rabidrat

I agree! I use ^3 etc for the notation: https://saul.pw/mag

No, they give you 10k options that vest in 12 months, and then next year you get 5k options that vest in 12 months, and then 2.5k, and then 1.25k (if stock price doubles every year). So you get less than half what you would have.

Agreed that the government at the highest level should pay a huge amount of money. Though I think he should get $10^7 and the rest of the $10^8 should become an endowment for a criminal justice/prison reform organization and he can lead it.

So either the process is overlong or the vaccines are not verifiably safe.

Religion has emphasized surrender as a way to find peace but I don't personally see how those words do anything

Surrender is not resignation, it is acceptance. You have to acknowledge and then emotionally accept what truly is, in order to be able to effectively construct a different future.

It's the combination of defaults that's problematic. If the site requires https, because it's e.g. a bank, then sure, require non-expired cert. But my static sites which have no auth, payment, or even subpages (path-obscuration being another of the touted benefits of https-everywhere), do not require https. Except because of the defaults Google's overzealous security team decided to inflict on the world, now I have to have a process that reaches out to LE every 3 months. For a static website which otherwise never needs updating.

I was a half-pack-a-day smoker for about 10 years, quit several times (once for several months), and the only thing that "worked" ultimately was realizing that I simply could never have another cigarette. After the physical cravings subsided, I still had frequent longings for that wonderfully ubiquitous way to 'fix' my internal itchiness/discomfort, but I had made such a commitment that I would have literal nightmares in which I smoked a cigarette--and then woke up in a panic, similar to dreams where I found out I'd accidentally killed someone and was debating whether to turn myself in or go on the lam.

Then one evening about 10 years later I was at a festival wandering around and I had this desire in my brain for something, I didn't know what, and it was a few hours later that I realized the thing I really wanted was a cigarette. It was that night that I changed my internal conception of myself from "ex-smoker" to "non-smoker". I don't have cravings any more for cigarettes, though there is a certain pang, I guess I would call it "nostalgia", and maybe it includes "envy" of people who can smoke a cigarette/cigar socially at an event and then not think about it again for years. Occasionally I will have accidental contact with nicotine (like buying a joint on vacation and getting a weird taste while smoking it and realizing half-way through that it's actually a spliff), and for a few days or a week afterward the light switch is again visible in my mind--though I'm thankfully not tempted to flip it. I wonder in those times whether a never-smoker who has a cigar once does have the same cravings in the days after, but doesn't recognize them as such.

So at least for me, who admittedly was never a heavy smoker, it doesn't resonate that I will struggle with this addiction until I die. The only apparent lasting (mental) consequences are that I have to consciously refuse nicotine even when it would be a legitimately fun and interesting experience (like when I was offered some fancy snuff at a party which everyone else got to enjoy). And when I see someone smoking a cigarette I might get the nostalgia or envy I mentioned above. But when I get within smelling distance it's just foul and unappealing.

Best wishes for anyone who's thinking of or trying to quit.

And the person they don't steal from to get the money to get their fix?

But the hard disks are general purpose storage devices, right? Any chance they will become custom ASIC storage that can't be repurposed too?

It's a meme for Long Now members showing that they intend/expect civilization to continue past the year 9999. It's an effective signal to other members and a great "Ask me" button.

Yeah just don't accidentally paste your password into a terminal and press Enter.

And millions of animal species occupying thousands of ecological niches are being replaced by 10 species across the planet: humans, the animals that humans eat, and the animals humans keep as pets. Even if the quantity of biomass is relatively constant, I think we can all agree that a planet with only humans and cows and chickens is a pretty bleak outcome.

holding out on us

They're doing the fun part (coding) for free. It's well-known that developers don't like writing documentation (esp "properly" which is ill-defined and for some definitions can be a much larger task than writing the code in the first place); in fact, does anyone enjoy writing docs as much as an engineer enjoys writing code?

So this makes total sense to me. As a user of free software, you can choose: a) pay for a commercial package with comes with docs; b) use free software, and pay for the docs in the form of a book (perhaps waiting a few years until lots of people want to do the same); c) use free software and figure it out from breadcrumbs the developer left in whatever forums they use; d) (c) but then step up and write some docs.

Too many people think that free/libre software is supposed to be like commercial software, only better, but it's not the case. It's definitely better in the "libre" way, and of course cheaper in the "price" way, but it's usually not packaged for easy consumption, nor is the developer going to do a bunch of work they don't enjoy for other people who don't want to pay them for it.

people could make money from those who didn't like free.

Does GPL ever work this way? In practice, GPL discourages corporate (=widespread) adoption, driving down the quality of open-source software, and creating the market for paid closed-source software (which is often worse than open-source software, but packaged better). I'd love to see cases where a GPL-dev successfully negotiates a reasonable "cost-plus" arrangement with a company for a non-free license.

Your analysis of the MIT license is spot-on, btw.

wait until you hear about the cloaca

Generally these rules are institutional policy which are there for legal or security reasons. In a 1000-person organization, preventing 990 of them from installing malware is more important than allowing 10 of them to be more productive. A middle-manager does not have the ability to change that policy.

Wage inflation lags price inflation, sometimes by years.

...can we build houses with them?

Human psychology is a thing. If you point a team at a growing pile of bugs that no one has wrapped their head around, then the team will feel demoralized, overwhelmed, and unmotivated. But if someone does wrangle the bug list and produce a plan and strategy for tackling them, then there is hope and mission and maybe you can even get buyin from management for more resources--maybe not headcount, but even just easing the roadmap for a year in pursuit of Quality.

The difference between "nobody has gone through this entire list" and "somebody has gone through this entire list" is huge.

No, it's like raising a baby using advice your parents wrote down for you because they were parenting remotely. "Peer review" is your stepdad quickly skimming through your mom's PR and saying 'sure looks good'.

As long as they are paying decent prices for those creative successes (so the creators can have a comfortable retirement with healthcare in the US), this is not the worst outcome.

NB: tmate.io is a great tool for multiplayer tmux.

When I was younger, I would run as fast as I could straight into brick walls. I deliberately go more slowly now, and make wiser decisions. The value of my experience has taught me that it's better to move slow in the right direction than fast in the wrong direction.

tmate.io these days, but yeah.

I'm actively working on a VisiData-based drawing tool that a) uses unicode (including full-width chars), b) supports 256-colors, c) supports animations, and d) works in the terminal. It's called DarkDraw and is already making it easier to create modern terminal art.

The real base reason fiat currency has value is because the government requires taxes to be paid in it, and they can use force to imprison you if don't pay your taxes. Everything else is a follow-on effect from that.

Yes. We have this notion that code should be understandable to a junior dev with no context and only 90 seconds to understand what the function does. But for a complex system, it would take a lot longer to communicate what's going on in such simple terms, and you would wind up being much more verbose and/or repeating yourself everywhere, which then becomes an impediment to a fluent dev who has been working with the system for months and already has the context.

You need that higher-level clarity in code so that you can still work with abstractions and not have to dive into every function at a code-level, but when working inside a function or a deeply technical area, it's reasonable to expect a developer to spend some time reading the code and coming up with a mental execution model, which is purest when it comes directly from the code in the form that works, and makes sense to the people who actively need to maintain it.

I agree completely, and I'm actively working on this. There have been many advances in "text-based UIs" and the modern TUI can have both the uniform simplicity you speak of, along with a rich, mouseable, colorful, unicode interface.

Genesis 1:28:

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

This is foundational Judaism/Christianity, and is the evident subtext behind many of the movements that have led to its dominance. To wit: the Crusades, conquistadors, manifest destiny, catholic missions, modern evangelism. Domination and exploitation are consistent principles embedded within the culture and religious framework.

I love this game! If you haven't read the trilogy that inspired the game, I recommend it. I only got to reading it a few years ago, but was impressed by how much of the book world and the game world naturally intersected. I assumed that the shuba (a garment that allows you to glide between trees) was an offhand item in the books that became a central game mechanic out of necessity, but it turns out that it's a major part of the books too!

Anyway, yes, it's a great game. The C64 version is better than the DOS version (better graphics, polyphonic sound), but a little harder to get hold of. Worth playing on any platform as a piece of adventure game history (and much better than the original King's Quest in my opinion).