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As far as I can tell a lack of public and/or political will to commit mass murder (yes, a fair bit happened in Vietnam particularly, to put it mildly, but nothing like systemic mass murders, incarceration, depopulation, and retaliation your average authoritarian regime is OK engaging in to win a fight) or foreign intervention to neutralize the advantages of armor and air superiority (see: Syria, Iraq) plus foreign materiel support are necessary for scrappy underdogs with rifles to win wars against a modern military. Truly evil regimes only seem to get into trouble if foreigners interfere in a major way, or (obviously) they lose support of the military. Private small arms are barely a factor, regardless.

[EDIT] my point being that resistance against one's own government, which has turned evil & brutal but still has the support of its military, is not exactly a case in which I'd expect private small arms per se to turn the tide of battle, or have much effect at all compared with other factors, really.
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chicken and egg problem. Nim is a viable alternative to Rust, Python programmers feel right at home, compiles to C, and you can use any C library out there.

Nim's performance is also ridiculously fast and low memory.
Imagine for a moment that you built a wind turbine generator with just one blade. Instead of two other blades, you just had a counterweight. Then replace the tower and hub with a tether, and drop the counterweight.

That's effectively what these technologies are doing.

In point of fact, all of the blades on a commercial wind turbine are shaped like wings, such that the reaction force of the air flowing over the wing acts to drive the wing in the direction of motion and adds a drag force away from the tether.

In the classical tower arrangement, you extract energy by opposing the rotation of the blade about the tower. In the energy kite arrangement, you extract energy by running the "propellors" in reverse as generators to oppose the forward thrust.
As if it would somehow be ok, if only it weren’t racist.
The Babylonians though it was 60. (But imagine having to remember additional 50 numeric characters.)
The goal is to not overwhelm the medical system. We are achieving that goal currently by not overwhelming the medical system. The strategy is working right now, no reason to balk from it if it's getting desired results as this pandemic runs its course.

I'm a little confused about your semantics, so I fell down the hole. A strategy is the plan of action itself to achieve a goal, and the tactic is the action or strategy to achieve the goal. Slowing the spread seems to fit both definitions depending on how you word your sentences.
Hi Walter, I am a bit late to the thread but thank you for all your work and for joining this thread.

What is your vision for D/betterC/SafeD?

Is the intention at the moment to stay as a systems programming language only, or is your vision that D or betterC or SafeD gain traction as an embedded target language?

I definitely think the focus on correctness and the ease of unit testing would be great in the embedded development space.
Yet the way we represent numbers is also a human construct. 1 = .999... is hard for people to understand because we think and write in base 10 rather than base 3. There's nothing that is fundamentally hard to reason about here.
>> This refers to a sense of euphoric connection that is sparked by performing rhythmic movements in unison to music or chanting.

I suspect this euphoria happens whenever we believe ourselves to be synchronized with others, even if we are physically doing very different things.

I’ve felt euphoric on a few occasions while performing comedy/skits for an audience before. It’s a weird sensation to feel like I understand what the crowd is thinking and can anticipate reactions to my words.

It felt very similar to dancing, minus the exercise.

Good to know the term “muscular bonding” though. I’ll look that up for more references.
Just because someone is a “doctor” doesn’t mean they are a reputable, trustworthy source of information. For example, there are doctors who promote the idea that hydrogen peroxide can cure cancer, and that tens of thousands of dollars worth of antibiotics can cure “chronic Lyme disease”. It seems absurd with how hard it is to go to medical school and get a license, but people come out the other side with the same intent to defraud, manipulate, and con people out of their money.

But of course people who want to believe what they say will eat it right up and point to their credentials as proof of what they believe.
Hi there thanks for your comment.

Maybe you can create list on your domain of expertise for somebody else and share. So, they don’t have to search for really great resources. Probably you’d know all the great resources on your domain knowledge?

What do you think of that?
German government declined the herd immunity strategy with the argument that for it to succseed in a year's time we have to increase the rate of new infections every day to 70k. No way our health care system can handle this. And there is also no need since we expect to have a vaccine ready in one year.
pretty sure most things you will come across will be academic or governmental in nature.

But can look through https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=astr...

a lot of which is the adsabs harvard project.
> Honestly, Amazon's own product search is pretty terrible too

If they could just include shipping when doing a "sort by price", or a price limit search, that alone would help SO MUCH.

I pick "prime only", "under $10", and I get results where some other non-prime seller is selling it for under $10, with $15 of shipping. Useless.

Actually even ignoring shipping, if the under $10 price is for a non-prime option, why is that being included in a "prime only" search for under $10?
Without looking into the pharmacology of modafinil, this is a baseless comment. Seriously, look at the pharmacology of modafinil[1] and compare it to methylphenidate[2]. Modafinil may have some dopamine reuptake inhibition, but its affect on histamine receptors counters a lot of the hedonistic response that comes with methylphenidate.

Speaking as someone with a modafinil prescription and that has taken Vyvanse, the experience is extremely different. I don't feel an urge to take more modafinil, and I don't feel extreme fatigue when taking a break from it. I'm taking a break from it now in fact.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylphenidate
>because they're a monopoly

They're not a monopoly.
No, not at all the case. All provisional ballots are verified. They are not anonymous, they are always tied to a registered voter or in some cases where they allow same day registration, a verified voter.
Always good to read the Bad UFOs take. https://badufos.blogspot.com/2019/05/its-tic-vs-tac-as-media...
Same in the Netherlands, it was recently announced that Amazon will open a Dutch store (not sure when) but it was quite a shock for me when moving to Germany that people here have no clue how to order things other than by going to Amazon. Too much effort to use google and try different web shops if all the web shops can come to a monopolizing marketplace instead I guess? Too bad that the marketplace also competes with its own sellers and has deeper pockets than any of them because they all pay the Amazon tax on every purchase anyway.

I'm trying to avoid it but between my poor German and few web shops catering to the tiny non-Amazon-going audience, it's hard.
> The fact that there are people asking for money for the dogs before all the people on that little island have full bellies is just sad.

You're operating on the assumption that the people with the means to donate prioritize human life over a dog's life, which isn't always the case.
I've been doing a similar routine. But walking instead of reading. I wake at 6:30, take a short walk around the block, eat breakfast, then start work by 7:30. Take a break around noon for lunch and another 2-3 mile walk, then call it quits at 3:30 to 4:00, and either go out and do some wood working or another walk. Then shower before bed at 9:00-ish.
First of all the media player space is dead. Secondly just because Samsung Andriod phones or Dell XPS laptops are nominally premium doesn't mean they are on par with Apple in terms of how they are perceived by consumers. They are also certainly not status symbols. A Lambo or a Ferrari are pretty much on par in the eyes of the consumer for how premium they are and how much of a status symbol they are. Not so with X premium android vs iPhone or X premium windows laptop vs a Macbook.

I think you're right that platform lock-in is one factor. I think the other factor is that Apple uses their own proprietary operating system. They have control all the way down to the hardware level and that gives them an advantage. When I close a MacBook it goes to sleep. When I close a premium Windows laptop there is a fairly high chance it's going to overheat in my bag. This is of course an issue that can be fixed but its only one of many smaller things that make up the whole product. Because Apple consistently gets enough of them right people look past the smaller flaws and see a polished product in a way that is not often seen in consumer electronics.
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By that logic they should always freeze all accounts, because "they've not scammed up until now, which makes them more likely to scam in the next five minutes then ever before".

It looks more like a simplistic trigger that somebody just threw in there that doesn't take e.g. Amazon's ability to fulfill FBA orders. And it looks like a terrible policy to just say "yeah, fuck the seller, shut them down, we don't do manual reviews of the decisions of some Perl script from a decade ago".
Ah good one. I only wrote in the ones that are very obviously but...

- Kecksburg UFO incident
- Chilean Navy UFO incident

Kecksburg is a stretch for most people, but I lived around there and heard first-hand reports. Not that that really matters.
Because it sounds as if they already focussing on those kind of features.
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I much rather have a license key tied to a preferred account then to a platform like Google/Apple. That's also allows for cross-platform licensing which is rare among apps.
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Oh I missed that detail, what does the vented design achieve on the pixel buds? Can you control how much sound gets in?
Your home built video compression software does _not_ achieve the compression ratios of commercial software. Differences can be between 20-50% pretty easily. It also does _not_ have the reliability.

x264 is good but not the benchmark. x265 is simply mediocre.

That aside, as others have pointed out, there is the whole "in the cloud" thing which has to do with global TCO.

Also the pricing you can get of the AWS site doesn't look a thing like what an actual content distributor with 100 of thousands of hours of content gets.
Low Covid-19 death toll raises hopes Africa may be spared worst
One of the most eye-opening things I've ever seen was the crush of people trying to get on the general admission train car being beaten back with sticks before the train even stopped moving.
>It is indeed true that if there was an entity that could reason beyond infinity 1-0.999... would be greater than 0.

This seems like a common thread in the comments on this article, and I don't quite understand it.

Humans can reason about infinity just fine. We have a hard time picturing it, but it's overall a pretty simple concept: It never ends.

So there's no such thing as being able to reason "beyond infinity", because beyond infinity doesn't exist. Its very existence is precluded by the definition of infinity.
That is a reasonable prediction of the future.

But then, there's a lot of bickering about other things that could perhaps be addressed to some degree by this approach.

One idea I was thinking was to just occasionally run some threads in this mode, and see if it has an effect on culture & thinking styles (predudgement, mind reading, baseless assertions of fact, etc)

Just a thought.
> In October, we introduced the all-new Google Pixel Buds [..] Today, Pixel Buds are available for $179 in Clearly White in the U.S.

So, 'introduced' in this context means "mentioned we would sell at some point" rather than the more conventional meaning of introducing to the market?
It's not that they are fraudulent, but that people are voting as someone who may have the same name as them. The 6k article was probably a decade ago. This is a 2k article more recently. Maybe that's progess?

https://www.phillyvoice.com/6abc-reports-it-found-dead-peopl...
Ok thanks for the explanation! I read through the tutorial and it looks like a fun project to get started in.

One thing also for readers is that https://dwtkns.com/srtm30m requires an account with https://urs.earthdata.nasa.gov to download tiles.
And now what? Will Amazon improve their business process to avoid future situations like this?

(of course not)
That's the point I'm trying to make actually. 1/infinity is an infinite series, which would be a computation that takes infinite time to compute. Saying that 0.9999...=1 is saying that the infinite series is the same as that concrete value, which don't actually know and can't prove.
Hmmm. I thought ffmpeg was already pretty good for declarative command-line video editing.
The article makes some good points. Much is not yet known about the pandemic, and we should listen carefully to alternative views.

The article ends by saying the problem is that the issue has been politicized, which is quite correct. But author should have said this started when Trump and a large portion of the conservative media claimed that the whole thing was a hoax, that the scientists knew the coronavirus is no more dangerous than the seasonal flu, but decided, thousands of them, to lie to the public so as to undermine the US economy and prevent Trump from being re-elected in November.
Could this be related to mandatory BCG vaccination programme? If you compare Covid19 death rates between Portugal and Spain, or Ireland and UK, it is 3 times lower in favor of countries with BCG vaccinations.
They were 1080p/24, last time I checked when I was adding support for them for PhotoStructure.

Picking a different frame doesn't impact visual quality on a mobile screen, but it was quite a noticeable IQ drop on a 4k/5k display.

Things might be different on newer iPhones and the latest iOS.
Agreed. I've never felt the need to use betterC. The biggest use case I think is writing modules/libraries for other languages to use.
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It wasn't so much hard to crank, it just took forever to crank through all the beans for a serving. Maybe I set it too fine. 10 minutes of cranking vs 30 seconds on the electric grinder.
Ah there's nothing better than waking up early in some US hotel and watching stupid tv shows at stupid o'clock. I distinctly recall realizing that I had been watching some insanely offensively stupid advertorial for hunting rifles interrupted by advertisements for erectile dysfunction pills every few minutes for the last 20 minutes or so at some point and reflecting on why the hell I was actually watching that. In my defense, I was pretty jet lagged. Later landed in some morning TV show that was clearly targeting early risers even more tired than me looking to get a head start on rush hour.

In any case, I stopped watching broadcast TV a decade ago; especially news shows. The signal to noise ratio is just unacceptable to my brain these days. I get more information out of a 5 second glance at my news feed in the morning and magnitudes more information by doing that for a bit longer. They really dumb down everything on tv until even the most retarded vegetable still watching can grasp the basics and that apparently takes ages and endless repeating of things in 3 word sentences. People with a functioning brain stopped being part of the target audience ages ago.

In all fairness, people complaining about how retarded the news is is nothing new and was a popular pass time in 16th & 17th century British press as well as in Roman times even. People, like me, complaining about the quality of reporting is as old as the concept of publishing information in pretty much any form. Information is power and manipulating the masses through any of the channels information spreads is part of the game. And knowing that is the game has been the way to move up in society for just as long.
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The shipping is why I don't buy from RockAuto anymore.
They will after the COVID crisis eases.
This never worked for me though.
Exactly, the problem isn’t that they are protecting themselves against fraud, it’s the way they do it. There is so much low hanging fruit they could implement to do better than this, it’s inexcusable.
Elon’s response since the beginning has been way off, “The coronavirus panic is dumb” (March 6). I guess he doesn’t want to learn from his mistakes.

It’s somewhat incredible to see how the “just the flu” crowd doubled down on their views despite the failure of containment in NYC (and high death tolls overseas in the UK and elsewhere) making it clear how many more people would have died if their plan of just letting the virus rip through the entire country had been enacted in March.

Regarding the removal of the video from YouTube, i don’t like this. Even though it’s clearly wrong, and is being used to push for something bad, YouTube exercising this type of censorship over legal content worries me.
So have both.
Is remote verification fully open over http with no user credential verification or rate limiting? If I were to implement remote verification in an app, I would want to have the user logged in to an account prior to adding a license key. You could accomplish this by putting the KMS behind a proxy but this seems like a likely attack surface if using this the way it’s outlined in the docs.
I was working at a startup in 2016 that was using FullStory.

We routinely pointed out how the Netflix documentary in 2025 was going to be a conspiracy style one with eerie music. But in the mean time lets flip shares to VC's and larger corporations as fast as possible and move to the Marina like nothing happened
For me its like getting punched in the gut then I'm off running to the bathroom.
> Decompile to what?

> `wasm-decompile` produces output that tries to look like a "very average programming language" while still staying close to the Wasm it represents.

> #1 goal is readability

> #2 goal is to still represent Wasm as 1:1 as possible

It seems AssemblyScript would do the job

[1] https://assemblyscript.org/
Since I mentioned performance, one other area that makes flexibility nontrivial is how you decide to serialize different types of messages on the wire and on disk. If you don't need extensibility, it's easy to keep things pretty efficient just by using e.g. gRPC and protobuf out of the box. If you want complete flexibility, the simplest thing to do is to give your plugin interfaces blobs to write into and you end up double-serializing everything.
It’s significantly harder to shop there, especially as an American. I found the same products I would get on Amazon to be 2 or 3x the price when I would shop in stores or online there excluding VAT and exchange rates. Maybe it allows more competition? But it surely isn’t an easier, cheaper experience in general. And as far as not being a Swedish speaker(which many people in Sweden are not), online shopping is even harder because the e-commerce options there tend to primarily work in Swedish, and have limited or no English support
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Thanks for your comment. It's pretty normal to face this downvotes when talking about language. And my phrasing was not the most kind of all.

It's just the CS community, at some point when you are writing languages you tend to try to outsmart the language you are fixing by creating overly complex behavior. Over-engineering is every single new languages.

Even Zig fails to do better than C, I think it's syntactically a disaster.

Here is a few lines from the documentation:

const ptr = @intToPtr(?*i32, 0x0);

while (it.next()) |item| { /* ... */ }

pub fn main() anyerror!void { /* ... */ }

exe.addCSourceFile("test.c", [_][]const u8{"-std=c99"});

const file = std.fs.cwd().openFile("does_not_exist/foo.txt", .{}) catch |err| label: { /* ... */ }
That's not much different than not being able to create an account with victim@gmail.com because victim@gmail.com already has an account. Both instance leak information
In theory - yes, in practice, you speak with someone who has no authority and appears to be there solely for the purposes to be not helpful enough for seller to give up. Only once I was able to reach someone who was able to make a decision (which was made quickly, but I doubt I can repeat that when I need it again)

EDIT: also when escalating (because their first layer of reps defense can not resolve the issue) and requesting a call, I got a very specific "we do not have capacity to call you".
> The only press they ever received was from credulous buzztech sites that just wanted something flashy to grab eyeballs, so they weren’t used to anyone actually being engaged enough intellectually to point out the lack of clothes that they were wearing.
I love the way this is written.
They all look fine to me on a 17" screen tbh. I couldn't give 2 shots about professional photography, and neither could 90% of the people viewing your Instagram.

That's pretty much the age we live in, the best Youtube videos, for example, have extremely bad videography and no audio processing from a professional PoV, but they get millions of views because they're funny to most people.

I mean, should I even try to mention the POTUS? (commence the downvotes heh)

I have no idea why people's standards have regressed, but they did.
I've been playing a lot more guitar. Sometimes during zoom calls.
With my config a normal highlight interacts with tmux and if I hold shift it interacts with my terminal emulator. I'm using Termite, but I swear it worked the same in others like terminator and urxvt as well.
I have both a local and remote tmux session and am basically exclusively using shells in tmux, so I've long since gotten used to in.
This must be fairly standard, because a friend of mine uses Hexchat on Windows where a normal highlight can grab a line from IRC, but without the timestamp. Holding shift lets you grab all the actual text, timestamp included.