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I find music is a lot like the movie Ratatouille.

I'm a classically trained violinist, and when learning there was a huge sense of "just follow the rules and the sheet music exactly until you get to composing".

In that sense, I think there's a lot of similarities to a lot of engineering practices. There's a straight line to follow on a lot of tasks, adhere to the rules and leave the magic/cleverness to the system architects.

When I switched to guitar, and subsequently discovered the world of prog/math metal, it felt incredibly freeing. However describing that kind of freedom to my friends who adhered to sheet music exclusively was a struggle. Polyrhythms, improvisation, playing by feel were blasphemous to that world.

In that sense I liken it to ratatouille. You must cook the recipe the master chef created exactly, and it's not our place to iterate and experiment.

As a software engineer, I see a lot of the same mindset often. There's a world of engineers who are rigid about sticking to the tried and tested way of doing things. There's nothing wrong with it, in fact it's very valued.

However you need the counterpoint. You need the innovative composers, you need the recipe creators, you need the system designers/architects. Having only one or the other is an imbalance.

I think that's what a lot of engineers get hung up on. Music is taught as rules.

but those rules quickly fall apart when you start having to account for feel, for emotion, for cultural differences etc... Things that aren't able to be captured in rules cleanly.
Can you expand on the EU's stake in Moroccan border disputes? I'm aware of the West Sahara / SADR situation, but my impression is that the EU has little legitimate stake in that dispute except for their desire to fish in those waters. And Europe seems willing to deal with Morocco for permission to do that.
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Anyone been using iCloud Private Relay and if so, can you share how’s it’s been?
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This is actually the same in the US where you have a false choice between red/blue teams both always led by old white dudes lobbied into oblivion (legally) by capital.

Or in spain, where you have the red/blue dichotomy, and a -constitutional democracy-, and a king. All living under the umbrella of the mere appointment of the past dictator from 70y ago... and all doing the same pillaging and corruption no matter their -supposed- ideologies you're supposed to vote for.

I think we've been sold democracy as a one size fits all solution, and it might have worked for the greek polis (where btw, democracy co-lived with slavery too) but might be a flawed thing in the 21st century of globalisation and mass media and corps much bigger and powerful than nation states...

YMMV
The problem is that Paddle keeps spamming me despite my repeated insistence that they leave me alone, so I don't trust anyone who says anything about Paddle and just assume they are paid to post about Paddle.

Also, Paddle's licensing solution really locks you into their system, and they have in the past had an issue where all users needed to re-activate their license after an OS upgrade, and developers suddenly had to provide support for an issue they paid Paddle to solve.

The pricing doesn't really matter. Whether it's 5% or 6% I don't care. What I care about is that they don't lock me in, send me proper invoices, respond in a timely manner to support requests, and include enough details on the invoice so the customer knows who to bother with billing questions (not me).

Fastspring fails on this, since they only put my email address on their invoices, so customers email me with all kinds of billing questions that I can't fix. Then I have to tell them to go to Fastsprings stupid support portal, and it's annoying for everyone involved.

With MyCommerce I've never had a customer contact me with billing questions, they make it much clearer that they are selling the license, not me. And they put their email address on the invoice. The only problem with MyCommerce that I've had so far is that their checkout form is a bit buggy on Safari, which is a bummer, and they say that it's Safaris fault for not sticking to web standards, which is a dumb excuse.
Neat trick! I took a look and the page is about 4MB or maybe 8MB, less than 1MB compressed. Smaller than the typical animated ad.

Is there an actual index data structure? What I see on the page is just a bunch of simple &lt;a> links that are linearly scanned. Nothing wrong with that mind you, it seems to work well.
I bring my own because scent is an irritant.
I live in a rural area and grew up working a beef ranch in the Poconos, and all of these claims (less educated, lower income, more conservative, more religious) sound obviously true to me, but I looked up the data out of curiosity.

Here is the USDA Economic Research Service on rural vs. urban educational attainment and median income; rural areas indeed are less educated and lower income[1]. This Pew Research study shows that rural areas are more conservative than urban areas across a wide range of political issues[2]. Data on religion was slightly harder to find, but this Gallup poll shows rural areas in the US are more religious than urban areas[3]. If any of these results are surprising, I'd guess that you may not have much experience of urban areas as a comparison. To be clear, I still prefer living in a rural area, but I recognize that there are pros, cons, and individual differences.

1. https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/rural-economy-population/emp...

2. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/urban-s...

3. https://news.gallup.com/poll/7960/age-religiosity-rural-amer...
Ah yes, famously brexit didn't happen
I had thought the Russians used grease pencils rather than graphite, yet again inverting common knowledge tropes.

Is that not the case?
I feel like the "defund the police" slogan that was used as shorthand for radical reform and demilitarization has become an unfortunate focal-point in what should be a nuanced discussion of a very real problem. This seems to be a pattern. Americans seem to get stuck fighting at the surface level. It's amazing how much my conservative in-laws and I actually agree on if we remove any triggering key words from conversations.
Isn't inadequate here completely subjective though? If you're expecting a set of hard rules, that's what music theory is for. If you're expecting the rest of the picture, that's easy to describe in an emotional sense but hard to form as rules.

What aspects did you find inadequate?
I have that information, I don't need cookies for it, and neither does anyone else.

I don't know why this (false) use case gets banded about so much, but my gods does it annoy me.
> But how do you protect a continuous line of a few thousand km?

Cameras/sensors, and fast response time. You could put a sensor package every couple km. Given the amount of power this installation delivers, it wouldn't exactly break the bank.
Dunno, throwing out one dish is more like deleting one file. The whole codebase being the restaurant.
There is also an extreme accident in Sweden where a couple of kids in a canoe survived (incidentially with Norwegian emergency care).

One of them found with his face under the water at 14C body temperature surviving cardiac arrest for 6 hours.

The extreme low body temperatures seems to be able to allow for surviving under extreme conditions, even without breathing for several hours.

(a bit too fancy) article in swedish. https://mirakletiannsjon.story.aftonbladet.se/

(google translate to english "Canadian" is a special type of canoe) https://mirakletiannsjon-story-aftonbladet-se.translate.goog...
Ah shoot. I screwed up (only in the comment you're questioning, not my earlier comment per se). Of course the frets are positioned according to equal temperament, so when fretting a note for tuning the next string, indeed you end up at equal temperament when getting the beating down to nothing as you play the unison.

Rather, I'm talking from a point of view of playing two adjacent open strings. Or harmonics thereof (as some people like to tune with 7th fret harmonics and so forth). If you aren't fretting and you minimize beating down to nothing, then you end up with integer ratios.
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In my understanding and all the more knowldgeable people than me that have taught me music, that's absolutely not correct. Equal temperament is just the water you swim in, for all western music since Bach.

"Natural" tuning by integer fractions would sound very unusual to everybody.
I suspect that you're implying that the answer is the US Democratic party, but it's really not.

By making immigration-without-visas a criminal offense, rather than an administrative one, the anti-immigration movement serves to drive immigrants (but not immigration) underground and makes their labor cheaper.

It's a lot like prostitution: since prostitution is a criminal offense, all prostitutes are criminals. They can be abused freely because they cannot go to the authorities without certainty being punished themselves.

By the same token, an undocumented immigrant cannot contact authorities to report they're underpaid, stolen from, beaten, imprisoned, or enslaved. (These are all things that happen regularly.) Their "criminal" status is used as a cudgel to abuse them.

Keep in mind, these are all people that just want to work in exchange for money, and they're responding to people and companies that want to hire their services. The "illegal immigration" posturing is just the buyers' way of artificially depressing prices.
How's this different from https://www.beeminder.com/ which has been around for 10+ years?
Norwegian doctors spring into existence at the moment of need and cease to exist once the need is over.

The accounting for things like this is the same that results in saying space craft toilets cost fifty billion dollars.

In reality there is some costs associated with consumables, overtime, etc that could be avoided but it’s hard to account for the costs that would have been spent “anyway”.

Perhaps you could argue that there was care neglected in other aspects of the facility, but given the strangeness of the situation it’s likely that many involved were involved only peripherally and/or would have been doing research anyway.
> For example, with the advent of no-fault divorce, divorces went up, but female suicide rates dropped by 20%. It wasn't all streamers and light when the 'guard rails' were on.

Did the female rate decrease more in married groups than unmarried groups? Without more data, this seems like a ripe candidate for https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Suicide rates have been dropping across the board due to a variety of reasons. Attribution is very hard here.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2504425&page=1
It kind of is, versus an active task like chopping.
Startup idea: wipe yourself from the internet completely as a service.
I used to feel the same way. I also kept the cable subscription way too long and not really watching anything, but was reluctant to pay for online streaming services. Then one day we just decided to cut cable and get Netflix to try it out. I remember enjoying Jane The Virgin, The Good Place, and a few other shows they had.

Then The Algorithm decided to suggest Mr. Sunshine, a Korean drama. I have now watched 100+ kdramas on various services. Netflix has a particularly rich catalog.

I'm not saying you'll like kdramas but you might be surprised of what is available. It was a revelation to me that there are entire "worlds" (for lack of a better word) out there that are so interesting and rich and of which I knew virtually nothing, in this case the Korean culture and their movie/drama output.
I'm on NixOS since maybe five years and still being unable to digest Nix language and Nix* evolution, not that impede to profit from a functional OS design, it's my daily driver, but...

I hope for Guix System but so far it's community seems not really more focused than Nix* ones, they are deeply INRIA/HPC centric not much valuing desktops and desktops needs for what I've see and lack of stuff like full LVM support built-in, zfs support does not help much, so so far I judge it not much mature enough for my desire. Guix docs are far better than NixOS ones, however there are no "books alike docs" from zero to sufficiently acculturated in Guix/Nix witch is a big issue IMO.

However they are undoubtedly the future, there is no other sustainable model for the modern world but them. Modern container-mania can't scale down to system level and it's not much better than full-stack virtualization on x86 few years ago, a current fashion with no valuable technical reasons to be, modern packages manager around them (like snap, appimage, flatpack) are just crap needed to push commercial crap in FLOSS world, sorry for being rude, but that's is. Just look at their repo (including things like naming them store) how outdated they are in bundled deps, how many holes punched around they "security by isolation" model to make them usable and still they can't scale. Classic package managers came from another era, are in use, but not much sustainable anymore so...
But it's also these extreme cases that most expand the limits of our medical understanding and ability, such advancement being analogous to dividends that will pay out for all eternity.

The Wikipedia page does mention Bågenholm's case becoming a literal textbook example (and links to a paywalled case study).
Did Python pee in your teacup once or what?

(Why is Python hard to debug compared with shell? Python has a debugger - does Bash?)
DRM = Direct Rendering Manager
And an iPhone 4 running iOS 7 can still stream your personal music collection that you can either sync via iTunes or download on your phone.

iWorks still works on my first gen iPad.
Then it's even more useless than being an auditor at the commission
someone needs to step up to Google on this side of the Atlantic. They are constantly in the news regarding their tracking. tracking should be off by default. all cookies should be ban except session cookies that expire when browser closes. we already have saved passwords and logins for browsers
"They obviously weren’t measuring the wrong thing because they kept going and resuscitated her."

No.

They disregarded the measurements.

The measurements mentioned in the story obviously failed them, so they went with their own judgement instead (or maybe some other measurements not mentioned in the story.. but I'm just going by what's given in the story, not some imagined account of what might have happened instead).
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> And speaking of America specifically, dignity and respect were not equi-distributed if you were a simply a 'married man' in decades past. It was quite a bit stricter: white, middle class or higher, married men were the ones afforded government support and social protection.

You're conflating dignity and respect with government support. These are not remotely the same things. Some highly respected men were actively opposed by their respective governments because they stood up for what they saw as right despite the corruption of their governments, e.g. MLK Jr, Mahatma Ghandi, even Jesus. All dignified and respected by large numbers of people, all opposed by their governments.
There are extensions that can do this for pretty much every web browser. Pretty sure developer tools can just find it in the source... Really ain't hard.
> men will do whatever is required in order to obtain sex

I wish there was some kind of pill without much side effects, that made you asexual. Then men could focus on science and other interests.

For Example Sir Isaac Newton's self proclaimed greatest achievement was his lifelong celibacy.

I wonder how sexual selection affects humans overall intelligence... Have human intelligence gone up in the last 200-20000 years or is it the amount of free time that is responsible for the technological boom the last 200 years ? Or does technology advance exponentially ?
Wordle only uses 26 of those letters.
Thanks for this dose of reality for the previous poster. It always amazes me to what lengths some engineers can go explaining with extreme confidence all the reasons why they think a specific feature isn't possible, all the while being proven completely wrong by the real world.

I remember my first question on Quora was whether there was a way to sidestep the (then) 30MB size limit for installing apps on the iPad while on cellular. A guy with several 'signal engineer' tags explained that that would completely overwhelm the mobile network. I responded that the SIM card I was using was actually marketed to be used as your main internet for your home and came with a Wifi router for that purpose (which I also used sometimes, transferring the SIM). His only response was that I obviously lacked the mental capacity to apprehend how physically impossible this was (something I was using regularly mind you, for much larger downloads and data-intensive apps), and he reported my profile.
Maybe there are some saintly principled people who will never walk away from responsibility no matter what, for whom marriage adds no value, and maybe there are some feckless unprincipled people who will walk away from responsibility at the slightest provocation, for whom marriage also adds no value, but maybe there is a large intermediate population who may occasionally feel a moderate urge to walk but are dissuaded by the added difficulty that breaking a marriage presents (stigma, cost, legal process), and thus decide to stick it out. Maybe marriage is for those people.
Truly, dude just went OFF. Morning basement whiskey vibes.

Honestly funnier than my little joke
I have worked a job where emptying trash cans was one of my responsibilities, and it is nothing like emptying the trash at home. They're enormous, heavy, usually leaking putrid liquid, and you have to lift them above your head to dump them in a dumpster. Some of the putrid liquid will get in your hair every day, and you won't be able to get rid of the smell until you get to go home and shower in the evening. It's hard to appreciate how bad of a job it is if you haven't done it.
> An alcoholic whom does not want to drink it, would absolutely need to perform the ritual of dumping it down the drain.

Nope. Iam an sober alcoholic and don't have any issues with alcohol in my flat around me. In fact there is a bottle of expensive wine standing on the table next to the front door for a few weeks now (kind of a tip for a favor I did) I just dont care. Ill hand it to my mom when I see her next.

I guess its a bit pedantic to point this out. I felt the need to do it.
Disclaimer: while I support the BLM movement, I've never personally interacted with it in any meaningful way, so I don't know exactly what they mean by this, to the extent that they have, in fact, said it.

"Dismantling the nuclear family structure" doesn't mean "throw organized families to the wind, let children fend for themselves, force everyone into single-parent households" or anything like that.

Like I said in my previous comment, the "nuclear family" is not the norm, it is not a particularly stable or sustainable model for family units, and what we had before, while it certainly also has its flaws, tends to be much better for any family that doesn't completely fit within the happy fairy-tale ideal of two parents who love each other completely, 2.4 kids, and a dog.

Through most of human history, "family" has meant either "three generations of blood relations living under one roof, out to aunts/uncles/cousins or even farther, all sharing responsibility for things like child-rearing" or, even more broadly, just "the entire community, made up of a big extended family (with or without blood relations)/tribe/clan." When two parents didn't get along, even if they didn't "divorce" in the way we understand it today, they could still stop being pair-bonded without it significantly affecting the children, because those children were being raised more or less in common with a half-dozen (dozen? score?) others in the much large "family unit", by all the parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, etc.

"Dismantling the nuclear family" doesn't mean breaking it down and sending the component parts off to do their own thing individually. It means removing that very specific and very inflexible structure as our society's only acceptable model of what it means to be a "family," because like many other things that emerged in the shadow of the Industrial Revolution, it may be helpful for some people, but it's deeply harmful for many, many others.
The anti-charity model seems like it could be truly, truly motivating.
Mozilla is sounding less like a browser developer and more like Richard Stallman.
I think that plastic recycling wasn't an invented scam, rather a bad generalization of previous recycling systems. Rags, metal, paper, glass can be reasonably recycled or at least processed into something else (rags into paper) and this has been done for centuries. It must have felt natural to add yet another material category to this list.
Microeconomic analysis:

- Suppose you have a project worth $10,000 to you in some intangible form if successful, with a 20% chance of success. You use a penalty site to pay $2,000 if you make no progress. You set this high enough to put some non-productive entertainment out of your budget. Your hope is that when evaluating what you want to do, entertainment goes from being "$20" to "$20 plus $2,000 penalty". In your thinking, this promotes work on the project! You will not actually have to pay the penalty, since you intend to work on the project. You hope to influence yourself to increase your happiness by an intangible $2,000 (expected value of $10k * 20%) for free, by manually pricing entertainment out of your budget.

- What happens if another project is worth $500 billion to you in some intangible non-monetary form, for sure? You definitely need to do that now. You are out the $2,000 if you don't also do something toward the first project, though. Thus, the penalty which had been intended to keep you from goofing off becomes an extra burden also on something worth an intangible $500 billion to your happiness. The "here's your incentive to be happy and productive" becomes: "here's your penalty for being hyper happy and productive" (on a new, temporarily very valuable project.) Clearly a misalignment of incentives: an unintended consequence.

- Note that if you are independently rich this contract could still help you make some progress! Suppose you committed to pay $2,000 as a penalty for stopping work, but stopped work since you have something guaranteed to give you $500b in intangible happiness. Now it is strictly better to hire someone such as an intern or assistant and pay them anything less than $2,000 as long as this counts as progress and avoids tripping the penalty. i.e. a loss of $1900 paid to an assistant (counting as some marginal progress) is strictly better than a penalty of $2000 (and zero progress).

- Could this explain why rich people hire personal assistants and project managers? It is an automatic penalty: once the assistant / project manager is on staff their salary goes out the window. You might as well use them to do what you, as a rich person who can hire personal assistants and project managers, want to get done.

Is their behavior of hiring assistants and project managers why rich people get so much done?

If so, the moral of the story may be to set aside $2000 to be handed over to project managers you deploy strategically on any project you want done.

If it works for wealthy people, it could work for you - if you pay the cash for it. While disincentives could be nice, as the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money.