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The Taiwanese live feed news channels on YouTube were great. Little to no commentary and you could hear the crowd engagement.

In case you’re wondering, this is 我 (me).

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Imagine a Beowulf cluster running this.

I need a saw to make a saw.

But how do you discuss code issues verbally with others?

The article explains it as a fork that just blindly copies the changes in the original source to avoid legal complications but not add any new technical value.

Can someone help with the math? Why do they divide by two to calculate the memory size of the sheet? Thanks!

I get the opposition to corporate branding in public spaces. But there’s also the complaint that corporations don’t contribute to the public good. I’m guessing David Teare didn’t want it named after him. You could have it named after a significant historical local figure but that still doesn’t address the issue of how to foster goodwill by demonstrating your company acts in ways that benefits the public good.

Reliability, compatibility, political considerations (eg we partner with this brand)

Underneath all our clothes, we’re all naked apes.

“Not Trademarked Pong” would be the snarky name for it. But probably wouldn’t hold up in court.

The beauty of this is that everyone in that room recognized the utility and the accessibility that the Mac provided. Contrast that to today’s demonstrations; many of today’s advancements are so technical and specialized that most users feel like they need to be experts to access those features. When I see MacPaint, I know how things work. I don’t have to lookup what Gaussian blur is.

That’s what makes this demo so fantastic.

Separate but related thoughts:

* Abortion is an issue that transcends labels like "pro-life" and "pro-choice". We ought to look at the issue as having a spectrum of positions (and most people would nuance their position beyond these labels).

* "My body, my choice" seems woefully inadequate here. The individual's body doesn't belong to the state, but having personal autonomy be the highest value doesn't work very well in a pandemic.

* China had a ban on gender preference which was exacerbated by the one-child policy (where there was evidence in some places of forced abortions). A policy that is/was so effective that even with the government encouraging couples to have two children, many are choosing not to because of economic and cultural values.

I have children. Their access and usage of devices is my responsibility.

Are we assuming that parents have no oversight over their children’s devices? This seems like a social problem (ie family relations/management) rather than a technology/legal one.

The ubiquity of this issue really points to a deeper, admittedly unsolvable issue: morality is not a shared value of significance. Every discussion of security assumes that the primary threat is a purposely malicious actor, not an accident prone one. I understand that people see the shared morality issue as an unsolvable one which is why we try to solve the problem at the software/hardware level. But that looks unsolvable too (as per the article).

Interesting that compensation is vague for such a high standard of qualification.

I’ve looked at some of the Copilot threads but am unable to follow the issue. Can someone summarize what the issue is with Copilot and why a BSD license would have been significant for the code?

What's interesting to me is that the discussion so far has emphasized: security and freedom. It's clear that consumers care very little about these two ideas in the ways that the technological elite (i.e. HN) do. If I don't understand a technology and don't have an interest in doing so, I certainly don't want to manage it. So the values that these "uncomfortable questions" raise are irrelevant.

The way the average consumer views "security" is: "Is this a trusted brand?". As of today Microsoft and Amazon are trusted brands. Western Digital not so much. So instead of trying to understand how Windows 11 running wrapped Amazon Store Android executables might be insecure, users see the words "Microsoft" and "Amazon" and feel secure. (as a side note, security is really just a feeling anyways...)

With regard to freedom, what's freeing to the common consumer is the freedom to have access to functionality they care about. They don't care that someone else is tracking them or that they are limited to apps on these stores.

So, really, these uncomfortable questions are only uncomfortable for people who aren't the target audience of this feature.

That's not my point. Yes, someone poor benefits greatly from a dollar store, but they're paying a premium that someone that is more wealthy does not pay because the wealthy person can take advantage of economies of scale: a wealthy person can buy 100 rolls of toilet paper for $50 where a poor person can only buy one roll for $1.

This extends beyond just the dollar store. A wealthy person has access to a vehicle which allows them to go to Costco that is 10 km away. A wealthy person has storage in their home to house the discounted goods they buy. A wealthy person has access to financing and financial investments that a poor person does not; you cannot buy a portion of share of stock.

It’s expensive to be poor.

That's so interesting. I tried to learn Windows Explorer shortcuts but I could never get the kind of fluency I had with OS X Finder. For example, I had to use a mouse to select a file in order to change the name, but I was able to do it with a keyboard exclusively in MacOS X. Also, I was never able to master the File Explorer's layout where they had the entire file tree in one pane and then the specific directory contents in the other. I always found Finder in MacOS X easier to manipulate: I could jump through the different views easil (command-1,2,3,4). Granted, the column view was very inconsistent, but I found the other views "just worked" the way I thought about them.

I did. Preview just had too many features that I was used to. Preview was a great reader...and if I found a great reader on Windows I found that it wasn't a great annotator (which Preview was). Man, I tried so many different things. Eventually I just gave up.

I tried switching to Windows about 2 years ago from macOS. I found that the lack of a good replacement for Preview was a real deal breaker for me. I tried a lot of different things to make it work. It wasn't the only thing, but the fact that I spent so much time finding a PDF viewer/light-editor that didn't have adware, was free, and had enough functionality was difficult (in my case I was unsuccessful) on Windows. Hopefully they'll include a great PDF viewer/editor. Making PDF ubiquitous on macOS was a real smart move.

Sorry, I was on mobile. I meant: if the business model is clear then so is the motivation and thus it will be clear what expectations for support look like. I think having a clear indicator for what Hedgehog's motivation is (i.e. the business model) would help build trust in the product.

My fear is that I'll invest time and information into the product and then support will drop out because my goals won't be in alignment with Hedgehog's goals.

What’s the business model? There’s no pricing or indication of motivation/support.

The issue I have with (2) is that Ham's construction of the three choices doesn't take into account that what the modern mind and it's assumption about what is "factual" (and valuable) is substantially different from the ancient audiences that listened to these texts.

On the point of creation, while Ham contends we MUST take it literally or the entire veracity of the Bible falls apart, there is an inconsistency even within the literal YEC interpretation. Consider Genesis 2:7 "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being." If God breathed into the nostrils of does this mean that God had lungs? A YEC would say "of course not, this is a metaphorical/poetic description of the action". And thus they reveal their inconsistency: the YEC demands a literal understanding of the first six days, but when pressed for a simple implication like this, they revert to a metaphorical understanding.

This practice is very common among immigrant/non-Western communities. Oftentimes an educational institution with a religious background offers the highest quality and most prestigious education. In addition, while they might not have the same religious views as the institution, these parents often value the conservative social values that these institutions espouse.

Not surprising but disappointing. Human rights issues won't be addressed until countries that enjoy access to Chinese markets/services change their own values.

An archive for some of the software can be found here: http://www.ambrosiaarchive.com/.