Brandon Hall @bthall@scholar.social

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As the #PinePhone ($150 Linux smartphone) development is moving fast, a series of articles might be redundant and confusing for most people. This article, to be dynamically updated as development proceeds, gathers what is known at this stage, and will hopefully be an answer to some of your questions.

You can read our latest article on TuxPhones.com: https://tuxphones.com/pinephone-pictures-specs-release-date-software-support/

#pine64 #linux #privacy

I found this interesting, despite having no direct experience with any of the games mentioned. I played LOTRO briefly but never really got into it. Before that, I played SWG a bunch, from my last year of undergrad up through the beginning of grad school. I miss the friends I made and exploring the world...

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/for-mmo-diehards-theres-only-one-conversation-is-the-genre-dead-or-dying/

Shifting gears from the regulatory determinants of MNC corruption risk to the effects of climate shocks on horizontal inequality in ethnically divided countries while I wait for coauthor to approve manuscript for submission.

RT @GarethSoye@twitter.com

Now I know what owl legs look like and life can never be the same again.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GarethSoye/status/1162748129973821445

Trying a similar request again: can anyone recommend a good #OpenAccess journal that covers environmental justice?

@bthall
Again correct me if I am wrong. Nothing is done during installation, the JIT cache is only created when you run it for the first time. I'm not sure if it would persist.
As I see it it is a technological problem and they might fix it eventually. I hate it when they have JIT compile everything, even Plots.jl.

https://medium.com/@sdanisch/compiling-julia-binaries-ddd6d4e0caf4

https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2016/02/09/static-julia.html

@bthall
Julia doesn't have an equivalent pacaking format of Python wheels. So you would end up JIT compiling everything you install. And that can be annoying. This also means that distros won't be able to package Julia packages.

There is some talk about sysimage support, but is not position independent code, from what I read. Tbh, that is out of my league.

I wonder how much poor #marketing and #advertising leads to products being higher priced than they'd be if their marketing and advertising efforts were better.

The things I think about when I look at the #Purism website. https://puri.sm

#Librem5 will be dope. The marketing is overly pointed towards privacy-focused people, restricting market awareness and favorable market perceptions. Prices per unit for the first production run will be high but wouldn't be as high if they could produce more units. They'd produce more if they could estimate that more would sell. But they can't/shouldn't given their current, lame marketing.

@bgcarlisle @hugh @bthall I hear you. If only we could convince journals to adopt an epub-like plain HTML format that would support responsive design and not rely on gobs of JavaScript...

@mmin Tämä vaikuttaa lupaavalta tavalta kuvata asioiden loogisia suhteita. Varmasti luettavampaa kuin filosofien tyypillinen syntaksi.

Generating argumentation maps by writing the logical structure of an argument: https://argdown.org/

Interesting stuff. This could also be used for digging into arguments and assumptions about #futures.

A couple years ago I saw a visualization of what derivatives in calculus are/mean or how they kinda work, and another visualization regarding how this same thing plays out with the expansion and contraction in size of an object (a square, I think), and ever since I seem to have been able to think in a much more rich and visual way. Recently I've been able to rotate objects in my mind, a thing that I don't recall ever being able to do or really trying to do. :)

Open-mindedness... "How Intellectual Humility Can Make Us More Curious, Reflective & Able to Learn More: Read the Findings of a New Study" http://www.openculture.com/2019/07/how-intellectual-humility-can-make-us-more-curious-reflective-able-to-learn-more.html

The traditional method for forced rhubarb goes back nearly 200 years.

Rhubarb is planted in fields, fertilised well with manure, and left to grow pretty much wild for 2 years. During this time, it'll store a ton of energy in its roots as carbohydrates. Then at the start of Winter, the rhubarb is moved somewhere warm and completely dark.

In the darkness, the plants start to grow vivaciously, converting those carbs into sugars. As a result, it's sweeter and more tender than Summer rhubarb.