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Well, from what I've read, I think he still does it all to #1 educate and #2 entertain. (and #2 is a multiplier for #1)

I recall the story of the Oak Ridge plant, where they think he is a great Genius yet he clearly illustrates he is not.

wait, here it is:

I took mechanical drawing when I was in school, but I am not good at reading blueprints. So they unroll the stack of blueprints and start to explain it to me, thinking I am a genius. Now, one of the things they had to avoid in the plant was accumulation. They had problems like when there's an evaporator working, which is trying to accumulate the stuff, if the valve gets stuck or something like that and too much stuff accumulates, it'll explode. So they explained to me that this plant is designed so that if any one valve gets stuck nothing will happen. It needs at least two valves everywhere.

Then they explain how it works. The carbon tetrachloride comes in here, the uranium nitrate from here comes in here, it goes up and down, it goes up through the floor, comes up through the pipes, coming up from the second floor, bluuuuurp--going through the stack of blueprints, downup- down-up, talking very fast, explaining the very very complicated chemical plant.

I'm completely dazed, Worse, I don't know what the symbols on the blueprint mean! There is some kind of a thing that at first I think is a window. It's a square with a little cross in the middle, all over the damn place. I think it's a window, but no, it can't be a window, because it isn't always at the edge. I want to ask them what it is.

You must have been in a situation like this when you didn't ask them right away. Right away it would have been OK. But now they've been talking a little bit too long. You hesitated too long. If you ask them now they'll say "What are you wasting my time all this time for?"

What am I going to do? I get an idea. Maybe it's a valve.

I take my finger and I put it down on one of the mysterious little crosses in the middle of one of the blueprints on page three, and I say "What happens if this valve gets stuck?" --figuring they're going to say "That's not a valve, sir, that's a window."

So one looks at the other and says, "Well, if that valve gets stuck--" and he goes up and down on the blueprint, up and down, the other guy goes up and down, back and forth, back and forth, and they both look at each other. They turn around to me and they open their mouths like astonished fish and say "You're absolutely right, sir."

So they rolled up the blueprints and away they went and we walked out. And Mr. Zumwalt, who had been following me all the way through, said, "You're a genius. I got the idea you were a genius when you went through the plant once and you could tell them about evaporator C-21 in building 90-207 the next morning," he says, "but what you have just done is so fantastic I want to know how, how do you do that?"

I told him you try to find out whether it's a valve or not.

So... self-aggrandizement? self-deprecating? educational? or just entertainment?
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You still can create a chroot using bash script, it's nothing new and you can do it in any system including NixOS.

I find something like this[1] far more useful, because it actually has some applications.

[1] https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings
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Really good point. I think this is why it’s easier to develop useful software if you are someone who ends up being a user of the software since you have the same problems. You automatically have all the needed empathy.
This sounds like pedantry of the type where some people complain that in some war movie there were 43 Tiger tanks instead of 41.

Adapting history always requires results in modifications and the target is authenticity instead of complete pedantic accuracy.

As someone from Eastern block I feel like Chernobyl captures live in those times with authenticity - it somehow manages to capture attitude of population and their leaders to the point that's eerie for anyone who lived though it.

Perhaps step back and try seeing what the story is trying to show/warn about instead of being lost in checklist pedantry.
Honestly, I find it infinitely easier to just do everything in in docker containers. Then the OS doesn't matter except for installing docker, and running docker-compose up.
I hope to god WFH doesn't become the new hotness. A big part of going into an office is the mental context switch for me. I have work time & place, and I have not work time.

WFH has made it really hard to keep the boundaries separate. I've had coworkers message me at 6/7pm at night expecting me to be there because they know I'm in front of my computer.
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Protein folding is amazing! Seems like it happens in realtime as it's synthesized by the ribosome.. I'll dig around and see if I can find a better resource for you.
There's been a bunch of interesting work done on this over the years. Here's a literature survey on the topic: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/367701.367728
Most unified shader GPUs have the same semantics, they just run the priority thread scheduler in hardware. PowerVR was being cute and saving gates and their power cost by making the shader cores themselves handle all that rather than a dedicated hardware block.
If you work for a big engineering organization you will find yourself questioning things that are being built a lot. Open Source alternatives often have higher quality and better support, yet engineering organizations opt to build their own. You might wonder why? It's because growth is the name of the game. Any engineering leader wants bigger and bigger organization under her/him so what they do is they green light projects that mostly don't make sense but they can pretty much lie about how essential it is to build in house to the board/CEO.

When winter comes, those projects don't make sense anymore because cost cutting measures are in mandate. The same leader might even make the case for the Open Source alternative.

I've seen this enough times to know it is a pattern in our industry.
I, too, have no desire to put so much work into having a working system (but I guess, there’s no way around nix for me, if I want to use haskell and ghcjs). Unfortunately from my own recent personal experience it does indeed have a steep learning curve .

I really like the general idea of nix, I think it’s going in the right direction and I am very grateful for all the people doing amazing work there and I wanted to give it a try for a long time, now.

But my recent experience with nix on MacOs has mostly just been incredibly frustrating. I started using nix one or two weeks ago, because I needed it for a project with haskell-miso (which I very much like, by the way).

As long as I just stuck to using the default.nix provided by Miso, everything worked fine, more or less, but as soon as I tried to go beyond that to customize things for the needs of my own project, the problems started to accumulate.

I needed to google for and apply manual fixes for some very basic things, because nix did not play well with neither macOS Catalina (nix needs access to /nix) nor with fish.

Some haskell packages I need like constructible were broken in the default channel and I had no idea how to fix those packages. In the end I ended up switching to a “stable” version. I do not understand why nixpgs-unstable is the default channel, by the way.

Sometimes things seem easy in some guides and I thought I understood them, but then when I tried them they just won’t work. For example I was hoping that

nix-shell -p 'haskell.packages.ghcjs.ghcWithPackages (pkgs: with pkgs; [ miso ])’

would give me a shell with the ghcjs compiler and the package miso, but that resulted in an error (after waiting for the result for quite some time and a lot of text scrolling by).

I tried following guides and didn’t try to do anything especially crazy, but somehow I ended up fucking up my haskell build environment so much, that I couldn’t do anything Haskell-related anymore. Still don’t how I managed to do that.

I tried rolling things back through

nix-env -G 1

but that didn’t work. Somehow the only think that helped me was deleting everything nix-related and trying again. I then switched away from the unstable channel in the very beginning and now things seem to somewhat work, more or less.

When I was 15 years younger I really enjoyed playing around with the configuration of my computer, trying different window managers and editors etc., but nowadays I have work I care about and limited time and I want my computer to just work and not get in the way. Nix really, really got in the way. It’s been incredibly frustrating the last few days, when I wanted to work on my project, but spent several days fighting with nix instead.

Sorry for the rant, again, I very much like the project and I really hope it succeeds, I just wanted to share my own experience with it, as a beginner.
My understanding is that the tax code complexity is (mostly) not from top-down “let’s reward this”-style rules (ie what “customers” request), but of the difficulty of defining “income” in a hyper-technically-precise way against people heavily motivated to minimize it by that definition.

That is, “oh no, my tips are a gift, not income”. “Hey I didn’t get paid for that job, I was just allowed to use the company car.”

That creates an arms race of ways to game it and more rules to say “no you can’t do that either”.

But, more to the point, I’m not sure if such customer requests generate the complexity even in the general case. JIRA, for example, has a ton of bloat, very little of which is related to delivering good UX or features.
Apologies, my thought was it would not have to have been Draconian. We could have basically done a tight job on funneling access to them. Would have been expensive, but so is everything we have been doing.

Which is a large part of my point/question. Would it have been more effective than what we have been doing?

This is frustrating with a lot of news coming out that it had been spreading longer and faster than thought. Conceivable that much of the peak in deaths is the highest risk crowd having hit a saturation.
Try poker vr. Perhaps too many kids at this point, but it'll return to normal soon enough.
Already built in. Enable multiple inboxes in Gmail and use labels for all these.
That sounds incredibly customer hostile. "Let's send you to the wrong location and waste your time, oh and while you're there, do our job for us!"
Isn't protein folding considered one of the biggest problems ever?
I haven’t been socializing with friends, but playing poker stars VR has given me back the feeling of “getting out of the house” that I have been sorely missing. There can be good conversation and serendipity that I have been lacking in my life, somehow this game manages to scratch that itch.
As as art project, someone made a camera that, when you snap the shutter, prints out a text description instead of an image. Under the hood, the camera actually submitted the image to Mechanical Turk.
Or hands over to someone else. Not such a crazy idea.
No, it definitely wasn't a stolen credential. It's just ~$15/month for 4-5 years, which I didn't notice due to changing banks and an international move.

Once my account was dry I found out via the bank (+associated bank charges on top, of course)
_Supposedly_ American hospitals are financially incentivized to count deaths as coronavirus if possible.
Vietnam's contact tracing app broadcasting a fixed ID
Is it irrational to be angry that Google got their own .google TLD and then decides to put "www" in front of its second level domain?
This sounds vaguely similar to how electret microphones work, where the sound waves compress a dielectric and change the capacitance. If you apply a bias beforehand to put some amount of charge q across the capacitor, q=cv so the voltage v measured accross it changes inversely with capacitance. This is probably best for capturing dynamics.

An alternative method is to make the device part of an oscillator where its capacitance modulates the frequency. This would be better for precision measurements on a slower timescale. I wonder how the repeatability would compare with a hall probe.
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>just tell the customer a random (at first) location for pasta. when you sense they've gotten there, prompt them whether it was there or not.

Pissing off an enormous number of customers in the process. You will run out of customers at the store willing to use such a useless app before the thing learns where the pasta is.

Your stock person idea makes sense if they keep the shelves stable, but "gut feeling" organizations tells me that things can shift around over time.
Okay. Let's say I set up another web site and insist upon these documents. Now I can impersonate you.

How long until we see people signing up for Google ads using someone else's passport, W9 and what not?

This won't last very long.
>1. It's old. April 6th.

I'm a big believer of the (Year) requirement for articles published prior to the current year. For stories on this topic, we might consider doing something similar with the date itself. Odd as that seems, 3 weeks really might as well be a year given how fast things develop.
One of the things I liked about the Bloom effect used in DXHR is that, in addition to the gold filter look, it gave the game a very "dream" like appearance, similar to how Prince of Persia Sands of Time did it.

It used to be a very abused effect back in the mid-2000s when it first started to become popular with games like Tron, and to some degree DXHR abused it as well to achieve that aesthetic. However, I want to say that it did it tastefully nonetheless.
I have played Dishonored quite a bit too! Just never to completion :) I think Dishonored has some of the best gameplay mechanics ever and it is also really immersive. Prey I've never played, but I'll check it out. Ty!
That sounds like a super fundable MVP.
CMU has a tremendous reputation in fields other than CS--engineering, fine art, psychology. However, it may be that those fields themselves are less prestigious than law, finance, and politics.

As a CMU undergrad in the 90s, most of us in technical majors talked and thought about the school as a deliberate act of self-flagellation. I don't imagine Harvard students fell into similar ways of thinking.
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I use my tower for programming too, Doom Eternal is the fastest way I have to getting full load on the system though.
Ha. The two comments that critique Amazon got down voted with negative points. Does Amazon have cronies patrolling Hacker News to squash dissidents?
TOPS is a subsidy to the middle class at the expense of those who really need it. Let me assure you as a graduate student at a Louisiana institution (not LSU) I am not impressed by their pouring fuel on the fire of rising college tuition with oil money
Yes. But it is the government that creates the law.

Parent also forgot to mention mandatory data retention laws. All isps must retain history of internet traffic for ¿2 years.

That telephone numbers are used in this app should also be regarded as a breach of the referendum we had about the Australia Card back in the 80's. (It is illegal to tie citizens to a number for the sake of tracking, which is exactly what this does...). Which is why scomo (Scott Morrison, the PM) is asking for this app to be voluntary.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-nether... 3% across Netherlands

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-24/corona... "in the most severely affected regions only about 10% to 15% of the population had been infected"

So, um, no, we are nowhere near the 50 percent, at least according to any data we might have. And, depending which expert do you heed and what is the definition of "herd immunity" they're after, we need 70%, 90% or 95% before this is over.
Almost none of my friends have VR. It's still very expensive.

Instead we've turned to zoom/hangouts/discord and steam/gog/dolphin emu, etc.
First, you missed the main point of the comment, contrasting the way society reacts to different risks. Second, the consequences of concussions and CTE are well-known, that's why they make for a good example. Despite being aware that playing football increases one's risk, including the settlement you link to, there have not been any serious efforts to shut down the NFL -- or to ban college, high school or junior football (more dangerous due to the younger age of participants and exponentially higher number of players). The draft was televised for 3 days on 3 channels last week, the largest sports event in weeks, yet we heard no demands to shut down the NFL from Fauci, Birx, Cuomo, any mainstream media, politicians, WHO, doctors, etc.
> Then why write a book?

Because it's (mostly) a fun hobby. Writing the novel or poem can be great fun and great annoyance both at the same time. Self-publishing the book is a whole different sort of adventure, but the pleasure of getting a printed copy of my words in book format ... it's a special, very happy feeling.

And afterwards? I don't get many reviews of my work, but it's always fun to read them - even the more negative ones: it demonstrates that my words have reached out to a complete stranger and, somehow, affected them in ways that compelled them to write and post a review.

> Why not write and format as blog posts instead? Or for poetry, a single entry for each poem?

Both are good alternatives. And, yes, I've done (and do) both in a variety of online venues. Collaborative writing can also be fun.

> Why use PDFs instead of a format that allows people to bookmark individual pages, and for search engines to index individual chapters?

The online venue I use for self-publishing[1] converts manuscripts to .epub, .mobi and .pdf versions - all of which can be downloaded from my website. Other self-pub venues offer similar services.

[1] Smashwords - https://www.smashwords.com/
A friend used to deliver for usps, it’s way less pressured than UPS/FedEx.
My understanding is they were given a block of paid time to deliver mail for a physical area, but no real expectation on total time taken. So you could get your route done in whatever duration you please and benefit accordingly.
An interesting comparison can be made from my front window: USPS truck parks in front of my house, postman talks on phone for 10-15 mins, finally gets out, walks the residential neighborhood delivering mail all the while talking on phone, eventually returns to truck dicks around and leaves to next waypoint. UPS guy drives up, almost screeching to a halt, hops out, typically jogs up front walk with package, jogs back and takes off. Those guys are under a lot of pressure to deliver.
I know the USPS guy who delivers to work office downtown, he’s super chill and pretty chatty (zero hurry).
IOW, I think being a USPS delivery guy is still a rewarding, community focused job if you have the personality to handle the routine and like to get your steps in. Nobody’s looking over your shoulder, it’s Union, and with seniority you can choose your routes.
The tax code is complex to a large degree due to the political process.

See Mayhew's Congress: The Electoral Connection, or literature on path dependency.

https://www.amazon.com/Congress-Electoral-Connection-David-M...
Please make your good points without name-calling ("insane") and swipes ("reading comprehension"), regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are. That way the good point won't be outweighed by further damaging the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hey ngranja19, I love the tool and see great value in it.

I would love to feature an article on my website for it, dedicated to jobs, careers, and the workplace. If you're interested, send me an email, and we can talk more.

https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com/contact/
Orthogonal problems. Fixing your policy on when your coworkers message you (and when you can respond) can be done independent of your company's WFH policy.

As for creating a physical distinction between work and home: making WFH optional will solve that too. Go to the office on days you want to, WFH on days you need to stay home.
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This isn't about models, this is about actual reported deaths.

Systemic undercounts can happen easily in a situation like this; for example if you are only reporting as Covid-19 deaths people who a) died in a hospital and b) had a positive test. This will undercount if you are not testing broadly enough (or the test isn't accurate) or people are dying outside the hospital in unusually high rates due to the virus. NYC is a good example of where it's pretty clear this was happening (and they have adjusted their counts upward).

Fatalities is one area with overcounts are quite unlikely, but could be happening in some places I suppose, and will have to be accounted for if it can be demonstrated.
And it’s very likely that the infected count is an order or two magnitudes higher.
Have you thought about jobs that involve some sort of manual labor / physical activity? Maybe you have "physical" intelligence (it's a thing) or perhaps something more aligned with creative arts? Try doing a bunch of different things. If you're not strapped for money, see if you can shadow a bunch of different careers and see which one sparks interest in you. I agree that it has to do with interest, not aptitude.
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It is trying to make the linux kernel more real time capable. Having periods of time where preemption isn't enabled (due to having interrupts disabled, etc) results in more variation in when tasks are scheduled, including real time tasks.

The reality is that "real time" as a definition covers many "features" and design choices because many ducks need to be in a row for real time tasks to run properly. Decreasing variation in the scheduling of (real time) tasks is one of those items.

As a result, it's entirely reasonable to call "linux-rt" "linux-rt".
True people want a solution which "just magically works out of the box".

A solution which can do all the needed thinks but is to complex => worthless.

A solution which is so simple that it can't do what the user wants to do as this would be to complex => worthless.

Finding the right way to do thinks so that it simple _and_ can do what users want it to do => really hard.

Example why it's hard?

The writer of that side "failed" because he use a font which is not simple to read for people with eye problems. (Assuming his goal is that people read his side. In which case it should be simple to read. Which it mostly is. Actually it's better readable then many other sides. Except the font.)
Fortnite runs on every laptop and most phones.
I'm probably naive but I don't think you need that much money to sue AWS. They may afford an army of lawyers, but that's their problem. You can't buy a judge as far as I know.
Good point, would be quite a nuisance.
Has there been any actual evidence of this? What is the mechanism by which they get paid this way?
You don't know whether private key is generated in a way that could be replicated on the server and you don't know what is running on the other side.
Definitely check out Dishonored 2, as well, I think it's even better than the first one! There are many more options for non lethal playthroughs and there are two optional characters. I've played it from start to finish about 8 times, and never get tired of it.

Prey is fantastic too, and is from the same developer (Arkane Studios). It has quite a bit in common with System Shock, which was one of the earliest immersive sims.
https://www.ft.com/content/2178afb2-7b64-11e6-ae24-f193b1051...

Looks to me like Corbyn never showed any party loyalty. He sewed the wind.