jpfromlondon

>We as technologists need to engage with wider society and understand on their terms, the worries they have.

We were the vanguard blocking this to the public's benefit, now they've voted for it our only duty is to ourselves; to make sure the rules don't apply to us.

The suffragists arguably achieved a great deal more, without them the measures of the suffragettes would likely have set women’s rights back further.

Yet they are all but forgotten.

Mine was like an ancient remnant from the soviet union, dry as anything but wickedly funny, used to yell at us if we pronounced the Cyrillics wrong, or more usually if we did not use capitals for units named after people; I can still hear his rebuke "why do we capitalize Newtons? BECAUSE HE WAS A GREAT MAN".

Really punished our (my) youthful laziness.

"Note that ψ (psi) is pronounced sye and ϕ (phi) is pronounced fye."

This is the American pronunciation I take it? During my undergrad physics and mathematics modules I was instructed by a handful of Europeans (including a charming old Russian for theoretical) who stressed the importance of preserving the pronunciation I'd learnt in classics at school - "(p)See" and "(p)Fee" respectively.

Love the site.

Why is this a "fun fact", what is this reddit-tier comment contributing?

>obscures ... implies

See: Presumption

>Er, it kind of predicts the internet,

The internet long precedes the publishing of Infinite Jest.

I had already been cutting screen-time, my phone especially which no longer leaves the house with me.

It's pure coincidence too as I read TPK in January and knew I had to read more DFW fiction as soon as I could.

I wish to read this but I'm on page 600 of my first pass of the book and worry it'll spoil it for me.

At risk of marking myself a "lit-bro" I think the book is proving solidly prophetic.

how is that misleading if it's a fact, it's only misleading if you presume to know the reaction or intent behind making such a claim, and without context we should be extremely careful in making such presumptions.

This sounds mostly like a skill issue, and the notion that it's somehow a walled garden is laughable when the alternatives are Cisco/Meraki, Juniper, et al? I can plug whatever I like into my Unifi estate and expect it work with little fault.

There are, making such a conspiracy all the easier to perpetrate.

I suspect because the Chinese firm in question was a fabrication of FMIC for exactly this purpose.

The unsubsidised costs can't be revealed soon enough.

did they? Is piracy now impossible?

you get used to it within a couple of hours

I'd like to know this too, especially the ipad.

>In a world where people are fighting with each other to see who can get closer to the trading systems in order to shave off milliseconds, this seems glacial.

the race to zero is over, nobody is doing that any more.

They certainly add hay to the haystack

I miread the title as Institutional Afflictions and immediately wondered what those might be, Scrum/Agile is a given of course but what else?

Reading a lot of the comments here is pretty depressing, I thought things had improved since I was a boy.

My school (posh, British) turned a blind eye to bullying and fighting, there wasn't a great deal but I distinctly remember walking past a teacher having recently been punched in the face, bleeding from my mouth, and him acknowledging that I looked in a state but doing nothing.

Since I never turned away from a scrap I never really encountered bullying, now I have boys of my own and hope that when they're of school age they don't have to run the gauntlet as I did.

did you know Rolex are quite popular in Vatican to the point that they offer a latin day wheel on the day-date.

Just because you are provided with necessities, does not mean your every material need is met.

>human nature

>the problem will go away?

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It's more worrying to me that you think you can fix us.

My own job is accelerating my cognitive decline and destroying my mental wellbeing.

The public, and consumers in general often state a want or need for something that they don't actually want or that would harm their quality of life, it is correct to demean or deride these wants when they're identified, some aspects of human nature are amusing.

But there is a global conspiracy, a synchronised effort among western leaders to implement near identical solutions to this engineered "problem", the responsibility remains squarely on the shoulders of parents, I say this as a parent.

I'm not entirely convinced, the biggest bullshitter I know professionally is truly profoundly incompetent and very much a shining example of the Peter principle, in fact I think (non-technical) managers exhibit strong bullshittery in technical fields and seem to propel themselves to great heights at the expense of morale, team cohesion and progress.

This reminds me of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King in which a presumed jesuit guest lecturer tells an audience of college students that true heroism is enduring boredom, that there is no higher calling, that it is key to a successful life.

It was common (at least here in europe) to simply buy your car, with the proliferation of finance and lease it is now the norm to essentially rent your own car for two to four years before inevitably having to trade it in for another, perpetually on the strap.

This has driven the actual price of vehicles both used and new to astronomical levels under the assumption that you will have it on-plan rather than own it outright.

Major things aside, it's the every day minor erosions in qol that depress me...for example cereal boxes used to be stiffer, chocolate had more cocoa solids, products were on average better quality, to get that same quality requires you to know and spend a lot more, we aren't imagining it, there was a sweet spot somewhere between 2003 and 2016.

it's hard to recommend Veritasium on this subject when Asianometry exists... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFsn1CUyXWs&list=PLKtxx9TnH7...

People want to choose what in their life they do.

My job is to improve workflows with automation and analysis, I preach progress, but in my daily life I enjoy shifting gears in my ice car, taking time to make a coffee, developing photos from an analogue camera, listening to music on physical media, all things that could be automated away...if we read stories for the ending we could flip to the last page and get it.

There are a lot of managers out there (my own included) that would automate every aspect of their own life just so they can sit around and wait for death, and assume that is what everyone else wants.