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Latin was the international language of Europe for almost a thousand years after the collapse of the Roman Empire, during which time many scientific advancements were made. There are plenty of Latin words for things that didn't exist in Antiquity.
> your average garage setup is not remotely capable of rifling a barrel.

I'm going to argue the point. Yes, your average suburban weekend warrior won't have the stuff. But if you are even slightly into machining, you almost certainly can.

Practically every machining magazine will have at least one article about rifling in every issue.

Yes, you need a metal lathe and some tooling. Those are neither rare nor that expensive--and very old lathes and tooling work just fine.

The biggest problem a machinist always has is space for the equipment.
The second statement is false.

How much a candidate raises has been correlated to ability to win.

That eliminates anyone that can’t raise money.

And Kavanaugh’s nomination casts doubt on the third statement. You can be a vile POS, but become a SCOTUS judge so long as you’re networked with the right people.
QUESTION: What is the difference between an "accredited" investor giving a company money at a billion dollar valuation and just another regular person?

If A16Z gives a company 100M at a 1B valuation, it becomes a unicorn. Does the same apply if my neighbor gives me 400M for 40% (1B valuation) of my company? Does that make my company a unicorn?

If it does, what about if he gives me $1000 for 1 millionth of my company? Or maybe with 5 or 6 other investors bringing on their $1000 as well at the same valuation and adding validation?

Whose valuation counts and why?
Not to mention a lot of disruptive ideas are poorly executed leading to wonderful headlines but sub-par products/assets.
This isn't true. Developer-signed applications can be sideloaded on iOS.
The one thing I value in co-workers is consistency, I'd sooner someone be a consistent dick than wildly swing about the place like a wrecking ball, I can route around dickheads when I know where they'll be at that point in time..
> True, saturating a GPU is actually really really hard.

That's true, but GPUs have over 100x the FLOPs of a CPU.

This means that if you write a GPU-program with only 5% utilization (that's 95% idle), you still are going to be 5x faster than a perfectly utilized CPU.

When you have 100x the raw FLOPs and 10x the memory bandwidth... you can write a program that only utilizes 15% of a GPU and still end up with results way faster than any CPU would give you.

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CPUs are way easier to program though. CPUs actively look for work to do on your behalf: its like there's an optimization engine built into the chip itself (out-of-order scheduler, branch prediction, etc. etc.). So achieving high-utilization on CPUs is an easier job (but still hard).
Compared to e.g. Finnish or Norwegian driver education, the US system still looks like an absolute joke. Those countries have top speed limits of 75 mph and 70 mph, respectively. It's not got anything to do with Autobahn, per se.
I think you should have the email set up not to bounce and cancel accounts sent to that address just as readily as you cancel when they press the magic button. A lot of headaches and bad will considering anyone can cancel with their credit card and you might get screwed by your payment processor.
1.1.1.1 has issues with archive sites, had to stop using it. Cloudflare blamed the archive sites, but it works with other dns services, so I just stopped using 1.1.1.1.

Interestingly at work, I found out we couldnt even route to 1.1.1.1, but gave something to the network team to work on.

I too, jumped on the 1.1.1.1 bandwagon when lanched.
> most world issues are or were very profitable for someone

Can you elaborate a bit more?
> Given everything else YouTube already does, I seriously, no sarcasm, don't see this as a particularly problematic solution.

Isn't this punishing the users more than punishing YouTube? I get how these kind of videos would be banned in a country like Saudi Arabia, but in the USA, or much of Europe? Yes, CP should be disallowed, but kids playing in a pool adequately covered?
>Reality isn't just the initial rules. It has state. That state must be described for you to have a complete description of reality.

If reality is deterministic, then all the state is derivable from the rules and the initial state, and it's possible we could figure out the rules and initial state and become relatively sure of them. (We probably wouldn't be able to calculate the future, since evaluating the rules within reality probably necessarily takes more steps than reality takes during that time. But we might be able to calculate enough to see that it matches up with what we think the early universe must have looked like. We might notice that even the smallest of tweaks to the rules or initial state creates an avalanche of changes that doesn't line up with what we believe the early universe looked like, so we can be sure there are no free parameters.) It's fully possible that the rules and initial state could fit in someone's head. They might be ridiculously simple, like Conway's game of life in a few more dimensions.

(If you think "reality can't be deterministic because true randomness or quantum events exist", well you can fit true randomness into a deterministic theory by having the world branch of every random event outcome. The Many-Worlds Interpretation could be viewed as doing something like this for quantum events; it's a deterministic theory.)
'Salt water' pools are still using chlorine, just via a continuous process that maintains the right level of chlorine (splitting the salt: NaCl). Much easier to maintain. If the system has a super chlorination function (periodically gives a burst of increased chlorine, e.g. overnight) you don't have to shock the pool very often.

Big municipal pools have continous chemistry monitoring so they can achieve the same effect with less electricity. They can also increase the flow rate when there are more people etc.
A 12 year old girl, whispering in a sexual manner, wearing a stripper style police outfit, saying things like "I need to leave for my tinder date tonight" and "this is never happening" while pointing at the camera and herself. (and that's just the first 30 seconds)

I'm sorry If you think that's "kids having fun" you belong on a cross.

Edit (more details on exactly why this is wrong): It's shot in the style of POV porn videos that are popular today, the driver is male (why not female if the purpose is not sexual), his name is used infrequently as possible (don't want to ruin the immersion of the viewers), she holds up handcuffs and suggests that she "might have to use them on you", the outfit either doesn't fit or is purposefully open in her chest area, she is wearing exaggerated makeup and has press on nails in a manner fitting of a central casting prostitute.

It's about as extreme as you can get without the FBI coming knocking on your door. I'm a atheist and I'm praying that someone, somewhere in law enforcement is keeping a close eye on her. Poor girl.
We have the option of trying to limit or reverse the changes we've made to our biosphere. If we instead mitigate the main symptom via dimming the sun, we're likely to simply burn all the carbon we can find.

But that still leaves us with the other symptoms (ocean acidification) and unknown side effects.

So it's not a cost benefit analysis, because it only looks at the known costs. Here the known downside of an acid ocean and the unknown cost of side effects dwarf the actually calculable financial costs.

If we could run a thousand earth simulations we could speak of cost benefit analysis. But we just have one, and we know the conditions we grew our civilization in.

We may well have to do sun shading regardless, but we shouldn't call it a mere ten billion.

Edit: I guess to more properly respond to your original point: things may get very bad even if we do sunshades. Just via other mechanisms. Having the option will likely encourage a much higher co2 level than without sunshades.
I’m not so sure.

His objectives state he is looking to build what is basically a custom jet with a 100mi range and 22lb payload. This significantly out performs the custom RC model turbine jets I found online, and their total weight fueled was like 50lb.

one I found, used, was ~$6K.

https://www.ebay.com/bhp/rc-turbine
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It’s the same in the US

The masses are bought in and ignore it

Not one of the judges on the SC questions the correctness of the process

They just regurgitate the things they’ve been taught and studied

There is no more outside the box consideration of the system here than there is in India

And this forum is just as emotionally blind to it as all the others
Pretty interesting, thanks! Is there a way to run this locally?

Apart from that, I find what really stops me from using such tools is the lack of control over the layout of slides. Just saying use CSS isn't really enough for me! I found gitpitch to offer pretty good layout options, but the service is too commercial for my taste.
> Sometimes there is no good way that helps you and the company at the same time.

and

> I didn't say I'm opposed to the company's goals. That's something different.

Are in conflict. It's possible you only think of goals as in, "Grow by 50% this quarter" and not, "Maximize the productivity of my team," but that's incorrect. If the company has a goal of "deploy during off hours", it can be done in a way that benefits the employee and the employer. CI/CD for example.

The thing is, even the productivity goal can be done in a mutually beneficial way, but your philosophy doesn't allow for that, and that makes the "zero sum" or "as little as possible" philosophy a toxic one.
Making it difficult to cancel is not a good way to keep churn down. It's going to come back and bite him if that's the way it still works. His customers are clearly telling him the current system is broken.
I watched a bit of one of his videos after it was linked to on here. So creepy! I can't imagine who watches and enjoys all his stuff. He was much creepier and more disturbing than any of the videos he played. Do he and his viewers frame it as investigation, news, valuable service to the community, or something? Just seemed creepy and exploitative (He makes money from showing videos and ranting about no-one should see them, I guess), porn for hypocritical prigs... Like those christians who spend their lives railing against porn and sin - not noticing they enjoy it on some level.
Looks like the page got slashdotted, it loaded halfway for me five minutes ago and is completely down now.
Because a few people subscribe (family and friends), and I put them in a playlist, and so on.

I mean, I don't care. She's just playing at the playground. I didn't think about it at the time, I guess I could, but I don't see why it matters. If I was concerned about anything, it would be about creepy people seeing her in the real world.
No, just like votes that happened just before new EU members joined in the past weren't revisited. You're either in or you're out. Britain's still in, and thus still gets to vote.
My favorite fake animal fact now.
Agreed. In Houston, the people are all incredibly passive aggressive, clueless or blind to folks in the left lane. If someone is behind me approaching at a high rate of speed, I get out of the way. Why this is not someones first instinct blows my mind. I actually did quite a bit of driving in Colorado this summer and was amazed at how courteous most people were in this respect. In Houston and most of Texas, the left lane seems to be where people that don't want to ever change lanes congregate, so I have to pass on the right.
Yes, I am easily scared by strangers on the Internet espousing clearly deranged, off-tilt rants that remind me of some of the shit I say.
Rather than doing this on the individual company level, which leads to all kinds of problems that many other comments here have noted, it would make sense to do this on an industry-wide level. We should have something like a "Master Engineer" credential that should require another master to vouch for you and some rigorous testing. If implemented correctly then it would become obvious that asking FizzBuzz type questions to master engineers is a waste of everyone's time. If we want to be treated like professionals, we should have professional standards. After all, when doctors go for job interviews nobody asks "what is a cell?"or to diagram the Krebs cycle on a whiteboard.
Part of the problem is the publishers. They know what they are uploading and want it to be public. You are taking the analogy too far.
That only helps in punishing the wrongdoer. If you can avoid being a victim in the first place, yes, the wrongdoer will get away with doing something wrong (though much less wrong than if you succeeded in becoming a victim; e.g., he's guilty of running a red light rather than running a red light and causing a crash that resulted in someone's death), but the price you pay for making the wrongdoer guilty of a greater crime (homicide) is your life. Is that really worth it?

The whole right vs. wrong thing is only useful in assigning blame when something really bad happens, and society wants to punish someone to achieve "justice". But having justice isn't really useful if you're dead, and not really worth it IMO if you're maimed for life. It's better to avoid the whole incident in the first place. "Justice" is nothing more than a concept society created to prevent people from seeking personal vengeance.
If you're willing to hustle/keep at it, yep, the name isn't much of a problem.

Having the Americanized name instantly lowers the difficulty though. Anecdotal, but I've seen this myself as well.
I really like this. I've blocked Disqus for years so I'm hoping you see adoption and I can start participating in more discussions on sites I visit.
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I didn't have a semester-long driver's ed, but there was a class for a series of Saturdays at a local AAA office, with a guy who spent much of the time showing us old-school Cosby stand-up, and four sessions of driving instruction with an AAA instructor. This was worth the money to my parents because they got a savings on insurance.
We just got a pool recently (salt-water chlorinator), and the advise out there on how to maintain one is just utter superficial garbage. I'd never heard your statement before, and I thought the shocking was just to keep the right level of chlorine. Seems like all the advice is heavily biased towards just getting your local pool shop to tell you what you need to add!

Your comment on ozone made me do some quick searching, and [0] suggests to me that I should also run my pool pump for longer at lower RPM. I'm interested too in how I can minimise the cost of running the pool, which that will help with.

[0] https://aquamagazine.com/service/ozone-and-uv-systems-allow-...
That single person you are paying a sub-par wage won't be providing 24/7/365 support, which is a big benefit of AWS / cloud providers. It's also a bit of insurance on your hardware in case of failures, free replacement. Finally, if something catastrophic was to happen, with a recent-ish offsite backup it's usually pretty trivial to setup on a different region or even cloud provider. With your own hardware, that's a bit harder.

I agree though with one of the parents, AWS costs here can likely be significantly reduced. I cut costs in half by (a) reserving instances and (b) thinking about EBS and downgrading / downsizing where possible rather than using the defaults.
Isn't using this service just asking for your Gmail account to be banned? Even if the emails are legitimate, if only a small percentage of recipients report them as spam you'll probably be turned off.
The sexual assault allegations addressed by the reopening of his confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court seem to have made everyone forget the fairly blatant perjury about his role in Bush Admin torture policy in his confirmations hearings for the D.C. Circuit that was addressed (but let slide) in the first round of his Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
The problem is 200 passwords being compromised, including my emails which are used to reset everything else. I can't fix it faster than the thief can wreck my digital life, and everything is digital now. I couldn't even start until I somehow convince my email provider who I am and to change the password for me.

If this ever happens, best plan would probably be to change your email password immediately, banks next, and freeze your credit as soon as possible.
I've gotten pulled over on the SF <=> LA I-5 before for going 91 MPH (somewhere in the middle on a steep downhill). The policeman told me with a straight face that I should go no faster than 65 MPH.
As a parent you should be able to share to a private FB, a private IG, a private YT account. That's fine, because you presumably have control over who sees those photos (hopefully people you actually know).

I'm also not talking about someone sharing a photo publicly with someone else's kid in the background.

I just mean as a parent you should need consent to share a video of your kids to a public social media channel. If your kid cannot give consent because they are underage or refuses, then you shouldn't be able to share it.
I always felt terrible for the chain smoking crossing guard that never abandoned his post. Until little pete took over and made mad cash out of it. But a young Buscemi and king of the road were my favorites.
I refuse to think that the Apple people designing the keyboard were so incompetent they didn't consider non-cleanroom usage.
making it less desirable to drive will reduce greenhouse gases. making it more desirable to drive will increase them.
Fun story for you on that:

I applied numerous time for their Failure Analysis Engineer, Reliability Engineer, and other similar positions but repeatedly got rejected (or simply ignored by their ATS, I don’t play that keyword game very well).

My professional career in Materials Science and Materials Engineering has had a large focus on reliability testing and failure analysis. In parallel with inventing new technologies or pioneering research projects I have had to rigorously test and verify the robustness of the products. To put it plainly: the position descriptions were me. I had a bit more experience and qualifications but not so much that I was “over qualified”.

When I see some of the things that get through their engineers, I scratch my head and wonder what’s going on internally. Is there a lack of empowerment? Are those positions more or less for show and, while filled with legitimate engineers, not really leveraged as they should be?

At any of the places I’ve worked stuff that Apple has let slip through would have never flown.

The iPhone 5S compass/accelerometer issue (those of you who had it know, it was a bummer) and solving that by replacing the phone with another faulty one? The 2010-MacBook Pro discrete and integrated GPU switching failure? Right now I’m sitting in front of a 2017 MBP that has been used as a stationary desktop and babied with a keyboard cover and much TLC that has strange screen artifacts that seem to indicate that it was pinched or there’s adhesive in those regions while the rest of the screen is trying to pull away? Whatever it is has been there since I got it and I didn’t realize it wasn’t suppose to be that way until recently.

I stopped applying to Apple because nothing was coming of it and the thought of working for a company that claims to be detail oriented but let’s that stuff slip through was enough to put me off.

What’s inspiring though is that it gives their competitors and easy way to jump on the market. I’ve seen plenty new students choose Surface Books or Pro’s over Apple computers or tablets.

There’s a point where companies forget to continue earning their success.

I expect the foldable phone technologies have gone through considerable cyclic testing. That doesn’t mean that some manufactured ones won’t be flawed and that also doesn’t mean that people won’t be doing normal consumer things that cause failure sooner, but it’s likely these won’t be too bad.
If the theory of evolution is correct, then there is no why to any animal trait. There's no "reason" for the traits, it only happens that maybe some traits allowed the species to survive longer and so they are still around today, but that doesn't mean "someone" enforced a certain trait with a certain purpose.

So, a more scientifically oriented title should be: What do Stripes do for Zebras? Shoo away flies.
"nation state identity is equally as arbitrary and artificial as a continent identity."

I would disagree.

Nation states are formalizations of ethnic groups and they did arise naturally. They are not arbitrary.

'Sweden' is where the 'Swedes' live, essentially. And they have for a very long time.

There is not much arbitrary about the nation states of Europe, they mostly have clear historical orientation.

The Habsbourg Empire - now that is an 'artificial state'. Spain, Netherlands, Austria, Hungary etc.. It faded ultimately because it was arbitrary.

WW1 - which has it's roots in turmoil within the Austro-Hungarian Empire (read: the succession of Habsbourg dynasty) - was caused at least in part by this 'arbitrary' mapping.

'Europe' is surely where 'Europeans live' - but - the 'EU' is not Europe. Many citizens (in some cases majorities) voted against the Treaty of Lisbon which gave the EU it's most powerful legal status, and most citizens didn't really have a vote.

The EU is a body politic, a rather undemocratic one, it's not quite the same as 'Europe'.

The legislation in question should be a pan-European concern, and I believe it belongs at the level of the EU, even if the EU is oddly constructed and has way too much power.

I don't think it's really a national issue in any sense, there doesn't seem to be any clear boundaries on this.

There are ideological advocates on all sides, and very specific economic forces from a few different nations acting as impetus.
>Hopefully my kids will appreciate that we never posted pictures of them publicly on social media (only shared privately within immediate family). At the very least, it's one less thing they'll have to worry about as they grow up.

The trick is to live like it's 1980. We have many, many pictures of our child, but only 10-15 on social media (of things like winning sporting events or the like). Everything else is in digital form on drives in our home server or printed in physical frames. If/when the child decides they want to do something with their photos, there they are.

Also handy to have on the home server because we can turn any screen into a digital frame on our network. That will be great when they bring their first boy/girlfriend home.

People just feel the impulsive need to share literally everything on social media. Everything is a competition for likes and attention. It's disgusting.
Who cares about the financial impact when you've that sweet mysophobia to drive your decisions?
I'd be really interested in how many humans you'd consider "enough humans" to actually be able to make an impact?

Because it's quite easy to underestimate just how much content is constantly uploaded to YouTube, how much of it is watched and reported, on a per second basis [0].

With numbers like that, you could probably fully employ a small nation of people and still wouldn't be able to review and catch everything. That is the main reason why they try to automate all their solutions, they need to work at a massive scale, manual reviews simply can't do that.

[0] http://www.everysecond.io/youtube
> The thing is, even if someone is a perv and gets off on this sort of thing, it isn't endangering her.

Careful with that idea, it's some pretty enablist shit, and you most frequently hear it coming from the perverts themselves.
The Linux kernel has far too much C for this to be easy to do.
because they're driven by people.