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> Sure, but funny isn't insightful.

Is that an established and commonly understood fact?

To me anything that provides some understanding to a complicated matter or situation can be insightful - even funny things.

What isn't insightful to you might be insightful to others. Don't forget not everyone is at the same level of understanding.

> Closed Cooling Chain vs Uninterrupted Cooling Chain

When he says 'Closed' - it implies that it's uninterrupted. Have you ever heard of the term 'Closed Circuit'? Same thing.

I prefer his translation. It's simpler and sounds better (to me).

> Apparently he tried to translate German "Geist", which could be "spirit", "ghost", or "mind"

Interesting. Did he use 'Geist' originally in his German presentation?

If he meant mind - why didn't he use the German word 'Verstand' - which seems to be a more accurate translation for mind. But you tell me, as this is your native tongue.

Maybe he wants to add some colour to his talks?

If so, then I think spirit is totally fine to me. It doesn't make it sound anymore profound. I would say it makes it more interesting. And maybe the other reason why he used the word spirit and not mind, might be to cater to a certain audience, e.g. the viewers for the chaos computer club videos might appreciate sci-fi like Ghost in the Shell. You wouldn't say Mind in the Shell. Sounds dry and boring (to me). But spirit has a more positive connotation vs Ghost - another reason why he might have chosen that word in the quote you mentioned.

Joscha seems to have a knack for this - explaining things in a simple, interesting and entertaining way. Just look at all the comments on the various videos he appears in.

You might already have a deep understanding of the topics he talks about, but not everyone has.
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Well, I haven't read The Hunger Games, but my readings of criticism of it leads me to think it probably has some sort of real artful quality and literary value - what is your argument that it doesn't?
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Everything is relative, worrying about your next rent payment in bronx gives you tremendous security, opportunity and wealth compared to most people in the world.
I think The Emperor Wears No Clothes.

This has no meaning.

But it's vague and meaningless enough you can pull it out when you want to prove something involving statistics or models not working, which they mostly don't.
It's a joky insult. Hacker News and Windows 95 have in common that they look objectively old. But what they also have in common is that they are function over form in an atypically pure sense, especially compared to some modern UI design.

Although I prefer a more balanced approach on the spectrum of pure function and pure form, pure function beats pure form any day
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>Historical discrimination has left black families much poorer than they would otherwise be.

What about immigrants that arrived to the US with a suitcase and $100 in pocket?
It's a bit exaggerated because Paris proper is only a small part of the urban region. It's more appropriate to compare Paris to Manhattan. Both house around 2 million people at 20k people/km², and both are in sprawling metropolitan areas of 10-20 million depending where you stop counting.
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I'm going to ignore all the blatantly groundless anti China bias here and factually point out that control over Hong Kong was in fact taken over by the British after China lost the opium war, which was a war that was started because China didn't want to buy all the opium drugs that the British were selling to us, and that this loss is and has always been one of our greatest humiliations through history
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That's true, but likely not as close to the customer as CF Workers on edge. And certainly not as easy, as CF does all that automatically.
I don't think all of those books were necessarily written for the teen / young adult market although I guess they were marketed at it at one time or another.
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> Do we really want to be faced with a multiplicity of distinct ISAs?

There exist excellent and free / open-source tools for dealing with this kind of inconvenience.

Even then, is it worth it? IMO, yes, because screw having to pay and get blessings for the legal right to merely execute an instruction stream on a processor of your own design.

However, the possible fragmentation issues are a concern, but mainly within the RISC-V ISA itself with all the extensions that will probably start popping up.
Don't take my word for it - read it yourself. It's trashy YA kitsch. Contrast with catcher in the rye or LotR afterwards
If it were such a terrible deal authors wouldn't take it, especially successful authors. They overwhelmingly do because it's absolutely more successful the vast, vast majority of the time in getting paid than any of the alternatives are.
There are quite a handful of countries standing up against the CCP right now. Those with official diplomatic relationship with Taiwan, for example. I get your point though; many European leaders should feel bad (but they don’t, which is the problem).
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> What if the image was too big and I have to scroll down to see the attribution? What's the difference between having to click on a thumbnail to see an attribution, and having to scroll down?

Scrolling is a way to navigate a single, continuous document. The publisher has published a document in which the image is displayed properly, with attribution, i.e. the publisher has done everything right. The user's device has decided to change how that document is displayed but it's still clear and obvious that the attribution is part of the document.

A cropped thumbnail is something entirely different. This is a copy of the image, something new that the publisher created and inserted into a document, without attribution. It has a link to a document that does have attribution but the document, in isolation, lacks attribution.

The issue here is that a new copy of the image was created and displayed, specifically, a copy without attribution information. This is also illegal in the US under DMCA [0], though DMCA requires that it's intentional.

> What if the attribution is too small to see at normal zoom levels, and you have to zoom in?

Same deal.

[0]: https://www.photoattorney.com/2007/07/watermarks-can-be-musi...
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I'm not sure what kind of championship that was but for an experienced fighter having a 30 pound "handicap" versus an inexperienced one should amount to no real life disadvantage. Don't underestimate what a 165 lbs person's tibia can do to a 195 lbs person's head on even thigh. There's no "hack" to not getting your lights knocked out with one punch/kick from a good fighter 30 lbs lighter than you. And tricking the weigh in is something that has been done since the second ever weigh-in.

The fact that he was able to hold off experienced fighters, even if they were below his weight class, means he was plenty qualified to be there despite his very modest self assessment.

[Edited from here] He seems to be an actual fighter under Dave Camarillo but the framing of this story, that he's just an average "stuff my face with peanut butter sandwiches, tricked the weigh-in" kind of guy, is just in order to sell his "life hacks" books.

All I can find is that 1999 was the second year for the championship which could mean not very strong competition. But there's no mention of him in any Wushu/Sanda/Sanshou championship. He also used to claim that he is a "Cage fighter in Japan, vanquisher of four world champions (MMA)" (since removed from his page). Being a 4 time world champion would have contradicted his "just a regular guy using life hacks" premise. Without an actual record of him winning that "Chinese Kickboxing National Championships 1999" I guess he's just peddling the same "tricks" from his book. One of them might be "just say you did it".
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Well, if you want to go there..

Then, who stood up against all the western tyrants that killed all the Native American Indians in the United States and Canada?

Who stood up for the Aborigines of Australia, as the western tyrants killed them all, and stole their lands, and stole their future from them?

Who stood up for the Congolese Africans, as the Belgium King genocided them all?

Unless of course, your only explanation, was that this happened over 100 years ago, and the western people of today, are not like the western people of the past.

The funny thing is that, the western people of today, enjoy their wealth and privileges, because of all the genocide and plundering that their forefathers did in the past. So you can’t explain the present, without explaining how you got here from the past.
I you don't want to/can't go cold turkey (like me) : You can achieve about 80-90% of what the author says by removing social media app and disabling WhatsApp notifications. Depending on the OS, you might be able to have "scheduled" notifications, too. I've been trying the former and I see quite a big difference in how I use my mobile :). End of the day, I realised that it is a tool which you can either control or get controlled by without meaning to.
These kind of tools have multiple fracture all running in the same direction. This means they are not a by product of accidentally tumbling against other rocks. Something has banged that rock over and over in the same position.
Anyone is free to not buy anything people sell. But you can’t just dump the goods into the sea and besiege the store when you refuse, FYI.
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Yeah, the only thing it proves is that when a scientist says "assume X" to another scientist the common understanding is that it means "in a situation where it is given that X is true, no matter how ridiculous that might be in real life."

As for more reasons why this is bullshit, see the gambler's fallacy and the Monty Hall problem – intuition is often terrible at arriving at the right prediction.
One of the interesting things I learned in my cursory and brief research of this. Proponents of the theory of migration 10,000 to 12,000 point out that at the glacial maximum, the strait is theorized to have been a grassland. Part of their theory is that people could not have crossed beforehand because of the absence of animals to hunt and eat along the way.

I'm not sure how much I believe that the presence of grasslands would be an absolute requirement. In an island hopping theory, killing and eating seals and other beach dwelling large mammals seems equally plausible.
I think they look for "Conchoidal fractures", and then where they find the thing.

https://www.sandatlas.org/conchoidal-fracture/
No, the plaintiffs have to show that the IA acted in bad faith. They may be able to show that IA’s actions do not constitute fair use, but to obtain a statutory damage award they need to go much further since the law presumes librarians, teachers, and so on are acting in good faith when they carry out their duties.
> I don't know anyone in this country, urban or rural dwelling, who can't walk to a shop or a pub

The average walking distance to a pub has gone up a lot in recent years due to closure, and walking on rural roads at night where there is no footpath is horrendously dangerous even if you carry lights. It's a nice idyll but it's no longer really true.

What you say about Simcity is absolutely true though. It doesn't correspond to traditional UK or most European cities at all. Medieval mixed walkable core, maybe not driveable at all; industrialish area down by the wharves now repurposed as offices and residential; Simcity-ish bit on the outskirts where somebody decided to build a grand scheme, like La Défense.

Zoning is starting to leak into urban planning a bit more, when huge housing estates are built with no shops, pubs, or facilities. As far as I can tell demand for housing outstrips everything else.
But the assumption is the point. When you have enough data to suggest your model is wrong, you should throw away the model and the assumptions it's based on, not the data.

The fact that your model can be justified as technically correct is irrelevant. When the data doesn't fit the model any more, the supposed absolute correctness of the textbook model blocks your ability to understand what's happening.

This isn't even about games, but about whether it's possible to be open-minded enough to consider that simple textbook "solutions" are not guaranteed to be a good fit for real problems - especially if you don't understand their limitations or the assumptions they're based on.

And it doesn't just apply to statistics.
> ( ) planetary-scale engineering is impractical

I find your lack of vision disturbing.

Given that we likely need planetary-scale engineering anyway in the next 50-100 years, getting a few asteroids to nudge the earth’s orbit a bit over a long period of time isn’t that much of a stretch.

With asteroid mining it might even pay for itself.

Note: I didn’t do any calculations but over millions of years we’ll need to stabilize earth’s orbit anyway, otherwise our calendars will get out of sync even more.

Of course we’ll have to deal with the inaccuracies of the Gregorian calendar rather soon, in 7000 to 8000 years.
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Which databases? It's definitely not standard in PostgreSQL or MySQL/MariaDB
Not sure why you're downvoted, HPC systems don't last more than ~6 years before they are decommissioned because they've become too power-hungry to justify their continued use. I just checked some of the systems I'm familiar with and they were all decommissioned after around 6 years of use (e.g. SuperMUC, 2012-2018; two smaller cluster at the university where I work: 08/2012-04/2017, 01/2014-03/2020).

I also attended a presentation at IPDPS 2018 by someone from one of the big US national labs where they talked about how absolutely huge of an undertaking it was to port their codes to make efficient use of GPUs. You don't just re-do all of that if the payoff isn't enormous.
- i type 1 character into a cell and click somewhere else, that cell will be empty.

2 or more characters, the value is set like expected

- select all (ctrl A) and change font, it freeze for a few seconds
Another possibility is search is hard. If all they returned is things with "Pixel 3" well, that includes "Pixel 3 XL". Ok so they look for exact string "Pixel 3". Now nothing matches like "Red Pixel 3 Case"

note, I have never implemented search but suspect it's hard problem.

Still Amazon's search is pretty awful. I've found adding something in the category I want to my cart gets me better results than being on the item itself. In other words I might search for "wrench" and it shows me 50 items of which 2 are remotely close the the type of wrench I'm looking for. I click one, get new page for that product and below it shows other wrenches but they aren't remotely like the one the page is for. So I add it to my cart and suddenly it suggests a bunch of stuff that is actually close to what I wanted.

I also don't understand the pitching me things I already bought. I get pitching me disposables I already bought. I don't get pitching me a monitor or soldering iron or another mouse or keyboard. I'd think either via statistical analysis or via manual tagging they could figure out what items are more likely to be purchased again and not recommend another PS4 just after I bought a PS4? But who knows. It could be this is harder than it sounds or it could also be they suck at search or haven't gotten around to it yet or ...
Or leave it in the ground and find alternatives.

An awkward option, but it is an option.
> Can anyone explain how the term "Karen" isn't both racist and sexist at the same time?

Sure. It's in the same way that "rapper" isn't both racist and sexist at the same time, even though when someone says "rapper" the image that comes into your mind is of a black man. Except that the connotation of "Karen" is strictly negative, so the people so described want to (archetypically in this case) take offense to it.

But, like rappers, Karens don't actually have to be of a particular race or gender, even if the stereotypical combination is the most common. It's racist and sexist to assume that all Karens are white women. Some rappers are Karens.

So "the disappearance of tiny businesses in residential neighborhoods" isn't attributable to "all those middle class white women" so much as all those busybodies on the zoning board who want to tell everybody where not to set up shop, i.e. Karens (of whatever race and gender).
I thought the same. Especially the fact that their webservices as well as their callcenter and other support systems are down screams ransomware attack.
Problem is, it is a general feed with all their content. I don't want that. Article in question doesn't even appear in the initial feed preview.

They have a nice logical structure on their website: I expect all posts on the subject to appear in their /roundtable/ section. So this URL not having an RSS is just sad. It's so simple to do!
Sorry, "majority you see in the US" is wrong. I'm thinking more along the lines of "majority that migrated over the last 50 years".
Apparantly Chinese TV has live video streams of the embassy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9E09BekUH4

Presumably as a payback for the fire brigade showing up at the Houston embassy.

To be honest. This is terrible. The US China-relations risk spiral out of control and idiotic unrestricted nationalism will rule the day.
If we go that route, all three of them could (for example via fan sensors). Whether it's worth it is a different question :)
> 1. (c)

Yup, that's the most sensible option but the fitment really depends on the context.

> 2.

IMHO, more thought is definitely needed, in case you want to avoid expert beginners subscribing and cancelling it after a couple of months/quarters

> What's your background building these types of tools, if you don't mind me asking? Definitely down to discuss more!

Have been designing and building dev/rel/ops/maint/mon/ALM tools for the last 13 years, in large firms, SMEs and startups
As in, he got another kickboxer to pretend to be him and fight in his place?
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While HK is understandable, I wonder which war did China lose to India and cede Eastern Ladakh or Arunachal which China belligerently maintains are its territory?

Unfortunately China's overall expansionism is not reflecting well even on its legitimate claims in certain areas...
> [ ] You have reinvented PHP but worse

> [ ] You have reinvented PHP better, but that's still no justification
I suppose the US's war on drugs should similarly be condemned then. All those poor drug lords in Mexico and them dealers are just trying to make a living
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Same with Nodejs, and same with Ruby when the Rails craze. That's us devs.
I’m just imagining you subjecting my high school math coach to a Maoist-like struggle session now.
Also the republic of north Macedonia is still in there by old name ;)
The topic was about Japanese defamation laws. Outside Japan, privacy laws would cover these cases.

Also note that facts that “harm someone's reputation” isn’t indicative of illegal or even immoral conduct. For example, having caught the COVID19 disease might harm one’s reputation, but it doesn’t make one a bad person however true it is.
Any China bias? Where did I say anything against China the country? Please don't lie so obviously.
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It doesn't matter what other values are "considered". What matters is what value you get from a boolean operation, like op<.

The merit in `true` being 0xff...f is that, ANDed with X, it yields X. We see this logic applied with resounding success in GPUs and AVX instructions, where a multiword comparison sets corresponding lanes of a destination register to all zeroes or all ones. It is nothing short of bizarre that RISC-V architects (apparently) never heard about this.

In RISC-V, the instruction that sets a register to the result of a comparison sets it to 0 or 1, but 1 is (almost) useless. It has to be negated, and often then copied and inverted too, before it's useful.
I recently was involved in the construction of a gas plant. There was a flare and it's basically a requirement for safety reasons. Although the gas is scrubbed prior to it being burnt provided there is no catastrophic event.

Generators only draw down on a little gas so as to power the plant.
> This doesn't make it morally acceptable.

Not of course, but to blame your neighbor for acting evil, when everybody, including your own people does exactly the same thing, is an exercise on hypocrisy written in the sky in flashing giant neon letters.

Lets take the current destruction of statues. I'm 100% against the glorification of evil people but also against the infantilisation of the society. I couldn't care less if all US Columbus statues have their head replaced with a whooper, a gun or a nice cast of the head of Terry Crews. Is their country, after all, and this is just a fully replaceable object... but I can't hardly wait for this people to eventually discover that the Greek philosophers fathers of the concept of democracy had slaves.

Maybe we should abolish the democracy as the rotten symbol of slavery that it is, and behead the Aristotle statues because the father of modern medicine was also a slave owner. Maybe we should rename America to Shalalaland (How we can still allow in 2021 an entire continent having the name of a despicable slave trader?)

It seems that after all those years we aren't much more mature as society than the people that broke the Venus de Nilo's arms
The point is that in real life problems it's more important to throw away ridiculous "assume that"s than having very neat models.