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Oh man, do I have fond memories of developing on feature phones!

Started wayyy back in 2007, and was a cofounder of a startup that made popular J2ME games available for free to people by wrapping it in our proprietary ad serving software. We launched more or less the same time that AbMob did, invented more or less the same stack (ad delivery to mobile phones), but we focussed on the product (games) whereas they focussed on the platform (ad delivery). A few years later AdMob was acquired for mega $$$ by Google, whereas we just kind of limped along and died a slow, natural death! Many years later I discovered that my cofounder just let our 4 letter domain expire (www.hovr.com) and I think it's up for sale now :(

Also remember developing games on the BREW platform by Qualcomm, circa 2005. Whereas I was in India which mostly had GSM J2ME phones, BREW was much more popular on North American CDMA handsets. I, along with a friend, developed one of the first real-time multiplayer games called Blingster Battle, which was on top of Verizon's charts for a brief period of time! Truly groundbreaking stuff at that time..

The most amazing bit, though, was when we made some BREW apps around 2013. By then iOS and Android had firmly taken over the smartphone market, and all the cool kids were downloading apps/games on them. However there was a very significant portion of the market - primarily composed of the elderly - who were still hanging on to their old CDMA feature phones and were still interested in buying new apps. We made a couple of quiz types games, that actually generated a couple of thousand dollars in revenue every month till last year, until Qualcomm finally pulled the plug on BREW!
Yup they just weren't loading otherwise.
Yea, Athletic Brewing also does a hop fizzy water called Daypack which are good as well.
I find Arturia's products -- hardware and software -- wonderful to use. My Drumbrute Impact is just so fun. I got "Pigments" and it is incredibly fun for crafting sounds; just a beautiful UX.
This article hearkens back to an idealized past where men and women "knew their place". The author seems to think that if we go back to medieval times where gender roles and class were rigid, society's problems would be solved. The author provides zero evidence for any of these assertions.

>What happens to young men exposed to pornography, drugs, and video games as a replacement for social purpose and work?

The problems of "bullshit jobs" and unemployment/underemployment are created by capitalism, not by some sort of "immutable biological truth" about men. It's capitalism that strips the meaning from work by adding layers of abstraction that separate your work from the people who benefit (your boss and their bosses) and from the people who use your work (people you may never meet or even know they exist). People want their work to be valued and appreciated, capitalism has no mechanism for that type of feedback. This is one major reason why people quit jobs at big companies to work for startups: you get to reap more of the benefits of your work and you're much closer to the users of your work.

>Without society, men are mostly ferals. You cannot educate ferals, nor do ferals care about the colour of your skin; they only want to spill blood, and all blood is red.

This is an alarming sentiment, again supported by zero evidence in the article. Biological arguments as a basis for "the way things should be" are incredibly suspect.
Why would anyone make loans if they know it will be automatically forgiven in less than 10 years? You can kiss any sort of consumer financing (eg. mortgages, student loans) goodbye.
Dancing is bad for the knees and music is bad for hearing loss...
Median alcohol intake was 13.5 units ( 102g) weekly

That was among people who drank at all; for reference, that's just under two standard drinks per day, which is apparently what the UK considers the threshold of "low risk".
Frictionless... is a bit of a stretch here.

https://youtu.be/hA_B7qPyUDA?t=1131
That’s the “Walmart” qualification I made. And I agree 100%. Big corps that can pay should absolutely do that.

But they aren’t going to. I know that because if they were, they would have done it already. You could force it up with this stimulus, but only big Corp would survive it.
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Alcohol has been found to be a powerful suppressor of REM sleep. REM sleep is important for brain health. I wonder if controlling for the sleep disruptive factor would see the negative grey matter relationship dissappear. Ie is 3 shots after you wake up less harmful than 3 shots in the evening?
So what I'm hearing is that your ask for everyone is to not leverage obvious linguistic synergies in order to enhance the listening experience?
Simpsons did it.

Futurama foretold it.
for divisibility rules I would recommend "What is Mathematics" by Courant/Robbins
> 2020's Prop 19 to reform property taxes just a bit had about $20 million behind it, and it didn't even land on the ballot.

Correction: in 2020, Proposition 19 (which limited Proposition 13/58 property tax breaks for parent-child transfers to only farms and owner-occupied “family homes”) did pass 51%-49%, whereas Proposition 15 (which would have eliminated Proposition 13 tax breaks for commercial property) was on the ballot but failed 48%-52%.
Yes, thank you for reminding me I can Google.

From your own link - he said he forgot the password, which(I assume) in itself wasn't enough to prosecute, it was the fact that he eventually caved in and provided it 4 months later, so they got him on purposefully obstructing justice for 4 months. It's not clear if he could be successfully prosecuted for this crime if he never remembered the password.
Can we please call it NodeJS and stop calling it Node.js? It's not a .js file, and it's not written in JavaScript.
Agree! This is my favorite crazy pet theory: spacetime is simulated on a flat 3d substrate with constant compute and memory per volume, which runs at a fixed rate in time (c) [1], and to account for a high density of mass requiring more compute the simulation is slowed down proportionally. Then, black holes are just the extreme end of this slowing down of the simulation.

[1]: You always move at a constant speed: the speed of light. But that speed can be broken down into two component directions which you can trade off: time and space. You typically move near the speed of light in the time direction, meaning your speed through the space direction is comparatively low.
We can't leave the God Hand unpunished !
> As you can see, (the scale is in Petabytes), the space used is growing uncontrollably, and has already reached 7 Exabytes.

Judging by the graph in the article, it was 1 exabyte in late April, under a month ago. Wow.
I think the compiler that you were using is broken. One can't infer "index < 32" unless on a code path to a use of "flag", and that inference can't override the predicates that dominate that use.
This absolutely made my day. I had no idea this existed! Putting it on .25 speed and looping it allows you to really see the warping taking place. I wonder if the four or five similarly sized light orbs moving in and out are really just the distorted light from one star?
So basically the result from this study could be re-stated as "alcohol consumption has no significant influence on grey matter volume"?
I need some more context in order to understand the actual risks being suggested here. I fall into the "low to moderate" drinking category described in the study.

First, when we say 0.8% of gray matter, over what time period does that loss occur? The authors don't seem to know.

Second, what sort of effects does losing, say, 1% of gray matter integrity have? Increased risk of stroke, seizure, etc.? Effects on intellect?

It's all about risk/reward. If losing 0.8% of my total gray matter over, say, my lifetime (I don't know if that's what it is) results in a 1% loss in intellect over my lifetime, in exchange for thousands of hours of happiness resulting from moderate drinking, I'm probably OK with that. I don't intend to live forever. If it were 10% of intellectual capacity... maybe not.

Alcohol is a poison, the only totally-safe dose is 0% - in the same way that the only way to never get into a car accident is to never go outside. But I'd still like to better understand the relative harms before altering my (already reasonable) habits.
This seems incomplete without also posting the result of whether or not it consumed as much power as the entire planet did in 2017.
They grow in animals, insects, with 'open' circulatory systems. Something that large growing in our 'closed' circulatory system (blood vessels/tubes) would quickly kill us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulatory_system#Open_circul...
> It can be put to tremendous negative use - funding criminal activities, siphoning money from public investment, etc.

And just like fiat, these activities will continue in the shadows, while innovation is harmed by regulation.
> I honestly miss these times - it sparked so much creativity when one needed to achieve something in such a limited environment.

As someone from the c64/apple][/atari generation... it was constantly amazing to see how much people could push a single device. Lots of creativity, as you say. But... we seemed to hit a wall with the whole j2me-era of "just get creative to work around things!" mindset. Because, IIRC, there were dozens of different devices that all didn't work the same way - you'd have to get really creative to get things to work in 128k, but then do it again and again and again for each target device.

There were millions of C64 units in people's hand in, say, 1986. And similar for Apple ][ units. You could be assured of a decent audience/sales/users if you ported to that platform, even if there was a lot of 'creativity' to deal with. The j2me device world always seemed a lot more fragmented to me (but maybe it wasn't?). But just saying "this runs on a java device" was different from distribution - allowing 'regular' people to get something in to a centralized store/distribution point seemed another big win for the iPhone world.

EDIT: fwiw, this made me spend a few minutes in youtube looking at old c64 and apple and Atari demos. what people ended up doing with those devices - years after they were mainstream - is still crazy to me.
This is a hilarious mental image to me. Like people aren’t going to notice your full pint glass after 10 minutes of fake sipping. Why would you not just tell them you don’t drink?

Also, alcohol is definitely really bad for you, but an occasional pub visit is hardly going to take years off your life.
For many of my friends who never went to college (and some who have), their life looks similar to how it did ten years ago: Shifting from low paying job to low paying job, moving between states just to see what it's like, insecure in housing (who can afford that?)

Our economy has put a ceiling on what unskilled labor can earn, while forcing the poorest to compete against the richest in the housing market.

Healthcare is simply laughable, unattainable and unaffordable. These people only birth children as a mistake.

When a person can't plan for the future because all roads look as bleak as where they came from, whats to stop them from going feral?
> it won't make things easier for "standalone" third-party apps that only update themselves, since they will continue to be marked as originally installed by a browser or file manager app

I'm not 100% sure, but I think you're incorrect about this.

From TFA:

> However, user action won’t be required for an app install/update if all of the following conditions are met:

> ...

> The installer is either updating *itself* or installing an update to an app it first installed.

Emphasis added by me. If you request the new permission, target Android 10+, and update yourself, the user shouldn't be subsequently prompted.

(If my reading is correct.)
I think the world would be a better place if people were more open to being offended.
Getting acquired by the government should be a startup exit option – EU example
I don't understand how this is legal, let alone upheld by a state Supreme Court. How can I be legally responsible for my parents? How would the courts even find me if I don't live in the US anymore (the example case is the courts successfully suing a man who moved to Greece)?

I am thankful to you for bringing this to my attention, but my WTF! meter is soaring.
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The algorithm for determining offensiveness seems to have many variables and is much, much more than just language:

the use of negative words suck as 'sucks' or 'terrible'

account-wide penalty. Some accounts will have all their tweets marked as offensive no matter where they post or what they post

some accounts,especially well-known verified accounts, will have a much lower threshold for tweets to be marked as offensive, regardless of language.

tweets that contain images, videos, and or links at much higher risk of being marked as offensive

tweets from new accounts and or accounts with few followers more likely to be marked as offensive

tweets with links from certain domains and or host IPs will be marked as offensive

IP of the twitter account user and or where it was created

a tweet with preview text from a link that contains certain content will be market as offensive
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We use keybase chat as a backup; works pretty well.
Easy peasy. If you don't want to report a transaction, move from personal wallet to joint wallet. Then recipient moves from joint wallet to personal wallet.

If both parties have shared ownership and control of the joint wallet, I think this would get around the reporting requirement.
Wow nice! Thanks.
IDK but one factor is most of the water filling the gap would come from underneath (it's at higher pressure), moving up to the surface. Its momentum carries it slightly too high, so it flows outward, then down and inward again, forming a vortex on either side. The surface looks smooth and the twin vortices woukd tend to persist.
There has to be something placed on both ends, in all of the scenarios I've read.
It does sound simple, but as soon as I think about situations where bills get split, it becomes immediately horrible.
> 2. You still need to be thinner than spaghetti

I understand this is some form of hyperbole, but would what they propose be sufficient to transport masses of some raw elements around? Let's say some advanced civilization sent out mining expeditions, and desired a way to transport back that material FTL for example
Interestingly they also found alcohol consumption was positively correlated with node interconnection, a metric (per the paper) associated with higher cognitive performance. So alcohol will shrink your brain, but apparently it will make you smarter?
They go into the details of etching PCBs (=circuit boards) themselves. I have never created a PCB myself but from what I read at various electronics maker pages on the web, this is not recommended since getting them professionally (and successfully!) made is very cheap nowadays.

From what I just saw on JLCPCB [0], getting five pieces of a small two-layer PCB made and shipped to anywhere in the world costs about $10 and takes roughly two weeks.

[0] https://jlcpcb.com/
TXR Lisp:

1> (defun rewrite (fun list)
(build
(while* list
(let ((nlist [fun list]))
(if (eq list nlist)
(if list (add (pop list)))
(set list nlist))))))
rewrite
2> (defmacro rewrite-case (sym list . cases)
^(rewrite (lambda (,sym)
(match-case ,sym
,*cases))
,list))
rewrite-case
3> (rewrite-case x '(foo bar * select * fox select * bravo)
((select * . @rest) ^(select _ . ,rest))
(@else else))
(foo bar * select _ fox select _ bravo)

rewrite-case and rewrite appear in the TXR Lisp internals; they are used in the compiler for scanning instruction sequences for patterns and rewriting them.

E.g. a function early-peephole looks for one particular four instruction pattern (six items, when the labels are included). Rewriting it to a different form helps it disappear later on.

(defun early-peephole (code)
(rewrite-case insns code
(((mov (t @t1) (d @d1))
(jmp @lab2)
@(symbolp @lab1)
(mov (t @t1) (t 0))
@lab2
(ifq (t @t1) (t 0) @lab3)
. @rest)
^((mov (t ,t1) (d ,d1))
(jmp ,lab3)
,lab1
(mov (t ,t1) (t 0))
,lab2
,*rest))
(@else else)))

This is much more general and powerful than a hack which just looks at successive pairs for an ad-hoc match. rewrite-case can have multiple clauses, of different lengths, and arbitrary matching complexity.
Okay, that's the theory, but in practice, how good are Peertube servers at, say, filtering out djihadist beheading videos?

EDIT: A quick search shows that I was asking the wrong question; in practice, there are servers dedicated to exclusively these kinds of videos.
Why not just move to Idaho then? Or some other red state?
Does anyone know this TV series? Seems like something I would enjoy :)
Well, what I keep doing is make it more emotionally understandable to myself that alcohol fuck things up even at small levels (I've seen it, 3 glasses of wine and people are fighting :/).

> IMO it's not a great alternative.

Why isn't it?

I'm not implying I disagree, I am simply wondering what you think.
Names don't have any such requirements - but we should use them correctly. You don't rename Windows even though it's not a hole in the wall stuffed with glass.
What if you shift the lens or sensor and capture multiple images, then process the result, would that be able to overcome chromatic abberation?
Are there any hobby groups that make kits and open source software for this? Any forums? I would love to have GPR but the software for the commercial devices is expensive. I will probably rent a unit in a few months.
Yeah, the hobby is definitely half the fun for us. We haven't had an issue with the water spilling, but maybe we're using a different model or something. The good news is that if you decide it sell it, the used ones seem to hold their value pretty well!
Multiport bluetooth earbuds. Helps me to zone out when I do dishes / chores, I can do running, meetings are much more comfortable, seamless transition between laptop/phone, etc.
I'd extend that to many high-paying jobs as well. Professions that are researched-based, like law, may be easily displaced by automation.

Currently, my thought is that skilled trades are the least likely to be displaced, especially in maintenance, non-routine roles. There's currently a decent amount of research to automate the routine parts, though, like new construction.
When I was younger, reading about the history of Prohibition in the US, I thought it was completely bonkers. The idea that alcohol was even worth a ban, let alone whether such a ban could be enforced, was silly to me.

But the more I read about stuff like this, the more I realize that alcohol isn't special among the various things we call "drugs". It's not good for your physical health, and "everything in moderation" may not really apply to it either. I know several people for whom drinking was destroying their mental health. Why is alcohol legal, when other drugs are heavily restricted? (Those restrictions, sadly, mostly don't work either.)

I enjoy drinking. I like cocktails. I like wine. I don't love beer, but I do find some beers tasty and worth drinking. I find the very occasional night of heavy drinking with a big group of friends to be fun (though I realize that my memory of those nights ends up being hazy to the point that it's hard to really claim it was worth it).

But I also drank a ton of soda when I was a kid, gave it up completely in college, and don't miss it at all. Alcohol should be no different, but the social and cultural pressure around it makes it different.

I've definitely decreased my alcohol consumption over the past 5 years or so, and I'm happy with that decision. I don't think I can bring myself to cut it out of my life entirely, though.
I wonder if I'll see the equivalent of a Truth campaign for alcohol in my lifetime.
As an Oregonian not living in one of those sparsely-populated counties that voted for secession, I wonder why the folks who want to be part of Idaho don't just vote with their feet and move there? There's no border wall keeping them in Oregon. These votes are just symbolic and won't get them to their Idaho paradise near as quickly as a U-Haul could.
Yah, the paper says that alcohol consumption explains 0.8% of the observed variance in grey matter, while age explains 54% of variance.

Following a few references, this paper seems to show a average 20%(!) reduction in brain volume from age 60 to 90: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690968/ . Don't get old, folks...
Presumably this is an outcome of selective breeding. The symbiotic interaction results in more offspring for both species. The invisible hand of mother gaia "knows".
Who/what are you arguing against? I don't think anyone is rejecting the effect of decreased supply (through the government paying people to do nothing) has on the labor market, they're just upset that the government is disrupting the labor market by doing so.
The anti-monopoly office should certainly look into these cases...
Memorizing grammar rules and technical vocabulary is not particularly difficult. I do believe nonnative speakers are better at textbook grammar than natives. That, however, doesn't mean they can pass for a native speaker in writing or speech. Get someone who knows all the ins and outs of English grammar, but never been to an English speaking country and have them write an essay. Just about every native speaker will be able to tell the text is not written by a native speaker. Grammar is trivial, but language is hard.
It's just irksome. I don't think Windows is a good analogy.

More like if I called the OS "Windows.jpg".

If you're going to use something that looks like a filename as a product name, then make sure that file actually exists and is in the expected format.

D3.js --> good

Angular.js --> good

Node.js --> bad

python3.py --> bad

Windows.jpg --> bad

Windows.exe --> okay (I don't use windows but I assume there's something of the sort)
You can buy earplugs specifically made for music. I recommend to actually tailor make them for your ear channel. Whenever I used them, the music volume felt like I was standing in a quiet-ish elevator.

You can dance without using your knees if you have knee issues.

My point with both of these is: you can patch these issues. When you smoke weed, your lungs will be hit. When you drink alcohol, your brain will be hit.

I agree that with everything we do, there is some form of upkeep. The argument about drugs is that the upkeep might be too much.

One could argue that 0.8% gray matter loss is fine. I'm simply not one of them.