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"What does it mean to be indoctrinated in “science” class? Let’s think back to an example that most of us learned growing up. If I asked you, “What is the mitochondria,” you, like me, would probably say “it’s the powerhouse of the cell,” or some similar concept."

"Lies to children". Sir Terry Pratchett's words. That's how education works. You start off with lies and you compound them and compound them until no one even knows what on earth is going on but there is a narrative from A to B. Lucy Worsley calls them "fibs" and I agree.

That's good enough for most people. It's slightly better than Just So stories and ideally avoids people doing something terminal. Sometimes, someone brought up on this nonsense looks really deeply into something and writes a paper on it. You never know, it might fly.

Flat earth? What a complete pile of bollocks. Imagine how gravity would work on a disc. If you have snags with gravity as a concept then I'm mad.
The very term "disinformation" is problematic because people use it too loosely. Disinformation is another word for propaganda, or information intended to deceive. The author of the post seems to use it correctly.

But people often use the term as a pejorative for any information that goes against their groupthink, regardless of whether the information is true or false. In the latter case, they're actually using the term "disinformation" as propaganda, ironically. The same is true of the term "fact check," which many of us identified as a red flag for propaganda years ago when it first started appearing.
> Is there such a thing as a social media for developers?

I guess you're looking at it :)

I don't really have much advice to give, but feel free to add me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/till-schroeder

Since you're learning programming, I'd recommend doing some little projects, and try to find some fun in it. That will make it easier. Best of luck!
I'm not convinced. I am pretty sure I got a better education in specifically how we "know" (historically, anyways, eratosthenes and all that) the Earth was round, by 7th grade in the US (public school, albeit a very good one), and having done equivalent coursework in a school run by the Japanese Embassy, you don't get that knowledge in the same way. Japanese education is much, much more like rote knowledge-learning than conceptual frameworks of thinking.

If you made the opposite argument -- that flat earthers exist because in the US we teach conceptual frameworks and not rote memorization, I would be more persuaded.
I don't think rent control is the policy of a "strict authoritarian government". Regardless, I don't agree with you that rent would rise considerably or that it would negate any benefit.
"It seems that it has evolved as a reaction against Christianity"

Citation needed.

Pretty much all secular scholarship I have ever seen on this topic has concluded that both rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity were reactions to the destruction of the second temple. Rabbinic Judaism is the direct intellectual and religious descendant of the pharisee sect, and has always stood on its own merits. The only rabbinic tradition that definitively developed in response to the rise of Christianity is the birkat haminim, a prayer that was used to "out" secret Jewish Christians before the final split between the religions. Beyond that, all there is are attempts to deal with / respond to persecution of Jews and Jewish institutions by Christians in later centuries (e.g. the fixing of the Jewish calendar after Christian Rome disbanded the Sanhedrin).

Don't overstate the importance of Christianity to the early rabbis. Rabbinic literature is generally dismissive of non-Jewish religions and Jewish Christians like the Ebionites were seen as heretics -- a term the rabbis used for non-rabbinic Jewish movements of the Roman era (of which there were many, none of which have survived).

As for the Gospel, it does not really matter what people thought hand washing was for -- ritual washing hands did improve their hygiene, just like ritual bathing. Jesus told his followers not to bother, and it does not matter whether or not he understood the hygiene implications, because not washing their hands was still detrimental to hygiene.
Nowadays 25 is too young to be seen "loser". Anyway now 47% of men at 30-35yo in Japan are never got married, we "lose".
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> Start managing food inventory smarter, and save over $1,600 annually per family.

Where are you getting that metric from? I think I'd still end up throwing away 20-40% of my food even if I did have an app that showed me what's in my refrigerator...
>Book book2 = new JsonParser().parse(json, Book.class);

why not: JsonParser().parse<Book>(json)
Oh! I already knew high school textbooks were the worst, and have been for some time. (I've even read stuff by Feynman criticizing them).

But yeah, of course that has real consequences!
Meanwhile, the state-of-the-art-not-facebook MySQL deployment still suffers from schema migrations (https://github.blog/2021-12-01-github-availability-report-no...):

> As next steps, we’re continuing to investigate the specific failure scenario, and have paused schema migrations until we know more on safeguarding against this issue.
I'm not sure the author has an understanding of what D-Bus is. The article doesn't really discuss D-Bus at all.

D-Bus is not merged in to systemd. When systemd notices that a service it started is named "dbus", it then registers itself as a D-Bus service; programs (like `systemctl` or `poweroff` then use use D-Bus to send it commands. For comparison, sysvinit accepts commands via a named pipe (`/run/initctl`, or `/dev/initctl` for older versions of sysvinit).

Most services are not made to be D-Bus daemons. A service is only made to be a D-Bus daemon if its unit file says `Type=dbus`; none of the examples in the article say this. You can use D-Bus to ask systemd to start or stop a given service; same as you could use `telinit` to use /run/initctl to tell sysvinit to change the runlevel; this does not make a service started this way a D-Bus service.

The NOTIFY_SOCKET and watchdog functionality that the article discusses... this functionality has nothing to do with D-Bus.
Question: Does anybody actually have a good quality reference point of "This is how I know the earth really is a sphere"? Like, something more direct than indirect (I know you'd need a fairly massive conspiracy, but that's indirect). Previous googling and so forth didn't really yield particularly good results for me.
I'm not really sure what the point of articles like this are, other than to get people angry at each other. Probably to drive clicks, I guess. Can't say I expected much from the magazine that ran the false UVA rape case.
I agree big changes will happen. Maybe around 2030 there will be combination of federal debt default (some kind of cram down term extension), and feds roll social security and bankrupt State retirements into one living wage monthly payment for everyone which is age-tested.
The need for '3-4 year old proof' devices is still acutely felt in the first world, where many of the solutions just involve adding a larger back and sides shell and hoping nothing major happens to the screen.

It really doesn't help that touchpads generally have oversimplified interfaces and poor support for any sort of peripheral that would aid in greater input speed or acuity. (Bluetooth doesn't count, I hate current wireless so much.)
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Thanks for your reply, but in most cases, the expectation has been set for a real time reply. Hence people end up inviting me to a hangout or calling in that case.
to me transfer of the research to China is exactly a typical solution by politicians - maintaining the perception of prohibition while in reality scaling the research even more into risky territory.
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What you need is a versioned mapping layer from the scraped data into your own schema.

The problem is when you need to update your schema to support data/relations not available in your own schema.

The problem with SQL is that schemas are so sticky and hard to change. People are always hesitant to change their schemas because schema changes themselves are difficult and then you have to update a bunch of backend code, and then your frontend code maybe does strange denormalized things, and then everything breaks.

I've been thinking about this for a while, and I think what is needed is a visual tool that can show all dependencies of a data schema element (backend, frontend), so that schema changes are easier to make.

All the layers (db access, api, cache, frontend data stores/caches/frameworks) in modern architectures make it virtually impossible to modify a schema without causing chaos. The solution is keeping the data model and query interface as close as possible throughout the entire stack. For example you should never write any manual data manipulation code (e.e. `people.map(p => p.full_name = p.firstName + p.lastName)` unless this is able to be traced through the entire system. A monorepo, typed ORM, refactoring tooling (e.g. IDE) can help, but its usually never setup well enough or integrates close enough with the db.
Isn't that backwards? The great filter is meant to explain why we don't see extraterrestrial life, so finding it would be counterevidence for a great filter
No, it isn't laborious when the teacher understands the why and wherefore of the scientific method.

I know the Earth is round, because I have observed that when a ship sails away from me, the top portion of the ship is the last to fade over the horizon. When flying, the shadow of the plane has a surrounding glory.
It's an outlier, but Gates is far from the only prominent figure in tech who dropped out. It's a whole dang cliche at this point- Jobs, Zuckerberg, Ellison, Dorsey, Dell, Kalanick, Gabe Newell, Jan Koum of WhatsApp all dropped out. Even Page dropped out of his PhD program! Not to mention dropouts from other industries, from Richard Branson to Henry Ford.

This reoccurring pattern in tech is probably why Thiel came up with his whole "don't go to college" narrative.
thats the median for all workers
we have an isp in france called Free - so yeah, at least somewhere it's a trademark. though this is not the real reason they ban it. people are cheapo so they all want free stuff, so they tend to search for "<app> free", and google tries to reduce the squatting on this keyword.

it always baffled me how people always feel this need to explicitly search for free stuff, without looking first if it is always free (esp. in the case of opensource software). I once had to cleanup of viruses the computer of a classmate that got all the viruses because he searched for "python free" and fell for a crappy, virus-loaded, fake version...
But the 486 was seeing use in 1990.

"Seeing use?" Maybe, but unlikely. When it was announced, it wasn't even going to hit manufacturing until 4Q1989. The first 486 computer wasn't even announced until just before Christmas of '89 and wasn't available until a long time later.

Widespread? Absolutely not.

In 1990, the town where I lived allowed locals to use its computer labs at off-hours. The machines were all 8088's. There was a guy I knew through the campus computer club who had an 80286, and he was considered "the future!"

I used to build my own computers, and I didn't get a 486DX2 until 1997.

Back then, people didn't upgrade major components all the time like they do now.
The recent (6 months ago) XNU kernel can still be compiled. Instructions are part of the GitHub repo:

https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu
If we taught the story of Eratosthenes[0] and his method of measuring / calculating the circumference of the earth, I imagine that would go a long way toward making it “real.” I never heard of him in school. I learned of him as an adult who was already interested in learning about history.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
> People believe what they were taught, and very few think about why they believe the things they do. This results in a series of “what about”-isms, knee-jerk responses to points to disengage the mind from considering painful thoughts.

Yep, that’s a perfect description of this whole article.
If by back in the day you mean a decade ago then yes.
That's not how it works.

If you own the entirety of TSLA then you've essentially taken the company private.

Then you can turn around and sell to private equity firms with, say, current market cap as asking price.
And I understand it is one level further up in China (memorisation wise).

I still think it’s a form of trolling to make people mad. And it works. A form of “fuck you” to the ellite.
Start doing security what way, exactly? I defined a threat model and a mitigation. And it's pretty straightforward - a single keypair that ties environment variables to their deployment.

The article you linked to is about signing. It doesn't solve "I need to put an AWS key into the environment of a process".
The elephant in the room people don't want to talk about is declining trust in powerful institutions, whether official or unofficial.

It's easy and very middle class to just say "oh these dumb people believe dumb things" and much harder and less comfortable to consider there's a growing issue with trust and - ultimately - legitimacy.
I don't miss the physical media. I am happy purchasing digital content. It makes management and organization very easy. What I do miss is owning the content. If you purchased a Music CD or a Movie DVD, it was yours. You could watch it any time and nobody could take it away. Now, if your iTunes account gets disabled, you lose all your purchased content.
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Every interpretation which focuses on Jesus as a "interesting teacher" ignores half of the things he actually said and demonstrated. Paul wasn't more radical than the man who claimed to be greater than the Temple, one with the Father. Christ claimed that Abraham rejoiced for His day, Moses wrote for Him and the Scriptures pointed to Him.

He saw His own flesh as the bread of life, greater than the manna in the desert.

I am not sure we can easily comprehend how out there this was.

He resurrected people and died for the sins of every human. His teaching wasn't just a list of debates, but it was full of claims and events that you can't honestly compare to other "rabbies"
The free market and the march of technological progress did a better job than any moonshot project designed to solve digital literacy in poor countries. Many sub-Saharan and Southeast Asian countries have better LTE rollout than rural America does. Everyone has a smartphone or tablet, made possible by the fact that cheap Android devices are really cheap but still effective. And that's because the free market doesn't care about the opinions of a bunch of committee members who all want a say in how the device is designed. It doesn't have the luxury of endless nonprofit grants. Devices either fulfill needs and make money or they don't and company goes broke.

Just because they don't do computing like _you_ do, using a laptop, doesn't mean they don't have access to the Internet for what they need.
> loses some of the implicit assumptions people make for filesystems

This is sort of incorrect though. Unless your file system supports transactions (which I assume this one does not), this should never be your expectation.
Yep looks much better!
“ESG” is a cloaking shield adopted by mega corps in the wake of the occupy movement. By adopting an endless stream of HR policies, socially conscious messaging and relentless social media virtue signaling, big corps have convinced people that they “care” ….

Care about what exactly? These are first and foremost profit-seeking entities (nothing wrong with that btw) and the notion that they care about environmental/social/governance beyond a thinly veiled marketing ploy fails under scrutiny.

It’s actually brilliant. And it’s been working for a decade.
Indeed. I have a dozen or so microservices supported by team. Most are SpringBoot a couple of them I wrote myself with plain java and embedded tomcat. Needless to say Springboot stuff is rather complicated for such a simple business functionality. Errors are indecipherable being swamped by thousand line framework exception trace. But being an "enterprise standard" framework all projects must be move to this turd of a framework.
Yes, and no.

I'm an early adopter of technology that I see as viable for my lifestyle, so I'm no old fogy wishing for an idealistic past.

I started with vinyl when singles cost US .79 cents, LP's 1.99, because other than the radio, music was only available that way unless you had the money to buy expensive reel-to-reel tapes and the exorbitantly priced tape recorder/player.

Vinyl was fragile and a bit of a hassle to deal with if one wanted to keep them in near pristine condition, but the process of removing the LP from the protective sleeves and without touching the groove sides, flip it over between my open palms and place it on the turntable then lowering the tonearm into the entry groove was an exquisite tactile experience to be sure, like a smooth dance move.

And the album artwork and bonus gate-fold sleeves with additional information about the record and band made the minor hassles worth the efforts.

When cassettes were introduced I didn't like the loss of audio quality, but due to their size and robustness as a storage medium they truly made music "portable" like in no other time in history, and with the advent of consumer affordable in-car cassette players in the mid 70's the sales exploded and they became ubiquitous.

Despite the drawback of having tiny nearly unreadable "album" artwork, they were so much easier to manage and store, plus opening the polystyrene cases and slotting them into the player had it's own subtle tactile appeal.

But one had to de-Gauss the playback head occasionally, and regularly clean the head and capstans on the player with isopropyl alcohol as early tape formulations shed the iron oxide coating, degrading the tape and playback experience, muddy, muffled highs anyone?

The CD changed everything yet again with slightly larger "album" artwork and a case that initially took awhile to figure out how to open until one got the hang of it, and with proper handling the poly-carbonate CD disc's were much more damage resistant than vinyl.

Again, the process of opening the CD case, extracting the disc with two fingers on the edges and placing it into the tray and later on, slot, also made for an enjoyable haptic ritual of sorts.

The Mini Disc was a failure from the start, media was expensive, players were expensive and the benefits were not worth the effort to pursue.

I still have a sealed copy of Midnight Oil's Diesel and Dust that I bought in 1987 and I never played because the player prices never dropped to a level I found acceptable.

Digitally available music ruined it for me, and aside from the total loss of "album" artwork and such, the mp3 CODEC delivered garbage sound quality on a well thought out sound system.

Thankfully, I quickly discovered .flac so the audio quality issue was resolved, but finding the music in my extensive multi genera library was/is a hassle.

I've never found a music manager that I like, and of course, digital music has zero tactile feeling unless you count mouse clicking and keystrokes, which I don't.

So I hope I live long enough to see the next big change in media and hopefully I'll like it better than the what I see in the clunky present.
He's saying that the Western education system teaches people to memorize facts such as the roundness of the Earth without teaching process methodology to derive the roundness of the Earth.

That's also a claim without much in the way of evidence and plenty of evidence against. The whole rather slight piece is based on this unexamined idea.
It's very much not modern, it's one of the oldest religions around - there's some evidence that the (younger) Abrahamic religions have inherited ideas from it, so maybe not so 'pagan' either
> PostScript is a lot like Lisp, where everything is an FEXPR.

I view PostScript as a Forth rather than a Lisp. That may not be correct--as I'm by no means an expert in either.

> ...because it can eval? ;)

Perty much. :)

> It had ultra-dynamic lazy scoping: It would defer evaluating the function parameters until they were actually needed by the callee (((or a function it called))), at which time it would evaluate the parameters in the CALLEE's scope.

And that hits at one of the problems that Shutt hits in his thesis, dynamic default scope (aka global variables) interacts very badly with FEXPRs (and macros and lots of other things, too).

There is a reason why everybody abandoned dynamic scoping and went to lexical scoping as soon as memory got large enough. The problem of lexical scoping is that now you have to deal with the fact that your variables need a stack. The downside of lexical scoping is the memory consumption of holding the variable bindings as recursion proceeds--that kicks up a lot of garbage to be collected and complicates your name resolution data structure. This is why Scheme was so insistent on tail calls.

Shutt deals with the scoping ambiguity by keeping the references to the environments so they can be explicitly accessed as required. Thus, your "argument evaluator" can access the required environment. Do you need the environment of the original definition? You have that as an explicit variable. Do you need the current environment? You have that as an explicit variable. Most things are "lexical scope and argument evaluation", but they don't have to be. And that's important because, as we've found out over time, if you only have one or the other, some cases don't work. (ie. short-circuit "and" likely wants the "and" from the definition environment but wants to evaluate the arguments it chooses to evaluate in the current environment)

Of course, all that costs memory and CPU (especially GC!) cycles--both of which were in short-supply in 1980 and laughably abundant in 2010 (date of Shutt's thesis).
I'm trying to understand the author's meaning for this statement: "They are also more likely to detect meaningful patterns where they might not exist."

It sounds like a critique of the persons who detect those patterns. But if/how one could refute that such patterns exist, or are meaningful, seems to hinge on the meaning of that quote.

In a recent season of The Expanse, there was a religious women (sorry, can't remember the character). Someone (perhaps herself) said that "she sees patterns that other's don't". That claim makes sense to me, because it doesn't rely on somehow knowing whether or not the patterns she sees are noteworthy.
A resilient decentralised computer network -- first realised as ARPANET, which later grew into the Internet -- was a solution to the (at least perceived) pre-existing problem of a military (nuclear) threat to the USA from the Soviet Union.

TL;DR: You're wrong.
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From the author of the article who was not at Rolling Stone at the time:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-taibbi-rolling-stone-uva...

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The point of these articles is to be aware of the past so as to avoid the same often repeated mistakes as societies. Especially when he was denounced for advocating peace and against wars and militarism by the mainstream media which seems to be a societal constant like our addiction to forever wars and bombings and economic sanctions.
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I've never even heard of VOSK-API [0], the underlying offline speech to text engine that this project uses.

Does anyone have experience using it? Is it any good?

[0] https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
Hi Seth!

Everything done by anyone is a reflection of them, their needs, constrains, ideas, and knowledge. Intention matters, and inaction is intention-less.

However I don’t think your metaphor is apt — OLPC didn’t intend to be a conquest in any way that was about extracting resources let alone bring resources those back home.

The OLPC didn’t replace something, it created something. It pointed a way.