There is a similar story in Judges 19–21, the story about The Levite's Concubine[0]. The main difference is the lack of supernatural elements in this story. Instead the outcome is civil war among the Israelites.
Audio/video is also very inconvenient when you need to slow down your processing rate. You have to tweak playback controls for this, while dealing with pure text only requires a slight adjustment of your eyeball muscles. And similarly when you encounter parts that can be skipped forward easily: text just requires some more motion of your eyeballs, while recorded audio/video is a lot more awkward to deal with.
Nota bene: A great lecture is worth a lot. But a great text that delivers the same message is worth a lot more.
I'd love to hear someone actually quoting dollars per milligram, and do an actual cost-benefit comparison between the mushroom production pathway and this novel yeast pathway. You can produce mushroom juice in a H20 solution cheaply at home for about $0.1 per 10mg of psilocybin. If you want pure psilocybin, it needs to be extracted from such a solution, but I am sure some similar extraction is needed for yeast-produced psilocybin as well. Obtaining psilocybin from yeast sounds like a great technological breakthrough, but I'm highly skeptical of economic arguments where no actual numbers are presented.
Or even "zip -e", for people who don't have gpg installed. I use this all the time. It takes care of 90% of my needs, and even non-technical people understand how to deal with it.
Amen to that! The word "blog" stems from "weblog", and I don't understand why anyone would want a log that lacks timestamps? And for the record, I don't think an old publication date implies that the content is stale. It might be stale of course, and in that case the date will help me figure that out, which is good. It might not be stale despite having an old date, and in that case the date will help determine things like priority and standing the test of time. Which is also good. To me, lack of a date means the article is some SEO-tweaked clickbait whose only purpose is to waste my time.
I like falsifiable predictions. So you predict that the EFF will turn around 180 degrees and support a ban on strong encryption. Would you like to predict a date for this to happen, to make the prediction absolutely falsifiable?
A good prediction includes not only a date on which to judge the prediction, making it falsifiable, but also a subjective probability, to account for genuine random chance. After all, there are few things in life we can be 100% certain about. For example, you may think the polls show such overwhelming support for a candidate that they will definitely win an upcoming election, but there is always a slight chance that they die of a heart attack, or be scandalously revealed as taking bribes from the opposition to be their puppet.
Here’s an example of a well-formatted prediction, from https://slatestarcodex.com/predictions-bets/: “Gay marriage will remain legal throughout a Trump presidency [confidence: 95%]” (prediction made 2016-11-15). That page also has some more detail on the theory of making predictions.
For this situation, david_w could give a prediction like “I think there is a 90% probability the EFF will support banning strong encryption by 2021-07-01.” Then, if the prediction turns out to be false, it either means David was wrong and he should have been much less confident, or he was right and encountered that unlucky one-in-ten unusual situation. And you, the observer who would personally estimate a different probability of that prediction coming true, could calculate the probabilities of those two situations being the case by using various formulas, including Bayes’ theorem. (David himself could also calculate the probabilities of those two situations, and use that to decide whether to change any of his views on the EFF.)
So maybe it's unfair, but unfair is perfectly OK in this kind of situation. The important thing is to call it out and make it stop, even if this has to be done for one perpetrator at a time.
I agree with that. I did investigate a number of self-hosted alternatives to Github, but Gitlab was so much easier than any of them. My only complaint about Gitlab is that it uses a lot of CPU even when completely idle. But I was able to fix that easily by throttling it via the "cpulimit" utility.
My Fossil server on the other hand, has had no problems at all. Unless your project requires Git, you could save some pain by considering Fossil instead of Git.
As a young child I learned more about ancient European history from Asterix than I did at school. Of course a lot of it was plain fiction, but the historical references made imprints on me, and it wasn't hard to separate that from the fiction, as I grew older. So I thank you Uderzo (and Goscinny) for bringing that education into my life.
Dito. I picked Latin in 5th-9th grade over French and Spanish only because I was so intrigued about ancient Rome and Latin from Asterix. Still remember visiting Rome for the first time in 10th grade. It felt surreal.
Belief in punishment after death is not logically connected to belief or non-belief in deities. Where such connections exist, they too are matters of faith. There are for example atheists that believe in reincarnation and karma/vipaka.
[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Levite%27s_Concubine