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> Humans are absolutely having a calamitous effect on insect life in a variety of dimensions

This is incredibly obvious to be in my neighborhood. My landlord (very regretfully) has a company spray insecticide in our yard. There are no bugs, not a single bug sound.

The area I live in has many nature conscious people so about 1/10th of the yards are gardens, wildflowers, etc rather than grass. Just walking by them you hear a tremendous symphony of bugs! Then it almost entirely goes away in the next yard that is just grass.

In a local park there is about 1/4 acre that is only mown every couple of years as a "pollinator friendly" prairie-ish area, and the number of fireflies in just that section is astonishing. There are just hundreds and hundreds, it's beautiful.

Thinking about the increasing suburbanization of the US makes me sad. We subsidize this lifestyle so heavily here that it doesn't make sense to live anywhere else, but the land use is just awful.

It's not even wildlife and plants. I'm in southwest Ohio and the closest reasonably dark sky spot is almost 2 hours away. My S/O and I have been to some dark sky viewings hosted by a local observatory about 45 minutes away. I have really good night vision and can just barely see the milky way. My S/O /thought/ she could see it, but only realized the magnitude when we went to this national forest 2 hours away. It made me sad that she hadn't been able to see some of the wildness of our world.

I truly hope the "suburban dream" that has been pushed for so many decades starts dying off, so at least some of the wild areas in the US remain intact. There's already so little in the midwest.
The wikipedia page for Ubuntu Versions actually has screenshots from all the releases, but it's mostly stock desktop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history

Still fun for a trip down memory lane, but I was also expecting there to be some now vs then style screenshots or a tour of the look and feel through the years in the article.
FWIW, front running[1] Google ads, and to a lesser extent Bing ads, is big money. At Blekko we ran into these people all the time.

What they wanted was to send the search query that the user had typed into Google to us, and have our advertising partners provide an Ad, and they would inject it ahead of Google's ads.

For which they would share the revenue that the Ad partner was paid 50/50 with us. And for this service they said our cut would be $10K - $20K per week.

The funny part was they required to be notified immediately if Google changed its page layout because, well they needed to blend in or the game was up. I wrote a grease monkey script to change the page background after ads had loaded on a Google search engine results page (SERP) and yup, you could see their ad sitting there.

Of course Google would catch on, especially when people complain that Google was showing them ads for inappropriate products or what not and Google would investigate and track down the front doing the injecting. The half life of these fronts seemed to be 6 months to a year depending on how greedy they got. The people behind the front would vanish and pop up under a new name somewhere else.

The sad thing, for me, is that when you put your infosec hat on you realize its super easy to phish an unsuspecting someone by sending fake mail from a friend for a cool backdrop or display toy. Once they are on the hook you can wait until they search for something on Google and inject a very nice result for them to click on that stops off at your drive by zero day site to pick up your payload and its off to the races.

[1] From the article -- "... then proceeded to quietly inject ads inside Google and Bing search results."
People always complain about this being an unusually hot summer. Personally, I’m thinking of it as a summer i will look back upon as deliciously cool.
> It's a very strange way of measuring the price for something when there is a perfectly well functioning rental market.

They do survey people who rent as well as own, so they are measuring the market directly for that portion.

As far as the owners go, I think you're disregarding the fact that the specific houses that are not being rented do not have more authoritative rents. If you use actual rental data, then you have to have a model using assumptions to map one population to another, which seems fraught with potential problems.

The point of a survey is to collect survey data, and if they don't do it, then it is that much worse of a survey, because there is no 100% substitute.
After looking at my networks tab[1], I had misunderstood this. It's only the size of the polyfill that has been reduced. The page is still downloading 800KB of javascript.

[1]:https://imgur.com/a/01LfeiW
These are great, but just remember to take care the seeds are for species indigenous to your region!
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We just rename our files with .novirus on the end. I assume the main point is to stop executables from outside running with a click, or internal forwards of the same by compromised users which is why it's so easy to bypass.
A friend gave me his dead iMac, and I mostly gutted it and turned it into a monitor with an LCD driver board off eBay.

Kept the stock power supply and put my own PWM module in to control brightness, since some reviews said it wasn't as bright as it was originally.
Their wikipedia page suggests they were profitable as of 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)

They provide support to lots of enterprises.
That's the first I've read of `push -o`. Does GitHub have push options like that as well?
Instagram is dead simple as well, if you stick to the main feed and just posting photos. I've used instagram without touching any of the stuff discussed in the top-level comment.
It might work in opposite ways. Introducing more obligations on those who want to get rid of existing ones isn't a good idea to help them get better.

When you can't materially do something for the person, the best is to listen and offer some insight with the disclaimer - that's the best you can do and would have done more if it was possible.

Many people come claiming to help but they make the issue political or about them. A person is likely already aware of generic advice because any query showing suicidal intent on Google will show those helplines and results.
I recently read, in another thread whic I can not find, that Visual Studio does this for at least C#.
> without REPLACING your blood with something, the percent concentration of anything harmful in your blood with be the same

Not necessarily. If the process that produced the bad stuff is slower than serum production, the concentration will be lower. If it’s the same, for example, if it’s a problem with the serum production processes themselves, it won’t.
yes... i guess...

think of houses as bars of gold or bitcoins
> You can have funny-shaped walls that aren't at right angles with each other, vaulted ceilings, gothic arches, flying buttresses, or any kind of ornamentation or functional feature

You're going to have to allow for a lot more negotiation with customers once you start adding "frills" - one reason that houses built in bulk are so plain is that tastes vary hugely and you have to bet on what flavor is going to be popular right when you want to sell them all. Flourishes are the kind of thing that will rarely make a sale but will easily break it.
Once a Rustacean always a Rustacean - a first impression will inevitably lead you down a never ending road but luckily there is a great community to support you.
I'm sure they would if they could, but almost everyone uses Qualcomm for a reason: Qualcomm has a practical monopoly on high-end smartphone chips and competition is difficult because of their patent ownership.
I was hoping for an upgrade video, like people have done for Windows

Here's one that goes from Windows 1.0 -> Windows 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WP7AkJo3OE
To the contrary, those who want to remain healthy will be donating blood instead.
That's because you're using Firefox on Linux. I have literally no fucking idea how they managed, but all these bugs are only present in Firefox on Linux. Chrome works everywhere, Firefox on Windows works, it's just Firefox on Linux that has that problem. Skype's web client in Firefox on Linux also used to have the crash-on-paste problem. I suspect there is some framework somewhere in there that both of those used and it was crashing, but Microsoft updated to a newer version while Twitter have not, for whatever reason.
Well, saying that without knowing the impact on outcomes doesn't make sense.

Anyway, the focus usually reflects org structure. Solutions match org structure. If you make a Suicide Reduction Squad, they will not be able to "ensure that all children have education" to reduce suicide, they can only chase methods. After all, it's the Education Increase Squad that makes sure children have education.
If your cabins are near farms it is very possible the firefly decline you possibly noticed was caused by the introduction of neonics in the 90s. They are incredibly destructive and are part of the reason for the european honeybee issues that have gotten so much press here in the US.

They are widely believed to be a major factor in the current decline of insects.
How hard would it be to support the Teensy boards? I didn't see any mention of them one way or another in the website.
If you want to develop iOS apps, you have to have Mac OS. Even if you use a cross-platform tool, you have to compile and deploy from Mac OS, I think.
> what, if anything, the officer did to warrant being identified

I'm no expert on US policing but aren't they supposed to be identifiable in the general course of their duties? e.g. NYC mandates visible name plates and that officers identify themselves in interactions.
There's no uncertainty in chess. It's a game of perfect information and you can understand the rules 100%
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Most every advanced material good and service that is cheap today was once rare and expensive. Prices fell as the methods for producing those goods and services became more efficient. If the rich are paying for something as exotic as YouthBlood™ this should delight you, as it is only a matter of time before producers of said product will find ways to scale and cheapen it.
I know a niche in hardware, encountered while doing R&D for an F500.

High sample rate (20 Hz min.) sensor telemetry (9 DOF IMU + GPS) over cellular network, as a single encapsulated unit with built in antenna and a battery to handle power interruptions.

Data needs to go a remote server and devices should be remotely manageable if deployed as a fleet.

I searched quite a bit and eventually ended up using a bunch of Samsung Galaxy phones in a hard case, with a datalogging app and an automation that syncs log files to Dropbox. Devices were managed over TeamViewer.

There are some small players in this field each satisfying 70% of these requirements and they're printing money.

All the pieces are out there. Just need someone to make a product so enterprises can throw money at them.
> *the rich will literally be living off the poor's blood

The entire article is about that not being helpful.
The older I get, the less I care if individual stories like this are true. The fact that they could be is concerning enough :) And they are educational nonetheless.
No, a relative had one 40 years ago. He is fine now.

There was an article on here recently about a teenager with a highly malignant one, traveling to meet Gorbachev in 1988. The teenager is now ~50.
The problem is that having a near system-wide locale setting is a bad idea; it necessarily causes friction because it is far less granular then it should be. Ideally, the locale should be a property of some piece of content, if that content necessitates formatting or interpreting some underlying data whose presentation is locale-dependent, otherwise absent. The locale should not be determined by the OS or the browser since it would be reasonable for a user to want to use different locales for different applications and web pages (or pieces of content within web pages).

Furthermore, I would argue that the very notion of user locale based localization by default is misguided, since it is fundamentally no different from automatic translation of content based on the users' UI language setting. It is a form of misrepresenting the content, though with things like dates you usually don't lose much information in the process.
It's most likely a callback from OS to firmware, or at least this is what I can guess based on the single comment present in the screenshot and what I saw in the past in the APEI tables of Intel-based servers.

APEI tables are a part of ACPI that tell the OS how to write an error record persistently in the machine log, inject a memory error for debugging purposes, and stuff like that that's tied to the RAS (Reliability/Availability/Serviceability) features of a server. The tables contain a list of instructions like "write a value to memory" or "write a value to an I/O port"; the way they work in practice is that, by following these instructions, the OS causes the processor to enter system management mode (that's the "backdoor" into the firmware) where the firmware services the APEI request.

Since the tweet mentions SMM and RAS in the two lines it shows, my guess is that it's related to that functionality.
Perhaps correct for the wealth effect? i.e. are wealthier countries generally more unequal? Just a blind hypothesis.
very cool thanks for the context!
I used to work summers out of college in an AK cannery. Some years there were barely any fish and the season would be closed early. Other years there was so much fish the cannery could barely keep up. Unless you're monitoring things regularly its hard to say whether there is an actual decline or not.
I think I understand the core of your argument, which, if the world were perfect and everyone had equal access to resources, I might agree with. But the reality is that there are a lot of people that cannot change their circumstances, do not have the money for medication/therapy, or do not have the social or cultural support for acquiring or even expressing the desire for medication/therapy. I am wondering if you have ever experienced severe depression, be it in yourself or in someone close to you. "Hatred for life" is a massive overestimate of the amount of autonomy someone has over their own thoughts when depressed.
I just saw the NeRF demo video, it's amazing. If its results are this good, why is photogrammetry software not basically perfect yet? It looks like they can generate models with vast amounts of detail.
Here in Australia, the big shopping centres (aka Malls), get their biggest crowds in summer. Xmas helps but also there is often a contiguous 3-7 day stretch of >40C(>104F) maximums with sweltering overnights in the cities.

Not everyone has aircon.

Not looking forward to that if COVID is still kicking our arse.
Me too! I used to order so much Ubuntu & Kubuntu Live CD's and handing them in my school. I was incredibly suprised that they managed to send huge boxes to me for free to Morocco and I was even more surprised that the unreliable post office of Morocco brought them to my house. They definitely came a long way, hopefully Canonical has been successful enough in the enterprise category that they manage to finance all of this till today.
I'll take "what?" - with "what?" being my headlights only point straight ahead. They don't curve with the road or illuminate the sides of the roads where kids/animals can dart out. I live in a neighborhood with lots of kids and pets. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S038611121...
Just had to remind of Charles Ng, huh? If you have a weak stomach, don’t dig further.
Definitely. I must admit, I came to Rust with a lot of baggage from other languages. I've learned a lot from reading about why Rust doesn't let me do things, often causing me to no longer do those things in other languages.
Like I said, an economist joke. :-)
Oh, hey, I hadn't looked in detail at how residential paper works these days, but I think you may be on the mark here. I can't speak to the deep-state stuff, but in terms of mortgages, "qualified" and "non-qualified" appear to mean substantially what you say they mean.

I'm sure that can't possibly go wrong. Especially since the entire SERP when I looked up the "non-prime" term you used was pages put up by fly-by-nights to reassure the suckers that there's nothing wrong with the paper and if anyone tries to tell you otherwise, you should probably punch them in the face.
On the plus side - while HAM antennas aren't protected, video reception antennas are [1].

[1]: https://www.fcc.gov/media/over-air-reception-devices-rule
The vast majority of blood comes from poor people with no other choice selling it. If you don't see something wrong with that, I don't know what to tell you. The poor should not have to literally sell their blood to survive. The article literally says that they take blood from young mice and put it in old ones.
I've had audits like that, many are just for CYA and I'm often the dev patching obscure (or not so obscure) security issues.

Honestly, I'm quite happy to have an auditor nitpick a few non-issues if the alternative is risking releasing an app that has a basic sql injection attack that wiggled past code review due to code complexity.

I've also had an external audit that found an unreported security issue in a new part of a widely used framework, so there are auditors out there that do a good job of finding legitimate things.
A blog post about existing information about plasma exchange in humans:

https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2020/06/29/human-tria...
for not using gmail? The hooked me in school
Another reason why I really love Safari. It's so incredibly lightweight. The ability exists to install extensions, but no one makes them. Head in the sand security. I guess you could say my experience is handicapped without extensions and add-ons, but the performance and no-bullshit-factor is impossible to match.
"I've been using a 8700K/RX580 hackintosh for years now"

Have you ever had to upgrade/change something hardware-wise to keep up to date with the latest MacOS versions?

Question is, can I buy some "optimal" Hackintosh hardware and expect it to work for upcoming MacOS versions for years to come (at least 3 years)?
Sure, other people will pick up the pieces but that doesn’t mean much to the blue collar worker who is out of a job for 2 years while someone “takes their place”.
I don't see how? The article talks about taking young mice blood and putting it in old ones. Young poor people will be much more exploited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16EL-ZexH5A&feature=youtu.be...

You should watch part of this documentary to see what I'm talking about.
Fake it, 'till you make it.
Aside from preventing covid deaths, what are the consequences of quarantining the whole country? In India, 500k extra are dying from TB. That's a consequence of their lockdown. Globally, an extra 10k children are starving to death per month. That's a consequence of the economic issues resulting from lockdowns. If we're going to make educated decisions, we need to acknowledge the true costs of our actions.
It's complicated: uBlock is the original extension, and uBlock Origin is a fork by the original lead developer.

At this point, uBlock is sketchy while uBlock Origin is well respected, but it seems hard to come up with a rule that would justify banning uBlock?
> There is only so much mental trauma a human can take

My experience has been that I get mentally healthier as I age.

For reference, I'm 33, so the "experiment" is far from complete, but early results are quite promising.

As an aside, I attribute this to using my mind in a better way than other people. I have achieved this through great effort and investment of time, which has come at the expense of other areas of my life.

There is no instruction manual for the human mind, but we need one.

As another aside, your position is anti-life and anti-humanity. That isn't supposed to be an argument that stands on its own; I'm just pointing it out.
so.. I shouldn't have clicked that link on my office network?
I think you'd find most front-end developers don't love reimplementing widgets from scratch but instead are required to because designers, product owners and customers expect this sort of experience. I just don't think Twitter would remain competitive if it had the interface of Hacker News.
You raised a great point.

Data testing methods can perhaps be broken down to two main categories:

1. "Unit testing" – validating assumptions about the data that you define explicitly and upfront (e.g. "x <= value < Y", "COUNT(*) = COUNT(DISTINCT X)" etc.) – what dbt and great_expectations helps you do. This is a great approach for testing data against your business expectations. However, it has several problems: (1) You need to define all tests upfront and maintain them going forward. This can be daunting if your table has 50-100+ columns and you likely have 50+ important tables. (2) This testing approach is only as good as the effort you put to define the tests, back to #1. (3) the more tests you have, the more test failures you'll be encountering, as the data is highly dynamic, and the value of such test suites diminishes with alert fatigue.

2. Diff – identifies differences between datasets (e.g. prod vs. dev or source DB vs. destination DB). Specifically for code regression testing, a diff tool shows how the data has changed without requiring manual work from the user. A good diff tool also scales well: it doesn't matter how wide/long the table is – it'll highlight all differences. The downside of this approach is the lack of business context: e.g. is the difference in 0.6% of rows in column X acceptable or not? So it requires triaging.

Ideally, you have both at your disposal: unit tests to check your most important assumptions about the data and use diff to detect anomalies and regressions during code changes.
Not coincidentally, they aren't allowed. ;)

You can download "Google Chrome" from the App Store, but you're really just downloading a Google UI skin for Safari.
Yes, and what part of transparency is opposed to a working phone? Apple did not have to do what they did in secret. Nothing you have said responds to what I said.

This isn't an "Apple vs Android" discussion. Maybe that's where you got confused.
Right, I was making the point that there should be more info online about the entire mobile video editing app market (one example). I know there are many such apps in the stores.
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How long until Google just stops allowing Chrome extensions to run on their domains
Yes, almost as if there is something about QAnon that is blockworthy.
I was apparently not clear enough.

The missed opportunity is that AV1 is arriving everywhere and with tiny bit of foresight they could have made that include a new image standard which everyone would then have as well with essentially no additional support needed. Instead we now have to convince all browser vendors and more to support yet another image format that has no widespread adoption.
One strategy that I employed after getting a nonsensical 2 star review was having two friends write two 1 star review with honest positive comments. People sorting by most critical review will still see positive comments and assume the low ratings is because of accidental clicks. Is it moral? I don't know, but I didn't ask to be included on a review site and be affected by the words of strangers either.
Is anything known that maybe their snap efforts with the snap store are maybe a tactic to get some profit from end user desktop ubuntu down the line?
If their plan works out and it becomes the linux app store they could make it attractive for proprietary software vendors to sell stuff through it, and charge a percentage for being the sole gatekeeper to the snap store like apple or google.