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I thought it was going to be something written about women like my wife (stereotypical redhead)
I don't think 12 year olds are thinking about healthcare or buying a family home. They're worrying about whether they have the best Fortnite skins and how many people follow them on social media.
I heard that this hasn't been true for several years, but everyone keeps repeating it.
Not feeding the trolls almost always worked because they'd get bored and go away when no one too their bait. You can still see it in action on smaller message boards and IRC servers if you use them, where an idiot will come in and try to stir up trouble but people just keep on topic and ignore them. They leave for the next site once they figure out they're not gonna get a reaction.
> Are things better in non-capitalist countries such as Laos or Nambia?

Laos and Namibia are capitalist countries. The only two non-capitalist countries that I know are Cuba (and I'm not even sure about that) and North Korea.

Both are being suffocated by the big capitalist forces for tens of years, so it's impossible to really assess if they're doing better or worse.

Like one of our Russian politics said: "USA strangle them with one hand and empty their pockets using another hand". Hard to say how they'd fare if they weren't strangled. E.g. before they isolated North Korea it was doing much better than South Korea.
Just searched "emissions cheating" and uh, is like, every auto maker cheating on emissions? I remember the VW scandal, but this quick search leaves me to conclude that VW is only the most memorable one that got mass media attention of late.

But hey, we love our corporate overlords, they only want what's best for us, the shareholders.

(Not actually a shareholder of anything)
> Regardless, what's so bad about deleting the repo and pulling from remote if you can't figure out why you hosed it? It's not like it costs you anything to do `rm ... && git clone ...`. And it's not like this happens daily either.

Well, actually, a lot of people work in large repos, so this can be a pain.

Which of course brings up another failing of the git UI: the difficulty of removing old history from the repo. Last I checked, you pretty much have to use a 3rd party tool for this.
I think what it really is is the idea we are beginning to dissolve the lies of western culture. For profit is not in fact the best model to run our societies on, and allowing people to hold beliefs that are clearly delusions as "normal" erodes any kind of shared narrative that helps us collaborate instead of compete. Humans and other animals have literally evolved to specifically go against raw competition because it doesn't work as well as a team
> SMS/RCS services: Google Voice, Android Messages app with RCS chat integration

Does it mean they are now plugged in SS7 network? Thats a throve of new user data.
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I remember the show. I remember an episode which showed extinguishing fire from a helicopter.

Technology was magical, but also there was a belief that technologists would be calling the shots. Early computer users were all nerds. Operating systems, games, utility programs required you to be pretty technical. Turn-based strategy was a major genre. Today even RTS is seen as a niche. I remember an early SF book with title along the lines "Tower of light" which called the big boss The Programmer. There were also books like "Rendez-Vous with Rama". Today, the goal is to make computer games and computers in general as accessible as possible. Tablets and touch screens are ALL about accessibility.

I propose an alternate explanation: reality has shown that programmers, inventors, scientists are often just pawns. The decision makers are elsewhere. There's much resentment towards "sales&marketing" departments in companies. We techies often just do what we're told, we realize someone else's vision. NASA's budget gets cut. Email spam is outrageous, spambots run rampant. SOMEONE writes these spam senders, captcha solvers, spambots! Cynical programmers. And nothing is more enduring in programming than a "temporary solution".

The respect towards scientists and science has been dropping for a while. Some of it is because of problems with reproduction and peer reviews, but largely people just don't believe in scientific method. By contrast, psychology degrees and charisma are extremely valued. You don't need a good product if you can manipulate the feelings of clients (now called "consumers") or strike a deal that every new PC comes with your operating system and you get paid for it. People just assume they got it "for free with the computer". Fact-based arguments are usually less convincing that arguments from personal experience.

In some areas, like History, "publish or perish" no longer holds. You can perish anyway. Nowadays you need to do a lot more than that.

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Personally I'm very impressed by discoveries in topics like role of gut bacteria or fungi. Neural networks can do very nice stuff.
A lot of random blue checks on Twitter are journalists.
Generating interesting inputs for property-based testing
So Cal believes that long stretches of time to focus are good, and so quitting your job is a good idea…

Well, I had a Sabbatical year and did indeed work on some great stuff, but not having anything on hand at all except writing itself can be quite boring, I discovered.

Didn’t Sol Weintraub do his best writing after his day to day work as a mason? He had ample time to think during the day and wrote at night.
Makes sense, F16 is about 5-10 times heavier than model S and it needs to go in 2s from 0 not to 100 but to 200km/h
Yes, and countless news articles daring to tell the truth to the city during the 2019-20 protests
Fastmail is fantastic if you have an iOS device. They provide a file which you simply download/open on your iOS device and it automatically configures your phone to access FastMail mail, calendar, contacts, etc. I believe they use the same mechanism that corporates use to configure employees phones. Could not be more easier and you get to use all of Apple's native apps. iOS + Fastmail is the best combo I've found so far for easy Mail/Contacts/Calendar independent of the big giants.
No one knows how anything works because of copyrights, the other half of intellectual slavery laws. Anyone with money (such as myself) can get access to the worlds info, everyone else is SOL.
Note that a billion dollar didn't go missing - they attempted to steal a billion dollar but only managed to get $81 million, out of which roughly a quarter has been recovered by Bangladesh.

As the article points out, the cover-up started at the highest level, with the governor of the central bank himself not informing the government or law agencies as soon as the news reached him. He tried to hire some other security agencies to trace and retrieve the money, (probably hoping to salvage some of his reputation and following the old maxim that it is better to seek forgiveness than permission). He ofcourse had to resign the next day.

I am sure the law went overboard while investigating a case of this maginitude with huge public pressure on them - it's pretty common in Asia for the police to even resort to torture.
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It hasn't been all that confusing to me. I was on Google Talk, then I switched to Hangouts, which I have been using with my family until about a month ago, we've since transitioned to the new Google Chat and it's been fine. I like that it works on every device just by logging in. I also use Signal if there's more confidential stuff I need to send. I haven't used SMS in years and I really hope they don't try to bake that back in. Nobody I know in Europe uses SMS, it's just for receiving codes and stuff.
good point! but notice that this is an entirely different function than flotaing-point sqrt; and it has, appropriately, a different name.
> My email is now IMAP

> WebDAV

Can you explain how you implemented these too?
That's for anyone who's not in advertising. Advertising and marketing are perhaps some of the scummiest businesses on the planet at the low end because they plain do not care about anything but user-response rates.

And however you slice it, Google, Facebook and Twitter are all in the advertising business - that's where they make the bulk of their money. Amazon, ironically, kind of isn't (but has been more then happy to not fix it's SKU/fakes problem for years).

At the end of the day when someone wants to make a change at any of those organizations, it's the advertisers who are pointing to charts of potential lost revenue and reminding everyone who's salary is paid for by who.
They had this and aggressively rolled it back. Google Talk was XMPP-compatible and had federation enabled.
Meanwhile you can move to Matrix; it breaks into quite some walled gardens:

https://matrix.org/bridges/
When a test in the classicist style fail (maybe because you refactored something), it tells you something is not working with your actual software but you do not see directly where the error is. You only have to fix the software, your test most probably still works. This is because you did not test implementation details but only the "what" should be done.

When a test in the mockist style fail, you see directly what part of the system is broken. But the rest of the day you are bussy fixing your test suite as the test are tightly coupled to the "how" something is done.
A carrier group costs around $7 million per day including upfront investment and operating costs [0]. Military high explosive costs around $100/kg, or $2m for a bomb this size. [1]

So, somewhat surprisingly to me, this operation was not just a rounding error in the daily budget.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140813034340/http://www.cnas.o...

[1] https://newatlas.com/cl-20-high-power-military-explosive/240...
They have an array of underwater beacons. They don't care about animals or anything else that does not help them take whatever they want at any given moment
Next thing you know there will be an ad industry bailout, like the California $100 million weed bailout.
This is bullshit! I paid my rent this whole time and now I'm going to pay for everyone else's rent too? This state is run by unbelievable bastards.
I use mailbox.org that has CardDAV and CalDAV in addition to email. I use DAVx⁵ for syncing to my Android phone. Mailbox.org's web UI is clunky but I rarely use it for anything other than extending the subscription. The calendar/contact sync and email have worked well.
> Do people have lost hope? Do people want to just watch negative content?

I think the answer is no and yes respectively - wider adoption of Internet rather dug down towards the bottom of the barrel and merely uncovered the nature of the humanity, that >80% of us are naturally negative, hateful, stupid, naive, etc., judging by standards of media in the past.

Though I do not like the state of online world, I don't think it's constructive to criticize the straw man on their stupidity - what you are looking at is an innocent and average man, it's up to us the woke to find ways to devise ways to distill wisdom out of eternal flame of echo chambering rages, a way that are better than in the past where those voices were simply suppressed.
> We need meaningful nutritional research, desperately

Not gonna happen.

a) Too much vested interest everywhere.
b) We can't experiment on humans for ethical reasons anyways.
You frequently see this same pattern in games. A low cost gamble with a low chance of success, but a huge payout. Players seem to (often) view it as worthwhile, because if you do succeed then the payout changes the entire experience. Keeping the cost spent on the gamble, however, would make little difference.
Living abroad, I'm still very reliant on Google Voice for the 4-5 annual calls I need to make with say my bank or credit card because they will only do certain transactions by voice. Or other services demand a US telephone number without allowing a country code because of myopic design.

We really need to disconnect the need for phones for services that can be digital. People don't have landlines and there's a lot of people that would probably prefer a data-only plan since they don't make phone calls. Regular phone calls aren't normally encrypted either.

At least with Google Voice I've been able to circumvent having a 'real' US number -- giving the data brokers more data points. That is until I get locked out of services like PayPal who blocked Google Voice so I have no way to authenticate (not that they have a reason to need my phone number to bridge my already-verified bank with another service).
And then proceeded to lose market share. And then Google Wave died. And then Google+ died.
Guess what? It's glycotime again!

Gal(ɑ1,3)Gal (Galili epitope) is a common epitope in most animals, but in primates we lost the activity of the gene (GGTA1) to synthesise it. Since we don't produce it any more, it's recognised as foreign by our body and not only causes rejection in xenotransplantation, but also this Alpha-Gal allergy.

I'm not going to comment on the actual immune mechanisms that take place with developing an allergy to a carbohydrate epitope, beyond saying that I don't understand enough of it. Somehow we lose the tolerance to this antigen that we develop from about 6 months of life.

I'm more interested in what makes this epitope: Is this carbohydrate synthesised by the actual ticks, or is it actually something to do with a tick-associated parasite or the microbiome? Here's a review (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31214181/) that covers this that I quickly found, suggesting that (a member of) the microbiome can in fact alter levels of ɑ-Gal from ticks.

edit: Obviously, the solution to this problem would be to just eat primate meat instead, which is one hell of a risky bet given our problematic pandemic primed populations.
The weight of the Tesla is moot. The majority of the load experienced by the pulling vehicle is in the incredible drag of the Tesla’s wheels. They’re extremely difficult to spin and this for pace far exceeds any others that would normally be encountered when pulling a traditional load.
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I would, but the option is not mine to make.
> At the same time Apple’s stuff has improved year over year. Out of all the large tech companies I’m most bearish about Google’s future - they seem aimless. Deepmind is cool, but Google better hope that ad money machine never stops printing.

As an iOS user, I feel the opposite in most areas except calling/messaging/facetime. I find Apple software to be severely limiting their own hardware. Their iPads are such excellent devices yet severely limited because of iOS. If iOS hadn't done calling/messaging/FaceTime right, I would have completely ditched them.
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Density isn’t everything. It’s likely a lot cheaper and less environmentally destructive to dig a big hole in the ground than to manufacture a lithium battery.
I add a GUI for contribute new stuff

It helps pre-fill some content before adding new stuff via github pull request

https://freestuff.dev/new-stuff
Based on their lack of carefulness when doing hull cleaning I wouldn’t expect it
But isolation had never been sold as a security feature, only as a "user-space crash can't bring down the kernel", no ?
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I'm not so much thinking of the future, but the these are my memories of programming / computers as a teen of the 90s (vaguely in chronological order, but it was a while back, forgive me):

- Grey, so much grey. Backgrounds, buttons, shadows

- Marvel at my FrontPage geocities prowess. <img source=Under construction.gif>

- DHTML

- OS/2 is going to be huge! So much power to be able to multi task

- Eventually everyone will have an AOL account

- Eventually everyone will have a hotmail account

- Access will rule the world. Visual Basic. VBA. Gaudy block colorf UIs will be du jour

- OMG Java Applets ruling the world

- VRML will reduce the need to know html

- COM/COM+ is the future of programs transfering data between components

- Buying more machines and spreading the load, rather than bigger machines will be the way of the future

- Novell Groupwise vs MS Mail

- Netscape should just buy Microsoft

- Borland C/C++ was going to rule the world

- Drag and drop UI designers might someday not screw up at the faintest hint of advanced layout (and even might get fast eventually)

- Windows would "Beat" Macs

- Linux will eventually get to be mainstream (desktop)

- ColdFusion will be the fastest / most secure server product

- Having opinions on Lycos / Altavista / Yahoo Google

- Everyone will want to run their own home squid server to make things faster

- someday programs would be big enough to come on multiple disks

- someday programs would be big enough to come on multiple CDs

- Neuromancer / matrix / shadowrun style human computer interaction would come true in the 2000s

- Human computer interactions would tend towards mostly speech / audio rather than qwerty

- jQuery accordions will rule the world

- XHMTL will be the new hotness

- XML will save the world from incompatible data and save so much time

- Source control might someday not screw up XML / UI design files
As someone who just learned a thousand electrical norms let me assure you of one thing: the way git handles "dangerous actions" that might delete things is NOT something you would find an equivalent for in the industrial machines, where you have mandatory warning signs, switches for operation with two hands (or even two people), mandatory inspections of these safety features etc.

It is not a different league it is a different sport. If a factory was designed with the equivalent of gits usabilty today, it wouldn't even get a permission to be built based on the plans alone. Also the person who planned it would have a hard time ever doing so again.

If git was a bridge it would have no handrails and it would oscillate in certain winds and for some odd reason there is a roundabout in the middle.

It is still better than no bridge for sure. As one of the first of its kind a lot can be excused, but fundamentally better engineering is possible as well.
I'm pretty sure a lot of this is telemetry related. Resmon will frequently show ETW (Event Tracing for Windows) files getting a detrimental quantity of I/O directed their way, especially at boot...
I think founders in SEA are ready for prime time
> Nobody had even heard of CRT until like 3 years ago and what people call "CRT" isn't even an actual category. It is certainly not being taught in highschools.

This to me sounds like someone dismissing the harms caused by a Church by saying that it isn't technically part of scriptural canon, and that if we could only adopt True and correct orthodoxy, these abuses would not happen.

The problem is that kids are being taught to not be friends with each other because of what they look like.
I didn't even know this ever existed.
So classicist try to write the test that they do not break when you change the implementation (e.g refactoring)

Mockist don't care so much about this, they focus on isolating the unit.

Interesting fact: Originally unit tests are called unit tests because they can be executed independently from any other tests. Not because they test a single unit.
I can't believe how so many devs are hating git. It is one of the best tools in software engineering.
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There's a burden of proof for criminal convictions.

And that's not at all how defamation defenses work.
This a huge part of the problem.

It's cheaper and easier to hook kids with gamification, endless scrolls, and dopamine hacks than it is to inspire them with science and creative storytelling.

Low effort, high reward. And addiction.
I gave it one star and left a scathing review. What are they going to do, not include a calculator in the next Windows?
I agree there’s a lot more potential for iPad hardware UI, but also think they’ve improved year over year.

It’ll be interesting to see what they work out for iPad OS to make it more powerful. They’re obviously not willing to just slap a standard PC OS on there. I’d guess they’re going to come up with new stuff from first principles as best they can for it (even if that means limiting it in the short term).
`git reset` and `git rebase` will not lose anything that you have commited before. And force-deleting the remote stored repo is cheating (and prevented by default in quite a few services).
Amazingly Hangouts is still the most cross platform, generally usable and useful chat app I have ... it even still accepts XMPP connections.

And of course, they are trying to kill it. (at least that is what the message I got last night said) ... sigh.
> We need meaningful nutritional research, desperately,

I am now wearing a constant glucose monitor and tried half a cup red lentil - semolina flour pasta. Should be OK, shouldn't it? My blood sugar jumped from below to 100 to above 140. My target is 120 and I am almost always below. Most often, well below. 140 is bad. I tried a "keto burrito". 135. I simply cut all starches and now I am good.

All in all, ever since I am wearing my CGM I can attest almost all nutritional advice given to diabetic people at least does not apply to me and I suspect I am not alone.

I am not surprised. At all. First of all, the entire science reeks because it's not genetics based. We know (although, do we? I no longer trust anything) at least lactose intolerance is caused by a gene. Is it too far fetched to say reaction to other foods could also be varied based on genetics? Second, there is a huge problem with scientific research itself. There are books and how to say, counter-research done on this. Basically, you take a grant, run a study and then produce some result, if your end result is nothing which is ought to be default, well that doesn't look good. So you produce some result... even if it's cherry picked data. And then some statisticians a decade later get hold of the raw data and prove you have found nothing. It happens all the time. Third, this is especially a problem with drugs but can happen with nutrition research too. Surely you have seen the ads where they are looking for volunteers? Well, who do you think they are going to get? No one produces a study with the title "our study among people experiencing homelessness and abject poverty"...

Anyways, I am vaccinated against covid. I hope this one is not botched. But nutritional advice? Nah. I refuse to talk to a nutritionist, I refuse to accept any advice, all of them are invalid -- for me.
Remember that the weight of a load is entirely meaningless when pulling at a constant speed on level ground. The force experienced by the tower is entirely a result of air resistance and road friction.

On level terrain, the weight of the load is only relevant for the very transient period of coming up to speed. That is the acceleration phase.
There's a much greater chance you could die in a car accident, do you also avoid the highways?
Aircraft carriers are a tool to plunder weak countries.

Carriers are offensive weapons, not defensive. That's why only USA has aircraft carriers: parasitizing on the world resources requires a huge offensive force that has to be regularly used to send a message: "Don't try to resist if we want your resources".

They have almost zero contribution to the prevention of another major world war.
There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, (and off-by-one errors....)

I feel like naming things is something Apple works really hard on. And why they place so much emphasis on it in their keynotes, when they use the phrase "And we're calling it ..."