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Thanks for asking. Yes, she is a bit on the heavy side, but I've seen much worse. We are working to slim her down, and hopefully the exercise with the bird toys will help.

Sephie is part Maine Coon. They are large cats to begin with, and she also has a very fluffy coat, especially on her belly. So she looks even bigger than she is.
Step one sort bugs into categories. 1) Critical failure ... 10) typo in help page no one reads. Obviously #1s need to be fixed. Usually anything that yields bad press needs fixing. Things that have easy work arounds are acceptable. This is balanced against competitive edge. If an opponent will grab a major market share if you do not ship now .... I guess it always gets down to dollars. Hard part is determining value of reputation - everything perfect (which it will NEVER be, verses ever getting the product out.
Looking at this again, I just realized that the person who mailed the patch that triggered the orphaning of the driver is also the person who is now volunteering to maintain the floppy driver.
Maybe because they are hollow they can store relatively little considered their height?

Also: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/03/160324-bambo...
The game is a little bit different because you don't just win by crushing your opponent like you do in a 1v1 RTS. This game goes on.

I'd say the situation is more akin to a Free-for-All situation in a game like Age of Empires 2, where the winning strategy is generally to take control of key resources and suck them dry while fighting as little as possible. And then when you need to fight someone during a tech switch, you bury them with your accumulated bank.
> when I was younger I often wanted a bodybuilder physique

As someone who has competed in both bodybuilding and powerlifting, I can attest that you don't want that physique. It's not worth the pain, time, and effort for it. Plus, anyone you see with rock-hard abs looks like that for maybe a 3 hour window. Almost no one looks like that year-round all of the time.
I'm mid 30s, and if anything I can keep more of the code in my head than when i was in my 20s. My abstractions got better, and I've seen lots of stuff before, I think this has had the effect of compressing everything.

I think of all the edge cases and pitfalls that I wouldn't have in my 20s. I have an easier time reading and understanding documentation, using libraries, reading and understanding other people's code. I think I'm also much more sympathetic to the poor sod who wrote this broken code under a time crunch 5 years ago.
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Good deal for the person getting the 15k sure, a terrible deal for the people paying property taxes to fund that raise.
A 'peaceful' protest is allowed then a 'peaceful' protest to your protest should also be allowed. If anyone broke the law, there are polices.
Do you guys not believe in Australia polices and judicial system? Then protest against them. I believe in australia you have this freedom, right?
Speaking louder in public place is not breaking any LAW.
FHE isn't the only option. Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption can be fast and stupendously valuable for a lot of statistical operations where you can figure out how to compute your function off only a small number of multiplications.
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Why? Someone who starts at 40 is probably earning more than someone at 25. And someone at 40 has fewer years left to support themselves after their 15-20 years of saving are up.
Nor is China doing that in Australia. As described in the article, they've outsourced the harassment to patriotic, nationalist civilians.

A Trump supporter was at the Cincinnati rally the other day making slit-throat gestures at the press pen. Same sort of crowdsourced intimidation tactics.
> or spend engineering time (salary money) to build it once and pay almost nothing to keep it online

Every time an engineer says this, somewhere a puppy dies.

Especially with an email service, keeping up with the spammers, scammers, blacklists, AV false positives, delivery failures at large companies, etc. cost far more per year than building the thing.

Operations is never free.
I still think paper voting is the only way no matter the algorithm i.e. no matter how good the system is it's still just a black box at the end of the day.

Imagine trying to hack the British general election, it would be impossible without hiring millions.
I agree with you.

I recently started working on a project in which the company had outsourced it to a wordpress shop, despite it not being a wordpress site.

fast forward a few years and no one fully trusts the software so everything it does gets checked/verified by a human, and they're actually hiring people because the workload is too much.

So they brought it in-house, which is where I come in.

And let me tell you, this codebase is horrific. To give you an idea, they needed a progress bar and ended up writing a FSM with the transition between nodes being http redirects. Now, the developers who worked on this wouldn't know what a FSM is if it bit them in the ass, but that's what they built. And the data for detecting if the background processing was still running was duplicated in 3 or 4 places, which means you would get states in this FSM that disagreed with each other about whether or not processing was finished. These pages would literally "argue" with each other over it by redirecting back and forth until the browser threw a too many redirects error.

I came across some code yesterday in which the developers had created a string of multiple insert statements. They then split on the string "INSERT INTO". Said split removes the INSERT INTO from the string. They then looped over the resulting array, prepended "INSERT INTO" back onto the sql and called the DB 1 at a time. I don't think these guys realized you could separate MySQL statements by semicolon.

My point is that the codebase is horrific, written by someone who was used to the style of development you're referring to, and they made an absolute mess.

BUT

To your point. The company realizes how bad the software is and I get a surprising amount of respect when talking about what needs to happen. The result is that we're making great strides towards making improvements, and despite how horrific the code is I find myself enjoying the work because it allows me to have an aspect of my skill set respected that can sometimes get ignored by people because it's not forward facing. Good software dev is boring as shit, so when you're doing it well no one notices.

Also, this post got me to thinking. I should submit that SQL code snippet to the daily wtf.
Don't know too much about this but I can speculate.

Bamboo is hollow so probably doesn't capture as much carbon compared to a solid tree. You can also use the wood from trees in a lot more places than bamboo.
> you would be stuck keeping an old computer alive that had a floppy drive and a CD burner, to burn any data you needed to a CD, then another old computer that has a CD drive and a USB port to move the data off a CD (/s, but only kinda).

Having worked in IT, this is entirely plausible. In fact I've had to do that entire runaround except with different technology.
Texas even requires parental consent on opt out, so the kid had to have a good support network.
I see what you mean about how proof-of-work can be monopolistic as well, but I guess there are at least some extra steps involved. You need to take your earned coins, sell them for computers, and then turn those computers toward mining (as opposed to any other productive use). In proof-of-stake, simply by virtue of holding coins you obtain more coins. This also comes with an opportunity cost, of course, but not to the same extent I think.

To respond to (1) I think I don't understand the mechanism of proof-of-stake well enough. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that the reason pooling is incentivized in proof-of-work is because having more mining power doesn't give you more coins as much as it increases the likelihood of you receiving a coin. In other words, it's the statistical nature of proof-of-work that makes pooling necessary. For proof-of-stake to not incentivize pooling I think it would need to not distribute coins statistically, but more like how stock dividends are issued today.

That being said I'm still not sure that the incentive for miners to pool is the same as a pressure on the network to consolidate holdings. I'll need to reflect on that.

Regarding (2) I'm not sure I understand why or how you would punish participants. ie. how would the network differentiate a 51% attack from a "legitimate" use of 51% to steer the network, and what could it do as a result?
This is especially dangerous if you've been promoted rapidly within a company. If you add value and do well someone can be promoted to say director / second line manager within 3-4 years. But with a total of 3-4 years of management experience, it'll be tough to find a comparable position outside.
It seems like energy demand created by heatwaves should be low hanging fruit for compensating with solar power. It seems the sun is usually shining during a heatwave. Am I oversimplifying or missing something here?
Shouldn’t the floppy driver be incredibly stable code after all these years? It’s surely in maintenance mode rather than feature development, and surely all the bugs have been ironed out by now!
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Tragic life events that need you to liquidate your savings are very rare. Personally I used charge cards (they had a zero balance) while I waited for the market to come back (2 months) and then I pulled out as little as possible. When the market was much better I paid off Charge Cards.
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One of the firms referenced in the Bloomberg article actually offers the plants (and opportunities of investment in them) and has a number of answers to the questions asked in the thread:

https://worldtree.info/empress-tree/

Though I have personally never heard about anything actually manufactured with the actual "empress" or "princess" timber.

It seems like in Japan it has a number of tradititonal uses, the family is that of the Paulownia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulownia
> Amazon devs test ad-blockers

No, for big sites the adblock users report issues, or more likely the adblock list developers just fix the issues right away. The issue is small sites with no sizeable adblock-using population.
> The major problem with online voting is that people can be coerced into voting against their wishes

The main problem is guaranteeing one vote per eligible voter.

Coercion is a related but smaller problem. It's much harder to coerce most of the people most of the time than it is to stuff the ballot.
I would be in favor of continuously increasing percentage of revenue based tax, not some arbitrary fee.
> you would be stuck keeping an old computer alive that had a floppy drive and a CD burner, to burn any data you needed to a CD, then another old computer that has a CD drive and a USB port to move the data off a CD (/s, but only kinda)

I had to use exactly this workflow a while back. SCSI based CD burner too, which I still have... just in case.

Thank you for you service, floppy driver guy, wherever you are.
Jiri Kosina wrote when he became the floppy maintainer in 2012: "I have fought the current maintainer to the death in the Thunderdome"
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8206f664bfd7121e79f...

Denis Efremov sent the security patches to floppy driver. Jiri orphaned the driver:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/47d6a7607443ea43dbc...

And now Denis wants to maintain the floppy driver...

Linus https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/16/370:
"You'll have to fight the current maintainer to the death in the Thunderdome. What's that, you say?"
Oh he didn't send it, but receiving it and not saying anything about the nonsense someone sent is just as suspicious. The dominos on cheese comment is veritably him, though.

But clearly nothing is going on and anyone that brings it up must be a domestic terrorist.
That certainly confirms degrees as an obstacle to getting a raise!
Don’t we need to take into account the local ecology? If we deploy one single plant to “solve” our carbon capture needs aren’t we both going to reduce biodiversity (they out compete local species) and set up a single point of failure? (Like banana trees now)
As an aside, that's also how we lose weight! When we burn away fat, we breathe it out.
They are taxed as capital gains for recipients.

Edit: *qualified dividends
I know we're not supposed to meme here, but the fact that you are essentially living an SNL send-up of a soppy Subaru commercial needs to be pointed out. Because it's hilarious.
> surely all the bugs have been ironed out by now!

Famous last words.
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Maintaining that kind of code is often less about dealing with lingering bugs, than it is about making sure that it's kept in sync with changes to the rest of the kernel that might be relevant. If some kernel structure that the FDD driver uses changes, it needs to know that.

EDIT: Phrasing
Does something have to have no value to be a scam or just a value less than what is being advertised?

I do feel lumping all higher education together is a bit unfair and a breakdown would be far more telling where scams are and aren't.
Most of my floppy disks are badly corrupted; IIRC data on them is considered to have a lifetime of about 10 years. That being said, my 360k and 720k 3.5" floppies seem to work considerably better than my 1.44MB 3.5" floppies even though they are quite a bit older. Not sure if it's because of cheapening of production or just the higher density of data.
All I remember about empress trees is the extremely strong smell of the flowers. Not very pleasant, to me.
Is this "Hyborian War"?
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I'm locked in to my current vendor, but I just wanted to share some of my thoughts about some pain points I saw in your sales pitch.

My experience is that most academics pay less than $6.50 per hour for an initial point of contact. For instance, I am currently fielding a survey (N > 5,000 per week, cross-sectional rather than panel) and we pay about $2 all-in, including the provider's charge, for a survey that's about 20 minutes. We'd fall afoul of your compensation rate pretty substantially. If we wanted to do some panel work and we needed re-contact, we'd definitely ramp up our payment quickly to help avoid attrition, but for the first contact, no.

If we wanted to be paying out your rate, we would almost certainly have to get an additional sponsor partner to piggyback some consumer research on top of our actual treatment. We don't want to do this, it's hard enough dealing with our primary funders. This makes me believe you are mostly targeting commercial / market behavior researchers. That's fine, but the pitch suggests you want academics. For transparency's sake, what is your balance of private and university clients as of today?

Second, even working with large sample providers, their pools are often fairly small. We requested 5,000 unique respondents a week for a year and found our sample provider could only guarantee a 1-2 month lockout. Obviously the effective pool you need to guarantee 5,000 * 52 is enormous and so we were expecting to have to negotiate on lockout, but all of this dances around the fact that sample providers are not transparent about the size of their pool and researchers like us are constantly worried about fraud both by sample providers and by respondents. How large is your pool?

Finally, this kind of quota sampling relies on our ability to weight the sample to the population. Weighting is totally permissible, but responsible weighting is going to cap the weight at the high end -- no one wants the one black Republican to skew the entire poll because they have a 150 weight on their observation (this isn't me getting needlessly political, this happened with the USC tracking poll last election cycle). In my experience, the hardest thing about quota sampling as opposed to the old RDD phone samples 20 years ago is that it's very difficult to get high education / high SES / high income respondents. High income respondents should be 10% of the population and they simply are nowhere near 10% of the pools that you get from standard recruitment methods. Can you speak a bit about a) how you recruit high income people into your pool; and b) what percentage of your pool would be high income (say HHI > $125k a year or so).

Finally, what is your pool attrition rate? If someone takes their first Prolific survey today, what is the probability they will still be taking a survey a year from now? It's nice that you have re-contact as part of your system, but the problem in my experience is not figuring out how to recontact, it's getting people to stay engaged for a long time.

Hope you have good answers to these questions, and that if you do, answering them here will help you get positive exposure from other readers.
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This is an accurate description of the game theoretic argument.

It is not very precise about the premisses, "the market", "the reward" or "the critical products"--variables in a non-linear equation, so to speak, that do not necessarily have a unique solution, or no solution.
> They are taxed as capital gains for recipients.

No, ordinary dividends are taxed as income.
The easiest thing to do is to burn it into biochar and then either bury that or use it as a fertilizer on fields where it will get taken up in the soil.

There are some active land management techniques which do something similar with shrubs/plants/grasses which generate an enormous amount of soil and therefore trap a lot of carbon.
It's not that big. FB gets to choose the assessor.
True for ordinary dividends, but almost all stock dividends meet the criteria to be treated as qualified dividends, taxed at capital gain rates. For example, in Vanguard's S&P 500 index fund, about 98% of dividends are qualified [1]. Of commonly traded classes of stocks, only real-estate funds mostly pay out ordinary dividends.

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No need. There is still USB floppy support which is not affected by the removal of the floppy driver.
Agree. But violent pro HK protestors should also be punished under law
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- How much time (i.e. labor hours) will it take to find and vet an alternative solution Y to solution X (provided that you already know that X will solve your problem/save you time)?
- How do you value your time?
- What's your tolerance for community-only support vs. commercial support?

The list goes on, but gratis isn't always better just because you don't need to pull out your wallet.
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> How does online voting differ from mail voting?

You cannot easily encrypt your voting information when sent by regular mail. If you have a unique unforgeable id, like a private key, and a secure voting device then your vote can be submitted and counted securely online. Granted, you could print your encrypted vote and mail it in.
The aim of school isn’t to make you remember any given fact or theorem. It’s to make you build a mental index of such facts and theorems that resembles the shape of the space itself, such that you can 1. understand the “positioning” or relevance of a new idea in that space; and 2. know where you’d search, and what questions you’d ask, to look up any fact or theorem you hear about, or kinda-sorta remember exists.

The main problem with public schooling is that the system designers (learning-target criteria setters, curriculum designers, textbook publishers, etc.) don’t properly communicate the fact that surveying the field to build a mental map of it, is the goal of primary (and most secondary) education. So you get teachers, parents, and students all worrying about test scores that show that you don’t understand a particular idea, when the curriculum was never designed to communicate particular ideas, but only the structures containing them.
>The tell-tale sign is that they didn’t bother to get both sides of the story.

Why? Not every story has two sides. Here one group used violence on another that didn't. Unless you have evidence that the pro-HK protesters actually used violence first, that's the only side to the story. The mainland faction being riled up doesn't excuse violence.

Just because it's not a massive riot where the streets run red with blood doesn't mean it's not a worrying instance.

>The BBC article makes it seem as though the Chinese students strong-armed their way into the crowd and started beating people, which is objectively not the case.

On the contrary, it objectively is the case, as the first video you yourself linked to shows: it opens with a pro-mainland student in black rushing into the pro-HK crowd and assaulting someone with a crowd screaming and advancing behind him.

It's very strange that you're working so hard to downplay what happened. Not just downplaying, willfully distorting what the videos show.
You just sadly reminded me of when I was an undergrad taking a grad class on "History of Mathematics".

Two undergrads taking the class because it just sounded neat, and the professor made things interesting. 10 graduate students who were teachers taking the class for the increased salary. An evening seminar of three hours per week after work where we examined as much as possible over how people did math through the ages and through time.

You could tell these grads were bored. But, fine, dealing with kids all day, then having to learn something new that isn't likely to ever be more than a trivia point in a lecture might not be a great thing.

Then... We get to a point where it looks like Archimedes came this close to discovering integral calculus. [insert appropriate WOW! meme here]

A couple of grunts from the grads. Me and the other undergrad were gobsmacked.

There were other examples, but that's the one that always sticks in my head. It's also what contributed to me not being very impressed by some of the grade school teachers I met as my kids were enrolled.