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> Mischaracterizing M4A as a policy

I did not do that

> Yours are exactly the words I would expect to hear from scaremongers

I quote the author and it's scaremongering? Yeah, count me out of this conversation altogether. You've uncharitably interpreted what I'm saying, and are doubling down on the sort of rhetoric I explicitly stated having no interest in.
Why would instant yeast have an effect on slow rising? You'd just use a smaller amount than AD or cake yeast? I can't think of any significant difference especially compared to AD.
Check out Server Side Includes. They used to be all the rage.
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You don't need to reinvent anything. Just use what used to exist.

(Also, you start doing SSI, and then you want a bit more power, so you switch to PHP, then before you know it, you go all out with PHP and MySQL. Finally, you say, "MySQL sucks, SQLite is much better and easier" (see also the other comment about SQLite).

In the end you realize that nothing matters. We all die alone in the end.
it's the modern equivalent of blink and animated gifs everywhere on the page on personal websites of the 2000. In a few years this emoji abuse will be mocked by everybody.
True, but we can make some educated guesses based on the long term outcomes of SARS and MERS patients.
>>> ... when the change was introduced and made it far easier to do the right thing.

Correction: When the change was introduced and made it far easier for people to do the thing they are trying to do.

Nobody cares about doing the right thing, employees just do whatever they have to do now then move on to the next task/project. More often than not, changes are making it harder for people to do their job and it's no surprise that it's not welcome.
I'm sorry we have switched on resumes from reporting years to reporting years and months. It used to be that even 20 months off could just disappear.

When you're ready, drop this Hacker News name. Switch to something like makingChances.

Sounds like restarting may be helpful -- not expecting to continue from where you were -- getting a contracting agency to pitch you and going from there. Once you're in a job, most people don't care about earlier gaps, except that managers who don't know how to collect people who can do the work get fixated on superstitions.

To restate what you're probably already hearing from your therapist: everyone can become depressed. It's something you learn. Some people are more clever at picking it up than others, but everyone can learn it. Depression is episodic. It goes away and comes back. A common recovery is for the gaps between episodes to get larger and the episodes get smaller. Depression grants three super powers. 1) You can see probabilities and how much control you and others have. People without depression cannot. 2) You are ready to serve, even at the risk of your life. This is something that doesn't apply to most of modern life, but does come up now and then. Think of Oscar Schindler. 3) While in an episode, you can be confident that you will not enjoy things. So if you're trying to resist a bowl of ice cream, you have help: you won't enjoy it.

Your negative thoughts and feelings are a natural part of mammalian neural systems, like kicking when you're tapped under the knee and being able to see dim lights easier if you look a little away. Those thoughts and the feeling of dread are not necessary or helpful (in almost every situation). You do not have to respect them. In fact, when they appear, you can disrespect them. They are just an evolutionary glitch that served primitive communities, but were never in the best interests of the people getting them.
Yeah, I'm not totally opposed to photos, just didn't want to deal with them yet for the MVP.
Germany’s Covid-19 contacts tracing app to link to labs for test result
It happens in Poland too but it's only one ethnic group doing that, and most of them have moved to Western Europe already anyway.
Turing Complete is not a very high bar. Add a second stack to a pushdown automata and its Turing Complete. Add two counters to a NFA and it’s Turing Complete. I am not sure if folks know what this means.
I've got the big ooni oven, and use it pretty much daily for 1-5 pizzas. It takes 20-25 minutes to heat up, then maybe 90 seconds to cook a pizza. The gas burner states it uses about 450g per hour on max, which seems to tally with what I get out of a 13kg propane bottle, which is in the region of 45 -60 days. The propane tank costs €34 to refill here.

edit: I also dreamed for years of building a wood-fired oven, but I'm totally happy with the gas one. The way I can make myself a pizza in 25 minutes start to finish is hard to argue with. People ask me if the lack of smoke in the oven makes for a subpar pizza, but in my opinion it makes no difference. The oven is so hot that any smoke in a wood-fired oven is well above the pizza. It's just the heat you need.
They could absolutely fix the URL thing. At least if they are using a routing library at all they can. Even if they arent they could very well manage routing as well.
I think the issue is the following: In the 90s there was exactly two vendors with reasonable user base and design philosophies (Microsoft and Apple). And even they had a similar behavior.

With the advent of web application we ignored it for a while (it is just a window with some strange stuff in it). However, with the mobile platforms (Android, iOS), bootstrap framework and the rise of strict user interface guideline by mega companies (like Google Material Design), the number of UX styles literally exploded. I try to enumerate them, but the web is full of variants.

As a dream, we should consolidate to device factors: Desktop, Mobile, Watch and Interactive. But Apple, Microsoft and Google are not on the same page here ;) If they would, magic could happen.
The distinction is in quantity and types of assets. In 2D you usually have some bitmap and vector assets, collision data, animations, and scene structures to tie it all together. In 3D you have all of those things plus the texture/model/material distinctions, lights, skybox, and all the other details that come in as you add more rendering capabilities.

However, you can absolutely make 2D games that need lots of kinds of assets. RPGs happen to be one of them, in fact: The incidental details of adding inventory, NPCs, abilities, dialogue, etc. does add up. Every little message and description, every item's properties. You can ship a game by hardcoding much of it, but that's not going to scale with any substantial team. You need real data management, build processes, etc. Where assets interact with each other you get incidental complexity of the Dwarf Fortress bug kind, so where you can, you add static checks. The engine is built in tandem with the asset pipeline, in effect.

So - whether it's 2D or 3D, what actually matters is the assets. That's why even in the early 80's you had vector games with 3D effects in them; they just took approaches that simplified the assets and the resulting scenes.
I agree. I'm not a conspiracy nut but it's getting hard to ignore the feeling ulterior motives are at work here.
Have you tried using it e.g. for baking bread, grilling vegetables or similar? I'm not a fan of having one-purpose devices.
You're right about oven temperature. Household ovens can barely hit 500F, that's not quite enough for proper pizza.

There are some workarounds that will make very good pizza at home.

My favorite is to use an outdoor grill instead of an oven. A hot grill with a pre-heated pizza stone is totally capable of reaching proper temperature. This can actually make neopolitan style pizza crust and works perfectly for other styles too.

If you can't do a grill, starting the pizza in a large preheated cast iron pan on the stove top will help. Finish it off in the oven. Not Neopolitan, but very good.

If you are using the recommended "00-flour" (finely milled high gluten bread flour), and you're not reaching pizza oven temperatures because you're using a household oven, add diastatic malt (powder) to the dough mix. This boosts yeast activity and also helps with coloration of the dough at lower temperatures. Otherwise, the pizza will be "done" before the crust has a chance to color properly.
>> You don't have a resilient financial and mental safety net in the form of good friends/family early in your career that enables you to take risks, or you got dealt a bad hand in the form of things like dependents or health issues and simply can't afford to take risks

+1
Remote work: Engineering’s perspective on humanizing the remote work experience
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We do a lot of this. Honestly, better than what I thought after seeing the title (there are many alike posts). Slick interface. Do not worry about the mobile support - the mobile traffic, not even 3%, does not come for extraction service, they may visit for info, nothing more than that.
Another wave of Americans moving out of big cities
Colour vision being the classic example of something preserved or enhanced in females due to coding on the X chromosome. This helps women, for the most part, completely avoid red-green colourblindness.

Coincidentally when searching to make sure I wasn't saying this the wrong way around, I was presented with this weird sexist propaganda[0] that only works because of the weird way people tend to think about these facts: you only acknowledge it if you can make it sound like women are better at everything and make no tradeoffs.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/19/the-better-hal...
kdb+ is the only tool I've come across that solidly managed to outperform data.table for data processing. I have huge respect for good Q programmers
Every time I'm tempted to use an emoji I ask myself, "what would Herman Melville do?"
I don't. I literally mean values.

I have people with shared interests added as "friends" on facebook, but my actual friends are those with whom I have some common ground - even if it's something as abstract as the shared belief that nothing is ever "100% done" or that politics is just a game of appearances and one shouldn't get too invested emotionally in them.
I wish I had more time to do that. I work at a feature factory.
I've made a PHP flat-file CMS to manage my own website and for a while it was the very first result when searching for "fuck wordpress"
It's not the middle class that needs the $4 hamburger. They're going to get overpriced cocktails and three course meal deals at a sit down experience.

And yes quite a few people want to be artists or musicians and can't. They should be able to try but also at some point we need a mechanism for them to realize they may need to try a different career path if it's not working out and they aren't creating value.

With UBI, you're just making a subset of the population pay for everyone else. Sometimes that tradeoff makes sense - food stamps - but when you end up just increasing inflation and hurting those who it's meant to benefit then it seems like tail chasing.
Not sure what this has got to do with empathy. If rich people don't get favorable mortgage, it is at max an annoyance to them. They are not going to be homeless or going to ask for food stamps. If a normal family with one home and one mortgage is not able to refinance or not able to pay their mortgage for a few months, their bank will go after them and they will end up on the street.

Sure we can talk about it and feel sorry for their inconvenience, but our time is better spent looking into much bigger problems of much bigger percentage of our population.
Fedora 32 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Engaged in Healthy Competition over Performance
Answering Your React App's Questions with Redux Selectors
Dynaconf [1], though I think this article's approach in combination with pydantic is better.

[1] https://dynaconf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
If rationality is about accomplishing your goals, then it takes many forms, including intuition and habits. We are not trying to copy Spock. We are trying to make good sense of the world, and to make good decisions to achieve our goals.

The reason is that we operate under deeply unscientific environments like partial-information, uncertainty and unpredictability.

On the contrary, we developed tool of thoughts for working in environments of vast uncertainty. Consider the battlefield, for example, commanders must make decisions in the fog of war. They are certainly interested in trying to make the winning decisions to achieve their strategic or tactical goals.

Technically you can try to be always rational in your life and play the 'risk minimization' game, but you will probably have a very mediocre life with limited success.

If a mediocre life isn't what you're looking for, then it isn't very rational to make choices that result in a boring life.
I don't think it has anything to do with communism or capitalism...
Campaigns go digital, but ballot petitions can’t
Its fairly likely that your previous employer has a policy that your previous employer will just confirm that you worked there. In that case, it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

There are services which you can pay to call up a previous employer pretending to be a new employer doing a background/reference check on you. They will then report back on what they say.

In the case that they do say something negative, one option would be to hire a lawyer to send them a cease and desist letter. My understanding is it's fairly affordable to do and it's usually enough to get them to stop.
Speaking of Valve's source engine, in the recent chat log leaks, the Valve employee says the Source 2 engine is essentially just the Source 1 engine with new physics tacked on.
Still working on automatically adding "schema" info for the Base, but Airtable still hasn't made that endpoint public for some reason.
A simple flaw in your reasoning - none of the target audience of this comparison is actually a sommelier expert. The whole argument is about an average joe sampling say a wine costing say 15 euros in france and one costing 500. And the same average joe benefiting very little if at all from paying too much. Its like buying La Ferrari which all experts praise, when all you need is to drive 80kmh to next town.

I personally, by no means an expert in any way, can attest the difference is minimal and mostly comes down to one's own preferences / pairing of wine with food in given situation.

Its often one of those markets where you buy your own emotions with higher price rather than actual, measurable subjective added value.

But yes, if you use a wine costing 2-3 euros, quality of taste in many aspects will be incomparable even to that average joe.
I'm surprised they use yeast and not sourdough as that would add more flavor. Sourdough is surprisingly easy to make and maintain btw. During these wfh days especially: Just mix 50grams of flour with 50 grams of water and leave in an open container for a couple of days, when you see bubbles, put half of is (50gr) together with 25gr of flour and 25gr of water, repeat. In a bread of 500 grams of meal and 250 ml of water, add 100 gr of your bubbling sourdough, kneed, let rise for 3 hours, and overnight into the fridge, easy peasy.

Btw, that standard kneeding hook of the Kitchen aid is really a pos: Get a better one asap.
Try asking a meteorologist.
I lived in rural Wisconsin around 2013. A farmer burying a dead cow took out the town's internet with his backhoe. Also atleast 2 times a squirrel got fried on a nearby substation and killed the power all day. Glad to finally live somewhere with a few redundant systems in place
What ORM do you use to interact with your database?
Nah; the increases 2016 to early 2019 were minor, and they never really talked about them (or quoted different battery life figures). The early 2019 to late 2019 change coincided with the laptop getting thicker and heavier.
But government backing is risk mitigation...
Of course, the family people probably were friends with each other.
Surely it is the other way around?

Apple will reject your app from the store if you ask for permissions not necessary for it to function. It also gives the user fine grained control and awareness of what the app has access to, for how long, etc.

Some random JS app that can load in whatever it wants after the fact can make no such claim to as much security or privacy.
Even if I understand this decision, I'm against censoring and this is censoring.
It seems that I wrongly thought that "instant yeast" was what we call "lievito istantaneo", i.e. baking powder, that would give a a pretty different end-product.

It looks like it can also refer to instant active yeast, i.e. dehydrated beer yeast, that should actually be fine as far as I can tell (I have no idea of exact proportions however).
I absolutely love The Phoenix Project, but it is 100% fiction and not based on any real-world evidence. It’s great for laughs but I wouldn’t use it to “teach” anyone.
Fair enough, out of curiosity are there other frameworks you have used or find interesting?
Nationalizing banking doesn't work either. If you lend money without penalty upon default, then you encourage defaults. If you encourage defaults, then people no longer pay attention to the price of things they buy, since they can borrow however much they need without consequence. The result is rapid inflation, which wipes out the wealth of the working classes.

If you keep strict controls on the amount of fiat currency issued, and lend for reasons other than earning a good interest for financing risk, then you end up with a shortage of capital to lend. Then loans are issued for criteria that aren't publicized - in polite terms, politically motivated lending. Society stagnates as the engine of progress itself turns into a zero-sum game.

There is a better way to ensure the delivery of socially-beneficial goods - to deliver them directly, taking care that public options provide only minimally sufficient goods and services, and only in response to the failure of the private market to provide alternatives.
You’ve asked a local question globally. In my home country, meat is much more expensive than cucumbers.

In the US, grain production (and actually farming in general) is highly subsidized, such that you can’t infer much about the cost of growing food from the prices you pay for it.

I don’t know where you are, but the answer is probably local to you.
There's already a signature verification process. What difference does it make if the signature is inked or not?

Even without social distancing, we should all want more access to democracy.
> It exists to disable various conservative compile-time checks

There is a subtle but important distinction here. Unsafe does not disable any compile time checks. It adds additional constructs which are not checked.
Making macOS run well on ARM processors isn’t the hard part
I've thought about what must happen to a master sommelier's "blind taste" skills once they've passed the exam and no longer need to practice that skill on a regular basis. My assumption is that, like with any specialist, that skill gets rusty if not used, and that the more important everyday skills in that job revolve around their knowledge of wine, ability to suggest good pairings, and customer service.
Oh sure, I'm not saying it was a bad choice to put BT and WiFi on the RPi, just that I'm happy that there are hobbyist/prosumer devices in the same range without :)
We know. And Aristotle was certainly a star of his era. But we also know that Aristotle didn't come up with this all from nothing; he was engaging in a number of disputes with other philosophers of the time. You can see this reflected in his work, where he often gives accounts of what his opponents' theories are as well before offering his rebuttal.

In fact, the work of Aristotle is one of the better sources we have for views of philosophers whose writings are largely lost.
I share this pain - it’s a major reason why we switched to Terraform, along with not having to wait 6-12 months for support for new AWS features - but I would recommend using CDK to generate your CF stacks. The cfn-python-lint tool was helpful for catching many things without a 20 minute delay but CDK goes even further on the boilerplate reduction and a real programming language beats YAML in every way.
Exactly. I think there's a difference between "epistemic rationality" (avoiding cognitive biases, attempting to achieve accurate, rigorous beliefs) and "instrumental rationality" (holding beliefs that lead to a result, even if they are not strictly speaking, correct -- this would be heuristics, bias toward action and exploration).

A focus on eliminating cognitive biases seems like it should lead us to the right solutions, but outside of certain academic fields, it often doesn't because the focus is more on not having incorrect thoughts instead of doing something, even if that something is wrong (at first). This means a mastery of all the material on "LessWrong" likely isn't going to make you better at innovating.

I don't think rationality is overvalued so much as "epistemic rationality" is overvalued.
(by june 2021)
A couple rather remarkable engines not listed:
-Whatever isometric games like AOE2DE are using and the custom engine used in Brigador. Brigador, esp, I read that the developers found that none of existing engines could satisfy their vision, so then spent a few years building their own. Finally it turned out good, the game though made by a very small team, looks spectacular, and runs well even on low end hardware.

-Whatever Avalanche Studio's are using for their games like Just Cause, Renegade Ops, and Mad Max. They graphics seems not only look good, but very performant on medium to low end PCs.
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I think you are putting too much stock in the importance of a "Customer". If I'm using a service, i'm a user of that service. As a user, I do have a right to not like the changes to usability of that service.
I prefer Docker Compose to script all my docker tasks. It's easy, requires some understanding first (ie: environment variables) but after that you have reusable recipes.
> Isn't it a common known fact that while average IQ is the same for males and females, male IQ varies more and hence there are more male idiots as well as more male geniuses?

I had heard this as a kid, but I haven’t seen anything to back it up recently that didn’t turn out to be wishful thinking by the author/reposter.

> wouldn't it make perfect sense that the sex that produces more gametes in a day than whole countries of opposite sex in their entire lifetimes would be the sex with more variance in any kind of feature because the potential rewards for taking a genetic risk could also pay a lot more than for the other sex?

I don’t see why the number of gametes is relevant, as the average number of viable offspring is necessarily the same.
That's from a month ago.