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Citylab has been a real gem. Hopefully the team can withstand the headwinds at Bloomberg and keep up the great work.

The artist describes this piece as "The final part to my pointless trilogy" and links to these works in the comments:

Still Life https://codepen.io/ivorjetski/pen/xMJoYO

Portrait https://codepen.io/ivorjetski/pen/dBYWWZ

Thanks, seems that was it. I had only checked it in regular Safari.

Trying this in Safari I just see “unsupported property” in the inspector?

Could they not purchase some “Freedom hosting” and upload a website with backdoor?

I don’t have any such problem with 32gb and 1TB, and I push it pretty hard.

Author doesn’t reveal how many TB of SSD he configured, but maybe powering 64GB of not-LPDDR and lots of TB of SSD is what sets the fans off.

I don’t imagine there being much Erlang in the iOS and Android clients.

I guess if the goal is to surreptitiously transfer public wealth into private hands, such a “war” is a huge success.

Maybe just to get data broadcasted is the goal, and having that reaching a centralised server is not the primary goal; imagine an operational theatre.

Thanks. This provides a very useful architectural map to keep in mind whilst investigating the various implementations.

Might it be due to the default delay on Caps Lock?

Sorry to disappoint you again, but like you, I also take issue with “McMindfulness”.

Another commenter (one of the first) made the point that “mindfulness” is an inaccurate translation of the Pali “sati”, which in the original context doesn’t mean much more than “remembering to be aware of the objects that your mind is attending to” - those objects being specific and often elaborate mental and emotional faculties. Sati is no system in itself.

Anyway, I only ever set out here to share a single illustrative example of “anatta” or non-self.

Have fun there.

Sorry, I don’t have a philosophical axe to grind. I wasn’t presenting a philosophy.

I just spent a fair amount of time trying to unpack the Buddhist concept of non-self, and offered up something that I found to be a novel way of elucidating the significance and usefulness of non-self, and shone a light, for me at least, on the habits of mind which obscure the understanding.

In the context of the quote, omniscience is a valid term. In a practical context, a literal adherence is not necessary to derive a meaningful understanding and experience.

For example, a child may say “I’m no good at maths”. Yet you spend some time helping them patiently, and in time they gain some confidence, maybe even some mastery, and that particular once firmly-held notion is proven to be false, an obscuration. The first level being the thought “I’m no good at maths” and the second level being the firmly-held belief that it’s an immutable fact.

Beyond all this, the identity you ascribe to me (“kook”, “my philosophy”) is all your creation.

I appreciate now that you don’t like Buddhism. That doesn’t automatically mean that I came here to argue with you about that.

I think your judgemental reaction against the intended substance in my comment just proves the point.

The comment I offered was an illustration that I found helpful in clarifying the Buddhist concept of non-self.

In my book omniscience need not be some kind of superpower, even a sincere effort to comprehend and understand clearly, without heavy overlays, is on track. Learning to pierce those overlays with patience has never led to disappointment.

Unless perhaps you were thinking I wrote omnipotence?

As for the traffic examples, having spent a while in countries where nobody really bothers to sanction other motorists, motorcyclists, pedestrians, push carts, cows, etc, strangely it works out okay. It’s almost like the drivers stopping to blow their horn and yell “asshole” create exponentially more problems further back up the web of traffic, than had they refrained from doing that.

This brings to mind an illustrative example made by the Buddhist teacher Alexander Berzin:

“You’re driving down the road, and another driver is doing something crazy, swerving about and you almost have an accident, and you think what an asshole!

Having the thought that the other driver is an asshole is the first obscuration that prevents omniscience. Believing this thought to be true is the second obscuration (paraphrased) that cements the prevention of omniscience.”

It’s not that “you” don’t exist. It’s that the conditioned and conventionally accepted ways that we think we exist (and by extension the ways that we project that others exist) are ultimately false and don’t correspond to reality.

Mindfulness is slow, frustrating, inconvenient, impractical, irritating, and that's the whole point.

Surely the need for Apple to noticeably grow profits is going to lead to ever more situations like this?

More flimsy products combined with more glamorous marketing to distract.

“If a student wants to study at Princeton, he doesn’t really need to apply or pay tuition. He can simply show up and start taking classes. As a professor, I assure you that we make near-zero effort to stop unofficial education; indeed, the rare, earnestly curious student touches our hearts. At the end of four years at Princeton, though, the guerrilla student would lack one precious thing: a diploma. The fact that almost no one tries this route — saving hundreds of thousands of dollars along the way — is a strong sign that students understand the value of certification over actual learning“

Isn’t this how Steve Jobs treated college? And “Apple” was his “diploma”?

I recall S3 being the first product announcement, with no real mention of what was yet to come.

From the thread: “It hadn’t appeared to me that with the acquisition of GitHub, Microsoft basically also owns Electron now. That’s an interesting turn of events.”

Personally I’ll never go back to Adobe as long as they force me onto a monthly subscription.

My bank stopped providing stationery for the imprinter many years back.

Might this explain what's going on with the US presidential Twitter feed?

With Levandowski remaining an agent of Google/Waymo all along?

Living like Stallman is not so bad, actually. It's all relative :)

You are not hallucinating. Get on with it :)

Where did you find the 20% figure and what data do you have on salaries?

> It also helps to pluck them only when they're most ripe.

And to eat them well before they even catch a whiff of a refrigerator.

Despite how kooky some of his ideas might seem, there is one aspect of Steiner's view that I found particularly insightful (and helpful): that the first period of life, up to when kids really start losing their milk teeth, they are discovering their body, motor skills, their voice, and so on, and in doing so, they are mostly copying the people around them. It's completely experiential, not intellectual.

Both my kids suddenly took flight and became much more interested by themselves in things like reading and arithmetic once their teeth started to really change - not due to pressure from adults. And it's only anecdotal, but this has been borne out many times as I've spent time with other families.

(Also anecdotal!) but when I spend time with adults who grew up in societies where math and literacy is already emphasised at age 3, for example, I find they are completely unable to stop talking :-)