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Nobody mentioned game theory, so I will mention game theory. Having a basic intuition for it helps in understanding the fine points of consensus etc.
This is probably an example of an "exception that proves the rule".
In China, the feminine Mahayana Buddhist bodhisattva 觀音 (guanyin; a Sinified Buddhist-derived mythical goddess) is the deity most frequently worshipped by fisherpeople. Representations of her in China prior to the Song Dynasty (~1000AD) were masculine, from the male avalokitesvara of Sanskrit Mahayana Buddhist doctrine of India, specifically सद्धर्मपुण्डरीकसूत्र (蓮華經; the Lotus Sutra), which is thought to date to around 100-200AD.

It would be interesting anthropology to compare (particularly premodern) folk rituals from fishing villages and other frequent seagoing cultures.
i agree. but if Stadia had enough market penetration the game studios would target it instead of windows.
Yes, but in my experience AAA titles don't always work that great with WINE. I tried overwatch a few years ago and it was a buggy mess. It's great for older titles though.
And a change to your gut biome can have drastic effects on your personality, with many leading psychiatrists thinking there may be an inherent link to gut bacteria and clinical depression.
Assuming Google has access to patient PII would this data be covered by the CCPA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Ac...)? I couldn't find a Health Data option at https://takeout.google.com.
From the viewpoint of the mind, red is an illusion or perhaps a conventional way of organizing experiences. From the view point of the body, red is an emergent phenomena. Color is an interesting example because people literally don’t see colors that their languages do not differentiate: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/21121...
Just because it’s very hard to estimate the exact excess deaths or cancers doesn’t mean there aren’t any. There are estimates from 4000 up to near a million early deaths, with the lower probably more reliable, but that is far from none or a few. Ukraine are still spending about 6% of its budget on costs related to the accident.

And it is just pure bullshit that nuclear waste is manageable. Or tell me why there’s still no long term storage facility open anywhere in the world. It’s not that they haven’t spent decades trying. The only way waste management isn’t a problem is if you just say it is someone else’s, ie, future generations problem, or if you rely on reprocessing that still won’t reduce all waste, or also seems to be hard to find economy in.
It's 18k gold that weighs less than most 18k gold. So, if you want the look of 18k gold without the weight, this is one way of getting it.

I don't know how novel it is, but that sounds like an interesting material for people who don't like current high end jewelry due to the weight, but still want the aesthetics.
What is the length of this contract? Isn't a freelancer usually signing up for a well defined piece of work, not some arbitrary unknown bundle lasting an arbitrary amount of time?
It's like a chicken and egg problem. Stadia isn't getting many users cause it doesn't have many games and studios aren't porting games cause of too few users
Yes, imagine thinking that people who rode on a jet where children were routinely raped, or who associated with a man convicted of soliciting underaged girls for prostitution, might have been involved or known about it themselves! It's exactly the same thing as 17th century hysterics who believed women were possessed by literal demons.
would you care to justify a little bit? The latest version is 0.x, are you talking about bugs, or something else?
Claims such as these always make me think of the opening paragraphs of Stanislaw Lem's essay Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans[1].

No one in his right mind seeks the psychological truth about crime in detective stories. Whoever seeks such truth will turn rather to Crime and Punishment. In relation to Agatha Christie, Dostoevsky constitutes a higher court of appeal, yet no one in his right mind will condemn the English author's stories on this account. They have a right to be treated as the entertaining thrillers they are, and the tasks Dostoevsky set himself are foreign to them.

If anyone is dissatisfied with SF in its role as an examiner of the future and of civilization, there is no way to make an analogous move from literary oversimplifications to full-fledged art, because there is no court of appeal from this genre. There would be no harm in this, save that American SF, exploiting its exceptional status, lays claim to occupy the pinnacles of art and thought. One is annoyed by the pretentiousness of a genre which fends off accusations of primitivism by pleading its entertainment character and then, once such accusations have been silenced, renews its overweening claims. By being one thing and purporting to be another, SF promotes a mystification which, moreover, goes on with the tacit consent of readers and public.

[1] https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm
Wow I couldn’t agree more! I found myself bored in school and often would skip class to go to my off campus job to make money. I was poor and wanted the short-sighted immediate success of income.

However, looking back I regret not taking classes that actually interested me. My school (like I would presume most) had a rigorous course schedule that one needed to adhere to in order to graduate. I think in taking classes I was actually interested in I would have (and the ones I took in the curriculum that I was interested in I got A’s) done much better overall.

Maybe I should have gone to a liberal arts school? Either way I’ve supplanted my lack of A’s with lots of books. It’s made up a lot of the difference so far!
Good points and we are definitely not above this phenomenon. Articles with >500 comments are almost always infested with
endless threads pitting fanboys against haters. It's an infinite loop that goes nowhere.
I think it's one of the more fundamental meta-learnings, meaning: learn a few different things and then compare the processes (of learning) with each other and you find that they all share the quality that if you pay attention to anything the details expand. This is true of physical things like making stairs but also of mental "things" like programming, or poetry.

The fundamental "direction" is in-out; outward there's this multimodal unbounded fractal, inward there is Self-Awareness, the "infinity shot" of consciousness.
a Chrome extension that made between $250 and $300 million revenue in 2019...
I think the battle in procrastination is not between the brain and something outside but between different parts of the brain, one favoring a long term perspective and others favoring immediate gratification.
Curious, why would a doctor decline to use basic password auth?
My point is that for the specific instance I'd noted, the mechanism is evident and known to me.

Not that it is original or unique.
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And they'll keep pumping that same techno in 5 years when they want people to get Gen 2 electric cars
De-anonymzed (health) data likely isn't covered by HIPAA, and with a few still generic data points likely associated with the health data, such as health, gender, age, and location -- you could work backwards to reach an identity. There's likely a loophole for whole security of health data thing.
Depends on what you mean by "rent seeking."

Liberal economists use this term the most, they usually mean large companies trying to get goodies from the state. Lefty ones tend to mean something like "profiteering."

X-as-a-service businesses models aren't exactly new in intellectual property. The patent/copyright systems explicitly assume licensing and royalties. But, I agree that subscriptions are pretty new in consumer-land.

But we need a different term rent seeking already has competing usages.
Things are as they should be: doom and gloom
I always wonder with this how much of those recordings are from people talking near a recording device, not the actual owner of the device. I also wonder how it manages to be compliant with GDPR, does it considers that the owner of the device is a data controller?
If they found the opposite the people involved careers would be over.
> you might find that you are not looking for a Data Scientist at all, perhaps you are in fact looking for a Data Engineer or a Data Ops person

Strong agree

Managers who haven't been through this process once will hire a smart stats person who can't operate without a full-time engineer pulling production data.

Which can be crippling for small teams. The alternative is to make your PM do their own data work or promote a product-minded engineer into this role.
That's because the author is using constructive mathematics (i.e. computable analysis instead of standard real analysis). It is true that all computable functions are continuous. Likewise discontinuous real functions aren't computable.

The continuum hypothesis is tangentially related to this topic and makes for fun reading.
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There's a huge family of "Neurosteroids"[1], which impact various receptors in the brain in lots of super complicated ways that aren't entirely understood. They are synthesized in all kinds of ways naturally, and when it comes to "what they do" in terms of personality... "probably something" is the best we can do.

There is massive complexity in all these things, all kinds of feedback mechanisms, genes and enzymes involved, etc. They do something but it's hard to say what exactly.

I know about this personally; one of the amazing things about transgender medicine is that there is a huge range of responses to the hormones involved, and there's honestly no way to predict what will happen with a given person.

There are tendencies in aggregate - like less testosterone = less libido - but how those come about biologically is unclear and the effect varies tremendously between different people.

It's a joke to pretend like we fully understand or can predict how any of these things actually impact our lived experiences beyond very rough, bulk tendencies.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosteroid
The nice thing about Chrome add ons is that you can have them turned off by default. You can turn them on by just clicking on them when you visit a specific website.
I feel like this is the sort of thing that should be taught in grade school. It is recurrent, directly observable (via YT for those not on coasts), simple but also with complexity that can be discovered through understanding the solar system as well as geography.
If "game over" is what WA and blue states are dead set on bringing about (vs. unintended consequences) then they and their constituents can have it and deal with the outcome. A faceless corporation doesn't care in the long run, there are always other markets and other businesses.
There are lots of tools out there to try and make Git simpler/more user-friendly. There's also Mercurial, which is more user-friendly while still using the same idea.

Pijul is meant to model asynchronous work as just that, whereas Git forces it into a unique history. For example, in Pijul, "pull --rebase" and "pull" produce different history, but are guaranteed by design to produce the same result, and strictly equivalent repositories (there's actually just one command for both).

This difference is fundamental.
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FWIW the macOS binary hasn't been notarized.
Can't answer that - I'm in California, sorry.
Iranian officials did deny shooting the plane initially. They were indirectly compelled to accept their mistakes by several foreign agencies and by videos that surfaced on social media. They might be better than Russia but that not cannot cover up their lies over this issue.
I never worked for big law, but medium law is terrible. Partners can just order the IT department to do anything. We had a new head of IT that tried to implement some common sense changes for an organization that handles sensitive data. Basic stuff: Block websites that tend to be malware vectors, don't let users be admins on their own machines, restrict USB storage to certain users, etc. We were forced to override it on the partners machines almost immediately.
The problem, of course, is that it is not trivial to identify who is critical and who is uncritical, and that famous individuals by definition have significant means to portray strong critics as haters.

To take the Elizabeth Holmes example from the top of the thread, people were very quick to associate critics as sort of bitter, mysoginist people who were uncomfortable with entrepreneurial women, and the media was enamoured with Holmes even when it became increasingly obvious that something was extremely fishy about the whole business.

If we were living in a world where successful people were heavily scrutinized rather than treated as celebrities then PG's rather dismissive tone of 'haters' would make sense. As it stands haters can often be people who have contrarian and angry reactions for relatively good reasons.

And I'd go a step further. Uncritical hate can be useful in right dosage. Hunter S Thompson is one of the most important journalists of the last few decades, and he made it very clear that the civil, nice, polite, pseudo-critical attitude is often just a way to shield people in power.

"Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful."
Right that's why you should verify your backups every year.

No place you store your backup can guarantee it won't be lost or destroyed.
Why was blargmaster33's comment killed within 1 minute of posting? Which guideline does it violate? What rule does it break? Most importantly, if it is a false statement, what proves that it is so?
> This is not actually true, and is the whole point of Pijul. In Git, your suggestion works only as long as (1) there is never any conflict, else you need "git rerere", and (2) 3-way merge never runs into a non-associative merge [2].

Sure, if the two branches have diverged around the location of the patch, there will need to be a merge resolution.

Wouldn’t Pijul require the same too?
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Tell them that you can't do it.

The project you describe is complicated. SAS is not a simple language. For example, how do you plan to map GOTO into Python? https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/imlug/64248/HTM... .

Here's part of a resume of someone who wrote a SAS parser as part of a job. Between 2013 and 2016:

> Wrote a SAS parser (C++/ANTLR). SAS is a 70s language not at all written in conformance with modern computer language practices. Among its many ‘challenges’, the worst is that keywords can also be used as variable names (thus you can define variables IF, ELSE, THEN and have a legal SAS statement like “IF ELSE=IF THEN IF=ELSE ELSE THEN=IF;”) So standard compiler theory / a classical lex/yacc approach won’t work because lex/yacc assumes that reserved words aren’t used as variable/function names. I wrote a parser that successfully builds an Abstract Syntax Tree (from which symbol tables and more can be extracted). Successfully tested against a test bed of 180 representative SAS programs taken from industry production environments.

Note that it took several years!

Your client has 10,000+ SAS programs. They likely exercise a lot of odd corners of the language. They'll want some strong assurances that the conversion is done correctly, as this is business logic.

Based on the way you asked the question, I'm certain that this is not something you can easily take on. You don't seem to know much about language parsers or enough about the SAS language.

Instead, pay someone to do it who already has those skills. Looking around (and with absolutely no knowledge or experience in the topic) I found https://dullesresearch.com/ which says:

> Automatically Convert SAS to Python and Java Instantaneous, 100% accurate.

> Migrate off of SAS to Open Source / Avoid manual rewriting of code / Eliminate human errors

There are almost certainly others.

So my suggestion to help automate such an effort is to pay someone else to do it for you.

Find out how much they charge, what their guarantee is. Then figure out what your client wants. See if they are compatible. If so, charge your client +15% for overhead, you work with the other organization, and you're done.
I have found this to be true, but I think the key to absorbing things is to figure out how to associate it with benefit/utility.
Don't forget "teenager discovered" -> special skills not needed / anyone can do it / "I" could do this too.
I never really understood this philosophy. Separating the graph structure from how you view it is the way to go I think. e.g. `git log --no-merges`.
I was on a large dose of gabapentin for anxiety for a few years. It felt similar to the flow of a beer, before the negative parts of the alcohol kicked in
Good question! Maybe with my side project, I can shed some light on the state of OpenGL exposed through the web:

I maintain a Matrix code rain project: https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix . The effect is basically a compute shader with post-processing steps applied on top of it. It's built on top of WebGL via ThreeJS, and I can attest that its cross-browser, cross-device support is currently terrible.

That's because ThreeJS's (otherwise nice!) compute shader implementation is written on top of WebGL 1's fragment shaders, rendering to floating point buffers enabled through the "oes_texture_float" extension.

This extension's implementation has been plagued by spec mistakes, made possible (I believe) by ambiguities and tacit assumptions about differences between the speccing process of OGLES 2 and WebGL 1 that proved incorrect. Fixing it has frayed implementors' constitutions and made the API more complicated; WebGL 2 incorporates this extension's behavior into its core, but isn't widely adopted, because (in my opinion) asking a browser maker to double down on their investment in WebGL again after the aforementioned debacle is a tall order. Or maybe there are security implications. Or maybe the only Mobile Safari programmers available decided OpenGL is a weird-shaped API to expose through JavaScript, and have lost interest. One can only speculate.

Anyway! In the meantime, to do any sort of GPU compute across all major browsers (including mobile), you're way better off enabling the "oes_texture_half_float" extension instead. Half floats, or Float16s, are common in the mobile graphics sphere, but not on the desktop, where most web development takes place; it's entirely understandable why a web developer might try and use "oes_texture_float", get it working on their desktop machines, fail to see it working in Mobile Safari, assume that the extension isn't supported, and call it a day. And even if they DO find the Stack Overflow answers that'd prompt them to switch to "oes_texture_half_float", JavaScript has no native Float16Array data view, so they have to make/download a slow JavaScript implementation or spin their own float to half float converter.

This is the state of things with WebGL.
It seems to imply it. Maybe not deliberately, but it confused me at first.
I'm sympathetic to this, and in other threads I would usually be the first person coming to the defense of doctors and harping on how complex and terrible EMR and other medical software is. But that's not what I'm talking about.

I'm not talking about complex software. I'm not talking about instances where doctors are asked to learn an entirely new records management or scheduling system. I'm not talking about the type of systems where you have to interrupt your day with an extra training session on how to navigate the interface.

I'm talking about the most basic, bare minimum interactions with security systems that every other person in every other industry has absolutely no issue with, but for some reason doctors refuse to accept. I'm talking about stuff as simple as swiping your ID badge on a reader to gain access to restricted areas. I'm talking about not using work computers to look at porn. I'm talking about basic awareness when it comes to not disclosing sensitive information to a random person in the hallway.

Another commenter brought up the number of passwords as a complaint. Again, I'm sympathetic to this. This is why one of my major areas of focus is implementing SSO solutions to cut down on the number of passwords that users have to remember. Except in one instance we had delays rolling out SSO not because the system was complicated to use, but because doctors complained that they didn't like the color of the SSO UI. They insisted it be blue rather than yellow and wanted to scrap the entire project because of it. That's the type of resistance I'm talking about.

These aren't difficult or complex things. We are talking about highly educated, highly paid individuals handling highly sensitive information. They should be held to higher standards, not treated like children just because they work long hours.

Speaking of working long hours, the second half of your post is just a minor glimpse of the elitism I'm referring to. Are you under the impression that medicine is the only profession in which people experience burnout? Do you think that only doctors have to deal with constantly changing work environments and the never-ending cycle of evolving technology?

Every profession deals with these things. Lawyers, accountants, bankers, social workers, police officers, and educators are just examples of professions that have similar or higher burnout rates than doctors. Every single one of these also has to deal with immense amounts of bureaucratic processes, regulations, and inefficient software that is constantly changing and affecting their daily workflow. And yet in my years of consulting I have never met a group that was as egotistically opposed to the use of technology as doctors are. Even investment bankers, which tend to be the most egotistical assholes with an attitude of "I make millions of dollars a day for this company, I don't have to listen to you puny IT people", still don't hold a candle to the willful ludditism of doctor's I've worked with.
What he said is imagining you will start eating well and exercising is rather far from eating well and exercising. I know of no intentional changes that are less successful than trying to eat healthy for the rest of life. Even smokers have better luck with quitting. (Talking long term here - eating better for six months isn’t that useful).
Why do you think it’s “obviously bunk”?
Maybe I’ll try starting with a tabletop model as the other poster suggested.

Any thoughts on acquiring the land? I was told getting in touch with a realtor local to the area would be a good start.
Yes, that's the point, people don't do the whole good lifestyle thing and in many cases will be better off taking a drug vs not taking it.

I would say my comment is criticism of the advocacy in the other post, not really advocacy itself.
While I like the principle of using WebAuthn, I'm a bit suspect of biometric based authentication.
do you ever compile code? at work I have a machine with an i7-7700 (4C/8T), 32GB of RAM, and an SSD. it still takes about 45 minutes to do a full build of the project I work on, which can easily be triggered by modifying any of the important header files. if I had to do my job on your laptop from 2009, I'd never get anything done.