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> It was clear that King’s main transgression was not knowing his place.

Or maybe it was antagonizing the military-industrial complex. If there's one thing both political parties (though not their voters) and most major media companies agree on, it's the continual need to sacrifice lives and tax dollars in foreign wars that have little relevance at home, besides enriching a handful of politically connected companies.

John and his brother Robert Kennedy also opposed that war, and both were assassinated.
You confuse your actual collection of knowledge, facts, and conceptual understanding from actual thinking. Actual thinking is hard, confusing, slow, and infinitely more painful.

Your ability to know that the Earth is round is based on facts and knowledge acquired, not thinking from first principle.

The ancient did all the hard work, we just co-opted it.
You can do DI without a framework.

If you write classes with final fields, with a constrcutor that takes the class' dependencies,and don't use static fields to hold mutable data.

You are doing DI. Just call `new` yourself, instead of having the framework do it for you.
But with that thinking society will never progress. If we take everything in the past on faith, then we will stay stuck in those ideas of the past. New ideas often come out of challenging the old ones, especially when that change is revolutionary.

Absolutely some things you may need to take on faith; but you shouldn't base your world view on only taking people in authority's views on faith. The more you use the scientific method, the more you know when you need to use it or not.
Gremlins is good Christmas movie too.
It will be interesting to see if all life uses DNA in four pairs or if every planet evolves a system for encoding life differently.
> If any, I prefer plan9/9front's drawterm/cpu which runs circles over Unix/Linux VNC and RDP. By a huge mile.

How can this [1] code possibly be faster than modern hardware accelerated blitting? I don't see a line of SIMD in there.

[1]: https://github.com/9fans/drawterm/blob/master/libmemdraw/dra...
Yes, yes, in theory it has no stock price. In practice if I do want to sell - privately or not - I wouldn't get anywhere as much as the price was beforehand.
Some have been said already, but:

- merging of posts.
- longer titles (the limit is infuriating sometimes).
- maybe a default font-size that's slightly larger than it is now?
The comment you reply to mentioned Enron, which is famous for sending people to actual Jail. Jeffrey Skilling spent 12 years in prison - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling

I'll grant that post-9/11 priorities have defunded white collar prosecution, but people go to jail in the US. If you really want a criminal-consequence-free jurisdiction, come to Canada. We really don't send people to jail for corporate fraud. The Vancouver exchange is a free-for-all, and Montréal boiler-rooms are a movie cliche.
Since my school days I always thought Theory of Knowledge was the most important and underrated class. That's where you talk about the scientific method and how we discover facts. Somehow it was only worth a tiny portion of the international baccalaureate.

Basically this essay is correct. Science is taught the wrong way. It should all be a mix of history (of thought) and experiments that guided that thinking. Something like that Bill Bryson book, a brief history of everything. Instead of telling kids the end result, tell them how we got there. Basically, follow the method that you say you use. If you understand science, you know the end result is tentative anyway.

Speaking of everything, there's probably too much content as well. Too many insignificant details that people have to cram, and that they'll never need to know, and if they do, it won't take them long to find. People need to know the large movements, not lots of specific reactions and equations.

The content is also missing a rather important ingredient: what are the open questions in each field? Why turbulence? Teaching kids that we don't know everything is an antidote to science denial, however strange that may sound. The objection people have to science is often that it's arrogant.
If your goal is average kids, then sure, you need to focus on average kids. But I'd say the smart self-motivated kids are always the biggest bang for the buck in education. Sometimes I get a sense that people (not necessarily here) consider disproportionate success among geeks to imply a program is "backfiring".
Yeah this page is heavy on the white male supremacy angle lol. I will sit at the par all day and point out the flaws of wokism that attempts to cut off honest debate, this site however is straight up Proud Boys fodder.
I made no claim here other than my opinion changed beaded on my observations. And I am pretty sure that creating 20% more money out of thin air has a downstream economic effect far beyond the day the check was cashed
You know, they were funded because of these novelty. If you spend more time with international charity activity, you'll see that no one truly want to help the poor, they are more interested in showing their kindness.
It's tricky.

On one hand I agree that variety of thoughts and opinions and ideas make things FUN.

But we live in an interconnected society. The person next to me who thinks vaccines are tools of the devil that will install chip, or who believes climate change doesn't exist and God has promised to never again destroy the earth so we are fine, or the guy who believes homosexuality is a sin, or that earth is flat... They Get the same vote I do and their efforts impact me and others, and the only way I can see forward is education. So we can debate things which are value oriented and subjective but dear Gawd let's at least agree on basic facts :->.

Or to put it differently, to what degree is true heart-felt belief in flat earth a predictor or sign of a belief system axiomatically different than mine - which again is super fun in casual philosophical chat with coffee way, and truly terrifying when they are e.g. in position of authority. To use example you've put forward, people who truly fervently believe ib a literal god can be lovely people on individual basis, but on average are likely to act in ways which terrify me.

To put it another another way - a random person from another country being a flat earther is fascinating. My minister of science being a flat earther is not :-P
Here's what I was thinking of, under "Vert.x Memory Usage": https://www.tikalk.com/posts/2018/04/30/vertx-memory-usage-w...

Quote:
"But how does Netty do things so fast ? One of the reasons is that it is using native memory pool to store network buffers. If you did some file reading or network action with Vert.x you probably used io.vertx.core.buffer.Buffer class. This class is actually a wrapper around Netty io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf class. Why am I telling you all this ? Let assume that you have a service where clients are downloading 20Mbyte files. Netty will have to allocate at least 20Mbyte for every connected client."

Although this may be an issue with how Vert.x is using Netty. I have to dig into it more.
A computer was a person who made computations. The electronic things were named after a person's job.

Number cruncher is probably a 1990s affectation. The teeth thing is a bit worrying.
> the useful stuff will stick around

There's none though. The markets and especially crypto lunatics themselves clearly show nobody cares about decentralization.
Once you read this article, you can follow it with their timely takedown of that dastardly MLKjr character:

https://counter-currents.com/2022/01/the-fbi-sheds-light-on-...

Oh brother.
Need to watch this once i am high. Thx
> we all ought to acknowledge that much of our knowledge of the world essentially relied on faith

Maybe for many people, but this is not a given. I obviously don't have deep knowledge of every discipline, but with an engineering undergraduate degree (20 years ago) I feel like I have strong tools to understand the world around me down to first principles, question what I'm told and situate it within the axioms I firmly believe, and in general apply the scientific method. There is almost nothing they feels like "magic" to me, even if I'm not a specialist. I think it's a question of critical thinking, understanding a bit about the philosophy of science (not the current religious version) and thinking about cause and effect.

I'm prepared to accept we're all living within a simulation, or in some reality constructed by a diety, or some other currently un-testable unknowable thing, but in the world as we perceive it, there is a lot of order that can be understood in general, without having to be a specialist and without requiring faith
The other responses to your question are classic mathematicians giving math answers to someone who doesn't see why the math is useful in response to asking why is the math is useful. The most straightforward application is solving systems of equations. From early high school, we have problems like x+y=2 and x-y=3 and are asked to solve these. We then add a z (and maybe a w) and solve systems of 3 (or 4) equations before realizing it gets annoying very quickly. Linear algebra is simply the generalization of solving these equations. Instead of writing out all those equations line by line, let's make a new notation as:

[[1,1],[1,-1]] @ [[x,y]] = [[2,3]]

@ is of course matrix multiplication but what it does does not really matter. Only that it performs some "function". But is this notation helpful? It turns out this function is really useful to answer other questions. From here, we can go on to show very interesting things like how to find the answers for x and y. It turns out that it has a recursive process similar to when solving it by hand (isolate one of the variables, plug into another equation, isolate another, ...) and part of this recursive process has a pattern we will call the determinant. Turns out that when the determinant is 0, funny things happen. The point is that it all started by trying to solve these equations which are interesting from a mathematical point of view but also show up naturally in many business applications. See Leontief's Model [1] for how this could be useful. Consumption equals production and bills being linear (#apples * $apples + #bananas * $bananas + ... = total spent) make linear systems arise naturally. All the things that come later, eigenvalues, SVD, etc. were all discovered as mathematical curiosities and later realized that they had very useful applications such as solving OLS and compression.

[1] - https://www.math.ksu.edu/~gerald/leontief.pdf
> though naturally it's easy to spoof a MAC address.

I used to live in an apartment that was within high gain antenna range of the local McDonalds Free WiFi. I had a antenna/wifi adaptor set up in promiscuous mode to listen to all traffic on their network, looking for MAC addresses that connected for a while, then stopped connecting. It'd then switch to that MAC address and BitTorrent until the 500MB daily cap per device ran out, then go back to monitoring mode looking for someone else who'd agreed to the captive portal T&Cs had their MAC address whitelisted and then left. I think I got pretty much all of Game Of Thrones that way...

For a little while, I was monitoring my own home network, and one thing I tried was running map against any reconnection of a known/allowed MAC address, to try and confirm it at least looked like the same device. A RaspberryPi connecting using the MAC address of a phone or a MacBook stood out like a sore thumb. That never turned out useful enough for me to bother wrapping it up into a project I kept running or would have shared.
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If your point is that by celebrating him today we're celebrating the entirety of his work, please consider a day like Presidents day. We celebrate Washington's birthday despite him having been a slave owner. If you think that it's impossible to compartmentalize people, so be it.

If you think that the reason we venerate MLK is in part due to his contributions to socialism, and that's what he means to you, so be it. I'm capable of compartmentalizing, and the reason I choose to venerate Dr. King on this day are for his contributions towards moving us towards liberalism and color-blindness. You seem to think that means that I'm "using him as a prop," whereas I simply find him to be an extremely important contribution to the advancement of civil rights, and feel entitled to celebrate that without having to celebrate the entirety of his beliefs.
I don't disagree with the authors point, yet I would contend that it's practically impossible for education to happen without indoctrination. Philosophy itself has a heck of a time proving anything is true in the face of radical doubt besides maybe some elementary notions such as that thought exists. Never mind proving anything as complex as the shape of the earth.

Trying to prove to a radically sceptical flat earther that the earth is a specific shape is folly, you will never successfully demonstrate such proof against a sufficiently prepared opponent. You CAN demonstrate that it cannot be proven that the earth is flat, but that's about it. One of the most absurd thing about flat eartherdom is how "round earthers" don't seem to truly understand the limits of their own knowledge but are eager to get into arguments with other people, whereas flat earthers range from those who are equally inept to savvy people playing a prank on those who wrongly consider themselves knowledgeable.

I see the entire phenomena to be a great public lesson on philosophy and science, as well as the futility of imposing your views on other people.
I've used both quite a bit for various things.

The biggest differentiator is that Pixelblaze is built around the user being able to define their own patterns, while WLED is more built around getting a turn-key setup as easily as possible. One of the downsides to the Pixelblaze, for me, has been in instances where I just want a simple thing like a specific color, or a simple fade or pattern. While you can do that on the Pixelblaze it can take more time to tweak the PB code vs. just moving a couple of sliders in the WLED interface.
> Intention matters

Does it really? We all know the saying about the road to hell, and I suspect the people on the receiving end didn't particularly care about intentions, especially if the result was a net negative.
You're not wrong, but I would say that the US should not be getting involved with the immediate neighbors of a powerful country like Russia. It just seems to me like a very aggressive policy, where the potential downsides outweigh the upsides. Upsides: S&P 500 execs get bigger bonuses because they captured the Ukraine market. Downsides: conflict with a great power.
> I'm saying that networking technologies original intended use (resilient nuclear launch capability) is a tiny irrelevant fraction of what it is used for today.

But that's not what your GGP comment says (or at least strongly implies). ARPANET was not a solution in search of a problem; it was a solution to a pre-existing problem.

That this solution (or its progeny) was later found useful for a whole lot of other additional uses is something else entirely.

The reasoning in your progression of comments smacks if shifting the goalposts. To me, that implies an intellectual dishonesty that is all too typical of blockchain proponents.
It's still something, it has a price and value. Crypto assets have only a price.
Another graphing tool is Pikchr (https://pikchr.org) from the creator of SQLite; actually the SQLite doc SQL-statements diagrams were (re)done using the Pikchr. It's some kind of extension of PIC language.

I'm not very proficient with graphing, so can't compare it to Graphviz, but a few examples I tried were relatively easy.
> 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

I dunno about anyone else, but my Western, public-school education taught specific methods of deriving the roundness of the Earth and it's size (and when they had first been historically recorded as being used, as well), repeatedly, as part of all of the history, math, and science curricula.

It also taught the more general methodology of exploring any issue of material fact.
Teaching a single scientific fact based on supporting evidence is easy, teaching every single fact plus it’s associated evidence simply takes longer. Nobody questions that sugar contains C6H12O6, so it’s simply taught as a fact without showing the evidence used to derive it. This can even run into problems when people get taught a bunch on regurgitated nonsense around stuff like how wings work.

In the end people get skeptical around a tiny number of scientific facts like climate change, evolution, and vaccination but they have no problem accepting everything from the MOS hardness scale, echos, buoyancy, etc etc. Why most people object to just those specific things has absolutely nothing to do with evidence, it’s completely part of a wider social phenomenon.
Seems true! The longest amount time I ever engaged with anyone on public transit was when I was sitting near a couple of fellows who had decided that polishing off a full case of long drink on the train ride north was a good idea. Thankfully, both were the I-love-you-man type versus the angry drunk type, especially since they wanted to talk about Trump-era politics once they figured out one of my companions and I were Americans.

My Belgian companion wisely kept his damn mouth shut the whole time.
I share this concern.

I think Flat Earthers and Pastafarians both provide an excellent service to society: they demonstrate many persons' inability to argue from agreed-upon premises to a widely held belief. I.e., they demonstrate that many of our emperors have no clothes. Unfortunately I'm not seeing this triggering the major educational rethink that I think it warrants.
I also get the impression that Australians don't mind the power and the abuses thereof that they go through. Maybe it's the reddit bubble and the supporters are overrepresented, but someone has to be voting for these policies...
No, they're producing separate content for both demographics. Why would they produce a bastardised product, inferior to both specialized ones?
If you're on Linux, Steam has a pretty solid compatibility layer baked in (Proton, which they use on their Steam Decks and such). Just right click the game in your library, hit Properties, and then 'Force Compatibility'.
I’m not the blog author/owner, but does sound cool for sure..
The Bozotic HTTP Server
Is it part of some broader analogy or something? I don't understand at all.
On a similar note, I didn't end up getting Peacock or Disney+ for several months because they just didn't have apps for the streaming devices I use. Whereas Netflix up until recently even had an app for Nintendo DS. They've put a lot of effort into being available on most platforms.
Why do 3-4 year olds need devices?
It's correct. There is still a filter somewhere that explains the Fermi Paradox. So finding evidence of primordial life on Mars would just mean that the filter exists somewhere between that primordial life and somewhere ahead of us. That is bad, because it increases the probability that the filter is ahead of us by eliminating the possibility that the filter was behind that primordial life.
In my experience most DI just interferes with being able to use the IDE to track down instantiations. Ive worked on these projects that basically have these fancy runtime things to answer questions that could be answered by the IDE if it werent so obscured. I remember one project we had a fancy thing to generate a graphviz graph, and it was like neat, but we could just use find all references if we just called new.

The dumb thing is most of the time only one type is ever injected. Its all hypothetical flexibility which has a cost but no benefit
Ironically a lot of people that would have before criticized Wall Street now seem to be spending more effort criticizing cryptocurrencies ? (Even though they are the same kind of people that created and popularized cryptocurrencies to deal with Wall Street's issues in the first place ?)
> Your ability to know that the Earth is round is based on facts and knowledge acquired, not thinking from first principle. The ancient did all the hard work, we just co-opted it.

That's simply made up. There are two examples in my comment. They are not from long dead ancient squabbling scientists of natural philosophy but from my own experience of setting experiments to prove empirically whether the Earth is round or flat.
Phone books from outside your service area were available for sale, but it was tedious and relatively expensive to collect them.
Who else? The Mexican/LATAM drug cartels together with the cryptocoinian seasteaders, finally founding their freehaven cybercharter city, and be THE magnet for cruises from all around the world?
Universal basic income could come to California colleges
If that industry is farming or construction or heck, even Tv manufacturing and HVAC, then what?
Should we go back to living like it's 1789?
A tutorial on GMock matchers in C++
1946, colorized: Life of children after WWII
It has been proposed to me (just yesterday!) by a collaborator to ad a linear interpolation function to TXR Lisp, so that would look like:

(lerp t a b) ;; possibly, modulo argument order.
I've always felt a more modular SQL database system is needed. SQL dbs are too black box. You can't interact with the query planner. NoSQL essentially is doing just this. SQL dbs have great underlying layers such as storage, caching, transactions, indexing, concurrency, gis support, backups, etc.

If anything, devs probably just need to be more familiar with DB internals and have tools setup to analyze queries easier.
> In the end people get skeptical around a tiny number of scientific facts like climate change, evolution, and vaccination but they have no problem accepting everything from the MOS hardness scale, echos, buoyancy, etc etc.

The Mohs scale is pretty easy to validate, and the exercises typically done when it is taught tend to serve to do that.
> disproportionate success among geeks to imply a program is "backfiring".

Perhaps the logic is that the bright, self-motivated kids already have an advantage, so helping them get even further ahead is a net negative.
> And a large chunk of that 100 or so medical doctors are MDs employed at universities who are not in fact practitioners of medicine.

… what exactly do they think MDs employed by universities do?
We got that metric from calculating the amount of food waste in 2020 in the US. Most people we've talked to throw away around 35%ish of their food without a second thought. We're not only trying to help people track their food items, but also help with tracking their spend. We believe that seeing money being wasted is a more eye-opening metric for most people. So we've added both food waste and spend metrics to deter people from just chucking food away. We want people to be more conscious with their food and understand their daily, weekly, and monthly habits so they can prevent overbuying.