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I mean, people being wrong about biology is ok, the issue is when the discussion devolves into some of the touchier subjects and suddenly everyone larps as a scientist. "Do you have citations for that?" "There is a widely accepted consensus that..." "It's not just my opinion, it's science."

This is very strange because in technology threads where actual experts chime in, no one acts like that. People share their experiences about using such-and-such stack, sometimes with very strongly worded and passionate opinions but never with the pretense of scolarship or "quest for truth". Imagine how bewildering it'd be if people cited publications from "The Journal of Serverless Stacks" (IF=1.4) in lieu of experience sharing.
No - in fact they have increased. My extended car warranty I never had is about to expire:)
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that too. It sounds interesting.

BRYAN: We’ll get to the right folks who could.

TRUMP: Right. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.

So we’ll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute, that’s — that’s pretty powerful."

Technically, you are correct, he didn't say the word "promising". Given that promising has latinate origins, rather than germanic, it's likely not in his vocabulary.

Still hydroxychloroquine ended up killing a bunch of vets, and at least one person credible enough to ingest it directly without medical advice or a prescription.

I applaud your goals of precision, but, stochastic terrorism is real, and the point of communication, especially in such dire circumstances, shouldd not only to be understood, but to make it impossible to be misunderstood.

Clarity and unambiguous language from leaders is literally essential public health.
Thanks! Can you point me to where I can find out more about the eval-"loop" that the entire Smalltalk runs on?
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Most of the time when I interact with a doctor, they're just entering in information into a database.

Maybe we could bust this guild of ridiculous standards to maybe squeeze in a few others? I don't get why we gotta firstly work our doctors to death, and secondly ensure they are "the best." Seriously, sometimes "good enough" is just that. Just don't let junior doctors make critical decisions for people until theyve got a few years and show skill. I don't know, kinda like every other job. I'm not saying like let any schmuck do it, but any I crazy or is it not obsessive how high the barrier to entry is? That's bs purported by lobbiests and guilds of doctors trying to keep people out to keep their demand and wages high. It's the inverse of how a union (whereas this is a guild of skilled laborers not paying dues) abuse this.
“But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” -- George Orwell, 1984
There's going to be layoffs in the future for faculty. Instead of tenure-track faculty or at least term faculty where one could make a living and plan for the future you now have contingent faculty. At my institution the rate for online courses is USD 125 per student and course. To make 50 kUSD yearly salary a faculty member must teach 400 students!

Education isn't the way to a decent living any longer, neither do the students get an education if faculty salaries are like this.
I mean, I don't wanna use work computer to work on side (software) projects or play video games. My employer probably wouldn't mind that much, but doesn't seem like a good idea in principle.

I wish I bought a macbook instead of lenovo. The only reason I got lenovo is because I like linux more than OSX, so I figured might as well get a lenovo with better spec than macbook. If I got a macbook, I would use docker to get linux (although wouldn't be able to use linux DEs like AwesomeWM etc which is a bummer).
> impacts of doing so can actually be pretty devastating.

Source on this? I have heard about the couple that ate the aquarium chemicals, a bit of a stretch unless I missed the part where Trump mentioned aquarium chemicals
> It means some Red Had people were paid to make sure all the hardware in the laptop works.

IIRC, I've heard from former RH engineers that RH already runs mostly on either Thinkpads or Dell laptops, so this could easily have been an internal push to make their own rollouts easier. It certainly makes provisioning faster if the guy preparing the Lenovo laptop doesn't have to start with blowing away the OS, loading Fedora, and then applying a dozen patches or other config changes to make the laptop happy w/ Fedora.
"get you 80% of the way there in half the time."

From my experience they don't. Either it gets thrown away or the cleanup requires as much or more even more work than if experienced people had done it from scratch.

Edit: I am not saying there is no value in work from newcomers but I think it's often overrated. They usually do the easy part but finishing it takes much more work than people think.
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Autonomous monitoring: is this the anomaly detection you wanted?
...until codified process becomes the problem. It never ends!
I thought HTML5 was just a single button click.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. I also like WSL but the lack of a functional network stack is limiting.
But... that's not even a description of this technique. To be clear, this technique does not in any way involve putting a UV source inside the body. It's more like dialysis, in that it happens externally. The only similarity to what Trump was wittering on about is that it involves UV. It's very unlikely to have been what gave him the idea.
> It's actually owned by the government, Fannie Mae.

Oh my bad. So riddle me this. Does the government secure mortages it owns?
Perhaps you could demand that first of the president of the united states, and then perhaps, secondarily of some random poster on hacker news?
I don't understand this part. How do you select using Alt?

Typically with mouse enabled, you can select text with the mouse, but this doesn't go to the X clipboard. While with mouse disabled, text selected with the mouse goes to the X clipboard.
It's just a form of trolling and gaslighting. Trump never mentioned this treatment. Everyone who watched him speak of ultraviolet light and disinfectant yesterday knew what he was saying and suggesting. The stupidity of the words were readily apparent.

Yet, here we are, being told that we're all morons because it's obvious that this treatment is what he was talking about. Even though he never mentioned this treatment, and there's no reason to think that he was talking about this treatment in particular.

Edit: Trump is claiming today that the question was just "sarcasm"...
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Even in the same model different regions can have different performance characteristics, or even functionality. While I was working at Unity Technologies (the game engine company) I have seen many horror stories when it comes to Android. Everything looked the same from the software, and also the name and versions of the hardware components, but for the components made in different countries, it behaved slightly differently.
That's not actually an argument, and is like saying "medicine was wrong before, therefore a bleach enema will cure cancer".
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Thanks. I've read all links and I think I would like to see more hands-on code regarding to how this is done in the systems (like Smalltalk) itself.
This is a really good sign. I hope this means more corporate IT support for Linux desktops. This is the first year I've been able to use Linux (Fedora 31) on a corporate owned machine (T490s) and I don't think I could go back. For my work, it really is a better experience.

I've also been using Fedora as the primary OS on my personal devices since 2011 (T410 -> x220 -> T470s and a couple of custom PCs). I stay on fairly standard hardware and really haven't had any major issues in the past 9 years.
IMHO we are not only discussing luck but also our imperfect and fallible nature as people. All you say is excellent advice, but -- sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
What? Plenty of languages lack an unsafe mode. Java, for instance.
Is there deflation or inflation in our future?
> Desktop audio and host's audio can be heard by everyone on the call

I find the inability to have more than one person 'speaking' at a time the most unnatural thing about videoconferencing. Is there any solution?
I'm absolutely sure, yes, especially if we're talking about the EU alone (but I'd prefer to argue for Europe as a whole), that the market for high-end laptops is significantly smaller. Eastern Europe is an order of magnitude poorer, and is the reason Europe's population is higher than the USA's (that said, there is a reason I initiated with "America"; these customizations are also offered in Canada, and North America is conventionally considered a single market).

Especially when considering localizations that have to be made, and that the most valuable European countries require you get physical technical goods certified per-country (mainly looking at Germany here), and that they're getting taxed more, the margin that you can get from Europe is much smaller already than in America. It doesn't make sense to offer the same extent of customization (which, too, lessens margin) as in America.
For the past several years now, each time I join a new team or project, my first objective is to detach and destroy the "Agile" process workflow.

When you finally liberate a team from Agile, it's just breathtaking how much you can focus on delivering working software that gets deployed with quick iterations that's closely aligned with the business and customer's needs. When free from the tyranny of Agile, teams can be effectively self-organize, remove micro-managers, and quickly adapt to changing needs and requirements. My experience is that staff are usually much happier, more productive, and less stressed once agile is gone.

I mean contemporary Agile as pushed by corporations and those awful "coaches" (who never seem to be actual developers) --- if you were you design a system whose end goal was making great developers unhappy, unproductive and locked into a dysfunctional system, Agile would be it.
I had a situation where the CEO was bringing up complains from the PM to me about how there were so many Jira issues in the back log that I should have been hiring more people.

I said that it would take me 5 minutes to go into Jira and close out all the existing issues if that is what they are worried about?
Because many companies are still transitioning to the realization that software is a core part of their business even if their product is physical.
Right just like there are no capitalist nations in the world. Because no nation is a completely unregulated hellscape governed by pirate kings. Spare me the semantics.
Adding unsafe can even slowdown your code. The unsafe block prevents the compiler from making certain assumptions, which can prevent some optimizations from happening.

'unsafe' is like telling the compiler 'trust me on this', and the compiler (not fully understanding what is going on in there) wisely decides not mess with what you wrote.
It sounds like at least 60 seconds. Even with no timeouts RAID rebuilds go from a day with CMR to over a week with SMR.
Looks like the green-lighting procedure is highly irrational.
On the atomic scale surfaces are not continuous so they don’t really have a surface area. You can’t infinitely zoom in like you can in a real fractal.
Our niche is very small. Most people are frustrated by linux, and switch to Windows or OSX. I CANNOT do that, because Windows frustrates me even more, systematically; at least on linux it's tremendous amount of frustration the first time, then it just works. I suppose what I should have done was to buy an older laptop, instead of a cutting edge one. Oh well. The more you learn...
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Nope. Contort all you like, but here's the quote.

> And then I said, supposing it brought the light inside the body, which you can either do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're gonna test that too, sounds interesting. And I then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute, and is there a way you can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning.

He's clearly talking about two things - one sentence is about light, "And I then I see the disinfectant"... - and you simply can't "inject" light.
Perhaps you can elaborate on what you see as "the consequences" to help me understand your point of view? Personally, I didn't think that he was suggesting to inject Lysol until I read that in the main stream media. And when I looked into it myself, I found Healight, and I think this is something the media could have pointed me instead of their knee-jerk Lysol reaction
Maybe the entire Bay Area but not SF proper or majority of Silicon Valley.

And not SFH. That must include condos.
Along these lines and unsatisfied with current solutions I started this project, "Turtle Config." It is format-agnostic and supports type checking as well:

https://github.com/mixmastamyk/tconf

I'll see if I can add any advice this article gives; feedback would be helpful.
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Oh that would be really compelling. I only tried NixOS briefly a while ago, but I think I recall you can switch (actually I think literally `switch`) environment like that pretty easily and back again?

So your benchmark environment could actually be pretty minimal, or if you were sharing a bug reproduction it could be devoid of unrelated packages/config in your usual environment.
If you want to take the risk of losing a multiple of sectors losses, its incredibly easy to invest in leveraged etfs. They take out loans at 2x their value, and buy 2 more shares of everything inside. So they sit on 3x stock and 2x debt.

http://www.direxion.com/leveraged-inverse-etfs

https://www.proshares.com/3xetfs/

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020816/top-1...

Look at something like TQQQ, which is 50% FAAAMIN stocks 3x. Was a 488% return in the last 5 years till the crash, now its at 330%. Regular QQQ is only up 192%.
I'm curious about the same.

Fedora takes a slightly harder line on its "only free" philosophy than Ubuntu does, so the proprietary WiFi driver for the Broadcom card was a big headache back a few years back when I loaded Fedora onto a Dell XPS 13. It became such an annoyance that I tore out the card itself and replaced it with an Intel WiFi card, which had an in-kernel driver. Fedora worked happily with it after that.
>Some users claim that SMR drives also do not work correctly when rebuilding ZFS arrays,

Is this true? On the assumption of the drive Firmware working correctly as intended, why would this be a problem?

I have not been following the problem closely as I dont quite understand what the fuss is about. I expect HDD to be slow, so not much of a problem to me. I only cares about its reliability. ( Which is something that theoretically SMR should be worst, there are no data to back it up yet )
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I would be the devil's advocate and disagree with you. There are more dangerous self help books like The Secret who took the Bible quote about praying and it will come true out of context, and many other THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK, LAW OF ATTRACTION....
>Stock buy backs weren't a thing until a SEC rule change in the 80's, this is a relatively new phenomenon and not intrinsic to a functioning market.

Buybacks and dividends are essentially equivalent. This comment shows a distinct lack of understanding. Of course home depot could return their profits to employees, but then it wouldn't be a business. Home depot's sole reason for existing is to return money to shareholders. If they don't do that leadership would be fired.
Adding an unsafe block changes nothing about compiler assumptions. Some unsafe constructs do not have the same optimization potential as their safe counterparts.
Ok that sounds a bit pedantic. Reproduction is a technical term, sure. But its also a common term for life copying itself. But ok, sure.
at least they've finally started to put the source links in the articles now. that only took 20 years.
Dunno about Jordan Peterson. Some of his advice may be OK but he's also profoundly weird / not very self-reflective .... only eats meat? Meat cures all?

IMHO the Socratic Dialogues, as basically the foundational text of all Western Philosophy, and being pretty friendly and approachable, are the right place to begin. Helps you figure out how to figure it out for yourself. You can make your own calls from there.
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> a useful model

Please explain the usefulness of a taxonomy that has "game", "activity", "event", and "toy" as discrete entities.
How does Nix handle areas with extensive package ecosystems? Python, Node et al? It seems like every distro/super packager has different compromises for this question.
I don't hate Windows 10 by any means, I just find Linux works better for me.

I use a Thinkpad and all the drivers work fine without tweaking, so that's not an issue for my setup.

Personally, I just really like the little features I get with Linux.

For example, I have a little script that recognizes when I insert a certain encrypted SD card, and automatically copies over some config files from my home directory.

There may be a way to do that on Windows, it's just so much easier on Linux that Windows doesn't seem worth the trouble.
Here's the data for all countries

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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> HN is notoriously bad at anything related to biology, evolution, and genetics. It's a combination of this (https://xkcd.com/1831/) and this (https://xkcd.com/793/) comic. People there are also fond of finding a bunch of psychology papers that confirms existing biases.

Also https://xkcd.com/55/ and https://xkcd.com/128/

This is the inevitable confusion of a society that insists that nothing exists outside what we can scientifically observe, who rejects concepts of soul and love and still tries to explain their effects using only what they admit. It's like saying we bleed when we're cut because the skin must be producing that blood, denying the existence of veins or a heart.
This looks great. I love the font! A 2 minute screencast overview video showing the interface would go a long way to making me want to sign up.
ngl that logo is unexpected (unnecessary?) to say the least...
Sure, but that's really the same thing, if you don't think about it.
Lenovo (IBM) has been an active supporter of Linux since around 2006. The Thinkpad T43p had a lot of Linux enabled for the workstation users. I recall when I was at ATI involved in their effort, we worked closely with the engineering team in Japan to make sure that suspend/resume and hibernation worked well with the graphics portion.

It's good to see that this has continued.

Don't underestimate how much use of Linux on high end PC hardware happens within the Workstation market.
I switched over to Fedora in 2015 from Ubuntu. Very nice experience.

System76 is a well developed hardware supplier with Linux. Dell as well.
it's fully mainstream. my company (mid sized tech company far from any coast) is adopting it for everyone right now.
The unsafe code is in the JVM, and Rust does not have an equivalent.

(Also, Java had an unsafe mode for a long time, and its removal caused quite the upheaval, from what I understand.)
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Oh sure, flaunt it now that traveling is restricted.
I skipped mentioning the workshop mods because of the huge variation in quality. A follow up post could go through a bunch of mods and recommend some good ones, though!
Aristotle's Ethics is indeed a foundational text. To simplify things greatly, there is basically only one alternative to it: Nietzsche. As Alasdair MacIntyre explains (the erstwhile Marxist, now Catholic, who helped revive virtue ethics with his book After Virtue), "the underlying structure of [Nietzsche's] argument is as follows: if there is nothing to morality but expressions of will, my morality can only be what my will creates. There can be no place for such fictions as natural rights, utility, the greatest happiness of the greatest number. I myself must now bring into existence 'new tables of what is good'" (AV 114).

Nietzsche is commonly misread as a nihilist, but nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, Nietzsche recognizes clearly that is precisely the installation of fictional moralities that is the source of nihilism, not the denial of those fictions. (This is also something that Heidegger sees clearly, e.g, in "The Letter on Humanism.")

At the end of the day, then, the question is this: Do you believe in some kind of "objective" morality that governs human life, gives meaning to our existence, and so forth? If so, then Aristotle's Ethics is by far the most cogent articulation of that view. However, if you believe that morality is just conventional, historically contingent, and a product of our "wills," then Nietzsche helps us see that clearest. To admit the latter view is not to succumb to nihilism; it is rather to free us to truly pursue the activities of greatness.

Ultimately, MacIntyre (inter alia) thinks that we have to choose. For an example of someone who, by contrast, tries to reconcile Aristotle and Nieztsche, see Hannah Arendt.
Do you have any links handy discussing the issues? I have not come across anything like that in my reading and would like to read more on the critiques.