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I have no personal experience in this matter, but through watching videos of bird training experts (in my case [1]) I learnt that parrots can be trained to be friendly with the entire family. Parrots might still prefer one family member, but it can be trained to get along with everyone else too. Of course matters get more complicated if the bird has been previously owned and has developed a bad personality.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/BirdTricks

Yes, there is a penalty of starting and stopping the Python interpreter every time, which is why they want to implement the front end command in Rust. For scripts, current users are better off adapting to the current hg ecosystem, and writing their scripts in Python.

> Speed wise it blew Bazaar and Mercurial out of the water.

Benchmarks for this are hard to come by, and are for versions that are considered quite outdated now. But from what little there is, there wasn't that much of a performance difference between git and hg. For example, see this: https://www.draketo.de/proj/hg-vs-git-server/test-results.ht...

Another example, this[1] music producer's kid developed perfect pitch despite the lack of any training. He was exposed to a rich variety of complex music right from the start. When the dad discovered his son's ability, he found out that the kid had his own names for the notes. IIRC, based on which song begins with that note. I think it's quite likely that if the dad had spent all his days composing music, the son would have been doing that from an early age as well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Cb1qwCUvI

I would wash my old Moto G under a tap whenever it looked a bit dirty. It had a jack. Plenty of phones that have jacks are waterproof.

If there is a contemporary personification of Evil, that is Kissinger. It's not about "traditional republican values" either. As far as I can see, both your big parties are a continuation of Kissinger's policies.

> if Beethoven's music had been lost or misplaced, would we immediately recognize it as "genius" if someone made a first recording in 2018

I'm not qualified to comment on the genius of any composer, but knowing my background, I would say he would have become immensely popular. Growing up, people around me knew nothing about western classical music, not even enough to name a few famous composers. I found cassette tapes in Bangalore's music shops and tried them out randomly. Beethoven quickly became one of my favorites and the factors could not have been either that I was over-exposed to his music through general culture while growing up or that his name was famous around here, biasing me in his favour.

I like to think of good composers as one of two kinds: (1) those who impress novices to the tradition of this kind of music (western classical, in this case) and (2) those who impress long-term aficionados. Based on my own tastes, examples of the first kind would be Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Mozart, etc. and examples of the second kind would be Bach, Mahler, Schoenberg, etc. Of course, these categories are fuzzy, and I'm sure there are composers who would qualify for both categories. However, I think a valid approach to answering your question would be to survey what sort of an impression a composer makes on novices to the genre.

Thank you for making recordings of Reicha's works! I'm not a novice to the genre anymore, but it's nice to have new compositions from the classical period to listen to.

I haven't touched these topics. But in my experience, nearly none of my edits remained, despite providing credible and neutral sources for whatever I added. Usually, there are long-term Wikipedia editors who have put plenty of pages on their watchlist, and treat the pages as their own personal property. Every tiny change is treated as if it were controversial, and must be fought over in the talk pages. Beginners to Wikilawyering and WikiBullying lose these fights. "Anyone can edit" has become a joke.

I saw this in one of the most famous answers on Mathoverflow [1]. The CAS expert (Jacques Carette) who wasted three days trying to locate the "problem" in the software chimes in in the comments.

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/11517/computer-algebra-er...

All that, and it gets worse. "time find ~" always reported something like 2.x seconds for me, no matter which terminal I used (kitty, alacritty, urxvt, st, konsole), but I know from observing the scrolling lines that it always took about 15 seconds in each terminal. It basically means the command has sent the characters to the buffer, and then exited, but the terminal has not finished rendering its buffer.

I usually walk around with a backpack. And yes, the bag gets scanned and I get frisked every time I enter a mall or a local metro station. The only time I was asked not not bring something in was at a cinema, where food and drinks from outside were not allowed. I've had to face similar restrictions at European cinemas too. Apart from that, these scanners and friskers have not restricted my movement in any way.

I think the only time I saw someone get turned away was after a bomb blast at a cinema. It was some dude with a computer SMPS in his backpack -- I knew what it was, but the security guard didn't. But that was just once in my lifetime.

I'm not (blindly) defensive of India just because I happen to be Indian. There are plenty of things wrong with India. But this isn't one of them.

I haven't read the book, but reading this excerpt now, and given my Indian context of vegetables, this initially comes across as masochism. What we call "yam" in India has the full name "elephant foot yam", and is full of calcium oxalate crystals that will seriously hurt the mouth. We boil the vegetable quite aggressively to destroy the crystals.

You know the service that Bob Newhart provided, as a psychologist? He charged 5$ for 5 minutes. I'd be willing to do that for 1$.

Ref. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw

Was the pun on colorForth intended? Just in case it wasn't, colorForth was also created by the creator of Forth, and color has syntactic significance here.

> schizophrenic patients

Schizophrenia has to do with some degree of failure to separate reality and delusion. It's got nothing to do with multiple personalities. Are you talking about dissosiative identity disorder, instead?

I'm not in the UK, and I could watch it just fine. Probably because Channel 4 blocked access to it in the UK, where they made use of the laws available to them. These laws likely don't let them enforce worldwide.

> Traditional filesystems are hierarchical, slow to search, and don't natively store all of the metadata we need

I don't know what he means by "traditional", but Linux native filesystems can store all the metadata you'd want.

> Why can't I have a file in two places at once on my filesystem?

POSIX compatible filesystems have supported that for a long time already.

It seems to me that all the things he wants are achievable through Plan9 with its existing API. The only thing missing is the ton of elbow grease to build such apps.

I did not say it will help you. But read this anyway http://research.lawyers.com/ignorance-of-the-law-may-be-an-e...

> When they die, it becomes part of their estate and it's not confidential anymore.

IANAL, but I don't think the law works this way. If you reveal any of that confidential information, you would be as liable to getting sued for breach of confidentiality as your father was. I believe this will be one of those cases where ignorance of the law will not protect you, beause it is common knowledge that what happened between your dad and his clients is confidential information.

That is an excellent idea. The only trouble is, the people who make this policies do not see the problem that you and I do. Their problem is to get more votes, and ocassionally to appease violent hooligans. What they have been doing fixes their problems perfectly well. SNAFU.

Saimiam is an Indian, and is likely living in India. I neither understand nor agree with his skepticism. I may have been more generous if he were from some other country.

Kamaal made a claim that "stories of having scored in upwards of 95% aggregate marks, and best rank in competitive exams(JEE, NEET, NATA, CET etc) and lose out an engineering seat to some one who had 35-45% marks."

This is what I have seen too. And yet, I cannot provide any citations because the agencies and the institutions do not publish figures. Saimiam knows this, and himself cannot produce figures of any sort in this field. Our governmental agencies make policies not based on research and citations, but based on what gets them most votes. The govermnent has no incentive to fund research in the field.

This gives a nice cover for people to hide behind, and say, "No proof. Ha ha."

The GPL enforces users' freedom. The BSD/MIT licenses allow for users' freedom. Proprietary restrictive licenses prevent users' freedom.

I can't speak about Samsung, but the Moto G4 Plus also suffers from the same limitation, that the stock camera app can't use the hardware's unique features. But there are ways to overcome that. It's pretty easy to find deodex ROMs for just the camera apps. That way, we can run the manufacturers' apps even if they have crippled their software to run on only their ROMs.

> long tarnished by charges of Nazi collaboration

Is that an American or a British thing? I know quite a few diehard fans of Wodehouse in India. One of them even sent me transcripts of his radio broadcasts. The broadcasts seemed entirely innocuous to me. And my friends who don't like Wodehouse's writings are not aware of the broadcasts at all, suggesting that that's not the reason they don't read his works.

> but it's an attitude that's pervasive of the Hindu Right anyway

I haven't seen that attitude at all. Even the worst among Shiv Sainiks seem to consider vada pau their traditional dish. As for naan, the Indians I know consider it Punjabi, and traditionally made in a tandoor oven. Looking at it from another point of view, potato, tomato and chili are now considered inseparable from Indian cuisine. And yet, naan apparently came to India long before these vegetables did.

Well, they will still have to import all the upstream changes, and make sure that all the parts play well with each other, which, they can still do. Except that they don't.

I think what makes it hard is the dizzying variety of CPUs that makes it all hard to keep up with. I have heard from insiders that as far as manufacturers are concerned, a CPU stays "current" for about 6 months.

Depends on what I'm trying to learn. If it's a programming language, or something math-heavy, I prefer books. If it's GUI programming, I prefer videos. I tried learning Android programming from their official documentation, and felt lost with all those hyperlinks that made a horrible directed multicyclic graph. I did not consider books for this because it's a fast-moving target. I learnt python entirely from their official documentation.

Over here, cremation is customary. The ashes are sent down a river.

As far as I know, no one advocating abolishment of software patents sees the need for an alternative. Fat32 is not in common use because people are enthusiastic about it, but because it's easy to implement, and it's compaitble. At a technical level, it's no different from trying to patent a database schema.

Nah, not even then. However, until last year, before Modi's crackdown on black money began, it would have sold easier, not because of its branding, but because it's there.

Don't take all their comments about political correctnesss as sincere. It's the same lot that would wage war against couples celebrating Valentine's Day or against odd portrayals of Hindu gods in western media. They are quite "tolerant" of Muslims being on the receiving end.