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> I see. When I read your statement, I interpreted it as statement about a majority of devs in such communities.

> I actually came into the haskell community expecting MORE of such behavior, becuase I think common wisdom is that Haskell is full of gatekeeprs. I've been quite surprised by how little of it there actually are.

Yeah I don't mean to imply that this is something specific to the Haskell or PL community. More that there is a strain of vocal gatekeeping in the field of software dev as a whole, and it finds most purchase in niche communities like PL enthusiasts or simplicity enthusiasts, probably often because small communities don't always have the time/manpower to create consistent messaging and guidelines.

> I'm not sure I totally grok your point re: golang. Just go read Rob pike's statement. That doesn't mean much about golang per se; he may have been attempting to make something suitable primarily for beginners, and hit upon some kind of impossibly powerful design (i'm thinking like scheme or something). But I hear about how bad golang code has to be, and well it makes me very sad.

I just linked those posts from a thread I found, it's not really a point I'm trying to make myself, though hating on Go is a common sport for folks who write in niche languages. (So P(niche language writer | hater) is high, not that P(hater | niche language writer) is high.)

> Of course, golang does solve actual very real problems, and failing to acknowledge this is holding back the industry 100%. It also meets people where they are, not where the language author is, which is of course something we really need to come to terms with as a group of people who want to push the industry forward.

Right and that's all I mean. I firmly believe that choosing a PL is often a complicated decision and is often driven more by the problem domain than anything else. But the toxic gatekeeping around the dialogue ends up making everyone defensive and has people take increasingly intransigent positions, which leads to silly divides instead of folks working together to advance SOTA.
> Anyway that’s my theory

Not really. It's called communism, and it's been tried many times.
Read The Undefeated by George Paloczi-Horvath. He's a 20th century writer who lived through the tail end of the feudal system in Hungary. The lives of the peasants were not great. They were mal-nourished and lived at the whims of their lords.
And how did those indigenous cultures fair when they came in contact with Western systems of resource collection and distribution?

How can a system be both agrarian and strong enough to survive contact with non-agrarian systems? How do you stop 10 people from secretly working hard and producing an extra ration of gruel right under your commie nose?
> The argument is trying to say that the distinction from "actual reality" (whatever that means) and perception of reality doesn't make much sense.

Oh I disagree, and would offer belief (perception) in covid as an example of the consequences of not making a distinction between the two.

> One cannot break free of their perceived reality in order to see/compare/reason about "actual reality".

Only as a binary (100% break free and see True Reality as it is), but as a spectrum, it is certainly possible to improve upon one's perceptions, education is a good example of that, and for the already educated, things like meditation and psychedelics can teach you substantial new things.

>> ... if we then killed all of those outside observers (say, just a few researchers who are aware of what is in the room surrounding the child's room), would the objects in that room then cease to exist (and if so, by what mechanism that we reasonably know exists)?

> Yeah, basically -- assuming you, the experimenter/person who is observing this thought experiment, is also killed.

Is this not simply a proof by re-assertion, that is easily countered by simply asserting the opposite?

> I think the issue with some of these thought experiments is that they assume there exists some omniscient perspective who can see every part of the experiment (i.e. the person running the experiment).

I mean that would certainly help, but asserting True/Accurate knowledge of the true state/nature of reality with no concern for what is actually true seems weird to me. Maybe this has something to do with the mind's common inability to not "know" certain things?

>>> Does it really make sense when materialists argue that unobservable, undetectable, totally unperceivable and uninferrable things in this world actually exist?

>> It makes complete sense to me (and I typically disagree with materialists)!

> Interesting! How do you reconcile this with the belief that "reality is contingent on our minds"?

Oh I was not explicit in my belief, I am thinking of ~the unfolding of reality....the future state of reality is a function of human perception (accurate or not). But this isn't really relevant to the question of whether there are unobservable/undetectable things in the world - simply imagine a position in the deep dark corner of the ocean, in a spot where man and his devices cannot reach: what is located there? Nothing? Null? A black hole? I simply presume that there will be your typical ocean stuff, but I do not know this to be true. And that's just a simple example, a more complex one would be: how does this world that we live in actually work? Why do things happen the way they do, and not some other way? Now, it is often very difficult for people to realize that they do not actually know the answer to questions like this (including or maybe even especially materialists), but that is very different from them actually knowing the answer. (Apologies if that sentence is hard to understand!)
The clock is not very accurate and devices have to interpolate it. Which is something they all do slightly differently, especially if the tempo changes - which doesn't happen much in pop, but happens regularly in media composition.

If you're lucky the result will be in-time-ish, but it's never going to be sample accurate.

This actually matters for some applications, including sound design. If you trigger two samples with a variable offset you can get phase cancellation and other easily audible effects.

DAWs are sample accurate now, but 5-pin DIN MIDI 1.0 really isn't.
I love that you are asking these questions. Indeed I think any writing meant to describe an entire economy in a few paragraphs will necessarily be a bit hand wavey.

I did try to answer one of your questions: the machines are serviced by the members of the collective. In any plan for a society education must be considered. But much the same way that any halfway technical person can learn how to fix a 3D printer, these machines should be designed with repair in mind and along with open source designs there would be freely accessible repair guides.

Production should be somewhat decentralized so there should be many places manufacturing motors etc. but when it comes to putting the machines together I’d expect that different collectives would focus on certain machines and they would trade with people near them. Remember that you can always fall back on “people use money to exchange goods and services” I’m just imagining a model where that isn’t really the dominant way people manage their day to day survival.

I am not sure that decentralization is less efficient.

Getting the raw materials is one of the more serious questions. Generally falling back on non-automated things, firms should be cooperatively run. Also raw material consumption would arguably go down for westerners who move to this model, as there would be minimal waste and the machines would all be designed for repair.

Health care is to me essential but these things would vary from region to region based on cultural ideals and material conditions.

I am an engineer and I love to fix machines. I would rather spend my days fixing machines than working a corporate job to enrich a few executives. People who want to be Doctors or teachers often feel similarly. They need their material needs covered so they can do what they value most - helping others. I basically just think we can really streamline the whole production side of the economy and design things so everyone benefits and actually stops needing to work 40+ hours a week forever.
Here [1] you see direct evidence of this in the Danish context, but it's the same everywhere.

The population of E. Europe is literally in decline [2]

It's not birth rate [3] (it's note hugely different in Europe, but errs higher in the East).

The people leaving E. Europe are 'able bodied workers' and 'the educated' and 'students leaving to get education and jobs in the West' - i.e. E. Europe's absolutely most valuable 'assets'.

E. Europe is clearly being hollowed out in a very material way.

The 'freedom of movement' foundation of the EU is not really a humanitarian issue, though it's usually framed popularly as such, it's fundamentally a neoliberal policy, i.e. 'worker mobility' as European leaders believe this is a fundamental advantage of the US.

[1] https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=202106161...

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/eastern-europ...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/612074/fertility-rates-i...
No need for rainwater; chlorine evaporates, so leaving a bucket of tap water overnight will dechlorinate it naturally. Some particularly fussy plants do require extra filtered water, though.
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I got 2 - try the smartctl short test on them if you have one available, then record it and send it to your friends :D
When you have to give information, it doesn't really mean you're subject to a great deal of surveillance. You can tell you're subject to surveillance by the fact everything's really convenient and they already have all your info.

I guess my feeling is the amount of information collected about me by governments since the pandemic started is probably measured in bytes, whereas the amount of information that's been stored and shared by one or another private company is in gigabytes. I'm got a scam text the other day about a DHL package that was arriving, because some asshole has been selling my purchase history somewhere along the line. Every time you have any kind of commercial interaction with anybody you enter into this really promiscuous wash of bad security, over-eager logging, data-hoarding, and outright transfer that is how companies treat data today. That's the problem, not a couple of extra forms when you cross a boarder.
Oh, it certainly seems like a scam, just wondering if anything is actually prosecutable.
Hi. I'm the author.

I'm not embarrassed.

What I've done is written up my learning experience from near-nought in the hopes that others find it either informative or enjoyable.

Why should I be embarrassed of that?
I don't see why cities would be worse for pedestrians since there is no reason for pedestrians and cars to mix... Modern urban spaces try to segregate as much as possible.

In any case, I think a possible consequence could rather be a drop in private ownership and price of services like Uber: Cars can drive themselves, which removes the main cost of taxis (the human driver), and can be summoned as needed via an app, so perhaps the need to own one decreases along with the need for parking space.
Strange that they don't normalize both the input and reference texts, I do a lot of work with text from different sources and I mostly work with normalized versions of them.
> The government should incentivize good behavior

Yes exactly, incentivize not mandate. People should be free to cooperate/not cooperate as they see fit, don't you think?

Why UBI? That's just more mandatory cooperation - the productive are forced to subsidize the non-productive. Can't it be optional?
That's what I'm doing. Health insurance hasn't been an issue because I generate the correct amount of income to qualify for the maximum ACA subsidy. I might get back into the labor market come January but haven't decided yet. For now my expenses are very low and I could go for years at this burn rate no problem. Maybe I'll work a year or two and if the pandemic is most over with by then, do a couple of years of traveling, which is much less expensive when you're not confined to restricted vacation time windows.
And to be pedantic, USB is not officially part of the MIDI spec, so that problem introduced by USB adapters isn't really a problem with MIDI per se.

If you really want to interface MIDI with a computer in a fashion consistent with the original MIDI specs, then you can use an actual Serial port at MIDI's 31,250 baud rate, which is possible to do on a Raspberry Pi for instance (or on a computer which you could set your baud rate to that). Then you can get interrupts precisely when the MIDI notes arrive.
As someone who is also largely self taught in cs terms, it's actually very amazing to me how even very abstract ideas which seem to be very far away from a "solution" to a "problem" often fall into place very nicely.

For example consider a unification algorithm (e.g. https://reasoning.page/29021/unification-sort-of-in-rust which is an explanation of it that I wrote). The individual parts of it do not seem that spectacular, and also seem quite abstract. It is so simple (in my mind) that it could not possibly be correct. However, there is an emergent property when the interactions between the different parts of the program are taken together.
How to Solve It by Pólya is about math, but can be used more broadly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
> There was no notion that a minority got rich off the labor of others.

Northern Iroquois Slavery
https://www.jstor.org/stable/482790
I can upload a jpg, put in my wallet address and sell an NFT on opensea. I don't have to pay or maintain the infra. No charge backs, tax reporting, stripe integration, etc. I don't even need a website, just pimp it directly on my social
I think we’re talking past each other.

I’m saying yes, we hear lots of people say “the book was better” and in most cases that’s true. However, most people will never have read the books movies based on books were based on, so it’s kind of a pointless Pyrrhic argument.

That said, many will claim that The Godfather movie was better than the book -I never read the book, so I cannot offer an opinion.

But, yes, normally, in order to capture the nuance and details of a book you’d need a multi part series.
So if you got malware the last 20 years your system could still be infected? Not saying that risk outweighs the pros, but that is something I think is nice each fresh install.
Have you actually used for example Quest 2?
3.5mm is very much _not_ universal.

In particular there is a wide variety of required gain/impedance as well as multiple different proprietary options as people attempted to adopt it to add microphones, controls/signals, and/or video. This is why Android, Apple, Microsoft and Playstation all have incompatible accessories.

The number of contacts can vary between 2 and 5. The length of the primary contact is not consistent, thus the mechanism to retain the plug often does not engage. Likewise, there is no specification on overall plug size to guarantee a jack will fit into the device case.

Thats excluding other extensions such as toslink. It is also worth noting that making the wrong connection, e.g. attaching an AV output to an audio input, can physically damage equipment.

Generally what people see is that the headset they got for whatever device works and assume there is broad compatibility - but to work best the jack on the headset is being designed for and tested against a particular subset of supported phones/controllers/music players. And broader support is typically not possible without separate connectors (e.g. a headset cord sold for apple, for xbox, for playstation, for android).
Thank you for your crack forensic work, this so-called 'Smoldesu' character really seems to be asking far too much for a company like Apple. How can someone even expect them to support more than one graphics API when they're not even the largest company in the world anymore? Truly ridiculous. Every real developer just splits their codebase into two separate portions, one for Windows, Linux, BSD, Switch, PS5, and Xbox, then one for MacOS and iOS. Sounds like the parent is just butthurt that they don't have the time to support multiple platforms and are too poor to afford a suite of Apple products to test on. What a reprehensible dev.

What do they think this is this, the future? The technical challenge is simply too great for Apple, they'll be lucky if it shows up on the 2027 Macbook Pro redesign!
If remote work is still seen as an employer provided perk, the employer still doesn't get it and likely will do something stupid just as soon as they can.
If you treat a home as an investment then yes, interest rates moving the wrong way would hurt you. However, if you plan on living in a house for years it doesn’t really matter. Once you’re in the market, a sort of housing relativity begins in that if your home loses value, then others in your market did too so if you sell to buy a different property, it has been normalized. So long as you aren’t leveraged too far. Regardless, over time inflation will probably dwarf your mortgage payment and in due time your monthly payment is “cheap” compared to rents or similar properties + you have equity.

But with rising rates the monthly payment will be the same, inflation adjusted, but now more goes to interest than principal. Seriously, look up housing prices and interest rates over the years and calculate the monthly payment. Then adjust for inflation. Hasn’t changed in most places.

Interest rates could go up, sure. I just doubt it. I don’t think remote work will have too big an effect on leveling cost of living though. Most places are simply not attractive enough for high earners to desire. A high priced, lovely suburb of NYC is going to always be expensive because there will always be demand to live near NYC for example.

Of course interest rates going up + deflation would be disaster for most everyone in the market.
You're no longer allowed to watch this video unless you log in into youtube/google.

I've watched this video other times, but being unable to watch it now because of youtube/google policies bothers me a lot.

Anyone knows a way (not other source) to watch/download the video?
I'm curious where you are getting this alt-history. Do you have any academic or popular primary references? Who do you read for economic history that supports these conclusions?
If you're using only one 7-bit CC (and not an MSB/LSB pair) to control a filter cutoff parameter that can range from 20Hz to 20kHz, it's not possible to dial in the exact frequency you want to match a particular harmonic.
Both irrelevant with medical supervision. SSRIs are highly addictive too; many people never stop taking them.
Not even an address or link to a blockexplorer so that we can see what “awakens” even means, and then the ads overload my iphone and freeze my browser before getting to the bottom

The source independent article is paywalled

This is the depth of crypto discussion in non-crypto news sources right now. (And of course crypto-news sources would be seen as non-objective so therefore ignored) Frustrating.

Anyway 50 bitcoin is non-news. But the headline gets people talking about a dozen barely tangentially related things. Its a decade later and, apparently, many people have no idea how to sell bitcoin for cash, not even sure if its possible, or when the information about them is any different from when they sell stocks, or think it would move the market. Kind of comforting to know that’s the ‘competition’, at least, since it just means “still early”.
No. You’ve completely misunderstood. This is a free market. People decide for themselves what is essential. When a lot of people in a region buy certain machines which they considered essential, that region will have an abundance of those goods. It happens organically. I am 100% opposed to authoritarian control and there is always someone who makes this quip without bothering to actually consider what I have written.
> Snow Leopard it went downhill with reliability and stability … Mail and mDNSResponder constantly crashing

If this isn’t just hyperbole, try a clean reinstall after a hardware diagnostic. This isn’t normal.

(/usr/local/bin is fine, are you perhaps referring to Homebrew changing its preferred location?)

You can argue about 32-bit support but given that the platform first went 64-bit in 2003 it’s kind of hard to say you didn’t have advanced warning. Similarly, the writing has been the wall for OpenGL since Microsoft stopped favoring it on the most popular platforms in the 1990s. The model doesn’t fit how modern hardware works and it’s not surprising that they don’t want to keep supporting a standard which the industry increasingly doesn’t use.
At least in my experience, it's a matter of separation of data vs os. I can reinstall the os or upgrade as needed. Then copy my data over separately from the OS itself.
The way "esteem" is distributed today is if you produce something I want I "esteem" you by buying it. If you don't produce anything I want I "disrespect" you by doing absolutely nothing to you. I don't give you anything, I don't take anything away from you. I simply smile, nod, and move on with my life.

Seems like you want to take freedom of association away from the rest of humanity and put it into your own hands. It's hard for me to imagine a mentality that is more self-centered and more selfish than that.
That's already happening right now regardless.

This is a mechanism for licensing digital goods distribution. Currently, you need to sign up with a platform that will sell your thing for a significant cut, and the thing is stuck to your account and at risk of disappearing if the platform folds or decides to ban you.

With this, your works could be distributed at no cost to the creator in a way that is legal and sanctioned by the creator. This is a way to make torrenting entirely above board. Digital ownership is more durable for consumers, and distribution is cheaper for creators.
Like, can I connect two USB-C harddrives together to copy data?
Usually (except when mentioned loudly by the manufacturer) USB midi devices are “device” devices, not “host” devices
Anyone know why macOS updates take so long? It's nuts, I just upgraded to one of the new MacBooks and even on that it took about 20 minutes to upgrade from 12.0.0 to 12.0.1, so not even a major release upgrade. The CPU is wicked fast, the SSD is wicked fast, so why does it feel like I'm suddenly using a Pentium when upgrading?
I mean, it’s not strictly necessary. Some people are just into hyper optimization or being extremely frugal, it’s like a hobby. For example I’ve heard a lot of the old (almost all Chinese) ladies who pick up depositable recyclables in the Bay Area are pretty wealthy or solidly middle class. They just do it because it gives them something to do and is cash flow positive.

There are also people making >$200k/yr who live in cars and get all their food/showers at their tech employer. Sure you could write an article about them regarding how they’re doing it to save up enough for a down payment. But it’s really just a way to save slightly more money; they could live in a studio and buy their own food, it would just maybe reduce their saving rate by $3k/mo

I feel like this is hard to explain, but to demonstrate that some people (also me, but I’m not that hardcore) are just into this, there are tons of video games where a main part of the gameplay is “min maxing” like this. For example people will spend dozens of hours figuring out how to increase xp or money per hour, then hundreds of hours grinding out their new method, just for fun. The people like the guy from the article doing this are just doing the real-life version of min maxing.
I use “about:blank” as a start page. It’s way faster then anything else.
Yes he had student loans, but I doubt that that was his primary driver for finding a food hack.