mathgorges

I believe that the comment you're replying to is meaning to imply that remote learning mandates are primarily to protect the unvaccinated (who are at a considerably greater risk of death due to COVID complications).

That is to say: if there were more vaccinated people there would be less need for remote learning since the risk calculus would be very different.

(My science isn't strong enough to take a stance here, I'm merely providing my understanding of the comment you're replying to)

Just bought it. I think of it as a $3 automated boycott.

I don’t like amp for various reasons (not the purpose of this reply) and I expect Google can calculate an AMP bounce rate — they tend to serve ads on the page anyway.

This app allows me to communicate with Google in a language they value: data.

I originally got into mainframe tech through IBM's annual Master the Mainframe program [1] which got me limited access real mainframe on some college's campus and IBMs manuals.

The old -- and likely not so bad -- advice if you'd like to learn how to use a Mainframe is: Get access to a one, get a copy of latest Red Book [2], and start playing around :)

[1]: https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/zxplore (this isn't the program I went through, but my old bookmark now redirects here)

[2]: https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248852.html (IBMs mainframe Technical Guides traditionally have a red cover)

Oh wow. This is the first time I've heard of this being possible. Fascinating.

I'm curious, how did re-copyrighting impact the legal status of (possibly hypothetical) works derived from _It's a Wonderful Life_ during its in the public domain?

I would contend that a Hallmark card has usefulness after being exchanged.

I can’t hang an NFT in my house. And doing so with Hallmark cards has tangible benefits to my well being. (the joy of seeing a thoughtful card with personal meaning, conversation starter if company is over, etc)

Perhaps something will be invented to reproduce that experience for NFTs, but I haven’t seen it yet.

edit: Format and speeling

I reckon they would for the same reason people do those things even though bankruptcy exists.

Not paying your debts has consequences, even if the _may_ be forgiven.

Likewise lending for interest is still profitable, even if it carries risk.

The buy page is linked at the top [1]

It's worth click through to -- depending on where you live another vendor might be considerably cheaper for you.

I'm in the US and Adafruit worked out to be ~$10 cheaper than CrowdSupply for me with shipping and tax.

[1]: https://www.tinypico.com/buy

Raspberry Pi Zeros are cheap, easy to find, featureful, and user friendly :)

Check the Johns Hopkins link again (as an aside, JHU is the data source for the link whihch you've posted)

Underneath that chart they break down data for many more than those 20 countries.

Is that true? That seems at odds with what the article says.

> What’s more, until the death of Stalin, black and red caviar was very inexpensive and accessible. Actively farmed in the Caspian Sea, it was one of the country’s top exports. But whereas in tsarist times caviar had been willingly consumed, Soviet people didn’t really get it. Some posters even exhorted: "Make yourself eat caviar."

Why would the propagandists push people to eat foods they couldn’t access?

It's listed under standard features on the product page:

> Air Supply Tanks (one for each occupant)

Thanks for posting these.

I was out of the loop on this and tracking down the reporting to which RMS is replying was proving more difficult than expected.

It's the latter.

COBOL development is nearly never greenfield, and many of the (mainframe) systems you'll have to work with behave differently than you'd expect if you're someone that learned about software after the 80's.

Theres almost certainly a more direct route, but I learned most of these things (not really JCL) by learning HLASM from this resource:

http://csc.columbusstate.edu/woolbright/WOOLBRIG.htm

> (why is there still vmware around since virtualization became a feature of chips and operating systems?)

Because VMware (mostly through acquisitions) makes a whole bunch of other stuff now too.

Sure, I defo have opinions on git-flow.

But with every build system I work with (which are: Jenkins, Concourse, Github Actions, and Gitlab CI) you can make any branch you want the branch-to-build-on.

Can you give me a real example?

I work with build systems in my day-to-day, and I can't remember the last time I worked with something that didn't support dynamic branch names but did support git

But my experience is obviously skewed by where I work.

This change only affects newly created repos, how does it create tech debt? I suppose some tooling may need to be updated, but if your tools are to brittle to support a different branch name.. sheesh

I would posit to your quotee that they're being phenomenally self-centered.

Github has been mum about the why behind this change, but I'd bet my hat it wasn't because they wanted to actively slow down't their users.

Has Github stated a reason?

I read the announcement from Oct. 1 [1] and it doesn't have any explanation outside of a link to a Software Freedom Conservancy [2] (the folks now maintaining Git)

A lot of people here are assuming virtue signaling, but it could just as easily be "a majority number of our staff was behind this change". Unless GitHub has stated the why somewhere (I spent ~5m googling to no avail) we simply don't know.

[1]: https://github.blog/changelog/2020-10-01-the-default-branch-... [2]: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/

Github isn't eliminating any words from anyone's vocabulary.

This thread has demonstrated that plenty of people are committed (har har) to calling their repository's je ne sais quoi branch `master`.

While I'm with you that I don't understand how this will move the needle on racial equity, I'm uncomfortable with how visceral of a reaction a group of technology professionals is having to what is essentially a library changing a default value.

Like, vocabulary changes all the time. Technology changes even more frequently. Why y'all so scared to use a different label?

The fat percentage criticism strikes me as a bit odd.

At least where I am (USA) ground meat is categorized by its fat percentage and 20% fat is the standard I usually see in the supermarket.

I guess what I'm saying is: 20% is indeed a high fat percentage, but it's also the typical fat percentage for conventional meat so it feels disingenuous to use it to criticize plant-based meats.

This is an interesting point, but I'm not sure I follow.

I get how the F-35 has raised the cost of air war for the NATO countries which have bought into the F-35 program.

But how has the F-35 program raised the cost of air war for other countries?

You can schedule a class on their website *today*.

I'll grant that it's more likely a mistake than an outright lie.

I'd still recommend that you read what the thread author says with a grain of salt as they aren't corroborating the claims they're repeating.

If you dig into the sourcing if the Colorado Sun's article, it cites an Instagram post[1] as evidence the business is closing, but the post says no such thing.

[1]: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBotnpslXVj/

I've seen a handful of people make the point on permanency, but it doesn't sit right with me.

Since theres no central authority enforcing a cancel, how can it be permanent?

How many times has Kanye West been "cancelled"? It seems to me everyone forgets about having cancelled him whenever he releases a new album ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And it makes sense to me, since cancels are done by disconnected individuals, a cancel ought to only last as long as the cancelling collective's attention span.

Since cancels arise out of conversation and theres no central organizer I don't see how a cancel _could_ have a list of demands.

At the same time, I'm sure the individuals who are opting to not support could conceivably be swayed back into supporting the creator in most cases.

I guess my point is that theres a de facto list of demands in most cancels, you just don't see them because theres no central authority to reiterate it.

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I didn't tell other people to stop streaming her, but I learned about the video and chose to boycott because other people were telling me to do so.

If I had posted on Facebook: "I saw an old video where DojaKat used an offensive racial slur, and have thusly chosen to stop consuming her music. Here is the video for your reference"

Would that have constituted cancelling? I'm just expressing my preference to my friends, no?

Sure, but my point is that the thread author said:

> 2. A yoga studio that was so woke they had gender-neutral bathrooms and person-of-color yoga nights where “white friends and allies” were asked to “respectfully refrain from attending” has closed down due to racial accusations.

That was a lie. Kindness Yoga didn’t close down. So I’d advise others to take the thread author’s words with a grain of salt.

_Are_ cancels intended to be permanent? I posted about the only cancel I've intentionally been involved in elsewhere:

I like an artist named DojaKat.

A while ago a video surfaced of her singing a song with a racial slur in it.

I saw the video and said to myself "Oh man, I don't want to support a racist artist, this sucks, but I don't think I should stream her on Spotify anymore (In my mind, that was the cancel).

Some weeks later, DojaKat released a video in which she apologized, talked about how much she's grown as a person, and promised to do better. It seemed sincere to me, so I added her work back to my Spotify playlists.

Am I correctly interpreting that as a cancel?

This is a good thread, thanks.

I'm reading through the articles now, and have concerns that the author is over editorializing at least some of them.

I know for a fact Kindness Yoga is doing fine, I walk past there daily.

So “cancel culture” == “deplatforming”?

I see, that makes sense.

I’m still curious if me choosing to not watch films with problematic individuals in them would be considered cancelling or a boycott?