I just tried asking ChatGPT #5 and it answered this:

I'm sorry, but the term "optimystic" does not have a widely recognized or established meaning. It appears to be a combination of the words "optimistic" and "mystic," [...]

Google Scholar found some uses, like Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: The Experience of Play in Work and Games. by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Review by: Murray S. Davis Source: Contemporary Sociology , Mar., 1977, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Mar., 1977), pp. 197-199 at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2065805.pdf

> Sociologists will find most provocative the author's alternative to Erving Goffman's analysis of self-consciousness. Both are mystics in the sense that they investigate the conditions causing someone to lose self-consciousness. But Goffman is what I would call a pessimystic, for in Frame Analysis (1974:378ff) he examines how the self disappears in the "negative experience" that results when situational contradictions increase its stress; Csikszentmihalyi is an optimystic, for he ex- amines how the self disappears in the "flow experience" that results when situational consonances decrease its stress

and "Anglophonia and Optimysticism: Sebastian Knight’s Bookshelves"

> The Anglophone universe becomes a linguistic afterlife in which Nabokov optimistically hopes to resurrect his Russian art, just as he “optimystically” (the pun belongs to Sebastian Knight’s “Dean Park”) expects that the otherworld preserves the spirits of his dead.

Further, https://archive.org/details/libraryjournal122sep/page/n489/m...

> Coauthors Taylor and Crain discuss the concept of "optimysticism," first intro- duced in Taylor's Messengers of Light. The phrase refers to the ability to see beyond the worst of situations to the mystery of goodness at the core of life.

and from 'The optimystic's handbook' at https://archive.org/details/optimysticshandb00tayl/page/n15/...

> Optimysticism is the choice we make not only to experience the best of this world but also to see beyond this world into eternity, and in doing so, to live the mystery of the fullest here on earth.

No well established meaning.

Relevant paragraph IMO:

> First, it includes an appeal to trust, which is a line of reasoning with which I don't agree. You can't trust your colleagues, just like you can't trust yourself. A code review serves more purposes than keeping malicious actors out of the code base. It also helps catch mistakes, security issues, or misunderstandings. It can also improve shared understanding of common goals and standards. Yes, this is also possible with other means, such as pair or ensemble programming, but from that, it doesn't follow that code reviews can't do that. They can. I've lived that dream.

I think that the other counter-argument discussed in the article can't confute Farley because, contrary to the author's stated intentions, it is in fact a straw man. The author focuses on the benefits of "asynchronous" workflows over "synchronous" ones: i.e., in his words, reviewing pull requests is easier (for an introvert like himself, at least) than dealing with the social stress involved in pair/ensemble programming.

To "disable" the Dock — not really: it will pop up sometimes, e.g. when some icon bounces, but anyway — you can

    defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide -bool true
    defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 100
    killall Dock

Here 100 is how many seconds you will have to keep the cursor on the edge of the screen before the Dock appears. You could set it to 3 or 5 should you need the Dock sometimes but don't want to trigger it by accident.

[Edit: Autohide can be toggled on/off also with ⌥+⌘+D. You can use the combination to show/hide the Dock, paired with a high autohide delay.]

Thanks! Yep, I used to set the delay to a long time, but I gave it up because my post above is a slight lie -- when something pops up in the dock to notify me, I go to the dock to see what the heck it was. That one use case caused me to give up setting a long delay because of how f'ing annoying it is for something to pop up, and then need (I think I set it to) 5 seconds to figure out what it was.

> but Iraq war was a good thing for Iraq

I wouldn't even know where to start. This is such an obviously illogical argument. I mean, man, c'mon.

> it would force advertisers to use less effective ad text to avoid filters.

That seems counterproductive to me. I mean, ads would still be annoying. And that’s why we block them.

I decline to accept ads because I don't want professional manipulators tricking me into acting against my best interests. I consider myself fairly good at resisting manipulation, but these are highly skilled experts backed by the full power of modern neuroscience, and they aim to catch me off guard. Adverts are hazardous to view, and you should not do so without utmost mental focus and discipline, which is impractical during general browsing.

The avoidance of annoyance is a just bonus.

"Tricked by professional manipulators". I like that phrasing over what I've tried to use: "mind control". Makes me sound like a conspiracy wacko.

> My father for example always used Android. [...]

> [H]e got an iPhone and he find it more difficult to use [...]

I guess that's precisely because he is used to Android, not because iOS is more difficult.

Oh there are plenty of things that are way more difficult or impossible to do on iphone. An incomplete list:

1. Run a desktop window manager when connected to TV/monitor.

2. Share files using wifi direct or bluetooth.

3. Download torrents.

4. Switch between front and back cameras while recording a video.

5. Play fortnite.

6. Copy files to/from a flash drive.

7. Cast screen to TV.

8. Copy whatsapp chats from older phone.

> 6. Copy files to/from a flash drive.

It's possible (but yeah, it's been a problem for long).

Anyway:

> 4. Switch between front and back cameras while recording a video.

This is the only point that actually affects a typical user. The others are cherry-picked technological differences between the two platforms. They have nothing to do with usability, which is what people mean when they say iOS is simpler to use.

> 8. Copy whatsapp chats from older phone.

Yeah. If you kept the chats only locally (which you should).

> 5. Play fortnite.

Got me!

PS. I used Android for long and liked it. I just think iOS is somewhat nicer and safer to use for common people.

We may agree that piracy is theft, but 'ALittleLight has a point.

From Novembrer 2011 — when it was published — to September 2012 — when the author believes it's been "pirated" — there is a window of just 10 months. Not 21 months. 10 months.

Now, did sales beging to drop only after September? Were them already going down? How long before? How do sales typically go over time for books? For Amazon books? Other possible causes?

Moreover, I think your analogy is completely off. Here is a better one.

You can't find your credit card anymore. You are notified of suspect online payments by your bank. Thinking about it, you're quite sure you left it at the supermarket; and you somehow conclude that that sneaky cashier must have stolen it.

But it turns out, your son got a trojan while trying to pirate a PlayStation game on your family PC with the magnificent Windows XP, and your card number was saved in Google Chrome.

Except the emacs sequence will get you tendinitis in the long run, won't it?

It depends on the usage, I guess. I have been using Emacs with its stock key-bindings for more than 10 years. I don't even remap my Caps Lock to behave like Ctrl like many others do. Yet I have never felt any issues due to repetitive strain yet. I do touch-type though which means I use the left Ctrl/Alt/Shift key while typing a key on the right side of the keyboard and I use the right Ctrl/Alt/Shift for typing a key on the left side of the keyboard. Maybe that distributes the repetitive strain evenly to both hands.

In the Emacs world, while remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl helps in reducing strain for many people, it also causes strain for some people. Every time, this discussion comes up in the Freenode #emacs channel, I have always noticed someone mentioning that remapping Caps Lock to behave like Ctrl caused them RSI.

Surprisingly, I did suffer from pain due to repetitive strain under the base of my forefinger once which seemed to be linked to overuse of mouse. The repetitive clicking, dragging and dropping in the Windows world nearly 10 years ago had taken a toll on my right hand forefinger. Taking inspiration from how we use keyboard with both hands, I then taught myself to use mouse with both hands (alternating between left hand and right hand every hour or so) and the pain gradually disappeared.

That's why your rebind Caps Lock to act as your foot pedal.

Yes, that's why I use Vim and not Emacs. Much easier on the hands.

I also avoid using hjkl all the time and use the arrow keys to counter RSI.

> The argument for censorship against stupidity assumes exactly that, that the majority of people are stupid which they are not.

It's not censorship against stupidity. It's censorship against bullshitters who spread medical misinformation that may put people in danger; factually untenable opinions, expressed in an assertive manner, in a context which seems authoritative to the layperson.

Nobody says the majority is stupid, nor it is relevant. Protecting a minority is as good an excuse as it is protecting the majority, don't you think?

My point was that we should and can understand the difference between sources of bad information and good information, this is and should be taught in schools. I don’t think we should protect the minority by limiting everyone. We could make a safety vs security argument but in my opinion we should protect children only and allow adults to make stupid mistakes. This is why we have drinking age, smoking age and drivers license ages. At some point we need to assume a level of intelligence in the population and in accordance allow freedom to make mistakes.

The original game in Let's Make a Deal went exactly like you described. Monty Hall opened the remaining doors; no option to switch.

Then there is the ambiguity as whether the host will always offer you to switch or just when he hasn't revealed the car.