Enter your income and assets and find out which class you are in (if you live in Germany).
A cheatsheet.
Framework for testing operating systems against both real and virtualized hardware. Used by KernelCI, among other things.
Backend for xrdp.
X11 RDP server. Supports drive mounts and audio redirection.
A book by Tyler Cowen, but not just a book. It comes with an AI companion that you can ask questions about its content. To me this seems like such a clear improvement over a simple book that it ought to become the default for nonfiction literature.
Matthew Yglesias makes the point that the United States would be wise to grow in population so it stays relevant and strong.
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Dealing with the population crisis
Here is a set of political positions that, even though they go together naturally, in combination will offend everyone, both left and right:
- Most of the developed world aligned with the West, including Western Europe and the United States, suffers from a fertility crisis. This is bad. We need more people if we want to (1) stay at the top of the world order rather than drop to the bottom and be dominated by bigger players and (2) keep our national economies going and continue to produce more prosperity.
- Therefore, we need more immigration. This is emphatically not limited to highly skilled workers, but includes low-skill, less productive immigration, too. After all, we need both more production capacity and a bigger market, and each additional person helps with both (unless they are very old or sick, but those tend not to be the people who like to migrate anyway).
- At the same time we have to reward people for producing more offspring. This very likely means that significantly more resources need to be diverted from singles and single-child families to families with 2 or more children, so much so that not starting a family early on is taxed substantially. This will be a regression in both personal freedom and gender equality, but lead to a much-needed recovery of fertility.
People as different as Robin Hanson and Matthew Yglesias have written about the topic โ not necessarily in the way I summarized it above โ but I have yet to see a party platform that incorporates all of it in combination.
FROM ghcr.io/macoscontainers/macos-jail/ventura in container files? Intriguing.
It uses rund under the hood, which means it is not very isolated at all. Still, I am sure there are use cases.
A game library manager for GNU/Linux. Installes games from Steam, GOG, and Humble Bundle and manages the compatibility runtimes Wine, Proton, DOSBox, ScummVM, and RetroArch.
Key points:
- The Democrats talk about climate change and student loans a lot. They do not talk about healthcare as much.
- The public is significantly more aligned with the Democrats on healthcare than it is on climate change and student loans.
- This is dumb.
I suspect analogous points can be made for liberals and progressives around the world.
Here in Germany, for instance, the left and center-left parties like to talk about feminism, gendered speech, trans rights, and refugeesโ rights, all things that while morally commendable, they do not have a popular position on. The politicians that tend to get the votes are the ones that take more moderate or even conservative stances on these questions.
Climate change, meanwhile, is a topic that the center-left has popular support on around here. Even there progressive politicians and pundits often focus on the negatively connoted things, such as bans of environmentally harmful practices and industries. Instead they should communicate their successes more forcefully and focus on an abundance message based on cheap wind and solar energy.
I have long been skeptical of the educational value of non-fiction books. Mostly when I have bought a book on a topic I found interesting, I either never started reading it, abandoned it after two chapters, or skimmed through the table of contents to find just the things that seemed interesting and ignored everything else. When I did read several chapters in order, I mostly did not remember much later.
There are exceptions, of course. Effective Java is one, which is because it is a compilation of many small independent pieces of wisdom each of which is presented in a compact form. Modern Principles of Economics is another, and that is because it is a proper course textbook for a formal curriculum, with exercises and all.
The classic essay-as-book type of book, however, is mostly worthless to me.
Arnold Kling agrees.
A Java decompiler with support for modern language features.
Surveys on CSS trends.
The current prediction for the singularity at default settings is 2040.
A free-as-in-beer web browser for iOS and Mac from the people behind the Kagi search engine. Privacy-centric and ad-blocking by default.
Not sure why you would use this on a desktop computer over Firefox, but on iOS I can see how it could be useful.
Scripts that claim to trim Windows down by removing features and misfeatures. Caution: I have not read or tested them.
A web search engine that promises efficiency, privacy, and user-centricity in exchange for a subscription fee.