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I read it two years ago. I personally believe it's amazing as an example of what 150% of a good thing looks like, and the point is deciding what 1/3rd to cut to make a neat 10/10.

Without that book, you barely see what 50% of programming goodness looks like. The only way to 100% is to go too far and dial it back. Offering 150%, imo, is a humble way to offer a path forward without getting the reader all the way there. Maybe it's better that way.
I like that geospatial join you have there. Really it should be two query tabs and an interactive map.

I have often wanted a geofilter around my wikipedia search, esp when I am on vacation. Basically, give me every wikipedia page that ever talked about anything within 50km of here. And then one could filter down or have a personal recommendation system boost stuff you like.
"I am tired of vendors forcing a graphical programming toolchain that hides complexity behind half baked software."

Amen. The size of these closed source toolchains is often enormous. I wonder how many folks are not content with using relatively large Windows point-and-click software to program relatively small form factor hardware.
Is this like the dynalifter? http://www.ohioairships.com/
>Cyclists who spent 10-20-40 hours per week on a bike. For a hobby that you spend 60hr/mo on it's reasonable to spend $1300 on an entry level road bike and much more as you progress. Especially because it's good for your health.

how is using lighter expensive bike using fancy 0.5% less friction gearboxes better for your health? If you wanted health benefits you would be using the heaviest shittiest bike possible for more resistance.
I'm not sure how "open" I consider a pdf of the schematics (no sign of PCB layouts), compiled hex files and I'm unsure where the mechanical 3D files are. [0]

When I think of open hardware I imagine Kicad/Altium files of the electronics (not gerbers), access to the C, C++ or Rust firmware and the STEP files at least or other source modifiable files so they're 3D printable if I was so inclined to modify all three.

[0] https://github.com/ploopyco/mouse
It's a perfectly fine principle when bike lanes are universal.

In the Netherlands, for example (well, much of the Netherlands, I haven't been everywhere), the bikes are on the bike lanes, the cars are on the car lanes, and that's that. You have no motivation to go on the car lanes (except on small alleys with no lanes), since the bike lanes just get you wherever you want to go.
Well conveniently there are 1.3 billion people in the OECD countries. A $1 per person tax burden for each new drug sounds downright reasonable.
Btw, if you are using https://query.wikidata.org, you can type: wdt:mother, press ctrl+space and it will suggest P25 relationship.
A welcome change. I identify with one of the mentioned personas: I'm a teacher who has taught game programming and designed and have debated sharing articles from them based on the name. Especially while I was teaching at an international school in India.
Hard to take anyone seriously who repeats the cartoonish idea that claiming budgets matter for governments is a fallacious attempt to conflate a government with a household. It is ironically an absolutely fundamental failure to understand the basics of public finance.

If only someone had informed Zimbabwe that they could have kept on printing because government debts don't matter when you print your own currency.

Anyway, believe whatever you want to believe. Americans who run their personal finances like dollar hegemony will keep them wealthy forever will pay the price in the end.
I have one of the full size Ploopy trackballs, and it feels really good in the hand. It is 3D-printed, and it shows, but the texture of it feels pretty nice when using it.

I struggled a bit with accuracy at first, but now I’ve lowered the DPI to around 500 and it’s become much more usable for me since.
This is a great blog explaining various ways to force collisions if you're not careful about how you pick your base and mod: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/60442
Never mind the copyright issues, if your employer gets hit by legal discovery all your personal files will end up in evidence.

(There was a thread about this recently which I can't find)
>we do not in fact know that the vaccine is safe

It would go a long way in these discussion if you make it clear which vaccine you are talking about.
>the actual resources consumed by this war probably account for the monetary price tag

Its bordering on comical the degree to which people will mock this idea while failing to understand it.
This is a consequence of the NHS existing, though. It's one of the genuinely big downsides to having public healthcare where quality of care will coincide with the controlling government's support and/or aptitude for governing it.

Private healthcare also suffers from poor governance (it's one of the big factors in why the United States' healthcare system is so expensive) but its effects aren't quite as drastic.
I see, thanks a lot for your clarification.
Not only GMail, many of those hits might be people trying to reach Gas Authority of India : GAIL website .

It is www.gailonline.com
To my surprise I own 15 books on this list (physical copies). But some are more computer history related (Levy, Kidder, Kushner): and even though those books are some of my alltime favorites I don't know how a retelling (i.e. biography) can be an 'influential' book, since it's usually written after the fact?
> Just based on "suspicion" on the cops behalf.

It's fine, the dog jumped at the window of your stopped car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detection_dog#Civil_rights
Why did you censor "gamers"?
I wish they'd invest in proper injection molding tooling and get these made professionally. You can do that very cheaply in Malaysia and Taiwan, and of course China. Total cost for tooling and integration/assembling jigs would be around $50-100k including engineering labor for mold design. It will take solid 2 years of work to get it absolutely perfect and to ramp up production. As much as these are philosophically cool, I am definitely not buying anything that's 3D printed. It's fine for tinkering, otherwise just garbage. Ya'll need a new name - ploopy is too close to poopy.
They cop a lot of ridicule for being impractical but a fixed gear track bike with a single front brake has been my daily commuter / beater for years with minimal maintenance. You can ride them through anything and they keep going, replace brake pads occasionally, a chain or a sprocket very occasionally and that’s basically it. I think they’re perfect from a maintenance perspective but it does depend on where you live.

Sheldon Brown had some good articles about their versatility.
Force the airlines to articulate a policy upfront (they’re free to make it whatever they want). That way it becomes an externality they’re not allowed to pass on to their customers blamelessly (which apparently they do today so the customers fight amongst themselves instead of blaming the airline). I think that’s the game theory equivalent answer here to the cake cutting solution of “I cut you pick”.
None of this would matter if the government didn't touch seized assets until the legal process is over.

This is especially easy to do with digital coins (vs. say a room full of furniture which could incur not-so-insignificant storage costs.)
Hmmm, I notice there is full source for everything for their Classic Trackball[0], which is super awesome. Maybe they just haven't finalized the Mouse stuff yet? Not sure. I do share your confusion about that one.

[0] https://github.com/ploopyco/classic-trackball
I don’t know where the files for the mouse are (or if they’ve been released), but the design files for the trackball can be found here [1].

[1] https://github.com/ploopyco/classic-trackball/tree/master/ha...
For France, the root cause for the lack of specialist in some zones is actually not that they aren't paid enough (a generalist, for instance, seem to have it's lower bracket above the median income for a family, and an average that is at 3-5 times it. Sadly, jobs such as nurse have bad pays though...), but more a part of the french medicine school: the "numerus closus". At the end of the first year, students take an exam week, and only the N first students are allowed to pass, with N being a preselected constant for that year. Not everyone is allowed to try again too. This has been criticized for some time and if I remember well was recently removed, but the cynic part of me tell me that they would have no issues crafting an exam specially to have roughly N students pass...
I'll admit I found it very amusing to read

> Only one byte is loaded for each character of string.

right after he calls strlen on the input on the first line of his function :P
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Is that really the take away here? If only we'd added another tax this whole thing would have worked out?
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> even though I know I'm getting convenience at the cost of a exploitative system for the vulnerable and underemployed.

By what measure is it exploitative? How is that any different than if the delivery person worked for the restaurant?
Same here. Good thing I live where I live.
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I doubt they ever went obsolete, insofar as they are essentially categorized lists of links to things...but from a more cultural/ephemeral viewpoint they do hit different. :-)

In my experience, the more subjective they are, the better, so I'm not sure I'd have much use for the generalized kind anymore. The criteria can be way too loose if you're looking to meet a qualitative standard...
Yes, and that is exactly what the prosecutor says she should have done in retrospect.
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I know, but would doubt, that they are represantive of the common linux user.
I've always considered Microsoft's Trackball Explorer the best pointing device I've come across (oh I wish Microsoft could stick to making hardware!). Apparently I'm not alone, since they go for hundreds of dollars on the second hand market.

It looks like Ploopy's Classic Trackball comes fairly close to the form factor. Very tempted :-)
And the theft of France.com. This kind of behaviour is all too common.

https://domainnamewire.com/2021/03/25/court-rules-france-can...
> It's a know problem, people find happiness and an alternative life during a pilgrimage and keep on walking the routes back and forth through Europe until they run out of money and then become homeless.

Really interesting, thanks for sharing this. I've never been on a pilgrimage, but the mental side does seem to have similarities with a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat then. Occasionally, (beginning) meditators may experience something similar: struggling to re-enter the "real world" when the camp is over. That's why the last few days of a retreat are structured in a manner that prepares people for a "soft landing" in daily life.

Most interesting to hear, though, that this phenomenon can be so serious in case of pilgrimages.
It will be interesting and funny, when food distribution will be impacted due to people's stupidity, and you will have to resort to growing your own food. Because lockdown for everyone means including those big bulky trucks that fill up the supermarket. Because profit right? Famine, and starvation...
The article says spending borrowed money on war doesn’t crowd out other economic goods.

But of course it does. How money is raised and how it is spent are separate issues.

You can say borrowing is ok, or not, for any given level.

But what you can’t do is spend the same money on massive military activity, with little hold over value, and that same money on investments that increase productivity for a generation, like targeted education, research and infrastructure.

Whatever you spend a dollar on, you have “crowded out” the alternative.

And saying well you can borrow more isn’t a valid point. You just have more money, but you are still choosing one thing or another with every dollar.

(In characterizing military activity as not an investment I am not addressing the case of wars that preserved our and our allies freedom, but the disastrous discretionary ones of the new century.)

HOW you spend money is always a trade off, no matter where the money came from.
I don't dispute that (now that we know more) the situation is pretty damning. But again, the original article (a local news article written by a "web content writer") was so light on facts and so short in general that there easily _could_ have been plenty that would have changed the situation when more info came from another source. The "about to land" phrase that you specifically point out really isn't all that specific. People say they're "about to" do something all the time when they're not actually very close to doing it.

I don't know much about CTVNews specifically, but I hope we can both agree that especially in this day and age it's not uncommon for news organizations to use language in such a way to make an event seem more dramatic than it actually was, so I stand by my original statement that there wasn't enough info in that article to go on.
It's not just that it's a megascale project, it's that it's a potentially unstoppable megascale project.

Starting a potentially unstoppable chemical chain reaction to stop another unstoppable chemical chain reaction just seems a bit... dumb to me, you know?

If we're going to be doing megascale engineering to mitigate our past mistakes with greenhouse gasses we should look towards using something like space-based lenses or mirrors to lower the amount of energy that the Earth receives. We can always turn them off if we decide that we want to.
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Yes but it was Nixon who closed the gold window. From a macro budgetary perspective 71 was a much more meaningful year than 33.

33 was only when direct exchange was killed.
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why in the world would you pipe through grep to select certain lines and then use awk? You could just select lines with awk. The same could be said of cut. If you want to use grep and cut that's fine, but using grep and cut with awk implies you are doing it wrong.

Cut for field 1 (`cut -d/` -f1) is a cheesy way of saying we want to delimit fields with '/' too. So add that to awk via script variable or via -F command-line option.
Sorry, why do we care?

One hour glasses have been around for decades. This is a low margin business, unless what you’re actually selling is the style and the brand instead of the substance. It’s easy to have a large collection of blanks in different materials and coatings and strengths, and then use CNC grinding and polishing machines that can quickly do the remaining 10% of the work.

Bringing 3d printing to this field does what for the customer?

Where does 3D printing fundamentally change the equation for the company making the product?
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> We already say that, for smoking.

"We" don't, but maybe you do. I'm from Germany, the only time smoking/alcoholism/substance abuse comes up in a relevant way is when you need a transplant and there are multiple recipients and too few donors.

And it's not a punishment for what you previously did, it's because of a prediction of what you're going to do, e.g. an alcoholic who has shown no sign of compliance will probably not get the liver if there's a non-alcoholic who also needs it and does what it takes to get/stay healthy.

Deaf people whose condition could be cured/massively improved with implants are free to choose not to, and won't lose their disability status, it doesn't turn into a choice/hobby just because there's a choice in fixing it.

I'm not sure that's what makes healthcare in the US so expensive. Again, we do it and we spend significantly less than the US. The country is much more densely populated though, university is free and physicians' income is much closer to the average than in the US.
I think you and I have different definitions of "very cheaply." Small scale products like these are brutal on people who try to do small manufacturing runs (say, 1000) because that measly $50k becomes +$50 on each unit.

Keyboardio liked to talk about this when they were building their first models.
> They imagined two scenarios – one where five gigatonnes of carbon is removed every year, which is equivalent to around half of our total annual emissions, and another where 25 gigatonnes of carbon is removed.

What?!? 5gt is roughly 15% of annual emissions…
Site went… ploopy.
I was looking through the repos for the Classic Trackball, too, but found the design files and was kinda impressed that also the PCB files were open [1]. They contain the Altium Designer files in that case.

The only thing why I'm probably not going for it is that 1) shipment would be way too much to justify and 2) the STLs seem to be 3d printed instead of injection molded or similar, so the "no cheap shit" argument on their website is kinda different for me if I have to print all files myself anyways.

[1] https://github.com/ploopyco/classic-trackball/tree/master/ha...
> wrong thing again

I lost trust in the Swedish justice system when they reopened Assange's rape trial.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48253343
> In my younger, stupider days I've played with laser pointers with my young, stupid friends, trying to shine them into each others eyes from across a park.

I'm assuming that these were 1w red laser pointers? Have you ever played with those new 5w and 10w green lasers? They're a whole other ballpark. One of the big issues is that while a red light doesn't affect your night vision a green laser will.
I guess the strategy for megascale geoengineering projects should be to think really, really hard about them before you do them.

For the olivine and iron proposals above, potentially you could run a proof of concept on a lake for a few years first?
Hmm, luckily, one big upside of the "open hardware" aspect is, you could take these .stl files[0] and get them manufactured yourself (if you want a really nicely-produced piece). Yeah, it will cost a lot, but at least you have that option (especially going forward if Ploopy company stops selling the hardware).

[0] https://github.com/ploopyco/classic-trackball/tree/master/ha...
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> I will never again accept a job where I must use a work-provided machine. I spend 8+ hours a day at work. Being forced to spend that time in some crappy, bloated, locked-down OS is 100% a quality of life issue. If I can provision and manage the machine myself, fine. I'll even purchase the hardware. Prefer it that way.

From experience, I totally understand your frustration - and to anyone in this situation, I would suggest leaving to a company that provides modern hardware. That being said, I humbly ask that you try to put yourself in the shoes of those who are charged with ensuring these machines remain complaint (contractual obligations that must be met). Meeting these compliance obligations means continued, uninterrupted business, and that business pays our salary.

From a security/compliance perspective, I don't think it's unreasonable to do your work on a locked down machine if you are able to do your job, assuming that you have a modern machine that will plow through the overhead effortlessly. If you weren't provided with a modern machine though that can do this - get out of there as fast as you can.
I mean, all scientific researchers write like that so they sound badass. Writing in plain English usually gets you rejected by reviewers. More Greek letters (even better, Hebrew), more integrals, more sigmas, appendices with lemmas, fancy names of apparatus, all the better.
https://archive.is/whB5d
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I thought the UK was big into competitive bike culture, what with having big champs like Cavendish and Froome, the Ineos Grenadiers being based there too, as a really successful team.
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(!cache bang on DDG with the URL will get you there quickly)
Completely agreed. It has nothing to do with programming and it shouldn't be as influencial as it is currently anyways.
How does one get close to mastering software engineering?
Grow more plants in the ocean? Restore corals? If you remove all the CO2, how will the plants survive? Do we know the balance? Why is CO2 vilified so much?
The trackballs are listed as "completely open-source" on their website, but the mouse is listed as "open-source firmware". This is consistent with what's available on their GitHub page—the Altium and STEP files for the trackballs are available on their GitHub page, and the firmware for all their products (including the mouse) has been upstreamed[1].

[1] https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/pl...
Implementation-wise, if you multiply two 64 bit numbers you need to hold the result in a __int128 before taking the mod which makes it less portable.
As someone with experience in computer systems research, I recommend the following books that weren't on the list:

- Any of Marshall Kirk McKusick's books on the design and implementation of various BSDs; his latest book covers FreeBSD 11. These books are very well-written.

- Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by David Patterson and John Hennessy. This is a wonderful book on computer architecture for graduate students written by the founders of RAID storage and RISC processors, respectively. For undergrads wanting a lighter introduction, I recommend Computer Organization and Design by the same authors. The authors won the 2017 Turing Award for their contributions to computer architecture.

- Three Easy Pieces by Remzi and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau. This is a well-written, freely available operating systems textbook intended for undergraduates. It's also great for grad students and practitioners who need a refresher on OS topics.

Another book that is dear to me is the 1995 version of the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines. I personally think that the classic Mac OS and the Windows Classic (introduced in Windows 95) interfaces and their respective UI guidelines for applications were the high water mark for well-designed user interfaces, and I feel that today's UI/UX designers can learn a lot from mid-1990's desktops.
> Isn't it like this with any serious subject? You need to have read quite a few books to get it?

No, I'd say physics/math is uniquely hard in this regard.

A lot of stuff in the humanities, you can still get the gist of a paper even if you're not precisely familiar with the field, authors, etc. Then read a couple of textbooks, a handful of survey articles, all of which is a few days' reading, and you'll understand nearly of all it.

But physics? A well-educated layperson can read a paper and not have the slightest idea what any of it means, no clue whatsoever. And a few days' reading isn't going to help much -- it's quite likely to need a couple years' of study at a minimum to understand the context of the paper.

Remember, math/physics isn't just its own subject, it's its own language. For most people, the average math/physics paper might as well be written in Chinese. While a history, sociology, or political science paper is incredibly more accessible.
Another ultra-small trackball would be the one used for the MNT Reform[0] (which also happens to be open hardware). However, I don't know if it's fully ready-to-use with any arbitrary computer, yet. I know it's intended to be possible to be used with any computer but you'd have to check into that yourself. If you're interested and willing to be patient about it just keep an eye on the creator's mastodon account[1] where he posts all the most up-to-the-minute updates about the project. Or, heck, send him a message to ask about it :)

[0] https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform

[1] https://mastodon.social/@mntmn