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Individual republicans may well love science, but the Republican party is and has been anti-science for a long time, and aggressively so.

Listening to the Christmas lectures was a high point of my childhood, and everyone in my family still remembers and talks about the ones we watched.

I was startled when I was interviewed by an AI interviewer, since I wasn't expecting anything like that (perhaps I'm naive). It asked a series of questions about my job experience and technologies I had not worked with, then at the end I was informed that my application had been rejected - for a position that was not the one I was applying to. I only regret that I did not think to just repeat "banana banana banana" over and over agin to see whether I could drive the AI into a weird state. That would have made it all worthwhile.

CS Lewis on the dangers of caring too much:

"It is one of the evils of rapid diffusion of news that the sorrows of all the world come to us every morning. I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help, and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. (This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do for those we know.) A great many people now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don't think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others; but even while we're doing it, I think we're meant to enjoy our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, your jokes, and the birdsong and the frosty sunrise."

Is the company DataAnnotation? I ask because the feeling I get from comments on the Internet is that they are not a real company - they might just be collecting people's contact information for their own reasons. Just my opinion.

I don't have kids, and will never have kids, but even so I don't see people whose children are being denied food as a problem that the children's parent's caused. I see hungry kids who can't learn because they're distracted by hunger as the problem, and I will gladly pay taxes to see that they don't go hungry.

Could this be it? TLS 1.3 connection, with every field in the packets labelled: https://tls13.xargs.org

That may be the first time I've heard of AI actually creating jobs, rather than abolishing them.

This is how I got laid off. Working on legacy software, sole person on the team, eventually management decided that it could be replaced by AI or some such pixie dust.

And it was 1971 when the last chemical castration as a 'treatment' for homosexuality was performed in the US.

Uhuh. Let me guess, you're a heterosexual white male? the Republicans have been very explicit about making my existence a crime since the 1980s. These are the despicable people who made jokes about my friends dying of AIDS, who now want to make just mentioning my marriage 'sexualized content' and therefore prosecutable. Oh, and by the way, they want to eradicate my marriage, which had to be repeated because it was rescinded by a court decision affecting me and 3,997 other couples.

I want to be very clear, so let me say this: you are wrong, and have no idea what it actually means to be on the receiving end of discrimination.

> None of that is "opposed to Open-source".

You're quite right. Open-source vs. non-open-source is irrelevant to the question.

I do use a desktop environment. I don't use many additional productivity tools, though, and that is likely why I have a blind spot about that part of the software market.

My question was more geared towards the seeming lack of a robust software ecosystem (i.e., there appears to be at most one leading product in each category, with one or two alternatives), to whit: - there's Xcode/VSCode. - Photoshop/GIMP. - Sublime Text - not sure about DAW software - the field has changed since I was involved

I'll have to check macupdater out, thanks for the tip.

I have an interview question:

step 1: the candidate is shown the specification for a method and the results of running the test suite on an obfuscated version of the method. All tests pass. The test suite is minimal, and test coverage is abysmal.

step 2: the candidate is asked to come up with more test cases, based on the specification. The code is run against the updated test suite - most new tests will fail because the method's implementation has several known bugs.

step 3: The un-obfuscated source is provided and the candidate is asked to correct any bugs they discover.

step 4: the changed source is run against a full test suite.

I like this because the candidate's ability to think of test cases, debug, and fix existing code are all tested for.

I _hated_ The Green Brain, but that was mostly because he had all the characters say everything in Portuguese, then repeat themselves in English. It was as if there was an echo in the room.

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