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I would call many of these "music formats" rather than audio formats. Those punch cards and MIDI etc. don't actually represent audio at all. Even a deaf person could read and appreciate those.

> Initially Gmail was the king of performance.

When, and compared to what? I'm pretty sure it was never faster than Thunderbird let alone something like Mutt.

That's great but almost entirely unrelated to Gource.

No, you could (possibly) solve TSP once by providing an algorithm that scales well just like inventing an industrial process. My point was that it looks very much like some problems are fundamentally difficult and have no scalable solutions.

> and just assumed that there must be some way to automate and streamline almost everything, as long as the demand is there

Scaling a solution to the travelling salesman problem would solve many other problems. The demand is definitely there. But many people believe it cannot be done.

> That was my first-hand lesson that unless you've ever lacked a certain privilege, it is near-impossible to be innately aware of it.

Not really true. I had a girlfriend with a "weak" passport. I have a British passport. I'm very aware of how much easier it is for me to travel and I've done nothing to deserve it. I didn't have to lack the privilege myself to understand it, though.

The thing doesn't show anything for me on Firefox or Chrome on Linux.

That shows "referrals" of teenagers. Doesn't really mean anything about what actually happens. All teenagers are weird for a little while. It's great if you stay weird, but most don't.

Indeed. It's a complete joke and a big reason why "the rich get richer". I, for example, believe that artificial meat will be one of the biggest industries in the world once governments outlaw the cruel and barbaric practice of producing the "real thing". I also want to support the beginning of that industry. But is there any way for me to do that? No. The deals are done in private with a few very rich individuals. If those companies ever go public it's just a way to cash out because they are already turning a profit.

That is probably why people think there is a difference. But it's completely illogical. How do you think someone is going to "abuse" the footage? You say uploading to Youtube but there's all kinds of potentially embarrassing CCTV footage all over Youtube. Maybe there is some other kind of abuse possible, but you'd never know about it, just like you'd never know if someone is abusing the CCTV footage.

Look up "Surveillance Camera Man" on Youtube. It's really fascinating to see that (not surprisingly) people hate being filmed by someone with a camera. Yet for some reason they don't care about the hundreds of other cameras being operated remotely that line the streets.

Posted on Medium with a massive pointless image at the top and page loaded asynchronously using JS.

> Is empathy desensitization a thing?

Factory farming wouldn't exist if that wasn't a thing.

No example of the quasi-quote? I'm not sure how it would look, -"a bit like this"-?

There is at least one implementation of parinfer for emacs by now.

John Wiegly's talk on elisp hacking includes a bit: https://youtu.be/RvPFZL6NJNQ It's unfortunately a low quality recording but if you can stand it it's a treasure trove of tips for doing elisp.

I've only tried paredit and smartparens. I ended up going back to paredit due to some annoyances with the latter but unfortunately I can't remember what (I should make a note of such things). I'd be interested to hear from someone who switched from paredit to one of the newer ones.

What's stopping you? Is the code incompatible with newer versions of emacs?

Emoji is unnecessary and annoying.

I see what you mean. You can't just tell people to exercise. There needs to be a structure and purpose behind it. What worked for me is building strength using bodyweight resistance training at home. I followed a program and I had goals.

But I think you're wrong that music and other intellectual activities do the same thing as exercising. You can't fix the brain by thinking about it. It needs the right external inputs.

I've found many errors in Google maps over the years. I'm not convinced any of them are traps, they are just the result of not actually surveying the areas they claim to map.

A lot of people say they don't like Ryanair, but a lot of those people will use it again when the price is less than a quarter of that of other airlines.

It's actually a really interesting piece of psychology. Ryanair's service is so much worse in so many ways that I'm sure it's not better value for money. But even if you have to wake up at 4am to make it to an airport in the middle of nowhere to take a Ryanair flight to an airport 50 miles away from where you are actually going, it's still really tempting to pick the cheapest flight.

I believe the sense of entitlement to come from the fact that most drivers have only ever experienced the road in a car. As a driver and a cyclist, I'm not sure about registration of cyclists, but I am sure that everyone should be required to do a minimum number of hours on a bicycle before they are allowed anywhere near a car, in the same way that pilots must gain experience before they upgrade. I am certain this would have numerous benefits.

It's not a terrible name, it's just that we've forgotten the real meaning of "complex" and use it as a synonym for "complicated".

The only thing you can really do is use tor. But you have to be very, very careful and know what you're doing. It's not something most people can set up, and not something most people can (easily) access.

Yes it does, actually, whether you like it or not. But maybe you'd like to call into question whether such speech should still be protected as free speech. The difficulty is in establishing where you draw the line.