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Linux community really dropped the ball by not creating a distro that was basically chromeOS, but without the propriety limitations.

Thousands of distros and not the one that would take off. Sad!

And now, with this announcement, the moment has passed.

Native Americans object to the notion that there could have been negative ecological consequences from humans before western colonialism.

It's not hotly contested.

Certain political interests object to the natural and obvious explanation that humans arrived and killed all the megafauna.

It's like when creationists can evolution controversial. It's not. You just have a political problem with things that are obviously true.

"Many" is doing a lot of work here, as most of that 12% are people from similar countries and cultures.

I got a Windows computer for my six year old because we have to have Roblox and Roblox Studio.

I was stunned by how much clutter, hassle, and adware I had to fight through just to achieve a simplisticity I take for granted with a standard Linux install.

With the tsunami of AI clutter coming for Windows, I suspect desktop linux will finally, after all these decades, have its day.

Regardless of how you feel about diversity or who's fault all the differences in groups are, it's disingenuous to compare the least diverse country in the world to the most diverse like this.

Wealthy white people in America surely have great maternal mortality rates, too.

I've been trying to tell everybody for decades that my problem is that my brain is too damn big, but they all laughed at me!

There's no good methodology for discerning whether homeschooling is good or bad because there's no ethical way to construct any research that would be illuminating.

It's an impenetrable nest of variables, confounds, and actors who are deeply invested in their side of the argument on all sides.

As an American with American attitudes, I believe parents should have that right unless there's real neglect going on.

I'm a homeschool parent, and we wouldn't have it any other way for our family.

But one thing I've learned is that most homeschool parents are even worse than public school and the risk of permanently harming your child through neglect is dreadfully real.

Most of the flattering literature for unschooling is, as with the link, a case where the parents and child are naturally gifted and curious, and they credit whatever they ended up doing with the kid's relative success.

Even gifted and curious kids run into situations where some structured learning that won't be immediately rewarding needs to happen. There needs to be an adult paying attention and intervening, even in the best cases.

Every parent should have the right to homeschool. But from what I've seen, most parents should go ahead and trust American public schools, which are actually very competitive with the best in the world after adjusting for the familiar, stubborn demographic realities.

Shame that you guys don't actually believe in this, as it's actually the way.

It's against federal law to IQ test employees, so they ask brain teasers that are IQ test questions thinly disguised as "coding questions."

It's not a perfect system, but it works better than the alternatives.

WAL Mode worked as advertised. But the project ended up being split into several autonomous workers, and even with WAL mode, sqlite gets problematic when you have several separate processes trying to read from and write to the same file.

I'm still soyfacing over sqlite and how elegant and powerful it is, and I'll continue deciding software architecture based on random blog posts. I have learned nothing.

Funny this article would pop up for me today, as I'm currently migrating my web app from sqlite to mysql.

I got jazzed up on articles like this, only to figure out the hard way that it's ill-suited to apps where concurrency matters.

Sqlite is an incredible piece of software, but it doesn't do scalable, concurrent things well.

Very neat.

As WebAssembly becomes the lingua franca of different ecosystems, having a strong grasp of how it works is worth the time investment. Thanks for this.

Twitter is working just fine.

And since the service is going to be run by a rich jerk with his or her own opinions that they think are facts, it's refreshing that the rich jerk in question is extremely transparent about what those opinions are now.

> imagines a sally struthers charity commercial, but with random hipsters and nerds staring sadly at the camera, hoping that somebody, somewhere, will pay them as much money as they think they deserve

Study finds cave painting could be damaging prehistoric marriages (fancy.edu)

professor thog find when cave partner do cave art instead of loving partner that partner more often run off to other tribe

is your prehistoric mate cavernsnubbing you??? be big scared

I typically get salty about big picture feel good garbage getting posted on here, but this one kinda warmed my heart.

The past as we understand it is indeed a lie. And while we should strive to reconcile ourselves with our past, apologizing, forgiving, remembering, and regretting as appropriate, ... it's important to work to leave the past where it belongs, behind us.

The close relationship between the left in America and Canada is not cause for alarm, though.

That's totally fine.

How separate are political factions going to be between two countries with a shared language, shared history, and the longest shared border in the world?

I tried.

For generations, the elites have been obnoxiously discouraging family formation and fertility on account of malthusian pseudoscience.

Now they're recognizing the error but it's too late for the billions who will live and die alone and alienated from the natural rhythms of family life.

The only solace, perhaps, is people are remarkably good at coping. Most of these victims will claim despite the mountains of data that they didn't fail and they're totally fulfilled, happy, and successful.

It's layered comedy that requires some unpacking.

Gotta have a very high LSAT score to appreciate it.

Of course the article focuses on an egregious anecdote. That's how propaganda works.

They imply with the anecdote that it's a typical case, when the vast majority is garden variety murky workplace sexual harassment shenanigans.

Not defending any harassment, but most of it isn't stuff that justifies permanently ruining the attorney's life.

I hate attorneys and I have an ambitious wife who's out of my league, so I'm strongly opposed to workplace sexual misconduct.

That said, unless the sexual misconduct clearly and directly pertains to the honest practice of law, I don't really see the extreme punishment of disbarment as appropriate.

Companies being greedy and attempting to maximize their profits is a totally new thing. Up until recently, companies were all about being great to employees and saving their customers money.

XML finna make a big comeback.

I rented to a meth addict once upon a time.

After we finally evicted him, the house was strewn with several ambitious but abandoned projects.

Almost as bad as Google.

Copyleft is a noble but failed endeavor. None of this legal voodoo changes the facts on the ground with the big tech oligopoly's control of the keystone infrastructure.

I'd like to create one with basic and obvious gamification integrated into the design.

Every aspect of my child's life is intensively, scientifically designed to be addictive and hyperstimulating except learning.

Then we're back to digital flash cards that somehow manage to suck even worse than analog hand written flash cards.

Not beating up on your early demo. Solid foundation. But please try to imagine a child using it and enjoying it. And whatever design decisions that implies will probably serve us adults better too.