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A geomagnetic storm is not an EMP. They are completely different phenomena.

A geomagnetic storm is a very long duration, low frequency event that causes movement in the magnetic field of the earth. This can induce a voltage on large conductive structures notably very large metal objects, but primarily on long distance electrical lines such as telegraph (in 1859), or electrical transmission lines today.

An EMP is an incredibly high-frequency, short-duration event in which a very intense electric field is generated which can affect mostly very small electrical devices such as integrated circuits, etc.

They aren't even vaguely similar.
The problem is the current solution doesn't work. Because trying to perfect those settings manually while driving in near zero visibility is scary and dangerous. And nobody even knows the correct settings to use! There are YouTube videos testing whether cold or warm air is the fastest way to defrost and/or defog your window, because nobody knows or remembers.

I honestly don't remember and my solution is "try both for a little bit while maintaining control of the car".
Tactile is better.

That's also the lesson electronic musicians found out over time.

You can still use MIDI/VST/synthesizers/DAWs and so on -- but having tactile control over them is better (faster and more expressive) than a tiny, or even a large, screen.

And of course, you can combine both methods (but not when you're just given a screen).
The main thing I learned when learning Functional Programming was that there are multiple ways to solve the same problem, which forced me to look at the data and output first instead of jumping to the syntax to get intermediate results. A program isn't a set of conditionals, loops, and objects, it's a transformation of data from one form to another.

Before FP, I would implement a compiler as a massive state machine. In FP, I think more in terms of small functions that work together in a stream, and the state machine is implicit. With declarative programming, I think in terms of defining the grammar.

I don't use FP techniques for everything, but my whole way of approaching a problem is different because I know that other options exist. Sometimes I'll use a for loop, other times I'll make a recursive mapping function, it really depends on which solution is simpler and less likely to have bugs.
Putin needs mass censorship and he is planning to completely ban YouTube in Russia, because a lot of his corruption schemas were published from Navalniy's anti-corruption agency on YouTube and everyone can see it. Without the ban his ranking will be at the bottom till end of the year.
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The premise is that everyone is being simulated.. but maybe some observers are present as avatars.
Monte Carlo can also be used to estimate completely deterministic quantities - e.g. hyper volumes under high dimension curves where it’s too expensive to numerically integrate but you only need a few sig figs of accuracy.
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Statistics are useful but they don't always show accurate information. India is one of the most diverse country in the world. Hell even the states are like little countries living together. I am an Indian but even I can't make assumption like that about another state.

But still I don't think everyone replaces their phones in just 3 years. The younger generation does that (they replace their phones even faster). But the older generation who use a smart phone like a phone keeps their phones for lot more then 5 years.

And these days due to population control awareness most couples limit themselves to only 2 children.
Honest question: why didn't you take the train? This would have been a good time to take another sip of your whisky and soda.
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I’ve hooked up a PlayStation 3 controller to my LinuxCNC-based mill, and it’s become my primary working interface.

I only use the keyboard when I’m editing config or loading code.
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Automatics are great when they work. I do have automatic wipers, which usually work pretty well. Fortunately they didn't remove the manual controls though because I had a boat on the roof yesterday, and the rain sensor behind the rear-view mirror didn't really see as much rain as I did.

There is a max-demist button, which for me is the perfect automatic function - it says what I want, and lets the car get on with selecting max fan/heat/AC/flow to the demist vents. And I can find it with muscle memory when I need it.
Buying the book somewhere else and uploading to the Kindle is far from being easy for an average reader.
It isn't caused by any specific humidity levels. While it is depositing water droplets on to the glass surface, that same water is normally suspended harmlessly in the air (it is effectively de-humidifying the air onto the cold windows).

It is caused by the glass's surface temperature being much lower than the air temperature inside the car. Humans are warm. The air we breath is warm. We're heating up the interior of the vehicle. When that warm air contacts the cold surface of the glass, the water droplets migrate from the air onto the surface.

In order to detect it you'd need to know the glass's surface temperature ideally in the middle (away from the car's body) and also know the interior temperature. The interior temp they already have. But figuring out the glass's temp is non-trivial. Infrared camera is the only thing I can imagine working (since a sensor wouldn't be transparent or wouldn't be replaced when the glass is) but that would likely give inaccurate readings due to the outside temperature.
> I trust Signal and distrust Telegram for many solid technical reasons.

Except there are no solid technical reasons, just trust and distrust, because security people really love to claim authority on how "solid" security things are. The last people on earth you should ask about security are those claiming authority on these issues.
I think what you're saying is that morality exists outside of the rule of law, which I agree with.

But then you're saying that you think that companies like Google are morally equipped to be able to determine this law better than states would, which I think is where you lose me. Legal systems are also imperfect but at least there is oversight and (at least symbolic) input from citizens.
Google can use Russian Constitution:

31. Citizens of the Russian Federation shall have the right to assemble peacefully, without weapons, hold rallies, meetings and demonstrations, marches and pickets.

Article 29

1. Everyone shall be guaranteed the freedom of ideas and speech.

2. The propaganda or agitation instigating social, racial, national or religious hatred and strife shall not be allowed. The propaganda of social, racial, national, religious or linguistic supremacy shall be banned.

3. No one may be forced to express his views and convictions or to reject them.

4. Everyone shall have the right to freely look for, receive, transmit, produce and distribute information by any legal way. The list of data comprising state secrets shall be determined by a federal law.

5. The freedom of mass communication shall be guaranteed. Censorship shall be banned.

PS. Im Russian and live here.
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It's on my bucket list along with smalltalk. Ive done some sicp and it's definitely mind opening.

Right now I'm on a different route that I think is much more harder. Haskell, type checking, category theory, Idris and dependent typing.
I agree, and would add that a case where the UI is evolving and you want to be able to ship functional updates and changes easily is another 'use a touch screen' indicator.
The README does not say that TOTP protects us from keyloggers. I was either not clear in writing that paragraph or you may have misundertood that paragraph. Here's what the README says,

> If your desktop/laptop device is compromised, then both authentication factors would be compromised. The attacker can steal the first authentication factor that only you should know (e.g., password) by running a key logger on the compromised device. The attacker can also steal the second authentication factor that only you should have ...

What I mean here is that generating the TOTP on the same system that we would use to log into a website with 2FA defeats the purpose of 2FA because the attacker can steal the TOTP secret key in addition to stealing the password (keylogger being one way to steal the password).
For the people laughing and shrugging your story off as nonsense:

My girlfriend had an "anger-attack" that you really cannot authentically describe without using the word possession. It was absolute madness. Cursing, highly aggressive, would not stop even when she slit her hand on a shard of glass and fell face first to the ground busting her lip. She did not feel anything. I was looking her in the eyes and it was not the same person. Her gaze was changed.

Now, you can explain all this away and say it was a chemical imbalance in her brain, psychological trauma, etc.. But really all these explanations just feel like approximations to what it really felt like. It felt like a demonic possession. I know it sounds silly. I am a very scientific/skeptical guy myself but this was something else.
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*Internal combustion cars. Electric cars enable us to avoid polluting the cities by burning coal somewhere unimportant.
"Chemicals", not Roundup.

Guilt by association?
Which is why you have such a wide range of physical controllers for DAWS.
Traveling isn’t just aviation. Most traveling for fun in the US is via automobile.
>Touch screen climate control integrates better with voice

That's a false dichotomy. Tactile controls doesn't mean you can have electronic logic behind them, that you can talk to in alternative ways (e.g. through voice).

Also, I wouldn't say the whole BS added to modern "climate control" (i.e. bloated AC) systems is much of an improvement...
That’s not what I see.
"Including indie books (published without ISBN), Amazon accounts for 83% of US ebook purchases – and the rest is almost entirely shared between the Apple iBookStore, Barnes & Noble, Kobo US and the GooglePlay Books."

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on the other hand, AC is one of the only electronic features that causes a meaningful hit to fuel economy (and available power, if you have a weak engine). I very much prefer to decide for myself when it turns on.
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Also lets you jump in front of people in the concession line. With the result that I (a non-A-List-member) will never buy concessions from them again. Which is kind of a good thing for me all around, actually, since I probably shouldn't have been in the first place.
These companies provide political value. I think of them as black boxes that don't really do anything to its input but give political weight to the arbitrary claim associated with the input. Want to cover your fuckup on a project? Hire Accenture for a few months to do something meaningless, like produce a report with all the problems in the project. Change nothing. Then say that clearly the project is more difficult than you've anticipated, you even retained a consultant that said this and that. More resources are required.

You can do training sessions for people you want to advance or hold back. In both cases sessions would be meaningless and void of any real value, except that they assign attribute Foo to the group of people. Then you can say that only people with Foo can do Bar, moving those people forward in their career. Alternatively you can overcome some bureaucratic obstacle by claiming that you do Foo regularly, which is a requirement from some authority for some reason.

I don't really know how this kind of politics works, but this is how I tend to think about it.
I wish the idea that DevOps was a role or activity would die.
It's not weird in the sense that technology has no human values. Just like the invention of nerve gas or the atom bomb, technology can serve a positive or a negative purpose and it won't care a bit if the human race goes extinct. Just because "we" created something doesn't mean "we" have the last word. This is why I keep hammering on mass surveillance--this stuff is not our friend. "Get rid of insects" was the goal, now we're rid of them and whole ecosystems are crashing.

I keep seeing Monarch butterflies around here and I wonder what they are eating since there is no milkweed in any direction.
Yes, I was similarly clarifying that what's new is taking it seriously that we are most likely simulated and not the hypothetical idea.
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Well, consider me whooshed.
Most highly skilled FPS players are using mice/keyboard. In games where both console and PC are supported, PC players usually have far higher mechanical skills due to the greater controllability enabled by mouse/keyboard. Watch the OWL, and half the maneuvers that players make are simply impossible to do with a game controller.
Because he didn't know the whether would be like that?

And because he already owns a car?
In my life contra dancing fills this role. It's a place I can go to socialize with friends and strangers, dance, and listen to live music. There are dances all over the country, and when I'm traveling for work I often look up the local dance (https://trycontra.com) and drop in. Wherever I am I have a good time.
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When did I have that choice?
Am I the only one who found the use of acronyms here a little annoying? Like, use the whole word expansion at least once before introducing the acronym. That should be standard practice regardless of discipline and audience.
certainly won't disagree that it can be limiting to folks of some perspectives, but as someone who publicly has applied the sysadmin label for the duration of their career (starting in the early 00's), I've yet to see a downside.

I've been obscenely compensated for working on interesting projects for much of my career. then again, part of it may be due to the confidence that comes with focusing on my work instead of fluffing my title.
Cafes in my experience.
I have been quiet about this until now, and this will probably go against some grain here, but here is a question:

If emacs is so much more extensible, why is there so much better language support for mainstream languages in VSCode?

I couldn't find support for Angular with Typescript. Java support isn't anywhere near the big three (Netbeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ) and even the newcomer VSCode has decent Java support these days.

You'd think that the most extensible IDE with the smartest users should have support for most stuff one needs on a day to day basis?
The term "transporting" was new to me. I hadn't realized that 'porting was just a shortened version of that, which apparently took over and fully replaced the long version.
> Preserving the the company is generally quite important in order to maximize value.

Often it is, but not always. If the market for the company's product is going away it may make sense to just ride things down to the end, milking as much as they can as they die.

Monetizing other value in the company may also be possible, of course. The corporation could be purchased, or its parts could be sold in liquidation. The point is that survival of the corporation is not an end in itself, it's only relevant insofar as its maximizes shareholder value.
Yeah, why would we talk about game dev when there are other unspecified examples we could be talking about? Shame on us.
> Physical buttons and dials for users to interact with that still can be changed by the system are wholly possible.

Sure, but irrational. One of the largest benefits of physical controls is physical feedback, like being about to feel if you've reached the max cold/hot ceilings or the state of the switches.

To make them voice compatible you have to remove that physical association (e.g. infinite spinners, or blind switches), which means now you need to take your eyes off the road to use them, which was major perk of physical controls.

Physical controls that have no physical state are the worst of both worlds. You've lost the physical and electronic control's advantages while adding the disadvantages to both.
> as simulated beings improve their own efficiencies, the savings from improved algorithms reduces for the simulators.

That is such a fascinating idea. A universe only running at the level of abstraction we can understand it. Perhaps Newtonian physics was actually complete until we forced the universe to bail out of that optimisation. Our damned scientists, heedlessly consuming the precious redundancy left for us by our simulators. You can see the cracks in reality already. God help us all if they figure out quantum gravity.
I didn't take the train because I was transporting my son's sailing boat back from a competition. Also the train line was flooded yesterday, so that wouldn't have been an option. But normally that's not a problem, and I agree, if I'm just transporting myself, I do like the train.
And on "illegal" events, the main thing Russian citizen is asking - that government must use our constitution too
It's not that, but think: I still count my change in a $10 transaction and to the real movers and shakers, $1 million is a rounding error! We've seen unprecedented inflation the past decade or so and yet, the $20 bill is still the standard denomination from an ATM. Freaking clown world!

Our world is absurd and it's time regular people got off their asses and complained a little louder.
Maybe they should try advertising this.

For me, "organic" is a marker for "bullshit label that's used to convince people to pay more." If they actually do taste better, I might buy the stuff.
How, exactly? One day your children could say the same of political atrocities committed in your youth. Governments outlast people.

The infrastructure and incentives which drive it have not changed. America was founded and bred on colonialism and foreign dictatorships which enable cheap cost of living at the expense of hellish working conditions in other countries.
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Commodore (or rather, the CBM brand) did have quite a standing in the European business market, especially in Germany. It may be argued that Commodore was rather letting this run as a niche segment than building strategically on this and the respective distribution channels, which were already established. Eventually, this segment starved to a non-dramatic end, for the lack of new products, or products introduced half-heartedly.

Regarding Atari, it's a not too well known historical footnote that IBM was considering to acquire Atari's computer division, when IBM gave up their various efforts of introducing a consumer machine of their own in the late 1970s. (There's even an "IBM-Atari" design prototype by Tom Hardy.) A broader knowledge of this may have changed Atari's image quite dramatically.
I think what I found fascinating and disturbing is how frequently posters will completely disregard the facts presented and construct an imaginary narrative for events. Depending on the group identification of the poster, this counterfactual narrative is either extremely exculpatory or damming.

The whole experience gives me a lot more sympathy for those who are judged a jury of their "peers"
It doesn't have to work on a literal level. It's a fable, not a recipe.
A possibly contentious idea I’ve been thinking about is that the Grand Unified Law isn’t constant in the universe, it seems to be parametrized by the society and technology at the time (see evolution of morality between hunter gatherers and agriculture societies).
Similar for the Chinese constitution but that has little meaning in practice.
Good point. I don't think many would bemoan the loss of a bar, but they should recognize that losing a place other than home or work could have dramatic and far reaching impact.

In addition to churches I'd add the death of social organizations like elks, shriners, etc. Most of the good things these groups worked on are now seen by most as the responsibility of the government, which changes a lot of the dynamics.
Manual works just fine. I just drove clear across the Trans-Canadian Highway, east to west, in a car with manual controls and it all worked great. Your eyes stay on the road because sober people can reach out and grab objects, like knobs or buttons, without looking. If the matter of defrosting confuses you then maybe you should sit down in your car for five minutes and learn how the multi-ton machine works before attempting to operate it; you owe that much to the rest of society. Don't ruin a car just because you are too lazy to work a damn knob.

(Warm dry air evaporates water that's condensing on cold surfaces. That's very far from rocket science.)
My guess is the bar is just lame. There are plenty of cool bars that are packed every night in basically every place I've ever lived.
This is a pretty old complaint, but my initial issues about the ipod, especially 2nd and 3rd gen was the lack of manual controls. At a younger age, a walkman or discman in my pocket with headphones in my ears was a constant, and I was able to find my way through whatever media was in there quickly and easily by thumb.

With the iPod, I could manage sometimes but about half the time I ended up having to take it out and look at what i pressed because it just wasn't working by feel. I remember a couple mp3 players from the time made manual buttons with different sizes and placement and better feedback, but they weren't around for long.
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Considering Benjamin Franklin in other writings has shown a much more enlightened view of Indians, this passage you quoted might have been written with sarcasm and this is an earlier example of Poe's law. This passage has more to do with the virtue of temperance and rum than indians. This passage is more like objectively talking about how the CIA worked to help import cocaine in the United States in the 80s and how African American communities like Harlem were being destroyed because of the crack epidemic because of these policies of the government.

This passage edited for 2019 internet should read.

'The next day, sensible they had misbehav’d in giving us that disturbance, they sent three of their old counselors to make their apology. The orator acknowledg’d the fault, but laid it upon the rum; and then endeavoured to excuse the rum by saying, ”The Great Spirit, who made all things, made everything for some use, and whatever use he design’d anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said, ‘Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,’ and it must be so.“

And, indeed, if it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for cultivators of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means. It has already annihilated all the tribes who formerly inhabited the sea-coast.' /s
If we don't have to follow PEP8, how many lines can we condense it to?
I am going to try.