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OP here, you are right. We bought some cheap Fire tablets and have regretted it. Amazon app store is a terrible experience. Almost 0 reviews for even popular apps. The only nice thing is you can push apps to devices through the Amazon website.
In parts of Bloomberg, as in apparently many other places, there is a cult around what Geoff Pullum calls "the nasty book", Elements of Style.

It is similarly full of ignorant proclamations that serve mainly to make people insecure about their communication skills.

Whenever I found one that didn't obviously belong to someone, I recycled it.
Ahaha ! What a joke.
I thought about that too but media have a lot to lose in terms of credibility if it gets exposed. I'd bet you there was a NYT lawyer in touch with that journalist ASAP when they published that tweet if the journalist hadn't been in touch with legal beforehand.
Perhaps purists aren't so easily won over by lavish production values and jaw-dropping visuals.
Modern astronomy works at the edges of whats possible, a single frame might take hours. Needing multiple frames would mean multiple days per observation. It would mean no longer seeing faint and distant objects, limiting us to younger, closer and frankly far more boring objects. It would make observing variability impossible for certain timescales.

You need old distant objects for cosmology, observing the structure if the universe, big bang and stuff. You need variability for finding exoplanets, measuring distance and observing transitions such as supernovae.

Oh, and then a huge part is taking spectra, which means bouncing the light directly off a grating. Filtering transients is hard to impossible there. You need spectra for relative motion, magnetic fields, composition of matter and radiation and of course temperature.

Needing such filters would set astronomy back a few decades
I've herniated ('slipped') a disc twice in my twenties, both times when I was in periods where I let my fitness level fall. The pain was absolutely debilitating - you're really not able to do anything. Even with pain meds...standing, walking around, sitting, sleeping...it's all hard to do. Recovery sucks because you have to move around to recover, but it causes unbelievable pain.

I firmly believe for most people slipped discs happen due to a lack of core muscle strength and spending most of our days in terrible postures (sitting at a desk, for example).

I spend at least 50% of my exercise time focusing on my core now. Things like planks, squats, and yoga. My thought being that a strong core keeps everything (eg your spine, discs, and soft-tissue) in place. I have absolutely no scientific backing on this, but it's worked for me so far.
Anyone have links to similar resources, but for Linux instead of Windows?
Pretty sure you have to purposely arm them before there's any chance it would go off for just such a scenario.

Otherwise every time you transport one it could end in disaster.
I was experiencing hip pain after too much sitting and not moving enough. Went for some consultations and ended up with a surgeon that wanted to operate because I was told I had a labral tear, amongst other things. I read more about this and it turns out that most people when evaluated with imaging have a variety of indicators that doctors use to suggest that surgical intervention is required to fix. The problem is is that most people don't have any pain associated with the indicators.
Also, the recovery seemed painful and long and from reading around, the outcome seemed dubious, if not net negative. They really put their thumb on the scale in terms of measuring success. Anyways, long story short, I spent about 2 months with a variety of stretches and deep tissue work on the muscles on my legs and hips and the pain completely vanished. I started lifting weights again (squats and deadlifts with plenty of deep tissue work and stretching) and I haven't had hip pain since.
Alps are already past 2 degrees Celsius of climate change.
Try running. It's one of the rare scientifically proven ways to help heal disk problems. It's helped my SO and myself.

But not a lot. 1 to 3 km every day is fine. Walking 1/2 of it is fine. Just go out for 30 min and try to run as much as you can, but go slowly. Just a bit over walking pace is better than short bursts. You really don't need a lot and isn't any better for extreme runners. It'll get better in a week or two and it will start hurting again if you stop for too long before your fully healed (months probably)

It's all about pulsating vertical compression. And even if it does not help due to that, it surely will for other things.

Good luck! I hope it helps.
And even with that focus on the story, we get 12 hours in the extended editions, much of it expanding on the characters and their backstories as they relate to the world in which the story takes place.

It's hard to have pages and pages of explanation of a world in a movie. The movies do that by exploring that history in the set pieces and characters, and I think most people would agree they do a magnificent job of it.
The phrase you want to google is "reverse engineering from memory dump". Prepare to be astounded.

You need to know how machine instructions work, details of the operating system, and a bunch of other things... but any number of copy-protection systems have been bypassed this way. Any number of devices have had their firmware dumped, their memory scanned, and the resulting data analyzed to make patches or build compatible systems.
The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done
Once you herniate a disk, it's over.

I can do 20 pullups, I can deadlift 500lbs, but every ~3 years my back flares up doing somethiing like standing up and I can't walk for 3 days.
Because we are limited in every conceivable way down here on Earth. Transportation is expensive, resource extraction is expensive, resources are limited, space is limited, pollution is a problem, energy generation runs into geopolitical, geographical and efficiency issues. And so on.

Never mind the problem of us being one asteroid strike or supervolcano away from a cataclysm, and that's not an if but a when.

I have a feeling that for humans to transcend the proverbial great filter, we have to tap into the vast quantities of resources and energy in the solar system, but more importantly rekindle the pioneering era that last ended with the industrial revolution.

The expensive part of the space industry is lifting infrastructure from ground to space. Moving within the solar system is comparatively cheap if we avoid descending into the gravity well of other planets. Luckily, this is unnecessary for most asteroid mining.

Humankind experienced incredible advances with the toppling of every transportational frontier. The wheel, seafaring, motorized transport and flight all resulted in expansions lasting a hundred years each.

The next frontier is the solar system. We don't know if we'll be able to ever leave it, but that's irrelevant because it can be our home for the next billion years. Our best shot at actually preserving the habitability of Earth is exploiting resources out in space.
That’s 100% true!
'Alarming' one in five deaths due to sepsis
My work flags your site as Pornographic for some reason.
Tom Bombadil, I would have loved to have seen super god and his girlfriend.
I would assume not being paid for those movies had something to do with it?

In February 2008, the Tolkien Trust sued New Line Cinema, the studio behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy, for £75 million claiming they had not received "even one penny" from the films. A request for punitive damages was denied in September 2008. (In March 2008, New Line Cinema became a unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment.) The case was resolved out of court on 8 September 2009 with the terms not made public.

In a press release, Christopher Tolkien stated, "The Trustees regret that legal action was necessary, but are glad that this dispute has been settled on satisfactory terms that will allow the Tolkien Trust properly to pursue its charitable objectives. The Trustees acknowledge that New Line may now proceed with its proposed films of 'The Hobbit.'"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1578442/JRR-Tolki...
Braess' paradox is specific to roads, although IMHO it's caused by a different mechanics and IIRC only applies when a route is completely removed (or utterly crippled to achieve the same effect)
Generally agree, loved the movies (especially the extended editions) but:

* Helm's Deep went on way too long, it was like 45 minutes of battle

* Legolas's action scenes were a little too over the top for my taste (Oliphaunt tail slide, surfing on a shield). I'm not sure the iffy CGI helped.

* Poor Faramir
I think it's hard for many people who are emotionally and/or deeply connected to something, see it changed, modified, and reinterpreted by someone else.

Even in the world of software, how many of us have worked on a project for a long time only to hand it off to someone else, and find it hard not to have strong opinions about how they work with it, when it's no longer our responsibility?
He probably felt a degree of ownership and protectiveness over the franchise that few of us could understand. It may have been impossible to match his expectations.
The movie really is a great illustration of the gap between "policy" and implementation, especially in a time of crisis, and how ultimately it still boils down to human decisions.

There are some lessons to apply to tech's "on-call", 5-9s culture...
The logic behind test bans (in conjunction with numerical caps on warheads) is to create uncertainty in the reliability of one's own arsenal to discourage either side from contemplating a first-strike.
Is visible?
Rationally the company that was founded by a guy who thinks we need to start seriously considering space travel probably shouldn't be fucking up our primary way of studying space.
400 tabs in Firefox. No special plug-in. No problem.

And, to be fair I thought Chrome had copied the Awesomebar by now?
got a link to the research that backs this up?
OMG! This is so timely because someone asked on Twitter, what is one thing you wish you could've learned 10 years ago? My answer was taking care of posture. This is so epidemic, IMO. This is the closest I have come to feeling chronic pain that I had no control over.

I tried never ending solutions including Physical Therapy but nothing helped.

But I finally got control over it by doing TWO things:
1. Reading 8 steps to a pain free back by Susan Adams and putting lessons in action right away.
2. Performing THORACIC MOBILITY WORK

I can't speak for you but this CHANGED MY LIFE! I am back at it again with no pain. If you would like to read my experience dealing with the pain check out this thread https://twitter.com/mihirchronicles/status/12174493172015964....
Describing the world visually? I mean that kind of text is naturally going to disappear when you're creating a movie because all of that is just going to be represented in the cinematography.
I'm not in the podcast industry, but I'd listen to this episode of Darknet Diaries:

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/27/

He dives into "podcast promoters" that are pretty effective at getting into the top charts. I mention this not because I think you should use these services, but because he actually gets some evidence around what the charts are based off of.

It's also a great podcast in general.
Yea, L5/S1 pain here for years. Finally started seeing a chiropractor.

So far, I've gone from constant pain to occasional pain, so that's an improvement. I've had to make some lifestyle changes too. No more lifting with heavy free weights. No squats or deadlifts. Ah well.
I have a love/hate relationship with the movies. While the trilogy brought to life Middle-Earth to a degree I never thought imaginable, there were some elements that just fell incredibly flat.

If I had to pin it on one thing, it was that Peter Jackson and team were extremely good at portraying evil in all of its ugliness but failed to portray "goodness" with equal skill (which admittedly is not an easy thing to do!). While the honest goodness of the Hobbits was wonderful, the portrayals of "good" characters such as Aragorn and Galadriel fell very flat. This is not to blame on the actors at all as I thought Viggo did an awesome job; but the screenplay needlessly muddled the character.

Also, where was the damn poetry?
I'll sell you one of their rolls for $52, if that'd make you feel better.
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Your link has some great information. Plants are highly nutritious, and people who don't get enough of them are probably unlikely to be as healthy as they could be.

That, however, doesn't preclude meat being beneficial as well. It's not an analog one is better than the other, and it doesn't mean you can't build a complete diet being vegan either. It's possible, in fact, to build a complete diet eating meat only as well if you really wanted to. Generally though, it's far more difficult, and you have to be pretty meticulous about what you eat in addition to probably having to supplement additional micronutrients into your diet to do so.
Back pain is a tough nut primarily because it varies so much from person to person. Depending on the anatomy of the injury and the post-injury healing the symptoms and severity can change drastically.

Sometimes the best prescription is time. Sometimes you need surgery to save yourself from paralysis. Sometimes surgery puts you in worse pain, sometimes it fixes you for the rest of your life. It's frustrating, and each patient needs to become their own best advocate.
No, but you will get to hear Premium crickets after you make your request. :-)
The Management Team (2012)
I stand corrected, thanks! What a bizzare choice when floating point standards already have a well-defined system for determining how to round things.
Ha, I had exactly that same experience, with the same injury, no less. The physiologist told me that sure, the surgeon is always going to recommend surgery - but if you’re going to have to do PT, why not do it first and see if it fixes the problem?

PT is the closest I have come to experiencing a miracle cure from modern medicine. Speaking as someone who frequently breaks themselves.
I'd bet you a coffee that, barring a collapse or decline of our present global society, we will have launched a probe to another star before 2100 with a planned arrival before 2150.
"unidentifiable mechanism"
I'm not sure this is actually true.

You can determine that it is a VPN by checking the amount of exchanged packets between interval of time (e.g. if 5 kbps are routinely sent every 30 seconds for 5 minutes this is totally abnormal)

Another alternative for the government could be to limit the bandwidth and time of hosts who have a big standard deviation in the amount of the packets per second they transmit.

So undetectable I don't think so and I believe smarter people here can find even better ideas.

That being said it's a very nice tool, certainly useful in corporate environments as well (except of course, that it'll be suspicious that one single host is exchanging so much data and keeping so long connections)
> Who in the press will continue to follow that up?

You said this, which is pretty much the same.
>Proper sleep, a complete diet, minimizing stress (I'm personally biased towards meditation), intermittent fasting, and vigorous cardiovascular exercise complemented by strength training

Yes, but the problem is this is such a broad brush stroke.

For example, most people who are chronically stressed will generally never be able to obtain relief. There is a common joke about abs being made in the kitchen not in the weight room, and another one about not being able to outrun a poor diet. The truth is the best diet in the world, cardio and strength training will never overcome the damaging effects of cortisol as a result of chronic stress.

The same for proper sleep. Its not just about 6-8 hours, its about quality. If you aren't getting quality sleep, most people don't have a solution. Then when they look for solutions its generally a bombardment of sleep products (from beds, to pillows, to supplements) that are backed by million/billion dollar companies that are targeting you when you perform a search for information/help.

As to intermittent fasting, that has become a major fad since the Nobel Prize for Autophagy (with the most popular implementation being a 8/16 time restricted eating "fast"). In other words the goal is to trigger the body to begin consuming/recycling dead cells and other cellular waste; however, this typically isn't triggered by time restricted eating, but requires longer periods of fasting (usually kicking in around after 20-24 hours of fasting).

Finally "a complete diet", not only is there no general consensus what that is, you generally can't even have a conversation about diet without triggering a flame war. It doesn't matter if you are WFPB, keto, vegan, vegetarian, paleo, carnivore...not only will people oppose your diet, they will aggressively attack it. I remember I once mentioned "detoxing" and couldn't believe people referring to it as voodoo, and telling me there is no such thing as detoxing the body, but then when I ask them what the function of the liver and kidneys are, and they had no idea.
What if you prefer to get the most money you can to the cause that you care about?
What? Cypress is like $300 for a season pass and it's easily the best local hill. If you want to go to a worse hill, $99 3SKI at Seymour gets you 3 days of lift + 3 days of rentals (anytime in the same season).

If you consider that expensive you moved to the wrong neighbourhood.
I spoke with my mother and father about this topic recently. It was triggered by reading US Grant's autobiography. Grant recollected early on that during his youth they would often ice skate on the ponds and lakes in southern Ohio. I grew up not far from Grant. On occasion, from ~85-92, the ponds would freeze with ice thick enough to skate. By the mid-90s, that was simply done. I remember sledding all of the time during the winter during that same period. I'll ask a friend who still lives next to the hill we used to sled on how often his own children sled. My parents are still there, so I know it's not often -- Not even every winter is there enough snow stuck on the ground to go sledding. The last blizzard that I recall living through was in the early 90s, as well. I left the area in 2001, but returned in 2006-2008. During 2006-2008, there were a few snows that I recall that were ~6"-8" but it was all melted inside of a week. My father was telling me recently that they're lucky to see 3" today and it doesn't stick for more than a few days.

My parents grew up in southwestern PA. My mother grew up on a large farm (dairy and ~500 acres of planted crops) and often recollects about the 50s and 60s. They would often travel on the ag run-off canals and smaller creeks, streams, and rivers, to trade supplies with neighbors. They could travel miles on the ice. They didn't have roads in this section of PA until the late 60s and early 70s, when the coal company came in (and state routes were built to support their industry). They would butcher cattle during the winter and could store it in the back of the barn, in a small stone cellar that was only partially below ground. The meat would freeze overnight and remain frozen into the spring.

These things are gone today and it's happened before my own eyes inside of 2 generations of my own family, at that.
The Brexitcast doesn't have ads. The Infinite Monkey Cage has a 10-15seconds clip in the end where they promote other science-y podcasts (which I always fast-forward anyway).

I also listen to the weekly "SecurityNow", in which out of the 2h there should be at least 10-15mins where Leo reads out his ads. Leo also tries to push SpinRite, but since SR has saved many disks in my lifetime, I gladly listen to that bit (finally we'll have a faster performing version soon-ish).
The Microsoft campus is within incorporated Redmond.

https://aqua.kingcounty.gov/gis/web/VMC/misc/KC_HwysCitiesHS...

The only unincorporated land in that area is Marymoor Park and Bridle Trails State Park.

The Link Light Rail will be opening a station next to the Microsoft campus in 2023, and Microsoft is paying to build a bike/pedestrian bridge over 520 at that location.
> Maybe we all should be telling more stories. When I was teenager, my boss (from Canada) said they'd play hockey every day, but now their lakes didn't freeze enough. I tell my son that we used to have slugs every where and most every (non summer) morning was foggy until noon.

It's -40C in Canada where I am currently. Not uncommon, honestly. What is uncommon though, is that the rest of the winter has been very mild. My wife tells similar stories of skating on a local creek that used to freeze at the end of November...
Draw lines to get the dot into the square.
Find "slow forking" elsewhere to see my response to your concern that we would have to make an entirely new engine from scratch this year or next. That's not the threat. We strip out Google tracking already and work in W3C to keep them from jamming premature standards through -- if they try turning any such on without other browsers agreeing, we will disable.
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I personally think Helm's Deep was just as long as it needed to be. It's just not 45 minutes of blind, pointless battle. There is storytelling, character growth, and evolution in those 45 minutes. It's one of the most efficient and well created battle scenes in modern cinema.

As far as Legolas's action scenes, are you referring to the elephant? That one was CGI, but the scene of him sliding down the stairs on a shield was actually a practical effect done with wire work. The only CGI in that scene was the removal of the wires I believe.

Yes, Faramir's story is tragic but I think that's kind of the point of his story; isn't it?
Skip the first 50 pages or so. The rest is golden.
To think they went from that to The Cheese Grinder, eh? :D
> People have adapted almost completely to the idea of snow being some rare, special event. People who fondly remember playing in the snow nearly everyday in winter during their childhood have come to expect 50-60 degree January afternoons and think of snow as a special occasion. These people are saying those twice a year snowfalls are proof that nothing is changing, while knowing full well that they were wearing layers of coats and scarves years ago and walking around in t-shirts now.

I fondly remember playing in the snow in Siberia and above north circle in northern parts of Russia during my childhood. Now in California, I am truly expecting >50F January (and I mostly get it).
RIP Christopher Tolkien. His labors have given the world a great gift.

And, given the subject, I just have to drop what I believe to be one of the greatest lines of literature:

Elrond: “The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”
Of course we are.

As Josh Billings is usually quoted these days, "It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so."

We are so sure of things that are not true that we don't bother to check.
this article conflates "bad project" with "Burnout"

"bad projects" can be a contributing factor to burnout but they are not the "source" of burnout.

For those who recognize themselves in the symptoms listed please check out this article on Psychology Today about Burnout

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/high-octane-women/20...