Ralfp

I dream of future where cancer of every kind is a fully treatable malady at best, or manageable chronic condition at worst.

We are not there yet, but I have a hope that we are no further than century away from achieving that.

    Home taping is killing record industry profits!
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B-side on Dead Kennedys „ In God We Trust, Inc”

ESA’s Gaia mission is just amazing. It may not produce pretty pictures that make for cool press releases, but over the last 10 years it’s been cataloguing positions and movement of billions of stars and discovering things like Gaia Sausage which is now interpreted as stars that got into our Galaxy through collision with other, smaller galaxy some 10 billion years ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_Sausage

I’ve had sudden spike of ”when will you fix this” and „I am also affected, this is important!” comments on one of my projects. It was very odd to see sudden interest like that.

But around the same time I’ve got an email with apology explaining that company’s boss asked employees to stir up the pot to pressure me into a fix, pretending its affecting far more people than it really did.

> I don't know, but it doesn't matter, just like it doesn't matter if the code on your computer is on a HDD or SSD.

But it does matter! You arbitrarily dismiss the brain as "wrong level of abstraction" then bring up the computer which internals we know and understand as an example of parallel system.

If both are same, where's the hard drive in the brain? Which part of the brain is the CPU dedicated to consciousness? We know regions of brain are specialized in function, like the computers.

> But nevertheless, until people realize that this is what they should attempt, or research how it can be done, I feel we won't make any progress on the nature of consciousness.

This reminds me of the famous Andy Grove's fallacy. To paraphrase:

    The engineers tend to apply knowledge and concepts of their field to biology because they think both engineered and organic systems are the same. In doing so they miss the elementary difference that engineering is about creation and development of new systems, and biology is about researching and understanding existing systems we have no prior knowledge of.

But if its a software, then how and where is it stored and where is the execution logic for it?

He’s not a mercenary. His old nickname was „Putin’s cook”, because he ran the restaurant over 20 years ago that Putin ate at once and found liking to him.

Since then this guy was one of Putins favorite oligarchs. The state gave him money which he used to start more companies, eventually developing state within state. One of his conpanies was major catering provider for Russian government, administration, schools and the army. He runs dozens of companies, including media companies running paper and internet press. He is also known to be behind part of russian propaganda and public opinion influence operation in western internet. It was noted that some hyper-active polish-speaking twitter accounts that were famously anti-ukraine have gone silent in last two days - the suspection is that those belonged to his troll farms that Kremlin has seized.

Wagner group was his latest enterprise and fighting wars around the world made him even richer, but he is not a mercenary. He is an oligarch who got too powerful and Kremlin is now trying to strike him down. He’s a brigand turned convenience store clerk who by some means took control on whole network of those stores which led him open his own restaurant and then Putin elevated into oligarch because he though that his debt to him will make him forever loyal.

So this is the trick that Facebook was using to make videos stand out more in the feed? I've noticed they are darkening rest of the page a little, but didn't know this also bumps backlighting brightness.

It was. Its an implementation change made in Django v4 that caused this.

But Reddit/Digg are commentary sites, and most forums aren't.

Just a heads up that currently Django is not cleaning up open PostgreSQL connections when ran in ASGI mode, leading to too many open connections error: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/33497

No, classic forums never really offered threaded discussions alike to HN or Reddit.

IPB and vBulletin had "threaded" mode where you would see a tree of replies, but it would only display a single reply, requiring you to manually select next reply to see in the UI.

In future I plan to track which post the poster clicked "reply" for and have UI to let you see direct replies to given posts, or see that post was made as a direct reply to other post, but I am not planning a "proper" tree view like how reddit does it.

Also some good opinion pieces from Discourse's creator on the subject:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/web-discussions-flat-by-design... https://blog.codinghorror.com/discussions-flat-or-threaded/

Thanks. You mean icons in navbar or icons on thread list?

I remember wtcBB! Such a neat little script, reminded me a lot of vBulletin 2 :D

I would like to use this opportunity to also mention a forum software I am building, Misago: https://misago-project.org/ (GitHub: https://github.com/rafalp/Misago/)

Around year ago I've started aggressively pursuing improvements to it's UX and features which to my surprise resulted in project getting new (small) wave of attention and a lot of great feedback on what else is missing and what needs changed that I am working on at.

I've grown on old school forums, phpBB2, Invision Power Board 2.3, vBulletin 3 and I am trying to hit a sweet spot between old and new, taking inspiration from both other modern solutions like Discourse or Flarum, but also from latest versions of XenForo and Invision Community.

But 95%% of attention will go to the "top" branches which are usually memes and "dumbass marathons" were people are trying to keep the original joke going.

    revenge bedtime procrastination

Well, of course I know him. He's me. Wake up late, start work late, end work late, do chores late, go to bed late, then waste hours in bed browsing the internet because I feel that I’ve had no time for myself during the day, so ruining next day by having low quality „me time” browsing the internet feels like somehow reclaiming that missing time.

But when you ruin your sleeping pattern its very hard to fix it. I skip the nigt of sleep so I am very sleepy next night. I fall asleep and wake up in the morning, but when I go to bed next day I just cant fall asleep, starting whole issue from scratch.

And those drivers are called „paydrivers” because they pay for having the seat to sit in.

How many mods are there on Reddit that run big communities? For all we know it may result in mods getting $100 each.

Website link leads me to an error page which pretends to be chrome’s and tells me to check windows DNS settings (but I am on iOS safari) and is in Chinese.

Commondore with battery and migraine triggers.

This is correct, but EU's act we are discussing about says opposite, hence the discussion.

This exception only applies if you have clear intent to make no money on the software. As soon as you put "donate" button the site, you lose the protections.

This is what burner card is, and I don’t want to bother with.

This crap is what prevents me from subscribing US press. I would love to some of their titles but I am a foreigner and there's no way I am going to call a number in US to cancel.

I am also not desperated to create burner cards for paying for those.

I was confused by my iPhone asking me constantly if I want to undo typing. Turned out this was the device thinking I am shaking to undo.

GOG and Red are sister subsidiaries of CD Projekt company which itself does game publishing, distribution and localization.

Those are controversial because in science you show the proof of something occruring, an primary proof being shown here mostly anounts to „trust me bro, the guy saying this got a nobel award in physics”. But the fault here is on media reporting, not Penrose himself.

    Nobel disease or Nobelitis is the embracing of strange or scientifically unsound ideas by some Nobel Prize winners, usually later in life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

I an happy that Lego Pick a Brick exists. Sure, it costs small fortune, but if you are interested only in building parts collection for experimentation, eg. you need 20 black beams of every type and bricklink has no people selling in your region.