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Okay, call me naive but would we rather the government have done nothing? I understand racism still exists but you can't act like we haven't made any progress. Could you imagine the protests if segregation or something akin to it started now? I understand horrific actions have been made in the past, I understand there are still bad people in the government. Should we let that prevent us from doing anything to help people? What about people who die of hunger or homelessness? Millions and millions of Americans are in extremely difficult positions right now, my parents included. Should we tell those people we don't even want to try because we're scared of something that happened 90 years ago? Can't we progress? Can't we be better? We certainly can't if we never even give ourselves the chance.
If you vote from home, what sort of receipt do you get? A digital receipt for every candidate can't be recorded unless it's mailed in (and if people are all mailing in anyway then it sounds like you're just overcomplicating things), and people keeping a record of their vote at home where they can show others will let people systemically validate blackmail - "show me you voted <candidate> or I'll break your kneecaps". Although to be fair, if you seize someone's mail-in ballot you could force them to write it out under supervision.

Other than possible cost savings, the only useful benefit of electronic voting is if it lets people vote from home/vote more conveniently. Requiring a paper backup nullifies that benefit, and making it optional damages the usefulness of having a paper backup in the first place and adds privacy problems.
There are 2 questions here:

1. Why should it use a stable ordering at all?

2. Why should that ordering be the insertion order?

#2 isn't a particularly deep question. It has at least one fairly obvious reason: because it's the most intuitive thing to iterate through items and get them back in the same order as you inserted them. Anything else would be less intuitive.

#1, though, is more interesting, and it's one of those experience-based things that can be hard to see the significance of initially. One reason for it is that determinism & reproducibility is quite useful in a variety of use cases (e.g. testing), and while it's incredibly easy to lose, it's also quite hard (and often brittle) to gain back afterward (in the cases where it's even possible). By contrast, it's generally far easier to inject randomization at any point when you really need to (e.g. for security). Another reason can be that it reduces degrees of freedom in your program, which is generally a good thing as it helps when reasoning about program behavior. (This is not only during development, but also when debugging: it's incredibly useful to see what see what order items were inserted in to arrive at the current state.) There are probably more, but these are what I can think of off the top of my head.

And finally, another overarching reason for both is simply the notion of "information loss" (basically, entropy): it's easy to lose information, but not so easy to get it back. And in some people's experience (including mine), it often pays off in the long run for clients of an API to go out of your way to minimize unnecessary information loss in your library. (That information in this case being the implicit ordering information.)

Of course, all this hinges on the trade-off being worthwhile in each case. That's why library writers try to test different workloads to see if e.g. the performance trade-off is worth it. In CPython's case, it appeared it was.
Add to that, that the average person have a right to understand how voting works and how their vote is counted.

Trying to make voting electronic, regardless of it being block chain or something else, ensures that only a few people are able to understand the system.

Right now it easy to verify that count was done correctly, in theory you could go do it your self. Computers will back voting a black box system where verification is going to be almost impossible for all but a few.

Pen and paper works, it simple, easy to understand and the process is transparent in all steps except for the few seconds where the voter is in the booth.

There’s a talk by PHK, where among other things, he goes into why you shouldn’t mess with elections : https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Predictable-Failures/
large gatherings of people (concerts, theatre, cinema) are still banned.

Most people don't go into restaurants and only eat at the outside tables, but that's voluntary.

Shops need masks and some attempt at social distancing, but the spatis (kind like corner shops but mostly selling cheap beer, very popular here) don't care about masks.
Taiwan has the best way of counting votes. Ballot is hold in the air, the name is called out and someone in the back keeps the score. Everyone can see what is going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqKt-lPfJuw
Does Crystal have an interpreter? I get the impression traditional ahead-of-time compilation is currently the only way to use it.

daScript has both ahead-of-time compilation and an interpreter.
Well that's super creepy. Looks like an episode of SVU.
But there was no attempt made to account for the incompleteness of the data in this particular known way.
They don't need too. They were a cofounder, and have a perpetual arch license
Medication has a profound effect.
> Campfire (a.k.a. UltraSPARC Enterprise 4000, shipped 1996)

My main gripe with the various 'E-series' systems (IIRC, we had some E3x00s) was boot-up time, especially the RAM check on power up.

I was in an academic environment, and so every so often we had to power down our lab for electrical/fire code inspection power outages by Facilities. The first time we rebooted one (with 4GB of RAM?) it kept booting and booting and booting and booting and booting and booting. 17 minutes later we got the login prompt on the console.

We put the 17 minutes as a note in our run book so that we knew not to worry if took 'forever' and to move onto the next step. Otherwise we'd start freaking out about something being "broken" with the system(s).

(This was in the 2001-2001 timeframe.)
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Renovated for $1.5 million, on sale for $350.000

Browsing through 1-30 I though “this looks cheap even if it was in the middle of nowhere”

Then they throw on a jail for free!
Lol side-story... I once worked for Big-Multi-National i.t/startup company they even have a stake in Tencent.

Their official mail policy was after 3 months we delete all your email.(You had to save/archive) it yourself if you wanted to have access to it. Some MSExchange setup.

The 'reason' back then was 'Some semi-high-level-executive lost his tablet somewhere with important mail. I couldn't believe a company this big and enough money to buy common sense and intelligence came up with this 3-month rule as a solution to 'lost executive tablet'. They closed allot of their local I.T/Startups in the last decade in South Africa.
How do you know how many votes there should be? Don’t you just have to trust whoever gave you the ballot/prime? Why wouldn’t they just generate the checksums ahead of time, they already know your prime exists. They gave it to you.
But if you were to use a teleporter to see these objects with your own eyes, they would match what is in the “photo”, right?

It’s not as though conventional cameras operate on the exact same principles as our eyes, either. And that’s without even getting into the amount of “computational photography” performed on phones.
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>Your links don't support your position

My position is that it's stupid, and I was illustrating that there are forces that want to make it illegal. And they have succeeded in some places. The Canadian Bill C16 is one example.

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

>I don't think you actually know any TG people.

And I think you have no basis for making that assumption. You are wrong.
Alpha Centauri Herald

Carbon based life at the third planet of our nearest G2V star still think they are the reference of the universe. They continue to measure starts without taking into account they are not alone.

And worst, they still jam the radio spectrum with nonsense TV commercials. We Alpha-Centaurians have have the worst neighbors in the known universe.
Even worse on mobile
Would be interesting to sequence their dna, and adjust these based on ethnic generic makeup
Interesting. Great for Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), but I could see this leading to a reduction in data normalization for a lot of teams not using CQRS too. CQRS is a great tool - but the complexity is high so you only want to use it where you need it.

CQRS overused a lot though, like using a $75k surveillance robotic dog from Boston Dynamics [https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robo...] (Massive Dynamics?) to see who's at the door, when you could have just looked through the peephole.

I could see this feature becoming the CQRS of the SQL world for a while, used in many places where it should be considered harmful, in addition to the places where it is helpful.
If this is anywhere near civilization and if zoning laws permit you could probably turn this into a unique B&B experience that might attract quite a few people...

You basically are buying a themed hotel for free..

Edit: just googled this, this is in Maryland unless the zoning laws are a PITA this definitely can be made into a boutique hotel for people who are into weird experiences.
Clarification: NGS sucks differently. That's it.

Don't know how you guys get from "From my perspective, all languages suck, while NGS aims to suck less than the rest for the intended use cases" to how NGS is generally good or generally better than other languages or did/would avoid mistakes.

Note "aims to suck less", not even "sucks less".

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> how brave they are for being trans

Doesn't this confirm my point? Why is it brave to be trans? It's because you face increased violence, ostracism (often from your own family), etc etc.
I don't know in detail what California's budget is like (other than they've been in the whole lately?) But I personally view a lot of the issues with local and state government spending as being associated with bidding processes and the cost of e.g., infrastructure. I think California generally has the right priorities (roughly, education, healthcare, safety (although this could perhaps be reshuffled, see zeitgeist), and infrastructure). If anything I think they probably need to work to reduce costs in higher education especially and spend more on infrastructure (or reduce costs, but I think that'll be harder than in ed).
Hey, thanks for the interest:) No, the creation process is automated, so anyone can create a professional a brand book using Gingersauce. All you need is a logo.
That is a great system, but there could still be coarcion to show your "prime number" token to someone, say your employer. Probably not common in the US or the EU, but in Venezuela for example there is a lot of pressure for employees of state owned companies to vote for the government and they use many tactics to make sure you do. I'd be worried about making it simpler for them. Maybe there's a way of addding an extra layer of security?
> The counting of ballots also relies on a third party,

A third party counting all ballots, unless audited, would be a terrible way to conduct a public vote.

In pen-and-paper voting systems, counting is carried out by the very same people that vote, publicly, in the open. Then there are also auditing systems in place.
As a trans non-autist who grew up embracing a uniquely girly personality (and was accepted by friends and family as just being uncommonly feminine) I can say that this did not reduce the impact of gender dysphoria. Especially after looking at the community at large, I believe these are entirely unrelated issues.
Put your static assets on a CDN to reduce hits on your web server and use the CPU for processing instead.
Scientists love the problem, engineers love the solution.
Blackmail doesn’t scale.

In WA the ballot has a tab you peel off and can track through a webpage. It’s basically the system outlined above but we actually fill out a paper ballot then mail it in. The postage is prepaid.

This solves basically all problems and works great.

It’s independently verifiable. It’s anonymous. It’s accessible.
Really handy, thanks for sharing
The do-not-call register complaints worked magic for me: https://www.donotcall.gov.au/consumers/lodge-a-complaint/

Daily calls stopped a day after reporting them.
When there's smoke, there's also fire.. if lots of videos exist it means it must be profitable. Probably flies under the radar because the people getting scammed are clueless.
I grew up in the 90s in rural Texas and never owned western attire and was just fine. Your friend is overstating the role of clothing in his experience I suspect.
Some form of interrelationship would make sense right? It seems that a lot of gender is tied up in social signaling, which is less relevant to people on the spectrum. For instance, social signaling might regulate gender-non-conformance in a way which is felt less strongly to people on the spectrum.
Parent comment seemed like a discussion, not an attack. He started with, this is really cool. What is art for if not to provoke emotion and discussion?

It gets into confusing territory when we talk about who is being "silenced" in a simple conversation where folks disagree, but I think the best outcome is that we sell to understand each other's points first, and then share our own. I hope I've demonstrated that here.
Thanks for the tip. I'll get that sorted out promptly.
Fwiw I don't buy this. A satellite specced for a gig and being used at say 1/16 capacity (to account for orbit) would make say 100 dollars a second. That's nearly 9 million a day, no way do satellite providers make that much, or there would be a lot more supply.
I think this is a pretty solid statement that treats the issue fairly. I like a lot of organisations with a lot of historical baggage would do well to read it.
Maybe because in the several centuries in between some exchanges (mixed marriages) with the rest of Europe, including the northern countries where blue eyes and blond hair is more common took place?
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I think the last thing autistic people need is snakeoil salesmen telling them what product they should buy that has no scientific basis whatsoever.
What problem you try to solve with GANs? Your RAW HDR photos are really taken by a sensor with RGB mask filtering out whatever is not visible spectrum. Scientific or indistrial imaging mostly use monochromatic information which is later colorized for human eyes.

Even if you get millions of RAW photos they will come from different sensors with different properties (noise, sensitivity, mosaic, orientation...) and you need to to normalize them all. sRGB is most common normalization target for which all prosumer cameras are optimized for.

The format is not really important here as it is usually array of pixels. You need more bits and resolution? Fine, but you also get more useless noise.
Flying is only safe because people actually die.
Ha! Apparently other mods didn't, but I appreciate your sense of humor. :)
Don't you think it's a little unfair to compare peas to meat? First of all, most people aren't going to replace their meat with veggies, and most veggies already have to be imported anyway. Compared to importing other meats, it is of course much better to have the meat produced locally, especially considering that the land can't really be utilized well in other ways. Which is also a question of avoiding dependencies, btw. In any case, beef is just a part of what is produced, as mountaneous areas are for instance better suited to mutton. Then there's the question of sorely lacking amino acids in pea proteins, meaning that it's not really fair to make one-to-one comparisons. Even if there are benefits from replacing all meats with veggies, the taste and texture just can't compare to meat, which again means that very few are going to voluntarily make the switch even for conscientious reasons.
I don’t understand why you focus on CQRS; I don’t think it’s specifically related? At least, not any more related than say, materialized views are useful for CQRS.

I’d expect a CQRS system on top of SQL to be implemented using a single event table and a lot of triggers, each triggering a different aggregate.
RAW from most cameras isn't "real RAW". Firstly it generally uses lossy compression secondly a lot of cameras apply some minor corrections to "RAW" data as well (e.g. noise reduction). Some would argue that most cameras can't give you "real" RAW since most sensors perform noise reduction one way or the other internally (e.g. most Sony sensors use correlated double sampling). Most sensors use analog PGAs to amplify the pixel signals before A/D conversion (that's the ISO setting)[2], which changes the characteristics of the sensor quite drastically (not just dynamic range and noise, a lot of older sensors had severe issues with tinting and banding at high gains). RAW formats are generally linear (those used for moving pictures are sometimes log-encoded, which makes more sense [1], but isn't "raw").

A library like libraw reads most RAW files and can give you an appropiately (for the sensor used) debayered RGB image. These images aren't in a defined color space; they're specific to every camera/sensor.

In the moving pictures space OpenEXR is a common format for "arbitrary" images, since it allows any number of channels each with different formats (e.g. you can have a file with 27 channels per pixel, some of which are float and some of which are integer).

[1] E.g. 12 bit log encoding gives even resolution across more of the dynamic range; a linear encoding gives half of each range to the brighter stop.

[2] Sensors that don't have PGAs simply have a fixed sensitivity. If the camera offers an ISO setting, it is emulated in the digital domain by pulling the image.
The cost for the click would be adjusted and someone would have to adjust the baseline in their report for a while. I don't think much would change otherwise.
Jeez, what an awful solution. I work in an academic environment and also in a healthcare environment. There is a national 'secure' MSexchange service for patient data, and we also use a local exchange server for within-hospital communication. I have no idea how secure any/all of this is, but I tried to add my 'national' account onto my regular outlook, and it broke everything. IT support told me that I wasn't allowed to do this because it wouldn't be secure. Which confused me given I used Outlook for confidential communication within the healthcare provider. So I'm forced to use their webmail client which is even worse than Outlook.

Not sure how email got into this mess. It should be simpler, and confidential communication should just use something different IMO.
You don't want to issue new tokens either, because you can't know for sure that the token was really stolen.

In which it won't take many users who demonstratably can't vote because someone stolen their token for someone to question the outcome. The only point of democratic elections is the legitimacy of the result.
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Relative to the observer.
Presumably this is related to the absolute collapse in population serum testosterone levels over the last decades. I’m a “cis male” by the standards of 2020, but by the standards of preindustrial hormone levels we’re all trans women.
New LEDs are dramatically brighter and can create laser light
Color and dynamic range of most sensors extends greatly beyond sRGB, it's the camera's JPEG processing engine which maps this larger range to the smaller sRGB (or AdobeRGB) range.
I think you mean Missouri, not Maryland.
I think the issue with property tax policy in California is that it is nativist. You essentially lock-in a price and if you don’t move, over time you’ll be paying peanuts compared to people buying a home for the first time. This starved communities of revenues so they keep jacking income tax on workers while people sit in or rent their homes that have appreciated to millions of dollars and pay almost nothing to the community. You can also pass the property down to kids who will continue to pay very little tax on it and be able to rent it for profit.

I have my own issues with property tax in that it penalizes improving a property (should be primarily based only on land value, not what is built on it for redudebtial) However it’s a tax that should be better at ensuring funds stay more local than a state tax. This means the schools and public resources can be funded by the community as they see fit. It’s a local tax abd I think local policies and power are best left to localities. It’s easier and more practical for citizens to participate in local government and it effects us most. Much better than sending all the tax revenue to a centralized government that shreds it apart like hyenas.

States like Texas get it right imo. No income tax and higher property taxes which the localities set mainly. With a portion going to the state to run and to distribute to communities that need a bit of help.
>High-brightness lasing at submicrometer enabled by droop-free fin light-emitting diodes (LEDs)

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/33/eaba4346
If a trans person is mentally ill, you should not perform on him or her an irreversible surgery that removes healthy body parts. The incorrect beliefs are the problem, not the genitals. You would not "confirm" the beliefs of an anorexic that she is fat when she is not.
> By default, your blog gets published on a .quickpublisher.online sub domain.

Please be careful: don't let users publish on your domain or even a subdomain of your business domain. If they post something someone don't like you risk that your email and statis page and everything goes down because someone asks your DNS provider to take you offline.

Just buy another domain: quickpublisher.<whatever> and use that for user generated content.
Somehow Home Depot sells a lot of things and none of them appear graymarket or fraudulent.

This problem exists because Amazon wanted it to exist. They chose to do business in a way that avoids traditional checks and balances.

The scale of the problem is entirely on them.
Sure, if they can afford the ridiculous cost of living, which I doubt in most cases.
TIFF is kind of standard for most scientific imaging, from astronomy to biomedical.

12- or 16-bit greyscale is common, with multiple channels for hyperspectral data. But since it can also store 32-bit data, floats, and complex numbers as well as rationals, it can be used as a container for pretty much anything you want to throw at it.

Regarding RAW. It's often used with colour CCDs with various types of CFA, like Bayer or CMY. It might have a higher bit depth, but it's still basically RGB but spatially separated and stored as greyscale. You could maybe feed it directly to your ML, but it's more common to filter it to create RGB data retaining the bit depth but at the expense of low pass filtering to remove aliasing artefacts. Or keep the separation to keep the high frequency components; really depends upon what information you want to extract.
This could be interesting when combined with Plex or similar