldn't you rather they be the size of a mailbox and full of junk?
It depends how quickly the mistake was made. Totalitarian states are not famous for admitting mistakes, in fact they hide them with all their tools. So I don't think your media hype story is a good explanation.
Bold move suggesting Adobe products on a Blender thread.
But a decent part of congress' job is around laws ( writing or sponsoring them, arguing for/against them, etc.) it makes sense that lawyers are overrepresented.
Tainted altruism is a good paper to read. Selfishness (in this case, the desire to get rid of junk) is slippery when it is in the name of altruism. When we have psychological cover, we are more willing to do the wrong thing. Many great papers on this. Look up "tainted altruism" and follow the rabbit hole of papers.
Facebook has done it essentially already with their donations
> For my part, I enjoy modal editors so I think vim is better than emacs and I like the GPL over BSD.

We need more fuel on this fire. What's your take on spaces vs tabs?
The tight control over what the software can do is a big part of what makes apple devices have such a good user experience. Even as a power user/SWE/tinkerer I hope that does not change because I want my daily driver devices to be as reliable and zero config as they can be.

Sideloading/rooting an idevice as long as it can’t do Apple Pay/bypass find my iPhone is fine of course.
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I hear you. In not sure if want to be raising kids today.

I had a moment in my 20s where I just stopped and thought, "Every single ancestor I had from my parents back to algae had offspring. What if I don't?"

If you consider the whole Ocean as history, and the present moment as a single solitary wave heading towards the shore, and your life as the surfer on that wave, it doesn't matter what came before you. What matters is the wave. You get to ride it and wipe out. And that's it. I don't care if that wave is a composite of a million unknown ripples in the cast Ocean. It doesn't matter really.
I think to make this a fun-ish experience would be to have the screen start filled with mostly garbage and holes and then have the the 'AI' lovingly send you the appropriate pieces to clean up the mess... I tried this by purposely messing the board and then going ahead with the game and I found it quite pleasant. Another idea would be to have it 'normal' until you got in trouble and then it would lovetris you back to health.
Unfortunately that was neither of the options.
Two dots would look like the camera is used by two apps. That’s not the scenario.

Also I doubt Apple wants to turn the UI into a Morse code sequence to be deciphered by users.
> For any beginner this is a unrecognisable monstrosity. Having real names for the variables can give them something to hold on.

Can you rewrite this same equation using "real names" so that it becomes less monstrous? I don't think that's possible, but maybe you have something in mind.
I'm 100% with you on this. People don't seem to get it though.
Thanks a lot! I've been trying to improve my technical writing in the past years and I'm happy to hear feedback like this :)
Back then it was so clearly orchestrated propaganda, but it took a lot of newcomers. I'm not looking forward to this cycle's "blocksize" debate. It seems that rolling new coins is the better vector overall for such schemes, for better or worse.

Thank you for continuing the discourse all these years and keeping people informed.
I think calculating weekly expected deaths and drawing conclusions from that is wrong given the seasonality of covid-19 and diseases in general.

Excess deaths should be looked at over a long period of time.

Seems similar to the difference between weather and climate.
"ELI5...N"
But often those real world applications are way harder to understand than the initial abstract problem they had. Involving other subjects only works if the students are already well versed in those subjects.

And before you say "just learn those subjects first then?", often it is easier to first learn the abstract math and then learn those concepts than the other way around, since making sense of those equations is hard even when you do know the math and close to impossible when you don't.
I've never been to China, so don't know how fast Alipay is, but in my experience (from Europe), you need to put your phone/watch near the POS terminal for around 2 seconds, and payment is processed in like 5 seconds.
Zoom doesn't have a great track record here.

In the past [1] they'd "(ab)use preinstallation scripts, manually unpack the app using a bundled 7zip and install it to /Applications if the current user is in the admin group (no root needed)."

[1] https://twitter.com/c1truz_/status/1244737672930824193
Why would people move to decentralized currencies? They are clearly moving from decentralized currencies to centralized exchanges.
If he is happy and content, why would he want to leave his comfort zone? Why does that denote some mental flaw? You could just as easily say that those who feel the need to challenge themselves outside of their comfort zone suffer from some deep-seeded inadequacy that they are trying to fulfill.
I honestly didn't know this. I live in a country where death penalty sounds like a medieval thing. On the other hand I really don't understand how you take vengeance by killing someone. I understand it can be a deterrent for serious crime though.
When you swipe down it tells you which app was/is using the camera.
Do I have to explain that giving something to a few key apps is much easier to control and analyze than giving it to thousand of obscure apps?

It also gives more to the users - the feature is available in apps most of them use.

Also this will be unpopular opinion but I don’t consider Apple giving themselves features an unfair advantage. Apple obviously trusts itself more than some random dude with a Mac mini.
Exactly. I grew up in LA, and my parents bought a house for
50K in the 70s, but that same house today is ~700K. Just getting the down payment for a house that price would take a long time.
That farmer is happy keeping tabs on his space. He enjoys his work, his place, and doesn't much mind (it seems) what others think of him.
The difference between nominal and real interest rate is inflation and the main mandate of Central Banks is the control of inflation. So, I don't think it's accurate to say they have no control.