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Mine are 1) Xmodmap support/migration 2) breaking imagemagick's import (screenshotting) making my shortcut for OCR'ing text on the screen break.

It seems Wayland isn't going to be the default in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but if it wasn't for the risk of Wayland I would be on the non-LTS releases. At least Guix exists now so staying on LTS (released every 2 years) isn't that bothersome in terms of easily avoiding out-of-date software.

pfp: https://pfp.works/

With its generated passwords there is no way to lose your passwords in a hilarious backup failure.

Re (5), I rather feel that the quality of the documentation and communication around modern C++ puts everything else to shame. If you knew java or python in 2009, how are you supposed to quickly catch up with 2019? (Rust also seems to have piled on a lot of additions since 1.0, but I don't use it so I shouldn't speak.) There are books and blogs for everything popular, but it's really a little shocking to me that no other big language has anything that can compare to cppreference.com.

This doesn't change what people other than me might be thinking, of course.

>Europeans failed to keep Latin relevant. Indians failed to keep Sanskrit relevant. They kept the languages for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians kept hieroglyphics going even longer. We are able to maintain languages without any problems, if we just choose to.

Yeah, I wouldn't put anything under a "GPL or any later version" for the time being.

What would be the force actually shutting the capillaries, if the veins themselves aren't collapsing? The upper part of a siphon still has internal pressure, just less than at its base.

Does high G actually cause a higher or lower blood pressure at heart level? (search engines fail to give an answer) I think the problem there is blood packing to the lower body, and a sauropod would have enough blood and strong enough veins to be able to hold its head upright.

It's not really obvious to me why the sauropod heart->head->heart loop shouldn't be considered as a "siphon". For all the blood that's going up there should be an equal amount of blood going down.

Or is it? It seems to me simply outlawing both asking and disclosing would deter these problems well enough.

Seems rather similar to the strong_password case from a month back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20377136 . I wonder if anyone has checked basic things like scanning all of rubygems for "pastebin" or "eval( * http * )".

5) zkanji: https://github.com/z1dev/zkanji! It's got a dictionary from which you can directly add words into its study decks when looking them up, and it has handwriting recognition plus let's you easily find similar looking kanji (with shared components etc), which is great when tesseract ocr fails, or when the text is so blurry/compressed you can't really even see it clearly (the online Japanese war history archives really love to compress their scans).

It's even in debian/ubuntu repos now. I hadn't realized that.

I suspect it's simply that most jew-hating etc. jokes are unmotivated unless you hate jews. If you don't hate jews you find the jokes unfunny and tedious and stop browsing, and if you do you join in. The origins of 8/4chan barely matter.

We are able to report our own consciousness, so it obviously has "classically" physical effects that can be measured.

It was fashionable long before that. IIRC Mint had an embarrassing start being advertised as particularly secure (great for online banking!!) despite not really offering anything good in that department.

Another complication not mentioned in the tweets is consonant gradation, in which the stem changes in dozens of ways when suffixed (examples: http://users.jyu.fi/~pamakine/kieli/suomi/vaihtelu/astevaiht...), which makes Finnish a lot less cleanly agglutinative than most other languages. It's not like it can't be done, but it's yet another step (find the likely split points, then try to undo the consonant gradation) and I'd imagine casual foreign researchers aren't going to bother.

Finland is already a welfare state.

That struggles to explain how fertility rates have ever dropped. For higher fertility you would need stronger biologic instincts, the present lack of which suggests they would conflict with something else important for viability, a high "materialist profit" from having having children, which the man's child protection services will catch on to if your group grows big enough, or a "sense of duty", which again seems increasingly hard to maintain as the group grows for an array of reasons.

I do, with dvorak. I also map control to alt-gr for the best ergonomics, so all keys have equally easy control combos.

Censorship resistance is illusory without any anonymity. It'd make me a little sad if anyone gets into IPFS because of its censorship resistance when freenet and tor hidden services already exist. The central third party is preferable to potentially anyone being able to start logging who is viewing a given piece of content.

I've been wondering that too. There isn't much allure to it beyond "our hosting/CDN will be cheaper if we let the customers pay for it". If anything it weakens privacy a little, since any mean-spirited gremlin gets to snoop on who visits and hosts what.

I can't resist rambling about what kind of a language /I/ would create:

1) The native consonants of Finnish (h j k l m n p r s t v ng/ŋ) and the vowels of Arabic (a u i), as a compromise between not having too many sounds that could be difficult to produce or even distinguish to some, and not having so few that you can't have recognizable loanwords.

2) Syllables CV or CVC

3) No grammar features such as tenses, cases, moods, or even number, because many Asian languages lack them, like classical Chinese for a very literary example, plus they are just an unnecessary detriment to learning and speaking. I'm not sure what the grammar that is left should look like but it should be minimal.

4) Vocabulary sourced from Estonian, since it won't be too terribly mangled by the reduced alphabet, as a Uralic language is equally obscure to everyone else yet has an extensive living vocabulary, and since nobody is likely to go "well why don't I then just learn Estonian instead", especially if they've tried to read an Estonian grammar book.

Bland neuroticism makes itself viral. The threads are easy to come up with and everyone can chip in. The OP gets an anonymous confessional and the rest get to feel better about themselves.

Those kinds of forums are top results because they minimize distress. Google having solid advice for every little thing would drive people neurotic.

I have always found that is conflating the semantics of using with the method of passing. Even with/out aliases you are still passing a reference.

Doesn't the post stumble over right in the second section? "It is not possible to create a Go program where two variables share the same storage location in memory". So what? The C example didn't show that either.

I'm aware that there are statistics. Nobody interprets them. (also the link doesn't even include medicine (edit: it does i just missed it D:))

"Tech people want to believe that the gender disparity in their field is shared among all the STEM fields"

It's convenient for both women's studies departments and tech recruiters to pretend other fields don't exist. It is taboo to talk about it, to the point that I haven't come across any serious piece of writing that dared to seriously contemplate the question of "what are the girls choosing to do instead?", but I don't think it has much to do with psychoanalytic undercurrents.

What society tolerates in political discourse has much more to do with this than any quirks of the brain. Politics drags objectivity through the mud.

I'm not convinced of the effect, especially in the context of single mothers and divorce. Welfare would seem to decrease the incentive to divorce an unemployed husband. I've also seen claims that just 100-150 years ago a lower proportion of men were married, and far more died childless, which would go against the narrative trend if true (but who knows if they are).

Those are more like events that have been ongoing for decades. Russian airspace incursions aren't much of a signal. (see e.g. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/full-list-of-... )

Sweden had already shrunk their military in recognition of these things. The problem is they overshot, and can't recruit enough volunteers to maintain even a tiny force.