JellyBeanThief's comments

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I once experimented with doing math homework in Xournal++ using a [drawing display](https://www.xp-pen.com/product/artist-pro-16.html).

It was heaven. I could write at my normal speed. If I made a mistake, one tap of a button erased it, faster than if I were using a pencil. Then I could select symbols by just drawing through them, then copypaste them a line below without worrying about copying errors like dropping a sign. If my writing started to get too messy or cramped, I could just drag things around. And I could change colors of things anytime I needed, which helped me reason through a lot of things.

At least when it comes to math and manipulating symbols (e.g. proofreading marks), it's not the screen that's the problem, it's just the keyboard and mouse.

I'm really tired of people who think they can ignore all systemic economic problems by invoking value as this magical substance that can take any shape needed to conceal the fact that: A lot of people get paid a lot of money just to fill up society's `node_modules`, and this is not something for which the end users deserve blame or responsibility.

> The right system makes the wrong people do the right thing.

The words "right" and "wrong" in that sentence could make light of the Ardblair stones.

Healthcare staff aren't superhuman and can burn out same as anyone else. The workload of those who do shifts onto those who haven't, who burn out all the sooner for it. At some point, a critical mass of people are going to say "What am I really doing here?" and leave and not come back.

Anytype may be your friend. It is self-hostable, and can do much of (though not all of) what is seen here.

It absolutely is arbitrary. The idea is that, if you like the service more, you'll tip more, so service providers are incentivized to give you better service. But how it is that you like your service is completely up to you. You can tip more or less based on speed of service, accommodations of personal preferences, server's skin color, advice on which dishes and drinks are best, whatever you want.

Godot hasn't been standing still on that: https://fund.godotengine.org/

So if you want to boost Godot and you haven't the skills or time, there's always donating.

That would be worth something in a debate, where truth is the goal.

But this isn't a debate, this is a decision. The agent is Meta. The field is their products. The goal is reduced teen mental health issues. And the buck stops with Zuckerberg.

"Correlation does not prove causation" alone is not an excuse to avoid an action. It is a principle that can be used to compare actions for how likely they are to achieve the goal, and so it must be combined with some other action and evidence that makes that other action appear more likely to work. Without that, then the action suggested by the correlation remains the action most likely to work, and so it must still be taken.

If, for whatever reason, Zuckerberg doesn't want these changes to be made, then he needs to either dole out resources to gather the evidence he demands and which may free him from them, or he needs to implement some other action which may turn out to work.

If he doles out the resources, and the evidence comes back and establishes causation, then he has to make the changes. It sucks for him, but the goal isn't to please Zuckerberg, it's to reduce teen mental health issues.

If he doles out the resources, and the evidence comes back failing to establish causation, then that's convenient for him. But he still has to try something else, because the goal is reduced teen mental health issues and it has not been achieved.

If he goes straight to implementing some other action, and it at least appears to work, then he doesn't have to make the changes he didn't want to make. That's great for him, and since teen mental health issues were reduced, he can put it behind him.

If he goes straight to implementing some other action, and it doesn't work, then still has to try something else, because the goal is reduced teen mental health issues and it has not been achieved.

I'm conflicted about it. On the one hand, I'm angry that society would simply give up and leave people behind. On the other hand, societies have always done that in one rationalized way or another, and at least this way is slightly more honest and compassionate.

Oh man. All I've used Linux on was a ThinkPad, and so I quickly discovered that MMB pasted. But I assumed it was just pasting from the clipboard. This explains so many times when what I Ctrl-C'd and what I MMB'd weren't the same and I naively chalked it up to mistyping or a bug in some software or anything else.

> Don't hate the player, hate the game.

...the players have a hand in ruling the game. Corporations and businesspeople lobby government bodies and politicians as a matter of course. You can't separate the one from the other. If you hate the game, and you want to change it, you're going to have to have beef with the players, too, because they will act to prevent that from happening.

Define "small heavy loads". How small is small in terms of volume? How heavy is heavy in terms of density?

What I want is for ads to be sequestered in places for people who are actually looking to solve something. Just take all the ads in the camera magazine and put them at the end, neatly categorized. If I'm interested in buying a new lens, then I'll flip to the lens category. If I'm not interested in buying a new lens, I won't.

"But what about things you didn't know you wanted?" I can't want something I don't know about. I can want something I can imagine, in which case I might go searching to see if someone else has made it reality. But I don't need others trying to artificially inflate my demand for goods and services.

I just love whenever the roundworld equivalent of something I first encountered on the discworld pops up in front of me.

> This was especially true if the mathematics textbooks I've had to deal with.

I shudder to think of how many people have struggled with math and written themselves off as mathematicians without ever thinking that maybe some of the blame didn't rest with them.

The U in USB stands for Universal. Doing everything is explicit in the name itself. And compared to how we connected things 15 years ago it's certainly master of all.

> Constructive inquiry is different than the whine Dawkins is discussing.

Then Dawkins needs to get off Twitter, because it will never give him what he wants. He hasn't found a problem in society, he's found a problem on Twitter. As it stands, he's yelling at the ceiling because it's blocking his view of the sky. He needs to go outside.

Only when you take the quote out of context. For the majority of the article he focuses on gender. And in the very same paragraph as that quote comes from he invokes J.K. Rowling. It is entirely reasonable to assume that transgender people are "the oppressed minority" he's specifically talking about.

The fundamental problem Dawkins is struggling with is that he is asking for reasoned disagreement on Twitter, which is well-known for a desert of reason. If he truly desires thoughtful discussion, he needs to do it with real people in the real world.

And that's so obvious that I begin to wonder if he's sincere, or if he's just stirring up shit to capture people's attention.