I'm in a similar situation myself. My plan is to buy a high school textbook and work my way through it, chapter by chapter. I assume that the selection of topics in such a curriculum is reasonable and if the presentation is deficient I'll supplement with YouTube etc until I understand.

Same here. I've been eyeing few books on Amazon myself. Most come with answer sheet at the back to check your work.

It's all about doing it like we did in high school. Pen, graph paper, and maybe a calculator. Drilling down the practice will help with theory.

Well, things are a bit different in the US where your universities are privately funded but in many countries the publishing industry publishes research from researchers employed by state funded institutions and sells the research back to libraries in state funded institutions. So, really they're being doubly financed by the state.

I don't think that's a reasonable summation, there is a correlation between mobile phone use while there are other studies showing teens assigned to use less of Facebook are more happy. The author could not find movement in other variables that could account for this change, although of course that does not prove that they don't exist (she only mentions homework and economic growth). It's obviously not definitive and she acknowledges this, but it is striking nonetheless.

Yeah, this thing about paying to publish papers in open access journals is really stupid. It seems to me like a compromise that governments have landed on with publishers in order to keep them in business. I would prefer a model whereby governments fund open access repositories and editorial workflows and simultaneously mandate publishing in open access repositories. The incumbent publishing corporations should not be a part of this new arrangement, their business model pulls in the opposite direction.

I was able to install on Ubuntu with Software Center after downloading the deb. The UI is a big improvement for classical music.

great idea, I was just thinking today that the Spotify interface is deficient for classical music. Will try it out asap. Thanks!

In regards to why it hasn't been copied, I have heard that part of the problem is that the UN officially supports the War on Drugs. European countries are reluctant to break ranks with the UN in this matter, while progress at the UN itself is held up by conservative countries such as Iran.

Saying progress in the UN is held up by Iran and such sounds nonsense to me. The US is also pretty conservative and has way more influence and power inside their buildings.

I only have a friend's word for this (who works with drug policy), so if you know more please share. Obviously the US drug policy is quite varied, with full legalisation of marijauna in some states. The federal response to the opioid epidemic seems to be harm-reduction based rather than purely punitive. That said, this is internal politics, so what the US says and does on the world stage is not necessarily going to be consistent with this.

I don't think it's just Iran. I think the UK is firmly on the side of the WoD too.

And yes, the UNGASS is a big part of the problem, it sets the international direction and it only meets every 10 years. When it does meet it puts out a statement, and these statements so far have been utterly silent on any and all harm reduction measures, instead sticking to the old rhetoric about prevention and enforcement.

For what I know the UN is also the reason that countries that culturally include marijuana banned it like India, Cambodia and Thailand.

Might as well auto generate a header for the file...

  function lb() {
    today=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')
    fp="/home/you/logbook/${today}.md"
    if [ ! -f $fp ]; then
        echo "# ${today}" > $fp
    fi
    vim $fp
  }

"The U.S. military agency itself did not require a source code review before purchasing ArcSight and generally does not place such requirements on tech companies for off-the-shelf software like ArcSight, the Pentagon spokeswoman said. Instead, DISA evaluates the security standards used by the vendors, she said."

So the Russian government has higher security standards than the US?

I don't know if that's really true. DoD gets the Windows source code for example.

So does Russia.

I don't see how that's relevant.

Tools exist to audit anything on the windows CLR. So, from a security standpoint they have everything they need and can request the source code if any red flags show up.

Sure, the source code is great if you want to maintain code. But, for a security audit it's often more deceptive than useful.

Does that surprise you?