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Yeah, a lot of it is elitist. In other parts of this thread people are complaining about Vimperator being broken by the switch to WebExtensions.

The switch to WebExtensions allowed all the excellent performance improvements we have been seeing in Firefox over the last year. So it improved the performance for everyone, and broke a feature that a small minority used. That minority is a highly specialized, highly trained, bunch.

If you think that features that benefit a small elite group of users should trump improvements for all, then I think that is an elitist attitude.

Also, here there is absolutely no talk about changing extension APIs. So I don't see why extensions that work now shouldn't continue working in FF Preview once Extension support is added. The situation is pretty unlike the WebExtension situation.

So yeah, hold their feet to the fire to make sure that things don't regress without need. But also look at what they are trying to do with merging the FF Focus stuff in, and getting a built-in adblocker. They are doubling down on privacy for all. This should be commended.
It isn't mean spirited at all. It's observations based on his videos the past 1-2 years. He also has pretty blah production quality with rough edits, often terrible lighting, lots of rambling, more oft than not questionable (at best) safety practices, when he's doing chemistry he never has proper safety equipment etc. Unlike NileRed that has fantastic lighting, proper ventilation, obviously at least partially scripts what he's going to say, doesn't get sidetracked with unrelated rants...

Cody literally had federal agents come to his house and search it after some of his highly questionable videos involving radioactive materials, commercial explosives and homemade (highly unstable) explosives.

He literally power-walked through a busy airport recording himself talking about blowing himself up in one video (referencing his 'prank' video where he 'blew himself up', not that all the people he was rushing past were likely to know that).

He literally used liquid mercury as mouthwash in a recent video.

He literally showed his shelf of canned food with his row of home made poisons and toxic substances.

He's had several videos lately where he's showing textbook signs of clinical depression after his breakup and has ramped up his eccentric behavior even more since, like wearing chainmail in public and ranting about the government and YouTube being against him.
If you like lasers and everything related check out styropyro

https://www.youtube.com/user/styropyro

Also, for random contraptions/robots Michael Reeves delivers hilarious content

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHaxi4GTYDpJgMSGy7AeSw
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> This blog post seems to start off with the premise that you understand what's going on, which I don't.

From the top of the blog post:

> The goal? Future-me should be happy to read this once future-me forgets how we evolved.

The post isn’t for you, but a reference for the author. It seems to be one of those “I’m making this for me, but if it’s useful for anyone else, so much the better” cases.
There are plenty good meat replacements. Plus, you can also exchange some meat for fish. From a diet viewpoint, you can easily do with meat just once a week.
You’re arguing in circles. Maybe you would care, but the point OP is making is that the people who are engaging in the transactions that cause it to be pegged at $1 don’t care if Tether is lying because it doesn’t affect their use case in any significant way.
No need to predict, the insects are going through a mass extinction event right at the moment.
And I would add, public transport; even better if free for elderly and people with disabilities.
Except I doubt you'd get fired/sued for doing it, which would be the corporate equivalent of what happened to tank man
Multiple groups are. Albeit for insects and coral reef, not for humans.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeti...

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/105/37/13736.full.pdf
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On the contrary, most changes proposed reduce the quality of life, reduce choices, and require rationing and rationed distribution of some sort. It is consistently pointed out that the first world quality of life is a problem and a growing population (which is almost entirely the product of people living longer, considering first-world birth rates are abysmal) is a problem. And it is rarely acknowledged that developing nations contribute greatly to pollution and curbing that would almost certainly handicap their growth (and likely result in various forms of protest, violence, and war).

To simply assign resistance to how humanity uses and consumes energy to oil and coal and car industry and tax income is absurd. General economics is the only surefire way to get the changes we are told are necessary entrenched in society and our way of life. And that means it's technology, not government control and regulation, that is the solution that should be pursued.

Carrots might work. Sticks won't.
You can have a kickback, like Canada. Basically, you pay the carbon tax as a middle class person and then you get a decent amount of money back from the government to cover the damages, and everyone gets up to the same amount (which is like a thousand bucks or something). So, it becomes no biggy for a middle class family who took one flight during the past three years, but a celebrity who flies around with his private jet multiple times a week will feel the pinch.
Not predicting; if you’re measuring the rate of extinction of species we are very much in it and to a degree that’s on par with the greatest extinction events in earths history. The only question here is whether we will survive: given our dependency on oxygen and food produced by natural processes that is by no means certain. Furthermore the length of “our lifetimes” isn’t clear any more due to advances in technology.
How were the able to achieve this technologically?

What an amazing feat of engineering.
I have done …
The US didn't get lazy, the US allowed the market to speak (with substantial deregulation of the electrical power generation industry). And the market said nuclear is a loser technology, compared to alternatives. Not investing in loser technologies is not laziness, but intelligence.
The only valuable reason for having a few sterilized rodents would be to grab and monopolize the laboratory rat/mice market. Rodents have short lives and there is an unlimited supply of wild specimens in the nature.
I haven't had a chance to try it out myself yet, but the Aurora FAQ[0] seems confirm your wish:

Aurora database engine is designed to be wire-compatible with PostgreSQL 9.6 and 10, and supports the same set of PostgreSQL extensions that are supported with RDS for PostgreSQL 9.6 and 10

For reference, full list of PostgeSQL RDS extensions in the documentation[1]

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/faqs/
[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_...
I have hit a pedestrian. Instead of using the nearby crosswalk she walked in between the cars and when she walked in front of me it was too late for me to brake. She flew a couple of meters and landed on the crosswalk. In the police report is was stated that I hit the person on the crosswalk as I couldn't prove otherwise. The woman was taken away in an ambulance due to a broken leg.

I was 16 at the time. Really shaken up about what had happened. But after collecting myself and fixing the dangling headlight I was able to drive home. I got a ticket for not giving way to the pedestrian (€45 I believe) and insurance covered everything regarding the woman. Didn't even get a letter other than one that they would take of everything.

So yes it happens here too (The Netherlands)
Probably the track they laid would have needed to meet only the most basic requirements, with minimal consideration of reliability, safety, longevity, etc.
Look, I hate mosquitos with a vengeance, I'm quite allergic to them and each bite results in multiple days to weeks of misery.

That said, I remain very skeptical of this approach as other species are dependent on these little nasty ones, and I don't believe we have a good grasp on what the second-order effects will be when we start eradicating species with such a large presence.
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> If you live in a small town of 100,000 people, that means 11 of your neighbors will be killed by drivers crashing their cars every year.

True. But for comparison, if we live in this small town of 100k people, then 192 people will die from Heart Disease, 178 people will die of Cancer, 47 people will die of Respiratory diseases, 43 people will die of Stroke, and 16 will die from the flu (influenza or pneumonia) every single year, according to the CDC. "Motor vehicle accidents" are not even in the top 10 causes of death (they're 13th, using 2016's data).

> the most desirable and productive parts of our cities are that way despite cars and not because of them.

Which is a strong argument for cars. Cars make things drastically more affordable for people. If you remove them, you increase the costs for everything (food, transportation, housing, healthcare, education, etc), to heights no regular person could ever afford. That also carries tremendous costs and even carries it's own death toll.

Paradoxically, making things "more desirable and productive" makes them worst for real people (because that value will be captured in a pricetag, and real people will never be able to afford it). Paradoxically, too much safety can actually be less safe overall (that safety will be captured in a pricetag, and real people will never be able to afford it, and will be forced into less safe alternatives) - https://local.theonion.com/neighborhood-starting-to-get-too-...

More people died from suicide (45k in 2016) in the US, than died from all automobile accidents nationwide (37k in 2016). The tradeoff here is not as simple as people often imagine it to be.
Benson Leung from the linked article...

"The Figure 4–9 I posted above isn’t simply a rough guideline of one way of making a USB-C receptacle. It’s actually normative, meaning mandatory, required by the spec in order to call your system a compliant USB-C power sink. Just copy it."

The reason this is wrong on the Pi is not because of "a huge matrix of incompatibility", but of ignorance to a mandatory design spec that is provided to everyone already.

It seems to parallel crypto from a high level. Yes, USB-C can be complex. But they did the hard work here so: don't roll your own and use this free and complete reference implementation.
Reminder that - as the wiki mentions - the extinguish part is not a direct action from Microsoft, but the outcome of the "extend" part with Microsoft's competitors being unable to keep up. For this to work you need an environment where "something" can be embraced and extended, having competitors that implement that "something" independently and finally them being able to keep up - thus making Microsoft the defacto owner of that "something", which also gives them control over continuing it or stopping it.

If Microsoft is not able to exclusively control something, they cannot extinguish it, even if they embrace and extend it.
You must not live with cockroaches if you feel no need to stop them.
This community is so toxic!

One minute something doesn't look "awesome" so it's shite, next minute something looks "plain jane" and it's amazing.

Seriously guys, if this site was launched today it would be ripped to shreds, but it isn't, obviously because it does it's job, and is well known on HN, but if someone was to launch a bookmarking service with no react this and javascript that, it would be shot down so hard.

Fuck this, so many ideas people have but don't want to progress because of Silicocks.

P.S. I'm a paid member, and it's awesome!
We're already in a mass extinction event and the effects of climate change are just slowly being felt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
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That links says: “Unsolved problem in physics:
Are the three forces of the Standard Model unified at high energies?”

But we may be close, for some values of close :-)
No, that was Aurora Autoscaling[0]. Is there an actual difference in implementation? Not sure, but there are many limitations in serverless not present with aurora auto scaling[1].

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
there's a whole field of science who believes gravity is just electromagnetic effect... it's just particle physicists who struggle with such notions...
I keep on thinking on how can we do it even with Super powers..
Context makes this quote even better--Perot was a GM board member.
It always seemed to me that the biggest argument against panspermia is the relative hostility to "life" of space versus a planet like Earth. The heliosphere protects the solar system from a significant amount of interstellar cosmic rays and x-rays, Earth's magnetosphere offers additional protection, and our atmosphere, particularly the ozone layer, offers additional protection while also protecting against UV and high energy particles from the Sun. Ionizing radiation and short wavelength EM radiation are destructive to life and really the persistence of any large complex molecules. Combine that with the vacuum of space and temperatures barely above absolute zero and life originating via panspermia seems significantly less likely than originating natively on Earth.
Haven't seen a cockroach in a decade.

Not so hot as they were hyped up to be during the 70's and 80's.
Exactly, the PCIe reference clock is "only" 100MHz.

USB 2.0 runs at 480MHz and motherboards have used 0.1" headers for them since the beginning.
This projection of what OP meant doesn't speak to the reality.

Malaria was an issue in the US [1] and southern Europe [2] prior to the 1940s, and Australia has always had and continues to have issues with the Dengue and Ross River viruses.

If the claim is instead that CRISPR was sitting there waiting to be implemented for decades, if only some rich people could finally see a use for it in the face of global warming, a charitable take on that idea would be to call it far-fetched.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/index.html

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC547919/
This is all of this, but not THE single pressing climate issue, food is the one issue where most people from most economies have already cought up, besides some excessive outliers, there is little to catch up in consumption worldwide and it's still a low percentage on climate impact. The big consumer driven issues by climate impact are all other consumption housing and transportation. If we want to allow the rest of the world to catch up to our standard of living, food choices is not the one area where radical change is needed to make this sustainable.
If you think electrons and positrons have a gravitational influence, then it seems to me you should also think photons do. Otherwise, if an electron and positron annihilate, producing photons, there will be a discontinuous drop in the gravitational field, which doesn't seem right somehow. Furthermore, if you put all this in a black box, the gravitational influence of the box will change because of what's happening within it, which also doesn't seem right.

Can anyone with with real knowledge of gravity comment on whether these two intuitions are correct?
Couldn't that be the same explanation in the case where it originated here? It was first and dominated?
Has come "turd"?

Well, that's a stinker.
If you find one let me know! I love games like that. Currently, what I found myself playing that scratches my itch the most is Path of Exile. The game requires a minimum amount of actual playing but once you get going you can just play the economy if you want without actually playing the game.

Let me give you some details. The game is playable in Leagues, there is a Standard League that goes on forever and then there are Challenge Leagues that reset the whole game every few months (4/5 I think). Most of the player base plays the Challenge Leagues so you get to start from zero every so often. I actually like that because this stops people from taking over too much and it's not frequent enough to be boring.

The game plays as a Diablo game, top down, you go around, kill stuff and collect randomly generated items.

You can then sell your items to other players. Buying and selling is done with intentionally limited GUI/Automation. GGG (the devs) want to keep the experience as "pure" as possible. Which means that to buy an item you have to actually send a message to the person you want to buy it from, then go to their hideout, send them a trade request and then trade whatever you want. There is no real currency but there are some "currency items". The whole economy is player-driven.

To find items there isn't even an official website. There are however a few officially endorsed third party websites like https://poe.trade.

Now, why do I like this? Because it gives you a lot of freedom and interesting challenges. Botting is not allowed but it's very common (and not excessively frowned upon) with certain items that people tend to buy in bulk or currency items trade. There are also many opportunities to create tools that make the whole game experience better.

There are many different ways of generating currency and the game itself is very fun. I would encourage you to give it a shot!

Ultimately, I do not know of any games that allow automation, the moment you make it legal to automate, the game will be taken over by bots and no human player will enjoy playing.
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And there's the whole problem of I don't want to and you're going to have to make me.
their bodies must be created resistant to these substances
before or for ready or Someone changes their body defense.
randomness has no knowledge of chemistry.
we, human beings, have difficulty in understanding how it works.
"Future for my children" isn't exactly that abstract to most people...
It's a good litmus test. If we can't convince people to switch beef for chicken we're doomed.
Then why don’t you switch to webex?
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API hooking used to be super easy and very common under DOS. All the API calls used to work using traps, so you'd just have to 1) store the original interrupt vector 2) change it to point at your own interrupt service routine, 3) do whatever when the trap was invoked.

Point 3 might include logging, passing the request through to the original ISR (possibly with changed parameter values), changing the return values, anything really. Easy & fun. =)
A web browser has been ported to literally every platform that has a screen.

Java doesn't even come pre-installed on a normal machine.

It's not about technical considerations, it's just that one cross-platform runtime has won.
That is a very bold claim. If we ignore everything else, then growing and getting enough nutritious plant based food out to everyone would be impossible without years of planning and changing. We cannot grow that much varied crop at the moment and we don't have facilities to process it.

We are on the right track with getting people to switch red with white meat, a single weekly day without meat, ect. But it is with all likelihood not something that we can do over the next decade. It's something we instill in the younger generations and as they grow up it will happen.
Hey, cheers, very astute questions.

1) Yep, I have a plan to implement "collapsed" nodes when zoomed out of large perspectives. This is pretty straightforward when resources are nested since you can just show the parent node (and an indicator that there are children). Also, when a perspective gets too large or busy, you can always make another!

2) Trees work best in perspectives of course, but there is some support for loops (see https://app.ilograph.com/Git%2520Webhooks%2520on%2520AWS/Exe...). There's no perfect way to display generic graphs with loops, so I'm still experimenting with the algorithm to lay them out.
The GHG effect of Beef is much larger than wasted food, and it's x10 easier problem to solve.
Libreoffice has an agent that preloads java bins to make the startup time comparable to MS Office. There are valid uses for startup agents, please get over yourself
Plus freeze for use cases like the example in the post.
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Not sure what the python code translates to, so maybe this is covered, but in my experience, if you can't use COPY, you should:

1 - Generate a static SQL to insert N rows (say 10 to 50):
insert into blah (id, name) values ($1, $2), ($3, $4),

2 - Loop through the data in batch size

3 - Generate a dynamic sql for M rows where M is whatever's left over

Wrap it in a transaction. You can have an SQL builder where you give it the list of columns and how many rows you want to generate and use that for both steps 1 and 3. You can prepare statement 1 (and keep reusing it), but I'mnot sure how much that'll buy you.

If you need to deal with conflicts. Inserting the above into a temp table (on commit drop) and then doing an insert + update from the team into the real table works well.

Then there's a handful of postgresql configs to tweak, but if you're willing to risk a bit of data loss (but not corruption), asynchronous_commit=off.
On the other hand, the fact that the RPi ecosystem remains notoriously proprietary (even the USB controller is a bastard variant that has next to no documentation --- of all the ones available, they had to choose that one) continues to be disappointing.

I definitely like this sort of hack, but such hacks with documentation already available (and doing more than documented, basically) are certainly preferable.
>A clean shot through will be barely noticeable

A (likely) golfball size hole is something the aircraft's pressurization system can 'easily compensate' for? Common handgun rounds punching through soft aluminum isn't going to leave a small hole, especially with a bunch of higher pressure air following right behind it.

Genuinely asking here, I have no idea what sort of volume they can pump at.
Be careful there. A probable cause doesn't tell you anything about rates. Alcohol is a probable cause as well, and from what I can tell is more likely to cause cancer than meat.
There is far more oil, coal and natural gas in the ground than there is capacity in the atmosphere to absorb the resulting CO2.
Huh. So that's what Steve Jobs looked like before he adapted his famous closet full of black turtlenecks.
> but I’m not sure it would have happened without the public shaming.

It wouldn’t. From the article:

> The move is a surprise reversal of Zoom’s previous stance, in which the company treated the vulnerability as “low risk” and defended its use

They’re backpedaling because of the bad press, not because they think this is better for users. And if they don’t believe what they did was wrong (if they did, they would have never done it or would have fixed it previously), it’s just a matter of time until they pull other crap like this. This is not the only user-hostile behaviour of their app[1], it’s just the most egregious we know of.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20390613
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