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This looks great, thanks

Interestingly enough the issues you list seem related to capitalism rather than just any form of societal system.

Many literary utopias have non-capitalist systems but usually some sort of circular sharing system (some are outright communist, but others more slow living).

Greed must always be checked by a society. But since Calvinism we've had a dual moral reasoning (was that Charles Taylor or Hegel, can't recall). Through Calvinism capitalism attained the moral good of earning more than you need, to deploy greed for God.

Humans are naturally greedy (natural egoism is not immoral just a biological drive) and our political system should balance that out somehow.

This is great news and has a much larger impact than the featured feature IMO.

Well technically they would just be Europeans.

This looks really nice, well done!

I never could get used to jq's syntax so instead I've just been grepping. But this looks to be for jq what htop is to top, which is great for exploring response data.

Thanks for the summary, mate.

Care to recommend any?

IMO Python imports behave like the bash source command.

This is why people use the `if __name__ == "__main__"` so the majority of people will address it in all their scripts even if they don't know the reason why.

It's a feature not a bug IMO. You can use importing a .py file as a singleton hack. You can also use `refresh` to re-load a module, to clear it of any runtime overrides.

And soon you'll have it again.

In my unqualified opinion the usability of e.g. phpBB forums (discussing through the browser) was much better than calling up a local BBS on telnet. Multilevel prompt menus in telnet can be quite maze-like.

Web crawlers indexed online forums too, so you could find the content right away through the same search engine instead of having to search the BBS discussions for hours or post a request on the local BBS and wait (days) for replies. Your technically illiterate aunt could browse the search results for posts containing the recipes she wanted from a number of disparate forums, and choose to read anonymously (and print out) or login and contribute. All you need is an email address.

This accessibility and semi-transparency created a major shift in where you go for content, effectively forcing the tech literate to follow suit as well. It fits in the general trend of democratizing the internet, and IMO was a good thing for tech. (I blame the monetizing and large commercial entities for the current state of fragmentation.)

I still login to a local BBS about once a year to say hello. Although I have a shell account now so I don't need to telnet over the net. It's still very alternative and hacker friendly.

As a novice, R is really fun too because it operates differently than general purpose languages (it's all about matrices).

While I appreciate the sentiment, I feel you're missing the point. This is akin to maddox's writing. It aims to strike a nice balance between satire and self-immolation, but might stumble in its attempts.

You're supposed to feel conflicted between the obnoxious tone and the rational message. The writing makes fun of know-it-alls while also making a well reasoned argument.

People who shout about ancient aliens and hidden technology always completely ignore that the people in the past had access to the most advanced machinery available: humans.

Add time to that, so that your project can have a scope of generations, passing down knowledge gained from a lifetime of doing this particular thing, the results become unsurprising even.

Amazing, inspiring and ingenious but also unsurprising.

2-4% of unreviewed content shall be phallic..?

The AI part is local. I believe it's used for coarse image categorization and face recognition.

Providing face recognition sans a cloud seems like a big selling point to me.

As a self-taught coder, I've experienced many times how highly skilled software engineers groan and sweat when they encounter shell scripts. I don't understand why, but it seems like people with a CS background are never really taught shell scripts and have come to irrationally fear them. It's sort of taboo.

This results in weird behavior, such as writing a groovy (Java?) script for Jenkins to execute bazel in order to build a go binary that runs the very same commands in an exec.Command() construct. Or people who download and import pandas to grab the third field in a csv file.

During the course of learning, I've naturally written code in bash that should have been written in another language. I replaced if statements with case because they turned out to be more performant. It's a great learning experience and why I got into python and go.

IMO we should use the right tool for the job. Sometimes that tool is a combination of unix utilities that you can put in a shell script for easier maintenance. It's just procedural execution of (usually very efficient) binaries, akin to a jenkins script or gitlab pipeline. Just mind the exceptions and use exit codes.

A hacksprint or hackhundredyards, then.

I think you could use pytest plugins `pytest-mock-server` or the `responses` plugin to achieve at least a partial coverage of your fake server idea.

I seem to recall Golang being inspired by it too, but I could be misremembering.

Apparently there have been cases of sexual intercourse on the ISS, so we could potentially have a human conceived there.

Tbf it doesn't default to the really slow snaps. Instead it defaults to the dreadfully slow flatpaks.

Arguably it's a technological solution (or temporary workaround) to a political problem.

In a liberal democracy, it makes sense that its use cases are mostly criminal, because the censorships it evades are mostly eroded by social reform. Those who are left are not hiding from censorship but from democracy.

However, when democracy and liberty are set aside, by fascism or war, these tools really shine. (E.g. BBSes being run on network printers during the wars in Europe in the 90's.)

Our dating style did have this kind of communication too, in declaring one's intentions. Either we've forgotten, discarded it or could be the result of a more nomadic lifestyle. I'm not a historian. I'm also from Norway, but I think this goes for most of Europe. However, grain of salt.

If a man declared that his efforts towards a girl were an intention to get married, and subsequently reneged without good cause, the local community would deem him untrustworthy. This could make him unfit for marriage but also for employment. So not declaring one's intention if pressed was suspect.

My grandmother did the housewife school to make sure she was going to be a good wife, which stems from this kind of worrying about public rejection. People didn't move around so much so your local community's estimation of you was important.

As for the Japanese practice, the country was essentially "locked up" culturally until the 2nd world war so I'm not surprised old practices are still remembered. (Again, not a historian.)

This gave me a chuckle:

[case insensitivity... so] both beGIN and BEGIN are interpreted the same way. This was also characteristic of the time, as programmers programmed their computers by shouting.

Should also mention that on YT the situation is unbearable. I use pihole but was unable to use it properly for YT ads.

I have kids that sometimes get to watch something on YT. I can control what they watch but there were way too many bad surprises of gross or scary content in the ads (often by proxy, e.g. the ad of a cable TV company would showcase their explicit or horror offerings..). Using YT kids made no difference, really.

I have YT premium now, at least for the time being.

Purely anecdotal but I always waste a second clicking something I believed was a link because it was underlined.

You weren't joking:

There were significant reductions in C. lectularius population size and fecundity in insects that fed on blood obtained from human study subjects up to 96 hours after they have consumed a single oral dose of ivermectin.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6901371/

Thanks for the recommendation, I've never heard of shiny before! This is definitely something I can make use of in the not so distant future.

Time to brush the dust off those R skills.

I don't have any data on it but I think people gradually came to accept the slower loading times as a reasonable cost, in return they got true multimedia and the fat client experience (first with flash, then jquery and so on) which was impossible in hypermedia.

Currently node unifies (or seems to unify) the FE and BE into something that looks pretty worrying (or rather alien) to someone who grew up with LAMP stack and CGI for dynamic content.

Enter htmx to turn the tide again.

It was pretty sure, that dark mode can only be implemented using JS

I used this in the 90's:

`<body bgcolor="#000000">`

You needed it to really appreciate the sparks from animated fire gifs.