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Though "prepping" has gotten a bad reputation because of the folks going to extremes building underground bunkers, some level of preparedness is prudent.

Many government recommend at least three days' worth of supplies for self-sufficiency:

* https://www.ready.gov/

* https://www.getprepared.gc.ca/index-en.aspx
Real-Time tracking of pathogen evolution
I'm sure you know this but, for the benefit of others...

With this exception, WireGuard does not CVEs because it is (for now) still considered pre-release software and not recommended for production use.
You’d might like the Elves in The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross [0]. Which includes (mild spoiler) an assault on the city of Leeds in the UK by a combined-arms Elven battlegroup (think Waffen-SS with pointy ears). They have battle-tested air-land integration doctrine where their dragons operate in a close air support role. Some of their innate magical powers include foretelling and mind control over enslaved humans.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files
I have the same problem with behavioral interviews.

"Tell me about a time when..."

"I want to see how you think."

"What your greatest..."

95% of my philosophy is don't be an asshole, work hard, know my stuff, and don't let the turkeys get me down. I spend no time dwelling on mistakes, as I internalize the lessons and throw out the reason I learned those lessons.
Do you find that you tend to get sucked into to ANYTHING in your life? Content, substances, activities? I find that I have a very addictive personality across the board - once something feels good it's very hard to stop even when I consciously want to or it's making me feel bad. This happens to me with social media, TV, alcohol, drugs, and occasionally even reading or a new hobby I'm really into. Rather than the ability to delay gratification, I'd imagine social media consumption is correlated to whatever it is about the brain's dopamine pathways that leads some people to get addicted to things more easily than others.
> Srsly stop working for shitty startups.

I guess 99.9% of all startups are "shitty" then.

> we would like the core team (first 3-4 hires) to share our passion to some degree. Perhaps naively we'd like them to become pillars of our company and help us inspire future employees.

It sound like they don't want workers, so much as worshipers. Call me pessimistic.
Apple doesn’t design their products as a bundle of parts and components to be independently monitored and maintained by their users. They do their best to hide all those details from you and handle it themselves. In part, this integrated and maintenance-free experience is what many people pay for!

What “both ways” are you referring to?
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Uh huh, you heard that all on Fox News I take it?

If voter id laws weren’t intended to be discriminatory, the states would go out of their way to make it as easy as possible to get them, but they don’t. Because the purpose is suppression.

Even a Fl court found the intention was suppression.

But you go your own bigoted way.
Sadly, POWER is going to get hurt in this Intel vs AMD price war. POWER 9 was until recently competitive in price/performance with high-end Xeons but, sadly, IBM would need to cut prices and that's something they are not going to do.
This. So much this. Infinite scrolling is one of the worst UI designs ever. Plus most I've seen are poorly implemented and buggy, which just makes it that much worse.
the difference is that a brand new battery would be able to deliver enough current to sustain the peak workloads, even when at 1% battery remaining. An aged battery would not be able to do this.
The Performance Benefits of Final Classes
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Not looking to argue here, but suffice to say, the Catholic view is not representative of all Abrahamic religions (or even just Christianity); I was trying to give as generic as possible an explanation that covers the jist of most Abrahamic faiths without diving into semantics of "spirit" vs. "soul" (which apparently can vary).
No, you misunderstand me. Earth hasn't placed the call yet; the ship can use FTL and its knowledge of the effect to send a message to Earth that Earth receives before it places the call. The scenario you're describing is described as such in the link above:

"""

Now, you might say "wait, light takes a finite amount of time to travel. You've just shown what times the spaceship will assign to various events, but they can't see it immediately. That'll save us!" Sadly no. Here's when the ship actually gets the light from the events. [complicated figure, but it shows there's enough time in the light-cone chart for the ship to receive the 'Proxima received the phone call' event and then travel to Earth slower than speed of light and tap Earth on the shoulder before the phone call was sent]

As you can see, the light from the phone call reception arrives well before the light from the placing of the phone call. Again: causality is violated.

"""

In fact, that message can be "Place the call," which means the call is placed because Earth was told to by the third party because the third party knew the call had to be placed because they observed the effect because the call was placed... FTL allows for closed-causal loops.
Absolutely not. Plastic recycling does exactly what it is supposed to. It helps the consumer to continue feeling good with themselves while tossing more and more plastic into their shopping carts. It gives us the feeling that we are doing nothing wrong producing each a ton of garbage every year. Plastic recycling does what it was invented to do.
Great language and ecosystem. I donated at the beginning and made my living writing Clojure code for a few years. However, I find myself way more productive using Common Lisp, perhaps because since I have used it since 1982.

I think Clojure’s sweet spot is a small team working on a large enterprise project.
Why not simply let me take out the battery and put in a new one?

They created these locked down devices. Let them feel the pain.
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I enjoyed TurboVision back in the day.
The only thing I'm personally vaguely concerned about is making sure my grandparents have access to basic necessities without having to expose themselves in places like supermarkets.

If you're under 40 and healthy it seems that you don't have much to worry about besides not spreading the virus yourself (self quarantine as soon as you think you might have it).
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NASA Seeks Applicants to Explore Moon, Mars
Johnny Ryan, the thorn in Google’s side
> You can only run a yellow if you’re already in the intersection when the light turns.

The problem is your previous statement implies that if you are going 45mph and the light turns yellow when you are 5 ft away from entering the intersection, you are required to stop. The physics doesn't work.
> I really want to see the US get to publicly funded elections because full public funding would cost not even a sliver of what elections current run and provide a more even playing field for candidates.

I would be in favor of that if we also blocked media coverage of the election other than strictly objective dates and times style coverage. No opinion sections in newspapers, no “John Oliver” type shows talking about politics, no Fox and Friends, etc.

Otherwise, you give tremendous power to the owners of media companies and then all the previous funds that were raised will go towards buying or starting media companies so they can give your candidate favorable coverage.
I like the idea. My feedback: the name seems like it's going to confuse people. I almost skipped by this post when I saw the name at a glance because I'm not particularly interested in 3D graphics.
How to buy bubble wrap from one of the most unusual vending machines in Japan
The same "somebodies" who put Obama in power, you mean?
How to Write Tech Specs – Lyft Engineering
Climate change is a serious problem, but until China shut down I was sure we'd crossed a tipping point to solar, which makes the problem solvable, though not easy. Now I think there's some risk that the PV manufacturing won't restart somewhere else.

Wealth inequality is an immensely less serious menace than at any time since at least Columbus. If it doesn't look like it, that's because you aren't looking at China and India 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128 years ago.

The opioid crisis is a big problem. A lot of people who need opioids can't get them because of laws, or they can get them but without reasonable guarantees of quality (again because of laws), and so they die of fentanyl overdoses. Hopefully we can solve that problem, but it's been a century and a half, so it probably won't be soon.

I don't know about the debt crisis. What's the crisis? People (and imaginary people) owe each other money, which is also imaginary. Sometimes they can't pay it and go bankrupt. This is kind of stupid but it's relatively harmless most of the time.

Nuclear warfare continues to be a threat, but it's much less of one than at any time since, say, 1959. There's no Cold War, the massive nuclear arsenals have been mostly scrapped, and really what you need to worry about there are drones.

Pandemic vulnerability is a big deal. Especially in March and April of this year. But the situation will improve rapidly after that.

Soil depletion is potentially a big deal, and it's an incentives problem with a lot of interests vested in the status quo ante. The Netherlands may be showing a solution.
Have you ever seen Apple Pay in the web? If so there is a good chance you’ve seen this as it’s Apple’s recommended way of doing things instead of their older custom JS.
I was using a wide definition of "ownership". Parent and child unintentionally sharing a mutex is one manifestation of those issues.
What is the difference between this and ZeroTier? https://www.zerotier.com/
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Serious question...

In light of the fact that this virus has never been tested for before, how does one know the virus hasn't been part of the popilation for centuries? How do you know your last flue wasn't in fact Covid-19?

With some illnesses -- say smallpox -- you can 'count' the number of cases by symptoms alone.

But for this, it seems the symptoms in the majority of cases are inonsequwntial... similar to the flu or cold.

I don't know what happened in Wuhan.
But, as far as the rest of the world, there does not appear to be any significant increase in actual illnesses requiring hospitalization. At least nothing that wouldnt otherwise manifest itself during flu season.
No, everyone is going to use these techniques. But using arms commercial entities to spread libel (so close to the election it cannot be acted upon, or from sources outside of jurisdiction) or using information obtained illegally crosses a line. I don't care what country or what party. Beyond specific candidates and policies, this is more important because it undermines the integrity of the process. I think the number of people in jail as a result of the 2016 elections is a pretty good indication of how far from normal this all was.
Linux will not let you send a signal to init that it has not installed a signal handler for (to avoid unexpected terminate-by-default signals wrecking your machine), and no process can install a signal handler for SIGKILL; ergo, you cannot SIGKILL init.

Other operating systems may vary, of course.
I did a (long) paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the two articles here:
https://gist.github.com/nieksand/f9a8550dca42b6d31e017c14515...

These articles are both long and I have other things to do in life, but I think the notes are reasonable.

To summarize, the big three issues with the Guardian article:

1. Insistence on framing the change as a racist attack. (Recurrent through first dozen paragraphs or so)

2. You can read the entire article and not have any clue as to the law's supporters viewpoint. (rolling polling).

3. Burying key information about cost and volunteer availability 18 paragraphs down.
RIP tendies.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22467353

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fresca is packed with Vitamin C.
You will spend more while supporting such a stack. If you have enough experience just start with a production-ready stack, otherwise, youse cheap labor force (PHP, Python) to build initial prototype.
So your US telephone provider should be responsible for ensuring its customers follow Russian domestic law?

Victim in Moscow receives call from caller in Utah. They complain to Russia Telecom, who complain to Sprint, who fine, or cut-off, Joe Bloggs in Salt Lake City?

What evidence would the victim in Moscow need to provide?
No, but that's not the point. The fact that many of them are quoted or referenced suggests that their opinions are relevant, at least to Wikipedia editors. Most other articles on the subject continually reference neuroscience and neuroscientists.

Regardless, not everything fits into neat little boxes.

I would personally be more interested in the views of a neuroscientist on the matter, but then again I'd expect them to be likely to dismiss it as not being a problem at all. I'd also be interested in the views of someone who works with AI and the like.

Personally I think the problem will be "solved" as soon as we have sufficiently advanced conversational assistants and we just start assuming they are conscious because they seem like they are. I think having that sort of thing in our daily lives will dramatically change people's intuitive perspective on the issue.
Zoom Confusion Strikes Again as Investors Hunt Coronavirus Plays
There is still a societal cost to producing plastic, even if it isn't turned in for recycling. The article draws a comparison to smoking, and to (loosely) extend the analogy this cost would be similar to second-hand smoke.

Some companies are starting to take responsibility for the full lifecycle of their products (Terracycle comes to mind, which helps companies reclaim and reuse their products at end-of-life). More businesses need to have this mindset if we are going to move towards a sustainable economy.
The CDC has stopped disclosing the number of Americans tested for coronavirus
What is your threat model in which somehow Mozilla's ability to serve you JavaScript is a problem because they might use it to attack you, but Mozilla having written the entire program you're running isn't a problem?
Static types turn certain runtime errors into compile time errors. When I learned Pascal in 1982 it became quite obvious what a huge benefit this was.

That said, I still like some dynamic languages for certain things.
Does this answer yes on 1% of website loads?

While a fun little website, I think it would be helpful If you added some links to useful information at the bottom of the page.

1% is the broad statistic, but for people like me, this could actually kill me.
My understanding is that it used to be true, but recently-ish China stopped taking in our recycling and now we have nowhere to put it
In fact, it predates C itself. See https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix/blob/9947fbf42bbb3c94...
Moral culpability. It should be legal culpability as well, but we haven't written the law yet.
> The person running your investments can make or break you

How would one propose to distinguish* someone who will deliver growth for - say - 25 consecutive years from someone who delivers growth for 5 years yet blows up your endowment in year 6 ?

* beforehand ;)
How to build a simple login with Nextjs? (and react hooks)
Friendly reminder that Barack Obama's campaign didn't hire an external firm to manipulate Google and Facebook - they had direct access to the companies, with Google even providing a team of engineers to work with the campaign in Washington.
I think degree of sensitivity, discrimination, or directionality can warrant counting a 'new sense'. I would consider my sense of thermoreception to be different from that of a snake's heat-pits, or hearing to be a different sense from feeling vibrations.
Multi-millisecond latency spikes in a process spinning on an atomic update cannot be blamed on TLB flush, which introduces stalls measured in, at worst, microseconds.
Big FOSS misconception: there's an army of contributors supporting every project
How are they having trouble paying their expenses with $93 million in legal fees? Strange itemization.
Holy shit, Litestep! That takes me back.
Glass and metal are a nightmare on the beach and in parks. Plastic sucks bad, but going back to glass isn't much better.
Counterpoint: humans are long-lived compared to other creatures, yet we don't dress in bubble wrap. A human life is normal length to us, and we would risk it if needed. Young soldiers risk death at a fourth of their potential lifespan.
For sure but what about home servers which do transcoding for example?

They will run at their TDP for some time and, create considerable noise and heat.
You could do that trick even in windows 3.11. I remember using central point desktop for a while: 3d look, virtual desktops, advanced file manager and a bunch of other goodies in the 3.x era.

http://toastytech.com/guis/cpdesk.html

It was bloated and unstable though, so I was glad to upgrade to windows 95.
They have been able to do it for the past 15 years! I remember I had a bunch of emulators that were running in Applet and Flash to play games on a school computer using a browser. I guess emulators in JS are more recent, but I have no doubt a Game Boy one would have run a decade ago at least.
WeWork Is Said to Rethink Sale of Startup Back to Its Co-Founder
Philosophical question until it becomes in reach of science, it then moves into one of those ‘sub fields’.
GopherCon 2020 Covid-19 response
Microsoft used to be very big in highlighting how much more privacy-minded they are. This was a massage pushed to policy makers across the world, and very significantly in Europe. This stopped 100% with the launch of Windows 10; I assume this is because of all the metrics it collects (often unknown to or explicitly against users' wishes).

The only option for privacy-minded search seems to be to use one of the bing wrappers, most notably duckduckgo.
You realise most VPN providers offer OpenVPN (for years) and now Wireguard support right? Some bundle the software & drivers on their own GUI. I'm happily using a paid OpenVPN client for mac (won't name it here to avoid upsetting you further) for years.

What I'm trying to say is that tailscale is doing nothing new or sinister.