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> all software will be open source

There's a heck of a lot of "boring business software" out there, often quite niche, solving problems various businesses have. Anything that survives, just by virtue it has survived, has a positive ROI for everyone involved, including the customer.

Where is the supposed alternative going to come from?

Are people being paid to write that software suddenly going to stop and go build it for free? Are there random people that will suddenly develop an interest in figuring out how to automate filling out a bunch of Mississippi state government permit request forms, or how to convert an obsolete file format that's only used in the gas industry to another obsolete file format and FTP it somewhere, or how to convert customer orders to a cut lists used by a multi-million dollar industrial machine of which less than 100 exist in the world?

Are the customers (businesses) going to suddenly decide to hire up an engineering team and build this themselves, at probably higher cost than they pay today and definitely at way higher risk? Maybe they'll get together with a bunch of businesses with similar needs -- aka their competitors -- and pool their resources to build something?

I think none of this will happen -- or will happen in such exceedingly rare circumstances it's not worth considering.

Which means I'm pretty confident to say there will always be proprietary software.
The trick is to start a mechanical keyboard community at work. Nobody complaints about my Model M anymore buy people are coming over to try it out because it sounds interesting.
What about when tech is designed to feed off human nature and steer it in directions that serve the creators/investors/shareholders?
Heidegger was a Nazi, besides, and Being And Time and the concept of Dasein are rubbish -- he was a circular reasoner and a poor communicator -- and B&T really doesn't purport any new claim that hasn't already been made in some form or fashion since Socrates. 200 pages of Aristotle makes more sense. I would just watch Sugrue's Princeton lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaobMHescwg&t=476s if you're interested in getting the gist of Heidegger without having to slog through his nonsense. It all goes back to the Overman in some form or fashion. I'm rambling now.
200 pages of math text is probably a year of full time undergrad study.
They did indeed.
There are methods like GWAS that could help nail that down.
>Any religion who claims there is a God does not have proof of such.

Anyone who claims God does not exist does not have proof of such.
There's another side to the mechanical keyboard community that is focused on ergonomics [1]. I personally use a Kinesis Advantage 2 [2] with an Adantage 360 [3] on preorder. These are not marginal improvements to my quality of life, they enable me to continue using a keyboard at all.

As for the very expensive, mostly standard layout keyboards... it's an expensive hobby with marginal improvements at best, but the same could be said about furniture purchases. Most people don't choose furniture based solely off its functional characteristics. They want something pleasant to look at, especially since it's something they're using every day for a long period of time. I think there's plenty of utility in that, though personally I would never pay the prices that these people do.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/

[2] https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/

[3] https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage360/
I did find ZMK, thanks! It seems though that - you have to go buy a board and a shield and put stuff together yourself - at least that's how it looked to me.
The video doesn’t seem to be made by a bunch of outsiders. They seem skeptical of some of the claims, but in the whole giving Tachyum the benefit of the doubt - but maybe they’re motivated to be a little sensational for the viewers
This seems to be an appropriate thread to ask, how is the US Exit Tax not a human rights violation? By birth, US citizens are considered the property of the US government and have to purchase their freedom.
> Among men younger than age 40, the risk of infection-associated myocarditis was higher compared to the risk of vaccine-associated myocarditis: 16 extra cases associated with having infection before vaccination, with the only exception of a second dose of Moderna vaccine

Fair enough, it seems two dose moderna for men younger than 40 has higher risk of mycardis.

> this would mean that the vaccines are a net harm for younger age groups

I'm not sure that's the right conclusion. Appart for men younger than 40 with two dose moderna, your link shows a higher risk of mycardis from infection.

Also that study didn't have data about the outcome, but some of the other datasets I've seen showed that mycardis induced from COVID-19 in unvaccinated is often worse.

Personally, either or, I find overall the risk of Mycardis seems on par between vaccines and Covid-19, even if in some circumstances one can be higher than the other, they both remain low and close to each other.

I personally wouldn't worry about Mycardis in that case, but I'd focus on other side-effects instead that are more troubling, such as the long COVID related ones discussed here.

I'm not saying I think men under 40 benefit much from the vaccine. And in fact I think you bring a great point in that most of the advice is generalized and focused on at risk individuals, and I too would like if more nuance was provided, that took each individual context into account, age, race, sex, pre-existing conditions, weight, exposure, various COVID strain, etc. My main point was that you have to compare your own risk of getting Covid-19 unvaccinated against that of getting the vaccine, you can't look at each on their own, they both have more risk than not getting vaccinated and not getting COVID, but you must choose which you'd rather risk having first.
Those goals being: No poverty, zero hunger, good health and well-being, quality education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, decent work and economic growth, industry, innovation and infrastructure, Reduced Inequality, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate Action, Life Below Water, Life On Land, Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, Partnerships for the Goals.

All agreeable prospects, but all too vague and hard to define. They're more a wish-list than goals.

For example, what defines poverty? Wages vs the median, or quality of life factors? What makes work "decent"? What does inequality mean in this context, economic, judicial, racial?

Vague aspirational goals sound nice but are rarely met without considering the real decisions that have to be made to meet them. These things are things everyone wants, but what are we willing to sacrifice to meet them?
Yes but it's a multi-buyer multi-seller simultaneous auction for a required electricity load.

Some sellers will get more than they offered, but that's how the auction works, there can only be one market price to secure the given quantity of electricity.
You’re in luck! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FM8uRAdZ8S0

Matt’s videos have come a long way since this one, but I still refer back to it. I just sharpened a carpenter’s pencil with Matt’s method today!
It has been about 35 years since Illustrator was released and IMHO it still does a lot of things that Inkscape can't do. "Time Till High Quality Open Source Alternative" for that one is about 12.7k days and counting.

I also don't know a single professional artist who uses Gimp instead of Photoshop. Krita's gotten some traction; Wikipedia says that one was founded on June 21, 2005, which is about 15y after Photoshop.
I am using Heroku dynos for personal use almost for 10 years to track my expenses and my monthly usage is less than 3%. By introducing the pricing model, I can no longer enjoy and thankful for them until now. Instead of wiping out all the accounts, they could have put some threshold.
Rio undead?
This is nice.

But the real problem is Kubernetes. What do I mean by that? I mean the setup, care and feeding of K8s.

It's nice to have a tool that you can quickly push stuff to K8s. There are other tools out there that do that too.

The thing is this, the majority of people who use K8s, don't need to use K8s. Those people could easily get by with something like Dokku or even just start containers by hand to deploy.

Acorn is just perpetuation the cycle of recommending the over-engineering of K8s for small workloads and small companies that really and truly don't need it.

I'll say it again people. Spin up a few giant servers and call it a day. Save thousands of dollars in hosting costs and tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in engineer hiring costs. Bonus side effect? 10x performance than a passel of wimpy VPS's.

P.S. I'm coming from using K8s in both Google Cloud and on Bare Metal.
Last activity and a (small) icon are valuable information. The icons visually distinguish users and "last seen" lets you know whether you are replying to a person or primarily replying for the benefit of the community. Also, distinct pagination means you have a stable location for each post instead of "scroll around until you see it".

I agree with your point about signatures and initial sign-up being clutter.
I have an ancient MacBook Pro 5,2 from 2010 which I installed the latest Monterey onto with OCLP. It works great except for GPU acceleration, which means maps doesn't work.
Persecution Of Black People In Nazi Germany
I think this is some much needed optimism about the higher ed and educational system. True, these people are exceptional, but I think the media only looks at the things that wrong with the educational system.
> The people running the prisons give money to politicians, judges, sheriff's who are elected and make and enforce the laws.

under this interpretation you should probably ban police/correctional officers as well, because they have the same moral hazard. Same goes for anyone else that is involved in institutions that profit off human suffering (eg. hospitals).
Are you planning on bidding on the Puerto Rico generation privatization contract? Because you fit right in with the clowns at Luma Energy.
Tech isn’t particularly leading us anywhere. Could go lots of different places.

Bastards are leading us into hell, if they can wrestle us there.
This is only a utopian claim if you are a software developer who does not need to make money to live. Otherwise it's utterly dystopian and essentially reduces the developer to a provider of free labour. I sometimes think that open source is the greatest trick that late stage capitalism ever pulled.
It’s bizarre. One of the likely licensees I’m familiar with was basically a member of a crime family (as in a multi-generational related group of criminals) running drugs, guns, and various rackets.

Now they are “victims”. It’s stupid, and half of these folks are just hustling their victimhood status with “partners”.

New York has some of the best farmland in the country, much of which is derelict due to federal and state policy. There’s going to be a boom in business relating to weed, and nonsense like this isn’t going to slow the flow of cash.
> It’s been done this way since the revolutionary war.

Are you sure about that? I thought expat taxation was instituted during the Civil War.
>But I wonder how accessible it is for regular TSMC customers.

And in case people are not familiar, Intel's version is called Foveros, so it isn't available to TSMC customer. TSMC has a few similar packaging tech on offer, but AFAIK they are not as advanced as Intel, although Intel's Faveros is also a little more costly.

It is interesting we basically cycle back to old computer model with north bridge, south bridge, CPU, GPU etc all linked together.
Not me. Whenever I try alternatives, I can't help but question if people who use GIMP alternatives actually tried reading the GIMP manual.
Interesting but I decline the invitation to feel guilty about
my book a year max habit. Non fiction books to me are labourious because convention means they need to spill a few thousand words when 1000 will do.
Most can be a cheat sheet. With the words “just trust me” replacing the 500 anecdotes. Less is more.

The action to reading ration is almost always to low. If you read 200 pages but haven’t practiced or implemented anything then it is a bit useless. This would be interesting for fiction too. Maybe some end of chapter open ended questions. I would probably enjoy it more.
I own three of these suits so it's hard for me to credibly disagree, but I think they are very overpriced at full price ($750). They go on sale sometimes and if you can get one for $500, it's probably worth it.

That said, you should almost never be spending $100 or more on a new suit at a tailor. There are some things you should have tailored on a new suit, sleeves and pant cuffs for example, but for other things like shoulders you should buy something that fits in the first place.
I can actually use his own logic to prove the opposite point of his claim. Since his reasoning only works if there was one (or very few) tries wouldn't it be very unlikely to have had few tries compared to a much high number of possibly inifite tries? That means his case is in fact the unlikely case (few tries and hence likely design).

What I am saying is that we have no reason to assume and certainly no proof for ANY number of tries so we can't deduce what he claims. But if you follow his reasoning then he actually would need to come to the opposite conclusion that he came to.

I am not making the metaphysical claim, he is making it. I am only showing that his own logic works against him. Anyone who claims god exists is in the realm of metaphysical.
Not just cloudflare, dns orgs, arpa, the power companies, the water companies.
Yes, there's tons of spiritual leaders that could convince a publisher to spend that much on publishing.
If you need the manual it most probably means the UI needs improvement.
CRISPR as currently used is not functionally capable of cutting and pasting large swaths of the genome, it is for small specific edits
There was a nice discussion on Mondragon, and co-ops in general, in Kim Stanley Robinson's recent book Ministry for the Future.

That book is chock full of ideas - a fun read!
We can fairly discuss architectures all day. The Mill anyone? I still have no evidence that anything exists here beyond Powerpoint and promises of simulation. Even Elbrus, admittedly after many years, turned hardware.

Edit: does anyone else remember the promises of MicroUnity?
I have this hunch you could break into product management by product managing open source projects. You'd certainly learn some good skills if you could do it. It would be pure influence over authority.
I have a sense that there are a quite lot more people with Lisp skills than there are jobs. It should be easy to find Lisp people. And I mean reasonably young people; not like pulling Cobol people out of retirement. Lisps continue to attract new people.
How do I auto-assign people to sessions?
I am tasked with planning a large conference (500) people where different groups will need to attend mandatory/options sessions. What is the best method to auto-assign individuals to sessions? Does anyone have any recommended online software (possibly free) to solve this problem?
This is a very good point. As from, so to.

All it takes is one person with a mutant super-intelligence gene to bring forth a new step for human kind or one scientific discovery on how to hyper evolve a new babies intelligence.

And we have several billion more years before the sun shuts down, so hopefully that will emerge.
IIRC, Old Reddit addicts are a disproportionate influence among the moderation and high-karma populations. New Reddit is for the read-only proles, Old Reddit is for the people who provide value.
Sounds like you're exactly the case that should be worried.
This is good actually. Think of it as an opportunity to employ capital realism. If you can do that, then your problems simply cease to exist.
I also see the big call out to cases where the dockerfile and project are not in the same directory, This looks like a more straight forward improvement.
We should not worry about this... There are just too many words that have been used and mutated across cultures.

If we can make sure our generation/future generations in India preserve it, we should be good.
> People feel compelled to finish books they’ve started – that’s just a tax on your reading. Why would you do that to yourself? Imagine a world where any restaurant you tried you had to keep on going there for days or weeks, you’d hardly ever go out to eat.

I got this advice from an English Lit professor 20 or so years ago. His advice was: "Read the first 50 pages, if the author hasn't earned your attention by then, you can stop reading. You'll never read all the good books anyway, don't waste your time on the bad ones." A literature professor, mind.

It's among the top pieces of advice I've ever put into practice. It's liberating. I try to pass on this advice, but it's rare that anybody sees the wisdom there.
There could be an open source alternative to our software, yet it will be much harder to have an economically competitive open source alternative to systems or workflows. Amazon's Open Search Service, for instance, is just a control plane on top of Open Search (and Elasticsearch some time ago), yet so many companies flock to the service because they simply do not want to be bothered with manning a search service.
Came here to post the same. Paper and The Basque History of the World too. Just noticed Havana, must read. He's a great author, traveler and inquiring mind.
This is a good defense of it, but as a native English speaker I still found the sentence jarring.

It’s possible that my sensitivity to this kind of error (or causal register, if you prefer) is due to experience learning other languages that don’t have articles like those in English. I doubt it, though. Many others probably also find sentences stripped of articles as jarring, and that’s useful for anyone learning English to know.

As I learner, I generally want it to be understood by speakers of the language as easily and with as little friction as possible.
Most popular nonfiction books these days contain very little information, should be about a dozen pages long, and can indeed be mostly skipped.

There is a good art to skimming and carefully selecting books that get your full attention, there is a lot of garbage out there.

If you only have, say, 20 minutes with a book, you can get a lot out of it.

This does offend people who really like books who read most of their books every word. Lots of books don’t deserve that and you’ll get more out of books if you realize that.

And yes you can absorb a lot of a topic by only spending a short time with many books.

But still, some books do deserve to be read word for word, others studied for years.
+1 for Raivo.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/raivo-otp/id1459042137

On Android I would recommend Aegis.

Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beemdevelo...

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.beemdevelopment.aegis/
As someone who lives in Tokyo, I admit I've never seen this before. Not sure about "suddenly everywhere" but if it is I've never come across it. I haven't gone out much since covid but still...
Why do you assume they'll do this? It seems unlikely, considering NPR has a relatively small audience in Europe. Although it is an interesting idea for an article
First off, thanks for your patience

>They are not even merely more important than the other kinds.

I might be very wrong here, but i dont think it is possible to source that. I understand that they did all those things, but unless its possible to articulate how it affected market participants behavior i would argue claiming causality is very difficult. How exactly does for example a balanced budget halt inflation outside of changing inflation expectation? There will be answers depending on which model you adhere to, but does that explanation still hold up and remain applicable today? Because if not you kind if have to explain why not.

With economics being focused on human behavior in a market, what fundamentally determines how good a model describes the economy is market participants believe that it does. Because their believe determines the behavior you are trying to model in the first place. For that not to be the case we would need to see some static structures emerging in markets independent of market participants motivation and their understanding of how the market works. And if i am not mistaken that hasnt been the case. All there is is peoples behavior and it doesnt seem to be static.

*There is of course stuff like interest rates which changes behavior directly through higher costs(forcing behavior instead of changing motivation), but as i said, most.

edit: Which again, is the change in perspective i mentioned above. Unless i am overlooking something obvious, economic models arent describing some intrinsic behavior of markets because there doesnt seem to be any. They are only able to describe behavior once market participants behave that way. Which would mean economic models work because people believe they do. For that not to be the case you would need to see some models that remain applicable throughout time.

I am sure i am overlooking something obvious, but the answer to that would be a link to a working economic model that identified some fundamental structures that isnt dependent on market participants motivation.
I think this sort of thing is nigh impossible to do these days in most parts of the world. If you look at most major cooperatives around the world, almost all of them were founded at least 60-70 years ago if not further out.

The primary challenge imo is the mass financialization of the global economy, which makes it a lot more enticing to start a traditional corporation over a cooperative. Cooperative regulations in most jurisdictions make it very difficult to raise equity and even restrict many types of debt. There’s more coordination overhead, at least initially, and once mature, most cooperatives tend to look like public companies governance-wise anyway.

It just doesn’t make sense for the average person to start their own cooperative, especially in any competitive domain. The risk-to-reward ratio is totally skewed towards the wrong direction. It’s like starting a union for a non-existing company.

I say all this as an avid cooperatist who has been working in the space for the last six years and who runs a cooperative startup in Quebec, arguably one of the strongest coop ecosystems in the world. If the stars didn’t align for us (e.g. strong technical team, ample personal funds, prior cooperative experience, market timing, etc.), there’s no way we’d be surviving two years in.
I suggest reading Feynman's letter to a former student about "worthwhile problems".

As someone older than you, take it from me that at 23 you have a world of time and options available to you. Many of my pursuits and interests started at that age.
The fact that things we have accepted as scientific fact have, in the past been proven to be utterly false points to the fact that any of the scientific facts we believe in may be false. And then there's always the possibility that you're a brain in a jar and this is just a dream so everything you believe is actually false. (wake up)
Only under the assumption they're designed for usage without the manual. I understand most things are but they definitely don't have to be. GIMP unfortunately may not be particularly explicit about this but having all users read the manual feels very much intended.
As they should. it’s completely two different things. If we can’t think about anything without thinking about the climate we won't be able to think
With tree shaking .NET you can compile your C#/NET program into a fairly small single executable on the three major platforms if that's what you need, which is nice.
Oh, thank you! Not sure how I missed that…

(I suspect it’s a recent addition, though; I don’t recall that panel being there last time.)