"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" - Carl Sagan

Exa and ripgrep are both fantastic Rust implementations of ls and grep respectively. I use them all the time.

Orwell was talking about authoritarians, you know... the other axis. A lot of people forget that there's more than the left/right spectrum, and just pretend that the left is libertarian and the right is authoritarian. Authoritarian Left exists, Libertarian Right exists.

You'll find that as far as politics goes, most people are much more willing to get along on the left/right divide than they are on the authoritarian/libertarian divide. Turns out that authoritarians hate people that prefer personal freedoms and people that prefer personal freedoms disagree with people that want overreaching governments.

Definitely inflammatory in TFA, obviously on purpose.

Positive selfishness is also called self preservation, not giving away more than you can afford to lose.

Humanity discriminates constantly. Everybody has probably discriminated at least one person TODAY. Being able to choose the right people for the right job is a huge part of success, and that's absolutely being discriminatory.

Finally, the vast majority of people would probably lead healthier and would definitely have happier lives if they weren't so self-critical. Too many people allow others the freedom to make mistakes and still deserve love and respect, but don't afford themselves that same safety net. Reduced self-criticism doesn't mean not striving for perfection, it just means you allow yourself to fail without it ruining your self-worth.

I've heard few successful people that have not attributed their success to being in the right place at the right time, with the right knowledge. Part of the reason that many successful people emphasize the role of merit over the role of luck is because luck presented the situation but merit gained the reward.

Further, if you actually talk with a successful person about their success, they're going to tell you that it's built on a pile of failures. The trick that most successful people (regardless of what success you're measuring) is that they keep trying until they succeed.

If you want to talk about the worst part of successful people and how they talk about something, it's survivor bias. "Keep trying and you'll succeed!" REALLY means "keep trying, focus on where the puck is going rather than where it is, watch trends, know when something is failing and don't allow yourself to fall prey to sunk cost fallacy, know what you're doing, put yourself out there, try over and over but don't keep doing exactly the same thing, and you'll create a situation where luck finds you. Luck is the spark, hard work is the kindling."

OLEDs have their flaws, but so do all other display options. Somewhere along the line every display technology we have has a flaw that you could use to call it rubbish. Size, resolution/DPI, cost, resilience, total life of product, power consumption, color gamut, etc.

OLEDs have low power consumption, size limited only by how many LEDs you want to string in/pay for, fair resilience, decent DPI, excellent blacks with passable whites and an overall exceptional color capability especially in low light. Their downsides are they're expensive and you can cause uneven wear causing the life of the product to be shorter.

As a counter, LCDs have higher power consumption (but still lower than other options), size limited by the fragility of the liquid crystal matrix, poor resilience (even minor bending of the crystal matrix can cause a fairly large amount of damage), decent DPI, excellent whites with poor blacks and overall exceptional color capability in high light with poor low light color. Their best positive is that if you are gentle with them they'll likely outlast their usefulness.

All display tech has compromises.

Didn't someone tell the AU government that they were asking the impossible with something like "you can't change the laws of physics" to which the Aussies replied "The only law we follow is Australian law"?

https://www.popehat.com/2012/0...

I'm actually completely surprised that both Google AND Apple haven't yet been sued for anti-competitive things in their mobile devices: Google for the tight bundling of the Google Play Services and Apple for preventing competing products appearing on the App Store.

The only thing I can figure is that nobody has been willing to take the L in the court of public opinion, Google and Apple have fanatical users. I'm wondering if the recent push toward privacy and the backlash Facebook and Google get for their hoovering of personal data isn't partly responsible for the EU fine. There's enough negative press to make a move so they did.

That's what Google wants, but that's also exactly what the EU is fining them for. What the EU wants is Google to be forced to sell devices completely divested from Google's other products. A closed source OS that was forced to use Google services would still violate this, and would probably incur an even larger fine since as things currently stand you're still allowed to find alternatives. Further, it's possible that creating a closed source OS that forced the use of Google's services would bring back the 90's anti-Microsoft lawsuit for bundling (and forcing) use of Internet Explorer.

The best option for Google is making it so Android can use non-Google apps by default, and then making those devices more expensive to purchase. The only way out of this for Google is increasing user choice, not restricting it.

Fuchsia appears to be under a more permissive license, so it cannot be based on Linux as the GPL wouldn't allow it.

Personally, I don't "trust" anything from the big news outlets and probably never will. That said, I can consume their views and process it through the filter of knowing how those outlets spin a story. They all tend to conveniently ignore things that are against the narrative they're spinning, so it's generally a bad idea to use only one source for a story anyway, especially if it portrays one side in a particularly positive or negative way.

Can we get a setting that allows me to use my computer the way I want to? I know how to not wreck myself and would maybe like to not be beholden to Google's strategy tax.

Oh well, I never got on the Chrome bandwagon, this just ensures I never will.

It also often requires long hours (often over weekends and holidays), poor job security (the best paying work is contract, and you're in constant competition to do it for the lowest cost), poor benefits (as contract work the company has no requirement to offer any services), and the taxes are hell to do (and worse to pay).

Men trend toward high pay above all else, including their own safety and sanity. Women trend toward job safety and benefits. If you assume the bell curve, it makes sense that there'd be no more than 25% of women that go outside the general trend. I don't think it's entirely a coincidence that women only have about 25% representation in tech vs population. If anything, this could be pointing to an already inflated number of women in tech, as it implies that all the outlier women go into tech as opposed to another risk sensitive endeavor like opening a business

You could make the work more appealing to average women, but then you're not going to be seeing the large income figures because it's going toward the other benefits. It would be great to see more women in tech, but until the job changes I doubt it will happen, and by the time the job changes the wages will reflect the new normal.

It's the text book definition of discrimination.

Discrimination
In human social affairs, discrimination is treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person based on the group, class, or category to which the person is perceived to belong.

You can claim it's "good discrimination" but it's still discrimination.