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I do the same thing, using text selection to keep my place when scrolling. Feels very gross having to resort to extensions to restore what should be basic browser functionality. (e.g. Don't Fuck With Paste[0] for sites that try to prevent you pasting passwords)

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-wi...
clickbait, paywalled.
More AC units are going to make the problem worse as long as we are not using solar/wind/hydro/nuclear-power.

Last summer when there was a heat wave here, lot of people bought ACs. Next year, they are also switching them on when it's 30 degrees Celsius outside.

The irony.
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How does online tracking work? (2017)
Encoded messages and self-source-code-printing
Agreed that OP's post is somewhat nonsensical. How can one "absolutely destroy" a dealer who still makes the deal? Making deals is their business--that's the one thing they have to be competent at on the sell side. Maybe they want some troublesome customers to feel like the customer "won" but there is next to zero chance an average customer pulls the wool over their eyes or successfully strongarms a dealer. You'd have to set up some kind of situation like the one where Donald Trump stiffed a music store owner.
I can attest to that. Especially the newer parts of Ursynów show how within 20 or so years we went from low-quality, but well-arranged blocks through better quality, but somewhat tightly-packed ones only to end up with ridiculously densely packed, not made-to-last "real-estate products".

And the so-called "Miasteczko Wilanów" is the epitome of what's wrong with modern housing in Poland. Not to mention the fact that it was built on wetlands, so the foundations settled badly, which is already causing issues.
Is Regus struggling with so much excess capacity that they need to try to attract companies with 'startup culture'? I'd think they'd want predictable cash flows from tenants, rather than a VC-funded company that might cease to exist in 12 months.
The Space Launch System Is an Irredeemable Mistake
Here's a blob of JavaScript I use as a bookmark to quickly clean up hard-to-read colors:

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I did not write this and I do not remember where I got it from.

There's also the Just Read extension (https://justread.link/), which is quite nice.
> If Musk appears to be doing something crazy you've not understood it.

Even geniuses make mistakes. We can celebrate him and question him at the same time. We don't need a hero or a fairytale ending to be able to appreciate the impact his companies are having and could have on the world.
Just to clarify one of the points in the article, in the U.S. I believe we can't deduct business costs like Zoom anymore unless you're 100% self-employed. BYOD-type deductions were unfortunately removed by the current administration.
There's already a Cocoa clone in GNUStep: http://www.gnustep.org/index.html
My argument to this would be that changing our world because of a faulty model system would be disastrous. Because of the advancements of the last two centuries more people have had food and water and basic necessities being met then at any time in history (and yet we still have billions suffering). Worsening their lives over something that might not happen is not a good way to run the world. The models being accurate is important so that if we do implement policy that end up worsening people’s lives we have proof that it is worth it.
"I required time off to provide care for a loved one". No further explanation beyond that is owed.
Someways games have become so streamlined as to remove all fun from it, Witcher 3 for example has a detailed world, but the game is essentially that of going from one marker to another in the mini-map, in other words while playing one is essentially ignoring the beautiful world and instead fulfilling tedious chores. Many recent Ubisoft titles have been similarly critized for being essentially descending into a rote task of clearing markers on the map.
The best thing we can do to see if the models work is to look how they performed compared to reality in the decades since we have climate models. Turns out: They worked really, really well.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/201...
Shock: Climate science is not settled.

Currently studying solar energy transfers via hot solar particles, latest hot topic.
> A sunshade a few hundred miles in diameter on a heliocentric orbit between the Earth and the sun could stop global warming completely

Does this need to be put at a lagrange point to be stable?

It's a very interesting idea but seems like this could have enormous unintended consequences.
> That middle-endianness is spoken doesn’t make it better. It’s still crazy.

The english language—and every other real-world spoken language—is full of rules and exceptions that make absolutely zero logical sense. How far down this road do you want to go?

As long as we speak in a specific order, I don't think it's crazy at all to write in that same order. After all, normal written sentences follow the spoken order of words, too.
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>You just can't do enough diet modifications, carbon footprint reduction, or recycling to have it matter on a global scale.

I used to think like that. I used to think "There's nothing I can do, why do anything." Then I had kids and I realized that I need to be able to tell them I did something. Our world might be a wasteland of burnt forests and flooded cities, but at least I will be able to look my children in the eye and say "I tried."
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Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
A pet peeve of mine is concatenating null strings. It's like a poison pill that nulls the whole result. 99.99% of the time that's NOT what one wants domain-wise. Maybe the standard should make another concatenation operator that treats null strings as zero length strings. Sure, one can de-null each string in the expression, but that's ugly anti-DRY code. Please fix it, I haaate that.
Does this work on mobile also?
In case folks are wondering what really matters to the man, I found this quote to be pretty great.

> "Oh, it’s a nice world! I live here with my wife, we are still in love, what more do I want?"
All software, but especially software in the privacy / protected data industries, requires ongoing updates. Pay once and you're done was a model built on exponential growth forever, which never really worked. So the next thing you could do is yearly paid upgrades but monthly recurring charges are honestly less broadly user-hostile -- more people _want_ to be billed small amounts monthly rather than larger amounts yearly, and it creates positive alignment with customers and businesses. Yearly paid upgrades were always messy and then degenerated into creating enough splash to entice users to upgrade, versus providing the best product that month that you are able to, whether that means investing in new features or investing in stability etc.

Now all of that aside -- the 1Password funding round was oriented around selling to businesses and the investments needed to run hard at that. It costs money to build a business that's competitive in that B2B market but businesses can provide healthier / less jumpy revenue streams, which is good for a business like 1Password.
Serious question - does anyone want this:

ssh user@rsync.net diff some/file .zfs/snapshot/yesterday/some/file

We can implement this later today if it sounds useful ... I was sort of surprised that 'diff' was not already a whitelisted command[1] ...

[1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html
Oh, how we worked on our quake jumping skills, trying to get from the long passage over to a hill on the other side of some water. Q2DM1: The Edge.

We also played a lot of actionquake later. We made maps especially for jumping with this technique but I can't remember ever calling it bunnyjumping.

Funny, yesterday my daughter found how to move faster in some game by pressing strafe and forward at the same time. Had some fun to explain how that works with math in programming :-)
I expect that this hospital will be derelict, disassembled or demolished within 5 years, once it's "that old place from the corronavirus outbreak".

It's impressive, but is it the same kind of structure as a general-purpose hospital building, expected to give 50 years or more of service? I doubt it.
I love using exceptions as control-flow, Python makes it very easy, and it's really helpful.

edit: grammer
Quote from 1945:

Perhaps it might have been possible in some long distant past to underestimate Howard Hughes and write him off as a crazy person. That time is gone. If Hughes appears to be doing something crazy you've not understood it.

I do however agree that Mars is a sales pitch for SpaceX, but the idea that Musk is not crazy may also be headed for a turnaround.
Organic farming doesn't mean not using any fertilizer or pesticides—it just means using certain types that are considered safer. For instance, natural fertilizers (such as compost) are used instead of petroleum-based products. Same for pesticides and herbicides.
Thank you for offering to answer questions.

1. After so many trips, I am wondering if you've seen any negative effects? Anything like DR/DP, HPPD, depression etc.?

2. Have you tried other substances? If so, any preferences? Why do you prefer 5+MeO-DMT?
Yes this is one thing that frustrates me about Google's navigation. Often it will take you off the main road through difficult and narrow side roads in order to save 2 mins. When I'm in an unfamiliar area I would rather save the stress and sit in traffic for those two minutes.
Hi HN, I'm sharing this project because it's finally in a state I'm happy to show to others. It's my first effort to make use of the skills you learn in Fast.ai's MOOC (part 1).

The Fast.ai course encourages experimentation to learn more effectively, and I have to admit, they have the right idea. I learned a ton working on this project that simply working through notebooks and taking the course couldn't make stick.

Feedback is very welcome. This is my first fully self-hosted web server, so I'm iffy on best practices for that part of the project. Plus, I'm sure there are plenty of domain experts on here to suggest improvements in other ways.
Can we get the source for the models?
Sounds like a bad contract
Astronomers Spot Star That Drags the Universe Along with It
It's a bit of a false dichotomy to suggest we have to choose between the two, but...

If we must choose, we should choose to colonize Mars. Statistically speaking, an asteroid impact is inevitable. Time is the relevant variable. The sooner humanity can be a multi-world species, the sooner we are more robust against that threat. The same will be true of our successors who will necessarily have less time than we to spread from Earth. If we manage to spread to other worlds and Earth is destroyed, we will still be around to develop our successors (and will also have a leg up on spreading to ever more worlds). If we manage to create our successors and the Earth is destroyed before we get to other worlds, it's game over.
I started getting data science job offers in under 6 months
wasn'T there something called global dimming which counters global warming? Since we do filter out more of those particles, we allow for more global warming?
I don't think I implied they did. I'm only saying that humans are social creatures and that scientists are susceptible to peer pressure (even in "hard" sciences with lots of possibility for experiment). I imply no maliciousness, but am trying to voice my fear of the impossibility of knowing whether or not the consensus warming scenario is a "reversion to the social mean", that is, we just have to wait and see if warming is worse that expected.

But I'm only a bit surprised this would be such a controversial opinion here.
And that loved one can be yourself.
I think it is well accepted that the larger the team/company, the greater the inefficiency, and one person is the most efficient is all. But that it's only productivity per person, not the total amount produced. At the end of the day, some products (be they software, cars, or whatever) are complex enough that you need more than one person working on it. Even if that means moving from a signs person to a team of (say) four when your only wanted to double the amount of work done.

Still, I can see why returning to working on one-person projects where you get loads done would be really satisfying.
Dumbfounding to me that an org as regimented as Microsoft could let something like this happen. And great timing after my employer spent last week training our non-technical staff on it. :)
The main thing would be to explain that it was medical, that it is over now and you are healthy again. The fact that it went on a few more months than necessary isn't really relevant, although saying that you took a few extra months off at the end just to refresh yourself does reassure that the health issues are, in fact, all over.

It might be worth practicing, alone in front of a mirror or something, explaining this. It may or may not get asked, but if it is you want to have your verbiage ready. But health issues are not rare, and wanting to take time off because you have the money to do so, is not something most people would have any problem understanding. I've known several people who did that, and they all got employed again later, without too much trouble.
Having built some models to simulate very basic things myself, I've seen first-hand how the slightest deviation of the model from reality can completely invalidate the entire output of the model.

For this reason, I'm skeptical of models that try to simulate very complex systems with a lot of variables and feedback loops.
Models that have a large number of variables are particularly difficult to get right because different tiny mistakes in various parts of the model can compound and yield completely arbitrary and contradictory results. Approximating the reality in software is almost impossible.
Individuals, corporations, and the politicians who set policy all operate on imperfect knowledge in many many domains as a routine matter of course.

It is a denier talking point to claim that we just don't know enough, or that the models are always being tweaked and we should just wait until scientists have "the final answer" before doing anything.

Hey, let's stop giving NOAA weather forecasts because they aren't 100% accurate. Let's close down the stock market until everyone can decide what the values should be. Let's disband the military because not all military leaders have the same opinion.

If we are mature enough to recognize that imperfect but credible models are worth acting on in other domains, why do we hold climate change to impossible standards?
Andy Gill, guitarist and founding member of Gang of Four, has died aged 64
If anybody else is having issues loading the article it says a landslide damaged a fiber backbone.

I guess emergency services must have a backup system or maybe there is a low bandwidth secondary that can't handle regular call volume and prioritizes emergency numbers.
JSMin isn't welcome on Google Code (2009)
They do on iOS now too. That's how I keep my passwords sync'd across multiple platforms using Firefox Lockwise.
I'd just tell the truth, I've taken off plenty of time and I generally just put it on my resume to save them having to ask: "took of some time for health related reasons and then decided to use my savings to spend some time with my passions" or whatever it is in your case. If this is a problem for a hiring manager, that's probably a red flag for you as well. I hope it doesn't end up being a problem for you; it's never been one for me, but every company is different. Best of luck!
One man's satire is another man's 401k
The energy loss of liquefaction is worse than that of methanization. If you add liquefaction of methane it gets close and H2 might even be slightly ahead, but LNG handling would be so much easier. 190K and 33K are very different temperatures.
The beginning?
Useful Infos about AI, Machine Learning and NLP for Non-Developers
It requires more than brake assistants. People are, in the limit, idiots (at least when driving). If you drive long enough, you'll see lots of really hair rising things - and the benefit for the above average driver is that the below-average drivers are off the road.

The benefit to self-driving cars is not only that they are driving (hopefully) better than humans - it's also that they minimize the risk of completely erratic behavior. People don't have accidents when they're doing average. They have accidents when they're at their worst.

Last example I witnessed: At a traffic light, a car going ~30mph suddenly and without warning pulls into oncoming traffic because for whatever reason they thought "must left turn" - despite left turns being clearly disallowed.

That wasn't just a "below average driver", because that doesn't happen every day. That was somebody who was very clearly way off their game. And that's the main source of accidents, doing something clearly wrong that you likely wouldn't even think about on a good day. Or being distracted.

Taking these things out of the equation is way more important than "driving better than the best human on their best day".

And this will benefit the above-average drivers as well. (Also, the average will likely move up, so "above average human" might suddenly not mean a lot)
Just be honest. Seems fine. As someone who speaks with many candidates a week, I'm more worried about people who average 1 year at various jobs across 5 years (such as someone working 4-6 jobs in a 5 year span) than someone who has a year gap that is likely more reasonably explained.
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Yea don't lie. That won't go well if you get hired and now you have to remember to keep some lie consistent.
If it's your only significant break then it should be ok.

You should try to be reasonably up front about it i.e. make it clear on your resume that the break was for medical reasons. You shouldn't need to get into details. It's conceivable that some recruiters may have issue with it, but they are just as likely (if not more so) to have issue with an unexplained gap.

If you're asked about it just be positive: you're completely healthy now and raring to go.