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There is a process called “learning how to learn.”

Essentially its a series of questions or question-templates you ask to gain deeper understanding of something beyond what the source material you are learning from provides.

The basic versions of them include “how” and “why”, where the “who”, “what”, and “when” matter less in most cases (and if they matter more, it will be extremely apparent).

Then, listing out every answer to each of those questions you can possibly think of and testing them against logic and evidence.

“How do apples fall to the ground?”

• Warping of spacetime?

• flat disc that we stand on accelerating through space?

• The pull of the aether?

You would then test each of these ideas by gathering evidence and eliminating others. Eventually in the example through rigorous testing, logic (including mathematics), you’d come to the correct conclusion of the warping of spacetime.

Then, if you are trying to come up with new ideas, you apply this method of thinking to the unknown and reverse it a little. Take facts and evidence that exist, and ask the same questions against the unknown. For example, if you’re writing a story, the who and the what become important in the reversal, but the how and the why stay relevant.

“What would the main character do after they realize they were betrayed by the grand duke of blahshire?”

• Who+Why: what are the main characters beliefs and convictions? What drives them?

• How: What kinds of actions has the main character taken in the past? Have they grown since then?

• What is the current sociopolitical climate that the story is taking place in? What kinds of behavior is expected of the main character and those around them? Are things like revenge frowned upon, or is not exacting revenge considered weakness? Maybe both depending on who you ask?

You can also apply this to general ideas, making yourself or a project/concept/etc. the main subject.

This kind of thinking is a muscle you have to exercise until it becomes natural. Eventually you start doing it without realizing.

I don’t think people prefer it, I think they’re culture shocked when the algorithms stop telling them what to think. It’s an uncanny feeling at first and can be uncomfortable for some.

A lot of modern proprietary interfaces have started spamming people with ads about “the latest stuff” in the notification menu, the app launcher menu, and a few other places.

Or go back to the good old days and download/rip what you like to .mp3, .ogg, or .flac depending on your peference.

I have several thousand songs on my phone that I can listen to without the need for an internet connection, subscription fees, accounts, or anything.

There are tons of good FOSS local music player apps out there that you should check out. I use Auxio from the F-Droid store but have used others in the past.

On desktop, I use Elisa.

You can make sure your library is always up to date with your desktop by using syncthing.

If you had read Christoph’s reasoning, it wasn’t “just because it’s written in Rust.” He actually gave some decent technical reasoning for it that went beyond his original personal outburst (which I hold him to the same standard as Hector for, but he did shore up later and fixed his communication).

Part of being a good developer is the “working well with other human beings” part. Linus himself took a hiatus to improve himself in this area.

Another part of being a good developer is to work within and adapting to the frameworks of an existing project, especially if you are joining at a later point. In this context, it would be the R4L folks joining the project known as “the Linux kernel.”

Hector failed on both counts. He has programming skills, but that’s not all that’s required.

I am so glad Linus just came out and said it. I was pretty upset at Hector too in the other thread the other day, and I especially didn’t appreciate a call to remove a major developer from the kernel because Hector wasn’t getting his way. Very militant action on Hector’s part where it just wasn’t necessary.

Hector, if you’re reading this, communication skills are just as if not more important than your Rust development skills, and frankly your communication skills lack.

They literally go out of their way to tell you they aren’t.

They are what’s called “Source-First” according to their own terminology

One of the things they say in that blog post that I think misses the point is that OSI-approved licenses don’t “fail to protect the developer”, they are literally built to pass the rights of the developer to the user, where they belong. Open source protects the user, full stop. The side effect of this is that corps can take advantage as they are also users - and this is why I personally fight so hard for the GPL license as it does prevent big corps from taking and not giving back.

FUTO is “Source-First” until they switch to a license that prioritizes the user over the developer. I believe the FUTO company’s public image is of service to their users, which is fantastic, we need more of that, but their license only reflects that partially.

Apple sues Swiss company over apple logo

All of your advice about investing is the same advice given to people going into a casino.

The purpose of life is to experience it. Experience as much of it as you can, before you can’t anymore. The good, the bad, the mundane, or insane.

Try to live a good life. What the definition of “good” is will be different for each person, but a few general categories include being good to others (help when you can), being good to yourself (don’t be your own worst enemy, mentally or physically), and being good to the world (leave it better than you found it).

Cherish the things that you have, and the things that you don’t.

For Grofit! The wise and avaricious Parvos commends you!

Get it done now so you don’t have to worry about it later.

This is completely illegal in the United States, and may also be in other countries.

If you live in the US and a collector comes after you for your parents’ debt, tell them to bite rocks (or if you can afford to, rake them over the coals in court).

Must be your region, all of the McDonalds here in my state and the two I travel to next to me seem to be able to get it right, actually talk to me, the screens almost always work (almost), and the orders are almost always right (almost). I’ve never had raw fries, those are usually the best part of the meal. I don’t usually eat it unless I am roadtripping, but that’s been happening a lot recently.

None of this is to invalidate your experience, mind you. What region are you in, so we know where not to get McDonalds at?