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At the start of the big war Fridman went on podcasts as an expert on the conflict and all he did was re-translate russian talking points. He's way worse than hypocrite.

To be fair, he's not alone, a good half of IDW - group supposedly too intelligent and principled for mainstream media - turned out to be neither intelligent, nor principled, when those qualities got tested by real world events instead of social network drama.

The argument is not that everyone who likes old russian writers is a shill. It's that people bringing them up at current time can't read the room at least, give in to their own imperialist tendencies probably and it only goes worse from there.

The fact that one needs to google the list and even then may still fail to answer is kind of the point. The struggle to give an answer is the actual answer.

This myth that children's ideas are somehow more valuable that adult's is nonsense. If this was true, businesses would organize and act on it. Parents would be hired to bring children into brainstorming sessions. Filled idea diaries would be sold and bought in bulk. Sponsored kindergarten and school networks would be established to gain access. Children hackathons with prizes would be held every day of the week. Video games would be designed to siphon ideas.

None of this happens. Because the reality is: children are great, their ideas are useless, most beautiful genius things in your life weren't invented and designed by a child or a nameless enlightened being in a tropical bungalow, but by a perfectly boring adult at their desk in their work time.

Like web search in the 90s.

Name 3 things you own or use that were invented (even at conceptual level) by a child.

>abusing drugs as a form of pure escapism

>start because they're simply seeking recreation

These are the same thing. Happy people don't seek to drown every waking moment in constantly escalating recreation, they got things to lose and when they are out having fun and an opportunity comes around to do drugs they are surrounded by friends and loved ones who care for them enough to not let them ruin their life for lolz.

> They're looking at a massive demographic crisis because of their misoginy, and not helped by their xenophobia

Japan now has highest birth rates out of all developed Asian countries.

It could be that a dedicated lunatic was able to get a top level politician with a DIY 17th century grade musket exactly because anticipation of such an event at politician public appearance in Japan is lower than on a regular day in US elementary school.

I don't disagree with what you are saying, I just find it funny that this discussion is happening in context of soviet planned economy, which had no market to speak of, no competition, complete politically moderated indirection between demand and production, and entrepreneurship being outlawed thus no concept of market entry.

- window management that is either sane (i.e. restores minimized windows when alt/cmd+tab'ed to) or can be customized

- desktop environment that is either sane (i.e. doesn't center align panels with variable number of controls like dock does) or can be customized

- keyboard without missing buttons, with actual button travel yet not touching the screen when closed

- option of a screen that doesn't double as mirror

Interval training is different, it's supposed to spike your heart rate for short(er) periods, so that makes sense. When people are talking about running easy or being able to have a conversation, they usually are talking about low to moderate intensity aerobic zone or "zone 2", which goes to 75-80% HRmax depending on who you're asking. Some would even explicitly recommend 120-130 bpm range.

Plantar fasciitis, shin splints and some minor, I assume, tendon inflammation above ankle joint. PF was the worst - icing, stretching, rolling, exercises - nothing helped, only went away after switching from casual/dress shoes to sneakers for daily. Shin splints seemed to have went away in couple weeks with some massage and exercises, but came back after 1-2 runs on multiple attempts. Last injury coincided with me receiving an old elliptical from parents as a gift, so I didn't need to run for cardio anymore.

And now I'm a refugee and my running trails back home were in the zone russians dropped cluster munitions on. So it's not looking good for running going forward, lol.

Have you never seen a project where exactly one use of a term is mistyped across whole project? Guess what tool is responsible for that.

Also there's distinct project structure difference between users of tree style project navigation vs find-anywhere or editor tabs vs modal windows/buffers. I mean, the influence is not negative, at least not obviously, but the deformation is there.

Both of you are missing the point. Soviets didn't have one sort of butter in the way west had its 20. You couldn't go to the store and buy however much of that shitty butter you needed when you needed it. You had to catch it when it's there and get in line before it runs out, or know someone who'd tip you off, or know someone who'd sell you from the back door. And then somewhere else (not where it was produced) they'd be dumping excess butter into the ditch because it went bad.

It really isn't something you want to find middle ground with. That's like looking for middle ground between wearing nail polish and having a gangrene.

I disagree with the analogy. Need for repairs arises because of the natural decay. Tech debt is a consequence of the decisions made at implementation or even planning stage. It's more like forgetting to order a plumbing connector and using duct tape instead. Except in software there often isn't any forgetting involved and the actual connector is never ordered.

Dating services are not representative of general population. Even biggest most well established slow dating platforms have m/f ratio of about 2. Young people dating - parent would be lucky to get into a 4:1 pool. Like he said, it's the same thing, except more shallow and at a higher pace.

As long as there are valid reasons to do an emergency stop, the actual reason should be irrelevant for the person driving behind. You should always assume it is a child chasing their ball or something and it will be your car pushing the car that managed to properly stop into that child if you rear-end it. There just isn't a good reason to put yourself in a situation like that and it is perfectly in your power to avoid it.

This mode is essentially universal. Our brain is a world modelling and outcome prediction machine. It being wrong would be an existential threat in the environment it evolved to function. This is why being fundamentally wrong is extremely uncomfortable for us.

The difference is in the level of abstraction an individual takes their stand at and becomes uncomfortable when challenged. Which, I think, depends on how grounded their beliefs, knowledge or opinions are - how many layers and columns of "I'm still right" they can fall back to.

There are topics on which I hold opposing positions logically and emotionally. There are topics on which I can hold different positions depending on my mood.

Humans are not robots, we do not compute our worldview from set of learned facts or opinions - it is formed by lived experience.

Therefore, neither convincing your opponent is guaranteed to ultimately change their mind - they may easily change it back hour later. Nor is it pointless trying to convince someone who appears immovable in their position - your words may be the last drop that will make them change their mind or at least put a crack in their worldview next time they think about the topic.

> I think a lot of people go hard on it and overdo it and then get injured or stop it for other reasons.

Yes, I think C25K and the "just run" sentiment in general is missing half a dozen asterisks about this aspect. Like "except don't run on concrete for the first year", or "except do this progression of exercises for feet and tendons for 3 months before you start doing continuous 2-3k", or just "hire a trainer to get you started".

I've never been overweight, been active as a kid, was in increasingly good physical shape throughout my 3 attempts to start running over the years and got injured for months every time. By the last attempt I was taking multi-hour walks as a habit, lifting weights 5 days a week, watching my sleep and diet. And heart rate monitor has shown that I straight up didn't have this magical "easy run" heart rate zone available - brisk walk was well below 120 bpm and even jogging in place got me over 130.

C25K is great for what it is, but I feel what it is is not enough to start running safely.

That is not how AI works and that is not what it is designed to do. AI doesn't understand you, nor does it care to - it just puts you into a bucket and recommends a set of products people in that bucket are statistically more likely to buy and keep buying, regardless of their quality. It's only if you land in a bucket with people who only buy good stuff that you get recommended good stuff. If you even get clipped by an edge of one of the ginormous junk buckets - it's over - junk central for you.

Now, some people, maybe most even, will try and do the same to you. But not all, and store owner can optimize for those who won't.

On one hand, the bar for things to be called bad has now dropped pretty low. Being not as excellent as other thing, or not being excellent throughout is enough.

But I think the actual hate isn't coming from Go technical shortcomings. It's language authors and community attitude towards people asking for obvious QoL improvements.

Generics are a bad enough example of community for years tactfully flipping off everyone asking for them and then, hey, here they are and the sky doesn't seem to be falling. But it's not the only example. Just a couple days ago I was researching if there's a way to somehow build struct tags from constants or use interpolation and sure enough, there's an old bug tracker suggestion entry that got a two sentence "won't do" reply with zero reasoning and a bunch of following entries just marked as duplicate and closed without reply at all. This happens a lot. And people don't appreciate it.

It already is a replacement. You can make a visual novel video game with AI generated character art, backgrounds, music, run your dialogs though AI if you can't write well yourself - and your game will have higher production level than 90% of competition. All those artist you would normally hire or commission the above stuff from are now out of the process if you want. Sure, it's not a particularly high bar, but it's only going to raise from here.

How would you even know? Vast majority of art you don't purchase directly, but as a part of some product. At most you get a line in the credits and what's stopping anyone from inventing a pseudonym for AI.

Well, there we go. The grandparent comment argued that JB is a russian company (as in employing mostly russians) and it may not be a right thing to do continuing to pay pretty salaries to people responsible at the very least for letting their country slip into genocidal fascism, while they enjoy their new life in Europe and the regime they helped raise continues murdering Ukrainians and kidnapping their children.

Could you point me to a couple videos of Czech JB devs talking at Czech conferences in Czech?

Asking seriously. Because I was a russian speaking Ukrainian until recently and used to listen to tech podcasts and talks in russian all the time, for years, starting back when JB products just started gaining popularity. Not once was the company or it's products regarded as Czech by russians. It was always talked about as russian, all the podcast guests from JB were russian, all the conf speakers were russian.

Now, it wouldn't be the first time russians appropriated something that wasn't theirs. Which is why I'm asking if there are actually any signs of JB operating in Czechia outside of company being registered there. All I can find is JetbrainsCZ youtube channel with whopping 44 views on its single office walk video.

Honestly, I always found this model terrible also. To me it would imply that e.g. introverts would arrive at a social event active, cheerful, outspoken, comfortable and then as the event progressed they would gradually become quieter, less comfortable, more detached. And extroverts the other way around - would arrive tired (assuming they were alone earlier) and gain steam as the event went on. I can't think of a single person in my life persistently matching either of those. If anything, it seems to better model person's reaction to alcohol.

Town square is invoked because it is what worked for spreading new ideas before. It is spreading the new ideas part that is important in this context, not the particular historical vehicle for it.

The point of the public square proponents is that it would be nice if one of public platforms would step up to perform the function in a way suitable for it.

The reason this particular problem still exists is not technical. But solutions are not compatible with engagement-graph-go-up business model.

You are correct to point out the downsides and dangers of "public square" platform, but we haven't really even started trying to implement any reasonable solutions to them.

Usual argument is that your solution also "works" if you replace racists with, say, abolitionists at the point in history when the general public consensus was that slavery is just fine (except with internet).

Enabling good ideas to spill out of their origin communities into general public discourse is the main point of "public square" and "free speech" concepts.