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I must say, your name is apt!

There are some pretty poor attempts to justify it, but "it's not that our police are bad, it's that our News is brilliant" has to be up there.

It's a talented cop who can tie you to a murder based on your favourite JavaScript framework.

To be able to write what Beethoven did, and the amount of it, I would say he had this ability too. Can't really say that wanting to hear better while he played is a sign that he didn't. What's a scientific understanding of music if you can't hear?

> I would much much rather go blind than deaf.

I used to say this too, but I'm sure, whichever you chose, you would regret the decision. Make sure neither isn't an option first...

Responsible gun ownership is not a valid argument when you share a country with (many, many) people who can hold the opinions of QAnon.

But the thing is that these people are the ones whose main prerogative is to score points. They are largely uneducated and disinterested, the world around them is complex and they feel inadequate. So they read something that tells them all the scientists and educated people in the world are either evil or sheeple and with the blink of an eye they have found superiority to you, when in reality, deep down, they know they don't have a position with regards to the big conversations of the world.

Rather than putting work in to maybe get to a point where they still have to be corrected by those they feel jealous of, those they resent for their cultural capital, they instantaneously put themselves above and beyond all of them.

Reasoning with and understanding them is impossible for two reasons. Everything I've said above and also how infuriating they are. There is only so much going around in circles listening to complete and utter tripe that the most patient of us can deal with. And that is what you'll spend your time doing, because reasoning and explanation is precisely what these people resent about you and it is precisely the driver of their beliefs.

The problem, I believe, is that the ridicule just isn't enough. They have each other as a force field. If they all of a sudden came up with a new piece of half-baked tripe which was ridiculed in their own circles, they would backtrack faster than they've ever adopted any of their views. The ridicule needs to be drilled in.

Vim very much parallels a user's story with linux. Experiment just enough that you catch a glimpse of its true power and you become a snob. Your workflow is amazing and anybody who uses Windows/IDEs is a lesser mortal.

I will say that, while vim has a great, great many advantages, I'm often honest with those I'm trying to convert. Like the article said, there is a learning curve and you probably shouldn't try to gain the efficiency offered at peak work times, for e.g. with a deadline looming. Also, you accidentally hit a letter key and you can do something far less obviously wrong than inserting that letter into your text. But these are like getting a runny nose from a medicine that saves your life.

You really get to see who isn't happy with their lives at home. Many for reasons I'm sympathetic to, but a comparable many who really need to reevaluate their shit.

Let's nest these comments to oblivion in tribute to the article.

Looks like good information for beginners, but the hardest part of chess, for me, is the opening and how to play from move 4 onwards. It is less obvious why a strong position is a strong position early on, unless your opponent makes some very poor choices.

TBH the greatest thing I ever found to help was to drink so much over such a long period of time that you get the most amazingly horrific withdrawal symptoms. Sober 6 years because I don't like to drink any more. YMMV

And when you've been severely depressed and get better, I argue you feel better than anybody who has never suffered with it.

Tomorrow's another day of trying to get better. It's not who you are, it's an illness that can perpetuate and dissipate. Every day is a project to get closer to the latter. Talking helps a shit load, but friends and family can't help you as much as you can, and the talking is you helping yourself.

The prognosis for depression is excellent when the right help is given.

It's a shame on humanity that the prognosis is poor.

I was, what I thought, a special case of depressed. No hope of recovery. Hell, I didn't even have depression, it was just who I was inside! Constant terrible thoughts about myself and every day a torture. But it got better. It got sooo much better. Life is beautiful and I'm excited to live it.

Even for "some innocent stuff like Tylenol", as the original comment puts it, you do not want to be taking 5x the dose. This is a very harmful drug in (not very) large quantities.

I know of somebody whose boyfriend ended things with her, she took a load of tylenol to end her life, but the doctors managed to resuscitate her. When she came to, she said to her mother "I'm so glad I didn't kill myself over that bastard". A week later she died from liver failure.

I think you were quite reserved. If you were responsible for fixing something in a company and a colleague spoke to you like that, you'd have them in arbitration faster than they could apologise.

The new coke? No.

Until Oatly are complicit in the murders of organizing employees in countries they thought would save them billions [1], they do not deserve such a damaging comparison.

[1] https://prospect.org/features/coca-cola-killings/

I recently stopped taking my (self-prescribed) dose of 1,000 IU Vitamin D3. Before this I was on 2,000. I work all day and rarely leave the house, sometimes for a couple of weeks. I thought I was doing the sane thing.

A good number of months in and I start getting all of the symptoms - lethargy, constipation, stomach and intestinal pain, urinating very frequently and feeling like I had a kidney infection.

Bloods came back all normal, including vitamin D and calcium. My symptoms chime so much with Vitaminosis D (Vitamin D toxicity) that I wonder whether the serum levels are accurate indicators of such toxicity. Vitamin D is stored in fat and the calcium gets deposited in muscles - two possible mechanisms for this.

However, I do not know for sure. Either way I have been scared sh!tless of self-prescribing anything else. No matter how mundane it seems.

> To be fair, the BBC is about as independent as your average non-state media company, and definitely less entangled with the past five governments than anything owned by Murdoch.

Absolutely not true. From propagating the idea that life-long advocate of equality, Jeremy Corbyn, is antisemitic, to sending well-fed journos out on boats to chase migrants (never people, migrants) around asking them what they want, the BBC is a Conservative mouth-piece.

> We shouldn’t try to downplay good actions just because money is also involved.

I disagree. When there are thousands upon thousands of innocent people in privately-run ICE detention centres, whose economic value is solely based on their being locked up, it doesn't go nearly far enough to say that THESE immigrants are worth fighting for because their economic value is based on their relative wealth.

So you consider it downplaying, I consider it attempted betterment.

Banging rocks together has been a very fruitful method which is always limited by the technology. Many physicists believe that the rock banging should be an ongoing exercise which itself guides the theoretical directions. They also believe that there is an almost guaranteed chance of finding something, if their advances to higher energy are achieved.

All we need is one anomaly in the vast data processing. There are many things which are expected to be seen at higher energies. If they are not seen, it still says a great deal and will guide theoretical discussion.

Using it extensively for my crypto PhD. Several well-known cryptographers contribute to it.

It's an amazing bit of kit. But I'm not without criticisms. I feel it could do with the kind of fresh-start overhaul that really isn't practical for an open-source code base of this nature. E.g. move python 2.6 to python3. Also, you have excellent multi-precision support, but many of the algorithms from other modules don't support precision beyond machine lengths.

But really really good. Love it.

Thoughts on Gnome glib, gobject, vala etc?

I tend to use glib for my (academic) code for pretending C is a high-level language. It also seems to make up for implementation-dependent functions in C and many portability issues. Also, IMO, vala > C++.

My question is, really, are there any other tools for high-level C programming and do you know of any disadvantages of the Gnome stack?

Holy frickin crap

I had what I thought was definitely whooping cough in November. Tested negative and thought well there is definitely going to be a new disease surfacing.

Skip ahead and covid 19 happens. I thought, this is definitely what I had.

However, the faux whooping cough lasted months and the cough was very characteristic, cough so hard you struggle to breathe back in. It doesn't chime perfectly with covid-19, I've yet to hear of a cough lasting more than 2 weeks.

But what was this mysterious "whooping cough"

It would not matter one fuck were he a murdering, misogynist, insert horrible personality types here. The discussion is not about his personal attractiveness, but a selection of a few of his actions relating to wikileaks. You know nothing about him raping, I know nothing about him raping, but we all know the US government murdered people, covered it up and all we're stuck here talking about is raping.

This isn't Richard Stallman 2.0. Assange told you something that nobody denies is true. He's not head of GNU, let the rape allegations be dealt with by the appropriate people. Your job as somebody talking about Assange is to say, "yea, that shit he told us was terrible, something should be done." Not "he might take his fucking condoms off".

Are you sure it only dulls the sweet receptors? Coffee (with no sugar or milk) tastes sweet when I brush my teeth. I always thought it was the sour and the sweet getting confused rather than the sweet going bye-bye.

I went to a Grammar school and am finishing a PhD. Pretty damn nerdy. These gifted wonder kids you speak of... you reckon they aren't going to bully? I was selected at the age of 11 and told how magnificent I was. Growing up was still tough.

"It'll all be ok if we keep away from the riff-raff" doesn't do anything but say "we can only really afford to educate X amount of kids". This lot are brick layers.

Of course who am I talking to? I don't know. Might be somebody who thinks gifted means Daddy has a yacht.

I added a "non" to the word in the title of the post to indicate the opposite of that thing. But my terminology.

Do you have kids?

Suppose you have two. One's into javascript and dungeons and dragons. The other's not great academically. No good at football either, and they still behave in a slightly awkward way. But great person, all the same.

So, you condemn the latter child to the cesspit that is public life and protect the former? Or think up a better policy?