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https://xkcd.com/1425

Alt text: In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they’d have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we’re still working on it.

Edit: seems I’m the third person to comment this! :')

It’s tricky. Part of the problem, I think, is if you do have corruption and carelessness in something like the FDA, there’s no amount of careful reporting that can fix it - it becomes propaganda.

It’s necessary to address the problems, though I still agree with being careful about what information is broadcast and how - but it’s necessary to keep information open and challenge things otherwise you end up worse down the line. A measles epidemic is bad. But imagine if you suppressed thalidomide results and other failures, allowing things to get worse and worse in the name of not damaging people’s trust, then eventually (after years of covered-up harm) it all comes out and people abandon scientific medicine altogether!

You don’t have to imagine… I’m sure a large component of both vaccine skepticism and Trump’s presidency have come because of suppressed and partially-suppressed wrongdoing by all the people we think the country should trust. Eventually people break and look for something else.

So, I agree with you, but in my opinion we do need to work more, not less, at transparency and truth even when it’s problematic.

Pay per loaf of bread at the baker

… Microtransactions for hungry people

700 professionals in India probably make more coherent software than AI.

IIRC vi has been installed, or perhaps tinyvim, then I always go and install vim-gtk

Huh, interesting. I’ll bear that in mind - I don’t like the idea of a system clock error causing an old file to overwrite a new one!

I recall a lot of my peers hosting mail and web servers

I don’t think that’s representative of the global population. There’s more people streaming movies than hosting private blogs.

Curious about your point about time conflicts. Doesn’t syncthing look at the change on your machine compared to the ‘canonical’ list also stored on your machine? So even if the timestamp is different, syncthing still detects the change, and the only problem is if the file is simultaneously modified on another machine before being propagated - which would be a conflict anyway.

If you ask Syncthing how to do local sync (e.g. to an external HDD), the answer is, use the right tool for the job: Unison.

If you ask Unison how to do certain things (directory timestamps is the one I miss), the answer is, use the right tool for the job: rsync.

In the end, it all comes down to rsync.

P.S. I’m actually gradually migrating up the chain from rsync, having used my own hand-built utility to make convenient rsync commands, but now using syncthing and Unison more.

Kind of. That improves your backup safety, but doesn’t mitigate all the risks. E.g. if you accidentally delete everything from your backup directory, then all those deletions also happen on the sync’d one.

She is, and she’s lovely.

For n00bs

Yeah Haskell is definitely not for nerds. Just too plain and simple.

GHC :: Your thoughts -> Our commands

I heard it’s to pay respect?

No Gleam either. That’s one I’m wanting to try out.

Happy to see Julia on the list.

Apparently I am a nerd. I accept that.

I think really it’s designed because you’re a consumer. Most people consume far more bandwidth than they upload, so asymmetry is more efficient.