Category: AI, Computation, and Technology

  • (Current Crisis) Mac Laptop battery died – hard. Wouldn’t take a charge. Put in

    (Current Crisis)

    Mac Laptop battery died – hard.

    Wouldn’t take a charge.

    Put in Freezer overnight.

    SMC/PRAM Reset

    Now it’s Charging.

    Works MOST of the time.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-26 09:49:00 UTC

  • (SITE UPDATE: 1 – The bug in the “Apply” course has something to do with bad dat

    (SITE UPDATE:

    1 – The bug in the “Apply” course has something to do with bad data. Apparently the underlying code is very unforgiving of changes to the courseware content – meaning, that it doesn’t clean up after itself very well and breaks if you aren’t logged in. That said, hopefully I’ll get this bit up and running shortly.

    2 – The difficulty with the home page’s text on mobile is going to try my patience. I will fix it when I have patience. I don’t have patience right now. In fact, I have to go to the studio and fix the over-complicated-overpriced-oversized theatre’s audio visual stuff at the moment which is gonna end my patience for the day. lol

    3 – Apparently I’m going to get the proposals for the WAR courses rather shortly.

    4 – I heard from KMAC on the Group Strategy Course material and he says he’ll look and get back to me. Either way I’m pretty sure he will review the material for us.

    )


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-20 16:30:00 UTC

  • Site Bug List

    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][A] list of our known bugs.

    REPORTING

    Please report bugs in the contact form here: Contact Form

    OPEN

    Format: severity – location – (role effected) – description

    Roles: admin, instructor, editor, user, visitor, all

    Severity:

    • 1- crashes system or destroys data ,
    • 2- breaks required functionality no workaround,
    • 3 – breaks required functionality with workaround,
    • 4 – limited functionality or does not work as expected,
    • 5 – appearance and presentation issue
    • 6 – postponable,
    • 7 – works as designed will not change.

    Institute Issues

    • 5 – Home Page – (all) – Headline text does not scale sufficiently going off screen in mobile and causing left-right shift in the page. Solution is to create separate headlines for mobile scale. (which is an hour’s worth of frustrating work).
    • 5 – Terms and Conditions Page – (all) – needs deep edit and legal review.
    • 5 – FAQ Page – (all) – needs additional help and video content.
    • 4 – Blog – (all) – Embedding link to other blog entries includes the sidebar, which means an absurd number of requests and slow responses as well as confusing display for the user. I do not know how to turn off embedding. Asking devs.
      • Update: this is a ‘feature’ apparently. Raw URLs need to be updated to links, and links will not cause embedding.

    Dev Issues

    • 3 – Education Profile – Gradebook Page – Pagination not rendering.  We have submitted this issue to the devs.
      • Update 8/20: Still not fixed by devs.
    • 4 – Courses List, Course Categories, Course Collections – (all) – Data entry form includes long description that should appear below the location list, and above the list header, but does not. We have submitted this bug to the devs.
    • 3 – Courses > Content Drip – (all) – the “content-drip” feature does not recognize when Assignments are completed, so it is not possible to use the content drip feature whenever a series of lessons, assignments, and quizzes includes an Assignment.  This means that the only means of dripping content is by date or date difference, instead of after an instructor grades an assignment.
    • 4 – Courses > Content Drip General – (instructors) – The content drip feature does not ‘clean up’ after itself, nor is the code correctly checking the ‘settings’ for the content drip.

    UNFIXABLE?

    • 5 – User Profile-Activity Page – (user) – ‘profile’ tab is second after activity rather than last. This sorting is apparently weighted and we can fix it if the devs respond.
    • 4 – User Profile-Activity Page – (user) – xprofile settings and profile settings are split between education and membership profiles. This is a defect in the architecture of the application and we would have to pay the developers to fix it – with low confidence in success.
    • 3 – Courses > Quizzes – (all) – Quiz functionality does not allow for short text and long text answers, and for instructors to manually grade them. Meanwhile, Assignments do not allow for short text, long text, multiple choice etc.  We have asked the developers to implement this functionality but we are assuming we will have to pay for it.

    Note: the underlying code is not exactly written in modern architecture, but wordpress architecture’s event system. So there is too little in templates and too much in function calls. And so I can’t find it.

     

    CLOSED

    • 5 – About Us Page – (visitor) – Marketing Text is incomplete for mission statement and a few other things. (Will fill in when I feel ‘it’s right’.
    • 3 – Email System – (admin) – Email config for SMTP is causing issues, and field-substitution not processing in received emails. (Fixed)
    • 2 – Email Verification – For some reason I can’t get this to work. (Fixed)
    • 3 – User Profile-Activity Page – (user) – Unable to resize profile images due to template’s bug: loss of settings in Appearance > Customize > General > Styles. This  has been reported to the devs. I think it may work from the course > profile page if not here, so I might shut this off.
    • 5 – Blog – (all) –  Month Metadata does not appear when marking a post as ‘sticky’ (stick to the top). Fix added to CSS.
    • 5 – Blog – (all) – not displaying the year under the date.  This setting is available and set, but does not respond. Looks like ignored in the code. Asking devs.
    • 2 – Courses > Content Drip (all) – Users unable to continue submission of course material. (hacked: but in underlying assignment code is not registering complete assignments)

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  • Site Bug List

    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][A] list of our known bugs.

    REPORTING

    Please report bugs in the contact form here: Contact Form

    OPEN

    Format: severity – location – (role effected) – description

    Roles: admin, instructor, editor, user, visitor, all

    Severity:

    • 1- crashes system or destroys data ,
    • 2- breaks required functionality no workaround,
    • 3 – breaks required functionality with workaround,
    • 4 – limited functionality or does not work as expected,
    • 5 – appearance and presentation issue
    • 6 – postponable,
    • 7 – works as designed will not change.

    Institute Issues

    • 5 – Home Page – (all) – Headline text does not scale sufficiently going off screen in mobile and causing left-right shift in the page. Solution is to create separate headlines for mobile scale. (which is an hour’s worth of frustrating work).
    • 5 – Terms and Conditions Page – (all) – needs deep edit and legal review.
    • 5 – FAQ Page – (all) – needs additional help and video content.
    • 4 – Blog – (all) – Embedding link to other blog entries includes the sidebar, which means an absurd number of requests and slow responses as well as confusing display for the user. I do not know how to turn off embedding. Asking devs.
      • Update: this is a ‘feature’ apparently. Raw URLs need to be updated to links, and links will not cause embedding.

    Dev Issues

    • 3 – Education Profile – Gradebook Page – Pagination not rendering.  We have submitted this issue to the devs.
      • Update 8/20: Still not fixed by devs.
    • 4 – Courses List, Course Categories, Course Collections – (all) – Data entry form includes long description that should appear below the location list, and above the list header, but does not. We have submitted this bug to the devs.
    • 3 – Courses > Content Drip – (all) – the “content-drip” feature does not recognize when Assignments are completed, so it is not possible to use the content drip feature whenever a series of lessons, assignments, and quizzes includes an Assignment.  This means that the only means of dripping content is by date or date difference, instead of after an instructor grades an assignment.
    • 4 – Courses > Content Drip General – (instructors) – The content drip feature does not ‘clean up’ after itself, nor is the code correctly checking the ‘settings’ for the content drip.

    UNFIXABLE?

    • 5 – User Profile-Activity Page – (user) – ‘profile’ tab is second after activity rather than last. This sorting is apparently weighted and we can fix it if the devs respond.
    • 4 – User Profile-Activity Page – (user) – xprofile settings and profile settings are split between education and membership profiles. This is a defect in the architecture of the application and we would have to pay the developers to fix it – with low confidence in success.
    • 3 – Courses > Quizzes – (all) – Quiz functionality does not allow for short text and long text answers, and for instructors to manually grade them. Meanwhile, Assignments do not allow for short text, long text, multiple choice etc.  We have asked the developers to implement this functionality but we are assuming we will have to pay for it.

    Note: the underlying code is not exactly written in modern architecture, but wordpress architecture’s event system. So there is too little in templates and too much in function calls. And so I can’t find it.

     

    CLOSED

    • 5 – About Us Page – (visitor) – Marketing Text is incomplete for mission statement and a few other things. (Will fill in when I feel ‘it’s right’.
    • 3 – Email System – (admin) – Email config for SMTP is causing issues, and field-substitution not processing in received emails. (Fixed)
    • 2 – Email Verification – For some reason I can’t get this to work. (Fixed)
    • 3 – User Profile-Activity Page – (user) – Unable to resize profile images due to template’s bug: loss of settings in Appearance > Customize > General > Styles. This  has been reported to the devs. I think it may work from the course > profile page if not here, so I might shut this off.
    • 5 – Blog – (all) –  Month Metadata does not appear when marking a post as ‘sticky’ (stick to the top). Fix added to CSS.
    • 5 – Blog – (all) – not displaying the year under the date.  This setting is available and set, but does not respond. Looks like ignored in the code. Asking devs.
    • 2 – Courses > Content Drip (all) – Users unable to continue submission of course material. (hacked: but in underlying assignment code is not registering complete assignments)

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  • (Update: Fixed the oversensitivity in spam detection in the web site. Thanks for

    (Update: Fixed the oversensitivity in spam detection in the web site. Thanks for all the patience from everyone.)


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-18 13:38:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1086256418401992706

  • (Update: Fixed the oversensitivity in spam detection in the web site. Thanks for

    (Update: Fixed the oversensitivity in spam detection in the web site. Thanks for all the patience from everyone.)


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-18 08:37:00 UTC

  • photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/50330795_10156923143907264_542541544

    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/50330795_10156923143907264_542541544

    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/50330795_10156923143907264_542541544436006912_o_10156923143902264.jpg USER INTERFACE FOR THE INSTITUTE’S APPJohn StoneState capitalism will end taxation. Public banking, public clean nuclear thorium plants, and public ownership of corporate shares will reap in enough profits for the state to make the state largely self-funded ending the needed for state parasitism on the individual to fund public programs like single payer or education.Jan 17, 2019, 2:21 PMJohn StoneAll your bank debt payments, energy bills, and utility bills will replace your tax bill to fund the state.Jan 17, 2019, 2:23 PMCurt DoolittleEven better, white folk are a for profit enterprise in the first place….Jan 17, 2019, 2:27 PMJohn StoneBig corporations that can de-platform you have a case made for us to partially nationalize by having the state own 49% of its stock to keep alternative viewpoints from being suppressed in violation of free speech.Jan 17, 2019, 2:30 PMNeil A. Bucklewwe must realign our concept of profit back in line with family.Jan 17, 2019, 2:50 PMJohn StoneMining should also be a state owned enterprise because it is in the national self-interest to ensure an adequate supply of stockpiled mineral resources to serve the needs of the nation. It’s a national security interest to make sure we have plenty of rare earth elements available to build high tech industry and maintain our position as a leader in science and engineering and bring the best minds to work here. If China and Russia control the world’s supply they dictate whether or not we will make progress scientifically and technologically. Those should be at least 51% state owned so that the drive for individual profits by private shareholders and owners is still in the system but with a corporate agenda more controlled by national security interest.Jan 17, 2019, 2:51 PMNeil A. Bucklewit seems to be lagging. i tried to register about an hour ago and it is still doing the loading screen.Jan 17, 2019, 2:52 PMCurt Doolittlesorry? Um. Possible we were doing some sort of update. but we’re hitting it pretty hard and no problems here. Try again and let me know?Jan 17, 2019, 2:57 PMNeil A. Bucklewno need to apologize, just letting you know about technical details.Jan 17, 2019, 2:57 PMCurt Doolittlethe famliy creates a compromise between the male and the female. End individualism and restore the family as the central unit of social, political organiziton.Jan 17, 2019, 2:58 PMCurt Doolittle;) hugsJan 17, 2019, 2:58 PMCurt DoolittleJohn Stone Um. ownership and management are two different things. The state is SHIT at running anything.Jan 17, 2019, 3:01 PMNeil A. Bucklewi am working on something that relates. part of it is that one cannot be a citizen until after marraige. i define citizen as a couple who have already raised a proven functional adult. once adult hood is reached(and proven). a person is considered a sovereign adult within the society. marraige is the pathway to citizenship, with the “trial” being birthing at least one child and raising it successfully. the citizen in this model is both parents as a complimentary unit. the real vote in life is not he talk, but what is done. if you raise an adult for the next generation, you have already made the most important decision for the future of your society. you have to earn your way to the higher benifits of citizenship over the sovereign individual.Jan 17, 2019, 3:05 PMNeil A. Bucklewnot sure if you have seen what i am writing about the Temple of Destiny.Jan 17, 2019, 3:06 PMCurt Doolittlein other words, you aren’t an adult until you’ve demonstrated it.Jan 17, 2019, 3:10 PMNeil A. Bucklewbasically, with just enough ceremony to force folks to take the time to think about it.Jan 17, 2019, 3:11 PMNeil A. Bucklewbut it is also tied with the idea of a vote being tied to what is actually done, not what is said.Jan 17, 2019, 3:12 PMNeil A. Bucklewif you have a family, you have voted for the future of your people. you have demonstrated interest.Jan 17, 2019, 3:13 PMCurt DoolittleNeil A. Bucklew otherwise you are a consumer and yuo have protection of rule of law, but you have no ability to use the organized violence of politics to impose your will upon others.Jan 17, 2019, 3:14 PMNeil A. Bucklewright! but being a consumer is not inherently wrong, it is just not connected with production correctly. the energy every other animal consumes is ultimately dedicated toward the future generations, a stream of genetic information over time. at the base physics level, we are not consumers, or producers, but transformers. we transform the material around us into the next generation. how we have fucked this up, is simply amazing.Jan 17, 2019, 3:19 PMNeil A. Bucklewwhen you get the time check this out, you will understand what i am trying to do, and may be able to see it as a device as i do, beyond the words.

    https://theemperorofplanetearth.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/the-temple-of-destiny/Jan 17, 2019, 3:20 PMNeil A. Bucklewit is a work in progress…Jan 17, 2019, 3:33 PMJohn StoneI think we should do something similar to the Chinese system where after high school/college you can take the path of the private sector or the public sector. If you take the path of the public sector, you have to go through a meritocratic process that whittles down candidates to find the cream of the crop to eventually run state owned enterprises for the national interest or to gain experience governing municipalities, cities, counties, and states in order to run for office. It’s like an American nationalist civil service league, completely non-partisan only with national self-interest at heart. That would replace having a deep state whose informal role is to maintain vital national interests. So at the polls, you get a choice between someone popular or someone who has experience and in depth knowledge to run the state properly. They can also be hired by elected candidates to fulfill an advisory role due to their training and in-depth knowledge.Jan 17, 2019, 3:42 PMCurt Doolittlecant. state run industries produce terrible returns. and are alwars corrupt and provide bad service.Jan 17, 2019, 4:18 PMCurt Doolittlestate owned is something elseJan 17, 2019, 4:18 PMJohn StoneThat’s not always true. The Bank of North Dakota is a state owned public bank that is managed by someone who ensures that all of the banks investments are sound investments to maximize returns both for management and the state. The state does offer guidance to bank management as to the direction of where investments should be made but ultimately it is up to management to make the call and invest in a specific sector, enterprise, or individual. I personally do not know what drive typically dominates in these interactions in a public bank: what the elected officials want or what management (bank CEO) thinks is best to gain the best returns on their investment. Perhaps a middle ground is reached somehow. Nevertheless, the BND is an example of a state-owned and managed bank that has been successful and is still running after 100 years. How people are selected to manage an industry is also incredibly important. Obviously some selectivity is necessary to find the best candidates.Jan 17, 2019, 4:51 PMJohn John StephensDefinitely not mobile friendly. Just FYI. On Android, cannot get the “Apply” feature to work (see pic), although I was able to register on the site, update my profile, and even upload a photo.Jan 20, 2019, 3:41 AMCurt Doolittlethanks. we’ll work on it.Jan 20, 2019, 5:06 AMUSER INTERFACE FOR THE INSTITUTE’S APP


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-17 13:13:00 UTC

  • I think the tech is underway by a lot of people. It’s fallen off my radar this y

    I think the tech is underway by a lot of people. It’s fallen off my radar this year. Ask Moritz Bierling.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-17 04:06:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1085750155033436163

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  • REFACTORING: The process of restructuring existing computer code to improve the

    REFACTORING: The process of restructuring existing computer code to improve the nonfunctional attributes of the software (its ‘factors’), without changing its external behavior. (Usually caused by centralizing common functionality (subtracting), standardizing readability or performance (transforming), or increasing defensibility against error (adding)

    Antonym:

    REFUCKTORING: The process of taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. (Usually caused by confusing code parsimony with compiled or bytecode(p-code) parsimony, removing all semantic (human readable) utility.)

    (via James Santagata)


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-16 22:18:00 UTC

  • SITE PROGRESS: PROPERTARIANISM.COM New site is much closer now. The whole Social

    http://propertarianism.com/NEW SITE PROGRESS: PROPERTARIANISM.COM http://PROPERTARIANISM.COM

    New site is much closer now. The whole Social Platform is working. Most of the body copy is there. A few minor visual tweaks, the ‘About Us’ Page, and then I can fill in the Application (to the institute) and the courses. I’ll add the ‘products’ whenever I get around to it.

    I’m going to leave it on current hosting for now and experiment with AWS some more. The current hosting is excellent for many reasons,and the cache and search are good. But The AWS responsiveness is insanely good, and so I suspect we’ll move to AWS at some point in the future.

    Otherwise, we’ll be able to launch soon.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-11 15:03:00 UTC