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bsder commented on Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why journal.james-zhan.com/go... · Posted by u/nafnlj
We need a P2P internet.
No more Google. No more websites. A distributed swarm of ephemeral signed posts. Shared, rebroadcasted.
When you find someone like James and you like them, you follow them. Your local algorithm then prioritizes finding new content from them. You bookmark their author signature.
Like RSS but better. Fully distributed.
Your own local interest graph, but also the power of your peers' interest graphs.
Content is ephemeral but can also live forever if any nodes keep rebroadcasting it. Every post has a unique ID, so you can search for it later in the swarm or some persistent index utility.
The Internet should have become fully p2p. That would have been magical. But platforms stole the limelight just as the majority of the rest of the world got online.
If we nerds had but a few more years...
No, you need to bust up Google as the monopolist it is.
YouTube should get split out and then broken up. Google Search should get split out and broken up. etc.
This is not a problem you solve with code. This is a problem you solve with law.
GNU's version of Yacc is called Bison. Pine Is Not Elm (even though that was never an official acronym). UNIX was UNICS which was a pun on MULTICS. I couldn't for the life of me tell you what dd stands for. nano is a copy of pico which was the "PIne COmposer". Postfix is a completely opaque portmanteau of post (as in mail) and "bug fix". C++ is "C incremented", and C is the successor of B, which is the successor of BCPL.
Developers haven't "lost the plot", we never had it in the first place.
Inversely, Clang, LLDB, jq, fzf, loc are modern projects perfectly in line with the author's notion of a good name. "mise-en-place" is the perfect metaphor for what mise does.
There are two hard problems in computer science: caching things, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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Spoilers for Iron Blooded Orphans below.
I watched the one 'except' that OP has listed there "Iron Blooded Orphans". It's the only Gundam I've ever watched and I really liked it, to be honest. It was full of subversions of anime tropes. There's a prophecy, a stoic soldier like none other, a charismatic leader playing a dual role, another heroic leader trusted by his people. And there's the instrument of the establishment, playing the establishment role. And spoiler spoiler spoiler,
spoiler spoiler spoiler the establishment wins, the charismatic double-role leader dies trying to fulfill the prophecy which isn't real, the stoic soldier is cut apart in the final battle, and the remainder of the loyal band either gets their people rights in parliament or gets picked off in violent engagements over time in the denouement.
Fantastic story. You don't see that kind of thing very often. Western shows are all about the "you don't have to sacrifice anything to win" and Eastern shows are all about the "you're the chosen one" but this one was "the establishment is the establishment and most of the time it wins".
Anime was probably my first introduction to "Heroes can both sacrifice and still lose. "Winning" may not be worth it but may be the only option."
I'm trying to think of the earliest "Western Literature" that you get introduced to that has the darker side of humanity and not coming up with anything until you hit 11th or 12th grade while I bumped into anime at something like 7th grade.
Hmmm, perhaps something by O'Henry or Roald Dahl would qualify. I hit them in 7th grade and liked them very much, too.
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bsder commented on 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay dri.es/source-available-i... · Posted by u/geerlingguy
Personally I think differentiation between "open source" and "source available" is good.
Open source, is, essentially software that I expect to be able to use commercially and tweak if required - but I'm own my own, and I pay for support.
Source available means I can basically help debug issues I have...but I expect that a paid licence is required and will have a selection of limitations (number of nodes, etc).
"Source Available" means that it can become "Source Unavailable" overnight.
See the "Our Machinery" fiasco.
Yes, Open Source isn't a complete defense against this (especially when there are copyright assignments). However, it sure makes it both a lot harder to pull off and a lot less useful to even try.
In this instance, it's a community college in California. Most of community colleges don't have any dorms but they have generally really large parking lots that are completely empty outside of class hours.
Any homeless person who can get themselves together enough to actually enroll and attend classes deserves every ounce of help that the state can muster. The ability to be a student is a really strong signal and sorting function.
Side note: the community colleges in California are gem. They tend to be as close to free as they can be made and even if you have an advanced degree the classes are way cheaper than the Universities. And often the instructors are the same people who would be teaching you at the big University only in a much smaller class.
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The truth is that pedagogy and instruction is just a lazy way of providing childcare. So who cares what they do with their time.
Because people VASTLY overestimate their ability with their native language or their command of native language literature.
The SAT English Achievement tests used to absolutely obliterate even students who got good AP English scores. This isn't limited to English--even native Japanese speakers struggle with the advanced JLPT levels, for example. Grammar is hard, yo.
If you don't actively study your native language, your working vocabulary is quite small and your grammatical constructs are excessively simple.
As for shared literature, we were in front of what was claimed to be the house of Jonathan Swift with a bus full of tourists from various English-speaking countries, and the tour guide cracked a joke about "A Modest Proposal". I snickered a bit but didn't think much else. The tour guide pulled me aside later that I was the first person to get the joke and it was almost the end of the year--we're talking hundreds to thousands of people from the US, Australia, India, etc.
I mean, just ask someone to name three main characters and what they did in the last book they read. Most people will struggle. You need to spend some discussion time in order to affix a book into your memory.