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  1. Sep 2024
    1. Der neue französische Premierminister Michel Barnier hat in seiner Zeit als Umweltminister wesentlich dazu beigetragen, das Vorsorgeprinzip und die finanzielle Verantwortung der Verschmutzenden für Schäden im Umweltrecht zu verankern. Obwohl er zu Amtsbeginn auch von der „ökologischen Schuld" gesprochen hat, erwarten NGOs und Thinktanks, deren Vertreter:innen die Libération befragt hat, allenfalls vorsichtige umweltpolitische Schritte und eine insgesamt restriktive Ausgabenpolitik von ihm.https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/le-premier-ministre-michel-barnier-est-il-vraiment-decide-a-payer-la-dette-ecologique-de-la-france-20240906_7BYVDVAUSJD2VN6M4V7DAI2N2E/

  2. Aug 2024
    1. 101st CONGRESS 1st Session H. CON. RES. 180 Commending the outstanding efforts of aviators and the Flying Tigers for valued and competent service to the United States. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 31, 1989

      resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.

      • Whereas aviators have had a distinguished record as volunteers in emergency and rescue missions;

      • Whereas the Flying Tigers originated in the jungles of Burma nearly 50 years ago with the United States volunteer group of General Clair Chennault;

      • Whereas the tradition of proud and distinguished service of the Flying Tigers to the United States began under the direction of Robert W. Prescott;

      • Whereas this proud and distinguished group of aviators has steadfastly served the specialized air transportation needs of the United States for more than 4 decades;

      • Whereas the Flying Tigers has provided assistance with rescue efforts in Korea, Hungary, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, as well as many other humanitarian missions; and

      • Whereas the Flying Tigers are representative of countless aviators that deserve recognition for service to the Nation and to thousands of individuals throughout the world:

      Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Congress commends the outstanding efforts of aviators and the Flying Tigers for valued and competent service to the United States.

  3. Jun 2024
    1. Résumé de la vidéo [00:00:01][^1^][1] - [04:15:35][^2^][2]:

      La vidéo aborde la gouvernance des données et l'intelligence artificielle (IA) dans le contexte de l'intérêt général. Elle souligne l'importance de développer des critères de progrès précis pour orienter vers les bons usages de l'IA, tout en évitant les dangers potentiels. Les discussions portent sur des sujets variés, notamment la santé, le climat, la justice, et l'égalité, et comment l'IA peut contribuer positivement à ces domaines.

      Points forts: + [00:00:01][^3^][3] Gouvernance des données et IA * Importance de l'IA dans le développement et la recherche * Nécessité de critères de progrès précis pour l'IA * Impact de l'IA sur la société et les citoyens + [00:36:42][^4^][4] Confiance et partage des données * Défis liés à la dépossession et au manque de confiance * Conséquences de l'utilisation commerciale des données personnelles * Importance de la régulation pour protéger les données + [01:18:50][^5^][5] Marché des données et intérêt général * Coût et moyens technologiques nécessaires pour collecter des données * Contrôle et bénéfice des données pour les individus et la société * Débat sur l'utilisation lucrative des données et son impact + [01:55:09][^6^][6] Coût énergétique de l'IA * Augmentation de la consommation énergétique pour l'entraînement des modèles d'IA * Utilisation massive des modèles et leur impact environnemental * Comparaison des coûts énergétiques entre l'IA et d'autres secteurs + [03:02:39][^7^][7] Données multimodales dans le domaine de la santé * Utilisation des données du dossier patient pour la recherche * Avantages des données multimodales sur les données structurées * Progrès possible sans surcharger les médecins avec la saisie de données + [04:03:23][^8^][8] Empreinte énergétique et technologie numérique * Relation entre puissance informatique et consommation énergétique * Besoin de réseaux plus puissants pour les nouveaux usages * Débat sur l'empreinte énergétique du numérique par rapport à d'autres secteurs

  4. May 2024
    1. Ivan papov

      for - key insight - geopolitics - arrest of General Ivan Papov - suppress uprising

      key insight - geopolitics - Russia - arrest of general Papov - The arrest sends a signal to all the generals - do not try to overthrow Putin

    1. This intuition is generally more useful, but is more difficult to explain, precisely because it is so general.
  5. Apr 2024
    1. The small article does reflect however one very general feature 79in modern activity i.e. to treat the specific rather than thegeneral.
  6. Mar 2024
  7. Feb 2024
    1. if (( ${#} == 0 )) ; then while read -r __my_function ; do my_function "${__my_function}" done else target_utility "${@}" fi

      I like it pretty well, in many ways more than G-Man's answer. I like the use of while read. I'd probably prefer non-recursive solution most of the time though, esp. if instead of a function we would be spawning a subshell (script) to achieve the recursion, like in ...

    2. Also unclear why the answer is criticized for providing a "more general case" since the OP said "You are right, this [base64] was just used as an example, though.
    3. (It seems reasonable to assume users are often expected to occasionally adapt answers rather than expect to use them verbatim.)
    4. This answer is one of various possible solutions for a "Bash function that accepts input from parameter or pipe" since the OP indicated [in a comment] that base64 was not the actual problem domain. As such, it makes no attempt to assure input is able to be directly read from a file.
    5. but in a different situation target_utility "${@}" could represent more complex code
    6. Though the OP's issue may not present a problem ideally resolved through use of recursion, other reader's problems may benefit from using it, or, from considering use of an wrapper function:
    7. The title of the question is what triggered the process of finding this Q/A for material that aided development of the above to solve a real life problem described by the title. The OP declared that base64 decode was not the "real" problem; pedantic constraint of answers to a particular "example" seems less helpful. When this question and its answers were key to helping solve real problems, alternate answers can be gifts to the community in recognition of the fact that many more people will use this Q/A to solve problems. Since the answer is on-topic per the title, I feel it is "game on".
    1. Résumé de la vidéo [00:00:00][^1^][1] - [01:48:19][^2^][2]:

      Cette vidéo est une conférence sur les biens communs pour partager la connaissance, organisée par le Collège de France en 2023. Elle réunit trois intervenants qui sont des experts dans le domaine des données numériques et de leur diffusion. Ils abordent les enjeux, les opportunités et les limites de l'ouverture des données, notamment dans les domaines de la recherche, de la géographie, du climat et du patrimoine. Ils illustrent leurs propos par des exemples concrets de projets et de plateformes qui visent à créer des communs numériques, c'est-à-dire des ressources partagées et accessibles à tous.

      Points clés: + [00:08:31][^3^][3] Les données sont au centre de l'innovation économique et sociale * Elles sont nécessaires pour le progrès de la connaissance et la résolution des problèmes * Elles doivent être de qualité, non biaisées, représentatives et interopérables * Elles posent des questions de protection, de régulation et d'éthique + [00:34:00][^4^][4] L'IGN a développé une stratégie de géocommuns pour coproduire et partager les données géographiques * Il s'agit de passer d'un modèle de producteur unique à un modèle de collaboration avec les acteurs du territoire * Il s'agit de créer des tables communes où chacun peut déposer et utiliser des données * Il s'agit de soutenir et de valoriser des initiatives innovantes dans le domaine de la géographie + [00:54:40][^5^][5] Le Haut Conseil pour le climat utilise les données pour évaluer et orienter les politiques climatiques * Il s'agit de mesurer les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, l'empreinte carbone, la vulnérabilité et l'adaptation des territoires * Il s'agit de comparer les scénarios et les trajectoires possibles pour atteindre la neutralité carbone * Il s'agit de sensibiliser et de mobiliser les acteurs et les citoyens sur les enjeux du changement climatique + [01:14:00][^6^][6] Le Collège de France a lancé une plateforme de données ouvertes sur le patrimoine culturel * Il s'agit de mettre à disposition des chercheurs et du public des données issues des collections et des archives du Collège * Il s'agit de favoriser la diffusion et la valorisation des savoirs et des œuvres * Il s'agit de créer des passerelles entre les disciplines et les époques à travers les données

    1. Les entretiens du contentieux sont l’occasion de remettre en lumière ce principe, dans un contexte à la fois d’affirmation des intérêts individuels et d’émergence de nouveaux enjeux, notamment environnementaux ou numériques.

      Colloque organisé dans le cadre des Entretiens du contentieux, le mardi 28 novembre 2023

      12:25 : Ouverture - Didier-Roland TABUTEAU, vice-président du Conseil d'État 46:36 : TR1 – Intérêt général et action publique 50:58: Pierre DELVOLVE, membre de l'académie des sciences morales et politiques. Professeur émérite de l'Université de Paris II 1:04:01: Frédéric VEAUX, directeur général de la police nationale 1:22:39: Murielle FABRE, secrétaire générale de l'AMF, vice-présidente de l'Eurométropole de Strasbourg, maire de la commune de Lampertheim (67) 1:44:34: Marie-Amandine STEVENIN, présidente de UFC-QUE CHOISIR

      2:17:20 : TR2 – Les différentes formes de l’intérêt général 2:24:45: Benoît COEURE, présidente de la 1ère chambre de la section du contentieux, Conseil d'État 2:46:18: Gaelle DUMORTIER, présidente de la 1ère chambre de la section du contentieux, Conseil d'Etat 3:01:51: Me Denis DE LA BURGADE, avocat aux Conseils

      3:32:54 : Questions/ réponses 3:47:32 : Clôture

  8. Jan 2024
    1. Another example are issue boards. They represent elegant use of a good infrastructure ­— it is all just a smart use of labels. It would be very complex feature without the use of labels.
    2. Issue relations are meant to be the basic infrastructure to build on (at least that is how I meant it when I posted the original feature request). Just like the labels are just a binary relation between a issue and a "label", the relations should be just a ternary relation between two issues and a "label". Then you can build issue task lists on top of the relations like you've built issue boards on top of the labels.
    3. We already have a very nice example of such tool and its great use: the Board, where labels are used to store metadata and the Board is built above this storage. Do the same with the relations -- simple metadata storage to build on.
    4. Such a generic approach will allow the Relations to fit any reasonable workflow, because possible relations are defined by users, just like the Labels are.
  9. Dec 2023
    1. on sait que le principe d'égalité ne s'oppose pas à ce que des situations différentes soi traité différemment on sait aussi que lorsque les situations ne sont pas 00:09:42 différentes le traitement ne peut normalement pas être différencié sauf si un intérêt général justifie de favoriser certains par rapport à d'autres et il 00:09:53 faut alors sauf à justifier n'importe quelle discrimination que l'intérêt général invoque soit en rapport avec l'objet de la mesure là aussi il ne suffit pas de trouver un intérêt général 00:10:06 quelconque il faut trouver l'intérêt général pertinent
    2. elle conduisait très directement l'administration à faire usage de ses pouvoirs dans un but autre que celui pour lesquel ces pouvoirs lui avaient été confiés agir dans un but d'intérêt général alors que cet intérêt 00:09:18 général n'est pas pertinent et constitutif d'un détournement de pouvoir
  10. Oct 2023
  11. Aug 2023
    1. Was Ronald Reagan's shift in politics an example of “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” (Upton Sinclair)? (see also: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/)

      Link to https://hypothes.is/a/Kft7kDOrEe6TQKcW-dREwQ in The Big Myth on Regan's shift in political views while working for General Electric.

    1. Most Americans know that before becoming a politician Reaganwas an actor, but fewer are aware that Reagan’s flagging screencareer was revived by a job with the General Electric Corporation(GE). Reagan hosted the popular television show General ElectricTheater, where each week his voice and face reached into tens ofmillions of homes, promoting didactic stories of individualism andfree enterprise. At the same time, he traveled across the country onbehalf of GE—visiting factories, making speeches at schools, anddoing the dinner circuit in communities where GE had a presence—promoting the corporation’s stridently individualist antiunion andantigovernment vision.

      From a philosophical viewpoint, Reagan grew up in Dixon, Illinois a small town (surrounded by farmland) in North West-ish Illinois roughly on the border of the political borders of what Colin Woodard calls The Midlands and Greater Appalachia. He seems to have been a Midlander for the first half of his life, but obviously had an easy time moving to a more Greater Appalachia viewpoint when working for GE.

  12. Jul 2023
    1. Q: What is global namespace? The global namespace is the namespace that contains namespaces and types that aren't declared inside a named namespace

      Q: How to use? ::global

      Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/vi-vn/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/namespace-alias-qualifier

    2. In C# 9.0 and later versions, when you use top-level statements in a Program.cs file, there is no default namespace defined.

      IF "there is no default namespace defined" = "without any namespace declaration" -> the code in Program.cs belongs to the global namespace since there is no default or explicit namespace specified in the file

  13. Jun 2023
  14. May 2023
  15. Feb 2023
    1. Et les arrêts de la Cour de cassation commencent à suivre ce mouvement moins rigoriste pour ceux qui écrivent et publient ; en particulier en considérant que «  la bonne foi doit être appréciée   en tenant compte notamment du caractère d’intérêt général  ». En 2011, les Arènes et Denis Robert ont pu bénéficier de ce fléchissement. Les conditions restent difficiles à remplir pour exciper des exceptions de vérité comme de bonne foi ; mais « l’intérêt général », à défaut de pousser à une refonte de la loi, incite les juges à plus de modération.
    2. En outre, ces dernières années, plusieurs décisions rendues par la Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme se réfèrent à la notion d’intérêt général, qu’il s‘agisse d’admettre plus aisément la bonne foi comme, dans quelques cas, de permettre d’user de l’exception de vérité (en contournant notamment la fameuse règle des dix ans). Il ressort de cette jurisprudence que les restrictions à la liberté d’expression sont forcément d‘interprétation stricte.
  16. Dec 2022
    1. Inborn errors of creatine metabolism and epilepsy: clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment

      PMID: 12597058

      Gene: GAMT

      Disease:GAMT deficiency

      Inheritance:Autosomal Recessive

    1. Biochemical and clinical characteristics of creatine deficiency syndromes

      PMID: 15625559

      Gene:GAMT

      Disease:GAMT deficiency

      Inheritance: Autosomal Recessive

    1. Diagnostic enzyme assay that uses stable-isotope-labeled substrates to detect L-arginine:glycine amidinotransferase deficiency

      PMID: 12709373

      Gene: GAMT

      Disease:GAMT deficiency

      Inheritance: Autosomal Recessive

    1. l-arginine:glycine amidinotransferase (AGAT) deficiency: clinical presentation and response to treatment in two patients with a novel mutation

      PMID: 20682460 Gene: GAMT Disease: GAMT deficiency Inheritance: X-linked

  17. Nov 2022
    1. Presence of guanidinoacetate may compensate creatine absence and account for less statin-induced muscle damage in GAMT-deficient compared to AGAT-deficient mice

      PMID: 32172372 Gene: GAMT Disease: GAMT deficiency Inheritance: X-linked

    1. LC-MS/MS measurements of urinary guanidinoacetic acid and creatine: Method optimization by deleting derivatization step

      PMID: 30858092 Gene: GAMT Disease: GAMT deficiency Inheritance: X-linked

    1. Case Study for the Evaluation of Current Treatment Recommendations of Guanidinoacetate Methyltransferase Deficiency: Ineffectiveness of Sodium Benzoate

      PMID: 24766785

      Gene: GAMT

      Disease: GAMT deficiency

      Inheritance: X-linked

  18. Oct 2022
    1. Arginine:Glycine Amidinotransferase Deficiency: The Third Inborn Error of Creatine Metabolism in Humans

      PMID: 11555793

      Gene: GATM

      Disease: AGAT deficiency

      Inheritance: Autosomal Recessive

    1. X-Linked Creatine-Transporter Gene (SLC6A8) Defect: A New Creatine-Deficiency Syndrome

      PMID: 11326334

      Gene: SLC6A8

      Disease: creatine transporter deficiency

      Inheritance: X-linked

    1. Inborn errors of creatine metabolism and epilepsy

      PMID: 23157605

      Gene: SLC6A8

      Disease: Creatine transporter deficiency

      Inheritance: X-linked

    1. Title annotation

      PMID: 21308988

      Gene: SLC6A8

      Disease: Creatine transporter deficiency

      Inheritance: X-linked

      Case annotation

      Case#: N/A

      DiseaseAssertion: AGAT Deficiency

      FamilyInfo: N/A

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0000729, HP:0001249, HP:0002373, HP:0001252

      CaseHPOFreeText: mental retardation, autistic behavior, febrile seizures, hypotonia

      CaseNotHPOs: N/A

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: Developmental Delays, slow somatic growth

      Biochemical analyte testing: Plasma Creatine: low/normal and Urine Creatine: low/normal

      Brain Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS): N/A

      Creatine uptake assay:

      Variant:

      ClinVarID:

      CAID:

      gnomAD:

      Zygosity:

      MaternalGenotype:

      AdditionalParentalTesting:

      AlsoPublished:

    1. Adult GAMT deficiency: A literature review and report of two siblings

      PMID: 33996490

      Gene: GAMT

      Disease: GAMT deficiency

      Inheritance: Autosomal Recessive

    1. Pre-symptomatic treatment of creatine biosynthesis defects

      PMID: 18652077 Gene: GAMT Disease:GAMT deficiency Inheritance:Autosomal Recessive

      Not accessible

    1. Increased creatine demand during pregnancy in Arginine: Glycine Amidino-Transferase deficiency: a case report

      PMID: 32883247 Gene: GAMT Disease: GAMT deficiency Inheritance: X-linked

    1. Guanidinoacetic acid deficiency: a new entity in clinical medicine?

      PMID: 33029096 Gene: GAMT Disease: GAMT deficiency Inheritance: X-linked

  19. Sep 2022
    1. Maria Kozhevnikov, a neuroscientist at the National University of Singapore and Massachusetts General Hospital

      !- reference : Maria Kozhevnikov - neuroscientist at National University of Singapore, Massachusetts General Hospital - Nangchen tow, Amdo region of Tibet - testing if g-tummo vase breathing technique could raise core body temperature. One monk raised body temp to that normally associated with a fever - published results in PLOS One

  20. Aug 2022
    1. The template for what personal computing could become was really obvious by the end of the 1970s. If you look at Engelbart, it was obvious in 1968. But it did take quite a while for the computer chips to be powerful enough and inexpensive enough to make the kinds of things that billions of people use today.

      Ideas ahead of their time in the mainstream (not in the niches). Compare to Lernout and Hauspie wrt early natural language processing 1987-1998 and GPT-3 now.

  21. Jul 2022
    1. mutations in the α-sarcoglycan gene (SGCA)

      PMID: 30989758

      Gene: SGCA

      HGNCID: 10805

      Case: 8 year old boy, Chinese.

      DiseaseAssertion: LGMD

      FamilyInfo: Family members denied relevant family history

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0006785, HP:0003551, HP:0003391, HP:0003560

      MotorAchievement: Noticed around 7 years old that he had trouble climbing stairs and standing up when crouching and had slower activity than other peers.

      CreatineKinase: Creatine kinase CK 15550U/L, MB fraction 276 U/L

      CasePreviousTesting:430 genes associated with muscular dystrophy were captured with a liquid catch kit.

      GenotypingMethod: NGS

      PreviouslyPublished: NA

      SupplementalData: NA

      Variant: NM_000023c.218 C>T

      ClinVarID: Unregistered varient

      CAID: Unregistered varient

      gnomAD: https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/variant/17-48245003-C-T?dataset=gnomad_r2_1

      "0.000 Allele Frequency - East Asian

  22. May 2022
  23. Apr 2022
    1. This would work if your transaction only wraps a single model's save operation. I need to wrap at least Node + Version + Attachment

      looking for a callback that you can register to happen after current transaction is committed, not just after_commit of model -- though actually, that might fire precisely when current transaction is committed, too (except that it might only get triggered for nested transactions, not the top-most transaction), so it could maybe go there ... but I think the problem is just that it doesn't belong there, because it's not specific to the model...

      I guess the OP said it best:

      I am not looking for model based after commits on update/create/etc, I want to be able to dynamically define a block that will be executed only if the current (top-most) transaction passes:

  24. Mar 2022
    1. Capybara can get us part of the way there. It allows us to work with an API rather than manipulating the HTML directly, but what it provides isn't an application specific API. It gives us low-level API methods like find, fill_in, and click_button, but it doesn't provide us with high-level methods to do things like "sign in to the app" or "click the Dashboard item in the navigation bar".
  25. Jan 2022
  26. Dec 2021
    1. shinydoc. (2021, December 12). I love how I, an actual GP...who was involved in the initial covid vaccination programme ...has to tune in at 8pm with the public to find out that apparently we are vaccinating the entire adult population with boosters by the end of the year [Tweet]. @irishayesha. https://twitter.com/irishayesha/status/1470123478221303810

  27. Nov 2021
    1. Striketober

      I am just realizing that I was not listening to The New York Times about the strikes spreading across the United States of America. Of course, the editors would not want to be causing this mass panic or a labour movement.

      I was learning about this from Democracy Now!

    1. Striketober is the labor strike wave in October 2021 by workers in the United States in the context of strikes during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the month, more than 100,000 workers in the United States either participated in or prepared for strikes in one of the largest increases of organized labor in the twenty-first century.

      Perhaps people have finally had a chance to read Debt by David Graeber or Temp by Louis Hyman or Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas.

      This is the great disillusionment in capitalism that Forbes will not talk about. What have we been building this whole time? Colonization, slavery, and genocide on steroids enabled by big tech and big business? Maybe people just want their self-respect back.

    1. The NetherlandsSchools in primary, secondary, vocational and higher education have been closed since March16 with the exception of children of parents with “essential jobs”(e.g. health care, education,public transport) (Rijksoverheid, 2020). It is anticipated that K-12 schools will have resumedorganising activities in schools before the start of the summer holidays, albeit in a customisedmanner in keeping with regulations issued by the National Institute for Public Health and theEnvironment (Algemene Vereniging Schoolleiders, 2020). It is expected that universities willorganise distance and online education until the end of the academic year, although somefacilities and buildings (library, research labs) are still accessible.As a result of the measures schools and universities faced decisions about how to continueteaching and learning and mandated that teachers and faculty move education online within amatter of days, requiring not only an enormous effort and flexibility from teachers andeducational support staff but also from students and their respective home-situation.The Netherlands has an advanced digital economy and the extent to which the internet isavailable to everyone is high (De Heij, 2019). The use of technology for teaching and learningis widely adopted in Dutch education (ten Brummelhuis and Binda, 2017; Bijleveld andHeuzels, 2020; SURF, Vereniging van Universiteiten and Vereniging van Hogescholen, 2018)Education inprecarioustimes
      1. Общ контекст и описание на ситуацията в началото на пандемията, включително готовност за преминаване към електронно обучение.
  28. Sep 2021
  29. Aug 2021
    1. Normally, thousands of rabbits and guinea pigs are used andkilled, in scientific laboratories, for experiments which yieldgreat and tangible benefits to humanity. This war butcheredmillions of people and ruined the health and lives of tens ofmillions. Is this climax of the pre-war civilization to be passedunnoticed, except for the poetry and the manuring of the battlefields, that the“poppies blow”stronger and better fed? Or is thedeath of ten men on the battle field to be of as much worth inknowledge gained as is the life of one rabbit killed for experi-ment? Is the great sacrifice worth analysing? There can be onlyone answer—yes. But, if truth be desired, the analysis must bescientific.

      Idea: Neural net parameter analysis but with society as the 'neural net' and the 'training examples' things like industrial accidents, etc. How many 'training examples' does it take to 'learn' a lesson, and what can we infer about the rate of learning from these statistics?

    2. What we call progressconsists in coordinating ideas with realities

      "The map is not the territory" is there as a basic sentiment long before General Semantics

    3. What is the defining or characteristic mark of humanity?To this question two answers and only two have been given in thecourse of the ages, and they are both of them current to-day. Oneof the answers is biological—man is an animal, a certain kind ofanimal; the other answer is a mixture partly biological and partlymythological or partly biological and partly philosophical—manis a combination orunionof animal with something supernatural.An important part of my task will be to show that both of theseanswers are radically wrong and that, beyond all things else, theyare primarily responsible for what is dismal in the life and historyof humankind. This done, the question remains: What is Man? Ihope to show clearly and convincingly that the answer is to befound in the patent fact that human beings possess in varyingdegrees a certain natural faculty or power or capacity whichserves at once to give them their appropriate dignity as humanbeings and to discriminate them, not only from the minerals andthe plants but also from the world of animals, this peculiar orcharacteristic human faculty or power or capacity I shall call[004]

      Here Korzybski defines how he thinks his thinking diverges from previous work, what in his thought is novel. It is very specifically the idea that the spirit-animal and the animal conception of man are inadequate and that the time-binding posterity man is his nature(?).

    4. It is useless to argue if electricity be“natural”or“supernatu-ral,”of“material”or of“spiritual”origin. As a matter of fact wedo not ask these questions in studying electricity; we endeavorto find out the natural laws governing it and in handling livewires we do not argue or speculate about them—we use rubber[xi]gloves, etc. It will be the same with Man and the great affairs ofMan—we have, first of all, to know what Man is.

      This basically materialist approach, believing that Man has a specific nature which can be described and planned around accords with the zeitgeist of the 1920's, and it's of course correct. Its declining popularity in the ensuing decades points more to a declining society than to any essential incorrectness.

  30. Jul 2021
  31. Jun 2021
    1. "Many North American music education programs exclude in vast numbers students who do not embody Euroamerican ideals. One way to begin making music education programs more socially just is to make them more inclusive. For that to happen, we need to develop programs that actively take the standpoint of the least advantaged, and work toward a common good that seeks to undermine hierarchies of advantage and disadvantage. And that, inturn, requires the ability to discuss race directly and meaningfully. Such discussions afford valuable opportunities to confront and evaluate the practical consequences of our actions as music educators. It is only through such conversations, Connell argues, that we come to understand “the real relationships and processes that generate advantage and disadvantage”(p. 125). Unfortunately, these are also conversations many white educators find uncomfortable and prefer to avoid."

    1. There were attempts to simplify this setup by building specific browsers (such as capybara-webkit and PhantomJS) providing such APIs out-of-box, but none of them survived the compatibility race with real browsers.
  32. May 2021
    1. Darren Dahly. (2021, February 24). @SciBeh One thought is that we generally don’t ‘press’ strangers or even colleagues in face to face conversations, and when we do, it’s usually perceived as pretty aggressive. Not sure why anyone would expect it to work better on twitter. Https://t.co/r94i22mP9Q [Tweet]. @statsepi. https://twitter.com/statsepi/status/1364482411803906048

    1. ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘the SciBeh initiative is about bringing knowledge to policy makers and the general public, but I have to say this advert I just came across worries me: Where are the preceding data integrity and data analysis classes? Https://t.co/5LwkC1SVyF’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 18 February 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1362344945697308674

  33. Apr 2021
    1. An example of this would be a button that looks clickable but isn’t, underlined text that doesn’t contain a link, or a TV remote that turns on your lights but not the TV. False affordances are often present by mistake or occur due to lack of effective design techniques.
  34. Mar 2021
    1. xdg-open should do the same thing - actually, it will call gnome-open, or kde-open, or whatever, depending on your desktop environment. Thus it's more portable.
    2. The advantage is that you can use gnome-open for almost all file-types, URIs and directories. It's one command to learn, instead of trying to remember about obscure commands like sensible-browser
    1. There are myriads of platformers around, it's an oversaturated market, and just like industrial designer Karim Rashid said about there being no excuse by this point to make an uncomfortable chair, there's no excuse by this point to make a boring patformer.
    1. There are plenty of words and acronyms you can put in front of “Designer”. Product, Web, Graphic, UX, UI, IA, etc. The lines between each are blurry, and the titles go in and out of fashion. Depending on the project and team I’m working alongside, I practice them all to varying degrees. I prefer to call myself; “A Designer.”