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Descartes take is refuted by almost all philosophers that followed him, because it's just not a convincing argument.

> The problem with Descartes’ standard for knowledge is that almost no beliefs meet it. Descartes thought he could show how our ordinary knowledge claims are ultimately based on the Cogito, but most philosophers have not been convinced by his case

-- https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2018/11/26/descartes-i-think-...

Now I don't deny the existence of a reality, I'm not saying everything is an illusion and we're not even real. I'm saying that reality need not be a constant, which would mean that truth can be a moving target, as it can change in time and space.

And then I'm saying that irregardless of if that reality (or ground truth let's call it) is constant or ever changing, when we humans explain that truth, we are always simply modeling our understanding of it for practical purposes. Our search for truth itself is driven by this practical drive, understanding of the ground truth is researched in order to better predict the future or act upon our environment to create the future we'd prefer.

If you instead think of our explained truths as the absolute ground truth, you are entering the world of human dogma and beliefs, that is a world of personal opinion, with no way to argue or debate anything, its only practical benefits are seeking comfort and/or power.

For me, this was a big "haha" moment. I realized that the opposite of dogma is pragma. Your claim to the truth are useless, and in many cases harmful dogmas. It's much better to focus on practicalities that one model has over another. Most people's "truths" have glaring flaws anyways, that doesn't always invalidate their practicalities though, and that matters much more in the end.

> If you're pragmatic, you're practical. You're living in the real world, wearing comfortable shoes. If you're dogmatic, you follow the rules. You're living in the world you want, and acting a little stuck up about it

-- https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/pragmati...
This article was absolutely boring. I need another trepanning article like I need a hole in my head.

Pun(s) intended.

What is incredible is that these procedures were done on people who lived for many years after them, by people whose supposed knowledge of medicine was dubious at best.
Not being able to meet in person we relaxed this rule to encourage more "shooting the shit" and team bonding time focusing more on vague stuff.

Specifics are already easy to discuss async.
Honestly. The code is fine.

This is for presenting stuff in a user interface. Who cares if you can find some weird edge case using MAX_LONG and MAX_DOUBLE which never will occur in practice.
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I need help in making notes. Whenever I make some notes, the problem with my notes is that I don't revisit them because they seem to lack information on my first read. So I go back to the source and read it again. Each time I do it, I get new insight. So everytime I see these note taking posts, I don't get the point of making notes. How often do you guys revisit your notes?
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When learning to play jazz, one option is to practice using pre-recorded generic/commercially available backing tracks. They're alright for for practicing changes or just noodling a solo, but they also get old fast; nothing substitutes jamming with other musicians. The middle ground is using a well-known classic with enough room in the music to develop your own ideas, and for me Kind of Blue was (and remains) the stand-out stellar joy to play along to; damn if Miles doesn't leave a ton of space for others to fill in, and his collaborators were polite enough not to take all of it.

For a group where we talk often about frameworks and architecture, and ponder the dividing line between a platform and an application, perhaps it's worth seeing parallels in the field of music. Miles Davis wasn't just one of the greatest musicians of all time, he was also one of the great architects of music, and Kind of Blue a shining example.

That's a far cry from "overplayed and overrated", which upon investigation appears to be a misquotation/misparaphrase of a disposable observation made for the purposes of debate during an economics professor's podcast (no, really). If that's the standard of evidence, I suggest taking the more subjective assessments in this article with a huge grain of salt, notwithstanding that it's otherwise a decent overview for those not overly familiar with the jazz canon.
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I don't get it, why is this the sort of thing the world bank would help with at all. Isn't it up to El Salvador to figure out how to do this? If they were just adopting a new fiat currency, wouldn't it be up to El Salvador to implement? Why would the world bank be involved?
> Depends on how tech savvy they are.

no it doesn't.

Most drug runners/dealer are not chemical engineers... they just hire guys that know what they're doing.

Same in the crypto space.

The tech isn't inherently evil or criminal, its the people that use it that way that make their activities using it criminal.
> solves a lot of problems in peer to peer computing.

Can you list ten of these problems if there are a lot of them?
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No. The advice in AspectJ is fully self-contained. You specify -- completely separately in its own place -- what the advice is, and what it is advising. You can advice things that are out of your control.

This is indeed the idea of aspect-oriented programming. I'm not sure where you got a different idea. Could you point me that way?
You are right. It isn't easy. But no one ever said running a country would be easy. If you are choosing to use another country's currency for your economy, you carry all the risks associated to that currency
e2e encryption is not trying to solve the problem you describe. If I'm going to open and view private notes on a non-private machine, no amount of encryption will help me.
Because... You own the business, the buck should stop with you and if you are understaffed of course you will be having to get your hands on all the time to play all the different hats you are wearing.

It's not too dissimilar from working in a very early stage startup as a very experienced engineer: you know that there are lots to do, from infrastructure to the product code. You need to get your hands dirty all the time, playing multiple positions, to beat time to market.

As an employee of an organisation that you have no other vested interest apart from your salary? Yeah, this stress will only grind you, not motivate you, at least it did to me, the thought of "why am I sacrificing my life for a paycheck so someone else's grand vision [and ultimately, profits] come to them?".

So yeah, as an employee I'm much more productive and creative to my employer if I have time for myself out of work and good rest. As a business owner: you are running the risk all the time, some people cope with it by overworking to not feel like they are "falling behind".
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Realistically, there's no way we could stop a 500km diameter asteroid from impacting earth no matter how much we prepare. Mankind's best bet to survive that case is to colonize another planet.
What a way to avoid dealing with actual arguments.

Btw we don't.

Most law breaking in entrepreneurship is usually finable misdemeanours. Like 99.99% of it. We don't call those people criminals.
I think its mostly Ripple in Australian banking circles. but yeah... they are definitely seeing the upside to a lot of this technology and are using (abusing) it quietly in the background to their own benefits.
> ones that cost nothing

Second largest economy in the world

Second-fourth largest industrial country in the world

...

costs nothing
If that was a fair comment then we’d be writing all our code in assembly still.
Then fight fire with fire. Remove the banner.

Ultimately, the site is not allowed to collect data without your consent, but many sites illegally set cookies or store your data in logs before you consent, or even if you decline.
With cookies, it is easy to detect bad actors, but not so much with logging.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella named chairman of the board
And cab companies are notoriously corrupt.

In Germany?
That's how our accountant handles it I'm no expert so I guess there is devils in the details. My view is that it's getting a lot easier, even if the progress is slow.
Did i miss something? I didnt think bitcoin used kademlia.

I would consider kademlia (or overlay networks in general) a bigger breakthrough though.
Interesting that this was a real technique. It sounds strange, but sometimes when I have a very bad headache I’ll keep imagining that a small hole would relieve the pressure.
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> instead it should be 1.000 GB, 10.00 GB and so on

I had a hard time mentally parsing that sequence even when I knew what your point was so imagine regular users seeing that.
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What is aspect-oriented programming?
Interesting, if I understand correctly this is an mRNA vaccine too, just doesn’t seem to work that well (though I continue to be amazed at how small the sample sizes are).

What are some of the details that make two vaccines work so differently, even if they use the same underlying technology? Production quality, dosage, slight variation in the active ingredients..?
This is how dictatorships begin.
This. So much this. The disruption in finance was moving from things as money to debt as money. And somehow the people who think current crop of crypto could work as money are so delusional that they fail to understand they are trying to turn the clock backwards, not forward. The thought that bitcoin would somehow limit the amount of money (as currently defined, I am talking about M0, M1 etc) in circulation is simply nothing short of delusional. Bitcoin will not stop people wanting to borrow and loan money and it will not stop people using other entities debt as a mean to pay other people (money, that is.)

Defi, you say. Show me a defi project that lets people borrow more money than what they have in the first place. Show me a defi project where I actually take the credit risk for the borrowers when lending the money to them. (Show me those and I show you an emerging fractional reserve bank and uncontrolled money creation by the said bank...)
In some countries that's the case. I mean, from what I can tell, in (most of?) Europe, salaried position means you're supposed to work for X hours a week. Anything above is overtime.
Depending on the local regulations, they often have to be paid or compensated in kind (work less later). They're pretty much never paid, but being able to work less after a big week is not uncommon.
This is why Stack Overflow has just started the "Outdated Answers project" in which users can set answers as outdated:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/405302/introducing-...
Yes. That is the case too.
Both of these are slightly over 100 but;

Letters to a Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens

The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway

Both gave me an appreciation of the writers that led me to read more of their work which ultimately made changes in my life. With Hitchens his work on religion had a profound impact on my world view, with Hemmingway it gave me an appreciation for good writing and story.
Pity the rational numbers (fractions) did not catch on. Of course it has flaws too but bit easier to grasp. And it handles important cases like 1/3 or 1/10 exactly.
> But it is interesting only one of the discussions is allowed

Is someone stopping you?

Having people not be convinced is not the same as preventing discussion.
Better link: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/major-banks-online-services-e...
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My limited experience with academia is that professors are thrust into a position of power with very little management training, experience, or support. Additionally, research professors may have no pedagogical skill and yet they are expected to both research and teach to some degree. This is a recipe for dysfunctional organizations and relationships.
I do not see these things as a big problem though, payments are is a service we buy for our own country as well. The same service provider doesn't work everywhere but for us that is not a problem.
I mean, if the app I want is on a single store, do I have a choice? Are users really itching to install the Epic store so they can have more choices? The Epic store will be shoved down their throats.

As a user I’m pretty okay with devs not being able to choose how I’m getting their app.
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Tags work to categorize by language (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python-3.x); by having multiple languages on one site, you'll have a broader audience because there's few developers that only work with one singular language.
All countries are backwards in some way. No big deal. Love Germany BTW. Haven’t been there for a long time now so I should go back soon!
Sure. But equally attackable I fear. If the attacker knows that you are just veryfing the visual appearance it should be much easier to brute force it and present something different that somehow looks similar enough that the difference is unlikey to be spotted.

Well, admittedly just a feeling. I have neither done the math nor any testing how big differences are likely to go undetected.

The best verification in openssh is to copy-paste the correct fingerprint as an answer instead of replying yes/no.
In general the USD or the euro emerges as defacto form of legal tender on the other side of some sort for societal collapse. It can be a temporary thing, but it is not a healthy thing.
Cherry picking one vitamin deficiency in vegans. Omnivores are deficient in other vitamins. The answer is supplementing, not changing foods you eat.

> Omnivores had the lowest intake of Mg, vitamin C, vitamin E, niacin and folic acid. Vegans reported low intakes of Ca and a marginal consumption of the vitamins D and B12.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26502280/
I've also built a script that does this (copies custom amis to the 4 regions we operate in, if missing), and I bet thousands of others have written similar tools.

Similarly, every cloudformation/terrform/etc config has a region-to-ami lookup involved, because they get different ids in each region.

AWS could do something that takes a tiny fraction of the collective effort applied, and make all that work unnecessary. Having amis globally available once uploaded, with zero extra work, would be nice. I'm okay with the first launch in a new region taking an extra few seconds while it copies over for the first time.
Until it does.
Highly recommend the book Bore Hole, a memoir revolving around recreational trepanation
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Orientalism is the term coined for the Euro- or America-centric views of the Eastern Hemisphere during the Soviet period and the 19th century. The idea that there was this cohesive concept of "The Orient" as a Mysterious Other, waiting to be settled or tamed by the righteous West, when in reality the "orient" was just a place populated by regular people with their own culture to be sure but perhaps not so different from small-town USA (or wherever) as one might think.

What I suppose they're driving at when they say that "expedition" carries "orientalist associations" is that describing a trip to post-Soviet states in today's world as "an expedition" is reductionist in that it implies those places are akin to the savage frontier into which Europeans and Americans ventured in search of land to appropriate from the indigenous populations.

Now, I'm sympathetic to the idea that a Dagestan native might take umbrage at a trip to their home being referred to as an expedition, as if Dagestan is wild and untamed frontier ripe for staking land claims and colonization. It's somebody's home, hypothetically.

But considering the author is a Russian who probably speaks English as an nth language, I'm not so sure that I'd agree with the TFArticle's characterization of the term "expedition". I speak French and my command of the vocabulary is not nearly as good as in English for me. Words have subtext and nuance, and unless you master a language you're bound to choose inapt words that might give off the wrong connotation inadvertently.

It reads like virtue-signalling to me on the part of Valeria Costa-Kostritsky.
There was an article a while back on Hacker News top list where the blog author explained, in actually very simple steps, how to launder it through services such as Tornado, to disjoin the trail of money. Pretty intelligent piece of work.
Back when HTTP and SMTP were designed, the Internet was mostly old Unix machines talking to each other. Everything was a file full of `char`, piped to an 80-column terminal. Text-based made sense. Decades later, when the computer world was bigger, faster, and more unified, other systems kind of cargo-culted off of those earlier successes. And isn't it neat that you can telnet into port 80?

I think another big reason text-based protocols are seductive is that they're an engineering path of least resistance. When you start off text-based, how to debug and analyze and interoperate with other implementations can be put off for later, or be Someone Else's Problem. Whereas if you design the same protocol but in binary, these tricky considerations are harder to ignore -- even though text-based protocols will still run into the same problems eventually, because there's no way I'm typing in a Cookie header by hand or decoding Base64 in my head.
> But fundamentally, what I want most is to be somewhere my kids can ride bikes or walk alone to school, to friends, to the shop, etc. from the age of 7 or so. As best I can tell that pretty much means the Netherlands, parts of Denmark, or perhaps Japan (more for transit than cycling).

Why these countries in particular? You can do this in pretty much any EU country and many non-EU European countries.

I walked back 4km from primary school every day. I could go by bus but then I'd had to wait for 30 minutes and everything beats that when you're 10.

And during vacations me and my cousins roamed the forest near my grandparents house whole day every day only returning for a dinner :)
Thank you for posting this. I wasn't really enthralled by the original post, but the docs referenced in your comment are way better and show the real value of this library.
In Germany school literally recomends for kids to go alone to school from first grade. First graders also went alone from school to afterschool activity.

7 years old navigating streets is not as much rarity as Americans think. And it used to be completely normal too.
Dunno about the taxi situation in Germany but in Sweden the local taxi operations have their own apps. So if one wants to get hold of a cab, it’s just to install their app and request a ride. (It’s convenient, but not cheap – but I’m not sure that cheap taxi rides should be a universal human right.)
Wow that's way better than the article and any other link posted in the comments!

Amazing work.
someone with severe covid-19 will asphyxate no matter how much food and drinking water you have, and how many toilets you provide.

apples to oranges.
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This level of specialization in grass-growing would be a good theme for a mockumentary (like Best in Show)
Can you identify someone expressed both of those beleifs? Maybe they're separate people, who are obviously entitled to have conflicting opinions.
Not sure what the point of this comment is, I doubt a large majority of people eating meat or animal products have a dietary need to.
I use https://obsidian.md/ for notes I need to keep off-line.
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The frontend (what authorizes the transaction with the card network, like Visa, Pulse, Star, Mastercard, etc) and backend (settlement bank that ACHes the cash around and usually takes the underwriting risk (unless the independent sales organization, eg: Stripe or Gravity decides to do this themselves)) are generally called a payment platform in the industry.

This platform can get wrapped with many different payment terminals (Verifone, Pax, Dejavoo, Ingenico, etc) or processing interfaces (Authorize.net, PayPal, Stripe, Square, et all).

Square does look to be a bank now, but it appears the only products they are underwriting risk on are loans to businesses, which they immediately try to sell off to third party investors: https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/tech/square-bank-business-len...

Kinda surprising, I would expect them to have underwritten their own payment processing, but it might be the case that they don't want to have the outsized liability of chargebacks on their books if a client business goes bankrupt, all to save 2 cents on a $100 transaction.

Perhaps once the US economy slows its rapid economic shift they will consider handling their own underwriting and batch settlement.
The rhetoric used stops me from bringing it up, in certain circles. I really only can bring it up with close friends/family, or anonymously on the web. I've been called anti-semitic, racist, alt-right, my intelligence insulted. Again, related to another comment in this thread, it's seen as a "conspiracy theory". The mainstream news media didn't cover it, but certain less tasteful websites did.
I do this. Works really well.
Unfortunately USB stacks are pretty heavyweight. On a Cortex-M3 class part they end up around 6kB compiled. You have three basic options for getting them going:

1. Trust your vendor's libraries/ROM drivers/example code. This is the fastest to bring up, the least flexible, the buggiest (it's vendor code!) and the hardest to debug. (Trust me on the debugging part.)

2. Use a library like tinyUSB. This can actually go pretty quickly, since you've got full source control. If your part is popular enough that someone else has already done most of the work, this is by far the best choice. Even if you have to get personal with the hardware, I still like this option. (tinyUSB is much better than what came before... I wish it'd been around last time I had to do this.)

3. Write your own. Don't do this. (You might have to do parts of this if you tried #1 and it isn't panning out.)

All of these are doable. Any of them are enough work that if you're only making one, just put the FTDI down and call it done.