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>What does "mint preliminary social capital" mean and why is it impossible after industrialization is abandoned?

he is referring to what he describes at the beginning of the essay: preindustrial social forms and traits that lend themselves to industrialization, like high social trust between strangers
> This strategy may fail insofar as you may acquire in the course of installing Okular some of the second third order deps which by default in most systems won't be removed even if you remove Okular itself. You would then conclude erroneously that you had to install fewer extra things because you already have it.

This makes sense. Completely forgot about this part. What an idiot I am.

> The situation remains that basically the first KDE app if you have nothing KDE/QT is 2GB the second and subsequent are 10MB. Honestly with storage costing almost nothing per GB and very limited developer resources this isn't a terrible design. Spending something you don't have in order to save people are resource none of them are going to care about doesn't seem like a great investment.

It does makes sense. In a way. But this isn't about space though. To me being in a rolling distro, it just adds weights for package breakage. Especially since GNOME and KDE changes a lot of stuff more often. Not to mention, with all the OSS activism going on and security issues, it is always better to have the least possible dependencies. Whatever is unnecessary for the default package could be optional dependencies always. Prevention is better than cure. Right? :)
Regardless of my opinion on Covid bailouts (too big, too small, too many, too few) all such interventions are squeezing a balloon: you shift the problem temporally.

There’s nothing wrong with doing that (people sensibly borrow to purchase and use assets all the time). And when people are in the middle of a crisis it’s appropriate to take action (even in a drought the fire brigade sprays water on a fire).

But it’s worth looking retrospectively to figure out how much to do next time, not to be absolutist about it one way or the other.
That assumes the kernel supports the hardware. There’s nothing more annoying than only having a left speaker work, or WiFi not working, etc
They had an actual formula for it, and I'm forgetting what the number was. Like 80% of some metric of other tech giant comp?
Don’t. Worry about the ones that matter. If some random forums have a crappy password, whatever. If your credit card, bank, Amazon, or sometime other website with financial info has a leaked password, fix those.

You can fix the others lazily, when/if you access them next.
Why does the company not give you an invoice for the exact amount?
That seems like splitting hairs.

Are all investments then zero sum? I lose $100, the other person gets $100. At that moment in time it’s win/lose but clearly if that were actually the case all game theory would be useless for anything involving time between action and reward/penalty.
To be fair, as a native of Windows, you seem to be describing the process I need to go through for stuff like maintenance of my home Plex server (which runs on Linux).

I'd even argue that, between PowerShell's kinda-guessable commands and parameter names (as contrasted to bash/linux) and ubiquitous --help, PS makes it easier (relatively) to discover a solution on your own.

I guess a big part of this is what your native language is.
Stellar Nucleosynthesis: How Stars Make All of the Elements (2019)
Very true. However labor violations are seldomly this clear cut mustache twirling villain you would see in the movies which affects all workers equally. Most often it is some mundane error done by a clerk in the HR department that never gets corrected until—by luck—a well meaning lower manager spots it, and goes to the union to demand a correction including back-pay.

This is the reason why outreach is an important part of the union’s job. These errors exists sporadically and will persist uncorrected while the workforce is uneducated on our rights.
All issues are zero sum in a moment imo. What’s an example of a positive sum short term situation like the one I described?
But the issue in the article seems to be zero sum.
Every time the government gets involved markets get distorted and we pay the price down the road. Guaranteed home loans from the govt with almost no down payment caused lenders to not check credit and then we had 2008. Very similar situation with government education loan guarantees. And then legislators pretend to fix the problem with bailouts but we all pay with an inflation tax. Its robbery from savers to what should be risky borrowers. On top of that we now have these bloated education institutions that offer bs degrees and wacky educators because of the artificial propped up market that is detached from economics and value.
no, also a quote from Shakespeare is appropriate here:

"This heavy headed revel east and west

Makes us traduc'd, and tax'd of other nations;

They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase

Soil our addition; and indeed it takes

From our achievements, though perform'd at height,

The pith and marrow of our attribute."

Now I always thought that was Shakespeare's sly little dig at his own country's reputation, but some years ago I was reading and presumably it was because the Danish royal court had visited England the year before the writing of Hamlet, and been scandalously drunk the whole time they were there.
I was amazed that I could make over $10,000 a week in my spare time working from home! You can too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIcSWuKMwOw
Very interesting! (I was pretty loose with my "mirror neurons" reply, hoping that someone would provide corrections and/or more nuance.)
In the short term investments are zero sum though.
My knowledge base is a git repository full of markdown files and vscode. I can easly goto a specific file or do text search across all files. Minimal effort and no lockin to s specific tools.
I actually find it strange how many people I'm seeing crap on PowerToys because you get the features out-of-the-box on other platforms.

First off, macOS is missing its own features such as three-finger tap to middle click and window snapping, and what you get on Linux is going to vary based on your DE.

Second, building something in adds bloat for people who don't use it and can kill off choices of third-party options that might do the feature (subjectively) better (I still see people mad that Apple killed Sherlock by building their own version of it in)

I like the idea of something pluggable, but also with sane and disableable default features that 98% of users will be totally fine with.
From the article, the fake names are not even remotely plausible: whole batches of students with "NA" as middle initial, sequential registration numbers, long compound words, and other obvious fakery.
You can but at least in the last state I lived, a cop's guesstimation is accepted (they count in their head or watch and count the lines or something, or that's the theory). In practice if the cop used an uncalibrated speed gun or whatever he'll always just say it was his guesstimation and precedent holds that the preponderance of the evidence shows that the ticket is valid.

So it returns back to the evidence being hidden and parallel construction being used to present the court case.
the misdefined version of privilege is meant as “lack of some additional distractions” but the word is ambiguously paraded around as “everything handed out to people who are guided to use it all perfectly”

and that latter usage definitely loses supporters from the voting bloc that could do anything about it
This, in conjunction with the cmdlets and their parameters being something approximating English, with semi-standard verbs, makes things a lot more discoverable than Linux seems to me.
I would say some extremely liberal cities giving contracts to specific minorities (female or black owned businesses) to promote equality...that is not fair treatment. Equality is making sure everyone has the same opportunities to succeed.
This is how I finally gave in to using FlatPak. I wanted Okular, but also wanted the rest of the QT stuff it's own little sandbox as I wasn't using it anywhere else.

I did the AppImage thing for a while, but it was too difficult to keep up to date without the developers prodiving that themselves.

Side Note: Flatpak is actually pretty nice, the lengthas I went to avoid it were pretty unreasonable in retrospect.
Article summary: "Stellar nucleosynthesis is the process by which elements are created within stars by combining the protons and neutrons together from the nuclei of lighter elements. All of the atoms in the universe began as hydrogen. Fusion inside stars transforms hydrogen into helium, heat, and radiation. Heavier elements are created in different types of stars as they die or explode. "

This is a very insightful article. It even describes how fusion came about. There is quite some exciting (to me!) information in the article.
Sure the legislator can decide to do that, it doesn't matter though. The court would be taking two directly incompatible rulings in sequence. No one would tolerate that and it would completely undermine their legitimacy. This ruling protects you from what the Republicans are trying to do, without it they could actually ban abortion nationally.
ESG concerns 50 years from now? Let’s fucking hope so. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/07/secret-w...?
I had a car with uConnect prior to the airplay integration (or whatever it’s called). There was a point where I was unable to play any music from Spotify or SoundCloud, as after a second or two into playback, it would play the stock U2 song packaged on iPhones at the time. This was incredibly frustrating as most of my music listening habits were done on these two platforms.

Some time later an update to the iPhone resolved this, so as lelandfe mentioned, this is likely a bug.

Comically after some time I grew resentful of this bug and one day my wife was in the passenger seat while I exclaimed “I hate U2”. (I don’t really mind them, but the comment came out anyways). She looked at me confused and concerned before I explained why I made the comment and consoled her that I was referring to the band and not “you too”.
Very intriguing and interesting concept. Their website (https://reallivesworld.com) really leans into the angle for academic use too. Thanks for sharing this.
There is a lot more to this than electronics.
You are right not reading things and remaining ignorant is much better choice. Head meet sand.

Honest question. Why do you think an organization that literally controls money would have the average persons interest in mind in any way whatsoever? Every other aspect of politics is corrupt to the core? Why would this be different?
> If you are using C++, and want to parallelize something, just add "std::execution::par" to your algorithms.

Do any of the shipping standard libraries actually implement execution policies? I only use gcc and clang so have to resort to TBB to get this capability.
Ad multi-user Forth, I have a question, and you may know the answer. In the Forth history on forth.com, they write:

"By the late 1980s, polyFORTH users such as NCR were supporting as many as 150 users on a single 80386-based PC."

Do you have any idea how that was done? I do not know any hardware way from that era that was able to connect 150 terminals to a single PC.

For anyone interested, there is a nice book about Paul Otlet: "Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age."
I grew up in Colorado and I was always taught to beep the horn just before every blind corner on those one lane or barely two lane roads that wind through the mountain.

I still do this now that we live in SF. Anytime I'm on my bike and come across a blind corner I whistle loudly, it's saved me a few times.
Indeed, to quote myself within this very thread:

> Incentives matter in the buyer/maketplace/seller realm of economics.
I share your perspective. When I saw this line below in the article, I thought it was neat and might use it when called for, but I can already see the comments on code review from some team members I've worked with who would find it less readable than the hard coded indices alternative.

head, *middle, tail = numbers
Then do more and fix the problems.
In common speech "or" in the context of a choice is typically an "xor". "We can go to the beach or we can go to a movie."
Should we hang you for following orders? lol, It's a joke
I would like for there to be a game where you started with a budget of $X, and the goal is to maximize its effectiveness at improving the lives of the ultra low income people in your city.

Effective altruism on micro scales. And using ethical and legal means only, obviously, since the overarching goal is to be positive-sum.
Big O, by definition, assumes as n -> ∞.

This can be a really poor assumption in real world software that can bite both ways. Some "expensive" algorithms in terms of big O terms can be pretty efficient given real world data sizes. Additionally that C term that drops off at infinity can matter quite a lot if your real world problem size is small (meaning theoretically efficient algorithms can have a very high upfront cost).

Reasoning about actual runtime performance is far more important and intersects with the interesting/useful parts of computational complexity theory. Besides, in every interview I've been in they don't really mean "Big O", because I've never been required to produce a recurrence equation proving it, nor have I been confident the interviewer would even understand such an answer.

Understanding performance is hugely important in real world software, but Big O is a tiny part of that in practice.
There's environments where you get in trouble for unauthorized USB devices. Of course, you can just have them emulate an allowed VID/PID pair and get away with it, but it will lead to a rules clarification.
The leaked opinion also makes it clear that Congress can now regulate abortion if it wants to.

They're rolling back a raft of rights that we, as a society, decided follow from the constitution fifty years ago. A large majority of the population supports having those rights, but the justices were mostly appointed by minority elected presidents.

Given demographic trends, the senate will represent a narrowing minority of the population over time. The supreme court has also rolled back many voters rights and election integrity rules in the last few years.

Given that, it's likely we won't have a Democrat controlled senate for the forseeable future. If the Republicans control the house and presidency for a hot second, they'll be able to pass a national abortion (and gay rights, civil rights, and probably privacy) ban, and that will be the end of the US as a Democratic nation.

Because of the elctoral college math and existing court corruption, they'll be able to do this with under 40% of the vote.
A great OS Utility is Path Copy Copy (https://pathcopycopy.github.io/)
This is no doubt compounded by the very justified anger of disadvantaged groups. It means women, people of color et al often make enemies unnecessarily from people who might well be inclined to be their allies.

And the beat goes on. Same as it ever was.
Look at this thread. There's lots of interesting examples that are viable games. Not blockbusters maybe, but worthy of creation.
Do you often find yourself needing 3D in pdfs? I know it's there but have never encountered it in the wild. Is it a certain field or specialty that uses this feature?
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Yes poverty is caused by people not knowing certain strategies, and those strategies are of course known by people who are not poor... come on.
These specific questions don’t help much in my opinion. I prefer asking questions that I know someone can’t game through studying some leetcode crap.

- What was the most difficult problem you’ve had to solve as a developer? They talk about it. You get some data, and you start asking more detailed questions about it for them to elaborate on. Soon you discover if they’re bullshitting, or at least what’s their “technical ceiling” based on what they considered the most difficult thing they’ve ever done.

- Have you ever had a performance issue that you’ve had to debug. How did you go about finding the root cause?

Etc. Basically nothing with a textbook answer. Just get them to talk and not be autistic about it. Surely if you know your craft you’d be able to suss out if this person can solve technical problems and get an idea about how they go about doing it. I really don’t care if you can invert a tree or have memorised The Art of Computer Programming…

Will: Wood drastically -- Wood 'drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth.' You got that from Vickers, 'Work in Essex County,' page 98, right? Yeah, I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or do you...is that your thing? You come into a bar. You read some obscure passage and then pretend...you pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some girls and embarrass my friend? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a f----n' education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.
Absolutely. “Privilege” and “guilt” based on inherited characteristics is a horrible thing regardless of who it’s applied to. We should’ve learned this lesson several times last century.
I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with 'equality-enhancing policies' which leads me to believe the entire article has confused equality with equity, an entirely different (and incompatible) concept.
Gripping read. Lots of reveals.
"Where, exactly, does the money to pay for their additional salary and jobs come from?"

From the first paragraph of the Introduction to the article:

"Racial inequality costs the U.S. economy an estimated $16 trillion in lost gross domestic product (GDP), failing to hire job seekers with a criminal history results in an annual loss of $78 billion in U.S. GDP, and the persistent gender pay gap restrains the global economy by about $160 trillion"
Even disregarding those weird "third world" and "caste" tangents, there are tons of Westerners too who would literally do anything for a software job at a tech company, especially at a prestigious and well-paying FAANG. And, by anything, I mean suffer through any brutal study regimen, inhumane corporate process and any humiliation. Undergrad and advanced degrees, months of leetcode practice, take-home tests and coding challenges, hundreds of phone screens, a dozen rounds of interviews for a single company, staying half-ghosted on a waitlist for months, sending ping after groveling ping to recruiters for updates. There's nothing that's beneath them, and this willingness to endure pain simply raises the level of pain everyone else has to endure.
I've seen a lot that go by stall number and it prints the receipt you put on your dash.

Saw one recent that did license plate.
I don't think GP was saying your blog post was pedantic. I think they were referring to the stack overflow answer (which, unlike yours, was kind of pedantic). Your post was great.

That said, since we're discussing pedantry, I truly do mean for this to be constructive. In the US at least, most people avoid putting the "Dr." title in their name unless they're in a context where it specifically matters (such as on a course syllabus that they're teaching in university, for example). Medical doctors is an area where this is much less true. The "Dr." title can come off to many people as very pedantic unless it is specifically relevant to the situation.

Part of that is probably because historically in software development/engineering there's been a stigma against people that didn't graduate or go to university, so people feel insecure about others with a lot more education than them. It's gotten a lot better, but there's definitely still some of that happening even now.

I also want to say _thank you_ for your books and blog! I've found them quite helpful over the years. Javascript isn't my primary language so I often have to look things up, and I always click on your posts first because I know that they will:

1. Be brief and to the point (not a bunch of extra unrelated stuff to sort through)

2. Be very clear (never adds more confusion)

3. Be technically accurate

4. Thoroughly answer the question in the title

Thanks for all you do kind sir!
I played this game. It was depressing as fuck, the music really did a great job of setting in how much it really must suck if you end up this way. I went in feeling kind of bad that I was about to play a homeless person simulator and the experience was pretty much like... ok yeah this is a video game, but it doesn't trivialize the experience at all. It was also clearly set in a time period before massive meth and fentanyl problems.

It's basically one of those survival horror games where you have to build a base with whatever stuff you find around to not die in winter. It seems like the people who played this game more than me were motivated to finish it because it's actually a pretty damn hard game.

If you want to know the secret of how to win though here it is: It rains a lot in this game and if you get wet you become stinky so things get hard, but there's a few places to beg for change where it's dry. Try the exit to the train station and you will make thousands. It's hella menial but you just make way more money doing that than working the crappy in-game jobs on offer.

I used to work in a homeless shelter where the fine gentlemen in there would joke about how people were stupid enough to give them money all the time. It's crazy how much money you can make on forgoing all sense of humility and exploiting people's sympathy in public. Addictive street drugs aren't exactly cheap.
For anyone interested in Obsidian[0]

[0]: https://obsidian.md/
It is an interesting article but it completely glosses over the fact that not everything is non-zero sum and that differential costs can and do exist. The basis of this is entity-hood, and it applies not only to groups but also to individuals, corporations, etc. In fact, it applies to plants and animals also.

As this is all evolved, it's nearly impossible to separate the inclination from its effects. When humans have equal access to physical resources, they seek status and status as resources because it is a way of assuring physical and other resources in an uncertain environment.

All entities that persist have some process which enables that persistence: self and group interest are long-term evolved responses. We can see them as problematic, but it's actually very important that they exist. Since entities can defect in a game-theoretic sense, existence is not assured. It's nice when you are Ukraine, for instance, to be able to have the urge to promote unequal access to arms (a resource) or international attention to ensure your survival. Without this urge, there is trouble.

Carrying this back to something more local, in a family, attention-envy can happen among siblings because parental attention is not infinite. The non-zero sum model ignores these realities.