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If it breaks off, it raises the sea level immediately.

What's the projected timeline? I followed a chain of links (of course to other CNN articles) each titled doomsday something collapse something and couldn't find a single projected timeline. The closest I got was "it could take hundreds or thousands of years, possibly sooner" which is almost as ridiculous as measuring things using football fields.

Anybody have a timeline of a projection based on the current trend?

I've been living this way for close to a decade and I'll tell you it's not as hard as it seems. Most of those apps are available elsewhere, most of them still work even without the play services and for the ones that give you a hard time, you can spoof play services. I think I've installed maybe 2 apps in the last decade that didn't run. Granted, I don't play games on my phone. For the odd piece of software maybe you paid for or something, there's usually a FOSS alternative that works just as well. I haven't engaged in software piracy on my phone in many years, it's just not necessary or worth it. I'm not missing much.

All you need is an AOSP rom, Aurora store and MicroG.

Tangential, someone who just willy nilly tells you to just willy nilly execute software on your device is not someone you should be listening to. I'm not installing and running a program on my phone to get a free $5 box from taco bell. I don't know what kind of app recommendations you're getting, but usually, even if I can run something, my response is "no thanks."

I said nothing about praying.

It is commonly accepted in our time that you're born with your sexual proclivities, and it is a sensitive topic, saying otherwise can get you into serious social trouble. So, the idea that "preferences and tastes" as you put it with regard to sexual orientation can change is widely a taboo in modern western society. To me, this directly conflicts with the concept that someone can develop a sexual attraction via exposure to pornography; the two beliefs are mutually exclusive. I'm just pointing out the difficult social consequences of investigating and confirming whether exposure can alter someone's attractions in that way.

Bend isn't about practical utility right now, just a proof of concept implementation of a high level language that compiles to interaction nets. The ultimate goal is to be able to easily write massively parallel code without having to do any of the work to get parallelism, it just happens by itself. Already that is proven, now the work begins to optimize and add useful features.

I messed with this yesterday a little bit, it's pretty cool. Waiting for more native types and some IO and then I'm really going to play with it.

No details on the ruling whatsoever, the article is a mish mash of popular touted fears of policing. While I share these concerns, i was hoping to get something of substance about the court ruling.

If people can "dip their toes" into something and then develop a proclivity towards it, doesn't that imply sexuality is not innate? If it is innate then this is not a concern, and if it is not innate, the prevailing views we have on this topic are going to challenge that conclusion.

I think it's like 5G. Yeah, it's running out of steam, the marginal benefit is virtually nonexistent.

I personally don't want a ton of tracking and screens in my car. People want to be able to "fill up" in 10 minutes, go wherever they want, and spend less than a thousand dollars on CSR repairs to get them going again. Until that's possible, even with cheaper cars, electric cars will always be an upper middle class social signalling decision.

So maybe I can give a little perspective to some of you, from someone living something like this.

Me and my wife are atheists. We don't believe in god. There is no element of Christianity or traditionalism or any of that in our lives. We are a mixed race couple, our kids are not white and there's nothing about "creating more white babies" or any of that nonsense in our outlook or approach. I'm sure that kind of stuff is out there, but by and large I think that stuff is overblown by people who feel uncomfortable with the idea that any woman would want to focus on the happiness of people she loves instead of the demands of people she doesn't. I'm sure we are a bit unorthodox in that we aren't religious conservatives, but that's not really a requirement to want these things either.

Neither one of us come from millionaire families, she comes from a working middle class family and I come from the mud. Neither one of us has beyond a high school education, although we are both very read and have a good understanding of things we are interested in. I sold my youth to put myself where I am today, and risked (and experienced) homelessness to put myself in a position where I could have something more than the corporate ladder. I clawed my way into a position where I could afford a low stress, family focused life, I did it for kids I didn't even have yet, for a woman I didn't even know yet, and I did it without ever taking advantage of another person.

Our main approach is cost cutting. We simply have rich, rewarding lives by getting rid of all the distraction. We eat really good, healthy, delicious food by not relying on others to make it for us. We keep our housing modest, a place to provide us with the shelter and facilities we need to maintain hygiene and take care of ourselves and our kids. It really is very, very easy to have a rewarding life for cheaper than a supposed rewarding but in reality soul crushing life in the rat race. It appears to me, people are convinced that their lives are meaningless unless they're pursuing careers, living in a "tier 1 city" or other marketing propaganda designed to get people to unwittingly dedicate their lives to other people's ambitions. My view is that what really matters in life is cooking good food and spending time with the people you love. You can have a bigger impact on the world by raising competent and healthy children than by working in an office and sitting in traffic.

I think that there are a lot more women in the world that feel guilty or inadequate for wanting to play with their kids, teach them to read and cook them good food rather than pursue some higher ambition that amounts to subservience to a corporate machine, than a lot of people would like to admit. All it takes is that they acknowledge that it isn't some lesser role, it's a higher purpose, it's more rewarding and the path they've been sold is empty. A lot of people don't like seeing it nowadays, hence the constant association with alt right, religious fundamentalism, controlling husbands and all that stuff. In reality, all that is just noise. You'll not wish you spent more time in the office on your deathbed, your kids need a loving person to teach them more than they need a bigger room and a remodeled kitchen down the street from the mall. There's room for personal ambition, but the only rewarding way to pursue that is on your own terms.

I still have yet to see a contribution to the conversation from you.

Nobody is making excuses for shitty behavior, they're saying that if you interact with enough people you'll encounter shitty behavior because there are shitty people in the world. When you go outside just be ready to carry on with your life when you encounter one of these.

Statistically speaking, the likelihood that there's an asshole somewhere that you'll run into in the course of your lifetime is near 100%, so it is some natural law like gravity. Do you have a proposal for a solution to this problem, or are you just calling people victim blamers for acknowledging that these people exist?

FYI I read about this woman many years ago and I and many others are convinced that she is a fraud.

> These are connected to the X chromosome—most men have only one, but most women have two.

They linked to Klinefelter syndrome for the men with XXY chromosomes, I'm curious what's sort of syndrome or disorder leads to women only having one x chromosome?

Yup, exactly. If it's removed from the index it won't just show up again one day. This tells me that that innocuous explanation is not what's going on here.

This is the thing stating people in the face that many don't want to just observe and accept. You didn't sync something to icloud and somehow it's undeleted? It was synced to somewhere. This plainly points to a massive, industrial scale invasion of people's privacy that apple fanboys are not going to acknowledge.

60, try 20. Many of us millennials remember having a key to the house on a string around our necks. I walked to and from school with no adults since I was 6. I was out around the neighborhood from the moment school let out until the sun went down, by myself on my bicycle with all the other neighborhood kids. I was a teenager 20 years ago and I came and went as I pleased, no cell phone.

Its a site called top10vpn. This is spam.

Look, there's a difference between showing ID to vote or get a free paycheck from someone and showing ID to shout my ideas from a rooftop. I don't need your trust to say things on the internet. If you don't trust me, don't read what I have to say. You can continue trusting Google though, I won't, this is a bait and switch and they're the source of the problem, not your lack of my identifying documents. We have no proof that they're doing it in purpose, I don't care about the intent, I care about the results.

How do I find things. I'm already living life without much google in it. There are a lot of ways to find things. Aggregators like this one have a better signal to noise ratio than google or most places that publish a lot of information. There are search engines that actively blacklist anything with SEO in it. There are community groups that focus on topics of interest. I find that I only use big search engines nowadays to find a git repo for something or find out what time some place closes, that's all they're good for nowadays. I trust people more than faceless services, and I don't care anything about who any of those people are in real life.

I was nodding my head as a member of the choir until

> The only future of the internet is, sadly, proof-of-person and proof-of-residence on every public network interaction

Yeah, go away. The problem is that Google has monopolized web aggregation. Without it these sites wouldn't be worth making. I've got to show ID to post something online to kick that can down the road?

The way I see it this is a self resolving problem. Ad driven search engines rank ad driven blog spam, people get tired of it and use methods of finding content that don't show that garbage, these guys, along with their multinational trillion dollar benefactor, go out of business. Problem solved.

Well, I wrote a series of functions doing a bunch of mathematical calculations, making lists and that. But when I went to 1) read a file, 2) output results to a file, I ran into some trouble. This was for a real use case I had. Writing the code to do all the calculation was really enjoyable and pretty easy to pick up. Actually turning it into a useful program not so much.

I used no libraries and wrote all the math myself, because when I went to investigate libraries none of them seemed to explain what they do in language someone who didn't already know would understand. When I went in stackexchange and other community spaces I got similar results.

When will people learn. You simply cannot rely on centralized services if your goal is to threaten power. "Incorporated in Switzerland" is not going to protect you from a king.

I've dabbled with Haskell. I like it a lot, but I want to like it more and I just can't. I don't come from a CS background, I'm pretty good mathematically, and the syntax is just beautiful to me. I remember when I first understood recursion instead of loops, I was amazed.

But the whole no side effects thing... I just can't wrap my head around monads. I understand the benefits of no side effects, I still can't figure out how to write code, test it, improve, you know, iterate over it. It feels to me like you need to have your entire program understood and specified before you can write a single line of code.

That, and it seems like you need to have a complete understanding of the entire standard library just to get anything done. When I go into Haskell community groups to get some help, I'm usually met with walls of things I don't understand, which is why I'm there I'm the first place.

If I could get over these two road blocks I really think I'd write everything I could in the language. I hope to do that some day soon, but it's really hard when you're expected to already get it by the community. I just want to know how to do IO without a complete refactor and be able to read some documents on a library and start using it.

Well, I don't. I use almost exclusively FOSS software that has no telemetry whatsoever, and where there is any phoning home, I either turn it off or make sure I know what it's doing and am happy with it.

I think it should be the standard, but fact is most computer users are entertainment consumers and their computing devices are just a new and improved TV. It doesn't even occur to them to ask what's going on, hence the ubiquity of proprietary spyware. With TUIs and other nerdy stuff like that, the userbase is generally going to give a shit more, hence the higher standard.

Space is inhospitable for computing machines as well, no computing machine has outlived human beings in lifespan without ship of theseus amounts of maintenance. It's a simple fact of the universe: all systems must be designed with their direct environments in mind. Lots of our technology relies heavily on the magnetosphere for example, or on the fact that the atmosphere is not made of sulfuric acid.

On the topic of biotechnology, it seems to me we are closer to engineering biological systems than we are to AGI. Bonus points, biomass is a readily available resource with which to build them.

Either way though, my core point is, we assume non living systems are more resilient, and I don't believe that that is the case.

It doesn't have nothing. It has keybinds. There's nothing to click on, but still plenty to do, and you can do it with more than one finger.

Flat... Whitespace. In modern graphical applications, nothing is broken up in your field of view, everything is an object on a slate. There's no organization, no context grouping objects together that help you understand how to interact with them, they're not ergonomic. Contrast that with this, while it's not a perfect example, there are clear borders, clear sets of interactions, the mind can formulate a procedure by looking at the organization of everything in front of them. It's almost like fonts, some fonts are better for readability, others are just ideas people had that might help that don't work out, and others are just there to look fashionable. UI maps and interactive flows can be easy to understand at a glance or look pretty but not give the user much of a clue what to do with what they're looking at.

That's pretty bad for a terminal utility and file manager. The thing should never, ever connect to the internet for anything unless explicitly told to by the user. I didn't notice this, thanks for pointing it out.

True, but most GUIs are built with the mouse in mind, and at best slap some ctrl keybinds on as an afterthought. Hamburger menus and flat whitespace are cumbersome.

Just tried this out...

Looks nice. I dig the nerd font thing, I'd never used them because all of my TUI stuff is ncurses and the like, it's a nice thing to be able to do. I like the outline. I don't like a few things.

- Ctrl keys galore. I'm partial to vim keys, a lot of the keybinds on here are vim style, why not make it all of them?

- some of the defaults are weird or potentially dangerous. There's no confirmation for deletion for example, PageUp and PageDown don't work, cursor auto wraparound is a little confusing for something like this, and the cursor isn't a highlight, just a >.

- Bubbletea always seem to have a minimum terminal size which drives me nuts. Btop and other programs I've used have this problem.

All in all I like the ability to open multiple panes, the ability to open network drives, see ongoing/completed processes and see the clipboard. I find I virtually never need more than two panes though, and there are plenty of CLI utilities for FTP and stuff. I'm probably going to stick with an old school dual pane like vifm or MC. I'll keep this on my machine and test it out some more next time I need to connect to an ftp server or something, I like that it provides most of the functionality that graphical file managers like Nautilus have, I do miss some of that stuff in my terminal oriented environment, but not enough to go full mouse, so it's good to know I have an option that gives me some of both.

Not just that, there's also that you can run them via SSH, there aren't a zillion top heavy GUI frameworks, interaction is significantly less cumbersome, and let's face it, they look so much better.

For me, hotkeys are the main selling point. I don't want to operate my machine with one wrist and one finger. I have a panel of switches in front of me, why should it be a typewriter 100% of the time? Moving to keyboard focused interaction, particularly vim keys but anything really, it makes me feel like in operating my machine with my mind, it is orders of magnitude less cumbersome once you're past the learning curve, such that when I have to use a traditional stacking, mouse focused environment I feel like I'm on a dial up connection with my hands amputated and cataracts.

Oh, I thought you were asking "what's wrong with profits?" which I don't disagree with, but something labelled as a non profit ought toto stick to that.