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> the system is still meant for profound inequality and exploitation

I disagree that "the system" is "meant" for anything - the system is not a monolith even if certain parts of the machinery work well together, it is rarely a question of design, usually a mishmash of various historical phenomena and trends that happen to exist simultaneously.

I think my plea for "a little bit of this and a little bit of that" perhaps got somewhat muted in my comment, placed at the very end like it was. So I agree that it would be oppressive to always treat everyone equal, the billionaire as well as the double working lone mom, and that machines many time is a prime tool for oppression and deflecting responsibility.

But it would be problematic to start chipping away at the ideal of everyone's equality under the law in order to rectify such. This ideal is what stands between institutions like freedom, democracy and human rights on the one hand and corrupt states on the other, where the law is applied differently depending on who is on trial, and where the letter and intent of the law is flaunted in favor of pure (real) oppression.

The problem really seems to be discerning where to apply "a little bit of this" vs where to apply "a little bit of that", a project that doesn't lend itself well to sweeping generalizations.
I've written SDKs and infrastructure software that has lasted decades. The secret is usually to use boring tech, and inline documentation.
The entire premise of Rich Dad, Poor Dad is to move from the ES (Employment, Service) side of his ESBI equation to BI (Business, Investment). This is sound financial advice. You're also confusing tax deferral with tax fraud. Nothing he wrote is illegal.
Macaulay's book was titled "The Way Things Work". I too loved it as a kid - what an incredible piece of art. I firmly believe every child should have a copy. One wonders how many STEM careers it provoked.

Your name confusion is understandable, as "How Things Work" was a popular book title - I had at least two books by that name concurrently with my ownership with "The Way Things Work", and I too was always getting them confused.
Decentralized payment processors are the solution e.g. Bitcoin.
You might enjoy checking out https://endmyopia.org/

There's calculators on his site also for astigmatism. I think also a list of optometrists who will understand if you want weaker lenses.
We can just call them CSPRNGs to be precise.

The pseudo lets you know it's not real quantum randomness, and the rest of it lets you know it's probably good enough for all practical purposes.

Actually, crypto pseudorandoness can be more appropriate for some things, because you can prove you didn't rig it.
The amazing thing about insteon is that it does not need a central controller. The devices have relationships with each other (that you can setup by tapping the wall switches themselves).

I actually stopped using a central controller years ago and just appreciate being able to turn off everything in the home from my front entry.
From very start of the article: "Leaders | What to do about myopia".

However 'myopic' is certainly used metaphorically. This is one of those cases where you just have to read the article.
Making kids go to the beach in the rain isn't a great strategy either.
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>>Making young kids study all the time is killing their eyesight!
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I very much doubt kids 'studying too much' is the problem - staring at iphones all day watching tiktok and playing video games is more like it.
Not really, quite opposite, archeology is very expensive.

Istanbul desperately needed metro, but new tunnel was delayed by 15 years for excavations. If new site is found during construction, many builders just pay off archaeologists, and pour concrete over it.
I write inline documentation. It's usually headerdoc-style stuff. Tools like Jazzy, DocC, and Doxygen make it very useful[0].

I'll often write the documentation before the functionality. When I'm done, I run Jazzy, and I have an indexed, navigable, relevant, up-to-date document set. I point GH Pages at it, and voila! You have a well-documented codebase.

It also encourages brevity and keeps the focus local.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/
Capitalism will eat itself. Countries with cultures which favor decentralization and personal relationships between producers and consumers with thrive and retain their spirit.
> real autopilot on an airplane is just keeping it in a straight line and constant speed

Not even close. Even light aircraft autopilots can fly a full route from just after takeoff all the way to 200' AGL on final approach. Autopilots in transport category aircraft have full autoland including rollout.
and those are cheaper
> It's extremely, extremely unlikely - i.e. so much less likely than it is likely to be caused by eschewing the vaccination and getting the disease.

> In short, please stop misleading people by editorialising, re-framing, and presenting data/case reports improperly and without proper context so as to lead people to faulty conclusions.

I guess it was hard to follow your own advice and not editorialize an opinion that is not qualified medical advice from a personal doctor.
`IMPORTHTML("http://example.com", "table", 4)` – https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093339?hl=en

Pretty snazzy. They also have `IMPORTFEED` for RSS which is giving me all sorts of neat ideas.
I had an idea to create commercial service for this; but I'm afraid it would cost me too much to transcribe videos. Short videos are not costly to transcribe but hours long videos are. At the end of the day I might do it because Moore's law is our friend and it should get cheaper and cheaper over the years.
Also known as split tunnel, this can be used by corporate VPN solutions to lower the amount of network traffic entering a data center (so you don’t overload your undersized pipes)
SiYuan is a local-first personal knowledge management system
This discussion is about Base64-in-JSON vs SQLite, not binaries-in-ZIP vs SQLite.
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> may contain erotic imagery.

Ha.
Shared principles for language processing in humans and deep language models
> Vector API, which is useful in cases the JIT cannot automatically vectorise loops

For vertical-only operations (vectorizable loops), people often using GPUs instead of SIMD in CPUs. Graphics cards have way more resources, both GFlops and memory bandwidth.

I don't think sorting an array has anything to do with vectorizing a loop.
It's odd for an article like this to make absolutely no mention of Free Software, but it's not really using oppressive in the sense the Free Software movement uses it.

The point of the article boils down to something like this:

Pre-AI computers are very literal and show no judgement or discernment in their rule-following. They are inevitably used to implement complex systems against which users have little recourse, and to implement complex systems whose behaviours and failures can be blamed on computers rather than on the people responsible. These fundamental problems will persist no matter the progress made in AI.

Free Software is intended to stop the user being oppressed by their own computers. The article's point is about other people's computers being used to serve their interests over yours, in ways that may be detrimental to the user compared to a more 'manual' system.

Consider the train door example from the article.
Suppose that code were Free Software.
This might benefit whoever owns and runs the train, but wouldn't benefit the user (of the train) at all.
The coolest website I've seen lately is http://howacarworks.com. It's a video course in which an experienced mechanic breaks down a car into all its constituent parts then puts everything back together piece by piece, explaining in detail how everything works and fits together.

I knew nothing about mechanics before starting this series and I'm very impressed by how informative and professionally made the content is. Well worth the price tag (currently discounted as it's still in prerelease, but lots of videos have already been published.)

(Note: I have no affiliation with the creator of this course and have nothing to gain by promoting him; I'm just a happy customer.)
Mine was by a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins and his research assistant, subsequently published in the British Medical Journal. Yours is a blog post by a "science communicator," whatever that is supposed to be. Of course the BMJ article would be widely criticized by an industry that claims almost 20% of US GDP. They can afford to have it criticized--by professional criticizers no less.

And the BMJ article is but one of many on the misrepresentations and oversellings of modern medicine. Read Ioannidis, or Mendelssohn, or Illich, or Mullins, or so many others!

As an old person, who has seen a lot of people cut short by the hospitals, all of these takedowns have held true to life. I've seen heart patients MRSA-ed to death by the hospitals, who would have been just fine if they stayed home; cancer patients killed off by post-radiation pleural effusion long before the cancer would have gotten them; people losing 1/3 of their blood volume, or suffering from intestinal perforations, from "routine" colonoscopies.

The primary contribution to human life expectancy in the last century was not mainstream medicine. It was public hygiene.

edit: And if you, as a literate and numerate person, ever get sick, trust but verify. Listen to the doctor, but also do your own research. I can guaran-damn-tee that you will obtain vastly superior results. It's not that all doctors are scoundrels looking to kill you & take your wallet. It's that they are afflicted by the same tunnel-vision, group-think, & subconscious self-interest as any other group of professionals. When the only tool you have is a hammer...
Yeah, that's kind of a boring and not uncommon bit of hardware. I have an old Osborne that would be cool to update. Or an SGI.. or an Next Cube!
This was a problem caused by not updating the firmware on the scanning devices at the stores. If you have a centralized store with decentralized trust (blockchain) or a conglomerate of banks in the back does not fix the problem of missing firmware updates. Yeah, in theory with bitcoin anybody could implement their own device. In practise you would have the precisely same outcome.
Unless you’re religious enough to find meaning in all things the following is true: all meaning, all utility, all purpose, and all value are subjective and are assigned by humans. A computer, on its own, has zero meaning, zero utility, zero purpose, and zero value. Until one or more humans decide it has something, it is without any such attribute.

People may decide that the ease a tool gives some task is a display of its purpose or its utility, but this matters and is true only to the humans involved. To another group of humans, this would be false. For example, a builder may find a large dually pickup truck perfect for hauling finished lumber in the USA, but a builder in Europe may find the same truck useless as it cannot make it down the streets to a build site.

Utility, purpose, meaning, and value are assigned by people and not inherent to any given thing.
> What's the use case for being able to zoom out of my desktop that far [...]

Just to hijack that a little, having a huge workspace and navigating it by panning and zooming out is quite a powerful idea.

Back in the day I had neat multidisplay setup that gave me 4960x1600 pixels, I used to remote into that from a small ibm/lenovo thinkad with 1024x768 screen resolution. The default behavior of changing the remote resolution to match the screen remoting from was a complete disaster. 30 windows being scrambled and resized was a nightmare and left a mess unlike no other.

But, with the right options you could retain the original size and just get a view onto that massive workspace. And with the little thinkpad-nub and the "third" mouse-button you can seamlessly pan through that. It was a fantastic experience and a great way to utilize that small screen.

Later I learned that there was some really old (late 80s maybe?) window-manager that actually behaved much liked that by design, and that idea is something I've kind of missed ever since.

So that was something I discovered by mistake, by using something that the designers probably didn't intend to be used that way (without the thinkpad-nub, having a workspace smaller than the remote is usually a quite painful experience). A 3d-accelerated window-manager that encourage playing around could be used to find such neat and very useful workflows.
> You do not much use basic to do computing or pascal.

Not you, perhaps, but some do: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
I heard it said that it's lack of UV that does the damage, glass filters out UV. Sounds like it might be a resolvable problem without having kids take class outdoor.
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Indeed.

Perl 6 got renamed to the Raku Programming Language (https://raku.org #rakulang) and continues to work on a 100 year programming language. If you want to stay up-to-date on developments, you can check out the Rakudo Weekly News https://rakudoweekly.blog
Allo? I think you confused this with something else if you're referring to Google Allo chat app.
Honestly, not knowing SF (European with very few visits in the USA so far) my point is for all cities build demand time, years, decades in general, things change normally not that fast but change anyway and adapting cities to different (changed) societies it's next to unfeasible.

Surely, something can be done, normally with big effort compared to the final outcome, but not more than that.

In the very past was easier: rate of change was FAR slower, cities was built with rocks and some wood, the very same rocks can be "moved" to build something different and woods can be sourced nearby. The city was able to rebuild itself. Normally after some catastrophe. Modern cities tend to be steel and concrete, not easy to be "reused" especially locally. As a result modern cites need to be rebuilt from the ground today and IF we accept such enormous challenge when they'll be rebuilt will probably be not good anymore because tech and so business/needs are already changed.

In the recent past the idea of a thriving city was simply: we have living places and commerce concentrated, if tomorrow a certain family of shops became obsolete and disappear others will occupy the same places with minor changes, like we do not have anymore the need for stearic candles but at their place light bulb shops arrive, we do not have much classic restaurants and at their place small kitchen for ready-made food delivery take their place etc. That's effectively worked for a certain amount of time. Factories are outside, they have room to change, agriculture have room to change and people live in cities.

Now such model is in crisis, climate change force new kind of homes, it's not just a matter of changing windows and some appliance. New small homes are easier to rebuild, you crush the old one, build another at the same place. Tall buildings are another story and most cities are made of tall buildings especially downtown.

That's the real crisis, it's not a matter "due to remote work some offices are empty and activities around them can't survive": no one take this places because it's not anymore a simple "economical shift" in the same model.

Since we dream a future of flying cars density for economy of scale will be FAR LESS dense than now and that's give the ability to change, cities can only be small/medium and on-purpose, like classic manufacturing districts.

The really unpopular part is the fact that in such model too many will be new poor and of course they do not like such idea, we do not like that being not so sure for ourselves since even wealthy today a big shift might be hard to sustain.
We buy a ton from there. The price is a little high but not enough to matter unless its a significant part of your expenses. They save me money on balance by being fast and convenient.

I'm a huge fan of their website.
Yup. I've been learning about James M. Buchanan, the Virginia School's "political economy", and their particular notions of "liberty".

What they really advocate is freedom from consequences. Maximal individualism at the expense of the common good.

As a Gen-X, my early exposure to right-libertarian notions was thru Robert Heinlein, Ayn Rand, etc. So edgy, so attractive. Sign me up! I so wish young me had known about Buchanan, John Birch Society, etc. Would have saved myself a lot of time.
Interesting; maybe it's doing geolocation based on your IP address? It comes up in English for me (connecting from the UK).
I can't hear the keyboards due to the blowhard hustlers talking on the phones.

WFH has many advantages in addition to avoiding long commutes.
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>This oppressiveness is not inherent to computers, it's inherent to the people and institutions making use of them. The examples in the article say it all: government bureaucracies, beverage dispensers.

Well, to build things at the modern computer industry scale, you need government bureaucracies, huge corporations, tons of discipline, from the assembly line to the cobalt mines, and enterprises and bureaucracies with a use for it, 99% to streamline control, control more effectively and wider, and penny pinch customers even better.

Now, give surveillance, instant indexed cataloguing, 24/7 tracking, remote controllable money and id access and more, to the same governments and corporations, and that's just going to point to more control.
> So you and I can run a full node for the Central Bank of Nigeria's blockchain?

That is not my point and no one is arguing that the use case for blockchains in CBDCs was 'decentralized' or 'decentralization' in the first place and none of the evidences I've shown ever said that. Why do you think that in my first reply to your false claim on blockchains not being used in CBDCs, one of the sources explicitly says that it was '...Using Private Blockchain' [0]?

My whole point was towards your original false claims such as:

> > No central bank digital currency is planning to use a blockchain.

> > Every reputable organization that rolled out a pilot project did nothing afterwards.

So interestingly you have proved my last point after you yourself realised that your claims were refuted with no counter refutation and zero counter evidence towards my replies or even answering any of my other questions which suggests that you are simply trying to escape and avoid the discussion.

What is the point of screaming unfounded and absolute claims and then having to end up running away or dodging other question(s) after someone refutes them in front of you?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31700999
First sentence is the same here.
Second is not, here is 4 years career in medicine university.
Third sentence is the same also.

:v

But she is helping me with my gastrointestinal problems, reflux, weight, etc.
I bet not long before that the old folks were complaining about the kids watching too much TV, reading too many comics, or playing too much backgammon.
I will google that now
Yes I do imagine that.
I mainly drink black coffee no sugar.
Ukrainians use 3D tech to preserve cultural artifacts in a digital archive
This could also happen if you have a misconfigured VPN with a DNS leak. Check out this website for clues: https://ipleak.net/
That's four words.
Even a tool as simple as a hammer or a knife would be useless to a fish or something without hands and the appropriate dexterity (e.g. an ape).
1000 sq ft (92 sq m) is a quite decent family apartment. For young singles or couples without kids, half of that is pretty decent. 20-25-30k new homes is nothing to sniff at, even if it won't solve the full problem.
Anecdata, but I lived in a low light environment for most of my life (North UK), then spend the last ~15 years in a much brighter environment (NZ). My prescription has dropped from a mid -5 to a low -4 in that time, which is a fairly large and uncommon improvement for someone middle aged. The optician put it down to where I've been living.
Looks somehow cool. Although it is AGPL, I strangly have this bias against Chinese software. Particularly that you have to pay for E2EE cloud sync seems strange in this context. Would be a great case of FOSS if trust can still be established. (Probably that would need trusted people reviewing the source, as I am too lazy myself :))
It has been pretty easy on our end. We live walking distance to work and daycare.

so it’s no problem to even have both of us pick the kids up, walk home to eat lunch, walk kids back to daycare, and go back to work.
Wdym by this? I share my whole screen and virtual desktops from the browser when on discord. I use sway which is also based on wlroots but afaik pipewire is responsible for sharing screen.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#WebRTC_screen_shar...
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> Conform to tools that share a similar niche. If you’re using Rust to make a fast alternative to popular coreutils: model its behavior, help-text, and man pages after `ripgrep` and `fd`.

I'm surprised by this. Why wouldn't you model the behaviour after grep and find? The fact that ripgrep uses a different regular expression syntax than grep is my main problem with it; if there were a utility with the functionality of ripgrep, but the RE syntax of grep, I would switch over in a heartbeat.
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Please see your comment I was replying to for context on this thread. Addiction is what I was referring to, which is a different issue than whether one is wasting time to any degree. I have no real issue with folks debating on the latter.
If you like your routine then you should look forward to doing it on your vacation as well.

More specifically, if possible continue your routine on vacation. Your routine is what you do every day.
Now it’s 50K£, because the government increased NI. So you pay roughly 40%, which is quite a lot considering that if you want access to decent healthcare you have to pay privately. Also nurseries cost 2K£ per month and public education is extremely bad.
Engineers often overestimate how bad the “greenfielder” is for the business. In most cases you aren’t selling an elegant technical solution, you’re just selling a solution. And if you don’t ship it ASAP you won’t have time to worry about maintainability, you’ll be bankrupt.

For most businesses, a greenfielder is a 10x engineer.

(This is just an aside, I agree that there exist “true” 10x-ers having had the joy of working with 2 of them over the last 20 years).
Beware a thing: the strong point of CLIs vs GUIs was and still is IPCs or the ability to pipe I/O from a single-purpose program to another. Rich textual output for better human interaction means the need of a "quiet mode" for easy piping, something many forget.

In interactive terms though the reasons for CLIs wane quickly: document-UI, some have called "2D CLIs" serve us far better in mean, see Emacs vs Unix classic. In that case CLIs are just a tool to call "functions" and see their return values.

For inclusivity also consider a thing: blind people who use screen readers migh have troubles in document UIs so they might prefer CLIs but those made for being audio-based, decorations and co does not help.
Java seems to have reached the status of Cobol - it will probably never die and there will be plenty of jobs at large enterprises. But you have to commit to learning about the swamp. The more you know about the swamp, the more valuable you are. There's a lot of money to be made in the swamp.

However, it sounds like you're looking for a situation that is more open to newer approaches. Go is easy to learn. Interview around and see what they're looking for.