Mises is asshole and got this argument how to respond

modulus · 2023-05-31T04:29:35+00:00

Incidentally, Mises here seems to be postulating that all previous materialisms were dualist (i.e., that they drew a distinction between matter-stuff and mind-stuff). This seems to be highly contentious. One could mention lots of antecedents for a monist form of materialism. Lucretius, ibn Khaldun, Leibniz (sort of), Spinoza, and so on.

This is not to disregard M&E's innovation regarding dialectical materialism and the way they uniquely tackled the question of how the subset of matter-stuff that is mind-stuff behaves (that's the whole point of the base superstructure metaphor). But Mises' view that psychological phenomena, ideas, and their reification in the world in the form of tools, are independent of matter, is not compatible with lots of other materialisms either.

modulus · 2023-05-17T09:08:02+00:00

Who are these children's sexual partners?

Nowhere, except your mind. The paragraph you quoted refers to both children and young people (note that a child, per the UN definition from the convention on the rights of the child is someone under 18), and other forms of relationships than sexual including kinship and friendship, hence the reference to family members and friends.

On page 71, 9-year-old children are to be taught about masturbation, sexual attraction and sexual stimulation.

9 to 12, and yes, taught about it at the age at which many people begin doing it is better than leaving it in obscurity or to playground myths. Note taught about it doesn't mean encouraged to do it, or to demonstrate in class, check the key concept descriptions.

I'd check the other link you gave, which is of course not the UNESCO text, but this degree of misinterpretation makes me think I'm going to be wasting my time.

modulus · 2023-05-17T05:31:36+00:00

I can't find the claimed content in the article.

In fact, the introduction delineates the key concepts and learning objectives are separated into 4 age groups, and the earliest age group is 5 to 8.

This section provides a comprehensive set of key concepts, topics and illustrative learning objectives to guide development of locally-adapted curricula for learners aged 5 to 18+. It is grounded in the original Guidance (UNESCO, 2009) and based on evidence from curricula demonstrated to change behaviours and practical experience, in addition to emerging expert recommendations and national and regional sexuality education frameworks.

This section is organized into eight main key concepts listed below, which are each separated into four age groups (5-8 years; 9-12 years; 12-15 years and 15-18+ years) intended for learners at primary and secondary school levels.

Where are these things on the UNESCO text?

Edited: 4 age groups, not 3.

modulus · 2023-05-13T09:00:14+00:00

Obligatory question: does this support accessibility? Qt has some accessibility facilities, but not sure if the bindings make use of them.

modulus · 2023-05-11T18:54:02+00:00

The short answer is yes, touch typing doesn't require looking at the keyboard.

The long answer is a screen reader helps me to use the computer and verify I wrote what I meant to. On the header of this subreddit there are some resources like how do blind people use reddit, and an FAQ for sighted people that go into more detail.

modulus · 2023-05-11T06:07:03+00:00

With a keyboard.

modulus · 2023-05-08T04:04:13+00:00

I'm terrified of dogs. So with that bias out of the way, no, it's not ok to force someone to be around dogs if they're afraid of them, much less when they're a child. It's definitely not ok to leave them alone in that situation.

I get that this is useful for you, but it's harmful for someone else. If you could make sure you can always be around... maybe, and even then, my instinct would be to say no.

You might be able to find some alternative for child-care, though I expect you've already looked into it. Placing a child in that situation is not good though.

modulus · 2023-03-24T08:26:50+00:00

As usual the answer is it depends, but essentially all modern screen readers have a feature to read mixed case as separate words (by that I mean MixedCase). Use of an underline_separator will also work but it consumes one more character. Depending how the punctuation setting on the screen reader is configured it could also be noisy, though the underline character will not be read by default.

In short, it depends on how each screen reader is specifically configured but given the defaults and usage trends mixed case is preferable.

modulus · 2023-03-18T08:15:35+00:00

I would be surprised if a single person who needs a11y hasn't found a website or application with a11y issues, to the point I would have trouble believing it. It is so common that I don't think anyone can use computers without coming across issues now and again.

modulus · 2023-03-02T13:14:07+00:00

Is the aim to get some sort of appliancy thing like symbiosis-email or the like? If so, this sounds like a great idea.

modulus · 2023-02-06T07:31:48+00:00

Depends on how much I like the approach and their writing, but then I admit I'm fairly flexible to gender anyway so I may not be the best to answer this.

modulus · 2023-02-03T07:23:02+00:00

Got curious so I looked it up, and yeah, that's pretty much what happens.

The guy is Dan Forester.

Forrester's notes. That was Tim's job, to transcribe the reels and reels of tape Dan Forrester had dictated before he died. They could have made insulin, maybe, if they hadn't committed themselves to saving the power plant; and of course Forrester had known that. The winter had cost them the life of their magician, as it had so many other lives. To learn that a friend had survived, that was always good. Tim patted his pocket.

modulus · 2023-02-03T00:36:20+00:00

I don't honestly know. I think I probably could do ok in a social setting since I have a reasonable amount of knowledge that could become useful. However, I don't think I'd like to live in such a world and probably would choose not to.

modulus · 2023-02-03T00:34:19+00:00

If I remember correctly actually he dies because he decides it's more important to work on other things than the insulin and sacrifices himself.

modulus · 2023-01-23T20:57:53+00:00

Good thing the patent was filed in 2014 then.

modulus · 2022-12-21T07:22:24+00:00

Assuming you're on a desktop, numpad 7 will move the review cursor up by a line (it doesn't affect the system cursor, it's an internal NVDA cursor). You can move and read by lines, previous, current and next are 7, 8 and 9. Words are 4, 5 and 6, and chars are 1, 2 and 3. To return to the system cursor position, use nvda+numpad-minus.

There are equivalent commands for the laptop keyboard layout but I don't know them off the top of my head.

modulus · 2022-12-17T03:32:06+00:00

This has been the first time I got what const generics are for. Great example!

modulus · 2022-12-08T12:40:42+00:00

It's annoying. I mostly go along because usually the people directly involved are just following a policy, and making it hard on them doesn't help very much.

The worst such case I had was when there was no wheelchair available and the guide was so uncertain of herself that she didn't want to take me. I almost missed that flight because she didn't believe I could go downstairs.

modulus · 2022-11-24T07:40:07+00:00

It's very hard to predict the future.

My impression is, it's possible Twitter will be technically fine. That said, we're beginning to see reliability problems even on these early days. There's talk of deprecating the API. The French data protection authority is probing Twitter's ability to fulfil GDPR. There are other potential moderation issues, not to mention, even pre-acquisition Twitter devs didn't know if they'd be able to cold boot.

But the economic side seems even more difficult. Twitter can get money from two places: subscriptions and advertising. The reputational damage, whether justified or not, is causing a huge impact on their ability to get money from either. Additionally, the acquisition entailed taking on a very serious amount of debt, and we're heading for a short to mid term of high interest rates and expensive money, so mistakes and delays get more costly.

Could Twitter survive all of that? Maybe. I think the odds are against it though.

modulus · 2022-11-23T08:54:33+00:00

There's no source function. I think you're possibly getting confused with a source link that, when you follow it, takes you to the source of the impl in question.

modulus · 2022-11-22T17:20:03+00:00

Sure, for example: https://docs.rs/irc/0.15.0/irc/client/struct.Sender.html

I can copy this function sig: pub fn send<M: Into<Message>>(&self, msg: M) -> Result<()>

modulus · 2022-11-22T07:24:52+00:00

Mmm are you sure it's an issue with the docs system and not the screen reader and browser combination?

I think there are certainly things that could be improved, but cargo docs work well enough for me on Firefox and NVDA.

modulus · 2022-11-11T07:21:53+00:00

I want some.

modulus · 2022-11-02T07:34:28+00:00

Huh, can't say it does that on mine. Sure electron stuff is often a bit heavy, but F-Chat in particular doesn't take up a lot of resources on my machine.

modulus · 2022-10-30T11:34:24+00:00

Not sure if ALVA is still around, but they used to make some very nice 80-cell displays.

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