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I have been interested in swimming for a few years but never found the place to develop the skill to the point of not drowning.

I could try to swim in my apartment's tiny shallow pool which is really better for children.

I could spend $200/mo at a nearby health club.

I could drive to the ocean and jump in.

The first just isn't big enough or deep enough to get anything done.

The second is ... well I want to go swimming but not that bad.

If I just jumped in the ocean, especially the Pacific around the bay area, I would just expect to drown. I can swim a bit but not enough to have confidence with the ocean.

What else can I do?
I second this advice: I’ve bought many pieces of high end gear over the decades, and have a decent set up currently, but it doesn’t really matter. I’d enjoy my music just as much with a homepod (or two, for stereo) at home, and good headphones at work.
It's called a river.
I do a lot if river swimming, but you need to live in a country with clean rivers.

But swimming in lakes is more fun and better for your technique.
If we assume there's a way to quickly build an image for a vm (like docker build), are there workflows to quickly spin up and throw away those images?
This is one of the most gangster comments I've read on Hacker News.
> Why is voting less important than other services?

I never said it was less important.

> If someone uses your information, how can we tell without verification of the vote?

Ant significant effort at voter fraud (and, even more certainly, more than one such effort in the same jurisdiction) will show up in a pattern of attempted multiple votes.

The absence of significant pattern as of this is itself evidence that no significant (even in aggregate) voter fraud is occurring.

In fact, even with Voter ID, that's how you'd identify fraud that gets past the ID checks.
I've never understood the tradition of eating 3 meals a day. Sounds like it comes from religion.

If you eat when you're hungry, you will naturally eat less. I always have a good breakfast, and thus start to feel hungry around 3pm or 4pm. I eat then, and usually I don't feel hungry until I go to bed, and I never eat late in the day, simply because digesting at night is a bad idea.

Having lunch around noon is weird because I eat without being hungry.
This isn't really from 1998 is it? The references (golang, gladwell) are definitely more modern - unless he did a substantial revision.
I’ll have a look at bitpay, thanks!
U.S. resident here: every where I've been the self check out mostly supports cash. Sometimes there will a machine or two in "card only" mode, presumably due to running out of bills/coins.
With Fargate you don’t need Kubernetes or any crazy abstractions. I went from not knowing anything about Docker to setting up an autoscaling (didn’t need autoscaling, I needed HA) Node/Express microservice with CloudFormation within two days.
You probably saw it in person as well, it's called a river :) In Zurich there's multiple places where you can swim in the Limmat, and it takes quite some effort to stay in place - one example is https://images.app.goo.gl/qTASdR51yDTiCk299 (of course you could go without the installation but this allows people to use it that would be afraid of getting carried away ...)
I absolutely agree. Every now and then I open up a link that and me too disable my adblocker and if I can't bypass it in <5s I just close the tab and move on.

There is very little on the internet that is completely unique and of interest to me. If you try to put up a barrier to your content I will go somewhere else almost every time.
Fargate.
The problem with this is that the current is constant. When doing a long set I sometimes accent the arms and the legs alternately over say 200m. Well typically three lengths of arms and one length of kick dominated effort. The thing is the speed does change from one technique to other but moving the water at a constant speed over a short distance doesn't work properly. So it's cute for a little swimming but it's not compelling for serious training. Never mind if you want try doing an individual medley set.
Patching servers can be part of it. Also fixing minor issues when no major development is being paid for.
> Pumping CO2 into the ground sounds like it works great on paper, but I think we're fooling ourselves that it won't reenter the atmosphere.

Sequestration alone shouldn't be the solution, but if we can find a thermodynamically feasible way to store CO2 for at least thousands of years while getting away from new CO2 emission, it won't matter that the solution isn't fully permanent. Some proposed solutions are expected to be stable on long enough timescales that the CO2 can (under proper geologic conditions) turn into rock. Other solutions rely on keeping it in oxygen-poor environments where it won't oxidize (which is what happened with carbon that became fossil fuels in the first place; clearly that carbon was not permanently sequestered, since we're burning it now!).

As long as it's thermodynamically feasible to store carbon (read: our net carbon emission goes down and it doesn't cost too much in alternative energy sources), a relatively short (on geological timescales at least) storage solution is more than sufficient (again, as long as it's coupled with critically necessary reductions in new CO2 emission).

[edit] There are, to be clear, many geological formations that are more than stable enough to store volatile materials on longer timescales than are necessary (look at how effectively salt domes trap oil through a combination of buoyancy and impermeability of certain types of rock). The deep, possibly inescapable problem is the thermodynamic difficulty of extracting CO2 from the atmosphere (where its concentration is low, and hence extraction is inefficient) vs. the relative ease of releasing energy from highly-concentrated carbon stores like fossil fuels. It's like trying to unmix your cream from your coffee; it's just much much easier to avoid pouring the cream in in the first place. As others have mentioned, we can rely on the fact that nature already gives us cheap distributed solar farms with built in sequestration abilities (also known as "plants"); non-biological methods don't come with the built in solar energy converter, and so we need to consider the harrowing reality of thermodynamics when trying to make them scalable.
There are natural (and man-made) bodies of water that are inexpensive to access and don't have the problems of the ocean, like natural and artificial lakes.

There are, for that matter, public pools that are cheaper than health club pools.
Stop me if I'm wrong, but there is technically nothing blocking AWS to have the same management in EC2. Scaling docker containers is the same allocation problem than scaling VMs, so it could be done with EC2 too.

Maybe AWS spins up an actual EC2 instance for each container, it's an implementation detail.

EC2 is a legacy tool with different abstractions, but if you replace "VM" by "hypervisor" and "container" by "microkernel-app", you could do the same thing with one less layer and the same tech we always used
I think the argument against building custom cpu for Mac Pro is pretty good, as this puts them in a situation that is different from past architecture changes.
YES.

Zappa got me out of a massive hole several times. I'm not a webdev, and we arn't a web company, so we don't have a web deployment pipeline.

Having Zappa makes our life very simple and cheap. The best part is that local and "prod" are equally easy to spin up.

The simple integration to DNS, SSL, api gateway, is a wonder.

The only downside is the permissions management is a massive pain, and assumes that you have admin permissions.
I'm not sure how that makes sense. How are housing-buyer-investors going to build an apartment building?
Germany payed of it's ww2 debt not that many years ago.
If it wasn't for the US pooring dollars into it first, it could have taken a much longer time to happen.
However, at for example the Balkans it was private individuals such as Cheney buying steel/coal factories. That's a private investment. But the political link is clear.
This year I'm doing a "Swedish Classic", which is 4 long distance races throughout the year. Three of them are the classics in triathlon, but the fourth is cross country skiing (or "nordic skiing"). So the opposite of fire, hmm, but could maybe say that fire is what makes it possible to traverse 90km of mountains in the winter.
Arguably, the necessity here would be energy consumption, thermal performance and potentially speed?
The problem is that MS did quite a lot to try and discredit open source when Linux was in its infancy.

This is a bit like breaking someone's knee, and then handing them a cane to hobble on, and then patting yourself on the back for being a major supporter of the person with the broken knee.

>>What percentage of current Microsoft employees were there 15 years ago? Very few, I suspect.

Are you sure about this? I personally know plenty of folks who used to talk about the "cancer of open-source", who are still there and now happily counting the money in their bank accounts. Are you imagining that these folks decided to just "up and leave" once Microsoft started supporting this so-called "cancer"?
Now that Buddhists like you are coming in here and telling us to be more Buddhist and read and think Buddhist things, I think it's important to stress that anyone interested in mindfulness doesn't need to become a Buddhist.

In fact there is a clinical application of mindfulness which is called cognitive behavioral therapy, it is proven through research to have great benefits for a lot of people, it is secular, and unlike Buddhism, it has never been a justification for murder and ethnic cleansing.

We should strip away the religion and focus on the scientifically studied and observed benefits, in my opinion.
There's a method of distribution called bittorrent that scales with popularity. If people love it, you don't have to pay to distribute it. If people want you to make more, they've shown themselves willing to send money even after they've consumed your product.
wait wait wait, you can't mention a case of changing someones wallpaper and describe it as very serious and not share details! Is there a criminal case about a changed desktop background?
What about other bodies of water than the ocean? Like lakes or somerhing. Mostly still water.

Or where I live, they have put swimming lanes in the ocean. Like a dock that extends out on two places, and with lane separators in between. Free and safe.

But what I did was to just pay for a swimming course over X weeks. That included entrance to the swimming facilities on the course days. Find one for your level, and the progress will be swift.
I wouldn’t recommend using single EC2 instances in production ever, but the rest seems solid.
The prototype uses the excess capacity of existing industrial infrastructures which is many, many orders of magnitude smaller than is required to meaningfully reduce atmospheric CO2. It uses chemicals that are extremely energy intensive to produce from mined minerals. Scaling the raw inputs would require massive scaling mining, energy production, logistics, etc far beyond anything that has ever been done before by a very large margin.

Their $100 per ton is extremely optimistic because it doesn't require building the upstream supply chain that can feed their processes at the required scale. It isn't like this is something that already exists, it all has to be built from scratch, is amortized into the cost per ton, and has much worse than linear scalability. I'm not sure how to accurately convey just how qualitatively inaccurate your perception of our capacity to do this at scale is.

Constructively, I'd like to see the argument that we can manufacture the potassium hydroxide at the scale required to sequester all 20th century CO2 in 20 years. The math, inputs, and capacity for the entire supply chain are public. There is much opportunity for rigor but even cursory analysis shows that it is not remotely feasible to effect CO2 sequestration this way even with heroic efforts. And that is under the most ideal of circumstances.
What they didn't report is the corresponding decrease in labor costs. If they save 1M in labor to lose 850K, they're still ahead.
Article makes good points and how the <picture> element should be used instead.

It's surprising to see how many sites use background images on everything when they can use CSS but I can see developers simply implementing what the designer provided them with.

I use the the Wizmage Image Hider browser extension which disables all images by default which makes websites load so much faster and you can whitelist domain or individual images to always show.
Let's not pretend that the distribution of things that people enjoy isn't free. People pay for an internet connection, they happily share media with each other. If you have a fanbase, you could make a film and put it on a high speed connection for five minutes once, tell people when it will happen on a message board, and rest assured that everyone who wants to see it will see it and it will exist in perpetuity with no further intervention from you.
Huh, I always thought it was an alt code character...
Just because current tech sucks doesn't mean we shouldn't keep developing it. I'm not sure why this is such a controversial idea, especially among tech savvy people.
In the browser: ublock origin

On the whole network: pi-hole
You’re not from the US. Debit means a whole different thing in the US. Unlike other countries, visa debit is functionally equivalent to a credit card, and the retailer doesn’t know the difference between visa debit run as credit vs visa credit.
This trope about jobs needs to die.

He made fun of the idea of putting a color screen on the iPod and a year or so later presented the iPod color.

Of course apple was gonna put a stylus on the iPad, with or without Jobs.

Apple might be content with asking users to buy third party hardware to draw on Mac, but they aren’t stupid enough to say you need to buy a Citrix to draw on your iPad.
This is a weak article on an important subject. In the aviation community, there's much talk about "crew resource management".[1] This is about how to avoid disasters produced by overly authoritarian captains. There are at least four well known crashes like that.

There's an old tradition in the US Army that, when officers are discussing a course of action, the most junior officer speaks first. This is to avoid echoing the senior officer despite a big problem with the plan.[2] The Army routinely does an After Action Review after doing something, to go over what went right, what went wrong, and what needs to change. If you don't do that, you make the same mistake twice.

[1] https://flightsafety.org/asw-article/what-happened-to-crew-r...

[2] https://verasage.com/blog/after_action_review_the_army_way/
More so than for other forms of addiction? And this doesn't even seem related to their addiction.
I think HN folks, incl me, hope so, but numbers don’t lie.

I wish it’s really dying, but sales and earnings keep rising... \_(シ)_/
Have you considered taking swimming lessons? You'd probably still have to pay for them, but it wouldn't be a monthly subscription and swim classes are (usually) designed to teach you how to swim without drowning.

In general, if you want to learn how to do something, there are probably people willing to teach you. You don't have to figure everything out from first principles.
I tried to use Zappa and my experience was that it didn't support tires of callbacks I needed it to. After I patched it up to do what I want I realized that handling calls directly was actually simpler than using Zappa and Zappa made my application huge.

I understand that primary use of Zappa is a web application, but I have reservation about that as well. The "serverless" applications aren't really server less, they just have VMs spun on demand and it's only good idea when you have a service that most of the time is idle.
I don't have a ton of consistency here. Things that are most consistent for me right now:

- I'm a pretty big fan of riced cauliflower blends, which you can get in basically any frozen foods section. Great replacement for rice. A quick easy meal is ground beef + a half bag of riced cauliflower stir fry mix.

- Another quick meal - Trader Joe's green vegetable foursome plus chicken. Add tons of butter, salt and garlic.

- Another quick meal - 3 or 4 egg omelette with shredded cheese topping. Put it on top of a bed of greens, and add some guac or an avocado.

- I make shoyu eggs pretty regularly to snack on.

- I snack on nuts and beef jerky a lot.

- If I'm not feeling very hungry, I'll eat an Adkins meal bar instead of anything bigger. Adkins stuff cuz its convenient, available in a lot of places, and low carb.

- After a workout, I'll drink a muscle milk pro series shake (the premade type, specifically because its low net carbs). Currently looking for better options that aren't just straight whey mixes.

- Adkins also makes some nice low-carb candy type things that I also grab when the notion strikes.

Lastly and probably most importantly, I drink a ton of water and have an increased salt intake, because cutting carbs leads to retaining less water and dehydrating easier. You just feel thirsty a lot more often. Drinking more water just so happens to also help you feel more full
> the revolving door between government and industry, the influence of lobbying, lack of competition within critical American industries, deregulation

All very serious problem. But regulatory capture comes only from money in politics.
paid seems like the wrong word choice, but some other negative would be appropriate.
I hope there's a good answer to this. At the moment my solution is to not do crawl.
Seconded, I work on a lot of little toy projects, and host them all on a super cheap vps. Only thing i'd mainly say is different is I have a docker-compose project consisting of jwilder/nginx-proxy, a bind server, and a log processing server. Each project I have to add the virtual network of that composes. But then its all handled.
And Edinburgh. Rebuilt at huge cost and dislocation and abjectly awful planning (roads re-dug three or more times because unsequenced work on drains, mains, comms in ground)

But now much loved by some. Getting rid of the wooden trams in Melbourne probably pleased commuters but I loved them (a few remain but no conductors)
Wow, I was gonna say “haven’t tried IAM on other platforms than GCP but I can’t imagine it being more difficult than this”, but damn ...
The CDK[0] will hopefully help with the cloudformation story.

[0] https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk
Are You an Elk Parent or a Bison Parent?
these are super weak. I dont need a background image indexed. there are plenty of ways to bundle and optimize images using webpack and the like. It sounds like someone using the least amount of tools available to make a case for a better tool, which plenty of exist...
It did make me wonder about the important aspect that the Edited humans will likely also feel Love much the same as normal humans. This might help the whole situation, if we define Love as some combination of Empathy and Desire for the other Individual to thrive (for selfish reasons). I'm trying to say that - the other way around from that speech is interesting. If the Designed decide that they Love us the Undesigned, we might be saved from destruction or even an extremely worsened life quality.

There are two caveats:

1. Love could be seen as a 'weakness' and there might be a crop of super genius Designed who don't have the genes required. If it turns out that this does not impact viability for whatever reasons, natural or engineered (we design companies where we expect some geniuses to be Complete Jerks and be okay with that as long as the bottomline is improved), then the undesigned are doomed.

2. Love does not fix all problems. There are Homeless people in San Fransisco despite being surrounded by some of the smartest, richest people who also have Empathy and Love for people in their lives. But enough of these Smart Rich People would prefer the Homeless just go elsewhere rather than blot the landscape (instead of thinking about helping them) - that there's no political will to aggressively fix the problem. The Undesigned could just end up being the Homeless of the near future. Fun Times (I'm terrified).
>>>I used to snore like crazy, probably had sleep apnea but was too afraid to go get tested since my grandmother died from becoming dependent on the machine and her lungs failed

I would like to hear more details on this. Being a CPAP machine user I have never heard of this (lungs failing) before.
Here's a learning process you can do on your own at your local pool, lake or ocean. The problem with learning to swim is that there are perhaps a half a dozen independent motor skills needed and it's hard to learn them all at once. This breaks it down to one skill at a time. Do all of this is shallow water, say, four feet in depth.

1) buy a mask, fins and snorkel set.

2) throw way the snorkel (not really, store it away for much later)

3) start with a kick board and fins. Do an hour of just kicking with the fins on. Now you've learned the kicking motor skill.

4) Next put on your mask (defog it with your spit, youtube will show you how, yuckky I know but necessary) and now, with fins on, start kicking, as usual, but also start stroking with your arms. Don't bother trying to breath yet, just stand up when you need to breath. Do this for an hour.

5) Repeat 4 above but now try to breath on your dominate side (right side if you're right handed, other side if you're not). It's tricky to learn how to breathe without coughing, definitely practice this for an hour.

6) Take off your fins and repeat step 5. It will feel really weird without the extra power of the fins but your arm strokes should pull you thru.

7) Perhaps the ugliest part. Take of your mask and repeat step 6. Learning to manage the discomfort of having your face in the water does take some effort, but at least you've saved the hardest for the last. Keeping water out of your nose requires a continuous but very low pressure exhaling thru your nose when it's underwater. Your eyes will sting when you open them underwater so only do that for short glances to get your bearings.

8) Repeat step 7 for 32 lengths and bingo! You're a swimmer.
That is not what indexing is wrt Google. They mean it won't be searchable.
In practice it will be slower and bigger. Everybody will be just compiling entire C++ frameworks to wasm. A web app needs to do something with images? Here is the entire ffmpeg compiled to wasm. Need a single widget from Qt? Here is the entire Qt compiled to wasm. I'm pretty sure nobody is going to carefully refactor existing C++ libs to select only the subset of features needed for web.
Biathlon is ice and fire.
Nice! Looks like a kindred spirit to “Flowsheets”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Ca5czOY7Q

But broadly usable in the here and now! Excited to try it out!
I find it very annoying to use the self checkout in Costco especially if you are buying bulky items. They force you to place scanned items on a scale which isn't always feasible.
How familiar are you with the pre- and post-deregulation eras in the airline industry?
He is right for right now, but the long game is the axx chip in most apple products. The MacPro won’t have one, if it’s still around then. ipad pros will get a dock much like today’s dell usb type c docks. you will connect up to your screen while at your desk. do what you need to do with the keyboard and mouse. Even have a vdi app for access to some corp windows only apps. Then unplug it for meetings with note taking etc. It sounds like an interesting future.
Proof Compression and NP versus Pspace. Part 2
Which generation?