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> I'd like to know when was China actually Socialist.

China has been socialist since the communists won the Chinese civil war in 1949.

China employs capitalist methods in order to further its productive capabilities in order to complete it socialist revolution. Ultimately the Chinese communist party has full and final control of all property. In other words Chinese “capitalism” does not entail private property rights as are guarded in constitutions in other countries.

Educational material:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_chara...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution

https://www.learningfromchina.net/why-china-is-a-socialist-c...
I feel like Github and co could do a LOT more to help open source project maintainers and contributors rewarded.

They can offer a new subscription model for people with expendable income and companies with benefits, on a per user basis instead of a per project one.

They can offer monetizing issues, e.g. promoting a question or issue report with an X amount of currency.

OS maintainers can create a bot that asks people to contribute financially or to reach out to their employer to do so.

Github can push their sponsors program more, and aim it at companies / "enterprise" sponsors.
You may want to protest all the marijuana growers with their indoor farms and huge electric consumption. But now that MJ is regulated and taxed, nobody complains about that electricity consumption.
“Reform” is the right world, because if anybody did a truly honest first moral principles analysis, it is immoral.
I'm really confused what 'banana republic heaven legislation' is. Do you know a banana republic is?

A banana republic is a country which is being exploited by foreign companies who are extracting scarce resources (e.g. exotic produce, minerals) in unsustainable ways. The leaders of banana republics, being beholden to foreign companies (and often the governments/militaries where those companies are headquartered) want to extract the most resources for the least amount possible.

'Banana republic heaven legislation' would do away with minimum wages, overtime, and even health and safety legislation. Banana republic heaven legislation would be exactly opposite what the author suggests.
They are the same picture.
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> if you're gay and the local LGBTQI support organizations are coming out in favor of a proposition, then it's fairly unlikely this is something you want to oppose.

Let's agree to disagree on this. I think it is a bad assumption to think that activist organizations actually "represent" the larger associated community. It is much more likely they they are advocating for the ideas of the vocal leadership of the organization and not for the membership or the larger associated community.
"Setup" goes to 404: https://docs.tooljet.io/docs/setup/architecture
> Aren't these a bit condescending? Sure they're directed up, but it sounds "be nice when you're looking down on them".

No, that's the point. It's how not to come across as condescending.

> But worse, what if, as an engineer, you've just got a blindspot? What if the manager (or any person for that matter) has a brilliant idea that _you_ don't understand and therefore think it's stupid?

I think that is covered here: "How to listen to other engineers’ ideas without feeling threatened". Just insert "manager" for "engineer".

> My experiences with senior engineers is that they often need to learn to keep their biases in check.

I'm sure there is context missing here but everyone has biases and this sounds a lot like someone feeling "threatened"...in which case, see the prior bullet point.
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Yes, that crypto thing was a real damage for humanity.
Yuck. Just a long-winded plug for communism interspersed with bouts of self-pity, drawing on 4hww and Tim Ferris name as a gimmick to get readers.
> It’s worth mentioning that Tim Ferriss didn’t actually get wealthy by following his own advice. He claims to have built and sold a supplement company, but even when his book was released it was hard to find anything about it. By his own accounts he actually worked quite hard at many endeavors and he also writes about burnout from overwork. Much of his wealth actually comes from good timing on being an early investor in companies like Uber.

It's just not as glamorous nor as profitable writing a humble book on getting rich by being at the right place at the right time through knowing the right people.
Technically the API is there and you can actually run DESKN.CPL from an old version of Windows which allows you to customize the colors. Of course it also depends on applications to use them - most applications that use native controls use them, but others ignore them. Windows 10 'personalization' use them mainly to configure high contrast mode, but you can only edit a handful of values.
I'm sorry, but something is either up with your computer or the excel sheet you are currently using would be infinitely slower on that old 2005 machine.

I've been using computers since Apple IIe and am much happier with things today than versions of the past. There are certainly hiccups along the way, but no way am I going to trade what I have today for what I used in 80s/90s.
My bf applied for at least 100 minimum wage casual jobs a few years ago and didn’t get anything. Now a few years later and 1.5 years of a software development degree finished, he applied for 2 programming jobs and got one.

Sure the second part could be luck but the first part has become a statistic. These low wage jobs are absolutely flooded with applicants.
I recall a similar experience with a particularly poor-performing $10k+ 3D graphics card for CAD/CAM back in the 90s. It had gone back and forth multiple times for crashing the system, locking up and just plain chugging along relative to the other cards we purchased. The problem was definitely the card, but the vendor claimed there was nothing wrong. Every time it was sent back to us there were more wire traces added to the card and other rework done with no explanation.

After running a pair of probes hooked up to 110vac along the fingers of the VESA bus connection on the video card (and a few microprocessor chips exploded), the scorch marks were cleaned up and it was sent back one more time. We finally did get a new card that worked perfectly along with a long, vaguely threatening letter.

Sometimes the clearest path is through the mud.
GPLv3 has an elaborate preamble, which should be able to answer some of your questions. In particular, wrt "whom are you trying to prevent from using this", it mentions things such as:

we wish to avoid the special danger that patents applied to a free program could make it effectively proprietary

and:

if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
gratis or for a fee, [...] You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code

So, given that the GPL says these things, and the author has selected the GPL for this project, by a reasonable guess the answer to your question is, "people who would otherwise do/not do those things".

Rather than adding a TODO item onto the list of the person who has already gifted this to us, where that item would involve the labor of enumerating over a set of scenarios, composing a response to you, and hoping that it answers your question, how about helping both them and yourself by inverting the workload and elaborating on what you mean?

GPLv3 doesn't prevent anyone from using the covered software. Who do you think is prevented from using this? Do you consider the GPL to be a bad choice for some other reason, and you think there is a compelling reason to do something else? What are those reasons?

And ultimately, this is software that is being provided to you, generously, at no cost, and the author has gone out of their way to let you do stuff with it that you otherwise wouldn't be able to do. If it doesn't suit you and you don't want to "give more of a look into it", then don't.
good advice. now i need help with the rest of it
Yeah, communication is just about explaining what someone should understand. It's a simple concept, and as a result you can be sure that you only need to type a document once, and it's immediately understood. In fact, just like your comment, there isn't any way to misinterpret vague language, or have to cater to someone for whom English isn't their first language.

"Just" is a huge red-flag for me, not just in documentation, but also in effort estimation, requirements gathering, etc. It's the ??? between underpants gnomes and profit.
> I wish there was a way to tell the browser to add more default styles to my document.

Non-Chrome browsers still have modifiable user stylesheets (though I think only Safari for Mac still has a GUI option to do it) but more realistically, you can use a browser extension like Stylus to apply your own styles, even defining them on a per-domain basis.

Enabling the user to change the appearance of your site is much easier if you heed the advice of this article and use the appropriate semantic HTML.

> "clean" mode with no default borders, margins, padding, sizes, styles

Web developers have been starting projects with "reset" stylesheets for decades.
>"I am hungry" in English reads like a statement of identity, whereas "j'ai faim" in French for example means "I HAVE a hunger". The hunger exists but it doesn't define my identity.

>This identification is a lie. If you stop drinking coffee and start drinking tea, you are still 100% you,

Your analysis of "I am hungry" is incorrect. In this case, the "am" is acting as a linking word and not about identity. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)

Or put another way, "I am hungry" can be thought of as a shortened version of "I am [currently having feelings of] hunger". If the more verbose sentence is not about identity but sensation, the shortened version is expressing the same idea.
An idea in this vein I've been toying with is implementing a P2P IOU bartering protocol. I do something for you, you cryptographically sign me an IOU (which is a plaintext IOU note - no monetary amount required) which I can either call in later or trade to someone else who needs your services more for something I want from them. Messages sign adjacent messages (probably using Secure Scuttlebutt), so when someone comes back to you with the IOU, you can have a strong guarantee that it's the original note and not a copy even though you don't necessarily have visibility of all the participants it transited through.

Even in theory, it only works in some contexts, though, namely in exchanges between individuals. Because there's a strong reliance that neighbors in the path trust each other and leaves them responsible for settling exchanges to mutual satisfaction. All this proposal adds to direct barter is long-distance authenticity guarantees.
Totally agree! That's why I want to help open source maintainers monetize the ecosystem they have built. The first step: Sell add-on products/plugins/tools with a super easy Checkout paywall: https://basetools.io
If it was a moral argument, the author should have done a little bit more work. This reader is not convinced that she added anything useful to the narrative.
That you're not understanding everything or didn't spend the time to watch the whole thing to have been painted a fuller picture doesn't make it smell funny, one's an evolutionary biologist and the other is a virologist. The article he linked above makes a false statement within the first paragraph - trying ton discredit and plant doubt: Geert in the video didn't say "it's going to cause a problem" - it's a caution that it may, and logically it's a possibility.

I'd recommend watching the second video too - that front line research doctor is very credible as well - you'll have to decide for yourself what narratives you start believing or being open to vs. shutting them down - which will all depend on how you orient yourself in the world which depends on how much time and attention you put to go deeply into a topic to determine for yourself vs. being sidetracked and just agreeing with some other internet stranger's "opposition" which then prevents you from digging into the original presented sources (where the bird-group.com also links to the related research done if you truly want to do a deep dive - but the 2nd video is a where what's in the research is shared in easily consumable video format).
I agree that vecka.nu is better on the minimalism, but every now and then I have to use the functionality to find out what week number a particular date is in.
Feels like a great opportunity for Github or another website to have these sort of analytics. Seems like quite the complicated task tho. Start small?
The chicken is an egg's way of making another egg. We are machines that work to attract mates, reproduce, and rear young. Once one has achieved the goal of attracting a mate, there's little need to devote energy to courtship displays - though perhaps more need to reserve energy in case of hardship. I might be being a little reductive though :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology
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I can empathise with the author completely here. This exact thing happened to me in the last couple of years (albeit with a much smaller user base than in this case).

I maintained a set of Visual Studio Code builds for the Raspberry Pi and for Chromebooks.

Unfortunately life happens to us all, and due to similar reasons of mental health (and a few family matters that couldn’t wait) I fell well behind on responding to issues on GitHub and merging patches.

It’s hard to know you’re letting people down, especially when it was something you put out there for them that they’ve come to depend on.

In my case my project eventually became obsolete due to a combination of direct vendor support from Microsoft for ARM, and because of Linux for Chromebooks.

In the end I wasn’t upset to move on from the project, I was just relieved that I was able to stop and still point the users back to something officially supported so they wouldn’t be abandoned.

I’m glad Pedro’s doing better, but I really hope for his sake he’s returning to work on this because he wants to and not out of a sense of obligation - his health is way more important than a few feature requests. It looks like a great project, he should be rightly proud of his work here.
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There are a lot of facets to open source contributions. One big facet is the whole itch-scratching thing. If you know longer itch, stop scratching. That's ok. Maybe when you stop scratching, it will start to itch again for you or for someone else. If nobody steps up, it just means it doesn't itch enough.

Abandonware is not such a bad thing. It served its purpose for a season, then the world moved on. Nobody's out there trying to breath life into the Apollo program. Or into Mosaic. And that's ok. It doesn't diminish how awesome they were at the time.
This was part of my issue with Four Hour Work Week, it externalized costs and seems like a net negative karma wise.

I’m a fan of Tim Ferris, bought books, listened to him for years, his material has really helped me.

But 4HWW seemed somehow off for me as it seems to fake it enough that customers stick around and even love the product, but if everyone did it, we would just have superficial stuff and not real.

So I don’t judge people but it’s not for me. And I’m sort of envious of people who can do it without worrying about it all the time like I feel I would.

I’ve never encountered a 4HWW product, other than Ferriss himself, that I liked. It just annoyed me with their anti patterns that work for some customers but not me.

Atheletic Greens is a good example in my mind, although not sure if they actually use 4HWW. I like the idea of a “healthy supplement” but it costs 3x the random green powder at Whole Foods, but it well marketed and forces subscriptions and auto renews. So it takes a hippy idea and weaponizes it for slackers like me. So I’d rather just guy the green stuff from the co-op, but now I’m always hearing athletic greens marketing and wondering if I chose wrong. The hippy stuff doesn’t talk about how awesome they are.

So it’s not a bad thing, people really like it. But it seems like the automation has so much potential to help customers more but instead scoops it up for the owner.
> Farmers do not want to pay for anything. [...] They do not want to pay anymore than they have to for anything.

Who wants to pay more than they have to for anything? Who wants to pay for anything at all? How does a desire to save money make farmers different from the rest of us?

> JD is moving to a Tractor as a Service model. JD does not want to open up their systems because before not long, you just hire a robotic service to come and plow or harvest your fields. JD sees this coming and wants to be in the best possible position to market its services to land owners.

If JD wants to sell their equipment as a service, there's nothing stopping them from doing just that. But it sounds more to me like they want to retain the rights they would have in a service model while continuing to charge the prices they do for a product model. They cannot just sell their tractors as a product and treat them like a service when it's convenient.
Firefox all the way.
> It seems like the market rate for labor is going up, but the businesses are failing to deal with that reality.

How do you figure this? If businesses were not paying more the market rate would not be going up.
It’s not that Erlang is faster than Rust, but that the way I would translate Mlatu to Erlang would be more natural and Erlang-like than the current translation to Rust is, which would probably entail performance improvements.
The only reason to migrate away is Conway.
The people who are hurt by dips whether artificial or not are invariably going to be new, small time investors.

Even if you think they shouldn't gamble with their money I find it hard to argue there was no damage done.
I had a backup JBOD with 36 of these drives. I thought since it was a backup machine that rarely will be used I could buy non-enterprise drives...
Big mistake. There were 47 disk failures from 2013 to 2018.
Three examples off the top of my head:

The Korean War technically isn’t over, and since both sides claim they won, you’ll have to pick a winner yourself.

The US military’s extreme prowess in the first Iraq war was the last evidence the Soviets needed that they had lost the Cold War.

The US was able to achieve its goals in Yugoslavia in a straightforward manner.
> The article says this...? It analyzes three possible causes: overgenerous benefits (the covid stimulus), fear of COVID, and inefficiencies in job-seeking. It goes on to suggest that overgenerous benefits are probably not the reason and that the latter two causes are probably more important.

The article didn't have anything to say about those who work multiple part time jobs, which I suspect is important. Getting paid 50% more to work half as much will leave many low income workers in a precarious position. Worse yet, the threat of job loss (either due to mandated closures or a business failing) introduces the risk of being denied benefits should they be needed again.
Why do you assert that there is no chance this was intentionally leaked?
which bit wasn't convincing?

The bit about requiring an underclass?, or that not everyone can have a 4 hour week? or the requirement to have large financial worth before you can do a four hour week?
You realize the rich typically feed the poor out of necessity because if they don’t the poor will rise up and murder them, right? People like Bezos and Musk only exist because we allow them to exist.

That they pretend to be capitalists while sucking down more government money than anyone, makes them hypocrites at best.
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There's many styles of 3d animation. Video-gamers can recognize them: Dragonball Fighter Z looks completely different from Cyberpunk 2077.

Lets take one genre dominated by Japan: fighting games. Look at Street Fighter V, Dragonball FighterZ, Guilty Gear Strive, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat (the only non-Japanese on this list).

None of these characters, or animation styles, are the same. In fact, Dragonball FighterZ clearly "bends" the rules of 3d animation the most (aka: squash and stretch animation), likely because the original source material (Dragonball Z / Dragonball Super) is traditional 2d animation.

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Street Fighter V was based off of Street Fighter IV's style, which was itself based off of Battle Fantasia. (Street Fighter Alpha, the game before IV, was traditional 2D animation, so they looked at other games for inspiration on how to make 3d look good).
Short answer, retention. That's why Ford paid his workers $5 a day.
How to make money:

Write a book about "quick and easy shortcuts to get rich."

If you really want to get rich via the right mindset gleaned from an actual billionaire, I would suggest the book written by the late Felix Dennis with the ironic title How to Get Rich.

For some reason, I think Mike Myers' documentary Supermensch has a good deal to offer about what a successful mindset looks like.
Employers know as well. They just want to portray a situation where it looks like people are too lazy to work so that welfare can be decreased.
How would UBI help software developers pay for their libraries? They are already among the most highly paid professionals.
> Now that we have GPT-3 like technology, it wouldn't be hard to generate generally readable prose from a database of statements

Which database of statements is this?

More, it might be easy to generate readable text, but accurate, correct text is a wholly different matter.
As an exercise, if you open https://github.com on anonymous mode. What do you see on Chrome and Firefox?

This is what I see on my Windows machine:

Chrome ~2.5% CPU https://streamable.com/flb8rh

Firefox ~3.5% CPU https://streamable.com/dkrp0w
One of the big ones is credit cards/rewards programs. When I worked at target all cashiers had to maintain a certainppercentage of rewards program customers going through their line
>Algorithms will never replace middle management.

Believe me, if ownership thinks it can work "good enough," they will certainly try until it is. It won't be a robot like you think. Think Uber; an algorithm manages the drivers, they just aren't technically employees. Think Comcast technicians. They drive around all day and a computer tells them their next job and even how to get there.

>Lead people with basically skynet and suddenly faith in the system plummets unless it's flawless from the start.

What faith in the system are you referring to?
> Does anyone have any stats on this?

Yes, every farmer in the US who is serious (that is no small hobby farmers). If the GPS is broken they won't bring the planter out in the field. Technology allows them to put exactly the right amount of seed in the ground at the right place. They saves thousands of dollars every year just by not planting too much. Then get tens of thousands more every year because the right amount of seeds results in more yield (profit) than either too much (plants have to fight each other for sun) or too little (bare ground doesn't produce a harvest).

Farmers are still figuring out to turn other data into profit, but they are learning that some soils just never will yield well no matter how much fertilizer they put on so they don't waste money on them, while others with a little extra fertilizer will yield more. The computer lets them easily adjust fertilizer levels for each small section of land.
>I'll fix things that are broken - mostly because I want things to work. I won't add new features for you, unless I really see the appeal. If you come up with a PR, nice! I'll take the time to review, but even for that there is no guarantee.
To some this may sound like it ruins the spirit of open-sourc but I totally support this. I should make this quote my default readme.