mjangle1985

I still have an M1 Air. I love it.

I considered upgrading but it’s hard to care to cause my M1 is just so good for what I need it for.

WPF is probably your best bet for desktop UI if you want to stay in the MS ecosystem.

"A lot" of the data wasn't sourced from Open Elections. Derek's claim is not true. As far as I know one user used Open Elections data for a portion of their total contributions (and attributed it in their PR).

"Many" of the contributors (myself included) used primary sources for their data.

The one contributor that used OE data cited it and it was a small portion of their overall contributions.

Join the discord and hit them with some questions. I'm sure they'll be happy to answer you.

New York is a great example of weirdness.

New York allows candidates to be the nominees even if the candidates aren't in that party. So you had Joe Biden as the nominee for the Democratic Party and then Joe Biden also listed as the nominee for the Working Families party.

Just weirdness like that abounds in the data in almost every state.

In addition a lot of the reporting for precincts was county level, so states wouldn't have a csv that contained all precinct level voting data so you have to go to each county to get that data. Some states have a lot of counties. PA for example has 67 and each county publishes data in a different format with different values.

It's tedious and honestly impossible to automate (at least in the case of PA).

Hospital data bounty is the only one they have running right now but that one is still early so there's lots left to do and plenty of data left to source.

They are launching another bounty later this week for college course data.

So data was accepted via pull requests.

The maintainer will review a PR and either accept the PR or ask you to modify it to better fit their requirements or reject it.

For example one of their requirements were no 0 vote rows. So that's a pretty simple SQL query on the database and can be checked before the maintainer does a merge.

All data was required to be sourced. I got most of my data from state and county websites so those links were included with the comments in the PR.

In addition I was in communication with the team via their discord so they would ask for changes to PRs from there also.

I participated in this bounty, it was a blast.

The team at Dolthub is great and extremely accessible on their discord. These bounties seem like a great use case for their tech.

If you're into git and data (like I am) then these bounties are just awesome.

>then why should physical life develop them?

The comparison I've always liked is the "steam whistle set off by a locomotive". The steam whistle has no causal efficacy on the locomotive but is a waste byproduct of a steam engine.

Consciousness shouldn't have any causal effect on physical processes (assuming a strictly materialist framework), if it's explained as a byproduct of functioning physical processes it tends to deal with the issues 'consciousness' has that are in inherently in conflict with strict materialism.