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I have exactly the same problem with the U2 album. In general, I like U2, but that album is a pain. It starts up every now and then in my car with carplay. Especially if I have my phone on with no app in the foreground when I plug it in.


I worked at Axon for several years. Frankly, I liked the company culture.

Rick's been pretty consistent over the years that he believes that technology can solve societal issues and that he sees things like Sci-Fi as something we need to invent. Rick's a Star Wars fan and there were several Star Wars oriented things in the past.

The engineering culture within the company itself is pretty open and a lot of things are debated quite openly. Perhaps too openly for some; not that it's something to complain about. The bigger challenge they face isn't new hardware ideas. It's their software offering that need to do well. They pivoted from TASERs to Bodycams and now are investing heavily in software. If they get that right, then it's going to be a bigger impact on policing quality/consistency/standards than just the Hardware.

Overall, I can say that it's been a good place to work. While not perfect (no company is), it's definitely pretty open to ideas and change.


Really good tools and extremely expensive


That is true, but at least for the targets I've worked on it makes sense because the number of potential buyers is just very low.


AFAIK TI has always been very opensource friendly. All their SOCs are mainlined and maintained including pretty old ones.

Now if Broadcom starts to be opensource friendly then that would be a real change of heart.


I once tried to put OpenWRT on this nightmare... https://deviwiki.com/wiki/Actiontec_GT724WGR ; or maybe it was a very similar model; it was a long while ago.

The core SOC is a TI chip, but at least at the time while TI wasn't abhorrent, anything that might remotely help get the USB port working was a proprietary blob. I think they'd also sold the IP for that product to someone else by the time I was tinkering with it; I can't remember exactly but do recall it was either a nightmare or impossible to get a copy of the source code for the factory firmware.

This has turned me off to anything even using TI chips that I'm aware of. Maybe they've gotten better in the last decade. Probably they're fine if you're a hardware manufacturer paying for chips.


This is a classic trap that new managers fall into. It's not the number of meetings that you are judged by. It's how effective you are in execution and how well can you drive your team(s). The meetings are just a means to the end.

I've been in management for a long time now and have managed managers. Frankly, I would cut as much as I can and skip as much as possible _while_ being able to do my job - which is to drive results, quality and other team performance metrics.


The article is definitely Eurocentric and skips South-East Asia and India. Milk, Butter, Ghee and Yogurt have been part of Indian culture from the start. E.g. references in the Vedas central to various rituals, Lord Krishna loving butter as a child, etc..

What I found really interesting is the premise that the article makes about spoilage. If dairy spoils in the warmer Mediterranean causing the inhabitants to find it unappealing, then why is it that the people living in hotter climate of India found dairy to be integral to their diet? Is it because because of Ghee which has a longer shelf life?

And Yogurt too - even today - integral to any number of Indian households.


Am from Indian subcontinent. Butter isn't exactly that popular where I'm from (Bangladesh). Milk is usually collected at dawn and consumed in liquid form before the day is over, no need to store anything.


Probably butter isn't as common where you're from, but ghee is. Ghee really made butter more viable by increasing it's shelf life, and was a bit of a technological achievement of food science.


I'm looking briefly at the history of Indian cheesemaking. Seems like rennet wasn't used, but instead things like lemon juice. Paneer seems to be the first word that comes up, consistently along with a few other varities. Looks pretty tasty :P


Paneer is excellent, but in all my experience tends to get treated more like chicken: as a raw material which you will cook (by frying or simmering, etc.) and add seasoning to. I've never seen it simply sliced and served on a cracker, as you might with Western cheeses.

Definitely seek out and try paneer, though. Saag paneer is one of my favorites: chunks of paneer in stewed mustard greens.


I think yogurt is an exception here because it ferments quickly and doesn’t necessarily need refrigeration. A number of the Indian families I know will make yogurt every day. I suppose you could make a similar argument that butter could be made daily in small batches, but the labor involved in butter making is orders of magnitude greater.


Ghee doesn’t spoil without refrigeration like butter does, which is why it has been popular in India.


Perhaps it's just my cooler climate (UK), but (unclarified) butter lasts ages unrefrigerated. Far far longer than it takes me, alone, to consume it.

It's not the first time I'm hearing this at all, so I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't understand.


It's our climate.

During the really hot spells we had this year our butter melted at least partially when not kept in the fridge. The rest of the year we can keep butter out of the fridge. If it was consistently 5-10 degrees hotter that just wouldn't be an option really, at a minimum we'd need a cold pantry. I can see solid butter being way more effort to keep than it is worth.


Oh sure, but melting isn't spoiling. It'll melt here sometimes too, but harden back up overnight (or in the fridge) and it's fine.

I thought we were talking about it actually spoiling, going off, growing mould or whatever. If anything ghee is worse in terms of melting isn't it? Here in the UK it's typically liquid (sold in cans) at room temperature, and will only solidify in the fridge. (As a separate point that's sort of interesting taken together with its higher smoke point than butter that hasn't been clarified. To a non-chemist such as me anyway.)


Your butter is probably modern factory made kind, which is pasteurized. It can last much longer than "natural" butters of old.

Same applies to milk. My parents used to boil milk up until 20 years ago, mostly because they grew up in households with cows and they boiled milk to kill bacteria. It took me years of showing them the label "Does not need to be boiled" to get them to drop the habit.


Ah yes, good point. I assume modern (commercial) ghee is too, but that certainly makes preservation origins make more sense. Thanks.


Because ghee manufacturing process involves boiling water out of the butter, it is rather irrelevant whether the milk has been initially pasteurized.


What is a normal indoor temperature there? In summer most have their AC keep the house below 27 here. We are a fan of 22 in my house but that is considered a bit wasteful. In winter we try to keep it above 18 unless it gets really cold. This last winter it got down to 8 inside.


I'd say most people probably have their heating set to 21 to 22, which for most of the year is more than the external temperature (hence why so few houses here have AC).


Thats sounds like heaven. Outside we swung from -18 to 45 this year.


Actually it would be exactly that — when it mentions butter it’s highly unlikely that it is referring to clarified butter.


If I remember correctly, the image quality on the Nokia/Windows phones were pretty good as well.


Unfortunately type 1 is a classic case of cultural appropriation. Yoga is fundamentally a spiritual exercise that aims to strengthen not just the body. Therefore, practices like Surya Namaskara are not just a series of exercises for strength and flexibility but also a must for spiritual improvement.


Is 5-a-side, or soccer golf cultural appropriation? Or can we just celebrate new options evolving and enriching the lives of those who like it that way. How do we know your classic yoga is the real original and it didn’t come from some kind of stretch routine for an ancient dance?


There are ancient texts that describe Patanjali's yoga and the reason behind it.


The overwhelming majority of Indians are supportive of people from other countries practicing Yoga, even if it is for physical health. The Indian government itself events for the International Day of Yoga.

So, even if one thinks that cultural appropriation is a thing, the culture where Yoga originated is perfectly happy with the appropriation.


That does not make cultural appropriation ethical.


All culture is cultural appropriation. It doesn't manifest in a bubble. The staple foods you consume and assume to be Western are all historically the result of appropriation.

It doesn't really matter whether people want to call it yoga or not; we fundamentally have the right to practice whatever exercise we want, no matter our ethnicity or culture of origin.


The main problems are around taking elements of a culture without providing proper attribution or butchering them.

Reading the very first 3 paragraphs of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation is enough to disprove your claims.


Attribution is irrelevant, notwithstanding that it's explicitly traced to India already in this case.

> butchering them

Not sure what this is supposed to mean considering that culture is not static, and all cultural elements as they are appropriated help create something different from their source of inspiration, by definition.

> Reading the very first 3 paragraphs

Read the first sentence.

I wouldn't put much stake in a wikipedia edit-war that sources op-eds from media as citations, but don't see anything explicitly contradicting what I said - it doesn't make sense to liken India as a "minority" culture. In the first place for being on the global sphere, not local, and in the second their population stands at 1.2 billion. There's nothing minor about it. And it's been independent since 1947. Add to the fact, most people in their respective countries are part of the "dominant" culture.

Calling something colonialism doesn't make it so. Colonialism has a very real meaning: power or control over another group through colonies. You can't just wantonly use it as a modifier. Likening yoga to an act of colonialism is disgraceful.

Proponents can just come out and be candid about the fact that this is really a pissing contest over have-not cultures, i.e. the Indigenous. The insult in a hypothetical appropriation stems not from appropriation itself, but because their sociological group still gets the shaft today in the West, which is being attributed to colonialism. Just about anything would provoke a reaction because of widespread discontent, it's just a power they can exercise, and who can blame them? No one can "own" the likeness of wearing a feather in their hair, and they know this - it's not about the feather.


I thought the whole idea of cultural appropriation is that it was disrespectful of the culture that is being appropriated and is something done against the wishes of memebers of said culture.

Is there something else that makes it unethical?


That is now the definition that proponents of the term popularly use after backtracking from widespread push-back. Of course it's yet another case of bait-and-switch. The literal term "cultural appropriation" parsed at face-value does not suggest anything about disrespect; if one really wants to call out disrespect, they can just do so, there's no need for a buzzword in the first place. Racism is racism, disrespect is disrespect.

If the term doesn't clearly convey what it means, it's a shitty term, or it's designed to create friction rather than understanding. This is such a case, where those with identity-politics as a hobby and religion will talk out of both sides of their mouths.

Buzzwords are favored in media and op-eds because of their nefarious nature. We should dispense with them and communicate what we mean. Most of them share the same problem, e.g. "white fragility" ("well ackshuallyyy it just means that white people are uncomfortable talking about race" -- yeah? Then why call it that?)


> Is there something else that makes it unethical?

Yes.

The main problems are around taking elements of a culture without providing proper attribution or butchering them.

Translated to FOSS, it's the equivalent of reusing somebody's software without attributing authorship (even if the license requires it).

Or a large company making a backdoored fork of Firefox called "FireFox" and misleading users into blaming Mozilla for it.

It gets worse when the copycat overshadows the original.

Besides, I met plenty of people, both from India and not, complaining about the butchering of Yoga.


> culture without providing proper attribution

What would be the appropriate means of providing attribution in case of Yoga? Would a rendition of Sare Jahan Se Achcha before each Yoga session suffice?

> Translated to FOSS

Applying copyright and trademark law to a practice that is a part of humanity's intangible cultural heritage is beyond farcical.

> Besides, I met plenty of people, both from India and not, complaining about the butchering of Yoga.

I've probably met a few orders of magnitude more Indians than you have, considering how I live in India. I have only heard of appreciation when foreigners adopt even superficial aspects of Indian culture. I don't see why Bharat Tyagis[0] get to be gatekeepers.

My Chinese colleagues were horrified by what is called Chinese food in India.[1] But the world would be a poorer place if we gave up this wonderful cuisine because of some misguided notions of appropriation. You can pry my manchurian[2] from my cold dead hands. Wait, did I just appropriate American culture and disrespect an impassioned defence of a cherished constitutional right?

If you still have a problem with cultural appropriation, please start with giving up the concept of zero and the positional notational system. Afterall, it's been butchered and misattributed to the Arabs for centuries.

0: https://devdutt.com/articles/hiss-of-the-pio-bharat-tyagi/

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Chinese_cuisine

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchurian_(dish)


> Applying copyright and trademark law to a practice that is a part of humanity's intangible cultural heritage is beyond farcical.

I never said to apply copyright and trademark to cultural heritage. I was making a comparison.

Besides, you just made a good example of appropriation: registering the name of a cultural item from another culture as your own trademark in another countries. It happened a lot of time with food.

> But the world would be a poorer place if we gave up this wonderful cuisine because of some misguided notions of appropriation.

I never said one should give up any cultural artifact. You are making a strawman after another.


> I was making a comparison.

You wake making some reference to attribution. You didn't clarify what would be appropriate attribution in this case though.

> registering the name of a cultural item from another culture as your own trademark in another countries.

Which is an entirely different issue. Let me remind you the discussion was originally about people from other countries practicing Yoga.

> I never said one should give up any cultural artifact.

But you did say that cultural appropriation was not ethical. So, we can continue with it as long as we feel bad about it?


> Which is an entirely different issue.

Registering a trademark is a by-the-book example of claiming ownership of something. Especially when it goes together with introducing something to a population largely unaware of it.

> But you did say that cultural appropriation was not ethical.

Yes.

> So, we can continue with it as long as we feel bad about it?

No, and again, I never said that. I very clearly said that once attribution is given properly and mashups/variations are clearly identified there is no problem.

At this point I can't imagine that the attempts at arguing I'm reading are written in good faith and without an agenda.


> No, and again, I never said that. I very clearly said that once attribution is given properly and mashups/variations are clearly identified there is no problem.

I'm asking for the third time: What would be appropriate attribution for Yoga?

> At this point I can't imagine that the attempts at arguing I'm reading are written in good faith and without an agenda.

And what agenda would that be?


Taking the parts you like from something and leaving the parts you do not is not cultural appropriation.

Any culture can redefine anything they want from other cultures. Just like most western yoga studios are LGBTQ friendly and many Hindus are not.


> Just like most western yoga studios are LGBTQ friendly and many Hindus are not.

That is false. Please don't spread this myth. The homophobia is mostly a social hangover from colonial times. Steps are being taken to change that, and it should go away with time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_religion#Hin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_India

https://time.com/5918808/homophobia-homosexuality-lgbt-asian...

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/11/asia/british-empire-lgbt-...


Glad it is improving but I don’t see how “many Hindus are not” is false?

Also blaming pretty much everything bad on colonialism is a pretty tired excuse.


100% correct @rocknor


Well this reminds me of Superbrain yoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwhpF9iJSs

Which guess what? Is just a variation of a Yoga move from India that the teachers used to give to improve cognition in children who were not focussing in class

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murga_punishment

The idea is that squats or moving your head up and down rushes blood to your head. Further if you hold certain activation points like your ears whilst doing it, it activates certain parts of the brain that improve coordination and brain power.

All ripped from Hinduism, what I suggest to those who love Yoga and feel they benefit from Yoga is explore the other types of Yoga mentioned in the Gita. After all, if the Rishis/Sages were right about Yoga, Hinduism is clearly onto something in the Gita about the other types of Yoga.


I agree with you, but from what I’ve read in Mark Singleton’s research Surya Namaskar actually only appeared in the early 20th century and when it was advertised at Mysore palace where Krishnamacharya was teaching, it was as a separate class from “yoga”. That’s not to say you can’t practice it as a moving meditation, but it definitely is part of the modern movement of asana practice.


Being modern, doesn't mean bad though. Old texts and practices aren't really that relevant in a modern life setting. What matters is how it is used and for what purposes.

Some of the old texts may seriously alter perspectives, though it also need to be lived.


Sincere question: what do you mean by "spiritual improvement"?


Karma yoga probably.



They're finally trying, but last I checked it remains incredibly polluted.


That's the most hilarious video I've seen. The lack of concern for safety, environmental impact etc.. is just amazing. To think how much our views have changed in just 70 years.


Here's another classic one from 50 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34


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