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> I find this to be true whenever I fast for 12+ hours. It feels like I'm on a drug.

Totally this - when I was suffering with anorexia, in the early days where I was skipping meals all the time and burning fat, I felt amazing. Literally, "skipping down the streets because I had so much energy" amazing.

Just remember to eat afterwards or you'll f* yourself up. Please.
No worse than Voss, Fiji, or Mountain Valley Spring. Looks like they're going to sell it for similar prices, too. Article title is a bit inflammatory, but there's massively overpriced spring water out there already.
You know, I hear shit like this all the time but I’ve never experienced it in the 500 hours I’ve played pubg.

The most extreme form of cheating I’ve seen is a few people using no-recoil scripts, and I’ve never had a problem with the behavior of Chinese players. In fact, I’ve gotten to learn a bit of the language to communicate with them, and it’s great fun to try and cross the language barrier. They often reciprocate, I’m kinda sad I might potentially see less of them.

Maybe it’s because I’m on desktop? Who knows...
There’s probably room for us both to be right, as MS is such a massive company with zillions of products.

I’m coming at it mostly as a client-side developer, comparing to platforms like macOS, iOS and Android (and the web!) where things are constantly in flux, with new APIs added and old ones deprecated.

Compared to those, Windows and .NET are extremely stable; they add new APIs, sure, but old ones tend to stick around and keep working for a long time (some would argue too long).

That’s not to say I like Microsoft platforms and APIs; they tend to be badly-designed, buggy and fragmented. But in my experience at least, old MS APIs keep on working whereas old Google APIs get deprecated and shut down. It’s a very different developer experience, with different upsides and downsides.
Either way, it feels like step back. Kotlin compiles quite nicely to javascript as well.
"no need to get all SJW about it"

I cannot express how much I detest this phrase or the similarly vile German equivalent 'Gutmensch'. Turning the good impetus or empathy into something negative is just evil. One should really rethink the use of the term.

Not to say the 'toxic masculinity' is not a terrible term as well since it can easily be misunderstood as (any) masculinity being toxic -- not just exaggerated, testosterone-overcharged masculinity.
I just like the idea that somewhere out there in the universe, there is a minor business envoy to the q'Zickl floating in a waiting lounge, complaining that 'There's much less tentacle room these days than there was a millennia or two ago when hopping business class to Miami. Yes, that Miami, the one in the Horsehead Nebulae. I know, they've made the shuttle smaller due to the greens regulating inertial mass per passenger again. I'd feed those greenshifters to unts.'
I think you're speaking to a point the parent wasn't really making. All they're saying is that being known as the canonical source for a brand gives you a steep discount on bidding for that brand name.

We can quibble about the philosophical role of modern search engines I
guess, but the basic idea is just that it should be easy to defensively bid on your own thing.
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Yes, I got that, but if you are closing a design loop around a noisy, bad aimed target, you'll get worse results.
As long as it works, you're right.

The difference is what happens when it doesn't. What happens when Venmo decides you cannot buy porn or marijuana or whatever, you simply can't.

Or what happens when you can't get a bank account? You're locked out of the ecosystem.

This is one of the reasons why cryptocurrencies exists. To provide a system for when nothing else works.
Grandparent is talking about religious fasting, not a diet. It's likely not about calories.
None of the politics above implied involvement with the public; the public are generall a periphery in this discussion and possibly a detriment to inform the public too much about the details of what's going on, which would allow the public to speculate and make their own decisions.
In a house with central A/C, does the crack under the door of a closed room/office suffice for properly ventilating and circulating the air?
You can compare the phones here: https://store.google.com/magazine/compare_pixel
Who said it wasn't complicated?

Using SQL with JDBC isn't a synonym for bare bones string concatenation.

Offload complex queries to external files, or better yet, stored procedures.
> especially given the monumental failure of the "calories in calories out" model.

Can you explain this in more detail? CICO seems like it might oversimplify things but it always seemed like a really sane basis for helping shape your diet. If you need to lose weight, you should plan meals to create a calorie deficit. But yes, I would not be surprised to learn that fasting on day X and consuming double your normal calories on day X+1 are not equivalent.

The description of CICO as a "monumental failure" sounds like there's substantial evidence to the contrary -- can you share more info?
One example of a "weird thing" is to be a recovering alcoholic who wants to occasionally have a more ornate or interesting non-alcoholic beverage in their hand in social settings.
This is a good point.

I don't mean this as a what-about, but it's worth noting: any ballots that list the party of the candidates or offer single-action straight-party votes are effectively a subtle form of a ballot pre-populated by an interested party.
> If Uber stole $25 from me, it isn't worth taking a day off work to go to the arbitration session.

You're sending a pretty strong signal there. Do you know who's listening for it?

I bet that this personal data, that you are giving away money is really valuable to some 3rd party.
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I've never had this problem (constraint violations result in errors for me) -- did you file a ticket?

Like others have said, I'd also love to see if you've written anything about this!

How do you deal with queries that are slightly formulaic & different or need to be assembled dynamically? do you use any query builder at all?
> I know you shouldn't try to take off a helmet in case of an accident,

At least here in Germany this advice is considered outdated and people in (mandatory for driving) first aid courses get taught a simple technique to remove a helmet safely (ideally with two people).

Reason being is that with the helmet on it is harder to monitor breathing and impossible / very difficult to do CPR, and the helmet will also interfere with the stable side position.
Anyone has any clues as to what the real reasons for his departure are?
Uber tried to get me to agree to arbitration and sign an NDA for a mere $100 of compensation to replace my fianceé's clothes soiled by an Uber car.[1]

We were out late one night and we called an Uber to get back home. After a very long wait and an odd delay where the driver stayed in the same position on the map for 10 minutes, they started driving again and then arrived. (We suspect that during this time one of the passengers shit themselves)

My fianceé sat down and immediately felt excrement all over her clothing. It was very dark so she did not see this until after she entered the car and sat down. We also noticed that the other supposed passenger mentioned in the Uber app already bailed.

We were never compensated as we would not agree to the NDA. I don't think we could agree to the NDA even if we wanted to because I already tweeted about the incident before being offered compensation.[2]

Uber mentioned that the NDA isn't required in cases of sexual assault, but it's still required even if you are potentially exposed to sexually transmitted diseases through human excrement. What the fuck?

1. https://go.eligrey.com/t/uber-nda.pdf

2. https://twitter.com/sephr/status/1068251146676891649
Because water is cheap, easily purified and abundant. Only gullible people (affluent or misguided) consume it as a luxury good.
While branded water does sell for more, if you look closely you discover that bottled water buyers are not nearly as brand loyal as other drink buyers are (most cola drinkers have tried both Coke and Pepsi and can tell the difference, most water buyers have likewise tried off brands and been unable to tell the difference). Store brand water sells very well in general.
> What source would you prefer an open source UI library come from, that would avoid this concern

Note: "this concern" is not "the library may go away or be unsupported". That's true of any open or closed source library.

The concern specifically is "this may get hyped to the point where it feels reasonable to depend on, then go unsupported". And that's never a surety, but frankly Google makes it MORE likely than, say, some random internet package that it will build enough of a groundswell to be seem safe, then suffer a sudden Nest-API-like strangulation. (Convenient for my argument that that announcement came out between my original post above and this one, but it's convenience that is directly my point).

Some rando package is unlikely to be broadly adopted unless it's actually good stuff...and the good stuff tends to get well supported, even if that means the occasional fork. Google has name cachet that can build support quickly, but the track record doesn't support that.

There's never a guarantee...but there are performers that are above average risk, and that's where I put Google when it comes to APIs and libraries.
We're in a dungeon with fluorescent lights here. It makes me so miserable that I'm considering looking for work simply because of the lighting. Every other group in the building has windows they can look out of.
When I worked at Apple I filed a Radar (bug-report) asking for the mail client to check that, if the text of an <a> tag was a url, that the text matched the href field. What followed, on the Radar, was a lengthy debate about this. If I recall correctly, the people who opposed basically argued that, if this feature was implemented by the mail client, spammers would simply find another way to inject false links. We (those who wanted the feature) lost. But I still think that, any web app that shows "http://whatever" in a link field should ensure that the href field is "http://whatever".
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How about ensuring tap water is actually drinkable and stop water bottles altogether?

It still boggles my mind that people continue buying water bottles where tap water is totally ok (and in some case, better than bottled water).
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Buy a metal/glass bottle and fill it yourself. It's the most convenient / least polluting way to go. Depending on where you live some bottles might be consigned and reused (I know they do it that way in berlin)

It's "reduce, reuse, recycle" for a reason, "reduce" has a much bigger impact then "recycle".
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I did not

Aw man :(
Concerns about China though aren't likely to change.... I'm not sure voters will feel like "We need to strike a deal with China" ... and accordingly I'm not sure it is so much a Chinese advantage.

If things are worse, voters could be just as angry and willing to vote for someone who wants to fight ... more with China over trade.

This could be a case where China might want to stoke a problem, and get more blowback than they otherwise would have. The current POTUS (elected dude to a lot of things including economic concerns by some voters) has already proven you can put up a fight and the sky doesn't fall... and a politician might not see making a deal advantageous to China as a good political move, or even likely to produce a lot of economic benefit.
Ugh.

"Private browsing detected. In order to continue browsing The Gazette in private mode please login".

> Inspect element: delete
Really enjoyed her writing style. This was the most telling part of the story and our search for meaning in life as reflected in the eyes of a child.

"... This summer, because of my job, she will return to Tuscany, her fourth visit. She has stayed in luxury hotels, flown in business class, eaten at five-star restaurants, sat in premium seats at Broadway musicals.

But she says the most fun she ever had was the result of three off-brand dart guns that retailed for $9.99 each. I believe her."
You mean, environmentalist lobbying. That’s what actually happens in practice. See the recent Ivanpah solar plant, for example. It didn’t face difficulties from carbon lobby, but it did from environmentalists who want to protect the uninhabitable desert.
No emission issue for Tesla I guess. But they may have battery issues.
Too cool? I sense some judgement here. As someone who had never enjoyed alcohol and technically a tech bro, my rejection to alcohol is nothing about the image it presents, just I didn't like the drink. Is this weird？
This is an amazing milestone. Imagine what renewable energy can do for us in 5 years.
Honestly, this might be the best way out of the mess the web is becoming. Use RSS for "normal" content delivery. No scripts. No styling. Nothing crazy. Just content. Build tools for searching and some other typical tasks and stop when basic functionality is covered.
SMR based on old school water PWR is just not the best idea. The only reason to do it, is basically because everything else is impossible to get regulated. Putting whole PWR systems in one module seams pretty crazy compared to the alternative reactors we could be building. The PWR SMR are still massively bigger other SMRs.

We built and tested better smarter designs for reactors that would be way smaller and cheaper but those are essentially impossible to license in the US and no other country has a market big enough to finance development it.

Nuclear is so energy dense the market for it is so divided that the economics of scale are just not there in the same way unless you do it stat driven as in France or you have a large unified market like the US was when nuclear was cheap and expanding fast.
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I was very skeptical of fasting for quite a while, but over winter I was on a contract with a guy that did intermittent fasting and his particular schedule had him eating after 3pm. The guy was like a machine. Just this sense of urgency in his work that was incredible to watch. He accomplished so much more than the other guys in the same position. I'm sure part of that was his own character and his work ethic, but when I talked to him he attributed a lot of it to his fasting. Turns out he's probably correct.
It can easily be "misunderstood" by people arguing in bad faith, but that's true of any term; "toxic masculinity" remains a useful phrase for referring to a particular set of beliefs and behaviours.
Most co2 sensors I've seen on Amazon are in the $100 range.

I found some good information though[0], and the smallest form factor (CozIR-LP) retails at $109 [1].

[0] https://www.co2meter.com/blogs/news/6010192-how-does-an-ndir...

[1] https://www.co2meter.com/products/cozir-lp-ambient-air-co2-s...
Not to be a cynic for the sake of being a cynic, but with a service like this, how can they guarantee that they will continue to respect privacy moving forward? What's to prevent changes in policy within the platform?
In most homes the "exhaust hood" doesn't vent to outside. It filters the big particles out and mixes the rest. I'm not sure if this is better or not, but the difference isn't much, and after a short time they are the same.
If you want to ace your LSAT, you're better off getting a good nights sleep and writing the exam fasted. Sleep is way more important than anything else when it comes to memory recall. Also, you should study with a particular type of perfume, and then write the exam with that same perfume. That'll also help memory recall. Breakfast is probably the worst meal of the day, in terms of metabolic health, which is why I haven't regularly had breakfast in over a decade.
Per gigawatt-hour, nuclear power as it stands may very well be the safest power source that we have got already.

The biggest hurdle is irrational fear and the regulatory barriers consequent.
FB is a disgusting company and the fastest way to make Zuck go away is to delete your account entirely. Even that requires their permission and intervention!
Also I fail to see any actual privacy-related consequences of the Cambridge Analytica scandal - there's some fear-mongering over some targeted ads seen by some people but that is not a privacy breach nor a scandal. They broke TOS for Facebook API, but outside of that, what they eventually did with the data wasn't out of the ordinary. In other words, there may be concerns with the source data, but the source data was merely used to compute what is ordinarily considered non-sensitive information: a list to target given some political ad campaigns. Every single campaign does the latter, whether through email or direct mail. Hypothetically, if Zynga did this with Facebook API - to better target future potential customers, how much outrage would there be? Privacy-wise, it's exactly the same.

Marketers at nearly all large companies routinely do much worse with sensitive information. What personal information anyone cares about was used in a bad way here? Hypothetically, if there was an ad-platform that allowed you to specifically run targeted ad campaigns political opinions/leanings/etc as computed by the platform, this would not be an issue per se by the norms of the ad industry. It appears to me that what most people are upset about it has more to do: 1) how targeted advertising normally works and 2) that the political campaign of someone they don't want as president was helped by this. But targeted advertising is absolutely not illegal or anything and politicians you don't like still get to run campaigns. The actual amount of wrong-doing here is miniscule and the part that is attributable to Facebook is even smaller.

And the point is that any of this could absolutely happen with Nest. Nest does involve sensitive information and for instance, Nest cams don't have consent from every single person they happen to record either. I don't know exactly what nest API allowed apps to do but it would be hard to imagine that there's no possibility of scandal.
So we could yet see IBM Cloud private running on Red Hat Openshift, all hosted by Microsoft Azure.
If you start with the assumption that 100% of purchases are aspirational, it is no surprise that you reach this conclusion. But I will seriously question that assumption, simply because there are many other reasons to purchase a product. The vast majority of purchases I make are decided by distribution, not marketing. You seem to be measuring things in such a way as to never see the difference.
No, it is in fact the exchanges that are losing money. In this case the customer funds are insured and they will not lose any funds.

> this is exactly what bitcoin is missing

What you mean to say is this is what many cryptocurrency exchanges are often missing, which I agree with.
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Yeah, totally! You can find me email from my github profile.
So we are creating those jobs at a cost of $900K per job. Tariffs are hardly ever a good way to create jobs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/07/trumps-st...
Another way to wipe out a history of past trade imbalances would be to announce the retirement of the domestic currency, citing counterfeiting or hacking, hyperinflation, or whatever else that may sound plausible.

You then allow only your own nationals to exchange old money for new money. In order to avoid losing all of the value of their old money, foreign holders would have to buy something from a domestic person, who could then exchange the currency.

A smart exchanger would then either keep the new cash, or buy back their sold things at a lower price. In effect, it ends up being a one-time tax on domestic currency being held abroad. Any country that had been building up a reserve of your currency via trade deficits either has to settle up immediately by importing a giant bolus of your trade goods, or it gets screwed.
Yet the Windows driver is still supported, go figure.
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The NHS also offers a range of other talking therapies /counselling, e.g. counselling for depression. The waiting times here can be shorter than for CBT.

If you're in dire need for help (depends on your scores and initial phone interview), you will be seen or referred quickly (within less than a month).

Any GP will refer you. If you need help with your mental health, just ask your GP for a referral, fill out the form and you will get help. It's a great system. (Did I mention that this doesn't cost anything?)

For long-term psychotherapy, you need to go private, but in many cases, a short-term intervention (e.g. over 12 weeks) is sufficient to get you through the worst and on the right track.
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Has anyone totaled up the amount of Bitcoin stolen from "exchanges"?

I've not, but sitting on the sidelines it sure looks like you'd be better off putting your cash in a coffee can under your bed.
The story of the rehab lady is quite fun. She was a PhD microbiologist at home raising kids when one dropped her phone in the loo and ended up having to remove the loo and smash it to get it out and then learn micro soldering to fix it
https://youtu.be/LrILfIE9IB4?t=143
In a perfect world "maintaining discipline" is indeed the correct solution, but my experience tells me that humans cannot be relied upon to do that. Some individual humans can, but not the collective whole.

The discipline has to come from elsewhere. Either from the management (reducing the number of people you have to rely on from N to log(N)), or from tooling (reducing the number to log(1)).

As always, education is the silver bullet. Instill proper values, enable the skills to follow through, and in a mere 40-60 years the industry will be in a better place. As long as there is no incentive to mass-produce junior software developers on the cheap, we're golden.
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I recently purchased a bunch of ESP controllers online to play with, and I more or less understand NodeMCU at this point. However, per a discussion here [1] from yesterday, I saw that there exists 5 cent controllers.

This seems obscenely interesting to me, but I have no idea how I'd even start going about programming one of these things...does anyone have a good book recommendation or video series?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19851903
I stopped doing fasts because even though I did notice a boost to my productivity, most of it was due to not having to stop in the middle of the day to eat or waste time thinking about eating. In terms of cognitive benefits, going for a run for 30 minutes in the morning still seemed far superior.
not if you have to live in Bay Area and rise a kid or two here
Apparently, alumimum can cause neurodegenerative diseases [1]. Therefore perhaps it's a good thing that these cans have a plastic liner (?)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28429887
> It's totally possible for a capitalist society to prioritize things like human rights, etc. over profits through political and social means.

I believe that is what most people would call socialism. When taken at its root idea anyway.
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