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I use `nano YYYYMMDD.md`.

That sounds like a bummer, everything was working just fine pretty much out-of-the-box, INCLUDING printer, scanner and WIFI, which are/were notoriously frustrating to set up on a Linux machine.

Just last week I wrote a blog post about installing eOS on my SO's parents PC. They are not technical at all yet they have had (close to) no problem with switching from Windows to Linux thanks to eOS.

Is there a name for that feeling of not having enough time to learn everything you want to learn? I have that pretty constantly. Other than that I'm doing great.

I'm not sure what you are getting at, in my country the main areas of operation for the military are helping flood victims and providing drinking water after natural disasters ... so no, those are good things.

If you are asking me, if I think there is such a thing as a "just war": I don't know. I have read Saint Augustine[0] on this topic and am not convinced. I have not personally reached a conclusion on this matter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#Just_war

I'm saying that knowing a right should be absolute and - for example - not knowing how to enforce this right for everyone, are not mutually exclusive.

The principle needs to remain unchanged though. A principle can and should not be designed to cover it's own edge cases. It's in it's application where we can apply tolerance. Aristotle calls this principle Epikeia: "epikeia is a restrictive interpretation of positive law based on the benign will of the legislator who would not want to bind his subjects in certain circumstances"

Source: https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs...

I'm basically saying that the answer to the question of "Is murder wrong" should be a boolean value, not a float. Once it's a float, you open the door to all kinds of nasty thoughts arguing about where to draw the line.

Are handicapped people worthy of killing? What about long-term unemployed? What about the opressors - like rich people? Homosexuals? There have literally been people arguing and executing all of these appalling thoughts in the last century and I would argue beneath it all lies a deadly relativism that says "Of course there is a universal right to live, well, unless you are a ... of course."

If I declare a right an "absolute" right I do not aim to answer any of the questions you posed, those are all good questions that need to be carefully considered, but none of them render the "over-simplified" right to live any less morally justified or desirable.

We can talk about edge cases when we agree on the base principles. A principle isn't automatically invalid because it has hard-to-answer edge cases. This is faulty logic.

> For example, I don't think my freedom of speech should trump Cloudflare's or Voxility's right to freedom of association.

Right, but those only produce a conflict in a very specific case and your right to free speech should be defended by your government/peers regardless of where you do the caching for your blog (or whatever).

I have a huge issue with this modern relativist approach, because it leads to the situation where - instead of acknowledging that there are in fact absolute rights - we constantly debate where _the line_ is.

I think the boldest example of why this is bad is the right to live. In my view, this is an absolute right. "But what if it's a mass murderer?" - "But what if they are terminally ill and are suffering?" - "But what if they are so heavily handicapped that... ?" Adding _ifs_ and _buts_ to a right that should be absolute leads down a very dark path, because _the line_ will be a constant subject of discussion.

I think we would do ourselves a favor to just outright declare some rights to be absolute (as we did before and seem to have forgotten).

I might make an "emergency bathrooms" list for my city, because that's something everybody actually needs from time to time, fast.

For the same reason your not sending html-files via email when you want to share a website I suppose.

`Error joining` when I want to join chats. And I really have strong opinion about them notifications ;)

That looks really cool, I would absolutely use this if I was using Twitter. One question: Do you cut the text after precisely 280 chars and then fit the rest in to the next tweet, or did you implement a "smarter" solution (like cutting it at the last space and adding "1/4" to indicate the length of the thread or adding an ellipsis or whatever)?

Fun.

But what am I ranking when it asks me about beavers?

Another extension that does this (and more if I am not mistaken) is this one: https://makemediumreadable.com/

Thanks for the detailed answer. Cheers!

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Good Luck.

How will this affect my ability to analyze traffic on my site? Can I still use the analytics plug-in I have installed on my WP instance (I suppose not?) or will I have to manage those inside the Frontity project somehow (like shipping Google analytics scripts with the client-side js)?

I see a lot of scepticism towards CrossFit here and it's probably with good reason, but I just want to add that your experience with the method of training is very dependant on the actual gym you go to.

Where I started training (and I was like the definition of "out of shape") the coaches preach form > intensity every step of the way and actually forbid you to do any dynamic movement before you have not sufficently mastered the strict equivalent. That said, I have also met Crossfitters that can do ten unbroken kipping pull ups and not a single strict one, which is obviously incredibly irresponsible and stupid.

I have now moved away from doing regular CrossFit workouts for many of the reasons listed in this thread, but I can honestly say, that changing my habits from couchpotato to fit dude would have not happened if it wasn't for the community and the style of training I have encoutered there. I learned how to backsquat there, I learned how to lock in my shoulders there, I learned how to stretch there, I learned about the basics of training methodology there. This would have never happend if I would have just gone to Planet Fitness (or whatever) on my own.

People aren't mad because MacDonalds runs a chain of restaurants or presents consumers with food or provides a easy way to get a meal. Lots of companies do those things without complaint. People are mad at McDonalds because the company constantly lies about health issues, makes one statement about the origins of their food when really it comes from somewhere else, and just generally treats the concerns of its consumers with complete contempt.

I don't think it's possible to outlaw what Facebook does without unforeseen consequences. Facebook is fast-food for the mind. You know it's bad for you, you know you shouldn't do it, you know there are healthier alternatives, the fact that corporations profit off of making people fat and sick is outrageous, but you can't very well outlaw the concept of beef in a bun.

Anything by Shirley Wu.

Not trying to be a jerk, these are all serious questions and I am thankful for insights, because I seem to be blind to the benefits of blockchains in that regard.

How is a Blockchain better here than just a SQL database? How is it the blockchain exactly that frees you from 'the constraints of manufacturing' a physical board? How is playing chess on your platform any improvement over playing it on lichess, chess.com or chess24? Why would a developer of a game want immutable and distributed data?

I would argue that when "influencers" and "evangelists" in the field oversell what AI really is by injecting the consciousness debate into it, it is not because we have no sufficient definition of a human being, but to accumulate eyeballs for their content and investors for their businesses.

So as interesting the discussion about the nature of consciousness might be, I think it is as misplaced in ML/DL domain as it would be in - say - the discussion about network protocols. How silly does this question sound: "How far from a truly sentient being is HTTP?" Ridiculous, right? (Okay maybe that one is little over the top, but you get my point.) Conflating this particular technology with this particular discussion at all is a very lucrative mistake and it stems from the name it has been given.

I haven't had an experience. That's the point. Most of my projects remain unmonetized for ethical reasons. The only thing I could find until now was tize[0], which is a completely different approach to advertising that didn't strike me as particularly circumspect.

0: https://tize.io/

I will 100% try this within the next weeks. I am ddg-ing every possible variation of "ethical adsense alternative" without any useful leads for months now.

Very neat, I can see myself coming back to this for literally every urban destination.

I have never even heard of Wynd, tried a websearch, DDG says it's either a Scottish poet or a small lane and Google says it's a portable air purifier. I think it's just called WIND?