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My internal picture of Schillerian Spieltrieb is basically a bunch of 1960s pie-in-the-sky Woodstock hippies making art, music, and free love all day in a post-work, self-governing society. The OP is juxtaposing this utopic vision of games and play against the reality of the dystopic, positivist, Skinner's box-style internet spawned by Zuckerberg/Schmidt/Bezos that is currently in the process of devouring us all.

Schiller's concept of Spieltrieb is from his 1794 On the Aesthetic Education of Man, which describes a sort of idealistic, post-work state of man when given the liberty to merge his innate "Sinestrieb", the urge towards sensual and material gratification, and his "Formtrieb", the urge to establish moral order upon the world.

Schiller, alongside of Goethe and other Weimar Classicists, built on Kant's transcendental idealism to perform a sort of epistemological revalorization of the Greek concept of aesthetics, in contrast to previous enlightenment thinking which primarily focused on reason without regard for sentiment. Writing against the backdrop of the French Revolution, which Schiller felt had been co-opted by violent radicals and ultimately failed to achieve its lofty ideological goals, Schiller (being a playwright and novelist himself) believed that an appreciation for the arts could help develop the moral character necessary for a society to act as unified harmonious beings.

This concept has persisted as the pursuit of the aesthetic condition, a sort of post-revolution endgame to aspire towards where everyone, upon reaching some threshhold of education and appreciation for art, becomes happy and aspires to play and create works of art all day long. This aspirational outcome is referenced by political theorists like Marcuse, Adorno and the rest of the Frankfurt school whose work criticized what they saw as the inevitable unpleasant consequences of modernity and capitalism, e.g. commodification, the alienation of labor, and the devaluation of man.

Stanford encyclopedia on Schiller: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schiller/
And much heavier than lead.
> numerous Roman Emperors married male husbands

Ok, name two.

> The decline in same-sex marriage, and same-sex relationships in general can be predominantly attributed to the changing attitudes about sex that came about with the rising influence of Christianity

Name a same-sex marriage in pre-Christian Greece or Rome.

The Greeks had no problem with homosexuality, Plato is full of jokes about it. And it wasn't that big a deal among the Romans, Julius Caesar's own legions would sign songs about his escapades. But I don't know of any evidence that it was ever the basis of a household. None of the great Greek dramaturges bothered to write a play noticing it.

> There are numerous reasons for why this change in attitude gained popularity from economic reasons to major shifts in demographics due to the outbreak of numerous wars in the 3rd century resulting in, among other things, growing discrepancies between the number of men and women.

I don't know where you're getting this stuff, I know a fair amount of history and I'm aware of nothing so remarkable as a shift in gender balance in the 3rd century.

> homosexuality was a casualty of very strict views on sexual relationships in general that came about with the rise of Christianity

I don't think Christianity/Christians have ever cared that much about it, really. They/it think it wrong and immoral, sure, but it isn't something that has ever attracted an enormous amount of attention or effort. It wasn't important enough to get much attention from Chaucer, Dante, Bocaccio, Shakespeare -- none of whom were shy about the range of human experience.

I know there are historians of gay sexuality, of which I am ignorant, but as a layman familiar with some of the core texts, my impression is that the overall view was "eh, whatever".
Thanks for your comment! We've been adding more stuff to make it clearer, as it is a new concept compared to what's out there.

As a product, our app sets the conditions for users to be true about who they are, and who they want to meet. It's about laying simple rules for them to ask and answer questions while allowing them to use these inputs to look for others.

We've been getting a decent influx of users. I'm excited!
> A “Testimonials” link to a separate testimonials page would be perfectly adequate, for those users who are interested in that.

This is one of those things that really needs A/B testing. I'd bet the other direction: that sites get more conversions if they show a few testimonials on the landing page, than if there's a link to a page full of them but none directly on the landing page. Of course, you could just do both.
What he stood for changed over time, but at one point he said he hoped the decisions people made about his children would be made based on his children's character and not the color of their skin.
I'm a tennis racquet tech (side gig) and we use spools of Pb tape for weight and balance tuning of frames. It's uncoated, so following installation I (a) scrub my hands down with a brush and dish detergent and (b) shellac the tape where it is on the customer frame with two coats of clear nail polish.

They make rubber adhesive strips with four or five wee bits of tungsten in them, but they are too expensive for general use, nor do they offer the precision you get from a continuous length of lead tape. They are also too thick to install on the handle pallet under the grip, which is no problem with lead tape since it's about 0.3 mm thick (rough guess, I haven't actually mic'ed it).
> it's just some low brow media outlets, and no doubt politicians, trying to get attention. It's not party doctrine, and its not some conspiracy

No, it really isn't. The Republican Party has been captured by the far right and this sort of thing has become party doctrine. If you're not willing to trust the sources I've posted, you can find plenty of others, with plenty of corroborating quotes from Republicans. Or feel free to present evidence to the contrary.
Except Zelle and a lot of banks also have forced arbitration clauses...

Section 26 https://www.zellepay.com/legal/user-service-agreement
I'm not sure how you can separate politicians and party doctrine.

Particularly when the press secretary for the governor who signed this bill is calling everyone who opposes the bill a grooomer: https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/14998907196910510...
I don't understand the relevance of someone offering you unsolicited opinions about your gender. The fact that they may or may not be wrong about both you and what it means to be trans doesn't have any particular bearing on whether transgenderedness itself is fundamentally "essentialist" in its performance of gender. Which it isn't.
3D modelling is a desktop task. I can see using the iPad in the field and when collaborating and maybe swapping some prebuilt objects but going from blank to completed design is happing on multiple monitors with a mouse and keyboard.
I do commercial (specifically industrial) so there's not that much labor. With NNN leases you shift most of the burden to the tenant. The big issue is, of course, the creditworthiness of the tenant.
OpenCASCADE, the C++ CAD library used by FreeCAD and others, has official bindings available in Tcl. (Bindings, for example, in Python, are available from 3rd parties.)
The USPS 1096L box (<https://store.usps.com/store/product/shipping-supplies/prior...>) fits perfectly inside the USPS padded flat rate envelope (<https://store.usps.com/store/product/shipping-supplies/prior...>). Great for giving an item slightly more protection.
Yeah I love it. It made it easy to tweak various details of my design after I established the basic shape.
There's a shortage of convenient parking at these outlier stations, because most were built in the center of towns long ago without parking in mind. Woking station was built in 1838.
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/
What is a generic function?
I still don't understand how onlyfans succeeds as a product when there is pornhub etc...someone explain this to me.
you could really take USPS for a ride by shipping something to Venus!
They’re just opening a new exhibit in Block A next week!
The author glosses over the differences between bash and zsh (and fails to mention that Apple used to use bash, and switched to zsh).

The author should have stressed that these and many other shells implement the POSIX shell, which is fundamental to them all from a scripting perspective.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
> Consumer hardware is insane.

With less technical management, I've had repeated, and bewildered, conversations trying to get them to understand that our one "computer" sitting on my desk is many many times faster than the "server" our IT team provides. "But it's a server!".
There are important differences between material and statistical facts you would be better off not glossing over.

And more centrally, whiteness (in particular) and maleness are still not facts. You're in voodoo territory if you center them as such.
Very much agree with this, I know a number of people that commuted (pre-pandemic) to the East Side (Redmond/Bellevue) that live in North Bend, Monroe, Sultan, etc. These are all cities that are very much part of the 'Seattle area' and are not really considered rural, but would tick many of the boxes.

If you want to go farther out, there are plenty of parts of WA that are really rural - but you might not find things like high speed internet are very accessible.

The one thing you won't get moving into any of those places is lower housing costs, however. These are all priced with the fact that high-earners are living in these cities and commuting into Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond and getting paid those salaries.
The area of The Law surrounding how law enforcement agencies may use drones is an important area of Law that is doubtful getting the correct and knowledgeable and non-authoritarian lens applied it critically requires at this point in history.

--EDIT; wrong thread...
>You have a duty to know what is happening on the other side of the world when you're American, because the federal politicians you elect decide policy affecting the whole globe

Nope, not my duty. My duty is to elect politicians who enact policy affecting me. If a politician enriches my country at the expense of another, it is my duty to vote for him, for the sake of myself and my family. No one is a citizen of the world.
my favourite addition since the 80s has been the unrelenting, unquestioned, ubiquitous and permanent inclusion of numerous iterations of poorly planned and executed management engine frameworks designed to completely ablate the user from the experience of general computing in the service of perpetual and mandatory DRM and security theatricality. the best aspect of this new feature is that not only is your processor effectively indifferent from a rented pressure washer, but on a long enough timeline the indelible omniscient slavemaster to which your IO is subservient can and will always find itself hacked. One of the biggest features missing from 80s processors was the ability to watch a C level cog from a multinational conglomerate squirm in an overstarched tom ford three piece as tech journalists methodically connect the dots between a corpulent scumbag and a hastily constructed excuse to hobble user freedoms at the behest of the next minions movie to arrive finally at a conclusion that takes said chipmakers stock to the barber.

oh and chips come with light up fans and crap now but theres no open standard on how to control the light color so everyone just leaves it in Liberace disco mode so its like a wonderful little rainbow coloured pride parade is marching through my case.
Why “progress studies” is interdisciplinary
No, they just do it to mask the TCO of their product. Dumb people pay more. End of story.
I also find most of the "import typing" stuff to be clutter.
I worked at a place that was heavily into adding typing to existing code, some of which was almost a decade old. They spent more than a few person years on that effort, and it's still going on.

Not once did I find the additional typing useful in my actual day-to-day work.
Don't apologize for your questions! You're interviewing the company just as much as they're interviewing you and poor attitude in responding to such questions is a red flag IMO.

That said, if you're worried about how your questions are perceived, a little rewording can suss this out and give you more context. I like to ask:

What does your software development process look like? Tell me about how you manage, test, and deploy your product.

You can rephrase a lot of questions in a similar manner to get what you want and leave room for the interviewer to expand (or justify!) their responses.
I'm waiting for companies to demote anyone who had a promotion based on having a master's degree.
there are no rules about what kind of objects can exist in a parking lot. if they can't account for hanging obstructions, which are actually quite frequent everywhere, they probably should err on the side of "less likely to kill people" and just not offer it.
> It's really confusing at first but isn't hard to get up to speed by just diving in and using the software.

I "dove in" and used the software:

- Installed "Port"

- Started a new "comet"

It started an empty something with three tiles "groups, <cant remember what>, bitcoin". Clicking each brought up a new empty window.

- There's no help in software except "you can search apps by developer name". Great.

- Joined "sponsor" (~samozd or somesuch), there's nothing there, you need invites for everything.

At this point I completed my dive and deleted Port.
As a libertarian and someone who used psychedelic drugs in the 90s, I don't entirely agree.

First, I don't understand the part about counterculture ending in the 70s, I see a direct lineage to my experience as a teenager in the 90s, both on the side of former neo-hippies and of lawmakers worried about the prospect of people thinking for themselves (which now has become unimaginably worse than 25 years ago).

On the libertarian side, there are two separate issues. Not being happy with a government controller financial system (in particular one in which the government can strangle its political enemies as Canada did recently) is not the same as supporting an ineffective solution, I.e. all current and imagined cryptocurrency implementations. Just because we don't like some features of the current system does not mean we automatically gravitate to some dumb idea. I guess that would be reserved for libertarians that also don't understand what crypto actually is, and just go along with it based on what someone told them it could do.
I hate to be pedantic here but I see the term TCO thrown around all the time. The Scheme standard requires that unbounded tail call functions can run in constant space.

This is a semantic difference, not an optimization. Turning off optimizations should never cause your program to crash.
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Canceling GLOW was one of the first indicators that nobody in charge at Netflix appears to actually watch Netflix shows.

Did they ever clarify exactly why it was cancelled? I remember reading that the cast and crew wanted one more season to finally wrap up the story, and the fans DEFINITELY wanted another season so... ?
The Uber self-driving car was actually a Volvo -- its logs show that the Volvo emergency braking system had detected a pedestrian crossing almost 2 seconds before the collision. It would've initiated emergency braking, but Uber had disabled this feature, since, of course, they were testing their own shitty self-driving software.

The Uber software chose to take no action, the Uber employee at the wheel was apparently paying no attention, and Uber had disabled the Volvo software, the only agent involved that actually thought it would be a good idea to pay attention and try not to kill a woman with a bike on a dark night. Uber shouldn't be allowed to test their software on public roads in my opinion.
This 100% lines up with my experience, every time I’ve changed my diet I started to prefer the foods I was eating. Instead of palate fatigue, eating something a lot causes me to crave it more.

I used to eat a diet of mostly frozen foods. Then I made an effort to eat more vegetables and suddenly started craving vegetables. I use to prefer high-carb low-fat, then I started eating more meat and gradually shifted to preferring low-carb high-fat, except when I took a break and alternated between the two.
Old compilers were all about shoehorning into a small space, the IBM 1401 had a compiler with a ridiculous number of passes

http://ibm-1401.info/1401-IBM-Systems-Journal-FORTRAN.html
Depends what you mean by rural. If you literally want to walk to the local horse riding club from your front door, my old town was Cottenham UK, a 20 minute commute from Cambridge science park: https://goo.gl/maps/yeRNL3Dayu5eXYkx6

Also I grew up in Havant, and basically all of the A27 is a thin strip of urban surrounded by fields — my childhood home was almost equidistant between Lockheed Martin and a horse farm/castle.

Outside of the U.K., a friend lives on the edge of Zürich[0], has fields with grazing sheep an arrow’s flight[1] from their flat.

[0] technically not in the city itself, but in a conurbation and you wouldn’t notice the boundary by looking at an aerial photo.

[1] a bit longer than a stone’s throw; specifically 100 meters.
I'd add one other feature of Haskell- and ML-style type systems that I like: they provide clear, succinct, convenient ways to precisely describe data structures.

Common Lisp is far and away my favorite surviving programming language, but I like Haskell and ML fairly well. I mean, when I've been paid to work in them, I definitely missed working in Lisp, but still, working in Haskell and ML is not torture. I liked it quite a bit better than working in some other languages.

One of the things I liked was the ability to succinctly express in some detail exactly what I intend some data structure to be.

I've even used Haskell as a data-description language to work out some data structure that I then implemented in Lisp.

I keep intending to do something with Coalton for this reason alone.
I've actually sometimes seen this as an argument in favor of JITed languages like C# and Java, that you can take advantage of newer CPU features and instructions etc. without having to recompile. In practice languages that compile to native binaries still win at performance, but it was interesting to see it turned into a talking point.
Yeah, KiCad is a fucking hurdle. ExpressPCB was so much easier. With KiCad you really have to do things in s specific order (beginning with the schematic). Trying to "wing it" in KiCad is a doomed path.

I forced myself though to use/learn KiCad for a keyboard project. Worked. I've done another 3 or 4 new PCBs since and each one gets easier (no surprise).
In long-term fast of more than a week there's the possibility of refeeding syndrome. If the person fasting hasn't kept up with their electrolytes, they can have possibly fatal issues if they absolutely gorge themselves when stopping the fast. When I end the fast, I am going to proceed gently for the first couple of days before resuming a normal diet even though I have used an electrolyte formulation to keep my electrolyte levels at an optimal level.
Not part of the USPS small box story, but I ordered a bundle of steel plates that unfortunately fit through our mail slot on our front door, and absolutely destroyed the ceramic tile floor when the delivery person dropped them through that slot.
Yeah Unconscious Bias training is one of the DEI policies that I think is valuable to everyone, that's if it's training and not indoctrination.
I actually enjoy the typing in Python. The only problem is lack of support from third-party libraries. I find myself fighting the typing errors so often by adding: # type: ignore. Especially pandas gives so many errors. Type hints are included but they are often just plain wrong.
if there is no other choice. Yes, reluctantly, I would accept hiv. (i.e. I accept days to years duration of life vs minutes to hours)

The thing is, donated blood is always in short supply. you dont have much choice, when you have a serious blood-loss.

edit: I would be very angry if sombody would have chosen to use hiv blood on me while I was uncounciuos. Similar to how I would be angry if my arm would be amputated, while my conciousness was away.
Thanks for suggesting this game. I can definitely see Townsend's influence, though I prefer his A Dark Room .

How did you make headway with the research project subsystem ?

I've tried submitting just algorithm responses with lots of valid samples, but that doesn't seem to correlate with success. The svelte js for the game is minified, so I couldn't tell what it tested to choose success or failure. Thanks
looks better than my quick and dirty wireguard setup to get NAT Type: A behind CGNAT on game consoles - Basically put whatever is connected to a device in a "public DMZ", separate from your network: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/genewitch/opensource/maste...

Wireguard is both very frustrating and very cool. I'm currently using it similarly to give a VM a public IP, and i'm testing the details on getting multiple SSL/https hosts behind that single IP, which is something you couldn't easily do a decade ago without the host with the single IP having all of the certificates and "MITM" the entire session.

Speaking of "CPU horsepower" i just replaced a 1.5kW HP[0] server with a .2kW Ryzen 5950x "server" that is about 5% faster overall - don't forget that old stuff, while capable, adds to the electric bill, usually at a constant rate.

[0] the iLO (lights out) actually reported the server's power usage in BTU. It drew the same power as a portable space heater.
What do you do when you meet an androgynous person whose gender isn't immediately obvious? If they introduce themselves as female, do you take their word for it, or do you first need to inspect their genitals to make sure you're not being complicit in a lie?
I "trust the experts" on a number of things, but the spectrum shifts a little with cultural discussions, and it's precisely because Google is so incredibly influential that I am suspicious of actions taken that seem to be the modus operandi of a portion of so-called socially-progressive people who try to "nudge" society through the intentional shifting of language.

I would be interested to see the rationale for the change, if it is so clearly benign and not part of any secret-sauce or competitive advantage - similar to the AP Stylebook.

This isn't a debate about cloud security, or strongly-typed languages, or the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and its impact on the Earth. It's a cultural discussion, and I believe citizens should be encouraged to form an opinion, rather than insulted and berated for having one.

You actually didn't defend your position in any way on the topic, you only berated me for not having faith in closed-door internal Google processes to alter the use of the English language.

From another comment:
>you have precisely zero knowledge of either the decision making process, or how it is used, etc.

Isn't that the issue being brought up? Let's be charitable: Could it be that "mainboard" is the English term used by ESL speakers across the world, and "motherboard" is only used in the US/UK? Perhaps. I know you work at Google, but I am surprised at your surprise that people would be skeptical of that company's motivation.

I'd be interested in your opinion on the first-order topic, and also why you're so angry in the second place.
I wasn't able to find a reference, but I believe it's possible to go to a blood drive and have blood drawn and discarded. This provides cover for people who are ineligible but don't want their friends/coworkers to know.

Alternatively, it's easy to DIY if you are so inclined. You just need some sterile needles and alcohol swabs.