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> But is anyone daunted at the prospect of investing in one of these platforms, then having to pivot to the paradigm that emerges as the winner 3-5 years from now?

This will always be an issue if you’re an early adopter. The three mitigating calculations every case are: 1 - somebody* will probably be the “winner”, and could be it. 2 - between now and 3 years from now will you get enough value that it will be worth migrating to the eventual winner rather than doing without and 3 - three years from now you can just start new projects on the winning tech; most or all of the current projects will have withered and/or died anyway.
> Also just minimal outdoor sun exposure is the best way to get it, no sunscreen. 15 minutes if you're light skinned, 35 if you're really dark.

These prescriptions seem to always lack the amount of exposed skin. Is exposed hands enough or should one be naked?
> For instance, I could make an ISA whose ADD instruction was normal except that 2+2=5.

Yeah, but good luck selling that... for the reasons you've identified it'd be a nightmare to run C on it.
I have my cat trained to expect a phone alarm for breakfast time. Total accident at first. It was my wake-up alarm, but I started always walking up before it, and then it was the "owner's awake and over here" signal. Any meowing before it gets a strong tone at first and a spritz if continued. Now that I'm working from home, I'll also start using an alarm for dinner.

I had tried to teach her to read an analog clock by putting it near her food dish. No change in behavior except she kept knocking it over.

My previous cat was like yours, though. She didn't expect meals at usual times on weekends. We can train them somewhat, but they do have unique personalities.
Of all the problems I've had owning a cat, the location of the litterbox has been the biggest difficulty for me - without the space of a dedicated small closet, it seems to be unsolvable
Working from home may do unrecoverable damage to young careers
This is in no way to disagree with your overall point, but marine cloud brightening looks like it might be a fairly cost-effective solution to climate change. It's unproven, but not an insane gamble either, and it has little risk of second-order consequences if it doesn't work. All that at a cost of single-digit billions per year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening#Costs
I can understand the exhausting & feed him, but "poop him"? How do you control that?
I think there might be a terminology mixup here but he probably meant zero-overhead abstraction. And in any case, the point he's making is not a strawman argument.
My heart rate was wonky for the first month or so of lockdown.

It has since returned to normal and all signs point to it just being anxiety.

But I also had a point in July where I felt really wiped out for two or three days, and at the same time my neighbor tested positive with Coronavirus.

I thought that I should probably get tested, but no one I talked to thought my symptoms warranted getting checked, so I guess I don't know.

I would also like to know, but I'm more interested in the antibody test than the "am I currently sick" test.
I had myocarditis in my twenties. It was completely debilitating. Even walking up the stairs was a struggle. It took more than a year before I felt normal again. I came quite close to loosing my job over it. I had been fit and healthy before.
The effect of lockdowns on mental health is undoubtedly large, however I would hazard against ruling a very large number of people with numerous studies & epidemiologists behind them as purely psychological.
By the same reasoning I see you've incorrectly spelled superfluus.
While anabolic steroids can cause heart problems they do not cause this type of heart problem. Source: my cardiologist who treats me for one issue that puts me at risk for myocarditis. I take anti-inflammatory steroids from time to time, so I asked about them: they're fine for my issue, and are actually used to treat myocarditis. And because I'm a curious person, I said "what about anabolic steroids?" And the response was: "don't take them, even if prescribed for something like low testosterone, because they can cause additional heart problems, though not make yours (my) any worse"
Really? So the AG’s position is more of figurehead rather than supervisor?

Fascinating.
This is a pretty short sighted conclusion.

Adding a library dependency takes you all of 10 seconds. Committing to supporting a standard library function that gets deprecated down the line is an endless effort.

I love that Python has a standard library that's thorough enough to do productive work with. But anyone who uses python seriously has to drop those on favor of more modern external deps, sooner rather than later, and so we're back to square one.
In the US, at least, your license plate can get scanned by cameras driving around and you show up on security cameras (with improving facial recognition).

What's a domain analogous to computers without tracking? I suppose all those are "by computers" at the end of the day, but I can't think of anything I do that isn't tracked somehow.
My recollection is that it stops viral replication in vitro in monkey cells but does not stop viral replication in vitro in human cells.
I've been to a few friends places where I've smelled it. I would never tell them.
> So venting them outside may cause other confidence issues

This seems like perverse logic though. You're venting toxic ammonias and spores to the outside...where they're supposed to go in the first place.
People fleeing the climate alone could collapse the global food chain. I personally thing we're a little too interconnected in the name of efficiency.
The guidance is usually given for exposed arms and legs.
We could dump it into the ocean and not worry about it. There's so much cooling capacity and radiation shielding in the oceans alone that we'd never run out of space, so all of the current disposal strategies are way above and beyond what's needed. Containment is solved problem.

It's important to note that other energy types also produce waste. For example, coal ash is incredibly toxic and hard to dispose of, and we create much more of it every year.
A bit late, but are you referring to this Twitter thread by any chance? https://mobile.twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/12897244756095...

If so, then the argument he makes is totally braindead. He doesn't even consider special algebraic structures or anything. He's just coming up with the most obvious observation ever: if your mathematical model doesn't match the reality or asks the wrong questions, then the results are worthless.
This is probably obvious to any high school student but that's certainly no reason to run around and say that 2+2=5. In any case, there is zero mathematical insight there, he doesn't even make a mathematical argument for it, and the "I am a former mathematician" part only serves to distract from that fact.

I could go onto an entire different rant about his infinity argument and how mathematics seemingly haven't figured out how to work with infinity "naturally" (I don't know what he means by naturally, but they certainly have figured out how to work with it precisely), but let's leave it at that.
> the major players in the industry just weren't ready for it

That's an excellent reason to do it.
Or an attack, of course. Or some other event (social unreset, invasion, coup, etc...) causes an evacuation of staff and it boils off during the resulting excursion.

People tend to have poor mental models for the long tail of external failures that happen in real life. It's easy to imagine that things that have never happened in the last century would Never Happen. But... they will, somewhere.
A common form of central heating, like burning fossils kind that delivers hot water over insulated pipes to each building, is more efficient in pretty much every way and is cheap to add during building construction than doing it individually. But it's not the case with a "central AC", it's less efficient, more expensive to add during building construction and operating costs are no better. Just think about it, you can't just deliver cold over a pipe and rely on air convection, like with heat, you need to literally move cold air into each room and make it individually adjustable. It's a ridiculously inefficient complicated expensive system requiring extra space and with installation costs higher than that of all AC units individually installed.
I really have no idea although I'm very skeptical that my former primary care doctor would have done anything more sophisticated than checking a bunch of boxes on the blood work sheet and faxed it to the hospital lab. It certainly wasn't in response to any symptoms about anything; it just came in low in the lab results at some point.

Of course, may be a function of particular insurance provider policies.
I did not consider Lulu or other such platforms. I was only focused on crowdfunding at that stage and most of these platforms felt overwhelming/doing too much to me.
You can get a refund if you go to the play store and use the refund mechanism within a timeframe.
Exactly. Like, you arrive at the door at 9am, clock in, and then go to the person doing the make up. Because the makeup (similar to costume), is something very specific to your job.

Showering and putting on regular clothes is something you would do for getting off your house, independently of what you do. Clown make up is specific to your job
There are reportedly investigations against Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook; with DOJ taking the first two and the FTC taking the latter. Google was likely the easiest because there was a prior FTC investigation and EU enforcement actions taken against Google. Additionally, more state AGs rallied to the Google case.
In this particular case, a power plant with these nuscale reactors would probably have survived a Fukushima type accident. One effect of being small is that the reactors are designed to be passively cooled after shutdown, using convection instead of pumped flow. So there is no need for emergency diesel generators to keep the coolant pumps running.
Meat (vitamin B) and sun (vitamin D) are the bane of COVID. We definitely have not been fighting this pandemic with the right tools.
> And to add to this: yes I think cat ownership is very worth it. It's basically an on-demand pleasure source that you can use as long as you want, whenever you want. Just curl up into the soft kitty and feel him purring, awesome!

If your cat is anything like mine, it is on demand for them...

When they don't want to play they climb in the highest place that they can and look down on me and my frustrated attempts to convince them to get down for play or food.
Sure.

And how about something a bit more formal? Maybe modeled after police department citizen review board? With a staff to injest, process, and interpret stuff? Like Project Censored.

I half thought that maybe Wikileaks might do some of this. And I should have probably scouted a bit before asking for something that already exists. (I hadn't actually ever visited the site before. I've never been terribly eager to get myself added to some watch lists.)

Alas.

https://search.wikileaks.org/?q=war+crimes

Not much value add there. It really is just a fancy FTP site with a search engine. The org itself does some competent press releases, swag, and branding; that ain't nothing.
Many inland rectors are built on waterways. A plant can shut down due to drought. That's a slow enough process that you have plenty of advance warning, though.
> -cat likes to knock over your breakable things just cause it likes to see them smash

My cats are super careful and have maybe knocked over 1 thing.

> -wake up at 2 in the morning to some weird noises only to find the cat spiderman-ing up the screen on the window because some rats or something were outside

My cats not only sleep through the night, they insist I go to bed on time (no later than 11) or they start getting upset.

> -Oh, you were 5 minutes late feeding the cat, well have fun with non stop fucking around for the rest of the day or night

My cats are under weight (!!) so I try to feed them as often as possible.

Never had them really beg for food, though if I am eating string cheese they'll beg for that.
If you search "sunburn [location]" on wolfram alpha, you can get sun exposure guidance for that particular date and location, factoring in weather and your skin tone.

Since I began using this a few months ago I have not been burnt.
I think there's a pretty high chance that tricks could be brought to bear to greatly reduce the costs of what's being done here (by OOMs). There's a lot of handles for tweaking.

In particular the basic crux of this approach is a Monte-Carlo annealing of the score function. In every field of science, Monte-Carlo sampling entails a huge pre-factor cost, and in every case it only reaches it's greatest potential with importance sampling, which hasn't been applied here.

This is basically the 'brute-force' version of some future approach which would replace the diffusion kernel with another process that allows one to avoid sampling huge volumes of function space which are irrelevant for your desired P(X). This would introduce dependence of the training process on the sampling pre-conditioner, but ultimately be required for highest performance.

I suspect that these authors are already thinking of how to use invertible flows to this effect.
Depends on your intention. If you produce the video with the intent to profit off her fame, and that will certainty be assumed if you use her name in the tags or keywords, then it's clearly illegal.

But if the video says "this is a deepfake" and is not showing up in search results for her name, then it should be fine.

Its just that in the latter case, probably nobody is going to watch it, so the discussion is then moot anyway.
Is DevOps for Designers?
There is a civic duty to do that. People are getting killed, maimed, and more. The "no snitch" mentality destroys society. Covering up crimes, for example by hiding the identity of rioters, is unethical.
I disagree. As an immigrant in America it sounds very much like my first 11 months here. Legal immigrant, unable to work while waiting for paperwork.
I know the comment was tongue in cheek, but the area in question (Los Angeles) doesn't have navigable rivers. In fact, the Los Angeles river is better paved (lined with cement for various reasons) than some roads in the area.

And as a sibling comment points out, where the US does have good rivers/lakes, notably the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio network and the Great Lakes, they are used extensively for transport. The only one I can think of that is disused is the Hudson and canals that connect to the Great Lakes.

But the same is true for Europe: larger rivers allow larger, more efficient ships and are still used for transport, and the canal system is too narrow and so mostly recreational now.
No the headlines state the opposite. You learn this by reading history and looking at recent events through reasonable sources.

And yes this is the safest period in human history, and it continues to get safer by the day.
What's the smell, is it urine or poo, or the smell of litter? I would guess yeah it'd probably smell a little like the litter, but I can't see why it'd smell like urine or poo, I can't even smell it when smell the litterbox itself. Maybe depends on which kind of litter you use, mine definitely masks smell. I use Arm&Hammer litter.
Liberal globally refers to economic liberalism - that is, capitalism.
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Another option which is completely safe and permanent* is drilling a borehole few km down and dumping the waste there. It's not coming back no matter what. The research done into it shows that "only" 800 boreholes would be required to store literally all nuclear waste ever produced.

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

*to a point where it was actually brought up as a negative, because if we ever wanted to recycle that waste into something else, it's literally impossible this way.
There's no "rush to market" for filing charges like these. It's not like the competing US governments are pressing ahead with their own charges.
Just as they put this ad online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l61NE0eqkw ... "Privacy. That’s iPhone. – Over Sharing"
For who? Its bad points were mostly fixable. MS just stopped working on it an threw out it.
It is my opinion that the simplest way to fix the ills caused by an open market insurance system is to abolish it and replace it with single-payer healthcare.
Yeah the time is dependent, I just try to think of like our evolutionary history, pre clothes and where your ancestors are from. So I try to sunbathe by the pool during the summer. But if you work indoors, cholecalciferol is useful and you can get the blood tests for your levels.
Was thinking the same. If the reason is to give Apple's ad services team time to make the adjustments, then that seems another strike on antitrust grounds. Timing not great to say the least.
Can confirm, had this problem the other day. CI started failing and after a short investigation I figured out sshd was just dropping my connections. Installed fail2ban first, but then just used a firewall since all valid IPs are known.
Gross! Just to feed App Store and Apple News? Apple should kill that immediately, it's hypocritical.
Ok now you’re conflating two separate things. The link and original figure you shared was about DOE sites. From your link: “EM’s mission is to complete the cleanup of nuclear waste at 16 DOE sites...” You suggested this was connected with commercial reactor waste, it wasn’t about that.

Commercial reactor waste is not anywhere near the same kind of beast. It’s contained and easily disposed of when the US eventually embraces science again. Other countries don’t have as much problem and are building deep geologic repositories. Canada even let local communities bid to take the waste.

If your in the PNW take a visit to Hanford when you can. What they did on these DOE sites during the nuclear weapons programs is absurd to think about with what we know today. They just buried all kinds of random toxic stuff everywhere and didn’t even keep records.
Furminators can leave bald spots. They are basically half of a set of hair trimmer blades.

Just because the cats like it doesn't mean it is good for them.

That said I do use mine, and the cats love it, but I have to use multiple other brushes after to get rid of residual hair the furminator stirs up, or else I am 100% guaranteed fur balls a few hours later.
If I live in a high-rise, then there are large problems in avoiding elevators that could be worse. If all residents were to use stairs, aside from cardiac difficulties of some, mobility issues, risks of falling when carrying large loads, etc, there’s also going to be great amounts of aerosols generated by the huffing and puffing of many people using the stairs all day long (possibly in close proximity for multiple people going up at the same time). This could be a far larger vector as you’d be in the stairwell longer than you’d be in an elevator (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/public-health-... suggests 15 minutes of exposure needed).

It’s not clear that “avoid elevators” is universally less harmful. Also given the 15 minutes suggested it’s not clear that elevators by default pose a risk, and the large numbers in use in the world make it surprising if they are indeed a major vector but are otherwise undocumented or not part of suggested guidelines thus far.

I’m asking for evidence which shows they are indeed a risk factor, which should also hopefully take into consideration mask usage and number of stories. This would be extremely useful for people to factor in if they need to move, for example.
Two box fans + windows (ie, apartment) or a whole house fan in a larger house can circulate air quickly in 15m.

I find useful to do that even in winter (maybe not in North Dakota winter).
Strong winds seem likely to be a good thing to me. Any exhalations from my neighbor are going to be quite dilute by the time they get to me in the wind.
Tim Apple, is that you?
>Tech is always the soft target for governments worldwide.

lol. Take a look at credit card regulation in Europe and the amount of regulation passed on banks in the last 20 years alone (for good reasons).

The only thing that's soft about tech is the industry's constant whinging because they're finally recognizing that the good old days of getting away with everything might be over.

Credit cards are actually a good example. Let's slap the 0.2% interchange cap that is the legal limit in the EU on the Apple store and see what happens then.
On EC2, I've had a great experience using AWS Systems Manager [1]. I don't need any ports open, and it works great with normal shell tools and emacs given a .ssh/config like this:

host i-* mi-*

ProxyCommand sh -c "aws ssm start-session --target %h --document-name AWS-StartSSHSession --parameters 'portNumber=%p'"

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...
This is not that cynical! Apple pulled the plug on something they created on purpose (ID for Advertisers) without really understanding the impact of that decision on their own App Store bottom line. So many in app purchases are initiated by users acquired via ad campaigns. Remove the campaigns, remove the users, remove the revenue, maybe even more (i.e. Developer's interest for iOS)

But, I bet this is mostly antitrust related, the risk is too big on that front in the current context. Now, what I wonder is whether they'll adjust to play by the same rules as everyone else (and not using some extra features as detailed in the Forbes article mentioned in another comment [0]) or revert in some way.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/07/apple-a...
Not the person you were responding to, but I learned it from this TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm5xF-UYgdg

(Not joking in the least. It's a very good presentation. Title is: How not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling)
Energy recovery ventilators make this possible. There are even inexpensive window-mounted units.
It works for the average person but becomes distorted when you look at athletes, especially those that need to put on more muscle.
They claim to unmask VPNs, unless they have a 0day, this is usually done using social engineering (ip grabber link redirects for example), which intetestingly maybe perfectly legal, but I'd argue unmasking someone's VPN constitutes bypassing security measures, so depends on the lawyer?

If the computer that is behind the VPN is a "protected computer", regardless of the method used, unmasking a VPN would be illegal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

In the case they brag about, the person's computer was in Nigeria, if that computer is used for foreign commerce (e.g.:the guy buys stuff from US sites) it would be a protected computer and this company is bragging about a felony. Am I correct?

Of course, I can testify first hand, the FBI never prosecutes companies/execs unless it is a clear publicized financial white collar crime. Under this same statue, the FBI will raid you if a company files a criminal complaint against you even for disclosing an open FTP server vuln: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/justin-shafer-fbi-raid/
Oculus Sales Stopped in Germany
Grand theft water and the calculus of compliance
I was thinking Nuclear would be the stable baseline for renewable. But this is not a sustainable option. We need to enforce hydrogen.

Do not submit to the fallacy of nuclear waste disposal. First Elon needs to fix space travel and make transport into the sun feasible. And we will have iter by then.
>poop him

Like... do you hold him over the litter box and squeeze or something?