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> That works when your developer laptop can actually run all the tests.

That's completely orthogonal. A remote branch that nobody looks at except you and your CI service is also part of what I'd consider "developer machine", you're just not necessarily sitting right in front of it. The important part is: these are not the commits that go anywhere further in the development process, and you certainly don't push them out to review. There's absolutely no reason for anyone to look at my "aaaa" and "fix" commits full of commented out code that serve as nothing more than an "undo" feature for what happened in my brain.
RMS actually did ask a few of the universities who granted him doctorates, if it was acceptable for him to use the title "Doctor". Some said no, some said yes, and some said he should use "Dr.(h.c.)"[0] (as in "doctor, honoris causa", where we get the term "honorary doctorate", even though, as RMS points out, it'd be perhaps more accurate to call it "doctorate for honor"[1]).

Of course, he took that as license to just do whatever he wanted to do. Personally I wouldn't even consider adopting any kind of title in the first place, but if I was of that bent, I would at least have the decency to append the "(h.c.)".

I do believe that RMS's contributions to the world have been significant, but, to me, at least, a doctorate is something you get after completing a doctoral program. If you don't do that, you should call yourself a "doctor, honoris causa" -- because that's what you are! -- not a "doctor".

But what do I know, I only completed a bachelor's degree, and even then only barely.

[0] https://stallman.org/articles/dr-stallman.html

[1] I learned something new today!
The author is writing specifically about children’s books, which have been a thing for far less time that what has elapsed since Benny Franklin printed.
I wish NNW would support notifications on Mac with the app closed, maybe with a helper that's always running. I use it to get alerts on hardware availability but I don't want it always taking up space on my dock.
Why will wasm make 'it' (security?) worse?
Any service of Google that is not considered as a core by them cannot be relied upon at all.
Stadia died because the business model made no sense. The service was squarely targeted at AAA gamers. However, it was a poor deal for AAA gamers and (much more importantly) a horrible deal for AAA game companies.

The deal for AAA companies was: Port your game for an entirely different OS/API, pay the Google tax and be subject to Google reviews. But you can't treat a game streaming service like a Play Store. AAA game companies have way more power and money than the typical mobile app developer, and will fight you even on mobile where GoogleApple is strong (see Epic). No way they want the Play Store experience when they can avoid it by going to the competition. So Google had to bribe and bribe. Eventually it became depply unprofitable, and Google had to pull the plug.

Was there any way to avoid that?

A) Make the service more accessible to casuals. Like by having a search bar, a subscription model and making some Windows compatibility layer so indies could more easily port. But there's no way Google's ego could accept a service not targeted at AAAAAA.

B) Make 1st party studios and show capabilities only cloud gaming could have. Force AAA companies to your service to compete. This requires investment for a good time with uncertain rewards and possibly no promotion. We're talking about Google here.

C) Pivot to a white-label service and give AAA companies a way better deal. This is what Google is trying to do. Of course, there's no reason to keep Stadia in that case.
I understand your objection to the Kochs, but I'm not sure that it invalidates the facts in question?
These questions and what you said are two different things. You don’t need to treat any group poorly and none of those questions suggest you do. You made a leap that doesn’t logically follow.
I myself do not subscribe to this stereotype, I have seen both extremes in junior dev. Some ask nothing but figure it out themselves, some ask too much and figure out nothing, some did both, some didn't and failed miserably. Some exhibit a mixture of these 4 quadrants.

For me, I'm resourceful and have ways to learn how things work myself, either by googling or asking peers. If I'm asked a question that I don't know about at point blank, I usually follow this template

1. Silent thinking for 2-3 seconds

2. Talk about something closely relevant that I actually know about

3. Concludes with "that being said, let me do some digging and get back to you"

This demonstrates that I understand the question, I know something relevant, and that I'm willing find out things that idk about. Especially if you're higher up the ladder, saying you don't know requires tact, I believe this is not specific to Asia. There's a fine line between this and a bullshitter; a bs-er simply drifts away from the topic and never comes back nor willing to find things out.

That being said, I adjust my strategy according to the culture of the company that I'm working in.
The bandwidth of your sensory inputs is tremendous, therefore the brain discards most information that it processes and only keeps a subset, these are what we call "memories." Think of it like a lossy compression mechanism (eg: JPEG, MP3, or your audio or video codec of choice).

Furthermore, the brain is a pattern-matching system. It will extract information that is most memorable (highest entropy) and keep it. Certain situations which are stressful or emotional (eg: a surprising or frightening event) will release norepinephrine which makes memories stronger.

Finally, the brain applies tons of heuristics to "fill in" parts of the memory that are not that different from regular experience. It will also pay more attention to things that confirm your biases:
https://www.e-counseling.com/articles/what-is-selective-memo...

If you're interested in learning more, this is a great text summarizing many research studies in modern cognitive science and psychology:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18090066-the-owner-s-man...

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/The_Owner_s_Manu...
It's lacking that special obfuscation and deception IF seems to be famous for. Other than that it seems great.
> > No, it was not in fact OK to coerce someone into a date with a threat of suicide in 1985.

> In 1985 you still had towns where blacks weren’t allowed after sundown in the US

Literal, de jure, sundown towns were no longer permitted by federal civil rights law and the interpretation of the 14th Amendment for…quite some time before 1985.

The term persisted (and persists) for systems of informal racial discrimination (which may or may not have any significant association with time of day), and in that sense, yes, “sundown towns” existed in 1985 – and also in 2022.

(Not that even if you were literally correct would this be anything but a total irrelevancy to the point you responded to with it.)

Were there some significant cultural differences in 1985? Yes, sure. Were threats of suicide to coerce someone into dating within the window of acceptable adult behavior? No, not at all. It was viewed as a sign of unusual and dangerous obsession and instability when the person doing it was a teenager.

I mean, at least, it was by everyone of all ages the one whole time it occurred anywhere in my social circle within a few years of 1985.
Really interesting. A bit disappointing to see all of Polynesia and other Pacific islands excluded.
The experience is highly variable between people. I'm sorry you had such a rough time, and I'm hoping that things are at least slowly getting better for you.

About the god thing, my 2 cents. "god" doesn't always mean Christian White Old Guy on a Cloud Looking Angrily Downwards. There's a less narrow interpretation.

If psychedelics strip away your day-to-day preoccupations, and show you life with a vastly different set of mental filters in place, many people experience a transcendent feeling of belonging to something bigger than their sober selves. A connectedness to other humans and nature that goes beyond ordinary experience. The idea that death isn't so bad, only suffering is; and suffering is the price we must pay for the ability to see its opposite, beauty.

Which people then conversationally condense to "yeah you meet god"
Can you share links to resources you recommend about these topics? I'll Google it, but still :)
Yes, you might get some criticism for it, just like Haidt is.

A private organization like the NFL or the SPSS might not let you be a member if you don’t follow their rules. That’s within the bounds of free speech.

We only have freedoms by continually asserting them and sometimes sacrificing some social capital to use them.
Pretty simple low-impact code here. I wrote it to address three short-comings the most popular alternative has.

The version I wrote compares UTF-8 code points, not bytes. It also uses locale-aware standard library functions, so things like using \w with non-English text should work, so long as you set the locale in your program.

Second, my library deals with the regex as it is, without spending time compiling the regex. The popular alternative wastes a lot of time compiling regexes even though the compiled versions can't easily be re-used.

Third, my library intentionally doesn't support regex character sets/ranges. For my use case, it's preferable to define another metacharacter class than to waste compute cycles on more complicated syntactic sugar.

If these things matter to anyone else, maybe you'll find my tiny project helpful.
In this thread I’ve noticed people have jumped from these principles, which do seem true to very specific statements about race that don’t seem true. Interesting.
Interesting points. Sounds like you've got some sound experience in the politics of open source
You clearly have not read the book or even the quoted parts of it in the article. This quote is highlighted by Haidt who even supports and says there is a place for anti-racism.

> "The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."

The book makes its point of view as plain as day. I haven't made any kinds of leap whatsoever.

Haidt only drew the line at his work being compelled to promote anti-racism because that's contradictory to the aim for truth and why we do research in the first place.
You compare nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki to what Putin is doing in the Ukraine? Throwing troops over the border in a war Putin started and then howling about how he was going to launch the nukes if anyone stopped him from planting his flag in Ukrainian soil?

Contrast that with a US that has since gone out of its way to avoid using nuclear weaponry (very notably during the Korean War). The US has many, many faults, but this comparison strikes me as absurd.
The video doesn't follow the timeline. The video and voice over is still displaying and explaining about white dwarfs after all the stars have burned out, including red dwarves. It looks pretty, but it's incongruous and doesn't fulfill what the title promises in that it doesn't follow its own time lapse.

Here's one[1] that actually makes sense in only 9 mins, albeit without the trendy soundtrack. Here's a Kurzgesagt[2] that gets pretty close to the subject.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qndOMjlThc

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzkD5SeuwzM
At google many years ago they gave me an LGTM stamp for something, can’t remember what exactly. Fun thing to have around. This one is much nicer than mine though.
I think you're missing the forest for the trees here. The NHS is supposed to be a public service, but to undermine public support for it the UK government have been slowly trying to hack off bits of it to give to the private sector and strategically underfunding it. If they could get away with it they would probably sell the NHS down the river to US healthtech in order to get a US trade deal. So people are rightly sensitive to anything that appears to point to large private sector companies gaining an increased foothold in the NHS
No, it's more like requiring everyone submitting papers to the ACM to explain how their research will result in a more equitable society. That'd exclude a ton of research topics: how is a faster rendering technique going to result in anti-racist outcomes? I guess you cant submit that paper.
Individual people can stop purchasing Chinese products. Act locally is small, though it can start a boycott maybe like what pressured S.A. apartheid.
More like becasue no one wants a DRM walled gaming service and because other streaming options allowed one to play already purchased games instead of requiring to buy them again.

Google should have provided an option to transfer games from Steam and GOG without buying them again, and run them for example using Wine if there was no native Linux version available. Then their service could have worked out. Their refusal to use Wine and stick to native games only was their major mistake that limited their catalog (in addition to that buying games again issue).

I think Amazon are already working on something like above and they are using Wine. They probably learned from Google's mistakes.

Instead of shutting down, Google should have addressed above issues. But in Google's usual fashion, they'd rather shut things down than fix them.
Here's what a cloud gaming service needs to take off:

* Allow me to use any controller the game natively supports on almost any device (phone, tablet, pc, stream box, etc.) and also as many game consoles as possible (probably 0 or 1)

* Give me access to hundreds of games when I subscribe just like Netflix gives me access to hundreds of shows and movies. Don't make me pay for the service and again for games. Gamers just want to pay one monthly fee for unlimited games access. (Probably only Microsoft, Sony, or a partnership between a major game publisher and Amazon or Apple could deliver on this due to consolidating IP portfolios)

* Build data centers close to your customers for low-latency rendering

* Use modern GPU hardware with ray tracing and dlss or the AMD equivalent.

* Work with game publishers to make a killer game so computationally demanding that it won't render with just one or two desktop graphics cards. Show the power of the cloud and market the hell out of it.
With android they had to get buy in from phones makers and other powerful parties. To do this they had to give up quite a bit of power and control. They never owned the ecosystem in nearly the same way. It was always a compromise.
> No company on earth would have let him stay this long.

Because no company on earth wanted what he wanted.

If he had different flaws, ones which companies found acceptable, it is doubtful that the state of technology we enjoy today[1] would exist.

[1] Almost all of which was built on free software foundations.
That reads like .ıllı.ıllı. product
Your preference is unnecessarily pedantic and logically reduces in specificity to the exact phrasing that peeves you.
I definitely didn't have to pretend to pay them when I elected this option, you just affirmed you were using the account for personal use and everything stayed the same basically.
DIY Digital Room Correction with Linux
The only great impulse of change I had after my trips was an intense urge to kill myself
For the last 5 or 10 years, USB has seemed like a standard designed to make you purchase more than what you need. Whether it's the capability of the cable or the number of cables (through trying to rectify disappointing purchases). I'm sick of everything they are.
This seems to be the only plausible explaination apart from the client actually looking up your email address completely separately, which doesn't make sense at all if it was a reply to your original email.
In the game Elite Dangerous, the galaxy contains 400 billion stars modeled by a Stellar Forge program. Since it’s launch about 7 years ago, less than 0.5% has been discovered, despite thousands of ships “in the black”.
I get that. I was just trying to understand from the original person I was responding to if they found the National Anthem “requirements” as repulsive.
Also Vietnam had used in the past the Chinese writing, before the French enforced the use of the Latin alphabet.

That is why the Chinese writing signs are frequently referred to as CJKV, from the main 4 countries which have used this writing system.
We know the problems, would like to see workable solutions.
So they just mean a transcendent, spiritual experience?
So **ing what if UK healthtech isn't up to silicon valley 'standards'. As if the US healthcare system is anything to be envious of.
It just hit me that (of course) this was coordinated. I'm against many forms of advertising, but somehow I don't mind this. They needed a name for the letter and looked around. I can't imagine the brands having paid all that much to be the name of an Android version.
Yeah me too. They problem is we get locked into modalities that were common when we started using computers.

People use vim say, because the computer when they were 15 didn't run emacs well and now they're 45 and because of this fairly unrelated fact from 1992 they're still doing the same thing.

I try hard to question these assumptions and move on. I use USB foot pedals as quasi-mode keys and sliders and knobs of MIDI controllers to do things like go through browser tabs, window stacks, file hierarchies, scroll through files...

Just my style.

I've thought about trying voice dictation or using the 6DOF sensors on an old phone maybe for a ZUI interface (say figma) but I haven't explored it yet.

Pulling this off in X requires a lot of esoterica of virtual keyboards and named pipes but it's totally doable. We need to find better ways to interface computers and I'm convinced that will not come by attaching a smartphone to our face (or by groups like MIT media lab either. I've worked with them and I wish it were otherwise).

Also I've been learning emacs, it's actually pretty neat.
This is so disingenuous. The whole point is that in a publicly funded health system many people disagree with this access being available in the first place. The UK government tries to paint a picture whereby giving such access will allow a raft of plucky UK startups to revitalize the NHS, when in reality we are just handing over our data and taxpayer money to the likes of Palantir.
That sounds gross and corrupt.
The counterpoint is that their strategy is burning trust in their brand. New products depend on early adopters to mature and grow. But I’ve been burned by Google’s product ADHD so many times now that I refuse to be an early adopter of any of their products. If gmail came out today, I’d assume it would be shut down in a few years and I wouldn’t touch it. The only Google products I’d use today are Android, Chrome, Search, Gmail and sometimes firebase or Meet. I think Google meet is the only thing in that list less than 10 years old. (And even then it’s just rebranded Hangouts).

Every time Google shuts down a product, they hurt their reputation. They’re pissing in the pool that future Google products need to survive. At this point I don’t know if Google can make successful new products because nobody trusts their follow through.
To be fair, users expect websites to do a lot now. That is because brands pushed so much for interactivity. I do agree with you, but if we take away JS we would still want to enhance the web with interactivity.

I do recall building completely JS free eCommerce applications and in all honesty they were lightening fast compared to todays SPAs and still just as complex as applications. But we can do much better for user experience of complex applications with a sprinkle of interactivity.
I have heard this theory. A plant that absorbs light perfectly would appear black and only the first few layers of cells would get any light at all. Chloroplasts only absorb a small portion of green light and reflect it so that the green light can penetrate deeper into the plant so that every cell gets some energy and even go through leaves and then be captured by a second layer of leaves so that the occluded leaves don't die.
Here is where RMS went astray with this GCC AST thing.

He's insisting that technical barriers be erected to protect something, when that is the job of licensing.

We would never take some GPL-ed shared library, say, and cripple the API with inconveniences so that proprietary applications can't take advantage of it. That will cripple the free applications too. Of course you make the API technically excellent and complete, and then protect that with the license; it's a GPL violation to link it and call it from a GPL-incompatibly-licensed program.

Same with GCC: expose the full AST so that people are unblocked in doing whatever analysis they want, and protect that with licensing, if you must.

By favoring technical barriers, Stallman is being exactly like the jealous company that didn't give him the information to fix the printer, without signing an NDA.

"You can view a printed version of a partial AST, in a pitch dark room, using a tiny spotlight, and take only handwritten notes, provided you sign this agreement ..."

Come on ...
Just look at the email headers to see which email it was sent from or if there was a reply-to.
Yeah i guess that's a lot more accurate if you want to avoid the cultural baggage of the god-word
> Emacs is not an independent project, and it isn't governed by its contributors. I'm the head of the GNU Project, and that includes Emacs.

I think it might be you that’s missing the irony.
A business built around extracting a non-renewable resource can make record profits while still being doomed in the long-term. In this case, the resource Google may be unsustainably harvesting is consumer goodwill and partner trust.
Escooters also have risks that vehicles with a further back/lower center of mass and larger wheels do not.

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/e-scooter-injury-rate-los...

Stats are heavily skewed by different demographics (ie. lower experience, more drunk people), so the real effect is probably nowhere as big as the stats indicate, but without specific training emergency braking or hitting a pothole on a scooter is much more dangerous (even more so than a racing bicycle). Electric unicycles and 'hoverboards' are even more dangerous in this regard.

Also having pedals means you can make the battery a lot smaller a the 40-60W needed to overcome drag at 15mph is a relatively trivial input for 99% of people.

I'd still be behind a subsidy for any vehicle that fits some portability critereon (fits on a train, or maybe an additional amount if it fits on a bus) and has strong evidence of longevity, durability and serviceability (so no walmart bikes, nothing that requires an app and no racing bikes that require expensive parts which change every four years), because even the most dangerous folding scooters (including the illegal 50mph ones) or other microtransit pose far less risk to others than a car. I'd also include mandatory documented standards for consumables (wheels, tyres, chains, batteries, motor controllers, gears, bearings etc)
Germany is also rather strict about it and using an academic title like doctor when you do not have the right to it can be considered fraud. A honorary doctorate is not considered equal to the academic title and has to be explicitly distinguished.
Or you just bend over backwards to make it fit ideologically.
"Anti-racist" here requires signing up to the following creed:

> "The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."
Imagine that. The pedantic buffoon at the center of the ridiculous GNU/Linux naming controversy created an entire page dedicated to his title. Amazing.
That was a joke. I have become a professional joke author.
What exactly is the difference between an API and a remote function?
Agreed, for me it’s the closest thing to Reeder for the browser.