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Not to just jump in with a +1.

I think the 'starting point' of the double slit experiment in explaining quantum physics to be a bit of a problem for me. It is grounded in real-world analogies and it seems more an example only used to break people from trying to ground quantum physics in macro analogies. Since it is grounded that way, I've found the discussion is always around the mechanics of it. Feynman's lecture on it is an example of just the kind of rabbit hole this discussion goes down trying to explain this. "If you put a microscope at the junction, it does...". "If you do .... it does this".

I'd start any discussion with, "Ok, the model you were told in HS is wrong. Forget particles, there are no little 'bowling balls' with a skin and an interior. Those were useful for a time, but they are no longer. To be clear, an electron is only something we have found through experiment to have these properties "

Then bring up the dual slit. Spin, the exclusion principle, etc.
The goal is to not enter into a debate about the 'dual slit' and just give the facts of what we see, then start coming up with explanations.

I found this quora answer helpful in modeling the type of answer that I see to always have wanted myself, https://qr.ae/TUfBFN
GDPR specifies fines up to 4% of annual global turnover or 20 million euros, whichever is greater. That seems like plenty enough bite, if it were enforced.
I prefer they don't.

It generalizes the people/region way too much, and selectively.

Good/Positive stories refer to the region in a generalized way, while the negative ones can get really specific, even though it is prevalent in more than one country.
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That's an even sillier steel-man.

Consumers are not good at making informed pharmaceutical choices on their own, and the idea that magazine advertisements showing smiling old people does anything to inform them is laughable.

Also, pharma doesn't market cures, they prefer to market long-term treatments that are recurring funding streams.
The Naval Gazing blog has a four-part series called "Why the Carriers Are Not Doomed" in which he makes the case: "Claims that US carriers are very vulnerable to missile attack, and will be sunk immediately in any upcoming war, are quite common. They’re also wrong. The carriers are surprisingly survivable, and the prowess of missiles is usually grossly exaggerated."

I don't have the expertise to fully evaluate the arguments, but it's worth a read before you fully swallow the "carriers are pointless because of anti-ship missiles" line.

https://navalgazing.obormot.net/Carrier-Doom-Part-1

https://navalgazing.obormot.net/Carrier-Doom-Part-2

https://navalgazing.obormot.net/Carrier-Doom-Part-3

https://navalgazing.obormot.net/Carrier-Doom-Part-4
I agree with you; guns are great when you're fighting enemies armed only with sharp sticks...

The first time the US has to deal with Anti-Ship cruise-missiles might be a bad day for them.
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Ikea still uses such a landing page if you go directly to ikea.com .
Does this help as a starting point? http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Nuclear/scatele.h...
Can you try something please?

- Clone the repo of any software you respect.

- Do a `git log --reverse`

You will see the commits from oldest to newest, and the path authors took to build that beautiful code you admire so much.

Bonus: it's also a way to learn.
The problem is a conventional ballistic missile launch of the type you use to sink a carrier is indistinguishable to a nuclear ballistic launch and you can't really vector trajectories very far in advance of losing counterstrike capability.

They're effectively not usable.
That was true back then, but the FF dev tools are much superior now. Chrome lags behind severely. Last I checked, clicking an XHR link in the console just took me to the network tab instead of actually showing that request. FF shows it inline in the console. Not to mention code caching bugs in Chrome even with the cache turned off. This is the primary reason I switched back to FF.
>We support a couple of languages that OSS-Fuzz doesn't (Go & Python as of now), which is why I thought this was worth mentioning :)

I thought the main benefit of fuzzing was finding memory security bugs. If your program is crashing or otherwise erroring out given crazy input that's something you want to fix because it is potentially exploitable. With Python/Go that's not really an attack vector. So what's the benefit from finding out that some crazy input crashes my Python program?
Is the idea of a hot, but non nuclear war with China realistic? I have a hard time picturing scenarios where China is sinking carriers which don't quickly escalate to full blown nuclear war

The announced (by PRC) invasion of Taiwan.
My impression is that by "the driver going to someplace they have no need of going", they meant "drivers going where the client goes exclusively because the client goes there", contrasting with the hitchhiking-like scenario implied by the word "ridesharing". Possibly, you interpreted that as questioning the client's real need of going?
> Free speech is about ideas, not being a dick.

You want to personally try to have civilized discussions where you resolve thorny issues that people are passionate about, and may hold utterly objectionable views about. Any given person should do that even if only from self-interest; why waste your life trolling?

The entire Gab application promotes an intellectual sewer, and that's because its business model (same as Twitter's) rewards bad behavior.

But "free speech" in the context of a protection is generally about needing to protect the speech of people who aren't polite, who have objectionable views, etc. And that's because they are still human beings and, absent material harm, have an inalienable right to self-expression.
Nah, you could still e.g. use a use after free to smash the return address or a vtable on a Harvard machine and execute a ROP chain. If it did speculative execution too it would probably be vulnerable to spectre. There's nothing special about Harvard machines when it comes to security.
This reason alone is tragic enough to NEVER use Chrome.

And of course it has a complete garbage resources management which can be easly tested by opening few hundred empty tabs.. (mostly freezes whole OS around 180-270 tabs on modern desktops)
This looks really cool! Fuzzing is something I've been looking into more and more as I learn about it. I'll definitely keep this in mind for the future. Have you guys considered Rust support?
organic chemists care about delivering boxes? I wouldn't be so sure
They’re great to muscle little countries around.
> Is it surprising that people are happier and better able to deal with their illness when they believe they are doing meaningful work and are useful to the people that surround them?

This is one of the many reasons that thinking that "poor people" are just lazy. To feel useful is a very basic human need. To the extend that even very rich people that does not need to work still does it.

> The sisters who ran the home, though perceiving his confusion and delusion, respected and even reinforced the identity of this somewhat demented resident, who, they felt, might fall apart if it were taken away.

Maybe a definition of sanity is the ability to deal with the lack of purpose. Most people is going to feel stressed and try to find a way to be useful again. Only when you are sick - whenever is dementia or depression - you stop being able to find your place in the world by yourself.
Junior developers need time and mentoring. Either expectations need to change or you really want a non junior developer.

If the individual is not able to do the learn the basics tasks, you may need to revisit their employment and possibly your hiring process
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I think a lot of that out of process, meaningful negotiation at large companies happens in the form of acquisitions. If you're very senior, it's much better to sell a company to Google than go there for a regular job.
In my previous corpo, we had some third-party software that would show an (unkillable) ticking clock counting hours to the forced maintenance reboot (starting at 12 hrs) when the admin has scheduled the updates installation. Predictable and much better than not saying anything, and silently rebooting when I go to get a tea with 10 apps opened.
Thank you for your service to science.
this seems to require a log in for me.
No, but it's also not necessarily obvious.

By "surprising," I mean that it does not contradict my model of how people behave. But by "obvious," I mean that, unprompted, I may not have considered it an important part of treatment.

My meta comment: don't dismiss something as "not surprising," and by proxy, not insightful or interesting if you had not already considered it.
Oops, that's a reading comprehension fail on my part.

I now know there are (hacky, unsupported) ways around it. But on principle, I should not have to fight my OS for control of the computer.
sure so if you had an unpatched windows spreading malware you would, of course, spring for all of the damages and take all the blame for yourself, right? And you would also write to every publication that would use this hypothetical situation to unfairly bad mouth windows security to demand a correction, right?

MS tried it, users didnt do it, they got blamed so now it's mandatory. Natural progression.
This seems... abusable. I get that's it's going to be great for the lake and everything, but given the clusterfuck of legal problems that come from corporate entities being given legal rights I'm hesitant about giving it to more entities that aren't actual humans.
A pyramid scheme...sorry..."Multi-level marketing" company is accused of scammy practices? Color me shocked!

There are whole blogs, podcasts, message boards, etc that are all about showing how multi-level marketing is just a flimsy set of guidelines to be able to legally dodge being busted for pyramid scheming.
The important thing to realize is that in a war scenario sortie rates are important.

Sortie rates and the ability to use full military power for just a little longer. Just the extra time it took to fly over the English Channel was a significant advantage for RAF pilots over German pilots in the Battle of Britain.
In the event that one of the 11 (or 10) biggest most expensive billion dollar things the US military owns is destroyed, I think congress can get together and amend the law at the time.
Indeed. The NX bit (which differentiates between executable and writable data) roughly approximates Harvard Architecture-like differences between types of memory, and likewise it cannot prevent code reuse attacks.
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And how much does a drone and a drone hour cost?
I felt deja vu while reading this post.
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Damn. I can barely read TFA. I mean, we'll all eventually face some sort of dementia. And death, of course. But when you're 70, it's much more immediate.

There were times in my life when I didn't do much except drift, play with drugs, seek sex, put my life at risk, etc, etc. All the serious stuff could wait. And WTF, there'd be global nuclear war any day now. So why bother?

Now I'm retired. There's no need to work, so all I do is putter. And my likely future is so short that there's no point in long-term planning. Also, and it's quite amusing, I don't need drugs to space out. I need them to stay focused. And to keep various physiological stuff from killing me.

So maybe I'm a lot like that patient in TFA. But there's a key difference: I've never been diagnosed and institutionalized. And dog willing, I'll die before I am.
It makes perfect sense, since Griffiths’ book is simply not enough to have a working knowledge of quantum, but might be barely enough to pass the GREs (I learned the Heisenberg and interaction pictures from Sakurai, not the pathetic footnote to a problem Griffiths relegates it to)
Not sure that I agree... with a few referrals, I've got more room on the free tier and mostly just keep some encrypted zip files with 2fa backups and software serial numbers... there's a few other odds and ends as well (shell scripts for mac/lin/win).
I've found talks on youtube to be very interesting. You can often just listen to them without watching the video. Some links:

Allen institute lectures about neuroscience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtPgW1ebxmE&list=PLOpjORaUU7...

A talk about the insight Mars lander by the guy who proposed the mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXyLaER23aU

Climate change (focused on Boston but he really knows his stuff): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MToNKd6RQhk
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How many of our carriers have actually been destroyed? Until we have some real-world data, your assumption doesn't hold water. Missiles and missile defense are incredibly complex beasts that almost never work quite as well operationally as expected.
> But that makes no sense. You're spending resources protecting against a scenario that is effectively impossible. The term for that is paranoia.

It makes no sense to insist that aliens would think as you think they should. That doesn't even make sense for humans in most cases.

> You can't hide either, the signals are already out there, they know where you are.

That's arguably not true.
So here is what I don't get about this stuff.

What happens to the in-flight requests? Don't a few users run into random errors whenever a host is killed unexpectedly?

You could have your loadbalancer retry everything that fails, but then wouldn't every single request in your app have to be idempotent?
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You're right about 1, sorry.

Obesity and diet are very much related to care and access. If you can't afford to go to the doctor unless you're dying, nobody is going to tell you when your cholesterol is getting too high and you should adjust your diet, or your blood sugar is getting into the warning zone, or whatever.

We have such high obesity because we don't focus enough on preventative care, and lots of people can't afford preventative care even if they want it.
The benchmark in "Texture Mode" just shot my system as well. (Older MacPro, Firefox 65.0.1) No visual response anymore / hard system reset required.

This is why computing on the GPU with code loaded by a web page isn't a good idea.
Why the Carriers Are Not Doomed Part 1
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> better privacy

Pardon ? Its completely opposite, same with performance, try to open more than 100 tabs on firefox and chrome..
Yeah you’re right. In my defense.. Risk of being rooted before security update: unknown, possible. Risk of being rooted after security update: unknown, possible.

Meh.
I think conventional wisdom is basically that in the event of a hot war with a major power like China, carriers and much of the rest of the surface fleet would send spend the war in port. They're too expensive and too vulnerable to missile attack to risk.

Their real purpose (aside from being a big make-work project) is to project force during peace time and during wars with adversaries that can't afford large numbers of the latest and greatest missiles.
Ship-to-ship naval warfare has practically gone extinct since World War II. The Navy is mostly used as another Air Force that doesn't require either established airbases or amphetamines to carry out sorties. This is because the US and its allies have a preexisting status of unquestioned naval supremacy already. Russia's access to the sea is almost completely bottled up by geography and nobody else has built close to as many ships as we have. In this environment, the focus naturally shifts from sea warfare to using naval forces to attack land targets.

Also, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers require a lot of specialized shipyard and drydock infrastructure that doesn't really pay off if you're only going to build one or two of them. That's why the Charles de Gaulle has been so expensive and why the Royal Navy didn't go nuclear with the QE class. So it only really makes sense, in an alliance, for one country to shoulder the particular burden of operating all the supercarriers. And of all the countries that aren't allied with us, Russia isn't going to waste time building supercarriers because they can't reach the open ocean in wartime anyway and China seems to be in the early stages of trying to do so themselves.
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There must be others in Belfast (Northern Ireland) lurking around here? Should we get a meetup sorted?
Apologises that is a direct link to access... To see our privacy policy and how we plan to monetize:
https://www.haystackapps.com

In short, we give out the free version for files, documents, your history. Our paid version allows you to search Sales, Marketing and other information in an aggregated form.

Completely agree though, we probably should put that somewhere on that signup page so that people know how we make money (otherwise it does sound like we would need to do something iffy to still be around in a years time!).

Appreciate the question, also the direct link to the privacy document:
https://www.haystackapps.com/privacy
No one is quite the overstatement, and I suspect it is completely wrong. Anecdotally, I and several people I know switched to Chrome when it came out due to it's blazing speed.

It would seem that was the case for many more people, see for example for a fairly old article:
https://www.cnet.com/news/why-i-switched-from-firefox-to-chr...

Of course, many were using plugins with Firefox which contributed to the speed advantage of Chrome. But milliseconds matter, even program startup time.
I wouldn't call it common. People with advanced degrees are less likely to end up in low paying jobs: https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/valueofcollegemajors/

But, it can happen for a variety of reasons, including mental illness, illness or other issues with family that result in the loss of a position. Did you ask this delivery guy why he's doing this job if he used to be a chemist? Believe it or not, sometimes people get tired of doing these kinds of jobs and decide instead to do something less stressful. I don't know how old "15 years your senior" is in this instance, but it could be a retirement job or a side hustle to get him through a rough patch. Who knows.

Can it happen to you? Certainly, it could happen to anyone without generational wealth. That is, if you don't have 6 figures invested and generating passive income, you could very well end up doing a low paid job for a long time. Plan accordingly: network, keep up to date with hot skills, and/or marry rich.
Strict IQ tests will select for a certain subset of the population, that's usually divided by socio-economic lines which highly correlate with race. That's not to say that certain races have intelligence correlations, but that IQ tests test for knowledge that is diffused along socio-economic lines.

You can look at white boarding as proxy IQ tests or aptitude tests, the latter of which are customized for the role in question. I'm on the fence when it comes to deciding which bucket white boarding falls into.
The derogatory word choice aside I'm surprised that this is even in the form, especially location independent, because there must be jurisdictions where asking for an employees ethnicity is or borders on discrimination.
The letter/art is copyright Geoffrey Sampson. Imagine the gall it takes to claim someone else's work as your own.

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It could never deploy multi-process with XUL cruft. Then the argument would be that Firefox is too far behind. You can never win everybody.
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In 2004 95% of browsers were IE, firefox was on 2.7% (TheCounter.com)

By 2009 this had dropped to 70%, with Firefox and Safari on 20% and 6%. Chrome hadn't even launched.

The hard work had been done -- people were using things other than IE, and it was growing.

Firefox then plateaued and Chrome built on this, in 2012 not a single browser had more share than 33% share.

After that things started going pear-shaped, and chrome started snowballing into monopoly
Of course, in those scenarios a much smaller, less expensive carrier would be just as useful. The difference between a full-on supercarrier and something more modest, like the America-class assault ships (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assau...), is kind of moot when the OPFOR is a bunch of guys in Toyota trucks.

And a smaller carrier would allow the Navy to field more of them at the same cost, which would mean being able to "show the flag" in more places simultaneously without having to run a few ships ragged trying to cover them all at once.
The only reason I was able to learn any math in college is because you don't need a computer to do it, so you can avoid the distractions. A browser, the source of all the distractions, seems like a really bad place to learn math.
By simply being in the same room the machine is in, you have agreed to the EULA and you can take it up with MS in forced arbitration.
US munitions being lower quality is debatable- US munitions and equipment were more generally more reliable than German equivalents. There were some doctrinal differences that led to some unfortunate design decisions, but what was made was well-executed.
The better question is why would you care? GPGPU has nearly no use outside of HPC applications, and nobody in that world is going to bother trying to make their supercomputer run Chrome.

Otherwise for anything "GPGPU" in usage it tends to really just be "GPU" - like applying filters to images. That's just running a shader on a texture, it's something you can do quite naturally in WebGL already.

GPGPU had a lot of buzz a few years back, but it's basically just a niche usage these days.
yes, chrome was part of google's hedge against microsoft, but microsoft poorly understand the web and badly bungled their internet strategy, to the point that it seemed that they were desperately trying to cede the leadership position to anyone but themselves. google really hadn't needed to worry about microsoft there.

make no mistake, chrome's primary strategic purpose was to control the web in ways that extended and solidified google's reach in search, ad views, and personal data. they flanked it with a suite of tools (e.g., gmail, maps), content (e.g, youtube), and platforms (e.g., android) and made them work best on chrome (à la microsoft with IE).

chrome phones home constantly and uses increasingly intrusive techniques to identity us (like requiring a google account). whether you believe it's benign or not, that's surveillance. they're slowly boiling the pot and we're the frogs.
Following on with a generic upvote for the Naval Gazing blog, which got its start in the comments section of another blog and has become a source of very interesting pieces and research on its own.
A land war would be completely unnecessary. China could be blockaded long enough to cripple their export-based economy. (Hence the importance of naval power in particular.)