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I recently took it upon myself to research the origins of calories, macros, and all those things from nutrition science.
https://blog.jumpycatapp.com/calorie-counting-weight-loss-hi...

In truth, science seems to be still very far from understanding the complexity of how our bodies process food.(One recurring constraint seems to be the difficulty in controlling for "real life eating").

Learning from "traditional" diets and cuisine might be the best practical way to go about eating healthy. A bit of a black hole approach, but practical for most people.
No, because it's a government agency. The point is so that elected officials and other government agencies can get nonpartisan guidance on tech issues that is independent from corporate interests.
consent.yahoo.com/consent

to be being spied on.
It's not politics that people are getting stressed out about. It's fake news.

Let's call it for what it is.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/11/04/media/abc-news-stage-live-s...

Fake news from ABC being called out by the kings of fake news: CNN.

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/20160918_Why_is_Philly_...

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/T...

One of these articles is fake news.

Washington Post also likes their fake news.

Clinton questions whether Sanders is qualified to be president

https://outline.com/5jBgBU

Sanders’s incorrect claim that Clinton called him ‘not qualified’ for the presidency

https://outline.com/urT5KL

One of these articles is fake news. It doesn't matter which.

The media is attacking and posting fake news about all sides of politics. This is not a new. The media has been feeding us lies forever, what has changed is technology. We are now catching them in their lies. We are holding them to account for their fake news and this has resulted in the media crumbling.

Fix the fake news, stop giving fake news agencies like CNN or washington post any attention and your stress will greatly reduce.
This is good stuff, not just for Elixir. I've been increasingly heading this way in my Go programs as well, and anything else that I've had to write of any significant size.

One of the interesting side effects is that the whole microservices thing just kinda vaporizes as a consideration when you can just take a chunk of your program and run it on another server or something if you need to. I'm still not doing this as fluidly as I'd like, but I've definitely ripped bits out and also merged some bits before without too much hassle.

One of the major problems I've hit with this is just that the mechanisms for composing these pieces together is all over the board. Do you want to plug in a handler for some chunk of the URL space? That works entirely different from composing in two network services on two different ports, which works entirely differently from creating a new protocol that has plugable components, which works entirely different from composing together two services that both end up sharing the same database connection pool.

The other problem I've had is the availability of code that can be mixed and matched like this. One example I recently fixed up in my code base is that we previously had a module for managing metrics for the entire project, which declared each metric value. It was non-trivial work to take everything that module did and made it so each sub-application could register its own metrics independently. It wasn't hard; the design that leaps to your mind is probably basically what I implemented. But it also added yet another way in which composing these things together is a challenge. Composable configuration is also annoyingly difficult.

There's no one big thing that makes this hard, it's a ton of little things everywhere that afford you tying your program together more tightly than it really has to be. I think that if languages and/or libraries supported this better, it wouldn't be that much more difficult to write solid code that worked this way all the time, but right now there's just impediments everywhere.
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EDIT:More in spirit of the questions - i don't honestly care about yesteryear feelings, I care about the now. Politics is fluid. What can we do to reestablish the office and provide congress with informed decisions?
In America, we all bitch about politics, give up, and wonder why things suck. Meanwhile people are protesting quite vigorously, in HK, Paris, all over the Middle East a few years ago, etc. If we want the change we're looking for, we need to get in the streets and disrupt daily life for everyone until we collectively get what we are demanding.
I'll throw it on the pile of all the other credit monitoring I've gotten from other breaches.
I can't seem to read this article, it keeps redirecting to apnews://open?link_click_id=70xxx which of course gives an ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME.

Looking at the Wikipedia of Cyberbunker, I gather this is one of their bunkers, but not the main one in the Netherlands.
The scary part is that drugs were only volunteered as an offhand example. Authoritarians (in this case openly) apply the same logic to literally any activity, such that even the most vague and indirect tertiary externalities can be twisted into an excuse to police other people. Even the most responsible engagement in [drug use]/[sex]/[motorcycle riding]/[controversial art]/[self-defense]/[political protest] is subject to their judgment and approval because your example might influence someone else!

But even though this loose standard can be stretched to justify literally any prohibition, in practice the only activities that get targeted in the name of community enhancement are the ones that make the group in power feel threatened or uncomfortable.
> Assault does not require force or violence.

To the minds of the majority of people sure it does.
Maybe check your power supply? I've supported Macs for a couple of decades and normally people have storage mounted for years without this kind of thing happening in the absence of some sort of hardware or environmental problem.
I see. Hence evil maid attack. If someone has temporary physical access they could install malware that captures data when the device is unlocked. Chargers as an attack vector seem more likely, if more mundane.
I don’t think it’s a false dichotomy at all. This same community discusses other things, far worse things, and we can compare them. When this community discusses victims of harassment who get fired for reporting it, there isn’t nearly this much time and energy spent on it. When an article about a drone strike blowing up an Afghan wedding made the front page recently, there wasn’t this much outrage. Uber covers up actual crimes and the discussion degenerates into arguments about whether there’s any duty to report crimes to the police. People get fired all the time for far smaller infractions and everybody just shrugs.

Why does this community care so much about what happens to this asshole?
Okay, all that's left is establishing that Biden was setting US policy contrary to the views of the rest of the administration (because that's what it would take for his role in it to be improper).

It doesn't make Hunter Biden look very good to be selling his name to foreign entities like that, for sure.
Ok just so we're clear...

You're arguing that defending a statutory rapist isn't supporting pedophilia BUT working on the guidance systems for an autonomous ground vehicle is "help the government kill people"?
That was one of my major questions with this article. The author leans pretty heavily on the 2.7% loss in global GDP by 2100 that is predicted to occur because of climate change. While GDP is surely important, I think it's a pretty shoddy metric to evaluate the potential damage of climate change.

Within a century we are going to do irreversible damage to environmental assets that have developed over millions, sometimes even billions, of years. And like you said, we don't even fully understand how many of those systems even work yet. We won't ever have a great coral reef or Amazon rainforest again unless we want to wait another few million years. And those assets' value is not just intrinsic, they have real economic, social, cultural value. To measure the loss of those things in GDP seems to be inadequate.
Yeah, it's exactly these sorts of lucky encounters in tiny restaurant or village, with a few local characters, or the bar lock-in you didn't even know you were invited to etc that stick the longest!

Sure beats 2 hrs in departures. :)
There could still be an issue with new hardware. That definitely should not be happening
Yeah, just some very odd choices. And quite a unpleasant menu to be honest.
The question needs some clarification. Are you referring to the profitability of the company/vendor that maintains/supplies the technology?
Scala is too big and complex. I tried to learn it, but ended up using it as a better Java with some functional features like pattern matching. I felt like it wasn't worth to continue mastering Scala after a certain point.
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> You’re not paying the goodness of Apple
> You’re paying to avoid the badness of Windows

Are you telling me there is a market of an intermediate OS? Because I would be ready to pay about $250/year/user for a Linux that is as good as Mac, but with cheaper and more maintainable gear than the iMac. It’s almost as if Apple were trying to tell us there’s an intermediate market up for grabs, but they’re still to close to it for any incumbent to try their luck. Canonical was close to it, but stuck to the wrong business model and decided to switch to Unity in 2013 instead of stabilizing Ubuntu. Product roadmaps are hard. Jony Ive is available, just saying ;)
For me, that's icing on the cake. Why I truly like and recommend Svelte is its ergonomics. Paired with Sapper, building a fast website is a breeze and feels like you're just writing plain HTML and (supercharged) JS.
I didn't know that, but this is much bigger news to me. I have been always told that the biggest reason to use FreeBSD is ZFS a long time ago. Things has been changed that much since then.
> And what if you share your car with someone who prefers different settings?

There have been cars that change various settings depending on the key fob used ("hers and his"):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSoJPgFSDOE

Before fobs, where you actually put the key in the ignition hols, there were cars with "memory buttons".
You plug the result back into the equation, then simplify the equation until you get a tautology. Of course, the "simplify" step can be difficult, but it's usually a lot simpler than solving equations.
when did you get your choose-your-batch email? i ordered december 2018 and got my choose-your-batch email about a week ago.
Agree.

Just a shame that Solaris wasn't Open Sourced sooner, as if it'd grown more traction we'd be in a different world now.

I think Linux kind of creeped up on them, and in the meantime Oracle got its grubby its on Sun, then embraced Linux itself.

Zones are /amazing/.
Clearly too lazy to figure out the he's a she...
The future is wild, criminal corporations running data centres... I wonder if anyone's hiring in Canada...
It's not FUD when you have experienced it, things like anybody trying to stop them or getting in their way, they use the police to harass the people with false reports, many other forms of abuse and excel at playing the victim card. Example, dealer attacks person and then reports that the person attacked them and evidence that proves otherwise is dismissed as it violated their rights.

But shall leave it at that. Just please don't blindly dismiss a person's experience as FUD.
But aren’t test pilots specially clued on to the plane, the features they’re testing and how to react in problem situations? That’s like testing car airbags with stuntmen who know how to crash without getting hurt anyway.
> “I think it’s a huge success ... that we were able at all to get police forces into the bunker complex, which is still secured at the highest military level,” Kunz said. “We had to overcome not only real, or analog, protections; we also cracked the digital protections of the data center.”

This sentence is the punchline. I'm guessing they mean they were able to image the disks and capture memory while they were running unencrypted?
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> I just catch-up on the news once a week to avoid thinking about it too much.

How do you do that? We used to have a good selection of newsmagazines that summarized the week's news and utilized the ability to more deeply dive into issues to great effect. They've all devolved into gossip rags, AFAICT. The only exception I know of is The Economist; and they've got an unabashed bias they put into things. That's refreshing than the hidden bias everybody else has, but it makes them not a great sole source.
Checkm8 BootROM exploit threatens millions of iPhones and iPads
Meanwhile, uncontacted Stone Age Tribe elders observes anomalous large bird possibly made out of shiny rocks in the sky traveling at faster than any bird flys or animal runs. It does not make noise like bird and it does not flap wings but makes low drowning sounds like a fast flowing river. It would be able to traverse to the big unknown mountain far off in the distance in minutes to hours.

Stone Age Tribe Hacker News drum circle meeting says that tribal elders smoked too much sacred pipe last night or maybe supreme elder tribal shaman has secretly made it out of shiny rocks and leaves. They ask, why would it fly like that in a straight line, doesn't the bird know that the world ends just over the horizon?
How big is the added risk of toxic waste? I'm not sure how much waste is produced in relation to propulsion energy given but it must be quite small? And I imagine that during travel in space you could just dump that waste out into space considering the vastness of it all.
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I have to agree I like having a time machine to look back on and think it is important almost like a history book. But a big part of me sympathises with people who find themselves in those situations. I don't think I have said anything I would regret on line but know there were some times in my younger life where I held some pretty charged views. Unless you are in someone's shoes it is hard to understand why they are saying the things they did. Perhaps they grew up in a completely racist house with parents that fed them that information. It doesn't make what the person said any less terrible but I think as a society we should be open to forgiveness where it is due. I don't think everything should be forgiven as some things cross the lines that can never be taken back but hope as a society we can realize that racial beliefs and political views and thoughts about police can change as one matures and is educated. What a mess.
This argument is tired. Many people drive teslas without being particularly impressed by anything but the torque. Its certainly not build quality.
> Here's an argument for MWI being testable

I skimmed the article very quickly. It doesn't even mention the Bohm interpretation. It has long been considered that the Bohm interpretation and MWI are experimentally indistinguishable. Since the article doesn't specifically mention this issue, I'm not sure that it's worth the slog (if all you care about is the philosophical worry that we can never distinguish whether we're in an MWI world vs a Bohm world.)

As for MWI/Bohm being distinguishable from other interpretations, it is certainly the case that this is true. Though actually doing so in practice would be extremely difficult. My guess is that this article is really on how me might approach trying to narrow the field down to MWI/Bohm, or exclude them, as the evidence may ultimately show.
Out of all the unfortunate hyperbole from the 737 MAX (which I think fundamentally is a safe aircraft), this change will improve air safety across all airliners. Pilots should be held to the highest of standards, but assessment should be done with average joes.
I can only be happy to see that the research we made and the documents [1] we produced some months back have lead to changes that improve privacy in Matrix. It is a huge win for our nonprofit Libre Monde [2].

We are especially happy to see you will now be lawfully processing GDPR Access requests by keeping the scope tight, and no longer include the full account history, confirming our statements in the Part 2 of the research that it was indeed unlawful to do so, and will inform the ICO accordingly.

Hopefully the remaining points in terms of privacy will be addressed!

[1] https://github.com/libremonde-org/paper-research-privacy-mat...
[2] https://www.libremonde.org/
> to which this study adds one more bit of evidence.

This study does not support your conclusion, and so adds no evidence to support that conclusion. It's not even studying the sort of diet you're talking about!

> I meant having a precise definition of processed didn't matter for the question what our diet should be

No, it really does matter. If you're trying to argue that some specific food or processing technique is bad, then a study that had all participants consume it can't be used to show that it's actually harmful. And by your definition, that's what this study did - it had everyone consume highly processed foods, and some of them had good outcomes. That undermines your conclusion; it does not support it.
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> The touchscreen is mostly used for Satnav and music/radio in those cars.

I already have a smartphone, which does both of these things better, and which I've already configured to my liking. The only thing a car can do better than my phone for either of these use cases is audio, so just give me a jack please.
Cool, but how does it help me reason about my code and maintain large projects? It doesn't even support typescript.
Sure, the components look okay in isolation, but what about the big picture?
OTA is just a government agency that existed some time into the academic computing phase, where lots of theory and conjecture was thrown around but no broad enterprise or consumer application was possible. Think like blockchain in 2019. It was defunded when those applications were just taking off in the 90s.
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Seriously? My friend was forced to drag his 27 inch iMac into the Woodfield shopping mall location, which if you've ever been there, is a quarter mile minimum walk from the parking lot to the store.
Setting my timeline to “Latest Tweets” works only for that session. So add that to the list of shitty “features” that the OP peeled off — the fact that I now have to take action to use Twitter as a chronilogical feed.
that meeting is supposed to only take 5 minutes, and it is only to discover the issue, not to address it. addressing the issue happens after the meeting with only the people who are actually involved.
Update: I take back my words about optional parameters - I didn't notice docs saying "To squelch this warning, ensure that a default is specified, even if it is undefined"[0]

[0] https://svelte.dev/docs#1_export_creates_a_component_prop
How do you see this hierarchy? I’ll be frank - it seems to be the groups of people who have been most marginalised for centuries or longer, and the amount of time we’ve spent talking about them is far less than they’ve been oppressed.
Agreed.

Mobile accessibility would also help get this information in front of more eyeballs. I couldn’t make heads or tails of the site on my phone.
Point taken. I was personally unfamiliar with (or more likely had forgotten) the term, but that doesn't mean it's not well-established.
Yes, there are many reported incidents from US pilots of stability trim incidents in the FAA's database which, in hindsight, were due to MCAS. The pilots couldn't identify them as such at the time because, of course, they didn't know MCAS existed. But they were able to figure out the corrective action in time to maintain safe flight. (The reports also criticize the flight manual for being inadequate.)

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=us+...
> Also the designers are very much in the "everything has to have a button" -mindset, which is hard to get out of.

Good!
I'd be more interested in why Obama didn't re-form this office since it was so great, given the google/facebook anti-trust issues metastasized under his administration.
Reading the Wikipedia entry on it, the apparent charge to remove it was "unnecessary agency"[0] - that the scope of its responsibility was handled by other agencies, but doesn't elaborate what those other agencies are.

Does anyone know what agencies are being alluded to?

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessmen...
It sounds like you're advocating for blame-ful post mortems. Is that the case and what's your reasoning?
Actually there is a single school board in Texas that saw fit to mandate children's science textbook (for the entire country) to include "creationism and intelligent design" (i.e. God) together with evolutionary theory.

And like any other positions of real power, you need money, some campaigns for school board are multi-million dollar election campaigns.
For those of us who didn't know about this:

>The Office of Technology Assessment's (1972-1995) purpose was to provide Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of complex scientific and technical issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessmen...
Being able to make decisions in a dream is normal, right? I think strategically in my dreams, mull over advantages and disadvantages and plan my response the same way I would while awake - with less clarity though. Sometimes I get so carried away that takes up the whole dream. I don't think that's atypical.

I also get pissed off when I recognize something that's logically contradictory or impossible and realize it's a dream - although I miss a lot of obvious tells.
I'm not NRx but I'll answer your question as best I can.

The main thing I think is that we are in an era of profound disillusionment with current systems, some of which is justified. For this reason many people have gone into things like NRx, alt-right / neo-fascism (they are not quite the same), and also into hard left ideologies like Neo-Marxism or even a revival of old school Marxism. People are looking for alternatives. The answer someone might have for "why did you go NRx" probably overlaps a lot with someone else's answer to "why did you go Leninist?"

NRx is particularly appealing to the hacker crowd because its popularizers successfully packaged it as transgressive and rebellious, a packaging that is paradoxically modern. It's also unapologetically elitist. There's always been a strain of that in the hacker world, so it fits that nicely.

As far as why there's so much elitism in the hacker world I could write a treatise on that. Maybe I should. Short short version: many people with these interests were socially excluded as children while simultaneously being told they were super-intelligent, resulting in a pretty serious mind-fuck. If someone asked me to design a brainwashing program to turn kids into sociopaths I'd basically describe my childhood, and I know for a fact that many others in the hacker world have similar experiences. I've worked hard to deprogram myself but I have sympathy for those who haven't as few human beings ever recognize that their youthful neurological imprints are maybe not optimal.