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I use a 55 inch UHD about 4 feet from my eyes, works great, no need for reading glasses.
To be honest, as human beings we've evolved over millions of years to be able to handle all of this stuff.

If you are immuno-compromised or otherwise in poor health, then maybe these are worth something, but I highly doubt it. The volume of air they "purify" versus a given room is nothing.

Imagine visualizing the air around you in a room that you are breathing, do you think a small device in the corner with a HEPA filter is going to solve anything?

It's all smoke and mirrors.
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I don't like Frito Lay snacks as much as I don't like local gourmet snacks made by some hipster company. They are both bad for you unless you moderate consumption.

That is orthagonal to the engineering that goes into making millions of chips a day. Just because I don't enjoy going on Royal Carribean cruises doesn't mean I shouldn't appreciate the logistical miracle that goes behind the scenes to make 12,000 meals a day. Nor does it diminish the engineering miracles that went into making this huge city in the middle of the ocean where you can hang out and have a martini while playing casino. Not my thing but amazing nevertheless.

Ever looked at Cigarette manufacturing line? I have. And it is insane! 10,000 cigarettes a minute. My jaw was on the floor. Deeply immoral business but I think that's orthagonal.
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they would both have the effect of altering the state of the renin-angiotensin system

they work from different ends:

the receptor blocker, inhibits angiotensin II from binding

the ACE inhibitor, interferes with conversion of angiotensin I > angiotensin II ,,,,thus reducing the interaction between angiotensinII and the receptor.

In the case of ACE inhibitor the receptor is open and available for docking,,,in the case of the blocker, there is something that _may_ get in the way of viral peplomer docking to the receptor

ideally there exists, some sort of receptor blocker that competetively inhibits coronavirus peplomer binding but is also displaced by angiotensin II ,,, or binds in a site that does not interfere with the ligand recognition sites but prevents the binding of peplomer
I shoot. It takes 15 ms to show up on my screen.
My shot then takes 50 ms to make it to a server, which then takes another 50 ms to be sent to an opponent. What the opponent sees and what I see are off by 100 ms.
If all inputs were handled by the server then everyone would agree on what they see, but delayed by their latency to the server. Interpolation is exactly that. It has significant error and is a serious threat to low time-to-kill competitive games.
15+ years ago, I was working on my first development job out of college and I noticed that there was a strange process running on my work computer that couldn't be killed.

I traced it to a specific port and host and used telnet to connect to it directly (I thought it was malware and got curious).

Little did I know that my manager was watching our every move and when I connected to the host/port (sending no data), it crashed their viewers (the software was crap).

I was brought in then next day to my manager's office and they told me they saw what I did and asked me to explain. I did and didn't get fired.

My coworker got fired that day because the whole purpose was to watch his computer. He was spending the majority of his time on online poker sites and working on his own projects on company time.

I also remember my manager casually bringing up topics that I talked about over IM with a friend over my lunch break..which was creepy (this was before I knew he was watching us and never let on the reasons he was bringing up these topics).

We were forced to sign a contract the next day that stated that the company has a right to monitor our computers and we were to only be working on company-related work on company computers.

I left that company a few months later. One reason being that I hated the idea of someone watching me 24/7.

It was a great decision because they cut 25% of the workforce shortly after I left. Almost all of my ex-coworkers were let go or left within a year.
The Russians are flying commercially into space right now, and Soyuz vehicle has an excellent safety record, > 97 % success, no loss of life. With their recent track record no one should trust Boeing or Space X - Starship, Starline and Dragon all revealed what a shambles their engineering is.
You easily can, by being more strict about what constitutes the use of the title of engineer.
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I mean, even nymph means the nubile mythological nature spirit, often some sort of temptress, like Calypso.

I asked my girlfriend what "nymphcast" sounded like to her and she agreed it seemed porn related.

Of course, it's only HN sport to bikeshed the name. I can't resist.
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What I’m saying is that you’ll probably only get one year, because at some point before you’re done, you’ll get a new battery, that gives you two more years, but then the battery will just go away in the interim. If you’re anything like me, your battery starts getting janky you’ll look half heartedly because you have time, and by the time to you really have to have it you can’t find them. So then you’ll limp along for a little while on the old one and give up. And batteries don’t have a good shelf life like say your favorite discontinued keyboard so you can’t just stockpile.

(Which is a whole other story that lead me to now own three of them even though I can only use one at present.)
Not hard using IF, you could cut 30% and still feel full at least once a day.
We’ve got a couple hundred years to nail down the details
Smaller cities and towns are fantastic, both in terms of community and cost. Remote work incentives like this seem like a great way to draw people to less populated areas.

Honestly, I think that a lot of folks who feel stressed and cramped in metro areas like SF, Seattle, NYC, etc. might really enjoy living in a small town.

But a lot of states in the Midwest still present serious cultural barriers to many such people. Racism and bigotry against LGBT folks is less common than it once was, but it's still prevalent. Communities are usually less secular, with religion playing a huge part in peoples' social lives; sometimes it's almost a prerequisite to "joining the community". Pot can get you serious jail time. Raising well-adjusted kids can be harder because of how insular suburban areas are. And so on.

It's not like that everywhere, and most people are kind and empathetic at heart, but definitely spend some time in an area before you consider taking a stipend to move there. Places like Central Washington, upstate New York, and Eastern Colorado are hidden gems, but having spent a bit of time in Tulsa and speaking as someone with a slight countercultural bent, you would have to pay me a lot more than $10k to move there.
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Food science is really interesting; I've kind of gotten into it as a hobby lately (having a background in chemical engineering and an obsessive interest in cooking). Last night I was making some melted cheese for nachos and used sodium citrate to emulsify the cheese sauce and sodium hexametaphosphate to sequester the calcium (weird aside: the non-numeric chemical formula for sodium citrate is NaCHO). It's fascinating to me how much work goes into this stuff. There are decades worth of research articles studying the effect of melting salts on cheese.

Honestly, I'm a bit surprised that processed foods don't taste dramatically better than restaurant food considering how much work goes into optimizing everything. I suppose a large part of this process is not strictly optimizing for flavor, but rather shelf life and cost among other factors. Although I do know a lot of Michelin star chefs will use whatever additives are necessary to make a dish taste as good as possible — at least if they don't have a strict focus on natural, locally sourced food.
This description of C++ usage you gave:

A workflow consisting of writing highly explicit, simple to reason about code that you frequently inspect in disassembled form

Is possibly the most descriptive and succinct description of my coding practice. I really like this formulation and I am going to shamelessly steal it in the future, repeatedly.
Exactly. The equity markets are future predictors.

When someone is self-interested in speculation, that also provides a signal to the broader market about what might unfold. That signal helps others plan as well.
I was bored so I added CAF to pkgsrc, which you can use to install CAF on NetBSD/Linux/macOS and a variety of other Unix-ey platforms that pkgsrc supports:

https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc-wip/tree/master/actor-frame...

git clone https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc --depth 1 ~/pkgsrc
git clone https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc-wip --depth 1 ~/pkgsrc/wip
cd ~/pkgsrc/bootstrap
./bootstrap --unprivileged
cd ~/pkgsrc/wip/actor-model
~/pkg/bin/bmake install
~/pkg/sbin/pkg_info -L actor-model

That is all.
Looks cool! I have myself been super frustrated by the lack of free streaming protocols or implementations.

DLNA (UPnP) is in theory perfect for this use case and it wouldn't be that hard to use it together with VLC and a Python script and I have indeed attempted this, but at the end just gave up due to the complexity of the protocol (and my laziness).

I am currently still in the market for a good casting solution like this. I'll probably try this, but at a first glance it seems like it may do a little more than I need.

Does anyone know any other similar projects?
Tehcnically true but any sort of toolbag seems to trigger being selected for a "random" groping by the TSA and with tools being so cheap nowadays it often makes sense to carry on your luggage (and maybe your favorite multimeter or something) and hit up Harbor Freight where you land.
A 43" UHD TV would have the same dpi as a 21.5" FHD monitor, so I guess the viewing distance should be about the same for both, if that helps put things into perspective. I'm assuming you don't intend to use scaling.

An important thing to keep in mind is there are actual computer monitors out there that match those specs and cost about the same as a comparable TV. If you don't intend to ever use it as an actual TV, that would probably be a slightly better choice as a TV might have unwanted picture optimizations or force you to use a remote to turn it on/switch inputs etc.
Yes, but he won that first-amendment lawsuit in late 2018: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5671551-jarlstrom1.h...
yep, i wouldn't want to buy the product, let alone spend effort developing content for it
Hm, I'd try 2x27" instead. My 27" UHD is 4.6kg without mount and power brick. Feels pretty light, but there seem to be lighter (found a 3.2kg AOC, but that's only FullHD). Packaging two of these only requires four 3d printed parts for the corners, and the displays can face each other (not touch each other!). A dual VESA arm on Amazon should come at 3.5kg (maybe less because the number might include packaging).

Still funny though.
At some point iOS started asking if I want to trust the device, so I suppose if I use this malicious cable with charger and iOS asks me about computer or accessory, I would know things are fishy, would not I?
BBB is just old people Yelp. They’re a rent seeker, and n any sort of government body or regulator.
I don’t think any service is where it needs to be. Most importantly the servers running the game clients are not the same ones hosting the game servers.
Los Angeles isn't huge. Arrivals in Shanghai/Shenzen/Ningbo (and to a lesser extent, HK) are definitely down and vessels are staying in port but the world hasn't stopped. Busan is fine, Singapore is fine, Jebel is fine, Rotterdam is fine, etc. Maybe the virus gets worse somehow but when things resume, they will resume quickly.

If you look at traffic stats for the Chinese cities above, you will see they improved last week...last Monday Shenzen was actually back to normal. Again, maybe the virus gets worse but the evidence is that we have stabilised.
Yes, the prevailing assumption is that "everything is factored in price", including all the irrational (like some aggregate of our prediction of the future, which includes investors thinking like OP).
Is the US market ready to embrace a $500 game console?
Yeah I think I’m going to sell all of mine too. Based on how market reacted on Thursday, it’s a frenzy. What is SPY puts?

I think the worst is still to come. Especially since it’s hit the US and we’re hearing of many new cases all around the world.

I think we may have a mini recession if we don’t have it under control.
I really just want a head mounted display, which should give much more virtual workspace than a 24" monitor.

But it seems like the VR craze killed the market and HMD products with it.
This doesn’t sound likely at all. What makes you so confident?
Drugs hidden in a cucumber truck:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-fentanyl-bust...

Also, plants or foods are sometimes forbidden because of potential to carry vermin, plant diseases, etc.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/know-before-you-go/pr...
It's hilarious. Many people commented on how long it would take before it ended up in killedbygoogle.com.

I don't trust a single product they launch these days. Usually it's best to wait 5 years and get a sense for its longevity.

What products do Google make that last longer these days? I feel the majority of new stuff ends up canned because it just doesn't hold up to the tech debt and costs for running the service at such huge scale.
The problem cloud gaming would solve is having all players be presented the same game state at the same time. No other topology I know of would have all clients agree on the game state at the same real-world time.
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Working in VR allows you to travel with an infinite number of monitors, of any size you prefer. For example here is what it's like to work in a Linux VR Desktop on the HTC Vive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWLuwG91HnI

The problem is that plug-in headsets like the Vive are not very portable. The next evolution of something like this is to put the Linux VR Desktop on a standalone headset.

If anyone is interested in something like this let me know, and I can fill in more details on how to make it happen.
Except Plan9 is a design pipedream that got shredded on the first encounter with reality which is why it has less of a penetration even in a geek community than BeOS.

The largest use case for something from Plan9 is 9P transport used by QEMU to share host folders with guests.
No: https://killedbygoogle.com/
I poked around their site and they talk about Red Teams a lot, which are a concept of institutionalized penetration testing. Not unlike Chaos Monkey is to reliability engineering.
Writing exceptions-safe code is not free in itself. Surely one can do it, but it requires more mental energy to write and even more efforts to review the code.
Thanks a lot. That's a great explanation.
None of the products are original idea. They are all better clones of somebody else's product.
We have a similar situation - we had a programmer working in a very silo'd manner, writing lots of Python2 code back in 2013/2014. He's since left the company, and while I'm relatively comfortable with Python, there is now a lot of residual Python2 code that will have to be updated to Python3 or rewritten in another language before our next refresh.

By contrast, some of the Perl6 code we have hanging around for various tasks has aged much better.
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Another suggestion might be to get accustomed to programming in VR. You can have as many virtual desktops "in there". Search for some youtube videos and see if its viable for you.
La Croix was founded almost 40 years ago, I remember drinking it (not very enthusiastically) as a kid growing up in the 80s.
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>I like to think of a silly extreme. If I drink a gallon of gasoline, I've technically consumed what, a billion calories? But I won't gain a single gram.[1] Why? There's no metabolic pathway to convert gasoline to ATP.

26579 kcal
To me, I think the most critical thing to make note of is the extreme focus on what the fed and other central banks are going to do.

The fact that most people (rightly) assume that fed action is the most significant factor for the market should really give people pause.

Lastly, people should really consider what happens when fed action is no longer enough, and what happens then.
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> Some folks say, "That's what commit messages are for." Bullshit. When people say that, I suspect they've never worked on anything other than prototypes or toy projects. Good commit messages are a must, but they don't scale well when it comes to long-lived projects.

Yep. I've seen codebases that have migrated source control and issue trackers multiple times - sometimes migrating history, sometimes not. The only ancient knowledge that has survived is the code comments.
Yeah; I just want something smaller and easier to toss around than the giant ass server I have sitting next to me.

I've got a LattePanda v1 but I've been a bit disappointed with it. Udoo bolt is my next test but they're just a bit more expensive than I'd like.
What about software engineers?
The Port of Los Angeles is the busiest container port in the United States. 20% of all US-bound cargo moves through this port.
Huh?

Given a box being able to reach Chromecast via standard IP routing and Chromecast being able to reach the box via a standard IP routing and a box being able to spinup a HTTP(s) sever one can cast to Chromecast. No need to be on a same network.

Catt does it.
As the creator of Redis states (whether we like it or not) Redis is: "a software which is designed (as we explain in our security page here http://redis.io/topics/security) to be totally insecure if exposed to the outside world" [1]

[1] http://www.antirez.com/news/96
Yes?

In Z mod 5 using your notation, you have that 3 = -2. It doesn't make sense to distinguish two classes of "negative" and "positive" numbers in that case, but it still makes sense to talk about -2.
VCs represent everything wrong about technology. You need them like you need the Mafia.
I wouldn't mind living in a smaller city (though honestly Tulsa ain't that small), but yes there's the cultural issues you bring up, and other problems as well.

For example, the US has generally awful land use/transportation setups even in progressive major cities, and in smaller/less progressive ones, it goes from generally awful to extra terrible. Walking for transportation is unpleasant and near-useless, biking is uncomfortable and dangerous, and public transportation is sparse, slow, and unreliable. Housing options are usually either a single-family home in a super low density area that exacerbates the above, or an apartment in a very ugly large complex in a neighborhood with terrible schools. Obviously generalizing here, but that's what you see most of the time.

To demonstrate that I'm not using these superlatives for no reason: I can't find stats for Tulsa, but Oklahoma City's combined mode share for commuters who use walking, biking, or public transit is a massive 2.2 percent, and Tulsa's is probably similar. I find that people are pretty rational when it comes to day to day transportation choices; if that few people are doing something other than driving, there's a very good reason for it.

Right now I live in the outskirts of Munich in a backyard duplex (there's a 6-unit complex up front), a type of housing option that largely doesn't even exist in the states. Plenty of people around here drive, but there's also a few different grocery options within easy walking distance (and a ton within easy biking distance), public transit is fairly dense and reliable (extremely dense and reliable by US standards), all three of those things feel safe even with kids. And Munich isn't some weird outlier in Germany, the other cities I've visited have felt quite similar overall. I wish US cities could stop being such a dumpster fire when it comes to land use and transportation, but there's so much cultural momentum there.
I actually noticed this when testing what kind of users Facebook ads brought to my site. The numbers from Google Analytics didn't seem to match the number of clicks reported by Facebook.

As a side note, those users were useless anyway as all of them were bots: https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing/comments/4smisl/facebook_...
That’s extra frustrating because if you think about the dynamics of an intersection, the person going straight through or making a left has a much higher chance of collision than someone making a right. There’s a longer interval before the perpendicular traffic intersects the path of someone turning right, and usually all they have to do is take their foot off of the accelerator, if that.
Louvre closed today due to all hands meeting on coronavirus
1.5 generations ago the UC system was nearly free to attend.
> really hasn't started to hit yet

I guess you don’t talk to people in the construction industry. People have been let go because they can’t get supply. I’ve had multiple first hand accounts just in the past week in different parts of construction (commercial and realestate) saying how bad it is (Australia).
Playstation already has it and they've been operating it for many years.
I'm surprised that there haven't been more efforts in the West to contain COVID-19.
Different times. I’ve never seen a flight with room left in the overhead bin in years.
How effective is this type of crime system with Activation Lock-secured iPhones? You can't just wipe an iPhone from DFU mode and then set it up normally without the owner's Apple ID information.

Do they try to sell to people who they know won't check if the device has Activation Lock and then disappear when the buyer discovers it doesn't work?
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In some jurisdictions (like Canada), the title "engineer" is a legally-protected term. Someone like me who has 3 engineering degrees -- but have not taken any licensing exams -- cannot officially use the title "engineer" on a business card without being liable to a fine.

I can sort of see the intention behind laws like this, but I also think it's a bit of gatekeeping. The original intention was to prevent someone who isn't licensed from providing professional opinions and from signing plans without also being accountable/responsible for the outcomes.

This is all well and good, except there are many engineering disciplines (outside of civil, mechanical, electrical... and even within them) where signing plans and providing professional-grade opinions are not the norm. My father was a practicing engineer for 30 years and has never had to sign a single plan, and so has never taken a licensing exam.

A licensed engineer typically has an additional P.Eng. or P.E. title (Professional Engineer), and I agree that that title should be regulated like all other licensing titles. But the word "engineer" is so generic that it doesn't really make sense to try to legally protect it.
Well the reason I think it is that you can't just be conscious: you have to be conscious of something.

No, unless the software included a representation of the computer itself. Then it might be capable of consciousness, IDK. But being so capable it would then be a person rather than just an app.
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Ha! I totally agree with you. I never take any meds. Not even aspirin or ibuprofen. My immune system is very strong - what we should be doing is gut biome transplants - not hepa and hand sanitizer crap.