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> You find a task manager that does pretty much exactly what you need BUT its also open source and you can self host it, would you still pay around $5 to get the cloud version of the app?

If it's for personal use: Probably. The cheapest droplet on Digital Ocean is $5 anyway (I know there are cheaper alternatives, but that's what I use), and I don't have a general purpose VPS that I use to self host stuff already.

If it's for business: Absolutely. The set up time and maintenance time cost dwarfs whatever pittance of savings you might be able to achieve with self hosting.

This also depends on the SaaS pricing and how complex the self hosting set up is.
I'm talking about something specific it's the 'two sigma problem'

That study refers to one-to-one tutoring by live, in-person teachers. Not your friggen' bots.

I'm sorry, but there's way just too much cognitive dissonance in your arguments. I'm going to have to bow out.
If your understanding of the scientific method and critical inquiry amounts to "if you have some belief I don't like then anecdotes are useful" then you need to level up your understanding of the scientific method and critical inquiry.
Better as in like how the population would want the money spent.
No, I don’t agree.

The problem with utf8 byte offsets is that it creates a data validation problem. In diamond types I’m using document positions / offsets in my wire format. With utf8 byte offsets, you can receive changes from remote peers which name invalid insertion positions. (Ie an insert inside a character, or deleting half of a codepoint). Validating remote changes received like this is a nightmare, because you need to reconstruct the whole document state to be able to tell if the edit is valid. Using Unicode codepoints makes invalid state unrepresentable. So the validation problem goes away. (You might still need to check that an insert isn’t past the end of the document, but that’s a much easier check).

Almost all application programming languages use utf16 anyway, (javascript, c#, swift, Java) so you still need to convert positions anyway. Even in rust it’s common to see line/col positions from text editors.

Using utf8 byte offsets just doesn’t really give you any benefits in exchange for making validation much harder.
> an incredibly safe vaccine

yeah, i'm going to need you to prove that statement by showing me the standard 10-12 year safety studies available for those "incredibly safe" mRNA vaccines.
I'd be very curious to see what people recommend since I think it's very important to consider how the victors behaved at the end of the war. I studied some details about Nuremberg while in law school, from an Anglo American legal point of view, and then I spent a lot of time on wikipedia learning the historical background of the individuals involved.
I still lack that self-awareness, sigh. Happy for you though!
It was pretty amazing at the time. Most tech people I knew just used GUIs to tile lots of terminal windows.

I built Mosaic from source, and I remember scrolling through an article on Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in front of my boss.

When the image of the comet hitting Jupiter scrolled into view, he nearly fell off his chair.
Doesn't need to be a wave. Sub hunters are already flying these things around:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_anomaly_detector
There's a difference between an LVT and a property tax. LVT is just on the footprint, the unimproved land, vs. a standard property tax (what Prop 13 more or less freezes) which includes the value of the buildings on it.

George was pretty big on the idea that you only can only ethically tax natural assets taken away from the community--e.g., collect ongoing ground rent in exchange for the right to deed a chunk of land and prevent others from using it--and that those funds should then be redistributed to the community as compensation for their loss. He didn't think we should discourage success by taxing labor, trade, and improvements that don't come from nature.

I agree Prop 13 has been horrible for a lot of reasons. But even without it we wouldn't have anything like a Georgist LVT--we'd just have a lot more rent-taking by the state on improvements, on top of all those other disincentives he didn't like, and likely still with no citizen's dividend/UBI to show for it. Home prices might not be quite so damned wacky, though, if we didn't put such a huge disincentive on turnover.
Shelters are not widely known for being safe and accommodating places.

Most people would chose camping over them.
I have an Astro Slide 5G from them (though bought via ebay) and I'm happy with my purchase, but it's kind of hard to recommend. Their track record on actually shipping pre-orders is kinda lousy (why I resorted to buying one second hand), the keyboard has some quality control issues and the software side feels a bit half-baked. For instance, there's almost always an undismissable "System Update" notification despite no updates being available. They did recently ship a system update which fixed some issues so they haven't abandoned it, but they have a ways to go still.

I really want them to succeed. It's such a cool device
If a civilization is so advanced as to appear magical then why do you expect we would be able to comprehend what they are doing? By assumption we are already ignorant.
I am speaking to the broad media landscape. It’s not that there aren’t business models for some high quality journalism. But the current landscape and incentive structures lean broadly towards low quality content.

Just because it is a market outcome doesn’t mean that it is optimal.

Edit: it is also important to note that substack still hasn’t been proven out in the market. It is being subsidized but VC money, time will tell if it is actually something that would survive in the “free market”.
Read a bit about Diogenes if you think this is a recent question. But I do wonder, what do you think members of society should be required to contribute to that society?
... and when it finally arrives, the box will be empty. :-)

The universe is a funny mix of the ultimate free lunch and just getting reamed by entropy and expansion. I wish it would make up its mind.
I would be interested in a product or kit based on e-ink and a small keyboard.

It need not necessarily run EPOC16, though a battery-optimised OS would be quite useful.

I'm using a 13" e-ink tablet for most of my mobile use (reading, no social media, absolute minimal number of account-based tools), and it's quite good. A bit large for a pocketable / PDA device, and the fact that there's no keyboard which could integrate into a folding-but-usable case as I'd had for an earlier Android tablet[1] is disappointing. Apple likewise.[2]

I'm not looking for a phone (though with a headphone jack, the device might serve for vox comms), but a device on which I can read and create text and some images.

E-ink is battery-friendly, highly readable, works well for greyscale graphics (I often, though not always, forget that I'm looking at content which presumes colour), is highly readable under direct sunlight, and can be read in low-light conditions with a modest frontlight.

Purism and Pine may deliver here, though I'm not holding my breath.

Keyboard is essential to writing. Touch input sucks.

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Notes:

1. The keyboard itself was ultimately a disappointment, as was the tablet. The form-factor and ease of flipping from touch-based to keyboard-based use was quite appealing. More: <https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lqgtwy_rhsfbdh5cdxb1rq>

2. The two problems are iOS's lack of a Linux-like userland, and yes, I'm aware of ish, and the fact that despite some otherwise delicious keyboards, keys critical to Linux/Unix tools and conventions are missing, most notably <esc>. Android/Termux remains superior, despite my many reservations against Android.
Homelessness is absolutely normal sadly. You cannot eliminate all homelessness. It’s currently <0.2% of the population. Never before in the history of humanity have we enjoyed such high living standards.
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The incredible cost increases for healthcare started in 1968 with government interference in it. The more interference, the more it costs.

The same effect happens with every industry the government massively interferes with. For example, education, and real estate.

Look what happens in industries that experience very low levels of government interference, like software. Costs trend to zero.
In most cars, TCS enable/disable is not really as concrete as it sounds, but more "allow more wheel slippage/spin from stopped" for snow/mud scenarios. Even with it 'nominally off', it's still there and working hard.

On certain performance cars, it's actually a three stage system. On my Audi RS 5, there's the same thing as you describe. And then if I push, and hold, TCS for five seconds, it goes fully off (for race days and such).
Why not, and what problems would it cause?
> Many homeless people do have mental illnesses and/or drug addiction problems (for some, this is the result of their homelessness, for others it's in part the cause). California is very much against involuntarily putting people in psychiatric hospitals or drug treatment programs. This largely due to backlash over abuses from decades ago, where people were put into horrible conditions in mental institutions.

This. I am old enough to remember those bad old days. We have simply replaced one form of inhumanity with another. There are people who need our compassion and help. We should give it to them. We also need to protect against abuse of and/or by the system. Why is this so hard to accomplish?
We understand the "geopolitics" very well. We also understand that pretender, that Russia is, always has been and always will be.
Exactly! You'll be downvoted for pointing that out though...
I can tell you about the experience with "housing first" approaches in Chicago and some of the hidden subtleties that make us all have a bit of dunning-kruger here.

There are a few hotspots in Chicago that have resulted in "encampments" in major pedestrian thoroughfares.

In some of these, every single resident has been offered housing in exchange for leaving. Most of them refused housing.

Why? Because the one condition of getting housing was to join a drug counseling program.

There is an entire line of thought that goes something like "what? why are you putting conditions to housing? That's not housing first! What do you care if they go to drug counseling? That's you being a puritan! Be more compassionate!"

It turns out there's a very good reason why you want people that get off the street to get drug counseling before they move into an apartment...because if you don't, a large percent of them will die.

They will drug or drink themselves to death in an apartment with nobody around to save them (where do you think those cost savings your podcasts reference come from? fewer ambulance trips!). Almost every dangerous thing a person can do on the street, they can do worse in an apartment. Think, for example, of a couple living on the street in which one partner is physically abusive. Now imagine them in private.

So a measure that at first glance seems stupid, counterproductive, and inhumane, like conditioning housing, is actually the compassion maximizing measure, even though it may seem like the opposite.

This isn't to say that "housing first" is wrong...merely that it's not actually as simple as one would think.
Another impressive reverse Godwin (niwdog?) in what is proving to be a fecund thread.
I canceled Prime a while back, and I couldn't believe how full of dark patterns Amazon is when you're not a Prime member.

"Free" shipping can easily turn into $6-$12 if you're not careful at checkout.
On the other hand, SSH agent forwarding means exposing your SSH agent to the bastion host. If that gets compromised, an attacker may be able to move laterally to other systems your personal computer had SSH keys for.
Well, they have racist laws aimed mainly at a specific group, and they literally have voted twice in my life about leaving Canada and shortly before I was born they had an IRA style terrorist group called the FLQ.

It's a pretty loaded situation.

Cause we're neither French nor English
Parle Anglais ou Francis
We hate each other like the plague
And we hope it stays that way
Yeah, because people signing up for free websites in record numbers have historically been a strong indicator of business failure. I literally LOLed here.
Sounds pretty illiberal to me. Lately (due to the whole pandemic/vaccine controversies), I've begun to wonder what drugs the state can force individuals to take or not take, and increasingly it seems that individual freedom is the rule in the US at least.
That's the popular explanation, and yes, it's incorrect.

What's really going on is more deeply rooted in some esoterica of General Relativity, where it does make sense. I don't pretend to understand it.
> "Talk about thin laptops long enough and people will start to buy into it" (A variation on Goebbels' big lie)

I think that analogizing persistent marketing propaganda to genocidal fascist propaganda is going a bit far.
I'm listening to the audiobook "The Price of Time" right now and it gives chapter after chapter of empirical evidence.

Friedman was absolutely not the first economist to notice the connection between monetary supply and inflation. Locke wrote against artificial low interest rates in the 18th century.
It's really insane. Just remove everything that distorts the market. Restrictive zoning limits competition for a piece of land. Rent control distorts prices. Affordable units make building unprofitable. Get rid of that and housing will be so abundant.
I'm not arguing that the homeless should only receive housing, I'm saying that any other help you give them likely won't help unless you provide housing.

And that help should include mental healthcare and a support structure.
It was so cool to realize that NIN used one for making a song. Caustic had an emulated one with a lot of features, but I dont know if there are other DAWs with similar ones...
You are full of you know what and so is Oliver Stone. What next, you quote Steven Seagal? I'm sorry, but Russia is a genocidal Nazi state. If you have not realized this by now then you haven't paid enough attention.
Considering your car's (most average cars) TCS never really gets fully disabled... Yeah, your word needs quotes even more.
And that boils down to how much $ per person per year?
This seems like a great idea -- i've seen tons of these types of companies in the past, but this appears the be the first that solved the verification problem with phone APIs. Perhaps syncing up to fitbit/apple watch metrics and other health devices could introduce more functionality? Can't wait to see how it grows!
I've used something similar to create release notes, pretty handy, just make sure your commits contain enough emojis.
I really appreciated the sentence following the title, because I was thinking this would be an obituary. And, to make things better, there's an informative and very sweet video interview with him at the end of the article. Even in that, he takes a didactic approach, teaching other teachers how to teach.

Whether one likes or dislikes mathematics, it's hard to argue that he was anything but captivating in the classroom.
Not to mention that it might also involve moving away from what little support system that you do have, the cousin that provides child care while you work your second shift janitor job, for instance.
>"that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are free! While the 'learning' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to learn whatever we want" - Slavoj Zizek
Why is farm business broken out from nonfarm business?
It doesn't block it entirely of course - it just means that you get somewhat less of it. According to researchers, enough to mitigate the risk by a fair amount.

Unfortunately we're going in circles here, and I'm going to have to bow out. You can believe whatever you want, about basic physics or anything else. It's a free planet, after all.
I'm not sure we're even disagreeing at all.

The following is of interest for us here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

"Open" means what it says on the tin, and the common understanding of "Open" source is along the lines of what the state of Kansas wrote down as cited in the above article: "OSS is software for which the source code is freely and publicly available, though the specific licensing agreements vary as to what one is allowed to do with that code."

RMS even goes on to point out that OSI's definition of "Open" source is fundamentally incompatible with English, which is among the chief reasons for any of this disagreement; quote follows:

"But the term 'open source' has only one natural meaning, which is different from the meaning its supporters intend. So there is no succinct way to explain and justify its official definition. That makes for worse confusion."

Again, "Free" software refers to the question of how the software is licensed for use. "Open" source refers to the question of how the software's source code could be accessed by the people at large.

Personally, I find the "F(L)OSS" term redundantly pointless when used in the way most people use it. Free software by its definition already requires that the software be Open source, there is no need to state "Free(/Libre) and Open" unless you want to refer to two distinct categories of software in one breath: Free/Libre software, and Open source software.
> You keep wanting there to be something there, but there's nothing there.

Exactly! Exactly! Great way to put it

I’ll check out this Newport guy today for a superiority hit. Thanks! :) ;p xx
Rent control externalities are well-documented; long-term serious problems occur due to them, not the least of which is lower affordability.

Short review of the research can be found here:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/what-does-economic-eviden...
> but poor benighted souls like me just wonder why their $2500 computer isn't doing what they're telling it to.

This is the essence of 99% of my frustration with computers (smartphones especially) anymore. I find myself literally shouting I DIDN'T ASK YOU TO DO THAT at my devices. I grew up hearing the platitude that computers only do what we tell them to do. I wish that was true!
According to who you're replying to, they're actually 10,000 years old, and complain about scientific research, rather than about being pushed out of their textile jobs by machinery.
There were also "released for public sale" checkerboards practices and tribal reservations that were checkerboarded.

I had a better grasp and notes on this in the late 1990s, if you read the wikipedia page closely I seem to recall they make brief passing reference to both Homestead and Dawes Acts (~ 31st congress (?) era IIRC).

The railroad grants were the largest best known example by a long shot I believe, however not the first or only example and all based on an ealier gridding abstraction and a practice of encouraging development to spread out.

There's an intertwining of rich private interests and public policy .. people with entire full PLSS squares were able to influence land release patterns and the idea of vast endless "untouched" lands where you weren't forced to have neighbours had appeal.
You can’t pass an array by value and you can’t pass a pointer with a corresponding length of non-fixed size (you can actually with VLAs, but frankly the syntax sucks and not all compilers support it). This missing language feature has led to horrible things like nil-terminated strings , a million bespoke ways to encode the length of the array, or just functions that pray you have enough space like `strcpy` and `gets`.
> They use drugs because they live on the streets.

Have you ever used drugs? Drugs are fun. Until they aren't anymore, then they cause problems, like becoming homeless. That drugs are mostly just a symptom of homelessness is such a weird assertion that keeps getting tossed around.

This person likes doing drugs and has no intention to quit: https://archive.ph/wnTq6 But she'll happily take all the free stuff you want to give her. I'm not saying this is every homeless person. But let's not pretend like it's none of them either, and create policies accordingly.

I'm all for housing first. But there needs to be a filter imo to pick only the people with an actual chance of success (which so far turns out to be a pretty low % in LA's program, but still great for those people and I'm all for it).

Also there has to be some consideration for the working/lower class people who live in these neighborhoods. If the people making the policies and those making loftiest arguments online actually had to live amidst all the chaos, I think we'd see a very different approach.
I've never heard of Dragonfly before this, and I see it's a Redis competitor, but the examples here really stretch the definition of what it means to be "not boring."

> how your junior team member ran "flushdb" in production and caused your service traffic to stall

FLUSHDB removes all keys from the database which, depending on your application, could indeed cause a lot of problems. But this seems pretty boring to me: the "delete all data" command deletes all data. Yes, the consequences of doing this on a production application are going to make sure someone's writing a COE, but this doesn't strike me as anything unexpected.

edit: This might be more about sync deletes causing outages, but it's really pick your poison here. Which is less boring, "I ran delete and the database locked" or "I ran delete and did a read but the data was still there?" Really up to you.

> how your engineering team spent a month tuning the Redis engine before Christmas

"Boring" doesn't mean "not tunable" or "one-size-fits-all." MySQL and Postgres are two relatively ancient databases that most people would consider to be really boring, yet they have endless options for performance tuning. Even in todays cloud-first devops-first era, people still make a living off being DBAs, where tuning these systems is their primary job.

If anything, I would be much more wary of a system where the configuration isn't exposed to the user, and the engine uses some heuristics to figure operating parameters out without any way to tweak it. To me, that seems a lot less "boring."
Given other trending headlines, I thought he’d died. The past tense thing. Glad it was just a celebration!
Serious question: if compensation is actually decreasing where are people getting justification on rolling back child labor laws? Now adults have to compete with children?? Isn’t that just going to make it worse???
> "That study refers to one-to-one tutoring by live, in-person teachers. Not your friggen' bots."

Good point, now that we are getting some "friggen' bots" we should do another study!
The Houston method created massive urban sprawl and created mostly single family homes. Review boards that help shape a city provide a balance can go a longer way to a better city. The Cupertino example shows what happens when you don't need industry and everyone works elsewhere.
And the unlucky projects are the ones so poorly planned that the uncertainty actually grows over time as new issues are uncovered.
And these things had nothing to do with Russians sticking their noses everywhere and trying to implement their communist genocide over all the world? How many victims of communism is there? I mean, how many millions, sorry, tens of millions is there?